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Category:4th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging

 

Category:4th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging. 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. Mason (talk) 21:36, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:6th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging

 

Category:6th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging. 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. Mason (talk) 21:37, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:5th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging

 

Category:5th-century BC people by nationality and occupation has been nominated for merging. 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. Mason (talk) 21:37, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Hotels in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

 

A tag has been placed on Category:Hotels in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:14, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Regarding Template:Cite Instagram

Hello, I don't know if you've taken a look at the discussion at Template talk:Cite Instagram#Fixes for author error messages, but recent changes to Template:Cite web are causing the Instagram template to generate error and maintenance messages. I've tested a fix in the sandbox. It should also provide better metadata and more clear error messages. I'm reaching out since you're the original author of the template in case you have any questions or objections. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 23:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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  Ngôi sao Nguyên bản
hi Realdennis.hoang (talk) 03:28, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:1950s in Samoa

Hi, thanks for creating parent categories at Category:1950s in Samoa, but the populated sub-sub-cat was created by Johnpacklambert who should have searched for existing siblings first, and the set is now up for merging/renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 9#Samoa 1920–1961. – Fayenatic London 12:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:15th-century American people has been nominated for deletion

 

Category:15th-century American people 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. Mason (talk) 03:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:15th-century Native American women has been nominated for deletion

 

Category:15th-century Native American women 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. Mason (talk) 03:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 

A category or categories you have created have 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 11 § Category:15th-century American people on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:34, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Numberguy6. Thank you for your work on 2024 Utah Attorney General election. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2020 America East Conference men's soccer season

 

A tag has been placed on Category:2020 America East Conference men's soccer season 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 20:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1st-century Irish literature

 

A tag has been placed on Category:1st-century Irish literature 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 02:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:15th-century North American people by nationality

 

A tag has been placed on Category:15th-century North American people by nationality 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 21:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

 

A category or categories you have created have 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 23 § Centuries in (outer) space on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mauritanian expatriates in Slovakia

 

A tag has been placed on Category:Mauritanian expatriates in Slovakia 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 06:10, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mauritania–Slovakia relations

 

A tag has been placed on Category:Mauritania–Slovakia relations 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 06:11, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Welsh diaspora in North America

 

A tag has been placed on Category:Welsh diaspora in North America 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 08:46, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Your edits to Lake Topozero

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Lake Topozero. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. 153.181.48.17 (talk) 05:01, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

How is it vandalism? The Russian article is a lot longer than the English article, and has a lot more sources. Numberguy6 (talk) 05:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Request on 17:51:57, 9 March 2024 for assistance on AfC submission by PlaneCrashKing1264


What do I hav to change?

PlaneCrashKing1264 (talk) 17:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding 'expand Arabic' templates to articles

You've been adding 'expand Arabic' templates to a bunch of English Wiki articles. The corresponding articles from Arabic Wikipedia are usually full of very poorly sourced content (usually sourced to government outlets and propaganda outlets that portray the subjects in a whitewashed, puffed up way). English Wiki articles for those subjects used to look the same before editors wisely removed all the unencyclopedic content. For this reason, the tags don't seem helpful and English Wikipedia should not aim to restore all the poorly sourced content that was carefully removed. Thenightaway (talk) 21:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Thenightaway: I will stop adding Template:Expand Arabic to articles. Are there any other language editions that you are concerned about? Numberguy6 (talk) 00:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:5th-century Irish literature

 

A tag has been placed on Category:5th-century Irish literature 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 20:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Expand language

Hi, Numberguy6. Your edits at various 'Expand LanguageName' templates pop up on my watchlist from time to time, most recently the edit request at the Talk page of {{Expand French}}. I just wanted to say I'm glad to see your involvement, and I encourage you to continue. I didn't create the {{Expand language}} template, but I became involved a few years back and enhanced it (especially, but not only, the documentation, which I think is an important part of it) so I feel I kind of "inherited" the role of principal maintainer of Expand language. I'm happy to do it, but in general, it's not good to have something like that in the hands of only one editor, so it's great that you are getting more involved. Doesn't mean we'll always agree on stuff, but that's small potatoes; it's much more important to have more eyeballs and opinions on it. The Holy Grail for me, is to one day unite all of the Expand LanguageName templates into one; that will be a tedious task, but doable, and would be great to have you on board for that. (Not imminent, probably more than a year or two.) Anyway, just wanted to say I've noticed your involvement, and I encourage it; kudos, and keep going! Are you able to get involved in templating at some point? Some years back, I knew nothing about templating, but it can be learned, and now I am very comfortable with it. If you're not a template editor, I totally think you should consider getting into it; you'd be good at it, I think. Mathglot (talk) 08:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

