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Matthew, regarding your recent edit at
Canada, please review
Wikipedia Style Manual. It advises that you shouldn't over-link, and you shouldn't link ordinary words like "soil". Just link to articles that readers would likely want to follow up on. After you've read this, perhaps you could reconsider those edits. Thanks.
Kevintoronto 17:12, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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Thank you for your categorisation work. I have a small request. Would you mind putting an edit summary, if an edit is not minor, or clicking the "minor edit" checkbox if it is a minor edit. Edit summaries serve a very useful purpose, they notify other people what you have changed and it can save us the trouble of actually taking the diffs to see what is going on. Thanks a lot. Oleg Alexandrov 19:16, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
i see your point now on how better to categorize articles, in particular with the calculus article. regards Mayumashu 01:20, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu, "finals tournament" is just not proper English. "Tournament finals" is, but it's also a bit over-complicating things. In fact, "final tournament" is correct, as opposed to "final match". Also, when you say "Euro 2004", you imply the final tournament, so no need to add the word there. Sorry to nitpick. -- Dryazan 12:59, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Mayumashu, I completely understand what you're talking about. The way "final" can refer to either the game or the tournament is confusing. However, "Finals tournament" makes NO SENSE in American English, whereas "Final tournament" can make sense in British English, as far as I know (and "Tournament finals" makes sense in both, but it also sounds a bit cludgy). While there's no need to push one time of English over another on Wikipedia, it just makes sense (for me, at least) to avoid a phrase which is gramatically incorrect for a larger percentage of Wikipedia's readers. And since RSSSF uses "Final tournament", and so did these pages for months without anything complaining, we should probably go with that. -- Dryazan 14:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm afraid getting it "straighter" compared to getting it "straight" is not enough. You introduced another misleading element by saying "some islands." I wouldn't call hundreds of islands "some." There is no need to quantify it. And your sentence "the lower portion of an island chain known as the Ryūkyū Islands, which comprise Okinawa prefecture," is too wordy and unnecessary.
The reason why I included Izu/Ogasawara is because the previous version implied that there was only one island chain (Okinawa) extending from the mainland. I wanted to affirm that that wasn't the case.
Please change it back to my original text. There was nothing wrong with it. Photojpn.org 23:44, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello, the flags are where the players' home towns are, not where they are born. I used the Canadian Soccer website for this infor, and when it was not listed, I did an internet search. --
Earl Andrew -
talk 17:34, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You can use the characters below the edit box - not as fast as typing but it still works. So for example the first five are ÁáÉéÍ. -- Henrygb 10:17, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Dear Forbsey, a quicky if i may - do Scots call an international (someone who plays for the national side), an internationist? i ve run into the term now a few times and saw where you used it when starting up the page for my favourite soccer player, Gary McAllister, that you used the term. i m wondering if it s a term particularly Scottish or what, as far as you know. appreciate the help, Mayumashu 16:15, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Yep, they were great, and I was a huge fan of their comedy. Rlquall 02:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I notice you have been using a lot of "Nova Scotian by occupation" type categorizations. While there is precedent for having a People from Nova Scotia cat, breaking it down by occupation is way way overdoing it. There was considerable debate even if occupations should have been broken down by nationality. I strongly recommend that you depopulate these categories (move to the appropriate Canadian by Occupation cats) and put them up for Categories for Deletion. Fawcett5 11:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi again Matthew - I see you have been continuing your good work with categorization. For the Canadian track athletes cat though, what do you think about the idea, for consistency, of removing the Canadian track athlete cat from Occupations by nationality and make it instead a subcat of Canadian sportspeople cat? Fawcett5 14:55, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that simply adding the cfd notice to a category will not delete them. You need to also list the category at WP:CFD. I'll remove the tag for now. If you definitely want to bring the categories up for deletion, please re-add the tag and list it properly. Thanks. BTW, if you need help with this, I'll be happy to lend a hand. -- Kbdank71 17:39, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you added Nova Scotia to Halifax Int. Airport. However, that article is already in Nova Scotia via the Airports-->Transport-->Nova Scotia route, and by policy we don't add articles to parents of cats that they are already in. Hope this clears this up. Cheers. Burgundavia ( ✈ take a flight?) 23:44, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed you'd been working on Man United-related pages and could do with your opinion on something.
The history section was split out of the page last year (I think) but someone then wrote another history section in the main page. Both pages are now well over the recommended maximum size for a Wikipedia article, and it's getting to the stage where I suspect people are editing them without reading them all the way through (which would explain why the Glazer takeover is mentioned twice in Manchester United, in roughly the same amount of detail each time.
So, my idea is to create new pages for different eras in United's history, merge the relevant bits of Alex Ferguson, History of Manchester United and the History section of Manchester United into each new page and put summaries of each new page on Manchester United, with comments asking people not to make the summaries too long. The new articles would have titles like:
I think something like this is necessary to keep the pages manageable, but obviously don't want to make such big changes to other people's work without hearing what people think first. Please let me know what you think, at the Manchester United talk page.
Thanks,
Cantthinkofagoodname
11:03, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
Blanking pages does not delete them; I'm refering to your blanking of a few redirects to Professional Tennis Championships, ie Hans Gildemeister. There is a procedure for deleting pages: WP:RfD, WP:IfD and WP:VfD. Please follow it next time. Thanks! humble fool ® 03:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Please do not blank articles without providing some rationale in their discussion page. To do otherwise is vandm at WP:CFD. Just wanted to let you know that if they aren't listed there, they won't be deleted. -- Kbdank71 16:05, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi again Matthew - I see you have been continuing your good work with categorization. For the Canadian track athletes cat though, what do you think about the idea, for consistency, of removing the Canadian track athlete cat from Occupations by nationality and make it instead a subcat of Canadian sportspeople cat? Fawcett5 14:55, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that simply adding the cfd notice to a category will not delete them. You need to also list the category at WP:CFD. I'll remove the tag for now. If you definitely want to bring the categories up
Page 33 L16 of my Atlantic Canada Road Atlas First Edition by MapArt Publishing. I can scan it in for you if you want to see it. --
Earl Andrew -
talk 01:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Regarding your edits to Category:Cape Breton Island, I just wanted to clarify that Wikipedia actually has very explicit rules about how the category system is applied -- namely, an article should never be simultaneously filed in both a category and a subcategory of that same category. The rule is always that you file an article only in the narrowest appropriate categories that don't directly duplicate each other's informational purpose. In this case, the actual appropriate category is Category:Islands of Nova Scotia; since it's in there, it doesn't also go in "Islands of Canada", "Nova Scotia" or "Canada" since "Islands of Nova Scotia" is already part of the subcategory tree of all of those. This isn't just a matter of my own personal opinion, by the way -- it's actual Wikipedia policy regarding category management. Bearcat 04:22, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that while you've been adding cats and footers to articles, you've been double spacing between them and all the sections. This is not necessary, is non-standard and in truth, makes the article harder to read. Could you please refrain from inserting double spaces between sections? Thanks. Wyss 16:51, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
"Whoever" this is that made the above reply, let me say that i have never i conveyed (explicitly nor implicitly, whichever) that others are wrong and i am right on the aesthetics of single versus double spacing between sections. the truth is i should not edit the way articles written by others are spaced nor should wiki editors (i m guessing you have this or a similar position) edit for so-called blank spaces. i ve been disruptive according to the policy you ve cited above ([[WP:POINT|disrupting ...), true. Ironically enough however, the first point the page makes is that there are inconsistencies through the encycl.. editing out double spacing for single spacing because of a consensus among editors and the like (not users at large) is equally disruptive. i will set my default style sheet as suggested by the user who s replied below and i wonder why you, my fellow pedantics, will do the same. - Mayumashu 04:16:59, 2005-08-04 (UTC)
You need to edit User:Mayumashu/monobook.css. Try adding the following content (copy this from the rendered HTML page, not from the raw wikitext, though):
/* <pre><nowiki> */ h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { margin-top: 2em; } .firstHeading { margin-top: 0px; } /* </nowiki></pre> */
If you want more or less space, adjust the "margin-top" property. -- MarkSweep 05:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello there. Edward Knatchbull belongs in Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of England because the baronetcy which he inherited was created in 1641. Why did you change the category? Mackensen (talk) 10:14, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Same thing with Robert Peel. The baronetcy was created in 1800, right before the Act of Union, which places it in Great Britain, not the United Kingdom. Mackensen (talk) 10:16, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Oops, I shouldn't have removed the Natives of Lancashire category. That was my mistake. I'll restore it at once. Mackensen (talk) 11:33, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Please, bear in mind that Category:Argentine people should not be just categorised by their city/province of birth, but also by more important things such as Category:Argentine people by occupation. If the article has no other Argentine category, perhaps it would be better to give it a (id needed new) sub category of by occupation. thenks, Mariano 12:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm curious as to why you changed one of the categories on the article Robert Clark (actor) from "People of Ontario" to "Toronto people". As the article states, Clark was born in Oakville, Ontario (which is in the Greater Toronto Area, but is not in Toronto itself), and then moved to Florida, and then back up to Ontario (but not to Toronto). I could find no evidence to suggest that he ever lived in the city of Toronto. Although I backed up my contributions to that article with references, I'm wondering if I got it wrong, and hope that you can clear this up for me. Thanks! Extraordinary Machine 14:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
As with the above entry i am requesting that you remove the name of Thomas Browne from your list of Cheshire people. Browne was born in London and lived in Norwich from 1637-1682. I am curious as to how you acquired this misinformation. Please remove entry. From reading the above entries this seems to be a persistent mistake of yours,is Wikipedia really about creating lists, or propogating mistakes. Please ammend. Norwikian
I saw your changes to Category:Canadian linguists. Since you objected to the use of Template:Fooian scientist types, I've changed it back to Template:Fooian fooers. This moved Category:Canadian linguists back into Category:Linguists by nationality where it belongs, instead of Category:Linguists. I have a Template:Fooian social scientist types that is in use on Category:American linguists that could be a better pick than the fooers template. Would you mind me using that template? The problem with not putting Linguists under Scientists in the national subcategories is that not all national categories have a Social scientists subcat (e.g. Category:Canadian social scientists does not exist, but Category:Polish social scientists does).
