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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

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Re: Zombie Land Saga "mentions"

Just to clarify, I reverted the four edits related to series that were mentioned in a review of Zombie Land Saga that you did because merely a passing mention in a review for another series does not mean that's a notable example of reception for those series. Series get compared to other series all the time, but that's really only relevant on the article for the series the review is actually reviewing. In this case, if Zombie Land Saga in the review is compared to Aikatsu!, PriPara, Love Live! and Uma Musume Pretty Derby, then the mention of that should go on Zombie Land Saga, but of course further context for the comparison should also be included if available to understand why Zombie Land Saga would be compared to those series.--十八 22:16, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

@Juhachi: i got the magazine copy from a B&N that's actually farther from where I live than the one closest to me, and I had already left at the time, so I'm gonna be able to get a copy on short notice and check back. But If anyone has the Anime USA Fall 2019 issue, they can find the mentions at page 63. ミラP 23:47, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

@Juhachi: I'm back and I found it. The first of sixteen paragraphs - I've only added half of that paragraph though: These days, idol anime is a genre of its own. Whether it's the aspiring school idols of Love Live!, the young career idols of PriPara and Aikatsu, the racehorse hybrid idols of Umamusume: [sic] Pretty Derby, the concept has gone in nearly every conceivable direction. ミラP 19:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

The most you can say about that is that the reviewer is citing the variety of idol anime over the years, and that Zombie Land Saga is doing something similar for being a zombie idol anime. But the only thing that they have in common, as far as that sentence goes, is that they're all idol anime, which isn't very much of a comparison at all in terms of a review. It would be best to summarize that review and put it onto Zombie Land Saga if you were going to do anything with it.--十八 21:32, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

@Juhachi: I found the second half of the paragraph, that should cover it up: Fans flock to the story no matter the setting: hopeful girls of different personality types join forces, train up their singing and dancing skills, and face happiness and hardship together on their way to the top. If you connect the two quotes together turns out a paragraph of the review is making common comparisons between four anime shows and a better-known one. ミラP 19:50, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Lai Pin-yu

On 31 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lai Pin-yu, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Taiwanese politician Lai Pin-yu cosplayed as Asuka Langley Soryu during her 2020 election campaign? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lai Pin-yu. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lai Pin-yu), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Dedham Covenant

Gatoclass (talk) 00:03, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Keiko Sonoi

I think I'm finished translating Draft:Keiko Sonoi. I didn't translate some of the lower sections (bcz I don't feel they need to be), but a portion of the material have been incorporated, e.g., the actress's family depending on her, and some of the opinions as to her acting.

Any corrections and additions you may want to make, and publish it as an article whenever. thx. --Kiyoweap (talk) 06:21, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kiyoweap: Publish away. ミラP 16:12, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Henry Stuart Russell

Categories on this article including ones you recently added seem unrelated to any information in the article itself. Are there two guys out there with similar names? Or article content that needs to be added? Kerry (talk) 23:02, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kerry Raymond: Probably the latter. List of English cricketers (1826–1840) has him in the list. I can't access the CA source but it looks like a match. ミラP 23:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Members of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly has been nominated for discussion

Category:Members of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Aichi Prefectural Assembly has been nominated for discussion

Category:Aichi Prefectural Assembly, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:18, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure

On 9 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that different versions of the song "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:03, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Jean Delumeau

On 10 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jean Delumeau, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that French historian Jean Delumeau was a prominent figure in the history of mentalities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jean Delumeau. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jean Delumeau), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Precious

members of parliaments

Thank you for quality articles about members of the European parliament and others, such as Katalin Cseh, for Ofelia Fernández, Miyagi Tamayo, Dehenna Davison, Nadia Whittome, Haru Nishioka, for Jean Delumeau, nicely organised, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2342 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:36, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for History of anarchism

--valereee (talk) 00:02, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Yoga body DYK

Hi, I think this has got stuck: maybe you could take a look at it? Cwmhiraeth, not quite sure what happened here. Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: BlueMoonset says Full review needed. It should be done by an uninvolved user. ミラP 15:22, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

OK, we just sit and wait then. Can't get my head around that process. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Rodhullandemu talk page

Regarding your suggestion, I permanently protected User talk:Rodhullandemu as the user had been permanently banned. So just this morning he left me this message on Commons:

Probably not a good idea to impose full protection on this page. For one thing, how do bots without the admin bit send me messages? For another, some people have occasionally sent me messages there without realising that I am also an Administrator here. Finally you say "permanently banned"- that I find a bit presumptive because any ban, or block, can be reversed- it's a wiki, remember? Please be careful how you answer because having been treated so appallingly I am very sensitive to harassment.

