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Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Ireland people/artists are all British. Therefore there is a fault with the 20th-century British male artists category as it should contain all Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Ireland artists. It is an insult to some Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish artists to say they are not British. I hope this problem can be resolved. Neutron6 (talk) 23:06, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

The Category:20th-century British male artists category does contain all Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Ireland artists. Each of those is a child category, which means in this case that everyone in those categories is also British. The long standing practice is for those categories to be diffused. No one is saying that Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish artists are not British. Please review the category structure and how diffusion works. Mason (talk) 23:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1995 disasters in Belgium

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Alumni by department

I believe degrees are technically granted at the College/school lebrl in a university, not at the department level. So my Wayne State degree is from the Collehe of Arts and Sciences, not the History department. Even at that undergrad alumni often range widely in studies, so it often only really makes sense to sub-divide grad student alumni by college or school, and to unify all undergrad alumni . At least at some US universities.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:42, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Yep that's my understanding of degrees as well. I do think that we can divide up grad alumni more, which would help a lot with those overcrowded categories. But, I'm not sure unifying all undergrad would be helpful as that seems like it would make the categories even more crowded, especially if they're already divided up by school of engineering etc. But, still, it is an interestiong thought. Mason (talk) 04:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

In the case of Harvard University, all undergrads are in Harvard College. There is 1 unified structure for undergrads. It is different at say the University of Michigan, where they do have undergrads in the College of Engineering, etc. However large size is not the worst possible outcome in categories. We want categories to be relevant. For most sports people the degree they got from the university is not going to be defining, and this is actually true for lots of other people. Grad degrees tend more to be defining, although there are exceptions there. Undergrad degrees tend less so. In my own experience as a grad student at Eastern Michigan University, all the courses I took were through the history department. As an undergrad at Wayne State University and elsewhere I took a lot of course through other departments. At my first university close to half of the courses I took were not from the college that the history department was in, maybe even more than half. In fact at my first university since for a time I was trying to do the education tract, I was on a course to essentially get a dual degree since high school education degrees were jointly from one of 4 colleges (physical and mathematical sciences, life sciences <which changed names> , humanities and basically social sciences (which included history and geography). Actually fine arts had education degrees, and when I was there there was also a college of health and human performance that cosponsored education degrees, physical education has since been moved to the college of education, health education was essentially moved to life sciences, dance education to the extent it existed was basically put in Fine Arts <most dance majors were not dance education>, and then a part went to the business school, that was not education related per se. I really think that in general undergrad degrees are not defining enough to be worth categorizing by. With grad degrees, I think it is mainly specific professional program connections we want to categorize by.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Category question: human rights agencies

Hi Mason, question for you. Is there a category for human rights government agencies, the ones that are charged with administering human rights laws? There is one for "Human rights organizations", with numerous sub-cats, but those strike me as being about groups that lobby for human rights. I think that human rights commissions or agencies are different from that kind of group, but can't find a category for them? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 22:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of. But that sounds like a great idea! Mason (talk) 22:55, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I don’t want to do something that results in a CfD again, like my innocent attempt at categories for pre-Confederation lawyers! Would this work?

• There is an existing global category :Human Rights.
• it’s got sub-cats, arranged first by symbols, (which I don’t understand ?), and then alphabetically.
• could I create a general sub-cat, in the alphabetical list? Something like “Category : Human rights enforcement agencies”?
• and then within that subcategory, have an additional sub-sub-cat by country? “Category : Human rights enforcement agencies in Canada”, “Category : Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States” and so on?
• the reason for this approach is that in some countries, notably the US, there will likely be a lot of agencies, so dividing by country will keep it manageable.

Does this sound workable? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Gotcha! Makes sense. What you've written here sounds reasonable in terms of structure and styling and nesting. Let me see if I can find a sibling category. Given me about 5 minutes. Mason (talk) 23:55, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Plausible sibling families could include: Category:Financial regulatory authorities of the United States... O.o!!!! Category:Human rights ministries, might be good to build off of! Mason (talk) 00:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

What are sibling families, please? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Lol, I meant sibling categories. After digging around I like your suggested category structure. I think it fits well. So the main category would be Human rights enforcement agencies, and for the united states that category would be parented by Category : Human rights in the United States, Government agencies of the United States, Human rights organizations based in the United states. Mason (talk) 00:10, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I’ll try setting it up. Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

sure thing! Happy to help :) Mason (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

There, I've started it. I've got all of the Canadian articles categorised, some of the US. Added in UK and French. Will do India tomorrow; getting late here. Category : Human rights enforcement agencies. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mason, thanks for fixing up my categories. However, I'm afraid I don't understand the changes, and now I can't seem to link the Indian category properly. The Indian category shows up on the parent page as empty, and the three commissions I've tried to do are listed individually on the parent page: Category : Human rights enforcement agencies. Could you take a look? Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:38, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I was trying to mimic what you did with the piping, but I obviously didn't get it right. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Happy to explain. What aspects don't you understand about the additional categories? Like why I added them? Mason (talk) 15:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

In terms of the piping, so piping is used to change how pages/categories are sorted when you look at a category page. You still need to place the page in the category directly. For example, Category:Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States.

[[Category:Human rights enforcement agencies|united]], uses "united" so that Category:Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States, is sorted by U in that category, so that you can find it compared to the other countries.

[[Category:Government agencies of the United States|Human rights]], uses "Human rights" so that Category:Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States, is sorted by H in that category, so that you can find it compared to the subject of other agencies

[[Category:Human rights in the United States| agencies ]] uses " agencies" with a space, so that Category:Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States, shows up at the top of the category, so that you can find it without having to distinguish it from specific human rights.

