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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Hello BHG, per the Arbitration Committee remedy at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals#BrownHairedGirl_desysopped, and the associated request at WP:BN, I have removed your sysop flag. You are not barred from regaining this access in the future, and may do so by passing at WP:RFA. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 03:28, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:1951 Brazilian television series endings requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 03:58, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Clean-up categories from 2021 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 01:34, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Burkinabé architecture requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 02:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153
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Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs! Hope you're well, you were always a good admin, hope everything is OK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:32, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
I don't agree with how you handled dealing with portals, but I do think you are overall a good admin. I have been there in wanting to get something done to the point where things get personal here on Wikipedia. I hope for the best for you going forward.
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I suppose that your account name, BrownHairedGirl, can be taken literally. But I lately realised that it might also be a reference to the Van Morrison song, " Brown Eyed Girl". Is that right?
It's interesting to find that that was one of Boris Johnson's Desert Island Discs. What would you take to your desert island?
Andrew🐉( talk) 09:28, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that you edited the Sikivu Hutchinson article in the past and that you are also a former Wikipedia admin. My edits for the Sikivu Hutchinson and the David Silverman (activist) articles are being reverted in relation to the content relevant to Sikivu Hutchinson. I asked a Wkipedia admin to resolve this matter at this talk page.
Could you please add your commentary to the talk pages of David Silverman (activist) and Sikivu Hutchinson. Knox490 ( talk) 18:14, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:1862 in Croatia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 05:25, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Jordanian television series endings by year requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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A tag has been placed on Category:Jordanian television series endings by decade requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Category:Lists of UK MPs 1974–1979, which you created, has 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder ( talk) 16:06, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Swiss television series endings by decade requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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A tag has been placed on Category:Alfa Records (Japan) albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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A tag has been placed on Category:1810s establishments in Mauritius requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Template:Teldisestcat has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 07:09, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BHG, is there a way that you can modify the template for {{ Year in nationality music category}} so when it is utilized it will go into the parent category "Decade in Fooish music". Changing to this template has created a bunch of empty categories that are now appearing in Wikipedia:Database_reports/Empty categories. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 02:52, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
AGF? Please. You're the one initiating silly, bullshit, tit-for-tat edit warring. How many of the 30 articles remaining in that category have you similarly scrutinized? Are you really going to venture into JPL territory and tear down the encyclopedia simply because some other editor didn't jump through all the hoops you expected them to jump through without them knowing what those hoops are? Wikipedia:Six million articles is a steaming crock of shit in that it invokes the Jimbo quote about "the sum of all human knowledge". This project is nowhere near that stage despite being around for 19 years. Some editors have spent years making countless edits per day every day and have never sought to achieve that. If you spent even a tenth as much time actually improving content as you do running scripts, this project would have been much better off and I would have more incentive to spend time here helping to improve it. As it stands, you appear to be another editor who is only about passing judgment on the content contributions of others without having much to contribute to content yourself. In other words, you're sitting back expecting others to do the real work for you. When you make hundreds of edits a day, you're setting the standard. Expecting casual contributors to do the heavy lifting and then viewing them as "second-class editors" like I saw in someone's comment a few years ago speaks volumes about what that standard really is.
