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Perhaps before blaming someone else you should actually see what you (or presumably your bot) have been changing, leaving dates in an inconsistent state all over this article. --[[Special:Contributions/94.194.206.20|94.194.206.20]] ([[User talk:94.194.206.20|talk]]) 22:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC) |
Perhaps before blaming someone else you should actually see what you (or presumably your bot) have been changing, leaving dates in an inconsistent state all over this article. --[[Special:Contributions/94.194.206.20|94.194.206.20]] ([[User talk:94.194.206.20|talk]]) 22:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC) |
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Thanks for the info, Bearcat. I was very happy see these lists. I'll continue to add to them as you suggest, including 20th century titles, and have put a watch on them to ensure Quebec films are not removed, again. best, [[User:Shawn in Montreal|Shawn in Montreal]] ([[User talk:Shawn in Montreal|talk]]) 00:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
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Don't forget the talk page!
Hi there, you recently undeleted Scott Fielding. Can you ensure when you do this that you also undelete the talk page (and check that it has appropriate WikiProjects listed too). Thanks. The-Pope (talk) 12:41, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Please? The-Pope (talk) 16:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Nipissing University
Sounds good, I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the real story on the library. Me-123567-Me (talk) 22:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Inventors Digest
Thanks for your help.--Nowa (talk) 09:44, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Upload Cinema page
Hey Bearcat,
as you disapproved of the original Upload Cinema page, here's an attempt to make it shorter and strictly factual. All information was taken and translated from the Dutch Upload Cinema wiki. Hope this is more to your liking. Davidovitsj (talk) 09:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for adding cat to Macs Joy article. I only started the page to get rid of redlinks in the Brave Inca article (although it meets notability) and haven't spent as much time on it as I should have. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 09:59, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Apparent mistaken categorization
Hello. I noticed that you put Canadian Yeshiva & Rabbinical School in an "Orthodox Yeshivas" category. The school is explicitly not Orthodox; it should be listed as non-denominational. Could you correct this? I am not as familiar with the categories and their use as you are. (Keep up the good work). Thanks, Mzk1 (talk) 12:52, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind reply. I hope you didn't mind my hasty post?Mzk1 (talk) 18:36, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Fix It
I think you've messed up things a bit here. I can't create any article because I can't add any heading to it. Now please, put it back. Krenakarore TK 15:19, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Awa Marie Coll Seck
Thank you for pointing this out! The correct version of her name is apparently the one using a hyphen, so I'll merge the info in the article I created by pasting it to the existing article on Awa Marie Coll-Seck. I will probably do that later this evening. Is there a way to delete the old article (the unhyphenated version that I created) after I've finished with it?
OttawaAC (talk) 21:59, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Kristina Calhoun
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kristina Calhoun. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Me-123567-Me (talk) 05:38, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Minor barnstar |
THANK YOU SO MUCH for removing the transcluded space under the So You Think You Can Dance template/navigational bar. I have been working on the Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo article for a while and before your edit there was a space in the external links section between the SYTYCD bar and the SYTYCD Australia bar which was very annoying. I tried fixing it myself to no avail. Then you came along with your simple edit and made it all better. Keep up the great work! // Gbern3 (talk) 14:17, 13 September 2011 (UTC) |
Emile Chautard, Chester Franklin
Hi Bearcat, since you started the "Category:Films directed by William C. deMille" page, do you think we may need like pages for Emile Chautard and Chester M. Franklin, brother of Sidney Franklin? ThanksKoplimek (talk) 16:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, I keep forgetting that Chester doesn't have an article yet even though he directed important films like Toll of the Sea. I just keep forgetting because Sidney has an article and I take for granted Chester has one too. Thanks again.Koplimek (talk) 16:58, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of King Apparatus for deletion
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Is this a bit much?
Hi Bearcat, I was wondering of you could take a quick look at this edit[1] and give me any advice on how to handle it. The same edit has been made a couple of times already, I cleaned up per WP:MOS, only to have the editor put it back in and for some reason think the grammar is acurate. I was going to clean it up again, but because of the attack made in edit summary, I just reverted, pointed out that it didn't come close to manual of style policy. I left a message attempting to explain some of the problems. Editor is calling others stupid and liars, and claims he will just put it back in whenever other editors remove it. Because of this, I figure the text will be back soon, and would like to know how best to handle someone like this. Was I wrong to revert because of the MOS errors? I would also think there is some BLP problems here also. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Cmr08 (talk) 00:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Bearcat, to follow up on my earlier post, after another personal attack, I've decided to let others deal with him. I cleaned up the text per WP:MOS, but I doubt that editor will allow the correct formats to remain. If you still want to check this out, maybe a message from an experienced editor would convince him that wikipedia has a manual of style policy, but if you wish to disregard the above message, that's fine with me. I think I may have jumped the gun on getting you involved anyways, as there has only been a few edits involved. Cmr08 (talk) 04:44, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of Kristyn Wong-Tam for deletion
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I have semi-protected this article because someone claiming to be associated with her has been trying to re-write the article in ways that I believe are no consistent with Wikipedia policies as I have explained on the article's talk page. I would appreciate your view on whether semi-protection is the appropriate way of handling this, or have I abused my power as an admin? Your comments would be appreciated. thanks. Ground Zero | t 22:22, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- Molte grazie. Ground Zero | t 22:31, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Uncategorized
Please be careful where you place 'Uncategorized|' tags. The table formatting that had been done on the article "List of Love U Zindagi episodes" has to be fixed after you had gone through. Regards, --Stvfetterly (talk) 19:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
My mistake on the missing table tag, thank you for pointing that out. --Stvfetterly (talk) 19:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Palermo, Ontario
Hi,
I've undone your redirect at Palermo, Ontario in favour of rewriting the article. I agree that the article at that point in time made no assertion of any notability, but Palermo is an actual former village until 1962 when it was amalgamated. There's not a lot of information available online about the former village, but I've splapped some basic info and history down with references. If there is any issue with this rewrite, please let me know. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 20:16, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
sockpuppet editing
There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed.
CK5
Why did you delete the page for the Crystal Kay compilation album "CK5"? --Duphin (talk) 17:01, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well i just followed the link from Crystal Kay's discography (that i've followed before) and the article on the album was deleted and it said you deleted it... --Duphin (talk) 18:20, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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The article List of Gullah Gullah Island Episodes has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Redirect making sense
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CJSR
Thanks for the clarification about the sorting of radio station categories. Ae491 (talk) 16:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Merged article history
Hi Bearcat, since you merged the history of my draft userpage and the live Elonka Dunin article, would you mind posting a note of explanation at Talk:Elonka Dunin? Since I'm an admin, I'm trying to be very respectful of policies here, and as it stands, it may look to the casual viewer as though I edited my own bio, even though I did not. This might cause problems for me in the future, so I'd like to make sure everything is properly documented as to my involvement (or lack thereof). Thanks, --Elonka 02:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hiya, following up with a second request? I'm not sure if you saw my first one. --Elonka 13:24, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Disappearing information
Could you please educate users what makes "politicians" notable, at Talk:Ontario general election, 2011#Disappearing information. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 13:03, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank-you. 117Avenue (talk) 01:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Wolfgang Marzin - thank you
Thank you a lot for moving the Wolfgang Marzin page! MesseFFM 13:02, 28 September 2011 (CEST)
Was wondering why you changed the format of this article? The formatting of the article was consistent with past articles. Ontario Liberal Party candidates, 2007 Ontario provincial election as an example.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 14:44, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Article?
