User talk:Anthropocentrism

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I noticed that you've been adding many biography articles to the category of American Jews. However, many of these articles are already in a sub-category of American Jews. It is not proper to have them in both. Articles should go into lowest sub-categories and not duplicate into top categories. See WP:CAT and WP:CATP. Morphh  (talk) 14:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Those categories are about to be deleted, and the people in them will lose their ethnic heritage in the process. I am trying to keep this from happening. This is not only for the Jews but all of the other peoples to like Irish and Italians and Asians and African Americans and Arabs and Mexicans. --Anthropocentrism 14:13, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you please point me to where those categories are going to be deleted? Thanks! --Tom 15:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification and the effort. You may want to state this in the summary.  Morphh   (talk) 14:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I would second the recommendation to mention this in the summary &mdash; I, too, thought you simply didn't know better than to add parent categories. Is this also the case with other pages to which you're adding the parent category? (e.g., Selena) If the categories haven't yet been definitely chosen for deletion, you might want to wait; alternatively, you may want to remove the child category at the same time that you add the parent, with a note in the edit summary so that everyone watching the page understands you aren't doing this in ignorance. If what's stopping you from putting the edit summary is the need to type it in, I find that if I set my browser to remember my entries in a space, it suggests the summary from the moment I type the first couple of characters. Lawikitejana 17:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Unnecessary P.S. I love your user name and the corresponding statement on the user page. Very clever.

Thank you. --Anthropocentrism 19:47, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh great - same thing happened to me - I reverted a number as well, as redundant categories. Wish you had made this clear in edit summary - I only now thought to come here when I stumbl;ed on Judy Collins. I guess they need to be reverted back - what is the standing of the category deletions? Tvoz | talk 00:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello. This is the problem. They are deleting categories but are not replacing them with new ones to cover the information they are deleting. These categories clasify people by profession, ethnicity and nationality -three important things all under one category designation. So it goes that if this single category is wiped out three vital information bits are wiped away to. I am just replacing them with substituts so that this information will not be lost. If you could please replace all that was deleted personaly by you by mistake? Anthropocentrism 14:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Fixed
All of these categories were going to be deleted with no replacement category of the persons background being made. I fixed it all I think though. --Anthropocentrism 19:46, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_July_9#Category:Italian-American_journalists {and the others}


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_July_11#Category:Irish-American_singers {and the others}
 * Ok, I guess. Thanks, --Tom 19:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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