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Hello! You seem to be interested in matters of Russian Navy.Anyway, I have started a discussion in Talk:Green-water navy about the presence of Russian,Chinese and Indian navies there.You would might be interested to comment there.Thanks! Srikar Kashyap<<Talk>>12:50, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
- Good you have edited the article.But according to the definition you gave,the PLAN,Russian Navy and Indian Navies donot belong to that group.What do you say? Thanks Srikar Kashyap<<Talk>>16:44, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Autism in young adults
Not sure why you had to mess my page up and delete not only the photograph but the apage in a category too. Have a nice life messing up other peoples work too! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisf989 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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.gov.uk links
I've emailed the Web Archive team and I'll let you know when I hear something from them. (Assuming they don't edit the page themselves. I hope that they will) --Mr impossible (talk) 18:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hello again. The team have responded and they say they've encountered the problem too and are raising it with Government Digital Service, who administer GOV.UK. They suggest inserting http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/ in front of broken links. For example, http://www.ams.mod.uk/aofcontent/tactical/techman/content/rm_intro.htm becomes http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http://www.ams.mod.uk/aofcontent/tactical/techman/content/rm_intro.htm, and this, they say, should solve the problem.
- On the question of the http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/ links, they say these are most likely to have been found and used by using an out-of-date search tool. “Europarchive” are in fact the Archives' contractors, now known as the Internet Memory Foundation.
- Of course fixing all the links manually would be a massive pain so let's cross fingers that the GDS sort it out. Is that at all helpful? --Mr impossible (talk) 11:00, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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Court of First Fruits and Tenths
Hello. No more to report on .gov beyond what I posted above last week. Just have to to hope the GDS sort it out.
On the Court of First Fruits - what a bizarre thing for three distinct people to be interested in. I wonder if it's something to do with Hilary Mantel and Thomas Cromwell. There's certainly enough information in the catalogue to make some improvements here. I don't know if we can run to a list of Chancellors but the article could certainly be improved. I'll try to make some edits at some point this week. --Mr impossible (talk) 10:28, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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Category:Volcanism of Brazil
This edit yours is obviously a mistake. The new order by WP Volcanoes is now "Volcanology of XXXX", not "Volcanism of XXXX". All articles about volcanology in different countries were once "Volcanism of XXXX" and are now "Volcanology of XXXX". Category names are in the process of the same thing. If you think about it the category names are a bit misleading because volcanism is a process. Most if not all of the articles that are in "Volcanism of XXXX" categories are about volcanology in general, not volcanism. As a result, it is better to rename these categories as "Volcanology of XXXX" rather than the misleading "Volcanism of XXXX". Volcanoguy 10:45, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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Please explain action
Hello, could you please explain this edit? I don't understand what you meant by "not a category on English wiki". Thanks, DGtal (talk) 08:40, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- It's not - I'm not sure how else you can interpret that comment. Looking more closely, I wonder if somebody intended to add an interwiki to the Hebrew wikipedia, but that's not where en:category will take you. Le Deluge (talk) 13:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- OK, worked out my mistake, now it works. Thanks, DGtal (talk) 16:40, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback deployment
Hey Le Deluge; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Emptying out-of-process: Category:Sport in Celaya, Guanajuato
Please don't rename categories unilaterally by creating new ones and emptying the old ones, as you did with the category tree of Category:Sport in Celaya, Guanajuato. In stead, please bring the categories for discussion at WP:Categories for discussion, or list them at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy if you think they qualify for there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
User:Le Deluge/categories
So I've taken a few stabs at User:Le Deluge/categories and at some point you should probably update since the simplest fix is often to empty the category. I have two suggestions to prune the list so that we focus on the high-priority (or at least highest-priority) redlinked categories. First, remove anything that begins with Category:User. I've created a few of these categories but they become empty because the only user with that userbox removes it, they get deleted as empty categories and they reappear three weeks later in the backlog of redlinked categories. Even those that survive have so few members that they're of limited benefit. For the same reasons, remove anything that begins with Category:Wikipedians. If Category:Wikipedian who use Emacs is so important, it will get created. In fact anything starting with Category:Wikipedia is low-priority. They're often categories controlled by WikiProjects and if the categories are needed, let the projects decide when and under what title. And finally, consider as low-priority any category that's only redlinked in user space. As you know, there are tons of redlinked categories on meaningless, abandoned user pages. Nobody visits these pages so their redlinked categories don't confuse anyone. We can eventually process them anyways but it would be smart to start with redlinked categories that are most likely to confuse casual readers. Pichpich (talk) 20:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
