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Welsh socialists

discussion moved to User talk:Welshsocialist#Welsh_socialists, to keep it all together

James Duckworth

I have had a look in the Times newspaper archive and Who was Who but there is not anything new there which is not covered in your article. I did make a couple of minor grammar changes.

The odd thing is that in your article you have a source which indicates Duckworth had a wife and son in 1862. However according to Who was Who, Duckworth did not marry until 1882. His wife's name is given as Emma Matilda Jully. Who was Who also has an entry for Duckworth's son also called James but his dob is given as 1869. He contested Bury as a Liberal in 1923 and 1924. I suppose the relationship could have been common law and James junior born out of wedlock with the parents legitimising things by marrying in 1882 but it's speculation and I do not want to add information to the article which appears to contradict the existing content. Does your source say anything about the marriage?

Graham

Case categories

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Hey, don't get upset! I was just trying to be helpful by replying at all - in the early hours of the morning after Christmas, I wasn't really doing more than flicking through a few things and answering messages. You're right, I should've added the category in the first place - thanks very much for doing it in the end. Ho ho ho, happy new year, Wikidea 14:10, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

I copied this message to User talk:Wikidea#Category:Lord Lindley cases, and made my apology there, to keep the discussion in one place. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:19, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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Cuckoo class schooner

Hi Brownhairedgirl, Holiday greetings, etc. Thanks for adding the category "Royal Navy schooners" to the category page. I have wondered how one created sub-categories and now I know. I added the Ballahoo class schooner category page too. You may have noticed that I have added five (of 18) schooners to the Ballahoo class. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 03:51, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Great work on writing the articles! And I'm glad to have been able to help a bit with the categories. ---BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Romance (genre)

Hi
Is the category Romance (genre) is out of scope being a category ?, I think it could at-least have members as those works listed in the Romance (genre) article page. The novel Marthandavarma is tagged as historical romance - is it not right to (for the novel) come under Romance (genre)- just a humble doubt(harith (talk) 09:48, 29 December 2009 (UTC))

I am not sure what you mean by "out of scope being a category". Plesae can you explain this a bit more?

Thanks! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi,
What I meant is – whether there won’t be a category Romance (genre) in Misplaced Pages hereafter or from now .. ??, its just that the Category inclusion was removed from the Marthandavarma (novel) article, where the same was added by me. Okay .. if there going be a category Romance (genre), I’d suggest it to be added to the above mentioned article otherwise .. never mind, Thanks
(harith (talk) 00:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC))

Quite alright

. I forgot; thx. Good Ol’factory 12:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for being nice about it! I know that per WP:TPG I was being naughty, but hoped it would be understood as a small bit of housekeeping. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Levineps Categories

Please take a look also at this talk page post. The problem isn't just bad categories; there is objective error in what he does as well. The response I got was...less than constructive. postdlf (talk) 14:34, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I had already picked up on this at CFD, where rather a lot of Levineps-created categories seemed to be causing widespread concerns. When I looked at Levineps' category edits, they seemed to consist of creating badly-conceived new categories. I will pop across to the talk page and take a look. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:48, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I have posted a long comment at User talk:Levineps#Second_opinion, asking for restraint. I hope that may help prompt some genuine dialogue and a moratorium until there is some consensus ... but if it doesn't, then I suggest a prompt WP:RFC/U. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Note that right after your comment were two separate complaints by different individuals about other categories he created. I think for a minimum first step, he needs to start writing full edit summaries, explaining every change he's making, and not marking his edits as minor. As so many editors have complained, it is clear that his editing choices are contentious and it's dishonest to continue to treat controversial changes as minor. I'm all in favor of an RFC.

BTW, I don't think I've told you that I greatly appreciate your participation at CFD. It's at its best when it's populated by level-headed, systematic thinkers. postdlf (talk) 21:34, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, and for your nice comments about my presence at CFD. After flooding the place with squillions of uncategorised categories over the last week, I wouldn't have been surprised if some ppl wanted to see the back of me. :) Anyway, I do agree that CFD works best when it has a number of regular who are trying to approach the issues systematically, and I think that at the moment we are lucky enough to have several people who regularly bring that sort of approach to it. I value your contributions too!

