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Aqualand?

Oops...

I was welcoming several different new editors with new articles...
--A. B. 14:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC) (the TypoKing)

Kutsher's Camp Anawana

This article has come a long way!

I was not trying to stick a finger in your eye by tagging it for notability. And, as you figured out already, you can take the tag off the article yourself; there's no one hanging around tracking it.

New articles by new editors are deleted almost instantaneously if there is any hint that they might not be notable. Personally I think more experienced editors can be a bit too quick on the trigger when they do this. This is probably because most new articles are, in fact, not notable and never will be; many are also "vanity articles". When I can, I try to help a few newcomers such as yourself that have submitted promising articles; mostly this consists of welcoming them, giving them a few pointers and then trying to defend their article from deletion. That's the whole reason I put the notability tag on the article -- it flags one of the people "patrolling" new articles for potential deletion that at least one semi-experienced editor has reviewed the page, noted problems and left comments on the talk page. At that point, they are supposed to look at the talk page before deleting the article. "New page patrollers" sometimes delete these articles anyway, in which case I make a big fuss and the article gets restored (with some grumbling).

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Postcrossing

Hi there

I invite you to put this userbox on your userpage !

File:Ee337.JPG

This user is addicted to Postcrossing.

Just click edit this page to see the code for it ! Happy Postcrossing! Swollib 11:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Postcrossing?!?!?

Postcrossing?!? As a longtime deltiologist I can't believe that I never heard of this before!! Where can I sign up? Paul 02:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah Postcrossing is a lot of fun! go to http://www.postcrossing.com There is a quick registration process. Then you request up to five addresses and you will also get a unique ID number for each. Put the ID on the card, send them off and then wait for the card to be arrived and then registered. Once the card is registered, you will places on the list to receive a card! THe only thing is you can get or receive cards from your own country. All cards are from or sent to countries other than your own! Postcard Cathy 04:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Masa (restaurant)

Excellent article! WP:DYK it immediately! - crz crztalk 23:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

This is the first I have heard of this. How do I do the WP:DYK? Postcard Cathy 23:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll try and make a suggestion on the talk page there... - crz crztalk 00:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... no go... it's too short.... if you can add two paragraphs, perhaps about what food is offered and which celebs have visited or the Chef's other endeavors, we can swing it... - crz crztalk 00:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey can you do it? It is pushing 7:30 here and I want dinner! Also, you would know how to do the DYK thingy! If you check the article that I referenced (the one that talks about the $300 prix fixe meals), it talks about specific types of sushi offered and other dishes. Postcard Cathy 00:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey thanks for expanding! I got back on after I decided to make a frozen Freschetta pizza for dinner and while it was cooking I thought I would try to expand the article but you beat me too it! Now, how do I access the articles on the DYK page? It sounds like a cool page to check out! Postcard Cathy 00:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll go make a DYK suggestion... - crz crztalk 00:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

TYVM! Postcard Cathy 00:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

done - crz crztalk 01:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

On December 4, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Masa (restaurant), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Cathy. Well done for creating this article. Feel free to self-nominate in future. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! But I am still unclear on how to that! Postcard Cathy 01:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

CONGRATS! WE'RE ON THE MAIN PAGE! It's a first for me as well. - crz crztalk 01:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I saw! Thanks for your help in making this happen! It wouldn't have happened without your help! Postcard Cathy 06:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Camp Roosevelt (Monticello)

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Camp Roosevelt (Monticello), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Misplaced Pages, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Camp Roosevelt (Monticello). You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. M a rtinp23 21:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Time will tell if it is worthy of deletion or not but may I make one suggestion: in the future, please wait more than a minute or two before suggesting a page for deletion. I often save my work in the beginning in order to make sure that the work in progress in saved and not timed out or lost if I lose my internet connection. A little patience often goes a long way. At least wait 15 or so minutes for proposing deletion to make sure no further edits are on the way. Postcard Cathy 21:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Popcat

Please note that popcat is intended to be used to request that existing articles be allocated to a category not as a request for batch creation of new articles. Thank you. Hawkestone 18:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I never said it was Hawkestone. I know how to read and to comprehend what I read. I understood that. Postcard Cathy 01:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not upload images in the GIF format

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David Israel entry

It appears that you created this entry. Please see my comments in the discussion section. I haven't wanted to make any changes without giving you a chance to respond. Vbd 09:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems that there are two different people with this name who worked in sports journalism. I went to High School with THIS David Israel and he was definitely graduated HS in 1980 making him 44 or so. Postcard Cathy 16:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

help me

How do you revert a page? It seems like someone chopped off a bunch of info on DeWitt Clinton, the onetime Governor of New York State. It would seem like a shame if someone had to basically start over. Postcard Cathy 22:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Click on the page history and find the last good revision and click edit add a edit summary stating that your reverting and click submit and the page will be reverted back to the revision that you were viewing. see Help:Reverting for more information. Hope this helps— WilsBadKarma 22:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

How cool! I always wanted to know how to do that! It worked. Thanks alot! Postcard Cathy 22:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've created a {{Prod-nn}} template, which could be of interest... Addhoc 13:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Radcliffe College alumni

I wanted to point out to you the recent decision to redirect "Harvard College alumni" into Category:Harvard University alumni. I confess, I was surprised that a "Radcliffe College alumni" category did not exist. However, I think that creating the category may run into similar problems -- that people think of the undergraduate college as synonymous with the University. This is less true with Radcliffe than with Harvard College, but it happens nonetheless. Of course, you also have to contend with a historical distinction that no longer exists. Food for thought?--Vbd (talk) 22:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

As far as I am concerned, if Barnard College can have a category apart from Columbia University, than so can Radcliffe and Harvard! Postcard Cathy 22:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't entirely disagree. I just have some concerns about it. It may not be much of a distinction, but Barnard remains an independent college, while Radcliffe does not.