Hi, I believe you deleted the Gilbert Gottleib article that i was working on and I was wondering if there is a way you could put it back on? I'm a student and it is a large group class project that is currently in progress, which is why it was incomplete. Please let me know if this can be remedied. Thank you. Hcbrady (talk) 03:54, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Bearcat … I just stumbled across New York Music Awards (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and if ever there was an article in need of cleanup, this is it … I mean, nothing but links to Google Books and explicit URLs of Wikipedia pages? I noticed that you added some categories to it, and right now I'm in a don't give a damn mood, otherwise I'd take a hatchet to it, or more likely flag it for deletion (if only to attract attention for Some Other Editor to {{Rescue}} it) … anywho, I thought that you might like to take a crack at making it a keepable article. Happy Editing! — 70.21.5.28 (talk · contribs) 04:18, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Larry Bock
My name is mark. i would like to recreate the larry bock page in the proper way. i request pasimission to recreate his page. Mark.jonas (talk) 15:44, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- ... and he's a sockpuppet. Bazj (talk) 13:07, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Can you work on yet another a new template?
- I would like to see a new and widely applied template.
- Gist would be This Administrator is an Obvious Jerk
- I think you would get much recognition for work on this project, which is much in keeping with Wikipedia ethos.
- Even "jimbo" would maybe love your for this, and invite you for dinner or something.
- Frankly is brilliant idea. I offer this freely for your own benefit.
Calamitybrook (talk) 06:24, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Ebooks?
Hi. Do we have a policy on listing self-published ebooks by professional writers? I suggest we have an "Ebooks" section under Bibliography for things like Amazon Singles (eg, Animalish, the 2011 Susan Orleans essay). Comments? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjgauer (talk • contribs) 18:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article Deanne Crothers has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Jonah Schein
I want nothing to do with the article anymore. Kingjeff (talk) 18:41, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Lashologist Council of America
I deleted this entry and you restored it. Please take a closer look. The LCA is not an independent regulatory body; it is an amateurish, anonymous website selling over-priced videos that has been hashed together with a bit of spin to make it appear as some kind of an industry organisation. The entire Wikipedia entry on the LCA reads like a marketing blurb and references only the LCA website or its press releases. The "organisation" (it is really a company) has absolutely no recognition from any cosmetology organisations or companies to speak of. Neither of its founders named in the Wikipeda article appear to exist. Wikipedia does a disservice to its reputation by keeping entries like this on its books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.129.114 (talk) 07:26, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I deleted a prior incarnation of this article under a different name. Since then, it has expanded and the subject now appears to meet some of the WP:BAND criteria. The version you deleted, I had declined to delete because I felt it met the inclusion criteria, so I tagged it with multiple issues instead. I'm inclined to restore the article (also the talk page discussion on renaming should continue), but I wanted to know your reasoning for deleting it first. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:32, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply on my talk page.
- Notwithstanding the obvious COI and puffery language, which are easily corrected, I declined to delete because I examined the sources before tagging the article with multiple issues:
- this source meets WP:BAND criterion #2 (placing on a nationally recognized chart).
- this source meets WP:BAND criterion #8 (nominated for a major award).
- this source meets WP:BAND criterion #11 (on a national radio station's rotation list).
- All those sources were in the article, and all were described. An artist needs to meet only one of those to qualify for an article. Would you reconsider? The article certainly needs cleaning up, but I don't see its problems as meriting deletion (not like the original versions that I deleted). ~Amatulić (talk) 00:29, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're missing an important point: WP:BAND is quite explicit about the inclusion criteria. They are objective, easily verifiable criteria. The guideline is also explicit that only one needs to be met for inclusion. Some of those criteria cannot possibly be supported by sources about the subject, because they are themselves lists (placing on a chart, air play rotation, nominations).
- If you disagree with that notability guideline, the place to get it changed is over at the village pump. I am frankly surprised that you would interpret those sources above as insufficient when they clearly meet the inclusion criteria (regardless of whether HMMA is a "major" award). ~Amatulić (talk) 17:37, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Bear in mind also that WP:BAND also says that failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion. Claims of notability are made in the article, disqualifying it for speedy. There was no valid basis for speedy deletion per WP:CSD#A7; if you can point it out to me I welcome being corrected.
- This really should have been taken to AfD. At the very least, the article should be restored so that process may take place.
- Odd... the FMQB chart is updated every Tuesday. I could swear I saw his single on it when I first checked it. Now it isn't there. Unfortunately archive.org hasn't crawled it at all this year. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:05, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
A Little Assistance
Howdy, I recently made a wiki page for a band I like called Hidden Hospitals. I noticed you edited it after me. I'm by no means an expert on editing wiki pages. I was wondering if you could add a picture to the page. The band asked me to do it but I don't know how. My email is joshhauck@gmail.com. Thanks, HauckMan90 :) ~God Bless~ 16:41, 10 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by HauckMan90 (talk • contribs)
All Canadian Self-Storage
Hi Bearcat, You deleted the page I put up for All Canadian Self-Storage. Can you let me know what exactly about the page warranted the deletion? I never meant to break any rules and would like to re-upload the page in accordance with all guidelines. Your help is much appreciated.Alexshteiman (talk) 02:30, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Interview with Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Bearcat, I hope you are well. My name is Matthew Roth and I'm a Storyteller working on the 2011 fundraiser with the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. In past years, we've relied on Jimbo to carry the bulk of the fundraising weight and he's done very well helping us hit our yearly funding targets. This year, however, we're broadening the scope and reach of the fundraiser by incorporating more voices and different people on the funding banners and appeals that will start running full-time on November 7th. We're testing new messages and finding some really great results with editors and staff members of the Foundation. You can see the current progress of the tests here. I'm curious if you would want to participate in an interview with me as part of this process? The interviews usually last 60 minutes and involve a number of questions about your personal editing experiences, as well as general questions about Wikipedia and its impact in the world. Please let me know by emailing mroth (at) wikimedia.org. Thanks! Matthew (WMF) 22:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion on Elle Swan Page
Hi Bearcat, Hope you are having a great day. In regards to deleting Elle Swan's article, I would like to request it be returned to my user space to make edit's as it was not designed to be an advertisement. Restoring the article to the user space will allow the article to be corrected and written in a manner that fully meets the guidelines of Wikipedia. Thanks user:dthomasr — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dthomasrodgers (talk • contribs) 02:44, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Michael Harris (politician)
Hello Bearcat, I'm posting this message on your talk page because I noticed that you've recently created the new article Michael Harris (politician)-- Have a good day!Amy Z (talk) 19:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Odd cats/templates
Hi Bearcat. Could you have a look at this please. I just came across it and it seems rather odd, but I have to dash. Many thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:16, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Sandy Point, Washington listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Sandy Point, Washington. Since you had some involvement with the Sandy Point, Washington redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer (talk) 16:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article Brave New Waves (album) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Not a notable album per WP:NALBUMS.
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Larry Bock
Hello Bearcat, I would like a restoration of Larry bock webpage for i am not in any violation of Wikipedia rules.frank 22:48, 21 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank.diaz1994 (talk • contribs)
Battle of Podujevo
I need help on it, please can you give me a hand? FRYugoslavHero (talk) 16:39, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Indigenous artists cats by century
Thanks so much for eliminating the over-categorization! Those were a mess. -Uyvsdi (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
Sergio Franchi discography
Dear Bearcat: Several people have been involved in my new article. As I stated on my talk page for the article, whoever moved it to it's own page after acceptance, moved it to the wrong page: to "Discography" instead of "discography." I asked for help in learning how to move the page, then someone did it for me. The there is the problem of the double-redirect on the main Sergio Franchi page. I corrected the redirect it to where the discography page now resides at "discography." Then finally, the discussion page is at "D" amd the discussion at "d" is blank!!! Can you help me straighten out this mess which I did not create? Appreciate your help, then I can proceed with other issues.Cathlec (talk) 00:34, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
I understand why this might not be notable, but I'm wondering why you chose to leave the potentially more problematic article (a biography of a living person) and simply removed links on relevant pages rather than piping them to the associated page you left? Darker Dreams (talk) 09:32, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations!
