User talk:Vegaswikian
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[edit] Mesquite
Why isn't Mesquite not in the Las Vegas metro area? Heegoop, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
But Mesquite is in Clark County and according to the US Census Bureau the Las Vegas metro area includes all of Clark County.
[edit] Dominican people
Hello, can I ask about this CFD closure from last week? It seems that, if anything, there was consensus to change to Category:Dominica people, not Category:Dominican people. Was it a typo in the closure maybe? The Dominican people cat still has a disambiguation tag on it. — jwillbur 22:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- I too thought the consensus looked like Category:Dominica people (even though I didn't particularly like this option), but I see you've now reversed it to Category:People from Dominica, which was the original name. I'm confused. Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:18, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Feel free to check Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working I think I have it correct this time. Seems like I have been having a problem getting the cut and paste correct. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:30, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Can I be an Adminastrator?
I wanna be an adminastrator.Can you make me an adminastrator?Satipo (talk) 15:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)SatipoSatipo (talk) 15:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Military, er, things
Hi Vegaswikian. Wanted to check what your thoughts were on another potential proposal; somebody suggested merging the main categories military bases and military facilities to 'military installations.' We could set up whatever permutations of subcategories were necessary to define what was or was not a base or a facility under that main category - be interested to hear your thoughts on what was best. What do you think? Kind regards Buckshot06(prof) 11:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Interesting idea. I would probably take the discussion over to the military wikiproject. I think that your idea may be sound, what I don't know is how these would be structured in terms of parent and child. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:07, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Punk filmmakers cat
You had said at CFD that you were allowing some time for Category:Punk filmmakers to be listified. We're past that time, can the cat now be deleted? Otto4711 (talk) 16:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Vegaswikian1 (talk · contribs)
This editor claims to be you. I want to make sure you are aware. Toddst1 (talk) 00:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Category:RRISD
You tagged this for rename but apparently didn't list it at CFD. Otto4711 (talk) 18:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] cfd - Companies with current or prior private equity ownership
Vegaswikian -- In addition to my disagreement over your nomination, I also did not receive any notice of your nomination and am not sure you filled out the template correctly. I would like to try to persuade you of my conviction on leaving the category and strong disagreement with your WP:OCAT assertion. I don't spend a lot of time creating categories and when I do it is only because of the real dearth of acceptable existing categories. Would love you get some feedback and a little clearer sense of where you are coming from in your nomination. I am not going to spend more time categorizing companies until this gets resolved (which I would have liked to have done) so I would like to try to come to some kind of resolution. Thanks. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 04:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I responded to your points on the cfd discussion page but I wanted to reiterate some points to you directly.
- I really don't want to be rude and I want to start out by saying that considering what was on wikipedia when I started working on this area, you should be thanking me for my efforts, not ridiculing them as you did. I have spent three months cleaning up, patching holes and organizing what was frankly a mess. While I don't mind explaining to people when the same point is reiterated I have to spend my time explaining to you rather than working on articles. I think the body of my work is actually very solid.
- I have found that the uphill climb I have had to endure to fix the private equity and finance sections on wikipedia has been a real challenge. Your point about the number of references in the "private equity firm" article may be accurate and I will get to that in time but I am forced to prioritize my time and have done a lot over the last few months.
- There seems to be a general lack of understanding of the topic, which is not uncommon on wikipedia and that is fine but I think at this point if you want to rename the subject that is fine if you have a proposal to discuss, but I am think you should give the benefit of the doubt on this that I have thought about the distinction between the proposed category and the "privately held" category you want to collapse it into. I personally don't understand why you think this is such a badly named category - it captures the point precisely and is as succinct as possible. I would have liked to have called it Private equity owned companies or Companies with private equity ownership but that would not be factually correct and that to me seems most important.
As you can tell you hit a nerve with your comment and I would like to try to work together. If you really have an issue with the category we can discuss it further but this is not typically how I like to spend my time on wikipedia. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 21:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- I don't care about the cfd. I responded to your points and that will be resolved. I did not appreciate your comments directed toward my work. That's it. I thought it was rude. That's not "simply how it is done". No need to respond. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 21:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nevada Highway Patrol
Since you are insistent in removing the links I attached to this article, stating in your summary that they are unrelated - in YOUR opinion - please tell me why you believe them to be unrelated. I think that the general articles on the various types of State Police are indeed related, and since you have made it clear that you will continue to revert what I have added, I would appreciate an understanding of your reasoning. SGT141 (talk) 04:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
That section of the Help guide does not, in my reading of it, in any way suggest that articles discussing State Police in general ways is unrelated to the Nevada Highway Patrol. I still do not see how my inclusion of these links is violating the spirit of Wikipedia. I respectfully disagree - but I will not restore the links. I just don't feel like getting into a revert war, and it appears that would be the inevitable result. SGT141 (talk) 05:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: CFD Category:National parks in Kerala
I created both the categories. Initially I created Category:National parks in Kerala and then found there was a different convention already as below
Therefore I created Category:National parks and sanctuaries in Kerala again and Just asking to delete the former one (Category:National parks in Kerala) which I had created -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 11:18, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
