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Thank you kindly!



I'm used to working on a custom implementation of MediaWiki, so my Wikipedia skills are out of practice. Much thanks for cleaning up my contributions to the Cindy_Hyde-Smith ↗ article to meet WP standards! 2601:3CA:204:F860:4DEB:52C8:7CB0:F598 ↗ (talk) 23:26, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

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Category:John F. Kennedy memorials



Hi Anomalous+0 - I see you added {{cl|Monuments and memorials in the United States}} to the John F. Kennedy memorial category. About a quarter of the monuments listed are outside the US - is it an appropriate parent? Grutness...''<small><span style="color: #008822;">wha?</span> ↗</small>'' 00:00, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
:{{ping|Grutness}} Huh, good question. I ''had'' indeed spotted half a dozen that were outside the US, and I didn't think that was a problem. After reading your note, I just had another look and found some more that I had missed. By my count, 12 out of 59 (about a fifth) are outside the US. If it was much more I suppose I'd need to reconsider -- but I'm inclined to leave it, as much as anything because it was rather shocking not to find a JFK category listed among the many sub-cats of {{cl|Monuments and memorials in the United States}}, if you see what I mean. I guess we could consider creating a US sub-cat of :Category:Memorials to John F. Kennedy ↗, but that seems kind of excessive, don't you think? (PS - sorry for the delay in replying) Anomalous+0 (talk) 09:09, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
::If a memorial is located outside the US then it does not belong into a US category. Categorisation has to be correct. '''<span style="color: #000000;">Schwede</span><span style="color: #FF4500;">66</span>''' 15:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
:::Schwede66 is right. The best solution might be a {{cl|Monuments and memorials to John F. Kennedy in the United States}} subcat it is a bit excessive, perhaps, but there are so many memorials to him, and there are probably quite a few more which still don't have articles yet - it my well be justifiable in this case. Grutness...''<small><span style="color: #008822;">wha?</span> ↗</small>'' 00:45, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
::::What the hell, let's just go for it and set up that sub-cat. Seriously, I was just having a hard time wrapping my head around it....(LOL) Anomalous+0 (talk) 23:58, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
:::::Done :) Grutness...''<small><span style="color: #008822;">wha?</span> ↗</small>'' 10:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Category:Nazi Germany by year



25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Before adding a category to an article, as you did to :Category:Nazi Germany by year ↗, 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 ↗. Thank you. <!-- Template:uw-redcat --> --<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl <small>(talk) • (contribs ↗)</small> 12:35, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
::{{ping|BrownHairedGirl}} Whoops. I had every intention of creating the category, but encountered a number of computer-related problems & got completely sidetracked -- and never did create it. (Didn't see your note 'til just now - sorry.) Anomalous+0 (talk) 02:23, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
:::Thanks, A+O.
:::In any case I am unclear why we would want a :Category:History of Nazi Germany ↗. That Nazi era in Germany ended 74 years ago, so AFAICS the whole of :Category:Nazi Germany ↗ would belong in a :Category:History of Nazi Germany ↗, and that would be a pointless circle. --<span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl <small>(talk) • (contribs ↗)</small> 02:36, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Symmetry and asymmetry



In this edit ↗, you said the reason for the move is to achieve symmetry with Group action (sociology) ↗. But a result of your page move was that Group action ↗ became a redirect page whose target was Group action (mathematics) ↗. That is a lack of symmetry. Only if Group action ↗ were a disambiguation page with links to '''both''' Group action (mathematics) ↗ '''and''' Group action (sociology) ↗ would there be symmetry. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
:Thank you so much for kindly pointing that out. You're quite right about the "lack of symmetry" (LOL). I've gone ahead and remedied the oversight. Anomalous+0 (talk) 00:19, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Sexuality books


After closure of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_26#Category:Sexuality_books ↗ as no consensus, please provide new thoughts on how to proceed. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
:Thanks. I'll come back to this in the near future. Anomalous+0 (talk) 23:47, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Kidnapped African children



"To ignore that is to compound the crime" ↗: that is ''exactly'' how I feel about it. Thanks for your help. I hope that editor doesn't just dismiss this as some match that they lost, but rather that they think on it a little bit. Drmies (talk) 21:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

