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::: You're right. I created ], ] and ] much earlier. They seem well-named and necessary. And I agree, the ] should be considered deleted, merged, renamed... ] (]) 17:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC) ::: You're right. I created ], ] and ] much earlier. They seem well-named and necessary. And I agree, the ] should be considered deleted, merged, renamed... ] (]) 17:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
::::They may "seem well-named and necessary" to you, the category creator. I'm not so sure. I am concerned that are neither, and are a needless duplication of such categories as ], as I've stated at CfD. We shall see. ] (]) 18:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC) ::::They may "seem well-named and necessary" to you, the category creator. I'm not so sure. I am concerned that are neither, and are a needless duplication of such categories as ], as I've stated at CfD. We shall see. ] (]) 18:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
:::::But ], why don't you participate in the discussions to give your point of view? Why don't you explain what your rationale was? Or if you agree with the nomination, why don't you state that you agree? Not hearing from you one way or the other makes it look like you just create lots of categories and don't care what others think about them one way or the other, which is not terribly productive (and could be classified by some as disruptive, depending on how many categories we're talking about). ] <sup>]</sup> 01:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)


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Hi. Would you mind explaining your statement that Liv Tyler is an Italian-American. There is no mention of it in the articles about her father or mother. DJ Clayworth 19:35, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Italian-Argentines category

Roughly half of all Argentines would qualify. Superfluous IMHO. Best, elpincha 20:22, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)


Italian-American categories

Hello, I have listed two of your categories, Category:Italian-American jurists and Category:Italian-American activists, on Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion, and I believe my reasons for doing so may apply to other categories that you have been working on. It would be great if you could add your comments to the deletion discussion page so we might understand why you created these and what you think they add to wikipedia. In the meantime, it might be better to refrain from working on these until there is a community resolution of whether these should stay, so as to prevent any wasted time. Thanks! Postdlf 03:33, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Italian-Canadian politicians

Firstly, members of many Canadian ethnic groups support politicians from their own communities. Italians are not unique in this regard. Secondly, we don't list Canadian politicians of any other cultural background in distinct "-Canadian politicians" categories. There's no reason why Canadian politicians of Italian heritage should get special treatment that other groups don't get.

Any category that can simultaneously include Giuseppe Gori, Joe Fratesi, Rosario Marchese, Rick Fuschi, Alfonso Gagliano, Larry Di Ianni, Joe Peschisolido and Nick Discepola simply isn't telling me anything helpful about these people. They have no meaningful connection to each other. The category doesn't help me understand their ideology: Marchese's an NDPer and Fuschi's a neoconservative. It doesn't put them in an objective political context: Gagliano and Discepola are federal MPs, while Fuschi and Gori are party activists who've never held elected political office in their lives. It doesn't put them in a regional context: Gagliano's from Montreal and Peschisolido's from Vancouver. It doesn't even tell me that they identify with a cultural group that faces discrimination in Canadian society. All it tells me is that they're of Italian heritage, but for one thing, that isn't inherently meaningful information in the particular context of Canadian politics, and for another, 99% of the time I could already figure that out anyway, just by looking at their name.

I see that several other similar categories of yours have already been deleted, telling me that not everybody agrees with you on the value of these groupings. Judging by your posting history, you have no interest in Canadian politics other than reorganizing the articles to fit your larger agenda of subtopics for every loosely definable group of Italian-surnamed people you happen to find. Do you have any understanding of what's a key issue in Canadian politics and what isn't?

And anyway, the onus isn't on me to justify the category's lack of value; it's on you to justify why it is warranted. Bearcat 05:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Hi. Suffice 19:48, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tina M

Hi: i noticed that you had hooked Tina M up with some Italian-American link. Depending, of course, on how you choose to define your use of the term "American," Tina probably does not fit it. Although she lived in America she was never an American citizen and likely never considered her self to be American. "Italian -Mexican Someting" works just fine Carptrash 03:10, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lavrenty Beria

Why did you add him to the list of exonerated Soviet death sentences? The article states that the Russian Supreme Court refused to overturn his convictions. Does "well, no, he didn't commit treason and espionage, but he did commit torture, murder, and rape" constitute exoneration? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:35, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cryptographer recats

Hi, just noticed your work on recategorising cryptographers according to nationality. I've one suggestion: perhaps it would be better to divide them into modern cryptographers and non-modern? I think this would be a more useful distinction to the reader. (Modern meaning after, say, 1970). — Matt Crypto 01:44, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hi and thank you for your categorization work. I have just one remark. If not too troublesome, could you provide an edit summary when you make changes to articles? For example, if you put an article in a new category, you can just paste that thing in the edit summary window, like this

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or, otherwise, just type "refine category" (if you use a browser like Mozilla, it will remember what you typed, and next time you don't need to type it again). Thanks, and enjoy! Oleg Alexandrov 03:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Let me back off a bit. For minor edits, an edit summary could probably be skipped. (It is nice to have it even then, though :) Oleg Alexandrov 04:03, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Murdered royalty etc.

