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Self Promotion

The page you speak to was not recreated. It was created and modified accordingly. Millions of academics promote themselves on Wkipedia. All the same, my page has been modified (not by me) and if you look you will see that. What is below is a perfectly acceptable article following strict wkipedia guidlines. Millions have articles such as these. If you block it, you have an issue with Damelin and this is obvious and will be dealt with by the University of Michigan.

The article modified is below:

Biography

Steven Benjamin Damelin (born November 1, 1968) is a Jewish United States Mathematican. He completed a Bachelor of Science Honors summa cum laude (Mathematics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1991, a Master of Science (Mathematics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy, (Mathematics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1996.

Academic Career

He did a postdoc at the University of South Florida (1996-1997) and from (1998-2000) was a Research Associate of the John Knopmacher Centre for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand and a Visiting Professor, in the Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University (1998-2000). He was a Full, Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Southern University (2000-2012). In the academic year (2005-2006) he was a "New Direction Professor" at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at University of Minnesota. When he returned to Georgia Southern University, he founded the interdisciplinary institute, "Unit for Advances in Mathematics" and was its Director (2006-2012). From (2013-2019) he was an Associate Editor at Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society and a sponsored affiliate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. From (2019-Present) he has been at the University of Michigan. .

He has published 90 papers in Approximation theory, Harmonic analysis, Data science, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Numerical Analysis, Codes, Optimization, Potential theory, Orthogonal polynomials, Scattering theory, Fluid mechanics and Mathematics education, one Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics book and two book chapters. . .

Selected works

• Damelin, S. B.; Miller, W. (2012), "The Mathematics of Signal Processing" (selected solutions by S.B. Damelin, H. Guo and W. Miller), Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol. 48, Cambridge University Press.
• Damelin, S.B. (2003). "Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities and the numerical approximation of singular integrals for exponential weights: Methods, Results and Open Problems, some new, some old". Journal of Complexity. 19: 406–415.
• Damelin, S.B. (2008). "A Walk through energy, discrepancy, numerical integration and group invariant measures on measurable subsets of euclidean space". Numerical Algorithms. 48 (1–3): 213–235.
• Damelin, S.B. (2021). "On the Whitney extension problem for near isometries and beyond". arXiv:2103.09748: 1–134.
• Hwang, Sung J.Hwang; Damelin, Steven B.; Hero, Alfred O. (2016). "Shortest path through random points". The Annals of Applied Probability. 26 (5): 2791–2823.
• Damelin, S.B.; Kuijlaars, A. (1999). "The support of the extremal measure for monomial external fields on ". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 35: 4561–4584.
• Cawse, Kerry; Damelin, Steven B.; Robin, Amandine; Sears, Michael (2013). "A parameter free approach for determining the intrinsic dimension of a hyperspectral image using Random Matrix Theory". IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. 22 (4): 1301–1310.
• Damelin, S.B.; Lubinsky, D.S. (1998). "Jackson theorems for Erdős weights in L_p,". Journal of Approximation Theory. 94 (3): 333–382.

References

1. ^ "New Directions Professorship".
2. ^ "LSA, University of Michigan". Cite error: The named reference "LSA, University of Michigan" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
3. ^ Doron Shaul Lubinsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Cite error: The named reference "MGS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
4. SBD Students at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ^ "SBDpapers".
6. ^ "Zbmath".
7. ^ "LSA, University of Michigan SBDCVshort" (PDF).
8. "Bib SA Jewry" (PDF).
9. ^ "LSA, University of Michigan SBDH".
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50.253.231.169 (talk)

User:PamD/WRC

Ah, sorry about that - someone userfied it for me at my request after they'd speedy-deleted it, and I haven't got round to doing anything with it yet! PamD 20:29, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

No prob, PamD. It's a quick click to fix it with the script. I am more than half way through a backlog of nearly 800 userpages in content cats.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:31, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

When will you ?? Travis Damian Houle (talk) 06:27, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

