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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

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Given with respect and admiration to Gjs238 for all your work on rivers and creeks, especially in Pennsylvania Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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NY fire tower renamings

Re your renaming: It is true that most of the other NY fire tower articles use the "Fire Observation Station" format. But here's the caveat to that: the state didn't name them that, the National Park Service did when the properties were listed on the National Register (The state has never, to my knowledge, given any of its firetowers, inside or outside the Forest Preserve, formal names).

This might seem a little idiosyncratic, but there is some logic to it. Unlike the other Catskill firetowers that have been listed on the Register (Balsam Lake Mountain, Red Hill and Mt. Tremper), the listing for Hunter's tower does not include the observer's cabin since it's of too recent (as of the late 1990s when it was listed) vintage (see source, p. 3 (if you've got JavaScript enabled, anyway)). Cf. Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Station, which I see you also renamed, and doesn't have any cabin at the site.

Yes, the NPS is not always consistent in the names it lists similar properties under. This has often bedeviled us at WP:NRHP. But, per our application of WP:NC and WP:ON, we have decided that, in the absence of another official name or a more widely-used common name, we use the NRHP name for the article title.

So, I'm afraid I'm going have to ask that you debold yourself and restore all the New York firetower articles to their original names, no matter how internally inconsistent that may be or seem to be. (I can't remember if you're an admin or not ... if the latter, I can reverse the moves if you need that). Daniel Case (talk) 18:18, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In re: Mt. Beacon, I'm afraid I misnamed it from the beginning. Thanks for correcting it to be Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower.--Pubdog (talk) 01:23, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 21:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I replied here. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 21:35, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The (?) Bartram's Bridge?

Why are you adding the "The"? As a native speaker of English, I have to say it sounds all wrong! Actually much stronger - it IS all wrong! Would you change it back or give me a precise explanation? Smallbones (talk) 22:51, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's the Bartram's Covered Bridge, but feel free to take out the "the" if that's what floats your boat. The "the" issue comes up once in a while in the various river articles. For example, most people refer to "the Delaware River," but not "the Crosswicks Creek, yet some will add the "the" to articles like the latter. Anyway, take it out if that makes you happy. Gjs238 (talk) 12:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Catskill Fire lookout towers

Category:Catskill Fire lookout towers, 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. The Bushranger One ping only 08:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Honey Creek in Texas

FYI - to save us both from misunderstanding. I am currently working on an article about the various Honey Creeks in Texas. Complete with references. It might not be done today, but it will get there. At that time, I'll just convert the Honey Creek (Texas) from a redirect to the new page. Thank you for paying attention. I believe your edits were in good faith. — Maile (talk) 14:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hydronymy

Hallo, I am interested in hydronymy as it looks the language of prehistoric Europe is reflected therein. I left a message on the wikiproject rivers talkpage, just looking for editors with similar interests to exchange information. I have discovered the so called old european hydronymy is not limited to Europe but has many correspondences in Iran, India and furhter away so I think this disproves the current scholarly etymological interpretations. Presently I am trying to research Bengal and Burma. Thanks for reading.Aldrasto11 (talk) 11:04, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Pelhams, New York

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Category:Rivers on the Appalachian Trail

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Category:Mountains on the Appalachian Trail

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Category:Protected areas on the Appalachian Trail

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Re: Recent Changes to Blackledge River

As a new contributor I have some trepidation about changing other contributor's work. In the past, I have seen many inaccuracies on Wikipedia that I have wanted to update. I finally jumped in and made this change because I had personal knowledge of the Blackledge River.

My Questions: 

-Should I have attempted to contact someone before making the change?
No, what you did was fine.
-Was correcting the GPS coordinates using the referenced maps the correct way to document the Headwater location?
Yes, referenced sources work best.
-Is this message a good use of the talk page?
Sure, nice to meet you.