Anyway, as to Levineps ... I have just posted again to eir talk page, to make another plea for restraint. I do hope my appeal won't fall on deaf ears, but I'm not putting any money on it, because many have tried before me. If that doesn't work, then it's time to start drafting an RFC/U. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:26, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you for making efforts to intervene with Levineps. I was concerned about two months ago about some of his edits, and since that time I've tried to work with him a number of times on my own initiative, and I've also been approached by a number of other editors on my talk page and via email who have been as troubled as I was. He bounces around from topic to topic, so it seems that some editors get very concerned, and then when he moves on to other areas, the concerns of these editors die off, but overall I think his pattern of edits is very concerning. I have not known where to take things since my last comments on his talk page—I was kind of waiting for someone else involved in CFD to notice that we have a pattern developing here. Good Ol’factory 03:34, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that support! If this does need go to RFC/U, will you help draft something? I'm happy to do the initial spadework, but I think more heads will make a better job of ensuring that it is reasonably thorough, as well as fair and balanced. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure, just give me a heads up if it gets that far. I can provide you with a rough chronology of my own concerns combined with those I've been involved in. There's been quite a few incidents, and some are scattered around on wikiproject talk pages, etc. Overall, I have found him non-responsive to requests. Back in Oct, I actually blocked him because he just refused to respond to any inquiries at all. Then he piped up and said, "hey, why didn't you give me a warning before blocking", so we considered that his warning and he's at least responded to inquiries since then, but he's never been terribly helpful. He usually just says, "looks like we disagree" and stuff like that—never really addresses the issues raised. Good Ol’factory 03:46, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Incidentally, for only a couple months' work, his "deleted user contributions" list since late October is shockingly long. And there's still quite a bit to clean up. Good Ol’factory 03:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Peter Robinson

I'm afraid you're incorrect: I added nothing. I shall re-edit, but without removing the fact tags, since what I removed was opinion and irrelevant anyway. SE7/_Contribs 04:06, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh and I don't "sneakily" edit things. I imagine one would have to live a very sad life indeed to go around editing things merely to suit their purposes rather than suit the truth of the matter, but thanks for the lecture anyway SE7/_Contribs 04:10, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Easier solution: I have just removed the whole unreferenced section. It is all just opinion, and should not be included unless referenced to reliable sources. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:16, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

stop reverting my edits

All you are doing is reverting my edits for the sake of reverting them. All your doing is hitting the undo button. If my edits are wrong thats one thing, but what you are doing is really disgusting.Levineps (talk) 06:27, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

All explained on you talk page. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thats clearly an abuse of the system. And looking from your own talk page, you got some issues of your own. So maybe people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.--Levineps (talk) 06:32, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

If there are issues you want to take to ANI, then do so.

However, I and others put a lot of time and effort into politely trying to engage you in discussion about your disruptive editing. You ignored repeated requests, and have subsequently tried to remove the warnings from your talk page. I started reverting only because all attempts to ask your discuss your disruptive editing had failed, as had warnings. I will stand over all the reverts I made, and none of them were, as you allege "for the sake of reverting them". Those you have restored have been reverted by others.

Anyway, I am now off for some sleep. I will leave matter this in the hands of others. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

devil's advocate

It seems to me you would make a good lawyer(if your not already). You always find an argument for everything, which can be a good thing. But I think unless it's a legitimate reason and you have shown a few, what your doing should be done less frequently.--Levineps (talk) 15:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

If you have a complaint, take it to WP:ANI#User:Levineps_and_categorisation. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:16, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Levineps

Is it appropriate for me to implement the community ban per the ANI talk page since I initially proposed it, or do I wait for an outside admin to do that? Am I expected to take the lead on this or would it be inappropriate for me to do so? I think there's a clear consensus for a category-edits ban and the additional points you've made. I've never done something like this before so I don't know. Good Ol’factory 00:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I think that I may be the wrong person to answer this since I was the person who made the first complaint at ANI, but here's my thoughts for what they are worth.

Ideally that step should be taken by an uninvolved admin, and Rockpocket has agreed to implement the consensus. It seems to me that you are right on consensus: there is near-unanimity on what to do, with the only dissent being those those arguing for a complete ban now, so I doubt that there is any scope for objection to someone going ahead and implementing the consensus. It seems to me that this would be best done by asking Rockpocket to go ahead. If you do it yourself, you run the risk of complaints against you for being the wrong person doing the right thing (a mistake which I have made before), and that can be used to undermine the validity of the agreed remedies. I think it would be a pity for a procedural wrangle to undermine the consensus which has been achieved so far.

