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2024


Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Thank you for your support on ANI (while I slept). As you know, I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:1972 disestablishments in Nevada
Hello, Tom,

It is very tricky to move categories which is why most CFD discussions end with bots moving categories around and recategorizing articles and subcategories. If you do move a category page, please make sure that all of the contents of the old category are recategoized so that they are in the category with the new page title. Many thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oops, forgot to do that...  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Template talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/redirect
Just to note, on WikiProject-specific templates, we use WikiProject Articles for creation (admin) to avoid errors. Primefac (talk) 12:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Current events portals project tagging
I've noticed you've been creating the talk pages of subpages of the current events portals. I really don't see the need in project tagging all of these especially when there is no need to do so. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 13:19, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * regardless, they were being tagged haphazardly. Now it will be much more obvious how to do so if/when someone wishes to do so in the future. I originally brought it up @ Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current events.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you ! (and thanks for the reminder for the latest big batch :)  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you :) Nwebbvillegas (talk) 17:25, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Igal Ahouvi
~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 19:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject banner shell
Hello. May I ask why you are mass-adding WikiProject banner shells to file talk pages such as this one? In the RfCs discussing the redesign of the banner shell and the deprecation of project-independent quality assessments, there was only community consensus to perform those two tasks, not to mass-add WikiProject banner shells to talk pages, and especially not on talk pages where it would produce no effect (file talk pages are automatically classified as file- or NA-class, so your edits are tantamount to cosmetic edits). I am sure you are well aware that bot-like editing that does nothing except spam editors' watchlists is considered disruptive. Thank you. InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I was under the impression that WPBS be used ubiquitously, but I could be wrong. Adding the shell removes, so it is not a cosmetic edit.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:30, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I would request that the category be adjusted to remove file, template, and category talk pages, where quality assessment is automatic and WPBS serves no purpose. Pinging . InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Please fix AWB edits that are removing table end markup
See this edit for an example. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ it looks like you caught the only 2!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:38, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Careful with what you change
In Special:Diff/1213365807, you changed oldpuffull to oldffdfull. This means that the link goes to the wrong discussion page. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:03, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * all 5 instances. Thanks for finding that.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Noam Bettan
Hello, can you help me give it a linguistic and cleaning review as the user mentioned to me who is suggesting to link it to other articles that it is not very clear to me how to do it. thank you --Acartonadooopo (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I ran my cleanup settings over it, and the page looks ok layout-wise. I've no interest in doing much more than that. You appear to know how to link to other articles, since you have done so in this section's heading.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:31, 30 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much, for the cleanliness, how to remove this template since that template is not at all clear to me, according to the user, I have a connection with the singer, I don't see where else, translating an article from Hebrew to English does not make me familiar at all to the singing person What happened volume for the elimination of that template Acartonadooopo (talk) 22:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * please discuss your COI (or lack thereof) at User talk:Acartonadooopo.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  23:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

I have a task that you might be interested in
We recently changed the title structure for TV seasons to exclude parenthesis (e.g., Loki season 1 rather than Loki (season 1). I have a list of about 500 categories that need to be renamed to follow the article titles, which will require several thousand edits to recategorize all of the episodes listed in those categories. This could be done by a bot, but I tend to prefer more hands-on supervision. If you take this up, please remove completed categories from the list as you go. Cheers! BD2412  T 17:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Scope of WikiProject American football
Tom, per your edits at Template talk:1967 West Penn Conference football standings, and many analogous ones, articles and templates and the like that apply specifically to American college football or American junior college football are not within the scope of WikiProject American football. The scope of WP American football includes general topics related to the sport and only specific team, league, player, and coach articles are do not fall under the scope of a more specific American football-related WikiProject like WikiProject College football or WikiProject National Football League. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 16:08, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * , thank you!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Koziba
Hello! My name is Laurie Koziba, I have been researching my last name for a long while. I have been trying to make contact with writers with no luck. I thank you for this update. Email laurie 173.189.199.234 (talk) 20:20, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Ras Al Khaimah
Hi Tom

