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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I recently closed this October discussion as a rename, and that things should be clear for you to propose potential splits to refine the categorization. bibliomaniac15 03:06, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Deaths in Northern Cyprus indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Qwerfjkltalk 19:14, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Myanmar 1980s estab by year[edit]

Template:Myanmar 1980s estab by year has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:36, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Monetary Policy Committee composition June 2011 – August 2012 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:42, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

File:FayeWong-EyesOnMe.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:FayeWong-EyesOnMe.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. George Ho (talk) 01:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:18th-century establishments templates by country indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 18:56, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Thanks, that's fine. The member templates (bridging Russia & Russian Empire in 1720s) have been made obsolete and deleted following Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_January_13#Template:Myanmar_1980s_estab_by_year. – Fayenatic London 19:13, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate pages[edit]

Abass Mohamed and Abass Mohammed are clearly the same person. The first article is older, but the 2nd one is correctly spelled acc to sources (part of the first one has now been copied to the 2nd one). What is the process to resolve this? Oculi (talk) 19:04, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Oculi: That calls for a round-robin move. WP:Round-robin sets out a preferred method for this. – Fayenatic London 22:04, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022[edit]

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  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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Category:Neo-Nazism in India[edit]

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_February_2#Category:Neo-Nazism_in_India. Hi, can you please explain your closure. This was a few users who are in denial of the existing sources and using Strawman to vote delete. I would like to get it undeleted or recreated. What are my options now? There are enough sources to keep it.

  • Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Germany's India envoy visits 'Nazi-inspired' Hindu group | DW | 21.07.2019". DW.COM. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  • Chaudhury, Aadita. "Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  • "Hitler's Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India's Nazi-loving Nationalists". Haaretz. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  • "Hindus, Sikhs should not be delusional about alliances with neo-Nazis". Hindustan Times. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  • "Nazism and Hindu Nationalism". The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  • "Savitri Devi: The mystical fascist being resurrected by the alt-right". BBC News. 28 October 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2022. Venkat TL (talk) 18:00, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Venkat TL: it was my job as closer to look for consensus, not to research the background. 2 editors argued to keep, but 4 editors (the nominator plus 3) were persuaded to delete the category, and these included the last two participants, who had the opportunity to weigh all the preceding arguments. I therefore believe that I was right to find a consensus to delete, and am not minded to reopen the discussion. If you believe my close was wrong – not based on the evidence you offered above, but based on a fair assessment of the arguments made during the discussion – then please use WP:DRV to seek to overturn my close. – Fayenatic London 20:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Are you offering to reopen the discussion? please reopen, so that I can present this evidence. Also can you guide me to the page that explains notability criteria for category? What do I do to prove that this is a notable category. These users voting delete are in denialism and censoring information, they are not commenting in good faith. Venkat TL (talk) 20:35, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No, I am declining to reopen the discussion. If you wish to pursue the matter, please use WP:Deletion review. You have already done the first step by asking me to consider the above. – Fayenatic London 22:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Venkat TL: I apologise – I have belatedly realised that I closed that discussion early. I was testing the use of a tool for closing discussions, and can't remember how I came to be using it on a current page rather than overdue pages. I have now recreated & repopulated the category, and reopened the discussion. – Fayenatic London 11:30, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for reopening it and adding the note. Venkat TL (talk) 11:44, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copying a cat[edit]

Hey there, I wanted to close the discussion on Israeli Jewish women singers per your suggestion, but I wasn't sure if there's a simple way to copy the contents of a cat. Any guidance? bibliomaniac15 01:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bibliomaniac15: I would use WP:Cat-a-lot for that; it's usually very fast. If you don't want to learn another tool, I'd be happy to implement the close if you ping me or list it at CFDWM. – Fayenatic London 07:46, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that works great! Makes life a lot easier. bibliomaniac15 00:46, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thailand/Siam categories[edit]