The creation of the Huntington article is emblematic of Wikipedia's problems. A newspaper archive search clearly establishes his notability. Numerous sources refer to his mushing feats as something special and to his fame during the height of that period. That wasn't why the article was created, however. The article was created because he holds a particular title, namely Iditarod champion. This is the same thing driving the creation of other musher biographies, often at the expense of more historically important (read: notable) persons. The editor who created the article performed only the minimum effort necessary to collect a hat over at DYK, as evidenced by the numerous sources overlooked because they couldn't be obtained by picking low-hanging fruit. In the thirteen-and-a-half years I've been here, there are only two statements I've read which I agree with 100 percent. One of them is that DYK encourages self-promotion and bad writing. I'm no longer emotionally invested in this project, where it appears you are. It's very easy for me to walk away and abandon my efforts to improve this article, leaving it for what it really is, a blatant attempt on someone's part to collect a hat (your actions thus far have already proven that if I do walk away, the article will only be torn down, not built). The countless times I've pointed this situation out with articles nominated at DYK or ITN/C has not resulted in any appreciable improvement to the content in question, only the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. In other words, this evinces the notion that Wikipedia regulars believe readers to be too stupid to know any better or that readers don't actually read encyclopedia entries in depth. This makes your claims of AGF a case of Wikipedia being "the blind leading the blind". RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 18:47, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
Just so you know, I would support an RfA this instant, and I suspect many others would as well. This is the only time in memory where I’ve seen a desysop where I’m convinced the arbs got it wrong both in my gut and after reading through the case. Thank you for your years of dedication to the project: you are the reason many of us got more involved in Wikipedia. Anyway, take all the time you need, but if you were to run, I’m confident it would be a vindication of the trust many of us still have in you. TonyBallioni ( talk) 06:39, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
I know it is not much coming from me, and I have not had the years of experience on this site that you have had. However, I do think it is a mistake for you to give up on Wikipedia now.
In politics, we have what's called a
Second Act. BHG the superstar admin who wields the mop with righteous fury may be no more, but that shouldn't stop you from finding something new to become.
Regardless, Wikipedia can use your help now more than ever!
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I've withdrawn the CFD so you can discuss with other people on what to do with the category and the constituency categories. ミラ P 19:10, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament, which you created, has been nominated for merging. 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder ( talk) 17:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I have a question regarding your latest TV-related category templates. Was there a reason why you created both "debut" and "endings" templates, instead of just one?
Take
Template:Nationality television series debuts category for example, it checks the pattern "^.+ television series debuts$", but you could just do here a "if pattern1 (debut) ok, then pass debut-params, elseif pattern2 (endings) ok, then pass endings-params, else error. Then to
Template:Nationality television series debuts category/core you currently pass "country" and "nationality", but here you can also pass either "debut" or "endings" which you can then use in the category (or header text where present). So here, for example [[Category:Television series debuts by country|{{{nationality}}}]]"
can be [[Category:Television series {{{type}}} by country|{{{nationality}}}]]"
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Gonnym (
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Hey, do you mind renaming the helper templates to something that doesn't use CamalCase? It's not only consistent with the other templates in the set and easier to read but also follows the recommendation at WP:TPN. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
{{Category see also if exists|{{{year}}} television series {{TVDebutsEndingsAntonym|{{{type}}}}}}}
{{Category see also if exists|{{{year}}} television series {{Antonym of either of the words debuts or endings when used in television series categories|{{{type}}}}}}}
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and checks if it is either "endings", "debuts" or something else, so the template name also does not need to mention "TV" in it. Niether does it's usage in category has any connection to it. So something like {{
Antonym of debuts or endings}} could work. It's short and easy to read. --
Gonnym (
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12:45, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BHG! (I'm happy you're still editing. Also, I'm happy User:Bhg redirects to your userpage, which makes it so easy to find you .) I was trying to figure out how many articles we have about living people vs. non-living people. It's about 950,000 living people per a WP:PetScan of Category:Living people–that part's easy. So I ran a PetScan on Category:People, 10 subcategories deep, excluding Category:Living people. (It's PSID 15662751 and here's the link [7] but warning, it takes a very, very long time to load, so you may not want to click on it.) The result I got is 3,744,430. That is far too high, and, indeed, the results list includes articles like Anarchism, Autism, and our article on the letter A. The article A is a good example to go with because it's in very few categories: Category:ISO basic Latin letters and Category:Vowel letters. How are those categories ending up as sub-categories of Category:People?
