User talk:Buaidh/Archive 2019

Template:Template:User WP Federally Administered Tribal Areas listed at Redirects for discussion

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• Thanks for catching this.  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:32, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of List of positive integers and factors for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of positive integers and factors is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of positive integers and factors until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, List of positive integers and factors/3. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – List of positive integers and factors. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List of positive integers and factors. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, List of positive integers and factors/4. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – List of positive integers and factors. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List of positive integers and factors. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:36, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, List of positive integers and factors/5. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – List of positive integers and factors. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List of positive integers and factors. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:37, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

The problem isn't only that the article is too large; it's just inappropriate for Wikipedia. Try Wikibooks or Wikiversity. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Arthur, I don't understand why you think this list is inappropriate. Given that this list is only a few hours old, I think you're a bit fast on the trigger. I've used this list for over 20 years. Thanks for your comments,  Buaidh  talk contribs 04:02, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

former resident of

In your very good options available - have you ever considered the boxes:

this person is a former resident of...  ??

this person is interested in x as a former resident... ??

Just curious. JarrahTree 04:04, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

you are far too generous sir! yup, to your query, I do think not too much, but just enough parsing makes it a worthy set of items!

I happen to be a former resident of Tasmania with interest - to qualify the curiousity JarrahTree 04:36, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

excellent - thank you for your response - I can think of 'former.. as being possibly quite a range... JarrahTree 04:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

one small problem is the usage of the word native in the Australian context, the word - although grammatically within range - might, be better, if it was possibly re-assigned by a synonym - (I am thinking of the way I.F.Stone used to examine the terminology of the dept of defence public relations exercise of re-assigning words during the Vietnam War) JarrahTree 04:45, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

That's why option 54 is there.  Buaidh  talk contribs 04:56, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of positive integers and factors/bottom

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on List of positive integers and factors/bottom requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — Smjg (talk) 09:36, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

I've retracted this nomination after realising it was just created in the wrong namespace, and moved it to the template namespace where it should be. Moving forward, please be careful not to create non-article pages in the main article namespace. — Smjg (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

I've reinstated nomination under WP:CSD#G6; it's a template, and all pointers (except this one, and one on my talk page) have been shifted. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 10:32, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

There was absolutely no need to move these two documentation transclusions to the Template namespace, where they make little sense. If you're going to move things about, at least fix them. I've fixed both of these. Stick with things you know.  Buaidh  talk contribs 15:36, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Userbox requests

@Buaidh: I'm a fan of the PBS shows:Market Warriors; The Joy of Painting; The Great British Baking Show; History Detectives; Finding Your Roots; Secrets of the Dead; Nature (TV series) and Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV program). I'm also a fan of the game shows Scrabble (game show); $100,000 Pyramid and Hollywood Squares.Catfurball (talk) 17:56, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Try these:

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Market Warriors}}	This user enjoys watching Market Warriors	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|The Joy of Painting}}	This user enjoys watching The Joy of Painting	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|The Great British Baking Show}}	This user enjoys watching The Great British Baking Show	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|History Detectives}}	This user enjoys watching History Detectives	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Finding Your Roots}}	This user enjoys watching Finding Your Roots	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Secrets of the Dead}}	This user enjoys watching Secrets of the Dead	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Nature (TV series)|Nature}}	This user enjoys watching Nature	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV program)|Antiques Roadshow}}	This user enjoys watching Antiques Roadshow	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Scrabble (game show)|Scrabble}}	This user enjoys watching Scrabble	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|$100,000 Pyramid}}	This user enjoys watching $100,000 Pyramid	linked pages
{{Template:User enjoys TV|Hollywood Squares}}	This user enjoys watching Hollywood Squares	linked pages

Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:47, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Template:User enjoys TV

Template:User enjoys TV, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User enjoys TV and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Template:User enjoys TV during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 12:22, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, you posted a comment on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User enjoys TV stating that I requested the creation of the template. I don't remember requesting it at all – could you please refer me to the discussion to jog my memory? Thanks. (This is not an argument either for or against its deletion.) — Smjg (talk) 22:22, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm very very sorry. It was User:Catfurball instead.  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:43, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

List of positive integers and factors/top listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of positive integers and factors/top. Since you had some involvement with the List of positive integers and factors/top redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 12:29, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

• Delete:  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:06, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

User categories

Hello, Buaidh,

I wondered what your intention is in regard to these many user categories you created like Category:West Virginia user categories. Right now, they are empty and I've not tagged them for deletion for the past two days because they are newly created. But I hope you start assigning pages to them and using them or they will be tagged and sit for 7 days. If they are still empty after 7 days, they will be deleted. They can't sit empty indefinitely. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:16, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

They will be populated within 24 hours. I'm updating the documentation for all the subcategories. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:22, 27 January 2019 (UTC) Done.  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:20, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

By the way, what is with User:Buaidh/Join this regional residence category where you basically state that you live in 30 or 40 different countries. Are you trying to make some point by putting yourself in all of these categories? Why on earth are you doing this? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:23, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm asking potential candidates to join the regional residence category so I don't need to delete the category. Does that work for you? Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:22, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