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Had to do it



I really like the song We Will All Go Together When We Go ↗ and think there should be an article about the song. However, I can't see needing more than a very small quote from it. I had to delete the lyrics; it was too much of the song and really should not have been entered into the encyclopedia. Jacqke (talk) 02:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

:Thanks for the heads up, Jacqke. Yup, it definitely needs an overhaul. I'll see what I can do. Best, Anomalous+0 (talk) 08:17, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

New Math



Calling our most basic policy of providing references "pure b.s. ↗ is not helpful. Please provide a more convincing defense of the article. Like, ... supplying references, maybe? Staszek Lem (talk) 01:41, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Invite to RfC (Request for Comment) at Reagan article on Iran-Contra



Hi,

You're invited to an RfC on the question of, "Within the section on the Iran-Contra affair ↗, should we include the aspect of drug trafficking on the part of some Nicaraguan Contras?"

Talk:Ronald_Reagan#rfc_85A761C ↗

Thanks,

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Transvestite Transgender



I am a transvestite. I wear women's clothing. I am not transgender. I'm not changing anything. CallMeHonesty (talk) 07:34, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
:Um, okay... that's nice. But please help me out -- I'm not entirely sure why you left this note. Were you thinking I might be in need of a tutorial? Anomalous+0 (talk) 08:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
::Hey @CallMeHonesty just circling back on this Mihir.pethe1 (talk) 07:16, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

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Origin of the placename Flint


I have added a note to Talk:Flint, Flintshire ↗. Work is in progress! -- Picapica (talk) 06:32, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

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WHY



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Why this change (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Weather&diff=928469530&oldid=908945436)? Weather is a series of phenomena studied by Meteorology, not the other way around. I had to reverse your illogical edition.

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Flint, Flintshire



Hello,

Earlier this year you commented on the origin of the name Flint (Flintshire). I'm a new editor I've put some detailed information on the matter in the talk page, (I'm a little frustrated by someone who appears to me to be acting a little unreasonably) i believe the sources I've referenced are indeed secondary/tertiary sources discussing the subject matter directly ( even the reference to the Calendar of the Chancelory Roll I'm calling on the commentary of the compiler as published in 1914) and there's 5 of them! In any case my intention is not to publish those points but discredit the original source and thus remove it from the page. Even if it is prevalent it surely can't be right it's included unchallenged if it can be obviously disproven? Surely wikipedia isn't a place for known misinformation? I feel I don't have the resources or experience to compete for this, so perhaps I may ask for you to share your opinion on the matter especially as you have questioned it's inclusion so recently?

Kind Regards

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"American legal scholars" vs "American women legal scholars"



I noticed that the category :Category:American women legal scholars ↗ has been created, and many women (such as Lina Khan) moved into it, and out of :Category:American legal scholars ↗. However, no equivalent :Category:American male legal scholars ↗ has been created. This is an issue of markedness ↗, and one that has come up on Wikipedia before - see WP:WAW#Male is not the default ↗. This caused quite the brouhaha in 2013. Either we should have 2+ categories for legal scholars, divided by gender, or we should have one category, undivided. Separating out women is unhelpful. {{u|Anomalous+0}}, I'm pinging you as the category creator, and {{u|Smasongarrison}}, since you took the action I noticed - what are your thoughts? —Ganesha811 (talk) 01:42, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

:See also WP:CATGENDER ↗, which says only that a gender-specific category "''could'' be implemented where gender has a specific relation to the topic", but does not mandate it (emphasis mine). Gender does not have a specific relation to the topic of legal scholars (as opposed to athletic competition, the example given at WP:CATGENDER ↗). It also says that "In almost all cases, a GREDS-based category should be non-diffusing. This means that membership of an article in the category will not require its removal from a parent category unrelated to GREDS." To me, this seems like a pretty clear-cut case. All the members of :Category:American women legal scholars ↗ should be placed back in :Category:American legal scholars ↗, if it is kept at all. —Ganesha811 (talk) 01:48, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Works about African-Americans



Hello, could you explain why Category:Black people in art is not apt as a parent cat? Is the description of "Works about [group]" not essentially synonymous with "[group] in art", hence all of the pages for one category being necessary to include in the other? Orchastrattor (talk) 19:49, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
:Good grief.<sigh> Okay, as you are fully aware - since you put them there yourself - :Category:Black people in art ↗ is already serving as the parent cat for 2 of the SUB-cats of :Category:Works about African-Americans ↗ that deal with ''works of art''. Hence making it a parent of that Category would be entirely ''redundant''.

