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Speedy deletion nomination of 4th-millennium BCE establishments

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on 4th-millennium BCE establishments requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Changing dates on categories

Hello, Boudewijn,

Please do not randomly decide to change one category to your preferred format of dating. It is disruptive. Please review MOS:BCE and MOS:STYLEVAR for guidance on dates. If you look at other millennium in Category:Establishments by millennium, you'll see that they all use the BC date format. Deciding to create your own, competing category that is BCE is not how these changes are made on Wikipedia. You don't take an existing category like Category:4th-millennium BC establishments and stick a redirect tag on it. First, that is not how redirect categories are created (there is a template for it) and secondly, this category has existed for 11 years and shouldn't be changed to a redirect because one editor doesn't like it.

Personally, in my academic work, I used BCE/CE so I prefer that notation but Wikipedia works on consensus and, especially for categories, you have to work within an existing category structure. Should you wish to try to change all BC categories to BCE, please make a proposal at Categories for discussion. That is the proper route to make a sweeping change like this to category names. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:13, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Liz, Thank you for explaining patiently and in a clear way that I actually vandalized Wikipedia (without a trace of intention in that direction). I did see that the other categories use BC/AD, and recognized the breach of style. It was also quite a hassle to get all links hooked up to keep integrity. I imagined the work to make the change had held people back, and thought with a category at a time, things would work out. I realize now that a concerted effort would be preferable. I'll post a note on your talk page, if I can get it in the right format. Best regards, Boudewijn

PS I see you already repaired the changes I made, thank you for taking the time.

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:4th-millennium BCE establishments

A tag has been placed on Category:4th-millennium BCE establishments requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:40, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:4th millennium BCE

A tag has been placed on Category:4th millennium BCE requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kaientai (band) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Kaientai (band), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 04:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Kaientai (band)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:21, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]