User Talk: Catfurball

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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I think your page is full of interesting information, & that the Gifs are a nice touch.
I was also hoping that you could teach me to use userboxes, if you have the time & if it's alright with you Rfkatz2005 (talk) 20:25, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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A Barnstar for You

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | In recognition of your work to organize and categorize new userboxes ↗. Thank you! Carter (talk) 17:06, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your efforts in adding categories to userboxes :) EpicPupper (he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs ↗) 18:50, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for adding categories to my userboxes!

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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for fixing the categories on my userboxes and adding some to your user page :) Urban Versis 32 (talk) 01:15, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your work on various UBX pages! Keep it up! Sincerely, Novo Tape (She/Her)My Talk Page 21:34, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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DYK for Florida Hospital Oceanside

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I'm using my Watchlist here, so you don't need to ping me if you reply. -αβοοδ (talk) 02:41, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

A bear for you!

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Thanks for categorising my userboxes for me! '''Cmrc23''' ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 17:05, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | You have contributed a lot and quickly most especially in categorizing userboxes. Thanks! – {{color|cyan|Raph}}{{color|violet|ael}} {{color|bronze|(chat)}} 22:13, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
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Spoken Wikipedia - Article added!

Hey Catfurball!

Just wanted to tell you that Iberian lynx ↗ now has a Spoken Wikipedia version! I'm trying to work on completing <s>all</s> a majority of the requested articles, so I might message more on your talk page over the next few months. Solimagon (talk) 16:28, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

unref=yes

I see that you have made ten near-identical posts ↗ on template talk pages. I do not understand what it is that you require. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:52, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|Redrose64}} Please look at Template:WikiProject Ecuador ↗; Template:WikiProject Georgia (country) ↗; Template:WikiProject Germany ↗; Template:WikiProject Iran ↗; Template:WikiProject Russia ↗ and Template:WikiProject United States ↗. An unreferenced category is attached to every one of these categories. While the categories that I have created are not attached to any template. Catfurball (talk) 14:55, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
::OK. Let's take {{diff|Template talk:WikiProject United Kingdom|prev|1307155499|this one}} to begin with. Is {{diff|Template:WikiProject United Kingdom|prev|1307470111|this edit}} what you require? It wasn't at all clear. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:44, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
:::Yes your edit did help, so I will be able to add the unref=yes to the talk pages of United Kingdom articles without references.{{ping|Redrose64}} Catfurball (talk) 16:09, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | i love how your edit summaries always have a pesky little period at the end. drinks ↗ or coffee ↗ or prime ↗ *GET OUT* 11:56, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
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Yo! Remember the time when you added a dedicated category to some of my userboxes 1 week ago? Thanks for your contribution, Catfurball – you seem like a very helpful person to me!

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About userboxes

As you know, I recently made two userboxes for you (thanks for requesting). The thing I have an issue with is that you have added them to some userbox galleries without my agreement. This does not bother me significantly, but I would always appreciate it if you asked first. Not to only ask for permission, inherently, you could just let me know. Thanks in advance. 🫀 '''Crash // Organhaver''' (talk to me, maybe?) 05:22, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Organhaver}} It is not against Wikipedia policy, editors do it all the time. Sometimes a couple of years after the box was created, even from editors who have left Wikipedia. Catfurball (talk) 22:15, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
::Alright. Thanks for informing me. 🫀 '''Crash // Organhaver''' (talk to me, maybe?) 23:29, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
:::{{tpw}} {{replyto|Organhaver}} Also, per the message that was displayed ↗ while you were creating those userboxes (the part about "irrevocably agree to release your contribution"), anybody is free to use them without asking you first. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:26, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
::::Yes, I think I knew about that. Thanks again for clarifying. 🫀 '''Crash // Organhaver''' (talk to me, maybe?) 21:45, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

