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Your contributed article, Member states of the Venice Commission

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Number format

Hi, any reason why you changed the number format in this edit? - DVdm (talk) 07:20, 10 October 2012 (UTC) DVdm (talk) 07:20, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

I thought it was against policy to use the comma, but now see it is not: MOS:NUM#Delimiting_.28grouping_of_digits.29. Sorry. ChemTerm (talk) 15:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Ok, no problem. Keep up the good work! - DVdm (talk) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination of Sollentuna Parish for deletion

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October 2012

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• Was you who said "shut up", not? ChemTerm (talk) 01:10, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Bromma Parish for deletion

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Nomination of Sollentuna Kontrakt for deletion

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Canvassing

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• Where did that occur? ChemTerm (talk) 01:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• Do not make things smaller on your talk page just to try to avoid people seeing them. Also, the diffs are posted at the AfD for the Sollentuna Parish. By the way, even if you remove the canvassing, it is still permanently linked in the diff links. gwickwire | Leave a message 01:21, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
  • I didn't. But maybe you have the courtesy to tell me where "leaving messages on biased users' talk pages" did occur? ChemTerm (talk) 01:28, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• These things don't jsut get small by themselves. I told you to go look at the AfD. Last reply here. gwickwire | Leave a message 01:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• Of course not, I did it. At ANI you don't mention a user's talk page where canvassing did happen. ChemTerm (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Neither of you are providing diffs on this and should either do so or drop the stick.--Amadscientist (talk) 01:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I have provided the diffs in multiple locations now. gwickwire | Leave a message 01:42, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

For an admin hopeful, you sure don't seem to understand canvassing very well gwick. But you need not respond here. This is not the appropriate venue for discussions of other user conduct. ChemTerm, please provide diffs at ANI to support your claim or, if you wish you can strike out the claim as unfounded after consideration.--Amadscientist (talk) 01:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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I do apologize, this was supposed to be a

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and not a notice. Sorry! But still, please view the page. gwickwire | Leave a message 01:20, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Fine with me. Maybe you can have a look why Swedish parish articles should be deleted, whilst for other countries the articles exist for years. ChemTerm (talk) 01:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Not stalking from what I can see...

You may wish to retract the accusation. I don't see that The Banner has followed you to areas he was not already involved in.--Amadscientist (talk) 02:39, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sollentuna Köping

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A tag has been placed on Sollentuna Köping requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. 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.

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Re: Parishes

Well, thanks. But as I have pointed out elsewhere, I'm not keen on retaining articles on församlingar. Hundreds and socknar I think are fine, but I'm just not convinced that tiny ecclesiastical units carry any notability as far as Wikipedia is concerned. WP:Existence ≠ Notability. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 21:15, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Well, the longer you stick around, the more you'll come to understand the role of essays in the community's decision-making. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 21:40, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Follow up

May I ask you to consider my reply on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_October_28#Category:Massacres_in_the_Palestinian_territories. Debresser (talk) 07:20, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Rugby union in...

Hi, the discussion over [the] Ivory Coast is balanced 3-all, not heading towards any consensus; and ending up with no consensus would be the worst result. I found something that points the other way, so rather than have no consensus I'm thinking of switching sides... what would you do? – Fayenatic London 09:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that link. My "something" was the overall balance on Google books; but the Ngram tells a story which leans the other way anyway. – Fayenatic London 09:02, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

ROTA and talkback

Hi, I noticed that you added a redirect ROTA, but as another organization claiming this acronym was listed at Rota (disambiguation), I added a hatnote at the target, and added the target to that dab page. – Fayenatic London 19:52, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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Puerto Rico (proposed state)

Chemterm, there is now a move discussion about Puerto Rico (proposed state) at Talk:Puerto Rican statehood movement Ego White Tray (talk) 13:36, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, your revert of my merge was against a very clear consensus - and you did so without posting at either talk page. I've restored the merge. Please comment at Talk:Puerto Rico statehood movement before attempting to revert again. Ego White Tray (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Category:Former country subdivisions of Algeria

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Your AN/I submission

You failed to notify User:Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars of your notice, and at any rate I see no sign that you've engaged him on his talk page. Please discuss your concerns with him and others on the article talk pages and his talk page first. Mangoe (talk) 13:55, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, no time, not really my area of interest. I thought some process-people at ANI could help. ChemTerm (talk) 14:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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Your contributed article, ROTA

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AFAIK, disambiguation pages should normally serve both upper and lower case occurrences; there's no need for a separate one for the acronyms. – Fayenatic London 19:31, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Where is the policy that prohibits more specific dab pages? ChemTerm (talk) 23:30, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking of some of the examples at MOS:DABINT, but it's not a specific prohibition. There is also WP:2DAB and WP:TWODABS. As long as there are only two articles that could be intended by ROTA, then it's better just to have one combined dab page for upper and lower case. – Fayenatic London 14:50, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like WP:ILIKE. If someone looks for ROTA why bother him with "Rota"-items? To have ROTA is more concise. ChemTerm (talk) 17:13, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Just offering my advice from experience. If you've read those three sections and you still think it's justified, I won't revert you if you reinstate it; but it's likely that somebody else will merge it back on grounds such as these. I'd only bother splitting a disambiguation page, or setting up a sub-section as a separate page, if it it was more strongly justified on size. – Fayenatic London 21:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Caste system of Nepal

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re Category:Caste system of Nepal to Category:Nepalese caste system – Fayenatic London 19:31, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

This is now at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 25#Category:Caste system by country. I have not pasted in a copy of the Speedy discussion, because it seems confusing, and we might as well start afresh to set out our thoughts as clearly as we can. – Fayenatic London 21:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

CfD

You have rather massively missed the point at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_November_27#Category:Tribal_communities_of_Rajasthan, I fear. - Sitush (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Categories

You are not allowed to jump the gun by immediately creating new categories that you first proposed for renaming just yesterday. You must let the WP:CFD discussion run its proper course of seven days to establish consensus for your proposed changes — until those seven days are up, even if it's wrong you have to let it stand while the discussion is still open, because that is how Wikipedia's consensus process works. And if the final consensus goes against you, further, then you have to accept that and cannot just arbitrarily go ahead and do it anyway.

Secondly, there is not, and never has been, any consensus on Wikipedia to somehow divide "Argentine media" and "Media of Argentina" into separate things — there is no article on Wikipedia that could ever belong in one category but not in the other. You're well within your right to propose that the existing category be renamed from one format to the other — but they are not two distinct things that require two separate categories, but one thing about which there's a legitimate reason to suggest that maybe its name should be changed. But you're still not entitled to impose that change while the CFD discussion about it is still underway.

Again, I'm not opposed to your reasoning in principle — but you need to follow Wikipedia's proper processes for actually getting this stuff done. Bearcat (talk) 21:14, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I just want to re-state what Bearcat has said above. I'm coming from the outside seeing these discussions and the way you are behaving, and I am a bit concerned. Just be patient and let the system play itself out. There is no rush. Don't make changes that haven't been OK'd by consensus yet (ie, when the underlying issue is still being discussed at CFD). Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Category:Aragonese Empire people

I made a new proposal at the discussion of this category, since I just realized that Aragonese Empire as an article redirects to Crown of Aragon.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:21, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for category:Translator stubs

Hi ChemTerm. Hope you are doing fine. I have just published a proposal to create a new category:Translator stubs. What do you say? Regards from Montevideo, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 18:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Republic (country subdivision)

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Ways to improve Lomami Province (former)

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Nomination of List of traditional regions of Slovakia for deletion

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