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Welcome to Project Korikath

Dear Sbb1413, We are thrilled and overwhelmed with joy to welcome you into the esteemed folds of Project Korikath. As a proud member of our growing family, consisting of individuals hailing from four countries and beyond, your presence holds immense significance. Together, we embark on a profound mission: bridging the visual knowledge gap reagarding local topics within Wikimedia projects and bringing them closer to the fabric of everyday life. Your dedication and contributions are instrumental in propelling us towards this shared vision. With heartfelt gratitude, we raise our glasses to you, celebrating the beginning of a transformative journey filled with growth, accomplishment, and the profound satisfaction of making a change in the real world with open knowledge. Cheers! Korikath steering committee

Wasiul Bahar (talk) 13:18, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 13:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

File:Kolkata Police Jurisdiction in Kolkata and South 24 Parganas (West Bengal).svg

উক্ত ফাইলটিতে খেয়াল করুন, দুই ভাঙ্গড় ব্লক কিন্তু পুরোপুরিভাবে কলকাতা পুলিশ জেলার অন্তর্ভুক্ত নয়। উভয় ভাঙ্গড় ব্লকের পশ্চিম দিকে সামান্য অংশ নিয়ে কলকাতা লেদার কমপ্লেক্স পুলিশ থানা গঠিত, যা কলকাতা পুলিশের আওতায়ভুক্ত করা হয় ২০১৭ সালে। বাকি ভাঙ্গড় ১ ব্লকে রয়েছে ভাঙ্গড় থানা ও ভাঙ্গড় ২ ব্লকে রয়েছে কাশীপুর থানা, যার দুটিই বারুইপুর পুলিশ জেলার অন্তর্ভুক্ত। বারুইপুর পুলিশ জেলার ওয়েবসাইট থেকে তথ্য আহরণ করে এই ভুল তথ্যপূর্ণ মানচিত্রটি নির্ভুল বা প্রায় নির্ভুল করুন। -শরদিন্দু ভট্টাচার্য্য (talk) 12:58, 31 July 2023 (UTC) শরদিন্দু ভট্টাচার্য্য (talk) 12:58, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

সম্প্রতি ভাঙ্গড় থানাকে কলকাতা পুলিশের অন্তর্ভুক্ত করার কথা ঘোষণা করা হয়েছে বলে মানচিত্রটি তৈরি করেছিলাম। আমি বারুইপুর পুলিশ জেলার ওয়েবসাইট থেকে মানচিত্রটি সংশোধন করে দেব। Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 13:14, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again!

Welcome to Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 India

Hello Sbb1413!

We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 14th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2023. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!

You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action soon!!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India team)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:24, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:Animals_on_railway_lines

Animals on railway lines has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Prototyperspective (talk) 15:53, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of WEST BENGAL symbol/emblems

Why the hell did you delete this logos? Are you stupid or what?? Don't you understand the sanctity or importance of these files?

I had to serve three non-deletion requests for all three files you deleted. This image is very important as it serves as the symbol or emblem of the Indian state of West Bengal, it's government and all it's official institutions. All other states of India including the given state's counterpart Maharashtra have their symbols (emblems) intact and not deleted.

You are a person who has stupidly deleted these symbols. Your deletion request already stands false as you stated that these logos were launched in 2011, wherein reality, they were launched in 2018. Moreover, they are public domain logos of the State Govt. of West Bengal, not copyrighted. The bot has deleted this symbol from all West Bengal pages on Wikipedia.

This image needs to get undeleted immediately. This is a matter of the sanctity of the biggest and most important region of India. You, being a resident of Bengal initiated such stupid actions which has ruined West Bengal related pages which look unofficial now due to absence of logos, instead of improving WB articles or participating in Wikiproject: West Bengal.

