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[edit] BLOFFF!!!!

I will keep in contact. How are you? How could take his words so serously... Look what I wrote to him a few minutes after you left... Shahid • Talk2me 16:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I never thought the circular saw would get you! You are becoming a problem, Mr Bond. Johnbod (talk) 16:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeh I noticed that LOL!!! But please don't get offended when some editors say something wrong. You know, not every user on here knows of your brilliant work. You know that thousand editors on here are big fans of yours... And I'm a big fan of yours. I'm still stuck in Talk:Jodhaa Akbar... I did a great analysis and this user (who was a sockpuppet btw) doesn't even look at it. It's OK that historians say something. But Wikipedia is not here to make conclusions about tall claims. Historians say something, but their words aren't facts, but views. So my opinion is to write, "according to several historians... Jodhaa wasn't the nae of Akbar's wife" rather than "Jodhaa vever existed".
Isn't it pathetic? Shahid • Talk2me 17:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeh but I have no problem with the historical accuracy section, but the way it's written there. Historians' views cannot be considered a pure facts. Can they? Shahid • Talk2me 17:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back!

Glad to see your return, I suppose it means I'm going to have to do a good bit more new page patrol! Good luck with your editing and ignore the über-deletionists, EJF (talk) 17:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

Tiger Woods having a particularly good day at the British Open
Tiger Woods having a particularly good day at the British Open

Hey Stavro, good to see you back! I plan to make an automatic map using the decimal "longitude" and "latitude" fields in the French infobox, but it will be for in a week or so, because I'm going on holidays (to France actually). Keep up the good work! Markussep Talk 19:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean this one? I rather like it, but if you have something better, show me. Markussep Talk 19:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
It's not so difficult, it just takes some time to get the calculation right. I've done it for Belgium and Greece. Markussep Talk 19:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
We made it, all French communes have an article now! I'll look into the automatic map later. Markussep Talk 15:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
No, not completely, I just added some missing ones. Markussep Talk 16:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Hmmm, the map is not completely north oriented (it should be rotated a bit counterclockwise), so I can't use it. This one is, but it doesn't have the regional borders and the elevation shading. We can use France blank.svg, or we could try to rotate the France jms.png map. Markussep Talk 12:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I think I've got the automatic map worked out, see: Template talk:French commune#Automatic map. Markussep Talk 17:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

See Aydat. Markussep Talk 18:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

If the infobox data has "longitude" and "latitude" with plain decimal formatting (like the articles in fr: have), it creates a map and title coordinates, without any extra work. But the test infobox is still in my user space, I asked for comments at the infobox talk page. Markussep Talk 18:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Nice picture above, by the way. How you got it I have no idea, I'm afraid. :) John Carter (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Which France template do you mean, the one that's on the talk page of all France-related articles? What I plan to do next is make a manual for the infobox template. We have to determine the minimum contents requirements for the infobox (my proposal: department, arrondissement, canton, coordinates, map, population). We can use the Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes/Status page for progress, if everyone checks the departments alphabetically, we could write "checked until Foissiat" in the last column of "Ain" for instance. I see my German/Austrian accomplice Ksnow is working on Ain now, great! Markussep Talk 13:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
AWB may help adding project tags. I'm not sure whether AWB has an option to access the talk page of articles in a specific category (I'm not on my own computer now, so I don't have access to AWB). If there isn't an automatic option, you could save a list of articles in a category, find-and-replace add "Talk:" to the names, and use the new list. Markussep Talk 13:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:The Bedeviled.jpg

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 20:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Glad you've decided to return

'cos I've gone & requested a peer review on an article on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord which I created. Maybe you would like to cast your expert eye over it? Mjroots (talk) 21:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Too many piccys? The French article has more! (Where do you think I thieved them from?) Mjroots (talk) 22:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I had to move a lot of the images so that the didn't clash with the line diagram and create lots of blank space. Mjroots (talk) 22:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Managed to come up with a suitable hook for DYK. Am heading off to bed, take care. Mjroots (talk) 22:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar! Very nice of you. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 23:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I missed Mr. Bigglesworth

Why did you take Mr. Bigglesworth away from Wikipedia? Welcome back anyway. Wikipedia NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS you. Cheers (and, lucky for you, the end of a really weird message), Basketball110 what famous people say 23:55, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I never knew that 1 in 130 were yours. That cool. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 16:38, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
You're creating again! I'm right behind you. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 16:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It's so nice to have you back where you belong...

Seriously. You're invaluable. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 05:50, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Argentina settlement box

Hi, glad to see you back in action, I think an occasional break can help relieve the stress, I hope you did something worthwhile during your break. I'm not sure if you remember the discussion about adding in provincial map and Greater Buenos Aires map parameters to the Argentina settlement box, I reckon it's a good idea but don't know how to do it myself. The problem is that User:Moebiusuibeom-en doesn't like the current layout and removed the box from Tigre, Buenos Aires. I left a message on his talk page and reinstated the placebox, he has then subsequently me of vandalism. I'm not massively upset about it since I know I have made a valuable contribution to the project, but I do think it's out of order for people to resort to name-calling (of the worst kind for this place) over a simple content dispute. Putting that aside, do you think it would be possible to add in the extra maps in order to resolve the situation, I know you are busy with France at the moment, but new maps would make a big difference to a whole stack of articles. If you are too busy perhaps you know someone else clever at adding maps to the settlement box, Kind regards. English peasant 12:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

They use this one on Dutch wiki Image:Buenos aires province.png, They also have this one Image:Buenos Aires outline map.svg for GBA. Could you set them up, or should I ask MJCdetroit to do it? Regards English peasant 13:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I cant figure out how the Dutch wiki settlement box knows which additional map to use. See nl:Lanús_(Buenos_Aires) and nl:Mar del Plata for examples. So for future reference, how will we make the box on en:wiki display the correct secondary map, "Greater Buenos Aires=yes" or something? English peasant 13:46, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that map would be better for Mar del Plata, the Greater Buenos Aires map would be better for Tigre, could you set that up too please, and ignore my question above I see the answer after your edit to Tigre. English peasant 13:49, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Cool, thanks for all your help. English peasant 13:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, excellent, the Dutch are very advanced, good canibalisation of their work. I'm not sure Mobiusuibom will be too pleased though, the settlement box is even bigger now! He can't say we're not trying though. English peasant 14:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeah I saw you removed the country map from Tigre, I wikilinked Greater Buenos Aires, it would be good if the Greater Buenos Aires article showed it's location in Argentina though, I'll have a look for a map that illustrates this. I agree the provincial settlements should have 2 maps, I think they could be a bit smaller though, the settlement boxes are pretty big as they are, I'll have a px tinker before I run through the Buenos Aires settlements later today, I've done Depertment cabeceras for Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Corrientes & Mendoza, other people have done Neuquen, Santa Fe & Entre Rios, (they will all need maps sooner or later) I'm going to have a go at Entre Rios and Jujuy next. English peasant 14:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Not everyone is going to know to click the globe though. I didn't find a map for Gran Bs As yet, but the pictures off commons are good, no? English peasant 14:42, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll give you a shout as and when I need them. Thanks again for your help. English peasant 14:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


Hello English peasant and Blofeld of SPECTRE, sorry for any misunderstandings, I have nothing against Place-boxes in absolute, i think in most cases they definitely should be there, my concern was that the map had no relation for a small town in suburbia Buenos Aires and that it seemed oversized, but now with the latest version we are getting somewhere, current map looks much better, but i believe it still lacks some precision, provincial map would not be necessary since it is within Grand Buenos Aires, anything outside the Grand BA city limits would certainly be provincial and would require such map, in both cases I truly i don't think the Argentina map would be necessary, nevertheless, we have many maps from different sources and i find a lot of inconsistency design wise, please let me see if i can design a set of maps for the whole area.
Let me know your thoughts?!
Kind Regards ~ Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 21:44, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
regarding the Category thing, I made the Cat:Settlements in.... ones because city doesnt properly describe the majority of places in Argentina and CAT:Cities in .... was all that was available. All of the articles in the city categories are contained in the settlement categories too so you could just burn the city categories. I'd actually prefer to stick with Settlements in.... as a name because Cities, towns and villages in .... is a bit long winded and means the same thing essentially. What do you say? English peasant 00:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Films February 2008 Newsletter

The February 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 18:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all the articles. It seems quite crazy, but very impressive. Could you add a bullet to the see also sections, though? They are going to be needed anyways and it's only two extra characters. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Once again, Wikipedia:Assume good faith, its a tagging. If your a girl sorry bout me saying this, Take it like a man. NimiTize 19:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Dont go telling other people am a little boy am a legit editor on Wikipedia, and once again Take it like a man, because no admin is going to belive, that your an angel. NimiTize 19:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Wow, and all you can do is revert my comment, it a waste to explain it to you, thats why 'no one that is an admin, would even think of not deleting a page. And think about becoming a admin in the future you have alot to work to, to become one. NimiTize 19:42, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:NimiTize

I don't really understand your comment on this users talk page. From what I did understand, it was a bit pinching (not that mine wasn't either). Cheers, Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 19:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

The user deleted our comments. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 19:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Has Nimitize been trying to delete your French communes? Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 19:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
You've got my support as well. Have you ever thought about becoming an admin? Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 19:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Well put. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 19:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Are you any good at making templates? Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 23:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking for along the lines of Template:WikiProject France. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 23:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Basketball110/Sandbox#3: tell me what you think. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 23:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank YOUU!!! Haha!

LOL Thanks, that's a very encouraging recognition. I still don't know how to make this user (who is now using a sock puppet also LOL) that we can't write "Jodhha Bai was not the name of Akbar's wife" but only "according to several historians... Jodhaa Bai was not the name of Akbar's wife..."

The claim has no factual approval, and we can't regard historians' views as facts... He keeps adding his POV..

See my long analysis on the talk page... I hope somebody comments...

Thank you friend... I really appreciate your appreciation LOL... Shahid • Talk2me 19:20, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

huh and who is he???? LOL!!! There are users like him, who say you can't become an admin, and there are established editors like the one above who just asked you if you wanted to become an admin... See the differences. Shahid • Talk2me 21:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Blof I really need you to comment on Talk:Jodhaa Akbar. Please do it for me. As you said, the claim is not factually approved, there are only historians' views, and we cannot regard them as facts.
Even the source from Rediff says, "It is claimed by some historians that Jodha was not Akbar's wife, as is shown in the film."
So is it a fact? Absolutely not. Please give me you hand.
PS: The template of articles you have created is amazing. Amazing work. Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 15:03, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you so much for commenting.:) Your message was so precise. I'm amazed. I'm happy you agreee with me. I'm not against this user, but he has to understand some things. I can start an ANI discussion, but why? There will be no end to that. And also good to note that most ANI discussions are usually left with no solution. Once the article is unprotected, I'll work on the production, reception and box office sections. That's what interests me the most. Thank you! How are you? Oh, I wanted to ask you something. What were you doing during your absence from Wikipedia? Shahid • Talk2me 15:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW!!! How could you find it??? :-) GREAT!!! I think with some good will and investment we can do the best on here. Shahid • Talk2me 15:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
One problem I have with Wikipedia is that everytime we comment positively on some artist, everybody pops up with this very famous word, "POV!!!"... But see the entry of Satyajit Ray on this encyclopedia - a prolific Bengali filmmaker... Many encycs I know, use positive commentaries. Shahid • Talk2me 15:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Look how it describes Rekha, "Rekha is acknowledged as one of the finest and mostt versatile actresses of Hindi cinema." WOW!!! Shahid • Talk2me 16:00, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey that's really great, have you installed it already? I'm now reading the book... WOW!!! It's an amazingly written book... Thank you for that!! Shahid • Talk2me 18:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh see page 10 -- it has an image of Zinta and Aamir Khan!!! The image is from the film Dil Chahta Hai... You know, it was quite a progressive film by Indian standards. I'm so happy... Thank you, dear friend... Of course, it's not the same, reading the book via internet, but I'll buy it ASAP. It was published in 201. Shahid • Talk2me 18:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
See this another book -- it supports the claim in the article that she has been credited with bringing a change in the image of Hindi film heroine. Here's that. Shahid • Talk2me 18:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeh I'm extremely happy... I really didn't know that we could see book previews on google... WOW! Thanks, Shahid • Talk2me 19:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW that's a really good article!! But you know, there's bias everywhere. Oh BTW, I've added a book ref on Zinta's article. Shahid • Talk2me 20:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I also know LOL!! This article is great!! Great work! Shahid • Talk2me 20:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
) HA HA HA!!! You're a great guy! I'll order ASAP. Tell me please, what according to you sounds better (on the Bollywood article): "There is a growing number of full-fledged English films." or "There is a growing number of films made entirely in English." Shahid • Talk2me 21:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Long time

Hey Blofeld buddy!!! LOL.. How are you?? It has been so long since I last talked to you. What are you doing these days?? ;) --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 20:31, 1 March 2008

Sarvagnya's articles tagged as copywright. Ha Ha Ha. LOL, as you said, quite ironical!!! ;) There is not much going on these days as I have just been really busy with University. I think I am done by the end of this month and exams begin at the beginning of April. So there is roughly about a month left. After university is done, I will be able to come on Wikipedia more often but again not as much as I used to. I am not sure but I might be taking courses in the summer as well. Furthermore, it is about time that I start looking for a part-time job. Well, there are a lot of GA's in the pipeline, and the most important one being Kareena Kapoor. LOL, there are no surprises. However, I was also thinking of collaborating with you and Shahid in improving the pages of top Bollywood actors/actresses (Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Karisma Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit). Shahid has so far improved the pages of Kajol and Salman Khan. After some minor edits and touches, Mukerji's page is also not far from being a GA. There are also other actors/actresses pages I want to improve (Shahid Kapoor and Vidya Balan). LOL, quite a lot of goals to accomplish on Wikipedia!!! --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 20:57, 1 March 2008
Hey Blofeld, I needed to ask you a question! If I use a magazine scan from a fansite as a ref [to prove something on [Kareena] Kapoor's page], something along these lines, would that be okay?? --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 01:53, 7 March 2008

[edit] Sarthe communes

Why not intrude a bit - I've done as much. Sooner you do, the sooner they get finished. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 00:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Not in the least - I'm more than honored to be working in your shadow on this. (Besides, the boatload of barnstars I've picked up for it makes a nice addition to my trophy case...;)) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps when things die down a little today. I'm at work, though, so perhaps not. In other words, I don't know right now. (Sorry to be so frustratingly vague.) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Might as well be, sometimes *lurk* --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blofeld, Blofeld!!!

