User talk:Bearcat

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Proposed deletion of Wyoming Community Foundation

The article Wyoming Community Foundation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Small, non-notable charity, not even notable in the small state of Wyoming.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 22:14, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello!

Hey could you help me get rid of Young Kidd’s notability guideline on his page? When you see this please get back to me. Thank you! Wikieditor6557 (talk) 07:15, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Request for block

Greetings, I undid this user's vandalism on List of Japanese supercentenarians. I am sure this is a troll. He vandalized the article claiming Kane Tanaka died 12 February 2020. I was wondering if you could maybe warn this user not to do that again?

Have a great evening. Timothy McGuire (talk) 03:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/46.103.83.191

If you want to see the vandalism i reverted, here it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Japanese_supercentenarians&diff=991255138&oldid=991237647

Disambiguation link notification for December 1

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Lisa LeBlanc, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Bingo.

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Newspapers.com

Hi Bearcat, I saw you mention on the AfD discussion for It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time that you don't have access to Newspapers.com. Do you know that you can get access for free through the Wikipedia Library Card? They can set you up with a free subscription. — Toughpigs (talk) 16:59, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Vic Fedeli

Hi. I know you're busy, but if you have a moment, I was wondering if you could offer any help on this page. Editors remove POV commentary and campaign-literature type wording and they're re-added/reverted by a particular user. It has happened several times over the last 6 months, including an edit you made in June. Thanks. Blotto adrift (talk) 15:12, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Much appreciated! Blotto adrift (talk) 18:49, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

How to Be At Home

Hey, just as a heads up, it looks like you added the wrong IMDb link to How to Be At Home. I searched for the correct link but could not find it, so I just removed the link. If you can find it, could you please repair and replace? Thanks! BOVINEBOY2008 12:02, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Liar's Rosebush

If you propose or nominate this stub for deletion, please ping me. Bearian (talk) 21:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Something to keep an eye on

Is Christmas+COVID stress making me go quackers or not? If not, let me know and I'll ask for the experts to take a look. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 16:05, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Asbestos/Val-des-Sources

The change of the name was approved, but not published yet in the Gazette officielle du Québec. The only thing I seen was a nomination of a judge in Asbestos municipal court[1]. --Fralambert (talk) 14:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Just also I juste see thazt the town have changed if website[2]. --Fralambert (talk) 14:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Peoria election articles deletion nomination

I am informing you that the articles on municipal elections in Peoria, Illinois, have all been nominated for deletion I am informing you because you appear to have made a number of edits to at least one of these articles. SecretName101 (talk) 19:27, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of 2013 Peoria municipal election for deletion

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Draft categories

I saw your edit on Draft:Speroach Beatz where you removed the categories outright, rather than colon-deactivating them or surrounding them with {{draft categories}}.

When I see editors who have more experience than me do something "unusual" like this, I see it as a learning opportunity.

Do you have some general advice on when it's a good idea to remove the categories entirely in a case like this, rather than deactivating them? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 13:39, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

All or None

I'm not picking and choosing. You picked and chose who to remove. You left Catherine O'Hara, Colin Mochrie, Ernie Coombs, the cast of Kids in the Hall, cast of Royal Canadian Air Farce, etc.. All actors and actresses. So don't be selective in who you remove. It's all or none. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 14:44, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Sketch comedians and kids show hosts are not the same thing as actors in scripted comedy or drama series, and are not subject to the same considerations. The fundamental distinction between an "actor" and a "personality" is whether they're playing a fictional character or appearing as "themselves", and sketch comics and kids show hosts straddle that line in a much more subjective way than people who have roles in scripted narrative fiction: is Mr. Dressup a wholly fictional character that Ernie Coombs is playing, or is he fundamentally just a stage name that Ernie Coombs uses in the process of being himself? There are arguments on both sides of that one, and it's simply not as clear cut as it is if the person is actually playing a regular character in a sitcom or drama series. And 22 Minutes, which blends sketches with scenes where the cast are literally anchoring a "newscast" as themselves? And Air Farce, whose cast members have virtually all worked on the side (e.g. during the Air Farce summer hiatus) as hosts of other CBC programs besides Air Farce, such as that summer radio show where they program-jockeyed classic comedy clips? Not the same thing as actors, by any means.

And that said, you are picking and choosing actors arbitrarily. Having been in Little Mosque on the Prairie justifies adding Deb McGrath to the list, but somehow doesn't justify adding Zaib Shaikh or Sitara Hewitt or Sheila McCarthy or Neil Crone or Boyd Banks or Aliza Vellani or Manoj Sood or Brandon Firla? Just Deb McGrath, really, and not the entire rest of the show's cast? And then why not the entire cast of Kim's Convenience as well, and the entire cast of both versions of Street Legal, and the entire cast of Schitt's Creek, and the entire cast of Intelligence, and the entire cast of Da Vinci's Inquest, and the entire cast of Black Harbour, and the entire cast of Being Erica, and the entire cast of every other scripted comedy or drama series that the CBC has ever aired? Instead, it's just Deb McGrath, for some unique reason that doesn't apply to every other actor?

Acting in a scripted narrative fiction series does not make a person a "network personality" — the purpose of the "personalities" list is for people who have been directly employed by the CBC in non-fiction capacities where they appeared as themselves, such as talk show hosts and news anchors and other people who speak directly into the camera or microphone to address the audience under their own name, not "every single person who's ever been seen on the CBC in any capacity whatsoever". Bearcat (talk) 15:36, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Also, since television actors appear in a lot of different shows over the course of their careers, adding actors to "network personalities" lists would just indiscriminately make every actor a "personality" of multiple networks — and conversely, since the CBC is the only television network that actually invests a genuinely significant amount of money into producing a lot of Canadian drama and comedy programming rather than just dribs and drabs here and there, virtually every Canadian actor who does television at all has been in a CBC/SRC drama or comedy series at some point or other in their careers. So it's not useful to conflate "actors" with "personalities" in a different way than parallel lists like List of NBC personalities (which does not include actors in prime-time drama or comedy series) are doing, because the CBC doesn't work differently from other television networks in that respect. Bearcat (talk) 16:07, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

First off, it says on my talk page to keep discussions in one spot. Thus, I moved it here.

Now, with your logic of actors and actresses playing fictional characters, that would mean the cast of Kids in the Hall acted as they played fictional characters in all their sketches. Yes, Kids in the Hall was scripted. Beside Dave Foley's name is says "writer and actor on The Kids in the Hall from 1989 to 1994. With that, they will be removed. Don't get in my face about Catherine O'HGara. I didn't add her. You clearly ignored that she was already on the list. You clearly didn't bother to look at Coming Up Rosie which is a children's sitcom. She starred in it alongside Dan Akroyd who was removed from the list. Michael J. Fox was left on the list. He acted in an episode of the anthology series The Magic Lie. But lets ignore that too. You are picking and choosing who to remove. All or none. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 19:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Firstly, your preferences of where to post talk page discussions do not take precedence over my preferences — so you do not get to lecture me for not obeying your personal talk page rules, because I don't have a responsibility to have read your rules, or even to have noticed that you have any "rules" to read, in the first place. So you can take that attitude and stuff it in the garbage can of your choice, because I don't have a responsibility to take ownership of it.

Secondly, the fact that I didn't comprehensively go through the entire list to remove everybody who could possibly be characterized as an actor, and instead only removed some names that immediately jumped out at me on a quick scan, does not mean I'm being selective or doing anything improper. Again, I don't have a responsibility to have gone through the entire list with a fine toothed comb all at once, and I don't have a responsibility to apologize for not removing more: my only responsibility is to have noticed who I noticed, and that's that. If you think other names should also be removed from the list on the same grounds, then fix it and don't attack other people for not noticing what you noticed.

It's all or none? Sure: it's none. So can the pushback and fix it. Bearcat (talk) 19:18, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I used to be the same way. I used to respond on someone else's talk page after they left a message on mine. But, it's redundant actually. I don't want to be going back and forth between talk pages. Now, if you want them removed, fine. Just remove them all. Don't come at me as if I added someone ala Catherine O'Hara just because I added a character she played on a series that aired on CBC. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 19:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Since when did any of this have anything to do with Catherine O'Hara? I was talking about your addition of Debra McGrath, like I've said all along, and didn't even notice or mention anything pertaining to Catherine O'Hara whatsoever. Bearcat (talk) 20:01, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Like I said, you want to remove them. Fine. But finish what you started. That's all. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 20:18, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

And like I said, that's not how this place works. If you see a problem, you're free to fix it, but you're not free to fling it at somebody else's face and demand that they fix it on your desired time frame. I'll do it whenever the hell I feel like getting around to doing it, and you don't have any right to demand that I do it any faster: if it's not happening as fast as you'd like, then you can fix it yourself. And that's how this place works, as you might learn if you actually read WP:SOFIXIT: "If you notice an unambiguous error or problem that any reasonable person would recommend fixing, the best course of action may be to be bold and fix it yourself rather than bringing it to someone's attention in the form of a comment or complaint. In the time it takes to write about the problem, you could instead improve the encyclopedia." Bearcat (talk) 20:24, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Chicago_District_Golf_Association

Is this club really notable? Bearian (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

Hello Bearcat, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Happy editing, LorriBrown (talk) 05:40, 25 December 2020 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.