@Travis Damian Houle: when will who what? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:16, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Roger Pryke

Thank you for your correction/suggestion. - https://en.wikipedia.org/User:Gladiator-Citizen/sandbox - never done that well with Categories - I do not understand your correction, but I appreciate it, and will follow it for other categories. Could you direct me to a precise reference which I could study and would help me understand. Much thanks again.Gladiator-Citizen (talk) 23:59, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, @Gladiator-Citizen: Whenever you click 'Publish' in a sandbox or draft article which contains one or more ] simply prevents this happening. If and when your article goes live, all you you need to do is remove the initial colon, and your article will be part of the behind-the-scenes listings of all articles referring (if only in part) to British artists. You could try using {{Draft categories}} but it seems like piling on another level of incomprehension to me. See also Help:Category and Preparing drafts. Best of luck. MinorProphet (talk) 02:18, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much @MinorProphet - very much appreciate your time and information - I will keep trying to understand - I am now quite exhausted from finishing the article but my energy will come back! 118.127.122.147 (talk) 09:22, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

You also sent a message to me today about this. Thank you. I had no idea that anyone except me could see what was in my sandbox. Athel cb (talk) 08:53, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome, @Athel cb. All non-deleted pages on Misplaced Pages are publicly visible, including pages in the draft namespace and pages in user sandboxes.

The WP:USERNOCAT issue which triggered my edit to your sandboxes (and dozens of other sandboxes) sounds like an obscure issue, but as MinorProphet helpfully explained above, it's about ensuring that content categories include only articles which are intended to be presented to the public as encyclopedic content.

Thank for being so nice about it. I wasted a bit of time yesterday with one editor who sent me a flurry of angry emails, and while about 30% of these edits prompt the editor to send me a thanks notification, it's very nice to have an actual posted message. And thank you too for developing an article about an academic: it's a welcome change from the deluge of popular culture topics. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:29, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I think I was only moderately nice about it, as it's only normal politeness to acknowledge useful information that one receives. I've been editing Misplaced Pages for less than a year and there are still plenty of things I don't know. With few exceptions most the articles I've worked on existed already (including the one on W. W. Cleland that you mention). About a year ago I had occasion to consult the List of biochemists and was appalled at how bad it was. Many of the people who created biochemistry in the 20th century were missing (I counted about 60 that I've subsequently added) including quite a few Nobel prizewinners. On the other hand there were lots of people with only the most tenuous claims to be called biochemists (the father of an actress, a purveyor of quack medicine, someone famous for her ignorance of basic chemistry, a successful writer of science fiction and popular science, etc.). I thought no one would do anything about it unless I did, so that's when I decided to sign up as an editor. Athel cb (talk) 14:57, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Category category

Hello, BHG,

I can't figure out how Category:Category got on Institutes of technology in Ireland or how to remove it. There are no recent edits to the page and I don't see how it appeared or a way to remove it. Ideas? Liz 17:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: now fixed, in this edit.
The problem was a wee glitch in some {{Update after}} tags added by Le Deluge, which didn't show up until March was over. {{Update after}} really should warn about that error. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:21, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Some day, I'm going to stump you with a question. But it hasn't happened yet! Thank you for your quick work! Liz 19:52, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: haha.
That one actually took me about ten minutes. I started at the top, and ripped out the paragraphs one-by-one until the Category:Category disappeared. Inevitably, the para which removed the Category:Category was near the bottom of the page. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:Flagicon

Why did you specify {{DEFAULTSORT:Law by year}} with this edit? Someone just changed that to {{DEFAULTSORT:Flagicon}} but I don't understand why the Flagicon template would specify any default sort. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:27, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

@wbm1058, it looks like a clerical error by me, when copying cpde from elsewhere. The fix by User:Maiō T. looks good. Note that the DEFAULTSORT is not transcluded, so this relates only to the categorisation of the template, not of pages which transclude the template. It's probably superfluous. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:45, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

Hey BHG, always great to see your continuing good work. I wanted to let you know I plan to nominate the Category:Cultural infrastructure . . . category structure for deletion in the next couple of days; will post the discussion link in this thread once the nom is up and the cats are tagged (rather than hitting your talk with every individual notice). Wanted to let you know in advance as a courtesy so the nom did not take you by surprise. Will leave further discussion to the nom, and look forward to your contribution there. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, @UnitedStatesian, both for the headsup and for the kind words.

That nomination was my first thought when I first saw those categories. But then I did some searching on Google and JSTOR, and it seem to me that a) the term is in wide use, so it's not a wiki-neologism; b) it has a clear meaning; c) it is a useful way of grouping topics.

That's why instead of CFDing that category tree, I have been building the tree. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament has been nominated for splitting

Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament 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. Furicorn (talk) 21:34, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Another category query

Hello, again, BHG,

One thing that has bothered me over the years is that if an editor labels a category a "Tracking Category" or puts an Empty Category tag on a category, it's basically hands off. It's left alone and doesn't seem to be subject to deletion even if it is empty, it is no longer serving its original purpose or is just no longer useful. And when I went to look for policy to support these tags, when a category is labeled a Tracking Category or when an Empty Category tag is appropriate, I can't find anything. A couple years ago, I did a search for how many categories are labeled as Empty Categories and I think it was 20,000. Of course, I think we have millions of categories so that is just a drop in a bucket but it shouldn't just be a free pass when we have procedures to deal with categories.

This issue came up today because an editor created a new Tracking Category which I'm sure no one else knows about and I went looking to see what the policy is surrounding them. Thoughts? Liz 01:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Liz

AFAIK there is nothing documented, so you are not missing anything.

When tracking categories come to CFD, the approach taken usually amounts to "keep if the tracking function seems useful to somebody".

The fact that the category is empty is not a great guide to its utility. Many such categories just track errors, so emptiness is mostly just an indicator that it is well-patrolled.

What I would like to see is some requirement for documentation of a tracking category, explaining what it is for and how its populated ... and similar documentation of the template. Some tracking cats have long been redundant, so there is probably a lot of scope for cleanup, but in general they do no harm. Cleanup could also be highly disruptive, requiring a lot skilled forensic work ... and I wonder if that's a good use of anyone's time. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I think what resonates with me here in your reply is whether "that's a good use of anyone's time". When I thought about doing a review, I was thinking more of reviewing categories labeled Empty Categories since I think most that's a tag that any editor could slap on any category but most editors wouldn't know about Tracking Categories which typically are for administrative use.

I guess it would help if I was more specific so the category that came up yesterday is Category:Articles using draft categories. It has been empty when I checked but after talking with the category creator, there is now an Empty Category tag on it so I guess I will let it be even though I don't exactly understand what bot is placing articles into it. Thanks again for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge! Liz 02:35, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Liz, Category:Articles using draft categories is a good example of a well-documented category. It's populated by {{Draft categories}}, which isn't widely used, so it's often empty. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:51, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Alopoglossidae has been nominated for deletion

Category:Alopoglossidae has been nominated for deletion. 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. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 15:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Request for help: local work needed. Namely adding election years to your local historic/current MPs...can you help?

Evening fellow project member, we have reached a consensus that the section Members of Parliament for every local constituency needs to list out the successes. To do this, we will form a comma-separated list (adding <br> if more than 3 successful elections in a row, so as to make a taller table line for any re-elected MP(s). i.e. always to show the elections, not the first election gain that person was voted in at. Since 1885 at least.

Could you let me know, clicking on this part of my talk page if you could help by doing the Seats in any given county (or counties)? - Adam37 Talk 18:47, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

If so, ⇒ INSERT: (if you'd like to keep this page as a tab open, to assist with doing a fairly old but current seat) ALL/ANY APPLICABLE OF:-

...