{{WikiProject French communes}} Is now available for use. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 00:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. JJ helped. Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 16:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes:

I would like to welcome you back to the project. With some help from User:AlbertHerring, User:Blofeld of SPECTRE, and User:Jj137, I have successfully revived the project. Welcome back, we hope to see you there, Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 17:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm... wouldn't that totally mess up the anyone who has a really old and slow computer that tried to get onto one of those articles on Wikipedia? Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 17:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Am I Here?

Barely. Yesterday I actually spend most of the day reading The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman, which is basically like a better Stephen King novel, but shorter and with a rural North Carolina accent, and didn't actually hit the net at all, and today spent the beginning of the day working on archiving the Proposals page. I didn't want to interrupt myself in the process, considering it's an extensive cut-and-paste job, and waited until I finished with that to start anything else.

Recognizing that certain individuals, one whose name begins with an S comes to mind, have at best a weak grasp of the concept of civility in general, and certainly on wikipedia, yeah, it does help to get a little encouragement when dealing with such people who like piling on something else that begins with an s.

Regarding the 3-D maps, they do look very nice. I'm sure the Geography project in particular would love to be able to set up a few of those, particularly for the various areas where it can be used to indicate relative height or relationship to sea level. Regarding the idea of "interlinkable" photos, where one can click on an item in the photo to access an article, I can see how useful that would be, particularly with a few 3-D effects to indicate, among other things, former and extant national borders for a given area. It'd help a lot to be able to have a few such maps for the areas which have been under several governments over the years, and it would be great to be able to just hit with the mouse a few buildings in perhaps Manhattan and get the article on it, or anything similar for most of the cities, states, provinces, and whatever. And certainly seeing 3-D photos of perhaps Rainbow Bridge National Monument, the Grand Canyon, and others would communicate the subject much more effectively than "flat" pictures do. It might take some effort to get the photos in some cases, but I know the results would be worth it. John Carter (talk) 18:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Places

9000 separate named places in Eritrea is actually more than a bit scary, but I agree with you. The only things I might consider to add would be to try to tag the various articles with the relevant project's banner and maybe, if I can get some support on this idea, maybe try to work with the about to be proposed Featured Lists group at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Featured lists to get at least a few lists of these places up to FL status. That might help ensure that a few more people become aware of them, and should help their likelihood of getting attention as well. John Carter (talk) 19:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome Back Blofeld!

I'm so glad your back. The French communes are almost done, now we all are going to have to do the tough work of adding infoboxes and demographic info etc. But since you'r a lot better than me, I'll probably let you do that and I'll work on some other communes (probably Algeria). You're one of the best editors I've seen in the ~2 months I've been registered. Or the worst. Mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Editorofthewiki 21:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, and I did notice you've been doing a bit more than just the French communes. As you can see I do most of my work around Recent deaths and the French communes just boosted up my edit count. Editorofthewiki 22:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paraguay

Few people know much about Paraguay, or, for that matter, much of the rest of the world, specifically including Africa, Asia, and the non-English speaking parts of it. But, if we can get content started, that at least gives us a chance to get something accomplished. Keep up the good work! John Carter (talk) 22:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Angola

Somehow, "television" was in the box there. It's fixed now. John Carter (talk) 23:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Eritrea

It is stunning to realize just how much information there is out there, even on comparatively smallish countries. The only thing I guess I could add would be that, if you wanted to try to make a few as long as the 1500 character minimum, you'd probably have the biggest DYK count in history. John Carter (talk) 17:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nigeria

I believe it. There are sooo many places out there in most every country. God knows that there's a lot of work yet to be done. John Carter (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Bot requests

Wouldn't be a bad idea. I know we've already had a few bots autopopulate articles on various congressmen. If it would be possible to find a public domain source with some information on some of them, that information could be added by the bot to the article like was done with the congressmen articles. It might be more than a bit controversial to some, and I would probably want to ensure that the articles are all tagged as well, but I say go for it. John Carter (talk) 20:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burkina Faso

How about this? Same colour scheme as in my other maps. – Sadalmelik (talk) 17:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure, no problems. These maps are actually quite easy to make, if I have the up-to-date data for administrative divisions already. Especially Gambia is an awkward-shaped country, though - lets see how it turns out. – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, Gambia is not really nice, but at least there should be more room for labels. The country is just so long and thin... – Sadalmelik (talk) 15:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
I changed the map for Tanzania, and created new templates {{Location map Lesotho}}, {{Location map Cape Verde}} and‎ {{Location map Sao Tome and Principe‎}}. The one for Sao Tome and Principe is semi-useless though, as there is simply too much water. Cheers, – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:45, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I changed the Chad template, and there is now {{Location map French Guiana‎}} - it's not in relief, but I don't have the SRTM data on this computer. I'll see if I can do something nice during the weekend. I have actually done maps for South/Central America before, and also almost as many for Asia as for Africa (e.g. Buton).
Regarding on your bot request – I don't think it's a good idea to use Fallingrain as source, as it's indiscriminate on what it contains. I think it simply includes all the populated place names from US gov. sources ( I might be wrong in this, though). It makes no distinction between villages with population of 100 and town with population of 100000. The problem then is that we end up with tens of thousands of new articles per country, only classified by first level administrative divisions. And that classification is not enough. That's why I suggested using government data instead, as it's hierarchical from the start (country level -> provinces -> counties -> towns or something similar). This hierarchy simply has to exist if one wants to find their way through tens of thousands of articles. And the hierarchy should be correct from the start, so government (official) sources are required. Wikipedia is big enough to ask and get the data, if it's not available on-line now.
By the way, the altitudes in Fallingrain are not reliable. I did check a few when I started stubbing Malagasy communes. Generally I think they are correct within 100m or so... The worst case among those I checked was Ambalahonko - Fallingrain claims 321m[1] while SRTM shows 15m. I don't really understand how it can be that far off. – Sadalmelik (talk) 23:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Senegal

Gambia
Bangui
Ubangi (Oubangui) River at the outskirts of Bangui
Ubangi (Oubangui) River at the outskirts of Bangui
Bangui (Central African Republic)
Bangui
Bangui
Map of the Central African Republic showing Bangui
Coordinates: 4°22′N 18°35′E / 4.367, 18.583
Country Central African Republic
Prefecture Ombella-M'Poko
Government
 - Mayor Jean-Barkes Gombe-Kette
Area
 - Total 67 km² (26 sq mi)
Population (2003)
 - Total 622,771

[edit] Speedy deletion of Louis Dominique Girard

A tag has been placed on Louis Dominique Girard requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] African towns

Things are going well. I made those two articles because they were redlinks on an article I was working on (Barthélemy Boganda). I will remember to add the infobox, coordinates and image next time. In the future, could you simplify the infobox template? It's unnecessary to include the entire template. See my fix at Bobangui. I think for these small towns and villages, that's all you need in the infobox template. Thanks and keep up the good work! Nishkid64 (talk) 21:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for the tip. I used [2] and [3] for Grimari. I'll check your sites out for future articles I write. Nishkid64 (talk) 21:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] AWB

Ever consider trying to do some things with Wikipedia:AWB? I think it'd make your job a lot easier.

I'm trying to get used to using it myself; give me a list of redlinked settlements and I'd be more than happy to work on it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

It's actually pretty easy, and doesn't require any sort of programming knowhow; I figured out the program myself within a few minutes of opening it up. And God knows I'm not exactly a computer whiz.
In any event, if you have a bunch of redlinks to fix up I'd be more than happy to feed them into the machine and create some stubs. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking more along the lines of the French commune articles we were working on; take a list like that, and work from it, and that would lay plenty of groundwork. Having a "list of settlements in X district, Zambia", say, would make it easy to create plenty of stubs off of it saying, "Y is a settlement in [[X district]], Zambia" . Not a whole lot, perhaps, but it might make a good start. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


Tell you what. Let me make a few Azerbaijani stubs with AWB for you, to show you what I mean. Then you can decide whether or not you think that's what you'd want to be doing.
And please don't think I'm trying to push you into something you don't want to be doing; I'm just trying to come up with ways to make your life a bit easier. Lord knows you do so much around here that you've earned a little rest. :) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
As you please. But don't be surprised to encounter a few handfuls of things I've done with the program from time to time. I just downloaded it; now all I need's an excuse to play with it for a while :)
And may I say that the French commune articles are looking spiffing?
I may?
Good, because I just did. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


Oh, this is going to be an even more phenomenal project than it is now, once it gets a little more global breadth. The sheer magnitude of what's left to add in, though, boggles the mind.

That said, I think you can leave the French communes be for a while; others will be working on them, too, and I doubt anyone would fault you for turning your attention elsewhere. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Hi, theres a bit of a problem with the Buenos Aires map here Cariló, its quite odd because the Argentina map is OK and the map seems to work for Pinamar which is nearby. Maybe there is a problem with the map alignment? The co-ordinates seem to be right see google mapsEnglish peasant 00:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Argo Aadli

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[edit] Anton Tšehhov

Sorry to say that, but it's a complete mess, see Anton Chekhov. I suggest you place {{db-author}} there to have it speedily deleted. Oth (talk) 11:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry again, I didn't mean to be rude. I only wanted to say this article is a "paras segadus". I still suggest deleting since Anton Tšehhov is the name in Estonian and this is an English encyclopedia and Chekhov is a Russian writer. Oth (talk) 12:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Answer

I'll tell you why they are doing this to you. Because you're a successful and brilliant editor, believe me, I'm serious. Shahid • Talk2me 14:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Estonian articles

You can always ask help at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Estonia. However, there is not much activity in recent times unfortunately. If you don't feel confident using Estonian language sources it is probably easier to resort to tasks that don't require it. As for your request, I will be very busy IRL for the next few days, then I'll see what I can do. Best wishes. Oth (talk) 14:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mi amigo

We both need to do something about updating the Argetine list as far as years are concerned. I know you are super. But you and I are quite a team with Argentinian films. We cannot let that section down. My best mi amigo -- Luigibob (talk) 09:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Chengji Jiang.jpg

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[edit] Mr. and Mrs. Iyer FAC

Hello friend, the article on the film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (singlehandedly upgraded by User:Mspraveen) is up for Featured article candidacy here. Please express your opinion in the FAC. Have your say!!! Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:25, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello Blofeld! I'm doing good..just a tad busy with a few cinema articles. How about you? Whats keeping you busy these days? Thanks for your nice words about Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Dwaipayanc seems to be doing a fairly good job on the copyedits. I'm doing the same wherever I feel, I could. Thanks for your comments as well! Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Good to know of your Wik-tivities :) Thanks again for your nice words. Well, I'm fan of good cinema, parallel cinema mostly and I'd rather work on these untouched, stable articles than the biggies. Well, I was going to put it up for a GA, but I paused to ask my favorite reviewer if he has the time to do so. I saw him active and so now I have it up for a GA nom. FA-class requires a good copy-edit and sadly, I feel that Mr. and Mrs Iyer is not yet ready for it. Anyways, let us see how it fares. For Dor, I'd be more than happy if you can copy-edit it and then it can be put up for an FA. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 17:03, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Ola! Dor is a GA now. I was surprised at the pace at which it was passed. No hitches whatsoever. Also surprised to see no objections really from the reviewer - something that I am not used to. :) Would you be interested in copy-editing it? I further think that this should be put up for a peer-review at WP:Films. Thoughts? Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 18:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your inputs. I'll bear that in mind while developing it a bit further up with content and balance. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 18:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, I was hoping to know if you can contribute/suggest anything that you feel is needed for Mr. and Mrs. Iyer for an FA. Would you have some time for this? Mspraveen (talk) 16:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Brim

Hello. I received the following e-mail from a fellow Wikipedia reader/editor, relating to the image attaching to John Brim's article.

"Hello Mr. Bullamore, I read the wikipedia article of john brim. The article is ok but the picture is not John Brim. It's a photograph of Elmore James of the archive of Willie Dixon.
If you're interested in a photograph of John Brim you can find one on the backside of the LP cover.
Best regards, Simon Leinmueller"

Whilst I have recently significantly expanded and sub-edited the article (presumably that is why Simon Leinmuller contacted me), I believe that you posted the 'picture' of Brim.

Simon's comments seem to hold water as the Elmore James article uses basically the same image. Can you revisit this one (perhaps you have the album cover in question). Many thanks,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cities, towns and villages in Sierra Leone

A tag has been placed on Cities, towns and villages in Sierra Leone, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. 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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[edit] Do I freaking ever go away?

