User talk:Kieranandersn

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Kieranandersn, good luck, and have fun. --PamD 10:26, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Stubs[edit]

Hallo Kieran, Please don't add Category:Stubs directly to articles as you did at [{Award ceremony]]. If an article needs to be identified as a stub, add {{stub}}, which displays a message on the article and also adds it to this category. But also, before doing that, check whether an article is already labelled as a stub. In this case it was, and it was already in the category Category:Award stubs, so you didn't need to do anything. There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey - Happy Editing! PamD 10:29, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page Curation newsletter[edit]

Hey Kieranandersn. I'm dropping you a note because you used to (or still do!) patrol new pages. This is just to let you know that we've deployed and developed Page Curation, which augments and supersedes Special:NewPages - there are a lot of interesting new features :). There's some help documentation here if you want to familiarise yourself with the system and start using it. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:RAF Cadets[edit]

Category:RAF Cadets, 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. SFB 20:21, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Using HotCat[edit]

I saw back in September 2012, you used hotcat to add "mobile phone" to nokia lumia 900 article. Since I didn't know of the existence of hotcat, I read up on the category for it. Its archived pages list several bugs in it, along with suggestions to modify its behavior. One thing that seems to repeat is that hotcat will categorize an article, but not remove parent/child categories. When you hotcat'd nokia lumia 900, it simply added it to Mobile Phones. But now it appears there, and in the child categories "Nokia mobile phones", "Touchscreen mobile phones", etc. Right now there about two dozen mobile phones that appear in the generic "Mobile Phone" category, along with several child categories. Since I don't know how to use hotcat, I don't want to undo what you did, just ask if there's a way to remove the 900 (and 5 other lumias, and 23 other mobile phones) from directly under Mobile Phone, and just add them to child categories? The same thing happens under Category:Tablet Computers. There are tablets under that generic category, and under child categories. All this does is gum up the works, by unnecessarily repeating articles. It makes users sift through more articles under categories than needed. For example: if we run hotcat on "Ford Mustang Shelby 2015", and it puts it under "Automobile". Well that article should only be under "Ford vehicles introduce in 2015" or "Ford Mustang Shelby". The second child category will eventually be under "Ford Mustang", which in turn will be under "Ford vehicles", which in turn will be under "Automobiles". Let me know if you know enough of hotcat where you can make suggestions to improve it and eliminate this "redundancy". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivansevil (talk • contribs) 16:53, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]