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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Right-wing populism by country


A tag has been placed on Category:Right-wing populism by country requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more 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.

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Precious anniversary
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Regards your edition on Soldiers of Odin Page
There seems to be a recent edit of yours on the Soldiers of Odin Wiki page (7 of November) which removed the category Right-wing populism in Europe to replace it for Right-wing populism in Finland. Is there any reason for this change? Because although its originally a finish organitzation they are active in several other countries, so I'm not really sure wether its a good idea to reduce it to its initial geolocation.

Thanks in advance. Raicopk (talk) 10:59, 18 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Raicopk - if you think it is better categorised as a pan-European organisation, please change it back to the former category. Cheers, Maias (talk) 12:45, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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Category:Controversial parrots has been nominated for discussion
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Australian biota project
Has got to a new stage of its progress in this confusing and chaotic world... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown-importance_Australian_biota_articles = 0. Please help by when creating new biota articles for australia, to make sure the unassessed page stays the way it is adequately tagged, or please ask for help in doing so... More on the next stages of the Australian biota project soon... and thanks for whatever you have done for the project in any way since 2006 - JarrahTree 05:58, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mammals described in 2020


A tag has been placed on Category:Mammals described in 2020 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more 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.

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Precious anniversary
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Possession Islands
I see you removed one of the coords in the article. There are still two others; none of the three matched. I was trying to figure out which was the right or best one. Do you know? I don't think there should be two different ones unless there is an explanation that they are different locations. The one in the text matches its source, but on a map it appears to be ocean, not land. GNIS was down so I couldn't check that source. <b style="color:#00FF00">MB</b> 01:35, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi MP - yes, it got a bit messy. Should be only two coords now, one for the island group and one for the single island. Nor sure what the GNIS would say - I put in the BLI coord for the single island and left the GNIS coord for the group in the infobox. Cheers, Maias (talk) 01:57, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

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List of endemic birds of Borneo
Hi Maias: You've made a few edits to List of endemic birds of Borneo over the years, so I'm guessing you might be at least mildly interested in the topic. I've been improving the list with a view to taking it to WP:FL and wonder if you'd have a look before I do. Can you think of anything else people might want to know? MeegsC (talk) 13:10, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi MeegsC. As you suggest, I do have an interest in Borneo and its endemic biota, and I much prefer lists or articles that are biogeographically (rather than politically) based. I am very impressed with what you have done with the list and don't really see what I can do to improve it further. To me, it seems good for FL already. Cheers! Maias (talk) 23:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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all the damned spiders in the world
etc etc (a bruce cockburn song from 30 years ago jumbled)

and they are oz based and there is no oz or biota tag on their talk...

always more to find, more to grow angst about etc etc

trust all is well JarrahTree 08:16, 24 June 2021 (UTC)


 * No doubt about it - no shortage of spiders in Oz... Maias (talk) 12:28, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for new articles. Sun Creator(talk) 23:09, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries. Thanks for the feedback. Maias (talk) 00:06, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Of the extant turtles, the only species that I know without articles are from the Galápagos tortoise complex, (Chelonoidis niger).
 * C. guentheri / Sierra Negra giant tortoise
 * C. vandenburghi / Volcán Alcedo giant tortoise
 * C. microphyes / Volcán Darwin giant tortoise, although possibly the same as Santiago Island giant tortoise
 * Sun Creator(talk) 11:29, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Noted. Maias (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

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always great
to see you are still around and creating much needed gap filling in the oz biota...

just one small request when making the new talk pages,

please could you fill in the biota (and other) importance as low simply to make it easier for you and others?

it is a basic default value which at least has the assessment at basic level we spent over a year slowly going through extant oz bio articles that had missing importance ratings the otheryear, and I have been caught napping with over 50 (which is really great) items not tagged....

I am sure you would understand, and as I say great to see the new articles - always appreciated !!! JarrahTree 04:57, 18 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reminder. Can do. Cheers. Maias (talk) 05:20, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
 * but if it is ever a problem dont worry about it - your adding articles is really great !! JarrahTree 12:05, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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Barnstar
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 * Thanks for the barnstar, JoJan. Much appreciated! Maias (talk) 23:33, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Crustaceans described in 1786


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Maureen Wroblewitz
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Category:Taxa by author
Hello Maias,

Thanks for your work, including for creating the Category:Taxa named by Robert John Bates. I've noticed your addition of this category to a number of Caladenia species articles and similar adds to articles about species of Wurmbea. I'm not sure I agree with many of these because although Bates and others changed the name of the species, he/they did not describe them. Now we have species that were named by two botanists. In some other cases, (eg. banksias formerly Dryandra) species were "named by" three or more people. The problem is obviously not with your edits, but with the concept of "Taxa named by...". My personal opinion is that the category should refer to "Taxa first described by...". I'd like to read your thoughts on this. (Here's fine.) Perhaps there's guidance on this that I can't find - maybe it should be discussed at WT:WikiProject Plants. Incidentally, there are many orchid species and others "named by R.J.Bates" that were not first described by others, including in the genera Prasophyllum, Microtis, Pterostylis. I guess you're getting to them. Gderrin (talk) 22:44, 9 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Gderrin - I agree that this matter should be clarified. The plant project may be the best place to start, though obviously it affects the various animal projects as well. Meanwhile I will refrain from adding such categories except where it refers to the original describer. Thanks for raising the issue. Cheers. Maias (talk) 23:26, 9 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Will do. Gderrin (talk) 00:02, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Important Bird Areas of the Palestinian territories
Category:Important Bird Areas of the Palestinian territories has been nominated for speedy renaming to Category:Important Bird Areas of the State of Palestine. Please see WP:CFDS. – Fayenatic  L ondon 17:31, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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 * Thanks, Gerda. Maias (talk) 22:27, 8 November 2021 (UTC)