FritzBot and ongoing attempt to document Mexican municipalities

There is a lively discussion about the proposal to have a bot create articles for all of the worlds documented towns and villages, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot. There are already a LOT of responses on this page and I have only scanned the various comments. This may affect my use of Wikipedia for my English classes as such a bot would create a ton of articles about Mexican towns and villages... whether such have municipal status or not. If such bot does go forward and do this, I would really like to see some kind of consensus about whether to combine town/municipality articles or not. After struggling with the issue and with my students, I really do think that in most cases, especially dealing with central and southern Mexico (which I am more familiar with), combining the two is the most logical choice, as for many, either the town is the only community of any real size (like most cases in Oaxaca) or conversely, the city and the municipality are co-extensive. As for naming convention, naming such combined articles seems to be best done under the town/village's name (most have the same name, at least partially but where the are different, the city name would be more distinctive in most cases... and the bot is going to create a page with the town/village's full name anyway. For towns/municipalities that have the same common name (like Atizapán or Acatlán), disambiguation pages will serve.

Another issue is standardizing infoboxes... I would like to see one for towns with municipal status and towns/villages without such. Ive made a first attempt at such at the Acambay, Mexico State page, though you will have to see it in edit mode to see all the information I think needs to be in there. I have not created one for non-municipal towns/villages but such should include a line stating which municipality it belongs to.

I am posting similar messages to Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes and Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico.Thelmadatter (talk) 14:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Operation COOKIE MONSTER

Sorry

I'm so sorry I didn't help you. I was caught up with school work myself.Mooncrest (talk) 00:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added my name to the mentors if that all right with you.Mooncrest (talk) 00:53, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll help out a bit and let you know if I'm busy. Is there anything I can help you with?Mooncrest (talk) 01:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SUP - move, not delete?

I'd suggest that instead of deleting, you move the comment to past/proposed projects or talk.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Its already there.Thelmadatter (talk) 17:50, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Domingo's statue

Thanks, man. You can e-mail to me at whjayg@msn.com. When I uploaded the photo, I will put your name as the photographer. - Jay (talk) 14:15, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have uploaded the photos Image:Domingo Statue2.jpg and Image:Domingo Statue1.jpg in Plácido Domingo's article. Thanks again for your help. I credited both photos to you as the photographer. - Jay (talk) 15:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

=Infobox help needed

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I have put up (new) infoboxes for all the articles that exist that link from Municipalities of Mexico State. However, I want both the population figure for the municipality and the town/city to appear in the infobox. The information is in there but does not appear on the article. For example the article for Acambay. I know I need to do something with the code but I cant figure out what.Thelmadatter (talk) 16:54, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't the town listed at the very top of the box? What info for the Acambay article is missing in the box? Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 17:12, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the article in edit mode and scroll down a little, you will see that I have put in two population figures.. one for the municipality (the area the town is govermentally responsible for) and one for the town, itself. I would like both to appear and clearly labeled to show which is which. Thelmadatter (talk) 17:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see:

Population (2005)Municipality

- Municipality 56,847

- Seat 3,724

Is this not what you want? :-) Stwalkerster [ talk ] 17:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Huh... yes it is... someone fixed the first municipality of the list but not the rest... sorry! Ill work on the rest.Thelmadatter (talk) 17:26, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Humboldt picture

The information below the image HumboldtHouseDF.JPG in the article about Alexander von Humboldt reads: House were Alexander von Humboldt lived in Mexico City in 1863, located at 80 Rep. de Uruguay[...].
Humboldt certainly did not live there in 1863 as he was already dead at that time. The correct year would certainly be 1803, when he stayed in Mexico City for about 9 months.
(Jens) --87.78.167.187 (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]