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Category:Operetta stubs

The reason it's empty is that the proposer emptied the type already. There were about 30 stubs in the category beforehand, which is light, but might be enough to keep the template if we want to split operas by genre. Caerwine Caer’s whines 06:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I discovered this discussion yesterday. Please see my explanation at: Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion#Category:Operetta_stubs. --Kleinzach 07:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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China stuff

I think I am going to die a slow and painful death. I've never been 100% confident in the consensus there, but something had to be done. I know I'm going to get flak from all sides, but I suppose that is the risk one takes when closing XfD discussions. Anyway, I went with your option "a)". It seemed like the clearest option. Wish me luck in dealing with dissenters! ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 16:34, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Job for Alaibot

Hi. {{Zoology-med-stub}} was recently renamed to {{Veterinary-med-stub}}, and I was hoping your bot could make the substitution in the affected articles. Please let me know if you need any more information (I'm not used to dealing with bots). Thanks. --Joelmills 03:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for making the change and cleaning up the categories. I really appreciate it. --Joelmills 16:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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SelketBot proposal

Thank you for your support of my proposal. I was wondering, could you please be more specific about the "broader terms" you mention? What else was RobotG doing? --Selket ^Talk 06:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Uncategorized template

Hi, Uncategorized can now accept "date=" syntax, would Alaibot be able to swop over to this style? Thanks, Rich Farmbrough, 15:24 20 April 2007 (GMT).

uncategorized stubs

Hi. I've also contacted WikiProject Films about this issue. Perhaps it would make sense to repopulate (if slowly) Category:Uncategorised films using the uncategorised film stubs. In any case, would it be a lot of trouble for you to get the stats for a few more countries that have reasonably active projects? (which I suppose includes at least all of the English-speaking countries + a few large and/or very wired countries) I also think that the math project would be very receptive to categorizing its stubs properly. Pascal.Tesson 23:23, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I suppose that in any case a brute force gathering of all statistics is less bothersome than cherry-picking a few. Maybe one cut-off that's easy to implement and makes sense is to look only at stub categories that have children stub cats. If the intention is to find relevant wikiprojects this will avoid gathering stats on uncategorized Chessire-county-geo-stubs and whatnot. Pascal.Tesson 23:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

You know, I think you're really onto something. Categorization is only difficult when you're dealing with topics you know nothing about but people involved in projects often know the context and the category tree for their subject so this may end up not only clearing the backlog faster but also reducing the number of poorly categorized articles. I'll try to contact a few projects here and there to see if I get any interest. Pascal.Tesson 00:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I've sent out invitations to the projects on Germany, Italy, Sweden, physics, math, pharmacology for starters. If we get good response, I'll do some more later. Pascal.Tesson 00:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

RFC

Kelly Martin is claiming that BAG actions involved "conspiring to protect their own power base" (ludicrous and untrue, I have had no off wiki discussion on the matter with xaosflux), and has referred to us and me as "much less qualified and competent" than the self appointed IRC participants who decided to approve CydeBot without telling us. I am really quite shaken up and upset by the baseless accusations of bad faith, incompetence and idiocy, and believe it might be appropriate to file an RFC citing Kelly Martin and David Gerard, and possibly gmaxwell and Cyde. To file an RFC, two members need to certify the dispute and show diffs where dispute resolution was attempted. As somebody who has attempted to resolve the dispute, I wonder if you would be willing to so certify? If you are, perhaps we can work in my sandbox. --kingboyk 14:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Never mind. I think it's best to just let the issue fade away. Thanks for all your help. --kingboyk 22:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Film cat stubs

Thanks!!! That last revision seems to have worked quite well, didn't see any obvious misinclusions at first glance. I'll be working on those tonight (I hope), so go ahead and run full blast! Again, Thanks!!! SkierRMH 01:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Pathology-stub

Hey, sorry to bother you, but I never got a final verdict on the Category:Pathology stubs proposal, and it's been a week. Should I go ahead and create the category? -Rustavo^{Talk/Contribs} 01:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Category:University of Georgia stubs

hey there alai,

Can you take a look at Category:University of Georgia stubs? It seems too broad in use (it tagged notable people that attended UGA like Jermaine Phillips). Do you think it is worthy of deletion?--Thomas.macmillan 18:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Whazzat?