Also, I don't think that Category:Canadian anthropologists is accurate, but I left it there. Not all linguists are anthropologists. Mike Dillon 17:06, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
I've started a Category:Social scientists by nationality. Please add your new Category:Canadian social scientists to this category. Mike Dillon 17:29, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I saw that you created this category. I just wonder why you think it was not enough to categorize those articles in Category:Canadian mathematicians. From what I know, most mathematicians are mathematics professors. And I think that the absolute majority of mathematics professors who are not serious mathematicians don't deserve an article on Wikipedia. So in my view, Category:Canadian mathematicians should have been enough for categorizing the notable Canadian mathematicians who are math professors. I wonder what you think. You can reply here, I will keep a watch on this page. Thank you, Oleg Alexandrov 02:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
How is Jack Hanna's relationship to Knoxville more important than his relationship to Ohio? Category:People from Ohio isn't just for people who were born there (it's not called "Ohio natives"), and the only subnational place that he's notable in connection with is Ohio, as the director of the Columbus Zoo. His connection to Knoxville is merely trivia to us because he didn't do anything notable there. If he's going to be in a subnational category, Ohio is the only state with which his notability has a significant connection. Postdlf 03:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
I notice that you've created a few of these—why? What do you think is accomplished by categorizing individuals by cities? What do you think the ultimate effect will be? What are your criteria for including them in each city category? Simply having lived there at some time during their lives? Presently living there? Postdlf 14:14, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
I concur. Categories "Natives of Split" and particularly "Natives of Sibenik-Knin" are pointless (the latter is a modern-day county, not a city, even). Please don't do it without prior discussion. -- Joy [shallot] 08:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
If you wish to make {{ hoopsbio-stub}} indented, do it there, don't indent it in individual articles using it. -- Joy [shallot] 07:51, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada page as living in or being associated with Canada. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Canadian Wikipedian Expatriates for instructions.-- Rmky87 01:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. If you are still interested Category:Irish Chicagoans is currently nominated for deletion: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 October 12 JW 16:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Just a minor note on a recent edit of yours -- the Canadian notice board discussed it long ago and decided that Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons should not itself contain any articles about individual members, past or present. People should only be filed in one or more appropriate subcategories, because the main category would just be too large and unwieldy otherwise. So the main category should contain only the subcategories and the list-of-members articles. Thanks. Bearcat 06:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
You put an AfD on a page I wrote in my own userspace -- accusing me of vandalizing my own page. See Wikipedia:User page#Ownership and editing of pages in the user space. "Assume goodwill" we are told. So I am going to assume this was an honest mistake on your part. Can I count on you fixing it? I'd like you to remove the entry from the AfD list. -- Geo Swan 05:33, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
People are not supposed to be simultaneously filed in parent categories and subcategories of the same parent. We do not file MPs directly in Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons; we file them in subcategories by their province and political party only. Bearcat 18:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Any mistakes i have made in filing MPs is merely accidental for i do a lot of filing and fully intend to file MPs by province. Apologies for my carelessness with the one or two you ve brought up. - Mayumashu 02:03, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi I noticed you voted to keep Scottish-Americans I would appreciate your help to retain Category:Irish British people, as I feel is perfectly valid to point out Irish people or people of near Irish descent who have contributed to life in Great Britain (England Scotland and Wales). Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Irish_British_people_to_Category:Irish-British_people Thanks!! Arniep 01:25, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. When you add Category:Manhattanites, e.g. to a person who already has Category:People from New York City, you should delete the latter category, since Category:Manhattanites belongs to Category:People from New York City. Let me know if this doesn't make sense. TIA, -- Mwanner | Talk 00:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu I think I've finally worked out the best solution to resolve the disagreement on this category. We should split this category into Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain, and Category:Irish people in Great Britain for people who live in Great Britain who call(ed) themselves Irish (whether they were born or grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Irelandor born to ex pats abroad who now live in Great Britain). I would appreciate if you could support the new proposal at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Irish_British_people_to_Category:Irish-British_people__Category:Britons_of_Irish_descent_Category:Irish_diaspora_in_Great_Britain. Thanks Arniep 14:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Please stop creating new categories for traditional counties of Scotland, and re-allocating people to them from modern council areas. This has already been a subject for debate at Cfd recently, when Category:Natives of Lanarkshire was deleted. Please raise the issue at Wikipedia Talk:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board. We must come to a consensus on this one, because having two parallel systems is very confusing. It must be pointed out that traditional counties have not existed for 30 years, and the new council areas seem here to stay because no political party wants to change them.-- Mais oui! 15:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your vote on this. I just wondered whether you realised that this category contains many people in it have only one parent (or even grandparent in some cases) who was jewish, do not identify themselves as Jewish American and are in other (ethnicity)-American categories. I think it needs to be deleted because it doesn't make sense that a person who does not identify as wholly jewish could be described as a jewish american actor such as Carrie Fisher, Patricia Arquette, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Douglas. Arniep 00:26, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
You agreed with me that Category:Hawaiian geography should be renamed Category:Geography of Hawaii. I have now nominated all the American states for renaming, and if you could find the time to vote in favour, I would be very grateful. CalJW 23:37, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
We've been through the thing about Wikipedia's categorization rules before: Category:Vancouverites is already a subcategory of Category:People from British Columbia; accordingly, a person cannot be simultaneously filed in both categories. Bearcat 04:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
How funny that you're related. I'm actually just now reading a book called The Yellow Kids about Creelman and other contemporaries. It's fascinating stuff. Feel free to expand the stub if you can; I plan on expanding it quite a lot when I find time next. · Katefan0 (scribble) 16:06, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, sorry I missed your comment on my talk amidst the whole kerfuffle. I agree that sometimes it would be useful to have browse a whole category of many occupations like writers, artists, actors, singers without country specifity and much faster thanis currently possible. I think this would need a software change so maybe I or you could suggest it somewhere? Also Re: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:LGBT_criminals I would be very grateful if you could reconsider your vote as this category is meaningless as gay people have lived in many eras and countries with different laws (the same applies to Jewish criminals, Catholic criminals etc.). I don't think any blanket criminal category should exist unless it is just a parent cat for more specific crimes. Regards Arniep 00:09, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, just wondering if there's any particular reason for your change of [[Category:Canadian ice hockey players|McCauley, Alyn]] to [[Category:Canadian ice hockey players|Mccauley, Alyn]] (without capitalizing the second C). The C definitely is capitalized... Heck I just saw him playing a game against the Leafs last night on HNIC and his sweater definitely had it capitalized. (Very technically speaking, I suspect the first C should be in superscript, resulting in McCauley, but that's a minor detail).
The name after the pipe isn't displayed on the category page, so I suppose it doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious if there's a rule I should know about. -- Qviri 19:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
You goofed the AfD for Kerri Yascheshyn, putting the text inside your AfD for Horses Eat sugar. I'll fix it. Jamie 10:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Would you like to join the Nova Scotia Wikipedia project I am about to start with PlasmaEast? We are planning on launching a NS Community templates for Counties, Towns/Municipalities, and HRM, similar to the template that started appearing this week on county pages Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Also, have a bi-weekly "Nova Scotia Project Page" to focus efforts. Interested? WayeMason 11:33, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu,
I am in the process of merging the categories Category:Canadian university and college rectors, Category:Canadian university chancellors and presidents, and Category:Canadian university and college principals and vice-presidents into the new Category:Canadian university and college chief executives. I find it very confusing to have three categories for essentially the same position with just different names. I have also created the Category:Canadian university and college chancellors since this is more of an honorary position. Let me know if you have any issues with this.
-- YUL89YYZ 18:04, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering if you can comment on this page since you have added to it. Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ann_Duggan
Anakinskywalker 7:30, 06 January 2006 (UTC)
On 18-Jan, you blanked Columbusites. Your edit summary stated that redirects to categories are inappropriate. While that's true, page blanking is also a bad idea. I've changed it to be a redirect to List of people associated with Columbus, Ohio. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 15:23, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen this re-nomination at Cfd: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_28#Category:Cinema_of_Scotland_--.3E_Category:Scottish_actors_and_filmmakers-- Mais oui! 04:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. What was your logic for putting Category:Asian Canadians as a supercategory of Category:Aboriginal peoples in Canada?
If you're referring to the idea that aboriginal peoples came across the Pacific from Asia, well, that's true, but it happened so long ago that classifying them as "Asians" doesn't make sense. By extending the same logic a few millenia backwards we might as well all be Africans. -- Saforrest 21:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Would you please not apply redlinked categories to articles? Wikipedia has a rule about this — if you want to apply a category that doesn't already exist, you have to create the category immediately. You cannot leave red category links on articles under any circumstances. Bearcat 20:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!-- DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, it would better to vote rename for this cat, otherwise someone would have to go through and change all the people in the cat by hand (the Irish in GB cat can then be recreated or just make the England Wales and Scot cats as sub cats of Irish emigrants). If the cat is renamed a bot will automatically change all the articles Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_30#Category:People_of_Irish_descent_in_Great_Britain. Thanks Arniep 18:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed you did an edit on Owen Hargreaves back a while ago. I nominated the article at Football Aid/Article Improvement. Maybe you can help out by voting and do more edits. Kingjeff 00:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I have proposed renaming this, for the express purpose that people from Phoenix, Arizona are not called Phoenixers at all. The proper usage, as attested in all local newspapers, is "Phoenician". However, this coincides with the adjective for residents of ancient Phoenicia as well. (Also see 1 2 3 4) The only people who refer to residents of Phoenix as Phoenixers are out-of-towners, and the vast majority of hits for "Phoenixers" on Google refer to clubs based in Britain.
Similarly, the proper term for a resident of Tucson, Arizona is not Tucsoner, but Tucsonan (see 1 2 3).
Both of these terms (Phoenician and Tucsonan) are widely attested in local media, whereas Phoenixer and Tucsoner are absent. I think this is pretty good grounds for speedy renaming.
Cheers! -- Miwa 22:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted your category blanking on Andrew Carnegie. It sounded from your edit summary that you were seeing the categories as redlinks or something, but they are valid categories as far as I can tell. If I read your summary wrong, feel free to explain more what you're trying to do. Thanks! :) -- Syrthiss 13:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I just lodged a "complaint" about the "nationals by ethnicity" category name changes which unfortunately happened before I was aware of the related discussion and vote. Please take a look at the comment, and feel free to respond, at the Norwegian Canadians category talk page. -- Wernher 23:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Can you inform me as to why Category:People from Oakland was redirected to Category:Oaklanders? This doesn't seem to make any sense to me. I could be wrong, but I don't think "Oaklander" is a word that is used by anyone other than the person who created this cat. — Viriditas | Talk 00:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
As regards you saying there's no evidence he holds Brazilian citizenship... he was born in Brazil, and a quick Google on the subject says Brazil, like most countries, automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the country, regardless of the parents' nationality.
That said, I haven't re-added the category you removed since I highly doubt he identifies himself as "Canadian-Brazilian". But just thought you should be aware that many countries grant citizenship by birth and unless he has renounced it Regehr is indeed a Brazillian citizen, as well as Canadian. -- Legalizeit 08:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I see you created Category:Indianapolitans. I have lived in Indianapolis for 28 years and have never heard the term "Indianapolitan". Where did that come from? -- rogerd 16:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Please don't remove categories like this. Both are accurate. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 13:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone created Category:Prospectors today and peopled it mainly with Australian gold rush prospectors. While poking around, I noticed you had previously created Category:Gold prospectors, with only William Barker (prospector) in it, who was also put in the new category. I made the Gold prospectors category a sub of the new one & categorized the new one under mining. I'm thinking of putting in four or five Klondike Gold Rush figures in one of the two categories, but before I do that, I'm wondering whether we should merge the two categories at this point, given the relatively small number of articles. What are your thoughts? Luigizanasi 06:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Do you know that being from Newfoundland is incidental to Ken? Just wondering. -- Robert Turner 16:18, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Please take a look at my comment on your rename nomination Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 1#Category:Northern Ireland people to Category:People of Northern Ireland. Thanks. -- Mal 20:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 23:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I notice you were responsible for creating and populating much of the structure under Category:Canadian musicians. Just thought that you may be interested to know that we're currently continuing to build on this structure at Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Categorization. – Unint 03:43, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
...IMO splitting the cats into a group of "Administatrive divisions of some countries" and "Political divisions of some other countries" is not useful.
could you maybe change your vote on Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_4#Category:Subdivisions_by_country_to_Category:Political_divisions_by_country
and let's discuss this on the project page
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Subnational_entities/Naming#Umbrella_terms
first? It is really is mass rename, since it not only involves the cats and subcates but also lots of articles. As Lorenz pointed out it seems important that we first find clear definitions of what all the terms mean. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 07:22, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
I've nominated this category for deletion (or, possibly, renaming — though my preference is for deletion) at [ [1]]. Please comment there. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 09:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
why do you claim Category:Former country subdivisions was a point creation? such a cat simply did not exist. best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree on the change from professors to academics, but please note that "faculty" as a collective for academic staff is only used in North America. Elsewhere "faculty" generally retains the traditional meaning of a subdivision of a university. As it also has this meaning in many American universities (e.g. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences), using it in a category name is not ideal. Uppland 21:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. Three things about your newest CFRs:
× Meegs
with respect to your vote at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_11#http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former country subdivisions
Why do you want to delete this cat? if you write per WAS but then say you don't follow his POINT claim, then only two WAS claims stay:
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Please stop moving these to the top of category lists as they are patently not the most useful defining categories. Indeed they are the least useful unless the person in some trivial category which probably shouldn't exist. Osomec 20:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed the professors --> academics CFD since several affected articles have popped up on my watchlist, and by and large I'm in favor of it. However, some of the people being moved from English professors to literary critics of English are not literary critics, but rather poets or fiction writers ( Keorapetse Kgositsile, for example). In these cases the category should probably just be dropped. Is it too much to ask, since you proposed the CFD, that you go through this category and weed out some of the poets? I will try to do a bunch of them, though most likely not for a couple of days. Thanks. Chick Bowen 12:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think either of these terms are good (I've been in the business for many years and I've never heard either), and I think the problem is that there's no such category of people. When we were calling English professors, i.e., teachers of English, that made sense, but if, given that being a professor is not in itself notable, we're converting the professors to academics, then we run up against a problem, because in the US at least writers who teach in English departments don't think of themselves as academics--they're just writers who teach in English departments. So I think the category should be left as it is, and the writers should be removed from it. Chick Bowen 17:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I ve rechecked wikipedia's literary criticism article and i think the original name i gave the page is indeed best. any who has taught literature in post-secondary education would qualify. again, i see an academic as an advanced degree holder who has publishs in academic journals or even who has published (even non-academically, in the case of some English profs) and teaches in post-secondary ed. as well, there are some other categories of "scholars" who are/were not academics that have been included through category page linking (theologians and amateur historians and astronomers come to mind). i think it s not perfect but English professors are literary critics and nearly all literary critics are, when "loosely" defined, academics Mayumashu 02:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you are from Nova Scotia and you have edited on the Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia page. I have done a couple of articles, Thomas Caulfield, and Matthew Henry Richey (not very well) and done a bit of link repair. If you know of anyone interested in the contents of that page, I would be interested in making contact. Thanks! Stormbay 20:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I notice you are effectively reverting my work in removing double level categories in American ethnic and national origins. The Wiki rule, as I understand it, is that double level categories should not be used. If an article is in category x, and category x in category y, then the article should not also be in category y. For example, the 'German Americans' category is in 'European American' category and the 'European American' category is in the 'American ethnic and national origin' category. Nothing else is needed. There is also a Wiki rule that a category with too many subcategories should have intermediate categories created (such as European Americans, Asian Americans) if there is a logical grouping present. Please explain what you are doing here. Thanks Hmains 02:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I do not understand what you are asserting, nor why 'continental ethnic groups', whatever those are, should be treated in any way differently than other groups. See Wikipedia:Categorization/Categories and subcategories. I do not see that your changes meet the duplication rules. Thanks Hmains 03:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Correction: I see and understand what you are doing, I just do not agree with it, nor do I see that this has been done with other categories. This should have been discussed on the talk page first and consensus obtained to do or not do this. Thanks Hmains 04:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu, I saw you helped me with the Scottish Catholics category, enriching it and expanding it, so I'm asking you one question now: I had added some Scottish monarchs who were Roman Catholics, and now I can only see Bonnie Prince Charlie there... The House of Stuart (as we all know) was almost entirely Catholic, I think we should add their members in the page, and I was going to do it before the page switched on to "Scottish Roman Catholics" and the various "James of Scotland" (also Mary Queen of Scots!) disappeared. Please, answer to my question as soon as you can. BTW, I do have Scottish relatives, and they're...Protestant to boot, so I really have no other aim rather than historical and cultural development Gianmaria Framarin 18:37 2 June 2006
Hello! Stumbled upon the article and thought it needed a big rewrite....I started and then noticed in the history that it is only 2 days old!!! (Amazing for someone like Mr. Donohue).... Would you like to continue this or shall I? I have added (cut and paste) alot of info from which you/I/we can rewrite into a good article. Let me know. Didn't mean to step on your toes. KsprayDad 20:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
In Category:People by ethnic or national descent, there are mostly sub-categories named 'People of Foo descent'. In Category:Emigrants by nationality, there are mostly sub-categories named 'Foo emigrants'. Looking down further into these sub-categories, they are both populated with sub-sub-categories named 'Foo Goo', where 'Foo' is the origin country and 'Goo' is the destination country. Examples: see Category:People of Canadian descent and Category:Canadian emigrants, having Category:Canadian Americans, Category:Canadian Australians, etc. Sometimes, in the matching sub-categories, the sub-sub-categories are the same; more often, there is partial or even no overlap.