The one specific request I have for you is that, for the sake of consistency, the category be moved from Category:Harvard University to the subcat Category:Harvard University alumni, where all of the University's schools have their individual alumni categories listed (those that exist).--Vbd (talk) 23:00, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

OK I will do that That makes a bunch of sense! In about 3 minutes, double check I did what you asked correctly - I had trouble getting the correct version of your message and want to make sure I read what you wrote correctly! Postcard Cathy 23:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! You did it right! I made a minor adjustment so that it will show up on the first page of Category:Harvard University alumni rather than on the page with the "R's." I also added it to another category Category:Alumnae of women's universities and colleges. Thanks again.--67.161.13.243 00:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC) (sorry, I'm not signed in and I'm in a hurry.)

Thanks alot! We have some things in common, besides my loving Montreal! I graduated college two years before you and was accepted at BU but went to GW instead. I did end up at BU for grad school though - in Public Health! I still live in the area! Keep in touch! Postcard Cathy 00:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Loving Montreal is key! You obviously are a discerning individual. I had a great time at BU as an undergrad. My impression is that the School of Public Health is well-regarded -- congratulations!

I wanted to give you a head's up about a Cfm I nominated. It came about in part because you made me think about Radcliffe. Thanks.--Vbd (talk) 02:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah. I forgot to suggest that you add a note to the Category:Radcliffe College alumni page that provides parameters for including people. Is the cut-off date 1977? 1999? Did all women who graduated before 1977 get Radcliffe degrees or were some considered Harvard students? --Vbd (talk) 02:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Categorizing AfD debates

I see you recently made a bunch of AfD nominations. You forgot to enter a debate category in the {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} tag. Please go through your recent nominations and categorize them so people who follow AfD can find ones of interest to them. I also note your userpage says you are a member of the uncategorized task force, so this should come naturally to you ;-) —dgies_c 21:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Nah, doesn't come naturally to me. I don't like the way the instructions for these things are written since I usually have trouble when I try to put them into place! I stick to going to the uncategorized pages category and try to put them in the right place. Much easier! Postcard Cathy 11:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Pirates at Ocean's Edge

I've significantly edited the article since you nominated it, it's improved as far as it can be at this point, so unless you have some other reason for your nomination, would you mind withdrawing it? In any case, AFD is not for cleanup, and I'm hoping you weren't familiar with the subject matter, and so didn't know that this is a expansion set for a highly notable game. If so, please try to learn about something before you nominate it, and if you just wanted it cleaned up, don't use AFD for that. Use {{cleanup}} and other tags. And also, please stop putting AFD notices at the bottom. Proper form is to put them at the top. FrozenPurpleCube 16:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Been deleted already! Yes, I agree that clean up shouldn't be the only reason that an article is nominated for deletion. But it also talked about a future game IIRC and a few other problems I listed in the reasons for my requesting it be deleted. And yes, I know AFDs usually go on top but stop being so anal - if they go on the bottom and not on the top because I do it without thinking, Wiki and the world won't come to an end. BTW, if the Pirates at Ocean's Edge is as important as you imply that it is, then write a new article on the subject and write a good article about it! Let us know why it is important. Apparently the people who voted to delete it didn't agree with you about how important it was, based on what was written. And on that vein, that is why I AfD'd it after the prod was removed. You are right - it could be more important than I first believed it to be. But as I said before, not enough people thought it important or it would have been kept! Postcard Cathy 16:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, you are mistaken, it hasn't been deleted. Hmm, I thinking the ' is a problem. That's another problem. The article itself isn't something that is likely to be deleted though, if you check the AFD, nobody else has even responded. (BTW, AFD is not a vote, so nobody votes there anyway). There is a reason why these things go on for five days, and there is no CSD criteria which this meets. As this is an announced product, it will not be troubled by the crystal ball effect. Even if it weren't produced, that would still be a reason to keep the information.

Beyond that, I understand you may not like being chided, but as I see it, you are very sloppy about your AFD's, it is inappropriate for you to add the AFD template to the bottom, as the template itself is supposed to be at the top. Everybody makes mistakes, but you seem to not even care. FrozenPurpleCube 17:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah supposed to be at the top. I will see you somewhere in space as the world has blown up because I put it at the bottom instead of the top. Sometimes, Manty, you have to be less OCD and say some things just aren't worth complaining about. Complain about things like someone saying George Washington was America's 15th President or that he had nothing to do with the Revolutionary War but in fact was the hero of WWI. Those are things worth being picky about. Whether an AfD goes on the bottom or the top of the page is not worth discussing! Postcard Cathy 17:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

What discussion? If you want to propose a change to the general procedure, that would be a different page. Personally, I don't even see a point to complaining about George Washington being the 15th president or part of WWI, that's just vandalism, you fix it and move on. In any case, if I hadn't noticed you doing it multiple times, I wouldn't care, but when you continue to do it, it tells me maybe you needed to know that's the wrong way to do things. It's sloppy, and your hostile attitude here is not convincing me of anything except that the concern that you need to show more diligence is even more warranted. FrozenPurpleCube 19:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Just a friendly reminder to use an edit summary when proposing deletion for an article. Edit summary usage is always good, but it is especially important that edit summaries are used when proposing deletion. The reason for this is that articles proposed for deletion that later have the {{prod}} tag removed should not be proposed for deletion again, but rather sent to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. The only easy way to check if an article was previously proposed for deletion is to look at the edit history and the edit summaries people have left before. Thanks! Oo7565 18:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Radcliffe College alumni

