User:Dr. Blofeld/ArchiveMarch2009

VN tx tags

VN tx tags are slowly being removed as progress is made; I assume it makes sense to do so. And there are plenty of one-line VN provincial capital city articles (at least 75% of them) that could be tagged as the extant VN tx category dwindles down. --Mr Accountable (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Check me if I'm wrong: (1) by looking at the map in the excellent Districts of Mekong Delta navbox, the complete districts of each included province are included in each provincial navbox section; no need for separate provincial district navboxes at this time (though a much more comprehensive navbox could emerge a ways down the road). (2) I am thinking to make Category:Mekong River Delta along the lines of other major heavily populated deltas; and since each delta province is more or less completely in the delta, one could simply place the entire province in the category w/o worrying about the very many individal districts. Along w/ major cities and gov't agencies like Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration. (3) Also thinking of Category:Red River Delta, it could be the only major delta of a "Red River" and might not need disambiguation with Red River Texas etc. Similar simple rules of district/province/major city inclusion could apply. The two categories could be squared away quite neatly and in quick time. --Mr Accountable (talk) 15:50, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, that template's really good, never mind whatever else I wrote about the district situation; just exactly the type of 'much more comprehensive navbox' I had thought of. --Mr Accountable (talk) 15:57, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I will start to move the district pages. --Mr Accountable (talk) 19:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Using the full name for the district parses better in-article; as work and additions are done there should be a gradual improvement in the diction of the district articles. I'm starting with provinces in Category:Red River Delta. --Mr Accountable (talk) 19:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

You know, I started moving the districts in Red River Delta category, listening to the basketball game, and I comprehended that the idea was to use the VN name, as used in the VN article. If your'e looking through the already-moved-pages, I think I will go back and change the pages, it's quite simple to use the real name as the simple redirect works so well. --Mr Accountable (talk) 19:53, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think I need to finish listening to one basketball game, and watching another, and then I will recommence, with the proper VN names. Providence College should really be able to get over at Rutgers, it's important for bracketology issues, PC's last game is at ranked team Villanova before the conference tournament. And there's also a nationally televised NBA game on American Broadcasting Company with local interest, Detroit and Boston. --Mr Accountable (talk) 20:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

This looks better: Category:Districts of Thai Binh Province. --Mr Accountable (talk) 20:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Progress: OK, all square with basketball, and working backwards in Category:Red River Delta, 3 province categories are completely named: Category:Ninh Binh Province; Category:Thai Binh Province; Category:Vinh Phuc Province. One of the cities/provincial capitals was already named to a district article. --Mr Accountable (talk) 21:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

bangladesh

Is this what you were looking for? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:07, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Mantis stub template

Greetings. You're apparently savvy about stub templates. Can you advise me how I'd go about replacing (or suggesting to replace) the pic in the {{Mantodea-stub}} template? The current pic just looks like a green rectangle when it's tiny, I think File:Large brown mantid white.jpg would look like a tiny mantis. Gracias. --Boston (talk) 23:37, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

VN regions

Checking here before going ahead and using proper VN regional geonomenclature to complete the subcategories for new Category:Regions of Vietnam. Provinces + major cities + government cruft + cultural items + .... --Mr Accountable (talk) 11:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Forward progress status report: of 5 regions in category, ] Mekong River Delta, Red River Delta, Tay Nguyen and Dong Bac regions are "districted". --Mr Accountable (talk) 15:16, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I've run into a little trouble with the pagemoves I was doing yesterday - can you please look in at the WikiProject and see what's up with it? I thought the moves were cleared. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I looked at the regional VN stub categories; I'll work on sorting those stubs. Though, I've never set up a stub category before, Red River Delta especially will have a lot of stubs, I'll be waiting on further stub category creation. --Mr Accountable (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

So what's going on with it? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:03, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, well, I may help out some more this afternoon. We'll see - I've got a couple of things to work up in userspace for later this month, too. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:13, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear you're feeling better. OK, I'm going to do some more moving...hopefully it won't raise any more issues. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh! Almost forgot - you're going to want to change the category titles, I'm guessing. Remember that I can help you transfer articles with AWB when the time comes. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to leave Category:Districts of Hanoi for the time being - I don't know whether they should be listed as "{name}", {name} District" (like in the other provinces), or "{name}, Hanoi", like with other neighborhood articles. What would you say? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:05, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Same as above for Da Nang. Otherwise I'm done. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:05, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

OK. Now to do some retagging with AWB. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 00:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Hehe

What a great recognition... LOL... Congrats!

In my case, it was this article that excited me the most. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Koena Mitra is indeed a very good actress. Please do not make fun of her!! ;) LOL -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 18:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Koena Mitra!!!! Oh yes Rahul... She can give both Rani Preity Bebo and Aishwarya a great run for their money!!! LOLZ.

How's Blof? Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I happy you feel better. Tlk2me whenever you want to, whenever you're bored, and most importantly, if you have some new hot gals to show me LOLLLL!!!!! Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

WOWOWOWOW! She's really hot! In the flickr she strongly resembles Priyanka Chopra... Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Well you're not the only one. I like them too LOL!

Blof do you read books? Have you read some books of Stephen King? Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I find King's storytelling nothing short of spectacular. I liked also the film versions of his books, The Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne and Misery being the best. Have you watched them? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Oohhh!!! 1117??? That's..... I'd prefer the film then LOL... I have no souch patience hehe... Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

No have not read this one. Did you like it? Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Districts and Provinces

Is there a source that the official name is "X District" etc? People don't usually use "California State" "Tamil Nadu state" "Guangdong Province" etc, although for some reason everything in VN is tagged "Vinh Long Province etc". In the case of things like "District 1, Saigon", "5th Arrondissement, Paris" etc, the common nouns are needed but where do the Province and District come into most of the proper nouns. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 03:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Are you trying to do up all the communes like for France? YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 03:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll still be looking to expand them a bit. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 07:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Got crakcing in some in An Giang. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 01:52, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Source for population and area [1] This one has commune level stats but the map is really slow. I looked at teh government website and couldn't find district-by-district data, or lower. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 03:52, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Input welcome

Hello! I'd appreicate your input to this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 08:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

You were spot on with your comment! And a quick search later reveals that Sophia Loren was an uncredited extra in the film. Expansion (albeit small), done. Lugnuts (talk) 12:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Retagging

I retagged a bunch of things with AWB yesterday - sorting German things for translation, basically. I'm happy to do more; just tell me what's needed, and when.

How are you doing? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - I'll see what I can work on tonight, then. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

No - at the moment I've only retagged the things I tagged to begin with. There are still quite a lot to do. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

You can, sure - but I can save you a lot of trouble with AWB. And that would free you up to work on other things. Speaking of which...are you going to rename the Vietnamese provinces and then create new categories for them? AWB will help in transferring articles when you need to. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Whatever floats your boat. If you do, just tell me what needs tagging and what doesn't. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Right, then - I'll work on it tonight. Meantime I'm having some issues here, so I have to get a computer doctor to find out what's happening. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps - Lord knows I can understand that urge. Still, it's a pity to lose him. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

But of course. I have an engagement tonight, and most likely tomorrow night as well, but I'll do it ASAP. Probably later in the evening tonight, once I'm home. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree - it's great work you're doing. I'd be happy to help out, only I'm still having some computer issues today. We'll see what I can do later. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Invisible Barnstar
		You are No.3 amongst Wikipedians as per the latest enumeration.The EnforcerOffice of the secret service 15:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! But they messed up the latest count. Check the November version I had 198,000 then and now have 225,000. For some reason they've now got me as 168,000. They seem to have added a version 6 months, Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, they've replaced the latest count with the one made in June 2008. I was stunned to find that I was listed at 2,000+ with about 8500 edits.-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 15:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

You have about 222,000, I guess. Well, by the way, how's life? I didn't message you all these days cause I did not want to trouble you considering the fact that pretty bad events had taken place recently-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 15:51, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, by the way, I was able to get that particular bloglink for Lakshmikanthan Murder Case, whitelisted. :-) And then, I'm nearing the 100 DYK mark. My enthusiasm in contributing is actually decreasing. I think I'll be quitting sometime within the next few months.-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 15:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Look who's number 201! :-)

Sorry - didn't mean to disappear. I'm having terrific systems issues at the moment. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I surely am, thanks to AWB and my ham-fistedness in entering categories from time to time. The template looks good - it gets to something that I've long advocated, the creation of different-colored maps and templates for different countries. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Right - I may do some stubbing, too, once I've gotten a couple of projects taken care of. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree, it looks great.