My conclusion – and the reason I'm here – is that I am misusing and misunderstanding the category tree. I already know it's not a strict heirarchy, and many subcategories are children of multiple parent categories. But I'm scratching my head about how Category:ISO basic Latin letters and Category:Vowel letters are ending up as subcategories of Category:People, at any level. Do you have any insight on where I'm going wrong, or how to do what I'm trying to do (figure out how many articles are about people, living v. dead)? Is 10 categories "too deep" such that everything is within 10 category levels of everything else? Is the category tree actually a category circle? (Is... is the world actually round and not flat?!) Thanks for any guidance you can offer! - Levivich dubious – discuss 21:13, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Levivich: briefly, as this has been discussed elsewhere before (a number of years ago), it is also possible (or used to be possible) to get an approximation by looking at the number of articles tagged by Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. The claim there (click edit over there to see how that number is produced) is that there are currently 1,665,526 articles within the scope of WikiProject Biography, but this will also include 'group' articles, so that is still only an approximation. Some of the earlier discussion will be found in the talk page archives of that WikiProject, and you could ask there. There will also be a fairly large number (unsure of the size of this) of pages that are not tagged with the right category or talk page tag to be picked up by these counting methods. The BLP figure should be the most accurate one, but some BLPs out there will still be untagged as well, and some articles containing material on living people that are not biographies might be 'tagged' by the category (not sure about that). BLPs used to be around a fifth of the 'people' articles (I can dig up the old estimates if needed), but I may be mis-remembering that as it seems they are currently over half (57%) so it seems that Wikipedia is continuing to create articles on living people and may be slowing down in terms of creating articles on non-living people. (PS. For Category:Living people the current (approximate) number is right there on the category page: "approximately 943,573 total"). Carcharoth ( talk) 14:28, 5 March 2020 (UTC) @ Levivich: apologies for the second ping, but I found some possibly relevant bits: (1) A Signpost article I wrote just over 10 years ago here (hmm, someone should re-do that survey); (2) The value of numbers (old thread at Wikipedia talk:Biographical metadata); (3) here: "Thom Hickey at WorldCat recently counted the number of biographical articles on Wikipedia using Category:Births by year and Category:Deaths by year, and reached the total 283,655 Dsp13 12:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)" (@ Dsp13:; (4) here: "I'm part of the way through building a list of articles within the subcategories of Category:Dead people, and already I have a list of over 100,000 articles. My (wild) estimate is that biographies form ~25% of the over 1 million articles on Wikipedia. [...] kingboyk 16:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)". @ Kingboyk:. Carcharoth ( talk) 14:57, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
This template, which you created today, seems to contain an error. Many category pages transcluding it have popped up in Category:ParserFunction errors. See, for example, Category:Canadian television seasons by decade. Deor ( talk) 19:56, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I've been playing around with module code to see if groups of the TV templates can be combined.
Module:Sandbox/Gonnym/sometest5 is an example of combining the code from {{
Year in television category}}, {{
Decade in television category}} and (a not created) {{
Century in television category}} and their /core counterparts. You can test this on
Category:1938 in television,
Category:1930s in television and
Category:20th century in television by placing {{#invoke:Sandbox/Gonnym/sometest5|main}}
. This basically reduces 6 templates to 2 (template/module). What do you think? --
Gonnym (
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Nobody cares about an Arbcom finding of fact three minutes after it is archived. Don't scramble your password just yet; take a month or two off finding other things to which you might volunteer your time. If working on Wikipedia still makes sense after a period of cooling off and looking around, come back strong! There are many here, myself included, who hope that you do. If other ways to volunteer make sense for you, do those. Just make like an Ent and don't be hasty. Carrite ( talk) 17:41, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
...something as blatantly "verdict first, trial later" as this one. I've semi-joked before that it's possible to predict the outcome of arbcom cases before they even take place just by looking at the personal grudges of the participants and calculating how far they each think they'll be able to push their preferred outcome and still call it a compromise, but I'm not sure I can recall an example this blatant before.When It's all over and done with, I'll also probably be scrambling my password, but maybe not until I've had the opportunity of meeting some friends and enemies alike at the next Wikimania which will be taking place in a few months right on my doorstep. And then I'll have more time to spend with my adult grand children, get back to composing some serious music, and write some more books. BrownHairedGirl, your work on Wikipedia will be sorely missed, but I know how you feel. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
It's so sad to see female admins leave or be desysopped or both. I hope you will stick with us. Softlavender ( talk) 13:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hit the wrong contribs button before blocking. You’re now the first victim of being accidentally blocked be me. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi TonyBallioni
We're all human, and mistakes happen. Thanks for remedying this one so promptly and for your speedy apology ... but it would have been helpful if the unblock had used a more informative explanation than just "ugh". I hope that doesn't get used by miscreants as a stick to beat me with. I fear that I will need to bookmark the diff [10] of your apology above.