I was looking for such a category the day before you created it for Ellen Biddle Shipman. You read my mind! Cornell Rockey 21:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Radcliffe College alumni follow-up

Hi. I'm not sure if you missed my earlier note (see above) or whether you didn't have a response to it. I was hoping to get some clarification from you about what might be a reasonable cut-off date for referring to someone as a Radcliffe alumna. Please let me know what you think.--Vbd (talk) 02:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry missed that! Good question. I am not positive what the answer is but my gut tells me that regardless of what the degree says, it depends on what the internal paperwork says. I remember back in the 70s when the first merge happened. You were still considered a Radcliffe student but the dorms were merged with Harvard for coed dorms and you were allowed to take courses at either college. But IIRC you were still considered a Radcliffe student. Even though now I live only three or so miles away, I am not sure what the deal is. I know on local maps printed today the area is listed as Radcliffe College. They do offer fellowships and the like at what remains.... I don't know what to say! Postcard Cathy 09:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about it primarily in terms of undergraduates. Radcliffe continues to exist in the form of an "Institute for Advanced Study." Here's a brief history: "Harvard degrees were awarded to Radcliffe students for the first time in 1963, and in the same year women were admitted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. . . . In 1977, Harvard and Radcliffe agreed that Radcliffe would delegate to Harvard all responsibility for undergraduate education of women and the management of undergraduate affairs. After the 1977 Agreement, Radcliffe College devoted increasing attention to cultivation and development of research and postgraduate programs, having turned over almost all responsibility for collegiate affairs to Harvard College. . . . 1999, the governing bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe completed the merger of the two institutions. Harvard College assumed full responsibility for the education of undergraduate women." Between 1977 and 1999, the schools were entirely integrated, although I think women were still nominally considered to be enrolled as Radcliffe students. Until 1999, diplomas were signed by the presidents of both Harvard and Radcliffe. 1999 is definitely a bright line. I'm just not sure what to do with graduates between 1977 and 1999. Maybe it will need to depend on what the source material says. But I'd like to come up with a guiding sentence to put on the category page, if possible.--Vbd (talk) 23:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking something along the same line but I really have no opinion on the matter, at least not a strong one. Whatever you think is best, go with it! Postcard Cathy 14:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for that information. --Runningcupcake03 18:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Denzel Washington's awards and nominations

Hi, you recently prod'ded the above page, with a reason that indicated you merged the content to Denzel Washington. While I think your action was the proper one regarding the merge, I felt it important to point out to you that the Gnu Free Document License requires that a record of the history be kept whenever a merge occurs. You can see this at WP:MERGE which says "Merging — regardless of the amount of information kept — should always leave a redirect or, in some cases, a disambiguation page in place" . FrozenPurpleCube 02:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Award of a Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		The Barnstar of Diligence is hereby awarded in recognition of extraordinary scrutiny, precision, and community service. Awarded by Addhoc 17:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

raven

Please note that per the consensus at WP:EPISODE, individual episode articles should not be created until there is a significant amount of notable information to include in them, and that the preference is to expand the article first into a list of episodes, which raven already has, and then into individual seasons, which is the next step. Also, 7 of the articles have already been redirected at AFD, which I have redirected them, and updated the main page. I'm investigating the process/policy to see what will happen to the remainder, but there is a very good chance they will ALL be redirected back to the list of episodes. ⇒ SWATJester 18:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Double note, per consensus at WP:EPISODE and support at the relevant topic on the administrator's noticeboard, I will be redirecting the individual episode pages back into the main list of episodes. If you have further improvements to make, you should make them to the list of episodes page. The next step, according to WP:EPISODE, is to begin working on a page for the seasons, in which the plot lines for each season can be discussed. Considering the content and low-viewer base for Raven compared to prime-time shows, it is unlikely to ever meet the threshold for notability to include individual episode articles. ⇒ SWATJester 18:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Changes to "Caroline Kaufer" aritlce

I started the stub and appreciate both the changes you've made and the removal of the tag. I too felt the article was better than many other stubs but realized as a contributor, it would not have been disinterested of me to remove the tag. Interlingua 17:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Lloyd a Mr Pinc

Revisited it, and while it's borderline as nonsense, it's probably also a db-band as well. And nothing sensible seems to have come of the article since you tagged it. So I went and deleted it. Thanks. Dina 17:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, sometimes I feel like editors use the nonsense tags incorrectly too much, and I pull them. The day I pulled that tag the CSD was pretty backlogged with badly tagged articles. This one was speediable for a couple of reasons, so it seemed worth revisiting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Dina 17:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Two-spirit

Namaste in agape
Walking my talk in Beauty

B9 hummingbird hovering 15:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

American Nightmare

Hi, you have placed a prod on American Nightmare. This article was supposed to be a redirect but the atricle keeps getting recreated with little or no useful information. The redirect was protected for a time and then semi-protected, but still seems to be getting reverted to a stub. The last person to do this apprears to claim some copyright violation in having the redirect.

I have left it but think that it should be reverted to the redirect to Give Up the Ghost again, and protected to prevent it been changed yet again. If it is deleted then it would need protection from recreation.

Keith D 13:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I have previously reverted several times but have not got any means of protecting it. It would need an admin person for that.

Keith D 13:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It can be deleted, but I would expect it to be recreated within days.

