Welcome[edit]

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Greetings, HillbillyGoat, and welcome to Wikipedia's deletion process! Thank you for your contributions. As a newcomer, it may be helpful for you to read Wikipedia's deletion policy, and the pages describing the articles for deletion process, proposed deletion, and speedy deletion. Remember that deletion debates are not votes, and reasons matter, especially reasons relating to the central content policies of verifiability, neutral point of view, no original research, and what Wikipedia is not, and to the consensual community guidelines for biographies, corporations, music, and fiction. Also remember that deletion is not always the answer to a bad article. Feel free to drop me a line at my talk page if you have any questions. Again, welcome! Cavarrone (talk) 17:45, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion[edit]

Hi, during the Michael Brutsch AfD discussion I saw a number of users talk about merging or restructuring the article into another one, so I am opening up a discussion of such a merge here, if you are interested in participating. Thanks! Breadblade (talk) 20:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up; I agree and have left a comment there. HillbillyGoat (talk) 04:43, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chinaman (porcelain)[edit]

As a participant in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Chinaman_(porcelain), please see Talk:Chinaman_(porcelain)#Merge_discussion.--Yaksar (let's chat) 10:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up; I agree and have left a comment there. HillbillyGoat (talk) 04:42, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]