User talk:Sarangem

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Speedy deletion contested: Mark Batzer

Hello Sarangem. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Mark Batzer, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. Thank you. BangJan1999 03:39, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

You rapid AfD of many articles is unusual

Please slow down. You have rapidly made a very large number of AfD nominations. While some of these may be appropriate, for certain your CSD and AfD nominations of Mark Batzer were certainly not. Please check carefully the criteria for notability of different classes of pages, and the requirement to do a proper search. I feel that continued mass AfD nominations is not constructive towards building Wikipedia. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:58, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Your AfD closure

Kindly change the closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wuhan Foreign Languages School to speedy keep as withdrawn by nominator. Closing as merge as you did means the discussion found community consensus to merge. FaviFake (talk) 14:09, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not know the rules. I changed it. Sarangem (talk) 14:25, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Please read the deletion policies and guidelines like WP:DELPRO next time. FaviFake (talk) 14:51, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Heya, an editor restored the article that you merged. In theory we should create a new AfD discussion, but I think it's best if you reopen the discussion, since it's recent and there were already a few people in favour of the merge.

If we let the discussion continue, the next closure will be binding and the article cannot be restored as easily. To revert your closure and reopen the discussion, you can just open this revision from before you closed it, and restore it. FaviFake (talk) 15:38, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! FaviFake (talk) 16:13, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Durga Puja

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Durga Puja, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A generic name error. References show this error when author or editor name parameters use placeholder names, or the name of the newspaper or organisation, instead of the source's actual author or editor name. If no human author is given, the fields should be removed. (Fix | Ask for help). Below are the references causing this error:
  • News, India TV (2015-03-21). "Difference between Vasanta and Sharad Navaratri - India TV". India TV News. Retrieved 2026-09-27. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 06:55, 27 September 2026 (UTC)