Re: [1] — Has the stub double-space issue suddenly been fixed while I wasn't looking? <puzzled> — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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Austria-sport-bio-stub

Last week i created Category:Austria sportspeople stubs and didn't notice the slight spelling mistake till today as you are an admin involved in WSS would you be able to add the extra n required to make it Category:Austrian sportspeople stubs as it is just a spelling error on my part I don't believe it needs to go to SFD but if you think it does then I will post it there. Thank you Waacstats 13:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Question on Venezuela-sport-bio-stub

Hi there Alai,

I have just begun sorting for Venezuela-sport-bio-stub and Venezuela-baseball-bio-stub when I think I came across a problem. If I remove both the current stubs (say Venezuela-bio-stub and Right-fielder-stub) and replace it with Venezuela-baseball-bio-stub (as I would normally do), it would take all the Venezuelan players out of their positional categories. Should we create templates for every position on a national basis or should we just leave the positional template on there?--Thomas.macmillan 15:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

mistake, can you fix it?

Hello Alai,

I meant to create Euro-election-stub today, but I actually created Europe-election-stub. Can you move this, maybe leaving a redirect? Thanks--Thomas.macmillan 15:55, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

• Actually, I just created Euro-election-stub myself and will just stubsort, using Europe- as a another template. Do you think this is fine?--Thomas.macmillan 16:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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HELP

Could you un protect International Ballers (G-Unit Radio Part 2), The Fifth Element (G-Unit Radio Part 8), Rep Yo Click (G-Unit Radio Part 19) so i can redirect them to G-Unit discography and should LA American Wasteland (G-Unit Radio West Volume 1) be redirected to G-Unit discography?--Peterm1991 16:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Re:Uncategorised Indian stubs

I have replied here. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 18:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Replied here again. Sorry for the delayed response. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Thinking ahead: a new idea for the bot

Hi Alai. The taskforce is still running at a furious pace and although I haven't checked how successful it has been so far I would expect that the project-specific uncat-stubs classification is a step forward in the long run. There are over 50 people potentially interested in categorization work, but at the current rate we'll run out of articles to work on! I was thinking that a good way of keeping us going would be to identify articles that are only categorized using categories that are completely useless for browsing such as Category:Living people, Category:xxxx births, Category:xxxx albums and so on. For all practical purposes, these articles are uncategorized. Of course, I have no idea how many such articles there are... On a completely unrelated note, I noticed you're interested in Constraint satisfaction problems. I'm curious to know what you work on in that area since I am myself doing research in that field! Pascal.Tesson 22:36, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, What proof do I need about the Fraud and other PROVEN allegations? I have documents that I got through Public Information Requests that document every FACT I wrote. Do I need to take pics and attach them to the article somehow?

I also have the police reports, and can easily reference news articles that mention his licenses being stripped for malfeasance.

This is my first article, but it was aLL TRUE. I'll try to read more about documentation needs.

Re: testify

Maybe I wasn't clear in the last discussion, but that ambiguous scoping is what I objected to then. Tewfik^Talk 06:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

While I still don't agree that a less than factual name should be used to satisfy "shortname" uniformity, that discussion will probably have to wait for another time :-) Tewfik^Talk 07:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

AFAIK, Israel is always used to refer to the topic of that entry - the modern country. Palestine templates refer to a mix of Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian territories, Palestinian people, etc., and generally not to the topic of that entry - a historical geographic region. Moreover the latter is generally done with an intent of forwarding the point-of-view that the State of Palestine exists or should exist, and/or that the region be conflated with one of the other similar-sounding topics. Tewfik^Talk 07:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Why do you think that there are only relative levels of ambiguity: Israel is used for that, Palestine is not used for that. As for AGF, no accusation was levelled in the discussions, but in this conversation it isn't helpful pretend that some other explanation exists, else there would be no issue. I'm not clear as to what the parenthetical remark was saying. Tewfik^Talk 20:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Towards a consistent and standard Palestine-related category naming scheme

You commented on Tewfik's page about this and I also think it is time to nail done some consistent standards to avoid random drift over time. See here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Palestine#Consistent_Palestinian_naming_standards for my initial thoughts which I followed up with an attempt at a proposal for a consistent scheme. (Also, since you seem interested, feel free to join WikiProject Palestine, we have been fairly active lately.) --Abnn 01:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Stub templates

Please make sure to create stub templates in the Template: namespace, not the mainspace. Thanks! --Metropolitan90 01:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (national varieties of English)

Hi Alai,

Someone has called the page a "rejected proposal", but that can be reversed. I think the page might need to be more than just examples if it's going to stand any chance. I've started a draft at User:Joeldl/Varieties of English Draft. Let me know what you think. Joeldl 14:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot

Hi Alai/Archive 15, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :)   This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 22:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)