User talk:Good Olfactory/Archive 21
Recreation of Category:American actressesGiven the closure at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_November_30#Actresses, would you object to recreation (and repopulation) of Category:American actresses, given that you had deleted the U.S. version of the category based on an earlier CfD that appears to have been effectively overturned? Alansohn (talk) 23:40, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Category : “People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox [Christian] descent”Dear G.O.F., RE: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 December 28 As mentioned earlier, to avoid any risk of polemics/confusion for lay readers, this category could be renamed « People of Levantine Greek Orthodox descent» = simply removing the word « Christian » ... Cordially, --B.Andersohn (talk) 15:49, 3 January 2013 (UTC) EmpiresThis sounds like one of those irregular verbs: "I work to change the contention, you block its implementation, he is a disruptive element..." Johnbod (talk) 02:07, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
re deletion of Category:Former statuesIt occurs to me that the only proper member of this should have been in Pygmalion (mythology). :) Mangoe (talk) 02:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC) Category:Kamrupi mathematiciansRegarding this discussion, I can't help but double down on the point that merging to Category:People from Kamrup Metropolitan district creates a serious and unacceptable problem of veracity; historical references that speak of people from Kamrup cannot necessarily be interpreted as indicating that they lived in (or perhaps even in the immediate vicinity of) modern day Kamrup Metropolitan district, which is only a small fraction of Kamrup Rural district's geographical size, which is itself not the same as Kamrup region proper or ancient Kamarupa or Durjaya or Pragjyotishpura or any other Kamrupi locality. I also don't see any reason to believe that the nominator or either of the participants were remotely aware of this fact when reaching their respective conclusions. Mind giving it another look? — C M B J 13:23, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Categories for ambassadors and high commissioners of the UKHi Good Olfactory. I'm proposing a slightly different way (or should I say slightly better :-) ) of dealing with the ambassador/high commissioner dichotomy. You've been quite active with these diplomats categories so I'm hoping you can chime in here. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 15:36, 9 January 2013 (UTC) Category:EC 3.5.1Any opinions on Category:EC 3.5.1? The name was no clue to me and after reading the intro, I still have no clue. Maybe this is strictly science jargon. I'm not sure that is bad in this case. Suggestions? Leave it alone? Rename? Vegaswikian (talk) 07:29, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Category:Akhil Bharatiya Sena politiciansCategory:Akhil Bharatiya Sena politicians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Lovy Singhal (talk) 05:08, 12 January 2013 (UTC) Long overdue
Category:Automobile repair shopsDo you think Category:Automobile repair shops is worth keeping? Three of the member article are historic places and may no longer be actual automobile repair shops and one is spamish and non-notable IMO. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:56, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thanksfor cleaning up after me at the murder in australia scene - cheers SatuSuro 23:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC) GAA hurlersI think that your moving the long-established "Tipperary hurlers" category to the tautologous "Tipperary GAA hurlers" was not justified and would ask you to reconsider. There were three move proposals made; the first (by an editor with a history of moving multiple GAA pages without discussion, so this at least was a small advance) was to move to "Hurlers with Tipperary GAA", and this received one other vote in support. The second proposal was to move all GAA sportsperson categories to the format "county GAA sportsperson", which would mean e.g. "Tipperary GAA hurlers", "Cork GAA camogie players", "Tyrone GAA Gaelic footballers", "Dublin GAA Gaelic handballers" - affecting potentially over a hundred categories just at the county level, but categories like this also exist for provinces and for individual GAA clubs, of which there are over 2,500. This second proposal had two votes in favour: the proposer, who may or may not have been joking, and the proposer of the first option who switched his/her vote. There were then three votes in favour of renaming this one category, Tipperary hurlers, to "Tipperary GAA hurlers", with no mention of a wholesale renaming of all GAA player categories. Three editors voted against any renaming. The final score: option 1, 1 vote; option 2, 2 votes; option 3, 3 votes; no change, 3 votes. As an editor of many GAA articles I feel strongly that this move was wrong in itself, in that it creates one category that differs from every other county hurlers category, and in that it is tautologous: all hurlers are GAA hurlers, just as all camogie players, Gaelic football players and Gaelic handballers are GAA people. The name of the team that they GAA county players play for is, in every single case, one word - the name of the historic county, without adding "GAA". I hope that you will revert this controversial move, to spare everyone the time and energy involved in formally contesting it. Brocach (talk) 10:32, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Drew University cleanupAny suggestions on how to best cleanup the mess at Category:Drew University people? It's amazing what a well-intentioned person can do with the most basic tools available to a Wikipedia editor to create a gigantic mess. Alansohn (talk) 22:43, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
AwayNote: I'm anticipating that I will be away for a few days. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:50, 18 January 2013 (UTC) Category:Solar power stations in the United StatesCan you add a delsort of "space" to the two categories that are not specific to a state in Category:Solar power stations in the United States? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 04:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC) Following up on the CfD for Heads of mission of the UKHi Good Olfactory. The CfD was just closed [1] in line with my amended proposal. This is easy enough to apply in the UK case but there are two basic ideas that should be extended throughout the ambassadors subtree. First, high commissioners categories should be placed in both the "ambassadors" and "high commissioners" parent categories and second top-ranking diplomats should be categorized as ambassadors regardless of their actual title. I suspect that the first one won't be controversial (although on Wikipedia, you never know...) but I feel like the second might be and it would perhaps be wise to find some forum that would give others a chance to have their say. I was thinking Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International relations. Thoughts? Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I moved the category from Category:Phoenix Islands to Category:Phoenix Islands (Kiribati), because:
If there is ever an article of someone genuinely from the U.S. Phoenix Islands (namely Howland and Baker islands), the category can be split? - Gilgamesh (talk) 22:53, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Category:Pets by countryThere is a need for: Can you create them please? There is a Category:Cats by country. Category:Pets and Category:Dogs have country specific articles. There is other stuff that can be categorised (eg Category:Dog breeds by country of origin. I will have a rummage. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Mae L. WienThank you for tightening up Mae L. Wien Awards and Category:Mae L. Wien Awards! — Robert Greer (talk) 22:48, 26 January 2013 (UTC) Deletion review for Category:Native American actors who performed in a Native American languageAn editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Native American actors who performed in a Native American language. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 10:34, 29 January 2013 (UTC) Proposal on Lists of Notable Drew University PeopleA proposal has been initiated on the Drew University talk page regarding how notable alumni, faculty, and presidents should be listed. Feel free to join the discussion. DavidinNJ (talk) 17:41, 30 January 2013 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Good Olfactory. You have new messages at Koavf's talk page. Message added 23:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:47, 31 January 2013 (UTC) Ctgr ActressesHi! I recreated one of the ctgr regardind actresses, that was deleted by you. I'm currently in process of repop./rectrg. such ctgrs. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 10:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
William Henry KimballThe article William Henry Kimball has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing Inclusion of mention of wife, children, etc.To what extent are the wife or children of a person worth mentioning in a biographical articles. The most immediate reason I am asking this relates to a recent edit of the article on Andrew Kimball by [92.25.21.108] where he claims that the menion of such is of "no encyclopedic interest". Considering that Andrew Kimball was the father of Spencer W. Kimball, the claim that mention of his son is "of no encyclopedic interest" seems a bit overblown. In the case of his wife and father-in-law (the clearly notable Edwin D. Woolley, although that might not make the relationship worth mentioning) it is possibly more of a border-line case. I have to say that this user has just rubbed me the wrong way. His mass attempt at deleting articles I created is frustrating, and his downright insulting way of phrasing things, especially in relationship to removing things he deems "unencyclopedic" is really annoying. He is probably right on some of his points, but has chosen an extremely combative way of making them, and seems to have as his ultimate goal alientating me so much that I will stop editing wikipedia. He seems to have the attidtude "your contributions do not live up to the level of erudition I feel an encyclopedia should have, so I want you to leave this project and go away." Maybe I am over-reacting to his statements, but I dobut it. I have never seen any indication that wikipedia has policies agaisnt listing parents, spuses or children in biographical articles. He may be right that they do not need to be in all articles, but his extreme position that they only are worth listing in biographies of royalty would not be supported. Maybe he is right that the spouse and children of Andrew Kimball are not worth listing, but I would at least like a second opinion on this matter. Also, is there any guidelines on listing such in articles. Considering how many articles I have read where they mention the persons 2nd-great grandfather or futher back was an immigrant from England or Germany to the US, it seems this guy is arguing against something that is at least common. OK, maybe I am over-reacting, but his methods of communication are needlessly abrasive and dismissive. I would think that if someone had a son who is notable that at least is worth mentioning in the article, but maybe I am wrong.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:06, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Category:African Union chairpersonsHi, i recently created Category:African Union chairpersons and later found the existence of Category:Chairmen of the African Union, as an admin, i would like to seek your help to delete any of them. Thanks.Kingroyos (talk) 08:22, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Category:Shintoho listed at Redirects for discussionAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Category:Shintoho. Since you had some involvement with the Category:Shintoho redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Andy Dingley (talk) 18:49, 18 February 2013 (UTC) 20th century (Mormonism)As an uninvolved third party who's opinion I respect, and given you are knowledgeable about both Mormonism and WP's guidelines, do you see any merit in the characterization made by 80.84.1.18 (talk · contribs) of my comments at Talk:20th century (Mormonism), &/or my recent edits of Chronology of Mormonism, 20th century (Mormonism), &/or 21st century (Mormonism)? -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 18:02, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Mormon blogosphereI am completely befuddled with what's going on at Talk:Mormon blogosphere. I know that you're not my mentor or anything, but I could really use some advice on how to stay out of drama like this. As a wikignome I tried to stick to a "Just the facts, ma'am" approach, but apparently I'm failing at that when I am again branching out to non-wikignome tasks. I've now had two different people in as many days be upset or offended by me, and I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:13, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Category renamingThe categories:
and others in Category:State parks in the United States should all be renamed to the form "[State parks] of [State]". This is to ensure consistency with the vast majority of articles per WP:NAMINGCRITERIA. Can you do a CFD on my behalf? Thanks. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:51, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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