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Regarding edits to Rio Dell, Sonoma County, California

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Regarding Sonoma County Railroads

Thanks for the kind words about my edits. I, too, am a Sonoma County engineer -- not yet retired, though. It's good to have another engineer checking my work. Thewellman (talk) 03:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

January 2008

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Red hair: You may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Bald Mountain

Are you taking the mick out of my volcano and baldness? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:52, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Austin_Creek_State_Recreation_Area

I was over at UserRickK's talk page and noticed that you left him a message concerning copy and paste from the state park website. Did you see his comments on the article's Talk page? Corvus cornix_talk 00:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Um, I don't know, I thought that all California state government produced web content was public domain, but I could be wrong. Corvus cornix_talk 05:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I suppose it's no big deal now, if you ever find out what the state's copyright rules are, could you let me know? Thanks. Corvus cornix_talk 16:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I just happened to be looking over there and found this: In general, information presented on this web site, unless otherwise indicated, is considered in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by law.. Corvus cornix_talk 23:55, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Thankyou Stephrn, I'm new but learning fast. I live on Cobb Mountain and work in Santa Rosa. Again thanks, looking forward to working together. Cheers, Marcia Marcia Wright (talk) 01:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Mr. Stephen, To Adding Link To My Indian Show Aap Ki Kachehri. I am indian Young Boy Hardik Kansagra Or To know more about me please visit my user page & That's Hardik Kansagra.

Santa Rosa edit

Your most recent edit of Santa Rosa [1] has a description of "(rv misleading wikilink)". However, it looks like you added the wikilink in instead of taking it out. Do you want to revert your reversion? Dori (talk) 22:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I've fixed it. Stepheng3 (talk) 22:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Marin Creek

Hey, would you add the coördinates to the river-box at Marin Creek like you did to Alhambra Creek, please? Thanks dude!W-i-k-i-l-o-v-e-r-1-7 (talk) 00:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I found them, but I did not enter them properly would you be able to fix them?W-i-k-i-l-o-v-e-r-1-7 (talk) 21:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Most of these maps, show it draining into the bay north of golden gate fields.W-i-k-i-l-o-v-e-r-1-7 (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

By no means at all, i'll be most satisfied with the correct and current mouth's coordinates but the historical one may be of interest also.W-i-k-i-l-o-v-e-r-1-7 (talk) 01:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Representatives in infoboxes

You do have a good point. I intend to make pages for every district after I finished adding the representatives to the infoboxes. I wanted to add the representatives to be consistent with the city leaders and councils, but now I see your point. Socal gal at heart (talk) 17:58, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Fort Point Lighthouse and Fort Point Light (California)

It has been the convention for US lighthouses to name them as "XX Light" rather than "XX Lighthouse", since that is the USCG convention. Also, there is also a Fort Point Light in Texas. With that in mind, I intend to ask that the newly merged article be moved back to Fort Point Light (California). Mangoe (talk) 21:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

re: Use template/ Lake Pillsbury article

It is my understanding that either method is acceptable for Wikipedia. What is the reason you say to do the references with template? Marcia Wright (talk) 05:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou for your reply, and you have a good reason-I also like the book-type footnotes in the smaller font. I was unaware that this template produces footnotes that way. I am seriously considering this option.

The only downside is that as I am getting older- my eyesight is preferring larger letters  :) Sincerely, Marcia Wright (talk) 13:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Transportation WikiProjects

Hi Stepheng3, I see that you have created a new category today and are linking articles into it. However, is it really needed as we already have a category Category:WikiProject Transport? It is not clear to me what the difference between the two categories is intended to be?Pyrotec (talk) 19:26, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe Category:WikiProject Transport is specifically for that project and its subprojects, whereas Category:Transportation WikiProjects can be used more broadly for wikiprojects related to transportation which (for whatever reason) don't consider themselves to be subprojects of WikiProject Transport. But I grant you that the WikiProject categorization system is a mess, and I'm unsure how it should be fixed. Stepheng3 (talk) 19:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