:Furthermore - and more importantly - the other contents of :Category:Works about African-Americans ↗ are NOT "works of art" at all - rather, they are simply ''other kinds'' of works about African-Americans. The larger point being that categories for works of art are ''always'' treated as sub-cats of larger categories for "Works" in general - NEVER the other way around.

:I sure hope that helps. And I strongly urge you to take the time to familiarize yourself with the basic tenets of proper categorization before you engage in further avoidable blunders. Anomalous+0 (talk) 21:04, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

::Do you have a specific policy or consensus in mind as precedent here? The only sticking points here seem to be the documentary works which could easily be defined as a type of art and it would be very labyrinthine and unintuitive to have this split between "art" and "works" running down several layers of sub-groups, the tone of your response is entirely uncalled for. Orchastrattor (talk) 13:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
:::Good grief all over again. <sigh> I've already laid it all out for you as clearly as possible. Unfortunately, you've chosen to ignore what I told you - rather than, for instance, exploring the relevant Category trees, which is always a very salutary thing to do - and might have helped you to understand & accept the validity of my explanation. I'm afraid I just can't waste any more time & effort on this, so if you are unable to digest what I've already explained, please take any further questions about this issue to Wikipedia_talk:Categorization ↗. I'm sure the good folks who field questions there will give you an explanation that is entirely in accord with what I've already told you. Anomalous+0 (talk) 22:32, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
:::::Category:African-Americans in art ↗, :Category:Works about black people ↗ etc. are all non-existent and you have not provided any precedent for such a distinction to be necessary, it remains a perfectly reasonable assumption for an "art" category to automatically include any sorts of "works", especially after I identified the possible grey areas you could use against my position only for you to refuse to elaborate on them. You can't contest someone else's contributions and then get exasperated with them when they AGF and ask you to defend your position.Orchastrattor (talk) 00:40, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

::::In fact Black people in art already includes numerous documentary works under :Category:Cultural depictions of Black people ↗, do you oppose their inclusion as well or not? Orchastrattor (talk) 00:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

:PS - I couldn't help but notice that you apparently didn't know how to link to the categories in question without having this talk page becoming listed in those categories, rather than showing up in the text you posted. (At least you avoided that, at any rate.) All it takes is a simple, properly placed colon ":" and, ''voila''. Anomalous+0 (talk) 21:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

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:Category:Zoology ↗ and :Category:Animals ↗



I've stumbled onto User:SDZeroBot/Category cycles/17 today, and fixed ↗ one of the category cycles there. At the time, I haven't realized that I did it before ↗, because I wasn't aware about the reverts (one ↗, two ↗).

My reasoning in 2024 ↗ ({{tq|"animals" are a subject of study in Zoology}}) hasn't changed since 2020 ↗ ({{tq|end goal: having categorization be "science" contains its "subject"}}). This is consistent with other similar science–subject pairs of categories:


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This approach helps keeping topic categories ↗ clear, and helps to avoid unnecessary category cycles. Does it make sense? —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Category sorting



Hi, can I ask why you've made various changes to categories such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Women_scientists&diff=prev&oldid=1214487624 ? How does putting it under a semi-colon improve things compared to be being under "W"? Thanks. -Kj cheetham (talk) 20:59, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

:@Kj cheetham Do you have any wisdom on dealing with their subtle vandalims on sort keys? They've been ignoring these requests for years now. User_talk:Anomalous%2B0#March_2026 ↗ <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 02:09, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
::{{u|Smasongarrison}} I've not looked into the specifics to see how significant this case is and I'm hestitant to suggest it, but if they aren't willing to discuss it then a noticeboard like WP:AN ↗ is an option (it doesn't seem urgent enough for WP:ANI ↗, but this is potentially WP:DISRUPTIVE ↗). -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:33, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
::P.S. A brief block is not out of the question either... Being able to communicate with other editors is important on this collaborative project after all. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:41, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
:::@Kj cheetham Yeah, a brief block is probably a better route than ANI, given how tame the vandalism is. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:45, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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Category:American social scientists of Asian descent