Hope this helps! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

It does—sweet. I'll just wait a bit and see if anyone goes ahead. If not, I'll approach Rocketp. Good Ol’factory 01:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Too many cooks... Please see the current state of the AN/I post, and this post. We need to undo that and implement them as I have written them, which is actually what was agreed to. User:Coffee's summary is neither an accurate restatement of the AN/I consensus, nor clear in its terms. postdlf (talk) 15:40, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Double upmerge

You probably know this already, but this won't work. It will only upmerge it to the first one listed. We have to put the double upmerges at WP:CFDWM for manual merges. They get done eventually, but it's slow. I wish there was a faster way. Not to worry about the one in question as I tracked down the four articles and added the second category. Good Ol’factory 07:00, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for that pointer, and for tidying up after my error.

I knew that manual for multiple merges used to be the case, but that I thought that Cydebot was now able to handle double upmergers. Thanks very for correcting that impression -- it could have left quite a mess if I had applied that assumption to the close of a big category or series of categories.

Shouldn't there be a warning about this at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Of no consequence

I was wondering about joining your userpage category, as I meet some of the qualifications. However I am not "Cariverous" and wondered if this was a typo. If it is a fey, Celtic quality of some kind I apologise for my ignorance. Ben MacDui 14:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid it's a very select group. As well as all the other criteria, you have to be a meat-eater who doesn't always bother typing accurately. <grin>

Of course, if you feel that you meet these criteria, you would be very welcome to join.

Just as I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is "the antidote to panel games", this category is intended as the antidote to user categories. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I score pretty well and I'll be sure to get in touch if I improve it, although "troglodyte" is possibly an ambition too far. Have a great 2010. Ben MacDui 17:19, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

And you too. May your meat be tender and your typos plentiful! <grin> --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category moves

BrownHairedGirl, I thank you for and appreciate your message to me concerning my creations of categories for the "House of Esterházy" and "House of Kinsky." As a lowly editor, I get caught up in the weeds when ensuring all persons are granted the proper categories for their articles. In the early days of Misplaced Pages, new editors created categories for families by naming the category just the family name without "House of..." or ".... family" and in my haste to correct these errors, I neglected to check Misplaced Pages policy. (And let's face it, Misplaced Pages policy is Byzantine in nature and not many editors are aware of all the policies they must strive to work within). This is why I'm thankful that administrators such as yourself are able to remind editors of these rules. Thanks for all you do for Misplaced Pages. --Caponer (talk) 19:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Category:Dialects of Portuguese in Spain

That category doesn not correspond, because Oliventian Portuguese is a subdialect of Alentejan Portuguese, delete it. Read that article in Spanish Misplaced Pages. I believe that I confunded Oliventian with Alejentan, but I shall fix it. --Der Künstler (talk) 20:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I presume you are referring to Category:Dialects of Portuguese in Spain?

I don't read Spanish, so the Spanish Misplaced Pages is no use to me. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax

If you're still on your MP-expanding trawls, can you do the wonderfully-named John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax at some point? (See his talk page for a summary of the current issues). – iridescent 20:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

What a bizarre self-caricature of a man!

I corrected one small glitch, but unfortunately I don't have sources which would allow me to do much with it. Election results which would confirm his electoral history, but that's all.

Anyway, good to hear from you. Hope you are keeping well, and have a Happy New Year! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:45, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Categories reinstated

Hi BHG, sorry I slipped, well caught. Happy New Year! - Fayenatic (talk) 21:41, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

No prob, I could see it was a mistake, so I thought it best to just fix it and not make any drama!

Happy New Year too you too :) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:49, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

You might want to join in as you've been mentioned

See http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Offliner -- for what it's worth, I'd say that it appears that there is no good basis for those 3 articles to be in the category and that they should have been removed. Dougweller (talk) 11:39, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:26, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Have left a comment there. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I am sorry we dragged you into this, that was never my intention. I should have included the articles to my original note - I think I even planned to do this - but simply forgot, probably due being a bit under the weather from a slight fever. --Sander Säde 13:29, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks v much for your friendly note, but don't worry, when disputes happen, others inevitably get dragged in, so I don't take it personally!

I'm sure that the omission of a list of the articles was a good faith oversight, and in any case you've done the right thing by listing them when you realised your mistake.