OK I can understand that, but Category:WikiProject Transport has been in existence since 25 June 2004, whereas Category:Transportation WikiProjects was created today. It has 11 articles in it and it looks you put ten in to it; and I put one in, but that one was already in Category:Transport. It appears to be quite feasible to delete the new category and move the few that don't already appear in WP Transport into it. The main problem is that Category:WikiProject Transport is not listed in Category:WikiProjects, but that could be added in place of Category:Transportation WikiProjects. Pyrotec (talk) 20:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm working to diffuse categories and projects out of Category:WikiProjects as much as possible. It's not important to me whether the transportation WikiProjects end up under Category:WikiProject Transport or Category:Transportation WikiProjects, though I have a slight preference for the former. Let me know how you wish to proceed, and I'll cooperate. Stepheng3 (talk) 20:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Transportation WikiProjects now has 10 articles in it, most of which were already in Category:WikiProject Transport; in contrast Category:WikiProject Transport has 16 articles and 20 subcategories in it, and it was set up almost four years ago. It looks like Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut Routes is the only one that needs to be moved. I suggest that the one category be moved and then Category:Transportation WikiProjects be deleted.Pyrotec (talk)

I notice that you have added a category called "Transporation" (sic) to Wikipedia:WikiProject Gliding. Apart from the typo, I have to inform you that Gliding is a sport, like sailing, not a method of transport. I have therefore deleted this erroneous category. JMcC (talk) 20:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Category diffusion

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		For your remarkable efforts in helping WikiProjects better understand what articles are in the categories with which they work. Few people have even heard of all the projects you've helped out in this way, let alone helped them all in such a useful way. A small token of appreciation from "all of us" WikiProjects out there is certainly in order. John Carter (talk) 22:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks for your hard work! --Eustress (talk) 23:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Art WikiProjects vs WikiProject Arts

You unilaterally reparented Dance, Circus, Music, etc WikiProject categories to Category:Art WikiProjects. These naturally are parented by WikiProject Arts and thus Category:WikiProject Arts. Please provide your rationale for your change. I have noted this at WP Arts. -- Paul foord (talk) 10:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, plus Category:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry would not normally be considered to belong under either. Johnbod (talk) 10:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought it was silly for people to have to click down through WP Arts to get to the more specialized WPs, but I've since learned that thats how things are done in the WP category tree. I'm reverting all my reparents that took things out of WP Arts. It's pretty clear to me that jewelry is an artform, so I'm going to leave that where it is. Stepheng3 (talk) 16:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Categorisation

Hi,

Thanks for categorising the new WikiProject Geology articles. A thankless yet appreciated task!

Verisimilus T 09:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Default Sort Template

Hello I saw that you added the following template to one of the stub articles I created. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Last, First}} I was just curious to know exactly what this template does. Does it automatically add the categories for you or does it simply make it searchable? Blahblah5555 (talk) 21:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Ballets by Aram Khachaturian

Thank you for categorizing Category:Ballets by Aram Khachaturian (I forgot!) — Robert Greer (talk) 22:09, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Australian rules coaches

Hi Stepheng3. I notice you tagged Category:Australian rules coaches for deletion. The only reason I hadn't tagged the category myself was that it hasn't yet been empty for 4 days. Incidentally, do you know of any way to tell how long a category has been empty? I only know how long this one has been empty because I'm the one who emptied it. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 03:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't know of any way to tell for certain whether a category has been empty for four days. I think most editors would look at the history, and if the empty category was created more than 4 days ago, they would assume that the category had been empty since then. What I sometimes do, when I'm feeling cautious, is flag the empty category with {{popcat}} and then check back four days later. Even that's not foolproof, of course, but it gives the creator a chance to realize that they forgot to populate the category, if that's what happened. Stepheng3 (talk) 16:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Need geobox

Dear Stephen, I added a photo to this article- Cache Creek (Yolo County, California) as well as tags/rating on talk page, but it needs a geobox, coordinates, etc. Do you have the time to do this? If so, much appreciated.