Something is wrong here. There should be either be categories named 'People of Foo descent' or 'Foo emigrants', but not both. Which is it? Thanks Hmains 05:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Marcheline Bertrand was born in Waukeegan,Illinois in 1950 and mostly raised by her grandparents, who ran a bowling allee there. There is little reliable information available on her parents, though we know that her father was French-Canadian and her mother of Iroquois/Six Nations heritage.
Marcheline's life path is sketchy from her middle/late teenage years. She may have first gone California (there is a report of a Social Security Card issued in her name during the late sixties) and then to New York to work as a young model and struggling actress.
I noticed that you listed yourself as a linguist. There is currently a dispute at the Lindy Hop article the Dance WikiProject about the capitalization of dances that could use the expertise of a linguist. If you think you might be able to help, we would certainly appreciate your comments. Thanks! -- Cswrye 05:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
please see what one editor has done to all these categories and my comments on this in the 'Category for Deletion' talk page and the 'Village pump' page. Thanks Hmains 03:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I find that the editor is actually a new administrator! In any case, I examined every article and reverted nearly everything he did. Now look at my and his talk pages so you can see he is proposing a "comprise": to wait a week and he will delete everything again. I have no resources to find fact; I just work on copyedits and categories. Thanks Hmains
I reverted your addition of category:Deaths by firearm to category:Duelling fatalities. Somewhere around 1/4 of the current entries were sword duels, and there are many more that can and should be added. I hope you agree that it would be rather odd to list a 12th Century judicial duel between mailed knights as a death by firearm. That is why I removed the category some time ago. Robert A.West ( Talk) 18:32, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you weigh in on the purpose you created this category for, please? There seems to be confusion as to what it's really about. — ChristTrekker 14:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Have you considered beginning a stub or article on the various aspects of "political theory"? Your comment regarding political philosophy and its relation to political theory peaked my interest.-- Quoth the Raven 15:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried to search Google for an Australian tennis player named John Gardner, and I was unable to find any ( my search on Google). Can you provide any source or article about him? - grubber 19:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I see you've made a large number of edits to tennis-related articles over the past few days. If you're interested, I've recently started a Tennis Wikiproject -- Dantheox 06:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I would not work too hard populating the category. It was just deleted a few months ago ( here), and very likely will be again. Sorry to have to bring the bad news. Best regards × Meegs 16:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you really think this category is needed? It seems redundant and it looks sort of dumb. How about "Canadian Canadian football players playing in the Canadian Football League born in Canada." I'd suggest DELETING it. Mundster 18:57, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, your thing about ethnic categories can go too far. The way I see it, heck, you are adding to Wikipedia and seem to be doing no harm, other than burdening the category system with junk, so knock yourself out. But, recently I edited the Bob O'Billovich entry when I read he had "Serb bloodlines." Say what? No evidence was provided. So, when does fun with ethnic categories stop and become "ethnic profiling," which I find replusive, but at the least, is utterly useless. Who cares if Dallas Smith is of Scottosh origin. He is Canadian. Mundster 02:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article Kelly Marie Ellard, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Kelly Marie Ellard. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Argyriou (talk) 06:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Some of your recent edits have violated the Japanese article manual of style which states that people born before 1868 should be named "last first". If you want to discuss that, please bring it up on the MOS talk page, and don't do a mass movement of articles like that. Also, the nihongo template is not just for names which are in the reversed order. It can be used for any Japanese word, to indicate the kanji, etc. and in general, should not be removed from any article unless the kanji is superfluous (ie, if it is kanji for a word which is linked to another article, etc). Neier 23:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I notice you moved Ron Flockhart to Ron Flockhart (auto racing). Would you mind updating all the pages that linked to it as well? Thanks. DH85868993 04:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Danny Graham, has been listed by me at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Graham. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. -- Jerry lavoie 05:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Jerry lavoie 05:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
There is a request for comments on the Robert Latimer page; please see Talk:Robert Latimer#Request for comments. Rosemary Amey 23:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your edit summary at Wojtek Wolski (diff): I have no idea if Wolski has dual citizenship (not sure if Poland has jus soli law a.k.a. citizenship via birth) but he definitely has Canadian citizenship (requirement to play on Team Canada). Just wondering, do YOU know if Poland has jus soli law? -→ Buchanan-Hermit™/ ?! 06:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the work you are doing in this cat. If you need assistance, let me know. Kevlar67 19:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Just wondering if you can explain your reason(s) for deleting the biographical information I added about Nate DiCasmirro's hockey career. It's not liked it was inaccurate or wasn't sourced. Also, your category change is based on an unsourced assumption, that he holds U.S. citizenship. I haven't found anything that he says he does. Categorizing articles based on assumptions doesn't seem like a very good idea. I look forward to your response. Cheers!-- Vbd | ( Talk) 18:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I went back and searched for a source that confirms that he is a U.S. citizen. I have added the reference.-- Vbd | ( talk) 20:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Please see discussion page.-- Vbd | ( talk) 20:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Huh? Let's see: Ian Billcliff (Ian Shaw Billcliff (born October 26, 1972 in Williams Lake, British Columbia) is a 'Canadian of New Zealand Origin' but Boyce Richardson is an immigrant from New Zealand? Go figure! Why the nit-picking? Let's just go with 'New Zealand Canadians' shall we? (Actually I'd prefer Kiwi-Canucks, myself!) Macadavy 09:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)Macadavy
Please do not blank articles in my userspace, as you did to User:SigPig/Bruce Carruthers. I consider it vandalism, especially given your edit summary "(some kind of nonsense page - blanked)". The information is a stub being worked on about the founder of the Canadian Corps of Signals, and is verifiable as well as cited; while a stub, it is far from nonsense. If you have some kind of problem with items in my userspace, I would appreciate the common courtesy that you take it up with me first on my talk page. You seem to have been here long enough to know better about processes and procedures. -- SigPig | SEND - OVER 04:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you redirected Bill White (politician) to William A. White. These are two completely separate people, although they are father and son. I reverted the page back to its pre-redirect form. What was your reason for the redirect? Abebenjoe 05:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Mayumashu, I saw your move of Armenians of Canada to Canadians of Armenian descent move. While I see the logic behind the move, I must disagree with it because this was in accordance with other Armenian diaspora articles. What do you think? - Fedayee 17:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
It may be a logical move, but it might have been polite to at least mention moving Indo-Canadian to Canadians of Indian descent before doing so. One problem might be the double meaning of "Indian" in Canada, which was solved by the prior title, but is now somewhat ambiguous. Usually, these moves are proposed and discussed first, for just this reason. - TheMightyQuill 09:16, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The purpose of a redirect as well, from the redirect page help page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Redirect#How_do_I_change_a_redirect.3F is as follows:
"Purposes of a redirect
* Allow access in the case that a pagename is provided: o which is an alternative term for the subject o which is a term for a subtopic (in this case one may use a redirect to a section) o which uses alternative capitalization and hyphenation o which uses alternative spelling o which has a common misspelling"
Since the terms Chinese Canadian, Indo Canadian, Filipino Canadian etc. are the terms that are in common usage within Canada, such as in the media and scholarly articles, they should serve as the main title of the article because this is the main title people are familiar with searching with. It is not incorrect to create a page called "Canadian of xxxx descent" since it is an alternative, but because it is not the common term, it should not take precedence over the widely used term. Instead, Canadian of Indian descent should be redirected to Indo-Canadian, and so forth for the respective articles such as Canadian of Chinese descent, instead the current redirect, which is the other way around.
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While it's true that not all Franco-Ontarians are of French descent, not all Franco-Ontarians are francophone, either, so Category:Francophone Canadians is problematic for the exact same reason that Category:French Canadians is. Can you think of an alternative way to handle this? Bearcat 00:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Same comments as those re Indo-Canadians and Franco-Ontarians. The article on English Canadians is about more than 'Canadians of English Descent'. I, for example, consider myself English-Canadian under the most generally used meaning of the term, but have virtually no actual English ancestry. There are French-Canadians of Irish ancestry. The Scots-Irish include more than Irish of Scottish ancestry. The approach you seem to be taking makes sense when one is dealing with recently arrived groups ("Swedes of Ethiopian Ancestry") but becomes much less accurate when there has been movement from one point of origin to another over several generations and the population in the new homelands have begun to intermingle with the local population or have been in the new location for so long that they have developed or are beginning to develop their own sense of self-identification. I don't think that this relabelling (as logical as it may seem in the abstract) is really going to work in all cases, and shouldn't be carried out without some discussion. The problem may be a lack of nomenclature for these relatively new populations. "Québécois" or "Acadian" work well to distinguish some populations, but "Franco-Ontarians" or "English-Canadians" don't yet have such descriptors. People just don't always fit into neat categories. Corlyon 02:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Corlyon
It looks like there was an error in the original nomination, and as a result the natives of the Province of Pavia got added to the Category:People from the Province of Parma. I guess you'll have to sort them out by hand. It's not too bad, there's only 37 of them. -- Prove It (talk) 04:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Please stop adding Category:Canadians of European descent to the Elisha Cuthbert article without a reliable source. It is considered original research. If you feel other categories violate the original research guideline, be bold and remove them from the article. -- Kevin Walter 07:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Can you be careful when adding this category to articles as not everyone is eligible to be in it that you have added it to. There have been several cases where you have added it to people who cannot possibly have been described as Northern Irish immigrants as they either moved, or died, before the establishment of Northern Ireland. In those cases they should be in the Irish immigrants, not Northern Irish immigrants. Ben W Bell talk 09:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I've move this page back to its original title. Wilson didn't - as you stated in your edit summary - write (only) on horticulture, he wrote on many issues and anyway, was known equally as a writer and landscaper/gardener (these activities were, in fact, intertwined). Make sense? Pinkville 17:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. You ask "did he acquire Mexican citizenship?" yes, he did! I would not consider him an English Mexican or a Russian Mexican as noted in the categories.. A Mexican of Russian descent-yes! Best, -- Healkids 21:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to point out to you a new overcategorization guideline. It calls into question the appropriateness of some categories that you have created, such as Category:Alberta actors or Category:Nova Scotia actors. Before emptying these and similar categories, I thought I would check in with you first. -- Vbd ( talk) 02:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
It would have been nice if you posted a comment on the talk pages, or better yet, used WP:RM for all these Foovian Canadian pages you're moving. IMO your stated reason "moved Chinese Canadian to Canadians of Chinese descent: page describes Canadians of full AND PARTIAL Chinese ancestry" is very weak. For example, people of partial Chinese descent may still identify as "Chinese Canadian", there is nothing inherent in the term which implies that they are of full Chinese descent. Also WP:NC(CN). cab 22:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a debate on whether there should be subcats for ethnicities in the maincat. As you were a contributor to the above mentioned cat, I would like to know your views here. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_March_9#Category:Tamil Americans. Baka man 02:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I know you've done a lot of work on revamping the sub-cat Category:Canadian people by ethnic or national origin. Thank you!
