User talk:Saga City
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Martin H. (talk) 21:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!
Categories like "Railway bridges in the Outer Hebrides"
[edit]Hi! If you find any more empty and unneeded categories like this you can add a {{Speedy|Reason}} - it is probably easer than starting a category for discussion. I created thousand of categories with my bot when we prepared an upload of about one million files. A few of those categories are useless but it was much easier to create all the categories and just delete the empty ones after the upload. --MGA73 (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the advice. I'd worked out the reason but wasn't sure of the etiquette involved in deleting them. S a g a C i t y (talk) 09:47, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
… many thanks for further sorting! --:bdk: 17:44, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
London categories?
[edit]Hi, have you found any advice on what should be included in London / Greater London categories? I see you have moved File:Roman Catholic Church of St. James the Great, Petts Wood, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 137223.jpg from Category:Roman Catholic churches in London to Category:Roman Catholic churches in Greater London. I believe in most cases, the former category has been used for Greater London rather than London or City of London. This may be ambiguous, but is supported by the entry in the Counties of England template {{Counties of England|prefix=:Category:Roman Catholic churches in|suffix=}} being London rather than Greater London. Just thought I'd better warn you that if you are creating or populating Greater London categories then they won't appear in the general "Counties of England" navbox unless you ask for a change to it and that most established English ceremonial county groupings use London instead of Greater London, so they would all need changing or diffusion as well. Scillystuff (talk) 12:05, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've added some images to this previously-deleted category, and I can't think of a good reason for recreating such a broad category. It would seem that if these should be anywhere, Category:Views would be the obvious candidate; however, I suspect that there are more specific categories for them. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 18:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
- It's the default category for Cat-a-lot; so a few have got in there by mistake. I then move them out again to their correct destination. S a g a C i t y (talk) 18:31, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Picture of the Year voting round 1 open
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Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement
[edit]Recent Edit
[edit]Not sure if this edit is strictly correct... Navigable (to me) suggests that a boat could use it - well maybe in the fullness of time, but since it's an empty trough over the M6toll with no connections - not as this time! I'm not fussed either way, I just did not know if you knew about the oddness of it - it's one of those odd things where the motorway got put in only if the builder made an aqueduct when the canal crossed the path. It went up in 2003, I guess another 10 years will go before it see any water... :-( Ronhjones (Talk) 19:53, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have found that canal aqueducts are spread, chaotically, between Aqueducts, Canal Aqueducts and Navigable Aqueducts. As this stage I am trying to get the all in once place. Navigable Aqueduct seeming the most popular so I moving everything to there and this is one you noticed. As to the final naming my preference is 'Aqueducts built for canal traffic' as this will include those in and out of use - they will be contrasted against 'Aqueducts built to carry water'. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 20:41, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Shipley Bridge
[edit]Hi, Shipley Bridge is a bridge, not a hamlet - so the majority of images placed in Category:Shipley Bridge do not belong there, and the cat should have the normal bridge categories (eg its listed status).--Nilfanion (talk) 13:05, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement
[edit]Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!
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Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.
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Hi, I've made a propsal here if you are interested in commenting. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 14:33, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement
[edit]Picture of the Year 2013 Results
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Dear Saga City,
The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).
- In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
- In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:
- 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
- In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.
Click here to view the top images »
We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.
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Category:St_Michael_and_All_Saints,_Rearsby has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! |
Motacilla (talk) 07:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
RfC on the scope of file renaming criterion 2
[edit]Pursuant to the closing of the RFC "Proposed overhaul of the "Which files should be renamed?" section", a second RfC has been opened at Commons:Requests for comment/File renaming criterion 2 specifically to address the scope of criterion 2, which currently reads "To change from a completely meaningless name to a name that describes what the image displays." Since you participated in the initial discussion, I am notifying you of the follow-up RfC.
Please note that I fully anticipate that the first few days will see a number of additional options proposed, so it may be a good idea to check back periodically on the RfC.
Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:43, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
A road numbering
[edit]Just a heads up on the A road zone cats: The zones are geographic regions, and some roads are in multiple zones. An extreme case is the A38 (in 3, 4, 5 and 6).--Nilfanion (talk) 11:31, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- Currently tying them in to English Wikipedia lists; will deal with anomalies once all 18 categories set up. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 13:06, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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Cobblers Thumb, Brighton
[edit]Hi, just wondering about this edit? The pub was demolished in summer/autumn 2013, and the site is now used for "shipping container" housing ([1]). Hassocks5489 (talk) 21:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- But it wasn't demolished when the photo was taken. S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:03, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- OK; when I found that category and started using it, that wasn't apparent (and looking at it now, the majority of images in it show buildings that were still standing at the time of the photo). Am I right in thinking, then, that the cat should only be used for buildings that are in the process of demolition, or of demolition sites? Hassocks5489 (talk) 22:11, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:00, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Category:Berwickshire and other Shires of Scotland
[edit]Hi, it was agreed some three years ago after the unhelpful efforts of Scotire (talk · contribs) that categorisation of things in Scotland should be by Council area rather than the old Shire Counties, except for historical items. I've removed some images from the above category. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 16:20, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I see you reverted my edit. Disambiguation pages are not just for categories, they are for all pages (and therefore may include galleries), if you read the note in the {{Dab}} template, so my reasons are perfectly valid. But if you are going to "prettify" disambiguation pages by piping, please be prepared to do ALL of them rather than a piecemeal, half-cock job. Myself, I haven't the time to do so and am prepared to stick with the utterly clear format which has prevailed ever since I've been working here. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 15:19, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
Leicester
[edit]Leicester is both a settlement and district, its just that there is no separate article or category for the district as it covers roughly the same area, however the article on Wikipedia might have to be split as it says it is too long. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:00, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- Source? You cannot just assert that something is so. 'District' has two meanings when describing places in England, they can be metropolitan or non-metropolitan. Leicester, and for that matter the nearby cities of Derby and Nottingham are neither. S a g a C i t y (talk) 12:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- They are unitary authorities, which is a type of district, see this source for example. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:58, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Don't understand why you removed Category:Black Mountains, Wales when the image title and text makes it clear that this is a mountain within that range, and that the category definition states that the range extends into Herefordshire? Cheers, Rodhullandemu (talk) 15:28, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
- I've also replaced Category:Geograph images in Herefordshire in File:Black Darren - geograph.org.uk - 570716.jpg, because according to the Ordnance Survey, that mountain IS in Herefordshire. Removing geograph categories when they belong there makes the job so much more difficult, is plain wrong, and I'll be glad if you don't do it again. Rodhullandemu (talk) 15:34, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!
[edit]You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2015 Picture of the Year contest.
Dear Saga City,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.
There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images. There are 56 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category. In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.
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A112 road
[edit]There seems to only be 1 road called "A112" so is "(England)" needed?, w:A249 road doesn't include the qualifier on Wikipedia for example. Although I thought that the natural disambiguator "road" is usually included even if unnecessary, I don't think the country is required as well in England but it is in the US. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:30, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
- Please see Category:A roads in the United Kingdom by number for over a thousand examples of the agreed and longstanding method of indexing UK & NI roads. We are qualifying them for consistency and ahead of the need to disambiguate; in this case there will certainly be an A112 autobahn in Germany whose photos may not yet have arrived; there may be one in Norther Ireland whose numbering system parallels . You will see further examples of the practice in Category:B roads in the United Kingdom by number. S a g a C i t y (talk) 11:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
- Agreed, yes indeed we should think about categories that don't exist yet I accept that in this case it is acceptable to do this thanks. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
The map on the image (example) shows that this isn't in Sutton, Peterborough and the Listed Building id says its in East Cambridgeshire. Its St Michael and All Angels Church in Sutton, Peterborough. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:58, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Drbones1950 (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Canal boats
[edit]Are you aware that not all boats on UK canals are either narrow, or narrowboats? Andy Dingley (talk) 09:13, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Geograph
[edit]I've gone over Leicestershire now, and put ~900 files into their parish (or unparished town) cat. They are also in Category:Nilfanion temp. I'd appreciate it if you could look over them and see if there are any errors.--Nilfanion (talk) 12:27, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Do we need this as a separate cat? It appears to be a former civil parish not a hamlet anyway. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:21, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
- On a quick check only it seems OK. But I'll look into it further. S a g a C i t y (talk)
- Now checked and as a result have emptied it into its old parent. Found another mistake on the way! I do remember it was oddly involved when I did it as Stodday appears to to have divorced Ashton and is now with Aldcliffe. Thanks for bringing this to my attention S a g a C i t y (talk) 18:25, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
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ISIL-KP (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
--bjh21 (talk) 19:02, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
--bjh21 (talk) 19:02, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
- English: Common spotted orchid
- azərbaycanca: Fuks səhləbi
- български: Обикновена петниста орхидея
- čeština: Prstnatec Fuchsův
- Deutsch: Fuchs' Knabenkraut
- eesti: Vööthuul-sõrmkäpp
- suomi: Kalkkimaariankämmekkä
- français: Orchis de Fuchs
- magyar: Erdei ujjaskosbor
- italiano: Orchide di Fuchs
- lietuvių: Aukštoji gegūnė
- latviešu: Fuksa dzegužpirkstīte
- Nederlands: Bosorchis
- norsk: Skogmarihand
- polski: Kukułka Fuchsa
- português: orquídea manchada comum
- русский: Пальчатокоренник Фукса
- slovenščina: Fuchsova prstasta kukavica
- svenska: Skogsnycklar
- українська: Пальчатокорінник Шоо
....by the way... do you think it would be a good way to create categories of all these vernacular names with a redirect. ;-) Regards. Orchi (talk) 18:23, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
- This is far from my area of expertise. However it is the established practice here for redirects from the vernacular to the Latin to be created and I've followed this. Of course it cannot be done where the vernacular name is ambiguous. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 19:27, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
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Andy Dingley (talk) 17:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Geolocation to 1km precision: useless?
