User:Carcharoth/Unsorted stuff

This page is for unsorted and unfinished stuff that needs to be dealt with later at some point.

How I did a merge
Here are some links showing how I did that merge you requested. I did it the other way round, with Transalpine Gaul redirecting to Gallia Narbonensis - if you disagree, let's discuss it at the talk page for Gallia Narbonensis. Anyway, the process (and I don't claim this is ideal or 'correct') was: The important point is to link to both articles in the edit summaries (links not shown above, but are shown if you follow the links). That makes it clear what is going on. Hope that helps.
 * remove text to merge into Gallia Narbonensis
 * added text merged in from Transalpine Gaul
 * remove merge tag after text moved here from Transalpine Gaul
 * remove merge tag and create redirect to Gallia Narbonensis
 * rewrite after merge from Transalpine Gaul to Gallia Narbonensis

Deleted edits
Copied from the Help Desk.

Does anyone know how to view a list of edits that you made on articles or pages that were later deleted? These edits don't show up in a user's contributions log. Thanks. Carcharoth 09:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * There used to be a way to view this (I'll try to find you the link), but it is currently disabled. — Reinyday, 09:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * When working, the link would be http://tools.wikimedia.de/~river/cgi-bin/archive_contribs?user=Carcharoth&dbname=enwiki_p . — Reinyday, 09:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

One deleted edit here

 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine log - I added the db-vandalism template.

Test

 * User:Hitler (banned)
 * User:Bonaparte (banned)
 * User:Shakespeare (existing account)
 * User:Dante (not created)
 * User:George Washington (suspected sockpuppet)
 * User:Abraham Lincoln (not created)
 * User:Ronald Reagan (not created)
 * User:George W. Bush (deleted page of banned user)
 * User:Saddam Hussein (redirected after protests)
 * User:Stalin (not created)
 * User:Joseph Stalin (deleted as vandal page; recreated a year later then deleted as page of banned user)
 * User:Chairman Mao (not created)
 * User:Ghandi (existing account)
 * User:Tony Blair (not created)
 * User:Winston Churchill (not created)
 * User:Margaret Thatcher (not created)
 * User:Idi Amin (cybersquatted/salted by User:Geoffrey)
 * User:Attila the Hun (sockpuppet of banned user)
 * User:Ghengis Khan (existing account)
 * User:Isaac Newton (not created)
 * User:Albert Einstein (not created)
 * User:God (deleted as old user page of banned user)
 * User:Muhammad (not created)
 * User:Jesus (deleted as old page of banned user)

Tidying needed
This will become a work area. Eventually.

Orphaned talk pages
Talk pages where article has been deleted (and talk page was not deleted as well), or where an orphaned talk page was created by mistake by an editor using AWB.


 * Talk:Azanulbinar
 * Talk:Ailinel
 * Talk:Bard_II
 * Talk:Beleriand (MUSH)
 * Talk:Gamilzirak
 * Talk:Gildis
 * Talk:Gundor


 * (1) List pages that were deleted
 * Ailinel
 * Attempting to retrieve Tolkien content to be merged and redirected.
 * Bard_II
 * Beleriand (MUSH)
 * (2) List pages that never existed
 * Azanulbinar
 * Mis-spelling of Azanulbizar (Khuzdul for Dimrill Dale).
 * Gamilzirak
 * Gildis
 * Gundor
 * (3) Consider whether redirects are needed
 * (4) Nominate all for speedy deletion per CSD G8

Middle-earth redirects tagged with ME-project template
Quite a few talk pages of Middle-earth redirects have been tagged with the ME-project template. This unneccessarily inflates the amount of articles in the assessment statistics. Some of these redirects have been categorised to Category:Middle-earth redirects, some haven't. The ones that have, and have the ME-project template, can be identified by comparing the articles in Category:Unknown-importance Tolkien articles (all the ones assessed for importance are not redirects), and those in Category:Middle-earth redirects. This list could then be tackled using AWB, or some other semi-automated system to either add the parameter "class=NA", or simply to remove the ME-template altogether (my preferred solution), as the category already keeps track of these ME-redirects.

Finding the redirects that haven't been categorised yet will be more difficult. I generated the initial list by using "What links here" on a browse through the entire set of articles, but gave up part-way through. Any ideas for an easy way to find redirects would be appreciated. The editor who added the ME-project template to these redirects (User:Kaobear) might know a way. Drop a note over there at some point. Carcharoth 16:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See /Desk. Carcharoth 21:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Completed translations
This is exciting! :-)

Clarification on deletion
See this diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=101684983&oldid=101671249 for Brion Vibber's clarification on deletion. I take this to mean that the "deletion is no big deal, it can always be undeleted or recovered later" argument (whether for AfDs of disputed articles, or for MfDs of pages with lots of history, or for pages that might be used in evidence) should not be overused, or extended indefinitely into the future. It really should be considered temporary. Anything that might be needed in the future (even if not needed now) should be undeleted and archived properly.

THIS IS NOT A TALK PAGE!!
The talk page is That way >...

Category ages

 * Category:Template computed age