I started to draft a proposal that would apply your paradigm to the many other similar sub-cats of Category:People by ethnic or national origin, but I ran into a problem. I don't understand the distinction you have made between "Canadians of American descent" and "American Canadians." The former is for Canadians who have one American parent or grandparent; the latter is for those who have two American parents, right? This seems like a false distinction -- the difference between one or both parents. Can you articulate your reasoning? Also, when I was trying to figure out how this all worked, I looked for a discussion of the changes you have made but couldn't find any. Was there one? Cheers!-- Vbd ( talk) 07:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
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I'm not sure that "Anglophone Canadians of French Canadian descent" is a relevant category; Sharon is Metis, from Timmins, and like other Metis from that area French may be her first language; she speaks flawless English, but I'm not sure that she can be so easily sorted into "Anglophone Canada", or for that matter of French-Canadian descent; the French-name side of her may be entirely Metis, albeit francophone, but note "Frenchb-Canadian" tends to refer to the quebecois ethnicity, not to francophonesn general (though it's supposed to). I don't know exactly, but she's around town, so I'll ask her if I run into her; but I think trying to label people according to their hyphenated Canadian category is kinda dehumanizing; we are not our ethnic pedigrees. In Sharon's case I added the Metis tag because I know she's a Metis-card holder (like Kevin O'Toole (bodybuilder)), but I wouldn't assume that she's "Anglophone Canadian of French Canadian descent", and I'm not sure branding Canadians with their ethnic classification is all that valid of a pasttime, although typically Canadian in its own way. As is the assumption taht someone born outside of Quebec is "Anglophone Canadian of French descent" when there's a good chance their maternal language actually was French (as throughout Northern Ontario and in some of the West). Skookum1 19:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Was it your intention that Canadian of English descent be moved back to English-Canadian, as the current text would suggest, or to English Canadian, as you actually stated in your move request? I realise that this question comes about a week later than it should have, but once I have an answer I can get on with shifting the article over. -- Stemonitis 17:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed this edit. Yes he was born in Manitoba but he grew up in Rankin. I don't know at what age he returned to Rankin but he was there before the age of three and that I found a reference for. Now as a guess, and it's nothing I could add to the article right now, I suspect that his mother had to go to Churchill to have him. Very few Arctic communities are set up to deal with births and the mothers were sent to different places, Yellowknife, Churchill and MOntreal. This still happens today, an example would be both of my grandchildren were born in Yellowknife but are considered to be from Nunavut. Also he self-identifies as an Inuk. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
You do know that there's not actually any such thing as "American Inuit", right? They're called Inupiat or Yupik. Bearcat 02:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I just happened to still have "watch" on your page re our previous exchange, and happened to notice this; I've sometimes weighed in on the E-C pages, to summarize the titles; I'm both of English ancestry (1/4, although some of that includes "Shonfeld" which obviously isn't) and also of the camp usually described as "English Canadians" by dint of being an anglophone Canadian. But coming from the West, I do have to say that "anglophone Canadian" has alwasy smacked of "federally-correct language" and, er, kind of smacks of being a French-ism to many; so even if they're Ukrainian Canadians or German Canadians they're likely to say they're English Canadian, and will resonate on the term "English Canada", though not in the monolithic sense meant by that phrases context in Quebec/national politics. The part of Canada where English is spoken, Canadians who speak English, is what is meant by the usage, whatever the grammatical correctness of the construction (Wiki seems to avoid them, ie. hyphenated Cdn/Am ethnonyms, but not always). I find it disagreeable, too, for all I've just said; I only mean it in the linguistic sense and not the ethnic sense, even though I'm part-English (also Norwegian, Irish, French-from-France); but the sense I find it disareeable is the need to divide Canadians up by either nationality or ethnicity; I'm just a Canadian; it's only apposite to the French and the anglo-franco division of the country/s identity (if "division" is the right word - how's "dialectic"?) that I'm English Canadian, not in any other sense; other than that I'm just Canadian, and I know lots of people who'd say the same thing, despite a palette of ethnicities in their family tree (and with or without speaking any inherited language). It's the classification of people that I'm wary of, unless their ethnicity is a marker of their identity; there's a tendency (which I've taken part in) to look up people by their ethnic origin and then add "Irish Canadian" or "Norwegian Canadian" or "Scottish Canadian" on the basis of that; but ethnicity is also about self-identification; I suppose the cats have emerged because "Irish Canadian" can mean something different than "Canadian of Irish descent". Which brings us back around to this page: I'd say there's a fundamental difference, and with this one ethnonym in particular (English Canadian) there's a big need for a separate article because of the variable meanings, vs. the much more precise Canadians of English descent. Skookum1 03:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
While I agreed with what you were doing with the categories, I have to say I oppose the changes to the articles. Articles are supposed to use the most common terms. Google "Irish Canadian" versus "Irish of Canadian descent". It’s not our job to change usage to make it more specific, we are only supposed to report what already exists. Kevlar67 02:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. The votes to rename "people" to "personnel" were miscounted, I believe. I count 2 in favour and 2 opposed. Could I request a recount? Best regards, Mayumashu 10:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in the discussion I started at Wikipedia Talk:Overcategorization#Categorising by national descent, origin, nationality, etc.. Please feel free to let others know. -- Vbd ( talk) 14:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi; saw your move from George Matheson Murray to George Murray (British Columbia) which I think was inappropriate and also out-of-style for the other entries on the George Murray disambiguation page. Forbes George Vernon was known as Forbes Vernon, John Andrew Mara was known as J.A. Mara - but Wiki article-naming guidelines go with the full name; exceptions are when there's an appellation, as with George's wife Ma, or as in Robert Allan "Volcanic" Brown, who was known as "Volcanic Brown" and never as Robert/Bob. Anyway, I'd suggest a move back; the "(British Columbia)" part should only be used if there were two George Matheson Murrays; otherwise it's enough to simply use his full name, which doesn't require any paranthetical designation to go with it. Skookum1 19:07, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I notice that you have renamed several baseball player bio articles from "XXX XXX (baseball player)" to "XXX XXXX (baseball)". I have put up an RFC here to consult the other members of the Players task force of WikiProject Baseball to decide how best to disambiguate baseball players (ie. using "(baseball)" or "(baseball player)". I'd like to get your input on the matter, too. Cheers, Caknuck 20:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedia:WikiProject_Nova_Scotia member. I have recently lodged a Request for Comments on the Talk:Halifax, Nova Scotia page. I and several other editors have had a running dispute with user Lonewolf BC. The RFC is This is a dispute about whether it is accurate to continue to refer to the area of or approximately coinciding with the boundaries of the City of Halifax, which became a part of the rural/urban Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996, as a city.
Basically, as I say on the RFC, we all agree that this is no longer a City, but to use former City's boundaries when describing the current urban area as a "city" (note the lower case) is at best arbitrary and at worst a fabrication. The city is now a continuous area that wraps the harbour, from Portuguese Cove (outside of the city of Halifax to the west and south) to Cole Harbour (outside of the former City of Dartmouth to the east). People now refer to the entire urban area of Halifax Regional Municipality as 'the city' and 'Halifax'.
Anyway, the bottom line is at least five people have tried to change the wording of the intro since January, and every time this one user changes it back. I have tried to come up with compromise wording, and he won't dialog. Right now wikipedia says HRM and Halifax are the capital of Nova Scotia. This article is now factually incorrect, in my opinion, and I need your help, please chime in. WayeMason 23:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I have not been able to find anything in the legislation on the Canlii website saying that we have a capital at all. It is inferred not legislated! Ha! The question is, why say Halifax, Nova Scotia is the capital? Why not "the town of Halifax" which is the original name? Or "Downtown Halifax"? Or the "Capital District". I am just leaving it lie for a while, he refuses to respond to my proposals on his talk page I am going to float them on the Halifax talk page and we can vote it. WayeMason 16:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I saw that you've created Category:Swiss international footballers. Following the convention of other similar categories in Category:Football (soccer) players by national team, I've renamed it Category:Switzerland international footballers. The former category now redirects to the later category. Feel free to add players to the new category. Thanks! Chanheigeorge 23:20, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#"Jewish descent" versus Jew concerning the problems of using the term "Jewish descent" versus "Jew" as well as the related proposal. Thank you, IZAK 09:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
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You redirected Ainsworth Dyer, and Marc Léger to Tarnak Farm incident. But you didn't leave any explanation for why you did so. You didn't leave an explanation on Talk:Ainsworth Dyer, Talk:Marc Léger or Talk:Tarnak Farm incident. Nor did you choose the less desirable path of putting your explanation in the edit summary.
So, please offer your explanation for these edits. Geo Swan 14:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I suspect that you need to read WP:V and WP:NOR. Edit summaries like "Ulster-Scottish descent?" or "a Jew?" lead me to believe you're simply adding these ethnicity categories based on people's last names, rather than based on WP:RS that state they have that ancestry. Every piece of content on Wikipedia needs to be directly backed by a reputable source. If the Wikipedia article on a person says they are of Scottish descent, there must be a source that says so, not an editor's assumption. Mad Jack 06:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Please don't recreate Category:Canadians of European descent again. It has been deleted per consensus at WP:CFD. Thanks. -- Kbdank71 18:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input into the proposed naming convention for baseball players (made either here or here... or both). Hopefully, the final tweak has been made to the proposed guidelines. If you get a chance, please review them here and add any comments/suggestions/feedback on the talk page. If there are no major issues, we'll put this thing to a straw poll in a few days, and if successful will then submit for inclusion on WP:NC. Thanks again, Caknuck 04:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Why have you been changing the categories for various people from McX to MacX? JMiall ₰ 12:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mayamushu, you created this Category:Lieutenant Governors of the colonial Province of Quebec. I know there is not now a Governor of Quebec, but I think there might have been before 1791 as Hector Theophilus de Cramahé was Lieutenant-Governor from 1771-1782 and he was often described as deputy to Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester? Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 19:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
==Why the renames?==
You added "Canadians of (insert ethnic group) descent". Why not "Asian Canadian" only? Instead of "Canadians of Asian ancestry".
Why doesn't Wikipedia have "Canadians of European ancestry" or "Canadians of African ancestry"?
Are you a genealogist or what?
You will have to monitor this article and similar others better as some Spanish vigilante ( User:Spain21) nostalgic about the imperial days thinks he could just impose his own names on Spanish-descended ethnic groups.
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I see how you tried to separate immigrants/emigrants from the national origin/national descent categories (which were to include both immigrants/emigrants and their descendants). I suggest this is too complicated and leads to the confused merge proposals going on at CfD. I think that the immigrant/emigrant categories should either be collapsed into their national origin/national descent categories or made the immigrant/emigrant categories be made subcats of the national origin/national descent categories at every level. Hmains 03:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Can you improve/edit/update this newly created article please? Sports in Saskatchewan I see you have started the Sandra Schmirler curling article. TXS SriMesh | talk 06:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
It seems that you have incorrectly submitted your AfD, so I have attempted to correct it for you. — Wenli ( reply here) 03:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
The edit histories show that you are the creator of several subcategories which have been nominated for merging into Category:African American sportspeople.
This CFD began on October 27, so don't delay if you wish to participate in the discussion. Cgingold 09:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:People from Cardston municipal district, a category you created, for renaming. See the discussion HERE. Ubi Terrarum 04:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
If you want to split one page into two seperate pages, the only way I know of doing it is by cut/paste. If you split the page, I recommend moveing the information on the current league to Canadian Soccer League (active league) where it previously lived and moving the current CSL page to a new name. I also request a history merge for Canadian Soccer League at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen so please don't move anything until that is complete.