The number of categories your user pages are filed under is ridiculous and over-the-top. But, as far as I know, it doesn't break any rules. So, let's let it be. I'd ask you to trim it down to just those categories you are actually involved in, but I think your the type of editor who does what they want to do regardless. Thanks for populating the user categories. My only goal is to keep those categories that are being utilized and weeding out those that aren't useful and being used. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:58, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Amen.  Buaidh  talk contribs 01:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Template:User in the United States. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in red at the top of the page. Thanks! Note that this created hundreds of errors and dumped over 300 pages into Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls (956). Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:43, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll fix the template. Please let me know if this recurs. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Userbox Request

@Buaidh: I like Rainbows.Catfurball (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

We only create userboxes for user interests as opposed to fandom. I created to userbox below:

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{User interest rainbows}}	This user is interested in RAINBOWS	linked pages

I hope this works for you. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 00:33, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Userbox request

@Buaidh: I like Fedora hats.Catfurball (talk) 17:03, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Please see Template:Userbox. No more requests of this type please.  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:15, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Duplicate wpm in User Bihar/par

Template:User Bihar/par has duplicate wpm parms. Davemck (talk) 19:59, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:01, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

One of your edits may have broken Template:User_Ascension_Island/doc1

Please see Template:User_Ascension_Island/doc1.

The invocation of {{yy|Template:User Commonwealth realm|Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha|||7}} is broken. I think it was working before. You have edited the relevant templates most recently, so I figured that you might know why it is broken.

{{Template:User Commonwealth realm|Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha|||7}} appears to work fine, so I'm guessing that {{yy}} may be the problem. It appears that when multiple empty fields are present, the yy template renders them, and the table interprets the adjacent pipes as a new cell. The old version of the template (now in the sandbox) simply dropped the empty parameters, which is not valid behavior either. There may be a way to thread the needle. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

This is also happening at Template:User in Liechtenstein/doc, Template:User WP São Tomé and Príncipe/doc, and probably other places. All the same problem, so one fix should correct them all. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:14, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Template:Yy currently has a problem with null parameters. Until I can fix Template:Yy, a work around is to pass Yy a &#​32; space. If you find more of these broken Yy userboxes, please let me know, although you don't need to look for them. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:49, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

This may be the complete list (some may point to the same transcluded source):

• Template:User citizen Russian Federation/doc
• Template:User citizen São Tomé and Príncipe/doc
• Template:User from São Tomé and Príncipe/doc
• Template:User from the Russian Federation/doc
• Template:User in São Tomé and Príncipe/doc
• Template:User in the Russian Federation/doc
• Template:User interest Russian Federation/doc
• Template:User interest São Tomé and Príncipe/doc
• Template:User Russian Federation/doc1
• Template:User WP São Tomé and Príncipe/doc

Thanks for looking into it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:06, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll fixed them.  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:08, 7 February 2019 (UTC) Done.  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:15, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Moving categories

Please, Buaidh, do not move categories. It is not like moving an article to a different title. There are pages that are assigned to each category and moving the category to a different name will not reassign all of these pages.

On Wikipedia, categories are moved by going to Speedy renames and proposing the new category name, If there are no objections, a bot moves the category AND reassigns all of the pages to the new category name. It is efficient and how categories are moved right now on Wikipedia.

Alternatively, since you have moved some categories already, please reassign all of the pages in the previously named category to the new category so there will not be two duplicate categories with different contents (see Category:Uttar Pradesh Wikipedians, Category:Uttar Pradeshi Wikipedians, Category:Telangana Wikipedians, Category:Telanganite Wikipedians, Category:Rajasthan Wikipedians, Category:Rajasthani Wikipedians for starters). It will be time-consuming and require many edits on your part but this is what happens when you do not use standard speedy rename procedures. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:25, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

These categories have been moved. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:41, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Predominant spelling

Hi, I just saw your message at BHG's talk page. Best wishes, friend.

I also visited your user page, and considered editing it in good faith, but instead I discovered that wikt:predominately was a word. Live and learn! – Fayenatic London 23:34, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Well, I am 70.  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:36, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

It is "predominately" North American usage. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:21, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

About those "Proud North Macedonians"

Hi Buaidh please fix Category:North_Macedonian_Wikipedians. Wikipedians in North Macedonia, regardless of their ethnicity, do not identify as "North Macedonian", and even by the Prespa agreement which changed the name of the country, they never agreed to be referred to as such. The nationality remains Macedonian. The adjective remains Macedonian. This is a sensitive issue, currently debated in a RfC, I guess there will be this type of problems for many categories, but this particular one can piss off a lot of Wikipedians. I don't think that anybody would like to find out he is a "proud North Macedonian" on his user page. Cheers. --FlavrSavr (talk) 11:46, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

@FlavrSavr: I realize this is a sensitive topic. All North Macedonia user templates now link to one or more of the following five categories:

• Category:Macedonian Wikipedians
• Category:Macedonian ancestry Wikipedians
• Category:Wikipedians in North Macedonia
• Category:Wikipedians interested in North Macedonia
• Category:WikiProject North Macedonia members

1. The user pages in Category:Wikipedians in the Republic of Macedonia have been moved to Category:Wikipedians in North Macedonia and the category has been redirected.
2. The user pages in Category:North Macedonian Wikipedians have been moved to Category:Macedonian Wikipedians. The empty category still exists for now if anyone prefers to use it.
3. My user page in Category:North Macedonian ancestry Wikipedians has been moved to Category:Macedonian ancestry Wikipedians. The empty category still exists for now if anyone prefers to use it.