If these files remain deleted, what the hell will you do? Have you devised any way to re-upload those images? For what stupid reason you drafted that deletion request for West Bengal emblem when other state emblems are intact and no one is deleting them? Rourib.2004 (talk) 13:22, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

@Rourib.2004: First and foremost, please talk to me politely. I won't support any form of personal attacks to any users. If the emblems of West Bengal are really in public domain, you can request undeletion at COM:UNDELETE. I had requested deletion of West Bengal emblems (I don't have the rights to delete or undelete files, only admins and bots can do) because I thought they were copyrighted by the state. It is not about sanctity or importance of files, it is about a possible copyright violation, which is not allowed in Commons. I have previously requested several suspicious images for deletion. If my decision is wrong, just say so, no need to start a personal attack. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 14:22, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

On improving West Bengal articles and WikiProjects, I already do so in Bengali Wikipedia, see my account there. I can't work in English Wikipedia due to a ban imposed for personal attacks on February 2021. You are welcome in Bengali Wikipedia, as long as you are able to read and write Bengali articles. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 14:26, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Please see Undeletion.

Now, since you nominated and got those symbol and flags deleted, what do you envisage now? All the articles of West Bengal are now empty and devoid of the official emblem of West Bengal.

Do you want them to remain empty? All Maharashtra articles have their emblem intact, and all other Indian states. Have you thought of fixing these issue anyhow?

— By Re-uploading the logo/emblem and flags with proper licensing info which you deleted?

— You could have tweaked the licensing info of these files, like those of other states instead of proposing them for deletion.

— Bot has deleted the emblem symbol from all the pages related to West Bengal. Even if the logo is newly re-uploaded, who will place these logo in all the WB articles one by one (manually)? You have created a very big mess. Did you want all these articles to be devoid of the emblem?

What is your vision. Please reply to these queries. Rourib.2004 (talk) 21:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Again, the tone should be polite. I have no conspiracy associated with the emblems. I'm just too sensitive with possible copyright violations. Only admins can undelete deleted images and you can request them to do so in COM:UNDELETE. And yes, I should have altered the licensing info instead of requesting deletion. Until the SVG emblem is restored, you can use Govt. Of West Bengal(Bidhannagar Government College).png, which essentially the same emblem in PNG. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 03:35, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Will you please, for once look into this matter, which you caused: Undeletion. This request, which was going for more than 2 days had so many interruptions by a single user who claims to be the protector of copyrights, the files even got restored once, but that single user made sure to put his claims in such a way that these files never return to Wiki (he seemed to be hating me or West Bengal), and thus it got ultimately got rejected. Now I am stuck in the admin's talk page, begging for the undeletion of those three files. Can you atleast participate in the latter one? You didn't come even once in the undeletion request for your mistakes. Those three files had links to all West Bengal related pages and their undeletion is the only solution, as re-uploading them again will not make anyone do the effort to insert the emblem and flag in each article one-by-one. Even if by chance, the administrator does not agree, what will happen, mister? All other states of India, including our counterpart Maharashtra, have their symbols intact on commons (despite having exactly same licensing info, of being on PD-India and being self-drawn vectorised images by the authors from official state government sources, as that of West Bengal), whereas our cursed state of West Bengal has none.

From where I will find these three files which include the svg format emblem, png format emblem and the svg format flag????:

• File:Emblem of West Bengal.svg (edit · last · history · watch · unwatch · global usage · logs · purge · w · search · links · DR · del · undel · Delinker log)
• File:Emblem of West Bengal.png (edit · last · history · watch · unwatch · global usage · logs · purge · w · search · links · DR · del · undel · Delinker log)
• File:Flag of West Bengal.svg (edit · last · history · watch · unwatch · global usage · logs · purge · w · search · links · DR · del · undel · Delinker log)

Please don't come again with those politeness advisories or civil behaviour rants. This is the matter of the sanctity and officiation of the Indian state of West Bengal. I can't believe that a Bengali, like you, can do this, with their own state. I too live in the same district as yours, but you ruined all of us.

Rourib.2004 (talk) 21:50, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Copyright is our primary concern in Wikimedia Commons, see Commons:Licensing. We don't host copyrighted stuff in Commons just because it is sanctified or officiated, we do so locally in Wikipedia. I understand the public domain nature of the logo. So I'm now supporting undeletion within seven days. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 04:42, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for now. Let's see whether these files get undeleted or not.