Thanks, WhatHump (talk) 17:37, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. Gjs238 (talk) 17:45, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Pennsylvania Streams

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Pennsylvania Streams. Since you are interested streams and have done a lot of work on Pennsylvania-related ones in the past, you might be interested in this. --Jakob (talk) 00:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

June 2014

Information icon Hello, I'm Abhinav. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Ten Mile Point, 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. Abhinav—Ŧ—� 18:38, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to this edit this edit see WP:NOTBROKEN (and WP:CHEAP) -- PBS (talk) 14:13, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Towanda Creek

Thanks for removing the stub template--I keep forgetting to do it myself! --Jakob (talk) 18:30, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Platte River (Missouri River)

Hello -- Since there are two different rivers named "Platte River" that flow into the Missouri River (the Platte River and the one in Missouri and Iowa that you recently moved to Platte River (Missouri River)), it seems to me that Platte River (Missouri River) isn't a good title for either article, because it doesn't sufficiently disambiguate the two. Any thoughts? --Malepheasant (talk) 19:46, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Catahoula Cur

The photo of the dog that you kept replacing mine with on the Catahoula page is not to breed standard so should not be a representation of the breed. My photo was approved, please do not tamper with it. The dog in your photo has a brushy tail which is a fault with the breeds standard. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bugaflee (talk • contribs) 21:12, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

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Why rollbacking this ?

Hello, you have rollbacked on Kew, Michigan to remove this :

This page is about the community in Michigan, U.S.A.. For other uses, see Kew (disambiguation).

The aim of this edit is to help people who are looking for other "Kew" places to find their way to the article they are looking for. Can you please explain why you think it does not have its place here? Thanks. 88.219.191.31 (talk) 16:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi! The page name Kew, Michigan is sufficiently disambiguated not to warrant a hatnote. I specified that in my edit summary.
Now, the page named Kew most certainly needs such a hatnote as the title is ambiguous.
If you prefer to return the hatnote to the page Kew, Michigan I won't debate the issue or revert your edit.
Gjs238 (talk) 00:44, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Look before reverting

Your revert of my edit to Big Sandy made no sense whatsoever. Did you spend even 10 seconds studying what I had done? First, the template link was a typo and pointed to a redirect. Second, the two wikilinks in the section were also to redirects. By changing them to direct links to the disambiguation pages, essentially nothing was changed, except that users who have tooltip preview activated in their profiles will see a preview of the article instead of a preview of some useless text in the redirect. — QuicksilverT @ 15:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Birmingham Bridge (Pennsylvania)