Keith D 22:11, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Wild In the Country (festival)

Hi, please remember that when a speedy deletion has been declined the tag should not be re-added. If you disagree with my decision the article can be prodded or an AfD started. Thanks, Malla nox 22:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Oak Tree Village

Thanks. how did the rest of us miss this one? DGG 00:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Hanukkah Harry

I have substantially rewritten the Hanukkah Harry article to address the specific issues you had raised. The article as it existed when you submitted your nomination deserved to be speedy deleted. Previous incarnations omitted the nonsense, but lacked sources. The current version provides details and sources regarding the Saturday Night Live skit and of multiple popular culture references. Please review the article to see if it does meet standards as it currently exists. My best regards to the Five Towns. Alansohn 03:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for rewriting it. I still think it should be up to the community. There seems to be some consensus that even as an SNL Skit, it is not wiki worthy. And the guy thought he was being sneaky and copied the same article under the title Chanukah Harry! BTW, left the 5 Towns as soon as I graduated HS! Postcard Cathy 03:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
- I moved away almost 25 years ago (now in New Jersey), but all of my family is still in the area. I wanted you, as nominator, to be sure to see the changes reflected, as you had requested. I wasn't sure that it would pass muster when I started with the rewrite, but I was surprised by the number of references to the character in the media. I must agree that the duplicate article was not justified. Alansohn 03:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
  - I graduated HS in '81. Were you at Lawrence or Hewlett? 172.129.222.85 09:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
    - We must be about the same age, but I went to HS in the city. Alansohn 11:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

accusation of vandalism

You left an unsigned comment in my talkpage saying that I vandalized Misplaced Pages. Please review the history of anal beard. You will see that I only did a redirect to hair. The vandalism was done by somebody else. --Sonjaaa 04:08, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

The article's history showed you as the first person to do anything with the article, IIRC. That is why I put the tag on your talk page. Postcard Cathy 09:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Geogre's Law

See User:Geogre#Sayings of Geogre the Wise (the Geogre's Laws). I realize this is not a real criterion for deletion, but I thought it worth mentioning. -R. fiend 17:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Your prod on Gunning Samuel Bedford

I have removed the proposed deletion notice you placed on Gunning Samuel Bedford because I did not understand the explanation you gave, which was "duplicate page." Please let me know what page you think this is a duplicate of, and perhaps we can figure out how best to solve the problem. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 20:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

In response to your edit summary (it was an IP's edit summary, but I assume that was you logged out), the reason I did not find the article when I looked for it was because I checked the disambiguation page at Gunning Bedford and Gunning S. Bedford was not listed there, although two other articles about people named Gunning Bedford were. I have added Gunning S. Bedford to that page so that people can find it easily in the future. I also agree with the person who decided that making Gunning Samuel Bedford a redirect was the best solution. Regards, Newyorkbrad 18:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Philip Gustafson userpage

Re your warning: I was posting the text of a deleted article (that I deleted myself) to the author's userspace, per the author's request. That was explained in my edit summary. Any reason you warned me for vandalism? NawlinWiki 03:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Because it ended up as a legitimate article, not as something on his user talk page. If it stayed on his user talk page, I wouldn't have had an issue with it. But as it was, it showed up as an article of an already speedy deleted page and that IMHO is vandalism. Postcard Cathy 16:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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Al Wefaq article

Hello. I understand your concern about the Al Wefaq Sabratah article. I will try to improve the article in the next week or two, but I'm not very familiar with the club nor do I read Arabic. I know there are a few wikipedians that have updated some of the Libyan football club articles and I'll ask if any of them can help. Best regards. Jogurney 02:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Football bios

Well it just goes to show how anglo-centric people on wikipedia are. Mr Aam plays football in the top league of Norwegian football. Yet his biogrpahy is not considered "notable" yet a player from division like 7 of english football for example Michael Rankine is worthy? Misplaced Pages needs to try to cover topics evenly in the world. I could never see anybody flagging an ar5ticle on an englush premiership footabller as non notable so why are you doing it to Norway's top division? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 19:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Deleting article on Alfred Small

ok, whatever. you admins delete whatever you do not understand. It was a stub, that I would improve. A. Small is a well-respected researcher. Just look at Google Scholar. But Colbert knows that Misplaced Pages is really the Encyclopedia of Truthiness, and you do whatever you want, you decide arbitrarily and subjectively who is noteable. ok. fine. Alfred Legrand 19:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} I need help in putting up an article for AfD for the second time. the article is Aussie Salute. Postcard Cathy 20:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

It looks like the article was put up for AfD and no consensus was reached so the article was kept. Best Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:47, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Ahh i see you want to nominate it for another AfD. i understand now. Do you want me to do it for you or to post the instructions on this page? Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

here you go: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Aussie Salute (second nomination) just fill in the gaps Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 21:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Glad i could be of help, see you around sometime ;-) Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 21:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Basil Acres

I fail to see why you prodded the above article. He was as his article clearly states a professional sportsman, and is therefor automatically notable. You might want to read up on notability guidelines for Professional Sportspersons. Jcuk 18:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Fuero-Fuego

I have no idea why it is curious, it was made as part of the project to create articles from the Nuttall encyclopedia a while ago & thats all they say. i will not dispute prod --Astrokey44 10:52, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

List of Paris by Nights

Hi Cathy,

If you examine the history of the item, you'll see I created it as a redirect (probably during some AfD/DRV I closed.) An IP later converted this sensible redirect to a pile of nonsense text. I have reverted the title to its original state. While your tagging was not a bad thing (indeed, thank you for finding the damage done!), you might want to check article histories in the future, to see if any good versions remain underneath the nonsense. :) Best wishes, Xoloz 01:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Brave New World