Sorry to break it to you, but according to the "this" link on your page, you aren't 1st in pages created, instead 3rd, or that was the case when I looked. Well, anyway, it's not a contest (even though when your Blofeld of SPECTRE it sometimes is conforting to think so), so it really doesn't matter, so I really don't know why I've posted this message. Happy editing, Basketball110 will you sign? ♣ 03:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, I saw that on the first one, but never imaged the second one to be a bot. Well, great work anyway, and 1 million barnstars couldn't pay that. Cheers, Basketball110 will you sign? ♣ 15:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Basketball110 will you sign? ♣ has given you a fresh pie! Pies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a piping hot pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

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Great work, indeed. Happy editing and creating, Basketball110 will you sign? ♣ 16:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gabon departments

Good job with creating these articles, but just a heads up: per naming conventions you don't have to put the 'Deparment' on the end if just the name of the department (eg Etmiboue, Nbougou) isn't in use. :) Regards, AllynJ (talk | contribs) 13:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I get what you mean, but in this case I think it's pretty clear through the template & the intro to the page. Not sure. I did the ones for Angola a while back and went for <Article Name> and added (province) where required, so I dunno. With redirects I would think it's ok, and obviously if there's somewhere else with the same name you can add (department) on the end, but as I say I'm not sure. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 14:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright, fair enough, good to see you've definitely thought it through; I've moved back the one I moved earlier. I don't think there's really a concrete idea behind what they should be called. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 14:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kitties

Kirill had previously referred to being the lead coordinator of the Military history project as being the equivalent of herding cats, so it's a bit of an in-joke. But that site does look reliable, and I think a bot could be worked to be able to extract the information from the tables for use in creating at least small stubs for, probably, all the places listed, including the airports . I don't myself have a clue what the aviation waypoints are supposed to be, but they might be notable as well. If it were me, I'd probably check with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation about that first, though. John Carter (talk) 17:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

==Global gazetteer==

I'd say that perfect. it gives enough context to not be an empty article and is formatted in a standard enough manner that a bot could read it. I'll support any bot that wants to add these. MBisanz talk 17:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I'd only ask that you remember to ask the bot to automatically tag any articles it creates with the relevant geographical project banner, so that the projects will know the articles exist. John Carter (talk) 17:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Bots have automatically created articles before, like several short articles on US congressmen based on the public domain biographies the US government maintains, so it's not exactly a new idea. It might be required to indicate which articles already exist, though. Knowing not to create an article might be one of the few things it isn't capable of for all I know. John Carter (talk) 17:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Well Ram-bot did all US counties and cities, but it was smaller back then, so less chance of doubling up. I'd imagine that could be hand-sorted later. And the region info is probably more detailed and standardized than we'd normally find. I don't code, but I'd try User:Snowolf or just another Bot request. Maybe an AN post since this is a Big Thing. MBisanz talk 17:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Well bots work off task databases as best as I can understand them. So we'd need to download the html files from that site (I know there are tools that do this), and then extract the data. I suspect it could be ported to some sort of database and rules using delimiters and what-not could fix geo-issue (like we fixed the ISBN issue). If only Ram-man were still around here. MBisanz talk 17:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Coren seems to know some webscanning stuff. User:Dinojerm also apparently does web to wiki translation. User:The Anome seems to know geo-coding. MBisanz talk 17:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I consider the several freely available geospatial databases (GADM, Digital Chart of the World, and more) superior to Fallingrain and similar sources. I would not use even GADM or DCW as base for article creation, as I believe for most part they represent the status on mid-1990's, and of course there is not population data. The benefit of those sources is that they are hierarchical from top to bottom.

Let's take Mozambique for example. There is a database available in Moz. gov. site with the size given as 330 MB. How much information is there? I don't frankly know, as the download is slow and fails for me, but judging from the size, it has to be fairly detailed. And no, we should not use that file for anything at the moment, as Mozambique is currently still compiling the results from 2007 census, so a better source is on the horizon. The local governments need a lot of data for their internal planning – coordinates (possibly even with GPS coordinates), populations, details about health care and education, some economic indicators etc. For them, this is vital information. Most developing countries have statistical agencies and map making divisions, and I strongly feel their data is the one the bots should be run on. In most cases this data is not available on the web, simply because internet is not cheap for developing countries and these databases can be large. I would be suprised if Mozambique had added all their available information to that database. And remember: this is Mozambique. The situation for richer parts of Africa or Central-Asia is likely to be better. Another example: GeoHive gives population data of Malagasy districts citing the Malagasy Statistical Office (or whatever it was called, in French). I have not been able to find that data on Malagasy webpages, so either it existed at some point and has now been pulled from the web, or GeoHive has gotten the information from the office directly. Wikipedia is big, much bigger than any of the gazetteer sites. We can ask for data, and expect to have it.

I'm repeating myself here, but I do feel it's much better to ask the local governments what they have, and then run a bot on that data. There could workgroup or task force created for this purpose, with a clean, professional looking page to contact the authorities and organise the work. – Sadalmelik (talk) 09:14, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

One reservation comes to mind, unfortunately. I've heard several times that the assessment bot is already facing regular problems with the half-million articles of the biography project. The million settlements in China, and probably similarly large numbers for Russia, India, maybe Bolivia, and lord knows what else, might create a situation where regular assessment updates are no longer practically possible. Also, on a possibly related point, I'm not sure if you've ever seen that we have right now have wikipedias in over 250 languages, as per Wikipedia:Wikimedia wikis. It might be possible to have the bot autocreate articles in every one of those languages, if we could get someone to write the "base" text for the standard article. I think that this might be very useful for many/most of those wikis, as it would help them get a series of "base" pages for all parts of the world, if they want it. Maybe the best thing to do at this point might be to have one of us create a page in userspace regarding the proposals, and what we think can and should be done with them, and ask for input from various other parties before starting in earnest, particularly regarding assessment and interlanguage links.
Also, if you haven't noticed, the next wikimania is scheduled for Alexandria, Egypt. If your passport is in order, I can't help but imagine that you might even be able to get funding to attend. John Carter (talk) 15:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Wasn't intending to, because, stupid American that I am, I don't have a passport right now and don't think I'll be able to get a replacement in time, given our love of bureaucracy over here. I think Alexandria was chosen because for the symbolic value. Having said that, if I can get the passport through in time, I'd love to go there.
Regarding some of the difficulties you mentioned, the problem of duplicate names is a very real one, particularly in former colonies. I do think it would be useful to at least try to discuss with a lot of the other languages the possibility of helping them get a few basic articles, because I think a lot of them still don't even have articles on all the individual extant countries out there. And, unfortunately, there is always the real chance that at some point the smaller articles might be deleted or merged into another article anyway. And this isn't taking into account how Oleg and his assessment bot would react to seeing all those new articles out there. A few ideas come to mind, but they are still rough ones. One, at the minimum, we could create lists of settelemtns in wherever for every country, region, subdivision, etc., listing the reliable information from the gazetteer you found and keeping each of the locations as a red link. A lot of these could be fairly easily translated into at least several of the other languages fairly easily. Then, after they're created and we see just how many places out there have seemingly identical names, go on to create the individual articles on all of those places where there's sufficient cause to think that they won't qualify as deletable, or maybe even all of them right out. But I do think that we would be best advised to at least check with a few of the more established editors regarding any reservations they might have, particularly Oleg and his assessment bot, and give them at least a bit of warning so that they can adjust to the new situation. Also, I would like to check with the interlanguage people to see if there's any way we can get the interlanguage links color-coded for the quality assessments of the articles in the various languages. I think that would be really useful in several cases. John Carter (talk) 16:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I forgot. I'll do it from now. Cheers Universal Hero (talk) 21:57, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I will do it in the near future. These articles will be added to in the future by other editors, anons etc. Universal Hero (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
It's gone. But I'm on the verge of pulling off a major breakthrough with Indian cinmea images. See Shahid's talk page for what I mean. Universal Hero (talk) 13:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: countering systematic bias

Whilst I agree with you that any number of small setllements in North America do not deserve recognition that does not make it a good reason for the new article to exist. TO claim it should exist on the basis that similar articles shouldn't if anything aids the case for deletion. As you have reoved the prod I will proceed to AfD. BigHairRef | Talk 23:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Having read your suggested page it appears to add no weight to your claim, the box at the top only suggests that thay may be notable, not that they automatically are, even so it is still not a policy, merely a suggested one. BigHairRef | Talk 00:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
As you reccommend I will so waste my time. I don't have any preconceptions, but your initial message that the area is like any small town in America (which you said you didn't believe worthy of articles) suggested to me you were only including it as you wanted to "counter[...] systematic bias" BigHairRef | Talk 00:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
All small towns in THE WORLD deserve articles. All. This is a prime example of systemic bias. Woohoo, let's block the Rambot!(sarcasm) Editorofthewiki 10:28, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lequaidesbrumes.jpg

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[edit] re: flickr

Hey Blofeld, could you possibly give me the user's flickr username - I can look better then. :) ~ Riana ⁂ 12:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah Ok, I see the problem with these flickr agreements. The problem is that none of these users have agreed to specific licenses. One thing you can do is ask them to send you a statement saying 'I release <name of image> under the GFDL license'. Another thing you can do is to ask them to change the licensing on Flickr itself to CC-by-2.0 or CC-by-SA-2.0. If you are busy, I can contact these users myself (I have your list of users in my inbox, so that shouldn't take me too long). Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 12:38, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'll get on to that. Once that's done I'll send you your list of names, if you're still missing any. ~ Riana ⁂ 12:45, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
All the flickr users you contacted me about are already on your list. I've sent them flickr mail and hopefully they'll respond soon! ~ Riana ⁂ 16:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

re Joshua Kucera - I've sent him the following email.

Hi Joshua, I was told (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana#New_agreement) that a fellow Wikipedian, [your name redacted], has spoken to you and you have agreed to relicense your photos so that Wikipedia can use them. First of all, thank you! Secondly there are 2 ways you could actually go about making this relicensing concrete. The first option is to go to your flickr preferences and relicense your images there to Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike. These are free licenses which Wikimedia projects allow. Your other option is to send an email to permissions@wikimedia.org stating that you are releasing your photographs under either one of the above licenses, or the GNU Free Documentation License. This is entirely your call. :) Thanks, Riana

I think that's sufficient, and you could use that as a boilerplate for any permissions you may wish to receive in the future. Another helpful page is located here. PS: Archive your talkpage! It's getting loooong! :) Cheers, ~ Riana ⁂ 14:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Madagascardvd.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Tancredi Pasero.jpg

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[edit] Award for Blofeld

The Working Man's Barnstar
Awarded to Blofeld for his tireless work on creating and improving articles all day every day! :D You are very much appreciated, keep up the excellent work! Majorly (talk) 15:45, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Is that what the $ thing in your sig is for then? Majorly (talk) 17:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

Hi! Thanks for adding the images in Varanasi. They were causing the article formatting to go "CRAZY!!!". The article already has a lot of images in it. So I removed them. I was going to reply you but nature called me :p.

Anyway... if you look, I have replaced an old image with one of the images that you uploaded. One of the other two images were in the article for a really long time but was replaced a long time ago (so there is no need to upload it again). The third image in the "Transportation" section was not aesthetically pleasing, and as I said too much for an article which is low on content and high on images.

Sorry though... I hope to incorporate the images once we have some text to accompany them. --æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢(I prefer replying to each other's talk pages.) 23:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

What about this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Varanasiganga.jpg--æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢(I prefer replying to each other's talk pages.) 23:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Algeria

I have finally started creating Algerian town articles. See Charouine‎; Bouda, Algeria‎; Aougrout‎; and Akabli‎. Just thought you want to know. Editorofthewiki 12:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just to ask you

What GAs and FAs have you written? I'd like to know so I can write one. Editorofthewiki 15:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Total Film magazine page 108

I'm sure you've seen it already, but if not check it out! I was browsing through it the other day in Smiths and thought of you. Lugnuts (talk) 18:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

It's a "Which Bond villian are you?" quiz. They've dedicated most of the mag to Bond this month too. Lugnuts (talk) 20:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I think one of the questions was "Do you live in a volcano crater?" Lugnuts (talk) 08:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Andorra

Why shore - just trying to get enough together to open up a stub category. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

That thing's quite nice - I've used it before a couple of times. Right now I'm mainly interested in getting some very vague groundwork laid to open up a couple of categories of stubs. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference for French commune

Hi, can you please tell some name of English websites or other references which can be used for French communes. I searched goggle books also, but there are not much stuffs. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 22:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] World Gazetteer

Hey I heard you didn't yet get to Algeria and Sudan. Since we know all the communes of Algeria that one's out. As for Sudan well we don't. However, I have discovered this great site called The World Gazetteer for population statistics. I have copypasted the sudan entries (the top 124 largest alphabetically) from there to User:Blofeld of SPECTRE/Missing Settlements/Sudan. I don't think its a copyright violation because Its a table but hey, you can fix it. Editorofthewiki 22:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I have to work on Algerian communes for now but I would be glad if you do it. Take notice, however: Some of these towns have articles under differant spellings. For example, Umm Durman is Omdurman, a pretty well written article compared to some other African ones. (see Libreville and I'm sure ther's more.) Africa is the most neglected continent of all in terms of articles on towns. That is, beside Antartica, but the penguins don't have official statistics. :) Editorofthewiki 23:05, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mysore

In Karnataka, divisions hardly hog as much limelight as districts and taluks do. Divisions are composed of districts which in turn have detailed Wikipedia articles of their own. Hence, I am not surprised at the current state of the Mysore division article. -- ¿Amar៛Talk to me/My edits 06:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category

There was a category present Category:Cities in Tajikistan. What about this category. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Bura-Chaty