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Executive Director's Barnstar |
Bearcat!, it is with enormous joy that I award you the Executive Director's Barnstar, which I give out every now and then to celebrate editors who are making particularly significant contributions to the Wikimedia projects. I'm particularly proud and happy to give it to you because you're a fellow Canadian, and because you are the first Wikipedian I ever "recognized" on the wikis, way back in 2006.
At the time, I was working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and my then-boss Richard Stursberg had asked me to investigate whether it made sense for the CBC to create a Wikipedia for Canada -- essentially, a wiki that would be run by the CBC, documenting Canadian culture and history. My research found that the English Wikipedia already offered terrific, comprehensive coverage of Canada, and so a CBC wiki wasn't necessary. In the course of doing that research, you became the first Wikipedian who was identifiable to me, because you were making important contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of a multitude of Canada-related topics, including the article on the CBC itself, as well as topics such as Jack Layton, the Charlottetown Accord, Mr. Dressup, the Crash Test Dummies, Sears, the Rhinoceros Party, the Nickel Belt, the Munsinger Affair, Tim Hortons, and countless other topics. Thank you so much for documenting Canadian culture and sharing it with the world! Since you registered in 2003, you've worked on 27,617 articles, including creating 14,401 new articles. You've made more than 534K edits, with a total add/remove count of more than 2.9 million bytes. (I know this because the Community Department at the Wikimedia Foundation has been playing around with data, aiming to identify the most active editors on the English Wikipedia, and you are one of them.) I have no idea how you've managed to do this volume of work: it's really extraordinary. Thank you for everything you've done, and continue to do, for the Wikimedia projects. You are providing a huge service for hundreds of millions of Wikipedia readers, and particularly for Canadians, and anyone interested in Canadian culture :-) If you, or anyone reading this, wants to nominate an editor for the ED Barnstar, please feel free to do it on my talk page. Sue Gardner (talk) 01:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Wow.. congrats Bearcat! You deserve it. -- Ϫ 09:10, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Could you keep an eye on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) article?
The criticisms section gets deleted every once in a while and it looks sort of like it may be someone at the CPSO that is doing it -- see Talk:College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons_of_Ontario#Edits_by_CPSO_associated_IP_addresses.2C_User:Jhefley.
Thanks, Nephron T|C 05:04, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Canadian radio stations
Hey, Bearcat. I'm not sure whether the Canadian radio scene is still an area of focus for you or not. If so, you might find this interesting. If not, well, then I'm sorry for wasting the bytes on your page. Have a great day! Mlaffs (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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The article River Oaks, Ontario has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Completely non-notable neighbourhood of Oakville, Ontario. With no information in the Oakville article, a redirect would just confuse a reader. Article created by a now blocked sockpuppet.
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Zach Rosenfeld
Hey, can you move the page (Zach Rosenfeld) into my user space so I work on it more? Thanks, Zanzan28 (talk) 19:04, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Fatima Mansions saga
Things seem to be going from bad to worse. Left a few notes at User talk:89.100.150.198. Wonder if you could help out. Will understand though if you've run out of patience on this. Best. RashersTierney (talk) 20:26, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. RashersTierney (talk) 22:33, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
George Butterworth (psychologist)
Hi there. I've just cleaned up George Butterworth (psychologist), which was an article contributed by a new user using the Article Creation Wizard. However, the text submitted was copied from the source provided, which is a problem (I've just deleted the revisions that are copyright violations, and left the original editor a note). I'm also leaving notes with those who edited the article since its creation, as I want to try and work out what went wrong here. I've been told there was a big backlog at new pages patrol in September and October (may still be one for all I know), so maybe that was it. You moved the page and added a review tag. I think others removed that tag, but it should still have been caught earlier really. Anyway, hope you can provide some insight into how to avoid this happening again. Carcharoth (talk) 20:30, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
RECNET
Hey Bear, looks like RECNET is back offline and will be until November 20, 2011. The following message appears when you search for anything via the cdbs.recnet.net website:
Due to the REC facility move, the following services are temporarily not available: Broadcast Query (FMQ) LPFM Channel Search Encroachment Scoreboard ASPEN Media Ownership FMFIND We are estimating that these services will return on or before November 20, 2011. We apologize for the interruption at this time. For the most current information regarding our facility move: REC Home Page - http://home.recnet.com REC on Facebook - http://facebook.com/recnet
Not sure how you want to handle this, but if you are taking suggestions, I would consider having the {{RecnetCanada}} hidden (from inside the template code, not each individual page), so that the code remains on the pages, but is out of sight until the RECNET move is complete. I will keep an eye on the site and let you know when they go back online. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 08:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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Category:Organizations based in Victoria
Hi Bearcat, User:Me-123567-Me wants to contested deletion about the category title Category:Organizations based in Victoria The organization based in Victoria does not include the province name, every category does contain Victoria, British Columbia to include the province name. So, could you write a message to User:Me-123567-Me is about the category "Organizations based in Victoria" The only category title is people confused so many Victorias. So write a message to User:Me-123567-Me and at the category talk page Category:Organizations based in Victoria#Contested deletion cause User:Me-123567-Me already write a message contesting the category. So do it immediately. Thanks. P.S. I already create Category:Organizations based in Victoria, British Columbia category to include the province name. Steam5 (talk) 04:24, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm disappointed the history didn't go with the old category to the new one. It's unfair. Me-123567-Me (talk) 05:05, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Recnet (broadcasting)
Hi there, just thought i'd like to let you know that the recnet.com website is down for a week or so, so if you notice any of the recnets missing near the bottom of each radio station articles (example: CBO-FM) that's why. When the recnet is up and running again, the links will reappear on the radio/television station articles. I had created two new radio station articles today for new radio stations in 89.7 FM Port Hope, Ontario and 107.9 FM Prescott, Ontario. These stations were approved today (November 10, 2011) by the CRTC. Webfan29 (talk) 16:00, 10 November 2011 (UTC).
A kitten for you!