Cheers, Marcia Wright (talk) 16:36, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm happy to do this. Maybe tomorrow. Stepheng3 (talk) 20:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Biobío Region

Yes thats OK -category exists at Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Biobío Region ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Special:Uncategorizedcategories

Good work at Special:Uncategorizedcategories. If you want a new project (since you pretty much cleared out the last), you might want to check out Special:Wantedcategories and evaluate each one on there to see if they should be created or not. A lot there do need to be created, but there are also a lot of misspellings, stuff retained in previously CFD'd/UCFD'd categories, etc. that need emptying. Some also probably simply need removal from a nonexistant category that shouldn't be created. Thanks, VegaDark (talk) 23:25, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. Stepheng3 (talk) 23:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Thanks for the help on Cache Creek-Looks great!!! One question though-Isn't Riverside County in Southern California?

Marcia Wright (talk) 13:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Good point. I think GNIS is confused about this. I've corrected the Geobox and categories. Stepheng3 (talk) 06:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

"Unnecessary" nbsp

In your recent change to Healdsburg, California (here), your comment said "rm unnecessary nbsp".

Actually (and oddly enough), it is necessary. Template:Infobox_Settlement says,

Names are automatically wiki-linked if an article exists; if the target is not the intended one, insert a character such as " " to disable the link.

Jim Wood is a common enough name that it links to a disambig page, but this particular Mr. Wood isn't one of the ones covered there, so he needs to be un-wiki'd. I've added the character back in (although at the end of his name this time). Dori (Talk • Contribs) 01:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams

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AfD nomination of List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams

I have nominated List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Mayalld (talk) 14:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams

I have nominated List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Mayalld (talk) 14:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Yikes! I feel like I've stepped on a land mine here. I've responded to both AfD nominations at their respective discussion pages. Stepheng3 (talk) 14:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams

I merged the 2nd AfD nomination into the first one. That accidental 2nd nom is now gone. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 17:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that -- should cut my work in half! Stepheng3 (talk) 23:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Anti-dumping authorities

I categorized it under international trade category since dumping (in this context) can only take place during international trade. Another option seemed like WTO; but AD authorities are national institutions, not units of the WTO and AD legislation existed before the GATT. By the way, I also added countervailing duties (CVDs) to the disambiguation page. Hopefully, I'll write a separate anti-dumping article and improve those on subsidies and CVDs one day. Best regards. Evren Güldoğan (talk) 19:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice

Thanks for notice on the attempt to delete my List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams. I can't think why someone would want it deleted. I wrote it as tool for people interested in local Pennsylvania sports and I have no trouble with others linking on their own defunct teams lists to mine -in fact I consider it an honor. Thanks for you help --Pennsylvania Penguin (talk) 21:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Hi, and many thanks for having a go at all those people not categorized by year of birth. I noticed that you were not duplicating Category:Year of birth missing (living people) with its parent Category:Living people, and I can see the rationale for that. (I'd been doing the opposite, partly through inertia and partly out of a sense that it still seemed to be the general consensus.) I've raised the question as to whether individuals should be categorized with both at the category's talk page, and would value your input. Dsp13 (talk) 12:04, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering about this myself. I'm willing to go either way and will wait for a consensus before proceeding further. Stepheng3 (talk) 16:23, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

reqphoto at Larkin House

Thanks for fixing up that reqphoto at Talk:Larkin House to avoid redlink to wikipedians. I posted a comment/question, related, at Template talk:reqphoto and/or the applications of that system for California counties. I am confused by the reqphoto system (or is it reqphotoin which is different?), obviously. Again, thanks! :) doncram (talk) 21:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Please don't change reqphotos in California to use the "reqphoto|in=Ventura County, California" format. As you showed me, the format "reqphotoin|Ventura County, California" format provides a simpler posting, with no irrelevant redlink or irrelevant bluelink to a list of wikipedians. I don't think that reqphoto|in= type formatting should be used at all. doncram (talk) 04:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Is this something that I've done in the past? Stepheng3 (talk) 17:49, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Cache Creek article

Dear Stephen, I do not have an acceptable rationale to offer. I was trying to determine the source of coord. at the title line and should not have saved anything. I have restored the article to your most recent version. I did however, learn a good deal about what a transcluded page is, what it does, and what it does not allow an aditor to do. The amount of transcluded templates in this article seem to slow down the load time of the page (for dial-up users at least) which is a concern. I apologize for this mistake.

