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The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

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The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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--Lajmmoore (talk 08:04, 29 September 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for cleaning of DinosaursLoveExistence (talk · contribs)'s categories Mason (talk) 14:24, 29 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! 😀 AusLondonder (talk) 14:54, 29 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, I'm Kerbin fellow. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Kerbin fellow (talk) 17:04, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Kerbin fellow: I did explain why. Your edit is unconstructive and has been reverted previously. AusLondonder (talk) 17:08, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just want to say good work for cleaning up all the mess in the bilateral related articles space. I too have a similar interest. LibStar (talk) 04:04, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for that, LibStar! I've noticed your good work in the area as well. There's a lot of rubbish but I think we're getting there. AusLondonder (talk) 04:20, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I really think we should limit specific Ambassadors to X categories to people who were resident ambassadors in that country. Otherwise we should limit people to being in just Ambassadors of Y for their sending country. All people who we have reliable sources for should be in Ambassadors of Y for the country they represented, that is a defining link. Only those who we have strong evidence the particular country they were assigned to is defining should be in a category for that country. Since Ambassadors are a sub-cat of diplomats, people who are in Ambassadors of France should not also be in French diplomats. I also think we should rename diplomats cats to Diplomats of Foo. So Diplomats of France. In Diplomats what is defining is the country that employed you, not nationality. People who are French people who were Diplomats for something or someone other than France should be categorized based on that and not be in the Diplomats of France category. We really have way too much category bloat with ambassadors and Diplomats. Especially the huge problem of probably 1,000 categories or more with just 1 article. Thank-you for the nominations you have made to upmerge small categories. There are a lot. However since the issues of the categories are often unique, I do not think large scale nominations will work. Narrow category is a rule that seems to be flagrantly violated in a lot of places.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:00, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello AusLondonder. Your account has been granted the "rollbacker" and "pending changes reviewer" user rights. These user rights allow you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes and quickly revert the edits of other users.

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Please keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

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The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection enabled is located at Special:StablePages. You may find the following pages useful to review:

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Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of reviewer or rollback. If you no longer want either of these user rights, contact me and I'll remove it, alternatively you can leave a request on the administrators' noticeboard. Happy editing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Obviously if you don't want them or you have any questions, let me know. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for that, HJ Mitchell! AusLondonder (talk) 11:59, 15 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

 

Your recent editing history at Liam Payne shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:51, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@AntiCompositeNumber: just curious why you didn't template the other editor, who used a false edit summary and removed content even after I expressed opposition? AusLondonder (talk) 22:59, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not sure who you're referring to. There's been a lot of edits to that page, and I haven't read them all. Your reverts of the image are covered by WP:3RRNO #7, but the 3 reverts over which source to cite and the 1 revert for style aren't. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reverting one violation of WP:ENGVAR could hardly be considered part of an edit war. AusLondonder (talk) 00:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, the entry was probably created by the company and most of it's edits ever since, are behalf of the company. Could you check? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0D:6FC7:338:5E18:A78:5634:1232:5476 (talk) 12:02, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I've noticed that both on the Speedy page and in full CFD nominations, you have been nominating categories for merging to just one parent, even though they are intersections of multiple parent hierarchies.

E.g. you nominated Category:Defunct airlines of Oman for merging to Category:Defunct airlines of Asia, ignoring its other parents Category:Airlines of Oman, Category:Defunct airlines by country and Category:Defunct companies of Oman.

Although the CFD templates only allow you to specify one or two merge targets, you should manually add others into the nomination line after saving the nomination. Please do this in future when nominating categories for merging, except when for some reason only a single merge target is appropriate.

In the above case, as the article was a list rather than a single airline, I have also moved it back into Category:Defunct airlines of Asia by country. – Fayenatic London 14:03, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Fayenatic london. In this case I considered a merge to the defunct airlines of Asia category was the most suitable option. By merging to Category:Defunct companies of Oman we now have another category with a single article. We may as well have kept the Category:Defunct airlines of Oman in that case as we've simply moved the problem from one category to another. Category:Defunct airlines by country is labelled as a container category which should only contain subcategories. This list is now the only article within that category. I don't see how that's helpful as the article was going to be categorised higher in the categorisation hierarchy (Category:Defunct airlines of Asia). Interested in hearing your thoughts. AusLondonder (talk) 14:35, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Well, as you were making a full nomination, you could have listed that parent at the same time. Leaving such parents empty, to be deleted later, means there will be no trace of the reason for deletion. It is best practice to list such parents in a nomination, so that anybody looking for those categories later can follow the links and see WHY they were deleted, and find what was in there before. – Fayenatic London 14:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ah, sorry, it wan't a full CFD. OK, I have moved the list up into Category:Defunct organizations based in Oman, and deleted the companies one under WP:G6 and recording it as "empty after Category:Defunct airlines of Oman merged to Category:Defunct airlines of Asia per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy". – Fayenatic London 14:50, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

