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@Howcheng: I'm getting ready to move User:Maile66/Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area to Main Space. If I do a Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area search on Commons, it comes up with 144 images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MediaSearch&search=Merrimac+Farm+Wildlife+Management+Area&fulltext=Search&type=image
However, there is no Commons category by that name to do a single link. Without editing each image category link, is there a way to easily amass these images under a new Commons category for Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area? — Maile (talk) 13:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Not really. Your best bet is to use something like WP:AWB (if you are running Windows) so you can plow through all the images really quickly. —howcheng {chat} 18:23, 3 March 2022 (UTC).
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Happy First Edit Day! Hi Maile66! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 16th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Please accept the belated invitation below we meant to have offered you last year. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC) |
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Sealioning
@SL93: Have you by any chance seen Sealioning? Just saying ... life is too short to respond to someone who does this. — Maile (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Bambi vs Godzilla - G12
Hi there. I see you recently deleted Bambi vs. Godzilla as a G12 - this has left various missing redirects that need to be cleaned up. Before starting, I'd like to confirm that the deleted article was not about David Mamet's book. If it was, then I'd like to make an attempt at recovering something from it, but speedy deletions aren't eligible for WP:REFUND. If it wasn't, then I'll recreate the original redirect to Mamet's article and flag it as "with possibilities" as it was previously. Tevildo (talk) 20:50, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- FYI, it was listed at Candidates for Deletion. For your convenience, I have undeleted my action for you: Bambi vs. Godzilla The first sentence says, "Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business was a book written by playwright David Mamet and published by Vintage Books in February 2008." — Maile (talk) 20:59, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! I think the article, as it stood before deletion, is better off as a paragraph under David Mamet#Books, with the redirects restored to that section. If more material about the book becomes available, a split can be proposed. Unless there's any obvious reason against this course of action, I'll make a start on it tomorrow. Tevildo (talk) 21:15, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for following up here on my talk page. My deletions come from tagged and nominated listings at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. I don't independently decide what gets deleted. Only the nominator really knows why they tagged something. If it turns out someone disagrees that something shouldn't have been deleted, I'm always wiling to revert my actions. Let me know anytime. — Maile (talk) 21:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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Please undelete Draft:Henriette de Robespierre. It was only a broken redirect because some IP deliberately made it one in order for it to get deleted after I had declined two previous CSD attempts. Thanks. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:36, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Barry O'Callaghan
Hello Maile66. Thank you for your work on the Barry O'Callaghan article in the past. I would appreciate your attention to recent suggested improvements which would bring the article in line with WP:CRIT (by removing the 'Growth' and 'Decline' subdivisions) and WP:NPOV by removing extraneous detail. Thank you Psheehan1979 (talk) 12:14, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
- Done - your changes look fine to me. Business and finance articles are not my area of expertise, but I'm OK with your clean up there. — Maile (talk) 15:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
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Eicosatetraeonic acid
Hello Maile66, how come you deleted Eicosatetraeonic acid? It was not recently created. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- I've undeleted it for you. It was listed at Template:Admin dashboard under Candidates for speedy deletion. As you can see, there is a Speedy deletion tag on it. Looking at the history of the nominator's page, it looks like that IP nominator also put a notice message on your talk page about it Anything else I need to do about this? — Maile (talk) 23:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, No, I think an RFD is the way to go. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Maile66. I noticed that you deleted a redirect left from a disruptive move to NTT (disambigation) per WP:G7, which isn't in accordance with this criterion: For redirects created as a result of a page move, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages before the move.
Unfortunately, I was also cheated and requested a WP:G14 nomination of NTT (disambiguation). Could you restore all the revisions before its deletion? Thanks, NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 01:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- This one is a little confusing to me. I just reverted my delete. Did this work for you? If not, please advise how I shoud do it. — Maile (talk) 01:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't state it clearly. I was asking for deleting NTT (disambiguation) and restoring all the revisions before its first deletion. NTT (disambigation) should have been reverted to NTT without leaving a redirect at the first time because of the misspelling "disambigation" in its title. NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 02:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- There's probably a way to easily do this. But I don't want to botch it for you, so I've left a message at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Delete-Undelete assistance requested. — Maile (talk) 03:06, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
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