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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Religious organizations based in Tibet

A tag has been placed on Category:Religious organizations based in Tibet 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.

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Category:Redirects to animals has been nominated for merging

Category:Redirects to animals 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. Qwerfjkltalk 20:19, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:CS1 errors: unsupported parameter

Hi Oculi

Please can you not run Category:CS1 errors: unsupported parameter through Citation bot?

The bot removes unrecognised parameters, whereas many of them can be fixed. See e.g. [1]

There are typos in parameter name, and non-English-language parameter names which the bot cannot fix, but which my AWB script can fix. I try to run it twice per day, but today it has had nothing to do because Citation bot has removed the params. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

CO2

I noticed that you have systematically replaced {{CO2}} with the HTML form. Unfortunately this is not a benefit to Wikipedia. Recently, the {{cite}} family of templates has started generating red warnings about the use of templates in the |title= field. It never used to do this but is a recent thing. It is probably to do with some code within cite trying to do fancy things and templates make things too complicated for it. Not wonderful but we sometimes we just have to live with some limitations - at least until we figure out a better solution.

However, this does not mean that the CO2 template is bad in all cases. Only within the cite template is there a problem. I would appreciate it if a) you would restrict replacing the CO2 template with HTML to only within cite templates and b) undo your over-enthusiastic replacements from the last couple of days. Thanks.  Stepho  talk  22:36, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

• I believe the problem of error messages has been resolved. Oculi (talk) 22:48, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Excellent! Can you undo your changes then. Thanks.  Stepho  talk  23:38, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
    • I was following the example of a chemist. Take this up at User_talk:Graeme_Bartlett#Stripmarker_error, where the HTML version is advocated. Oculi (talk) 17:39, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
      • Thanks, I have taken this up at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Help_needed.  Stepho  talk  21:18, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

A closer look at your ref expansions

Hello, Oculi. Could I ask you to take a closer look at your middle edit expanding bare references at Spring, Texas? I haven't taken the time to look closely, myself, but I see from the diffs that your work added silliness like |last=Administrator|first=Hcha and a couple cases of |title=404 - Page Not Found—Harris County Texas Sheriff's Office. Scripting tools like ReferenceExpander can be a big help, but we still have to pay attention to what they're doing, as they make mistakes quite often. It would be appreciated if you would go back to (at least) the Spring, Texas, article and fix it up. Thanks,— JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 09:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

• I have reverted that edit. Oculi (talk) 14:14, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Bengali spelling edits in Tajuddin Ahmad

In your last edit in the article Tajuddin Ahmad you seemingly tried to correct many Bengali spellings. However, those spellings were, in fact, already correct:) I know because I am a native speaker of Bengali and made significant contribution to the article. Reverting the edit. Farhan nasim (talk) 06:25, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

• Many thanks. Oculi (talk) 18:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Redirects to beetles

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Lists of organisations based in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Pol orgs in country

Template:Pol orgs in country has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pol orgs1

Template:Pol orgs1 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:35, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Category request

@Oculi: Can you please change Category:Estoteric Christianity user templates to Category:Esoteric Christianity user templates, I made a mistake when I created this category. Catfurball (talk) 00:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Done. Oculi (talk) 01:49, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@Oculi: Can you please change Category:Ireland user city user templates to Category:Ireland city user templates, I made a mistake when I created this category. Catfurball (talk) 18:02, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Done. Oculi (talk) 18:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you! Re: Tornadoes by day

Sorry to have created so much work for you. Glad I know how to handle subsequent references to the same website now. Thanks for that. :-) Dym75 (talk) 16:10, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

• AWB does it automatically. So does Wikipedia:reFill, which is easy to install. Oculi (talk) 16:28, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my draft!

I can't thank you enough for your fixing of my poorly done citations on my Kakivak draft! Sorry for noticing it a full week after the fact! Mebigrouxboy (talk) 15:53, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Rhodes scholar nomination

I see you point about leaving up the Rhodes scholar cats. Do you think that it is safe to categorize any degree seeking student as an expatriate? This is my thought, but someone else suggested to me that we should only categorize as expatriates those who spend at least 10 years abroad, although oddly while suggesting that a person who spent 19 years in a particular country, and birthed their most famous movement and the main reason we have an article on them while they were in that country, somehow does not actually qualify as an expatriate in that country. My view is degree seeking students in one country from another count as expatriates, but those who do a few weeks or months or study abroad, or an student exchange program that lasts a year or less, it is just not enough to categorize by. Does that seem a reasonable proposition to you, at least if we exclude a few rare cases of degree seeking students who drop out very early in their studies and return to their home country (some degree seeking students drop out and stay in the country where they are visiting). Another example is Lloyd Alexander, who I am sure belongs in the Category:American expatriates in France. I am not sure any one of his actions there are quite long enough, if it was just his time with the military in World War II it would probably not be enough, but he stays at the end of his deployment and becomes a student there, marries their, and becomes the official English translator for a significant French writer, so to me the sum total of what he does there is enough to be worth categorizing by.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Anyone with a work contract in a foreign country is an expatriate: they will have an 'expatriate contract'. (I have been one in several countries.) The idea of 'at least 10 years' is idiosyncratic. I'm not particularly in favour of categorising everyone in separate expatriate categories for every country they have worked in but a Rhodes scholar is a big deal and it seems reasonable to place its categories in the expatriates tree. Ernest Hemingway is in 7 different expatriate categories; Hulk (footballer) is in 8 or so. Someone like the US Ambassador to the UK is definitely an expatriate. In short I am happier with the subcats of Category:American expatriates in France than I am with the top-level articles. Oculi (talk) 17:08, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	For making improvements to Japanese Imperial Rituals. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 02:56, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts

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Thank you for your contribution to the article Karoshi

That's all!

Thanks!

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A barnstar for your efforts

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AWB issues

In this edit, you change a working link to the website, to a link which isn't clickable in the infobox. And in some changes, you replace "accessdate" with "access-date", though one is an alternative of the other and there is no need to make this change. Fram (talk) 12:38, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh, and here and elsewhere, you remove trailing blanks after "website", but these should remain: the parameters in the infobox are aligned, it is not helpful to remove the spaces from one of them. Fram (talk) 12:40, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

:ref= is not supposed to contain an external link, working or not; pages with such external links are placed in Category:CS1 errors: external links. The edit removed Galyang Municipality from the error category. access-date is the correct form given in [[2]], and accessdate is an alias. The website edits catch typos such as webiste= or website-. My policy is to stop doing things people complain about so I will find something else to do. Oculi (talk) 12:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Please look again at the Galyang edit. I'm not complaining about the "ref=" issue, but about the change of "|website = http://galyangmun.gov.np" to "|website=galyangmun.gov.np". For access-date and accessdate: one shouldn't change aliases to one another (either direction), both work and are accepted, that's why it is an alias. And I have no issue when you change "webiste" to "website" of course, but changing "|website =" to "|website= " does nothing of the sort. Fram (talk) 13:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry - yes, I agree that |website = http://galyangmun.gov.np" was a mistake on my part. The intention there is to delink |website = http://galyangmun.gov.np" when 'website=' is within a CS1 cite and that one is not; and I failed to catch it. Oculi (talk) 13:24, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

White Army

@Oculi:, looking deeper into this edit and to this reverted contribution, I am wondering if the changes by this anonymous user pose a problem. COI? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:15, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, the 2nd edit is very POV but is on ru wiki and was the only edit there of the ip (in 2021). For the first edit (the only edit of the same ip on en wiki), Refill seems to have removed the English translation of the title while supplying other details, so perhaps the answer is to use trans-title as well as title. (Ref expander does the same as Refill.) Oculi (talk) 16:58, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

	Thanks
	Occuli, Thank you for correcting the reference notes in my recent expansion of the Prützmann article. A careless typo on my part, compounded by the use of copy and paste. Thank you for spotting it. Regards. Historybuff0105 (talk) 18:47, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Youth organizations based in Austria-Hungary

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Images of ZZ Top

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Prim Lyza

Thanks for fixing whatever it was with the citations there. Could you please assist with one more new one? Thanks! -2406:3003:2077:1E60:C998:20C6:8CCF:5730 (talk) 18:18, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Ah, already done I see. Thanks! 2406:3003:2077:1E60:C998:20C6:8CCF:5730 (talk) 18:18, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Done. Oculi (talk) 18:21, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Splitting discussion for Optare & Switch Mobility

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• Thanks. Oculi (talk) 12:42, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

"Belarusian Agricultural Academy" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Belarusian Agricultural Academy and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 16 § Belarusian Agricultural Academy until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Fram (talk) 15:59, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

"Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Category moves

Hello, Oculi,

As you probably know, you can't move a category page like you would do with an article page. Category:Academic staff of Carolinum, Zurich, is now a redirect category and it should be empty. But it's not. Please remove this category from all of the pages currently in this category and direct them to the new category you created that they should be in. It is much easier if you do this kind of thing through speedy renames at CFD, then a bot will recategorize all of the pages instead of having you do this task manually. Thank you, I appreciate you taking care of this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:17, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Another bot empties category redirects in due course. See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Redirecting_categories: " Bots patrol these categories and move articles into the "redirect" targets." Anyway I have now resolved the matter. Oculi (talk) 01:46, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1830s

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1840s

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1970s

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1850s

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Request

@Occuli: Can you please rename Category:Kettering Health Network to Category:Kettering Health. I created this category before this hospital network changed its name. Catfurball (talk) 15:08, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Anglican bishops of Temuco

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Category:Emigrants from Northern Ireland‎

Are you saying that a person from Northern Ireland‎ is not also from the United Kingdom? Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• I am not aware of making such a claim. I am deferring to 2009 January 7#Category:Northern Irish people which renamed 'Northern Irish people' to 'People from Northern Ireland' (without any mention of a change of scope). Thus Category:People from Northern Ireland has acquired via cfd a Wikipedia-specific meaning, being equivalent to Category:English people within Category:People by nationality within the United Kingdom (subcat of Category:British people). ('Rename and purge' or 'rename and re-parent' might indicate a change of scope.) Category:New Zealand people seems to avoid the difficulties you seem to have with 'from' (insisting it is by country) and yet Category:Northern Ireland people seems not to have been considered. Oculi (talk) 16:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Category:Emigrants from the Netherlands to the German Empire

Hello, Oculi,

Can you tell me what the status is of this speedy rename? If it has been approved, then the bot should have deleted this category. If it has been moved to CFD, then the tag should have been changed. I searched the speedy rename list and couldn't find it listed. If you changed your mind, then please remove the tag so I can tag it for speedy deletion as a CSD C1. Thank you for your help. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:35, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

• Well, I tagged it with Twinkle so it should have been listed at speedy. Google's cached version shows no contents so it's a mystery. I've removed the tag. Oculi (talk) 18:01, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Better? Not sure

Regarding this. Why do you think it is better? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

• It's in no danger of being deleted. Oculi (talk) 18:30, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

  I added a reference to the other article, so it should be fine to retarget this back. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:55, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2020s

A tag has been placed on Category:Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2020s 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.

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Hello, Oculi,

I realize that you just created these categories and it's likely that I'll be removing the CSD tags later tonight. But they all showed up on our Empty categories list and the procedure is to tag those categories that appear on the nightly that are empty. But feel free to remove these notices as you integrate these categories into our existing category structure. Sorry to flood your talk page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:21, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

The problem was that the contents were not showing up. An answer is to load the contents into AWB and save each one without making a change (null edit). Oculi (talk) 03:17, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Images of Maná

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Incorrect tagging

Category:Emigrants from Venezuela to Peru is incorrectly tagged. It does not appear on the May 11 page. Laurel Lodged (talk) 07:26, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

• Your claim is incorrect. Oculi (talk) 08:01, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

• Clicking the "this category's entry" link does not bring me to the nomination. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:19, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

• Have you read the nom properly? Oculi (talk) 10:20, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

• I did. Did you formulate the nom properly? How could I see something that was not there? The tag is a one-click solution, not a multiple-click solution of your invention. See my procedural complaint on the nom page. Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:40, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

It is perfectly standard to do this with a long nom, to avoid cluttering the main page. See eg 2023 March 5#Academic staff in Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America. 2-clicks - well, that must be awful. Oculi (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Request

@Oculi: Can you please move Category:Metellica song user templates to Category:Metallica song user templates, I just created this category and made a mistake. Catfurball (talk) 21:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

• Done. Oculi (talk) 08:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Singapore opened in 2016

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1842

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Railway stations in Singapore opened in 2007

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 July 11#Irish trade unionists

Apologies, this is far too late, but you can't withdraw a nomination where other editors have supported you.
Probably not worth reopening the discussion now, just something to keep in mind. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:53, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

I withdrew it because it had become contentious and because I had undertaken to do so at ANI (see link in closure notice). So in theory I would have to request each supporter to strike their 'support'? Oculi (talk) 08:35, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Where is this documented? Oculi (talk) 09:35, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

WP:NACD, Exception: closing your own withdrawn nomination as a speedy keep, when all other viewpoints were for keep as well. (my emphasis). I would suggest just letting someone else close discussions like these. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:05, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. So I undertook to do something outside my powers. I think all these will be reopened (there were several others) - let contention resume. Oculi (talk) 11:28, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Request

@Oculi: Can you please move Category:Southern Professional Hockey League user templates to Category:SPHL user templates. I created this category and the league just rebranded its name. Catfurball (talk) 18:04, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

SmallCat dispute case opened

You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 4, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 12:55, 21 July 2023 (UTC)