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[edit] Rahul Bose image

Hi there...I wasn't sure of the licensing for this image. I sense that this can be use on wikipedia as a commons image. Can you confirm this with me please? Thanks! Mspraveen (talk) 16:10, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Will do! Thanks for the quick response! :) Mspraveen (talk) 16:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Btw, do you mind sharing a sample email that I can write to the concerned? I'd greatly appreciate it if you could do so. Thanks again! Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks! That simplifies my task. I'll be on the lookout when I'm not actively editing on Wiki. Will keep you posted on any developments. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I got a favorable response from the image author. Does {{cc-by-sa-2.5-in}} work? Furthermore, would the following suffice?:
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [ http://flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/1457579266/].
I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE [choose at least one from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_tags ].
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
DATE, NAME OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
Alright! Thanks for your reply! For now, I'll seek the author's response as per above. If I chance upon any such flickr workgroup, I'll keep you posted. Hope you are having a good weekend. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Quick update: The author has changed the permissions of the image. Can this be directly used? Sorry to be frequently pestering you with these questions. Mspraveen (talk) 16:33, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gambia

Just a little reminder, mon vieux, to check your categories - Gambia isn't Gabon ;). I fixed what I could, but I'm not sure of all the proper categories. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Most excellent.
Did I mention you're doing good work? Because you are. :) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:36, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Very nice - also check out http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/eepatop.htm for some images. They should be free-use, because they're owned by the Smithsonian Institiution and therefore U.S. government property. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Qatar

Looks great - I'm going to put in for a seperate stub cat in a few minutes. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure thing. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Looks pretty good - once I get a few more stubs filled in maybe I'll go back and do some of that stuff, too. I just want to open up as many geo-stub categories as possible as quickly as possible. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Algeria

I'm going to take the create-now-expand-later approach to Algerian communes based on the fact we have over a thousand without articles, similar to France except there was ~35,000. Tell me what you think. Editorofthewiki 22:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

That's okay. I simply don't have the time to do it the log way. Most of the countries you've been working with such as Kyrgystan have only several hundred known villages while Algeria has 1,500. I'll be happy if you get the maps and population from Municipalities of Algeria. I will after I get around to creating all the stubs. Editorofthewiki 23:06, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes Fallingrain doesn't have all the communes of Algeria. I'll remove the link. Editorofthewiki 23:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Argentine films and more

Hey amigo. Are you still conqering the world? Bet you are. I've been meeting some very super people these days (one even sent me a DVD of an old film we both admire), and a couple of nasty ones; probably my bad, as how I've reacted towards the nasty ones. I've always considered you my mentor on Wiki. I've got you on my watch list (not this page, per se, but in the past as well) so I know of all the situations you get involved in. How do you handle it all? After reading the comments on this page...man alive. I guess I'm too soft skinned? I may be taking a lower profile, for a bit. Regroup, and all of that. Other than Skier, cool cat, but I don't want to bother him all the time... do you know of another Admin? I can use a pep talk.... Your amigo from Southern Calif. Oh yeah about Argentine lists, I'm not good at that....what I'll do as I chill is work ONLY on Argentine films, and the ones you've started....much more work than film noir, the research is never ending and I think difficult because it takes so long...film noir is so easy, but I've build a solid number of films with good C-plus articles (see User:Luigibob/Filmnoir).... [

I guess you do not want to talk tome.hmmm. Why ? Luigibob (talk) 20:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silly request

I know this is a strnage request, but my graphics talents are nil. Do you know of, or could you acquire, an image containing, say, a book, CD, DVD, television, radio, and a theatre ticket? We need an image for the Fictional Series project banner, and that seems to me to be the most inclusive way of indicating its scope. John Carter (talk) 16:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Sorry for delays... Kazakhstan is easy, but Kyrgyzstan proved to be a bit trickier. The trouble with that is all these enclaves and exclaves - the border data I normally use for drawing the national borders does not show them at all. I did find something that includes the larger enclaves, but that border data then draws the western border twice - effectively the west border of Kyrgyzstan does not match with the east border of Uzbekistan exactly, so the line marking the border is thicker than the lines elsewhere. It should be straightforward to fix that. – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan is now finished, too. Not all the enclaves are visible, but I think it's ok for use as locator map. They need to be kept simple in any case. I noticed the map of Kazakhstan has an unrelated problem, though: the Aral Sea has not looked like that for 50 years. I don't think I can fix that, though... Again, sorry this took so long! – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:11, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Oops - I'm becoming confused about the order I need to run the commands! I uploaded a new version, but do not seem to be able to purge the cache.... I have done a few districts here and there, and will do them all eventually. They are still easy to stub. The real problem, at least for me, is Districts of Madagascar. There are now several hundred links to it, and the only thing I can write about it is the list of districts. I guess that will have to do, though, there is not that much information in Regions of Madagascar either. – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I can make (or rather modify) those raion maps, no problems. I'll upload them sometime during the weekend - I think I'm going to have a look how those image upload scripts work. I already have 100+ maps for Malagasy districts ready to be uploaded. – Sadalmelik (talk) 16:57, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

OK - the raion maps are done and added to articles. I also made locator maps for Sudan and Western Sahara (shown in the gallery below). Bewarned, though, that the regular editors of Western Saharan and Moroccan articles tend to edit war over maps. The most recent episode that I'm aware is here - this looks like an image used in stub templates. I would expect, that once the Moroccan location map is widely used, there will be an edit war over what map is shown. I'm not really sure whether the Western Sahara would attract similar attention, though. Cheers, – Sadalmelik (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan
Sudan Locator.png

Sudan

Western Sahara

[edit] Aint no stans there, aint no stans here

You raise an interesting point - a decade of my life was trying to avoid anything to do with it for a whole range of reasons - hey its as close as singapore in distance but, hey id be nuts to go into details here about all that - hey i got a haircut yesterday that brings me within nano-millimetres of the photo at the top - heheh SatuSuro 13:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Hey email me sometime and you can get the lowdown - I tend to go shy when some subjects come up and go offi wik - the ole glassbowl and oggles capapcity ot - index every rdwo ew riot :( SatuSuro 13:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Yeah male whatever baldness - I dont do the 0 clippers - my hair man has a famous 1 and 1/2 for whats left :| SatuSuro 14:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC) You wanna know what part of downunder is enjoying itself - checkout http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDS10034.shtml - when i drove across that state in december and january - it was dry and hot then - just imagine they have broken their number of days that hot - going to 39 is a cooll change :( SatuSuro 14:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Oh well ill leave the mystery of identity for off the record/wiki if you ever want to check - im about to jump ship - selamat siang aufwedershen aur revoir or as one of australians best comedians (hes a new zealander of course) used to say I'll get out of your way now - John Clarke - cheers enjoy the cool SatuSuro 14:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Towns in Kyrgyzstan

Hey, I noticed you working on Kyrgyzstan as well. I've been there a few times, and I can read some Russian and decypher Kyrgyz cyrillic. I've been looking for an accurate list of municipalities, but it doesn't seem to exist. There is a well defined number of municipalities/places with a local government though. Kyrgyz wikipedia (I can't read Kyrgyz, but I can read numbers, and I know some words) has numbers of cities (шаар/shaar), urban-type settlements (шаар тибиндеги айыл/shaar tibindegi ayyl), municipalities (айыл кеңеши/ayyl kengeshi) and villages (айыл/ayyl) in every district article, for instance ky:Баткен областы. I have found a list of cities (the ones marked "city" in the List of cities in Kyrgyzstan I updated yesterday), but the rest may be troublesome (the urban-type settlements might be relatively easy to find, Batken oblast even has an English webpage that names cities and uts'es). Note that many spelling/romanization variants are possible, both for the Russian (I think most of the fallingrain names you used are Russian) and Kyrgyz names. Something to do after Germany and France ;-) Markussep Talk 16:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

It is a wonderful country, with mountains, friendly people, interesting customs (see the picture, I have one of those hats). Markussep Talk 16:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I've eaten besh barmak several times, but then there wasn't a sheep's head lying next to it. It tastes much better than surströmming (never again!).
I think you're right about Nookat and Iski-Naukat. "Iski" means old (compare Turkish eski), and the shift from "au" to "oo" is common (alatau/alatoo, Daraut-Kurgan/Daroot-Korgon). Probably Naukat is the Russified version of the Uzbek or Kyrgyz name, and Nookat the new Kyrgyz name. I'll merge them to Nookat. Markussep Talk 17:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

There's already a post on the talk page of WikiProject French communes about maybe using the France template at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject French communes#Project banner question. No one responded, so I guessed that the project wanted to use an entirely separate banner. Having said that, if there is an interest in using the France banner, I can try to work up something today to create assessment parameters for the French communes project in it. John Carter (talk) 16:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: French communes

Yvelines isn't the only département that is badly served in the English Wikipedia! Unfortunately, I'm devoting most of my "great translation skills" (thanks for the compliment) to French castles at the moment, and there are a great many of them to get through. When I finish a castle article I tend to have a go at the relevant commune article if it needs some work, as I did with Montrichard yesterday, but, to be honest, I simply don't have time to systematically take on communes as well as castles. Well, not yet anyway. (Incidentally, just took one Yvelines commune at random - Orsonville: there was no link to the French Wikipedia!) Emeraude (talk) 16:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

No, of course not. Emeraude (talk) 16:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

If only I could translate as well as I wished.... Emeraude (talk) 16:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] High Plains Drifter

As you wish... restored, FUR'd and put back on the article. SkierRMH (talk)

I probably saw the film aeons ago, don't remember much about it, but have tracks from the soundrack in my collection! One of the few times I like the soundrack over the film! SkierRMH (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Was just going thru some images for FUR and when I saw this I thought of you... Image:Main-vari-vari.jpg Me thinkest that the "pinkie gesture" may not have the same meaning for everyone? :) SkierRMH (talk) 00:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mexico

I'm not at all sure how many settlements are listed in Mexico, or if you have any intention to address that country anytime soon, but thought the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico/Strategy#Dealing with municipalities versus seats might interest you. John Carter (talk) 18:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

So noted. By the way, I think User:Amarrg has more or less retired as a result of being, evidently wrongly, blocked for 3RR a few days ago. If you've ever e-mailed him, it might not be a bad idea to send another one. Sadly, another editor has recently been pushing an alternate opinion on certain India-related issues I don't know anything about one way or another, and Amar got blocked for reverting that editor's edits. He is a very valuable contributor, though, and I've sent him two e-mails to date myself. If you could send another one or two, that might help as well. John Carter (talk) 19:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ha!

OK, this made me grin. - BanyanTree 19:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

A discussion is going on in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Unreferenced_tagging_of_French_commune_stubs. Some editors are adding/supporting unreferenced tags in French commune stubs. But it is ridiculous to add tags in more than 30,000 French commune stubs. You may want to join the debate in ANI. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1 billion words!?

Yeah, it should. It should definitely be included in the Signpost, and it might even be reasonable to try to add some sort of top of the page template like we currently have for the Wikimania Call for Participation, although I'm not sure how to do that. But mentioning in at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions, and maybe suggesting a template like that be used there, would certainly be called for. John Carter (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cat containing Villages, Cities, Towns, etc in Niger

Thanks: looks brilliant, but not as nice as the pin maps. You appear to be everywhere, tidying up towns and cities. Nice job. T L Miles (talk) 21:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Al Bithnah

Yeah, and I'll start adding them now. There were a few people indicating interest in Umm al-Quwain and Ajman, so I added all the locations from there, and then started on Sharjah, where there wound up being a lot more, so I chickened out for a while there. The articles also give a bit more reason for the projects on those two areas, as well. I'll go back and add everything now. You know how it is, you start something, messages come in about something else, so you stop for a while, and then have trouble remembering what it was you were doing in the first place. I think they call it "senility", right? John Carter (talk) 18:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Rationale for fair use

Hmm, what image are we talking about here? Garion96 (talk) 23:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Films coordinator elections

The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Djibouti etc.

Thanks for the help - I'll try to be more on the ball in future. Thing is, I've been following established procedure for building up these stub categories; it's the way a couple of other editors have been doing it for a while. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:22, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I shall try in future. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Excellent work. But don't tell me those are the only towns in Ethiopia - looks like surprisingly few in some regions. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeah - one or two of the ones I clicked on only had about 10 or 15 in them. Which is why I asked. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I remember back a couple of years when somebody was crafting articles for all the woredas in Ethiopia. Seems like a lot of it is the work of one very dedicated editor. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Amen to that. I wish there was more I could do myself, but we're moving into the heavy season at work and I haven't the time I once did. Nor the patience. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Africa

Thanks for your help with recategorization of African towns and villages. By the way I started creating some missing flag-maps: [4] or [5]. Hope you will like 'em :). - Darwinek (talk) 18:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes I am fine, hope you're well, too. - Darwinek (talk) 18:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] You keep asking me

I accidentally left out the French wikilink because I mostly copied one from there and replaced each link with {{subst:PAGENAME}}. I frankly forgot about adding that one until I was halfway through because the French don't link to their page. Also, it does strike me as odd that you only add fr and nl on the articles. Anyway, since you keep asking me about this I decided it is time to answer. Editorofthewiki 14:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes again

See Category:Unassesed French communes. Sorry, that doesn't work. I'll find it, and get back to you. Basketball110 14:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Here's the deal: the WikiProject France template cannot be edited by anyone other than admins. I'm going to leave a suggestion on the project talk page, to change the template for us and departments. I hope it comes out the best. How have things been? Basketball110 15:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you like rock music? If so, could you see WP:The Eagles? Basketball110 16:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you join the project? Basketball110 16:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I know that there are a lot of Eagles fans who, I'm sure, would join, but I'm just not sure who. Basketball110 16:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


Please accept this invitation to join the Eagles WikiProject (the band), a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with the The Eagles. Simply click here to accept!