Anyway, congrats for your solution [11] at the ANI thread. It's a pity when it has to come to that, but I think it was the right decision. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:53, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
"shouldn't be used to issue warning"Tasty beans! Beware of unintended consequences... – xeno talk 01:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi this edit is wrong [13] Because Counties change, Please create them, not delete them, See also here. Thank you M.k.m2003 ( talk) 22:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
Could you please take a moment to review the Draft: InfoBeans and suggest the specific changes required to make it notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Everything in the article is sourced from news articles, official reports of the company. If there are particular statements you object to I would appreciate you letting me know and I can rephrase them.
I am not getting a clear idea about how this article is not meeting the guideline as I can see the similar articles in the mainspace and are active. Reviewed the below articles and many more with the similar flow of content and third party references used:
/info/en/?search=Persistent_Systems /info/en/?search=HCL_Technologies
I'm new to Wikipedia and willing to work with you to remove or rephrase the article to meet the notability guideline of Wikipedia. Please help me in editing the content.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1994vd ( talk • contribs) 05:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Harare Polytechnic alumni, which you created, has 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Coyets ( talk) 16:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Jordanian television series endings requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 04:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Baba Farid University of Health Sciences alumni requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 04:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Articles with Ladino-language external links requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Gonnym ( talk) 22:07, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Question, do you think that the categories of xx-century media ( Category:20th-century media) should be moved to "Category:20th-century in media"? The decades ( Category:1900s in media) and years ( Category:1900 in media) are using "in". -- Gonnym ( talk) 08:47, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. ミラ P 22:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Do you realize that this edit to Category:2017 beginnings removed Category:21st-century beginnings? Was this deliberate? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:16, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed that your placement of {{ Year in country category}} has subcategorized all years in Taiwan within years in China. This is correct for Category:1946 in Taiwan through Category:1949 in Taiwan, as the Republic of China controlled both Taiwan and mainland China. However, I suggest that you reconsider the subcategorization, from 1950 onwards as from that year, the Government of the Republic of China, no longer exercised effective control over mainland China. Likewise, the government that replaced the Republic of China on the mainland, the People's Republic of China, does not have effect control over the island of Taiwan. Firstly, consider an example from the Chinese Wikipedia, in which zh:Category:2012年台灣 is not a subcategory of zh:Category:2012年中國.
As another example, Hong Kong has been a special administrative region of the PRC since 1997. Category:2020 in Hong Kong reflects the fact that this rule continues today. However, Category:1995 in Hong Kong is subcategorized within Category:1995 in British Overseas Territories and not within Category:1995 in China.
Taiwan's sovereignty is muddled in the present day due to several transfers and other factors, but it was under Qing rule until 1895 when it was transferred to Japan and invasion. As a result, Category:1895 in Taiwan is subcategorized under Category:1895 in the Japanese colonial empire and Category:1895 in China, because Taiwan was ruled by both governments in that year. However, from Category:1896 in Taiwan, categories referencing China are not included, because Taiwan was not under Chinese rule. Category:1945 in Taiwan is rightly a subcategory of Category:1945 in China, and Category:1945 in the Japanese colonial empire, which references to rule under two governments in one calendar year, when Japanese rule ended after World War II. The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Republic of China have been separate entities since 1950, so from then on, years in Taiwan should not be subcategorized as years in China. Vycl1994 ( talk) 19:17, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
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that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Hello BHG, per the Arbitration Committee remedy at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals#BrownHairedGirl_desysopped, and the associated request at WP:BN, I have removed your sysop flag. You are not barred from regaining this access in the future, and may do so by passing at WP:RFA. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 03:28, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:1951 Brazilian television series endings requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153
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Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs! Hope you're well, you were always a good admin, hope everything is OK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:32, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
I don't agree with how you handled dealing with portals, but I do think you are overall a good admin. I have been there in wanting to get something done to the point where things get personal here on Wikipedia. I hope for the best for you going forward.
