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Apology[edit]

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Request reason:

You don't have to accept. But I just want to tell you that I am sorry! I am sorry for the vandalism. I am sorry for disrespecting you. And, I am VERY sorry for sock puppeting. I will NEVER EVER DO THOSE THREE THINGS EVER AGAIN!!!!!! Do you forgive me? I am messed up! I feel regretful for my actions.

Decline reason:

Unblocking you provides no benefit to Wikipedia whatsoever. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:11, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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Request reason:

Yamla, you may not realize it but, I am actually NOT 69.70.116.250 or 207.35.196.243. Also, as I said earlier, my IP addresses start with 2602 NOT 2002. You have been falsely accusing me of evading the block since November of 2015! Though, I forgive you. This issue is over 1 YEAR OLD!!!!!!!!! I am VERY sorry for the vandalism I have done a year ago. To tell the truth, I actually OPPOSE vandalism. Also, I have good grammar compared to Ipadguy. That can tell you that the IP address you accused and Ipadguy are actually SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!!!!! I am just trying to let you know. This is NOT a lie at all. This is the HONEST TRUTH. Also, for real this time, PLEASE run a checkuser. Thank you for reading. Paleontologist99 (talk) 03:57, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You actually oppose vandalism and still did it? Sorry, that doesn't make any sense. It's also a rather curious coincidence that you became aware of who is accused of being your sock quite that quickly. IP addresses may change; CheckUser is never used on request to prove innocence. Huon (talk) 19:14, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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I am ready for a fresh start.[edit]

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Request reason:

Yamla, I have been gone for 6 months now. I am sorry for evading the block of 50.196.213.1 almost 2 years ago. I promise that for now on, I will follow Wikipedia rules. No more sockpuppetry, no more vandalism, and no more disruptive editing. I am not perfect. I, like everyone else, may make a few mistakes. They can be resolved. I promise that I will improve Wikipedia and to have a fresh start. Thank you for reading. --Paleontologist99 (talk) 17:41, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Although I had a lot of troubles with you in the past, you have, to the best of my knowledge, stayed away for at least six months. Indeed, it looks like you've stayed away for quite a bit longer than that. As such, and because you have addressed the concerns in your unblock request, I have lifted the block. Welcome back! You are welcome to blank out this page and your User:Paleontologist99 page if you wish. Yamla (talk) 17:50, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, when you add people to the Deaths in 2018 page, please note that they should be in alphabetical order under each day. Thank you. --Marbe166 (talk) 20:37, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Languages by year of extinction[edit]

Hi, I don't think creating Category:Languages by year of extinction is a good idea. Yes, we do list the date of the death of the last speaker in the infobox of the language article, but that's not a meaningful enough piece of information to warrant being made the basis of categorisation. It doesn't usually make sense to try to pinpoint language death to a particular year as it's a drawn out process. For example, even when the last speaker is alive, the language is effectively dead if they have no-one to speak to in that language. And even if there is a community of speakers (or semi-speakers), it often happens that they will either not use that language between themselves (preferring a language of wider communication), or they will use it in limited domains, or in a paired-down form, and in neither case does it make much sense to think of the language as "alive". – Uanfala (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting.[edit]

File:WIKI locat.jpg

I forgot that the hometown stores on the Sears pages were NOT closing, thus having to revert. But thanks anyways!

Tornadosurvivor2011 (talk) 00:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will you please stop overcategorizing[edit]

Gambling companies established in do not go both in Entertainment companies and Companies established in the same year because Entertainment categories is a subcategory of Companies established....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Performing groups disestablished in the 2010s, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:25, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Response[edit]

