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Just found out about this plugin, freakin sweet

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damn i didn't even see this until now! UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 19:46, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't add categories to biography articles unless the category is fully supported by reliable sources within the article and the category is considered a defining characteristic of the individual. Category:People with developmental coordination disorder, which you created, was previously deleted per community consensus.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:22, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a clear example of double standards because many of the people in the list were added to categories relating to different disabilities that were given the same amount of significance if not less. I proposed in the talk page that it get reinstated, you can read my full reasoning here. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 20:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I accidentally reinstated it, this wasn't a dig at you I just accidentally put my thoughts in the main page rather than the talk page. I'm new with Wikipedia but the rationale given just doesn't make sense. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 20:28, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As for Toyah Willcox, the source given is her giving an interview in which she says she is dyspraxic, and is good enough that it is on the Developmental Coordination Disorder page (except that was on Spotify rather than YouTube). Why are you calling it poorly sourced? UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 20:37, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on the corresponding category talk page you created (thank you for that).-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:25, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please populate the categories you create with more than one person. If you can't get enough people, then the category doesn't need to be made yet. ^SMason_Garrison 16:50, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I can't find any other Ugandan trans women with Wikipedia articles so I have taken Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro out of the Ugandan transgender women category and into the Ugandan transgender people, Ugandan LGBTQ women, and transgender women categories. It is my understanding that an empty category will be deleted, but I don't know how to delete it or if I even have the power to delete it. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 21:11, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I propose adding a transgender women activists category. There are many people in the transgender women category who are not listed in a subcategory, and many of them are activists. I created more nationality subcategories to reduce the number of articles in that category rather than in a subcategory but maybe instead creating a subcategory for transgender women activists would be a better solution. Or maybe it isn't a problem at all that needs a solution. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 21:26, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

please slow down, and review how WP:categorization works before making more categories. ^SMason_Garrison 22:43, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please also don't remove 21st-century LGBTQ people from 21st-century people. These are non-diffusing categories, per WP:EGRS. ^SMason_Garrison 22:54, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:21st-century Macedonian LGBTQ people 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. Bearcat (talk) 19:04, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, thanks for creating the category for 21st-century anarchists and populating it, it's coming along quite nicely! I just wanted to ask you take a bit more care with adding certain articles to it, as I've had to revert a few that I did not think fit into the category (i.e. people who died in the early-21st century and whose main association with anarchism was in the 20th century). I think this category makes sense for people whose involvement with anarchism has taken place in the 21st century, but I don't think every 20th-century anarchist who happened to still be alive in the 21st century should be included, if that makes sense. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:39, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair enough, I was wondering whether or not I should have added some of them to the list but there's so many people to add that I decided to first add anyone who was alive in the 21st century to save time and flesh the list out quicker, and then later check back on the ones who died early in the 21st century to see if they actually contributed anything noteworthy to anarchism during the 21st century. Now that the category has become more fleshed out I will take your advice and pay more attention to this. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 17:44, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to hear, thanks! --Grnrchst (talk) 18:34, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As someone who had this category (accurately) added to the page about me, I just wanted to say that your username made me smile. Jessamyn (my talk page) 17:45, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!! You've been doing impressive work judging by your Wikipedia page, well done! UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 20:48, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:21st-century anarchists 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. ^SMason_Garrison 04:45, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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You recently cited World Population Review here. It is self-published, so is not a reliable source. It has been discussed several times before at the reliable sources noticeboard:

• March 2019
• August 2019
• July 2022
• August 2023
• September 2023

Please do not cite it. If something on the site is true, there must be a better source for it. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:48, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into it tomorrow to see if there's a better source, and if not I'm fine with removing it. What's more important to me is that it doesn't get reverted back to the misleading 79% statistic, as has happened before when someone took issue with a different source I used from 2013 being too old. I would rather there be no statistic because at least that wouldn't be misleading anyone. UsernamesArePublic.Unfortunately. (talk) 01:55, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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