User talk:Bearcat/Archive 79

Added Categories to Categories
If a category isn't added to a category and should be, you can add them instead of putting them in "uncategorized." I'm sure there is enough of a backlog without adding to it. Mr. C.C. Hey yo!I didn't do it! 18:39, 22 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I would have to know what categories were suitable parents for it, wouldn't I? I mean, sure, I'll just categorize the category myself if I already know right off the top of my head what the appropriate parents would be, but if I don't have that preexisting knowledge already, then it isn't my job to go exploring the category system to find a niche for it, or to spend five minutes trying a succession of speculative guesses: my job in that case is "get it into the cleanup queue and walk away". Bearcat (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You see "champions" in the category name, right?  You go to the article and see which promotions have promoted the title.  You (insert promotion here) champions for the category.  Not all promotions will apply of course.  When you do this, there is no speculation.  (Yes, I've moved this here, as to keep it all in one spot as stated in on my talk page.  I would respond on my talk to page if you left message on there first.)   Mr. C.C. Hey yo!I didn't do it! 21:59, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * When I'm working with category cleanup, between uncategorized categories and redlinked categories and draft or userpages in categories there are inevitably around a thousand items to deal with each time new reports get generated, because the batch reports only run a couple of times a week rather than daily. Under those circumstances, I have absolutely no responsibility to let any individual page take up more than four or five seconds of my time. I mean, I'll grant that to you it looks like it's just one page, because you're only seeing me tag the page you created. You're not seeing the 1,000 categorization errors that are listed on the batch reports I'm working with, which means it's already going to take me at least one hour (and more likely two) to get through all of them even under the quickest "tag and move on" solution possible — so I simply do not have a responsibility to turn a one-hour job into an eight-hour job by spending eight times as long with each individual page. With the added bonus that if I don't get them all cleaned up before the next time a new batch report runs, then the carryovers plus all the new problems will add up to two thousand issues to fix next time instead of one, making it even worse. So if I have a thousand pages to deal with, I have to be able to get through them in the absolute quickest "wham, bam, next" manner possible, and nobody is entitled to give me any stick about it. Especially since you're the one who created the category, meaning that it was your responsibility to ensure that it was in the proper parent categories in the first place, and not my responsibility to fix that for you after the fact. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Sudbury Arts and Festivals
Hello Bearcat,

I currently work at the Sudbury Indie Cinema and noticed you had made pages for our two biggest film festivals, Junction North and Queer North. Thank you!!

I was wondering if you would like any more information from us to make those entries more complete.

Thank you again for all your great work!!! Heron Juniper (talk) 18:46, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Articles about women
Hi there, Bearcat, and thank you for writing about so many notable Canadians. As a significant number of your biographies are about women, you might like to become a member of WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to chip away at the gender gap. It would be good to have one more administrator to help us along. But whether or not you join, I look forward to many more biographies of Canadian women. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:52, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

User:Dzkk9
Just hoping for admin eyes on User:Dzkk9 - (assuming food faith) appears to be a new user with low understanding of en.wp norms. Seems to be on a course of producing unreferenced, unencyclopedic content which looks very much like vandalism.

I'm not sure the best way forward. Best JMWt (talk) 16:23, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Unassessed Rajasthan road transport articles


A tag has been placed on Category:Unassessed Rajasthan road transport articles 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.

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Please
Stop being a dick. Mgrē@sŏn ( Talk ) 23:29, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia SIA-Class level-4 vital articles


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia SIA-Class level-4 vital articles 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! 16:32, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

User:TheUzbek
Hey — just a quick note that your block of  was probably not the best idea. Although I can empathise with the frustration from their repeated hassling of you, indefinitely pBlocking them from your talk page would have been an action best served by another admin. Would you consider unblocking them, on the understanding that you explicitly request that they do not post on your talk page again? — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 09:45, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Bearcat. Hope you're well. I agree with TheresNoTime's note above, and wanted to let you know that I'm currently planning to lift this pblock but do want to give you a chance to answer TNT's message above before I do so — I'll hold off on unblocking until 24 hours after TNT's note or longer if you want to have a longer discussion about it. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 21:05, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Bearcat. Per the above, I am lifting this block now. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:International Railways connecting Italy has been nominated for discussion
Category:International Railways connecting Italy has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mackensen (talk) 22:46, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User prg-5


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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! 07:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User sgs-5


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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! 07:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello Bearcat
Re Hey Lady!

I am new to editing Wikipedia and can’t figure out how to change ‘Nominated’ to ‘Won’ for two of the Cdn Screen Awards: Best Director and Best Performance

(if you have time..!) Poppy399 (talk) 12:55, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the categories
... as it implications of categorizing a user page weren't clear to me.

However, this also resulted in me losing ~45 minutes of work when I saved and hit the conflict (for unknown reasons the diff was empty.)

I suggest that a note on someone's talk page is a more considerate way to address the problem.

Cheers! -- Zak Greant (talk) 21:41, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:American indie rock songs has been nominated for renaming
Category:American indie rock songs has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 07:41, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Canadian goth groups


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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! 06:48, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of CHCO-TV for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CHCO-TV is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Single chart usages for Maltadance


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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. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 04:20, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Joseph Engel for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Joseph Engel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Richard Lush
I was in a dilemma about how to describe Richard Lush for the stub notification. Australian "singer" as previously found was clearly wrong. I was not sure about "musician", since he doesn't play an instrument or write music professionally. But perhaps your "musician" is closest for a recording engineer & producer? Those latter categories don't exist. Walton22 (talk) 04:28, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

a help request for Kristen Harris (actress)
Good evening from Calabria, I am writing to say hello and know how you are. In addition to this, to ask you for a small courtesy. Would you like to fix the page and make it a bit more encyclopaedic? I tried to create it, it seemed right that the actress too should have her "place in the sun", using an Italian expression. In any case, if I can do something for you, please ask, waiting to hear from you, I thank you in advance. Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 21:32, 24 August 2023 (UTC)