The following templates function as shown:

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{Template:User proud|Macedonia}}	This user is proud to be a Macedonian !	linked pages
{{Template:User proud|North Macedonia}}	This user is proud to be a Macedonian !	linked pages
{{Template:WPbox|Macedonia}}		linked pages
{{Template:WPbox|North Macedonia}}		linked pages
{{Template:Pbox|Macedonia}}		linked pages
{{Template:Pbox|North Macedonia}}		linked pages
{{Template:NBbox|Macedonia}}		linked pages
{{Template:NBbox|North Macedonia}}		linked pages

I hope this works for everyone. If not, please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! --FlavrSavr (talk) 09:44, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Your edits to the WikiProject Pennsylvania/Participants page

Hi. I've noticed that you've been making a significant number of edits to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Participants page over the last several weeks. I'm an active member of this wikiproject, but don't recall seeing any discussion about making changes to this page before these revisions began. So, I was wondering if this was a special initiative of Wikipedia (or a special project by a group of admins on Wikipedia), or if this is a project you've undertaken on your own? I look forward to learning more. Thank you in advance for your response. Kind Regards. 47thPennVols (talk) 22:39, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

A year ago, WikiProject Userboxes started updating the WikiProject userbox templates in Category:WikiProject user templates. See User_talk:Buaidh/Archive 2018#WikiProject userbox templates. This involved updating all the Category:Regional WikiProject user templates and all the Category:Multiuse regional user templates. As part of that project, I created Category:User categories by region which led to updating the documentation on all the regional user categories. That in turn led to relinking all these templates and categories to the Category:WikiProjects by region, which I apparently need to create. Please let me know if I've disrupted WikiProject Pennsylvania. (My wife is from Valley Forge and I'm of Pennsyslvania ancestry.) Also let me know if you would like to help with any of these projects. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:34, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your quick response and thorough explanation. Now, that I know what you're working on, your edits are making more sense to me. (I'm impressed that you've taken on this ambitious project.) Good to know about the connection of you and your wife to Valley Forge and the Great Keystone State. I grew up not far from Valley Forge, and have fond memories of attending a concert at the military academy (many, many years ago). I'm currently on a quest to clean up articles which fall within the Pennsylvania WikiProject. (Among other things, I'm trying to add infoboxes where appropriate, and am beefing up stub articles with content and new citations when I come across article subjects that interest me.) It's a fairly Herculean task; so, if you happen to see a Pennsylvania-related article or two (or twelve) that could use some tender, loving care, and have the time, please feel free to upgrade. There are a number of potentially interesting stubs and start-class articles that could use the mind of an experienced researcher-writer. Best wishes for success with your project. 47thPennVols (talk) 00:18, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Good luck!  Buaidh  talk contribs 00:21, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Question about roses

Hi. I was wondering if you could tell me something about orange roses. --Thinker78 (talk) 01:24, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Surely. What do you need to know? My favorite is Tropicana. Also see High Country Roses. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 03:38, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

I tried looking for information about orange roses in Wikipedia but I didn't find any. What's the history of orange roses? Is there a symbolic meaning of orange roses? What meanings do orange roses have? Do they have an esoteric symbolism and if so, what is it? Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 20:58, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

There is nothing particularly special about orange roses. Modern Roses 12: the comprehensive list of roses in cultivation or of historical or botanical importance lists 18 color classes: white, light yellow, medium yellow, deep yellow, yellow blend, apricot, orange, orange-pink, orange-red, light pink, medium pink, deep pink, pink blend, medium red, dark red, red blend, mauve, and russet. The American Rose Society has a brief explanation of Rose Classifications. Red roses and white roses have significance in English heraldry and other colors have importance in other cultures. We have about 80 roses and our elder son has about 40,000. If Donald Trump was to create a coat-of-arms, if might have an orange rose. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Non-existent categories

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Category:Ukrainian Wikipedians, please make sure that the category page actually exists. In some cases, it may be appropriate to create a new category in accordance with Wikipedia's categorization guidelines, but it is usually better to use the most specific available existing category. It is never appropriate to leave a page categorised in a non-existent category, i.e. one whose link displays in red. You may find it helpful to use the gadget HotCat, which tests whether a category exists before saving a change. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:47, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

I created Category:Eastern European Wikipedians, Category:Northern European Wikipedians, Category:Southern European Wikipedians, and Category:Western European Wikipedians.  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:08, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Requesting your opinion

Hi. A conflict has arisen on the Adam Hughes article. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 21:27, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Userboxes for user visited

Hi there. I saw you at Template:User visited, and was wondering if you could help me with something. I'm wondering how to add certain regions that do not seem to functioning properly with this template. So for example {{Template:User visited|Lombardy}} produces

This user has visited the Italian region of Lombardy.

