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Main Page appearance: When God Writes Your Love Story
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When God Writes Your Love Story is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy (pictured), an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the life partner that God has planned for them. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals. Leah Andrews of the Lewiston Morning Tribune compared When God Writes Your Love Story to other popular Christian books providing alternatives to dating, including Joshua Harris's I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl. American college professors Margaret and Dwight Peterson responded to the Ludys' book by writing an essay called "God Does Not Want to Write Your Love Story," in which the Petersons argue that the book makes young people see marriage as a fantasy comparable to that of Disney Princesses. (Full article...)
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Edits to When God Writes Your Love Story
Hey Neelix,
I made several changes to When God Writes Your Love Story and I'd like you to review them. I tried to fully explain in the edit summaries, but if you have any comments, please share them with me.
Also, I added two inline cleanup templates that I would like you to address. One is regarding the term "bitingly" which sounds inflammatory and unsourced based on the content in that section. The other is the source that claims the Petersons said that the lyrics to the song "Faithfully" sought "a kind of unachievable perfection in their future marriage and spouse." I checked the source on Google Books and it not mention the song at all. If you could review and deal with these two problems, that's be awesome.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that the article is going to be featured on Monday! That's amazing. Congrats on all your hard work, and I hope that my edits only built upon it. Obviously, if you don't log on between now and then, I will take care of the my two remaining issues so that we don't have any "issue" templates on a main page article.
Thanks, man! American Eagle (talk) 03:19, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
- Hey Neelix,
- I'll be brief because I'm on my way to work. I still disagree with this edit because the Ludys did not suggest "a single should marry this person rather than independently choosing a mate" in the source. DeMoss claims that they did. If DeMoss claimed that the Ludys are trying to get kids to join the Illuminati, would that make it so because a secondary source is claiming it? No. Secondary sources cannot manufacture statements on behalf of the person they are reporting on. If you want to include this, you need to write it is follows: "In her book Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free, Christian author Nancy Leigh DeMoss claimed that the Ludys suggest that a single should marry this person rather than independently choosing a mate."
- Thanks for the tips regarding the Ellerslie employees. They contacted me, too. I don't think they were expecting an article by Ludy to be featured. ;) But my edits aren't promotional at all. The statement by DeMoss makes a declarative statement about the authors and I think you are misrepresenting the Ludys by including it without noting who actually made the suggestion. American Eagle (talk) 18:25, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
- I just think that if we have a source backing a statement by an author, it should be clear in the source that they actually said it. However, I'm not worried about it because I see your logic, and since you literally wrote this article, I will concede. It looks great on the main page! I will keep an eye on the page for vandalism. Please let me know if I can help. I give you my sincerest applause. You're a sharp writer. I considered giving you a barnstar, but Cliftonian already gave you one for this article, and you probably have too many for your own good. :) Take care. American Eagle (talk) 03:57, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know the category is now hidden, and Text should be removed once the infobox is updated. Looking at When God Writes Your Love Story, I was going to update publisher and publication date into published, but wasn't sure which of the two publishers (Loyal Publishing, Multnomah Books) did the first edition, whether they both did or whatnot (one of the unclear things about the old publisher2 parameter); let me know if you'd like a hand updating it, and again, sorry for the trouble. --xensyriaT 03:27, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Tara Teng
Hi Neelix, I've begun working on the copy-edit you requested at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page for the article Tara Teng. Please feel free to contact me and to correct or revert my edits if necessary. I've begun to cut down on some of the extraneous text; I'll move any references I remove with the relevant text to the article's talk page. As you've probably noticed I've already begun this process. We need to be careful since this is a BLP. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 04:21, 25 August 2013 (UTC) |
Hello, Neelix. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Tara Teng at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! I've cut the article from 101,366 bytes to 60,816 bytes; there are probably still some problems but I think it's an improvement anyway... :-D Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:49, 29 August 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks for the copyedit, Baffle! Whatever problems remain with the article, I should be in a better position to address them now that you've worked on the article so thoroughly. Neelix (talk) 03:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- No worries; good luck with the article. :-) Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 04:44, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Congrats!
On the appearance of When God Writes Your Love Story on the Main Page! Hope you are doing well (we met in DC not too long ago). Keep up the great work! --Another Believer (Talk) 00:45, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Congrats on the TFA!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:23, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Very well done David. —Cliftonian (talk) 11:26, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Wow! Great Job!
Hey Neelix! Congratulation on the When God Writes Your Love Story article being featured on the Main Page! Looking forward to seeing your next large project! I think I will reference that article for how I should be writing my future articles! :) CT Studd (talk) 19:38, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Ken MacLeod's Descent novel page redirects to Michael Winterbottom
On the Ken MacLeod page there is a link to his upcoming novel "Descent". However the article page for the novel is a redirect to Michael Winterbottom. I know this redirect was created a very long time ago but I don't see any link between the two, unless I missed something. Can I remove this redirect so I can create a page for the novel. Teh klev (talk) 07:20, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Religion
Hi. I've noticed in your style of editing you appear to heavily imply that your Christian God exists. As you are aware the text on wikipedia should not imply or indicate that. I think that is something to consider when you edit, IRWolfie- (talk) 22:54, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Hello, Wolfie -- welcome to wikipedia! What a coincidence to see you here as well! I've noticed that you have an interest in editing articles on classic Greek philosophies such as Pyrrhonism! Your style of user-talkpage editing might be considered uncivil or disrespectful, which is a flat-out violation of WP:NICE hereabouts, also known as pillar four! Perhaps you should review it after taking an ice-cold shower! Then I highly recommend the fascinating articles on WP:WEASEL! Some people think weasel words are great! But... I'm not one of those people. In fact, your tone suggests you are under the delusion that you not only WP:OWN some particular article on wikipedia, but that you run the whole thing. Recommend you check your premises. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 05:33, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- p.s. Howdy, Neelix -- just stopped by to say thanks, I noticed you fixed a redirect a few years ago, which had been incorrect for quite a long time before your good work. Thanks for improving wikipedia, see you around. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 05:33, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Bacon thanks
Thanks very much for the Barnstar.
I really appreciate it.
It's nice to know that my quality improvement projects on this website are appreciated and acknowledged.
Thanks again, — Cirt (talk) 00:52, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix, I've begun working on the copy-edit you requested at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page for the article Natasha Falle. Please feel free to contact me and to correct or revert my edits if necessary. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:15, 2 September 2013 (UTC) |
Hello, Neelix. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Natasha Falle at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:05, 3 September 2013 (UTC) |
When God Writes Your Love Story main page appearance and aftermath
Hi Neelix, While I didn't support this article's promotion I was pleased to see it on the main page. The response it's subsequently received since strikes me as rather disappointing, and I hope that you're not too discouraged. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:44, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
- Seconded. If there's some way I can lend a hand do let me know. —Cliftonian (talk) 13:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, both of you. Certainly, any help in constructively engaging in the discussions on the article's talk page would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 02:41, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Would you like to OA for a Molecular Biology course project?
Hi David,
I and User:Keilana are OAs for this course project. Another professor, teaching another section of the same course, has just decided that she would also like to run this Wikipedia project. This is very last minute -- the course officially starts tomorrow. But as you can see, the course page is already thoroughly documented and very detailed, and so the role you would play would be as a mentor and guide for editing, and as a reviewer for articles as they are written.
Would you be able to help with this? If so, could you please let us know as soon as possible? I will be setting up the new section's course page this evening. Thanks! Klortho (talk) 20:18, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm so glad you can help! Could you sign yourself up as an Online volunteer on [course page]? Scroll all the way down to the bottom. The professor doesn't have any Wikipedia experience, so I'm a little bit worried about this. But hopefully with enough hand-holding, everything will go smoothly. Klortho (talk) 12:40, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Adding "you didn't build that" in Speeches of Barack Obama
Since the merger proposal failed, could you perhaps add a summary about the speech or phrase without merger in any way? --George Ho (talk) 06:16, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- I'm good at writing short biographies and expanding/creating fictional works. I know that I can't insert too many reactions, but writing a perfect summary isn't easy. I couldn't summarize about Warren's and Obama's remarks and speeches. I'm not that good, especially with sources that are unilateral, poly-lateral, bilateral, whatever. --George Ho (talk) 16:27, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- It's already added, but not by me, in List of political catchphrases. --George Ho (talk) 17:38, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Featured Article Review
I have nominated When God Writes Your Love Story for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. jps (talk) 18:34, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Edit request for NASHI
Firstly, thank you for creating this page. It provides great information about an organization I belong to. There is however one item I would ask that you remove.
Several of NASHI's members are also activists for the Public Service Alliance of Canada.[8]
While this is factually correct (we have two members who belong to the PSAC), being the only description of our members gives the impression that we are somehow affiliated with this union or directly support it's views. NASHI has members from many faiths, atheists, union members, those who work in management, retired persons, and ages from 18 to 80. Our only common ground is the fight against trafficking.
I could edit this myself buy wanted to give you an explanation directly. Thank you for considering this request.
Andrew Allsopp Vice-President NASHI Aallsopp (talk) 23:13, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello
Hi Neelix, fellow Canadian! I'm one of the Molecular Biology students at JHU. Thanks for being our ambassador. I'm sure it's going to be a challenge to build up some articles from stubs, but I'm looking forward to it, especially since I never considered editing articles until it became a part of the coursework. Here's to a great project! --Pozmi (talk) 04:34, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Natasha Falle
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Greetings!
Hi Neelix, I just wanted to introduce myself, and thank you for being one of the Online Ambassadors for my Molecular Biology course. This will be my first time attempting to expand an article for Wikipedia. I look forward to the challenge and am very excited to work with you. Aconch (talk) 23:17, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Natasha Falle
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Your GA nomination of Natasha Falle
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Hi Neelix!
Hi Neelix, I am a student in the Education Program at Johns Hopkins University for the class Molecular Biology, Section 84 (FA13). I am looking forward to learning more about using and editing Wikipedia in the weeks to come. Thanks! Apoptosis81 (talk) 05:26, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
Hi Neelix! I am also a Johns Hopkins student in Molecular Biology. Just sending you a greeting since you are helping us out on our way to Wikipedia revision mastery. Also, just wondering if your screen name is a reference to Star Trek? Either way thanks for all the help! --WillPugarth (talk) 19:57, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Main Page appearance: Kellie Loder
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Kellie Loder (born 1988) is an independent singer-songwriter from Newfoundland who plays drums, guitar and piano. Having written her first song at age 16 about a cousin who died in a traffic accident, Loder was studying nursing at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland when she released her first album, The Way, in August 2009. Later that year, she won a talent-search contest hosted by YC Newfoundland, a Christian youth conference. As part of the award, Loder was given time with music industry and production professionals who helped her with Imperfections & Directions, her second album, which was released at the 2010 YC Newfoundland. Loder's nursing studies hampered her ability to showcase Imperfections & Directions by touring. Loder was nominated as Female Artist of the Year at the 2010 MusicNL awards, and then as Gospel Artist of the Year in 2011. Imperfections & Directions was nominated as Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year at the 2012 Juno Awards. Loder has asserted that she chose to begin her career in Contemporary Christian music because it gives purpose to her music. (Full article...)
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Hello!
Hi Neelix, My name is Paulomi and I am one of the students in the JHU Molecular Biology class. Thank you for being an ambassador for the class! I look forward to working with you! Pdholak1 (talk) 01:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi again! I have a quick question. Every time I use the tildas to sign my entries today, the time stamp keeps coming up wrong (4 hours ahead). Do you know how I may fix this? For example, I am writing this post at 10:22 on October 15th and the stamp will say otherwise. Please help! Thanks!! Pdholak1 (talk) 02:22, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Introduction
Hello David. My name is Girum, and i am a JHU student taking Molecular Biology. As you already know, one of the requirements for successful completion of this course is to take a stub class scientific article and improve it to a B or higher quality level. This is a great class project and i'm excited to be part of it. Galemu2 (talk) 00:39, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Neelix!
Hi Neelix! My name is Juanquina Thomas and I am a Molecular Biology student at Johns Hopkins. It is a pleasure to meet you, and I look forward to working with you! Juanquina Thomas (talk) 00:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello there!
Hi Neelix! I am a Molecular Biology student in JHU's Masters of Biotechnology program. It's great to have you as an Ambassador! Opalite3579 (talk) 04:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- Woops, I forgot this crucial part: My name is Ileana! Opalite3579 (talk) 04:36, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Talkback
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The article Tara Teng you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Tara Teng for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1ST7 -- 1ST7 (talk) 07:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
The article Tara Teng you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tara Teng for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1ST7 -- 1ST7 (talk) 20:32, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar
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For the work you've been doing on the subject of human trafficking, but specifically for getting the Tara Teng and Natasha Falle articles to GA status. Great job! --1ST7 (talk) 20:46, 6 October 2013 (UTC) |
Kellie Loder
Hi Neelix - just to clarify why I linked David and Goliath in place of David and Goliath. The article refers specifically to the story of David and Goliath - not to either one of them as individuals. Behind the scenes, the joint link redirects to Goliath, which is fine - anyone wanting to know about the background to the song will find it there (unlike the "David" article, which has a lot of unrelated material and anyway refers the reader to "Goliath" for a full account of the story). Colonies Chris (talk) 08:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Beaver Tail
I think you really needed to discuss that move when the article was still on the main page, and you left a lot of broken links to Beaver Tail (railcar). Would you consider reversing yourself? We don't have a topic on the British car so further disambiguation really was not necessary. The American car is, in any event, almost certainly the primary topic. Cheers, Mackensen (talk) 03:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Hey there, I just came across this article (in the course of filling out the newly-created Category:American women social scientists), and I'm wondering about several of the categories that you've got the article placed in, because there is nothing in the text to confirm that she is in fact properly considered an academic. Could you please address that in the article? (And please be kind enough to leave me a note on my Talk page.) Thanks! Cgingold (talk) 13:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response. I want to give this some further thought, and then I will get back to you. Cgingold (talk) 13:56, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
"Worm" picture
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Hi Neelix,
in the german Wikipedia we had a discussion on the worm photograph you uploaded to the english wikipedia in 2009. You wrote "I am the originator of this photo. I hold the copyright. I release it to the public domain. This photo depicts a worm which was extracted from a human foot." and this is questioned. The "worm" seems to be a larvae of a Buprestidae, but all these are living in plants and not in flesh - I cannot imagine a scenario how this larvae can get into a human's foot. Do you have any ideas? Greetings from Germany, -- Achim Raschka (talk) 17:46, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Achim,
- Thank you for taking an interest in this photograph. I was working with Tshelanyemba Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe a few years ago and I personally know the doctor who extracted the pictured organism from a woman's foot. The doctor had no idea what the organism was, so I took a picture and added it to Wikipedia, hoping that someone would be able to identify it. Are you confident that the organism is a Buprestidae larvae and that such larvae do not bore into human heels? Neelix (talk) 02:04, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
- Let's talk here: I personally also had no idea and only tried to clean-up the commons category. I added this unidentified worm (be sure that it is a larvae) to the german identification page (de:Wikipedia:Redaktion_Biologie/Bestimmung#Knackn.C3.BCsse:_Wurm_..._.3F.2C_Skelettteile) to identify. I got two answers that this organism looks more like a Buprestidae than anything else - and Buprestidae normally bore in plants and under the bark of wood. I will discuss more but it's pretty curious ... -- Achim Raschka (talk) 05:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
- As a temporary talkpage stalker who happened by... I can only say... usually I enjoy learning new things from wikipedia... but... not this particular new thing. Yikes! :-) 74.192.84.101 (talk) 05:39, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
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Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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Adopt a Course
Hi Neelix! I'm a composition instructor at the University of Miami, and have just begun a new project with my composition class. There are nine students in the class, and the goal of the project is for each of them to interact with Wikipedia(ns) in some meaningful way. This would mean finding a stub and adding content, resources, definitions, or copy-editing as necessary; translating an article (or part); or even creating a wanted page. This will all depend on the individual projects the students come up with, and how ambitious/motivated they are. I'm writing to ask if you might be interested in serving as our ambassador (or one of them, if you feel 8 is too much for your to take on): what we're in need of is someone we can run the contributions by to see that they meet with the Wikipedia philosophy, policies and best practices, as well as someone that can help us on the technical side of basic contributions to Wikipedia. We appreciate your taking the time to read and respond! --Twomilkmaids (talk) 21:31, 31 October 2013 (UTC)Lauren
- Thanks, Neelix! I'll act as mediator between myself and our students, so that you don't have multiple messages from all of them flooding your talk page. It'll also keep you from having to keep track of who is from my course and who is another individual in want of your help. We're going to start work on editing a Wikipedia page as a class so that they get some experience with this kind of work with some guidance first. Then they can start working on their own projects. From now on I'll respond on my talk page, so that we don't overload your page. Twomilkmaids (talk) 17:50, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Article moves
Hi Neelix. I'm not very familiar with article moving, so I'm hoping you can help (I know you do quite a bit of this, e.g. recently on my Marine Gate article). There was an article that was originally at the title Norfolk Hotel, Fremantle, which you moved to Norfolk Hotel because disambiguation was not needed. I will shortly be writing an article on Norfolk Hotel, Brighton (yet another Brighton building article!!); do you know if it's OK to simply move Norfolk Hotel back to Norfolk Hotel, Fremantle and to then create a dab page at Norfolk Hotel, or could that cause any problems with redirects or anything else? I won't do anything until I am ready to launch the article in mainspace, which was going to be today but which looks like it might actually be later in the week. Thanks, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:22, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your help. I'll leave an explanatory note in the edit summary as well when I do it. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 22:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Not My Life
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Your GA nomination of Not My Life
The article Not My Life you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Not My Life for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1ST7 -- 1ST7 (talk) 01:42, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Not My Life
The article Not My Life you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Not My Life for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 1ST7 -- 1ST7 (talk) 05:52, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
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FA congratulations
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls to FA status recently. I know you know all about WP:TFAR and the "pending" list, so this is just a reminder to use them as and when suits you. Many thanks. BencherliteTalk 11:34, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
- I also want to extend my congratulations! I have to admit, at first I'd ignored the FAC because, based on the name and the FAC intro, I'd assumed it was about a video game.
When I saw what the article was really about, I wish I could have helped out sooner. Anyway, congrats again. – Quadell (talk) 13:44, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
- Well done also from me. —Cliftonian (talk) 15:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Request your quick thoughts
If you have a few minutes, could you do a quick look through an article I'm looking to bring up for FAC Kirkpatrick Chapel and let me know your thoughts/where it can be improved, etc. I haven't proposed it yet and am thinking of doing so in a week or so. --ColonelHenry (talk) 14:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Sorry
Hi Neelix, Sorry I couldn't get round to your excellent article's FAC. I have been very busy of late what with reviews, article defending and of course, real life. It looks like you didn't need my review after all what with its promotion! Congratulations! CassiantoTalk 23:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- I supported on the condition it doesn't collide with mine ;-) CassiantoTalk 23:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Revised CFD
Note: I revised the nomination at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_November_10#Category:Women_by_province_or_territory_in_Canada into a merge to the already extant categories, with a purge of individual biographies (sub cats, like Category:Actresses from Quebec could remain) Please take a look and see if that changes your !vote. Best, --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:30, 19 November 2013 (UTC)