User talk:AlphaLemur

Speedy deletion nomination of Doorhead


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia meetups in Australia 2024


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia meetups in Australia 2024 indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 02:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Trying to contact JarrahTree 02:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think this can be safely deleted due to a recent reshuffle of content. AlphaLemur (talk) 06:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I will try with or without help to populate the category, despite the reshuffle - the reshuffle was to increase possible spread/coverage - deletion only reduces the possibility. JarrahTree 07:43, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand the reason for needing the year-based categories. I guess you're suggesting doing something similar to Category:Wikipedia meetups in Perth, but even there the year subcategories have less than a handful of pages in each. I'd suggest that there's no need for the same structure to be created for the Australia-wide meetings (especially now that they're to be managed at Meta and not on English Wikipedia). Sam Wilson 01:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough - but going straight to meta seemed a bit of a jump - I do think more than just a redirect would be of some use - I am not arguing for any extra structure work here - more an explanation somewhere - aka paper trail - as it stands there is nothing for the curious JarrahTree 01:48, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red
Hi there, AlphaLemur, and welcome to Women in Red, although I see you had included the WIR user tag on your user page soon after you started editing. And thanks for creating two interesting biographies of Australian women. I hope there will be many more. If you have not already done so, you might find it useful to look through some of our essays, perhaps starting with the Primer. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 12:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I had a little nudge from Oronsay :) AlphaLemur (talk) 00:43, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

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