Thanks for your message and information about the new articles. If you read my post on User:Jsmlw you will see that I agree with your detective work! However, I don't agree that just because "Helmholtz Watson" and "Bernard Marx" redirect now that this is the way it always has to be: just yesterday I wrote an article for something that had been a redirect before! Though I must say that the two articles are currently not very informative and a redirect/merge is the way to go. I suggested to Jsmlw that s/he might want to consider their options... including a merge of their information with the Brave New World article, and was waiting a week to see if they would reappear to comment and act. Personally, I think that you should remove the Prod tag from Bernard marx since it would make a good redirect to the BNW article, just has has been done by another user to Helmholtz watson. Just a thought, and thanks for being in touch! --Slp1 12:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Richard Martin

Hi. I stumbled upon the Richard Martin article today (saw your note about name contradiction in Recent Changes) and thought I'd give a shot at establishing notability. I wanted to let you know that I'd moved the expanded article to Richard Martin (director), since research confirms that's what he is. I'm a relative newbie and not sure if the magical Misplaced Pages will notify you of the move, so I figured I'd let you know. :) Moonriddengirl 22:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I had a bit of extra time, so I just went poking around a bit. His name was confirmed by IMDb, but also in a magazine article about Air Bud: Golden Receiver (the one and only reference in his article). I would have liked to have found more about him, but there's not much out there. There's a bio on the IMDb page, but it was supplied by Anonymous. Not exactly verifiable. :) Moonriddengirl 23:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The Virginian (film disamb)

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data on the Bi Mental Health Professionals Association‎ entry

We are really, really sure that this is is a vanity page for a small (very = 38 people) yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiMHP/.

This is not at all to say that the IDEA of such a group is not a very good one.

So someday if the group becomes something other than a shill for it's creator who is herself in the "therapy" biz and looking to drum up customers by adding to her professional reputation by listing "Founder and president of . . . " on her e-mails and flyers (plus explaining how important she is by pointing to her Misplaced Pages Entry which also is IMHO not much better that a vanity page) it could and should be added back in.

If we don't hear from you is it ok to assume "silence = consent" and to undo it back to where it was? We'll put the link on the original article's discussion page and keep checking back if you'd like to talk about this. BiAndBi 01:13, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

PS See that someone had already said it was just a Yahoo Group on the article's discussion page. We've put the link and our comments there too BiAndBi 01:21, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Hope you approve of this solution. We put mention of the groups into the Sheela Lambert article. We expanded a paragraph to talk about a number of Yahoo Groups that were created and put in the links to these three "profesional associations" as "references". Then we turned the actual article into a redirect. Lastly we noted all this on Talk:Bi Mental Health Professionals Association, including the fact that it could be turned back into a regular article should the situation ever call for it. BiAndBi 20:34, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Markus Pöttinger

If you would had done that to begin with then I wouldn't hav ereverted to begin with. Kingjeff 21:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Janet Reno High School

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I was sorting some articles in the stub category and came across this article - Heritage Junior/Senior High School I went to leave a message on the author's talk page asking for important info like where the school was located and it appears that the article had already been speedied and recreated. I left a note on the talk page of the person who left the speedy message. Is there anything else I should do to figure out if this is a recreated article by the same author of an already deleted page? Postcard Cathy 08:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

You would need to ask an admin (maybe the one who deleted the first time). However, I'd imagine an admin will pick up on it if it does keep been recreated. Unless I misunderstand, don't you know who the author of the first article was (for comparison) though, as you went to their talk page (which should be in your history)?

I'm not an expert on speedy deletion, but, assuming it was speedied on notability or lack of content grounds, I guess, you might be interested to see if you can add to the article and find references that establish its notability. If you don't think you can or can't do so, you may want to consider whether it fits a WP:CSD and tag appropriately again.

Not sure if that helps

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _talk _contrib 09:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Heritage Junior/Senior High School

In reference to the question you placed on my talk page, I did request speedy deletion of Heritage Junior/Senior High School and it was deleted at 18:28, 5 July 2007 (see its deletion log here). The article was then re-created on 11 July 2007 by its original author. --Runner5k 13:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Pran Nath

Good points all. Actually, after trying to improve it, I'm not sure he is notable enough. I've asked the physics people to assess it for notability. Tualha (Talk) 13:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

...And they have, and the article is considerably improved. Guess they just needed to be prodded a little <smirk> Tualha (Talk) 13:33, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Stub

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information, and that is why i did not belive that one article was a stub. Tiptoety 02:08, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree w/ you 100%, but this article did not do any of that, it did not provide any info, and when i did tag it db-empty/no-content, the author just rm all my tags, this was a special situation and i would normaly not handel it like that or such a nazi about it. Tiptoety 02:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Ort in Österreich

{{help me}} Peuerbach For the life of me I can't figure out how to fix infoboxes that show up like this one or somehow or another end up screwed up. Can someone fix this for me so it shows up properly and lead me to some sort of help page that shows me how to do it if I need to in the future? Postcard Cathy 16:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cathy. It appears that you're trying to use a template from the German wikipedia in an article in the English version - and that could be the problem. I don't see a direct translated version, but I think most articles on cities in the English wikipedia use Template:Infobox Settlement. If you find that this doesn't apply to the Peuerbach article, I'd suggest making a Template:Infobox Places in Austria template in this domain that is translated from the German version. Hoof Hearted 17:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello, there is an infobox for austrian towns in en:wikipedia too. You can find it at Template:Infobox Town AT. You can see the result if you look at Linz.--Thw1309 17:21, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Lisa Glasberg

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CfD nomination of Category:Musicians from Dallas

nocat

Is there something better I can use if I can't think of other categories?—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 00:25, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Antoine de La Rochefoucauld and Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld

You had the grace to delete the lemma Antoine de La Rochefoucauld - evidently without checking inter.wiki-links. The result is nonsense, as there a different people of this name: The La Rochefoucauld are amongst the oldest and most renowned families in French nobility. It took me quite a while to get the entry straight, without loosing the links to this family on fr.wiki. So either you restore the entry, or I shall delete the nonsense without caring on the results. ---RPD (talk) 13:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Removing stub templates

Hi, I saw that you recently removed several stub templates from restaurant articles. When you do this, could you please reassess the articles on their talk page? That would make thing allot easier for us.