, however,

{{Template:User visited|Piedmont}}

This user has visited the Italian region of Piedmont.

does not produce this user box, as you can see, it produces the word "error". Would you know how to go about fixing these issues for the rest of the Italian regions? Thanks. Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 18:41, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I have created the Piedmont user box for you, so it now appears in your example above. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:57, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

There are a great many piedmonts around the world.  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:24, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Hey, thanks a lot! I created the rest. Can you fix the flag at Template:User in Aosta Valley? Is there also a way to get it to use the demonym for entries like "...user is of Sicily ancestry" to "...user is of Sicilian ancestry" at Template:User in Sicily? Thanks again. Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 21:19, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, there are piedmonts, but there is only one subject at Piedmont. I fixed Sicily like this by guessing that {{User in France}} would already be configured correctly. I fixed Aosta like this, by reading the Template:Uir documentation and finding the flag at Aosta Valley. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:30, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Wide image listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Wide image. Since you had some involvement with the Portal:Wide image redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:30, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:WikiProject Lists templates

A tag has been placed on Category:WikiProject Lists templates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. DannyS712 (talk) 01:14, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Template:Cmt listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Cmt. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Cmt redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. * Pppery * _{has returned} 21:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Elmira-Corning, NY Combined Statistical Area listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Elmira-Corning, NY Combined Statistical Area. Since you had some involvement with the Elmira-Corning, NY Combined Statistical Area redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  05:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

The Elmira-Corning, NY Combined Statistical Area is the correct United States Census Bureau title for Census Bureau CSA 236. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:14, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Maine

Portal:Maine, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maine and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Maine during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:40, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Buaidh

Your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maine are repeatedly abusive. Please stop this, and strike the abuse you have posted already.

I will only ask once. Next stop is ANI. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:54, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your threat. None of my comments are meant to be either personal or abusive. Please read them again. (On the other hand, your comments have become pointedly personal.) I have no disregard for you whatsoever. I just think this is an unwise and short-sighted proposal. I hope this is the end of this discussion. These endless discussions are very disruptive. I would like to get back to enhancing Wikipedia rather than discussing it.  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

ANI discussion concerning you

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding your conduct at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maine. The thread is User:Buaidh. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:14, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your concern.  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:48, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

• Hi, Buaidh, please don't modify other people's comments directly. If BHG's quotes were out-of-context or changed later, you can provide that context in a separate reply, but you shouldn't change them directly. Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:03, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

I only changed the comments attributed to me to reflect the proper context. I shall refrain. Thank you,  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:06, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Userbox having trouble

A userbox is having trouble it is, User:UBX/Beluga Obsession.Catfurball (talk) 19:12, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Fixed. The picture file had been renamed. You do know that you can fix these yourself.  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:19, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Duplicate fthe in User Macau/par

Hi, fellow septuagenarian. Template:User Macau/par & Template:User in Macau have duplicate fthe parms. Davemck (talk) 16:35, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I've fixed them. Apparently, it takes an old guy to catch an old guy.  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:48, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

User:UBX/Pineapple juice

@Buaidh: Can you change the photograph to show a glass filled with pineapple juice. And also can you connect this userbox to the article Pineapple juice, its still connected to the article Pineapple. I tried connecting it to the pineapple juice article and failed which I find kind of weird.Catfurball (talk) 22:25, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Done. Please take a look at the changes.  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:31, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Template:User Wannabe British

@Buaidh: Can you make this userbox friendly to people who are color blind.Catfurball (talk) 20:31, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Done. Please examine the changes so you can make future changes yourself.  Buaidh  talk contribs 01:30, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

User:UBX/Parakeets

@Buaidh: Can you make this userbox friendly to people who are color blind.Catfurball (talk) 20:34, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Done. Please examine the changes so you can make future changes yourself.  Buaidh  talk contribs 01:49, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

User:Toll Booth Willie/Userbox Pizza St. Louis

@Buaidh: This userbox is having trouble and needs your attention.Catfurball (talk) 21:04, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Done.  Buaidh  talk contribs 15:40, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:WikiProject Mauritania members

A tag has been placed on Category:WikiProject Mauritania members requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:13, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Category:Residence user templates has been nominated for discussion

Category:Residence user templates, which you edited, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:34, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Delete Category:Regional origin user templates?

I believe that Category:Regional origin user templates could be speedily deleted. I just finished moving subcategories (it also had only two templates) into Category:Place of origin user templates, which make for a more streamlined category tree "Location→Place of origin→X of origin". If you, as the creator and sole contributor agree, let's put {{db-catempty}} there. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:18, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I concur. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:45, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:South Dakota

Portal:South Dakota, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:South Dakota and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:South Dakota during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:38, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedians interested in Middle Africa

A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedians interested in Middle Africa requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians interested in Middle Africa should be redirected to Category:Wikipedians interested in Central Africa. -- Buaidh  talk contribs 03:55, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Will you please remove all of these categories from your user page? Unless you live in Greenland, Category:Wikipedians in Greenland does not apply to you and I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish by keeping these categories alive through false and inaccurate information about where you live. You are disrupting Wikipedia to make a point. I'd rather not escalate this but I will if you persist with this misinformation. It is really nonsensical. These Wikipedians category are for editors who want to organize meetups and such in a geographic area, not to make some kind of political point. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:47, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. For several years this has been the accepted way to keep vacant user categories open for future use. They are most commonly used for less populated nations and regions where we would like to recruit editors. Otherwise, we (usually I) need to recreate these user categories over and over again. They do not appear on my user page but on four special pages which explain their use. The user category is removed from the page as soon as an editor links to the user category. This problem has been discussed for about ten years, and this was the best solution we could come up with. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 01:18, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Template:Uir