[edit]I notice that you recently reverted one of Geograph Update Bot's additions of a 1km-precision geolocation. Should I take it that you think geolocation at this precision is useless? If so, I can arrange for the bot not to propogate locations with 1km precision from Geograph (and, I suppose, to remove any that are already here). --bjh21 (talk) 19:52, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- In this case, and I suspect many others, it really is unhelpful. The picture being of a river flowing under an aqueduct and the point given was on a mountainside. Can 100m precision be achieved? This would be less liable to such misplacement. Best wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 20:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- In cases like this, where Geograph only has 1km precision itself, my bot can't really do any better. It does at least mark the location with the correct precision, but few tools seem to pay attention to that. --bjh21 (talk) 20:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- As a temporary measure, I've told my bot to skip any files to which it was thinking about applying co-ordinates with "prec=1000". This should stop it making any more edits that will need to be reverted. --bjh21 (talk) 22:36, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- This may be for the best. Thanks. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
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Sortkeys for surname categories
[edit]Just an FYI, there should be no need to add these as you did to Buddy Miles on January 28 as long as all the categories have DEFAULTSORT. - Bossanoven (talk) 19:56, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Category:Penny_Fun_public_houses has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! |
Chemical Engineer (talk) 17:42, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
dEFAULTSORT
[edit]Hi, i reverted your edit because i'm in doubt for your words in my talk. You said that wikidata infobox provides automatically for sorting into the categories. I' didn't seen something similar to it. In the case of Ari Vatanen, in some categories Max Vatanen was listed before Ari, without the template DEFAULTSORT.--Louis.attene (talk) 06:48, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
Space
[edit]Why did you make this edit? Am I missing something? - Alexis Jazz ping plz 20:43, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- It was just to force changes I'd made to the Wikidata (specifically adding the surname to it) to appear in Commons immediately. A typical null update. S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:30, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- Please don't do that. In your Special:Preferences, look at the gadgets and enable the "Page Purge" gadget. Alternatively, add "?action=purge" in your address bar. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 22:50, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- Have now done that - thanks for pointing it out S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks to you as well - I've seriously been puzzled for years by pointless space-edits (mostly on Wikipedia), asking myself what in the world those people were trying to achieve. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 00:02, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
- Have now done that - thanks for pointing it out S a g a C i t y (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- Please don't do that. In your Special:Preferences, look at the gadgets and enable the "Page Purge" gadget. Alternatively, add "?action=purge" in your address bar. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 22:50, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Medical writers vs Physician writers
[edit]Hi - I see you created a redirect from Category:Medical writers to Category:Physician writers. That's not really what I had in mind when I tagged the (few) physicians I came across. They were people that have added significantly to the literature for their field of medicine, not outside of that. I wasn't even sure that it needed a category (hence it wasn't created yet). Physician writers seem to be involved in writing outside their profession. I'm don't think that the redirect is correct, what do you think - is there merit in creating a "medical writers" category? Regards, -- Deadstar (msg) 16:22, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have no strong views either way. I created Category:Medical writers then, next day, on trying to link it to Wikidata/Wikipedia found that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_writers is linked to Category:Physician writers. So I made my new category into a redirect. This was just a bit of tidying-up so, as I said, not something I'm particularly exercised about. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 16:31, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
- OK... I'll look into it. Thanks -- Deadstar (msg) 17:50, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I've reverted your change to this image (from Category:Llandanwg railway station to Category:Pensarn railway station). I've also commented out the location information imported from the Geograph project, which I assume is what you based your change on. The geograph image describes itself as Llandanwg station, but has camera and object coordinates relating to Pensarn. Comparison of this photograph with the other images we already have for both stations shows that it is the Geograph description that is correct, and the coordinates in error. I will inform the Geograph project of this. -- Chris j wood (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- The geograph project have now corrected the coordinates on their version of this image, so I've used them to replace the commented out incorrect coordinates on our version. -- Chris j wood (talk) 09:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Don't forget, you can also add {{wikidata infobox}} to Wikimedia Commons and it will add most of the categories and a default sort automatically. Any photo stored in Wikidata will then be displayed. If you want you can add in a missing photo like I did here: Category:Granville George Algernon Egerton and wikidata:Q23041499. RAN (talk) 18:02, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, I guess I've now done it a couple of thousand times. I don't think it was fully available in January 2017 in the case in point. S a g a C i t y (talk) 19:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Category:Lejla (given name)
[edit]Hi there. Thanks for opening the Category:Lejla (given name) again. (I was sure that there would be people called "Lejla"... :) Can you please do something -I tried but to no avail- to take Leyla Aliyeva out of this cat, as her name is not "Lejla"? Best. --E4024 (talk) 16:21, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
