User:Stepheng3/Archive2

San Francisco creeks

There are 9 articles in the Category:Rivers of the San Francisco County, California now.Troyster87 (talk) 08:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Foo articles missing geocoordinate data

I anticipate we will from time to time find new entries for currently empty categories, so would tend to keep them. I think there's one infobox template which populates country level categories if there are no geo-ccords; and I know we have many more category branches to parse to find articles missing geo-coords. All that said, expect progress to be glacial and for empty categories to stay empty for long periods of time.

Though I've not looked for a fortnight or so, I think we only had 10 or so empty cats out of about 300.

Hope all that helps. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Category:Wii games that use the Gamecube controller

This category has been nominated for deletion. Given that you are the only other registered user to edit the category (other than the nominator), could you please give your position at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 8#Category:Wii games that use the Gamecube controller.

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Mekong

I might be able to save you some time and effort by going ahead and starting populating Category:Communities on the Mekong River; I started the category at the same time I started Category:Mekong River, a few days ago, sorry for just leaving it there empty, I have been busy. There are definitely dozens of villages, communes and districts to be placed in the category, I am going to start on it now. Let me know if this makes sense and sorry again for leaving the blank category there. --Mr Accountable (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

That's great. Thanks. - Stepheng3 (talk) 20:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your attention to the category. Cheers. --Mr Accountable (talk) 21:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Bodega Bay

You know--I never thought about that, but I take your point--part of Bodega Bay is in Marin. The reference I deleted though was to The Birds. I'm looking at Footsteps in the Fog, a rather meticulous book on Hitchcock's Northern California films. The author says the film was shot mainly in the town of Bodega Bay and the "hamlet of Bodega". Also San Francisco, Sebastopol, and Santa Cruz. The furthest point south in the Bodega area was the Nosecchi Dairy on Bodega Avenue, standing in for the Brenner driveway. (As opposed to the farm, which was filmed on Bodega Head using facades.) On that basis, I don't think Marin can claim it. Barte (talk) 04:55, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Navboxes

I am moving our discussion here so as not to "hog" the project's talk page.

Thank you for looking them over, but what do I do now? Do I create a page like a regular article? And, lastly the million-dollar question-do I need to comb through the articles I've worked on and replace old box with new box. I guess that would be optional. That was a lot of fun and I had to resist changing the color, etc. Thanks for your encouragement on this. Marcia Wright (talk) 13:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

If you're going to do this, you should definitely take care of replacing templates in the affected articles. Let me know if you need help -- I don't have much template-editing experience, but I've done a lot of boring mass-edits.

You need to create at least one page in Template space, maybe two. Start by editing Template:Protected Areas of California and copying all the markup to your browser's clipboard. Then go to Template:Federally-protected areas of California and click on the redlink that says "Create the page". Paste the markup into the text box. Then make an necessary changes -- deletions mostly but you might need to cut and paste from your sandbox -- and save changes.

For Template:State-protected areas of California you could try simply doing a page-move of Template:Protected Areas of California and then editing the result. This has the advantage of incorporating the edit history, but the move would break so much that it would probably get reverted before you could finish the job. I suggest creating a third Template: page instead.

Good luck! -- Stepheng3 (talk) 23:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I think I've done it. And I think I've learned a bit about templates, what they are and what their use is, as well as some of the different types. I decided to leave the original large navbox as is, so there are now three template options for editors to use. Thanks again for your help and patience.

Regards, Not-A-Template-Wiz-Marcia Marcia Wright (talk) 08:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Please wait !

I did not do the "no include" part correctly and the articles are showing up in the Category navigational boxes page. I'm working on that now but please test anything Marcia Wright does before putting it into a real article. Direct from the horses' mouth :) Marcia Wright (talk) 04:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay. Sorry I jumped the gun. - Stepheng3 (talk) 05:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Panamanian short story writers

Just so you know, the only reason the category was empty is because an anonymous user moved its entries up to the parent category despite the fact that they were already in other subcategories and thus didn't belong there. Bearcat (talk) 19:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Tanakh stubs

It was renamed to Category:Hebrew Bible stubs. I can only imagine that it's server lag that's causing the delay... Her Pegship (tis herself) 19:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, navigational boxes are working

Yes, the boxes seem to be working-go for it. Sorry to have taken so long to respond, I've caught the bug going around Sonoma County. :( that " noinclude" code is tricky, I still don't fully understand it. Just check the California navigational templates page every so often to make sure the articles are not showing up there also. Cheers, Marcia Wright (talk) 11:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Cat deletion

