User talk:Kintetsubuffalo/Archive 4

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Taylor Bradford

Hi Kintetsubuffalo, I don't know if you've seen it, but I did reply on the talk page, and again I'd like to apologize if you saw my questioning the notability policy as me questioning you, it wasn't. I learned something new from a new situation I'd never seen before, and I hope you have no hard feelings. ^Ariel♥Gold 04:57, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Burma

"Now, will all categories, such as Category:Cities in Myanmar also need to be renamed?" Probably but there are other Wikipedians who worry and specialise in categories (see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion). --Philip Baird Shearer 15:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Yokohama Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps

Here is the Google cache: [1]. Not much to it. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Category:Burmese democracy activists

Hello, I'm really glad to see that more editors are making use of Category:Burmese democracy activists (which I recently created). I almost fell out of my chair, though, when I saw that it had jumped up to 37 pages since the last time I checked, a day or two ago. One glance was enough to see that there was a big problem, because there are now more than a dozen talk pages listed (talk pages should never be in regular categories), as well as a number of other pages that don't belong there either. I immediately surmised that it was probably the work of one person, and sure enough... I quickly confirmed that the first few articles I checked were all the work of the same person. (That would be you... )

I soon discovered one major source of the problem: Template:User burfreedemo, which you created and then added to all those article talk pages (it's on some User Pages, too). The template includes within it the code for Category:Burmese democracy activists, which then gets incorporated into the pages the template is posted on. I didn't want to mess with your work, so I will leave it to you to take care of that problem.

I also went through all of the newly added articles and found a number that just don't belong in the category -- which should be limited to articles that are actually about Burmese democracy activists. So Burma Campaign UK, Global Day of Action for Burma, and National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma are all right on target. But I'm afraid AVAAZ.org, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, and Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar, though related, fall outside the scope of the category. I'm going to remove those shortly, so I think all you need to work on is the User template.

Well, I guess this all goes to show how careful you have to be with categories. I find that it often helps to look at what else is already in a category and compare that with the article I'm planning to add. (Of course, there are some categories that are a big mess for one reason or another.) I gave some thought to adding Buddhist Peace Fellowship to this category, but it didn't really make sense; on the other hand, I did find a bunch of other cats to put it in. Cgingold 03:03, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I took a look inside the template, and I've now "disabled" the Category code. If you look at the bottom you'll see there are two lines, one started with "