OK, I've a big backlog to take care of, so I've got to set to it for a bit. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Doc, WP:EDITS is now back to the 25th Feb 2009 version, and I've taken the liberty of correcting your barnstar accordingly. WereSpielChequers 20:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's nice to see the bots at work. Speaking of which...if you want to propose those other kinds (again, if need be), I'd be more than happy to back you in it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Wish I could be of more help - alas, the backlog is still there. And I'm going to stick around later than usual to deal with it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry - ended up getting home last night later than I expected. I might be able to do some tonight, though - hope that won't be an issue. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, we'll see how things go - I might be able to help out some today, depending on how things go. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it would be nice - I've never been to Greece, but have always wanted to go. Instead, this is what we woke up to on Monday, in my backyard. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - 125 sounds about right. It's been warming up here, too; most of the snow has melted, by now. I got a couple of shots of downtown Alexandria from the train, which I'll upload later - they'll show you just how much of that coating is gone. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Vietnamese Wiki

You mentioned that your computer crashes when you try to visit the Vietnamese Wiki. Could you provide your operating system and browser information to see what we can do to fix this? DHN (talk) 18:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to know which operating system (and version number) you used, as well as the browser (and version number) you used to access Wikipedia, and which page the crash occurred in. DHN (talk) 19:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I assume that you're using the Windows XP operating system. Can you determine which version of Firefox you're using? (Open the help menu on top of the browser and select "About Mozilla Firefox", then copy the last line in the window that pops up. Mine currently says "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5" DHN (talk) 19:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I've pruned my talk page :) YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 03:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

In re VN, In Mozilla menu item "View", is "Character encoding" set to Unicode (UTF-8), perhaps it should be. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Bareina, Mauritania.jpg

I know you had mentioned nominating this photo for FP a while back. I decided I liked it enough to do it myself. See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bareina. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:26, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I think this one's about 50/50. Technical quality could be better. Mostly sharpness is the problem. We'll see. Do you know about the new valued pictures program? This allows recognition of pictures that are valuable and encyclopedic but do not meet FP quality standards. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

No, that one doesn't have a chance. EV is low because it shows practically nothing about the city (all the buildings are black!) And sunset pictures would have to be ridiculously perfect to get FP because everyone loooooves taking phtoos of sunsets. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Arjia Rinpoche page

Dear Dr Blofeld, I have written a message on talk page of a contributor who has added two text in japanese: アジャ・リンポチェ and mongol:Ажаа гэгээний танилцуулга at the end of the page Arjia Rinpoche I suspect that this contributor wanted to create the ja:アジャ・リンポチェ and uk:Ажаа гэгээний танилцуулга I am not sure this user sees his talk page as he only contributed twice Feb 7. Can you please try to see this, and copy and paste the added data to the japanese and mongol version where I am sure they will be able to see whether it is indeed wikipedia acceptable texts? Many thanks. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 21:26, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks just like it has been translated. I've moved to Ukrianian and deleted the short Japanese version. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Core Contest Award

		2008 Core Contest Winner Award
		Let it be known that Dr._Blofeld was awarded First Place in the first Wikipedia Core Contest. This award is based on his outstanding work in starting and writing Deforestation in Brazil. Thanks for your hard work in making Wikipedia's core articles better. -Earthdirt (talk) 04:01, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou (but I actually "started" it from scratch too! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

• Yeah, it has been awhile and it didn't seem that Matt Lewis or the organizers of the contest were ever going to make one of these so I went ahead and boldly made one and posted it even though I was one of the "winners" and it's kind of lame to give yourself a prize. Earthdirt (talk) 16:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Absolutely, Proteins rocks for that. I wouldn't mind helping with another core contest. I personally think a lot of good came out of it despite the mess it turned into. Earthdirt (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture

I doubt it, I'm afraid - it's a great sunset shot, but not a very good photograph for Nouakchott, as you can't make out any of the individual buildings. Even so, looks like another one you suggested may make FP, and that's great. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, absolutely, it is - incredible. Anyhow, I'll AWB those things for you in a bit, and then I've got a couple of things of my own to work on. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

They look great - do you want me to do some AWBing of talk pages? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:42, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure - I'll add 'em to the batch, then. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Starting now... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone are done - any other countries you need while I'm at it? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:01, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm ahead of you - I just did talk pages for whatever's in the category already. Anything else you haven't done I'll catch in another cleanup in a few minutes. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

All finished. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll do some more after dinner. I actually did a blow-by-blow comparison for Switzerland, and the two cantons I checked really don't need AWB; the German articles for those are pretty stubby, too. Now, German geostubs are another matter - those I think I'll work on some. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:03, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll give them another look, then. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I know - I just thought it might be something that requires more by-hand sorting than semi-automated. Anyhow, as I say, I'll have another look after dinner and probably tag a few. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll start with those, then.

Nope, nothing so exotic - I think I saw a roast beef waiting to be cooked in the kitchen, though I could be wrong. I had Burmese the other night, though - pickled bamboo with chicken. Very tasty. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:12, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It's not quite the same, though - it's milder in many ways. Although the bamboo is very sour...still, I learned quickly to undercut the sour flavor with a little rice. They have mango pork at this place, too, but I've never tried it; I stick to either the bamboo or their black bean pork, which is excellent. A little spicy, but not too much. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:21, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks nice.

Weirdest thing I've ever eaten would have to be a grasshopper taco. Didn't care for it much; the grasshoppers were dusted in chili powder, which was too bitter for my liking. The accompanying cactus salad was good, though. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Q

Was this a mistake? Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:21, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Heads up

See this ANI thread about your old user and talk pages. Graham87 06:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Tre-Taliesin

Hi, How are you doing? I created the article Tre-Taliesin. But it already tagged orphaned. Before linking it from other pages, i wanna know the correct name. Is it Tre-Taliesin or Tre Taliesin. Cheers!--Chanaka L (talk) 13:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Nice work, Nice photo! I think i can get an A pass, i hope.:) Don't worry about the film stubs, you already doing much. Hows your guitar-stuff going on?--Chanaka L (talk) 13:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Added some missing towns i already now missing. BTW do play for a band, are you are a metal fan?--Chanaka L (talk) 14:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

That external link is slow or is it can be my connection slow?--Chanaka L (talk) 14:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Check this out, List of towns in Sri Lanka. There are many tiny settlements included here. what about the notability issue? er... is 'DGG referring our discussion? Hope everything ok for you.--Chanaka L (talk) 14:45, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

watch out! i have doubts on that list.I'll add coords to them--Chanaka L (talk) 14:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool. You are the expert!--Chanaka L (talk) 15:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Today is my mom's B'Day. So I hope you don't mind I join the festivity. I'll come back tomorrow.Cheers!--Chanaka L (talk) 15:47, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

 Done All the urban councils covered. I'll add others needed to the list.--Chanaka L (talk) 07:58, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

my comment

What I said was just my opinion. it was not a formal warning. It was intended as a suggestion not an insult. I apologize if it was taken that wayDGG (talk) 14:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Agadir

I agree - it looks like it could use some work. Anyhow, today I'm going to take my camera and get a few photos for Wikipedia; with luck I can get some good shots today. It's supposed to be gorgeous out this afternoon. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I shall, I hope. My goal is to someday take something that's good enough for WP:FP, but I suspect that will be rather a long way in the future. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

wait!

i thought i had a few days to do it! Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok expand swedish is ready to go with topic=gov. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

That's great to see them all translated! Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:48, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Now I'm confused... Didn't you start the category?Category:Government and politics articles needing translation from Swedish Wikipedia?

English + Viet

I actually can't read that much Vietnamese. My parents are both full Chinese, but my father born and raised in Saigon, so he has a good command of both languages. I know some myself, well... these articles look like stubs, so I'm going to try. Just a warning, though: I am NOWHERE near a native or even intermediate speaker's level. Sorry for the late response, somehow I saw this message earlier but forgot to respond... for a WEEK. ★Dasani★ 19:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

PS! I do Chinese more. Like, WAY more. ★Dasani★ 19:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Nunavut communities

I've restored the File:Canada geopolitical map trim.jpg. Partially because only some of the places had File:Location map Canada.png added, while others still had the Canada geopolitical map. Also because the Location map Canada is not as clear. There are no provincial/territorial boarders making it hard to see where in releation to the rest of the country a particular place is. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 23:16, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry you felt that we were reporting you but I'm not sure to who or where. He made one comment on my page and I made one comment here, nowhere else, and there is no way that I am under any impression that they are my articles. Take a look at the comment on my talk page below yours, User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#Map of Nunavut. What about using File:Canada location map.svg? It shows the boarders and would make it easy to see where the place is in relationship to the rest of Canada. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 13:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Maps

They look great. I had kind of a slow day today - we'll see what it's like tomorrow. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 04:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:PrimoLevi.jpg)

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Any new DYKs

Hi! Any new articles which can be nominated for a DYK?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 06:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

That's okay! Do tell me when you write one-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 13:12, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Great! Max Penson is good. What sort of rewording? Max Penson is the guy's name, isn't it! I wrote an article on a village by name Sivapuram, 3 days back and nominated it for a DYK. There are still some articles for WP:INTN that need to be created. I'm also planning to revive WP:INOR-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 13:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's pretty cool! Bye! Good luck! I'm leaving now-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 13:30, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Frasier#Cast