I'm not sure why a user who has been banned would even need to get messages. I can't block him or protect his talk page on Commons because I'm not an admin there. What do you think should be done here? JIP | Talk 08:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@JIP: Rodhullandemu's still active on Commons and has been acting in good faith, so you shouldn't worry. There is precedent for full-protecting UTPs if the associated user's TPA is revoked. ミラP 13:41, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Yoga Body

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Soldier Blade

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Clarice Phelps

No idea what I did to antagonise you, but edits like this are really terrible. Using a (rather high profile) article to attack another editor by including negative unrelated things is a rather blatant form of disruptive editing and a WP:POINT violation. That you only see fit to name me, with an action no one had any issue with (not brought up as a problem in the Rama case, nor in my case) may have seemed "fun" to you (" To be fair, my favorite part was bringing up Fram."), while leaving out the much more relevant username of the admin who actually got desysopped over this, is quite telling. And no, I wouldn't argue to include their username either, or most of what happened around the deletions, it's navel gazing. But if we do navel gaze, it should be neutral and to the point, not a means to settle some scores or make a point. Fram (talk) 08:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suresh Bhatt

Thanks for nominating Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suresh Bhatt. There is a shocking amount of Political spam on Indian politics and these users appear to be primarily the reason for it. I am just curious how this person was found ? --DBigXrayᗙ 19:19, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@DBigXray: You're welcome. Perhaps this trend is worth an article on Signpost. ミラP 19:41, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, a good one. User:DiplomatTesterMan here is a suggestion for your next SP article. --DBigXrayᗙ 19:48, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Noted... thnks DTM (talk) 12:40, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Ai Kidosaki

On 23 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ai Kidosaki, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after being treated for uterine cancer, Ai Kidosaki taught cooking to hospital employees? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ai Kidosaki. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ai Kidosaki), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Wug·a·po·des​ 03:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC) 00:02, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

As the only Wikipedian to maintain a zero in Japanese proficiency...

...I find your strangely soothing signature somehow meaningful and interesting, thank you for the breath of fresh air and temporary disruption of regular "Anglicised" programming. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:09, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Protecting talk pages of banned users

You recently asked me to protect the talk pages of several permanently banned users. As I was doing it, both User:Bbb23 and User:Gerda Arendt questioned this and asked me to stop it. I am now confused about what I should do. JIP | Talk 16:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

... and users Tony Ballioni, Black Kite, SandyGeorgia. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:17, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

... and help my failing memory, please: when was Eric banned by ArbCom? There was a September 2019 motion to block him, - that's all I know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

... instead of helping my failing memory, you pinged me to WP:Great Dismal Swamp? Please don't do that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Hisashi Katsuta

On 25 February 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hisashi Katsuta, which you created and nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:27, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, would love to see your articles up on this!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Ipswich MPs

I'm not very clear what I'm supposed to do. I dont remember having anything to do with this category.Rathfelder (talk) 08:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Ipswich MPS CFD

Hi Miraclepine

Many thanks for withdrawing WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 26#Category:Ipswich_MPs. I like editors who can review the arguments and change their minds, regardless of which way the evidence leads them.

After posting my !vote there, I took another look at Category:Members of Parliament by constituency, and I don't much like what I see: too much excessively fine categorisation, too many barely-populated categories. Category:Members of Parliament by constituency contains 63 subcats, of which the 5 oldest are correctly subcatted. That leaves 58 newer cats without subcats, and I see for example that in the last 2 months, you have created 15 such categories: :

1. Category:Members of Parliament for Dartmouth — population: 3
2. Category:Members of Parliament for Exeter — population: 3
3. Category:Members of Parliament for Totnes — population: 3
4. Category:Members of Parliament for Plympton Erle — population: 3
5. Category:Members of Parliament for Maidstone — population: 8
6. Category:Members of Parliament for New Romney — population: 14
7. Category:Members of Parliament for Berkshire — population: 4
8. Category:Members of Parliament for Taunton — population: 3
9. Category:Members of Parliament for Truro — population: 3
10. Category:Members of Parliament for Cornwall — population: 3
11. Category:Members of Parliament for Launceston — population: 3
12. Category:Members of Parliament for Helston — population: 3
13. Category:Members of Parliament for Liskeard — population: 3
14. Category:Members of Parliament for Dorchester — population: 3
15. Category:Members of Parliament for Carlisle — population: 3

These sparsely-populated categories are no use for navigation. Regardless of anything else, they should be deleted unless they are full populated, or a serious effort is being made to populate them.