Do you know any potential members? Basketball110 16:44, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I've been looking at Led Zepplin (the link doesn't work, sorry). Basketball110 16:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
That's the one. Basketball110 17:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I've got another member. See here. Basketball110 21:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinators

I think the purpose of having the "lead" coordinator is, in effect, basically just saying "the buck stops here". Also, the lead coordinator is supposed to be the person, according to the MILHIST example, the one doing, as it were, most of the coordinating, with the others either being more focused in a particular field or "helping out". And I'm working on the France banner now. Elections are done, like has happened with Films, so that people who aren't even remotely qualified don't appoint themselves and later screw things up, I think. By the way, I've just proposed a similar set up at the Biography project. There, that group really could use some coordinated management. John Carter (talk) 16:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French castles

You asked: "Isn't there a category for chateaus or castles in france". Châteaux, yes. Castles? There used to be. It was a category called Castles in France, which sat quite nicely beside Category:Castles in Italy and Category:Castles in Belgium and Category:Castles in Spain etc etc etc. But some bright spark decided to delete it and a bot was then used to recategorise 175 articles about castles into Category:Châteaux in France. This was done without consulting the Wiki Projects on castles or France. The justification was that the French word château could mean castle or palace or stately home etc! I objected after the event, and attempted to have it reversed. A small group then came up with the on the grounds of 'consistency' (i.e. different from every other part of the world!). 'Fortified French châteaux' is absolute nonsense; as you are no doubt aware, in English a castle is a castle and a château is a palace/home, and separate categories are needed to diffentiate the two for an English reader seeing the title Château de Somewhere. A 'fortified château' is, presumably, a building constructed as a palace and later fortified, and, of course, there are none. In the meantime, alone of all the countries and regions of the world, there is, according to Wikipedia categorisation, no such thing as a castle in France!!! Emeraude (talk) 17:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

The discussions will still exist somewhere on Wikipedia. Perhaps it's time to recreate the category, remove the castles from the Châteaux category, and repopulate castles. Meanwhile, List of castles in France does the job. Emeraude (talk) 17:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

It's obvious to me. It was obvious to my son from the time he was 5 or 6: driving through France he waould say "There's a castle" or "There's a châteaux". I did bring it up at categories for discussion - that's where the decision was made on 'fortified French châteaux'. Emeraude (talk) 17:55, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carverspeech.jpg

[6][7][8][9][10] Ultra! 18:44, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heyyy ! ! !

How have you been?

I'm sorry, I just thought you didn't want to talk to me...

So how are you doing?

Shahid • Talk2me 20:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Usually, you write messages in the same section, so I at times do not notice messages, that's why I don't reply. Also, your last message was just about the Mr. and Mrs. Iyer FAC, so I didn't really think a reply was necessarily needed LOL.
I've not been really active as before, as you knoe, I enjoy my time here --- The sea is bluer than ever. But I'm quite proud of new articles like Sameer (lyricist) and Anees Bazmee..
I am very aware of your work during this time - brilliant as always. :-) Shahid • Talk2me 20:39, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Of course I've seen this image -- she is so cute isn't she? Shahid • Talk2me 20:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I always check your contribs page to check if you're active!!! I really thought you wanted to seclude yourself a bit... Shahid • Talk2me 20:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Well I'm impatiently waiting for Race with Saif Ali Khan, Tashan with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan and Kareena. But above all, I just can't wait for Zinta's releases in May, especially her arty films. I also look forward to seeing some screenshot from heaven on earth. I'm so curious to see her look in the film.... That's unfair, there have been no Zinta releases for almost a year now!! Shahid • Talk2me 21:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh I have seen Jodhaa Akbar! Great film!
But I also enjoyed watching old films of Bollywood's golden era in the last few days. Shahid • Talk2me 21:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I will definitely take it to FAC soon, but I first need a break and do other things (I also cleaned up the Akshay Kumar article, expanded Manisha Koirala's one etc). I want to do other things now - it's too much for me to revolve around the same article all the time. Now you tell me, what's (for example) wrong with "Zinta's first release"? Does this soubd as if she is the one who released the film? Shahid • Talk2me 21:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
No I mean, for example, "Zinta's first release in 2009 was..." Shahid • Talk2me 21:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Well other editors claim it souds as if she is the one who released the film... Doesn't matter.
Did you know that Zinta owns the Mohali Twenty20 franchise team at the Indian Premier League? She turned businesswoman as well... Shahid • Talk2me 21:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
That's the problem; there is no consistency amongst editors' requirements regarding prose issues... You won't believe this, she paid $76 million (!!!) and... won the bid!!! I would never spend such a huge sum -- but it's OK - she has enough money I guess LOL. Shahrukh Khan also leads one of the teams at the IPL. Reportedly, once Zinta entered, the media instantly popped up all around. Huh!! Shahid • Talk2me 21:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Exactly.
You know Blof, I think there are so many Bollywood and non-Bollywood articles which should become FAs. Joan Crawfors's article is terrible, Kat Hepburn, Rekha, Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi (the leading ladies of parallel cinema in India, of course Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, Sholay, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge (landmark films in the history of Bollywood - the biggest hits) -- that's so sad that so many articles are being neglected and deprived. On the other hand, Emma Watson gets a FA when the article is not comprehensive at all (IMO)..... God!!! Shahid • Talk2me 22:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW Blof I see you haven't been so (meaning at all) active today! Shahid • Talk2me 15:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh great, I hope you enjoyed it. Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 21:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, if you are working on them alone, so it will indeed take a lot of time. There are so many articles, and you will need much energy, hard work and dedication. You will also have to investigate everything and look for good sources for each article. So it will take something like 500 years LOL. Kidding! I think you're very quick and you have a lot of energy and goodwill - so it won't take that long. Shahid • Talk2me 21:20, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey!!! Yeh take your time and enjoy. Not everything in life revolves around Wikipedia :-)... I'm going to create a template for Indian director Mahesh Bhatt's films, and spread it all over LOL!!!!
Well, according to Wikiproject Indian cinema - 24,796 articles in total!!!! Impressing or not? Shahid • Talk2me 13:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes!! Exactly!! Shahid • Talk2me 13:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Great article! The only problem is the lack of inline citations. Shahid • Talk2me 14:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh wow LOL!! Yeh, the world is full of coincidences! haha!! Shahid • Talk2me 17:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Exactly! We don't succeed in realising that on time, and the time is already gone... Great moments are always quick to get over. But enjoy your Easter.. :) I'm not celebrating these holy days, cause I'm Jewish.. Huh! So I'm waiting for Passover to come! Have you heard of some Jewish holydays? I'm not a big expert either! In India it's Holi, India's spring festival. I miss India!!Shahid • Talk2me 17:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
That's how I was grown up, combining Jewish and Hindu festivals! We don't really celebrate that strongly; we just note its arrival. Shahid • Talk2me 17:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
You told me once you had some Jewish roots... Is your grandpa half Jewish? Shahid • Talk2me 17:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Not exactly, both my parents are jewish, and both of them are Indian! The Jewish community in India is very small today, but still they found each other LOL. But my maternal grandma was Hindu. Shahid • Talk2me 17:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW that's amazing how much you know about your roots LOL!! For me, it takes quite some time to get that. My paternal grandpa moved to India in the 40s, if I'm not wrong. My mum is Jewish only on her father's side. Her father was Baghdadi Jewish, and her mother, Hindu. My father loves Israel very much. He always says his heart is there :-) If not the 1991 riots, I would've grown in Israel. Shahid • Talk2me 18:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeh, absolutely, well, tell me please, have you seen great films like Monsoon Wedding or Water (2005 film)? I bought the DVD of the latter, and am going to watch it today. I tol you, I sleep at days, and spend my time at nights LOL. Shahid • Talk2me 18:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeh, an Academy-award nominated picture by Deepa Mehta (who directed Preity in Heaven on Earth ;))... Shahid • Talk2me 18:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
No idea!! LOL! That has to wait until I return to India. I was going to come back at the beginning of the year, but things went wrong.
No, I'm not really a nocturnal person, that just nowadays, I have no schedule or whatever, and I lose my order. At times like this, at times like that... LOL Shahid • Talk2me 18:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I have a little question. When a film wins an award for "Best Film" - who receives the award? The director or the film or the producer? Shahid • Talk2me 20:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Divisions of Sudan

Oh bugger... those regions are not current. It seems Sudan started with 8 provinces, increased slowly to 18 (which I'm showing), cut back to 9 states before deciding more was better and reorganizing into 26 states. I'm not using any commercial software for map making, so basically I have to use the data which is available freely. I tried to search whether I could fix the map, but could not find anything usefull (=current) data... I'll have to nuke the map, as it's too misleading (of course historical maps have their uses too, but not under the current name Sudan_Locator.png). Thanks for catching this! – Sadalmelik (talk) 06:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Carverspeech

So you must have seen that I saved your image, didn't "mess" with it as you said. Ultra! 15:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] France banner

Whoever created that banner introduced some elements into it which have been screwing up my attempts to work on it, unfortunately. Still working on it, though. I've left a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject France#Template change? asking for permission to use the new version, though. John Carter (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cinema template

Hey, how's it going? I think that it would probably be a good idea to have a hide option since the template is getting really long. I'd recommend bringing it up first at the talk page of WP:FILMS first in case there may be some opposition with valid rationales. Good idea though. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Translations from Norwegian Wikipedias

Would it be a good idea if you marked articles which you translate from Norwegian for proofreading? As you notice I made some significant corrections to one such article. I'd be glad to assist in proofreading such articles myself. __meco (talk) 17:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Estonian actors

My first response on seeing the list in question, "H*** s***", is not one I am very likely to repeat in full, because I very rarely use that sort of language. I think I saw six or so blue links in the entire list? Oh, well, at least we can say that someone has a lot of ambition for this field. But, if you wanted to, well, trim the list a little, :), it could certainly be indicated that many of the red-letter names have not demonstrated their notability, I don't think anyone could object. It would trim the list rather a lot, but that might not be a bad thing. John Carter (talk) 20:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I was under the impression that you had found the list in question as one already extant, not had created it yourself, because I've seen several "wish list" articles like that one elsewhere. I have no doubts about the notability of the subjects however, as I know how you check through all the names before you add them. I wish that the Estonian wikipedia at [11] had more articles than it does, which right now seems to be about 47,000 pages. If you knew which of any of them have articles there already, though, if you can read the language better, creating links to those pages might not hurt. Certainly, Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia could be notified of the existence of the list, and the rather appalling dearth of blue links on it. Personally, I've always found that I have a lot fewer reservations about creating an article that already has red links than in creating one on my own. And, having seen the article in question, I cannot help but commend you on the work that went into it. Having said that, though, providing a list of references at the bottom indicating what sources were used compiling the list would certainly not be amiss. If you have the capacity to generate any other such lists for other countries, I think we wouldn't object to seeing them. And it does open up the gates for "article creation" projects for several projects. I know a few projects already have their own red-link lists, and it wouldn't hurt for others to have them as well. John Carter (talk) 21:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
One other option for all the geographic projects is to create in their project space a list of missing articles. Many projects could do with such lists, believe me. One problem a lot have is the believe that they've gotten everything done already. A little reminder that they've got a lot left to do would probably help stimulate activity in some of them. So Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/Missing articles, or whatever project is in question, might not be a bad idea to create if it doesn't already exist. John Carter (talk) 21:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, two examples out there are probably Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Missing articles and Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints/Missing articles. The red links to be added to any of them can be added however one might want to, although User:Seth Ilys/Seth's Massive List of South Dakota Things gives an idea of how to lay out such a page for particular types of articles. John Carter (talk) 21:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I know. Remember, up until I added a few, we had only one article on Umm al-Qawain, the main article itself. Our coverage of the parts of the planet less popular in the English-speaking world is frankly pathetic. I am more than a bit surprised by the lack of content regarding Vienna, though. I would have thought the other Germanics among us would have added more to it. I guess that's probably due to the Austria Project's lack of activity lately, though. John Carter (talk) 22:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:DopravnýpodnikBratislava.gif

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[edit] Deewaar (1975 film)

Image restored - I've been trying to keep apace of the bot, but I'm just one man ;) Feel free to let me know of any more that 'disappear' as it's relatively easy to restore if they're recent deletes. I don't know the cut off time, but there is one after which the image & page history are deleted. So, the sooner the better. Thanks for the hard work! SkierRMH (talk) 07:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paula Caplan

[12] Ultra! 11:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Well Deserved

The Geography Barnstar
As a new pages patroller I have seen your name a lot creating articles and you well and truely deserve this for all your work. Well Done BigDunc (talk) 12:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mining in Africa

The articles look good. The idea of a series on mining in Africa sounds to me like a very one. You might want to tell the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining about the articles. Also, for what it's worth, the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Moldova has now been created, leaving, I think, the only independent state on the planet without a dedicated group Mongolia, where that work group covers both independent and Chinese Mongolia. John Carter (talk) 17:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The other assessments and countries will probably be added to the banner as soon as I'm finished with the directory, and adding the other newer projects, like Bermuda, to the other relevant banners. That'll give time to figure out what to do with the ethnic states of Russia, as well. As soon as that's done, though, I think there will probably be more work done over in that part of the world as well. John Carter (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon Bridge

I will expand the article fivefolds than its present size. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Ljubljana - I think the template looks good without the image. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I found this topic interesting. I said that the template looks better without image. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
If you think the template looks good with the image, then why you removed the image? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Ljubljana

Congratulations for the articles on Ljubljana. Great job!! Thanks for your interest in Slovenia. Viator slovenicus (talk) 22:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool. Viator slovenicus (talk) 22:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed

I had uploaded Image:Layanam softcore.jpg a long time back, and had forgotten all about it. In the meantime, Wikipedia community has developed more stringent guidelines for non-free images. I was wondering if you can lend a help by using your amazing FU-rationale templates. Won't take you much time, I guess (well, since its being discussed for deletion, there is a possibility that it may end up as wasted effort... but we can always try). You can also remove the image from any article that is can defend the use of the non-free image. Please, take quick action, the discussion has already started. BTW, my lazy self has created the article on the film Layanam, finally that I had to do. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so very much. Next time you blow up a volcano I'd definitely lend a hand. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshots

Talk to Alientraveller please. He began all this with odd job.