I think I've more or less completed the rewrite of this section and would like a second pair of eyes on it. It replaces the two list-like sections that existed before, and now has non-blog citations for all the casting comments that were made. Fritzpoll (talk) 12:21, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Its looking a little better, funnily enough I was only thinking about that articles earlier and was going to ask how it was going. Would be usful to find some production notes on it though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Heh, one section at a time! Frasier#Production will be rewritten soon! So far, beyond reorganising the article, I've only rewritten the Cast section Fritzpoll (talk) 12:28, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Argh! This page has some pretty detailed info, but isn't a reliable source - I've now spend £5.71 buying a used copy of the official companion ook to the series in order to get some notes. Fritzpoll (talk) 13:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Have you looked on Amazon to see if you can get hold of a cheaper copy of a Frasier guide? Sounds good anyway. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Delivery was free on this one, so it's all swings and roundabouts. Currently searching for interviews/transcripts, etc. Fritzpoll (talk) 13:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool. There might actually be something video related on it, the making of Frasier etc, behind the scenes dcoumentaries. Perhaps a DVD has it on a special features. I know I found the DVD behind the scenes videos immensely beneficial to thr FAs and GAs we have on Bond. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I have the first three series on DVD, but I'd like to find online transcripts. Are they acceptable sources for an FA article, do you think? Bearing in mind that I'll have few other possibilities for sourcing...? Fritzpoll (talk) 13:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Providing the transcipts are "official" and from a reliable site. The main problem is indeed finding reliable and detailed sources for articles like this, like with Bollywood the greatest content on the web is on fan related sites which are little more than blogs, with little professional credentials. Perhaps you might even think about emailing the production company. It might seem unusual to you but I wouldn't be at all surpised if you could get through to the producers by email and say you are writing an encyclopedia article on the series, could you please send by some information on production behind the scenes etc. Obviously there will be limits to how intimate the details they give you but I would think it likely they would be willing to help you especially as its wikipedia and it is providing information on "their series" in the media. A lot of organisations I'm sure would see providing information about their products on wikipedia as a positive thing. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Good thought - but what if I used the transcripts for the details, but cited the featurettes themselves (that is, the DVD extras) as the source? Fritzpoll (talk)

If they are cited in the DVD and you are sure the online transcripts are completely accurate and reliable I would go with that as for sure unreliable websites would be pounced on at FA. It is the primary source anyway, so go for that. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

LocMap Canada

This works different than the others, it's a different projection. I'm definitely too stupid for it, I asked someone at de-WP to do it. Perhaps he will do. --NNW (talk) 14:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

OK thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Please look here. Visi-on knows how it works. You should talk to him. --NNW (talk) 11:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Maps

I'm sorry if it looked like i was trying to go behind your back i was not trying to i just though going to CambridgeBayWeather would be the bests option sorry again if it looks that way. Kyle1278 (talk) 14:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree that map would look a lot better. Kyle1278 (talk) 14:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes anything to get rid of those ugly silver maps your maps look a lot better.Kyle1278 (talk) 15:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

OK thank you very much. Cheers Kyle1278 (talk) 15:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

What about one of File:Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk Region.png, File:Nunavut Kivalliq Region.png or File:Nunavut Kitikmeot Region.png? If the wording was removed and one colour, probably yellow but the light green and white similar to the southern Canada maps that you made, might work, especially if the overlay of North America could be added. Having said that I really not sure as to how it could be done and don't have the tools to do it. If that was possible then all of the Canadian locater maps could be the same. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 17:02, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

That last one, Nunavut location map.png, would work. I had no luck with the coordinates on the current one. I had to get the original creator of the template to do one for me and go from there. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 17:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Did you mean the coordinates for each community or the ones for the actual regions? Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 17:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Painters

I might help out a little with it later - we'll see. For now I'm kind of taking it easy, again. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

If you want to do them for some Spanish-speaking countries, I could help out with translations. I've decided that's what I should be doing more of on Wikipedia, because then I'm improving my language skills while i help wikipedia... Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I tried doing Costa Rican politicians, but a lot of them were colonial figures with esoteric titles neither I nor my boyfriend (who's from Spain) could figure out, so it got kind of boring. I think artists might be more fun. (Though I'd have to see how that vocabulary goes. Many art words seem to be cognates, but maybe I'd run into trouble.) I agree that we need to figure out how to do outreach and get more people involved in translation. I was thinking maybe of setting up pages like Wikipedia:Translation/Spanish for big languages, then spamming the people who are signed up (via userboxes) as translators, informing them of the new system. Maybe the talk pages (like Wikipedia talk:Translation/Spanish) could be a central place to ask for help with translation questions. Really the best place for editors would be all the people who are learning English throughout the world. (It's much better education to translate into a language you're learning than out of it.) Somehow if we could harness them as translators, we'd have an amazing army! Maybe I can ask my boyfriend's roommate (language and history teacher here in Cambridge, originally from Puerto Rico) if he knows any teachers back home that would be interested in such a project. BTW don't sweat the folks on ANI. As between these stubs and the tiny village stubs, I'd take (and I'm sure they'd take) these any day! :) Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that's a lot of work to do! Just noticed this page, also would be a good one to start stubs for. Hopefully in a few days I can start doing mass messaging for people who are signed up as translators, and perhaps for people who indicate they speak Spanish etc. I agree it's silly for people to criticize stub creation. When people say you're making work for others, that's simply false. The work has been there all along, they just didn't know it existed! I see you've fixed José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, which is good. I did Rafael Ángel García this morning. Oh, and I relisted a modest bot request (automatically supplying the interwiki title parameter for the expand language templates) at WP:BOTREQ, and someone's actually doing it! Yay. I also created {{Expand other language}} for misc translation requests that don't merit their own tags and categories. (I found an old translation request for Papiamento orthology from Papiamento wikipedia, go figure.) I'm done for the day, and probably for a few days, because I have a paper to finish for school. Good luck with all the stub creation! Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh wait, i see José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín still isn't so good. It will be on my to-do list for later. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

As you may have seen, I haven't left yet... :( I'll do the notifications soon. I'd like to have all the infrastructure in place first perfectly, though. Can you help clear out Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages? This project was kind of stupid, because they weren't discerning at all in what they tagged. For instance, why on earth should we be translating United Kingdom from Tamil? Most of the tags I'm just removing. some i'm replacing with our expand tags. When I do that I'm adding (or meaning to add) the parameter fa=yes so that they go into the respective FA categories. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if we should just remove them all. I guess we could ask on VP once the shitstorm dies down. I guess normally I wouldn't want to just dismantle a whole project like this, but it pretty much sucks and has no point. I think it will take longer to go through and evaluate all the ones currently tagged than starting from scratch with a list of FAs in other languages. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I've suggested the bot removal of the FAOL tags at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 108#Bot detagging of Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages - a good idea?. Comment there if you'd like. I've come around to your view that sorting through them is more trouble than it's worth. Better just to go to each wiki's list of FAs and start from scratch. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

AN

Hello! There is a thread ongoing at the Admins' noticeboard that you may be interested in, located here]. ∗ \ / (⁂) 21:04, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

New message

Hello Blofeld, I need to ask you a quick question. Kareena Kapoor was recently featured on Filmfare Magazine's annual Power List, where she was the only woman on the list and was ranked at number 10. So far, this is what I am planning to add on her article: "During March 2009, Kapoor became the only woman to be featured on Filmfare Magazine's annual "Power List", a list of the 10 most powerful people of Bollywood." Since there isn't an article for this list like there is for Time 100 & Celebrity 100 [where people can click on the link to see what the list is all about], I was wondering whether adding the "bolded" part of the text was necessary or not. Please let me know what you think. If you have another way of rephrasing the text, please let me know as well. Regards -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 18:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't bolden it. I would put it in italics. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:16, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

LOL.. You misinterpreted my question. I was saying that since not many people know what the list is about, I was wondering if this part of the text [a list of the 10 most powerful people of Bollywood, which I also referred to as the "bolded" part] was necessary to add on Kapoor's article. =D -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 18:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't need boldening. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Mass-production of low-quality one-liners

I seriously question the usefulness of what you are doing in producing all these "articles" with nearly no content, or in the whole idea of translating articles of usually low quality from other Wikipedias rather than aiming at getting better and referenced articles from the outset. As the discussion linked above seems to have been closed, I am going to raise the issue at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). --Hegvald (talk) 18:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Seriously disagreed with both opinion and disrespectful attitude. Everybody does whatever they can. Not everybody has expertise, desire or boldness to write articles about Geroge Bush or pornstars or pokemon. "Nearly no content" is better than no content. Writing new articles is a way better attitude than raking tens of thousands of edit counts with semiautomated tools. Dr. Blofeld, if ever someone starts bugging you at serious forums, please let me know. I don't want to waste time on a single opponent, but I will say a word or two in general discussion. - 7-bubёn >t 00:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate it. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Lithuania

Sounds good - I'd like to help out a little, but right now I want to finish working on this. March 15 is Peter Francisco Day, and with luck I'll have it ready for DYK on the day. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw it crop up. I'm formulating a response of my own to add to the pile. Incidentally, I had one article deleted today for those reasons - I recreated it with a bit more body, so we'll see. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

My tuppence ha'penny'orth's in. Have a look-see. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I see you have - and a very good day of it, too. Ah, well. I'm off to dinner right now; it's a gorgeous day, so I think I'll have a little pseudo-crosstown walk and save me the subway fare. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Lithuanian bios

In response to you message in my talk page I translated one page, Liudas Vilimas. However, please know that while working on lithuanian surnames and bios I noticed that the threshold of nonability in Lithuanian encyclopedia is rather different from that of the English one. And this is quite reasonable when comparing the numbers of Anglophone and Lithuanian populations (kind of 100x). Hovewer you must pay attention to notability/verifiabilty while porting bios from lt: into en:. May I suggest you to do quick google checks. Otherwise the pages you created will be easy prey for AfD: deletionism and perfectionism is on the rise, for better or worth. - 7-bubёn >t 00:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Uh, I did do google checks, there were a number I didn't start from lithuanian wiki. Yes I can see that the Lithuanian encyclopedia look *very* detailed. Usually though if an artist has had works displayed in a national museum or gallery or has beenn involved internationally also this is a criteria for notability of artists. I ignored the ones I felt were not suitable for english wikipedia but as I say I don't understand Lithuanian so it was difficult to judge from initial content. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 08:55, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Carlos Solórzano

I cannot think of a hook now. I would like to have your suggestions for one.-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 12:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

How about this-

...that American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"

-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 12:57, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thats good, I was thinking more along the lines about his Index system for which he is mosted noted. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:02, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

ANI

My advice? Don't worry about it. There will always be critics, and there's nothing you can do about it. But as long as the majority on here agree with what you're doing, I see no reason to discontinue it.