Joy Maa Durga 🙏🙏 Rourib.2004 (talk) 17:00, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Jay Ma Durga. Let the Goddess fullfil our wish. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 17:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Emblem of the Government of West Bengal.svg has been uploaded anew. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 03:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

To fix some pronlems for bussscr in commons

Dear @Sbb1413 sir, 182.160.119.220 00:19, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Request for doing this 3 things

@Sbb1413 Sir,

I am a normal wikipedian. I am trying to do this three things but I am failing. Would you kindly please do this three things for me. It would be very helpful if you do it. Although I am from Bangladesh and this is about a bangladeshi school. As a brother please help me to do this three things. Now I am telling you what three things should be done:

1.Can you create a open street map way id? If you can then create a way id for bir uttam shaheed samad school & college. Coordinates: 25°46'8.00"N, 89°13'5.45"E. It is marked in black in the map, all you have to do make a way id by the line I have marked. You can vet the location by the locations.

2. I have uploaded an image in the wikidata. But In the commons when I search the name bir uttam shaheed samad school & college the image is not seen the info box. Please solve that.

3. Please translate this bangla wikipedia article to english wikipedia and publish it in the english wikipedia.

Article: bn:মিলিটারী ইঞ্জিনিয়ার সার্ভিসেস (বাংলাদেশ)

Please do this 3 things for me.

I hope you have understand it all. Please do it as soon as possible.

Thank you

Rishad Talukdar (talk) 00:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

I'll complete your first two requests, but I'm unable to complete the third one (translating the Bengali article to English), since I'm completely banned from English Wikipedia. You can translate the Bengali article to English by yourself, as long as the translation is recognisable ("bodhgomyo") to average English speakers. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 03:23, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

@Sbb1413 Sir,

আমি বুঝতে পেরেছি। তাহলে আপনি প্রথম দুইটি কাজই করুন। নিচে সেগুলোর কিছু তথ্য দেওয়া হলো-

এইযে infobox এর link:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bir_Uttam_Shaheed_Samad_School_%26_College

আপনি infobox টি দেখবেন ছবি নেই কিন্তু wikidata তে ছবি আছে। আমি চাচ্ছি infobox টাতে ছবি আসে। তারপর আপনি ম্যাপটিও পাবেন। open street way map id তৈরি করা সময় ম্যাপে যে কালো দাগটি রয়েছে ততটুকু জায়গা হলো ওই প্রতিষ্ঠানটির জায়গা। এছাড়া ম্যাপের ভিতের ভবনগুলোসহ জায়গাটি মার্ক করবেন। 'L' সাইজের ভবনের সামনে যে ফাঁকা জায়গা রয়েছে সেটি প্রতিষ্ঠানটির খেলার মাঠ। খেলার মাঠটি সবুজ রং দিয়ে দয়া করে মার্ক করবেন। ম্যাপের কাজ শেষ। যদি ম্যাপে ভবন না দেখায় তাহলে বলবেন। আমি আশা করি আপনি আমার কথা বুঝতে পেরেছেন।

-ধন্যবাদ Rishad Talukdar (talk) 08:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

আপনি যে বিষয়শ্রেণীর (category) সংযোগ আমাকে দিয়েছেন সেখানকার উইকিউপাত্ত তথ্যছকে (wikidata infobox) আমি BUSSSCR - Front view.jpg চিত্রটি পেয়েছি। এছাড়া আমি উইকিউপাত্তের মাধ্যমে সেই কালো দাগকে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির জায়গা হিসেবে চিহ্নিত করেছি। তবে ওপেনস্ট্রিটম্যাপে (OpenStreetMap) অতটা অভিজ্ঞ না হওয়ায় আমি প্রতিষ্ঠানটির খেলার মাঠকে সবুজ রঙে চিহ্নিত করতে পারিনি। Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 11:08, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

@Sbb1413 Sir,

তাহলে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির খেলার মাঠ সবুজ রং করার দরকার নেই। আপনি শুধুমাত্র কালো রং করা জায়গাটিকে মার্ক করে ভেতরে যে ভবনগুলো রয়েছে ওগুলোসহ প্রতিষ্ঠানটির জন্য open street map way id তৈরি করুন তাহলে হবে। তারপর কমন্স এ বীর উত্তম শহীদ সামাদ স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ এর যে ছবিটি আপনি উল্লেখ করেছেন সে ছবিটি কমন্স এ প্রতিষ্ঠানটির infobox এ দয়া করে যুক্ত করুন।

-ধন্যবাদ Rishad Talukdar (talk) 12:09, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

@Sbb1413 sir,

আপনি যে ম্যাপ আইডি উইকিউপাত্তে আপলোড করেছেন সেটি ব্যর্থ হয়েছে। সেখানে আমি দেখলাম ১ থেকে ৯ সংখ্যা হলো আইডি নম্বরের সীমা। আপনি ১০টি সংখ্যা দিয়েছেন। তাই হয়তো ম্যাপটি আপলোড হয়নি। আপনি একটু দয়া করে আবার জিনিসটি দেখবেন, তাহলে একটু ভালো হয়।

-ধন্যবাদ Rishad Talukdar (talk) 14:53, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Sbb1413sir,

উত্তর দিচ্ছেন না কেন? Rishad Talukdar (talk) 00:59, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

আমি এখন অন্যান্য কাজে ব্যস্ত, তাই অধৈর্য্য হওয়ার কিছু নেই। উপযুক্ত সময় পেলেই আমি আপনার অনুরোধকে বাস্তবায়িত করার চেষ্টা করব। উইকিপিডিয়া, কমন্স, ইত্যাদির কোনো ডেডলাইন নেই (ইংরেজি Wikipedia:There is no deadline দ্রষ্টব্য)। Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 02:43, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Sbb1413 ভাই,

দুইদিন হলো ভাই। দয়া করে কাজটি করেন। একটু সময় করে করিয়েন। ভাই, কাজটি করার সময় বীর উত্তম শহীদ সামাদ স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ নামে ম্যাপো যত লোকেশন আছে ডিলিট করবেন এবং ঐ কালো এরিয়া অনুযায়ী এমনভাবে ম্যাপিং করবেন যাতে বাংলা, ইংরেজী দুই উইকিপিডিয়াতে যাতে ম্যাপে লাল দাগ দেখা যায়। আইডি তৈরি হলে দয়া করে দুই উইকিপিডিয়া একটু চেক করবেন যে ম্যাপ ঠিক আছে নাকি নেই।

-ধন্যবাদ Rishad Talukdar (talk) 02:26, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Sbb1413 ভাই,

বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ায় বীর উত্তম শহীদ সামাদ স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ এর ম্যাপটায় লাল দাগ দেখা যায় কিন্তু পিনটি সঠিক জায়গায় নেই। আপনি একটু দয়া করে ম্যাপে যে পিনটি আছে সেটি লাল দাগের ভেতরে আনুন। Rishad Talukdar (talk) 02:38, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Request for a doing a thing

Sbb1413 ভাই,

দয়া করে আবার বীর উত্তম শহীদ সামাদ স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ এর ম্যাপটি open street map এ যুক্ত করুন। জানি না, কে জানি ম্যাপটি Remove করেছে। Way আইডি তৈরির জন্য ধন্যবাদ। এখন way আইডির এরিয়া অনুযায়ী পূর্বের মতো হুলুদ রং করে ম্য্যাপটি যুক্ত করিয়েন। way আইডির লিংকঃ https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1168027655#map=19/25.76896/89.21801

-ধন্যবাদ 182.160.119.220 12:17, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Join Project Korikath mailing list

Hello Sbb1413,

I express my heartfelt gratitude for being with Project Korikath. You'll be happy to know that Project Korikath has a new mailing list to coordinate our work. You're requested to subscribe to the mailing list from this link. Please discuss in this mailing list before making any major change in the categories and other major korikath spaces.

Wishing you all the best. --Mrb Rafi (talk) 05:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Please be more attentive when categorising

hello, sorry to bother, please be more attentive when categorising: you added three pictures from Ukraine to a category of a wrong country, like here Revision #818054068. all other categories are about Ukraine, and Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine -- so, please, be more attentive next time. thank you! -- アンタナナ 18:42, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

I didn't realise they were Ukrainian images, because the image description starts with "Pycknn" (Russian). Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 04:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

not realy sure what you mean -- this was the information before your edit Revision #748393396, where did you notice anything russian?

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as i do not see anything, except for a few mentioning of Ukraine and ua--アンタナナ 07:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Roads

... are between two cities, not within a city. Please check your edits. --XRay 💬 15:49, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

This is the result of the consensus at Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/06/Category:Streets named after Kyiv. It has been found in the discussion that streets are types of roads. However, you can start a new CFD if you want to challenge the consensus. Otherwise, you can use Highways for intercity roads. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 02:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Very interesting. However, this should not be decided under such a discussion. The tenor of the discussion is different and the separation of Streets and Roads has been handled in this way for years. It is just a single opinion in the discussion. Decisions of this magnitude must be made centrally in the proposals (Village pump). --XRay 💬 08:55, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Please see Commons:Village_pump#Roads_and_streets. May be a discussion is useful. --XRay 💬 09:55, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Arindam Bagchi

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Doclys👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ ^{🩺 • 💉} 05:23, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Update request

Hello.

Can you update the maps of India, which need to include the borders of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Telangana?

The internal borders of India urgently need to be updated.

The borders of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh which were created in 2019, and the borders of the State of Telangana, which was created in 2014, need to be drawn in the maps of India, which are very widely used in hundreds of articles across Wikipedia.

There is a risk, that new maps of India can be created from these still obsolete maps, and uploaded without the new borders.

These maps are categorized under the Category:SVG locator maps of states in India (red location map scheme).

I also requested an update of these maps in Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop.

Yours sincerely, Multituberculata (talk) 08:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:College_gates

College gates has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 15:24, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Trans-Karakoram Tract in China

File:Kashmir religions.svg says "Pakistani-administered Kashmir, Siachen and Trans-Karakoram Tract are assumed to be majority Muslim." But Trans-Karakoram Tract is China PRC administered. So I made this change, but I'm not sure if that's what you meant or what your map intends to say, so please correct me if there's any problem. Geographyinitiative (talk) 02:07, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your correction. It is one of my earliest maps uploaded under my previous username "Soumya-8974". It is a rather oversimplified map of religion in Greater Kashmir due to the lack of good data available for the whole region. I may upload a more detailed map of religion in Indian-administered Kashmir (i.e. Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh). Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 02:52, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Subterranean rapid transit in the United States

What was your criteria for moving systems into Category:Subterranean rapid transit in the United States from Category:Rapid transit in the United States? All of these systems have a mix of underground and at-grade/elevated sections; some like the Chicago L are mostly elevated. Some other systems with subway sections (including the all-subway LACMTA B and D lines) you did not move into this category.

I made this category mostly to reduce the number of subcats in Subterranean rapid transit. --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 02:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Okay, but why did you move some systems and not others? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:01, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Republic of China (Taiwan) Territorial Claims.jpg

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Mr. James Dimsey (talk) 11:30, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Countries_of_the_Antarctic

Countries of the Antarctic has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Auntof6 (talk) 07:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/08/Category:Parts of a day

Your statement	My response
Support renaming this category to Times of day (plural name in order to be consistent with COM:CAT).	"Times of day" is WP:MADEUP. Native English speakers don't say that--they say "Time of day". COM:CAT#Category names points out that "General themes or activities require a name in singular form usually". "Time of day" works this way, presumably because its cardinality is limited and thus native speakers treat it as an uncountable noun.
Category:Spans of time already exists and can be used for small time units like Second, Minute and Hours.	The fact that you describe this category as "time units" is evidence that it too is WP:MADEUP. ("Units of time" is also acceptable, but "Spans of time" sounds like someone who programs in C# decided to use the name of their data structure instead of the common English name.) People shouldn't be inventing names for categories--they should be using the common name an English speaker would use. Also, let me point out that I wasn't the insane editor who was trying to lump together "Seconds", "Minutes", and "Hours" into the same category as "Dawn", "Morning", "Afternoon", "Evening", "Dusk", and "Night".
Renamed Category:Parts of a day to Category:Times of day per consensus and COM:CAT.	Let me point out that you didn't actually have consensus. You just chose a WP:MADEUP name that you came up with based on your partial reading of COM:CAT#Category names. At least what you chose is close to what a native English speaker would actually use instead of the wide variety of other opinions which were also really clumsily WP:MADEUP.