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thank u, why should remove my DLISc calicut university
Rahilakp 04:04, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Port Moody–Westwood
Hey Cat, I was about to move back the article to hyphen the correct title Port Moody-Westwood. And there was an error message not to move. And some user already move and use the incorrect type of dash, that is an en dash (–). All of the British Columbia provincial ridings uses hyphen symbols on every riding name for e.g. Vancouver-West End. Could you move the article "Port Moody-Westwood" to it's correct title "Port Moody-Westwood". The article Port Moody-Westwood uses small information and the article is a stub. No requested move needed. If you read my message, go to the Port Moody-Westwood article move it correct title. OK? Thanks. Steam5 (talk) 18:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Mari Maseng
It's irrelevant what you think or want her name to be. Please stop rewriting history. There's a redirect for people who are confused as to what her name is, which is Mari Maseng. See her own use, media use, and everyone else's use. That's her name. She is married to George Will, but it doesn't necessarily follow that she has to use his last name. Is that clear? Perhaps the rules are different in your country, but that's how it is in the U.S. Wikipedia uses the most common name for article titles, not someone's whimsical choice. 75.60.19.247 (talk) 23:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- If I had known Admins do whatever they're asked with no questions asked, I might be tempted to ask all of you to jump off the nearest high cliff. Please revert the name. If you don't have time to check out a change, imo you shouldn't have time to do it. I am furious that here she is, in the headlines, and Wikipedia looks clueless. Again. I see no discussion on the article's Talk page, and I see no request on your Talk page either. Did someone request it in some chat room and you thought that was sufficient? 75.60.19.247 (talk) 23:28, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Marc Levin
Thank you for your comments. The entry for Marc Levin was both sited and sourced before the first time you reverted. Also, although it may have looked like the proper encyclopedia entry, the information contained in it was not all correct. I was in the process of sourcing and editing at the time of your last revert. Please, edit rather than revert. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teresa Gabry (talk • contribs) 16:21, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Edge / Barry
Good catch on my stupid Dave Barry / Barry Taylor goof. Complete brain fart by me. DigiFluid (talk) 17:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Oh hey, I didn't even notice you were an admin earlier, but that actually helps re: your other edits on the CFNY-FM page. The external site links that you removed, I can understand the rationale but I hate to see them gone completely. Would it violate any Wikipedia policies if I were to re-insert them as references instead? Maybe not formatted exactly the same--many of them would probably survive as proper references by moving them to end of sentences. For instance--the statement I put in that the Josie's Top 20 lists are archived on the Edge website is now just an unverified statement. I'm just not sure where reference ends and frivolous link begins, is all. DigiFluid (talk) 21:38, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
StreetNet
Not that it is very important to me.... but as you deleted streetNET without even contacting me.... thus appearently the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PN has absolute no meaning to you, I can just tell you :
- If you are such a fine judge about content, then it might be a good think to discuss whatever before , at least someone will learn....
As you did not do that , I can just nominate you as a reference for Wikipedia.
Thank you very much for your efforts.... no need to answer, sure you will delete also this.
Claudio Klemp — Preceding unsigned comment added by QuasiAmodo (talk • contribs) 08:06, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Matt Dutch Garner
You recently deleted/removed the page for Matt "Dutch" Garner I've been collecting articles / references for this page, could you please undelete so i may begin to link
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcourtes (talk • contribs) 05:09, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of Z Electric Vehicle for deletion
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Goodwood Kartways
Hi Bearcat. You recently deleted the "Goodwood Kartways" page, claiming that it was self promotional. Goodwood Kartways has been a significant establishment in the karting community for well over 40 years, similarly to Mosport. Although the facilities are used for amateur racing, they have played a significant role in formulating known racers' careers as well as in recent years playing host to important events in the Karting community. Please let me know how I could have improved the article, as I had only begun working on it. I don't feel it deserved to have been deleted. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hartla29 (talk • contribs) 14:31, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Goodwood Kartways
Hi Bearcat. I appreciate your reply regarding my concern. I have taken your advice and started to compile articles that support the entry and attempt to make it more credible. I understand the comparison to Mosport may have been reaching, but I do believe that Goodwood has significance in the Karting community. Can it be undeleted so I can begin to add more substantial and supportive links? Any other suggestions would be welcome. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hartla29 (talk • contribs) 14:44, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
St-Jean Chiefs to Saint-Jean Chiefs
Hi Bearcat, I was about to move the title "St-Jean Chiefs" to "Saint-Jean Chiefs" and there was an error message not to move. On the St-Jean Chiefs article, it shows little information and the article is a stub. No requested move is needed. So, go to the St-Jean Chiefs article and move the new title from "St-Jean Chiefs" to "Saint-Jean Chiefs" to match the related titles that has "Saint-Jean" for e.g. "Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu". Do it right away. OK? Thanks. Steam5 (talk) 01:23, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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weatherbase.com
Hi Bearcat, can you review this? Are these contributions a WP:COI? I see part of their website's business model is advertising. Also, it is my interpretation of their data sources that they create climate data for communities without weather stations, such as Wagner, Alberta through extrapolation based on proximity to other communities with weather stations. Is that WP:Speculation? Hwy43 (talk) 22:02, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Kirkman Finlay
Did you read the article Kirkman Finlay (philhellene) before putting this request at the bottom? -- PBS (talk) 12:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- I take from your reply that the answer to my question it that was a no. I am interested your statement "every article on Wikipedia must be properly categorized with no exceptions", which policy includes that? Don't misunderstand me I don't doubt it exists, it just there are so many policies and guidelines, that it is quite possible to miss some. -- PBS (talk) 21:38, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Media Technology Monitor Article
Hi Bearcat, I have just recieved notice that you have flagged this article for deletion under reason that it does not meet the notability guidelines. I would appreciate you providing some more specific information, as to better improve my future articles. Thanks. User:CarbertG (talk) 20:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Kenny Tick Salcido
Hello Bearcat...
I really need some help on my article on an individual who is a member of the Latch Brothers. I felt it pertains and is part of the lineage of my previous article. I am still learning and this is only my second article. I would love any help on this.
Sincerely, Kurt Nardone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurtnardone (talk • contribs) 22:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
St-Jean Chiefs requested move
Hi Bearcat, I am going to make a propose requested move for renaming "St-Jean Chiefs" to "Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Summum-Chiefs" for renaming the regular title "St-Jean Chiefs" is too short and this is to match the "Saint-Jean" related article titles for example "Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu" and "Saint-Jean Airport". So, go the St-Jean Chiefs talk page and under requested move The link is here. Talk:St-Jean Chiefs#Requested move And talk to User:DJSasso. I will see you at the St-Jean Chiefs's talk page. Steam5 (talk) 21:06, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I know you're busy but there is a propose requested move for a discussion about renaming the "St-Jean Chiefs" to "Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Summum-Chiefs". User:Djsasso already made comments at the St-Jean's talk page. And I also made comments at the talk page. If you are free from editing, go to St-Jean Chiefs's talk page. The link is right here at Talk:St-Jean Chiefs#Requested move And don't forget to talk to User:Djsasso about renaimg to match the French Wikipedia title, If you're free from editing. Go to the talk page and I will see you at the St-Jean Chiefs requested move talk page. Steam5 (talk) 07:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of New York City Trilogy for deletion
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Re-adding the Gilbert Gottlieb page
Hi, You had previously deleted the Gilbert Gottlieb page because it is unfinished. I have added a lot of information onto this page and am hoping to put it back up. I hope this is alright with you and that it is better this time. Please let me know if you have any further suggestions. I would appreciate if you would leave it up for at least a week if you do not think it is better than before. Also please let me know if you are going to delete it if you do.
Thanks for your understanding, Hcbrady (talk) 21:49, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bearcat! Just curious on what the issue was at the article; if you care to explain? No issues, just interested on the facts behind it (am an admin at Commons). :) Kind regards, Rehman 10:51, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Counter-Mapping
Hello, I am a new Wikipedia contributor, I notice you edited my counter-mapping entry - however, as an unexperienced user I am unable to work out quite what it was you edited? Please may you briefly explain, thank you for your help and for showing interest in the page!
Samantha Samanthaenvgov (talk) 12:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out that this article had not been added to any categories. I had worked on improving the article text, but had missed that point. I have added cats and removed your tag! - Ahunt (talk) 01:38, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of List of disaster films/Sandbox
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Why Sugam Pokhrel deleted?
