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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Thomas Storer (American mathematician) ↗ has been accepted


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Signing warnings



Hi, I noticed that you issued a COI warning to User talk:Astrine2000 the other day but didn't sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages. If you use wp:twinkle ↗ to issue warnings the signature will be added for you. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 10:29, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{u| ScrubbedFalcon}}: doh! I hadn't even noticed. I'm generally careful to leave it, and must've just been editing too quickly. Thanks for letting me know! Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

":Fellow of the Amerian Mathematical Society ↗" listed at Redirects for discussion ↗


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The redirect <span class="plainlinks">[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fellow_of_the_Amerian_Mathematical_Society&redirect=no Fellow of the Amerian Mathematical Society]</span> has been listed at redirects for discussion ↗ to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines ↗. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at '''{{section link|1=Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 March 16#Fellow of the Amerian Mathematical Society}}''' until a consensus is reached. <!-- Template:RFDNote --> 1234qwer1234qwer4 ↗ 01:22, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

On Jan Peter Toennies's Page



Hello, Russ Woodroofe. Thank you for a warm welcome to the Wikipedia!

I'd like to ask for a re-review of Jan Peter Toennies ↗'s page "conflict of interest / close connection" warning message. From what I can tell, the text appears to be neutral and I'm not affiliated or connected to the subject of this page in any way. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 12:50, 25 March 2026 (UTC) Astrine2000 (talk) 11:49, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{u|Astrine2000}}, can you tell me how you came to take such an interest in Toennies' wikipedia biography? Russ Woodroofe (talk) 12:50, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Storer (American mathematician)


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BRD is not a policy



Hello {{u|Russ Woodroofe}},

when you deal with disputed content, please don't refer to BRD as if it was a policy justifying reverts. Disputed content can be removed and needs to stay removed until a consensus is found; actual policy sections mandating this are WP:BLPRESTORE ↗, WP:ONUS ↗ and WP:BURDEN ↗. There is no special protection for "stable" revisions; consensus formed through editing alone ends in the moment there is a dispute (cf. {{slink|Wikipedia:Consensus#Through_editing}}). Without talk page consensus, it would be inappropriate to restore disputed material just because it had been in the article for a long time. So in the case of the article about John Petrucci ↗, policy was on your side, but that has nothing to do with the "BRD" essay. Forcibly restoring stable revisions just because they're stable is an action limited to administrators when protecting pages (WP:PREFER ↗) and not something justified by any other policy.

Best regards,<br>&#126; ToBeFree (talk) 02:21, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|ToBeFree}} yes, my edit summaries weren't completely ideal. I think I was basically doing things for the right reasons, but UNDUE (which I did refer to the first time around) and ONUS are better things to refer to. The BRD essay does at least have the advantage that it directs a user to engage at the talk page in a pretty clear way. I probably wouldn't have reverted at all, and certainly not a second time (even after the delay) without the policy-based talk page consensus. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 09:15, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
::All good, I'm not concerned about the removal; I was just nitpicking at the edit summary. To me personally, it would have been an enforcement of BLPRESTORE and exempt through WP:3RRNO ↗ #7 even if you had made ten reverts there. &#126; ToBeFree (talk) 09:55, 30 April 2026 (UTC)