User talk:78.18.249.143

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Happy editing! RPI2026F1 (talk) 02:01, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

No categories on redirects
Please do not add categories on redirect pages that aren't made for redirects. Thanks. RPI2026F1 (talk) 02:02, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry User: RPI2026F1, are you saying that Redirects should not have categories? I though that sometimes they did, and am cleaning up the main categories under "climbing" and finding some redirects would be useful to have in sub-categories (even if in italic form), as climbers would expect to see them? thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 02:05, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * They should not have categories with the exception of redirect specific categories. You can make a category just for redirects to climbing terms and put them in there, but you can't put them in a normal category. RPI2026F1 (talk) 02:07, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, understand that now, thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 02:08, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi User:RPI2026F1, some of these cats on redirects I am going to restore as they are potentially articles in their own right and would fall under WP:SUBTOPICCAT (i.e. they are well-known terms that a reader would expect to see in a category search that just doesn't have their own article yet). Wanted to highlight first, thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 12:09, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ahh I didn't know about this rule. RPI2026F1 (talk) 12:52, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

December 2022
Hello, I'm Xeverything11. I noticed that you recently removed content from Andy Lewis (performer) without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Xeverything11 (talk) 12:12, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I removed a completely unreferenced section from a BLP (and explained it in the edit summary)? thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 12:19, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Mountain Madness, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 17:00, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I am taking it out of the head-category for Rock Climbing, which it should not be in (there are several better sub-cats in climbing that are now replaced). 78.18.249.143 (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I think it would be better to explain a bit more fully what you are doing, as in your second edit summary, so other editors know your intent. rm cat explains what but not why. I can see what from a diff but I could not discern why from your edit summary. Peaceray (talk) 17:50, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Good point and well made. thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 20:48, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Recent "Move"
Hey there, welcome to Wikipedia, and I appreciate your contributions and I think your judgement to "move" whipper was pretty good. However, such a process is called merging, and you haven't finished all the points in the procedure yet. You can see WP:PROMERGE for everything you should do in a merge. Happy editing and holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 20:16, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you Aaron Liu, have finished those steps now. thanks again. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 20:48, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Mass deletion of articles
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, deleting entire articles and replacing them with redirects to a single line entry in a glossary is something that should be discussed and agreed first on the article talk page. Please therefore stop mass deleting articles and restore those that haven't already been restored by other editors. Thank you. Bermicourt (talk) 09:23, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Bermicourt, I think you have mistaken my bona fides here, I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climbing, in which I hope you will participate and maybe reconsider (or convince me to reconsider). Sorry about that, 78.18.249.143 (talk) 19:32, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. I'm sure this is resolvable and have responded at that discussion. Bermicourt (talk) 20:42, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Please stop adding talk page headers
Hello, thanks for your talk page tidying, but please stop adding Talkpage header to pages such as Talk:Brigitte Muir. As it says on its documentation that template is generally only used on high-traffic or controversial talk pages, which the ones you're adding it to are not. Graham 87 02:25, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi User:Graham87, I thought it was a good thing to do as I was reviewing the rating of mostly unrated climbing articles; perhaps I dream of creating greater traffic/interest in these articles ;). If you don't mind me asking, why was it worth reverting the Talkpage header addition? I.e. once done, would it not have been better to leave them in, or does it cause WP technical problems? sorry anyway, and thanks. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 11:56, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I just got this. Thanks for ceasing the talk header additions. I took most of your talk headers off because adding them there is highly non-standard, as explained above. The talk pages simply don't warrant them and almost definitely never will ... making them standard everywhere leads to banner blindness. That template is really there to say "Hey, this is a talk page that's been problematic or busy in the past" ... and its use beyond that is fairly controversial. See this village pump discussion and these discussions on the template's talk page. I also fixed some of your talk page archive creations; I undid your archiving at Talk:Hard Grit because we never make archives for just one tiny discussion. (Also, the default setting for minthreadsleft is 5 because more people prefer slightly crowded talk pages). The ability to have the standing to participate in discussions about things like talk headers is greatly increased if you have a long-standing account, among many, many other advantages. As we say here, trying to make serious edits to Wikipedia as an IP editor is like blindly blundering through the countryside on the first day of hunting season dressed like a moose. Did you previously have an account here? If so, I'd very highly recommend using it. Graham 87 14:00, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for that User:Graham87 and understand now. Thanks also for your very humorous reply, a feeling that I can sympathize with (although, when I explain myself and show my work I do get a good response from other editors).  Unfortunately, for technical reasons, being an IP is the best I can do for now.  I do appreciate you patience with my efforts to clean up the Wikipedia Climbing Project, which seems to be largely abandoned, even though new articles keep coming in at a pace. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 14:48, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. Re technical reasons for not having an account: is it something to do with cookies/passwords, or something else? As an admin I can create an account for you (bypassing the CAPTCHA) or I can enable any accounts you have on other projects (i.e. Commons) so they work here. If you'd like to discuss this privately you can do so by emailing me at . But if things are alright as they are, that's OK too. Graham 87 15:43, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that User:Graham87. Let me come back to you on that, and much appreciated. 78.18.249.143 (talk) 15:55, 27 December 2022 (UTC)