Also, I tried moving the original Vancouver Whitecaps page to Vancouver Whitecaps (USL) as well as the talk pages but it wouldn't let me. Could you also move Talk:Vancouver Whitecaps to Talk:Vancouver Whitecaps (USL) to keep the talk page with the original article.-- Cmjc80 19:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I have noticed you have changed the nationalities of many of the BBL players to England/Scotland/Northern Ireland etc. As the league is under the banner of BRITISH Basketball League, and the national team plays as GREAT BRITAIN, I think that it is more suitable to display the Union Jack flag for nationality rather than to segregate them into England and Scotland etc. This is also the way it reads on the official BBL website, as British and not English/Scottish. As I have done most of the pages related to British basketball, I think that this is the best and most ideal way. I appreciate the politics regarding the identities of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish people, but as this is the BRITISH Basketball League, it should display the British flag. Cheers! HappyFace ( talk) 21:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi why did you change all those AHL player categories without mentioning it first? Right now we have a huge half completed mess for a simple change that really doesn't provide any benefit. The proper thing to do is file a WP:CFD. There's a bot that will perform all the tedious work if the proposal is actually agreed upon. Thanks ccwaters ( talk) 14:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
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I have modified your edits to Jack de Heer so that they are compliant with the guidelines set out in WP:DATE. Please note that, per these guidelines, places of birth and death are not to be entangled within the lifespan of the individual. Thank you and Cheers, CP 07:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
To be honest, I'm not sure if I like what I am seeing here. You seem to be setting up a new structure of categories... but I don't feel it is fully adequate. My big problem is your usage of the broad word "Amateur". I would like to personally like to suggest a different approach to you that removes this word:
The usage of the term "Amateur" is quite skewed in Ice hockey. A lot of junior leagues are not considered amateur, some are (but only arbitrarily). Senior leagues and pro leagues have been known to jump back and forth from "amateur status". I hope you find what I am saying agreeable and we can hopefully fix this. DMighton ( talk) 06:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for expanding the subcategories for WHL (minor pro) players. Can you think of any other significant minor leagues that deserve such a category? I do not want to get too specefic as they would just call for deletion. Keep up the good work, I will continue to populate the categories. - RiverHockey ( talk) 18:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
You might want to be carefull when you add categories to pages. A page should not be in both the parent category and the sub category. It is fine for them to be in two differnet sub categories but pages should never be in a parent category and a sub category at the same time. For example you have been adding Category:Ice hockey centres onto player pages that already have the category Category:Canadian ice hockey centres. This is a nono as it causes category clutter and defeats the purpose of having sub categories. - Djsasso ( talk) 16:16, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I added one of the football player infoboxes. Do you know of more information? I also added a citation template for references and removed the error tag from the page. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 03:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
This article also received a tag for improvement for references. An infobox and inline citation template were filled in for references so that the tag could be removed. Please have a peek to save your articles from bother by tags. Kind Regards... SriMesh | talk 03:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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Just one question about your moves of the Steve Smith ice hockey players ... Why? They were both born in 1963 and they were both defencemen, so adding those facts to the disambiguation term adds nothing and does not help. Snocrates 06:46, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Mate I don't understand some of your page moves. For example you moved Jimmy Allan (cricketer) to Jimmy Allan (cricket) when WikiProject Cricket's naming conventions clearly state that for when someone of the same name already exists then (cricketer) will be used. You've also reverted some pages of Australian rules footballers when again, those that contribute to the project are in agreement that (footballer) is to be used. Please don't moving these pages without discussing it with the relevent Projects in the future. Thankyou. Crickettragic ( talk) 09:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Mayumashu, I am wondering why you put Tallulah Bankhead under European Americans? How many generations of a family should be born in the US before they are just considered Americans? Poodle Girl ( talk) 00:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. You recently added the Category:Americans of English descent to Ronald Reagan and Nelle Wilson Reagan. The category appears to be empty, however, and was previously deleted. Per the deletion discussion, the cat was merged into Category:English Americans. Just a heads up: you might want to change the ones you added back to the deleted cat and change them instead to the other cat. Thanks, Happyme22 ( talk) 04:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Regarding this edit [3] (which you'll notice User:HongQiGong has further changed) ... I appreciate the need for some standardisation in category definitions, but as you go off on your campaign for which there's been no canvassing to gain the opinions of editors who work on related articles, you're promoting new definitions of commonly-used terms which doesn't actually match with how those terms are used in the real world. This is not the first time I've seen you doing this either --- your moves of many xyz-Canadian articles last year did not have wide support (as can be seen by how many of them were put up for WP:RM and moved back to their common titles, or simply moved back without discussion by editors who came along and found your names to be very strange), but again you forge ahead without talking. This goes beyond boldness into reckless unilateralism, and frustrates other editors. So again, would you mind stopping what you're doing and initiate some discussion with other editors who work in this space? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Asian Americans as well as talk pages of individual articles would probably be a good place to start. Thank you. cab ( talk) 11:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Please take it easy on blanking Vietnamese Americans categories, okay? A little discussion first at WikiProject Vietnam would be very good. Most Vietnamese who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years are U.S. citizens. Please refrain from such large-scale changes without first making an appearance and discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam, thank you. Badagnani ( talk) 04:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Are you sure Edgar Allan Poe wasn't Scots-Irish? It seems like that claim was sourced to reference #4, but I don't have access to that book at the moment. I've started a discussion at the Poe talk page, if you want to go there. Zagalejo ^^^ 21:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:People for Assyrian descent ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. ... discospinster talk 23:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Mayumashu, can you advise what category a person should be put in if their great grandparent was born in England even though they may also have other English ancestry further back on other lines? Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel ( talk) 19:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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I do not agree with the renaming you have been making to foo-American lists such as List of Swiss Americans to List of Americans with Swiss ancestry. In the US, f00-Americans always encompasses both the original immigrants and their descendants and no distinction is made in the language. Nor do I why such a distinction need to be placed in WP since it would be an artificial imposition that does not exist in the real world and I do not see what good purpose it would serve. I do not agree with the similar changes you have made to the articles in Category:American people by ethnic or national origin for the same reasons. These articles are difficult enough to keep them from being deleted by the anti-Ethnic deletionists and to keep them maintained properly than to complicate things as you have done with the Canadian articles and seem now intent on doing to the US articles. Please refrain from this activity and change them back to what they were before you started. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmains ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
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The 'foo diaspora' categories are designed to have articles about the fact that people have left one country and moved to another. One subcat of the 'foo disapora' category is the 'people of foo descent' which conains the actual people who have moved. And this is is a proper subset of disapora which is inclusive of all migrants. Hmains ( talk) 21:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
You created Category:People from Lethbridge County, Alberta. A discussion is underway regarding the deletion of this category. [4] As the creator of the category, please feel free to provide your opinion. -- Kmsiever ( talk) 23:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Category:New Zealand expatriates, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. –- gadfium 06:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Similarly, for Category:Britons of New Zealand descent, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 29#Category:Britons of New Zealand descent.- gadfium 07:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
He's still an english footballer irregardless of citizenship. He plays for England thus making him an english footballer. However, the category that you put in is still correct. There should be both. Kingjeff ( talk) 05:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I thought you'd be interested to know that you're not alone in your views on those oddball nationality categories that were added to some of the hockey players. I came across them yesterday while I was looking through Category:Ice hockey players by country, and ended up removing those cats from 8 or 9 articles -- my edit summaries said they were "silly & misleading". (And I'm seriously considering taking a bunch of (now-empty) sub-cats to CFD for deletion.) Anyway, after looking through the edit histories I discovered that I wasn't the first editor to remove them. Hopefully it will stick now, seeing as it's not just one editor's POV! Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 11:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I know you are interested in people who move so I will ask you. What is the use/purpose of the Category:Immigrants and Category:Emigrants and all their subcats when we have the more fully populated descent, origin and expatriate categories? Should we undertake to examine all the articles in the immigrant and emigrant cats and: 1) make sure they are properly placed in their descent, origin or expatriate; 2) remove them from the immigrant/emigrant cats? Hmains ( talk) 20:00, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
In the natural language, immigrants are anyone who moved from Canada to the US (1st generation), maybe not expatriates. Americans of Canadian descent may indeed mean the 2nd and so on generations of the first generation, but nowhere in the natural language is this term used to refer to partial descent. That seems to be your invention and not supportable. Canadian Americans is the style that the US uses to refer to all people who are now in America, whether citizens or not, whether first generation or whatever generation. As far as usefuless, I only see a use for two categories: 'Canadian Americans' and 'Canadian expatriates in the United States' Anything beyond that lacks the data in articles to determine the facts and, any any case, who cares? What WP useful purpose served by the two extra categories: none. What category clutter is there on articles: none; either the person is a Canadian American or a Canadian expatirate in the US. Hmains ( talk) 06:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Yugoslav emigrants, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Yugoslav immigrants to Canada, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Yugoslav ice hockey players, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for the repetitiveness of these — just trying to be comprehensive ... Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:34, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
You made alterations to the Réunion article, noting "since 2003 a region and not a department". You'll see that someone reverted your changes. In fact, Réunion is both. France is divided into both regions and departments, with each region comprising one or more departments. Réunion has been a department since 1946 and a region since 1974, according to a page outlining Réunion's history, which also affirms, "Form of state: Département d'Outre-Mer (DOM) (Overseas Department) of France, with additional status as a région (region) of France." The other three overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana) are likewise regions as well. — Largo Plazo ( talk) 12:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Please note that categories aren't like article links — you're not allowed to add an article or a category to categories that don't exist (e.g. Category:Caribbean Canadians, Category:Jamaican diaspora). You have to either create the category immediately, or don't use it at all. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 00:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. Please don't rename any more racing driver articles without discussing it with the relevant WikiProjects ( WP:MOTOR, WP:F1, WP:AUSMOTOR, etc) first. Currently you're introducing a lot of redirects for no (apparent) good reason. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:45, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, how are those reversions going from all the race driver pages you moved? Have you moved them all back yet or are you trying this on with another sport like golf? How about you fix your messes first before creating a new one? -- Falcadore ( talk) 00:52, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Please stop adding footballer of Italian descent to Category:Italian footballers, the Category:Italian footballers for the people born in Italy and/or played for Italian national football team. Matthew_hk t c 07:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I wasn't sure whether the consensus was to revert the articles to "racing driver", or to revert them to whatever they were called before you changed them, i.e. thereby fixing all the links. You might want to seek clarification at WT:MOTOR. DH85868993 ( talk) 06:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Congo-Kinshasa diaspora, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – I've also nominated related "Congo-Kinshasa" categories that you've created — I won't pain you by including this notice for each one of them, because there are quite a few of them and this would get redundant really fast. Thanks. Good Ol’factory (talk) 07:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. Regarding Roy Smith (auto racing): If you go to the article and click on the heading "What Links Here" (on the left side of the article page), you will see that many other articles link to the old Roy Smith (racecar driver) page. You may want to change all those other articles to link to your new title. Thanks, Lester 20:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:People from Provost municipal district, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Please do not add categories of ethnic or national descent in biographical articles, as you did here and here, unless there is information in the article that backs up the category and has a citation to a reliable source. As with all information on Wikipedia, categories must be verified with reliable sources, especially biographical articles. Thank you. Ward3001 ( talk) 01:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Category:Immigrants by nationality, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Mayumashu -- Would you be kind enough to have a look at my response in the CFD for Category:African American baseball players? I'm hoping you will reconsider and withdraw your nomination. Thank you. Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 23:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
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It's spelled with a regular hyphen, not an em-dash. Bearcat ( talk) 02:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
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El-Din Hilaly was born in Egypt - why have you changed category on his page from"Egyptian Australians" to "Arab Australians"? I also ask why you did this with a misleading edit summ.? Your edit summ reads "(+cat)". If your edit was an error please correct it. Otherwise please supply source for Hilaly being "Arab Australian". SmithBlue ( talk) 00:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
You have created a category " Australians of British descent" into which you have placed Craig Johnston. This article makes no such statement. Please give a source showing that Craig Johnston is of British descent. I have concerns as to the notability of the category you have created and will raise them at Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board. SmithBlue ( talk) 03:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd agree with that last comment (by Mayumashu 04:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)) but probably come to the opposite conclusion as to who needs to provide the cite in the first place. (Humour)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 April 29 has a on-going discusion on this category. Please come and convince me to change my opinion. (Not humour)
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I think it best that we take this to
WP:NOR/N. Please come over and put your view of this. I'll put a diff to our discusion above but leave you to put your own version on the page.
SmithBlue (
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Craig Johnston from cat. thanks.
