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Rd232 (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:PeopleCenturybyCountry

With your change to Template:PeopleCenturybyCountry, could you please also add to the examples in the "noinclude"? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 16:34, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Yes, I will. I also plan to make one or two other changes, and I will include examples of those as well. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:38, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Admin?

Have you ever considered becoming an admin? You certainly seem to have the right attitude, and at least the bulk of the skills. - Jmabel ! talk 19:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Is there much need for new admins? -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:49, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

I'd say so. There are backlogs all over the place for things that only admins can do. E.g. we are always months behind in closing DRs and CfDs.

I would guess that pretty much every admin is maxed on the amount of admin work they are willing to do, or close to it, so really the only way we get more time on admin tasks is either (1) add new admins or (2) someone ends up doing more than they are happy doing (3) as a few have proposed, but it seems to be going nowhere, take certain tasks that have been exclusive to admins and create new categories of users that can do those particular tasks.

You've seemed to me to be capable, consistently well-intentioned, even-tempered, even-handed, and respectful of existing consensus even when it might not be exactly what you personally would choose to do. Those are pretty much the characteristics we need in an admin. - Jmabel ! talk 23:48, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Well, there are some admin tasks I'd feel confident about, but quite a few that I wouldn't. If it would be acceptable for me to do the ones I understand, and learn others when I have the time and energy to do so, I'd be willing to be nominated.

I should say, though, that I know of some users who might vehemently oppose my candidacy based on past interactions. I guess we'll see. -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

You would certainly have my support vote (and my co-nomination if you desired). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:03, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: Sure. If I'm nominated, I'd be glad to have your co-nom. Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:14, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Nomination started at Commons:Administrators/Requests/Auntof6. Next step is for you to accept the nomination. - Jmabel ! talk 19:36, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

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-- CptViraj (talk) 19:54, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! Well deserved. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:10, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to the admin team. Abzeronow (talk) 21:58, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! & welcome. - Jmabel ! talk 23:20, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

You'll probably want to add "admin" to your Babel box (and probably remove the things that are redundant to that). - Jmabel ! talk 23:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! I'm sorry I missed your RfA.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:29, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! Kadı Message 22:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello new Admin!

I just marked a child abuse file, please delete it. Thanks. 186.173.109.1 21:42, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Please undelete File talk:Correio Braziliense ou Armazem Literario. Vol. I.pdf

I've just renamed File:Correio Braziliense ou Armazem Literario Vol. I.pdf to File:Correio Braziliense ou Armazem Literario. Vol. I.pdf. But the talk page had been renamed already and you just deleted it as an orphan. I tried to explain the situation in the speedy deletion request for the stray file page, but apparently I wasn't clear enough. Please could you undelete the talk page at File talk:Correio Braziliense ou Armazem Literario. Vol. I.pdf? Sorry for the confusion! --bjh21 (talk) 23:00, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21:  Done Sorry about that. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Category:Sports cars

Can you please revert this undiscussed rename, for the second time now. Thanks. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:30, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Removing speedy from Category:Enschede in 1900

Hello Auntof6, removing my speed deletion request from mentioned category seems quite ridiculous to me. All the other categories in Category:Enschede by year don't have this redirect. In comparison to other place and municipality by year categories of the Netherlands, it won't be probable that someone categorizes a file like that. What was your intention? Kind regards, Fantaglobe11 (talk) 13:21, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

The convention for this kind of category name might be "<year> in <place>", but "<place> in <year>" also makes sense. Someone created it with this name, which means that people don't always know the convention. Leaving a redirect lets them find the category they're looking for even when they don't know the actual name. Therefore, I left the redirect.

To me, it doesn't matter that the other categories don't have such a redirect. I'm not suggesting that other redirects need to be created, just that they be left where they already exist. -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:24, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hi. Can you do me a favor and close Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/06/Category:History per Jmabel's and Infrogmation of New Orleans' last couple of comments? It doesn't seem like anyone is closing CfDs lately. Thanks. Adamant1 (talk) 22:29, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

@Adamant1: Yes, I will look at it later when I can do so without getting interrupted by IRL things here.

I actually have closing CFDs on my list to pay attention to, so I hope to get to more of them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:33, 28 December 2024 (UTC)