- Kicking your heels at the lack of DBRs, huh? <g> First thing to say is that I'm unlikely to redo it this side of my long-awaited system reinstall - but after that I might automate things a bit, and that in turn could allow me to get a bit cute with eg looking for the fullest categories and looking to see what userspace they're coming from. I explicitly included the Wikipedians because there's a couple of groupings in there that are a)"real" b)fiddly to do when they come up 1-by-1 on the reports but c) fairly amenable to doing in bulk once you've figured out the format. Things like the country ones, languages and alma maters - even if there's also a lot of utter junk in there as well. I wasn't meaning to do too much with the football ones but having seen some people get caught out by typos etc I thought I'd better tidy them up some more and they turned out to be really messy. The club articles generally use the local names, which means there's a whole load of diacritics etc that get left out when someone tries to link to a category, never mind formatting stuff like FC versus F.C. versus FK. Having generated the club article names from the player articles I could get AWB to scan for the ones that were redirects, but it took a long time to work through them and it didn't turn many of them blue. Hohum - I've also scanned the education ones for redirects, not sure if I've the courage to do it on the big list! I really ought to be getting back to other things, it's been sprawling out of control a bit lately.Le Deluge (talk) 01:35, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Category: Rus' people
The Rus' where a historic mainly Germanic people that existed around a thousand years ago, without any direct modern descendants. So why would we need a Category:Rus' people, and how would you decide which individuals or groups are of Rus' descent today (or at any time from about a thousand years ago until today) and thus belong in the category? Thomas.W (talk) 15:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Because we don't just cover people who are alive today - it's for people like Nestor the Chronicler who were alive when Kievan Rus' existed.Le Deluge (talk) 15:18, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- And we hardly need a Category:Rus' people to keep track of him. Especially since there already are far too many categories on en-wiki. Thomas.W (talk) 15:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Who says there are "far too many categories"? There's over 50,000 red-linked categories to which articles have been assigned but the categories not yet created. OK, not all of those will end up being made, but it gives you an idea of the headroom. If you've got a problem with a particular category then feel free to take it to WP:CFD but I suspect there will be a strong majority in favour of it. There's plenty of other people from Kievan Rus' that could go in those categories. Le Deluge (talk) 15:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Oh I will take it to WP:CFD, because categories should be well thought out, and this one isn't. The only thing it will do is stir up a lot of trouble, starting discussions and edit wars about who's Rus' and who's not. Even Nestor the Chronicler, who you mention above, isn't universally seen as being Rus', but Russian (if you look at the categories of that article you'll find "Russian Christians", "Russian Christians monks", "Russian historians" and "12-th century Russian people") . And I very much doubt that the Russians will appreciate having their first chronicler, the person seen as the first Russian writer, being made Rus', that is belonging to a mainly Germanic people. Thomas.W (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Your emphasis on ethnicity seems to make my point for me, that they are distinct groupings. But ethnicity isn't everything - Wikipedia categories put more emphasis on political divisions as they're more verifiable, particularly when you go back into history. The general rule is that minor differences tend to get lumped together, but there's a fairly low bar for citizens of a major country to get their own category if that country doesn't map well onto modern political boundaries. To take a nearby example, we have full people hierarchies for Category:Byzantine people and Category:Ottoman people many of whom would be considered to be fundamental to the history of modern Turkey, even if they were not of Turkic descent. And disputes about ethnicity go with the territory when new countries form or people migrate from one country to the other - after all George Washington was British for most of his life. Don't think of this category so much in terms of an ethnicity that leaves "individuals or groups of Rus' descent today" but think more of "people who were citizens of Kievan Rus'" - and try to explain why we should ditch a Rus' category whilst keeping the Byzantines and Ottomans.Le Deluge (talk) 20:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Oh I will take it to WP:CFD, because categories should be well thought out, and this one isn't. The only thing it will do is stir up a lot of trouble, starting discussions and edit wars about who's Rus' and who's not. Even Nestor the Chronicler, who you mention above, isn't universally seen as being Rus', but Russian (if you look at the categories of that article you'll find "Russian Christians", "Russian Christians monks", "Russian historians" and "12-th century Russian people") . And I very much doubt that the Russians will appreciate having their first chronicler, the person seen as the first Russian writer, being made Rus', that is belonging to a mainly Germanic people. Thomas.W (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Who says there are "far too many categories"? There's over 50,000 red-linked categories to which articles have been assigned but the categories not yet created. OK, not all of those will end up being made, but it gives you an idea of the headroom. If you've got a problem with a particular category then feel free to take it to WP:CFD but I suspect there will be a strong majority in favour of it. There's plenty of other people from Kievan Rus' that could go in those categories. Le Deluge (talk) 15:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- And we hardly need a Category:Rus' people to keep track of him. Especially since there already are far too many categories on en-wiki. Thomas.W (talk) 15:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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Category:Brookdale Community College
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AFT5 re-enabled
Hey Le Deluge :). Just a note that the Article Feedback Tool, Version 5 has now been re-enabled. Let us know on the talkpage if you spot any bugs. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:54, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Unreferenced BLPs
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