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Categorization

Can you please undo your recent re-categorization of those Pennsylvania streams? I prefer to use the other categories; there are not enough non-stream bodies of water to justify a category split. Thank you. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 01:25, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hello. I did not create the Rivers and streams of X County, Pennsylvania‎ subcategories, they already existed, I just populated them. Shall we depopulate and nominate them for deletion? Also, I did not perform this action for all of the counties, some (most?) were already organized this way - now it is consistent. Gjs238 (talk) 01:33, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, depopulation and nominating for deletion would be a good idea. I was merely trying to restore the categorization system to how it was in December 2015; that system had existed for over two years. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 01:35, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Is there some sort of script to do that efficiently? (catalot would work for depopulation but not nomination). --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 01:36, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The various Category:Rivers and streams of X County, Pennsylvania and Category:Rivers and streams of X County, New Jersey were created rather recently by User:Hmains. I would most definitely include him/her in the discussion. I haven't checked other states, but this could be a national categorization scheme. Gjs238 (talk) 02:17, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • User:Jakec, as an administrator, will know that it not allowed to depopulate categories and then nominate them for deletion. He must nominate a category for discussion of deletion first and then follow the decision. He will also know what the various county subcats here have sufficient numbers to justify their retention, not deletion, and the ones that do not are part of a pattern and thus retainable. Hmains (talk) 02:27, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thank you for the quick reply. How did you find this conversation so quickly? Do you receive notification when your user page is linked? Just curious. Gjs238 (talk) 02:42, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes, I think so. Thanks. Hmains (talk) 04:40, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
        • I'll make one last attempt to try to reason with you. You have just caused redundant categories to appear: 'Rivers and streams of Pennsylvania' and 'Rivers and streams in whatever county, Pennsylvania', the latter of which states that "all rivers and streams in Pennsylvania should be included in this category". There are not enough non-stream bodies of water to justify a split, but there are still a few, so the bodies of water category is appropriate. This may change if there are large numbers of articles on Pennsylvania lakes someday. Thus, please revert these changes immediately. Thank you. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 11:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
          • The facts are that there are enough articles in the county categories to justify their existence. Numbers include 19, 25, 9, 17, 24, 13, 7 12, 7, 11, 18, 18, 7, 13 and so on. The minimum number of articles to justify a category is usually 5 to 7, but there is no fixed rule. Those counties with fewer are justified on the basis of being part of a pattern. Furthermore, the reason for county level categories of any kind is so that readers can easily navigate at the county level to the articles that pertain to the county, in this case to rivers and streams of the county. It has also been established in previous categorization discussions that the lack of sufficient numbers in a higher level category is not justification to delete it or to up merge from a lower level category. You provide a quote 'all rivers and streams in Pennsylvania should be included in this category' which is not in 'Rivers and streams in whatever county, Pennsylvania' as you state. It used to be in 'Rivers and streams of Pennsylvania' until you removed it in on 21 June 2016. You cannot make an argument based on something that does not exist, especially when you yourself removed it. There is also the matter of WP:DIFFUSE that discusses diffusion of categories and simply states "It is possible for a category to be only partially diffused—some members are placed in subcategories, while others remain in the main category." This gives you no MOS justification for arguing that these river and stream categories by county need to be eliminated. This may just leave your statements as a personal preference, which has no justification for actions in WP. Hmains (talk) 04:19, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jakob: You may be interested in following, or participating in, this relevant discussion: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 July 7#Category:Rivers and streams of Teton County, Wyoming Gjs238 (talk) 16:48, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Centre for International Governance Innovation has been nominated for discussion

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Ruland

Got it. I didn't understand because there are high schools called "Christian Brothers Academy" and such and I didn't understand the connection as "Christian Brothers schools." I'd have expected "Christian Brothers colleges if it was referring to Iona. Seems like very few articles would be in that category, most would be in sub-categories. Rikster2 (talk) 02:22, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Christian Brothers school alumni has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Channel 6 radio station has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Sunbeam (car company)

I caused the problem by changing the name of the article to the proper name of the company. Categories in WP leave me seriously confused, I created the red link in case someone nice came along and sorted it out, and I thought you had but now I see you have just reverted my change. You have an interest in categories please can we get together and sort this out? Then I might learn something about WP's categories Regards, Eddaido (talk) 14:20, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much indeed for this, Regards, Eddaido (talk) 22:42, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for your thanks. I now guess what happened was I dropped the ball by not going to the right place and supporting the proposal? Anyway I thought I'd restart the matter like this hoping you would not be aware. But you are (silly of me to think you might not) and I hope I have not caused myself or anyone else trouble. Many thanks, Eddaido (talk) 11:06, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sri Lankan country music has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Wikipedian newpage patrollers has been nominated for discussion

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Category:British anti-capitalists has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Wikipedian interested in football in Armenia has been nominated for discussion

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I just noticed that the article on Clarissa Pinkola Estés is word-for-word identical to the subject's own biography page. If I'm reading the history correctly, it looks like you were the one who added the relevant sections. Can you confirm whether you wrote them, and what sources you used? I know this was a long time ago. However, these sections will probably need to be rewritten or removed unless their authorship can be verified. Please make further comments on the article talk page. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 12:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, I read the history incorrectly. Sorry! Sondra.kinsey (talk) 12:59, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User categories