! Elected/re-elected ! colspan="2" | Member ! Party |- | ] '''''' | ] | ] | ], ], ], <br>], ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] |], ], ]

At the very least our FTTP democracy thanks you for your very time in reading this.- Adam37 Talk 18:47, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

• @User:Adam37, the discussion has had low participation, and has not been closed. Not even you has attempted to post a summary of the discussion.

So I am absolutely horrified to see that you have posted this message to dozen of talk pages. Quite apart from jumping ahead of consensus, it is a form of spam. Please revert promptly. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:53, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

This is a matter of timescale. Perhaps if you felt that you should have made it clear. What is the BIG change. Talk about loss of sense of proportion. The very issue our agreed changes FIX.- Adam37 Talk 19:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Adam37, the loss of perspective is your pronouncing consensus and spamming. Please revert, or I may need to escalate. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I'll revert but only if you help form the sort of concrete consensus you are after. How can I second-guess that. You are logical. You are helpful. There's no need to tread beyond gingerly. It's really not a big deal.- Adam37 Talk 19:05, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Adam37, back off very fast from that line, because it's exasperating and infuriating. See the post I am writing at the project page, and which I hope to post in a few minutes. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:10, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I assumed you had loads of time to read and think about Chessrat's opinion; the other two in favour. And the way Rushcliff would look, which is the same style, it's not a third option. And didn't expect the sudden interjection of what transpires to be an almost 100%-supporter of your objections. Who I know is not a sockpuppet as I do follow the articles for YEARS. It's just like being given a dog biscuit by someone that's all. You just could accede to novelty and fairness. Rather than keep whacking the drum for readability wins all. Our's is a lot simpler than the US and Canada ones. So reflect. Reflechissez!- Adam37 Talk 19:56, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Adam37, you have become a massively annoying timesink, and now you are trying to make more drama. I have no patience with this sort of game-playing, so please just knock it off and allow the substantive discussion to proceed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)]

Just apologise for your delay in Chessrat's point followed by his table and/or my same-time roughly point about it being a great solution and demolishing the concerns/points for the status quo. If you don't want to then just accept you have equally caused a lot of time and thought to be spent on something which looked like a done deal. In any court of opinion.- Adam37 Talk 20:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

@Adam37, the only timewasting is the disruption caused by your decision to unilaterally proclaim a consensus, and then start spamming. Right now, you appear to me to be conducting yourself as a malicious childish troll who has limited comprehension of both the substantive issues and the consensus-forming process. If that is not how you want to perceived, then stop making drama, and restrict yourself to concise contributions on the substance. But either way, stay off my talkpage: any further comments here by you will be treated as trolling, and reverted. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Flood category help

I'm currently in the process of working to implement some wikiproject mergers and accidentally made some duplicate categories for one thing due to a capitalization error in the original categories. Could you please move the categories listed at Category:Flood_articles_by_quality to have "Flood" instead of "flood"? Also, the Category:Flood articles by importance (lower case "flood" categories) for importance are empty since I changed/fixed the parameter. Sorry about that. Noah 12:57, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah, I think that the lowercase titles are correct. See e.g. the subcats of Category:Animal articles by quality. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:14, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

PS @Hurricane Noah, I have reverted your edit to Template:WikiProject Meteorology, and restored the lowercase title for the assessment cats. If you want to propose a change, open a WP:CFD discussion. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:38, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Journal of Paramedic Practice

Hiya, I would appreciate some advice on making this draft page acceptable for publication - I saw you've edited a few Nursing Journal pages, so thought you might have some good insights? Tannim101 (talk) 21:34, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Tannim101, my edits to Nursing Journal pages werepurely technical. So I'm sorry, but I have no topic expertise to offer, and it's not my area of interest. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:37, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

• No worries, I thought it might be worth asking Tannim101 (talk) 21:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

John Archibald Mills

Hello Brown Haired Girl,

 Two years ago, you posted an article on John Archibald Mills.  He was an MP in the Alberta legislature.  I have no edits for you, just a thank you.  I’m sure my grandfather would be quite flattered.