There is no need to delete Category:Performing groups disestablished in the 2010s. Paleontologist99 (talk) 22:36, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that the new day isn't added until the LINT time has passed midnight. Your addition of 2 December has been reverted. --Marbe166 (talk) 08:21, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Space probes by year of decommissioning has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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Category:Projects by year of disestablishment has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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I notice you've recently created and added maybe 20 articles about people from the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Category:Generation Z. That's not really practical, we clearly can't add every article about every person born between the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, there would be thousands of articles. I could see adding articles about the generation itself, the way Category:Generation X has, but not individuals. --GRuban (talk) 00:54, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not everyone born between 1997-2002 is Generation Z. This is due to generation overlapping. Paleontologist99 (talk) 01:46, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think you're missing my point. Just Category:1998 births has 5,793 entries. Whatever years you're using, they're all going to have about that many per year. Are you planning to put 20,000+ articles about people in this category? If so, that's going to mean it's not it very useful. If not, what is your criteria for whom you're going to put in and whom not? --GRuban (talk) 04:06, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I put Category:Generation Z in ~ 20 pages because March For Our Lives openly stated that they are mostly Generation Z. Paleontologist99 (talk) 18:17, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I can't see that being written in the article. But if it were, I can see the reasonable compromise of putting March for Our Lives into the category, as a notable event for the generation. Not each participant in the march. Deal? --GRuban (talk) 19:46, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Deal. However, some participants like David Hogg and Emma González said that they are in the generation. Also, anyone born in 2003 or later is automatically considered Generation Z. Paleontologist99 (talk) 21:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You are now rejecting the compromise offered above and are explicitly talking about adding 20,000 - 75,000 articles into the category. That makes no sense. I echo GRuban's concerns, such a category would be entirely useless. I don't think the category should exist at all, but I wouldn't object to a category consisting of notable events, but not containing any people at all. Note, I'm an admin but my admin rights give me no additional powers here. I'm speaking as a regular Wikipedia editor. You are perfectly entitled to disagree, particularly if you can demonstrate that a category consisting of 20,000 - 75,000 articles would be useful. --Yamla (talk) 21:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yamla, I will let you make the final decision on whether the category thould exist or not.Paleontologist99 (talk) 21:23, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I don't think it should. But I want to be clear, if you and GRuban come to a consensus that it should and a consensus on how to determine which articles to add to it (events only? Events and people?), you should absolutely ignore my preference and do what the two of you think is best. You are both acting in good faith. --Yamla (talk) 21:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps the category could include events related to the generation as well as 2003-2013 births categories.Paleontologist99 (talk) 21:27, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To confirm, you want to include 10-20 XXXX_births categories, and remove the individual people? That would at least be usable, though I suspect some would argue with the specific years. I'd be OK with that. Thank you for your comments Yamla, appreciated. --GRuban (talk) 21:42, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adding categories and portals to articles for unclear reasons.[edit]

Hey, I've noticed you've been adding categories and portals to various articles, connecting liberalism to left wing politics and also putting the liberalism portal into articles where the text of the article does not mention that philosophy. Liberalism is not really a philosophy that fits on the modern "left-right" axis; all modern democracies are essentially liberal in nature; being right- or left- wing in the context of that liberalism is what makes the different political philosophies in those countries work. Also, please don't categorize an article (especially a biography of a living person) where the text of the article does not mention the category explicitly. Thanks. --Jayron32 17:54, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby categories[edit]

When creating categories such as Category:Rugby clubs disestablished in 1878, can you bear in mind that the schism did not happen until 1895 so it's not appropriate to add rugby league categories - and in any case, per WP:REDNOT, it's never appropriate to add red-link categories, either create them or don't add the category. Le Deluge (talk) 14:07, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks[edit]

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February 2020[edit]

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Category:Opposition to Islam in the United States[edit]

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"Beata Thunberg" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Mistake?[edit]

Were these edits to JPL's user page a mistake?ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:18, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They were intended to align with the profile. Paleontologist99 (talk) 21:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what that means... usually we do not edit other user's pages.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 21:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That means that the userboxes were added because they are directly based on what the user’s page says, especially the anti-smoking one. Paleontologist99 (talk) 21:09, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Rollback granted[edit]

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March 2020[edit]

Warning icon Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Cyril Ramaphosa, you may be blocked from editing. Paleontologist99 (talk) 04:42, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Archiving[edit]

Hello! Your talk page seems rather long and full of old conversations. I suggest you begin archiving. Bots are available for automated archiving. You could also go to my talk page and copy the code at the beginning then change it to your talk page. Good luck! Nerd271 (talk) 17:03, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:User GenerationAlpha[edit]