Sugam Pokhrel is very popular nepali singer. Please find his detail in Internet. His first album was 1MB (one man band), and his first most popular was titled "Mero sansar". Please create his page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuikel (talk • contribs) 18:04, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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a heads-up
Canadian Coast Guard Arun-class lifeboats was recently merged to Arun class lifeboat.
The justification the merge proposer made was "... they decribe the same class of boat. This article already has a section about the Canadian boats."
I missed the {{mergeto}} tag. I guess all of us who worked on the article did. I offered some reasons why I thought the the merge was a bad idea.
As someone who contributed to the original article I thought you should know. Geo Swan (talk) 07:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Bearcat. FYI I added categories to the Raelyn Campbell article, and took the liberty of deleting the tag you'd placed (for no categories) previously. I trust you're in agreement with me on this. If not, please let me know. Thanks...Minusminority (talk) 05:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Federal New Democratic Party categories
Hi Bearcat, I was already speedy renaming both federal NDP categories to match the main article New Democratic Party per C2D and one user already oppose renaming. Here's what I'm going to do. I will move both Federal New Democratic Party categories from speedy renaming to a full CfD. Feel free to discuss both categories for a discussion if you want to support renaming both categories. The link is right there. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 December 22#Federal New Democratic Party categories I will see you at the Categories for discussion page. Steam5 (talk) 06:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Season's tidings!
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FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:32, 25 December 2011 (UTC).
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Concern
I noticed something on a users talk page. I have familiarised myself with the code of conduct on wikipedia and I recently created this account. I was a lurker IP before, and mostly lurk now but have decided to get more active.
The issue I feel would be better dealt if I could contact you by mail rather then highlighting the issue on AN/I, because from what I have seen it is a very hostile and toxic environment for editors and admins who express their concerns. WinterIsComing (talk) 20:57, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
I think indefinite full protection may have been a little excessive on this article, which was being vandalised (or at least modified detrimentally) by a single user (Jojofi (talk · contribs)), who was never really dealt with and may return in the future. Do you think you could unprotect it? — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:57, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
You may want to comment. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:55, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
(categorization/tagging using this has been fixed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldroom (talk • contribs) 10:06, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank You For Your Contribution to Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq...
Mr. Abdur-Razzaq is an important historical figure and his Wikipedia Page is long overdue. My brief biographical account of his life - as it relates to Malcolm X's career as a leader - escaped deletion with the help of technical assistance by more experienced contributors such as yourself. Might I ask what brought you to the page and inspired you to contribute? T.Diva 19:31, 31 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taina.diva (talk • contribs)
Bearcat, this stub was speedily deleted for lack of notability assertion. Would you put it back if I agree to cite these as independent secondary sources? [2], [3], [4]? These are just from the first page of google hits; I can dig deeper if you think that's necessary to establish notability. Dicklyon (talk) 19:32, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
People from categories
Bearcat, happy new year! Would you mind dropping by my talkpage?
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I've had a question on the People from categories. I can't seem to find much explicitly on it. Thanks... Argolin (talk) 02:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
ISO 8859
If someone makes an edit which causes problems, why not just revert it, instead of refusing to fix it, and instead choosing to add to pointless and unnecessary drama?? AnonMoos (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- In other words, you're more preoccupied with prodding and poking your buttons and knobs on your bright shiny software toy, and quickly clearing off the accumulating problem stack, than you are with figuring out what's actually going on in any one particular article, and what's the best thing to do to respond to it. If you don't know how ridiculous the idea is that the ISO8859 articles have gone uncategorized for the last five years, then maybe you shouldn't edit articles in that area. If people have to come along after you and fix up your fix-ups, then you're really not "fixing" anything... AnonMoos (talk) 22:03, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- I really don't have the slightest hesitation in "presuming" to tell you that if your project involves systematic indifference as to whether you're fixing problems or making them worse, then its value to Wikipedia would appear to be somewhat questionable. Meanwhile, since you appear to be completely lacking in the interest, knowledge,and commitment to edit the ISO 8859 articles in any useful way, I would appreciate it if as a favor to me, you would refrain from editing those articles in any manner whatsoever in future. AnonMoos (talk) 04:30, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with AnonMoos that you should be checking the history of each article; at least the last edit. Uncategorised articles are often that way because of a deletion of the lower part of the article, and reverting the deletion is far better than adding an uncategorised tag. Case in point: Foxton, New Zealand.-gadfium 22:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
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I just tagged the article with an A10 speedy. It duplicates existing article Treasure Island (2012 TV miniseries). The well-intended AFD is unneccessary. Though a redirect from the new to old might be worth consideration, such does not require an AFD... simply some housekeeping. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 06:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Category question
I just noticed that you changed the categorization for several Medal of Honor recipients and I'm a little curious about some of them. For example on one you removed Category:People from Massachusetts stating duplicate categorization but non of the subcats of it exist on the article. --Kumioko (talk) 12:30, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
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JPK3
Hey, thank you for the response. While I won't dispute the actual policy, I have to say there are quite a few pages out there for political candidates or former political candidates who have not held office. To wit, Rob Cornilles, Doug Cloud, Mike McWherter, Gloria La Riva, and Mary Kane. Considering this precedent, what is the problem with restoring the page for Joseph Patrick Kennedy III? Thanks. -Kudzu1 (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Requesting Rollback Permission
Hello Bearcat, I was just letting you know that I would like to request rollback permission. I would mainly want to use it for reverting things that are vandalism. I have done this in the past with Twinkle, but I have heard that this interface is much better. See my history for details. Thanks! --RubinkumarTalk 23:29, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
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WTF?
Why exactly did you use AWB to add {{nobots|bot=Soxbot}}
to 321 articles? Especially since that is not valid syntax for {{nobots}}, and the bot may or may not pay attention to it since the bot is named with a capital 'B'. Is there really a problem so urgent that it requires spamming bot exclusion tags all over the place instead of waiting for a response?
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- Sorry for butting in here but I believe this is because Soxbot tends to erroneously delete certain templates from articles incorrectly and the bot operator won't fix the bot to stop doing it. I believe it is the uncategorized template if I can recall correctly. --Kumioko (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Puzzled by {{nobots}}
Hi, why did you add {{nobots|bot=Soxbot}} to Popularity contest, with edit summary (categorization/tagging using AWB)? I ask because I don't know what this template does in this context and why it's here - I genuinely don't know whether it was a mistake or not, and am curious. I'd got the page on my watchlist after seeing it while stub-sorting. PamD 08:26, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, just seen the above - had used "add new section" from top of talk page so didn't see it before adding mine. But there must be a lot of equally bemused editors out there. If this is a problem with Soxbot, then my vote is in support of urging the bot owner to stop it malfunctioning. PamD 08:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Help with a Photo?
Hi Bearcat, I see you removed a photo of the pirate ship Discovery inside Inventionland. My mistake in uploading it the first time was forgetting to cite the license. Tried to reupload (using different names, etc.) to no avail. Not sure how to proceed. Thanks for any help!
- Sorry. Forgot to sign my request. Christi212Cassidy (talk) 18:58, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Per your request today, Bearcat, the name of the photo I originally uploaded for Inventionland (and only now see it got deleted kinda fast on December 16th 2011 because I forgot to click the license) was called invland_discovery.jpg. Yesterday I tried to upload the same photo renamed first as Discover_Pirate_Ship.jpg and then as Pirate_Ship_Discovery.jpg. The underscores seem to simply appear; I used spaces in renaming. Graphics are not my strong suit, so any advice is most appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Thanks re: categories
Thanks, Bearcat for suggesting that we add categories to the Livingston International page. I have done this. Can you please let me know if you have any concerns with my suggestions.BrettTremblay (talk) 18:57, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
The Brilliant Things
Hi, I created a page for the band The Brilliant Things a few months ago. They're a noteworthy band (currently on the BBC Radio A List).