   Beeronysus Beeronysus (talk) 02:32, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Removal of Category markers when developing a page in sandbox

Hi There! Thanks for your heads up that I'd left the category tags in place on my user sandbox page User:Thedwan/sandbox. I was working on my first new article creation recently - Alex McKinnon Cup - and I forgot to wipe the Sandbox page afterwards. :) Thedwan (talk) 10:32, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

SBs

Having an intention to write an article concerning teaching English pronunciation, methinks, it seems to be exceedingly important to know tha authors of the most popular SBs in your country. I think, these are Ann Baker "Tree or three", "Ship or sheep"; English Pronunciation in Use ; Get rid of your accent; O'Connor and Fletcher "Sounds English Am I right? Is it possible to study it without a good instructor?Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 10:46, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

@Роман Сергеевич Сидоров: I don't know what you mean by "SBs", and I don't understand your question or why you asked me. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:48, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Well I understand the question. The most elementary search reveals that SB = "Student's Book": and, my dear Роман Сергеевич Сидоров, the answer to "Is it possible to study it without a good instructor?" is obviously "No" or/или "Нет". I could teach you, but I am unfortunately busy until Doomsday. Anyway, not even the English know how to pronounce (let alone spell) their own language. There are, on the other hand, literally hundreds of dialects of 'British' English which change dramatically within 30 miles (45 верст) or less. Check out Mancunian and Scouse. In Wales, they are still wary of the folks who live on the other side of the valley. Try the New York Times British-Irish Dialect Quiz. Why, BHG, were you asked? Coz you're famous, obvs. MinorProphet (talk) 03:06, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Need Your Favour

Hey, I have created a Draft Article: Draft:Bugha and don't worry it has Reference from Forbes, The New York Times, Arab News, Wall Street Journal, BBC , CNN, ESPN, and many more and i would like if you check it out and hopefully approve it Unnecessary Invention (talk) 11:50, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, @Unnecessary Invention, but that is not my sort of topic at all.

I suggest that you seek out editors who are interested in that sort of sport.

Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:31, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Ok :)) Unnecessary Invention (talk) 17:02, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Indian Institute of Technology Madras people has been nominated for renaming

Category:Indian Institute of Technology Madras people has been nominated for renaming. 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. Oculi (talk) 10:08, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Misplaced Pages

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Misplaced Pages Writer

Hi BrownHairedGirl. Thanks for the suggestion on JoshMortonMusic Sandbox. Are you available to write wikipedia pages for payment? I need help, I'm kinda lost

Pretty please with a cherry on top. -JoshMortonMusic JoshMortonMusic (talk) 03:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, @JoshMortonMusic. I am not available for paid editing, and in any case your area of interest (rap music) does not interest me. I just made a small technical edit to your sandbox, along with dozens of other user sandboxes which I identify by a search.

Also, your userpage make it very clear that you have a conflict of interest (COI), and are using Misplaced Pages to promote your business interests. So I am pleased to see that my wonderful colleague PamD has already taken action. Pam has wisely tagged your userpage as a candidate for speedy deletion, and posted a COI warning on your talk page. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much. I wish you well in all that do. JoshMortonMusic (talk) 12:10, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Misplaced Pages

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Misplaced Pages

Category:Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland

Hello, BHG,

I was surprised to see this category pop up on the Daily Empty Category list so I have placed what I think are appropriate categories in it but it's odd, there is a priest category for Northern Ireland but only a bishops category for the Republic of Ireland. Since you know both categories and Ireland very well, I thought I'd ask you to double-check and see if this was emptied out-of-process. Thank you. Liz 01:20, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

​Special:Diff/1019955510 and Special:Diff/1016557902 were the only two recent, direct edits to remove contents from the category. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:08, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Liz and JJMC89. There is an editor who does a lot of categorisation in that area, and has a long history of out-of-process category emptying etc, and another who is prolific but has not great judgement, so this happens not infrequently. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:39, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

a sweet gift for a sweet person

U.J (talk) 18:43, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

RfA2?