Hi! Can you help me make this template work on romanian wikipedia? The problem is when i write Italy it works but when i write the romanian form Italia it stops working. What do I need to change? See here ro:Proiect:Italia.--MSClaudiu (talk) 20:03, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

I know a little Latin, but I can only guess with Italian and Romanian. I'll see if I can help. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:20, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

I hope you can figure out the problem.--MSClaudiu (talk) 07:59, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

I believe the problem is with the template invocations. Check if the Romanian templates perform the same as the Italian and English. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 13:31, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! But i can't figure out where i should write Italia instead of Italy so that this template {{Format:Utilizator Proiect Italia}} would show the correct form. When i write in here Italy the template shows the correct form but when i write at region Italia it doesn't. Do I need this template Template:Regbox?--MSClaudiu (talk) 08:16, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Cocos (Keeling) Islands listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Since you had some involvement with the Portal:Cocos (Keeling) Islands redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix ^(talk) 14:18, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Iowa

Portal:Iowa, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Iowa and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Iowa during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:27, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

An invitation to the Ninth Annual Colorado Wiknic

Colorado Wiknic 2019

Who: All Wikipedia users and their families and friends are cordially invited.

What: The Ninth Annual Colorado Wiknic.

When: Sunday afternoon, July 14, 2019, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm MDT.

Where: The Wiknic will be held at our home in Arvada. Please contact Buaidh for further information or assistance.

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many folks to expect. You can subscribe to our Wikimedia Colorado e-mail list to receive e-mail notice of future Wikimedia Colorado activities.

Sponsors: The Wikimedians of Colorado and WikiProject Colorado

Your hosts: Buaidh & BikeSally We hope to see you.
(You can unsubscribe from future invitations to Wikimedia Colorado events by removing your name from the Wikimedia Colorado event invitation list.)
PS: The Colorado portal has been nominated for deletion. You may wish to comment at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#Portal:Colorado.

Sent by ZLEA via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Hoosier Portal listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hoosier Portal. Since you had some involvement with the Hoosier Portal redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:45, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

I commented.  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:33, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Userbox Template Request

I like your userboxes in the English language section, and I think H. L. Mencken deserves a mention. I did this one in your style. But this is my first userbox and I don't know how to change it into a template. Can you change it into a template or make an original, of your creation, for Mencken? Thanks. —Partytemple (talk) 07:57, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

I added my suggested format below yours. You may wish to move the template to Template:User Mencken. It can then be used by anyone as {{User Mencken}}. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:50, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! —Partytemple (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

The future of Portal:Colorado

On June 25, 2019, Portal:Colorado was nominated for deletion. (Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Colorado.) We have upgraded the portal and added several new features including selected Colorado articles, biographies, and images. If you believe the Colorado portal is valuable to Wikipedia, please help us upgrade and maintain the portal. Add your suggestions for improvement to Portal talk:Colorado. You may nominate additions at:

• Portal:Colorado/Selected article
• Portal:Colorado/Selected biography
• Portal:Colorado/Selected image
• Portal:Colorado/Selected mountain
• Portal:Colorado/Did You Know

Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Colorado at 17:36, 7 July 2019 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notifications, please remove your username from the mailing list.

This is blatant canvassing

@Buaidh: Note that:

1. this message is blatant canvassing, in breach of three pillars of WP:CANVASS.
2. You have abused the Wikipedia:Meetup/Colorado/Invitation list by using for a purpose unrelated to meetup invitations. This is spamming.

Both are serious matters. I have noted it at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Colorado, and will raise it later today at ANI. I note that it follows on from your barrage of personal attacks at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maine and your malicious allegation at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Colorado that the page was selected as part of some vendetta against you ... at so I will ask ANI to consider your latest serious misconduct in light of your abysmal track record. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:30, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. Now please stop.  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:37, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Cleanup tags

Please stop removing or commenting out the {{unsourced}} cleanup tag from unsourced pages.

WP:V is a fundamental pillar of Wikipedia. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: Portal paragraph links to articles do not require the article references. The references are contained in the article itself. I have removed all references because they do not belong in a portal where there is no place for a reflist. Wikipedia:Verifiability has no mention of portals. {{unsourced}} belongs in articles and not a portal. This appears to be simple harassment. Do you think that if you drive me crazy, I just go away. I am very patient, but this tries my soul. I'm sorry I slowed your portal deletion effort. Just delete other portals. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:08, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Buaidh, the pages concerned are not links. They are paragraphs of text.

