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Proposed deletion of Jay Sniatkowski

The article Jay Sniatkowski has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

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October 2015

Hello, I'm MusikAnimal. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Geocaching— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:29, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Please refrain from making nonconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Geocaching with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. ~ NottNott talk|contrib 17:20, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Just wanted to say I disagree with the previous two editors and think you were making a good faith edit to improve the article by removing what could be a backronym rather than a legitimate definition. There is a source for that meaning, though, although I'm not sure how reliable it should be considered for something like that. I suggest bringing the issue to the article's talk page and see if a new consensus could be reached. Cheers. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 17:42, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that! It should be obvious why it was mistaken as vandalism... "swag" and variations of the word are a very common form of vandalism. Apologies and I for one will try to be more careful. Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:58, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

As per my user talk: "That's pretty hilarious really. 99.9% of all edits containing 'swag' are pretty much vandalism. What a funny revert. I'll restore his change :)"

This perked my day up a lot. I've restored your change, as a google search shows that the acronym isn't that common to be included in the body of the article. Sorry about that, and thanks for the laugh! ~ NottNott talk|contrib 18:32, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

I was correcting a false etymology. The edit was explained. I can't for the life of me see how that can be considered vandalism. - BrianSnat

Nomination of Jay Sniatkowski for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rusf10 (talk) 03:17, 15 December 2017 (UTC)