User talk:Bearcat

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A barnstar for you

		The Law Barnstar
		For your extensive, long term, and ongoing work on legal articles, especially to improving existing stubs and articles. Bearian (talk) 22:33, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I was very confused when I saw this on my watchlist. Then I realised that Bearian ≠ Bearcat; it's not self-barnstar awarding, it's just a conspiracy of bears. Guettarda (talk) 23:30, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Now I wanna know who's Goldilocks in this scenario... Bearcat (talk) 00:17, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Isn't Goldilocks the name of a drag queen in Saugatuck, Michigan? /s Bearian (talk) 00:59, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Request protection from vandalism

Hi Bearcat, how are you? I'm just dropping if you can look into the vandalism history of Alden Richards (actor) page, some people have been changing a single word on his name or surname and adding unwanted category or incorrect information without sources or referrences. I'm one of those frequent contributors, i have been seeing this vandalism have been going on for months now. Will you please help me secure and protect the page?

By the way, thank you for your advice. I appreciate your help .--Fanblade81 (talk) 14:40, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Healthcare in Belarus

Hi Bearcat, this article, for some reason, has been semi-protected by you in 2011 due to apparent vandalism. Perhaps it's time to unprotect it now that 14 years have past? The article isn't really edited much (there have been only 21 edits since the article was protected), and has seen a measly 2,495 views in the past year (see here), so I doubt this is gonna be the target of a lot of disruption. BriDash9000 (talk) 14:35, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

AWB no categories

Hey Bearcat, it looks like you marked SwissP Defence as uncategorized [1]. The article had some categories, but had an "X" before "Category" – presumably this is some kind of workaround for draft categories. This was then fixed by @PichPich [2]. I don't know much about AWB, but would it be possible for AWB to recognize this and remove the "X" instead of tagging as uncategorized? That would've saved some steps in this case. Toadspike [Talk] 12:01, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Dangit, meant to ping @Pichpich. Toadspike [Talk] 12:02, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

It's not a common workaround so including it in AWB is not really worth it. Pichpich (talk) 13:56, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. As I said, I don't know much about AWB. No-one did anything wrong in this case and the error got quickly fixed, so unless it's easy to include I understand if it's not worth it. Toadspike [Talk] 14:05, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 May 24 § Palestinian territories redirected categories

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 May 24 § Palestinian territories redirected categories on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hassan697 (talk) 10:33, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 May 24 § Culture stubs and sub-stubs in need of renaming

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 May 24 § Culture stubs and sub-stubs in need of renaming on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:04, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Politics of the Arizona Borderlands

An article that you have been involved in editing—Politics of the Arizona Borderlands—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Horse.staple (talk) 06:28, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

This edit

[3] At least try to comment out misplaced cats and links. JayCubby 03:10, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

That's not how things work. Your user talk page cannot be in categories, and there is absolutely no requirement that categories have to be left on it, and merely "commented out", instead of being removed outright. Bearcat (talk) 03:12, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

For a valid nomination at MFD. If you look over the recent history, you will see too many nominations that are either of three types of timesinks, either nominations of useless pages that waste time in even being discussed, or disputes about useful essays, or an effort to use MFD to resolve a conduct dispute. I don't know what the galleries are supposed to be, but they can go into the bit bucket. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Canadian political philosophers has been nominated for merging

Category:Canadian political philosophers has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Psychastes (talk) 18:15, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:French political philosophers has been nominated for merging

Category:French political philosophers has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Psychastes (talk) 18:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

C'mon

There is absolutely no need to bite a new user, who is as a result confused and concerned, as you did here. This is the first time you are telling this user (excluding through edit summaries, whose reading is not a given). You could, as I suggested above, replace mainspace cats with their draft substitutes, like category:drafts about writers. JayCubby 23:10, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 June 6 § Burkinabe

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 June 6 § Burkinabe on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hassan697 (talk) 11:37, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

"redlinked" category in Georgia (country).

You removed the Category:Eastern European countries in Georgia (country), stating that redlinks are not permitted. I have 2 things to say about your edit. 1. It would be better if you let it stay there and let someone make the redlink work, for example, by creating the page. Or, you could have fixed it yourself alternatively. 2. I don't understand why the category "Eastern European countries" is a red link:https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_European_countries <- this exists. Am I linking the wrong thing, or is my format wrong? KoroRush (talk) 14:51, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of Sambalut for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sambalut is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sambalut until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Bearian (talk) 16:07, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

What's this got to do with me, when I've never edited (or even seen) that article in my life? Bearcat (talk) 16:08, 11 June 2025 (UTC)