Hi. A belated thanks for closing the Thailand/Siam centuries/decades/years CfD and sorting things out accordingly. I'm wondering, since Thailand is the broader term following the present-day name, would it be possible to have Category:18th century in Siam be Category:18th century in Thailand instead? I've been refining things into subcats like Category:18th century in the Ayutthaya Kingdom, which should belong under the present-day scope of Thailand but not the historical scope of Siam (which per the discussion is to be applied after the 1782 cut-off). Also, do you know if the year header template can be tweaked to avoid showing the inaccurate message, "Note: in 1782, Thailand was renamed to Siam"? --Paul_012 (talk) 13:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Paul 012: The usual convention for a century category (etc) is to use the country name that was in use at the end of that period.
I can see your argument for renaming Category:18th century in Siam and Category:19th century in Siam to "Thailand", as parents for Ayutthaya Kingdom. I suggest you make a fresh CFD nomination for those two century categories, if you think it's important.
Where are you seeing that "renamed to Siam" message now? I thought I had removed it. – Fayenatic London 09:51, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sorry, meant to paste the link but forgot. I'm seeing it in year categories like Category:1774 in Thailand. The century cat name isn't that big a deal to me, so I guess I'll leave it for now. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:31, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I see, that's using {{Year in country category}}, which is somewhat intricate, and does not currently resolve redirects. BrownHairedGirl intends to do a complete rewrite of that set of templates some day. Meanwhile, if the "renamed to Siam" note is unhelpful, a switch could probably be inserted in the template to suppress that note using a new parameter, if it's worth the effort.
What do you think of the current note "in the Kingdom of Siam−Thailand" in Category:1750s in Thailand up to 1890s? Feel free to replace those pages using the standard template. – Fayenatic London 15:07, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I guess it can wait for BrownHairedGirl's rewrite, whenever that is. Re: the description notes, personally I abhor them and see them as unneeded clutter leftover from Look2See1's huge mess of edits, which were never properly cleaned up and apparently have infected newer editors into thinking that's how category pages should look. But I haven't the energy to go after them. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

missing TV series : Jews and Judaism on Television[edit]

The series does appear in Wikipedia 9JKL

73.69.159.72 (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article on 9JKL does not mention Jews or religion. We only put TV programmes in categories according to WP:DEFINING characteristics. Having a Jewish lead actor is not enough. – Fayenatic London 07:16, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One decade of adminship[edit]

Happy Adminship Anniversary![edit]

Wishing Fayenatic london a very london happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 10:01, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

could you explain this...[edit]

Could I trouble you to explain the purpose of this edit in my working page? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 17:51, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jack Sebastian: sure! As a bit of housekeeping to clean up after WP:CFD, I update categories on user drafts when they get renamed. Some such user drafts are straight WP:COPYARTICLEs, pasted long ago and forgotten, so I blank those to avoid future maintenance. Others such as yours show that some work has been done, which at first glance may be useful. I hope that tagging it as a user draft and for merging may be a helpful prompt to finish a draft that you started, and to incorporate valid additions into the live article. It also puts the page into categories that may eventually be reviewed by others, as WP:COPYARTICLE states that such pages should not remain indefinitely. Does that make sense now? – Fayenatic London 07:40, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:687 BC births indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 06:08, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that was Ashurbanipal, now stated as born c.685 BC.– Fayenatic London 06:45, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

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Categorizing ethnic groups and languages that precede their modern designations[edit]

Even though the current designation for that ethnic group did not exist until the 19th century, a separate Turkic Azerbaijani language and ethnicity evolved in the 11th century. The earliest Azerbaijani texts exist since the 13th century (and are highly mutually intelligible with modern Azerbaijani, when transliterated into the Latin script). Medieval poets and writers wrote in that language, long before it was called "Azerbaijani" or "Azeri". The relatively recent designations of long existing ethnic groups is also the case with other ethnicities, like the Slovaks or Slovenes. There are no clear policies in Wikipedia about this, hence, the problem. --Multituberculata (talk) 06:47, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Unsourced WP:OR. - LouisAragon (talk) 17:35, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Fayenatic london,

I just deleted a template, Template:Wrong AFC submission, that used to fill this category which is empty and looks like it hasn't had any activity (pages added or removed) in recent times. You closed this CFD years ago and I was just wondering if you thought it should be renominated or just treated as a leftover category used by a template, remove the Empty Category tag and treat it as a regular empty category? It looks like the reasons for concern 7 years ago are no longer relevant. Thanks for your feed back. Liz Read! Talk! 23:33, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: thanks for asking. Please just go ahead and tag it as C1. Neither of the templates on Category talk:AfC submissions with missing AfC template lead to an active editor who should be consulted. Template:User AfC missing template should probably also be deleted. – Fayenatic London 07:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fix categorization of category[edit]

Hey, when you get a chance could you fix the categorization of the Category:Greater Republic of Central America–United States relations just like you did with another category I created. Thanks in advance. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 14:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiCleanerMan: Sure. Thanks for the diff, it reminded me where to go. – Fayenatic London 16:51, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:1958 disestablishments in Spain indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 04:43, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK. That was for Instituto de Higiene del Doctor Murga, which has been deleted as COPYVIO. – Fayenatic London 07:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ismael to Ismail edits on 29 January 2022[edit]

Hey, just wondering why on the 29 January 2022 you edited the Ishmael in Islam wiki page to mainly say Ismail instead of Ismael considering the title of the page and the anglophone nature of the article. Kind Regards, NotAnotherNameGuy (talk) 09:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ishmael is the title of the main article (as a bible character) and hence also of the page Ishmael in Islam. The usual and longstanding transliteration from Arabic is Ismail. I was reverting a series of edits by one or more anonymous editors, possibly from South Asia but editing in the Gulf, who were inserting transliterations using "e" instead of "i" without explanation. – Fayenatic London 14:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Would you not say that Ishmael being the English norm is reason and reason enough? As it has now lead to the page being a mix and match of e and i's Kind Regards, NotAnotherNameGuy (talk) 00:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Does Talk:Abraham_in_Islam#Abraham/Ibrahim_consistency help? – Fayenatic London 05:27, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I guess his points raised are valid and appropriate, thank you for your diplomatic tone Kind Regards, NotAnotherNameGuy (talk) 16:39, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Yemenite Jewish songs has been nominated for deletion[edit]

Category:Yemenite Jewish songs has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:09, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

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  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
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Precious anniversary[edit]

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST[edit]

You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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New administrator activity requirement[edit]

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Category:18th-century Polish people by occupation has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 10:43, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Fayenatic london,

I saw this draft of yours on a list of drafts that will be deleted later today and I doubt you will receive a notification when it is deleted so I wanted to let you know what had happened to it in case you want to restore it and continue to work on it. I hope you well. Take care, Liz Read! Talk! 05:07, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Liz. I had left a note at User_talk:Alborzagros#Moths_of_the_United_States inviting the creator of the original category to improve the list, but they do not seem interested.
I see that DGG accepted List of moths of China, but has not done the same for the sibling bare lists Draft:List of moths of Brazil, Draft:List of moths of Mexico or Draft:List of moths of the United States. – Fayenatic London 06:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I had not noticed them, and will accept them. I consider them all appropriate articles if documented in the source articles If you send any to mfd or afd, please notify me. But, Fayenatic london , they wpuld be immmensely stronger and less likely to be deleted if you copied over some of the basic data--at least the family. DGG ( talk ) 20:01, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, DGG. I merely created bare lists, using an automated tool to list category contents, as an attempt to retain some benefit from the extensive work that other editors had put into creating the former categories. I added a header line and categories, but will leave it to others to expand these pages into useful lists. I am indifferent to them being deleted if no editors pick up the work. – Fayenatic London 07:44, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've just seen the parent discussion, which I think contrary to the manner in which biologists publish their work, which for general works does tend to go by country because they are typically funded by national museums or similar organizations. Just as our contents should reflect professional consensus , so should our organization. But I am not going to reopen the discussion, perverse though I think it, because I consider our manner of handling categories so peculiar that I decided 12 or so years ago that there was no point in trying to fight against it,& I have almost always succeeded in ignoring the field since then. . Had I seen how general it was in this type of article, I wouldn't have bothered. But maybe, just maybe, to show my disagreement, I will add one or two items of information to a few to show it's possible. DGG ( talk ) 17:32, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For my reference, that discussion was Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_April_16#Moths_by_non-island_country. – Fayenatic London 20:52, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of moths of the United States has been accepted[edit]

List of moths of the United States, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

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DGG ( talk ) 20:03, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of moths of Brazil has been accepted[edit]

List of moths of Brazil, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as List-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

DGG ( talk ) 20:05, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of moths of Mexico has been accepted[edit]

List of moths of Mexico, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as List-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

DGG ( talk ) 20:06, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Places in historical regions[edit]

Shouldn't we explicitly include a section in WP:OCAT about historical region categories with (just) populated places? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think that would be a good idea. Can you find, say, 3 precedents to link to? – Fayenatic London 20:48, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Leonard Curtis logo.gif[edit]

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Thanks for uploading File:Leonard Curtis logo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:47, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, that has been replaced by File:LC Business Rescue & Recovery.png. – Fayenatic London 17:49, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Languages of Palestine has been nominated for merging to Category:Languages of the State of Palestine. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 19:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022[edit]

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy rename error[edit]

Hi, Fayenatic london. Thanks for catching my error on that speedy CfD rename leading to fixes like this! I definitely screwed that copy/paste/edit up... Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm glad it wasn't too widespread. Regards, 2pou (talk) 21:27, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, you're welcome. Glad you could follow my short cut to fix it. Hope you didn't mind getting pings on the set of them. – Fayenatic London 21:36, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Technical help[edit]

Hi FL

Pls can you help with a wee clerical task that needs the admin bit?