Please stop for a while and discuss with other people what ewxactly are you doing and why do you think it is reasonable to draw distinction between "murdered royalty" vs. "executed royalty", especially bearing in mind the distinction is a matter of the point of view. Let us discuss this at a talk page of, say, category:Dead people, which should be the common root of all assassinated/murdered/executed. Also, I believe there is a general mess in all these subcategories, to be untangled uniformly. Mikkalai 18:40, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Fatally crashed aviators

Should we place in this category also shot-down aviators? I don't think so? (that would be some half of war pilots). Pibwl 18:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Muckrackers

.. should, if at all, be Category:Muckrakers (to rake). However, I am not quite sure if such subcategorization of Category:Investigative journalists makes sense --Ktotam 00:59, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:Italian-American mobsters

Hello Stefanomione. Sorry to bother you but I noticed you re-added Category:Italian-American mobsters and while I'm certanly relieved to see it back, especially having moved the entierity of Italian mafiosi to the category several days before it's deletion, I was led to believe by User:RedWolf the ethnicity categories were being phased out. I would be more then happy to move the articles into the category but I'd hate to see it deleted again. Thanks for your time. 209.213.71.78 20:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Richie Evans

I see you did a bit of categorization work on this page. If you care, I've added some material and will be doing more soon. None should affect categories. Barno 03:14, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Iraq War people

What do you mean by the category of Iraq War people? Ariele 20:25, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq

Eh, most of the people that you listed there are not *in* Iraq. They are either veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom or were former soldiers that participated in it. Joseph | Talk 05:46, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:24, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

noms de siecles

Pardon. Les noms des siecles sont comme ca:

&c. merci. Dunc| 22:13, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

aah! et le pluriel de "century" est "centuries"! mon aéroglisseur est en plein d'oreilles! Dunc| 22:21, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

African-Italian-Americans

I do not think an African-Italian-American category is a good idea, because although some people have that mix, it is not really an ethnic group of it's own like being Irish-Italian. I might put up a CFD for it, but I'll let you respond to my comments now before I put it up. 64.109.248.118 21:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Geography of Sicily

Hi, please do not make blank pages. They are not very helpful. You can use {{db|your reason for deletion}} to get rid of pages you have made accidentally. I deleted the Geography of Sicily because it contained only a category tag anyway. jni 06:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Abandoned submarine categories

You have created and abandoned several submarine categories in the past few weeks. But they are just going to hang around given how you are doing it. You created the categories, and have been the only signifigant user, so they IMHO qualify for speedy deletion. Please see Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletions for information on how to request speedy deletion for pages. Basically, you need to stick certain templates in the body of the categories you want removed. You appear to have been sticking a template in the change comments of the categories, but that does not work.

Categories I've been able to easily find that meet these circustances include: Category:U.S. sunken submarines Category:Sunken submarines by country Category:Lost Japanese submarines during World War II Category:Soviet/Russian sunken submarines Category:British sunken submarines Category:U.S. submarines lost before World WarII Category:Sunk U-boats

There may be others, but these are the ones I find with a quick search. TexasAndroid 21:18, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Category:Jewish disapora

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Category:Sicilian architects

Hi, I see you have created Category:Sicilian architects, I wrote quite a few brief biographies of Sicilian architects here Category:Sicilian Baroque. However, I did not create a category for them, because, I don't think there are enough to warrant it. Many architects notable for their work in Sicily Giulio Lasso and Stefano Ittar for instance are not actually Sicilian. So the problem will be filling the category. If you are planning a series of article on Sicilian architects I would be pleased to help you out, but I think at the moment the category is a little premature. I shan't nominate it for deletion, but I think you should be ready with some arguments as some one will no doubt shortly do so. Giano | talk 13:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Look I don't want to be difficult, but I created Category: Sicilian Baroque I wrote practically every article in it, but it was always going to to be a very small category, lets face it it has limited interest value; now you have created Category:Architects of the Sicilian Baroque this will be an even smaller category, surely it is better to have one all encompassing category for all concerned with Sicilian Baroque, which people can find and then decide in which direction they wish to research, no one is going to find their way around this minefield of small categories. Incidentally if you are interested the page Sicilian Baroque is currently a featured article candidate, why not have a look and see what you think, I am keen to see some Italian subjects on the main page one day. Regards Giano | talk 17:04, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, I'll assume your'e silence is assent and agreement with me, and revert the architects to Category:Sicilian Baroque. I'll wait until you've made some edits after the date/time of thismessage to be sure you've had the opportunity to read and respond. Giano | talk 10:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Hi Stefanomione, You can write to me in French, German, Italian or English. I understand them all, some better than others. I always speak English here. Your English does not have to be very good to edit here, people will always help you, many people here seem to think my English is not very good either! If you want to communicate with someone you can always send me the message first, and I'll try and fix it for you before you send it. Leave the architects where you have put them, it doesn't matter to be honest very much any more. Good luck with the categories, it's a useful job to do. Giano | talk 22:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