Knowledgekid87 (
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14:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
I suppose that your account name, BrownHairedGirl, can be taken literally. But I lately realised that it might also be a reference to the Van Morrison song, " Brown Eyed Girl". Is that right?
It's interesting to find that that was one of Boris Johnson's Desert Island Discs. What would you take to your desert island?
Andrew🐉( talk) 09:28, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that you edited the Sikivu Hutchinson article in the past and that you are also a former Wikipedia admin. My edits for the Sikivu Hutchinson and the David Silverman (activist) articles are being reverted in relation to the content relevant to Sikivu Hutchinson. I asked a Wkipedia admin to resolve this matter at this talk page.
Could you please add your commentary to the talk pages of David Silverman (activist) and Sikivu Hutchinson. Knox490 ( talk) 18:14, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:1862 in Croatia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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A tag has been placed on Category:Jordanian television series endings by decade requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Category:Lists of UK MPs 1974–1979, which you created, has 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder ( talk) 16:06, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Category:Alfa Records (Japan) albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs. |
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Template:Teldisestcat has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 07:09, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BHG, is there a way that you can modify the template for {{ Year in nationality music category}} so when it is utilized it will go into the parent category "Decade in Fooish music". Changing to this template has created a bunch of empty categories that are now appearing in Wikipedia:Database_reports/Empty categories. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 02:52, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
AGF? Please. You're the one initiating silly, bullshit, tit-for-tat edit warring. How many of the 30 articles remaining in that category have you similarly scrutinized? Are you really going to venture into JPL territory and tear down the encyclopedia simply because some other editor didn't jump through all the hoops you expected them to jump through without them knowing what those hoops are? Wikipedia:Six million articles is a steaming crock of shit in that it invokes the Jimbo quote about "the sum of all human knowledge". This project is nowhere near that stage despite being around for 19 years. Some editors have spent years making countless edits per day every day and have never sought to achieve that. If you spent even a tenth as much time actually improving content as you do running scripts, this project would have been much better off and I would have more incentive to spend time here helping to improve it. As it stands, you appear to be another editor who is only about passing judgment on the content contributions of others without having much to contribute to content yourself. In other words, you're sitting back expecting others to do the real work for you. When you make hundreds of edits a day, you're setting the standard. Expecting casual contributors to do the heavy lifting and then viewing them as "second-class editors" like I saw in someone's comment a few years ago speaks volumes about what that standard really is.
The creation of the Huntington article is emblematic of Wikipedia's problems. A newspaper archive search clearly establishes his notability. Numerous sources refer to his mushing feats as something special and to his fame during the height of that period. That wasn't why the article was created, however. The article was created because he holds a particular title, namely Iditarod champion. This is the same thing driving the creation of other musher biographies, often at the expense of more historically important (read: notable) persons. The editor who created the article performed only the minimum effort necessary to collect a hat over at DYK, as evidenced by the numerous sources overlooked because they couldn't be obtained by picking low-hanging fruit. In the thirteen-and-a-half years I've been here, there are only two statements I've read which I agree with 100 percent. One of them is that DYK encourages self-promotion and bad writing. I'm no longer emotionally invested in this project, where it appears you are. It's very easy for me to walk away and abandon my efforts to improve this article, leaving it for what it really is, a blatant attempt on someone's part to collect a hat (your actions thus far have already proven that if I do walk away, the article will only be torn down, not built). The countless times I've pointed this situation out with articles nominated at DYK or ITN/C has not resulted in any appreciable improvement to the content in question, only the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. In other words, this evinces the notion that Wikipedia regulars believe readers to be too stupid to know any better or that readers don't actually read encyclopedia entries in depth. This makes your claims of AGF a case of Wikipedia being "the blind leading the blind". RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 18:47, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
Just so you know, I would support an RfA this instant, and I suspect many others would as well. This is the only time in memory where I’ve seen a desysop where I’m convinced the arbs got it wrong both in my gut and after reading through the case. Thank you for your years of dedication to the project: you are the reason many of us got more involved in Wikipedia. Anyway, take all the time you need, but if you were to run, I’m confident it would be a vindication of the trust many of us still have in you. TonyBallioni ( talk) 06:39, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
I know it is not much coming from me, and I have not had the years of experience on this site that you have had. However, I do think it is a mistake for you to give up on Wikipedia now.
In politics, we have what's called a
Second Act. BHG the superstar admin who wields the mop with righteous fury may be no more, but that shouldn't stop you from finding something new to become.
Regardless, Wikipedia can use your help now more than ever!
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must notundo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than
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I've withdrawn the CFD so you can discuss with other people on what to do with the category and the constituency categories. ミラ P 19:10, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) by parliament, which you created, has been nominated for merging. 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder ( talk) 17:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey, I have a question regarding your latest TV-related category templates. Was there a reason why you created both "debut" and "endings" templates, instead of just one?
Take
Template:Nationality television series debuts category for example, it checks the pattern "^.+ television series debuts$", but you could just do here a "if pattern1 (debut) ok, then pass debut-params, elseif pattern2 (endings) ok, then pass endings-params, else error. Then to
Template:Nationality television series debuts category/core you currently pass "country" and "nationality", but here you can also pass either "debut" or "endings" which you can then use in the category (or header text where present). So here, for example [[Category:Television series debuts by country|{{{nationality}}}]]"
can be [[Category:Television series {{{type}}} by country|{{{nationality}}}]]"
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Gonnym (
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10:31, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Hey, do you mind renaming the helper templates to something that doesn't use CamalCase? It's not only consistent with the other templates in the set and easier to read but also follows the recommendation at WP:TPN. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
{{Category see also if exists|{{{year}}} television series {{TVDebutsEndingsAntonym|{{{type}}}}}}}
{{Category see also if exists|{{{year}}} television series {{Antonym of either of the words debuts or endings when used in television series categories|{{{type}}}}}}}
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and checks if it is either "endings", "debuts" or something else, so the template name also does not need to mention "TV" in it. Niether does it's usage in category has any connection to it. So something like {{
Antonym of debuts or endings}} could work. It's short and easy to read. --
Gonnym (
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12:45, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BHG! (I'm happy you're still editing. Also, I'm happy User:Bhg redirects to your userpage, which makes it so easy to find you .) I was trying to figure out how many articles we have about living people vs. non-living people. It's about 950,000 living people per a WP:PetScan of Category:Living people–that part's easy. So I ran a PetScan on Category:People, 10 subcategories deep, excluding Category:Living people. (It's PSID 15662751 and here's the link [7] but warning, it takes a very, very long time to load, so you may not want to click on it.) The result I got is 3,744,430. That is far too high, and, indeed, the results list includes articles like Anarchism, Autism, and our article on the letter A. The article A is a good example to go with because it's in very few categories: Category:ISO basic Latin letters and Category:Vowel letters. How are those categories ending up as sub-categories of Category:People?