Somebody changed the page recently by pasting in a press release, which was rightly flagged. Before I got a chance to revert it to the old, proper neutral article you deleted it as blatant advertising.
Any chance you could undelete it and I'll get it back to the proper, neutral article that it was before?
Thanks, --Ptanham (talk) 20:26, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Cheers! --Ptanham (talk) 22:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Article vs. image categories
After you removed a number of categories from images with the rationale, "images go in image categories, not article categories using AWB," I tried to find out how to fix them. Not much luck so far. On the bottom of typical image files, like Lupino, are category selection tools. However, it seems that they're not usable unless the word "image" is included first, per your rationale.
Can you point to the basic guidelines that clearly excludes image categories without the word "image" first. Allowing typical users to click on a hotcat button at the bottom and choose a category, and then seeing it removed without a clear explanation, is not helpful. Searching for guidelines about this counter-intuitive selection box came up with nothing clear. In fact, the page itself says "file," and I'd expect that it would or should automatically disallow selecting non-image categories, or at least explain.
Is it strictly not allowed to use general categories for images? If so, where are the guidelines? The "image" categories are extremely limited, and from what I saw a typical user would not know how to search for only images anyway. Some help is requested. Thanks. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 19:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Bearcat,
Please don't delete the Topic Namadahari Nagartha all are relevent and up to date and its in proper. Thanks for not deleting the topic. Regards, Suresh NJ
- (talk page stalker) The page in question is Namadhari Nagartha - subtle spelling difference! PamD 17:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- And the editor who created it is User:Sureshnj, though the above comment was made from an IP address. PamD 17:02, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
You don't understand
Please you have to delete "Shake Rattle and Roll XI" because it has the complete page: "Shake, Rattle & Roll 11" and the readers might get confused okay?? PLEASE??? 87Stone (talk) 02:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Not sure why but I decided to read your talk page. I redirected the XI to 11. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
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Inside Insanity
Hello, I know it was last January, but you deleted my article on Inside Insanity for being an advertisement. I argued that point when the article was posted. It is true that the article relates to a community radio show, but Wikipedia has hundreds of radio show pages. Nights with Alice Cooper, Dr. Demento, Howard Stern to name a few big ones. I would argue that those are more of advertisements than the Inside Insanity page by the fact of the huge corporate sponsors behind the shows. Inside Insanity is on a not-for-profit community radio station DJ'd by volunteers. It also streams on the web, making it relevant to the entire internet community.
I'm also curious as to why I did not receive an email when this deletion happened.
Please let me know what you think
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Cats for parliamentary articles
There are new articles that have been added about Canadian parliamentary committees that were flagged for lack of category. I jumped in and added them to Category:Canadian_Parliamentary_committees although these articles are House of Commons committees, which might properly be a sub cat for House of Commons committee. Note there is a sub cat for Senate (the other half of our parliament) committees. I had been wondering if there ought to be a separate sub cat for them. Then I see that the editor creating the articles with the most recent additions has put them in Category:Standing committees. Since these are indeed standing committees that may be a better cat for them although it doesn't seem to be narrowed by country. With your extensive experience in categorisation, I wondered if you might weigh in with some advice on the best way to categorise these new articles. --KenWalker | Talk 18:13, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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Café de Flore
Hi, did we see the same film? When I saw it two weeks ago, Jacqueline, Laurent, and Véro died in a car crash. Rodney Boyd (talk) 14:50, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Amrit, semi protection
Hello Bearcat. You semi-protected Amrit on August 29, 2010 for excessive vandalism I understand. But since a long time has passed, do you think it may be time to unprotect it? Thanks anyway! Happy editing. Yazan (talk) 16:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the prompt response. I'm not too clear on the policy, but I thought I should contact you first since you placed the protection. Thanks again! Cheers! Yazan (talk) 16:42, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's not an easy being an Admin. ;) I as surprised that an article on a little known archaeological site would attract so much vandalism, and then I looked at the disamb pages. Anyway, thanks again! Cheers. Yazan (talk) 04:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello - DQE member here. I noticed you did some editing on the DQE page. Just wondering if you are someone we might know. Thanks Dumdum70 (talk) 20:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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Gérard D. Lévesque (oops, I mean Levesque [sic])
I'm pretty sure that he was commonly known as "Gérard D. Lévesque" during his career, i.e., the "D." was very much part of his name as reported in contemporary newspaper articles. I cannot find online archives of, say, the Montreal Gazette, but there is a "boulevard Gérard-D.-Lévesque" in New Carlisle, Quebec. I think it should be changed back. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 02:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Also note this direct quote attested to one of his former constituents: «Moi, j'ai fait partie de l'organisation de Gérard D. pendant quinze ans alors on respecte la tradition», a dit Adéodat Gignac. [5] -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 02:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Note also this list of ministers from a 1986 document [6] (PDF file), where his is the only name listed with a middle initial (on the first page). -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 02:28, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
There's an extra twist: the correct spelling of his last name is Levesque (without acute accent). This is verified from various sources: see the National Assembly bio listing for L, where you have "Lévesque, René" but "Levesque, Gérard D."[7], as well as in the title of his biography, in the typed document from 1986 (which is official government minutes), etc. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:28, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
I will edit the references to better attest the lack of accent, I'm working on that now... ultimately, the article should be at Gérard D. Levesque, where the French article is already at. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:37, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
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Jonah Lomu
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.....do you know if there is a list of pages that are uncategorized and don't have {{uncat}} tagged on them? like an XML dump? --Ceradon talkcontribs 00:05, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Semi-protect Peggy Nash page
Hi Bearcat: The Peggy Nash page seems to be consistently edited by her campaign staff. Could you please put this page into semi-protected, allowing only auto-confirmed editors to edit the page. Thanks in advance.--Abebenjoe (talk) 06:02, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you--Abebenjoe (talk) 06:26, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
About the deletion of Bulbagarden
This site is one of the largest Pokémon fanbases on the web, and deserves an article on Wikipedia. For one, unlike other Pokémon fanbases[1][2], Bulbagarden has a user-submitted picture gallery, a MediaWiki-built news wiki, an enormous wiki for the Pokémon franchise boasting over 20,000 articles, and a media repository shared by both wikis with 64,000 files and counting. That is no ordinary fanbase server conglomeration. I boast no affiliation or staff position anywhere on Bulbagarden at the moment, so please do not mistake my request to have any large bias. And also, ask yourself whether or not another Pokémon fanbase site has this sort of web variety, or with its (relatively) more reliable wiki documentation to boot? —ДlεχThεRσϛε 04:35, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted, you took a shortcut and should really nominate for AfD instead (which I would oppose, actually). -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:54, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Per WP:POLITICIAN, it could be argued that he is an unelected candidate for political office [who] can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article". There is indeed some media coverage, the debate over whether it is sufficient is the sort of thing that the AfD process does. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:02, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
OK, you have a point about Turmel having significant notability as a Guinness world record-holder, it's not equivalent. However, I will Google a bit to see if there are newspaper articles about Millette, there may have been. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- I didn't find significant press coverage of Millette, just an article or two in Courrier Laval and Hebdo Rive Nord which are properties of TC Transcontinental and are probably free papers. The relevant links Régent Millette tente encore sa chance, Régent Millette, candidat indépendant are broken links at the moment (website reorganization?). Nothing in a major paper like La Presse (cyberpresse.ca) or Le Devoir or similar.