North British Railway

Please explain what you think is wrong with the article North British Railway ↗, ideally by raising a thread on its talk page. Adding no fewer than ''twenty-six'' maintenance tags is bordering on disruptive editing. Since this is not a BLP, the verifiability policy ↗ requires references only for quotations and material that has been challenged or is likely to be challenged. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Re Citizens' Stamp userbox

Did you actually write to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee and get a stamp approved, or is the userbox request for other people to use? <code>{u|LeastConcern}{Talk}</code> 02:44, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
:{{reply to|LeastConcern}} It can be used by anybody, and yes I did make a request to them. Scooby-Doo ↗ where are you! Over here! Catfurball (talk) 17:31, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Pomegranate juice ↗ Spoken Wikipedia request fulfilled

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''Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v IRC ↗''

I'm not sure if this is notable. I expressed my concerns to WP:Law 2 months ago, but I got no answer. Bearian (talk) 22:58, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Bearian}} I would nominate it for deletion, and if Wikipedia:WikiProject Law ↗ and Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom ↗ want to keep it they will add references. Catfurball (talk) 23:04, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
::I won't do it right now. I'm going to be distracted IRL the next couple of days. Bearian (talk) 23:50, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

WK Kellogg Co ↗

Hi, please refer to Talk:Ferrero SpA#Merging WK Kellogg Co ↗. The discussion was closed by an uninvolved editor as "merge". 162 etc. (talk) 22:05, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|162 etc.}} The editor was wrong, only one editor voted as merge and four editors were against the merge. Catfurball (talk) 22:09, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::{{ping|ScrubbedFalcon}} Care to pipe in, please? 162 etc. (talk) 22:22, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
:Couple things. First, if you want to contest the close of a discussion, please follow our existing procedures ↗ for this. Just letting you know that I'm going to revert your removal of the merging templates from the relevant pages. Second, There were two editors in that discussion who explicitly supported the merge and made good arguments from policy for the merge and one other editor who made a similar observation to what I found in the close about deficits in the arguments to keep the articles separate. I am always open to reconsidering a close based on things I wasn't aware of or might have missed, but it won't be because of vote numbers or something like that (I saw them when I closed) and remember WP:NOTVOTE ↗. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 23:06, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::{{ping|ScrubbedFalcon}} I have found information that was missing from the article and also during my search I found many WP:RS ↗ talking about WK Kellogg Co. I even found some foreign websites talking about WK Kellogg Co, like the BBC and I also found some websites from Italy also talking about it. I have expanded the article with many of the WP:RS ↗ and replaced some of the references. I will continue to look for more information this week. Catfurball (talk) 20:42, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi, I'm still thinking about whether or not to reverse the close because I'm not sure that you've actually addressed the issues that I closed the discussion on, most of the edits are related to adding RS and improving the verifiability, but not the editorial reasons for the merge as I mentioned in the close. At the same time, the article is substantially different, so I'll give that some more thought today.{{pb}}I do have some concerns about what you've done here, could you explain the notifications to 13 editors about you contesting the close? I'm not seeing that all of them participated in the discussion and some of them are now replying in the closed discussion which seems inappropriate. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 10:28, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
::::{{ping|ScrubbedFalcon}} That is your personal opinion that you did not like it that I sent messages to other editors, it is not against Wikipedia policy to do so. And I 100% disagree with you closing the discussion of WK Kellogg Co, due to your inexperience on Wikipedia, to me only two months of experience is not enough. Please read WP:BADNAC ↗ and I also suggest that you read WP:NOCONSENSUS ↗, any editor would not have closed the discussion as merge, instead they would have closed it as WP:NOCONSENSUS. Catfurball (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::I mentioned the notifications as possibly being inappropriate per WP:Canvassing ↗, it wasn't clear to me what you were trying to achieve by drawing more attention to a closed discussion instead of discussing your concerns about the close with me directly. I also disagree that I'm not experienced enough to close merge discussions, but that's neither here nor there. I'll revert the close to a no-consensus on the grounds that the article is now materially different than the article that was being discussed and the discussion is a bit stale. I am a little frustrated that it seems like those are changes that could have been made to improve the article in the course of the discussion and not after the close to get the close reversed. But I am AGF and I'm glad that the article as it exists is at least better than when it was first put up for merging. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 00:04, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
::::::The RfC was closed in favor of merging; I merged the pages and put an "under construction" tag on the pages while at work; meanwhile, WK Kellogg CO was substantially changed in order to revert the merge decision, my RfC-sanctioned edits were reverted, and this conversation happened on this user page without discourse from any other involved editors. I'm only here because catfurball came to my page respectfully asking if we could pause the merge while we discussed their page edits. I said that was fine and expected pings to take us (involved-in-the-RfC editors) back to Ferrero's page for a continuation of the discussion below the CLOSED RfC, only to see that the closed RfC had been altered due to information that changed on WK Kellogg AFTER the RfC had been closed. Then I went on an investigation journey moving from user talk pages to figure out where the discussion took place to change a closed RfC, which brings me here.
::::::@catfurball changed WK Kellogg ''after'' the RfC closed. This warrants a NEW discussion with involved editors, ''not'' a change in the CLOSED RFC. I can't even imagine the chaos if we started going back and reassessing then reverting closed RfC discussions using parameters that DIDN'T exist during the course of the actual discussion. pickalittletalkalittle🐤 ↗🐤🐤talk a lot pick ↗ a little more 14:10, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia - Amethyst

