User talk:Tim!/Archive 23

Category:2 ft 9 in gauge railways in the United Kingdom
Category:2 ft 9 in gauge railways in the United Kingdom, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:32, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Film categories
Hi Tim! You may be interested in this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 12:29, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Fencing World Cup
Hi Tim, I removed part of the categories you added on the various Fencing World Cup seasons. The Fencing World Cup isn't a single event, but a series of competitions closing with the Olympic Games or the World Championships. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 18:39, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Youth in Armenia
Category:Youth in Armenia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Hovhannes Karapetyan 21:46, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:30, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Films about the United Kingdom
Category:Films about the United Kingdom, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:23, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote
Hi Tim!. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (38th to be exact!), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 16:49, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Re:Thanks on Category:2015 by city
You're welcome. XD Jackninja5 (talk) 10:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Please stop making unneeded, vague categories
Hi Tim. Can you please stop making categories that are unneeded, vague, and out of context.

Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Reform_in_Italy

DplaTx (talk) 19:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * you can nominate it at WP:CFD if you think it ought to be deleted. Tim! (talk) 20:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * And while you're about it you might want to use more meaningful edit summarires than "Aspergers". Tim! (talk) 21:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks...
... for your category work related to sculptures/statues. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:26, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:Cricket by city
Category:Cricket by city, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Jack | talk page 14:43, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Senegal
Hi, can you split Category:Populated places in Senegal by region and empty Category:Villages in Senegal to whatever populated place cat applies? I just started Category:Populated places in the Ziguinchor Region‎. Most will be in Ziguinchor Region‎ I think as I stubbed a bunch a while back. If it's just xxx is a village in Senegal by default put it int Ziguinchor Region category. I may continue working on them at some point and can reassess them then.♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:19, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll have a look. Tim! (talk) 09:52, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Categorisation of Iceland-related articles
I've noticed that you've been busy categorising Iceland-related articles. Keep up the good job. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 06:14, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) Tim! (talk) 06:15, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Annual editions in Category:20th century in Paris
In February you filled Category:20th century in Paris and Category:21st century in Paris with editions of Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. I don't think a century category is suited for such mass addition of an annual event. I have added Category:Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe to Category:Sports competitions in Paris so the annual editions come under the category tree starting at Category:Paris. That seems sufficient to me when we don't have categories for individual years in Paris. If editions of a horse race are in Category:20th century in Paris then several other annual events in Category:Sports competitions in Paris could be there just as well, but I think the category would be ugly if it's flooded with annual editions of the same events. Do you object to removing them? I don't recall seeing such a system before for a century or general history category. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:34, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Other century in city categories contain annual events like this; see for example Category:20th century in New York City containing the annual Grammy Awards. The Paris century categories are getting quite large but I imagine some subcategories will eventually appear if it becomes unmanageable. Tim! (talk) 06:58, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * List of Grammy Award ceremony locations is not an annual event in the same city. That's why Category:20th century in New York City doesn't duplicate all the editions in Category:Grammy Awards ceremonies which couldn't just become a subcategory of a New York category. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:07, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Shakedown.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Shakedown.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 09:49, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Category:Years in Zanzibar
Category:Years in Zanzibar, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Ricky81682 (talk) 03:07, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:20th century in Mozambique
Category:20th century in Mozambique, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Ricky81682 (talk) 09:01, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Centuries in Frankfurt
Category:Centuries in Frankfurt, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey
Well, when you change an incorrect category to a correct one that also happens to result in an empty category, it is not really emptying a category. It is fixing an error. That article is not about architecture, but about the building and how it was used and who lived nearby. Vegaswikian (talk) 15:35, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:1870s establishments in Germany
Category:1870s establishments in Germany, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Ricky81682 (talk) 06:33, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Categories
Hi, Tim!, I see you are creating hundreds of brand new categories, most of which are practically empty and will be eventually deleted. Can you slow down a little and only create categories for which there is a need? Liz Read! Talk! 14:09, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you provide an example of a category which will eventually be deleted ? Tim! (talk) 17:28, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Bots
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Rename entertainment-related lists
Please see my proposal to speedily rename: Hugo999 (talk) 23:26, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Category:America entertainment-related lists to Category:American entertainment-related lists perC2C
 * Category:Nigeria entertainment-related lists to Category:Nigerian entertainment-related lists
 * Category:South Korea entertainment-related lists to Category:South Korean entertainment-related lists
 * Category:United Kingdom entertainment-related lists to Category:British entertainment-related lists

Indonesia
if doing bulk cat work on Indonesia, please note that 'asia' is not necessarily the default parent, there are considerable amounts of 'southeast asia' defaults as well, it is not set in stone at asia. cheers JarrahTree 00:36, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Currently there is a tree for but not for . Tim! (talk) 05:46, 23 June 2015 (UTC)