I reverted a number of changes you made from Ras Al Khaimah to Ras al-Khaimah using AWB. Ras Al Khaimah is the spelling of the WP article, the currently used spelling and the locally used spelling. I haven't changed the template, but it really should be changed too. The al-Khaimah spelling is antiquated. Happy to chat if this raises any questions! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ - WikiProject Western Asia updated & CSDs filed.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ta! :) Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 16:19, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Adding WikiProject Years
Hi, thanks for cleaning up category talk pages. Looking at Special:Diff/1219087395 and related, I don't think WikiProject Years would belong per my discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 17:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I see...  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  18:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Deletion nomination for Category:American politicians who are the sole member of their party in statewide office
Hello Tom,

I saw that you recently edited the WikiProject box for Category:American politicians who are the most recent member of their party to hold statewide office. I created another category, Category:American politicians who are the sole member of their party in statewide office. It has been nominated for deletion here. I find their arguments incredibly ill-conceived - one voter glibly suggested it was as useful as a category for politicians who like eating chips. All who have voted thus far have not substantively responded to my rebuttals.

Since you clearly find value in a very similar category, is there any chance you and perhaps others from WP Biography could please vote Keep on the discussion? You might well see them as distinct for whatever reason... The prominent/accomplished administrator who nominated it thinks categories shouldn't be "temporary." Of course Wikipedia is updated to reflect current events like elections, and he has been unable to point to a formal rule requiring categories to be permanently applicable to biographies (i.e. not subject to regularly scheduled changes of employment). Still, he is undoubtedly respected on here. In that case I will of course respect your opinion too, but it was worth a shot!

Thank you very much for your consideration. 1Matt20 (talk) 16:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Category talk pages
Hello, Tom.Reding,

Please do not make category talk pages for categories that the CFD bot has moved. It usually doesn't leave a redirect so there is no category page and these category talk pages just get speedy deleted as orphaned talk pages. I've run into this over a dozen times now with your use of AWB. I'm not sure where you are getting a list of category talk pages to create but it is obviously not up-to-date. I realize there has been a system lag over the past two days so perhaps that is part of the problem. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 21:07, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * For some reason, you created a talk page for the maintenance category, Category talk:Proposed deletion as of 10 April 2024, which was deleted as soon as it was emptied prior to you creating a talk page! And still you created a talk page even though there are never discussions on the talk pages of maintenance categories which is why they rarely are created. Please, do not randomly create talk pages through AWB for categories that have already been deleted, it just creates work for admins who must them delete them. I'm not sure in what other ways I can get this message across to you. You are responsible for all of your edits, including those with AWB so do not make any unnecessary page creations. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * yes, I created it accidentally and quickly blanked it. I checked for and excluded deleted cats yesterday, and again today after your first message. I'll be more stringent in the future by excluding cats with CSD/CFD tags on them, which should solve the problem.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  02:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * But you just did it again with Category talk:Auburn, Alabama municipal elections! Liz Read! Talk! 16:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * this morning, before Category:Auburn, Alabama municipal elections was deleted, I excluded all cats that either didn't exist, or contained . For good measure, I also excluded all cat talks that contain , but clearly a different check is needed. What text did Category:Auburn, Alabama municipal elections contain prior to deletion? Does the CxD text get removed prior to deletion, or does it remain on the page until the page is deleted?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Category talk pages WP Cities
Hello, yesterday you added WP Cities to 16 categories of Ukrainian football clubs, player, manager and staff categories. Those categories do not fall under Cities WP. I will revert those additions. Wanted to give an explanation before you are notified of reverts.Ceriy (talk) 12:33, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * if it's the FC of a city, then I believe the cat falls under WP Cities, since it's something directly related to that city and may be used to improve the city article.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Unsupported parameter "Frankfurt" in WikiProject Germany
Hi, WikiProject Germany no longer supports a "Frankfurt" parameter, as WikiProject Frankfurt has been marked as inactive for a while. Articles with that unsupported parameter will appear in Category:Pages using WikiProject Germany with unknown parameters, which I am monitoring to keep empty. I've removed the instruction on WikiProject Frankfurt relating to the parameter (in case that instruction was what you were following).  Harryboyles  00:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * so it is, thank you! Actually, I added the parameter several months ago, when I started getting into WikiProject tagging, using the instructions at WP Germany. I noticed a few weeks ago that there are a good # of unupdated /docs after a mass parameter culling mid-to-late last year (before my tagging efforts started), so I've been working on getting closer to parity (via template code) since then.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  01:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Architecture on Category:Fire Emblem: Three Houses characters
Why did you add WikiProject Architecture on Category:Fire Emblem: Three Houses characters. It really does not fit at all. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a video game that has little to do with architecture. If it was a bot edit that was searching for categories with the word "house", I understand. (Oinkers42) (talk) 15:14, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

