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National parishes

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Could you explain me reason for this category.

You added the sentence "National parishes are Catholic parishes that serve particular minority ethnic communities. They should not be confused with national churches or state churches.", but you also added article about the churches. Also is it about any parishes, Catholic parishes or Roman Catholic parishes? --WlaKom (talk) 08:55, 30 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

The category is for national parishes, not national churches as I stated. Category:National churches stands alone and unrelated, and I have not added any of its contents to Category:National parishes. I am assembling an article on the 19th century debate over Americanization, which piqued my interest in the subject; I noticed there was no category for ethnic parishes, even though WP has dozens of articles about them. so I created it. To my knowledge, the concept of the national parish is a feature of western Catholicism, but if necessary we can always have the category renamed.- choster (talk) 12:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
What I suggest:
  1. Rename it to Ethnic, because "national" is also used for name of the "Polish National Church" as the one of the denomination of the Catholic Church.
  2. Divide it (only for parishes) on: Ethnic (not national) parishes abroad -> Ethnicity_name ethnic parishes -> ... in (country) -> Roman Catholic parishes/Orthodox parishes/... other denominations in (country). Then sorted by location.--WlaKom (talk) 13:52, 30 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Sea Cliff, New York)

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Regarding your renaming of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church (Seacliff, New York); You do realize that Sea Cliff, New York isn't one word, don't you? ----DanTD (talk) 00:40, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Category:Locomotives of Taiwan

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The discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 1#Category:Locomotives of Taiwan was closed with a "no consensus". The closer, Mike Selinker, indicated here that a new discussion was necessary. I note that Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China has been marked for merger to Category:Locomotives of Taiwan for some time. I completed the listing at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 17#Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China. You are being notified, as you commented in the original discussion. --Bejnar (talk) 13:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Category:Fraternity and sorority templates

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Since the template was moved, I decided to add templates to the category. There are currently 75 templates in the category (and two sub-categories). That's even more than I thought would be there when I argued for the Presidents to be left as a subcategory. Yes a good number of them are from doc files, but it's still getting fairly large.Naraht (talk) 16:44, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

"Haunted attraction"

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That's hilarious! As you say, Wikipedia must be the only place in the world where such a phrase is used. The actual article Haunted attraction could do with some serious copy-editing, too. Bishonen | talk 20:06, 31 March 2011 (UTC).Reply

Category cleanup

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I did some category cleanup of some topics you mentioned earlier (merged and put up a soft redirects):

Of course there is still a LOT to do, but I thought you might be pleased to know that at least a little has been done. Neutralitytalk 04:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 April 7

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I do not understand what your post means. Is that a support of the move?Hoops gza (talk) 00:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Paranormal places

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Proposed merge of Category:Reportedly haunted locations into Category:Paranormal places. Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_24#Category:Reportedly_haunted_locations. Simply south...... trying to improve for 5 years 16:17, 24 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

St. David

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St. David School (Richmond, California) an article that you have participated in editing has been nominated for deletion a second time, the first time in 2006 resulted in no consensus and, it can be reviewed here. The current discussion on the removal of the article is located here should you wish leave your comment.LuciferWildCat (talk) 05:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Churches categories

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Thank you for your contribution at the CFD on church buildings, which I thought was brilliant. I learned some new things (e.g. about usage of "congregation") and you made several points better than I have been trying to say them. – Fayenatic London (talk) 12:34, 11 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Mary comment

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Re my comment here. Just for my own curiousity, could you clarify? How am I misinterpreting your comment? Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:14, 22 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

 
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Category:Log homes

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CfD discussion of Category:Hawaiian players of American football

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Category: Robot characters in video games

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Thanks for commenting on the category name change proposal. I hope you understand that it just seems illogical to have a category called "Robot characters in video games" and then exclude robot characters who appeared in video games from being listed. I just changed the proposal to simply change it to "Category:Video game robots", which I think would solve the problem, since the emphasis would become "video game" characters who are "robots"...Mathewignash (talk) 11:57, 19 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Image discussion at article 17 Mile Drive

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College town

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Just to let you know the same anonymous user(s) who seems to be convinced Columbus, Ohio, should be added to the list in College town, is back at it again if you haven't noticed. Sigh. --JonRidinger (talk) 21:43, 5 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Trak Auto

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I like what you did for expanding on Trak Auto. I think you should nominate it for WP:DYK and get it listed on the Main Page. Sometime ago, I was planned to expand the page myself but never got around to it. I did located a bunch of references, of which you have included ~80% of them. I have just added a few of those to the Trak Auto page. I did find a few a refs for topics you had not mentioned, but I need to figure how to integrate this information, like the closing of the stores in Chicago and the conversion of some of those stores to Murray's Discount Auto Parts. Also I have a few refs about the sale of its stock.

There are two points in the article that requires clarification. 1) What is Forest City Auto Parts? None of the current references mentions Forest City and Forest City Auto Parts is not mentioned to the wiki article on Forest City Enterprises. 2) Who paid whom when Thrifty sold its 50% share in Trak Auto to Dart? According to the Los Angeles Times article that was cited, both partners contributed $11.7 million. I assumed that had happened when they initially formed the company. My interpretation of the article is that Thrifty just gave their half to Dart in exchange for Dart to assume the $40 million debt while Dart gave Thrifty lots of money for their share of Crown, which was making a profit at that time, unlike Trak. I will try to dig up some article from L.A. Times that were written when Trak West was formed.

If you chose to nominate Trak Auto for WP:DYK, you need to do it ASAP. 107.216.165.224 (talk) 04:34, 13 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thanks; I may well have misinterpreted some items from the sources, and I encourage you to edit them as you see fit. Forest City Auto Parts, which should not be confused with Forest City Auto Centers, was a Cleveland-based auto parts chain that had a succession of owners in the 1990s and ultimately went bankrupt in 2001. It was one of various "Forest City" businesses owned by the Ratner family, though it was the hardware store and of course the real estate and construction companies where they made their name. If you think the connection to FCE is too tenuous, feel free to remove it. - - choster (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
I will try to re-edit the text to better fit the refs. If you have access to Cleveland-based newspapers, it might be nice to include Forest City Auto Parts. Unfortunately, there is no mention of the Forest City in the big city newspapers of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Washington D.C. As it is, I still think that article is still good enough for nomination for Wikipedia:Did you know and you should submit the nomination since you had done the bulk of the writing (and you should get the credit). 107.216.165.224 (talk) 03:27, 20 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Harvard Graphics

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Hi Choster, just a comment on your reversion of "MS-DOS" to "DOS" on the Harvard Graphics page. MS-DOS is the root of the operating system family. IBM PC DOS was just a rebranded version (until 1993). DR-DOS and some others were created to be compatible with MS-DOS. So "MS-DOS" covers it pretty well.

The term "DOS" isn't correct, because there are dozens of systems with "DOS" in the name that have nothing to do with PC compatibles: List of DOS operating systems § Other operating systems. Dgpop (talk) 21:20, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Theta Upsilon Omega

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historic churches

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Hi, i just came across your having improved an article about a National Register of Historic Places-listed church in South Dakota, then I see you have been expanding other articles like St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Hope, Arkansas). Thank you for making these contributions! As you may or may not be aware, there are lots of very short stub articles about churches listed on the National Register, many in category Category:All articles sourced only to NRIS, and there are just a few editors working to improve them. I happen to be working on improving articles in South Dakota and in Kansas in my recent edits. Please consider joining wp:NRHP and either way you are welcome to participate at wt:NRHP. cheers, --Doncram (talk) 18:52, 30 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

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