User talk:Wwikix

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Removing categories

I believe that you are removing categories from towns and municipalities in the Netherlands that shouldn't be removed. What you are doing, at least in some cases, is similar to removing the article France from Category:Countries in Europe presumably because it is already in the subcategory Category:France. I believe both the article and the category France should be in Countries in Europe. This style of categorization is common practice on the English Wikipedia, but may be different for Wikipedia in other languages. – Editør (talk) 12:54, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Dashes

Hello Wwikix. When you year spans on templates like {{Israeli Health Ministers}}, please make sure you use the correct dash, i.e. – instead of -. Thanks, Number 57 14:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata categorieën

Please add your newly created category's to Wikidata. Kind regards,

NL: Zou je je nieuwe categorieën (zoals Categorie:Nijkerk) kunnen toevoegen aan Wikidata, door ze te koppelen aan de Nederlandse categorie? Ik heb dit al gedaan voor Nijkerk en Dalfsen. Met vriendelijke groeten Coldbolt (talk) 19:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015

Hello, I'm SNUGGUMS. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Snuggums (talk / edits) 15:07, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Snuggums (talk / edits) 15:58, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Marjolein Faber and edit summaries

Hi Wwikix, I saw you moved Marjolein Faber-van de Klashorst to Marjolein Faber. Both the Senate and Parlement.com websites list her under Faber-van de Klashorst so I was wondering why you had changed it. You have not provided a reason in the edit summary. I notice on your edits to the Template:Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 you did not provide edit summaries either. Please do fill in useful edit summaries, otherwise other editors might be left wondering why you changed something. Regards. Crispulop (talk) 10:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

The Dutch Wikipedia calls her Marjolein Faber, and also the press. Wwikix (talk) 10:55, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Regular name per press coverage is fine ofcourse. Crispulop (talk) 21:03, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Page moves

Hello Wwikix. Please don't move pages from "Ministry of XYZ" to "Ministry of XYZ (Israel)" unless there is another country with the same named ministry - this is unnecessary disambiguation. Thanks, Number 57 14:53, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Why not? It just fits with the other Israeli ministries in the Category:Government ministers of Israel etc. and maybe there will be future ministries of other countries with the same name. And you can see at once it is an Israeli ministry. Wwikix (talk) 14:58, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

(a) It's unnecessary disambiguation, (b) Wikipedia is not a WP:CRYSTAL ball and (c) the first sentence of the article states that the ministry is in Israel. Number 57 15:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Also, when you move articles, could you please fix any links on templates for the page (e.g. {{Israeli Cabinet}}). Cheers, Number 57 11:57, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

OK. Wwikix (talk) 11:59, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Dow Chemical Company

Could you please explain why you added the category "Buildings and structures in Zeeland" to the Dow Chemical Company article? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:39, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

The biggest plant of Dow in the Benelux is situated in Terneuzen in the province of Zeeland. Wwikix (talk) 08:29, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Alfred Lecerf

Hello, Wwikix. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Alfred Lecerf, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want Alfred Lecerf to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

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Thanks, Crystallized C (talk) 16:18, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

References added. Wwikix (talk) 16:38, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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parent categories and subcategories

Hi Wwikix, I see you've been categorizing monasteries in Belgium by province, which is great, but there is no need to add a Belgian category as well when both monastery by order by country and the province category you add are subcategories of Category:Christian monasteries in Belgium. Grimbergen Abbey, for example, belongs to Category:Christian monasteries in Flemish Brabant and Category:Premonstratensian monasteries in Belgium; in the category tree both these are subsets of Category:Christian monasteries in Belgium, so that (grand)parent category doesn't need to be there too. If you want to be able to see all Christian monasteries in Belgium on one page, then the List of Christian monasteries in Belgium is the place to look. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 13:28, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

When the monasteries are also categorized on a national level you can see at once which monasteries in Belgium have a Wikipedia article. Wwikix (talk) 13:34, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but that's not how categories necessarily work, and why we also have the List of Christian monasteries in Belgium (which through redlinks immediately tells you not only which have an article, but also which don't, and is so a much more useful tool for building new content). --Andreas Philopater (talk) 13:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Searching in a category is easier than searing in a long list. Wwikix (talk) 13:51, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Belgian Christian monasteries removed from the Category:Christian monasteries in Belgium. Wwikix (talk) 16:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Editor of the Week

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		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your determination and dedication to help the encyclopedia grow. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

Editor Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

Editor Wwikix has not, as yet, taken the time to create a User page. Perhaps it is because they are too busy adding information and working on improving hundreds of articles and categories. Beginning in February of this year, Wwikix has amassed almost 14000 edits with 77% in article pace and 17% in categories. His top edited pages are for lists of cities, towns and villages in the Netherlands and neighboring Belgium. He moves pages when necessary and works at the tedious task of adding categories (churches, monuments, railway stations, windmills, etc.) to towns and small villages of the Low Countries. Having created some of the articles that Wwikix visits and improves, I have first-hand experience of his effort to increase the amount of worthwhile information available to enhance our visitors enjoyment and knowledge.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk 13:36, 29 November 2015 (UTC)