Anyhow, here's what I've been working on for the past few days: Locust Grove (Dillwyn, Virginia). My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's house. I have a couple of photos to add in a bit. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:49, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - like I told you, two of mine were speedy-tagged yesterday. One was kept; I had to reconstruct the other. I know it's frustrating, but like I said - don't worry about it.

Re: the house - I'm actually surprised by how little information is available online. Usually Virginia's NRHP nominations are a bit more extensive. I don't know much more than what's in the article; I assume it's 18th century because presumably Peter built it, and he wasn't even here before 1765. It's been very nicely restored; I have a photograph of what it looked like before, too. An absolute wreck. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

No, you're not alone - I think a lot of people see what you're doing and agree with it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Righty-o. I'll take care of it once I get home. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure - no need to justify to me, remember? :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Please see this discussion, Blof. It's very important. Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, but what completely strikes me as odd is what Yobmod said. He says he wants to know if generally FU images are permitted in BLPs or not because too many FAs like Diane Keaton and Cillian Murphy use them, and I don't know if I got it right, but does he actually suggests to take them all (or just Zinta) to FAR to get a broader number of opinions??? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

As I said, I also agree with that claim that we must have consistency. It's not the problem now though, the FAC was promoted with all these images being included and with BK's oppose standing there for Raul and Sandy to see, so either all the images remained or removed. The problem is the inclusion of FU images in FACs in general, and I don't know if I got it right, but does he actually suggests to take them all (or just Zinta) to FAR to get a broader number of opinions??? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:57, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

So what do you think? Did I get it right or he really intends to take them all to FAR? He says:

"I don't want this article to be demoted, just find out what consensus is... RfC maybe less drama, but i think a FAR is more likely to get input from a wider variety of people. I found this article from the Tolkien FAR, which has similar issues, and seems to be being opposed based on the images..."

What does he suggest? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Well spotted. I could not stop laughing. Hey I'm exhauted, see the change on the Filmfare Best Actress Award page!! Shahid • ^Talk2me 20:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Whee!

Now that's what I call quick work! :) Grutness...wha? 23:07, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Your tagging...

...is done. Good luck with the Latvians. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 03:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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This 'n' that

Sure and it's my pleasure.

I don't know how active I'm going to be able to be today - the internet in the office is having some issues, so we'll see how it ends up working out. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure I am. Gotta eat, first, but I'll do it after dinner. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 23:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - it took a little while, but I think I've figured a way of doing this. What I don't finish tonight I'll finish tomorrow. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 04:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Give it time. I'm sure people will be willing enough to help, once they get into it. Also, don't forget that it's the weekend, and people are out doing other things. Speaking of which...I'll be out all day tomorrow, myself. Have to go down to Richmond for a family function - at least I can hopefully get some nice shots of the Virginia State Capitol to add to that article. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I'll have to admit partial defeat on the Vietnam issue. For some reason, when "region of Vietnam" is present, I can make the replacement. But it won't allow me to do it when "region of Vietnam" (note Wikilink) is present. I've done what I can, but some of the rest are a no-go, sorry. Anything else you'd like me to AWB? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure, that I can happily help with. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, take a look and tell me what you think. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:27, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

So do you want me to set up the other districts in that province right now? Or one at a time? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - I'll do some more in a bit. Right now I'm moving some painting articles so that their titles are properly capitalized. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, yes - that looks excellent. I'll try to do some more for you after dinner. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:27, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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Re expansion of LT painter articles

Hello Dr B. I have mixed feelings about this. I guess I would prefer not to see any more. Sorry. Lack of time, and I work kind of slowly - would like to think that it's because I feel the need to either vet them myself or AGF of an editor I know well. The LT project is in general short on resources...but maybe someday the stubs will get filled out. If I have any image upload questions, can I turn to you? Novickas (talk) 16:20, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Kathmandu

Hi there. You have contributed to Nepal-related articles. Have you been to Kathmandu? 202.79.40.131 (talk) 16:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately no. I think it is one of the most beautiful countries on earth, Bhutan also from what I've seen in pictures. I am just putting these places on the map hoping that people in Nepal such as yourself can expand all of the VDC articles!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hopefully you will come to Nepal someday. Unfortunately, I don't edit Nepal-related articles! If you were to look at my contributions of my main account, you will not believe that I am from Nepal. I am more interested in what is going on the other side of the earth. Here in Kathmandu we have 1.5 million people. Most of them are young and English Wikipedia is becoming quite popular. Two years ago, not many people used Wikipedia. Now most college going young people use it for various purposes. Thanks you very much for you comment :) 202.79.40.131 (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Sounds promising. Perhaps one day there will be enough Nepali users on here to develop the articles to their full potential. I did have a book on Newar history for Christmas, I'll get around to seeing if I can create a few articles on it when I have time. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Newar history? I am not a Newar and I know more about California history than Newar history :) :)

I was introduced to English Wikipedia by a friend. I was involved with local wikis before. Here colleges give instructions in English language and more people are intrested in improving their English. And more people are using the internet. So, hopefully there will be more Nepali users contributing to Nepal-related articles.

You and Everyking are two people who are interested in developing articles related to developing countries. That's admirable. It is 12:12 AM here. It is time for me to go to bed. It was great talking to you. Good night! :) 202.79.40.131 (talk) 18:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou nice meeting you. User:Mr Accountable also does a lot of work on developing countries. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

More VN

Well, I'm up, it's the 4th inning of a preseason Red Sox game on the radio, perfect environment for rote work on the Wiki, little tired from working on Category:Provinces of Rwanda and for cities of DRC, including trying and failing to figure out which provinces are new, old, valid, newly replaced, etc. I'm sure someone more prescient than I will be able to organize the categories if I cannot.... I make maps myself on GIMP, including editing maps on which the names are too small, viz those of Regions of Mali which need it. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:47, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Wonder if 202 has an idea of how to categorize the Brahmaputra River. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Flags and stuff

Hi, just saw a bunch of your created articles. And no, for a change I don't disagree with you, I have no objections to small stubs. Although Jānis Fridrihs Baumanis is much better than the original of Vilmantas Marcinkevičius which was almost a candidate for speedy deletion.
I just removed a flag from the infobox on Flavio Herrera, per WP:Mosicon flags are discouraged from there. I think the same recently counts for film articles. The current consensus seems to be to no flags in infobox film. (I saw you created a bunch of film articles lately). Garion96 (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

OK but flags are the least thing on my mind at present. I was under the impression if you use the flag template those who dislike flags can have the option in their preferences to hide the flags. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

It's not as important as other stuff, but it is still the MoS. Regarding preferences, might be, but that only works for logged in users, not the "normal" reader. Either way, since you create so many articles it is easier to not add them then for someone to remove them later. Garion96 (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Ideally every new article I create would be like Charles Rufus Morey but there is only so much time I have to try to get these articles on their way. Of course I'd like every new article to be fuller, but there are many thousands of articles to be transwikied which will eventually be of great benefit to english wikipedia once they get traffic and people interested in them try expanding them. Creating them like Jānis Fridrihs Baumanis with a least some starter info is probably the best way to do it though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:40, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree, Jānis Fridrihs Baumanis is a good stub and improves Wikipedia. I am still not convinced on these expand tags though, but I guess we'll see how it works out. Just don't use any flags. :) Garion96 (talk) 21:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this might make you feel a little more comfortable with it. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:46, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps, but it's too early to tell. I have no doubt that some editors will see the notice and improve the article. But I am not sure it weighs against the countless of readers who will see a huge tag on an ok article. I have already seen some quite decent long articles tagged with two of these tags, where it was unneeded. I am watching what will happen with them. I will let you know in a month or so. :) Garion96 (talk) 22:01, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

My stupid fingers

Hello. I don't know what happened there but my fingers decided to exercise themselves, and clicked rollback on this page. I think I've corrected the error, reinstating Garion96's edit. Sorry! The JPS^{talk to me} 19:30, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

:). Garion96 (talk) 19:36, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Image requests