-- DanielPenfield (talk) 06:20, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for challenging my closure and the opinions are too strong to argue with. As I've already shown in my userpage (User:Sbb1413/babel), English is not my first language and I know that "what time of day is it?" is what a native speaker would say. I thought categories using common nouns will generally be in plural with certain exceptions. Spans of time should be discussed separately, as it wasn't discussed in that CFD thoroughly. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 06:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: One thing to note that Commons doesn't really have any equivalent of Wikipedia's WP:MADEUP, and there are several categories with so-called MADEUP names. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines doesn't really apply to Commons, and it has its own guidelines regarding category names. However, we should strive to follow established terms instead of terms made out of thin air. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 02:42, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Your statement	My response
I thought categories using common nouns will generally be in plural with certain exceptions.	Here's a big part of the problem: You don't know what a common noun versus a proper noun is, so you don't actually know that those terms are completely irrelevant to this discussion. The relevant terms are countable noun versus uncountable noun. "Time of day" functions like an uncountable noun in English as evidenced by the term "Times of day" sounding completely WP:MADEUP. Also, since COM:CAT##Category names doesn't explicitly use the terms "countable noun" or "uncountable noun", you're going to willfully ignore the "General themes or activities require a name in singular form usually" statement there as well.
Spans of time should be discussed separately, as it wasn't discussed in that CFD thoroughly.	You're confused. I am not the editor who is defending the insane decision to mix categories dealing with "Spans of time"/"Time spans" (which really should be "Time units" or "Units of time" instead of a name inspired by the C Sharp (programming language)) in with "Parts of a day"/"Time of day"/"Times of day". These really should be separated and that needs to be explicitly stated in this discussion. I stated this in this discussion because of the level of insanity and because the person who raised it was veering completely off topic. The fact that I responded to the insane claim that somehow "Spans of time"/"Time spans" should be mixed in with "Parts of a day"/"Time of day"/"Times of day" doesn't mean that I somehow don't understand the "(generally) one category per CfD" convention.
One thing to note that Commons doesn't really have any equivalent of Wikipedia's WP:MADEUP, and there are several categories with so-called MADEUP names.	Yes, I am aware that Commons has many, many glaring holes in COM:CAT and that people frequently use those holes to claim that the status quo is somehow acceptable.
Wikipedia's policies and guidelines doesn't really apply to Commons	Yes, because COM:CAT doesn't address this glaring hole, you're going to use that to justify a name that you literally WP:MADEUP. You know that fixing COM:CAT to address the issue of WP:MADEUP names versus established precedent outside of Commons is impossible, because most editors seem to be addicted to narcissistically creating neologisms in their own image rather than using longstanding English terms.
However, we should strive to follow established terms instead of terms made out of thin air.	Yes, so why didn't you? Thanks for the lecture about a principle that you didn't follow.

-- DanielPenfield (talk) 05:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: I have now read COM:CAT#Category names and now understand where I should use singular and plural. Next time, I won't do the mistake and follow established norms. Thank you for the rant and happy uploading. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 06:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Microstates_of_Europe

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Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:22, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning Category:Writing!

Thanks for cleaning Category:Writing! I did not quite know what to do with the rest of the subcategories, so I am glad you made the choices. I'll try to move the files that are still in this disambiguous page to proper categories, but that is for the long term. JopkeB (talk) 06:54, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you too for creating Writing (activity) and Written works, and recategorizing the files and subcats. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 07:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Home_Nations

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Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Company towns

I'm going to make my case to you on this one and let you make the call. I disagree with https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Company_towns&diff=prev&oldid=851931192. Despite the term, "company towns" aren't necessarily "towns". Most company towns in Washington state are unincorporated, as is even the rather large Hershey, Pennsylvania. The former company town of Roslyn, Washington is legally a "city," despite having a population under 1,000. Etc. - Jmabel ! talk 21:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)