Hope the fever passes quickly :) --13:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I share your dislike of these subjective categories. And (unless you are including them), some of the ethnic ones. I've read a comment somewhere, for instance, that we use categories labelling people as Jewish far more than the other Wikipedias do. Dougweller (talk) 15:30, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not happy about the ethnic categories either, but they divide opinions. Some editors ask "is this the Nuremburg laws?", but others say "I'm proud of my ethic heritage & identity. Don't try to airbrush it out". So there have been a lot of heated CFDs which end up as no consensus. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:39, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Games by designer

Reading this nomination of yours, I wanted to make sure you were aware of Category:Games by designer, where games are already categorized by their designers.--Mike Selinker (talk) 05:11, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer, Mike. I have replied at CFD. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer)#Requested move

Hi BrownHairedGirl. Because you participated in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer), you may be interested in the rename discussion at Talk:Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer)#Requested move. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 18:20, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Primary topics and dab repair

I do hear your argument about primary topic being a problem with dab repair. I do sometimes forget. But I think 60% is near the line (how much over 50% should it be?). During the last run visit with this "fun" topic (Talk:James Stewart), I started a summary essay on the issues involved (User:Jwy/Primary_Topics: Why and Which). It is an attempt to discuss neutrally the issues involved in choosing a primary target (or indeed, if there should be one). I want someone to be able to read it to be more informed, not necessary to prescribe what they should do. I have just looked at it again and see room for improvement (page loading in addition to clicks, for example). If you have suggestions for the essay, please jump in - either comment on the talk or directly in the article. (John User:Jwy talk) 22:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Rugby union footballers --> Rugby union players. Thank you!_Rugby_union_players._Thank_you!-2010-01-04T22:47:00.000Z">

Thank you for your contribution and doing the gruntwork in suggesting the renaming of all those categories. Was also nice to see that was actually WP:snow-ing! A big thanks from WP:RU. Sahmejil (talk) 22:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)_Rugby_union_players._Thank_you!"> _Rugby_union_players._Thank_you!">

You're welcome! I'm used to category stuff, so it was quite easy for me to do it, but would have been rather daunting from someone not practiced at CFDs.

The bot is still at work, but once the job is done I expect that we will find I missed a few categories. This search should identify any stragglers, but don't be discouraged by the number of hits it is returning this evening. Give it a day or two for the bots to finish their work and the indexes to update! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

oops! bad search link now fixed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

CFDW

I've sent User:Cyde an email about his slow-working bot. He told me awhile ago that he rarely checks his WP talk page now so if it slows down give him a shout on his email. I'll email you his address for future referece. Good Ol’factory 23:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I've been trying to do some small categories to clear the list a bit, but the bot should really be doing it all. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

It looks like the email did the trick. It seems to be processing smoothly now. Good Ol’factory 00:35, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Well done! It'll be a relief to see it done, because as the nominator of all those categories I felt kinda responsible for them clogging up CFD/W. --00:37, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Once we had something like 300 backed-up categories from about 6 days' worth of closes listed on CFDW page before one of us decided we'd better email Cyde. It was embarrassing. Cyde is pretty quick to respond unless he's sleeping so it's worth just sending him an email to ask if anything is malfunctioning on his end. Good Ol’factory 00:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Great, I'll bear that in mind for the future. We do rely on Cyde! Without Cydebot, most CFD decisions not be implemented. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Greetings from the antipodes west of GO

Yeah I suppose I am trying to be a bit cheeky at the Tassie and West Oz locomotives cats - really its a nobrainer - I think Vegaswikian saw that when I started polluting (maybe it was explaining) the entries - I await the far more interesting and challenging closed railways and railway stations, and disused railways and railway stations - to defunct railways and railway station CFD discussion (when it gets put up) - I am sure that will be more than my talking to myself - cheers SatuSuro 14:15, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Suro

I wasn't tying to suggest that anyone as cheeky, just that we did need some resolution to the discussions on those locomotive categories.

I don't know whether to read your comment as a withdrawal of your objections to the renaming, but if that's what you intend, then please could you say so at CFD to help whoever is closing the debates? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:28, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

No - sorry - I was doing that as a self identification at the CFD comments regarding do I get consensus with myself comment' - I will try to explain simply at the CFD - I dont agree with the nominations for either SatuSuro 14:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't really know what you mean by that, but look fwd to your clarification at CFD. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:30, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Native American Music Award

Hi there, I didn't see the place I should comment about this category, but a list instead is fine with me.I'm Nonpartisan 02:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by I'm nonpartisan (talk • contribs)

When you were writing that comment, did you see the note above the box? It says "Please make it easy for me to locate what you are referring to, by including links in your message". It does make things easier, y';know :)
Anyway, I did post on your talk page a link to the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 December 25#Category:Native_American_Music_Award_Winner. Sorry you didn't make it there, but glad to hear the outcome is OK with you.

Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Austin Taylor

I think I just pulled the "Kyffin-" from the info in William Kyffin-Taylor, 1st Baron Maenan, but now that I look back, I suspect that's wrong. I can't now find any evidence that Austin (unlike his brothers) ever used the "Kyffin-". Choess (talk) 07:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

message copied to User talk:Choess#Austin_Taylor_MP, where I posted my reply, to keep the discussion in one place. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Category discussions

Hi BrownHairedGirl, I was a bit bothered by a couple of your CFD noms and decided I should post a note here and offer my view, for what it's worth. Not trying to be confrontational or anything but I do have a concrete suggestion. I'm guessing you do a lot of work with categories, and no doubt there are a lot of nonsense/inappropriate categories that need to be cleared out so props for doing that. However I think at least two of your nominations today (including the one I created, but even more so Category:Fish nervous system) were ill-advised. A better course might have been to leave a note for the creators of these categories, or to discuss them on the category discussion page. I was somewhat astonished to see the category I created nominated for deletion and found myself wishing you had simply dropped me a note about your concerns. Even more so with the Fish nervous system category, you admitted that you basically knew nothing about the topic but then nominated it anyway. Wouldn't a note to the person who created it, asking for clarification, have been a better route? When that person explained their reasoning and the fact that they work in neuroscience, you still seemed to question their argument, even though they claim expertise and you admit to not knowing the topic. That just seems quite strange to me, and frankly you waste several editors' time by nomming a cat for deletion that is perfectly legitimate—a fact which you could easily determine by talking to the person who created it.

I'm sure you do good work on this issue and I really don't meant to come at you with this little note, but in situations that are not clear-cut and where you're not sure of the scope/purpose of the category (and/or have little background in the topic at hand), it just seems advisable to communicate with the individual editor before listing a category for discussion. Not a huge deal or anything obviously, and you can take this advice or leave it, but I thought it was worth pointing out. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 21:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I came here to make a friendly comment, and noticed the above. I'm unfamiliar with the category that the other editor started, but I came here to say thank you for withdrawing your nomination of the fish category, and to say that your nomination of that one, on the face of it, was entirely reasonable. Like Looie, I'm an expert in neuroscience, but when I saw the notice at the neuroscience wikiproject talk page, my first reaction was that this sounded like a ridiculous category name, and I was going to !vote delete. When I actually realized what the situation was, of course, I changed my mind. But the point is that I think what you did was entirely fair, including your willingness to withdraw when you saw the direction that consensus was going. Misplaced Pages isn't just for experts, and I thank you for your interest. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Fully agree with Tryptofish that the willingness to withdraw upon learning more was a commendable move on your part. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 18:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Categories in a muddle

Your understanding of category hierarchies is far better than that of most people. So please would you look at the intersections of political sex scandals, sex scandal figures, Profumo affair, scandals in UK, scandals in England, etc. The list is huge. Many thanks and Happy New Year. Kittybrewster ☎ 11:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:11, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Companies based in Ratzeburg

Hello- actually you might be right. I wasn't sure whether Ratzeburg had any other significant companies. Seems it doesn't;). Cheerio. Hoodinski (talk) 11:24, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment, but the place to say it is at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 January 9#Category:Companies_based_in_Ratzeburg, not here. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Our tongues in each others mouths

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Sweetheart, now there's no need to say anything negative about anybody like you did about Barry Manilow on your user page. See all the big hit songs he had! Also, you must be desperate (again, per your user page). As my wife and I are - I guess - separated, putting tongue down each other's throats can be quite healthy - and fun! I know a place we can go... Love, --Discographer (talk) 13:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Don't sweetheart me, sonny boy.

And as your throat ... well, people who make crass semi-pornographic comments to me are more likely to find something else put down it.

Now, hop off back to your playpen to read playboy before your mummy finds you've escaped from it. And don't post to my talkpage unless you actually want to discuss building an encyclopedia. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, baby girl... my apologies (though desiringly should you ever, you know where to reach me!) Best, --Discographer (talk) 14:02, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

No thanks: I'm not a paedophile. Now go back to your mummy, and don't post here again. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Block it

Block it. I don't know what led to that post, I don't care what led to that post, I just don't want posts like it. Get another admin to block it. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid (coṁrá) 15:12, 9 January 2010 (UTC)