I posted it at WP:AN, but no response before it was archived to WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive343#Setup_two_{{Category_chart}}s. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:25, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@BrownHairedGirl: I think I did those as required. If not, do let me know. – Fayenatic London 07:43, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks, FL. I think it will be a week or two before they generate any output in the charts, so we will see then whether it has worked. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:16, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CfD discussions with minimal amount of participation[edit]

Feel free to stalk my talk page. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:54, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

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CfD closing instructions[edit]

See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#CfD_backlog_and_closing_instructions. Your input would be most appreciated, if only because I still have a few questions about the current text (as indicated in the proposal). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:14, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sixteenth anniversary on Wikipedia![edit]


Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society[edit]

Dear Fayenatic london/Archive27,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 18:16, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day![edit]

Categories[edit]

Hello, Fayenatic london,

We have three categories that have been tagged for speedy deletion, CSD G4, having previously deleted at WP:CFD. They have been sitting at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as pages previously deleted via deletion discussion for a while now. Unfortunately, the page taggers didn't empty the categories first.

Do you know of a way to empty them besides going through and removing 46 pages from one of the categories, page by page? I think you have mentioned Cat-a-lot to me before but I've never successfully used it, I found the interface very confusing. Can you help me out? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 04:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: the easiest thing for one of these is to list it at WP:CFDW under the original CFD discussion date. – Fayenatic London 08:27, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Paul 012 and UnitedStatesian: all three of those (Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths by country, Category:War thriller films by country & by decade) were "X by Y" parent categories, and should not have been tagged in isolation. This morning I tagged the like-named sub-cats.
For info, I am also going to tag Category:Deaths by myocardial infraction as re-creations following Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_June_21#Deaths_from_heart_attacks_and_strokes. Naturally these would not have come up as re-creations when 20SS00 created the pages, because of the egregious mis-spelling. – Fayenatic London 13:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I misspelled it by accident. It was hardly egregious. Furthermore, I created these categories in the hopes that they had more of a chance of staying if they were segregated off by country, state, region, etc. But clearly not. The fact that it’s considered "non-defining" is purely based off of opinion. 20SS00 (talk) 13:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, because Liz felt the need to get involved by undeleting Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths by country without any consensus to do so, instead of depopulating it and related categories, or asking someone to depopulate them, any further attempt to speedy delete them would violate WP:WHEEL. I didn't catch this until after I speedied them, so I was forced to revert my actions immediately upon realizing this and remove the tags as well. What a waste of time. plicit 13:47, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Explicit: I don't see a substantial problem here. Liz undeleted that one with the log entry Reverting deletion, this category needs to be emptied first, right now there are dozens of articles with red link categories that, according to WP:REDNO are not permitted. She then asked here for advice on emptying it. So if you or another admin agree that the case fits WP:G4, let's delete them speedily. – Fayenatic London 13:55, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Explicit: Oh, you mean you have removed MY tags from this morning on all the "Cardiovascular disease" subcats of Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths by country. IMHO that was unnecessary. Please could I have your permission to revert those edits of yours? – Fayenatic London 14:00, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
User:Fayenatic london, thanks for tagging the pages. Liz has informed me of the need to empty the categories when tagging. I actually initially planned to get back to them later with AWB, it not being convenient for me at the time, but since an ANI thread was started I thought it might be better to wait in case some other outcome was reached. Sorry for leaving things dangling. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:26, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I see that Explicit went ahead with the deletions anyway – thanks. I've made some CFD nominations at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_June_23#Deaths_from_heart_disease. Hoping that someone will have the time to work through the new hierarchy of Category:Deaths from stroke – those could be speedily deleted, just moving the disease-specific subcats up. – Fayenatic London 06:25, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NAV CFD closures[edit]

I've taken a break from CfD, and have now come back. However, it takes ages for me to manually carry out the results, so I've started listing them at WT:CFD/W. Currently there are around 10 discussions, but I anticipate closing more. It would be great if you could.monitor this page and add then so the bot can complete them. ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:1056 BC deaths indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:11, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]