As for the container category, I have removed that template, as lists should be acceptable as well as subcats in a "by country" category. – Fayenatic London 15:05, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Here's another one: you nominated Category:Agriculture in the Bahamas for speedy merger only to Category:Industry in the Bahamas, removing Agriculture and fisheries in the Bahamas from three other valid parents: Category:Agriculture by country, Category:Agriculture in the Caribbean and Category:Agriculture in North America by country. I could not work out any rationale for removing the member page from those parents, so I manually merged the article to all of them. Please add all necessary targets to such nominations in future. – Fayenatic London 16:50, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Noted. When you use Twinkle for a speedy merge it only has one field for target category. AusLondonder (talk) 22:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Indeed. Thank you for adding a second target for Category:Mining in Croatia, but in case you didn't see it, Armbrust added a third and fourth.[1] – Fayenatic London 11:55, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear @AusLondonder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Mykolas_Majauskas Here is made a request and have explained some basic violations. 美しい歌 (talk) 11:45, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why why are you deleting my article give me a reason Syed Shahzaman1 (talk) 02:30, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Syed Shahzaman1: I didn't nominate it for deletion, the discussion was started by another editor, it's at at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hill Top Educational Institute. AusLondonder (talk) 11:36, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, AusLondonder! Apropos the above, I saw this comment, and of course you're right. You seem to have the patience for prod nominations, why not make a small start on some of those pages when you've nothing better to do? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:33, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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--Lajmmoore (talk 20:44, 29 October 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

I took a whack at expansing Dolphin Mall, already on my to-do list. I think I've added more than enough sources to assert notability now. What say you? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:39, 30 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@TenPoundHammer: Looks good, that's a huge improvement. I'll remove the prod tag. AusLondonder (talk) 02:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, AusLondonder,

I'm not sure why you put a tag on this empty category to rename it to Category:Sydney Trains when there is already an 11 year old category with this page title. So, this category can't be renamed to a category that already has this name. Maybe you meant to suggest a history merge or a different category name? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Liz: Hi, I was proposing a speedy merge per WP:C2F as it was a category with one eponymous page. AusLondonder (talk) 08:11, 6 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Well the tag says a speedy rename which can't happen because there is already an existing category with the proposed rename page title. Could you remove this CFD tag? It's an empty category right now and has had CSD C1 tags put on it twice already which I've removed because it has a CFD tag on the page.

Also, I came across some CFD nominations for categories about restaurants in Welsh cities but you didn't nominate Category:Restaurants in Gwynedd and it is the only remaining category in Category:Restaurants in Wales that isn't either tagged for a CFD discussion or a CSD C1 deletion. You might want to send this on its way to CFD, too. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:53, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

No problem, I see you removed the speedy merge tag. Usually if a category has a single eponymous article it can be nominated at CFDS under WP:C2F, which was the case for this category as it wasn't empty when I added the nom. I'll nominate the Gwynedd category as it doesn't make sense to have a single underpopulated subcategory of the restaurants in Wales tree. AusLondonder (talk) 14:07, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

No, unfortunately, this empty category still has the CFD speedy rename tag on it. Could you please remove it since it won't be renamed to an existing category? Then I can tag it as a CSD C1 empty category or you can. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ah apologies I misunderstood I thought you intended removing it. AusLondonder (talk) 08:42, 9 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Talk:Donald Trump is for discussing improvements to the Donald Trump article, not for more general forum-like discussions about Trump, politics, and such. I hope you will keep this in mind in any future participation there. See WP:NOTFORUM for the relevant Wikipedia policy. ―Mandruss ☎ 02:30, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Mandruss: What are you talking about? AusLondonder (talk) 03:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

What caught my eye: [2] It looked like NOTFORUM vio to me. I am not singling you out, I'm just trying to address a general NOTFORUM problem currently happening at the article; see Talk:Donald Trump#FORUM. I also failed to dig deep enough to see your 8 other comments, which were not NOTFORUM vios, and remember I don't know you. Sorry if I overstepped. ―Mandruss ☎ 04:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

My comments were in direct response to a section titled "Can we add some positive things about his presidency to this article?" The reply you are referring to was directly in response to the original editor citing "positive" things that should be better covered within the article. It was not a discussion about Trump but directly in response to proposed edits. AusLondonder (talk) 04:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. AusLondonder (talk) 12:19, 21 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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--Lajmmoore (talk 18:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

Please, a gentle reminder to conduct a search before proposing deletion. Two major new laws will take effect, two new airline services, and many other public events, are planned between 1 January and 1 May 2025. Bearian (talk) 17:24, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply