Hello Haddiscoe! Welcome to Wikipedia! Below are some excellent guidelines to help you get started with the greatest encyclopedia on Earth. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Again, please feel free to talk to me if you need help with anything at all. Best of luck and have fun editing! Happy editing! Safemariner03:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that you are organizing categories. While I don't understand the system you are using I have no problem other than that you should not remove information. For instance in Fredrik Reinfeldt you turned 10 categories into 9, omitting Category:Swedish party leaders (diff). In Samuel Schmid you omitted Category:Swiss people (diff). Please be more careful.
I've been checking your edits, and some of them seem genuinely necessary (like here). Some advice:
You registered your account today, so maybe you need to be patient and learn how Wikipedia works before making drastic alterations (you have made over 150 edits today).
When creating new categories don't choose very complicated names.
Don't remove categories without there being community consensus or a valid reason. One article can be in many similar categories, there is no harm in that.
It is also valuable to write a brief description of the changes you have made in the edit summary. Marking a edit as minor, which you have done with almost all of your edits so far, can also be regarded as misleading if it changes the content of the article (see Help:Minor edit). --Oden12:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there - I may have put this request for a category move in the wrong place, but didn't realise where I had put it would lead to objections to the move. I'm a member of the Wiki fire project, and a former officer in the LFB - I write about the emergency services for a living. London is the the only English FRS that is still known as a brigade and purely for historical reasons. BUT we've alread had a month of voting on the Category Talk page, so I was hoping the move would now be a formality. I may have strayed from from Wiki policy on category moves, but I spent a large part of last year writing Fire service in the United Kingdom to reflect a legislative change that formalises the the requirement to have a "fire and rescue service" so I'm unclear as to why you would oppose the move and ask you to perhaps consider changing your view. Thanks Escaper713:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Final decisions on the renaming of categories can only be made on Wikipedia:categories for discussion. I might strike out my opposition if you move the listing to the correct section, but I don't think I will be able to endorse the rename, as I don't like it when legislators or bureacrats take it upon themselves to try to change the English language, which is not their property. Haddiscoe13:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Deletion review of Category:Women television writers
It's not a matter of what it covers, but of its role in the navigational system. Category:Books is part of the category tree, and it should have a subcategory for a broad field like Christianity. Haddiscoe13:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
in terms of musical history by your insistence that the Peel Sessions artist classification is not important. It is important, and the category needed to stay, and I am very angry that you took it upon yourself to foist your lack of knowledge about the topic at hand via your vote to delete the category. The category was necessary and valid and needed to stay on Wikipedia for the site to be full in scope. Peel Sessions artists were by and large artists who were marked by a sense of innovation and musical experimentation, and the fact that you discounted that in favor of your chosen ignorance of the subject matter means that your vote, as well as the vote of the other individuals who chose to vote for deletion, was and is tainted. (Krushsister04:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Thank you for your support on that CFD. Unfortunately, it does seem that case that we're getting keeps for favoritism rather than policy. Bulldog12320:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding this edit please note that generally one doesn't add comments to closed discussions. They are closed. Adding to a closed discussion is generally against the rules of Wikipedia etiquette. I have removed your comment. -N20:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I do not consider that to be appropriate and I am offended that you have removed my comment. The status of the discussion was badly presented and unclear. Was anyone allowed to express an opinion? Why was it listed in the first place if discussion was prohibited? Haddiscoe01:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The image was (very) quickly undeleted when the administrator realized the image shouldn't have been deleted. This is known as a speedy close. There was no need to add to the conversation at this point. -N01:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nor is there any need to reprimand users for perfectly innocuous comments made in good faith. Please think about the impression this sort of thing gives of your own grasp of etiquette. Haddiscoe01:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For heaven's sake, add the comment back if you wish. I wasn't meaning to offend at all. I was merely pointing out that closed discussions are closed to further discussion. -N01:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding your last comment on my talk page, consider this discussion closed, especially if you are going to ad hominem me. -N01:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It shouldn't have started, but you started it. I hope you have got the point about pots and kettles and will not act in this manner again. Haddiscoe20:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As the CfD guidelines clearly state, a CfD discussion is not a vote. Consensus can be wrong. The consensus among the handful of people who vote in a given discussion can fail to be in line with the greater consensus and precedent behind Wikipedia's project goals and guidelines. Doczilla00:07, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That is not relevant to the points I made. You are reinforcing the impression that you do not think that consensus matters when you disagree with it. Haddiscoe01:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In my opinion your speedy closure was a breach of process committed in bad faith because you did not expect to be able to prevail by argument. And this is not the first time you have cynically abused due process. You were a participant in the debate, on the minority side. You should have left closure to an impartial administrator. Haddiscoe13:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I was not a participant in the CfD which I closed. Please see my reply to you on my talk page, and stop making personal attacks. As shown in the links in the reply to you on my talk page, you have made at least five personal atatcks on me in the last few minutes, which is unacceptable. You are welcome to discuss the issue with me if you can do so politely, or you can take it to WP:DRV if ypu want a review of the closure, or you can go to WP:ANI if you want to raise a complaint about me. But please stop hurling abuse: it solves nothing. --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 13:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You were a participant in the previous discussion! I do not see how you can possibly think that this does not render you biased. The problem is your personal conduct, so anything that is said can be taken as a "personal attack". Haddiscoe23:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Haddiscoe, I have had enough of this. As I have said above, if you think that the closure was wrong, you can take it to DRV. But the your latest comment on my talk page is more abuse, so I have blocked you for a week. I offered to discuss this politely, but neiher I not any other admin are obliged to accept a stream of personal attacks. You disagree with my closure: fair enough, but please have the manners to distinguish between one decsion with which you disagree and "personal misconduct". --BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (contribs) 07:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wimstead has made a suggestion since you left your comment at the discussion, which I think is an improvement on my previous suggestion - you may want to have a look and see what you think, if you get the chance... Regards, Bencherlite14:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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