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Avon (cosmetic company)

Hello Catfurball, I see you've tagged Avon (cosmetic company) ↗ for speedy deletion. That's fine; however, in my opinion, it's a useful redirect, and keeping it would make it easier for readers to find the article if they search using the keyword "Avon". Annh07 (talk) 16:28, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Annh07}} By ready the Avon Products article the company split up into two companies, currently the second company goes by the name The Avon Company ↗. That is my reason for putting the g7 on it. Catfurball (talk) 16:34, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
::Okay, thank you for clarifying that. Annh07 (talk) 16:53, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Adult and teen animation userbox sorting

Hi. Why did you revert the shows on Wikipedia:Userboxes/Television/Shows/Adult and teen animation ↗ to being organized by network? Having everything sorted by name seems more logical to me than having random exceptions. I wouldn't expect ''Rick and Morty'' to be in the A-G section. But I'm not familiar with userbox conventions so I'd appreciate you sharing your thought process. Thanks, ElToAn123 (talk) 07:19, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Hey...?

Why did you remove my comment? I really don't understand what I've done wrong. Two times, now, you have called (to my point of view) constructive comments from me as "bullying". I don't think they're bullying. To me, I'm trying to make suggestions to improve your editing. Strong apologies if anything came across as rude or if I'm doing anything wrong. Sorry, again. 🫀 '''Crash // Organhaver''' ( ''it / he'' | ''talk to me, maybe?'' ) 19:24, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

"Citation needed" overdose

Hi {{u|Catfurball}}, I have been working through some railway station articles across the Farn North of Scotland. Every so often I come across your name in the edit history, adding CN tags and maintenance tags throughout the article/s. I note that you have been asked about this before User talk:Catfurball#North British Railway. I'm aware of the userbox <nowiki>{{User job well done}}</nowiki>, but I can't really understand the mind of a Wiki editor who wouldn't, maybe, look up the unreferenced information, or remove the "Original research", that you suggested was on the article Perth railway station (Scotland) ↗? ''Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me.'' 17:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

mabumbe.com as a reference

Hi Catfurball. I noticed that you used mabumbe.com as a reference for biographical information ↗ in Rozonda Thomas ↗. The website appears to be a simple content scraper, presenting information they take from other websites, including Wikipedia, to create their articles. It's unreliable for that reason. I've gone ahead and removed it. If you disagree, let's discuss it. You may want to check WP:RSP ↗ and WP:RSN ↗ to help determine if a source is reliable. Thanks.--Hipal (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia - Barack Obama

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