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I believe you have incorrectly categorises dozens of expatriate footballers. For example foreign players who played in Spain should be categorised as La Liga players and not as Spanish players. Djln-- Djln ( talk) 18:11, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
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Moved back as that is the standard for a rugby union player. Londo 06 17:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I notice you have moved Neil Roberts (footballer) to Neil Roberts (Welsh footballer). I'm going to go through the pages which link to the former and redirect them to the new page. Just a quick note, that if you move any pages in the future, it might be best for you to correct the internal links. Peanut4 ( talk)
Hello -- I see that you've done a lot of good work with the ethnic and/or national categorization of people. You've done an excellent job so far, and those of us who work with all of the ethnic or national categories appreciate your work; however, I'd like to point out an error that you and another few editors have repeatedly made in regards to Category:American people by ethnic or national origin. You and these other editors seem to be removing that category from the MAIN categories dealing with, for example, Category:Chinese Americans or Category:German-Americans, and placing the category in the much smaller and less developed SUBCATEGORIES which only contain American people of PARTIAL descent, for example Category:Americans of Chinese descent or Category:Americans of German descent. It's pretty clear that Category:American people by ethnic or national origin should be placed in the MAIN CATEGORY of a given ethnic or nationality category (e.g., in Category:Chinese Americans) and not in the SUBCATEGORY (e.g., Category:Americans of Chinese descent). I'm going to start fixing some of these and hope that you will do the same. Thanks. -- Wassermann ( talk) 03:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Here are links to the discussion about this issue. [5] [6] [7] [8] I wasn't involved in all of them but you can see there is extensive discussion already. I think the current naming style should be changed to something like Fukuoka (city) rather than Fukuoka, Fukuoka but you should be aware that many of the people who prefer disambiguation using the U.S. style are still around. -- Polaron | Talk 22:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Irish of Iraqi descent ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Iraqi-Irish people ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Re. page moves to un-disambiguated titles, please be aware of Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide regarding naming conventions for Canadian settlements. Thank you. -- Qyd ( talk) 16:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
After a long while of trying to see how they can work and be useful have come to the conclusion that they cannot work and are not useful. First, it presupposes that those of different race/ethnicities are different in a defining respect, which is really racism in disguise. For if someone were to try to articulate how one ethnicity differs from another such sweeping generalities will offend some, be over inclusive and also under inclusive, and generally of little use to any one. Second, there is no measure: is being X% Fooian get you in the Fooian- type categories, where X-1% doesn't; and how, pray tell, is someone who is one percent more or less Fooian distinct for such difference. Third, how far removed does one need to be from Fooland - immigrants? first-generation? second-generation? It's difficult to put a NPOV limit on the issue, and if one subscribes to the Out of Africa hypothesis, then we are all African- somethings and the distinction is again rendered meaningless. Fourth, in Fooian-Booians categories, why if Fooian is so uniform a group to categorize them then allow XYZ-Fooians? shouldn't we be having XYZ-Fooian-Booians, like the great American-French category up for debate: where is the French-American-French and the German-American-French, as American is homogeneous. I am Mexican-American, but alas some of my ancestors were no doubt from Spain (and many of them may have ancestors from Italy as Rome ruled Spain for hundreds of years or from North Africa and more remotely Arabia), others descendents of those who crossed from Siberia 20,000 years ago, does that make me Asian-American? European-American? Arab-American? Because we cannot with NPOV and objectively categorize these people (remember BLP) categories, they should all go. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there MAYUMASHU, VASCO from PORTUGAL here,
Thank you for the corrections in this POLISH FOOTBALLER's article. If i inserted some teams he actually never played for, it was because of FOOTBALLDATABASE.COM link (if you check it out you will see, for instance, reference to TORONTO LYNX), i was just trying to help. So were you, GOOD WORK!
From Portugal, have a pleasant weekend,
VASCO AMARAL - -- 217.129.67.28 ( talk) 14:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
On May 8, you added the template {{ cfr}} to Category:American-Irish people, but you did not list this nomination on WP:CFD for comment. I therefore have relisted the nomination, and you might want to add your reasons for nominating it on the discussion page. -- Russ (talk) 13:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu, when a category is for individual people, like Category:Akkadian people it should be classified under "Ancient people", not "Ancient peoples", which is for the whole groups (like Category:Akkadian Empire). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Categorystuff ( talk • contribs) 21:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Mayumashu, Categories should be nouns, not adjectives i.e. "Amorites", not "Amorite". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Categorystuff ( talk • contribs) 22:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Also don't take out the carriage returns - it makes the categories unreadable for other editors —Preceding unsigned comment added by Categorystuff ( talk • contribs) 23:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
The Category:Amorite people is for notable Amorite people, not for the "Amorites" umbrella category. Categorystuff ( talk) 23:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Could you change that to read "Gutian people". "Gutium" is the state; "Gutian" is the adjective. Thanks Categorystuff ( talk) 02:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi!
You're working a lot on the ethnic/national categories, so maybe you can help me: Should categories like Category:German immigrants to the United States be categorized as subcats of the several ethnic/national categories or not? Problem: Not all immigrants became naturalized citizens and there seems to be an difference between expatriates (see for example Category:German expatriates in the United States) and non-naturalized immigrants. We have Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States, Category:German immigrants to the United States and Category:German-Americans. A naturalized German immigrant like Eberhard Anheuser would have to be listed in all these three categories (the immigrant category was a former subcat of Category:German-Americans, so all those articles have to be transferred to German-Americans too, a lot of work). Maybe we should create just one category like Category:Naturalized German immigrants to the United States as a subcat of those three categories. What do you think?
Greetings, -- Wulf Isebrand ( talk) 16:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Category:Canadians taken hostage, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi I was working to clean up the links to the
Canadian Soccer League disambiguation page and noticed you were the one to do the page moves on it. I was wondering what you thought of this idea: keep the 1983 page where it is, move
Canadian Soccer League to
Canadian Soccer League (disambiguation), then move
Canadian Soccer League (current) to
Canadian Soccer League. As far as I can tell, the current CSL has the most links to it and appears to be the most likely search if a person was searching for the CSL. What do you think?
Metros (
talk)
12:43, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. You probably did not know, but this is unnaceptable per Wikipedia:Canvassing#Inappropriate canvassing. In the future, please abide by these guidelines. Thank you. Best, -- brew crewer (yada, yada) 19:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems that you forgot to add this to the actual list of CfD nominations. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 13:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I have removed Dean Kiely from Category:Irish people of English descent. Kiely is English-born and is already in Category:English people of Irish descent. Please could you explain exactly what Category:Naturalised citizens of Ireland is for? There is no evidence of Kiely ever becoming an Irish citizen or living in Ireland, even if he has represented them at international level. -- Jameboy ( talk) 10:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
What evidence do you have that Ishmael Miller is of "Black African descent"? (as opposed to West Indian or whatever) If your assertion is correct then I would like to add such information about his background into the article, so please could you let me know your source? Many thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 15:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
eg Category:Latino Australians? - CfD isn't reached through link-- Matilda talk 20:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure what exactly is going on - I had tagged most of the Australian ethnic categories and I am seeing them wnder across my watchlist and i see 'cfr' and when i go to the pink boxes - they arent really leading to anywhere - is there a summary somewhere of why and what is happening? Apart from a talk item from Matilda - I would be completely in the dark - isnt there some sort of procedure to go by - if you are going to tag a whole category collection - shouldnt you actually explain somewhere and link properly to either a point for discussions or explanation? Satu Suro 01:34, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough - that is the broader picture - no problems - but my issues is that theses sort of things happen at project level - where no forewarning occurs and inadequate explanation to the project occurs - which is what has happened here - some eds simply are not up to the global precedents that might have been set - I am of the opinion it takes a few minutes at a project noticeboard to explain - just one message - and I still dont see why adequate links arent made in the pink boxes regrdless of whether its a foregon conclusion or not - cheers Satu Suro 01:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Mayumashu, its now been an hour and half since you acknowledged a CfD entry was required, but you've continued to tag yet more categories, and the entry is still not there. There's now several dozen tagged categories with dead-end links for a CfD discussion. This is not how things are done. I'll give you another 60 minutes or so and then will revert your tagging. In future, please write up your argument before tagging. Moondyne 01:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
A number of them (eg. Category:French Australians) are pointing to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 June 19, rather than Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 June 20 which I presume was your intention. Would you mind rectifying please. Moondyne 02:34, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Please do not oppose the categories and do not participate in the categories Category:People from Leduc (city), Alberta and Category:People from Camrose (city), Alberta. The Leduc and Camrose categories doesn't need the word city in brackets. The categories are titled Category:Leduc, Alberta and Leduc, Alberta are also titled for the main article for an example. And the main article Camrose, Alberta is titled without using the word city in brackets and it doesn't need to disambiguate. These 2 Alberta categories has to be renamed in order to match the titles. Steam5 ( talk) 01:45, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
I've left some further comments at the aborted CFD. I don't think your suggestion to rename the category was too bad actually - if you look carefully its overwhelming use is for things related to people of Indian descent in Fiji, and the bits which genuinely are related to people of Fiji Indian origin who have since emigrated elsewhere probably barely merits a category anyway and would have sat fairly happily in a category named to indicate it was about Fiji Indians in general. While renaming it was definitely not an awful idea, creating both categories was probably a better idea. However, while Category:Nonresident Fiji Indians and the main article Fiji Indian diaspora do belong under Category:Fiji Indian diaspora, hardly anything else should be there - now you've created the new category for where that lot should have been, could you ship it across, otherwise the situation is going to be even more messy than before! Regards, TwoMightyGods Persuasion Necessity 01:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, you tagged Category:People from Nara for renaming, but it does not seem that it was ever listed on one of the daily WP:CFD daily pages. I've untagged it for now. Best regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:46, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I've noticed your recent edits on the
Men's Singles Wimbledon '08 page around the use of 'Final Eight' and 'Final Rounds' instead of 'Finals', and I've also seen your exchanges with other wiki editors on the History page.
I hear your argument about 'Finals' being possibly confusing, but I still believe it is not, and we should stick to it. 'Finals' is a perfectly correct english word, with a clear definition. According to my dictionary, it is a sport related term meaning 'Last few games' or 'Final phases of a tournament'. It describes precisely the section the word stands for on wikipedia tennis draws, and there is nothing confusing about it.
Now, understand that I'm not totally against your idea of 'Final Rounds', but I believe that before taking a unilateral decision that eventually affects the consistency of thousands and thousands of wikipedia tennis draws, you should perhaps address the issue at the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennis, and gather some opinions before making the mass changes (or worse, partial mass changes). Cheers,
Plafond (
talk)
09:06, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I note that you reverted my re-ordering of the categories - your edit summary "presuming that order to be one that describes greater to lesser importance is POV - alphabetical order does not presume POV" is not in accordance with the guidelines at Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization which quite clearly state that "Both the alphabet and importance are used to order categories currently" and "categories should be ordered so that someone reading the article can use them to understand the subject". On this basis, my order preference is to show birth/death date & place of birth first, followed by categories referring to the occupation generally e.g. football manager with the categories for teams managed immediately after that. To me, that meets the requirement of helping users "to understand the subject", which an alphabetical list does not. There is certainly nothing POV about it. Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 18:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Would you be able to help out expand this article Maurice Lloyd football player as it is marked with a proposed deletion of this article? I noticed you had created Steve Molnar I added a reference. The article was created by a new user to wikipedia. SriMesh | talk 03:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've created several categories within Category:People by city in Japan(one for Sendai and several for Osaka suburbs). I've been work hard to populate not only those cats but also all the other ones, excluding the one for Tokyo. The main reason I've ignored that one(which doubles as a prefectural one)is because it may be bloated enough to require diffusion(if not subcats for any or all of the special wards, there should be one for Western Tokyo). Some of the other urbanized prefecture cats could use diffusion as well. There are quite a few Japanese cities(not just designated ones)that could use their own 'People from' categories as they have at least 20 natives apiece(with biographical articles in English Wikipedia for that purpose). Good job, keep it up... Ranma9617 ( talk) 05:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I recently closed the Polish-Americans CFD as "merge". I've now been asked this:
what category is to be used for naturalized immigrants from Poland? The article Beata Pozniak is one that has been changed. She's a Polish actress who moved to the US in the 1990s and got her citizenship later. So it's incorrect to list her of being of Polish descent. She isn't of descent, she is Polish, just a naturalized citizen. Is there a more accurate category to be used here? Otherwise I'll need to remove the category from the article as misleading per WP:BLP.
I've pointed in the direction of Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States, but can you help further? Or is the answer that Pozniak is of Polish descent since she is Polish, and we don't need different categories for "degrees of Polish-ness"? Regards, Bencherlite Talk 07:35, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your recent move of the 2000 Canada Masters page to 2000 Canadian Open (tennis), but I fail to understand it. The choice of having 'Masters' in the title has nothing to do with the official name of the event, but has to do with the Series of which it was part of. And whereas I do get your point in changing the names of the '94 and '95 events since the 'Masters Series' didn't exist at that time, the 2000 event was already part of the 'Tennis Masters Series' and therefore it is just as correct to have 'Masters' in the 2000 article's name as it is for the 2001, 2002 and 2003 events. (There were some comments here on the naming of the Masters events.) I'm going to wait for your answer, before changing again the page's title. Cheers, -- Plafond ( talk) 11:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I notice you've just created a category: Jersey criminals under the Criminals by Nationality category. Isn't this misnamed since Jersey isn't a nationality but the nationality should be British? Jersey isn't a country in its own right to confer nationality. Just thought I'd strike up a conversation on it. Canterbury Tail talk 17:22, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there!
