User talk:Perspicax

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When you create new category pages

Hi, when you create a new category page, could you also please create the associated talk page and add the relevant WikiProject tags that are tagged for similar categories? For example, if you create Category:Railway stations in Australia opened in 9999, please look at an existing similar category's talk page like Category talk:Railway stations in Australia opened in 2024 and add, for example: {{WikiProject Australia|transport=yes}} {{WikiProject Trains|stations=yes}} {{WikiProject Years}}, etc to Category talk:Railway stations in Australia opened in 9999. Fork99 (talk) 12:03, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CREATECAT makes no mention of this. I don't personally see the point as Category:Railway stations in Australia is in both trains and Australia and Category:2000 establishments is in {{WikiProject Years}}. However it would be easy with AWB so I have applied for the necessary permission. Perspicax (talk) 13:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's mainly just for consistency's sake and that so if the category is nominated for deletion or otherwise, editors with an interest in that topic are alerted about the discussion for deletion and might want to chime in. See WP:WikiProject Australian Transport/Article alerts for an example of alerts to editors interested in Australian transport.

Unfortunately, it's quite silly that if a parent category page has the tags, the child categories won't have them. It makes no sense, but it's just how Wikipedia has been built, and I think that if Wikipedia were to be completely rebuilt from scratch today, I think that things like this would have been done differently.

I do understand that it's a hassle and I also wish that it were easier to tag new pages with the relevant WikiProjects, and thank you for your contributions thus far. You might want to look into installing the semi-automated script called Rater that might make it slightly easier to add these tags. Otherwise, you could just copy and paste the tags from an existing page. Fork99 (talk) 19:33, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brush Street Station

Hey, do you happen to know how many platforms Brush Street Station had for passengers? Older Sanborn maps and stuff seem to show two metal canopies between tracks, so I'm guessing at least two island platforms (or four platform faces). But did passengers use platforms along the north or side side of the station? Would just be interesting to have some basic information on the layout of the station and how the platforms were numbered. Criticalthinker (talk) 07:04, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have nay personal knowledge of this but there is a thread on the topic [1]. Perspicax (talk) 07:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's where I got most of the info from. lol Criticalthinker (talk) 14:09, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Irish politicians

Why are you adding Irish politicians to "activist" categories? They are almost all elected Teachta Dála, and are already in appropriate politician categories/subcategories. Can you please reverse the additions where they hold or have held elected office, please? Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 16:07, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am also puzzled by the adding of these categories, particularly in the cases where the person holds or has held public office. I too think you should revert them. CeltBrowne (talk) 17:13, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with CeltBrowne. These activist categories are not for elected politicians. Please revert your changes. Spleodrach (talk) 18:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They were all already in the tree 'Irish activists'; I have not added any. All I have done is intersect 'people from X' with 'Irish activists'. Eg Joe Higgins (politician) is in other activists categories, as is Leo Varadkar. Eg Category:Irish rebels is a subcategory of Category:Irish activists. It may be that some politicians were already miscategorised as activists - nothing to do with me. Perspicax (talk) 20:56, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, what - "rebels" are a sub-category of "activist"? Weird, and probably inappropriate. Also, irrelevant for this discussion. What "activist" categories is Leo Varadkar a member of? Or Roderic O'Gorman? It looks like there's something up with this "Irish activists tree" you mention, because neither of the first two BLPs I looked at are or were members of it. Can you link to it? In any case, elected politicians shouldn't be in an activist category, whether that's a "tree" or "by county". Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 22:15, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Somone who was an activist and then became a politician (or vice versa) should be in both. Leo Varadkar is in Category:Irish LGBTQ rights activists; Joe Higgins (politician) is in Category:Irish tax resisters. (Anyone in any subcategory of Category:Irish activists is categorised as an activist; this is simple logic.) Roderic O'Gorman is in Category:Irish environmentalists which includes all Green MPs. (Category:Environmentalists contains Category:Green politicians; seems reasonable to me.)

Anyway I see that this is disputed so I have reverted those of my edits which apply to politicians (and Spleodrach has reverted others) and I trust this matter is resolved. Perspicax (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In fairness, I completely missed that Leo Varadkar was in Category:Irish LGBTQ rights activists, mainly because I was absolutely not expecting to see him included there. As per the article, when already an elected politician, In a 2010 interview, Varadkar stated that while he did not consider homosexuality morally wrong, he opposed same-sex marriage, although he supported civil partnerships. He only came out as gay four months before a constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage. I've removed him from the category. Thanks for your reverts. There is clearly a problem with Category:Irish activists, though, if it's that easy for a whole class of people to be mis-categorised. Environmentalists are not necessarily "activists". Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:11, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2024–25 in European futsal

A tag has been placed on Category:2024–25 in European futsal indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 03:04, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Categorising '21st century sportsmen'

Please can you calm/slow down these edits? You have swamped my watchlist. Giant Snowman 09:38, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Sorry about your watchlist. Perspicax (talk) 13:38, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alumni categories

Hello. You seem to be adding alumni categories to biography articles based on simple search matches without checking to see whether those persons actually graduated from the institution. For example, you added Category:Chulalongkorn University alumni to Ralph R. Frerichs, who only received a work award from an institute of the university. Please go back and check all of your edits, and revert those that were made in error. Thank you. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Even more egregious was adding Chaophraya Phitsanulok, a nobleman who died in 1768, to Category:Dhurakij Pundit University alumni, a university founded in 1968, because one of the references was a thesis published by the university! Please stop your current method of editing immediately and go back to fix the mess you made. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:29, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Perspicax Please engage with people raising concerns about your editing habits. ^SMason_Garrison 05:41, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Tituba, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. The category being added must already exist, and must be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Please review how EGRS categories work. ^SMason_Garrison 05:31, 8 November 2024 (UTC) I've removed the many men that your added to the container category with the instructions: "This category exists only as a container for other categories of Belarusian men. Articles on individual men should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists. Please note that categorisation by gender is acceptable in Wikipedia only in limited circumstances which are set out in Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. New categories by gender may be deleted if they do not meet the tests set out in that guideline." ^SMason_Garrison 05:37, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]