About an FA now - the portal is nominated, List of James Bond film locations is also getting close. Do you know the locations of unofficial films? Ultra! 16:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctica

Aye, aye, cap'n.

There's a list of things to be done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Antarctica, complete with ready-formed stubs to be created, if you're interested in helping out. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Why, thank you. That's going to be so cute on my curio shelf. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 23:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of settlements

Hmm, basically your looking for a webcrawler that will download information from those offsite pages into a wiki list? That should be relatively non-controversial. But I don't know how to program such a tool. I'll try to look into it later today if that is the goal. MBisanz talk 22:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] two things

1. The article I stubified: I'm not saying this belongs here. Feel free to WP:PROD it, I would probably even agree. But hoaxes are not a reason for speedy deletion. Even one actual film is enough of a claim to pass WP:CSD#A7, though.

[edit] Re: What are you doing?

I never said that the subject was worth an article. I tagged the Harry Heard with {{hoax}} because I realized that it was not true. I also realized that the author (David Javeaux (talk · contribs)) was working hard on it. I would have speedy deleted (under g3) or AfD'd it if the hoax tagged was removed without improvement. EnviroboyTalkCs 23:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re. Slovenia

Sure, why not? :-) I was actually thinking of creating a few Slovenia-related stubs, adding some pics to articles, and making some changes to Novo Mesto. By the way, I'm not a Slovene, just in Slovenia. Regards, Húsönd 00:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Hah! I've been living in Slovenia for less than 2 months. I can speak more than grad and dom, but just a little more. Perhaps you should try User:Tone for that task. He's a native speaker of Slovene. Regards, Húsönd 13:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. And yes, Slovenia is a nice country indeed. I still have much to see, but I've been traveling around and taking some pictures that I keep uploading and listing here. Sometimes I add those to articles that are still lacking visual resources. Regards, Húsönd 14:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
By the way, I also like your userpage and talkpage. Quite surreal. :-) Húsönd 14:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Slovenian dramatists and playrights

Category:Slovenian dramatists and playrights, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. – Good Ol’factory (talk) 12:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re

What you are talking? I did not understand. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Now I have realized. That was my mistake not to respond to your comment in my talk page. That may be simple mistake. There is nothing "enmity" here. But there is another matter. I will like to provide you a suggestion, you are doing good job in many of the templates. But may I suggest you that you remove the pictures added in the templates. The templates look better without any kind of image. And how you can chose any image for a template. How you can say that this image is the representative of the city. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
In my opinion the templates are good without any kind of image. Addition of image seems like a bit promotional as if it is promoted by the tourism ministry of that country. To maintain the encyclopedic value, I will suggest you to remove the images. I have found another idea. That is how about a template for bridges in Slovenia. And then a category bridges by country. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Good job. List of bridges in Slovenia. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 14:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Zidani Bridge is redirecting to Zidani Most. But despite the bridge is located near the town, Zidani Most is a town, while the other is a bridge.So there should be different articles. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 15:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, but wikimapia cannot be used as reference. But good to indicate the location. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 15:12, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bond

Both filming locations and locations in the film

[edit] Zeleno zvono

Hi. I've modified the listing of this article because I recognize its language group, but not the specific one. I've notice you're involved with some Slovenian geography, so I'm hoping you might know even just a smidge more than me. Can you help? - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 16:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, someone's gotten wind of it and noted it as advertising! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 16:28, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

Er...I do. Didn't you get the thanks I left on your talk page last night? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:53, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

True, but then I really only do it for the warm fuzzy glow I get inside. That and all the women it nets me. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
And I'll leave you to work on the nice Slovenian stuff. Pretty place, Slovenia - ever been? I spent a couple of days there once. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Liberia

Hi. Yes, unfortunately the digital divide, WP:systemic bias and all that makes the coverage of many parts of the worlds really poor. Liberia isn't really my area of expertise, I just created that article because I saw the news about the census on BBC News and I thought that the agency that is organizing the first census since 1984(!) definitely deserved an article. But sure, I'll join the project. Why not? :) By the way, I'd like to take this chance to say that I've seen you around Wikipedia (how could I not?) and I want to congratulate you for the amazing work I think you've done. If we had more of you (ever considered cloning?) I can't even imagine what kind of encyclopaedia this would be. ;) Cattus talk 18:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Some really nice photos on Gambia. Prose is good for information, but a picture really makes a big difference in getting a feel of the place, it "takes you there", so to speak. By the way, that country has the most interesting geography I've seen, it's basically a strip of land following the path of a river! The Mozambique maps would be great, there is already this one, maybe it will be helpful. Cattus talk 20:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

78?! My country is not much smaller and only has around 30 protected areas. Cattus talk 20:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Well done!

The Working Man's Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for all the valued stubs you've created today. Great work! Regards, Húsönd 22:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome! By the way, I'm really glad you turned blue all the red links on this template I had created long ago. Something I should have done myself (blame my Portuguese laziness). I will now add to some of those stubs some pics I have of them. Expansion, yay! :-) Best regards, Húsönd 22:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Sure, count on me! This website has all the information about the Portuguese Protected Areas by the way. I'll use it for expanding the stubs. Regards, Húsönd 22:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin tools

I have to tell you that it's high time you understand you are the most indicated editor to become an admin. Why don't you wanna become an admin? Well..

Apart from that, didn't you tell me that you had admin tools? You have a rollback, no? Isn't it sufficient? Or it's only for vandalism reversions? Shahid • Talk2me 15:01, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

So why not becoming an admin? Wouldn't you like to become an admin so that you can make whatever you want? I really think it's the best option. You have been offered adminship so many times, I think it's the perfect time to accept the offer. Shahid • Talk2me 15:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
So what? And why are you so sure? Every editor has his tiffs with other ones. And every editor has his enemies LOL!! But as Churchill said once, "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." !!! There is nothing wrong in attempting. Shahid • Talk2me 15:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
You have nothing to lose... And you have so many editors who appreciate you - your award page is FULL!!! You are very active here, it's obious that there will be some editors who sign their oppose, but there will be thousand times more editors to support you, and back them up. And everybody knows that you would never utilise your admin powers if you became an admin. Shahid • Talk2me 15:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Well I still think the best thing you can do is trying your hand in becoming an admin! Shahid • Talk2me 15:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
134,000 - - - - - - huhhh!!!! Sounds exhauting :)
I would also like to note: if you decided to get nominated at RFA, I wouldn't support, I would write "neutral"!!!!! HAHAHA!! Kidding! Shahid • Talk2me 15:50, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW that's a great developement!!! I knew that it would happen sooner or later... Now you have a great way to shup up others' mouths LOL... Listen I'm taking a short Wikibreak of one week now... I'm gonna have a short trip over Australia... Shahid • Talk2me 19:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Well I still don't know... Huh I wish we would depart to Habort LOL!!! But I guess Adelaide will be the first option... Shahid • Talk2me 19:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
WOW that's a great template... Well, I know that you to do as much as possible but don't worry, somebody will sooner or later take care of that. You cannot make all the possible work on Wikipedia ;) Shahid • Talk2me 14:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
HAHAHA another way to shut some mouths. People have to understand that Wikipedia is an ongoing project, and the more work is done, the better. Shahid • Talk2me 14:59, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] UAE

What makes you think that!? :) Actually, spent most of yesterday there. I decided to not include the wadis and wells, as I'm not at all sure they qualify for inclusion, but the mountains, islands, and any inhabited places they mention the global gazeteer didn't I wrote down. John Carter (talk) 16:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Library. Meant I spent most of yesterday in the library with the US Defense Department's gazeteer on the UAE. Sorry about the confusion. They've even got a separate gazeteer on Andorra. What all it might include, I haven't a clue. I didn't look at that one though. John Carter (talk) 16:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Slovenia

I could set up the Europe banner for separate assessments for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. An example of the outcome is at User talk:John Carter/Europe banner. Granted, the categories would have to be created too, but would that work? John Carter (talk) 17:23, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Mauritania should work now. There was a misspelling in the banner earlier. Regarding your going for adminship, what thought is required. RUN. I have real trouble seeing you not being confirmed. The only thing I would add is that they will ask you what particular admin functions you see yourself doing, and they'll want a good answer. Other than that, I can't see any reasonable reservations. John Carter (talk) 20:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you mean by "Council" stuff, so I can't answer that directly. But, in general, maybe just saying you'd help close XfDs, maybe help with speedy deletions once in a while, etc., should be enough. Just indicating that there is something you specifically intend to do with the admin tools once you become an admin is pretty much what they're looking for, along with some demonstration of having been involved in such matters before. I've nominated a lot of MfDs, so I already know a little about that and could say I was invovled there. But closing XfDs, or protecting pages as requested, doing speedy deletions, etc., fairly regularly, if not entirely often, is what they're looking for. Basically, proof that you're requesting adminship for something other than egoboo. John Carter (talk) 21:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IFD

Hi Blofeld of SPECTRE, please don't remove ifd tag unless a consensus is reached. I assume you mistakenly removed that template. Thank you--NAHID 18:02, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Amiguito........

You words were very helpful the other day. You do know that I consider one of my Wiki mentors... so my new amigo and I are involved in a nasty fight who hates my new friend, I guess due to his left political views...anything else (neutrality, for example) is bull-shit... See...The Motorcycle Diaries (film)....It's one of the Argentininan films we have both worked on. Tu amigo siempre. Luigibob (talk) 04:16, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Ride Him,Cowboyposter.jpg)

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[edit] Re: Battle of Valle di Cadore

The topic is perhaps of some interest to me—although the article happens to be incorrect, since the battle took place before the war—but I don't think I have any substantive details on the battle itself in any of my usual sources, so I doubt that I'll be writing a full-blown article on it anytime soon. Kirill 12:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Morrocco categories

Why are you moving articles from the current, valid categories to a merged category without discussion, please? TerriersFan (talk) 15:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] African cities

I like it - I think it's a good idea. Trouble is, I don't know how much long Antarctica's going to take; I do it when I can, but real life intrudes an awful lot these days, so it's going to take an awful long while. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Easter Amigo

To my mentor at Wikipedia.... your amigo Luigibob (talk) 19:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zende

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[edit] Emily Clay

I agree that the individual probably doesn't warrent an article (per WP:BIO and WP:NN) but being a record holder is an assertion of importance (even if it isn't a very good one) so the article is not - in my opinion - an A7 candidate. Guest9999 (talk) 21:32, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I've nominated the article for deletion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emily Clay) if you'd like to comment. Guest9999 (talk) 21:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Film project coordinator?

Out of curiosity, have you considered making yourself a candidate for one of the coordinator posts of the Film Project? I know certain people might look askance at your, well, forthrightly stated goals for broad-based influence, but I think you might make a very good fit. John Carter (talk) 15:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CSBot and stubs

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[edit] Ernst Stavro Blofeld‎

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[edit] Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson

[14] Ultra! 18:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirects Ultra! 18:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

overlinking Ultra! 19:00, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship?

You still wants adminshp? Think you good candidade, by criminy. You want nomination from someone else? Me can write rilly gud, almost as gud as User:Bishzilla. Me could use help in maybe getting that sykopathic big'un recoiled next week too. Sorry, not tok so good, shaking in fear of radeoactive death rays. Bishzilla needs Listerine big time. Let me no if you wants adminship, maybe me can write up pretty nominashun. :) John Carter (talk) 19:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Negotiating agreements is probably even a bit beyond the average admin, unfortunately. What we'd probably have to do first is ensure that all the sources listed at Wikipedia:Public domain image resources on the subject are exhausted first. If we can verify that there aren't any useful images there, that would help a lot. But I think everyone would just about demand that those be gone through first. John Carter (talk) 21:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bond screenshots

Ok, which decisions do you think went wrong? I can rectify.

I was absent on the last day of Thunderball's GAC and the dive gear image got removed (per reviewer's comment). Can you recover it? Ultra! 15:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image sizing/scaling

Noted that you were in on a discussion regarding this - don't stress out on this problem right now, it's a Meta problem/bug right now that is actively being worked on. If you're interested you can check out Wikipedia talk:ClickFix or the bug report itself - (bugzilla 13494) SkierRMH (talk) 22:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Academy in New York City

We're planning a Wikipedia:Academy at Columbia University in New York City in a month or two, and we would like some input on the possibility of an article-writing drive by Columbia students. User:MBisanz suggested you as the best person to ask for advice about possible subject areas. For background, see Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 8#Neglected subject area needed for Wikipedia:Academy content drive by novice Wikipedians. See also User talk:Pharos#Wikipedia Academy for a proposal by someone from the Wine WikiProject, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature#Wikipedia:Academy in New York City for my request to the Literature WikiProject. Thanks for your help.--Pharos (talk) 23:00, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] cantons of France

Hi there,

if you're planning to create navbars for French cantons, this would be helpful: de:Kategorie:Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Kantone in Département. French wikipedia doesn't have navbars for cantons. Dickeybird has created articles for all cantons of Somme. For the other departments, nearly all cantons are missing. I just created Canton of Le Catelet (Aisne), and there's a few more scattered around, see the subcategories of Category:Cantons of France. There's an awful lot of cantons BTW: 4,032 according to Cantons of France. Markussep Talk 15:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can you retrieve the Thunderball diving apparatus image?

