User talk:Felida97

Thanks for your eyes on User:JOHN. C MAY 007

Blocked indef as not here. Thank you for your work. BusterD (talk) 14:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 15 § Ballet premieres by date

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 January 15 § Ballet premieres by date on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Changing specific short desc to general ones...

Hi Felida⁹⁷, thanks for taking time to review my pages and the short descriptions. I noticed that you have changed one of them and left it in good faith. But now you have changed most of them. I give very specific Short Desc as, for example, MLA from Madhya Pradesh, India, which is more specific and provides clear info about the BLPs role and location. It is suitable as it focuses on the specific role as MLA of the specific state. Indian Politician, on the other hand, is very general. Even a panchayat leader who has not won anything, is an INDIAN POLITICIAN. Getting to become an MLA is something special, and means that the politician has arrived. As per the criteria and guidelines, the one I gave better suits as we need to tell what the article is about, and be SPECIFIC about it. This is what I think and am writing to you in good faith. You are an expert and I see that you have done a lot of work on Short Descs, But I want you to go back and and check... I take part in short desc backlogs and have done 100s of them but I will wait for you to check. So I did not revert any of them. thanks and happy editing! best!! Davidindia (talk) 16:45, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

@Davidindia: Thank you for your message, I very much appreciate that you came here and did not just revert the edits! I understand why you chose the format and see that your intentions were good, but I'm not sure which criteria and guidelines you are referring to. Being specific is not one of the principles for short descriptions (see WP:SHORTDESC); in fact, short descriptions are meant to be very general and only need to be specific enough to fulfill the three purposes of short descriptions. For that reason, as I'm sure you know, the short description format for most persons is generally "[country adjective] [what the person is known for]", which is why practically any article about a member of an Indian state legislative assembly for which you did not write the short description already has one along the lines of "Indian politician" (see, for example, the people in the subcategories of Category:Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly by term, which I didn't touch so far; case in point, I didn't actually review the articles you created specifically, it's just they are the only ones with this kind of short description). Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, which in the case of politicians means that politicians that serve in very high positions (e.g., heads of state, heads of government, ministers etc.) often have a short description with the specific position. In the case of India, there may be an argument to be made that members of the Parliament of India fall in this category (although, looking at Category:India MPs 2024–2029, it seems that the general consensus is that they do not, with which I would agree), but state-level legislators like MLAs certainly do not (ministers of state governments may do, but ordinary members definitely do not; I wouldn't have made such large-scale changes if I wasn't 100% sure that this is the general consensus). Aside from that, a short description like "MLA from [state], India" specifically actually doesn't fulfill the intended purposes very well because of the use of an abbreviation. While the meaning of "MLA" may be extremely clear to you (and perhaps to people in India in general), short descriptions are meant to be clear to English-speaking readers worldwide, and for example, English-speaking readers in countries where this kind of political position is not called "Member of the Legislative Assembly" (and there are quite a few of those countries) are likely not as familiar with this abbreviation. I hope that clears things up, let me know if it doesn't. Thanks again! Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 23:07, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I think I misunderstood the three purposes of short desc. Also noted the other points, which you explained well. Henceforth will follow as suggested, and will also go thru the criteria to acquaint myself. Best! Davidindia (talk) 05:08, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

@Davidindia: Great, I appreciate that you went through your short descriptions yourself after the message, thank you! Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 05:33, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Checked about 500 BLPs. Since I have done more than 900 MLAs, I am in process of going thru others. Thanks for flagging the issue. I am bit careful nowadays with the greater responsibility of Autopatrol. thanks and happy editing! Davidindia (talk) 06:46, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Update for Lone Star Funds

Hi Felida97, I noticed that you recently edited the Carrier Global page and I would appreciate you taking a look my edit request for Lone Star Funds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lone_Star_Funds#Investment_Details, including their 2021 acquisition of Carrier Global's commercial and residential fire business. Thank you KD at LSF (talk) 10:01, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Sanjay Sehgal at AfD

Hi there. In December you participated in an AfD on Sanjay Sehgal. The article is now back and is again at AfD here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanjay Sehgal (2nd nomination). I am notifying all participants in the prior discussion. Thanks! Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:01, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Thank you for the notification! Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 14:31, 4 May 2025 (UTC)