Hello Stephen. I just deleted a handful of your latest sweep of useless categories. You do realize that this would all go much faster if you could delete these categories yourself, right? wink wink nudge nudge. Why not apply for adminship? By the way, admin tools are extremely useful for the kind of cleanup work you do around here. Not because you can delete pages or block people: the really interesting tool is the access to deleted pages. In many cases, you'll find that this info can really help understand the little details you need to make your cleanup decisions. I know that it's a pain to go through RfA (and pain isn't even the right word here) but I think you'd be the kind of admin we need. We have plenty of people doing the contentious bits but we're short on admins working on the little things. Anyhoo, let me know if you're interested. Best, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 01:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

A year or two? I certainly don't intend to harass you until you apply for adminship but, for the record, you would be competent right now! I just noticed you got a similar suggestion a month ago so just remember that these offers are there if you change your mind down the road. We might be able to give you a few helpful pointers to make your RfA a little less chaotic. Best, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 13:50, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I understand your reluctance to go through RfA. I failed on my first try for reasons which still escape me and RfA has gotten even more absurd since then. So I can't really argue with the "I don't need that kind of aggravation" argument. Best, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 23:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: China

My apologies, it was indeed unintentional. I was reverting to a version before an IP had attempted to change the article to say that China was a dictatorship. However, I should have been more careful in noticing that there was a positive change as well. Apologies again, and you are of course more than welcome to re-make the change. Happy editing, GlassCobra 15:04, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:North Dakota elections, 2012

Where is the WP:CFD for this category?—Markles 11:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Finding none, I created the CFD myself: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 February 2#Category:North Dakota elections, 2012. Nevertheless, you should not have emptied it until the CFD was completed.—Markles 14:15, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

...for sorting out the CSD for Category:Wikipedians who participate in Nursing Collaboration of the Month‎! It was on my to-do list when I got back from a week away. :) Cheers, Basie (talk) 10:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Cat

Why? Rich Farmbrough, 18:57 6 February 2009 (UTC).

It's part of a complex set of templates and categories which if broken will probably be repaired incorrectly if at all. The way it works would be obvious if it wasn't blanked, blanking these cats is counter productive because the deleting admin will see a page with just the the db message on and assume that it was blank and empty, some cats are meant to be empty. There will probably be some articles in the category soon, several of it's sister cats had been deleted and weren't empty. Rich Farmbrough, 00:24 9 February 2009 (UTC).

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"Blanking page to prepare empty category for deletion"

Please explain this. T L Miles (talk) 18:21, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Seeing your discussion User_talk:Rich Farmbrough, please nominate it for deletion Before deleting it. Thanks T L Miles (talk) 18:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Stepheng3 - Have you considered notifying cat creators when you do this? I always notify the creator when I take something to CFD -- and doing so in the case of a Speedy is just as important, if not more so. It's to your credit that you blank the page before coming back to tag it for deletion. But I've created many hundreds of categories and can't possibly keep an eye on all of them. I just saved a recently-created category (Category:Government in the United States by state) in the nick of time -- purely by luck, as I just happened to check in on it and was truly shocked to discover that it had been deliberately emptied by another editor, who didn't have the decency to let me know. Anyway, I hope in the future you'll take the extra step of notifying the creator, just to be sure that you're not inadvertently a party to this sort of situation. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 21:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

No, I hadn't considered notifying cat creators. It's a good idea. For convenience (and to maintain a high degree of tact) I'd want a notification template for the purpose, but that shouldn't be too hard to create. Or does one already exist?

On the other hand, I can't help thinking that if I make the C1 process too burdensome for myself, I may get tired of doing it, with the result that it will get done by someone even hastier and less conscientious than myself.--Stepheng3 (talk) 00:29, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I notice that there's a bot (User:CSDWarnBot) that notifies editors when the {{db-catempty}} tag goes on, so maybe Category:Government in the United States by state didn't come as close to oblivion as you think. --Stepheng3 (talk) 00:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:900 disestablishments

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Category:Magazines established in 1985

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Category:Arts centres by country

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Freemasonry assessment categories

Thanks for the cleanup help; I appreciate it.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Redirects

Thanks for cleaning up after me! I appreciate that you've taken time to create those redirects. –Holt (T•C) 19:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem. --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

17th-century elections categories, etc

Hi - great job on the C1 deletion front (as you may have seen, I was busy zapping ones you'd tagged earlier), but there's a hitch on the "xx-century elections" categories. They're in the process of being moved from unhyphenated to hyphenated form, and are listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working for the bots to do. For some reason, the bots have created the new page but not moved the contents across yet. Everything at the moment is in Category:17th century elections but will be moved shortly. So I'd ask you not to blank these categories. There's been a lot of these hyphen-adding changes recently, with more to come I expect, so you may see this again. Regards, and carry on the good work! Bencherlite ^Talk 22:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I understand. --Stepheng3 (talk) 01:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Companies based in Hanoi

