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AFJ edits
Thanks for the great edits and formatting. You've made the article look so much better. The first version, very close to what you saw, was rejected two days ago. Now it looks indisputable. Sam Perkins (talk) 11:57, 28 September 2023 (UTC)


 * You're welcome, and thanks for creating this article! I have an interest in women in journalism, which is a subject we don't cover well. Valereee (talk) 12:20, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You might be interested in the recent group-clean-up of Marian Burros. Added sources which prompted User:Tacyarg (who also added text) to remove the Template:BLP sources. Sam Perkins (talk) 15:58, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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The hoax
Like most hoaxes, it's devious and it takes a bit of unravelling. So let's start at the easy end. Adoption of the Gregorian calendar was protected indefinitely on 15 December 2018. The protecting administrator (who has had his tool removed before) abused it by reverting, instead of protecting the article as he found it. The change he made was this:

While the civil administrations of eastern European countries adopted the Gregorian calendar in the 1910s or early 1920s, none of the national Eastern Orthodox Churches bar the Finnish Orthodox Church have recognised the Gregorian calendar for church or religious purposes

This changed the statement that the Finnish Orthodox Church uses the Gregorian calendar to a claim that it doesn't.  This claim has been locked in for the last five years and it's a deliberate hoax. See which notes:

An exception to this general rule is the Orthodox Church of Finland. Owing to the fact that it makes up less than 2 per cent of the population of a predominantly Lutheran country, it observes Easter according to the New Calendar for practical reasons.

Further evidence of an ulterior motive to these reverts may be seen at Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 September 29. The last two paragraphs were removed within minutes of posting, meaning no one had the opportunity to comment before the section was archived this morning. Best, 146.199.206.18 (talk) 09:29, 7 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Okay, so what you're saying is that was in a content dispute at that article and shouldn't have done the protection/protected the 'wrong' version? I'm not sure I agree; I've certainly protected articles at which I'd previously removed POV-pushing under the understanding that if I'm sure such an edit would be made by 'any reasonable admin', something as mild as a semi is unlikely to be a problem. Don't know that I'd have made it indef, but the additions by IPs had been going on for a while, the previous protection was two years and when it expired the problem started right back up, so at that point indef's really just a judgment call. FPaS had only ever edited that article three times. In each case it was indeed to remove similar content about the Finnish Orthodox church, but I'm still not sure that makes it a content dispute rather than a response to POV-pushing. And as far as I can tell, FPaS seems to think this may be a socking problem by a banned or blocked user. If you are not a blocked user, you should consider creating an account. And forgive me for appearing to assume bad faith, but if you are, you should stop evading.
 * I'm not following what you're saying is evidence at the link to the Humanities desk archives...I don't even find FPaS on the page? I looked in the page history but on a quick skim none of their diffs seemed to be about that section. Can you give me a diff to the removal you're talking about?
 * Actually this is probably what we should be discussing. FPaS, you removed with no edit summary an attempt by an IP to discuss this issue on the talk at the same time you were removing the content and protecting the page? Valereee (talk) 13:30, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * All these IPs are WP:LTA/VXFC, who gets reverted per WP:BANREVERT wherever they post. Please don't feed them. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:51, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * An edit summary would be good. Valereee (talk) 13:59, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The link being provided is to a Long-term abuse page.  Obviously edits removing false information and replacing it with sourced fact are not "Long-term abuse."   The administrator has provided no reasoning, so please ask him to do so per WP:ADMINACCT, and if he doesn't please make (yet another) report about him to ANI. 82.32.75.206 (talk) 15:12, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

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Help
Hello @ValereeeI was created article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangramsingh_Thakur through AFC submission but User:CNMall41 nominated for deletion so I need your help for that. Rajmama (talk) 06:29, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @Rajmama, I'll answer at the article talk page.
 * You are giving other editors the impression you may be editing for pay. You will need to disclose that per the instructions at WP:PAID. You also need to promptly address such concerns on your talk page. Valereee (talk) 15:13, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Restaurants serving Chinese cuisine has been nominated for merging
Category:Restaurants serving Chinese cuisine has been nominated for merging. 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. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:14, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hoping this discussion will help decide how the cuisine categories should be organized. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving lowcountry cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving lowcountry cuisine 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. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:13, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I jist deleted, I don't know what is correct (lowcountry restaurants could be restaurants in the lowcountry or restaurants serving lowcountry cuisine, I mean) but as it's empty, probably not needed at least for now! Valereee (talk) 16:19, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Is that any different than Category:Restaurants in Italy vs. Category:Italian restaurants? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:22, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Restaurants serving Eastern European cuisine has been nominated for renaming
Category:Restaurants serving Eastern European cuisine 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. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the nominations, but hopefully the discussion re: ethnic restaurants has been centralized. Also problematic: Category:Lists of ethnic restaurants, with entries like "Irish-themed" restaurants. I'd say "Irish-themed" is not an ethnicity. Another reason to categorize by cuisine, not ethnicity, IMO. Thanks for collaborating here. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving Polish cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving Polish cuisine 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! 19:13, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving French cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving French cuisine 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving German cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving German cuisine 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! 19:14, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving Southern cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving Southern cuisine 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! 19:14, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving Spanish cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving Spanish cuisine 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving Mexican cuisine


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Restaurants serving Vietnamese cuisine


A tag has been placed on Category:Restaurants serving Vietnamese cuisine 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! 19:15, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Categories
Hello, Valereee,

Sorry to plaster your talk page with CSD C1 notices but the categories you created were emptied. There is an explanation on each article removed about a more suitable category for these pages so you might want to view them, most of the new categories are specific to a place, like Mexican restaurants in San Francisco or other ones like that. In the category world, placing articles in the most specific (but not overly narrow) category is preferred. Thank you and, again, sorry about the flurry of notifications. Liz Read! Talk! 19:24, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I was thinking that some of these categories could become parent categories to those that are focused on ethnic restaurants in different regions but some of those already exist at Category:Ethnic restaurants (and Category:Southern restaurants already exists) so there would be some duplications. You could turn them into category redirects though if you use the correct code/template.
 * The problem with categories is that since Wikipedia has been around for 22 years, if it seems like there is an obvious category tree that is missing, it probably has already been created under slightly different page titles. There aren't many new categories created that stay around for long unless they arise out of a CFD discussion, or it's an annual event like a new yearly sports tournament or a new annual beauty pageant or some country decides to change their name. If it seems like a good idea, someone has probably already had that realizeation before. There are occasional efforts to recategorize complete category hierarchies, like right now, there is an editor who is recategorizing most of the villages in Turkey to be designated "neighborhoods" instead, but that's a project he's been working on for months now and involves recategorizing hundreds if not thousands of different articles. Most folks are not that ambitious or if it's a plan that others disagree with, it's nipped in the bud fairly early.
 * I hope you are having a good weekend, wherever you are. Here in the Northwest U.S., we had a solar eclipse but it's so overcast and cloudy, it didn't make much difference! Take care, Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 21:28, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Sangramsingh Thakur
Since you were mentioned on the talk page, I am hoping you can assist with your admin tools as I don't want to mess anything up by doing a page move. There is a deletion discussion in the works for this page and the creator moved it to mainspace despite it being declined three times. They were given advice about participating in the discussion about their "move to draft" request and instead went to the Teahouse for advice. I think they misunderstood the advice they were given as they took it upon themself to move the page to draft despite it still being under discussion. Are you able to move this back for the remaining term of the discussion or does it matter? CNMall41 (talk) 02:52, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive
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