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I sent out requests for the images you requested but haven't heard any responses yet. It seems I've hit a wall, I must have over 20-30 pending requests for various people and so far nothing. I'll let you know if I hear anything. By the way, I just nominated Clint Eastwood filmography for FLC. Since I know you've been interested in Clint Eastwood-related material in the past, just thought I'd let you know if you want to take a look to see if you noticed anything missing/grammar issues. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I was feeling good a month ago when I was getting non-stop responses. I haven't been sending out any other responses recently since I've been focusing on other projects, including Toy Story. I feel old after seeing the release date of the film but still remembering the details of the film! I remember seeing it in theaters and being amazed. I'm planning on renting it just for the nostalgia. And the special features for the article... --Nehrams2020 (talk) 20:50, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't remember seeing those in theaters, but I have seen all of them on TV/VHS/DVD. I think the first film I remember seeing in theaters was Aladdin (pretty good memory for being five years old!). That's why I keep a list of all of the films I've ever seen so I can remember the great films I've seen and what I still need to see. I really need to keep working backwards and catch up with the classics. I'm in a Clint Eastwood phase right now and have watched quite a bit over the last month or so. So many films, so little time. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

He's definitely become one of my favorite actors (as well as directors). I'm currently waiting on The Outlaw Josey Wales in my Blockbuster queue. After seeing a few of his films, I was thinking of working on his article, but it looked like it needed a lot of cleanup and I didn't have the book sources I wanted to fix it. Instead, I worked on his filmography list, and hopefully it reaches FL soon. I may revisit his article in the future. I've only seen one or two of John Wayne's films, so I'll definitely need to take a look down the line. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I watched all of the Dirty Harry films when they were shown on AMC a few weeks ago (thanks to my DVR!). I'll definitely need to add those to my DVD collection at some point. Gran Torino had me laughing at nearly every line he said, and really enjoyed his growls in the film. I've only seen Casablanca, so I have a lot more to see of Bogart's work. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 22:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

New userbox for Wikipedia:WikiProject Guatemala

I created {{User WikiProject Guatemala}} -- in case you wish to add it to your user page. -- Shunpiker (talk) 03:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

invitation

You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! Awesome pics on your userpage :) doncram (talk) 07:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Mekong Delta

OK, I did the first five or six in the template - I'm going to do it in tiny chunks like that. Let me know when you're ready for more. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:36, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI

I just started the page Wikipedia:Translation/Overhaul. You can edit it or add needed tasks if you'd like. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I haven't been doing much substantive translation at the moment, just slowly making my way through the godawful WP:ECHO tag mess. I just left a new bot request here - what do you think of this idea? Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:16, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Geog divisions of VN

Well basically all the maps down to the commune maps can be seen here at this census website. I had a gmail chat with DHN which I can forward with some details on how to coordinate the bot. The commune stats are definitely there, area and popn for each commune - unfortunately not already in a table format. Genghiskhan (talk · contribs) likes to create lots of articles on geog settlements on vi.wiki (he usually doesn't bother logging in there, but most of the geo articles on vi are by him) and he can write English as well although he spends less time here nowadays. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Here is the gmail chat transcript. He agreed for me to print it. I cut out his real name though. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

• me: do you know where all the population data for the communes used on vi.wiki comes from
• DHN: not sure

10:48 AM if you want an authorative source, use the gov't website

 the gis application

• me: that interactive map doesn't seem to have commune level stats

 does it
 it isn't working for me atm

• DHN: last time I checked it does

10:49 AM me: can you look at it for me

 it basically doesn't work on mine
 takes ages anyway

• DHN: seems really slow

10:51 AM see the "lop truy cap" dropdown box?

 choose Phuong/Xa

10:52 AM seems to work fine

 it highlights the commune in the province and provide demographic info

• 10:53 AM me: what's the url again?
• 10:54 AM DHN: http://gis.chinhphu.vn

 choose a province first

• 10:56 AM me: did that

 set it to phuong but I get the pictures of districts

• 10:57 AM DHN: click somewhere in the map
• 10:58 AM me: with the "i" choice?

 mode

• DHN: yes
• 10:59 AM me: it works now
• DHN: when I select Phuong/xa mode, I see each commune colored differently in the map

me: wonder why it didnt last onth

• 11:02 AM DHN: there seems to be a downloadable program for XP: http://gis.chinhphu.vn/Download/WINDOWSXP/MSJAVX86.ZIP
• 11:03 AM me: what does that do?

 all the data in a list

• DHN: dont' think so, seems to be just an installer for the Java VM

11:05 AM you can also use the search function to find all the communes without having to click on each on the map 11:06 AM if you leave it blank it'll list all the communes 11:08 AM me: oh ok

 I still have to click on all of them 1 by 1 though

• DHN: yeah

11:09 AM me: it's still faster though

• DHN: you can get someone to write a screenscraper to get all the info into a data file

 maybe if I spend some time on it I might be able to do it

11:10 AM but it'll be faster if you can find a perl coder to help you

• 11:21 AM DHN: the page format is http://gis.chinhphu.vn/MoreInformation.asp?pLayerId=PROVINCENAME_pxa&pObjectId=FOURDIGITNUMBER
• 11:24 AM me: I get some broken thing
• 11:25 AM DHN: yeah, you gotta fill PROVINCENAME with something and FOURDIGITNUMBER with something else
• me: any number?

 and then it does?

• DHN: no

11:26 AM only some numbers work

 that's why if you write a perl program to do that, you'd be able to parse all the info in no time

• 11:29 AM me: do you mind if I pass this discussion on to Blofeld and his bot consultant?
• DHN: yeah

11:30 AM go ahead

• me: on wiki?

 I can cut the real name if you want

• DHN: go ahead

me: ok

• DHN: PROVINCENAME is the name of the province in lowercase, with no space

11:31 AM example of a correct page: http://gis.chinhphu.vn/MoreInformation.asp?pLayerId=angiang_pxa&pObjectId=2846

 all the pages have the same format
 just need to parse each field

11:33 AM but you can't just use any number. If the number doesn't work, it will give you a different type of page. We just ignore those pages.

So by going into phuong/xa mode, and by searching with a blank, it will list all the communes and you can go trhough and click to expand each of them without moving the map, which is really slow. However, DHN thinks a computer can autoextract them somehow. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Translated three more. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 05:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

??

what I revert did not revert major of your changes, I did not remove pin point maps , i merely change the other maps and the size. i do not think guangzhou.png is better than chinaguangdongguangzhou.png or shenzhen.png to chinaguangdongshenzhen. It's better to have accurate size of prefecture city than or wrongly colored in like those of guangzhou.png.

I appreciated On overall changes you made as you did alot of updates in to city-info bar.--Lennlin (talk) 04:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Brixen

You know alot more about town articles than I do, so can you have a look at the templaet on this page. I've tried numerous things but don't know what I'm doing wrong. Waacstats (talk) 16:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

British Columbia location/regional district map

Please do not use this map further for location-maps for BC places/items, it's the wrong projection and the results are wildly mispaced as a result. I've spent the last hour or so removing the map from about half the articles you placed it on, there's still many left but I'm getting tired/irritated from having to do this. Please know what you're mapping before making maps for it, please; and for landforms especially geographic/terrain maps are far more suitable; nobody in British Columbia thinks in terms of regional district boundaries; only wikipedians from elsewhere seem to think they're relevant but within BC they're not, no moreso than electoral district or forest district boundaries; they're not like counties and shouldn't be used that way.Skookum1 (talk) 16:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Your're getting tired/irritated from having to do this? You have no idea. I'm thinking EXACTLY the same about the treatment I also get from people on here. All you had to do it revert the Location map British Colombia. You;ve now spent an hour wasting your time when you could have restored the old map or coporect the coordinates in two second flat. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:05, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

VN

I started up with the district tx info as you suggested; An Giang and the next one after are done. --Mr Accountable (talk) 17:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Well the sky's the limit when it comes to getting these districts done. Let me know when you need more tx, I'm puzzling through how to effectively work w/ an article like w:fr:Province de Bạc Liêu in terms of transposing various developed en VN article resources. There must be someone over there as familiar with the material as people here. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:32, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Also created w:pt:Categoria:Rio Mekong. The Rio Mekong region will eventually need a navbox districts of the w:pt:Delta do Rio Mekong. --Mr Accountable (talk) 18:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

?? sorry about that

Yea, first I though you vandalizing these city maps by changing it into inaccurate ones. The more i search the more i understand and know your contributions. Yea...I'm sorry, I only change some inaccurate maps =] into accurate ones and i also change alot of old city index bar into new ones.--Lennlin (talk) 17:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

OK not to worry, as long as you understand the principle about the standard infoboxes and China locator map. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Ohh great!! Sometimes i fix maps but forgot to log in to my account so there is only my IP up there.i fixed most of Inner Mongolia, guangdong,guizhou, fujian , henan , shaaxi , shanxi, hainan , gansu, qinghai and guangxi. trying to get into sichuan and anhui area. --Lennlin (talk) 18:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Great! Although i think Xinjiangs' template should be refine, doesn't look so good. --Lennlin (talk) 18:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Lennlin - that's 苍林人 or something like that, am I right? --Mr Accountable (talk) 19:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Mr Accountable - huh? what is 苍林人 lol :]? do you mean anonymous [无名人?] --Lennlin (talk) 19:10, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

苍林人 is Olde Aloe Therapy or Extinct saguaro or Underwater logging man .... No communes, but I like http://www.angiangbusiness.gov.vn/Default.aspx?tabid=188 for info. --Mr Accountable (talk) 20:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Or maybe just Cangnan County + Jilin. --Mr Accountable (talk) 20:13, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Hey, i finished the Xinjiang Templates and it's on my main user page. Please take a look and see if there an error or not. You can take it and directly replace the old one if there's no error. =]--Lennlin (talk) 19:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Templates