Thanks

Barnstar awarded to Stefanomione for services to Misplaced Pages categories by User: Giano

Hi Stefan, it occurred to me that people often only come here to complain, and never acknowledge all the good work you do sifting the pages into categories. So here's a barn star, and keep up the good work. Giano | talk 16:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

  • PS: You can put it on your main user page if you want to.

Request to administrators to eliminate category

Hi, Stefanomione. I noticed your edit summaries ADMINISTRATORS, ELIMINATE!!! on some categories you'd created. I went ahead and deleted the ones that nobody else had edited. It's easier, though, for admins to find such requests if you put them on the page itself, in the form of a speedy delete template. Please see Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion for lists of lots of different speedy templates. The most useful form is {{deletebecause|Reason}}, where you put your own reason in. For instance, for a cat that you have created, and nobody else has edited, I suggest {{deletebecause|original creator requests it and nobody else has edited it}}. That will both expand to a pink box on the page, and put the page into Category: Candidates for speedy deletion (that's the reason I can't show it expanded here--that would put this page into the category "Candidates for speedy deletion"--not ideal!).

Nice barnstar! Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 23:48, 30 October 2005 (UTC).


God knows!

To be honest I'm not sure what you wanted to do, it looks fine to me now, but I'm not an expert on lists. If you want to indent a paragraph you have to do all that hatch and mash stuff, I don't know how to do that. Just don't worry about it and remember È la gaia pioggerella a far crescer l'erba bella so keep trying. I've asked Bishonen to take a quick look, she is very clever at things like that! Giano | talk 20:41, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Your list

Hi, Stefano. The big problem that tripped you up at first was that all lines you type need to start right over on the left-hand side; if they don't, there will be all sorts of problems with the display. This was the glitch that Tabor went in and fixed: s/he removed all the spaces at the beginnings of lines.

If you want the line displayed on the page to not start immediately on the left, you type a suitable number of colons at the head of it.

A list is usually done with bullet points, not headings, so I've formatted the page accordingly. The bullets are made by typing asterisks. You can just revert to Giano's version if you think I've made the names too small, or drop a line on my page and I'll revert it myself. It's non-standard to have any links in headings, though. Best wishes, Bishonen|talk 23:37, 17 November 2005 (UTC).

Musicians list

Hello. I'm not sure why you are adding excerpts from articles to the link list; see Talk:List of American jazz musicians of Sicilian ancestry and discuss there if you wish. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 16:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

William Cooper (radio host)

Hi, Is cleanup supposed to put in categories and stuff as well as fixing typos and formats? Defunkier 13:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Prematurely deceased entertainer categories

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Prematurely deceased entertainer categories (for the 3rd time - I'll need a template for this soon...)

Hi. FYI, folks are trying again to delete the prematurely deceased entertainer categories at this link. I noticed you voted to save them in the past and thought you might want to know.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 14:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Adolf Brudes

Hi. I have the impression that Adolf Brudes was born in Breslau, and changed the article to reflect that while doing other edits. I see, however, that you listed him as being born in Kotulin. Is this correct? ENeville 23:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Adolf Brudes was born in Kotulin Sebi216 14:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Movie moguls

Hi Stefanomione. I just wanted to let you know that people are again talking about the category you created, here. Best regards ×Meegs 12:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Fictional Italian-American mobsters

I noticed that the Category you created, "Fictional Italian-American mobsters", is likely headed for deletion. I understand that categories like this take quite some time to develop and flesh out, yet this particular one appears to be unwelcome at Misplaced Pages, unless I'm misunderstanding the argument. I hope that you will continue your work here at Misplaced Pages. However, just so you know, there are also other wikis out there that might very well welcome such a Category project as yours. You might start by looking at Wikia.com, Centiare.com, or PBwiki.com. If you feel that this message is too spammy, you are welcome to delete it from your discussion page. --JossBuckle Swami 13:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


Help populate novel list?