I am asking again. We'd better remove Bond's face (Adds hardly anything informative per WP:IMAGES) or Largo (this one's in Domino's article) as the GA reviewer pointed at excess nonfree use. Ultra! 16:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

But the boat image will be deleted! I would prefer Largo and Domino. Diverting these pics to character pages is an alternative and a GoldenEye peer review favours stunts or any action scenes to explain plot better. The boat is good enough. Ultra! 16:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Alientraveller said on Goldfinger that anyone can see what a character looks like simply by clicking on their names in cast. Ultra! 16:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
No, not every character. The 5 in 1 promo photo is good to stay on the film page. Ultra! 16:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
What do you think should be done to the Die Another Day allies list? I notified the project talk on seeing it but nobody seems to have reacted. Ultra! 16:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok so what's the source of the dive gear pic? Ultra! 16:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[15] Image:Thunderballapparatus.jpg Ultra! 19:01, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shamla District

There is no hint is google search [16]. But it is listed in List of cities and towns in Bangladesh. Confused. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 16:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request to change Template:WikiProject France

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Cheers, Basketball110 Go Longhorns! 19:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Koavf

Hi. Well, I've just sorted out three templates he's touched recently, especially Template:Marxist theory. I see you've also just left him a message, which I guess explains your message to me! Have you tried communicating with him before? (Don't think I have.) Sardanaphalus (talk) 19:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

PS Shouldn't that be "Meestair" Bond, or even "Meestair Bonduh"...?...!

[edit] Image:Thunderballapparatus.jpg

I restored it (it was marked as "orphaned" and not "lacking fair use"), would you mind putting it back in the correct spot in the article - I don't want to put it in the wrong spot! SkierRMH (talk) 20:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Tibet template

Okay I certainly do think that you are entitled to state your case - this is precisely why I asked for it in the first place (in terms of license to speak about its colors, it is irrelevant to me that you originally crated it.) If you want to me to change the color of the text, that would be fine with me, but 1.) white text may not print and 2.) colors for links other than browser defaults (usually blue) are confusing. Both of those guidelines are web usability no-nos. I appreciate what you're saying about maintaining a culturally-significant colo(u)r scheme, so how about one that includes the red hue of the robes, but does not have blue text on top of that color, as it will invariably difficult for me to read (I am assuming that my experience is not simply my own, but is shared by other users); does that sound sufficient? Please respond on my talk at your leisure. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I just noticed You blind reverted my edits, including adding hanging bull dots at the beginning of lists. If you have some aesthetic differences with me, that's fine, but why would you include formatting errors again? -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Bridges in Bagladesh

Hi can you create a template on bridges in Bangladesh. I was just researching on the subject and found various interesting facts. I have created the article Meghna Bridge. There are many more notable bridges. A template will be helpful. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 19:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Well done. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 19:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, such kind of template is needed for every continent. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Meester Bond is here

What do you think of this? How is Mr. Bigglesworth? Basketball110 19:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I take it you saw the funny page. I really like the Japanese toilet. I'm fine... a few scratches though (courtesy of my cat, Izzy). I've been sick, though. Other than that, pretty good. Basketball110 20:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Indeed, they do. After I saw a few of your images in your evil hall of fun, I clicked on the Commons links and searched "Category:Humor," and found quite a few, my favorite is this one. Basketball110 20:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Would you be interested in the following:

  • Mr. Potato Head Cabal - has a "Random Article Contest" trying to get a random article up to GA or FA
  • Giant Panda Cabal - tries to get the article "Giant Panda" up to GA or FA

Basketball110 20:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay. When you want to join, let me know, and you won't have to pass voting (voting is only from Mr. Potato Head). Basketball110 20:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Choroid plexus papilloma.jpg

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[edit] Thanks

Hey thanks man, I really don't know what that means or anything but it is welcome. You play guitar too I see. Go to the states man, LA, right after christmas, boxing day sales are intense. I bought a gibson les paul for 2700 dollars

MARKED DOWN FROM 5000 BUCKS. That is a very good deal unless I am very much mistaken. What sort of music do you play? Blues? Rock? Metal? etc. Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 12:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


You are pretty much the coolest person I have ever met, in real lfe, or on wikipedia. I watched the whole directors cut of woodstock. I am listening to The End by The Doors right now. You are my Jesus, I would worship you like I worship hendrix, page, richars and allof the other massively great guitarists. Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 12:26, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Love the cream, hate the pink floyd. I love the Beatles, and I hate more than hate metal, like all this crapp emo crap that has come out recently. I just got back from San Fran, it was great, so much history within a city. I just got into the rolling stones about four days ago. I was in a store and I said, "blow it (I didn't use one of those words, which one was it?) I am going to buy a stones album. I bought beggars banquet, and went back the next day and bought 4 others. I want to go to new york, that place would be the shit. So much dope is everywhere I heard. Like they said about London, except the streets are paved with dope not gold. Have you been to the states? Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 12:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Good Day Sunshine is my favourite beatles song at the moment. I like the cheesiness of it. I also like how their next album, and even some songs on Revolver (album) were so influenced by pot, shrooms, mescaline, and acid, and they coud produce something as simple, catchy, and cheesy as good day sunshine. I also love Sympathy For The Devil, and yes, I am the walrus is a great example of how great drugs are. I want to transfer to Harvard to finish my masters and maybe do my doctorate. But instead I will probably just get drunk and punch a tree, which is what I usually do in those situations. At the moment I am learning the slide solo for What Is and What Should Never Be by Led Zeppelin. Which I know is not the hardest solo, but I have rarely played slide, so I have to start somewhere, what are you playing at the moment? And have you heard a song called Itchycoo Park? Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 12:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I added some new comments right before you replied to me, I mentioned Itchycoo Park etc. My history teacher from year 10 was a mad hippie. He was a such a mad guy. At one point we were doing the civil rights movement, he said "Will, go outside and play the blues on your acoustic guitar (which I had with me)". It was great, I love the blues. When I was in year 11, he asked my band to play blues in front of the whole of year 10, which consists of about 160 people, I had my band to back me up. DO you like the doors, or do you find them too dark and uninviting? Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 13:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
The Who are the shit, I love the who like Ilove breathing, it keeps me alive. The Doors are some of my all time favourites, Morrison's voice was great. Have you heard Tommy by the who, it is fantastic. Moon was a better drummer than I think even Bonham, who was the best. Hendrix was great, you have heard the drumming on Fire I can guess? How good is that, I reckon that is some of the best druming in rock and roll history. Bob Dylan was great too. My history teacher took a boat out to alcatraz in the 60s, 69 I think it was, with a group of friends at night. They all dropped acid and they told him he was a demon or posessed or something, and he jumped off a cliff into the water below. Have you heard of a band Called Quicksilver Messenger Service? They are fantastic too. Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 13:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I can't find a sitar in Australia, and if I could, it would be well above my price range. But yeah, it would be sweet to get a sitar, if only to be able to play the sitar part for Norwegian Wood. User:WilliamMThompson|Doctor Will Thompson]] (talk) 13:18, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


Check out this little bastard. I am going to go to bed now, it is 1230 am where I am, nighty night. Doctor Will Thompson (talk) 13:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heyyy

Oh Yeh I came back today... Had to be shortened.... How are you? Shahid • Talk2me 14:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Well I'm still not sure if it's completely prepared... See what happened with the Che Guevara article... How come an article of 130+ KBs has now only half of the original FA version, is now in terrible conditions and is also listed pn WP:FAC??... Shahid • Talk2me 14:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Exactly! Shahid • Talk2me 14:18, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Well done, Mr. Blofeld!! Have you left some notice on the FAR page? Shahid • Talk2me 15:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
That's great... Listen, I think the Madhubala article has immense potential. She is considered to be a legend and one of the best actresses of Hindi cinema ever. One editor who was not really aware of Wikipedia's policies, such as inline citations, expanded it substatially, relying on books. It is exetremely well written, and the editor listed all the books in the refs section... What do you think? Shahid • Talk2me 15:17, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
What?????? Ha ha ha ha!!! I love films of all times!!! Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Nargis!!!!! Awara, Shree 420, Mother India, Dhool Ka Phool, Phool Aur Patthar, Arzoo, Arandhana, Anupama etc., are some of my all time favourite films... The list is endless... Also good to note that during 1998-2001 I really disliked new Bollywood films because they seemed very stupid and idiotic to me. During this period I was watching only old classics of the 50s-80s and to some extent the 90s... Only then I began watching new films more often, and I started watching new releases weekly in cinemas in Mumbai. BTW, during this period, I noticed Zinta with films like Chori Chori Chupke Chupke and Dil Hai Tumhara... Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 15:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
You know, she is considered the most beautiful actress of Hindi cinema ever!! I never really thought so... Shahid • Talk2me 15:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
That's amazing how an image can change an article completely!!! They give much more understading of the subject and illustrate it in an ubelievable manner don't they... Shahid • Talk2me 15:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm shocked with these editors' attitude!!! Someone tries to help, and they revert it. I'm so angry!!!!!!! This attitude is most disheartening.... The FAR is already being filled with remove votes... That's a shame!!!!!! Shahid • Talk2me 23:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Beautiful galll!!!! Shahid • Talk2me 18:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
LOL I also like these gals!! As you mentioned Halle Berry, I think she is extremely good looking, and a wonderful actress. Shahid • Talk2me 18:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeh!! I also like her personality. She is a talented actress and I read that she was the first African-American actress to win an Oscar... She is very smart, and was strong enough to go and receive a Razzie award in personal... WOW!!! This is the kind of wimen I like. In fact, that's how women should be. :) Shahid • Talk2me 18:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh yeh very much... But I don't like his article :( Shahid • Talk2me 21:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh well I really didn't notice your message. And secondly, you're right pal, I really don't care. Each and everyword is precise. ;) Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 22:08, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I have a rollback!! Shahid • Talk2me 13:10, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Riana! Shahid • Talk2me 13:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Yeh of course, but it still takes a lot of time. I'm very aware of its policy and conditions and when it should be used. Shahid • Talk2me 13:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey Blof... I wanted to ask you, can't there be an image rationale for images of yeasteryear actors/actresses. For example, see this image. I've added a rationale, and a tag was still added by some user, which is pathetic. Isn't this image considred to be replaceable? Shahid • Talk2me 14:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
No problems, have a great day!!! Only two things.
1) So, in other words, when it comes to yesteryear actresses who are now relatively old, and there are not replaceable free images of their young days and past career, we can add images?
2) I just wanted to tell you that all these image templates you created, a user has added a special tag to all of them {{Filmr|article name|source}}... The problem is that when we use this spacial tag, it always shows the DVD/poster template, whether it's a template for a screenshot or an image for a deceased person... Shahid • Talk2me 14:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Blof, when you're here, please help me with the images. The problem is that images are being tagged anyway. And I'm not sure how to write it because I'm not an expert, but as one who is knowledgeable regarding the issue, maybe you can help with some rationale (ie Babita) (her image is from 1967!!!! As of nor, I've added another FU rationale with a commentary). Your explanation to me was brilliantly written, but apparently a FU rationale doesn't suffice for these images to be featured on the actors' articles. To make it possible, I guess we can create some template which will explain that these images are irreplaceable, old, cannot be replaced by freely licensed ones, and actresses are old, and these images illustrate the part in their life which the article discusses. I really need your help. Please reply when you're back. Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 16:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Image:Waheeda Rehman.jpg is an example of an image that is still tagged. Image:Zeenat aman in her young days.jpg too. I think we can create a template that will explain all of what I told you in the above message. Shahid • Talk2me 17:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Well thank you very very much. Only that's a pitty that they cannot be used in infoboxes... I'll try to find the source of Zeenat Aman. Shahid • Talk2me 18:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh that's a great developement!! THat's how Wikipedia is being developed, not what certain users on here think. :) Shahid • Talk2me 20:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Madhubala.jpg

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[edit] Madhubala image

Boy! You beat me to it! I just uploaded her ravishing image to set it up on her article page. What do you think of this one instead? Mspraveen (talk) 16:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bridges

Yikes, quite a lot of bridges! I'll translate those bits later. Regards, Húsönd 16:34, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Location maps

Any chance that you could track down some good looking maps of the Canadian provinces and territories and Canada as a whole? Some of the present ones are terrible, if available at all.

Thanks —MJCdetroit (yak) 16:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CG article revert

I welcome your desire and spirit to work on the CG article, but let's discuss changes on the talk page, before reverting to a version of the article, before weeks of edits during the FA process. You doubled the article in size in 1 single edit, and erased hundreds of edits that have been made by numerous editors in the last few weeks to improve the article. Also see the FA review and recent suggestions of what to fix, in reference to the article. Thanks and I look forward to working with you. Redthoreau (talk

[edit] AfD nomination of Taourirt

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[edit] Italy

Apparently, there's 7041 articles linking to the Italian town infobox, out of 8101 comuni. Shouldn't be too difficult to find the missing ones, using AWB's list compare (what transcludes the infobox vs. the municipality in province categories). Markussep Talk 23:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Would you take a look?

