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Nomination of 2020s in history for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2020s in history is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decades in history until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Sm8900 (talk) 20:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 15 § Ballet premieres by date

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 15 § Ballet premieres by date on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1912 disestablishments in the Dutch Empire

A tag has been placed on Category:1912 disestablishments in the Dutch Empire indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:57, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Liz. I deleted this & related cats with link to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_19#Category:Disestablishments_in_the_Dutch_Empire_by_year. – Fayenatic London 22:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 30 § Category:610s BC deaths

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 30 § Category:People by city

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 5 § Category:Eponymous categories

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

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Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:27, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy close

Would you be willing to do a speedy close here? With so many category pages tagged, more and more people keep commenting while it does not change the outcome of the discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Although WP:SNOW explains the non-policy thinking which would allow an early close, I don't see that the discussion is doing any harm. The precedent CFD called for a more general discussion, and this one does seem to be airing relevant arguments constructively. – Fayenatic London 13:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Sports organizations" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Sports organizations has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 7 § Sports organizations until a consensus is reached. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox-breaking edits

Hello. Just to flag up that edits like this one (changing the links to articles on parties) have broken the infoboxes in multiple articles as well as removing the colours from results tables and elsewhere. The infobox relies on looking up the link title in the political party module series to pick up the shortname and colour. By changing the link but not updating the module, the infobox displays the link (e.g. 'National Unity Party (Timor-Leste)') instead of the shortname ('PUN'). Could you sort this out by updating the party names in the modules (you'll need to keep both the East Timor and Timor-Leste versions because there are still links using East Timor and deleting that from the module will result in a similar result. Cheers, Number 5 7 18:29, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PS, in case you don't know, the modules are at (e.g.) Module:Political party/N. Number 5 7 18:29, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do apologise, I was working through the list of essential moves that had been prioritised at Template_talk:Asia_topic#Template-protected_edit_request_on_25_December_2024. I took care not to change the parameters within specific colour templates for parties, but did not notice the loss of colours in the infoboxes. Can the infobox templates be improved to show warnings on Preview for such changes (like other infobox warnings), notifying editors of what else needs updating?

I've updated the lists in the templates now, and the colours are now populated in the Elections articles, where they were populated before.

Millennium Democratic Party (Timor-Leste) had no entry; /M has only Millennium Democratic Party, but that's a redirect to a Korean party, even though the entry is in the second (main) list rather than the first (alternate names). Should that entry in /M be moved to Democratic Party (South Korea, 2000), which does not have an entry in the /D page? or updated to the Timor-Leste party? – Fayenatic London 20:20, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for sorting it out. I don't think it would be possible to add such a warning, and also not sure it would be a good idea as in some cases (such as parties that only contest one election – like the Millenium Democratic Party) the shortname and colour are manually added to the infobox rather than to the modules.

Re the South Korean example given above, it should be kept in the M module for two reasons; (a) if it is moved, it would lead to infoboxes prior to the party's rename showing the Democratic Party name instead of Millennium Democratic name, and (b) the party may have changed its colours when it was renamed, and redirecting the M to the D will mean that the current colours show rather than the ones used at the time.

It is likely that there was no entry in the module for the East Timorese MDP because it never appeared in an infobox (so a shortname was never needed) and no-one had worked out what colour the party should have associated with it.

Hope that all makes sense... Cheers, Number 5 7 20:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. The party did contest other elections, but as a bloc member.

Note that I updated both /L and /D pages re Liberal Party (East Timor) becoming Democratic Liberal Party (Timor-Leste) – please would you check these edits? – Fayenatic London 21:43, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All seems to be fixed now :) Number 5 7 22:25, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tang dynasty short stories has been nominated for merging

Category:Tang dynasty short stories has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]