File talk page categories/shells
Hi Tom — is there a particular reason that you are adding project banner shells to talk pages of files in only a single category, e.g. here? Is there consensus to do this at scale? If so, it would be much preferable for such work to be done by bot to reduce watchlist clutter and increase accountability.  Sdkb  talk 16:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm just doing a little each day to minimize watchlist clutter. Even bots received watchlist complaints during the PIQA implementation due to the large # of pages they were editing and their speed, so I can understand why they're not operating on this low-priority task.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That does not answer my first two questions. And, 2.4 million edits into your wiki career, you should understand which tasks are appropriate to do by bot. This is absolutely one of them. Please file a BRFA if you wish to proceed with it.  Sdkb  talk 16:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * are yall planning to run on these pages and a lot more in at some point?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Sure. I was ready to handle file namespace before. Now, you can just add the file namespace to option "PIQA_namespace" on the settings page, and the robot will handle it the next time. Kanashimi (talk) 00:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Cities & Ubachsberg
Why did you add WikiProject Cities to Talk:Ubachsberg? The article is already part of WikiProject Villages. A place can imho not be a village and a city at the same time. The Banner talk 13:45, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
 * because WP Villages is defunct, and Ubachsberg meets WikiProject Cities.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:48, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, that sounds reasonable. The Banner  talk 14:20, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Bot account
Could you please create a bot account to fulfill edits like done with Estonian villages, et Talk:Valgevälja. You probably achieve some kind of contributions record, but please think about other users as well whose watchlists are extremely populated after your bot-like edits--Estopedist1 (talk) 11:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

List of minor planets: 686001–687000
Hi Tom I've just seen that in that list 2 items were missing: 686067 & 686068. I have added only the data I need for my translation into Italian. Please verify and complete with all other values

Thanks YukioSanjo (talk) 01:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * interesting... The MPC apparently omitted the discovery site for those lines and a few others. I'll account for this and have another run-through soon. Thanks for finding!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  10:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk header
Hi! You seem to be going round removing Talk header from talk-pages, but without giving any reason for doing so. Is there some discussion of this somewhere? If so, would you kindly link to it in your edit summary? And if there's consensus to remove it from the project, isn't that a task that'd be much better done by a bot (to reduce watchlist clutter, as usual)? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm removing Talk header per its own documentation @ Template:Talk header: This template should be placed in accordance with talk page guidelines. This template does not need to be placed on every talk page, and should not be indiscriminately added to talk pages using automated editing tools. Talk pages that are frequently misused, that attract frequent debate, articles often subject to controversy, articles that typically attract new editors, and highly-visible or popular topics may be appropriate for this template., so I don't see why it should stay on Template talk:Donkey breeds of Spain and Portugal, Template talk:Chicken breeds of Japan, etc. I'll add that link to the summary to be more obvious. I'm not simply removing the template, but doing a large amount of additional cleanup and standardization which requires supervision, so I'll slow down for watchlists' sake.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  21:53, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk header and archives
Is there future intent to go around and add the archive template to pages that have archives and the talk header has been removed? Moxy 🍁 17:36, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * do you have an example? I've been avoiding talks with any mention of archive. I'll go back and look for any archive subpages, just in case.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  18:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * All good.... I see you got it! Moxy 🍁 19:33, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Richard Zander
~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:26, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Help with Oasis Management, NPOV issues
Hi. Nice to meet you. I noticed your previous editing on other Hong-Kong based companies, and was hoping you'd be willing to help with the request I've made on the Talk page of Oasis Management. There's a lot of information included there that seems to be unnecessary, skewing the neutrality of the content. Would value your input and assistance. Thank you, SandraMurphy33 (talk) 13:19, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

"Goerdel's theorem" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goerdel%27s_theorem&redirect=no Goerdel's theorem] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 20:27, 15 July 2024 (UTC)