More on the subject of "expand language"

Hello Numberguy6, and thanks for your efforts to enhance English-language Wikipedia through encouraging translations. If I may make one observation though, I think perhaps sometimes your addition of these tags are done a bit hastily. In a few cases recently, they have been added to short articles about churches in Sweden I've authored. Of course one could expand the text of these articles. At the same time, I wonder if a) anyone will make the effort, ever, and b) if an expansion really would add very much for the English-speaking reader. In many of these cases (and I here refer to them because I know them, but please consider this just as examples), the Swedish-language articles go on at some length describing the building history at great detail, the gist of which I have tried to summarise in a pertinent way for an English-language reader; or they go into greater detail about who the pastors have been throughout the centuries or some such - information which, I dare to assume, is of more interest to a Swedish and even perhaps local reader than the typical English reader.

My point is therefore that it might be advisable to consider first whether the English-language article, though short, perhaps gives a reasonably adequate cover of the subject, before adding the tag? Especially if you do not yourself intend to actually do the expansion the tag encourages. In my experience, tags tend to get stuck on an article and never go away. Particularly when it comes to minor articles like these. In other cases, of course, there is more of a "real" discrepancy between language versions and I would fully understand the inclusion of the tag (though even here I am sceptical as to whether they have any concrete effect; fixing problems is in my experience more efficient than pointing them out.)

Sorry for this wordy post, I hope you see it as an attempt at a constructive and friendly feedback. Kind regards, Yakikaki (talk) 20:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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Category:Albanian pornography has been nominated for merging

 

Category:Albanian pornography has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it 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. NLeeuw (talk) 08:26, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Category:5th-century Irish literature

Category:5th-century Irish literature has been nominated for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 1#Category:5th-century Irish literature. – Fayenatic London 09:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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"List of fictional desert planets" listed at Redirects for discussion

  The redirect List of fictional desert planets has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 3 § List of fictional desert planets until a consensus is reached. TompaDompa (talk) 19:01, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Numberguy6Bot

Have you received approval for this bot through Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval? Cullen328 (talk) 00:17, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

I see now that the bot is approved. You might want to indicate that on the bot's userpage. Cullen328 (talk) 00:44, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hello Numberguy6. I wanted to let you know that I have closed your RfA as unsuccessful. Normally these run for a full week, but when it looks like the odds for success are very unlikely, they are often closed early to allow people to step back and regroup. I hope you will not be too discouraged; many administrators, myself included, did not succeed on our first attempt at RfA. If you have any questions, feel free to stop by my talk page. Best, 28bytes (talk) 05:26, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

  I’m sorry that you won’t get to be an admin. Instead of being able to block people and having power and prestige, how about some nice stroopwafels? Knotball (talk) 00:50, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 June 4 § Category:Crime action films

 

A category or categories you have created have 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 June 4 § Category:Crime action films on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 12:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

hidden cats only?

you seem very sure of your reverts - I would really be interested to see what policy/practice where the style you are insisting upon come from? JarrahTree 12:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

It would be very interesting to see an example from other projects why there is no need for categories... ? JarrahTree 12:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: The main category is Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias. Then, there are subcats with individual languages. In each of those are optional subcats with topic categories. What you did was add a template that put the topic subcats in the main category, instead of the language subcats where they belong. Numberguy6 (talk) 16:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2020s British civil aircraft

 

A tag has been placed on Category:2020s British civil aircraft 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 18:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2020s British aircraft

 

A tag has been placed on Category:2020s British aircraft 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 18:34, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ordovician geology of California

 

A tag has been placed on Category:Ordovician geology of California 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 removing the speedy deletion tag. plicit 11:21, 22 July 2024 (UTC)