- Most probably I am having a browser problem again... --E4024 (talk) 16:23, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
Help request
[edit]Hi. I saw you editing Category:Women of Italy by name and I understand you know templates well. The countries template at that cat is not in correct alphabetical order, placing Turkey after UK. Can you please kindly have a look, if you can correct that? Thanks in advance and happy weekend. --E4024 (talk) 22:41, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
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E4024 (talk) 20:28, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Portuguese onomastics
[edit]Kindly refrain from contaminating Commons with nonsense categories spawned from Wikidata’s shortcomings. This is a case of multiple surnames, which is trivial for Portuguese-language anthroponyms, not the much rarer (and encyclopedicly relevant) compound surnames. There’s no good reason to treat these transient, fortuitous clusters of surnames in separate categories, as opposed to simply categorize individual categories of name-bearers themselves under each of their several surnames (and given names, too, by the way). Portuguese is not Spanish, nor French, nor Russian, nor Icelandic, nor Hungarian, nor Korean — onomastics is hard and you should trust your fellow editors who know about the subject more than you do. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 21:15, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Tiny categories
[edit]What is the point of creating subcategories like this when we have no other photographs from that day, and no other file classified as a U.S. photo for a week before or after that on either side? - Jmabel ! talk 16:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- In a word, standardisation. To go further it allows enquiries by petscan and similar tools across numerous catgories; in the specific case you mention it would allow for someone wishing to identify all USA cityscapes in the 1920s and had it not been brought to a country-specific category it would be missed. So, by itself, pointless but useful as part of a larger matrix. S a g a C i t y (talk) 18:24, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- It was already in March 1952 in the United States. I don't think we should be creating categories just for the sake of tools that actually make things more difficult for human users. - Jmabel ! talk 03:12, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, Saga City the name is actually Rosier Faassen, with double 'ss. Would you mind renaming? Thank you for your time. :- Lotje (talk) 06:35, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Of course! Thanks for pointing this out S a g a C i t y (talk) 07:54, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hallo. The name of this person is : pl:Tadeusz Wardejn-Zagórski without eg. The author of this slogan made a mistake. It's a classic typo. 95.112.42.231 14:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- @95.112.42.231: Thanks - from the changes made I guessed this to be so. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 15:58, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Removal of category
[edit]Hi, Saga City; wondering why you made this edit. There is a Category:Van den Bergh (surname). Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 05:01, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Lotje: - as it was you'd put the whole item into surnames. I've now finished the job! Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 07:14, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 16:44, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Correct sortorder for Nordic alphabets
[edit]Hi Saga City. You have just changed the sortorder for some Nordic artists (like Category:Emil Bærentzen. Please do not do that. The sortorder should be according to the Nordic latin alphabets, which have "æ", "ø" and "å" as the last three letters. Commons knows how to sort them correctly, so your actions in this field are uncalled for. Please revert them. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 16:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
- Hi again. Your lack of response might indicate that this issue is not really important to you. Well, it is to others, so your changes to the sortorder of Nordic alphabets - where found - have been restored to their correct settings. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 08:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
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"Family name not available from Wikidata"
[edit]Hi Saga City, just a suggestion: instead of adding a comment in the categories like here you could add the family names to Wikidata. This would help other projects and avoid later cleanups. Regards, --Arnd (talk) 10:42, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- You have, I guess, found on old note from me saying this. I no longer leave these and do, as you suggest, add family names to Wikidata. Historically I was trying to avoid getting lost in the maze of Wikdata as it was slowinng up progress in targetted areas.
- Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 11:10, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Ok, my bot just cleaned up the cases where there was already the family name on WD such as here. If you like to work on the remaining cases by adding the family name to WD it is here. Sooner or later they will also be cleaned up. --Arnd (talk) 11:42, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- Will do. You may not be surprised to learn that these are on a "to do" list that's running about 40 months slow.
- Best Wishes Again S a g a C i t y (talk) 11:48, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Except Category:Merseyside refers only to the county with the inception being 1974. What geographic entity are you referring to? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:24, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
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AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Saga City, Can you please do a cropped version of this file to only show the image of the actress Sarah Padden (the woman in the middle)? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.227.226.137 (talk) 18:44, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
- I have done the best I can - see Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 07:50, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
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