Hello! As a longtime and extremely frequent reader (if not exactly much of an editor) of Misplaced Pages perusing an unrelated topic, I stumbled across the existence of something called ArbCom and became quite curious as to how this body operates, and fascinated by the workings and history of that body. Rather inexplicably becoming more and more absorbed, I've spent much of the last 72 hours reading through several of the cases they have ruled on in the last several years, as well as surrounding materials such as RfA requests and the FRAMGATE saga. I say this only to provide an explanation as to why a user with only a single 12-year-old edit knows or cares about this; it is because I read the Portals case and some surrounding materials during this process, discovered that you remain a highly active contributor, and have a question for you.

So far as I can tell, the last thing that happened connected to those events was in October 2020 with a second RfA page in which you are renominated, with an accompanying Arbcom motion lifting your topic bans for that second RfA. However, the RfA itself seems to have been abandoned.

In a statement after the close of Portals, you expressed great discomfort regarding certain findings of fact which you felt would be a permanent stain on your record. As someone who is approximately as uninvolved with all this as it is possible to be and literally only knows about you because of that Arbcom case, I think the stain is not quite so bad as you thought, then or now. What matters more, I would say, is that despite having the both the stated intention and ample justification for abandoning this project, you did not do so at any point. The fact that you are still actively helping 15 months later speaks both to your extraordinary dedication to the project and to your subsequent ability to abide by a ruling with which you clearly strongly disagreed (otherwise you would probably be blocked, rather than actively editing). For most (perhaps even all) of the other participants in the cases I read, I have been less impressed with their subsequent record.

As I said at the start, I am not really an editor here, but I most certainly am a frequent reader, and it's in my interest that the high quality of content here is maintained. My sense is that you probably have nearly as good as case for reinstatement after an ArbCom desysop as it is possible to have from a "subsequent activity" standpoint, so my question is...whatever happened to your second RfA, and have you any interest in going back to it?

ShashakiroSH (talk) 20:54, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

May 2021 at Women in Red

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--Rosiestep (talk) 21:35, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Adding templates

Hi. I noticed that you were adding templates to articles which are linked from the templates. One such example is: edit. In this case, this article is a generic term and the addition of the template does not make sense, despite the article being linked from the template. What are your thoughts? -- DaxServer (talk) 16:00, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi DaxServer, and thanks for being so eagle-eyed.

I try to exclude such generic terms, but it seems that I missed that one. So I have removed it. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:04, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello again! Could you add the templates to Navboxes if present, like here :) -- DaxServer (talk) 10:32, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, @DaxServer, but I can't. AWB doesn't do that automatically, and there are far too many additions to manually tweak them. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:35, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Wish it could! -- DaxServer (talk) 10:39, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

@DaxServer if that was possible, then I'd do it, to follow existing layout.

But {{Navboxes}} is wildly overused, and I'd like to see it restricted to cases where there are at least 7 or 8 navboxes, because hiding a smaller set of navboxes is an impediment to navigation with no help to readability ... so I'd like AWB to remove it when there are fewer uses. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thank you so much for the edits on my wiki article! Much appreciated. Eemakagoma (talk) 16:56, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Draft Declined; The Subject is the Head Coach of Professional Football Club, FC Kolhapur City

Help in getting this draft Verified. https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Muzamil_Mahmood The Subject is a professional Asian football confederation, B licensed Coach and has good search results. Darzubair (talk) 11:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, @Darzubair, but that's not at all my area of interest. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Category:Songs written by Mahmoud Darwish has been nominated for deletion

Category:Songs written by Mahmoud Darwish has been nominated for deletion. 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. Richhoncho (talk) 17:29, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

• 1968 births
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• 21st-century American mathematicians
• Living people
• University of the Witwatersrand alumni
• University of Michigan faculty