User talk:Black309

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not add unsourced categories. You have added them based on the visual appearance of subjects stating "he is visibly native Mexican descent". Please read WP:CAT and WP:RS for further information on WIkipedia guidelines on sourcing. Thank you. Span (talk) 04:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote that my category was removed because I stated that the subject is visibly of Native/Indigenous descent. Based on the removal of visual cues as a proper reason, then all categories that include people of visible minority groups such as, People of Asian/African/Indian etc should be removed as well. This makes very little sense to remove a category due to the fact that it was based on a visual description. The vast majority of,say, people of African descent would therefore have no category based on your logic of removing my category of those of Native Latin/South American descent. Removing that/those categories because it was visual based discredits quite a lot of categories on Wikipedia. In a nutshell, your reason makes very little logical sense, and I do hope that you are not one of those who think Hispanic/Latino is an actual race of descent that one came from. Taking a look at Morgan Freeman's page, one sees the category 'African-American film actors', do you believe that Freeman presents his family history to prove he is African? Do you think the author of that Wiki page was given hard proof that Freeman is of African descent? Visual cues were used, and categories were made based on that because in such a case, visual cues are a logical way to judge ones race. Categories were made, and people are added to those very same categories based on visual cues. Your removal of those categories are without proper thought. Removing my category based on your reason, discredits many of the categories on Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Black309 (talk • contribs) 04:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I take your point. I assure you, I gave careful thought to my removal of your edits. The basis of WP:V is to source anything that maybe challenged. If you feel that Freeman's descent should be challenged then do so. The whole of Wikipedia is based on collaborative editing, challenging, reworking and evolving articles. Maybe my removal goes to discrediting categories. Category policy, has been a bit of a mess, especially around ethnicity, religion and sexuality (See WP:EGRS). There was a lot of happy slapping on of categories without any sourcing. There is a lot of work going on currently to get it together. If you feel strongly about this area, I hope you will get involved in the category policy discussion. Best wishes and happy editing. Span (talk) 01:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Ol' Talk Magazine

The article Ol' Talk Magazine has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SL93 (talk) 21:03, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion about Ol' Talk Magazine

Hello, Black309, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!

I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ol' Talk Magazine whether the article Ol' Talk Magazine should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.

The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving Ol' Talk Magazine, which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.

Thanks again for your contributions! SL93 (talk) 03:10, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]