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Fridn
I think you're right - it's a hoax. I have tried and failed to find any sort of confirmation, so I have taken it to AfD here. Well spotted. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

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Under what criteria is Edgar Allan Poe a good candidate for Category:American child writers? I've removed it, but I'm curious why you thought it appropriate. --Midnightdreary (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The category definition says "People of the United States who were published authors when they were children or teenagers." Based on the Edgar Allan Poe article, his first publication was at the age of 18: "Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to 'a Bostonian'." Goustien (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * But it's hardly a defining characteristic. See WP:OVERCAT. --Midnightdreary (talk) 18:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, perhaps I misunderstood the purpose of the category. But if someone creates a List of authors who were published in their teens, Poe should be included there. Goustien (talk) 18:58, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not a big deal; personally, I think the category itself is somewhat mystifying. It also seems to imply a static character - as if once published, they must forever remain a child writer. I'm thinking about filing a request for comment on it. --Midnightdreary (talk) 19:07, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of New America
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Opera of Operas
I wanted to note that I performed this because The Tragedy of Tragedies page now contains the information and it is a mistake to connect Opera of Operas with the original version (Tom Thumb) and not the later expanded version (Tragedy of Tragedies). I used part of your sentence and expanded on it with dates and the rest here. I hope this makes sense. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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 * Please consider adding the oldprodfull tag on the Talk page when you remove a PROD like I did here, here, and here. Keep up the good work! Varbas (talk) 03:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Character articles for The Worm Ouroboros
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Yogyakarta
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 * OK, as long as there's a separate page Yogyakarta Sultanate. Goustien (talk) 03:07, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Shakespearean phrases
Hi, why did you remove Much Ado about Nothing from category:Shakespearean phrases, please? - Fayenatic (talk) 21:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Much Ado about Nothing is a Redirect page. If you like, shouldn't the category marker go on the article page Much Ado About Nothing? Goustien (talk) 22:08, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * WP:Categorizing redirects is allowed. I have now created a more specific one Much Ado About Nothing (title) for the purpose, as I think this is more useful than adding the category to the main article. - Fayenatic (talk) 22:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

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Indigenous peoples
Hi Goustein, in the future, please don't add fictional peoples to Category:Indigenous peoples. As a general rule, don't mix fictional and non-fictional articles in the same category (though I'm sure there may be exceptions). — Huntster (t @ c) 00:54, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, this looks very good! — Huntster (t @ c) 22:40, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * This was a public domain source. Goustien (talk) 23:20, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Rwanda categories
Thanks for the recategorising the Rwanda article - it seems I had made a mistake about the way to do such categorisations. I actually removed them because that was the way the categories for the Cameroon article were organised at the time it became featured. However, on reading WP:EPON I see that the policy is that "an article should not be excluded from any set category on the grounds that its eponymous category is made a "subcategory" of that category" so your rv was correct. Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 08:30, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Dukes
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 * Categories exist for Fictional barons and baronesses, Fictional counts and countesses, and Fictional knights. Why not Fictional dukes and duchesses? Goustien (talk) 05:24, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Because unlike Barons and Counts, Duke (and Lord), are used in fiction without regard to whether they actually are lords of a duchy, whether they actually are a duke. The Duke of Deception is just one example. And further there are "dukes" which are merely known in the fictional work as "lords". So it's better that these lords and ladies are grouped under nobility in order to prevent such issues and confusion. (Note that fictional lords and ladies was upmerged/deleted at WP:CFD for such reasons.) - jc37 05:32, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * (The Category:Fictional dukes and duchesses was recreated in November 2009). Goustien (talk) 21:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Lundy in the 1650s
Hi Thanks for your addition to Lundy however it means that the article now has conflicting dates: "In 1656 the island was acquired by Lord Saye and Sele" (which is supported by a reliable source) & "In 1655 a force of 40 Ottoman ships captured the Isle of Lundy, which served as the main base for Ottoman naval and privateering operations in the North Atlantic until 1660" - unfortunately the reference you gave isn't working for me. Could you check the reference or do you have any other sources to support this?&mdash; Rod talk 08:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I copied the information from Military of the Ottoman Empire, but you are right, the source link appears to be dead.Goustien (talk) 11:37, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed to reflect 1627-1632 Ottoman dates. Goustien (talk) 20:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Caribbean Countries
Hey, I was just wondering by what criteria you are adding/removing the Caribbean countries category from different articles. Some form of criteria is needed for these categories. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 17:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There should be consistency between the country articles and the country categories included in the Category:Caribbean countries. Categorization should correspond to the definition in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. Goustien (talk) 17:51, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Quite fair. I had no idea that page even existed (and I have edited most of those country lists). However, that page currently doesn't include the dependent territories, and if it did I doubt it would include areas like the Caribbean Netherlands. Instead the Netherlands should probably be included somehow. Tricky. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 17:55, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert in this, but I believe Caribbean Netherlands is a political entity, one of the successors to the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. Goustien (talk) 18:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * As far as I know the Caribbean Netherlands is not a single entity, but a collective name for the three entities (Bonaire, Saba, and Saint Eustatius) that have been integrated into the Netherlands proper. All three have individual municipal governments. Of course, even before dissolution they were still all legally full parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and thus legally not dependent territories. I'll look into finishing up that Caribbean list, basically copying off List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America later, unless you or someone else wants to do it. That correspondence point you raised is good, I suppose similar lists should be checked for that consistency as well. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 18:26, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: although these are three separate entities, they are all administered by the National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands. Goustien (talk) 13:40, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