Please show me which part of the policy WP:V supports your claim that portals are exempt from WP:V. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:20, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Please show me which part of the policy Wikipedia:Verifiability addresses portals. This is really getting out of hand. Please stop.  Buaidh  talk contribs 19:34, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

@Buaidh: I agree with you Buaidh WP:V says nothing about portals, so references aren't required on portals, only in articles.Catfurball (talk) 20:05, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Superb Wikipedia work you do. Colorado Portal looks good to me. I hope it stays. Greentopia (talk) 19:19, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Lord willing. Thank you,  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:06, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Buaidh:Colorado/Intro

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Buaidh:Colorado/Intro, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. QuiteUnusual (talk) 16:08, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, this was an error.  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, I should have left you a more personal message. I assumed it was a misplaced edit that you didn't need, but shouldn't have relied on the templated message. Best, QuiteUnusual (talk) 17:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Template:User WP Korea

Is it really necessary to have a duplicate userbox for WP:KOREA? IMO it would be better to merge them into one. PC78 (talk) 20:30, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Most WikiProjects have multiple member userbox templates from which members can choose. They all do the same thing. See Category:WikiProject France members. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:35, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Eh, what's the point though? Variety for variety's sake? Doesn't make it a good idea. PC78 (talk) 20:43, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

True enough. Most WikiProjects have at least two templates. If WikiProject Korea decides they only want one, thats fine. It just not up to one user. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 20:47, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Some pizza for you!

	Some pizza for you!
	Thanks for volunteering your time to improve Portal:Colorado, and for helping to keep Wikipedia updated. Yours aye, North America1000 06:23, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:CME

Template:CME has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 22:18, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• This template is no longer used.  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:32, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Highway renumbering series template

Hi.
How are you?
I am wondering how this template would be changed to include "insular areas" of the U.S., like P.R. and the Virgin Islands. Thank you.
--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 20:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

The Template:Highway renumbering series can be easily extended to include the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories. First, we need highway articles for each of these. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 08:36, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Okay.

Thank you.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:03, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi.How are you? - editor @Yarfpr: created the 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering article. Now can it be added? I don't know how. If you have time, please advice. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 05:55, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Geographical portals

I agree with your statements about Geographical portals on Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion about new editors. It is also an issue of covering those portals. If there is an active portal, lots of other information is there about the geographical entity for editors to use. Inactive or defunct portals are much less useful, and having no portal at all means no information at all, and no easy way to find other editors interested in that place. I am definitely a Wikipedia:WikiGnome, doing most of the tasks on that page, and more besides. I am a mere Master Editor IV compared with you, but I am an Octogenarian taking ideas from your user page.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 17:29, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Good for you hanging in there with us. I appreciate your support. The folks wishing to delete most portals are well intended, but I think misguided. I'm very glad to have you to look up to. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 00:52, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Average daily pageviews of portal on en.wikipedia in April–June 2019

@Dthomsen8, the place to contact other editors is at Wikiprojects or on article talk pages, or at community noticeboards. You won't find editors at portals, because almost nobody edits portals and almost nobody reads them. As you can see from the graph on the right, 94% of portals get less than 100 pageviews per day, and in nearly all cases the head article gets 100 times more views.

Portals are a tool to showcase and/or navigate content, and an abandoned portal doesn't fulfil that role; it simply wastes everyone's time. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:52, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedians interested in the Caribbean Netherlands

A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedians interested in the Caribbean Netherlands requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:42, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

@UnitedStatesian: I contested this speedy deletion because it does not meet the criterion for WP:CSD#C1. It's only been up for a half a day. (talk page stalker) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 13:55, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Conversation continued on my talk page. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 14:00, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Portal mass creations

Hello B, I wanted to make sure you were aware of the broadly participated discussion from earlier this year, Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 157#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals. I believe there has been no subsequent contrary discussion; without such, your recent creation of seven portals would seem to be contrary to the strong consensus established as a result of that discussion. UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:10, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

I was not aware. Thank you for letting me know. Portal:Crown dependencies, Portal:Melanesia, Portal:Micronesia, Portal:Polynesia, and Portal:South America are the redirect destinations for numerous deleted portals. Thank you,  Buaidh  talk contribs 14:19, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Regardless of whatever redirects target them, their creation was contrary to consensus, and so I intend to bring all 7 to MfD. UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

The "redirect target" defence is self-serving nonsense. The redirects were all created or retargeted today by Buaidh, and the redirects are all un-needed, because links to portals are generated by templates which use #ifexist to avoid displaying a redlink. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

@UnitedStatesian, I have MFDed them all, in three batches. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Let 'er rip. The fewer portals there are, the less work for me. I've never liked portals. I'm not sure how a became a portal defender. I'm about ready to be rid of them all. I have better things to do. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 03:29, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Huh... –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 04:34, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Your own speedy deletion nomination, using criterion G7, of the portals (and portal redirects) you created would save a lot of other editors a lot of work, if that is something you put any value on at all. UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:41, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

In the interest of peace in our time, I've issued {{Db-author}} requests for the following 24 regional portals that I created:

Portal:Afro-Eurasia

Portal:Americas

Portal:Australasia

Portal:British Crown Dependencies

Portal:Channel Islands

Portal:Cook Islands

Portal:Crown dependencies

Portal:Eurasia

Portal:Falkland Islands

Portal:Federated States of Micronesia

Portal:French Polynesia

Portal:Guernsey

Portal:Isle of Man

Portal:Jersey

Portal:Kiribati

Portal:Marshall Islands

Portal:Melanesia

Portal:Micronesia

Portal:Nauru

Portal:New Caledonia

Portal:Niue

Portal:Palau

Portal:Pitcairn Islands

Portal:Solomon Islands

Portal:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The following six regional portal redirects created by others should also be deleted:

Portal:Fiji

Portal:Samoa

Portal:South America

Portal:Tonga

Portal:Vanuatu

Portal:Wallis and Futuna

I hope this helps. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 05:18, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks for making that bunch of sppedy deletion requests. It saves a LOT of time and effort by other editors. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:37, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, that's awesome, thanks, but it would be really great if you could do the same for all the other portal redirects you created for other geographies (every Mexican state, all the countries, Indian states and U.S. states that have had their portals deleted, all of the emirates in the United Arab Emirates, etc., etc.,) These redirects are of absolutely no value to the encyclopedia. UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:39, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

I do wish to help, but I'm not inclined to delete redirects to relevant portals that still exist. You can request the deletion of these portal redirects if you wish. It seems reasonable to me that a deleted state portal should be redirected to the relevant national portal. These redirects don't require any maintenance. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 05:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

I agree with UnitedStatesian that these redirects are of no value.

I'd go further, and say that they are of significantly negative value, because they cause #ifexist tests to return a positive answer. That means that a forest of categories, navboxes etc end up with links which appear to be to a specific portal, but actually redirect to a much more general portal which may say little or nothing about the specific topic.

If Buaidh won't G7 them, I will RFD them. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

• @Buaidh and UnitedStatesian: first batch of redirects is at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 July 29#U.S._State_redirects_to_Portal:United_States. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:19, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
  • See also WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 July 29#Emirate_redirects_to_Portal:United_Arab_Emirates. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:56, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
    • Plus WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 July 29#State_redirects_to_Portal:Mexico and WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 July 29#State_redirects_to_Portal:India. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:07, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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Portal redirects

Rather than overload Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion, I shall issue {{Db-author}} requests for all 120 regional portal redirects I've created over the past 12 years that I haven't already deleted:

1. Portal:Aguascalientes
2. Portal:Ajman
3. Portal:Åland Islands
4. Portal:Andaman and Nicobar Islands
5. Portal:Angola
6. Portal:Anguilla
7. Portal:Antigua and Barbuda
8. Portal:Aruba
9. Portal:Arunachal Pradesh
10. Portal:Australian continent
11. Portal:Azad Kashmir
12. Portal:Azores
13. Portal:Baja California Sur
14. Portal:Baja California
15. Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan
16. Portal:Barbados
17. Portal:British Indian Ocean Territory
18. Portal:British Virgin Islands
19. Portal:Brunei
20. Portal:Campeche
21. Portal:Canary Islands
22. Portal:Caribbean Netherlands
23. Portal:Catalonia
24. Portal:Cayman Islands
25. Portal:Chandigarh
26. Portal:Chhattisgarh
27. Portal:Chiapas
28. Portal:Chihuahua
29. Portal:Coahuila
30. Portal:Colima
31. Portal:Comoros
32. Portal:Curaçao
33. Portal:Dadra and Nagar Haveli
34. Portal:Daman and Diu
35. Portal:Delaware
36. Portal:Delhi
37. Portal:Dominica
38. Portal:Dubai
39. Portal:Durango
40. Portal:Equatorial Guinea
41. Portal:Eswatini
42. Portal:Fujairah
43. Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan
44. Portal:Goa
45. Portal:Greenland
46. Portal:Guanajuato
47. Portal:Guerrero
48. Portal:Hidalgo
49. Portal:Himachal Pradesh
50. Portal:Honduras
51. Portal:Idaho
52. Portal:Jalisco
53. Portal:Jammu and Kashmir
54. Portal:Karnataka
55. Portal:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
56. Portal:Kosovo
57. Portal:Lakshadweep
58. Portal:Lesotho
59. Portal:Liechtenstein
60. Portal:Lombardy
61. Portal:Macau
62. Portal:Madeira
63. Portal:Madhya Pradesh
64. Portal:Maine
65. Portal:Manipur
66. Portal:Mayotte
67. Portal:Meghalaya
68. Portal:Mexico City
69. Portal:Michoacán
70. Portal:Mizoram
71. Portal:Mongolia
72. Portal:Montana
73. Portal:Morelos
74. Portal:Myanmar
75. Portal:Nagaland
76. Portal:Nayarit
77. Portal:Nebraska
78. Portal:New Hampshire
79. Portal:North Dakota
80. Portal:Nuevo León
81. Portal:Oaxaca
82. Portal:Puducherry
83. Portal:Puebla
84. Portal:Punjab, India
85. Portal:Qatar
86. Portal:Querétaro
87. Portal:Quintana Roo
88. Portal:Ras Al Khaimah
89. Portal:Réunion
90. Portal:Rivers State
91. Portal:Saba
92. Portal:Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
93. Portal:Saint Martin
94. Portal:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
95. Portal:San Luis Potosí
96. Portal:San Marino
97. Portal:Seychelles
98. Portal:Sharjah
99. Portal:Sikkim
100. Portal:Sinaloa
101. Portal:Sindh
102. Portal:Sonora
103. Portal:South Dakota
104. Portal:State of Mexico
105. Portal:Tabasco
106. Portal:Tamaulipas
107. Portal:Tamil Nadu
108. Portal:Telangana
109. Portal:Tlaxcala
110. Portal:Tripura
111. Portal:Umm Al Quwain
112. Portal:Uttarakhand
113. Portal:Veneto
114. Portal:Veracruz
115. Portal:West Virginia
116. Portal:Wisconsin
117. Portal:Yemen
118. Portal:Yucatán
119. Portal:Zacatecas
120. Portal:Zimbabwe