- I would now agree he doesn't warrant his own article. However it's a bit problematic to put him in Independent candidates, 2008 Quebec provincial election because he could just as easily go in 2007's article, or the counterpart articles for every federal election since 2000. Which is probably why the person split it off in the first place.
- A number of other independent candidates run in more than one year, so maybe it could be suggested to the person(s) working on those articles to rethink the year-based naming scheme and maybe create a Perennial independent candidates in Canadian elections article instead? -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:58, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Grant Stinchfield
You deleted a page on a political candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. The notability of Stinchfield as a candidate and investigative journalist is evident:
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/09/grant-stinchfield-to-challenge.html http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/former-kxas-reporter-grant-stinchfields-campaign-covered-by-rival-station-kdfw_b21111 http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/former-kxas-reporter-says-media-bias-is-reason-hes-running-for-congress_b34435 http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/localmedaidivision/nbclocalmediadivision/nbcdfw/biographies?bio=contents/biographies/Talent%20Bios/NBCLocalMediaDivision/KXAS/Stinchfield_Grant.xml http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW-Body-Scanner-With-a-Gun-116497568.html
Please undelete and restore the links to the page on Texas 24th Congressional District and Kenny Marchant. Thank you!
Grant Stinchfield is a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives - please undelete.
Menin Road
Have put a category template on but I've not done this before, do you mind having a look? ThanksKeith-264 (talk) 09:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
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Category:1965 establishments in Canada
Bearcat, would it be acceptable to create Category:1965 establishments in Canada even though it would have only one item? I'm sure it'll grow. On a similar note Montreal Festivals recurring events disestablished. Thanks Argolin (talk) 01:25, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
yyyy in Canadian music
Bearcat, last week I created categories Category:1964 in Canadian music to 2006. In my enthusiasm, I started adding festivals, organizations, record charts to these new categories. I've created the associated 1964 in Canadian music (I'm working on 1965 to date). In writing the article, I think that very little belongs in these categories. I've tried looking at years in British music Category:2006 in British music , and American music but they don't look right. I've added the Bed-In article. I thought why not ask the expert. What actually belongs in these categories? Argolin (talk) 01:53, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply. I did 1964 first as that's when RPM started publishing. The RPM charts are named inconsistenly and worse still many are missing. I've started a Category:RPM charts to determine what exists in wikipedia. I didn't start any subcats by year/genre yet as, again, I really don't know what is in wiki to determine appropriateness of subcats.
- Now I know you're Canadian. The Canadian music project and the Record chart project know what RPM is. I'm being told at Wikipedia talk:Record charts that the (Canada) disambiguator is unnecessary. Usually, I'd say ok. But I think it's a bad move not to include it see Category:1995 record charts. If you don't mind, can you drop buy and provide some enlightment? Argolin (talk) 06:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry it's at Wikipedia:WikiProject Record Charts. Argolin (talk) 06:41, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sage as always!
Back to your comment about it would be harder to populate the 50-60's. I was thinking the same for the 00-40's.(lol) What are your thoughts that some years may only list births/deaths? 1867 in Canadian music had one birth Nora Clench no deaths! I'm sure there are things in the Canadian opera and classical music. Is it acceptable to add a redlinked category if I see something that should be added to say 1867 (with the full intention of eventually creating the cat)? Argolin (talk) 11:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
:Bearcat, I'm all in: Juno Awards first! I guess it's a matter adapting the structure of Category:Grammy Awards to Category:Juno Awards. They have a Category:Grammy Awards by year. Everyone (all 2,105 people) is in Category:Grammy Award winners without structure to yyyy Grammy Award winners. Category:Juno Award winners has 371 articles. It'll be great to have another set of eyeballs on what I'm doing to the Junos. An issue I have is naming. Am I to apply it anachronisticly based on the wikipedia name of the Award for that year? Further, should I confirm names of the categories from CARAS vs wiki article names? Argolin (talk) 08:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Recording studios in Canada
I alway meant to thank you for creating the first few years in Canadian music. I love reading these types of articles. I guess that's why I'm so keen on creating more. Creating the first one has given me a far better understanding of wiki's structure. I just edited The Warehouse Studio and Armoury Studios. I'll do the rest of the category when you give the ok. I hope you don't mind with all the questions? Argolin (talk) 15:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Help? I've met criteria for notability.
The article in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/WelicoRuss
I don't know what more is needed to make this page complete. This band meets two of the criteria for notability (only one is needed to justify a wiki articles) and I've cited everything. The only thing I am not sure about is how to cite the magazine article. WelicoRuss is the second biggest Metal act is Siberia, right next to Arkona. They've been extremely active for a decade and have put out several albums. If you have SPECIFIC suggestions, please make them. I've been going back and forth with the user "Sionk" for a week now, but he hasn't been on in a while. Please tell me what else is needed, because as far as I can tell, there is nothing holding this article back from being published on Wikipedia. Thank you.
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There's more on my talk page. Sorry, but I just don't understand the messaging system on Wikipedia. S3NT13NT_GL1TCH (talk) 22:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Canada's Got Talent Feedback
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MSU Interview
Dear Bearcat,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
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- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
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I noticed that you are somewhat involved with WP:CANSTYLE and was wondering if you could provide some guidance regarding how to go about proposing changes to the manual of style with regard to official population figures. It has always bothered me that wikipedia uses the official census results for population figures when Statistics Canada itself considers the population estimates to be the more accurate and reliable figure for population counts. (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/hp-pa/estima-eng.htm) I've been trying to track down how the original decision to use official census data was reached, but I have been unable to find any rationalization. Any thoughts or input on the matter is appreciated, both with regard to the use of official figures versus estimates, and with regard to how a discussion on this might be initiated without simply making a unilateral decision on the matter. Jamincan (talk) 16:44, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Juno Awards
Bearcat, I've striked out my previous post on the Junos. Categorising the award categories and adding by year is too much all at once. I've added three categories. Look here Category:Years in Canadian music:
I didn't add Category:Music award winners. Can you help out here? I don't know what is needed for this aspect of wiki.
I'm about to populate 1971 award winners. Argolin (talk) 03:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Chai Folk Ensemble
Bearcat, this Chai Folk Ensemble article is in Category:Performing groups established in 1964 and Category:Musical groups established in 1964. I suppose that if it's a music group where you gotta go see them, they go into the performing cat. If they primarily record music, it'll be the second? I was about to go through Category:Canadian orchestras and Category:Canadian opera companies and make sure the articles had years. Who decides? I was going to post a question at the opera project. It dosen't look like they are categorising many aritcles by year. Help please :) Argolin (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Socialist Party of Ontario article
Hi Bearcat: Could you put the Socialist Party of Ontario article under semi-protection. An anonymous using keeps adding trivial, irrelevant personal information into the article. Thanks. --Abebenjoe (talk) 19:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
LGBT people by occupation and nationality
Hi, Bearcat,
I would like to hear your thoughts on the Category:LGBT people by occupation and nationality tree. The recent decision about Category:LGBT sportspeople by nationality was left as keep, even though there are strong reasons *not* to keep that sub-tree. The closing admin and I had a bit of a discussion, and his reason for keeping was basically WP:OTHERSTUFF - the "LGBT people by occupation and nationality" has other subcats where he believes the breakdown is reasonable. He even suggested nominating the entire tree for CfD. So, since you and I have had discussions about some of this intersection before, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:Lambda Literary Award winning books
Category:Lambda Literary Award winning books, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Mike Selinker (talk) 14:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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Yeah, you are right; the categories and initial CD should have been retained. My bad. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 06:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
LGBT people/nationalities again
Per your suggestion, I've started a discussion at WT:LGBT. With minimal response. I'm going to go ahead with the CfD for Comedians, Radio & Television personalities. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 16:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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- I removed that fuckin ridiculous CSDA7. Hit me up or look to ARS in the future if you need a second opinion on something.--Milowent • hasspoken 01:10, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Bearcat, saw your great work at List of the 100 largest population centres in Canada, and see that you elaborated on the Census geographic units of Canada#Population centres section I created a while back. I've since noticed you created List of population centres in Alberta. Perhaps you have not seen List of urban areas in Alberta. Would it be more efficient to simply move List of urban areas in Alberta to List of population centres in Alberta and incorporate your lead into that? I had updating this article with 2011 data, and moving it, on my to do list. Hwy43 (talk) 05:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I hadn't looked at the balance of the lists yet. I download StatCan's 2011 census comma-separated tables and use Microsoft Excel's concatenation formula function to quickly build tables for use in WP. Not sure if you do something similar, but it may assist in populating the tables quickly. For the Alberta list, I was planning to add a "Population centre size group" column to quickly distinguish between the three levels of population centres. Let me know if that would be a worthwhile addition. Hwy43 (talk) 05:29, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'll whip up something quickly for the BC list and let me know what you think. One table with a column to distinguish b/w S, M & L makes the most sense to me, especially given that StatCan doesn't separate them into their own tables. Hwy43 (talk) 05:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Canadian mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This article makes my head hurt. You nominated it for deletion a year ago, and it was supposed to be merged, but surprise surprise (on an article that long), it wasn't. I am drafting a new AfD rationale and notes here. Unfortunately I feel it will fall into the TLDR category, but since the article is that too, it almost entirely has to be addressed, in particular that it is mostly sourced by company websites, etc. On top of that I recently found Canadian Mining in Latin America and the Caribbean (created by an editor who has contributed to nothing else), however there actually appears to have a book written about it. It looks like mainly an attack page on Canadian companies mining south of the US, sourced largely with NGO websites.
Anyway, I am going to be at the DRC nomination for a few days likely, if you would care to have a peruse and see if I am missing anything that would be great...but I can understand if you want to drop this article like a bad habit. Just though I would solicit your input (on both articles, if you can call them that).Keep it real, --kelapstick(bainuu) 08:26, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Paul Penzone Deletion
Hi Bearcat, I noticed that you deleted the Paul Penzone page I created due to "No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content)". I apologize if I put the explanation in the wrong place, but I tried to explain his significance in the first edit's summary.
Essentially, Penzone has appeared on national TV multiple times and is now the Democratic Party candidate running against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is undoubtedly the most well known sheriff in America. Maricopa County is the fourth largest county in the United States by population. Penzone's candidacy has been covered nationally by USA Today and multiple times by the major newspaper and TV news in Phoenix. I believe that those stories confirm that even though he is just a candidate, he is eligible due to the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article".
I believe that for these reasons the page should be undeleted. I'm kind of disappointed that I messed up my first try at a Wikipedia article, so please do tell me if there is something I should be doing differently when posting. Thanks! --Yoss48 (talk) 20:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Bearcat, in response to your post on my talk page - I believe that Penzone would still qualify as notable even before he ran as a candidate due to his frequent appearances on CNN, a national TV news network. Moreover, the Maricopa County Sheriff's office is far better known than any other county in the U.S. due to the controversies surrounding Joe Arpaio and a TV show about the department which ran on national cable network TLC. As a result, there is an incredible amount of coverage of the Maricopa County Sheriff's office. Indeed, running a Google News search for "Maricopa County Sheriff" yields "about 1,750 results" whereas a search for, say, "North Dakota Senator" yields "about 619 results." --Yoss48 (talk) 20:57, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
page review
can you please review Sakib article, grammer and interface :)
thanks a lot --Historyfeelings - talk 21:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Maynard F Pound Crabbes
Note that {{db-author}} is a general criteria, and so applies to redirects. At Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#General it even states, "These apply to all namespaces (and so apply to articles, redirects, ...". The page is gone anyway. (If you wish to respond, please do so here.) HairyWombat 23:04, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- The problem is, as I've pointed out, that placing any template, regardless of its intent or applicability, between the top of the page and the #REDIRECT has the effect of breaking the redirect, thereby causing the page to function as an uncategorized article (and to have to be dealt with as an uncategorized article, namely by either tagging it for categorization or by stripping the template.) Bearcat (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
So? Your comment does not apply to deletion templates. The guidelines, as I've pointed out, actually state this. HairyWombat 23:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- The purpose of the template is irrelevant if its presence breaks the page. If a page shows up on the uncategorized articles list, I have to get it off by whatever means are necessary, regardless of what other guidelines appear to apply or not apply to the situation at hand, because pages in articlespace cannot be left uncategorized. Bearcat (talk) 23:18, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
On the contrary, if a deletion template doesn't break the page then it is irrelevant. For example, at Template:Rfd#Usage it states, "This template must be placed above the redirect; otherwise, the page will redirect as normal and users of the redirect will not be informed of the nomination." That seems very clear. HairyWombat 23:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- If the page shows up on the uncategorized articles list, then I have an obligation to get it off. If you've got an idea that gets the page off the uncategorized articles list without adjusting or removing the template from where you'd like to place it, then I'm all ears — but if it shows up on the uncategorized articles list, then getting it off that list trumps any template you might want to throw on the page, because pages cannot be left on the uncategorized articles list for any reason, ever. There's simply no debate to be had about this; if it shows up as an uncategorized article, then I have an obligation to do whatever is necessary to get it off that list. Bearcat (talk) 23:42, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
This is going nowhere, so I have created an ANI at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Removal of templates from redirects. HairyWombat 00:13, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- It is an established and documented practice that several templates at WP:CSD can be placed above a redirect to disable the redirect functionality until request for speedy deletion is evaluated. If it is considered a big problem that the page only has a hidden category until the speedy is evaluated then the logical solution is to add a non-hidden category. If there is no suitable category currently then create one, for example Category:Disabled redirects. CSD templates for redirects could add it automatically. General CSD templates which may be applied to redirects could have a parameter to add it, or the category code could be added manually, for example by editors who fix uncategorized pages if the tagger didn't do it. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:46, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Bearcat, why do you have an obligation to do whatever is necessary to get it off that list? Yoenit (talk) 10:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- It is an established and documented practice that several templates at WP:CSD can be placed above a redirect to disable the redirect functionality until request for speedy deletion is evaluated. If it is considered a big problem that the page only has a hidden category until the speedy is evaluated then the logical solution is to add a non-hidden category. If there is no suitable category currently then create one, for example Category:Disabled redirects. CSD templates for redirects could add it automatically. General CSD templates which may be applied to redirects could have a parameter to add it, or the category code could be added manually, for example by editors who fix uncategorized pages if the tagger didn't do it. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:46, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Portico Quartet
Perhaps before blaming someone else you should actually see what you (or presumably your bot) have been changing, leaving dates in an inconsistent state all over this article. --94.194.206.20 (talk) 22:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Which has all of exactly nothing to do with anything I said about the matter... Bearcat (talk) 22:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Canada film lists
Thanks for the info, Bearcat. I was very happy see these lists. I'll continue to add to them as you suggest, including 20th century titles, and have put a watch on them to ensure Quebec films are not removed, again. best, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC)