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Category:16th-century Catalan people

Hi Mason, I've been too busy to keep up with CFD discussions recently.

I'm grateful for your work here, but I would have opposed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 6#Category:16th-century Catalan people. Removing this has left a bigger gap in Category:Catalan people by century. Before or instead of deleting poorly-populated categories, I suggest checking whether they can be populated.

In this case Petscan demonstrates that there are 22 articles eligible to be put in the category. Some of them might be debatable if "Count of Barcelona" was an honorary title unrelated to origin or residence, but it looks as if there would be sufficient to reinstate the category. – Fayenatic London 08:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! that's really helpful information. I'll definitely try additional approaches to populate categories. Mason (talk) 19:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Cheers! – Fayenatic London 20:37, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Nobility of, not from

I've just noticed a few "Nobility of" renamed speedily to "Nobility from" – I hope you will not object if I summarily reverse these. We use "of" for nobility, military personnel and political positions, because they are people holding official capacities of the state. – Fayenatic London 20:37, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Also long as you leave redirects, that fine. Otherwise, I think it breaks the nobility by nationality and century template Mason (talk) 22:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Good idea! I have added this at Wikipedia:Category redirects that should be kept. – Fayenatic London 11:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Indenting

Hi, I removed your indent at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 April 12#Category:Politicians of the Second Polish Republic for clarity – hope you don't mind.

You often seem to indent with *: rather than just * , and this has the appearance of demoting your !vote. I suggest you use just an asterisk at the start of your opinion at CFD, unless you are replying to another editor's statements. Is the colon an artifact of a tool that you use for commenting? – Fayenatic London 22:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree that it does have that tendency to downweight my vote. I think it is an artifact of using the beta feature of "Discussion tools". I haven't been very motivated to see if I can pinpoint the problem, but you've just given me a good reason to investigate. :) Mason (talk) 22:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

WP:Indigenous

I saw your question was never answered and I don't know if you found the answer to this. The capitalization of Indigenous and other terms should be applied when talking about people. By calling a organization an Indigenous organization you would be stating it is made of Indigenous people and therefore should be capitalized. --ARoseWolf 13:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Mason (talk) 13:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Academic journals published in the Netherlands

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Elmer H. Almquist (April 19)

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All Saints' Church

Can you please tell when I had been told about "changing ... to Kowloon", and elaborate what is wrong to mention Kowloon (given that the territory comprises four components – Kowloon being one of them?) Thanks. 58.152.55.172 (talk) 08:44, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

You are clearly Wikipedia:HKGW. Mason (talk) 13:36, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@Underwaterbuffalo and WhisperToMe. 58.152.55.172 (talk) 08:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

This is called canvasing. Mason (talk) 13:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Question about your username

Just curious: what does the "s" stand for? Best, HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 00:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

My legal first name: Sarah. My parents drew inspiration from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Mason (talk) 00:27, 7 May 2024 (UTC)