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Category:German abbesses has been nominated for merging

Category:German abbesses has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Checking in after Storm

Hello,

I know you're in North Carolina from user page, just messaging to ask if you're okay after the storm. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 03:21, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I got very lucky in Winston. We barely got any rain/damage, everyone to the west of us got clobbered. Mason (talk) 03:24, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Scientists by nationality and century

There seems to be something wrong with your recent edits to {{Scientists by nationality and century category header}}, which is causing all of the categories that are using it to get detected as "uncategorized" by Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories even though they do have categories on them. It's only that specific header doing this, and not any of the other similar headers for other occupations, so it's clearly a problem with that one specific template rather than the core concept of using header templates to transclude categories, and they've survived two weekly updates of the report, so it's not just a temporary blip — so I wanted to ask if you could look into what has to be done to fix it, so that they clear off that report since they don't need to be there. Thanks.

(Glad to see from the post above this that you're okay and didn't get too heavily affected by the hurricane, by the way.) Bearcat (talk) 13:37, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Interesting! I thought I was just losing my mind because they're kinda showing up in other cartegories, but every time I looked, the categories were on the page. I'll definitely take a look! Mason (talk) 22:23, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

So I've reverted to an older change that doesn't add any non-diffusing parent tags. I want to see if reverting gets them off the report. Then I can slowly add in the non-diffusing parent tag to see if that breaks it. Mason (talk) 22:27, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the problem is that the report only updates once a week, which means it won't be until next week that we can determine whether it cleared them or not. But thanks for the effort, I'll let you know when the report updates if it worked. 02:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Restoring unreferenbced categories

Restoring of unreferenced information is violation of Wikipedia policies on verifiability --Altenmann >talk 20:36, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Are you serious? There are so many unsourced things on wikipedia. It seems like you don't actually want assistance in determining whether this category should exist. Mason (talk) 00:12, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

LGBT check in category header templates

Hi, thanks for Template:People by nationality and century category header/core and any others like it for category changes from LGBT to LGBTQ. I think all those categories have been renamed now, so the template code can be simplified to LGBTQ only. As you are up to speed with this, please would you trim the obsolete LGBT checks? This will remove backlinks to the old categories, simplifying the task of scanning for any remaining backlinks that need updating. – Fayenatic London 15:14, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Definitely, I can go through an simplfy it to remove those checks because I agree we don't need them now Mason (talk) 15:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, that worked quickly. I'm glad I asked you to do it, because I had misread the code and would have messed it up! – Fayenatic London 16:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Sure thing! It's not the most readable code right now, but that is on my todo list so that other lovely people can safely make changes. The biggest pressing mystery is that I need figure out why the science occupation really doesn't want to behave with showing non-diffusing child categories. Mason (talk) 17:20, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of List of museum wikis

The article List of museum wikis has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No sources about the topic as a group, no independent sourcing in article at all, fails WP:LISTN

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 10:53, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

This was literally just made because of a CFD. Mason (talk) 20:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Slavery in spanish colonial america

Please check the talk page before undoing the text. The content here is not referenced; it is literature, not history. Please respect Wikipedia reference rules. 194.38.172.194 (talk) 07:03, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

You're going to need to be more specific. Mason (talk) 11:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Error in template

Hi Mason. There seems to be a duplicate parm error in Template:Occupation by nationality and century category header. Editing Category:1st-century Byzantine bishops gives this error:

Warning: Template:Occupation by nationality and century category header (edit) is calling Template:Occupation by nationality and century category header/outercore with more than one value for the "Title_continental" parameter. Only the last value provided will be used.

However, editing the template doesn't show the error.

It's causing many errors on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls.

I don't understand the complex coding in the template, so I'm hoping you can sort it out. Thanks. Davemck (talk) 15:23, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! It looks like I accidental used Title_continental for a 2nd time rather than Title_country, like I had intended. Mason (talk) 21:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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Executiones

So the Category:Executioners by nationality has at least 14 of its 19 sub-cats with less than 3 articles. I am not sure we need to subdivide it by nationality at all. The category Czech executioners is one we really ought to scrap. The one article is on a person who was an executioner for the Kingdom of Bohemia when it was under the rule of the Habsburgs. He is already in 17th-century Bohemian people, so just upmerging to executioners would probably be the best solution in this case. The largest Category is English executioners with 33 entries (all 4 articles in the sub-cat are in the parent cat). Although the Soviet with maybe 28 articles between the parent and the 2 nested sub-cats (I did not check for overlap) and the American with 18 might be Wirth keeping. Only the German with 9 seems worth keeping beyond that. However it is an odd mix of Nazi war criminals and government executioners under the Kingdom of Prussia, so considering executioners are agents of the state it may be unwisely conflating unlike things.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:29, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Hmmm, that's a good point! ^SMason_Garrison 23:32, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hope you're doing okay (re. the ArbCom case)

Hi! When I emailed ArbCom with the relevant diff, I didn't want it to be public at first since I wasn't sure if you were okay with being put in the spotlight and having this event brought up again. While CaptainEek did email you, I thought it could still be good to make sure the whole situation isn't being too uncomfortable for you. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 16:18, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for checking in! I'm doing really well. It's really validating to see the community saying, yep that is indeed creepy and shouldn't be acceptable. ^SMason_Garrison 16:21, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Banner suggestions & Q

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