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Plasma categories



Hi,

Please stop introducing havoc in the plasma-related category tree. If you believe it can be improved, start by properly *discussing* your vision first. FYI, "Plasma physics" just redirects to a section in "Plasma (physics)". Anything that is related to plasma (in the physics meaning, not the blood plasma etc) deals with plasma physics, and vise versa. Even if at some point the "plasma physics" becomes a separate article, there is absolutely no reason to have two parallel category trees. Let's not confuse the readers. Evgeny (talk) 07:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

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New category


Hello. Please change the name of the new category 'Non-fiction books about the African-American civil rights movement' to 'Non-fiction books about the 1954-1968 Civil Rights Movement' per accuracy and correct name of the movement. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:09, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
:Please see WP:CATNAME ↗, how about :Category:Non-fiction books about the 1954-1968 civil rights movement ↗, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:28, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
I've put a nomination up at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 20 ↗. Categories on Wikipedia align with their topic article, which in this case is 'civil rights movement' (which was trickily changed from the proper uppercased name Civil Rights Movement awhile back by lumping it in with other pages named 'civil rights movement'). Thanks for this new category, it fills a neglected niche. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:34, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Fasting in religion



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Mason7512 (talk) 21:22, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
:Hi there. That's supposed to be a Redirect - i.e. they're the same article, which I renamed. Not sure what happened there - I converted it to a a Redirect myself. Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 05:56, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
::Well, I just checked that page, and it seems that another editor has already taken care of things. :) Anomalous+0 (talk) 05:58, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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My requested RM for Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax ↗ is clearly moving in the direction of "no consensus". If it fails, I'm thinking of waiting a week or two and submitting a new RM with either your suggestion (with a geocomma) or Springfield, Ohio, pet-eating migrant rumors ↗; wording swap addresses the possible misplaced modifier. I'm leaning towards the latter. Carguychris (talk) 16:12, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
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Please don't add so many categories to eponoymous categories



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Categories at Peter Dale Scott ↗



I just saw you added a bunch of categories to this bio, but gave some the sortkey {{char|*}}. I removed them before seeing that you seem quite comfortable with categories, so I figure I should ask why you put him under that sortkey header for so many topics? (The categories, for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Dale_Scott&diff=next&oldid=1291960337 ↗) <span style="font-family:Avenir, sans-serif">—&nbsp;<span style="border-radius:5px;padding:.1em .4em;background:#faeded">HTGS</span>&nbsp;(talk)</span> 05:28, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:Category:Black British psychologists and psychotherapists ↗ has been nominated for merging



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:Also, please make sure not to forget adding nondiffusing parent tags and sort keys. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 13:27, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

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25px|alt=|link= ↗ Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. At least one of your edits&nbsp;on the page :Category:American women sociologists ↗, while it may have been in good faith, was difficult to distinguish from vandalism ↗. To help other editors understand the reason for the changes, you can use an edit summary ↗ for your contributions. You can also take a look at the welcome page ↗ to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia ↗. ''Please stop changing the sort keys from + to ;. The plus is commonly used across the project to indicate non-diffusing.''<!-- Template:uw-subtle1 --> <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 01:04, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

:Ahh there it is. Please don't revert this sort key again without having a conversation. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:10, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

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:@Anomalous+0 Before assuming that you've not been notified, could you check to see if you actually just missed it? <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:51, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
::Oh dear. Sorry, Smasongarrison. I >did< miss seeing it. I was taken aback to discover it at CFD - right next to the other one, which I >had< just seen your notice about. I was genuinely surprised, as I know that you do make a point of notifying people about CFDs (unlike some editors who don't bother). Anomalous+0 (talk) 05:50, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

:Category:Palestinian Buddhists ↗ has been nominated for deletion



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Sort keys



Please stop changing + sort keys to other keys for diffusing categories. I've reverted several of your changes, like changing women sociologists to ":". (<s>I could have sworn that </s>I already raised this on your talk page<s>, but clearly I'm conflating a memory</s>). <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:09, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

