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InfrastructureThere seems to be a bit of reorganisation needed for the Category:Infrastructure tree, if "Physical infrastructure" is not what it says. Non-physical things like computing infrastructure are currently included in Category:Infrastructure, for example. To be honest I'm clueless as to when "Buildings and structures" become "Infrastructure" and, generally, the two descriptions seem to be used interchangeably. Sionk (talk) 17:53, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I would appreciate if you could have another look at the CfD here. The dsicussion specifically addressed the question of putting a complete list of members in this article and the main comment was that it would be unlikely that anybody would want to put such a complete list in this article... I think that a partial list, as already present in the article (founding members, note that they are now listed twice), is enough. Having a complete list really goes against WP:NOTADIRECTORY and against the discussion during the CfD. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Belated pingre User talk:Sardanaphalus#Category:Example. Sardanaphalus (talk) 09:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC) Airline codes page/bottomHi. I think I have at least to move the closing part of the table and the closing center tag to all pages. The current syntax with some tags stating in the page ans finishing inside a transcluded template is really confusing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:46, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
CFD yearJust a note on some CFDs listed for deletion—these categories were deleted with the bot noting the discussions at 2014 January 13 rather than 2015. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
category deletionYour name is mentioned at the head of a decision to remove the category "drug user". If you are the wrong person to "hold to task" about this, please direct me to the right one. I know zilch about the politics of this place. I must add that I had hoped that there was no politics involved in the dissemination of information in this place. I say "hold to task" because there is a page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_user with a section on notable drug users, which includes people I had put into that category - subsequently deleted. It seems to me totally ad hoc to disallow the category I created, and yet allow the page I am just referring you to now. Do not for a minute think that I am suggesting that page be removed. Rather, I would hope that you would hold people who insist on deletion of material to a rational standard of argument, so that Wikipedia does not become a hotch-potch of personal likes at the cost of personal dislikes. HHofmeister (talk) 07:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC) WoodstockSince you !voted in a similar discussion that recently closed, I thought you should be made aware that a similar move proposal is occurring at Talk:Woodstock#Requested_move_28_December_2014, in case you want to weigh in.--Yaksar (let's chat) 17:06, 21 January 2015 (UTC) ![]() This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Sadasiva Temple, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://templeofhoysala.blogspot.com/2013/02/sadasiva-templenuggehalli.html. It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues. If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 00:57, 25 January 2015 (UTC) I am disappointed to see the callous attitude with which is cut and paste a paragraph from this article to create another article without so much as leave a note for discussion on the talk page prior to your edit. First of all please try to understand that:
I hope you will refrain from such edits in the future.Tamilyomen (talk) 20:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC) WindmillsAre windmills industrrial buildings? The vast majority (i.e. corn mills and drainage mills) would surely be agricultural buildings, would they not? Mjroots (talk) 19:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC) ExplosionsThanks for the edits but Messines would be an explosion in 1917Keith-264 (talk) 20:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Old Bridge, HasankeyfI see that you have recently added the Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1172 to the article Old Bridge, Hasankeyf. I certainly understand the desire to assign a definite completion date for this structure. However, the date really is pretty uncertain, and saying that the bridge was "completed in 1172" is misleading. All we know is that is was built during the reign of the Artukid ruler Fakhr ad-Din Qara Arslan, and probably after the Malabadi Bridge. Various dates are given for Qara Arslan's accession and death as you can see at Old Bridge, Hasankeyf#Date. I have spent several months trawling through obscure articles to try to nail this down more precisely, and at this point I'm pretty sure we won't be able to get more precision any time soon. Therefore, I would rather that the bridge is listed in Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 12th century. If you feel there's a reason to justify a more specific date, please let me know. Otherwise, I will move this back to the more general category. Thanks, Rupert Clayton (talk) 17:17, 3 February 2015 (UTC) Barnstar for you!
About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA voteHi Vegaswikian. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (44th to be exact!), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:54, 10 February 2015 (UTC) Hello! Question for you. Your recent change to FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force. Can you explain what that does? I've seen that elsewhere and never understood the point of it. What is the magic I am missing? --Zackmann08 (talk) 21:30, 24 February 2015 (UTC) American TV stations by channel numberA little while back, you closed a similar discussion to the above for Canadian TV stations. There's a bit of a CfD backlog at the moment, so I thought I'd reach out and ask if you'd be willing to have a look and see if there's a logical conclusion for this discussion too. I've been somewhat anticipating a similar result, so I've been doing some prep work to effect the clean up, just in case. Mlaffs (talk) 01:08, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Navigation box to nowhereHi, Vegaswikian. You've twice reverted my edits removing redlinks from the navbox Template:Pinnacle Entertainment. While I'm sure these are casinos owned by the Pinnacle folks, they aren't notable enough for an article and sending readers to an empty article kinda defeats the purpose of a navigation template. Once those articles are written, then they can be added and someone visiting one of the any of the Pinnacle articles would then see other Pinnacle properties they can read about in that navbox. Please stop adding redlinks back here. If these properties are notable, I'm sure an article will be along shortly and the link to those new articles can be added here (as well as this template to that article). Thanks, Stesmo (talk) 05:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation)![]() The article Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing LAFD & Fire Department NotabilityWanted to make sure you saw THIS. Please comment. :-) --Zackmann08 (talk) 00:25, 5 March 2015 (UTC) Nomination of Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation) for deletion![]() A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. 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. Codename Lisa (talk) 21:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Choo-choo crossingsWould you mind holding off on taking action on the rename? I plan to take advantage of your "this does not preclude" statement, nominating it for moving to "railroad crossings" immediately. Should my proposal be successful, it will be unhelpful to have two renames in a short period of time, while should it be unsuccessful, nobody will suffer by having these articles at the old name for a short while. Nyttend (talk) 01:57, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Date categoriesPlease take care with year-specific categories. You've been applying them to articles with "circa" or "by" dates which are not so specific. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:13, 13 March 2015 (UTC) CategoryYou added a more specific cat to Unionskirche, Idstein, - let me understand: that building was still the same building in the 17th century, just remodeled, and it had been Protestant since the 16th century, - reads a bit confusing to me, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 23 March 2015 (UTC) Eh?Do you only see jokes by appointment? SmokeyTheCat 12:11, 2 April 2015 (UTC) A beer for you!
QueryHi. The discussion you closed here had only one person participate after the nomination -- and that person gave zero rationale, which should result in the corresponding failure to give the !vote weight. Plus, as can be seen in the discussion here, the nom's assertions (for example "The Maccabiah Games is not a large scale enough games" and "This is the case of a structure for a minor competition getting far ahead of itself" do not hold up upon investigation. In addition, as User:MacRusgail indicated here, he would have liked to have known of this discussion, as would I -- this is the problem when cat changes are not listed on the wikiproject notice pages. He and I, who both have worked on articles relating to competitors in this competition, would like to participate in the discussion. How would you suggest this be addressed, so proper discussion on proper facts can be had, and !votes based on rationales determine whether to accept the nomination or not? Thanks. --Epeefleche (talk) 03:30, 10 April 2015 (UTC) Architecture categories, e.g. 1820s architecture in the USAStop emptying the architecture categories out of process; you've been around here long enough that you know that it's prohibited, and you also know that these categories were kept at CFD. Nyttend (talk) 00:51, 13 April 2015 (UTC) Jr. comma RfCYou're invited to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC:_Guidance_on_commas_before_Jr._and_Sr. Dohn joe (talk) 02:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC) First, thanks for stepping in and cleaning up the CfD backlog. I will disagree with your assessment of the discussion. Of course I !voted in that CfD, so I'm a bit biased, but I think the best assessment would have been no consensus. The objections are not based on how experts alone categorize plants. These categories are also used in lay publications -- books and articles meant for public consumption discuss and describe plants by their countries or other political boundaries. This system works well for Wikipedia, too. You also cited precedent -- sure, fauna categories have been consolidated for the European fauna categories, but this was the first flora one. The two are fundamentally different, because we have the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions and a long history of its use in Wikipedia (the Australian categories have been in use since 2006). I'd appreciate it if you could re-think the decision or at least take another look. Thanks, Rkitko (talk) 21:50, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
County DepartmentsHeyo! How's it going? I wanted to chat with you about the Category you added for Virginia. It is the only state in the US that has such a category. IMHO it is better to just have all the departments from a state be in the same category. I'm curious to hear your view? Why do you feel it is better to have a further broken down Category? --Zackmann08 (talk) 22:42, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
A CFD discussion you may be interested in - Churches/Church buildingsAs a participent in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 November 2#Category:Churches by continent, you may be interested in knowing that I've just initiated a new CFR discussion to fix the whole tree - Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1#Churches/Church buildings. Feel free to participate there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:43, 1 May 2015 (UTC) your cleaningwhy are you deleting some cats, such as X establishments in X country. What is wrong with them? --Egeymi (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC) Template:Annual tornado monthsI see that you made a change to "Motor Court"/"Motel"Hi VW, rather than getting into an edit war, will you please come to discuss this issue on the Riviera talk page?Mikalra (talk) 22:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC) More for speedyHi, This has been done:
Fancy picking up the C19, C21 siblings, and roller coaster subcategories? – Fayenatic London 22:29, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Contesting your article move on 24 October 2008See: Talk:Two-lane expressway. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:20, 29 May 2015 (UTC) HeyI see you emptying categories such as here The Lamb, Bloomsbury do not preempt CFR, also it is polite to notify category creators when you make nominations. You won't get you way by being sneaky. Tim! (talk) 07:14, 7 June 2015 (UTC) Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 21th century BCCategory:Buildings and structures completed in the 21th century BC, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 01:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Architecture categoriesHi, related to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 April 10, it seems to me that buildings & structures are works, but the edit cited at the CfD [1] took Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1812 out of Category:1812 works. IMHO, each of those buildings categories ought to be added back into the former grandparent category for works by year. – Fayenatic London 22:11, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Category:Christian Science church buildings by centuryCategory:Christian Science church buildings by century, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 19:55, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Precious againmore specific category A year ago, you were the 944th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC) Hi, given your edit back in 2008, can you please review the categorization of Category:Novartis. Today, I've found it by accident and it was uncategorized (except for hidden categories). --Eleassar my talk 06:40, 29 September 2015 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Cherry Patch Ranch![]() The article Cherry Patch Ranch has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing Sully Historic Site citationsWrote a bunch of code to change the citations on the Sully Historic Site article from the current version to the proposed formatting. Cannot implement this without consensus. Would very much appreciate your opinion at the talk page. Abel (talk) 02:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Courtyard by Marriott, Houston listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Courtyard by Marriott, Houston. Since you had some involvement with the Courtyard by Marriott, Houston redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --BDD (talk) 19:57, 20 November 2015 (UTC) Hi, Category:Health care companies of the United KingdomCategory:Health care companies of the United Kingdom, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 21:30, 11 December 2015 (UTC) Season's GreetingsTo You and Yours! Category:Populated places by year of establishment subcatsSeveral categories, including at least one which you created, have been nominated for possible merging. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC) |
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