Sure - I should be able to manage that for you tonight. Shouldn't be a problem. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:32, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - that's pretty straightforward. Shouldn't take too long with AWB. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - auto-generating it would be nice. It would save an awful lot of work, I should think. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I've done everything save the coloration - that looks like it will need to be done manually. I'll try and help out some tomorrow. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 05:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Colors are done. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure and it's my pleasure. It looks like today will be fairly quiet, so perhaps I can add a few Finnish and Danish operas, like I started doing over the weekend. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes - it would be nice. My interest at the moment, though, is achieving some kind of parity with other languages. Operatic coverage needs a lot of work - I used the template and stubbed Donna Diana the other day, and just look at what that's like in German. One of the more important operas of its day, and it's taken this long to get it on the English Wikipedia. *sigh* There's still a lot to do for Scandinavian opera, for instance. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Broken automatic(?) edits

Whatever you tried to do with edits like this one and that one, it didn't work ("The district capital lies at [[ ]]"). --Conti|✉ 21:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Isn't there a way to add the full data in one go? Having incomplete sentences in article-space isn't exactly a good thing. But as long as those get fixed soon, I won't complain too much. :) --Conti|✉ 21:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

If certian people were willing to run bots -yes. This sort of thing should be added by a bot. Having referenced data in a few days time will certainly be exactly a good thing though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Blofeld - do you have an excel spreadsheet with the data? You can use fancy excel functions to autogenerate full articles, even without a bot. I've done this in the past. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

No I don't have a speadsheet unfortunately. Just trying to agian do a clean up job which should be done by bot. We really need to do a thing about bots on here as the priorities often seem all wrong. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Is all your data coming from that one website? Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

All the data is coming from one page here. This is why I'm miffed at doing it manually when "I know" it could be done very quickly with something a uto-assisted. Basically there are 500 and something articles needing this data inserted into text and in the infbox. SO far I've done about 60 odd. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Is your email enabled? I'll send you a spreadsheet that will let you generate the entire pages automatically. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:48, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

The articles already exist. Just need the data and referencing and expanding! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

All of them? In any event, you need to learn how to do this for later! It's probably faster even to paste over all the currently existing articles than manually plug in the #s. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:50, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh I don't know I've already made a ton of edits to add things like infoboxes, the Vietnam transaltion templates. I'm also making districts maps so far I've made 47. By all means email it to me but I'm not very good with anything computer tech like that as surprising it may seem. Most of them though require exactly the same edit though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Could you do it for me? Problem is a fair number already have lists of communes in. Most though have only the infobox in and no data as yet. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, well it doesn't seem like I can email you attachments through the tool, but I just sent you a more or less empty email so you can email me and I can reply. See User:Calliopejen1/sandbox for what you can create pretty much just by copy/pasting one thing. Oh, do all of these articles have interwikis? And are the VN articles named consistently? If so, what are they? Will help me improve my templates. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I've replied. hopefully I can speed up the process! Hmmm yes the articles are mostly named consistently but they are not in the Vietnamese diuretics and have the word "DIstrict" after them. Remember though a fair number already have the lists of communes in. I don't want to overwrite any on Kiên Lương District for sintance. Also remember the area figure is km2 not square miles!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I meant the naming in Vietnamese wiki. Is it just the name of the district (without "District"), with diacritics? (Not diuretics - be careful!) I've fixed the template that had the sq mi problem. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah thats right though. Could you do this task for me? So far I've added data to The Cnetral Highl;ands region and Template:Districts of Mekong Delta as far as Kien Gang -Kien Hai. You can view the templates at Category:Vietnam district templates Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I think this is too tedious for me, so I think i'll have to decline. Did you get my email? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:32, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I don't get it. I have no idea to make a spreadsheet using data. I have no idea how you would convert or copy the data on that site into a spreadsheet and also how I could make it work, it sounds like a bot to me. Yes this task is very tedious indeed and its not just the population I'm adding! I'll get it done manually after some hard work. I know where I am then. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Excel template tutorial

Okay I'm starting the explanation from scratch. Hopefully you can understand what I've done here, because this will make all your editing much, much easier. You don't need a bot to do this, just excel. (A bot would paste these articles into Wikipedia, but you'll have to do it manually.)

So my first step was to create a master article template. See User:Calliopejen1/VNdistrict. This is just based off of one of your articles. Wherever there is something that changes by article, I put in a variable (not sure if this is the technical term but whatever) that can be changed. These go in triple brackets like {{{this}}}. Don't worry yet about how you would make one of these master articles - I can help you later if you need.

Okay, so next, after I had made the article I went through and looked at all the variables I had used and made a helpful little template generator thing I put at the bottom of that article. It looks like this.

{{subst:User:Calliopejen1/VNdistrict
|districtname=
|provincename=
|population=
|capital=
|stubname=
|VNarticlename=
}}

This allows you to generate the whole article just by filling in those parameters and pasting that code in an article.

But of course it would be much faster if instead of filling in the parameters youself, Excel does it for you. That's where the spreadsheet comes in. The spreadsheet essentially just generates little blocks of code like

{{subst:User:Calliopejen1/VNdistrict
|districtnamewithoutaccents=A Luoi
|districtnamewithaccents=
|population=38616
|area=1229
|capital=A Luoi
|VNarticlename=
}}

and

{{subst:User:Calliopejen1/VNdistrict
|districtnamewithoutaccents=An Bien
|districtnamewithaccents=
|population=147297
|area=466
|capital=Thu Ba
|VNarticlename=
}}

that can be pasted to make articles. Do you see these in the fifth column?

The command I used to create these looks very complicated but really isn't too bad. It's

=CONCATENATE("{{subst:User:Calliopejen1/VNdistrict",CHAR(10),"|districtnamewithoutaccents=",A2,CHAR(10),"|districtnamewithaccents=",CHAR(10),"|population=",B2,CHAR(10),"|area=",C2,CHAR(10),"|capital=",D2,CHAR(10),"|VNarticlename=",CHAR(10),"}}")

Concatenate just means put these things next to each other, and CHAR(10) just means line break. The variables are A2, B2, C2, and D2. By dragging one cell down the spreadsheet, Excel replaces them with A3, B3, C3, and D3 (etc) so that you have all your nice little pre-made articles to paste.

Do you understand this any better now? Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh and one more thought - to get the data in excel, all I did was copy-paste from the website. Excel can generally divide things into columns and rows as needed. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

File:AungSan.jpg listed for deletion

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RE: American films

To be honest I'm also a little surprised at how people make such a fuss over the American films template, when there is apparently no problem with using the likes of {{CinemaofHongKong}} in a Hong Kong film article (or any number of other such examples). Dunno what to say to be honest; ultimately I think having a "see also" link is the way forward, but it's just a case of doing it isn't it? AFAIK the template won't be deleted until the links have been removed from the 3000 or so articles that use it, but don't quote me on that. Regards. PC78 (talk) 16:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

There's a ton of stuff to migrate over here

Sometimes I just open a category at random in another Wiki - it's frightening how much, still, is left to start migrating over. I'll work on it some more tonight and hopefully add a few more things. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

It's OK - I'm not big on structured things, to be honest. I'm more of a transfer-as-you-go type. Thanks for the ones you've done - it's a big help towards finishing coverage. (Although I've actually got two or three to stub that aren't in the Finnish Wikipedia, either, so we can make things even more complete over here.) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:20, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. I can probably take care of a fair number with AWB, actually...let me work on it tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - there is that. Anyhow - if you think a WikiProject could be made out of it, why don't you propose one and see where it gets you? Couldn't hurt to formally get more people on board. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Tell me about it. I may have to give it up for the sake of my health. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 01:07, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Empty templates

I noticed you created some empty navboxes about Bulgarian municipalities, such as Template:Tutrakan. Could you fix them, or indicate a source that I could use to fix them myself ?(I would transliterate the "Villages" part from Bulgarian Wikipedia, but I have no idea what standard to use).Baltaci (talk) 23:15, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I tried to fix the template mentioned above. The site doesn't work for me either, but luckily most of it was already cached by Google. There is a problem though: they seem to use a nonstandard transliteration. For example, the ж in Pozharevo is transliterated as "j", which doesn't appear as a valid transliteration in any of the systems used for the Romanization of Bulgarian (this is just an example familiar to me, there may be other nonstandard transliterations). Plus, there's the problem of the linking. For villages names that are found in both Bulgaria and other countries, I just appended ", Bulgaria" to the title, but I'm not sure what to do with the ones that are all in Bulgaria, but in different oblasts. Should I append ", <province_name> Province" or just ", <province_name>"? Baltaci (talk) 13:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Rufus Morey

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Happy Dr. Blofeld's Day!