I'm soliciting assistance in populating the page List of novels by point of view. Would you consider pitching in? Thank you! --TheEditrix2 15:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Open solicitation for input/advice

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Italian cinema

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Please categorize all French films as French films I don't have a problem with french horror films but please don't disrupt the main category.. And please listen to me unlike you did when I invited you to join the project. THankyou ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 19:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Sicilian-British mobsters

I removed this category from Category:Sicilian mafiosi and Francesco Di Carlo. Apart from the fact that I find the Category highly questionable in the sense that I never heard of Sicilian-British organized crime, it does not apply to Sicilian mafiosi, who can only be part of the Sicilian Mafia. The case of Francesco Di Carlo is a perfect example of this. He was a Sicilian mafioso who happened to be in Britain for a while. He does not have British nationality. Please do not add doubtful categories without consultation. I did a search on Misplaced Pages and did not find any mention of Sicilian-British - apparently it is not a commonly used term. Maybe you should reconsider the Category:Sicilian-British mobsters you created. - Mafia Expert 16:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Books about crowd psychology

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Journal format categories

Nice work. DGG 03:53, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

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RE: Giancana/Trafficante

Thanks for the catch on the spelling of Santos Trafficante's name. I was going with how the name was spelled in news reports and in the CIA documents, and they apparently got it wrong. :) Have a good one. Pat Payne 14:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

You are an excellent editor!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar for your excellent, thorough, and diligent work in categorizing articles. --172.133.41.211 10:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Category: Pulp Magazines

There are two similar categories:

The former (which you created) is more populated at the moment so I have suggested it for merger into the latter. The discussion is here.

Never mind, reverse merger chosen instead.AdamBMorgan 12:28, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Invitation to Join WikiProject Crime

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CfD nomination of Category:Categories named after films

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AfD nomination of List of Sicilian Americans

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The Direct Marketing Association (USA)

Heather Fletcher 15:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC) Hi. I'm trying to resolve the neutrality issue with this page. I changed what appeared to be the issue (the number of member organizations). Please let me know if this resolves the neutrality issue. I'll try your email, too. Thanks!

Category:Methods, techniques and tactics

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Question re Category:Media by format

Hi Stefanomione, I was just looking at Category:Media by format and noticed that one of the parent cats that you added was Category:Units of morphological analysis. I am totally puzzled, it really doesn't seem to fit. Could you please explain to me what your rationale was? Please answer at my talk page, thanks. Cgingold 11:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I was hoping you'd take a moment to answer my question. Cgingold 20:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Retrograde categories

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Lo Piccolo images

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Sicilian mob bosses

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Terrorist orgs cats

Hello, just noticed a few of your edits, you may not be aware but most of the Irish "terrorist" groups are already in subcats of the one you are adding to their pages. Just to save you a bit of work! :) GiollaUidir (talk) 00:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


Daniel Filipacchi

Hi, could you please come back in the Daniel Filipacchi article, we need third party comments, Fender is obviously related to filipacchi. Do you want to bring a contribution for this article..... thks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.79.141.36 (talk) 20:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Newspapers by format

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CfD nomination of Category: Sicilian mob bosses

Category: Sicilian mob bosses, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. 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. - Mafia Expert (talk) 18:14, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Taliban founders

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Question

Just a question — why do you often create categories based on rename proposals at the speedy renaming CFD section? There is no need to do so — after two days the categories will be renamed automatically. Snocrates 21:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Could you please explain more fully?

Could you please explain more fully something that puzzled me?

You added Category:Pashtun Taliban leaders to a bunch of articles -- replacing existing articles. I think you might be the sole person adding individuals to this category. This category does not have any explanatory text explaining who should and shouldn't be included.

Are you aware that the Taliban's leadership is drawn exclusively from the Pashtun ethnic group?

Thanks for taking a minute to answer my question?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 20:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Lupin III categories

Category:Arsène Lupin and Category:Fictional gentleman thieves are placed on all possible Lupin articles. Does this not seem wrong to you? Please respond on your talk page. Lord Sesshomaru (talkedits) 05:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Characters by function

Hi, if your Category:Characters by function is no longer required, please would you label it with {{db-author}} to save anyone else having to list it at WP:CFD? - Fayenatic (talk) 22:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Category: Media by media

I'm having trouble seeing the point. Can you explain it please?
Duggy 1138 (talk) 15:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:CFD

Perhaps we can discuss it
Duggy 1138 (talk) 06:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Your recent changes aren't helping me understand what you are trying to do. Please reply here, on my page, or on the discussion calling for the Media by media pages to be deleted: Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 7#Media by Media categories.
Duggy 1138 (talk) 14:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Organized crime theorists

Category:Organized crime theorists, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. 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. - Mafia Expert (talk) 03:45, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

rollback

I have granted rollback rights to your account, because after a review of some of your contributions it appears that we can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended use of reverting vandalism: and believe you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Rollback feature and Rollback school. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Cheers, NoSeptember 20:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Pettingill family

Just wondering what prompted you to add the article on the Pettingill family to Category:Mafia crime families? As you can see from the article history I've removed the said category. Longhair\ 05:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

MEASUREMENT CAUSES COLLAPSE

You might find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Measurement_causes_collapse

And their unfortunate attempt to delete it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Measurement_causes_collapse

Lordvolton (talk) 11:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Erotica by genre

Category:Erotica by genre, which you created, has been nominated for 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. – Black Falcon 01:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Antimafia activists

Falcone an Antimafia activist? He was an official, a magistrate, who simply did his job. The same goes for the other magistrates and police officials you list here. Your handling of categories is becoming increasingly silly and annoying. - Mafia Expert (talk) 20:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Non-Italian popes

Category:Non-Italian popes, which you created, has been nominated for 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. – Black Falcon 05:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Polyglots

Category:Polyglots, which you created, has been nominated for 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. – Cgingold (talk) 01:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films coordinator elections

The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 10:22, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Antimafia activists

The Category:Antimafia activists is being considered for deletion in accordance with Misplaced Pages's category deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. - Mafia Expert (talk) 16:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Pashtun Mafia

I have nominated Category:Pashtun Mafia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Guy (Help!) 19:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Banking technology solutions

Category:Banking technology solutions, which you edited, has been nominated for 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. – Lukobe (talk) 06:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Award

The Working Man's Barnstar
For 19000 cat related edits! MBisanz 19:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Literature-related lists

Category:Literature-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Her Pegship (tis herself) 19:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Intelligence gathering legislation

Category:Intelligence gathering legislation, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Cgingold (talk) 13:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Help.

My stomach hurts. What remedies do you suggest? --70.121.33.78 (talk) 21:43, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Films about organised crime in Australia

I've removed your deletion request for this category, which you requested due to a "spelling error". The category is not mispelt. British English is in use, which is perfectly suitable for an Australian related category. American English has no place here. -- Longhair\ 00:55, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Organised crime in Australia

Ditto the above. Moondyne 02:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Ditto

Also Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drug Trafficking, , Moffitt Royal Commission, Chopper Read and The Carlton Crew. There are page moves which I've not reverted (e.g. Organized (sic) crime in Australia) - can you do the honours? Cheers,  This flag once was red  02:42, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

You reverted a reversion of your edit on Underbelly (TV series) with the edit summary "Correct spelling error - please, comment on the discussion page." I couldn't find any comment by you on the article's talk page, so I've started a discussion there. I've also commented ("oppose") on the cat for deletion page, which I managed to stumble across. I've left comments on most pages affected by your interpretation of WP:MOS directing people towards the cat for deletion page.
In the interim, can I ask you hold off on any further edits until the Cat for Deletion process is completed? You do not currently have consensus for your actions, and the move from "organised" to "organized" is clearly controversial.
Cheers,  This flag once was red  22:21, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Cat:Melbourne gangland killings

Would you please remove your talk page from the category? Thanks. Otto4711 (talk) 23:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Media about media in the media about the media

Hello, Stefanomione -- Would you care to explain why you created Category:Media about the media as well as Category:Media about media within minutes of each other on July 7, 2007? That was followed by the creation of Category:Media in media on February 5, 2008. I have been scratching my head trying to puzzle out what you could possibly have had in mind. Cgingold (talk) 10:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I was hoping for a response to my question, Stefanomione. I'll give it a few more days, but my only other option is to take them all to CFD and ask for other editors to help figure out what needs to be done. Cgingold (talk) 08:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello again, I see you've returned to editing. I've moved this section to the bottom of the page in hopes that you will finally respond, as you promised on my talk page. (It's been an entire month.) Cgingold (talk) 02:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Italian comic book titles

I have nominated Category:Italian comic book titles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Italian comics titles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Hiding T 09:34, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections

Roll call and Coordinator nominations

It's that time of year again – we're wiping everyone's name off of the active members list and doing a project roll call. Your username is listed on the WikiProject Films participants list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active on the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:FILM editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. You can also add your name to any of our many task forces!

It's also time to start the WikiProject Films coordinator selection process! We are aiming to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on September 14!

Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 08:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films August 2008 Newsletter

The August 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 01:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Sloppy use of categories

You've really get to start doing a better job when you're putting articles into categories. Way too many of your decisions are missing the mark. I've already found nine articles that you wrongly placed in those new sub-cats you created for "assassinated journalists" -- and I've only gone through about half of them so far. Please be sure that these people were, in fact, assassinated, and not just murdered or killed in action. Cgingold (talk) 12:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

PS - You never did answer my question (above) about those media categories you created. I suppose I can see why. Cgingold (talk) 12:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films coordinator elections - voting now open!