My conclusion – and the reason I'm here – is that I am misusing and misunderstanding the category tree. I already know it's not a strict heirarchy, and many subcategories are children of multiple parent categories. But I'm scratching my head about how Category:ISO basic Latin letters and Category:Vowel letters are ending up as subcategories of Category:People, at any level. Do you have any insight on where I'm going wrong, or how to do what I'm trying to do (figure out how many articles are about people, living v. dead)? Is 10 categories "too deep" such that everything is within 10 category levels of everything else? Is the category tree actually a category circle? (Is... is the world actually round and not flat?!) Thanks for any guidance you can offer! - Levivich dubious – discuss 21:13, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Levivich: briefly, as this has been discussed elsewhere before (a number of years ago), it is also possible (or used to be possible) to get an approximation by looking at the number of articles tagged by Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. The claim there (click edit over there to see how that number is produced) is that there are currently 1,665,526 articles within the scope of WikiProject Biography, but this will also include 'group' articles, so that is still only an approximation. Some of the earlier discussion will be found in the talk page archives of that WikiProject, and you could ask there. There will also be a fairly large number (unsure of the size of this) of pages that are not tagged with the right category or talk page tag to be picked up by these counting methods. The BLP figure should be the most accurate one, but some BLPs out there will still be untagged as well, and some articles containing material on living people that are not biographies might be 'tagged' by the category (not sure about that). BLPs used to be around a fifth of the 'people' articles (I can dig up the old estimates if needed), but I may be mis-remembering that as it seems they are currently over half (57%) so it seems that Wikipedia is continuing to create articles on living people and may be slowing down in terms of creating articles on non-living people. (PS. For Category:Living people the current (approximate) number is right there on the category page: "approximately 943,573 total"). Carcharoth ( talk) 14:28, 5 March 2020 (UTC) @ Levivich: apologies for the second ping, but I found some possibly relevant bits: (1) A Signpost article I wrote just over 10 years ago here (hmm, someone should re-do that survey); (2) The value of numbers (old thread at Wikipedia talk:Biographical metadata); (3) here: "Thom Hickey at WorldCat recently counted the number of biographical articles on Wikipedia using Category:Births by year and Category:Deaths by year, and reached the total 283,655 Dsp13 12:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)" (@ Dsp13:; (4) here: "I'm part of the way through building a list of articles within the subcategories of Category:Dead people, and already I have a list of over 100,000 articles. My (wild) estimate is that biographies form ~25% of the over 1 million articles on Wikipedia. [...] kingboyk 16:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)". @ Kingboyk:. Carcharoth ( talk) 14:57, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
This template, which you created today, seems to contain an error. Many category pages transcluding it have popped up in Category:ParserFunction errors. See, for example, Category:Canadian television seasons by decade. Deor ( talk) 19:56, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
I've been playing around with module code to see if groups of the TV templates can be combined.
Module:Sandbox/Gonnym/sometest5 is an example of combining the code from {{
Year in television category}}, {{
Decade in television category}} and (a not created) {{
Century in television category}} and their /core counterparts. You can test this on
Category:1938 in television,
Category:1930s in television and
Category:20th century in television by placing {{#invoke:Sandbox/Gonnym/sometest5|main}}
. This basically reduces 6 templates to 2 (template/module). What do you think? --
Gonnym (
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20:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Nobody cares about an Arbcom finding of fact three minutes after it is archived. Don't scramble your password just yet; take a month or two off finding other things to which you might volunteer your time. If working on Wikipedia still makes sense after a period of cooling off and looking around, come back strong! There are many here, myself included, who hope that you do. If other ways to volunteer make sense for you, do those. Just make like an Ent and don't be hasty. Carrite ( talk) 17:41, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
...something as blatantly "verdict first, trial later" as this one. I've semi-joked before that it's possible to predict the outcome of arbcom cases before they even take place just by looking at the personal grudges of the participants and calculating how far they each think they'll be able to push their preferred outcome and still call it a compromise, but I'm not sure I can recall an example this blatant before.When It's all over and done with, I'll also probably be scrambling my password, but maybe not until I've had the opportunity of meeting some friends and enemies alike at the next Wikimania which will be taking place in a few months right on my doorstep. And then I'll have more time to spend with my adult grand children, get back to composing some serious music, and write some more books. BrownHairedGirl, your work on Wikipedia will be sorely missed, but I know how you feel. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
It's so sad to see female admins leave or be desysopped or both. I hope you will stick with us. Softlavender ( talk) 13:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hit the wrong contribs button before blocking. You’re now the first victim of being accidentally blocked be me. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi TonyBallioni
We're all human, and mistakes happen. Thanks for remedying this one so promptly and for your speedy apology ... but it would have been helpful if the unblock had used a more informative explanation than just "ugh". I hope that doesn't get used by miscreants as a stick to beat me with. I fear that I will need to bookmark the diff [10] of your apology above.