[[Category:Human rights organizations based in the United States|agencies ]] uses "agencies" (no space) so that Category:Human rights enforcement agencies in the United States, is sorted by "agency" so that it is intermixed with other organizations. Mason (talk) 15:22, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't have any problems with your changes - it's my lack of technical skills! I started editing the Indian commissions, trying to follow the patterns you used for the Canadian entries, but I couldn't make them work for the Indian ones, so I stopped; didn't want to make things worse. I see you've done some edits to the Indian ones; will take a look and try to wrap my head around this coding. I appreciate your help. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:44, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mason, I was doing other stuff yesterday, and I see you've done all the Indian HRts Commissions. Thanks! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:22, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hey @Smasongarrison how are you I would like to have a talk with you if you Can help to create notable topic about Translator and journalist , you can see the news on google + here in English and has a multiple coverage Editorinusa (talk) 14:32, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like you have enough resources to make a Wikipedia:Drafts. Mason (talk) 14:33, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Since I don’t have the same permissions as you, can you create a draft of the article? There are also many sources on Wiki Alpha

and you can see the content there Editorinusa (talk) 14:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

You don't need special permissions to make a draft. You can also just make a draft in your sandbox. Mason (talk) 14:39, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

“He is a well-known journalist and translator in the Middle East, with extensive coverage in multiple languages.” can you do this favor me this article Editorinusa (talk) 14:42, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

No I won't make the article for you. You can do it yourself. Asking a well established editor to do it for you is not appropriate as it looks like you're trying to mask that you created it.Mason (talk) 14:44, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

There are problems that prevent me from creating the article in short, so I told you :) Editorinusa (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

There is no reason why you can't create a draft or edit your own sandbox. Mason (talk) 14:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I know i have problems thank you for your time Editorinusa (talk) 14:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

If you have problems, you can discuss in the tea house. Further, I would be extremely surprised if you couldn't create a sample page: https://en.luquay.com/w/index.php?title=User:Editorinusa/Sample_page&redirect=no&preload=Help%3AIntroduction%2Fmain_sandbox&summary=Creating+sandbox&veaction=edit Mason (talk) 14:49, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

ok sorry Editorinusa (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi done can you add the sources ? here Editorinusa (talk) 14:58, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

No. Clearly you are capable of doing this yourself. Mason (talk) 15:01, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, so it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive Editorinusa (talk) 15:03, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

You are welcome to go to the teahouse to get more advice. Perhaps they can help you figure out why you're being filtered. Mason (talk) 15:05, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Secularism/Irreligion in Nigeria

Hello Mason, I trust you're doing great. I respect you a lot :) and really appreciate your contributions here. I saw you rolled back an edit made by an IP here and here. I want to acknowledge that I actually saw those edits by the IP and they actually made the categorisation make more sense which I didn't revert them. I respect you and do not want to revert your edit without letting you know. Do you mind undoing yourself or I revert you? (I honestly don't want to, lmao). Regards, Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:01, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out, and saying such nice things :D That's good to know you think that the restructure makes more sense. To be honest, my response was more based on experience with the IP who refuses to engage and slow edit wars without engaging in any conversation. If you think the restructure makes more sense, then I think you reverting my changes with a link to this convo (or something like that), would be some I very much support. It would make it clear that you've had a productive role in the conversation, and that other folks have considered the issue. Mason (talk) 13:34, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll do some of them, but I'd appreciate it if you could help rollout the change elsewhere. I've encouraged a wrinkle. So if I revert both changes then one of the categories is no longer nested within Nigeria. Hmmm... do you have a suggestion for how to fix that? Mason (talk) 13:36, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Actually, it makes more sense now, like, Category:Secularism in Nigeria being a subcat of Category:Irreligion in Nigeria, since originally, the topic secularism is a subset of irreligion. It was the other way around before, but the IP just corrected it. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:43, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I just realised that the IP actually did the wrong thing, lol, they're playing on my intelligence, lol. The ideal thing is Category:Irreligion in Nigeria being a subcat of Category:Secularism in Nigeria because irreligion is a subclass of secularism. That was what I did originally, lol. Wikidata says it all irreligion (Q58721) too. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:47, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

That means, you've to revert yourself again, oh no, I'm so sorry about this, lol. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:48, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

lol no worries. 😂😂 I only made the change for Nigeria. Ok... So Secularism should be the parent of irreligion. Also that's a great strategy for see what wikidata has, I hand't thought to look at that. Mason (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Phew… thank god, haha. Thank you so much :) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 04:59, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hey there! So I did a quick search and found two other similar categories which I think you should nominate. Category:La Salle Extension University alumni and Category:Harvard Extension School faculty. I think we can allow the faculty category because teaching there can be considered defining but I will leave that up to you. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Great find! I'll add La Salle to the nom. I'm on the fence about faculty for the reason you noted. Maybe have that as a followup nom depending on how this nom pans out. Mason (talk) 23:47, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Good idea! I'm on the fence about it myself so I agree that we should wait for the alumni one to close before proceeding with the faculty one. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:52, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, Mason,

For some reason, you are creating talk pages for categories that have been deleted. These categories have already been deleted and so they don't need talk pages which just have to be deleted a second time. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I'll dig into this to figure out how that happened... weird. Thanks! Mason (talk) 13:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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I noticed That you worked on some of the articles which I created and therefore I want to Thank you. Another thing I saw your picture on google and I must admit you are very pretty. Tony the Marine (talk) 22:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks :) Mason (talk) 22:09, 5 June 2024 (UTC)