I just had an idea regarding the naming problem at Category:American people by ethnic or national origin. We could keep the established “Fooian Booian” sheme, not as categories for persons, but for the different ethnic/ancestry groups (as subcats of Category:Ethnic groups in the United States), while the “Booians of Fooian descent” categories are used exclusively for individual persons. There are already sucats like Category:German American history or Category:Mexican American culture, which were not created as categories for persons. What do you think, could this be the solution?
Regards, -- Wulf Isebrand ( talk) 20:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Please take note that Category:Place of birth missing should be placed on the talk page and not in the article. So, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Manuel_Alonso&diff=228723026&oldid=228278855 this edit' of yours is partially wrong. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Just a quick note to let you know that categories for football clubs should be done in chronological order not alphabetical order. Peanut4 ( talk) 18:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Mayumashu, my friend. I have proposed the alternative renames to "people of X descent" categories of Iran and Lebanon you recently put to CFR. As we figured it out last time somewhere on CFR, my points deal with specific situation of some minorities. That some minorities are just "Y" living in "X", not "X of Y descent". P.S. I agree with rest of your proposals as you defined them. Thanks. - Darwinek ( talk) 12:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
In my opinion, the best name for the category is Lebanese Armenians. It is a direct translation of what they call themselves - Լիբանանահայ - Lipanan (Lebanon) + a + hay (Armenian). This can be applied to the rest of the categories as well. For example: Syrian Armenians, Turkish Armenians, etc. The subcategory X people of Armenian descent should be kept to categorize those who are of mixed ancestry. Hakob ( talk) 00:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
You have created or edited a number of empty categories with a {{ category redirect}} that redirects to empty non-existent categories. The categories are Category:British Mozambicans, Category:Chinese Mozambicans, Category:Mexican Koreans, Category:Spanish Koreans, Category:Istrian people and Category:Italians in Croatia. Why do you create such category redirect pages when there are no pages that categorise to those redirect categories, nor to their non-existing targets?
The reason I noticed this is that some days ago we added error detection in the {{ category redirect}} template. You can read about that and see which category redirect pages are reported as strange at CAT:CATREDFIX. We cleaned out most of the cases on that page today. But as you can see some of the tricky cases that got left are your categories.
(Please respond here since I am now watching your talk page.)
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 07:53, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
db|Your reason}}
with an explanation like: "Empty category that is redirected to an empty non-existent category. Been empty for more than four days."{{
db|Your reason}}
. Anyway, if there is such a case then we do have a simple solution for that. Whenever you need the assistance of an admin you only need to call us by using the {{
editprotected}} template. And look at its instructions at
Template:Editprotected#Edits affecting several pages. As you see if you want edits (or in this case deletions) to be done to many pages, then simply add the {{
editprotected}} template to some talk page and write an explanation there what needs to be done and add a list of links to the pages that need to be handled. This saves a lot of work for both you and the admin. In this case you can for instance place the "{{
editprotected}} + explanation + link list" on your own talk page or perhaps better on
Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion to allow others to comment.{{
db|Your reason}}
since then it will show on the watchlist of those that created those category pages. After all, tagging with that template isn't much work. And if even more doubt then bring it up at
WP:CFD.The problem with the Estonian Russians is that one is not sure if it is a Russian in Estonia or an Estonian in Russia. You may be more familiar than I am with the politics etc of post-Soviet nationalities, or perhpas I should say post-Stalinist - since, I think, the people were moved around in his time. I merely observed a minefield and tried to steer you away from it:
I haven't been active for the last month, so I missed your CFD on Trinidadian ethnic groups. I was just trying to figure why, you believed that "Afro-Trinidadians" should be replaced by something incredibly cumbersome like "Trinidad and Tobago people of Black African descent" "per naming convention"? If so, doesn't that also mean "per naming convention", that "Cat:African Americans" should be renamed "Cat:United States people of Black African descent"?
In addition, why replace an ethnic group cat with a descent cat? That seems like an invitation to OR. Guettarda ( talk) 06:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Umm...regarding this...no. Your summary is completely wrong on the facts. To begin with
[W]hat differentiates an Afro-Trinidadian from an Indo-Trinidadian with people of mixed Black-Indian (which apparently half or more of all Trinidadians) appears to be (from looking at what is said at Afro-Trinidadian people) how Black African-looking or how Desi-looking a person is and not the culture they have/subscribe to (their religion, food, dialect, other customs)
[T]hat such a name is not suitable for describing both Trinidadians and Tobagonians together
The new name is bulkier, but straightforward in meaning
Still, of course, most notable Trinidadian's membership as either Afro-Trinidadian or Indo Trinidadian (or other), is not controversial and so I would support having Category:Afro-Trinidadians and ;Category:Afro-Tobagonians as sub-cats of 'Cat:T&T people of Black African descent'
If you really want to get a handle on it, I would recommend Yelvington's ' Trinidad Ethnicity' (the chapter titles are themselves informative) - it isn't perfect, but it gets it more right than wrong. Guettarda ( talk) 14:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello. I have voted for renaming except the Italian minority in Slovenia (another autochtonic minority with special status), to which I have proposed alternative name. - Darwinek ( talk) 09:31, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Please don't move any more articles from Firstname Lastname (pool player) to Fistname Lastname (pocket billiards). This violates the naming conventions. Hockey and a few other sports' WikiProjects have been ignoring them for a long time (and recently got them changed to make exceptions for them), but the general rule is to prefer the shortest, simplest disambiguator for a person that is a description of the person not of a field or activity. Allen Hopkins (pool player) is a person; Allen Hopkins (pocket billiards) could mean anything - a player, an equipment company, even a strangely-named game). — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont] ‹(-¿-)› 02:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Burial of Jennifer Rosanne States, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Rosanne States. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Eastmain ( talk) 04:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu - per WP:SUBCAT, "articles belonging to a subcategory should not be placed in the parent category also"; accordingly, I've undone a couple of your categorizations ( [9], [10]). Cheers, Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
I see you're a past editor of the Bruce Carruthers page. Just to let you know that I've created a proper bio page at Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers. Please feel free to comment there or on my talk page if you have questions/concerns. J Costello ( talk) 01:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Steve Smith (British-born ice hockey player) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ( Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 14:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Steve Smith (Canadian-born ice hockey player) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ( Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 14:37, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:English expatriates in the United States ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:British expatriates in the United States ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Rodhull andemu 01:30, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
You created a wierd category, "Afghan" is nationality and Pashtun people is ethnicity. Pashtuns are not just limited to Afghanistan, large bumber of them live in Pakistan and some live in other countries. You may delete your creation of category.-- Flyingspirits ( talk) 17:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hmmm the reason I did that was that I based it on Template:ATP Challenger Series tournaments, so I was simply perpetuating the lackings of that other template. Quick research suggests that both templates contain all the tournaments up to some point in June, and as Template:ATP Challenger Series tournaments was originally created in March to cover all the challengers being held in 2008 (I changed it to just a general all the challengers template), then that could be why it didn't include any later ones - because they weren't announced yet.
So sorry about that, feel free to fix my mistake! But notice there's also Template:ATP Challenger Tretorn Serie+ tournaments and Template:2008 ATP Challenger Tretorn Serie+ tournaments - rst20xx ( talk) 01:54, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Category:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:31, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:African American basketball players, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
Under the
criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please
see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{
hangon}}
on the top of the page and leave a note on [[Talk:Category:African American basketball players|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Thomas.macmillan ( talk) 23:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi; do you want me to close this CfD since you've taken the issue to DRV? I think that would be best ... Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:37, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, noticed you adding cats to various footballer articles and changing the category ordering. Just thought I'd mention that consensus at WP:FOOTY is to order the cats by who he is, what he did, who he did it for, with all clubs together in chrono order, followed by managerial positions if any in chrono order, and miscellaneous stuff at the end. This seems more helpful to the general reader, along the lines of the answer to this FAQ, that "categories should be ordered so that someone reading the article can use them to understand the subject". Also, you added the non-existent Category:The Football League managers, to Dave Mackay (footballer born 1934). cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 17:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Would you be good enough to take a look at my suggestion re changing the heading of the DRV section so it reflects the inclusion of all of the categories that were deleted in the original CFD? Thanks. Cgingold ( talk) 13:57, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you please not move GAA players to (Gaelic athletics) as that title is never used . Instead use Gaelic footballer, Hurler or Gaelic games for dual players . Thanks Gnevin ( talk) 01:10, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Scottish footballers who have played in England ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Category:African American American football players and Category:African American Canadian football players, which you created, have been nominated for renaming. 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. Cgingold ( talk) 12:08, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Category:Information scientists, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Cgingold ( talk) 16:18, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the further categorization of the "left over" articles in Category:African American sportspeople. It's very gratifying to see these categories back from the dead and repopulated, with the addition of the additional categories to create a well-organized category structure. Alansohn ( talk) 23:37, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I am sort of a noob with the categories for deletion deal. Could you tag the sub-cats for me?-- Thomas.macmillan ( talk) 03:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:English footballers who have played in Scotland ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Govvy ( talk) 17:51, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:English footballers who have played in Northern Ireland ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Govvy ( talk) 11:50, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:English footballers who have played in Northern Ireland ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 19:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:English footballers who played in Ireland (before 1923) ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 19:05, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
I know you are aware of the consensus to delete the triple intersection categories because you commented on it. Could you please stop editing against consensus to create and populate more of them. King of the North East 21:42, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I think this category functions identically to the other expatriate footballer "triple intersects" since it is populated primarily with footballers. I understand that there are managers and a few other non-playing people, but the concept is the same. There are no "Fooian expatriate football managers in Boo" yet, but I expect they will come soon enough if this issue is not addressed now. Best regards. Jogurney ( talk) 17:21, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you appear to have made a typo, so could you please, as author, move/rename "Category:People from Lower Hunt" to "Category:People from Lower Hutt" as there is no such place as Lower Hunt in New Zealand, and James Bannatyne was born in Lower Hutt. Thanks in advance--ClubOranje Talk 07:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Category:American expatriate American football players in Germany, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:01, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey - part of your AfD for Kris Joseph is that he is not a "starter on the team" -- as a heads up, he is a starter. [11] Not sure if that changes your mind about him, or not. Thanks. GoCuse44 ( talk) 01:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. After the discussion, which you were involved in, around the expat footballers category, the decision was upmerge. A bot came to this page and did the job. Then you reverted it. I reverted your reversion, twice. You said if i didn't want a category i should ask for it to be nominated. The decision has already been made. I apologise if i've misunderstood the outcome, but if i did, i am only replicating the bot's actions, in which case it's done that across hundreds of articles. --Ged UK ( talk) 09:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I've reverted and redirected the links to the Immortal disambiguation page. While I don't disagree that the words "Immortality" and "Immortal" can have their own disambig pages, your work on Immortality (disambiguation) was very incomplete, and the changes there and at Immortal seemed more confusing and less complete than what had already existed.
While editing disambig pages, it's important to leave them more complete or coherent than when you find them, because their only function is as signposts to articles. Naturally, your work is still in the histories if you want to come back and complete them as more finished disambiguation. Cheers. Yamara ✉ 21:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi; I moved a recent CFD comment of yours to where I think you meant to place it: see here.
If I'm wrong, of course change it back, but I wanted to let you know I moved it. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:49, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Good to see someone finally created this category. I look forward to your moving of the 485 remaining pages out of the parent category :-D . - Dewelar ( talk) 22:01, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey there, your recent edits to Martin Dugas have left the infobox looking lopsides, as there is one too many linebreaks in the 'Years' section. Please could you try and rectify? Thanks, Giant Snowman 17:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Any city or town that has a reasonable number of notable people from it is entitled to a "People from (place)" category no matter what its population is. There's no minimum size criterion that a place has to meet to qualify. Bearcat ( talk) 18:39, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting it into another page with a different name. This is known as a "
cut and paste move", and it is considered undesirable because it splits the
page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Somno ( talk) 06:33, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the move. It wasn't until immediately after I wrote the article (which linked to the original Matthew Bobo), that I realized he was better known under the other name. I just never got around to moving it. Bobo . 11:16, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. I wanted to ask why you were creating sub-categories in several player categories like this one. In particular, it appears that you are making categories for players who played for this club in various levels of the US football pyramid. I'm not sure why that is necessary or helpful and wanted to understand if there is already a consensus for it and if not perhaps we can start a discussion on the WP:FOOTY talk page so the community can decide whether it is desirable. My worry is that a club like Norwich City F.C. may have played at 6 or more levels of the English football pyramid, requiring several categories for just one club's players. Please let me know if you've already discussed with others. Thank you. Jogurney ( talk) 01:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Category:Youths, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Cgingold ( talk) 00:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
The category is for pre-1992 Yugoslavia only. Matthew_hk t c 11:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Stop creating and adding those POV fork categories for anything supposedly "West German". -- Matthead Discuß 22:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a heads up, there have been at least 7 sports teams called the Buffalo Bisons. Category:Buffalo Bisons players is for a 19th century baseball team. From the hockey players I changed, you want Category:Buffalo Bisons (AHL) players. Jackal4 ( talk) 23:59, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I notice that this category is unpopulated (empty). In other words, no Wikipedia pages belong to (are members of) it. If it remains unpopulated for four days, it may be deleted, without discussion, in accordance with Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#C1. I'm notifying you, the creator of the category, in case you wish to (re-)populate it by adding [[Category:Yugoslavians of Albanian descent]] to articles/categories that belong in it.