:I've reverted your removal of sort keys that you did after these messages. Please stop doing it OR discuss why you are removing them. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:20, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
::@Anomalous+0 Please stop changing sort keys, like Category:American male feminists. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:American_male_feminists&diff=prev&oldid=1344196121 ↗ This is getting disruptive. Communication is required. Do not do this again before discussing this issue. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 03:03, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
:::@Anomalous+0 I don't understand why you won't respond to this question, and are stil adding strange sort keys. Like what is your thinking here? <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 18:18, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

"Mickey" Marcus


I agree that using the nickname is not appropriate in Mickey Marcus ↗ and that renaming is a good idea. Figureofnine <small>(talk • contribs ↗)</small> 12:00, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

:Category:American Jews of East Asian descent ↗ has been nominated for deletion



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":The Visioneers ↗" listed at Redirects for discussion ↗


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Please don't remove non-diffusing tags from overpopulated categories



Please don't remove non-diffusing tags from overpopulated categories. I've restored the non-diffusing category tag that you removed ↗ from American women writers. WP:EGRS ↗ still applies regardless of how large the category is.<sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 19:37, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

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:Category:American memoirists of Armenian descent ↗ has been nominated for merging



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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 14 §&nbsp;American and Canadian medical doctors ↗



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:Category:American abolitionists ↗



Please don't add 19th-century American people as a parent category for abolitionists. Abolitionists were not limited to the 19th century. People opposed slavery before the 19th century.<sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 02:57, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at :Category:Iraqi_women_journalists ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. ''Please consider this a final warning about removing sort keys. I will block you from category space if remove sort keys before discussing this issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Iraqi_women_journalists&diff=prev&oldid=1345125824''<!-- Template:uw-disruptive3 --> <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 04:13, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

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:@Anomalous+0 I can see that you are still actively editing. Are you planning on discussing this issue? If not, I can extend the block. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:06, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
::Ok, it seems like you've gone back to editing, so I'm going to extend the block for another 48 hours. I don't see why you prefer not editing in category space to a having conversation about sort keys. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 02:26, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!



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April 2026



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:Ok, so from looking at your category editing history, you've been making a lot of "minor" changes to sort keys https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fictional_medical_doctors_by_nationality&diff=prev&oldid=1347197304 ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:General_practitioners_by_nationality&diff=prev&oldid=1347197387 ↗, and clearly have not intention to engage in a conversation unless compelled to. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Anomalous%2B0&namespace=0&wpfilters%5B%5D=nsInvert&tagfilter=&hideMinor=1&start=&end=&limit=100 ↗ versus https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Anomalous%2B0&namespace=0&wpfilters%5B%5D=nsInvert&tagfilter=&hideMinor=0&start=&end=&limit=100 ↗ is pretty telling that you understand what the concern is. The next block to category space won't have an expiration date. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 01:55, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
::@Anomalous+0 I truly do not understand why you won't discuss your sort key usage. From my perspective this seems like a bizarre hill to die on. I would much rather have a conversation that could be fairly benign, rather than having this continue to escalate. Like what's so hard about talking about your editing decisions and seeking consensus about them? You do a lot of good work in category space, but wikipedia requires a willingness to seek consensus. So talk to me here. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 23:57, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
:::@Anomalous+0 final warning. You're still changing sort keys and marking them as minor. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:American_expatriate_journalists&oldid=1348057993 Please don't make me block you from category space to force a discussion. <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 01:24, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

25px|alt=icon ↗ Please stop your disruptive editing ↗.
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*Ells ↗?



What does the "|*ells" do in your addition of it to <nowiki>"Category:Criticism of United States foreign policy ↗"</nowiki> in the article on Daniel Ellsberg ↗? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 10:07, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

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25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hi, and thank you for your edits ↗ to Wikipedia. I wanted to follow up about an edit where, :Morton Mintz ↗ was removed from a parent category ↗.

This category is part of a group that falls under WP:EGRSD ↗, which covers categories based on ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability. These categories are typically set up as '''non-diffusing'''. That means when a page is added to a subcategory like this one, it's still meant to be included ↗ in the parent category as well.

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Hi, I see you've chosen to repeat your unsupported addition of a nature writer category for Jared Farmer ↗, without providing the necessary evidence.

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Could you please either find a reliable source for his being a "nature writer" and add it to the article, or remove the unsupported category.

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