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Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2021
I hope your New Year holiday is enjoyable and the coming year is much better than the one we are leaving behind.
Best wishes from Los Angeles.   // Timothy :: talk 

Editor conflict

I have been adding more current photos I’ve taken of subjects and places in Sheboygan but User:Mrschimpf has reverted several of those edits, falsely claiming I’m some such of competitor in local media in Sheboygan which I don’t own any interests in media publishing in Sheboygan County. In one edit on Shoreline Metro, my photo of a bus in service was removed because he claimed permissions were questionable and the photo was posed. Then there is the challenge of updating the photo on Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Asher Heimermann (talk

Request on 19:06:44, 12 August 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by YaSiRu11


  • "Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country [1]
  • "Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or television network" [2][3]

Asopa Films - Reinstate

Hi Bearcat,

Looking to get some pages made by Asopa Films put back up and to also save one from being deleted

Aisha and Rahul (2009) - this page has been taken down already, NON WIKI PAGE - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Aisha_and_Rahul Depth of Pyaar (2019) - this page has been taken down already, NON WIKI PAGE - https://en.everybodywiki.com/Depth_of_Pyaar Zombie Beach (2010) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_Beach

Would like to discuss why these pages were taken down and how I can get them put back up and also make sure they stay up.

Regards, Winter

Wikipedia elections policy

Bearcat,

Please link me to this wikipedia elections policy in which you discussed on my talk page.

Thanks!

Merry Christmas Bearcat

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Draft: Iowa News & Views

You declined this draft, but I made changes to it that I think solved the initial issue. If you could take another look and give me some feedback I would be appreciative. Thanks for your time. WUH34 (talk) 4:45, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

help with vandalism

Since November 16, 2022, a user who is not logged in, just identified by their IP address has been adding information to the San Antonio FC page that has no sources to back it up with. Specifically they are adding a player to the roster when there is no evidence on the internet, either by the club, league, or anywhere else that this transaction has occurred. I have undone the edit multiple times but they keep adding it back. Please assist.

1/13/23 - The vandalism is occurring again. Would you be able to ban the IP addresses that are adding the incorrect information? TYIA

Aide moi

je voudrais que tu m'aide à publier mon brouillon. Merci 197.255.239.45 (talk) 05:44, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Page moved contrary to consensus on Talk page

Hi Bearcat, could you take a look at : Bill C-16, which has been moved from “An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code”? There has been discussion about the name on the Talk page in the past, and consensus seemed to be the former name, so I wouldn’t have thought it should be moved without discussion? Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:42, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Trystan fixed it already. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:57, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help with a page

Hello Bearcat, this is quick and simple and I dont think it would take a lot of time, sorry if I disturbed you. Could you please help me with one quick thing in the page 1983 Philadelphia Stars Season? I need you to move the bottom box that says "Atlantic Division" to the corresponding section instead of below the references. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Americanbagel1 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Valparaiso has been nominated for discussion

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Valparaiso 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. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:29, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User rsk-5

A tag has been placed on Category:User rsk-5 indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:19, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ooops

This was me accidentally reverting my own removal of the category. It was a long day-- Ponyobons mots 19:41, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User rue-5

A tag has been placed on Category:User rue-5 indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Indian rivers

Hallo, Mornoi River and Karanja River were on my watchlist so I noticed your edits removing Category:Rivers of India with summary "duplicate categorization; already in subcat", but I'm not so sure. Category:Rivers of India by state or union territory says it is a non-diffusing subcat of Category:Rivers of India (as well as being a container cat). That statement seems to me to imply that its child cats, the Category:Rivers of Assam etc, should be treated as non-diffusing subcats of Category:Rivers of India, so that rivers should be in both. I looked for similar examples: Canada isn't treated that way, but French departements are, so that French rivers get two levels of categorisation. In the US, Category:Rivers of the United States is a diffused parent cat of the state cats, but Category:Rivers of California is a non-diffused parent of the county-level cats. Not sure where that gets us. Chinese rivers have no notes about diffusion. PamD 19:51, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What are you doing in Template:WikiProject Taiwan 1000?

I don't understand why you edited, can you explain?-- NHC、not NPC！｡:.ﾟ(*`･ω･)ゞ:｡ 15:13, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User rsk

A tag has been placed on Category:User rsk indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:28, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Canada's Got Talent judges has been nominated for deletion

Category:Canada's Got Talent judges has been nominated for 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. --woodensuperman 13:42, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Query

Hello, Bearcat,

I ran across a fairly new editor, User:Bebel2024, who has created dozens of new categories for several articles they created about particularly grisly crimes in Brazil. The categories they created do not fit into the existing Wikipedia category structure, some are close but are basically duplicates of long-standing categories we have for births, deaths and other annual categories. I removed quite a few categories they created whose only contents was/were one of his articles but since you have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of categories on Wikipedia, I'm hoping you could look over several of the articles they created, remove any unnecessary or anomalous categories that I missed and add any ones you think might be appropriate. Thank you for any help you can offer. I don't want to squelch their enthusiasm but they need to make use of the existing categories that fit the subject of their articles. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 22:13, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Bearcat,
I thought you might tag some of these categories CSD C1, I didn't expect you would delete them immediately. That's not how we typically handle empty categories unless they are the work of a sockpuppet or vandalism. Liz Read! Talk! 23:21, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Draft categories

I see you remove draft categories like [4]. WP:DRAFTNOCAT says they can be disabled by wrapping them in {{Draft categories}}. That makes it easier to restore them if the draft is moved to mainspace, and reduces the risk that the author adds draft categories again. You can add it as an option in "Wiki markup" below the edit area with this in your common JavaScript: 

// Add custom CharInsert entries per [[Help:CharInsert#Customization]]
window.charinsertCustom = {
 "Wiki markup": ' {\{Draft.categories|1=\n+}}\n',
};

Mark all the categories before selecting the option to automatically wrap them. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:12, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I came to say this as well. Its a more constructive edit for those drafting new articles. Ncwfl (talk) 20:14, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for using {{Draft categories}} now. You don't have to spend time looking for better categories. Most drafts are never accepted and bad categories do no harm when they are deactivated. If a draft is actually accepted then the reviewer and others can improve the categories. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing has changed from before. There is no obligation to always just disable categories on drafts rather than removing them; rather, it's always conditional on various circumstances. For instance, if there are only a couple of categorized drafts to deal with, such as when I'm incat-searching Category:Living people a few times a day and find two or three drafts, then it's no major imposition on my time to just wrap categories in the "draft categories" wrapper — but when there are a hundred categorized drafts to deal with all at once, such as when I'm working with the weekly "Polluted categories" report, it becomes an unacceptable burden to have to spend anything more than a few seconds on any individual page. It's not a task I do because I enjoy it, it's a task I do because it needs to get done — so it's a task I always have to be able to reduce to the fastest wham-bam-next option that gets me in and out of any given draft in the absolute shortest amount of time possible.
For example, draft creators don't always place categories at the bottom of the page: sometimes they place categories somewhere in the middle of the page, and I've even seen pages where people have placed several separate bundles of categories in multiple different places in the same draft — meaning that attempting to disable the categories instead of just hotcatting them out would require a significant time commitment of searching for the category declarations. So if it would take longer to wrap the categories than it would to just rub them out with HotCat, then I simply don't have any responsibility to take the longer option, especially if and when I have 100 other drafts to also get through.
And it's not at all true that people are less likely to remove the draft categories wrapper than they are to readd categories that have been removed, either — I see both things happen, and in fact editors removing a draft categories wrapper that had already been on the page is slightly more common than editors readding categories that had been outright removed.
Further, it is not a good idea to just leave bad (redlinked, inappropriate, overly generalized, etc.) categories on a page in disabled form — because that does create problems further down the line if an AFC reviewer accepts a draft without the necessary category adjustments, or if the draft creator tries to bypass AFC review by just moving the draft themselves. The question of whether "most" drafts get accepted or not is not relevant at all: if even one draft out of 1,000 gets mainspaced with any bad categories still on it, that's still one more categorization error that has to be fixed again than was actually necessary. So my job is not to leave bad categories on the page, and that's not a thing I'm ever going to do — even when I am just using the draft categories wrapper, I am still not going to leave bad categories on the page just because they're not currently causing any problems — if there's any possibility that they will ever cause any future problems, then I have to fix that now rather than leaving any possibility of future problems open.
So the bottom line here is that I need to always be able deal with any categorized draft in the fastest "no more than ten seconds on any given page" manner possible, because there are all kinds of reasons (number of pages to be dealt with, weird placement of categories, preventing future problems, etc.) why it can become a longer and more tedious task than anybody should have to put up with. Sometimes wrapping them in the draft categories template is fine, sure, but sometimes just ripping the categories out with HotCat still has to be an option — and since we do not have any rule that merely disabling categories on draftspace pages is always required and removing them outright is forbidden, this really isn't a thing I should have to keep explaining or defending. I mean, sure, I'd love it if there were a way to just prevent user and draft pages from showing up in mainspace categories in the first place, so that nobody actually had to spend any amount of time on getting them pulled out of categories at all, but as long as it's still a task that has to be looked after manually it has to remain a task I'm entitled to reduce to the absolute shortest amount of time I can possibly spend on it. Bearcat (talk) 01:13, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Piercey Dalton for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Piercey Dalton 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/Piercey Dalton until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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 until the discussion has finished.

Clarityfiend (talk) 23:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammad Sadegh Amiri

Hello, can you remove the warning sticker of Mohammad Sadegh Amiri, thank you 113.203.113.98 (talk) 12:21, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Policy 713

Hi there, I noticed you were apart of the LGBT in Canada work group and I was wondering if you could do an article rating on Policy 713? I've added everything I could find and published it to the mainspace, if there's any part of the article I could improve on feel free to let me know. B3251 (talk) 22:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP Radio Stations

Hi there. I noticed that you are one of the earliest, if not the earliest, editor to join WikiProject Radio Stations that is still active, so I thought you might be the best person to ask – are you or anyone else considered a “coordinator” for the project? I ask because I would like some “official” guidance related to the thread I started recently on the talk page there but wasn’t sure who to ask as the project page doesn’t list anyone being in such a role. Furthermore, I wouldn’t mind leading an official effort to establish some standards for that stuff, but I didn’t want to step on any toes (nor do I know whose toes I might need to worry about). — Garrett W. {☎ ✍} 02:08, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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