User talk:DeGraffJE

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Redirecting
Thanks for the reminder about pages marked for deletion. I've dealt with the subcategories, mostly converting to redirects because someone could easily create them again. I've started looking at the articles; they may go the same way. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice work. It still looks pretty backed up, so hopefully some other admins will lend a hand as well. —DeGraffJE talk 22:24, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * They do no harm sitting there. Most of the articles probably deserve to be turned into redirects and therefore need individual study. Anyone really keen to get a particluar one dealt with can ask an admin specifically. Job for "spare" time. Remind me in a week or a month if you feel like it. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:51, 17 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, I do have a couple things sitting there, one image in particular that I'd like removed ;) —DeGraffJE talk 01:02, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Surname categories
I'm surprised that such an observant person as you are would not have noted the bold print that has been in the middle of our sitenotice (near the top of most pages) for months. See Category:Endermann (surname). — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I must have skimmed and dismissed that message a while ago. I now understand. —DeGraffJE talk 00:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I presume you've now templated "your" other surname categories and are thinking about creating their articles if not already created. Interesting how even bold type gets missed by some people. Another example is our "Simple page for person" where the big bold type asks people to put a name in the box before the (preprinted) brackets and the dates inside the brackets, but we still get some users starting after the brackets. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:51, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Neat template inviting me here
Some conversations are definitely better confined to one user talk page where it's necessary but tedious to copy a bit of what one's replying to. You could add your idea to Help:Communication (which is due for a bit of updating anyway). — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:51, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The idea's not mine (see Wikipedia:Template:Talkback); I just created a simplified version here for me since the actual one uses a lot of embedded templates that would be difficult to translate over to this wiki. —DeGraffJE talk 00:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)