Dr. Blofeld has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Dr. Blofeld's day! For your sheer amount of awesome edits, enjoy being the Star of the day, Dr. Blofeld! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 01:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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re: American film template

Yep, after my watch list nearly died when several thousand articles had a bot removing it! Lugnuts (talk) 11:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Any DYKs

Hi! Any new DYK articles?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 14:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Not really, grunt work I'm still doing. I did start a few articles though like Mining in Venezuela using PD material. It could probably be expanded an referenced for a DYK, I'm pretty busy though at present with geo templates and stubs. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

If you're making mining articles, this PD series has in-depth info for every country. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Great, would help if I could load it though! I'm taking a break at the moment though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:HSITES

Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites is opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject being, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:21, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Maps

As well you should - they look great. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a clue - I'm guessing tens of thousands, at least, if not more. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Now why doesn't that surprise me? Anyhow, I've got a busy afternoon, but I may be able to help out tomorrow. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:49, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

André Dieudonné Berre

I'm just letting you know in case you want to make sure you get for creating the page André Dieudonné Berre. Later someone (Independently? Copying?) created the almost identical page André Berre. The page you created has been converted into a redirect to the other page. ☺Coppertwig (talk) 03:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Districts

Translated a few. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 06:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Heaps good. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 05:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

You don't need to create talk page templates for the new communes. TinucherianBots can do a run at the end. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Indonesian locator maps

Good morning, Herr Doktor. How are you - apparently working on Vietnam now. I haven't been very active lately, and then I decided to give a helping hand for an effort of cleaning some >1,000 copyvio pages. Regarding the maps: I think I'll rather do new versions for locator use, without latitude/longitude lines and labels. Also the inset (larger area map) should show much smaller region, as then it would be clearer where in Indonesia the islands are. I still have the command files and data left, so there is no extra effort required. – Sadalmelik ☎ 08:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Indian Highways

Yes, your work will be of help for me. Thanks! :) BTW, I am Helen... Paalappoo (talk) 13:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I am from Thiruvananthapuram, not Wales. Helen is a common name in areas which have British influence in their culture. I know it is a popular name in Wales.
I don't have any pictures of the highways. Most of the details about highways and the places on the way have been gathered from people I work with. I am lucky to be working in a group of people from across the country. Paalappoo (talk) 13:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

The surname is so because of the naming convention in my part of the country. Usually, the father's given name is added to the child's given name. After marriage, most ladies remove the father's name and add their husband's given name. I still stick on to my father's name, Thomas. Paalappoo (talk) 13:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

My internet connection is an office-provided one. Practically everything is firewalled. I don't have access to flickr. In commons, I did'nt find any, except for Siliguri and Darjeeling. But those were removed by someone who edited the article. I have added pics in NH 43 Paalappoo (talk) 13:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Bulgarian templates

Greetings! My exams were quite successful if considering the small amount of time I spent studying :):) I am trying to fill templates but the progress is slow because as i explained in the talk page of Baltaci, many villages have the same name, others have names used in foreign countries, other have names of towns and so on. I hope that together we will cope with them. Regards, --Gligan (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

If you build it...

Yeah - I've always been in agreement with you on that. Anyhow, sorry I've been absent these past few days, but I've had a ton of work to do. And I was out yesterday evening - and I'm going to be again tonight. On the plus side, I should be available all tomorrow afternoon, at which point I'll probably do some transwiki-ing. Anything you need me to AWB? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure - don't see why I wouldn't be able to do something like that for you. I'll take a stab at starting some of them tonight and see where I can go from there. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Now, look. I've heard that I'm big as a house, but I think it's a bit thick to imply that I'm as large as a Colombian municipality...

(Sure, I'll start inputting them tonight.) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a giant, exactly, no... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:09, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I was about 200 lbs or so, last I weighed myself. And I'm not 6 ft., either; I'm about 5'7 or so (that's what's on my driver's license, at least). So I could stand to lose some of it. The word I like for describing it is "paunch", which is sadly missing from the current American vocabulary, I think. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:29, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Average it may be, but I don't really wear it that well. The word "dumpy" comes to mind when I think of my body type.

Ah, well. Back to work - I need to get some of this stuff knocked out by the end of the day. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Excellent - looks good. I have laundry to work on, and then I'll get to work on AWB and such things. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I quite agree - it's nice to see things like that as they develop. Anyhow, I think I shall stub a few more Danish composers from the Danish Wiki, and then AWB those Colombian municipalities. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - moving stuff like that isn't really something AWB would be good for. But I'll go ahead and start doing the moving myself. Then I can replace "district" with "District" in the text using AWB. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:12, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Moving's done - I'll work on the templates and things after dinner. (They need redirecting, after all...and there's the names to AWB to capitalize.) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep - I'm doing that now. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 23:03, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I think I've caught them all. I'm off for a bit - I'll do some more stuff tonight. (I want to get those Danish composers up to 60 stubs to properly populate the category.) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 23:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! Watssup??-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 16:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, cool! I'm nearing the 100-mark. There around 8 or so which are pending approval. Apart from those pendings, I need 3 or 4 more. And I feel extremely tired to create new articles-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 16:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Greetings

I am just of the realisation that I have libelled you horribly at someones talk page regarding your bali maps - hey BTW thanks for them! - and dont mind me - the long white beard has been removed - the hair is back to very short but the mo is still with me - trust your hair is all still there - have a good week SatuSuro 13:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Greetings! I've asked user User:Sadalmelik to even create ones for the smaller islands. So far I've created Category:Indonesia location map templates. Sometimes I'll get around to starting lots of towns in the Indonesian islands. Regards, Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I have been having very serious discussions with doseia (or close to that) whatever about making sure WP:RS or whatever are added for the islands that he/she whatever keeps adding - the potential for hoax/fraud island arts is very high due to the sheer number - and I must admit to questioning the ineluctable progressions towards comprehensive listing of the buggers (ie obscure islands and places) at http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indonesia&action=edit&section=14 - oh well another day at the coal face :( SatuSuro 13:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Well it is a country, it has "some" notable places. Regencies of Indonesia should definately be started, you can't argue against their inclusion on wikipedia. Why not just let it progress gradually? I'd be willing to bet there are hundreds of missing places which have information in english and could be written beyond empty unreferenced sub stubs. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:05, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah Ill grant you that - I have no real probems really with any regencies at all (I have a subpage to fix some - just as long as we dont get too many villages and reefs in there :) SatuSuro 14:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Well a high proportion of my time is actually spent cleaning up and referencing and adding infoboxes/maps to existing articles these days on districts and places to spend too much time creating a bunch of useless hamlets. I am ploughing my way through Vietnam still adding 540 references to all with data for starters. Some time I'll get around to cleaning up existing articles and adding infoboxes to Indonesian places and hopefully improve upon any mess any has already created. Would still be nice though to add a couple of new articles on smaller towns, if there is something reliable to say about them. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:20, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

If I dig deep enough I think there will be some notable villages in Indonesia in a few places :) SatuSuro 14:58, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes in Bali and Lombok where I've been there are villages which specialise in certain crafts and customs etc and you can be damned sure you could write something encyclopedic about them. But those regencies are first priority when I get around to it... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:22, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Pushpins / conic area maps

Hello Doctor, your comments would be appreciated at Qyd's talk page, where I've asked a few questions about maps. Regards! Franamax (talk) 20:13, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Spam

Bureaucrats perform technical roles relating to renaming users and changing certain group permissions. We have nothing to do with launching any possible new projects. Warofdreams talk 15:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

So I see. Can you point me to somebody who is likely to listen? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:43, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps I'll try "spamming people" on Metawiki. Just tired of having my posts brished aside and not taken into consideration. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd suggest contacting these people --Dweller (talk) 15:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah that should be sufficient to generate support. We need somebody who has power on here to do things a sI don't want to waste time in discussion (like the page resdesign proposals) if nothing is going to happen. If there is a chance that somebody who counts on here takes the idea of a new Atlas sister project into conisderation then I'll do my best to loook for support once somebody seriously takes it into consideration. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:52, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Danish composers

Sure - I'll work on it some tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Aaaaaaaaand done. I'll try and help with some creation tomorrow. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 05:17, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Senegal

Hi Dr. Blofeld,

Thank you for the invitation! I gladly accept; I plan on translating many more of the French articles about Senegal. I have been surprised how many articles about Senegal only exist on the French Wikipedia.

In anticipation of collaboration,

Neelix (talk) 22:49, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Jamoats of Tajikistan

Great! But please show the source for the population numbers (and perhaps also for the listing itself). --Zlerman (talk) 01:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for help

Thank you for your greeting and your valuable contribution to Vietnamese project. Let’s work together in Vietnamese commune project. I am going to translate from vi into en for important Vietnamese articles. By the way, can you help me check, review and clean up Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park? Thank you very much.Genghiskhan (talk) 08:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Ignore? No Sir, I just need time to get used to your instruction. Please help review and correct my contributions. Thank you.Genghiskhan (talk) 11:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I'm Shahid Sh., a Wikipedian who doesn't really understand why you disappeared.

How are you???? Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:27, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh OK fine... WOWWWW she's hot!!!

One thing that made me feel very bad recently is this clip of Preity's new film.... Put it on 8:00... I was shocked and depressed to see Preity abused in this way. It's terrible. What do you think? Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually the critic who criticised her was actually for this film. I mean, he praised her acting, but citicised Bollywood films basing his views on pure streotypes without even being aware of Zinta's body of work in India (after all it's a Candian film and the critic is Canadian). That's what made me angry. He wrote, "Preity Zinta, a big star in India, specializes in seemingly dozens of fluffy Bollywood crowd-pleasers in which her chief tasks are to look pretty and lip-synch convincingly. Her performance here is a revelation, infusing her role with surprising depth and pathos."