Marcia Wright (talk) 19:05, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Londrina Esporte Clube

Thanks! Regards, --Carioca (talk) 04:43, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Power stations in Yorshire Cat

Should be Blank, I inadvertently placed a link on a talk page, which then became a member of that cat. (entry saying Talk:Keith-D was a clue as strange power station name) fixed it now with nowiki brakets - BulldozerD11 (talk) 21:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Abuse Reports

Hi, Thanks for letting me know, I was not aware of the existing category but we are in the process of restructuring the abuse reports category as is, when I'm done I will merge the old category into the new category system. Cheers   «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l»  (talk) 23:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

reply

The article for Melodic rock was AfD'd as a bogus genre. The List of Melodic rock acts was also AfD'd as ;eftover trash. The Category needs to be CfD'd.... which I had on my to-do list but forgot. Feel free to CfD it yourself. I will follow-up if you aren't sure how to and take care of it later. Libs (talk) 15:49, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Unaccredited institutions of higher learning in California

I see that you have created this category and are busy populating it. You probably are well aware that you could be opening a can of worms, but are you aware that the location of many of these outfits is almost as controversial as their accreditation status? For example, Warren National University (which you listed) was established in California and later kept offices there after officially having moved to Wyoming. Then there are institutions like Honolulu University (not yet listed), which started out in California as Golden State University... This is just an FYI... --Orlady (talk) 01:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Seattle Mariners articles

Hi there, you forgot to add this too and now the WP1.0 bot is able to collect the articles at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Seattle Mariners articles by quality statistics properly now. Just FYI -- Tinu Cherian - 04:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area roll call

Hello from WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area!

As part of a recent update to our project main page we are conducting a roll call to check which members are still active and interested in working on bay area related content. If you are still interested in participating, simply move your username from the inactive section of the participant list to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:

• Main Page
  
• Talk page
  
• Cleanup listing
  
• Template list
  

As well as the existing pages:

• Assessment
  
• Article Worklist
  
• Watchlist
  
• Deletion sorting (California)
  

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, and add it to your watchlist, if it isn't already.

Again, hi!  -Optigan13 (talk) 07:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

elevation of Mt. Hamilton

I notice that in your recent edits to List of summits in the San Francisco Bay Area you gave the heights Kepler Peak and Observatory Peak as 4250 ft and 4213 ft, respectively. Since you don't appear cite any sources, I'm wondering where you got those figures. Stepheng3 (talk) 02:54, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

The information is provided within the Mount Hamilton (California) article. —  X  S  G  06:13, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

According to WP:SPS, "Articles and posts on Wikipedia may not be used as sources." Stepheng3 (talk) 00:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Then by all means challenge the information in the Mount Hamilton (California) article as well if you find the additions contentious. —  X  S  G  04:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Anthony Ha

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Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators

I've added a couple of categories to the page that bring it in line with the Category:Wikipedians looking for help - I watch this page when I'm online, don't know how many admins do though... SkierRMH (talk) 02:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Unverified Chinese supercentenarians

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+ You asked why I blanked the category. The answer is that it appears to serve no purpose, since it is not populated -- it contains no pages.

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+ According to WP:SPEEDY, categories that have been unpopulated for at least four days can be speedily deleted. The way this works is practice is that when someone finds an unpopulated category that seems likely to remain so, they blank the page. This causes the page history to record that the category was empty at the time of the edit. If the category is still empty four days later, anyone can put {{db-catempty}} on the category, and within a day or so an administrator will delete the category. Stepheng3 (talk) 17:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Greetings,

I was intending to populate this category with cases such as Teresa Hsu Chih, but then I got busy and didn't have time to do it. Let me know if you can help.

Thanks Ryoung122 04:39, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Invite

Hi! You might find the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject of interest. Please to check out, at your convenience. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 18:33, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Nothing personal

Hey, I notice that I'm commenting on/opposing a lot of your recent speedy rename proposals and it occurred to me you might think I was targeting them. I'm not; it's purely coincidental. Otto4711 (talk) 21:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Category "Negro League baseball" to "Negro league baseball"