Hi Gjs238,

I noticed you've recently been creating quite a few user categories. I've deleted no less than 5 of the ones you've created as re-creations of previously deleted categories deleted by a past deletion discussion. I would highly encourage you to review WP:USERCAT to see appropriate vs. inappropriate types of user categories. Additionally, it's a good idea to check before you create a page if it's been previously deleted. For instance, in the case of Category:Wikipedian WikiElves, you can see that it had been deleted twice prior to you creating the page (now 3 times). The reason for the deletion was listed in the deletion log both times - Someone nominated the category for deletion in the past, which resulted in deletion. When this occurs it's generally inappropriate to be re-creating the page unless some significant rationale behind the deletion has changed since the last discussion, which does not appear to be the case here. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! VegaDark (talk) 07:01, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Historically segregated white schools in the United States

Hi! I read this edit summary. Then this means "Houma, Louisiana" "Public high schools in Louisiana" and "Schools in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana" all should be removed too?

Also please do not only remove the category, but put it in the correct place (meaning the Wikipedia article). Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 09:05, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spider categorization

Please note:

  1. We do not put an article into both a parent and child category. Thus Liphistiidae must not be in both Category:Liphistiidae and Category:Mesothelae, since the former category is a child of the latter category. (From Wikipedia:Categorization: if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C.)
  2. Categories need to be of a reasonable size, neither too large, when they should be split up, nor too small, when they should be merged. There's no absolute rule on size, and different WikiProjects have different guidelines, but Category:Liphistiidae is, at present anyway, too small to be sensible.

Peter coxhead (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re Liphistiidae: sure, if there is a category Category:Liphistiidae, then Liphistiidae should be in it and at the top. But there shouldn't be such a category unless there are, say, 15-20 articles to go in it. The right course of action for the present is to empty Category:Liphistiidae and have it deleted or redirected to a parent category. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:03, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User categories

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Category:Confirmed Sockpuppets of User:Jimmy Wales has been nominated for discussion

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Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

Dear Administrator, I am creating this bio site for DSK. I am waiting to get it accessible from outside. I see nothing wrong with it. Thanks for your help!!!! Asympto (talk) 15:30, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sunbeamland

Hi, do you really think it is a mistake to link to Villiers Engineering? Same owners etc etc? See item in the article. Eddaido (talk) 08:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi - I assume you are referring to my removal of the red-link category "Villiers Engineering". The "link" I removed was to a non-existent category. Placing that "link" in the article does not a category create. Hope this explanation helps. Gjs238 (talk) 14:04, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

blocking

HI

It appears that someone has been changing details on the wiki page and I have the IP add that is doing it, can you advise how to block this ? or any advise to get alerts when there are changes made ?

thanks

Azura81 (talk) 14:25, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see my proposal to speeedily upmerge a category

Category:Sports clubs established in 1930s upmerge to Category:Sports clubs established in the 1930s Hugo999 (talk) 11:19, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kay Cohen

Just checking - did you create Category:Kay Cohen by mistake? Shall I delete it (once the files there have been moved to Commons)? Schwede66 18:09, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Magic world championship

Hi. I'm not sure why you reverted the merge. The only info given in the article Magic world championship is that Fred Kaps won in thrice. This fact is now included in Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques#Convention so there's no need to keep a separate stub. Best, Pichpich (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Basketball categories

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31 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Criminal Copyright Law in the United States (talk) Cleanup
158 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Grinding (video gaming) (talk) Cleanup
33 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Franz Lucas (talk) Expand
32 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Stadler EC250 (talk) Expand
25 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway (talk) Expand
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Guldara District (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,354 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Crime (talk) Unencyclopaedic
8 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Pretoria, Georgia (talk) Unencyclopaedic
231 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Special economic zones of China (talk) Merge
771 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C T.J. Maxx (talk) Merge
235 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Metres above sea level (talk) Merge
456 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Albany, Georgia (talk) Wikify
49 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start JSD Partizan (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Nytorv, Aalborg (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Surface Robotics Laboratory-CMERI (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Karin Olah (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Nogueira Ferrão (talk) Orphan
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Deh Rahwod District (talk) Stub
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Bernhard Krüger (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Evansville Brewing Company (talk) Stub
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Futian Station (Metro) (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Ghaziabad District, Kunar (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Tala wa Barfak District (talk) Stub