Roll call and Coordinator nominations

The September 2008 WikiProject Films coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting seven coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of candidates. Additionally, we are keeping nominations open during the voting period, in case any additional editors wish to nominate themselves. Please vote here by September 28!

Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 01:08, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Characters by role in the narrative structure

Category:Characters by role in the narrative structure, which you created, has been nominated for merging to other categories. If you wish to participate in the discussion, it is here. Various related categories are also being discussed at the moment. - Fayenatic (talk) 16:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your support. I don't know how much you have participated in discussions about deletion of categories/articles/etc; they are not votes, but weighing of persuasive arguments with reference to policy. So, if you join in on such pages in future, I recommend you make it clear what are the reasons that carry weight with you. I guess "per Fayenatic london" means you agree with all that I said; but independently stating your rationale, or referring to which things I said, tends to carry more weight with the administrators who close the discussions. Hope this helps! - Fayenatic (talk) 22:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

You also created Category:Female stock characters. Please see proposed merger talk at Category talk:Female stock characters.

Please also see Category talk:Stock characters by narrative structure, as I have just replaced that category. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

recent reverts

I've been catching up on the backlog of empty categories that are ready to be deleted per Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion section C1. I notice that you went and reverted six of my edits last night. I'd like to know why. - Stepheng3 (talk) 18:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Documentaries by topic

I have nominated Category:Documentaries by topic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Documentary films by topic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 05:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Categories by genre at cfd

I have nominated several categories which you created for renaming. Please see the discussion. --Eliyak T·C 03:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Move of films with Italian titles

Please see this on WP:AN/I. (Despite the title, some of the films are Italian, not Spanish.) Ed Fitzgerald t / c 04:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:English espionage historians

Category:English espionage historians, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Cgingold (talk) 12:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Films about patriots

I have nominated Category:Films about patriots (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Films by occupation of the protagonist

I have nominated Category:Films by occupation of the protagonist (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Films about journalists

I have nominated Category:Films about journalists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Films about journalism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 04:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Documentaries about advertising

I have nominated Category:Documentaries about advertising (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Study books by subject

I have nominated Category:Study books by subject (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Religious studies books (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Novels about actresses

I have nominated Category:Novels about actresses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Novels about actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:19, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Counterparts to the protagonist

I have nominated Category:Counterparts to the protagonist (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Opponents of the hero (stock character) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Opponents of the hero (stock character)

I have nominated Category:Opponents of the hero (stock character) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Antagonists by role (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Literary devices playing with sound

I have nominated Category:Literary devices playing with sound (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Poetic devices (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Heroes by characteristics

I have nominated Category:Heroes by characteristics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Heroic stock characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Literary devices playing with meaning

I have nominated Category:Literary devices playing with meaning (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Literary devices (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Television by topic

I have nominated Category:Television by topic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Television programming by topic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Pashtun Taliban leaders

I have nominated Category:Pashtun Taliban leaders (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Prezbo (talk) 18:20, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:The public enemy era

Category:The public enemy era, which you created, has been nominated for 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. –BLACK FALCON 05:38, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of female stock characters

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is List of female stock characters.

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of female stock characters (2nd nomination).

Ikip (talk) 17:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

invitation

I notice that a lot of your contributions have been put up for deletion. I am sorry to see that. You maybe interested in a group I am a member of.

WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron
WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron
Hello, Stefanomione.
You have been invited to join the Article Rescue Squadron, a collaborative effort to rescue articles from deletion if they can be improved through regular editing.
For more information, please visit the project page, where you can >> join << and help rescue articles tagged for deletion and rescue. Ikip (talk) 17:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:GCHQ cryptographers

I have nominated Category:GCHQ cryptographers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)TCM03:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Black and white documentaries

I have nominated Category:Black and white documentaries (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Black-and-white documentaries (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)TCM19:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Mental structures

I have nominated Category:Mental structures (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:Abstractions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Rursus dixit. (bork!) 12:03, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Newspaper publishers (people) by century

Several sub-categories of Category:Newspaper publishers (people) by century, which you created, has been nominated for deletion or merging. 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.. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:American newspaper editors of the 20th century

I have nominated Category:American newspaper editors of the 20th century (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:American newspaper editors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:20, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Documentaries about Madonna (entertainer)

I have nominated Category:Documentaries about Madonna (entertainer) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for upmerging into parent categories . Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Misplaced Pages:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 17:47, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Cicero as 'trope theorist'