This is NOT an appropriate change. Who authorized this? Where is the discussion on it? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 12:37, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I proposed a rename from Category:Negro League baseball to Category:Negro league baseball on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy at 01:52 UTC on 15 September 2008. The rename has not taken place yet, and since there seems to be some controversy, I am planning to initiate a non-speed CfD in the near future. Four of this category's subcategories have already been renamed through the speedy rename process. In each case, I was the proposer, and User:Vegaswikian was responsible for putting them in the work queue. Stepheng3 (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Your bot program has already renamed a lot of them. You need to discuss this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball before imposing this change further. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 18:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your opinion. I feel that Wikipedia:Categories for discussion is the appropriate place for this discussion, and will point the WikiProject folks in this direction. And by the way, you're mistaken in assuming that the bot is mine; I don't own any bots. Stepheng3 (talk) 18:55, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

When not to speedy rename criterion 2

I've proposed remove this criterion. It seems pointless to me to force an article to go through CFD when the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Since you work so much with speedy renames, your input would be valuable and appreciated. Otto4711 (talk) 00:43, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:"Politics of" templates

Hi. Thanks for your message about the above; I'd forgotten it was in limbo. The last three templates there are protected from editing, so, unless you're able to recategorize them under Politics by country sidebar templates, I'll add {{editprotected}} requests to them. Is that okay? Sardanaphalus (talk) 18:30, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Stepheng3 (talk) 18:43, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Concepts pertaining to strategy

Did you see my proposal to split this into two? Could I venture your opinion given they are usually well thought out?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 09:16, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

help!

{{helpme}} I notice that the Special:UncategorizedCategories report is no longer being updated. Is there some way I can get it updated? Or is there some other way to obtain this information? - Stepheng3 (talk) 22:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

• It was last updated on the 16th. I don't think it updates weekly or anything, so you might want to wait a little longer first. You could also ask on the talk page. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 22:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Apparently that page has been disabled, so it won't get updated any time in the forseeable future, and so far as I know it's the only page of its kind. I can ask the Powers that Be why, but first I have to find them... Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 22:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

There's your answer. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 22:49, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Bodega Bay photos

Was wondering if the gallery I added seems appropriate. If so, I can adjust the number of images on each row, resize them, or even add more photos that I uploaded to the Commons. Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 01:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

This is just a general thanks for you good work on category clean-up as of late. I've noticed you've tracked down a lot of capitalization errors to be changed and long-empty categories to be deleted. As someone whose done a bit of work in these areas, I know it's generally thankless work, so I thought I'd change that. It's an understaffed and unworked area of clean-up that can use all the help it can get, so you can be sure you're helping the project in a positive way. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 20:59, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the recognition. Stepheng3 (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

RE:CSD

No problem! Thanks so much for helping us out by tagging them! :) Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 23:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Category:Years in video games

Now that I think about it, the category should probably be renamed through WP:Categories for discussion. I'll move it there. Happy editing! --Silver Edge (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

BRD of WP:Categories for discussion

So, what I wanted to do was to encourage people who propose categories for discussion to familiarize themselves with the guidelines at WP:Overcategorization. Apparently you have some concern about this. Would you care to discuss here or shall we take it to the talk page? - Stepheng3 (talk) 17:21, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The reversion was due to a discussion at WT:CFD. My reversion unfortunately apparently undid your edit to the page. My apologies. - jc37 04:52, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification and self-revert. Best wishes, Stepheng3 (talk) 06:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Amorrow

Amorrow is a major vandal and stalker of wiki users in real life. His category is kept deleted under WP:DENY. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

If you say so. However, I don't see what good it does to delete the category and leave 79 user pages tagged. Perhaps you should rethink your strategy. Best wishes, - Stepheng3 (talk) 00:23, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Software engineering researchers

The category should not be deleted (at least not without a proper CFD); at least one article, Peter Chen, was previously in this category but was removed due to an (IMO) erroneous edit by a different editor. Thanks. SparsityProblem (talk) 21:09, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. These things happen, which is why there's a 4-day waiting period for deletion of empty categories. It would help if the category had more articles in it. - Stepheng3 (talk) 22:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:Cat year nav music

This template is badly broken. See for example Category:2006 in music. Unfortunately the template history is truncated so I can't revert it, and I don't know enough about template syntax to fix the bugs. - Stepheng3 (talk) 03:26, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

How is it broken? Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 03:30, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

It shows the 1960's even though the year 2006 is coded. Also, it should automatically provide a parent category such as Category:2000s in music. - Stepheng3 (talk) 03:34, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... I'll work on the code. However, the parent category thing is weird, as 2000s in music shows it as being a subcat... Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 03:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

It should work. See Category:2006 in music for the working copy. If it isn't working, feel free to drop by my talk page and let me know! :) Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 04:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Much better. Thanks! - Stepheng3 (talk) 04:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Arizona League Dodgers players

See Category:Minor league baseball players by team. Eventually every team in the Arizone League will need a cat. Leave this one open.