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Category:American colonial architecture

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Brazilian emigrants to Kazakhstan

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Nomination of Addis Run for deletion

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C2/CII etc.

Hello! It looks as if we're working in a similar area on letter/number disambiguations, so thanks for your help. Before we started I think "A IV", II-B, etc. were listed fairly consistently under A4, 2B, etc. rather than AIV, IIB, etc. Most of them are German locomotives and weapons. The redirects match this, e.g. A IV -> A4, II-B -> 2B. Moving the entries to be consistently under AIV, IIB, etc. would be a substantial and tedious job, so I've simply been adding "see also" entries (and tidying up unrelated minor issues as I spotted them). So far I've (rather inconsistently) looked at (0-9)A, A(0-9), 0(A-M), (A-M)0, 1(A-M), (A-M)1 and 2(A-C).

Do you think it's a good idea to move Roman-numeral entries from all the other pages like C2? Potentially there are 520 of them but in practice maybe 100 so it's still a big job. I'll pause while we work out what's going where. Certes (talk) 22:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi! Thanks for your message. Composing a reply inspired me to look into this a bit more than I had when I made those edits you referred to. It seems that the content of the disambiguation pages needs to be determined by context. For example, C2 contains only numerical related entries, whether they be C2, C II, C.II, etc. CII contains alphabetical related entries. Based on this I just rolled back my edits to those two pages.
If this is correct, then perhaps a short introductory explanation on each page would help reduce or eliminate confusion.
There may have been a Wikipedia community consensus on this at some time. It would be interesting to find out.
Gjs238 (talk) 02:30, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've looked around but I can't find any previous discussion. I agree that we should put more emphasis on telling readers how the pages are organised.
CII is quite short, so "See also" should appear on most devices without paging down. Perhaps it just needs a description to the right of the link I added: C2 (disambiguation), including a list of topics named C.II. The next step up would be a hatnote along the lines of For topics named C.II, see C2 (disambiguation). I'll try the first approach on CII only, and see how it looks.
With C2, the only way to help further would be a hatnote. But I was trying to help readers who typed "C II" (with spaces) when looking for the Chartered Insurance Institute, or similar. That's not going to happen much, so maybe we leave things as they are for now. Certes (talk) 12:08, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notes from a previous section

Category:Sports venues in Devonport

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Sockpuppet categories

Hi Gjs238

I see that earlier today you created Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Oreilly90. That was of course fine; it needed to be created.

However, I just thought I'd let you know that for the last week or so, I have been screen-scraping each update of Special:WantedCategories into a single list, and grepping that to male a list of sockuppet categories to create. I then whack then all through using AWB. The last 4 updates of Special:WantedCategories have contained over between 1100-1500 sock categories each, so it's big dent in the backlog.