However, there are a number of other reasons why I think that such fine categorisation of MPs by constituency is a bad idea:

• Not WP:DEFINING. Until the expansion of franchise in 1918, MPs frequently changed constituency. e.g. Churchill sat for 5 difft constituencies, as did William Ewart Gladstone. In the era of the rotten boroughs (and even later, in the pocket boroughs which existed until the secret ballot killed them in 1872), many MPs simply bought their seats from borough mongers, and some changed seat at nearly every election. Many of them never even visited those pocket boroughs. So the constituency was not a defining characteristic. How often is Gladstone referred to as the MP for Portarlington?
• Category clutter. When MPs changed seats a lot, categorising them by each individual constituency adds a bunch of extra categories to articles which are already well-categorised.
• Number of categories. Westminster constituencies were stable for hundreds of year until the Reform Act 1832, which began a process of changes that gathered pace in the 20th century, now happening about every fifteen years (major changes in 1918, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1974, 1983, 1997, 2005/2010, and an even bigger set in the pipeline). There are 650 current constituencies, but 1273 former constituencies, giving a total of 1,923 constituencies. If we ever got near that number, it would be a massive set to maintain, and I don't see any group of editors willing to take on that task.
• Vagueness.
  Take a few examples:

• Category:Members of Parliament for Truro.
  Does that mean:
  1. MPs for the pre-1885 parliamentary borough of Truro?
  2. MPs for the massively bigger 1950–1997 Truro county constituency?
  3. MPs for the renamed 1997–2010 Truro & St Austell county constituency?
  4. MPs for the post-2010 Truro and Falmouth county constituency

Whichever it means, the current title lacks precision

• Category:Members of Parliament for Leicestershire:
  Does that mean:
  1. MPs for the the pre-1832 Leicestershire county constituency
  2. All MPs for constituencies in the the geographical county Leicestershire

Whichever it means, the current title lacks precision

• Category:Members of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North:
  This one doesn't exist yet, but would be an odd one, because the pre-1983 and post-1983 boundaries had no overlapping area at all.
  So a category would be odd, because the pre-1983 and post-1983 MPs for Newcastle upon Tyne North had no shared characteristic apart from a label.

It's a bit better to group constituencies by county. The problem with that is that none of the 3 countries in Britain has a stable set of counties. That creates a real mess for many constituencies, such as Abingdon, which was:

1. A parliamentary borough in Berkshire 1558–1885
2. A parliamentary borough in Berkshire 1558–1885
3. A county division of Berkshire, 1918–1973
4. A county division of Oxfordshire, 1973–1983

So I am minded to propose deletion of most of these categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:46, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: I don't really mind. Although I saw some issue with this, I didn't realize how big it was until now. Possibly the placename in the titles of many of the HoPO bios is more defining than the constituencies, even if the latter is defining. You should take further discussion to WT:OCAT and WP:CFD. ミラP 20:12, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

"John Chetwynd-Talbot (Oxford Union president)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect John Chetwynd-Talbot (Oxford Union president). Since you had some involvement with the John Chetwynd-Talbot (Oxford Union president) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Fram (talk) 14:51, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Warning

Your conduct in the locking talk page debacle was disruptive. You were fortunate to escape with no sanctions. I just noticed that you altered sock tags on at least two userpages: Margicy and Solth49. In both instances your edits were reverted by Bradv. You also removed a retired banner from the Talk page of sock Plth41 here, which I just reverted.

This is a formal and only warning. If I see you doing anything that should be done only by users with advanced permissions, e.g., administrators or CheckUsers, I will block you.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:57, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I promise I won't do it again. What should I do instead? ミラP 15:58, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Why do you want to do anything?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I just wanna help, but you did warn me. ミラP 16:02, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

As you should already know, the best way you can "help" is to do things that editors without advanced permissions do.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:05, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. ミラP 16:08, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

I came here for similar reasons as Bbb23 as a result of you starting this DRV. You need to stay away from anything to do with socking, tagging and SPI in general. You don't have the experience or the ability to interpret nuance that is required to work effectively in this area of Wikipedia. I'm sure there are many other corners of the encyclopedia that could use your assistance. -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 16:42, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Ponyo: I submitted these which led to CU blocks, didn't I? In any event, I'll withdraw the WDHB DRV. ミラP 16:46, 28 February 2020 (UTC)