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Regarding article on the coronavirus pandemic[edit]

Apologies if my edits were interpreted as disruptive, but I simply corrected a number of grammatical mistakes or issues with the spacing. On one occasion, a word from the German language was mistranslated ("radikaler" means "more radical" while "radikal" is equivalent to "radical"). Sincerely, OM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.43.30.163 (talk) 17:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@95.43.30.163: Please do not forget to sign your talk page post using four tildes. Paleontologist99 (talk) 17:10, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's a good point, I have the bad habit of occasionally forgetting to sign my posts. Cheers, OM 95.43.30.163 (talk) 21:23, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle warnings[edit]

Hello.

I am generally against automation of Wikipedia moderation tasks, so I guess I'm biased, but I wanted to point out to you that the Twinkle warning you gave on User talk:77.102.46.107 was unhelpful. The language in Template:uw-attempt2 explicitly accuses the warned user of editing in bad faith, while this user was clearly not trying to be disruptive. It is my understanding that a level-2 warning should be used only if a level-1 has already been given (I don't use Twinkle, but that seems logical), in which case that was the wrong warning to use. I dislike the Twinkle warnings in general, but at least Template:uw-attempt1 assumes good faith.

I'll be removing your warning. I urge you to be more mindful of what the Twinkle warnings you're using actually say, so as to avoid biting the noobs.

Kind regards from PJvanMill (talk) 16:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@PJvanMill: Please note that I may occasionally make false positives. If they are, then they can be removed.
Okay, just consider not using the level-2 edit filter warning with a specified article, because the language assumes bad faith. Kind regards from PJvanMill (talk) 19:46, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"Gun Girl" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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"Bush knew" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Millennials RFC[edit]

Hello. If you've got the time, please vote on my RFC on Talk:Millennials about modifying the lead.--CherokeeJack1 (talk) 06:34, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@CherokeeJack1: I strongly support the proposed lead for the Millennials article. A 15 year span that spans approximately between 1981-1996 has been more widely accepted and cited over the past two years. In addition, I also support the removal of Category:21st century from the article as a result. Paleontologist99 (talk) 06:50, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Jones article[edit]

I disagree with what you put on the Alex Jones article, how he is a source of “fake news”. Lots of his news is confirmed and sourced. The page is protected so no changes are able to be made by me, I would appreciate a response back, thanks! SteelTS (talk) 06:06, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy theories by country[edit]

Hello, Paleontologist99. I motivated my removal of your categorization of 'Conspiracy theories in ...' in the Philosophy categories, but unfortunately you undid those edits without any comment. Could you please explain why to you it seems that 'conspiracy theories' are part of 'philosophy'? To me it's like you mean one could declare quackery (or any pseudoscience) philosophy also, which is of course nonsense. Maybe also ask yourself why the main category, Category:Conspiracy theories (and cf. Category:Fringe theories etc), is not in Category:Philosophy (you might like to try and see how long it would last there and how many reverts it would take you to get blocked for it). I am afraid you are underestimating things. Greeting, Eissink (talk) 08:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Petroleum companies[edit]

Please see my proposal to upmerge Category:Petroleum companies established in 1959 and Category:Petroleum companies established in 1988 Hugo999 (talk) 10:54, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you have a reference for the "Vintage"/"Obsolete" terms applied to Apple OS releases?[edit]

The Vintage and Obsolete Products page at Apple describes the "Vintage" and "Obsolete" categories for hardware, but I can't find any page directly indicating that they apply to operating system releases as well.

I'd love to have references for that and for the support cycle for OS releases, to apply to OS release pages, in the hopes of squelching the edit wars that changes to the support_status parameter for iOS releases seem to provoke. Guy Harris (talk) 08:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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RE: Vernon Coleman[edit]

Hello Paleontologist99, could you please explain why you changed the categories of Vernon Coleman from British Conspiracy Theorists to English Conspiracy Theorists? MrEarlGray (talk) 10:43, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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