Since the article Trope theory appears not to exist, I'm wondering what your criteria were for including Cicero in the category "Trope theorists." I'm not necessarily disputing that he belongs there, but the word "trope" doesn't even appear in the article. Therefore, someone who visited the category page and was intrigued by finding our Marcus Tullius might not find what she was looking for when she visited the Cicero article. I wonder whether you could add a verified sentence or two justifying the orator's inclusion in this category. Cynwolfe (talk) 20:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Two questions, two answers: 1. Cicero gives a theory of all major tropes in De Oratore in about 35 pages. A wonderful example that I will translate here tomorrow: Quoi (he means metaphors) sunt finituma illa minus ornata, sed tamen non ignoranda, cum intellegi volumus aliquid aut ex parte totum, ut pro aedificiis cum parietes aut tecta dicimus: aut ex toto partem , ut cum unam turnam equitatum populi Romani dicimus; aut ex uno plures: At Romanus homo, tamenetsi res bene gesta est Corde suo trepidat; aut cum ex pluribus intelligitur unum; Nos sumus Romani, qui fuimus ante Rudini.

2. In his Handbook of Literary Rhetoric (913 pages) Heinrich Lausberg established a theory of tropes based on the Rhetorical operations. He distinguishes 14 types of tropes (pages 552-598) ... we should recategorize the figures of speech-category accordingly.


As I said, I'm not necessarily disputing that he belongs there. Only that the article as it stands doesn't offer of an explanation of why. (I'm fine with your Latin, you don't need to translate it — unless you put it in the article, in which case you need to do so in English.) Thanks. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:18, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Assassinated monarchs

Category:Assassinated monarchs, which you created, has been nominated for 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. --BomBom (talk) 19:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Documentary films about guerrilla warfare

Category:Documentary films about guerrilla warfare, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:05, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Lists of favorite books

Category:Lists of favorite books, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Words about words

Category:Words about words, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:35, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Film-related locations

Category:Film-related locations, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Rebels by role

Category:Rebels by role, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:57, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Theories of tropes

Category:Theories of tropes, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:03, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Theories of metaphor

Category:Theories of metaphor, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:08, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Activists by modus operandi

Category:Activists by modus operandi, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:People killed in action

Category:People killed in action, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Bandits by nationality

Category:Bandits by nationality, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:44, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Robbers by modus operandi

Category:Robbers by modus operandi, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Chlorine bombings in Iraq

Category:Chlorine bombings in Iraq, which you created, has been nominated for 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. -- Black Falcon 23:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Texts by format

Category:Texts by format, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:08, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Documentary films about the Beat Generation

Category:Documentary films about the Beat Generation, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:18, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Eras by medium

Category:Eras by medium, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Category:Beatniks

This was a pop culture term of disparagement and parody rather than one that any of the Beat writers actually used to describe themselves or their characters. It looks like you're just applying it to any person found in Category:Beat Generation, which is particularly amusing for Justin W. Brierly. Adding it to those found in Category:Beat writers or Category:Beat poets is just redundant at best. Or is there something about this I am missing? What was your reasoning for creating it? postdlf (talk) 17:19, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

...and I see you've also created Category:Beat Generation writers, which at present is redundant to Category:Beat writers, which at present is listed for renaming to Category:Beat Generation writers. I doubt there will be any objections to the rename (which I proposed), but I'm at a loss as to why you'd think it appropriate to start moving articles over while the CFD is pending. It's not only a waste of time, given that renames are usually handled by automated processes, but it's disruptive in the short term. So please stop working on this category area. postdlf (talk) 17:22, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for mentioning the irony of the name. ... I agree with the new name Category:Beat Generation writers but I just move some articles there from the Category:Beat Generation, and that cannot be done automatically ... Stefanomione (talk) 17:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Your work in categories

Hi Stafnomione. As you can see from the above notices, some of the categories you have created get nominated for discussion. Some get renamed, but quite a few of them get deleted outright.

My advice to you is that you participate in these discussions if you want to continue to be involved in categories. If you consistently create categories that are deleted and you don't really respond to users' concerns by participating in the discussion of these categories—explaining your reasons for creating them, and so forth—it's possible that users will want you to stop creating categories.

From what I've seen, that very well could happen soon if you don't start engaging with users about these creations. Good Ol’factory 21:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi. You're right: I should/will participate more often in the delete/rename-dicussions of my last creations. My work is primarely concentrated on the French, Italian and Dutch Misplaced Pages ... I will restrain this and make more comments when my categories get tagged on the English Misplaced Pages. I can tell you that only 1 in 50 of my categories arouse some doubt: I'm an avid reader of these comments on my categories ... after reading them I agree often with the delete/rename option but until now didn't mention this quite clearly ... Stefanomione (talk) 13:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Beat Generation events

Category:Beat Generation events, which you created, has been nominated for 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. Good Ol’factory 22:42, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Fictional people by medium

Category:Fictional people by medium, which you created, has been nominated for 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM23:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

The WITF wants you

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Cities and towns destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Category:Cities and towns destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Goodvac (talk) 01:35, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Christmas short films