In the List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean, I've added the dependent territories as well as integral overseas territories such as Bonaire, Saba, and Saint Eustatius. Goustien (talk) 03:16, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

User page
Since you are quite prolific, you would benefit from having a user page defined, don't you think? Right now, you seem like you might be a Red Menace, and that is not the case. Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 04:24, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure what to put on a user page. Can't I be defined as the sum of my edits? Goustien (talk) 03:18, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I hear ya. I felt the same way for a long time, until somebody made the same observation to me.
 * "User pages are for people who don't have anything real to work on." That's how I felt.
 * But Red makes you look like a threat. Then we have to check up on you to see, "Hey, this guy's ok."
 * What if it were just this to start?


 * Simple, eh? Varlaam (talk) 06:31, 21 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hiya. Just came to your Talk page, to make the same point as the others. I saw your edits were very good (nice use of Hotcat), & was puzzled why you appeared a red menace. Really, I'd like to second or third your nomination as a plainly-valued bone fide blue editor. When you're ready. If nothing else, it'd stop us well-wishers nagging you :) Best wishes, Trafford09 (talk) 17:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, I've created it. Goustien (talk) 18:51, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Good on ya :) Trafford09 (talk) 19:31, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Netherlands Antilles stubs
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 * OK, but the problem I see is with the generated Category:Caribbean Netherlands stubs. For example, Charlison Benschop was born in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, but I think he had nothing to do with the present Caribbean Netherlands. Goustien (talk) 15:29, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a common situation - we have people born in the Kingdom of Savoy who are listed under France or Italy, people born in German East Africa listed under Tanzania, and people born in Bohemia listed under Czech Republic, for instance. It just makes it easier to limit stub types to currently existincg countries except in a few major cases (e.g., USSR, Ancient Rome). Otherwise there'd be several times as many stub types to patrol, and some people could end up with a large number of stubs if they lived in a time of frequent boundary changes. Grutness...wha?  02:08, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I see this situation as somewhat different from those examples. The Kingdom of Savoy is now part of French or Italian territory. German East Africa is now part of Tanzania. Bohemia is now part of the Czech Republic.  But Curacao is NOT part of the Caribbean Netherlands, which refers to three entirely separate Dutch islands. But now I see someone else recreated Category:Netherlands Antilles stubs on 29 June 2011. Goustien (talk) 20:33, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

August 2011
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 * See Category talk:Fan films. Goustien (talk) 15:42, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * Sourced here: http://ringlord.com/people/walrus/lotr/botr.html Goustien (talk) 01:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Arthur Gordon Pym
Sorry to be a pit pushy on The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Obviously, Poe refers to the Polly but a self-reference isn't the best choice here. The section is for sources of inspiration to Poe; unless a reliable source is found that shows the event was a significant inspiration for Poe's writing the book, it's out of place. Alternatively, it might be worth mentioning in the plot summary, which doesn't need outside referencing. What do you think? --Midnightdreary (talk) 13:19, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * What about the second source I listed: ? Huntress argues that Poe probably read details of the Polly in a book by R. Thomas, Remarkable Events and Remarkable Shipwrecks (New York: 1836). Huntress supports this claim by citing parallel passages in Thomas (pp. 345-350) and Pym, including two long sentences quoted verbatim by Poe. I'll try to rewrite this information making specific reference to Thomas's work as an inspiration to Poe. Goustien (talk) 21:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not checking back sooner. That sounds like a good source to use! I wouldn't bother citing Pym itself, but definitely use Huntress. Cool. --Midnightdreary (talk) 19:19, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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List of countries by statehood
Same as List of countries in chronological order of achieving statehood, you should remove all the extinct states from the articles, only keep the existing ones. 207.233.71.179 (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Good idea. As a couple other users have suggested, the "extinct" states should be moved to List of former sovereign states. Goustien (talk) 03:02, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I had fixed half of it. Could you check it to see whether they are relevant or not. A lot of countries, I don't know much about their history so I just the contents that are already there. There are many that appear more than once (such as Bulgaria, Vietnam, Georgia), I merge them all together so that they only appear once. Please check them. Thank. And you could continue to do the rest or I'll do it. Qajar (talk) 23:32, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Ducks
Hi there. I'm curious why you made this edit. 28bytes (talk) 05:30, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Already in subcategory Category:Lists of fictional birds. Likewise for List of historical and fictional birds and List of fictional penguins. Goustien (talk) 06:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * That makes sense... thanks for the explanation! 28bytes (talk) 06:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Category removal
Please explain You made several edits such as this which don't make sense to me. Can you please explain either on my talk or here and post tb on my talk. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:49, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Category:1810s in fiction refers to works set in the 1810s, not published in the 1810s. Compare the categorization of Category:1810s novels, etc. Goustien (talk) 17:03, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Obviously That's embarrassing. Thanks for cleaning up my mess! —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:16, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

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