The AWB settings I use skip any existing pages, so your work doesn't in any way impede my AWB run. But I just thought that if you prefer to leave those to the AWB run, that might save you a little work. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:24, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • (talk page stalker) I remember years ago somehow generating a list a bit like SWC that came in at around 10k sock cats out of ~30k red cats. I rapidly lost enthusiasm for doing anything about it!!!! It was before Quarry and I've never played with database dumps, so I guess it must have involved a clever URL calling the API. I'd noticed that about half of the sock categories at rlcwil got created before I got to them - if that was solely as a result of @BrownHairedGirl: working through the SWC list and all sampling was random, that would imply that the 5000 cats listed at SWC were about half the total population. I had a bit of a go at SWC this week including clearing out all the yyyy Foo categories - the thing about year categories is that you can predict red-linked ones that aren't on SWC, in one case I found 9 but only 4 were on SWC, implying that we would need SWC to be around 10-12k to capture the full population. As it happens I grabbed SWC just before the latest run - just over 2000 cats had been processed off the old list. So I then did a VLOOKUP to find that there were 1360 cats in the new list that were also in the ~2980 unprocessed members of the old list. For one thing that proves that SWC doesn't operate by keeping the old 2980 and adding another 2020 members, it does either a random or pseudorandom ("all cats with >1 member and then 1-member cats by time of last access"?) sample. Make the assumption it is truly random, then that implies the total population is 5000 / (1360/2980) = 10,956. I suspect it's not quite truly random and so the actual number is a bit higher, but it's encouraging that all the guesses are coming in at around the same.Le Deluge (talk) 21:24, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Le Deluge thanks for that data. It's encouraging, not to just to have the figures confirmed, but to confirm my estimate that in the last few weeks we have been making significant progress in clearing a very old backlog.
    Today's update of SWC contained 599 sock categories, which I have just created. That's down from 779 on on 26 Feb, 927 on 23 Feb, and 1101 on 20 Feb.
    I too have assumed that SWC is based on either a random or pseudorandom ("all cats with >1 member and then 1-member cats by time of last access"?) sample, because I tried tracking uncleared categs from the old list into the update and found that they were missing.
    The handy thing about reducing the number of sock entries in SWC is that the remainder contains larger sets of the std groups I have been working on: expats, ambassadors, gaelic games players, and US counties. So my clear-up rate of the rest is increasing as the sock categs are cleared ... tho not as fast, because the sock categs are so quick and easy to do with AWB. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:33, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just by way of an update for you and @BrownHairedGirl:, the last few estimates for the SWC "population" have gone from 10956 to 9243, 7877 and 6550. So we're definitely getting there - might get below 5000 next time although more likely to be the one after that, it depends a bit on the rate of additions (recent ones have been a bit over 100/day but it was more than double that three updates ago).Le Deluge (talk) 14:11, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hopefully this is the last time I need to estimate this, over 93% of the last cache's "survivors" have made it into the latest SWC, implying a population of <5359. So unless we're really unlucky with additions, we should be below <5000 next time - the apparent additions seem to be slowing which I suspect is something to do with the pseudorandom element dropping out as we approach 5000, additions always seemed a bit high. It's truly a gnarly old backlog though, I've not been paying close attention but I've certainly had some that have been red since 2005, although few are as clean as this one today, the Wiki-backlog equivalent of a Googlewhack? @BrownHairedGirl: Le Deluge (talk) 11:43, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's brilliant news, Le Deluge. I had been delighted to find this morning that there were only 53 redlinked sockpuppet categs to create, down from 161 on the 11th March and 289 on the 8th`March. Such precipitous falls seemed to me to shout that something big was shifting, so it's great to have it confirmed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:46, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who retain on their userpages categories which have been deleted by consensus

Should I assume from the very generous number of thanks from you that you reckon Category:Wikipedians who retain on their userpages categories which have been deleted by consensus is good idea? <grin>

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South West Africa cats

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The invisible barnstar

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IPC swimming

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Wisconsin category

Hi-I noticed you created the University of Wisconsin Whitewater & Madison alumni category; this needs to be deleted. The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and University of Wisconsin–Madison campuses are separate institutions with alumni. The category you started is very inaccurate and needs to be deleted. Thank you-RFD (talk) 23:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Disabled user categories

You made a "disable cats per WP:USERNOCAT" edit to my user page: User:JonMcLoone but these were user badges not categories. Is there something wrong with the badge design that makes me appear in an inappropriate category, or was this edit a mistake? JonMcLoone (talk) 11:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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