Category:Christmas short films, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:47, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Novels set in Paris

Category:Novels set in Paris, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. LeSnail (talk) 21:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Suicide bombings in Morocco

Category:Suicide bombings in Morocco, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Axem Titanium (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Books in literary criticism

Category:Books in literary criticism, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM00:28, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Books in literary theory

Category:Books in literary theory, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM00:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:The Divine Comedy (Dante)

Category:The Divine Comedy (Dante), which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM05:12, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Information Warfare

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Interesting. May I venture to enquire why? Pdfpdf (talk) 00:16, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi. You're right: it doesn't belong there ! Stefanomione (talk) 16:08, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Films about Spartacus

Category:Films about Spartacus, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:33, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Kafka critics

Category:Kafka critics, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Egyptian Revolution of 2011

Category:Egyptian Revolution of 2011, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM02:57, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:People of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Category:People of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. —Justin (koavf)TCM02:57, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Dostoyevsky scholars

Category:Dostoyevsky scholars, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:13, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Literary critics by author

Category:Literary critics by author, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:33, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by time period of setting

Category:Media by time period of setting, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 July 12#Category:Media by time period of setting on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Goustien (talk) 19:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media in media

Category:Media in media, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Sigmund Freud scholars

Category:Sigmund Freud scholars, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:40, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Marcel Proust scholars

Category:Marcel Proust scholars, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:44, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media events by type

Category:Media events by type, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:50, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by event and by medium

Category:Media by event and by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:42, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by revolution

Category:Media by revolution, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:07, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by event

Category:Media by event, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:56, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by topic and by medium

Category:Media by topic and by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:43, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Works and media about the September 11 attacks

Category:Works and media about the September 11 attacks, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:48, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by setting

Category:Media by setting, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Fiction by war

Category:Fiction by war, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:23, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Revolutions by medium

Category:Revolutions by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:04, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Novels by revolution

Category:Novels by revolution, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:34, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media by continent of setting

Category:Media by continent of setting, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:36, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

You seem to be having some difficulties

I checked the logs, and going back to 11 June, you seem to have created 34 extant categories, and had a further 50 deleted at yours or others request. People are commenting about you at WP:CFD, for example Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 August 6. Your naming conventions seem problematic to others, and there is concern that you are creating duplication. Perhaps you'd have a look at what people are saying and respond. There seem to be plenty of people around with whom these sets of categories could be discussed before you start, which might save a lot of work all round, including for you, who seems to be spending a lot of time transferring things about. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:41, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Stefanomione, I would just echo the above comments and encourage you, as I did before, to participate in the CFD discussions that are started regarding the categories you create. If you don't attempt to justify your creations, it just appears that you don't know what you are doing since many of them are immediately deleted. Good Ol’factory 23:49, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
In the process of creating ill-named and unnecessary parent-categories (starting in May 20011, which I did - of course - unintentionally), I composed some 150 categories (e.g. novels set in X, plays set in X, X by medium, documentary films about X, ...) which are still standing and being expanded. Reading the discussions I learn a lot and applicate things immediately in my French, Italian and Dutch contributions. Going back further than 11 June: 1800 categories created, 1600 never discussed (and still expanded). Misplaced Pages is a process, I will contribute in making things more transparent. I acknowledge the wrong way I took. Stefanomione (talk) 16:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
That's not entirely correct. X by medium has begun to be cut back and likely will continue to be so, as it is an unneeded duplicate of Works about X or the more problematic Works "by" X. I'd caution you against trying to expand this branch. I'll be keeping a closer eye on your category creation. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:01, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
You're right. I created Category:Works by medium, Category:Topics by medium and Category:Genres by medium much earlier. They seem well-named and necessary. And I agree, the Category:Countries by medium should be considered deleted, merged, renamed... Stefanomione (talk) 17:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
They may "seem well-named and necessary" to you, the category creator. I'm not so sure. I am concerned that are neither, and are a needless duplication of such categories as Category:Media by topic, as I've stated at CfD. We shall see. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
But User:Stefanomione, why don't you participate in the discussions to give your point of view? Why don't you explain what your rationale was? Or if you agree with the nomination, why don't you state that you agree? Not hearing from you one way or the other makes it look like you just create lots of categories and don't care what others think about them one way or the other, which is not terribly productive (and could be classified by some as disruptive, depending on how many categories we're talking about). Good Ol’factory 01:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Categories by revolution

Category:Categories by revolution, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:29, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:The media by war

Category:The media by war, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Audio by medium

Category:Audio by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:18, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Internet by medium

Category:Internet by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Television programs by medium

Category:Television programs by medium, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:39, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Newspapers by format

Category:Newspapers by format, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:14, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Media about newspapers

Category:Media about newspapers, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)