Thanks, --Jeremy (blah blah) 05:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

PS You in Boston? Interested in arranging a WP gathering? The other cities seem to get together every 4-6 weeks for this.

To change the article assessment is easy

Edit the talk page
In the banner (EG {{WPFOOD}}), change the |class=stub to |class=start or |class=c; use start if the article is a bit more than a stub, C if it is a good deal more (several sections, with a references section etc.)
save it!

--Jeremy (blah blah) 20:13, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Schools

What makes you believe that schools are inherently notable? Computerjoe 's talk 09:45, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

From several years of experience here, I can say that secondary schools are generally considered notable but primary schools, unless something newsworthy occured there, are not. Computerjoe 's talk 18:03, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Has been on AfD for hours. One comment so far, suggesting the school MIGHT be notable due to its green flag status. The comment didn't agree with your belief that schools are automatically notable. Computerjoe 's talk 18:22, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Categorization on International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid)

Dear Cathy, I would like to know more about categorization. I've volunteered to the Industrial Designers' Society of America (IDSA) to edit the IDSA wiki entry. Also, I'm currently writing an article on my user page. Both IDSA and Icsid should be categorized similarly except one organization is international and the other is national (US). The categories seem overwhelming. Is there a quick way to figure out how to categorize an article? By the way, thanks for the links to the beginner help tips. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Designerx (talk • contribs) 17:11, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Jeff Seif

Hey, Thanks for categorizing Jeff Seif, I would have done it but didn't know how. So thanks a million! :) Chachamim (talk) 23:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Armenian professors

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Dr. Seal has requested deletion

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Dr. Seal has emailed Misplaced Pages and requested that the article be removed:

It has already been nominated for deletion as the article may only

minimally meets the criteria for inclusion.  Nonetheless, I request

that the article be deleted in accordance with your deletion policy 4.3:

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I posted this article without Dr. Seal's approval or permission and request that you respect her privacy and remove the article as it also may pose a threat to her work helping disabled veterans.

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AfD nomination of North Star Middle School (Lincoln, NE)

I went ahead and nominated this article for deletion with a more complete rationale on my part. Please continue to contribute your opinion on the nomination page if you're still in favor of keeping this article. Thanks. Hexagon70 (talk) 19:14, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Fellow de-orphaner!

I noticed you added your name to the list of participants in WikiProject Orphanage. We really appreciate your help! The first things you could do to get started with us are:

Read the Misplaced Pages:Orphan page, especially the section marked "Criteria". The page contains a lot of good advice to get you started, as well as the standard procedures we are using to de-orphan articles.
Look at {{orphan}}, {{do-attempt}}, and {{articleissues}} closely and make sure you know how to use them correctly. (It's not difficult, but it is easy to screw up. Trust me, I have.)
Keep de-orphaning! Category:Orphaned articles contains all orphaned articles organized by month. Right now we're just trying to keep up with all the new orphans being created, so please start with the current monthly category. Once those are cleared out, we can start working on the backlog in reverse-chronological order.

Of course, you may have already known all of this, in which case sorry for the spam. Either way, let me know if there's any way I can help you contribute more to the project!

-- OlEnglish 08:00, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Dan Dailey Glass Artist

Not a great article, but surely it isn't a stub? PamD (talk) 17:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Replied on my talk page to your reply. PamD (talk) 17:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Aloys Zötl

Added some additional material and sources. Will try to add more later. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 17:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Fundamental misunderstanding....

AfDs cannot be suspended, only withdrawn. There has been more than enough time given to address the issues involved, not only over the course of the AfD, but also over the course of the lifespan of the article. If anybody could just suspend an AfD discussion, how could any consensus ever be built? MSJapan (talk) 01:01, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Qamar

I came across this article, saw the merge notice, but don't know how to do it.

Regarding the above help request, aboout Qamar;

I've moved the help request here. For help, please ask here, on your own talk page, rather than article discussion pages.

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DEFAULTSORT or Lifetime

Hi Cathy, In stub-sorting I'm catching up on a lot of people you've stubbed and given DEFAULTSORT tags. Have you considered using {{lifetime}}? I tend to use it whenever we have got either a birth or death date, or if the person appears likely still to be living (eg Joe Zerhusen), because for a similar number of keystrokes you get the added bonus of adding them to a birthdate and/or deathdate category or the Category:Living people. The basic syntax is {{lifetime|||Zerhusen, Joe}}, ie null parameters for birthdate and deathdate when we don't have them. Apologies if you know all about this alternative and have chosen not to use it - as far as I know neither option is officially prefered above the other, though there does seem to be heated debate at Template talk:Lifetime. PamD (talk) 09:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Aloys Zötl

hello, if you wish to withdraw this, you can strike the nom statement and below it type, "Nom withdrawn, request speedy keep." Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Category created in advance

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Re making Yaft speediable

Sadly, the fact that the above article is blatantly a non-notable neologism does not make it speediable. Don't ask me why, but two speedy tags have been removed from the article already, both by separate admins. -- role 21:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

surname pages like Adefarasin

Hi Cathy, These pages are categorised - the {{surname}} tag has the effect of Category:Surnames - so shouldn't be labelled as {{uncat}}. I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to label them as {{orphan}}, as they serve a purpose like dab pages, so that it's quite in order for them not to have any incoming links, as far as I know. PamD (talk) 19:17, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

This and that

I have moved the Ag article to Alexis Grace, but I deleted the talk page along with your comment as there was already a discussion on the existing Alexis Grace page.