What do you think of this comment? Is it good or bad? Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:INOR

Could you create articles for Flora and fauna of Orissa, Arts of Orissa and Tourism in Orissa?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 19:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm "very" busy at present but I'll see if I can create some stubs on them in the next few days. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 19:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

List of American films (year) links

You may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Films#list_link_being_added_to_all_pages.3F. Until this controversy is resolved, it appears that I will need to stop adding these links to film articles using AWB, since this would be contrary to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#Rules_of_use. Erik9 (talk) 23:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Ugh!

Wish I'd thought of that idea before I started. Would've saved time; but better late than never. Thanks! -- Reconsideration (talk) 12:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I can do that, but it will take a while; more of my efforts are directed at filling out the year-in-poetry lists, and I tend to concentrate first on the larger lists, which are already mostly on the English Wikipedia. Creating the Swedish list was really more of a way of taking a bit of a break from that, so you can expect me to do some more, but it will probably take a while. -- Reconsideration (talk) 13:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that's fast! do you automate that somehow? Reconsideration (talk) 13:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I see what you mean. I think I'll create a few. Thanks again for the idea. Reconsideration (talk) 13:15, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Vietnam

Sure - I'll work on it tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

We'll see - I might be able to help out a bit this afternoon. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - if you've done it by this evening, I won't bother. :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:45, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

OK. I think maybe I'll do a few Danes right now. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

With pleasure - I'll do it tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:39, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. If I keep up my current pace, I may set a new record for myself this month, too, in terms of the number of edits. :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

They look great - wonderful work. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a nice feeling to see something you've worked hard on being translated and incorporated into another wiki. I've found ten or twelve of my articles which have been translated...and sometimes on some of the weirdest things. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:50, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Heh yeah, some of my VN FAs got translated into FAs on Spanish and Viet wiki. BTW, your articles, they were never locked. A software glitch? YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 00:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations on the FP! One of these days I hope to manage something like that myself.

Vietnam articles all have talk pages now. They should be all covered. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 01:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

My pleasure. Anything else you need AWB-ed, I may not be able to get to until tomorrow; I'll be out tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:22, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I did a handful myself the other night, actually. Might do more later in the week, we'll see. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Better be careful - I could surpass you in the rankings one day if I keep up this pace. :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - I tried to be careful, and if I put an extra in I tried to remove it. Didn't always work, and I may have missed one or two, sorry. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Shows how many people are paying attention, I suppose... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. By the way, found another language to add to the template pile - Walloon. I didn't realize how extensive the Walloon Wikipedia was. I'll work on a template and use it on a few things in a little while. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks very interesting - I'll see what I can do with it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I know. Look at Marcello Giordani, which was a one-line stub when I created it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - maybe in the next day or so I can get off my duff and actually write up a proposal to get things rolling again. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

It's some bug that happens on my non-admin account yesterday as well. YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 01:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Kecamatan

Oh well more lists :( - but hey thanks! for at least tagging them with the project template - that really is appreciated :) SatuSuro 01:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - it is a much more level playing field after what you have done - i think in the end there will be a lot of positive things that will come out of it - oddly enough - there will be a coverage that will reduce hoaxes and some other things as there is something to refer to that is on wiki. I am very hopeful it is the way to go SatuSuro 12:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Hiya

Sorry for not having communicated in a while. You'd be surprised just how many articles there are out there that weren't apparently known about. I just in the past few days found out about 3 books of the Bible (well, a Bible), I'd never heard of before, the Meqabyan books. I've been trying to tag what I think of as being all the "top" importance articles for the various Christianity projects, and, well, that article probably has to count as one of them. Otherwise, generally OK, other than finding a few more regretably self-centered noobs out there. But that's par for the course, I guess. John Carter (talk) 15:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Work restrictions have become a bit more of a factor than they were before. And it looks like I'm going to have to do a bit more writing, which involves spending a lot of time in dry old libraries finding obscure books, particularly ones on Scientology and the like. But some of the more, well, highly-charged content has to get addressed by someone, and it's kinda clear that the number doing it right now ain't quite enough. As long as I can avoid too many people with a personality similar to that of someone I don't think I have to name, the health per se shouldn't be as much of a factor. John Carter (talk) 15:33, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Heyy

Blofffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff why are you vandalising my page LOL? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I DID... REALLY!!! It was great!! Oh I thought I told you, but I forgot hehehe!! Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Heehehehe LOL!! How dare you??? Don't you ever dare vandalise my talk page. Consider it a warning. I have to vandalise yours now: cjkjhkhjdhgdfj. Draw. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:04, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: My Disapproval

Thank you for your comments, I appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I agree that my condescending comments were somewhat out of line and I apologize. It's just that lazy and carelessly written English annoys me, and some days I'm just not in a tolerating mood. I only counted 5 of my last 50 edits to be "mocking" and maybe two or three in the previous 200 edits. I'll try to keep my disapproval out of my edit summaries in the future. -Jaardon (talk) 17:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Jóannes Patursson

Hi there. And thanks for the hint about the translation project. Actually I've been active there before, creating some articles on demand or proofreading other people's work. Might well be the time to resume work there :) De728631 (talk) 19:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I noticed that you were creating many articles about certain animal species. If you are interested I have a script that can automatically create multiple pages with similar content. LetsdrinkTea 21:10, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I can do that sort of thing with AWB, too, if you'd like. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

That'd be cool there are zillions of articles that needed to be started. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:22, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Oop, sorry. Anyhow, I'm off...if I get home at a decent hour tonight I'll AWB fix it, and maybe AWB some new ones; just tell me which to do. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:43, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry - the hour isn't decent. Can it wait 'til tomorrow, do you think? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 04:18, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Further thought - to save you trouble, I can AWB the rest of the articles on those lists. It might be easier, it would save time, and it would free you up to do more translation-related stuff, if you'd like. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 05:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

OK - I'll get on it tonight. See what kind of headway I can make. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, good to see.

I got as far as "C" on the moths last night, and filled in some of the smaller letters as well. I have, however, hideously overslept, which means it'll be a while before I get to it again today. Sorry about that. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:19, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Well...it's just that I'm ashamed of sleeping as long as I did; there's no excuse for it. I should have been up at least an hour earlier. Thanks for the compliment. :-)

Hrm...OK; I'm about midway between the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Annex and the Maine Avenue Fish Market (which is under an overpass, but which is still about a five-minutes' walk from the office). I can actually see the Central Heating Plant from my office's kitchen window, but that doesn't have an article. As yet - give it time...

Anyhow, I'm off to hopefully complete those moths today. Then, we'll see; with luck I'll have the time to complete their talk pages as well. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

The first of those. There's actually a picture of the neighborhood I took in the article on Southwest Federal Center; I need to go back and redo it in better light sometime. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Not quite - I'll e-mail you. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps in a bit - soon as I'm done with these it'll be time for dinner. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I really don't mind the comments I've been getting, especially because I can understand that a bunch of new articles like I've been creating does tend to screw up newpage patrol a bit. Anyhow...yes, AWB makes things go nice and quickly, so with luck I should have the rest of the articles finished by this evening. Then we'll see if I can get some talk pages started.

Sorry to hear about the virus - I hope you can purge it soon. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Maybe you should take a little time off away from it, let the issues work themselves out. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, we all need a wikibreak now and again. Goodness knows working on this project can be a daunting task. Anyhow, I hope to have those moths finished by the end of the day today. Talk pages, we'll see; I don't know how far with those I'll be able to get. Any other lists of moths you want me to look at? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps that's what I'll do, thenk. Thanks, take care. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure

Sorry, I didn't see that, thanks!

Uncategorised articles on Wales

A new user, User:Meinir wigley , has created new articles on places and natural reserves in Wales. Unfortunately, they have not been categorised. The articles are not very descriptive; so I am not able to categorise. Can you please try? Check the contributions here, pl.[2] Paalappoo (talk) 12:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Infobox Germany design

I've made some changes to Template:Infobox German location/sandbox; is that sort of what you had in mind? Kirill ^[pf] 02:56, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

I've changed the CoA size and added the map label, but I'm not sure what's generating the extra space between the CoA and its caption. Kirill ^[pf] 03:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Infobox Germany

Hi the proposal is almost done at User:Dr. Blofeld/Germany using Template:Infobox German location/sandbox. Just need to shrink the COA to around 80px and get the map to display the title like with France. What do you think? Let me know on the template talk page thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Seems fine to me, good work! Stifle (talk) 11:56, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Stifle! The box has been drawn up at Template:Infobox German location/sandbox. Let me know when you can update the actual template Template:Infobox German location. We even have a nice anenetated place name on the map now! You are an admin right? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I've posted a message at the template talk page saying that I am considering replacing it. If there are no objections in the next few days, I will do so. Stifle (talk) 10:06, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Ayya Nadar

Thanks for adding the appropriate stub. I, however, am not sure about the "notability" tag. --Docku: What's up? 17:10, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Image

Hey no I removed this image which is a copyvio. Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I was sure the guy replaced the image. I reverted him and I thought the free image was now there. But as I see now, the guy who reverted him before me (whose revision I reverted the article to), did not make a revert. He just removed the copyvio and left the article without an image. Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:24, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Future Centre Trust

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Category:Angola municipality templates

All gone! Nice consolidation job. :P Skier Dude (talk) 22:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

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