User talk:Bearcat/Archive 65

Dumb-dumb needs your guidance...Chehalis parks draft articles
Hey Bearcat!

Not that you owe me anything but I could use your help. All of my recent drafts about the Chehalis park system were moved back into draft status under "improper move of AFC draft without reviewer approval"...

Yikes! Obviously I messed up somewhere but I'm not sure how. I'm thinking I didn't delete some code on the edit page before I moved the articles, but I don't know. So, to let you know, by no means did I purposefully move the pages into the mainspace to circumvent anything...based on what I've read (see my talk page after my very first goofy attempt to post an article -

User_talk:Shortiefourten

- and Wiki forums about writing new articles, an autoconfirmed user can write a draft and move it into the mainspace and not have to go thru the Article Wizard/article creation process...?

So here's what I did when I started the articles - I went to WP:DRAFT and to the subsection Creating and editing drafts. reverifying the words, "Autoconfirmed rights are required for moving drafts to article mainspace page". I entered my new article title and began the process. Since my articles were sourced and written in what could be described loosely as "words", I saw them ready to go (believe me, no ego here, just excitement to be an editor). I then hit the Publish button on the edit, then used the "Move" option. There were no redirects or complications to the move, so it seemed all well and good...? There was an error of some maintenance thing going on last night and nothing would pop up when I tried to add categories...a cache issue probably on my end...but the error message went away and I figured I'd add the categories manually later.

Obviously I royally screwed up, like I do when I change the channel before the last 0.4 seconds of a basketball game is on, and I am soooo sorry. What I'd like to do is learn what went wrong so I don't do it again and so I can get this editing process a bit more down here at Wikipedia!

Thanks for the time if you have it to give!Shortiefourten (talk) 22:05, 10 December 2021 (UTC)



Nevermind...finally found a Wiki editor with exceptional patience who could handle my inexperience and sheer lack of talent with coding. I guess I did screw up but wasn't wrong on creating straight to mainspace. Showed me the WP:HTCAP page! Resubmitted all those articles and just gonna wait it out. Thanks!Shortiefourten (talk) 02:42, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

"Bob Shannon (Radio)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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.Cblambert
Not sure this editor has the the ability to communicate with other editors and abide by consensus. You wrote this that they think ment they could add back the blog and travel site. Competence is required issue perhaps? Moxy - 13:26, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Provincial governors of the Philippines has been nominated for renaming
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Thank you!
Dear Bearcat, thank you very much for correcting the formatting and categories in some of my articles. I learned about "blockquote", which i didn't know yet. And i hope sincerely that i won't make so many mistakes in 2022 :-))) Merry Christmas! --Gyanda (talk) 12:46, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Bearcat!


Happy New Year! Bearcat, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Categories
Hi, and thanks. I see you improving the categorization of many pages I've created. I really appreciate it. I hope you don't hate me for setting so many up imperfectly. If you have any feedback for me on how to get better at it, I'd welcome that. CT55555 (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

moved articles to drafts
Hi, I see you've moved several articles that I created into drafts with the same explanation "improper move of AFC draft without reviewer approval".

Until this moment, I thought I was doing things correctly, but obviously you've been doing this a lot longer than me, so I'm of course doubting myself.

I'll start with an explanation of the chain of events, and then I hope you can comment.

1 - I used to create all articles via the AfC process. 2 - A few days ago @User:AssumeGoodWraith asked me why I was doing this and said I didn't need to use the AfC process, and I now that I'm an extended confirmed used, I could move them into main space myself. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CT55555#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation:_Grand_Bargain_(humanitarian_reform)_has_been_accepted 3 - So I did what was suggested - i.e. for pages that in my opinion clearly are good to go, I moved them into mainspace. For ones I wasn't sure about, I left in AfC 4 - I'm no expert on process here, but it did seem clear to me that I'm entitled to make articles in main space at this point. 5 - So of course now I'm quite confused and I'm sure you'll guess disappointed to have these articles moved back. CT55555 (talk) 19:56, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Louis Riel talk page
Hi Bearcat, an editor is unilaterally putting « this discussion is closed » tags on parts of the Louis Riel talk page, apparently to cut off further discussion, even though they’re not RfC sections. Is that allowed? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:38, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Cblambert
Thinking a 48hrs block for disruptive editing is due. Back to edit waring their version implying it's removal is vandalism. They also closed sections again....not a big deal to me....but it was raised. Moxy - 00:17, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * After thought. ....you make look involved.... Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 02:17, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

New Category: JCPC Judges who wrote Canadian constitutional decisions?
Hi Bearcat,

I'd like guidance on a proposed new category. I'm fuzzy on the rules, and I know you know them, so I thought I'd ask you.

I would like to start a category, as a sub-cat of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council category, of judges of the JCPC who wrote decisions in Canadian constitutional law. It wouldn't be all JCPC judges who sat on appeals from Canadian courts, just the ones who gave decisions on constitutional law. The reason is that some of those judges were highly influential in the development of Canadian constitutional law (e.g. Lord Haldane, Lord Watson), and I think it would be very helpful for researchers to have a comprehensive category that identifies all of the JCPC judges that had that role.

Is this the sort of sub-cat that makes sense within the WP categorisation system? And if it is, how do I go about making it? And, if it is acceptable, do you have a suggestion for a less clunky title?

I appreciate it's the holidays, so this isn't a priority, just something that has occurred to me recently. (I'm curating the lists of JCPC Canadian appeals, tidying up formatting, etc., which is what made me think of it.)

Thanks, and if you reply here, I'll see it on my watch page; best to keep the discussion all in one spot. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:33, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Will Kidman


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