No worries, actually, I think that over time there will accrue more companies to Category Hanoi, and then the category in question will be naturally recreated and populated. Til then, Category:Hanoi will do. Thanks. --Mr Accountable (talk) 23:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

That makes sense to me.--Stepheng3 (talk) 01:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

For taking the time to help learn how to do categories.Historicist (talk) 02:54, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Re Category:Danish composers

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Category:Fantasy novels task force articles

I take on board what you say - however they shouldn't have been changed, they are article that are tagged for the Fantasy task force of the "Novels Wikiproject". The scope of this project "is" wider than just novels covering all prose narratives. However it is does not cover all "fiction" that would be film, comics etc etc. So I don't mind you tidying up but someone has just taken it upon themselves to make changes to our Banner with out thinking about the consequences. Now it will be a lot of work to fix! Sigh. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up about adding a parent category when I create a new category. I went back and fixed a few that I have created. Whoisjohngalt (talk) 18:07, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Automotive intelligence

Thanks for the note about Category:Automotive intelligence companies. When I saw the name, I asked "WTF is automotive intelligence," and satisfied myself that it's merely a BS term for marketing research. However, I don't really care what happens to a one-article BS category... --Orlady (talk) 02:02, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Category corrections

Thanks for fixing my "Category:Canadian children's authors". I did indeed make an error I couldn't fix -- I was just trying to create a redirect (which I succeeded in). Thank you for your help. -Jonah —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonah22 (talk • contribs) 10:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Categories:Current peer reviews are administrative not part of the encyclopedia.

Stephen, the process of peer review is not something I am really familiar with and some things appear to have changed since the category was created. My understanding is that the Category:Open Dance peer reviews belongs under the hierarchy of Category:Current peer reviews/Category:Arts peer reviews and to quote from these higher level cats "This category is used for administration of the Wikipedia project, and is not part of the encyclopedia." The name appears inconsistent with other cats in that hierarchy though, so probably should be deleted. -- Paul foord (talk) 10:21, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

retail

Sorry. I put all articles in Category:Retailing for methods and Category:Retailers for stores. Please look. Hmains (talk) 21:17, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, I did what I could. Hmains (talk) 21:43, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Word of Thanks

I'd just like to thank you for the help on the Categories section - I wasn't aware of the Parent Category tag before, so thanks for informing me. Ka34 (talk) 19:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

To not repeat the words of the previous editor; after three years on Wikipedia I thought I knew a thing or two - how wrong was I? :-) Thanks for the assistance and keep up the good work!

Dreamer.se (talk) 07:21, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Category deletion - Railway stations not opened

As this category is not likely to get more than a handful of entries at most, I've tagged it for a speedy. Was just one of those categories which seemed like a good idea at the time but subsequently turned out not to be. Mjroots (talk) 21:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

watercourses

Oh, it's my pleasure. I'm a local geography buff, and I've been writing new articles and it only makes sense to add them to the list.Troyster87 (talk) 23:46, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

yes we do, sweet. i've recently been intrigues by capes, islands, lake, and creeks that have no articles yet and that are rather obscure.Troyster87 (talk) 00:30, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

sure thing boss, actually I would love some help with Chevron Richmond Refinery. I could use some help adding in the history of the site after its inicial construction. the breakthroughs in refining that came through there, available at the CRR website in addition to more citations and content regarding the pollution generated by the plant, and the toxic spilss and what the contaminats are. and also i think it used to be the headquarters of the company before san ramon. is there anything i could help you with? yeah keller beach is a beach huh, well theres also Kozy Kove, which i have yet to create.Troyster87 (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Hindu terrorism

Under Category:Religious terrorism this category was included. It included the page Hindu Taliban. Someone has removed the category. There are various topics associated with it. For example 1991 Ajthia Mosque attack, Sri Lankan LTTE attacks etc. If not fit, delete it. --Natkeeran (talk) 19:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

book category moves

In some cases there were a series of categories created for a single book, so it it the bottom level category was merged into to high level parents, that could leave several other categories effectively empty. The entire tree needs looking at after the Indian books are cleaned up. I'll try and take a look later, but I suspect that there will be a few speedys of those empty categories and maybe another round of cleanup. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

oh right, i had not known of the existence of this page although i did search. Thank you very much.--BhainsRajput (talk) 16:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

That would be great. That's real kind of you and I appreciate it. The article, I was thinking, could just be plain simple with:

It's subject
Categories
Classification
and the people that run it

Because the only one that exists is for Jammu and Kashmir and is within the scope of wikiproject India and also isn't at all a normal wikiproject i thought of creating one for the whole of Kashmir, the disputed, free and controlled areas as, even though being Indian, i remain neutral on the argument of who it belongs to.