The article on Riya Sen, I believe is almost ready to go for GAN. There are still a few kinks, some choppy bad prose, and tiny holes in the fabric of information. Most of that I can't see, as I have lived too long with the article. Kind of turns you blind (becomes a bit boring, too). Can you, please, take a look and tell me what needs to be done? I promise to be a good boy. Aditya(talk • contribs) 10:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Hahaha... Ms. Sen very hot, my blood very hot, those volcanoes you're about to blow up will get even hotter. Definitely the summer is approaching. Thanks. It would be very helpful to have your guidance here. Aditya(talk • contribs) 12:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Retirement

Hmmm....it's hard to think why - but I've fallen into the category like many other ex-editors, who think they are wasting time by helping wikipedia grow. Another reason is that I'll have extra commitments, over the next three months.

But hopefully, I'll be tempted to return, maybe within a week or a year. Good knowing you! Keep ediitng.

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[edit] Your Lair

May I respectfully suggest that your Piz Gloria hideout is showing its age? I have just the place: Jested in the Czech Republic (you probably spent some time in the CR in '56 and '67). We really must get some better pictures of the hotel/tv tower/mothership. Acroterion (talk) 19:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

It came to mind because I have a henchman/former employee who visited the place and was astonished at its weirdness. Volcanoes are all very well, but they're a bit scarce in Europe, so one must make do. Acroterion (talk) 20:05, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Those will do nicely. I assume the church conceals an elevator that leads to an underground facility tastefully furnished in stainless steel? Actually, my informant was being chased by his new Czech wife: they both have a mania for mountain biking, and took Jested as a suitably horrendous climb on a bicycle. Acroterion (talk) 20:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
They definitely don't look much like Wales. Acroterion (talk) 20:39, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Template

Hey man, I just wrote a template, give it a geeze if you want. Template:Infallible —Preceding unsigned comment added by WilliamMThompson (talk • contribs) 03:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Architect template

Since I'm lousy at templates, all help is appreciated. This week I ran across Anatole de Baudot and Gustave Perret while translating their sadly neglected Église Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre and Église Notre-Dame du Raincy, who need articles. I'll give them a try using the new template - thanks! Acroterion (talk) 13:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese villages, towns, and cities

Unlike some of the recent discussions at CFD, the classification of villages, towns, and cities in Japan is well-defined; and, I can't think of any reason that would prompt us to eliminate that distinction in the categorization here. Before making changes to any more prefectures, can you bring up your rationale at either WP:MOS-JA or WP:WPJ ?? Thanks. Neier (talk) 13:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I reverted the categorization changes, and, will let the empty cats sit a few days so they can be speedied. As far as infoboxes go, I like your idea of two maps; but, the image in the template you linked to seems a bit large for Japan, since it includes a great deal of China and Russia, and also does not include the southern islands like Okinawa. Standardizing the infoboxes of Japanese articles (cities, railroads, prime ministers, whatever) with the rest of the world always seems to cause issues of one sort or another; so, I try to keep my nose out of that. :-) Neier (talk) 01:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Asin image

Hi there! I noticed the following image Image:Asinclear.jpg and the licensing it has. It says that a direct link to its source should be mentioned, but I didn't find one. Can this be sorted out since you're the uploaded? Thanks! Mspraveen (talk) 15:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

What are your next steps with respect to this image as well as the others from Bollywoodblog.com. I noticed many such images in my today's-finding-pui/di-images-and-reporting-exercise. Mspraveen (talk) 15:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
One question. I'm not sure, but you might know the answer to my question - Image:428px-001 A.jpg: Isn't the licensing insufficient here? It should be in the OTRS, isn't it? Thoughts? Mspraveen (talk) 18:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Slovenian astronomers

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What on earth are you talking about? Since when has astronomy been a "trivial subject"? Please read your "guideleine" carefully before making rash decisions thankyou.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk • contribs) 16:16, 30 March 2008 (UTC))
Other than this, the lists serve as an excellent way to build content on wikipedia and to identify the notable biographies that are missing. If given time to develop I think they provide an excellent overview of people by country on wikipedia. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I added the {{prod}} tag to List of Slovenian astronomers because I think that it is a list which has an underlying concept that is non-notable. You should create a Category|category for Slovenian astronomers, then if any of them are notable, add their articles to that category. Stifle (talk) 16:20, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Slovenian astronomers already existed but due to the huge uneveness in knowledge as yet we only have one article but this isn't to say that no others are not "notable". Identifying what is missing is the most important thing we can do to develop this encyclopedia and plan for future growth and I am not the only one who agrees with me, many administrators and good editors have also agreed with me. Other than this many editors find such lists useful . I doubt I could have made 136,000 edits to wikipedia and not learned a thing or two about how to build this site ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
If they're notable, create articles about them, eh? Stifle (talk) 16:28, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that I don't speak Slovene so if I start the articles they are likely to be small stubs until somebody can translate later, which is likely to attract editors such as yourself who will try to delete them and plaster them with tags. Not exactly an ameniable environment to work in ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually if you create an article about a person that explains why the person is notable and gives one or two sources to back it up then I'll be happy. Same requirements as for everyone else here. Stifle (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: List of Slovenian architects

Hi:

that's great! I only think the list is a little overinflated: there are a lot of absolutely unimportant architects there. I think we should try to cut it down to the essential. I don't believe every architect who ever designed a house deserves his own article, so I see no point in putting them on the list. I suggest we do the same as with the List of Slovenian writers or List of Slovenian language poets: concentrate on grouping together the articles already written plus adding the really important ones that are missing. Viator slovenicus (talk) 17:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

It's a big question when is it reasonable to have a list when a category suffies. If there are only blue links, a cat is enough. If there are reds, let's put them on the taskforce :-) --Tone 17:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I kind of agree with user Tone on that. The Lists of Slovenian people on the Slovenian wp are sometimes competely senseless, I'm sorry to say. The List of Slovenian architects was a preposterous thing before I edited it. It was mostly spam. I even found a neighbour of mine on the list (a certain Niko Jurca), who is indeed a fine person and an architect by education, but as far as I know he hasn't projected a single building in his life. On the other side, several crucial architects were missing from this enormously long list, such as Boris Kobe, Viljem Treo or Gregor Maček. I guess someone just copy-pasted the membership list of some Slovene architects association from their homepage or sth. and then added some famous dead architects who already had an article on the Slovenian wp (Plečnik, Ravnikar, Vurnik, Šubic, etc.) I'm afraid most of those lists are useless. Also many biographies on the Slovenian wp are not really that important to be translated into English. I would strongly suggest not to start translating them to English from scratch: we first have to identify crucial articles. If we don't set priorities, we'll find ourselves spammed by useless long lists, which is the same as not havnig them at all, or even worse.
About the template List of Slovenes: I think the categories can be reduced to at least a third or a quarter of the original or even to a tenth. I don't see much point in the category, say, "Slovene cymbals players". Viator slovenicus (talk) 17:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Re: I wonder, too. However, I doublechecked on Google and on the webpage http://www.arhitekturni-vodnik.org/: if they're not there, they are definetely not notable (this is a comprehensive list of virtually all important Slovene architects of the post-WWII period; although only of those who worked in Slovenia: and I don't think all of them deserve an encyclopedic article, but if they're not there - unless if they worked outside SLO - then they definetely don't fit into wp). Viator slovenicus (talk) 18:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, the easy way to claim someone is notable is to put a good reference to it. (obviously, you can see I am still showing effects of a certain recent incident :P ) Those lists at sl: are often edited by anons adding themselevs and their friends and they stay there either because the community there is too small to evaluate every such edit or because the community does not pay such attention to lists (this is more likely since the article about no-names get deleted quickly). So, I disencourage copying those lists or making stubs of them, at least for now. We have missing articles section on the taskforce already. --Tone 18:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arts interest?

Hi Blofeld, I saw your comment here about being interested in the arts, etc. and I thought I'd extend this to you:

You have been invited to join the Museums WikiProject, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of museums. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

No worries if you're busy/not interested, but I wanted to mention it to you. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:11, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, but thanks for being willing to tag when you work on museums. That list of page... is a bit scary at the moment, although better than the NYC one, but I find them both useful for red link development and a 'focused' random of click on one and see what it needs. If I can help you at all with museum information, do let me know TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:20, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Agreed on the LDC issues. When I went through and assessed the first lot of bot-added articles I found a significant number from SE Asia where we had nothing more than one sentence. I'd love to expand those if solely for educational purposes but I wonder how we're going to get info from places like Burma. Expanding the smaller museums/museums in non English dominant countries is a big part of the project scope. Language issues are big so I started a member sub section for those who speak/read something other than English, museums in the former USSR are almost as much of an issue. It's sad. But some have interwiki links so I'm hoping with a little nudging of the right poeple we can get help translating from the original language/s. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Agreed. And for all we know, any of these Burmese museums are the cultural equivalents of the Met, Tate, etc. I think the African museums are less of an issue simply because travel is done more freely there and journalists and others are able to write about the museums on press trips, and they've been covered in travel publications. It's still not extensive, but it's far better than those in China, North Korea, Burma and other locations where information is stifled at best. I hope that the other editor is able to make contact through the library in Yangon because more information is wonderful. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Re. SLovenian biography

I see no bad in that list, far from trivial and certainly useful. Regards, Húsönd 11:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Film project

It looks like the Film project has extended the nomination period for coordinators. Would you have any interest in being a candidate? John Carter (talk) 13:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re

Hi, Blofeld, and sorry for not getting in touch earlier. Your message came while I was away on a rather long, and I have a two-mile long backlog staring at me. That and I was afraid that you were just trying to lure me into a shecret volcano ;). I was thrilled that we now have an article on Cesereanu, so I expanded it - I tend to focus on one article at a time, obsess with it for a while and build it to an almost GA level, then I more or less move on (which is why Alexandrescu will have to wait: there is much to say, and it's, oh, not that interesting at the moment). But you do deserve a kudos for filling those redlinks.

To answer your question (though the Cesereanu expansion probably answered it before me): yes, i do speak Romanian. If you have any questions about any stuff written in that language or need me to look into anything else in the meantime, I'd be happy to oblige. Later, Dahn (talk) 18:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

To your last question: it's definitely "Maria Baciu". I'm not sure how and where the other came up, but Romanians may invert the two personal names in common but unusually bureaucratic instances - in school or in the army, they would turn a, say, Mircea Cărtărescu into a "Cărtărescu Mircea"; another instance outside this context is a horrible "patriotic song" of the 70s, where a reference was made to one Ceauşescu Nicolae. The habit is quite recent (not sure just how recent, but some say the communists introduced it), and appears to be dying out.
On the larger issue: I don't mind stubs at all. I just prefer to come at the second stage in the process you outline, or move from nothing to GAish in just about one edit. I feel more comfortable with covering a topic than with stubbing, and I may just slowly but surely do that for most stubs you create. I would however advise against mirroring Romanian wikipedia indiscriminately: as any reliable editor here will tell you, the whole section is riddled with major problem, and some are likely to affect your your project. For example, among the article it has on writers, there are three cases, all unacceptable: 1) articles that are riddled with POV statements, weasel words, trivia etc. that may make it to FA level there without so much as a single citation (!); 2) articles that copy large clumps from copyrighted works (such as from George Călinescu's History of Romanian Literature), which also imply that the plagiarists may pass a writer's opinions for facts; 3) overblown and under-cited articles on authors who may not actually merit any entry. I think that a good system would be to stub mainly or even only for those that are redlinks over here. Dahn (talk) 18:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Cool. I've actually had Baconsky in my sight for a long while now: I have a draft around for an expansion, but I never got around to doing it. Yes, he is definitely notable (and quite controversial, given some of his political choices). More on this soon, hopefully. Dahn (talk) 19:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I certainly would not call your messages "bugging", and I'm making mental notes of those articles (some I have noticed or will actually notice as filled redlinks in various article I've watchlisted over the years). So, again, feel free to let me know if there's any quick way in which I can help - I only use "quick" because a more focused editing on my part may take a while, and will move at a slower pace, but I'm willing to look over, double-check or translate anything you may ask me to as time permits.

On your list, I see Dimitrie Anghel, Aderca and the aforementioned Baconsky, all of whom I would like to revisit really soon (for a glimpse of where Anghel fits in, see my Traian Demetrescu or Christian Rakovsky; as for now, it could do without all the redlinks at the end, most or all of which will probably never be articles).

I feel I should clarify this: I never meant to imply that you could not tell who was notable and who wasn't. I'm convinced you are. However, I felt I needed to underline that rowiki takes absurd liberties which, I feel, should not be imported here, but which may try to deceive the untrained eye. Such was the case of one Romanian author who considered himself notable, and who created a scandal on two wikis some two or three years ago. I was not aware of the discussion you had about Slovenian writers, but I now see how my words of caution were redundant. If there is anything I would still highlight when it comes to this topic, it's this: whatever wikipedias like the Slovenian one may be, the Romanian one is worse, because it was for long assailed by a small set of interest groups (part of this was revealed to honest users when they explored the attempted use of rowiki as a tool for propagating neofascism). But anyway.

Keep up the great work, and best regards. Keep in touch, Dahn (talk) 19:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recent activity

The past week has been, well, problematic. I've now finished the articles for inclusion in the Biography rotation, finished today luckily, have been trying to arrange the possibility of coordinators for the Christianity project, and been working a bit more concentratedly on getting the new draft of the project directory out in that section. Sorry about the rather more "focused" (other less pleasant words apply as well) person I've been lately. I've been trying to fix all the directory links to the Assyria project the past few minutes or however long it's been at the same time, and only found your message was deleted before I even got a chance to respond to it. Unfortunately, with some of these, there are a lot of places they're listed under. The new articles do look good, though. I hope to be able to return to normal in the next few days. John Carter (talk) 21:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)