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Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 23:53, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April 2019

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Agriculture, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. I don't think you understand enough to start creating and using categories. Your 'Actions' category is certainly no use in its current form as it would apply to many thousands of articles adding no useful information. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Soil management. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Category:Actions has been nominated for discussion

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action categories and pages

Hi. I wish for there to be a category for actions. To pick out the pages that are about things that living beings do by a choice. Can you tell me if you think that is a bad idea?

Yes, I think it bad. Why? Because this is a large encyclopedia, and a category as loose as that would encompass hundreds of thousands of articles. Worse, its meaning is hopelessly unclear, and different editors would interpret it very differently. That makes it a bad and indeed dangerously misleading category, exactly the opposite of what we need. Thank you for coming to discuss the matter; it would be better if you discussed your plans further with other editors before undertaking more edits. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of comment

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Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:36, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of 2nd-millennium disestablishment in Europe

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on 2nd-millennium disestablishment in Europe requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Exploring the idea to be able to focus on knowledge in terms of actions

Apparently "Actions" as a broad category would be hopelessly vague. I feel it would be a fascinating way to look at knowledge and wish to explore whether it would be possible or if indeed I am wrong and it is not a good way of organizing knowledge. I guess you can help populate this list if you wish. Feel free.

Examples of obvious "action" pages and categories

Soil conservation, Environmental engineering, Ocean governance, Earth system governance,Road traffic control, Mining,

Category:Research projects, Category:Collaborative projects Category:Action plans, Category:Urban development, Category: Urban design‎, Category: Urban design‎, Category:Zoning, Category:Computer-mediated communication, Category:Research projects, Category:Human activities, [[:]]

Examples of pages that may do well by being redefined as actions

Possible examples of pages where categorizing them into actions might be confusing

Roadworks you might think is it a thing or an act. Centrifuge there is a page for the equipment but also a section on the page for its uses Centrifuge#Uses Maybe that is what you would link to. Composting redirects to compost

Examples of obvious non-action pages

Conveyor bridge we have mining but not this mining mashine