Anyway, congrats for your solution [11] at the ANI thread. It's a pity when it has to come to that, but I think it was the right decision. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:53, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
"shouldn't be used to issue warning"Tasty beans! Beware of unintended consequences... – xeno talk 01:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi this edit is wrong [13] Because Counties change, Please create them, not delete them, See also here. Thank you M.k.m2003 ( talk) 22:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
Could you please take a moment to review the Draft: InfoBeans and suggest the specific changes required to make it notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Everything in the article is sourced from news articles, official reports of the company. If there are particular statements you object to I would appreciate you letting me know and I can rephrase them.
I am not getting a clear idea about how this article is not meeting the guideline as I can see the similar articles in the mainspace and are active. Reviewed the below articles and many more with the similar flow of content and third party references used:
/info/en/?search=Persistent_Systems /info/en/?search=HCL_Technologies
I'm new to Wikipedia and willing to work with you to remove or rephrase the article to meet the notability guideline of Wikipedia. Please help me in editing the content.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1994vd ( talk • contribs) 05:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
Category:Harare Polytechnic alumni, which you created, has 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Coyets ( talk) 16:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Jordanian television series endings requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 04:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Baba Farid University of Health Sciences alumni requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 04:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Articles with Ladino-language external links requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Question, do you think that the categories of xx-century media ( Category:20th-century media) should be moved to "Category:20th-century in media"? The decades ( Category:1900s in media) and years ( Category:1900 in media) are using "in". -- Gonnym ( talk) 08:47, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. ミラ P 22:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Do you realize that this edit to Category:2017 beginnings removed Category:21st-century beginnings? Was this deliberate? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 21:16, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed that your placement of {{ Year in country category}} has subcategorized all years in Taiwan within years in China. This is correct for Category:1946 in Taiwan through Category:1949 in Taiwan, as the Republic of China controlled both Taiwan and mainland China. However, I suggest that you reconsider the subcategorization, from 1950 onwards as from that year, the Government of the Republic of China, no longer exercised effective control over mainland China. Likewise, the government that replaced the Republic of China on the mainland, the People's Republic of China, does not have effect control over the island of Taiwan. Firstly, consider an example from the Chinese Wikipedia, in which zh:Category:2012年台灣 is not a subcategory of zh:Category:2012年中國.
As another example, Hong Kong has been a special administrative region of the PRC since 1997. Category:2020 in Hong Kong reflects the fact that this rule continues today. However, Category:1995 in Hong Kong is subcategorized within Category:1995 in British Overseas Territories and not within Category:1995 in China.
Taiwan's sovereignty is muddled in the present day due to several transfers and other factors, but it was under Qing rule until 1895 when it was transferred to Japan and invasion. As a result, Category:1895 in Taiwan is subcategorized under Category:1895 in the Japanese colonial empire and Category:1895 in China, because Taiwan was ruled by both governments in that year. However, from Category:1896 in Taiwan, categories referencing China are not included, because Taiwan was not under Chinese rule. Category:1945 in Taiwan is rightly a subcategory of Category:1945 in China, and Category:1945 in the Japanese colonial empire, which references to rule under two governments in one calendar year, when Japanese rule ended after World War II. The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Republic of China have been separate entities since 1950, so from then on, years in Taiwan should not be subcategorized as years in China. Vycl1994 ( talk) 19:17, 14 March 2020 (UTC)