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DuncanHill 23:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Victoria's Secret CFD

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Please revisit to reply at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_28#Category:Victoria.27a_Secret_models. TonyTheTiger 22:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks!

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I sincerely appreciate your comments on several CfD's. I am thankful I am not the only one who sees value in several cats and subcats nominated for deletion. I find your userpage quite helpful, too. Thanks so much. Happy New Year! Pastorwayne 12:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Your edits on Huaorani

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Hi. In case you didn't know, Oriente is an article about Cuba, not El Oriente in Ecuador, and your edit accidentally blanked part of the article. Xiner (talk, email) 12:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

There still needs to be a link, and a disambiguation page needs to be added. The problem is now that there is a little known term in Huaorani for which Wikipedia provides no explanation. Pinoakcourt 08:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sortkeys on stub categories

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Greetings Pinoakcourt

I've taken the liberty of undoing two of your edits, both regarding stub categories. A stub category like Category:Zambia stubs normally avoids sort keys in relation to its mother category. This means that Category:Zambia stubs will be listed in Category:Zambia under the sortkey µ which seems to be a rather old convention. It will give the same effect adding the sortkey µ manually. This rule only applies in this particular case and different systems of sortkeys are used further down the stub category tree. I don't know how it convention was established, but it is so widespread that I will recommend keeping it. Changing it would be a colossal task given that we have several thousands of stub categories around, and since the stub system has more to do with Wikipedia itself rather than the normal category system, I believe many stub sorters like this system. Happy editing. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 09:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Diabetics

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Regarding the diabetic categories,[1] you might want to see what the Wikipedia Manual of Style says on the issue: "Be careful not to define a person or group of people by their medical condition. For example, seizures are epileptic, people are not." [2] Wryspy 07:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Central Asian peoples

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Please keep in mind that there is no such thing as a Kazakhstani, Tajikistani, Turkmenistani, Kyrgyzstani, or Uzbekistani. The correct adjectives are Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek. Thanks, KazakhPol 06:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

The categories are not for the ethnic groups. Pinoakcourt 12:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please see new combined deletion debate. ~ trialsanderrors 20:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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