WP:Set index pages such as England's Looking Glass are a form of disambiguation page and should not have any links, therefor the template {{Orphan}} is not appropriate for such a page. --PBS (talk) 20:20, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

"Uncategorised albums"

Hi, I've found a couple of stubs for films (Satan's Triangle and Second Glance (film)) which you've categorised as "Uncategorised albums". PamD (talk) 08:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

PROD deletion

FYI: I have proposed that Francois Chirumberro, an article you've edited but not created, be deleted. --I dream of horses (talk) 13:59, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Wellfleet Drive-In

Thanks a lot for finding a reasonable rationale for removing the deletion template. I was going to use the argument that the place contains as much notability as the other theaters on the site but your argument hits the nail square on the head. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:24, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Craig Bradshaw

Thanks for this, I was having stub-finding issues StarM 01:17, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Category:Uncategorised films

I can't believe you went to the trouble of adding this template to articles instead of just adding a category! LargoLarry (talk) 14:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

The fact the uncategorised films category exists doesn't mean you have to add to it. I'm going through the list one by one and adding one or more appropriate categories based on information in the articles, such as year of release, country of release, genre, language, etc. It's really not that difficult. LargoLarry (talk) 15:08, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Please stop adding this category to articles. It's just as easy to add an actual category. If you continue I will ask an administrator to intervene. LargoLarry (talk) 17:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Craig Santy prod

Deprodding of Craig Santy

I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from Craig Santy, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}} back to the page. Instead, feel free to list it at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. Thanks!Eldumpo (talk) 21:34, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Drive-In Theaters

I know that you de-nominated the Wellfleet Drive-In Theater from deletion. If I was to create other drive-in theater pages for the Cape, would I have your support in keeping them once they inevitably got tagged? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Haha, I'll be sure to state their notability. I actually found a site which lists the basic details of each drive in on the Cape. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Orphan tags on {{surname}} pages

Hi, I'm confused. You've been putting orphan tags on pages marked with the {{surname}} tag - see Adolfas, Adamou, Blignaut and Dobrovský.

The {{surname}} tag produces text which says, "If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article." The orphan tage produces text which says, "Please introduce links to this page from other articles related to it." It seems strange to have both appearing on the same article.

Historically, {{surname}} pages have never been tagged as orphans - it just doesn't make any sense to do so. Something seems to have gone awry in the classification of these pages, stemming from the fact that English Misplaced Pages (unlike all other languages) does not technically classify {{surname}} and {{given name}} pages as disambiguation pages.

How should we tackle this to prevent the many hundreds of {{surname}} and {{given name}} pages being given a totally inappropriate orphan tag? Hebrides (talk) 10:57, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I am not an expert on either orphans or names. The only thing I can think of, other than contacting someone who knows more than I do on orphans, is to make certain pages disamb articles. Some articles on names are simply disamb articles. Others are more specific, giving things like origins of the name and other historical/factual info. All I know is that as is, they keep popping up as orphaned pages needing tags. If I don't tag them, a bot will. So it is stupid to revert my edits. If there is some sort of forum where you can ask people who know more about orphans, I suggest posting it there. Postcard Cathy (talk) 21:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

That's the strange thing - bots simply don't tag these pages as orphans. What's more, I just tried AWB on the pages - it's very good at checking out orphans and adding the orphan tag - but it doesn't tag these pages. I've created hundreds of {{surname}} pages, and you're the only editor as far as I can remember who has ever put an orphan tag on them. -- Hebrides (talk) 21:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

You are talking to the wrong person. I really don't know what to tell you. I just know there is a bot that categorizes them as orphaned articles needing orphan tags. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Orphan#Suggestions_for_how_to_de-orphan_an_article Both Lonelypages and Untagged Orphans are finding them and putting them on their lists. Please discuss it with them. All I know is that they are showing up as meeting the criteria for orphan tags. And as I said in my orphan summaries, as long as they show up there, I will tag them as orphans. How to NOT get them listed as needing a tag is something I know nothing about.Postcard Cathy (talk) 21:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your link to http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Orphan#Suggestions_for_how_to_de-orphan_an_article, which I've checked out. I then read the talk page for that article, and found that it clearly states that adding orphan tags to surname pages is pointless. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Orphan#Surname_pages, which then links to a further discussion. In view of this, would you like to remove those orphan tags you inserted, or would you like me to do it? Sorry about this - it's always a bit discouraging when you find that some work you've done has to be undone - but hey that's life! Btw I had a look at your "user contributions" and you do soooo much brilliant hard work for WP - you put me to shame! Cheers (and admiration) -- Hebrides (talk) 21:51, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't meant to sound cranky or rude but I was so done with this a long time ago. As long as they appear on the lists of articles to be tagged, I will tag them because as I understand it, if I don't then a bot will. So do as you want. The issue as I see it is how not to be listed by those tools. Until the tools don't list them anymore, they will be tagged. Please don't follow up with me again on this topic (but feel free to talk with me on others! :P) since I feel I am repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating..... Postcard Cathy (talk) 21:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Let me quote from Wikipedia_talk:Orphan#Surname_pages:

Is there any point in surname pages being labelled "Orphan"? It just clutters the page unnecessarily. There are unlikely to be any useful links to such a page - it serves a role similar to a disambiguation page, and may or may not also have information about the surname as a word - and even in this function there are not likely to be links to it, though it will be valuable to people who use "Go" or "Search" in entering WP to find out about the name. For a recent example, see Abu Taleb, where an orphan tag has been added, removed, replaced. PamD (talk) 15:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I agree. Most surname pages are disambiguation pages & the orphan criteria doesn't apply. -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I have now raised this issue at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Orphanage#.7B.7Bsurname.7D.7D_pages and suggest that any further responses should go there - not so much "Forum-shopping" as an attempt to find the best place to discuss my concerns. PamD (talk) 08:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, they should be called set indices. -- œ 00:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Also, I recommend you read Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Orphanage#.7B.7Bsurname.7D.7D_pages as it makes clear that the orphan criteria will very soon be changed since surname pages are currently wrongly classified as orphans. It's going to change very soon. Don't waste your time tagging them. It will all have to be undone. BTW I actually thought you'd be pleased that I was saving you from wasting your time - please don't get irritated. -- Hebrides (talk) 22:07, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Cathy, the same applies to {{given name}} pages such as Chrissie. A moment's reflection shows that adding orphan tags to such pages is pointless. I suggest you ask for the toolserver script to be amended so that it doesn't flag surname and given name pages, since they are just variants of dab pages. Good luck -- NSH001 (talk) 22:26, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

It isn't an issue for me but it seems to be an issue for you, Hebrides and others. I threw out talking to the toolserver editor for those of you that have an issue with it. It is a Mexican standoff. The rules say if it is on that list, it should be tagged. I am going to tag it. If you feel it shouldn't be tag, do what you feel you should do to make sure it doesn't end up on the list of articles to be tagged. Now, this really is my final time discussing this topic. I have repeated myself too many times. If you and anyone else don't want names to be tagged as orphans, do what YOU feel you need to do to make sure it doesn't end up on a list of articles to be tagged. Postcard Cathy (talk) 22:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Cathy, you say you're a member of Mensa on your user page, so this surely shouldn't be difficult for you to see. Surely I don't need to explain the obvious to you? The Chrissie article has been around for 8 months, and no bot has attempted to tag it in that period (not surprising, of course). The correct course of action is to suggest to the author of the toolserver script that he/she change it to exclude surname and given name pages (they can easily be identified by their categories). Please don't waste the time of other editors by making pointless changes. Thanks, and good luck again. --NSH001 (talk) 22:46, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Cathy, The criteria at WP:Orphan have now been changed, so that they read: "Pages containing the templates {{surname}} and {{given name}}, and set indexes ( {{SIA}} ), also should be orphaned, as incoming links should usually be amended to target one of the items listed. Please do not place the {{orphan}} template on these pages either.", so please now stop adding the orphan tag to these pages. PamD (talk) 07:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Cathy, I have taken this to ANI. PamD (talk) 07:02, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

(Coming in here from the AN/I link.) Surname pages look to me like disambiguation pages, which I believe most anyone would agree should not be tagged as orphans. I imagine the orphan list is being made available to human editors precisely so that you can exercise your most valuable asset: your ability to judge and respond to diverse situations based on their individual merits. – Luna Santin (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

(Also from AN/I) I agree with PamD and Luna. Per PamD's recent unopposed discussion/consensus at WT:Orphan and subsequent change to WP:Orphan, name articles should not have {{orphan}} tags. Please do not continue making this change without discussing it on the appropriate pages and getting a new consensus. Thanks.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:20, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

You say that you will continue making these changes against a clear consensus to the contrary, just because they appear on an automated list -- that is disruptive editing, and could be grounds for blocking.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:23, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

(Also from ANI) I agree with PamD, Luna and Sarek. Misplaced Pages has an exceptionally high tolerance for stupidity, but since you claim you are a Mensa member we can probably rule that possibility out. I can see no reason why an admin should not block you after the next abused orphan tag. --Hans Adler 19:44, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Uncatstub

Howdy, you may want to use {{uncatstub}} instead of {{uncat}} on articles that have a stub category but no content category. Also, to avoid having SmackBot clean the tags, add the date to the tag, as in {{uncatstub|date=June 2009}} or {{subst:dated|uncatstub}}.

You can see this advice in points 6 and 7 of Category:Category needed#Hints and tips.

If an article has a specific stub tag, that is not just {{stub}}, then often it is very easy to categorize the article on the spot. Things like {{china-stub}} place the article in the category Category:China stubs which links to Category:China. You can add Category:China to the article, and as the stub is expanded the category will be refined.

Of course it is fine to just mark it {{uncatstub}} if you are doing many articles all at once. JackSchmidt (talk) 13:19, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Good news and thanks! Since you pointed out the problem, the software will be fixed (not just for SmackBot but for hundreds of editors). Probably it is still a good idea to date your cleanup tags ({{subst:dated|uncatstub}} or {{subst:dated|orphan}} or {{subst:dated|uncat}} or whatever) since robots tend to have funny ideas and, at any rate, it will save them some work. JackSchmidt (talk) 13:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Orphans

Since this is a surname page, doesn't it mean it is supposed to remain orphaned? Why place a tag that can't possibly be fixed and will remain in perpetuity? Am I missing something?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:14, June 19, 2009 (UTC)

I've reverted that edit. I would think that ideally, the page should always be orphaned.--Rockfang (talk) 19:29, 19 June 2009 (UTC)