I have also blanked the category page. This will not, in itself, cause the category to be deleted. It serves to document (in the page history) that the category was empty at the time of blanking and also to alert other watchers that the category is in jeopardy. You are welcome to revert the blanking if you wish. However, doing so will not prevent deletion if the category remains empty.
If you created the category in error, or it is no longer needed, you can speed up the deletion process by tagging it with {{ db-author}}.
-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:10, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I notice that this category is unpopulated (empty). In other words, no Wikipedia pages belong to (are members of) it. If it remains unpopulated for four days, it may be deleted, without discussion, in accordance with Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#C1. I'm notifying you, the creator of the category, in case you wish to (re-)populate it by adding [[Category:Albanians of Montenegrin descent]] to articles/categories that belong in it.
I have also blanked the category page. This will not, in itself, cause the category to be deleted. It serves to document (in the page history) that the category was empty at the time of blanking and also to alert other watchers that the category is in jeopardy. You are welcome to revert the blanking if you wish. However, doing so will not prevent deletion if the category remains empty.
If you created the category in error, or it is no longer needed, you can speed up the deletion process by tagging it with {{ db-author}}.
-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:19, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Please see my comment in the CFD for sports lore ASAP. Cgingold ( talk) 20:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
When moving pages, as you did to
Talk:Konjic Municipality, please remember to fix any
double redirects. These can create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, waste server resources, and make the navigational structure of the site confusing. Thank you.
I posted the move suggestion; let's see what happens. :-) Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 21:44, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. If you want to move a page, then please suggest one on the talk page - do not simply redirect a page. Regards, Giant Snowman 02:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Looks like someone depopulated Category:Korean expatriates. I've blanked the page. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 23:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi I noticed some page moves of yours that appear to be against current policy; I list the areas of concern below. Please don't take this criticism too heavily; it's quite clear all your page moves were made in good faith and many are clearly extremely helpful. This is offered to assist your future page moves.
Also, I note you changed some abbreviations from use without periods to with; per MOS:ABBR "There is no hard rule about periods—in general, avoid them." (there may be an exception in this case but your edit summary suggested a general policy on your part so I thought I'd mention it).
Cheers, -- Rogerb67 ( talk) 14:03, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Americans of mixed Black African-European ethnicity ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 03:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Category:People by university, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 06:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Can you add Melanie Huynh to the list for me? And is there any possible way to add a People of Vietnamese descent (which is a category) into the overseas vietnamese page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwaynydelights ( talk • contribs) 04:12, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey there, I check on on Burnaby's talk page for an example and you support renaming all of it's titles from City, Province to it's City name only and I was wondering I propose the nominated categories for 5 Burnaby related categories to be renamed and I did so if you want to check the categories go to today's Categories for discussion to match it's main article title and let you if you could support renaming those categories click on this link. Steam5 ( talk) 04:43, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Mayumashu, I don't know exactly what you did, but as a result of your actions of April 7, there are now two pages about pornographic actor Peter North: Peter North (pornography) and Peter North (pornograpny). This last page with the wrong title has the complete history up to 8 April 2004 but lost its talk page. The 'pornography' page has a history of only 9 edits AND the complete edits page, starting from 2005. Could you put this right and make ONE article with complete history AND complete talk page?
I would by the way much prefer to identify the subject as a man, not as an activity. Just like, for instance, the two other Peter Norths. Maybe you could name the page 'Peter North (pornographer)'. It's a pity you didn't discuss this first on the talk page. Glatisant ( talk) 00:29, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Saw your addition of the Cassiar Country cat, which I guess is alright on a related-name basis. Thing is, teh Cassiar electoral district also relates to the political history of the Skeena area; the riding was the entire Cassiar Land District, which was pretty well everything north from about Kitimat on up, I'll see if I can find an old map. Iv'e often wondered about putting location cats on electoral districts; but it's a slippery slope and not always obvious by the name; similarly now the Cassiar Country is in the Skeena riding, who do we cat that? Do we put the Cassiar electoral district in the Category:Skeena Country cat too? or do we ahve cats "loations in the XXX electoral district"...of course not, but I was wondering about fields in town/lcoatino infoboxes statingwhich current federal/eelctoral riding places are in; which makes a lot more sense, or as much sense anyway, as what regional district they're in. Anyway this was really just a comment about the scale of the old Cassiar riding; it helps to udnerstand that the Dease Lake area was virtually the only inhabited part of that region, and that even settlements at Hazelton were related more to the Cassiar Rush/Mining District than to anything later on; in 1903 Atlin had become very populous, and growht had begun along hte Skeenay-Bulkley, so Cassiar was superseded; once one of the most important parts of the province, now nearly forgotten.... Skookum1 ( talk) 02:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Hallo, I've seen you've added a lot of categories to surname pages recently, but I'm concerned that they are not all correct. Take Abineri. Just because two English people have that name, it does not make it an English surname. English people, American people, etc will often have a surname which reflects the nationality of their great-great-great....grandfather, but this does not make it an "English surname" or "American surname". PamD ( talk) 15:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu, I know you've been involved in editing these articles, so though I'd let you know that I have redirected (alphabetical) and (by decade) into List of Canadian international soccer players; there's no need for two seperate articles, and the new table format I've introduced looks, to me, far more professional and attractive. Cheers, Giant Snowman 21:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I have reverted your earlier edit where you moved New Zealand national football team to "New Zealand national football (soccer) team". There is a convention for national football teams where every country uses the same format, and appears to be a consensus for retaining this. Such a major change should be discussed before being implemented as it has far reaching implications. Cheers --ClubOranje T 10:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
The discussion for Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 June 6#Category:Surnames by country was closed as delete and is now under review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 25#Category:Surnames by country. Your participation and input is invited. Alansohn ( talk) 05:05, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've reverted your moves from US Open to U.S. Open on several articles, and from Men's Singles to Gentlemen's Singles for the Wimbledon draw page. Consensus was reached to use US, without stops, for the Open era is this discussion, and, more convincigly, in that one. You can see in the first discussion that inconsistency within Wimbledon sources and desire for consistency within Wikipedia is also the reason to have Men and Women instead of Gentlemen and Ladies for Wimbledon. If you still want to implement your changes to USO and Wimbledon articles you should re-open a discussion on the Project talk. Cheers ! -- Don Lope ( talk) 10:50, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
For reasons I've explained on the Angela Buxton talk page, I believe it innappropriate for there to be a POV tag on her page. What is the proper procedure to take to effect its deletion? Thanks.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 08:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you modified the categories/stubs at John Barrett (tennis), and upon investigation noticed you've been doing the same on many other pages since mid-June. However, this actually conflicts with the recommendations at WP:STUB, which recommends placing all stub stags "at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it." Similarly, WP:CAT says "The order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful)."
As an aside, could you possibly consider archiving your talk page? It's currently almost 350kB in size, and editors with a slow internet connection might be constrained from communicating with you if they have to load such a large talk page first. I believe it's even possible to have a bot do this automatically. Regards, -- DeLarge ( talk) 11:23, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Please revisit Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_July_3#Category:Druze_surnames. Debresser ( talk) 10:19, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I assume you would know what to propose with this category? I know we don't use "current" categories but as for what it should be merged to or renamed, I'm unsure. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Category:Major League Baseball players from Canada is already a subcategory of both Category:Canadian baseball players and Category:Canadian expatriate baseball people in the United States, and thus pages that are in the first do not need to also be in the other two. Thanks! - Dewelar ( talk) 18:41, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I reversed your edit that noted cat links corrected; nothing said of his having acquired Canadian citizenship, so not a Canadian equestrian, horse trainer, and breeder. You are wrong in your statements and I certainly hope you haven't applied such idle notions elsewhere in Wikipedia. Handicapper ( talk) 22:30, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I have a serious concern about your placing Category:CIS football and Category:CIS football players under the parent Category:College football and Category:College football players, respectively. I understand and respect your motivation in looking for a reasonable parent that would encompass both but I disagree. College football means American football; it sounds broader but it isn't. CIS football is Canadian football. They are different. Category:CIS football already has the parentage of Category:Canadian Interuniversity Sport and above to Category:University and college sports in Canada while Category:College football has Category:Intercollegiate athletics in the United States as a parent. I think the status quo was fine and suggest it be returned. DoubleBlue ( talk) 19:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. I have started a discussion at WP:MOTOR about the "Racecar driver by century" categories you recently created. I thought you may like to contribute to the discussion. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 14:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Coloured South African people ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. magnius ( talk) 14:03, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Please stop adding the placeholder image, as they're being removed from all football player articles also please start a discussion at either WT:CFL or WT:NFL for the century categories. Also, the categories are organized the same on every page so again start a discussion to change it.-- Giants27 ( c| s) 00:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
You have misunderstood. She was No 1 the world in U12 category - not just nationally.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 21:43, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hallo, Mayumashu!
On 20 June you justified your proposal for the deletion of the Category "Dutch admirals of the 17th century" with the claim that there had only been around seventy Dutch admirals in history anyway. Now, given that there are so few articles as yet about them, the matter is for the time being of little import, but just for the sake of historical accuracy I'd like to point out that in fact there have been well over nine hunderd! The Dutch Republic had five admiralties and those were often violent times ;o).
Greetings, -- MWAK ( talk) 06:00, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Your comment seems like you have a "vote" in mind... but you marked your edit only as a "comment". You may wish to update that. Carlaude: Talk 05:07, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I saw in your User page that you were from Halifax? Did you go to the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships last weekend in neighboring Dartmouth? If so, do you have any pictures of the event that you would like to upload into the article? It would be most appreciative. Thanks. Chris ( talk) 20:23, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
There was a technical problem with your AfD nomination of Ryan Bell, which I have now fixed. You edited a previously closed AfD rather than starting a new 2nd nomination one. I reverted your change to the old one and moved your deletion rationale to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Bell (2nd nomination), which now appears in today's AfD log at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 August 29. I agree that the naval officer appears not to be notable. -- Eastmain ( talk) 00:23, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#When pages get too long. This general guideline applies to both article talk pages, as well as user talk pages. Seriously, yours is incredibly long. You should try to keep the size of your talk page to roughly 32KB. You are at 366KB, which is 10.5x the recommended amount.
You should also read Help:Archiving a talk page. MiszaBot and ClueBot III are two bots that can archive your talk page for you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks, Ksy92003 ( talk) 22:51, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Now that you've moved Mike Leach to Mike Leach (coach) without first seeking input, are you going to ensure that all the links are corrected? → Wordbuilder ( talk) 13:54, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Can you stop creating ridiculous categories like American football players broken down by positions and centuries? That's a little much and completely unnecessary. The articles explain what years they lived and played, there's no need for categories that detailed. What's next, Category:21st-century black American football running backs with dreadlocks from California?► Chris Nelson Holla! 17:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
I've added a new comment to the discussion that you will probably want to reply to. Thanks. – Pee Jay 09:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I see you've edited the category. Are you in favour of retaining or deleting? Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 September 9. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 00:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Female basketball players by century ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Basketball players by century ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 16:51, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. FYI, I have proposed the following categories for deletion:
Note that I have not proposed the parent categories:
for deletion, just the "formula", "sports" and "stock" subcategories. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:50, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:People from Kirkland, Montreal ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:People from Kirkland, Quebec ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 19:58, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
In the page Cory Carroll you appear to have made a Revision as of 05:00, 28 July 2009. You added some text and a reference tag <ref name="WPT World Championship telecast"/> that appears to be causing a cite error. Could you please go back and fill out the full source to fix the cite error. Thanks. 75.69.0.58 ( talk) 20:24, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:21st-century male basketball centers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:1st-century basketball players ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 11:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mayumashu. In the past I know you did a tremendous amount of work on the subcategories of ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:People by ethnic or national descent. As you probably know, I've been proposing renames for a bunch of these to conform to the "FOOian people" standard. Now, I'm not sure how you feel about these changes, but I was wondering .... If I come across one of these categories that are named "FOOs of GOOian descent" and I see that you are the creator and sole author, would I have your permission to speedily rename these to "FOOian people of GOOian descent"? It would save me having to do a formal discussion for them, and would help us regain consistency faster. If you disagree with these changes—I'm sorry, and you don't have to say yes. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:46, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Canadian male basketball players ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Canadian basketball players ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 23:59, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Basketball forwards by century ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 14:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Canadian male basketball players ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Canadian basketball players ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 17:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)