For earlier discussion, see user_talk:Choster/2004 and User talk:Choster/20052006.

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I wish I could take credit for it. :) But I just closed the discussion. Yeah I have no idea how it went from contentious to overwhelmingly for deletion. Maybe it was matter of the OTA category getting large enough that people realized that we didn't need the template too? But yeah that was an eyesore. Templates should not be mostly red links.

As for tips to get through the Bureaucracy, I wish I had some. I guess the main thing is to pick your battles. As an admin, I once got into EVERYTHING but I learned that it's not healthy. I wish I could say how to know which ones to avoid but I think you learn that through experience. Sometimes the most surprising things become contentious. Sometimes something contentious suddenly becomes a consensus. It's just hard to know. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 16:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just about to close the CFD as delete. Now you mentioned listifying the category, so, in case it's useful, here are the current contents.

All the best! Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Category:Lasallian universities and colleges for renaming to Category:Lasallian educational institutions. Since you have made contributions to the associated Lasallian universities and colleges article in the past, you might wish to participate in the CfD discussion. CounterFX 20:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Choster! I think that you're a really great editor, so, do you think that you could sign my autograph book, maybe? It would be an honor if you did! See ya later, Choster! Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 23:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've taken a look at the categories you mentioned. It seems that Category:Statutory law is implicitly entangled with the British Crown, and the commonwealth stuff that springs from the Crown. Is that a wrong observation? Aditya Kabir 08:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page[reply]

Oh, no, no. There seems to be a misunderstanding here. I was not asking about statutory law. The question was about the Category:Statutory law on Wikipedia. I thought, the two (the law and the category) doesn't necessarily have to be the same thing. A quick look at the category may have satisfied you that there is reason enough for I to have the suspicion stated above (i.e. the category is too closely related to the Crown and Commonwealth). Aditya Kabir 14:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Studentification has been nominated for deletion.--Loodog 03:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 15:49, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you have removed category Nursing schools in Georgia (U.S. state) when used on the university article. When should this category be used? If you look at the category page the the only pages linked are those of university articles, not articles of specific colleges or schools of a university. At the current time I doubt many, if any Georgia's (or other states for that matter) schools for nursing would qualify for WP:N. --Jerm (^Talk/ _Contrib) 16:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That has been my opinion all along, as I did not know why university pages were categorized by a degree type. I do like the idea of collapsing to Category:Nursing schools in the United States but should we discuss it first WP:CFD? Jerm (^Talk/ _Contrib) 17:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to St. John's University (New York City) here [1] , you will be blocked from editing. this is your second level warning YoSoyGuapo 03:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I was curious as to why this article doesn't belong in the top-level Christian category? Drumpler 23:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In general, individual branches or traditions of Christianity fall under any of several subcategories: denominations, organizations, theology, orders, history. Maybe I misread the article, but I did not see how Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon would be considered relevant to all aspects of Christianity, as a direct placement in Category:Christianity would imply. There are many other articles at that level which are not appropriate, and I have been cleaning them up, but it can be a painstaking process. -choster 02:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Thanks. :) Drumpler 14:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have deleted the above category from Godhead (Latter Day Saint) because you feel the category needs to be thinned and you think it might more appropriately go under theolgy. My concern is making sure readers understand the cateogory and will find similar articles in one location. Currently, the article Trinity is under the category; this concept is similar to Godhead. Where you going to be removing that category from Christianity? If not, then I think we need to discuss the standards about what belongs and what does not. It would be far too easy for this to turn into a POV purge. --Storm Rider ^(talk) 23:16, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Trinity is no longer in the category. Consider when I started this project over a year ago there were nearly a thousand articles listed directly under Category:Christianity. I cannot locate every questionable entry, research its placement, and make the edit at once, as the labyrinth of Christianity's subcategories are often themselves severely neglected.-choster 01:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when you added a request to WP:RFPP recently, you accidentally deleted an outstanding request: [2]. No harm done, as I spotted that one of my reports had gone "missing", but thought I'd let you know. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 19:04, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Before you get too many more edits in, you should be aware that most elementary and middle schools might be declared non-notable soon, and redirected to their district or town articles. AnteaterZot (talk) 08:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I gave up trying to cull the irrelevant and non-notable long ago, or even make judgments at what ought now to be redubbed Cruftipedia. I just try as many categories usable and useful as I can.-choster (talk) 08:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so you won't get angry if I redirect a few schools to their districts then? AnteaterZot (talk) 09:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course not. Many of these "articles" consist of a single sentence and a cleanup tags.-choster (talk) 09:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I see what you are doing now. There are a number of agenda-driven folks who, from time to time, try to remove the "Christian" label from certain things or to label some things "Biblical" and to remove "Christian" from others. It appeared to me that this is what was going on, but I understand what you're doing now. I still think it would be worthwhile to have them all listed under "Christian Theology" and then further branch down the taxonomy from there, but I can live with it. Sorry for the misunderstanding.--Lyonscc (talk) 07:35, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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		Great job on diffusing the massive Category:Categories named after companies! It was seriously in need of it. --Eliyak T·C 14:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re Hi Redking7, please read CfD - How to use this page about the procedure for proposing category renames. You provided an entry and rationale on the day's log, as is appropriate, but it is also necessary to tag the category itself to alert active contributors of the proposal. I have tagged Category:Constitutional laws of Ireland prior to independence for you. Cheers. -choster (talk) 21:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Regards. Redking7 (talk) 21:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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