User talk:Johnpacklambert/Archives/2024/January
Category:Lieutenant field marshals of the Austrian Empire has been nominated for mergingCategory:Lieutenant field marshals of the Austrian Empire 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. Mason (talk) 01:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC) AgronomistsMany sub-cats of agronomists by nationality only have 1 or 2 articles. This would seem to be unhelpful for navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:41, 1 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Lawyers from British North America has been nominated for mergingCategory:Lawyers from British North America 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. Mason (talk) 01:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Category:Writers from British North America has been nominated for mergingCategory:Writers from British North America 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. Mason (talk) 01:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Category:Medical doctors from British North America has been nominated for mergingCategory:Medical doctors from British North America 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. Mason (talk) 01:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Categories under people by former countryI have just done an analysis of the categories under People by former country. I only paid attention to the top level categories. In some cases the top level category uses People from X (such as People from the Republic of Ragusa), but its sub-cats all use Ragusan. People from the Kingdom of Prussia has some categories that are Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia, Writers from the Kingdom of Prussia, etc, but also has others that are Prussian physicians, etc. I may not have found all the relevant categories because of how they are organized, some sub-cats might refer to indedepent-places (it is hard to know, when some units had different statuses over time, and there was not an agreed upon international definition for these ideas until well into the 20th-century, and we still do not fully agree on these). There might also be some stuff under People by ethnicity that more properly would go under People by former country.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:19, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Category:Educators from the Colony of Queensland has been nominated for splittingCategory:Educators from the Colony of Queensland has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 04:52, 4 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Educators from the Colony of South Australia has been nominated for splittingCategory:Educators from the Colony of South Australia has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 04:53, 4 January 2024 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for January 4An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Thomas Cunningham (Canadian politician), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Colony of British Columbia. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:06, 4 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire has been nominated for mergingCategory:Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire 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. asilvering (talk) 18:30, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Nomination of Katie Millar for deletionA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Katie Millar is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katie Millar (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.Let'srun (talk) 22:28, 6 January 2024 (UTC) People from Austro-Hungary by descentI believe the Category Italian Austro-Hungarians should be renamed Italian people from Austria-Hungary. Here is why. 1-the parent is People from Austria-Hungary. We should be consistent in using the from form. 2-mushing demonyms is messy. It is not clear if these are ethnic Italians in Austria-Hungary or people who are Austro-Hungarian in Italy.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC) Category:French expatriates in pre-Confederation Canada has been nominated for mergingCategory:French expatriates in pre-Confederation Canada 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. Mason (talk) 04:57, 7 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Expatriates from Newfoundland Colony in the United States has been nominated for splittingCategory:Expatriates from Newfoundland Colony in the United States has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 04:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Deaths in French AlgeriaA tag has been placed on Category:Deaths in French Algeria 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! 05:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC) A tag has been placed on Category:Tuberculosis deaths in the French colonial empire 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! 05:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Educators from the Colony of New South Wales has been nominated for splittingCategory:Educators from the Colony of New South Wales has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 04:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Category:Philanthropists from the Dutch East Indies has been nominated for splittingCategory:Philanthropists from the Dutch East Indies has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 02:49, 10 January 2024 (UTC) City founders from the Russian EmpireI am not sure if this is the best name. It might better be named founders if cities in the Russian Empire. Although I am also not sure if city I'd the best word. Maybe it should be founders of populated places in the Russian Empire.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC) Russian city foundesThis category only has 3 articles. All are people who were from the Tsardom of Russia. Based on the size and contents of the city founders Category I really think we should just merge these 3 articles there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:17, 10 January 2024 (UTC) The entire hierarchy Category:20th century in Western Samoa only has 3 articles. This one was added by you, overriding the specific rationale of Le Deluge recorded in the preceding edit summary. Because of your drive-by edit, an entire parent hierarchy was built by Liz. This is now up for merging at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 9#Western Samoa. Please look around the existing hierarchies before creating additional categories. – Fayenatic London 12:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Small categoriesWikipedia has too many small categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:20, 11 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Nazis who committed suicide in Nazi Germany has been nominated for mergingCategory:Nazis who committed suicide in Nazi Germany 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. Mason (talk) 22:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Naomi Wilson (disambiguation)
A tag has been placed on Naomi Wilson (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:44, 12 January 2024 (UTC) Removing people from more specific canadian emigrant categoriesCan you walk me through your reasoning for removing people from more specific Canadian emigrant categories to the vaguer Emigrants from British North America category? For example, [1] doesn't make sense to me, because isn't "pre-confederation" entirely nested within british north america? Mason (talk) 14:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
The article Noel C. Gardner has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing Category:Artists from the Province of Canada has been nominated for splittingCategory:Artists from the Province of Canada has been nominated for splitting. 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. Mason (talk) 21:26, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
We should avoid verbatim use of old sourcesI believe we have too many articles copied verbatim from pre-1925 sources. This is an unwise practice that avoids using and consulting current scholarship on the topics.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:11, 18 January 2024 (UTC) Anatomists by nationalityAntagonists by nationslity has 40 sub-cats. 20 of those have fewer than 5 articles. I think it would be much better for navigation for the 20 subcats to be upmerged to Anatomists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:21, 18 January 2024 (UTC) What is the difference between anatomists and ohysiologistswhat is the difference between anatomists and physiologists? Is it big enough to justify 2 separate Category trees?John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC) Pioneers and settlers categoriesI think all pioneers and settlers categories are either too vague, too arbitrarily defined, or essentially focusing on a narrow aspect of a person's life. In most cases we have similar scipe categories, such as Colony of South Australia people, which is much clearer than South Australia settlers, or People from Arizona Territory, which is more obvious in its definition that Arizona pioneers. Montana pioneers may be the oddest, since it says it is a category for people who belonged to a particular group, so it will exclude the residents of early Montana Territory who mattered the most, sonce many were dead by the time that group was formed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC) |