I hope this ends my involvement with regional portal redirects. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 16:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Many, many thanks. Were the positive attitude that you showed here (and willingness to set aside WP:OWENRSHIP for the good of the encyclopedia) shared by other editors, this project would advance significantly. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:36, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Is that everything taken care of now, with the exception of the false positives? --kingboyk (talk) 17:43, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Done. We've deleted 120 of my regional portal redirects. Thanks for your help. Now we have lots of red links to deal with. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 17:54, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't think so: nearly every call to these deleted redirects uses templates that suppress the display of a red link. But if you can identify any pages that are showing the red link, I am happy to help with the cleanup. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:58, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

I need to clean up a couple hundred templates, but it shouldn't take too long. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019

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australasia

wow that's brave - many consider the appelation a redundant and rather awkward term down this side of the wobbly planet... trust you are well - keep at it!!! JarrahTree 15:02, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

OK you didnt answer above - but hey - surely channel islanders are either french or english - surely not northern european - gah

checked - there is an excuse at the article Northern Europe - most say 'western' - then half way down the article a really weird items/section says northern europe - that is weird... I retract my comment in the face of absurdity ensconced in the article... apologies... JarrahTree 14:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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Creation of User Country Ancestry templates

Please stop creating duplicate user templates. All the templates you are creating already exist, just at the grammatically correct page name. This is starting to look like a deliberate campaign of disruption. The Mirror Cracked (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

This is a fix of previously omitted templates. It does not in any way interfere with existing templates. These templates are designed to minimize total template maintenance. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:24, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

How can it possibly minimize template maintenance by creating duplicates? If someone wanted to change one of these templates, they now have to change two places instead of one. That doubles the total template maintenance. The Mirror Cracked (talk) 21:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Please see Template_talk:User Scotland ancestry#Contested deletion. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 21:49, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prince Edward Island Wikipedians

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• This hit my watchlist and after checking things out I went ahead and deleted it. Buaidh, I presume you intended this category to be for Wikipedians from Prince Edward Island, as opposed to Wikipedians in Prince Edward Island? I considered just renaming the category to Category:Wikipedians from Prince Edward Island, but since it would still be empty, I deleted it instead. If you find a use for recreating it, I have no objection. There are at least a few active editors who are from the Island, but none have the category on their page as far as I can tell. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:14, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks,  Buaidh  talk contribs 18:57, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Category:Location userbox galleries

Hello, Buaidh. I've noticed you moved 106 pages out of Category:Location userbox galleries. Now there are only 47 pages left in the category. Rather than mass-moving pages out of a category, it is better to start a merge discussion over at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. Thanks. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:39, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I restored the 286 members of Category:Location userbox galleries. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 03:39, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

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Map of Colorado

Hi Buaidh! I see that you are probaly the most active user on the WikiProject Colorado that's why I would like to ask a question. Recently I made a map of Colorado and I think it is worth to check for errors or provide comments. I thought that a message on the WikiProject page may be a good idea but I see that users are not very active there. Do you know what will be the most appropriate place to ask users with knowledge on Colorado geography to check? If you have yourself any remarks on the map I will be glad to hear. Thanks --Ikonact (talk) 11:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Workshop for the creation of new Portal Guidelines

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User citizen Federally Administered Tribal Areas

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 16:32, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 16:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User interest Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User interest Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 16:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

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Category:Afro-Eurasian ancestry Wikipedians has been nominated for discussion

Category:Afro-Eurasian ancestry Wikipedians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Le Deluge (talk) 18:10, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User WP Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User WP Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 06:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User interest Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User interest Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 06:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User citizen Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User citizen Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 06:34, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

A tag has been placed on Template:User from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T2 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 clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Störm (talk) 06:35, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Category:Afro-Eurasia user categories has been nominated for discussion

Category:Afro-Eurasia user categories, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:25, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:User in Afro-Eurasia

Hi, would you object to speedy deletion of Template:User in Afro-Eurasia and related templates under WP:G7, as the categories that they populate are all being deleted? – Fayenatic London 21:42, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Category:Eurasian ancestry Wikipedians has been nominated for discussion

Category:Eurasian ancestry Wikipedians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Le Deluge (talk) 14:22, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Resources for finding county-level statistics

• Census QuickFacts
• Social Capital Variables Spreadsheet for 2014, PennState College of Agricultural Sciences, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
• Social Capital Project: Social Capital Index Data spreadsheet accompanying the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Social Capital Project. “The Geography of Social Capital in America.” Report prepared by the Vice Chairman’s staff, 115th Cong., 2nd Sess. (April 2018)
• Religious statistics by county
• PeakVisor, search for "X County" to find high points in a county
• ebird, gives bird species lists for each county
• Midwest Herbaria, search to generate plant species lists for each county
• Mycoportal, search to generate fungus and bryophyte species lists
• NASS QuickStats database, gives agricultural figures by county for many data points
• bestplaces.net--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:44, 31 December 2019 (UTC)