User talk:Sicilarch

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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How to ask for speedy-delete of an empty category

When you want to ask for speedy-delete of an empty category, best practice is to mark it with {{SD|C2}} if it would be OK to re-create it in the future, given that appropriate content becomes available or {{SD|C1}} if it is an inappropriate category name that should not be reused. In particular, this is better practice than just blanking the category page, as you did at Category:Le Antichità della Sicilia e Del Duomo di Monreale e di altre chiese siculo-normanne. ("C1" and "C2" come from Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion). Jmabel ! talk 04:16, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much! Sicilarch (talk) 08:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Recreation of "historical images" categories

Please see Commons:Categories for discussion/2019/09/Category:Historical images. It's not really helpful to recreate categories that were previously deleted due to the outcome of a CfD. It looks like you've created a lot of "historical images" categories outside outside of that in the meantime to. Generally "historical images" should be categorized by subject or date per the consensus. Not just dumped into categories for "historical images." So maybe categorize things by subject or date going forward. Otherwise it will just lead to extra work down the line. Thanks. Adamant1 (talk) 19:49, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me. I didn't know about these rules as I found a lot of "historical images" category. Sicilarch (talk) 13:33, 6 November 2024 (UTC)