Help would be great and gradually we should be able to create a simple wikiproject that just takes an effort of watching it once every 2 days or something.

Thank you. --BhainsRajput (talk) 21:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing pal, i'll let you know how it goes. Thanks allot.--BhainsRajput (talk) 19:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:allegations of "vandalism" on The Event Center Arena

I am sorry if I am wrong, but he/she put test edits on that page. --Jackl 03:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Template for parent categories

Hi Stephen. A while back you posted a reminder on my Talk page to include parent categroies when creating a new category. You mentioned something about a {{[[Template:|]]}} template.}} I'm not sure what that template thing you are refering to is/means or how to include/apply it. Could you elaborate and show an example? Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 08:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

roads in Iowa by county

I have no idea why I created this since no subcats, etc are available to fill it. So I db-author it. Thanks for you attention. Hmains (talk) 04:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Category: Cruise Lines

Thanks for the notice. I joined Wikipedia last year, but probably only aware of half of the category guidelines. I sort of learn the basics from looking at other stuff, and I know enough to teach others how to use the site, but I'm still learning myself. Leo-Roy!^review/gb 01:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Pararubbas

Thanks for your note about sock categories. If I recall correctly, all his puppets are now confirmed by checkuser, but they still show in the 'suspected' category. In the past, I have not bothered to try to reclassify accounts that are confirmed. Do you think it's worth it? Also, is there a sockpuppeteer template that has links to the sock categories? If so it could be worth relabelling the master account. EdJohnston (talk) 17:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Category creation

Thanks for the helpful tip! I rarely create categories, so I don't know much about it, but recently felt compelled to do a few, because when I was placing some templates for the WPJournals project, I sometimes got a message that a certain category was missing. I'll check them and correct if needed as you indicated. --Crusio (talk) 08:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Wild Silk

Many thanks for pointing out how to make better use of the category system. All best wishes, John Hill (talk) 22:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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Cache Creek article suggestion

I bring this up with you as you and I seem to be the only editors interested in Cache Creek. I think the title should be just "Cache Creek (California)" so that, one, it matches Bear Creek (California) wikilink and two, the counties it travels through do not matter-that is addressed in the text portion. I'd like your feedback on this suggestion when you have time. Regards, Marcia Wright (talk) 00:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I did not know that fact. How interesting...has anyone cared to count the Mill Creeks? (just kidding, my guess would be at one per county). But seriously, if our Cache Creek is the only one that is a trib to the Sacramento R., then that name you suggest would indeed be more accurate and I vote yes to that.

Also, in a related note, then is there a disambig for Bear Creek?

Marcia Wright (talk) 16:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Bear Creek(California) Looking at this article, I think it is the proper way to address this issue of multiple creeks-it lists the total number of creeks, then each section discusses each creek by county, with links as needed. Well organized in my opinion, what do you say? Marcia Wright (talk) 16:40, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Stephen, I think your suggestion on the naming convention of Cache Creek is the best way to go because,one, it eliminates possible duplication of names/articles and two, it gives the larger river system that the notable creek is a part of. May I go ahead and "move" the article? I would also be willing to "break out" as you put it- the Bear Creek page hybrid, although at the moment, I'm trying to create a new article on the Cosumnes River Preserve as well.

Regards, Marcia Wright (talk) 13:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Submersed

Feel free to delete it. I created the category in the process of doing some cleanup on a set of articles that had been misfiled in inappropriate categories by somebody else, but the articles (which I had no part in creating, just fixing the categorization on) were subsequently deleted as NN. I'm just surprised the category didn't get canned at the same time, actually. Bearcat (talk) 02:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't realize you weren't an admin. I've speedied it. Bearcat (talk) 15:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Blank categories

Thanks for the heads up on the unfilled categories. Looks like Lester Brown is the first and only person in the categories "People assocated with either Global Warming, Water depletion, or food shortages. Guess the topics just aren't that important. ;-)--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 03:56, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Canadian ultralight aircraft 1990-1999

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Re:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of MHLU

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Categories and Parents

OK and thanks.

Category parents for Category:Wight articles needing attention

Sorry to have made work for you! I completely forgot. Thank you. --Peeky44 (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Neo-Stalinist movements

Hi,

feel free to speedily delete Category:Neo-Stalinist movements. I made it without thinking it through; all the current and future members will very likely remain into Category:Neo-Stalinist organisations which I created five minutes later. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 18:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)