WP:ATA#CRYSTAL. This team hasn't even played a game yet, so a players category serves no purpose right now. Categories are easily created when needed. - Stepheng3 (talk) 19:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Empty categories

I think you are making the process of deleting them more complicated than it needs to be. The way I do it is to simply wait 4 days from the report, and then go through the list and delete everything still empty. In your case, you could do the same but simply tag them for speedy instead of blanking every one first. For instance, the most recent report was run 05:37, 27 October 2008. As of 05:37, 31 October 2008, everything on the list would have been empty for 4 days. There is no need to blank pages and try to use the uncategorized categories report to see which ones are 0kb, and hence figure out which you have blanked (as I suspect you are doing, or at least looking through your contribs list to figure it out). Also, categories like Category:Images with no copyright tag as of 28 October 2008 don't need to wait 4 days from being empty, they can be deleted as G6 the moment it becomes empty (assuming the day it is related to has passed). Hope that speeds things up. VegaDark (talk) 17:07, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm... thanks for the tips.

1. For categories I've blanked myself I don't use the Uncategorized categories report, I simply search for "empty" in My contributions.
2. The process you suggest is exactly what I was moving toward with my archiving suggestion; I tested it out last night, and it seemed to work.
3. On reflection, however, I think I prefer blanking the page and waiting 96 hours. That gives other users plenty of time to react in case they know of reasons not to delete the category, as happened recently with Category:Neustrashimy class frigates and Category:Jamaican people murdered abroad. Right now we seem to have plenty of C1 targets, and I don't sense any rush to delete these categories, many of which appear to have been empty for years. - Stepheng3 (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Category:Federal elections in Illinois

If there's not a proper CFD why are you deleting it??—Markles 21:53, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

It was empty and seemed likely to remain so. -- see Wikipedia:CSD#C1. Anyway, I didn't delete it, I blanked it. And then you went and reverted me and populated it, so all's well. Cheers! - Stepheng3 (talk) 22:25, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you.—Markles 23:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your tip on Category:Soccer players from Washington (state) being speediable. I've moved it there; so the nomination and your comment has been deleted from the main CfD page. Just wanted to say thanks and let you know I deleted something you wrote. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Roundheads

Please see category talk:roundheads --PBS (talk) 18:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I thought you might like to read the debate and express your opinions on the matter. --PBS (talk) 09:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Category:Educational institutions established in 1793

Hi. Just leaving you a note after I received a bot message. Thanks for tagging that for me. I created it by mistake a couple of weeks ago before realising what the correct category was, then it slipped my mind to request its deletion. All's well that ends well anyway. Cheers Paul Largo (talk) 23:23, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. It's nice to know what happened. I rather enjoy cleaning up categories, so all's well. - Stepheng3 (talk) 01:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas from Promethean

O'Hai there Stepheng3, Merry Christmas!

Stepheng3,
I wish you and your family all the best this Christmas and that you also have a Happy and safe new year.
Thankyou for all your contributions to Wikipedia this year and I look forward to seeing many more from you in the future.
Your work around Wikipedia has not gone un-noticed, this notice is testimony to that
Please feel free to drop by my talkpage any time to say Hi, as I will probably say Hi back :)

All the Best.   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk)

Administrator

Would you be interested in becoming an administrator? You've clearly demonstrated a need for the tools with all your category work. Let me know and I'd be happy to write up a nomination for you in the next few days. VegaDark (talk) 08:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your willingness to nominate me. I can certaintly see that it would be handy to be able to delete categories directly. However, I don't feel ready for the WP:RfA process at this time. - Stepheng3 (talk) 19:22, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Let me know if/when you do. VegaDark (talk) 20:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)