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New editors' lack of understanding of Wikipedia processes has resulted in thousands of BLPs being created over the last few years that do not meet BLP requirements. We are currently seeking constructive proposals on how to help newcomers better understand what is expected, and how to improve some 48,000 articles about living people as created by those 17,500 editors, through our proper cleanup, expansion, and sourcing.

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Ikip 05:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

(refactored) Ikip 04:09, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Ecuador

I do not, alas - I plumped for French in school. So if you need help on sub-Saharan Africa...

A Google search for "parroquia" and "Ecuador" pulls up this - would it be useful? As I say, I don't speak the language, I'm afraid.

Why am I not surprised that these Ecuadorian cantons have fired your imagination? :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:33, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

"Quite an experience" sounds like a bit of an understatement, to be sure - did you partake in the blood drinking?

I know what you mean by "second world", and I agree with you - there's a lot of good information coming online that wasn't available even a year ago. It's quite heartening. Ever moreso to see it being brought onboard here. Thanks for your help in getting the cantons sorted out, by the way. It's just starting to irk me that here we are, close to nine years on from the founding of Wikipedia, and there are still so many second-level country divisions lacking even the most basic articles. We should be doing better. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Definately. Camilo Ponce Enríquez (municipality) though should be technically called a parish I believe... Hopefully we can find a list of all the parishes of Ecuador and create an article. Some day we will have over 1500 detailed articles (with pictures) of parishes of Ecuador and of all Latin American countries. Now that would be something to work towards! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:50, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I once saw cock fighting on holiday once and I was appalled by it. Interesting culture though, I'm pretty sure many villages in Ecuador have their own customs too which probably won't be even mentioned online for 10 years... Yeah I saw that the parishes contained what looked like a number of villages, comunidades formal then I gather. I found a source for Benin recently which lists all of the village with population data to so once I finish the arrondissements I will develop those. There was not of this data for Benin last year. 2009 was a big year on here. Information which we groaned about in the past is slowly making its way online. Still a long way to go, the Ecuador parishes show this, I mean just look at Gabon, barely anything online at all about places!!! But if you work on one country long enough I always find by the time you come back to somehere else more info has become available. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Good Lord. I don't think I could ever manage to do that. I mean, I'm adventurous (I'm one of only two people I know to ever willingly eat grasshopper), but I have my limits.

I don't have adventurous travel stories. I just periodically get lost in strange cities where I don't know the language, and have to use only my wits, a rudimentary city map and a hotel key to find my way home. Oh...and eat Chinese food in Krakow (fried rice with a side of...coleslaw?) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:06, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

They're called "parroquias" in the Spanish Wiki, I think: es:Categoría:Parroquias de Ecuador --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:10, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I'd rather we dropped the (parish) in the title to the article anyway. I think the village/town and parish should be one article similar to Municipality and town in Mexico. Transwiki anybody? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:11, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Check out this. Page under construction. Perhaps soon enough they will provide demo data for places... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:20, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Awesome, looks very South American, I've sene clips of similar looking things in Bolivia. Talking of weird local things have a look at the yellow car on Cové. How odd!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:35, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I think its some sort of Yoruba custom. It looks like big black men playing around with a little kiddies car!! Also Zangbeto. I just looked on Yoruba wikipedia. Some interesting unsourced stuff on there.. Have you seen the pics of the fetish markets of Lome in Togo? Fascinating stuff, at times rather scary but this is what wikipedia should be about. It gives us an opportunity to start covering parts of the world which were previously ignored but have a rich culture/history. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually I was only just looking at that article last week and thinking what a great job you've done with it. I'd prefer a standard infobox instead of geobox. Also I'd recommend creating a montage of images of Ratanikiri and placing that in the main infobox... Something like File:Chiang Mai City.png but more tidely aligned. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:35, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

WHen we were talking about Yoruba the other night I had a browse on Yoruba wiki. I stubbed Gbedu. Then I requested it be expanded. Now we not only have the article but we have Sakara drum and I've seemingly whetted the author's appetite to add more! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Yep, two drum articles out of tens of thousands of missing African articles no doubts. Now if I can find a way to clone these rare African contributors... Oh I was looking on flickr and found 900 free images of Cambodia!!. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of 1970s in science

I have nominated 1970s in science, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1970s in science. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 23:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Age problem

Hello Calliopejen1. I just wanted to know if you were still active in the Fashion Wikiproject. I just witnessed a small bug on the infobox model at (don't click yet) Ksenia Kahnovich. She had her birthday three days ago but when I consulted the page a few minutes ago it was still written "(age 22)" after her d.o.b. (she's supposed to be 23 now). I refreshed the page and now it shows the right "(age 23)" and I can't reproduce the bug. It's probably nothing but I still found it weird that it could show her old age three days after her birthday. Maybe you could access the page to see if you get the same problem? Thanks in advance. Thiste (talk) 14:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

OK, I just tested something. I'm using Google Chrome here, so I tried to launch Firefox and see how it shows. And again, "(age 22)" the first time (at least) I'm accessing the page. After refreshing the page a few times, it still doesn't change to 23 on Firefox. I then tried with IExplorer and it shows the same "(age 22)". There's a bug somewhere, maybe you know where to ask to fix this? Thiste (talk) 14:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Well I opened it in Firefox & IE exclusively for testing the potential bug. I had never opened that page in either browsers so I don't think it was a cache problem. I'll report the problem over at that template page. So, I take it you didn't get the bug, did you? Thiste (talk) 15:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Account

Nothing! Oh its nice to have a change. I like both accounts, but I like the theme of this one and I like seeing the name in the history of pages. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 14:31, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I've finished starting those cantons of Ecuador anyway. I wa thinking the (canton) rather than Canton capitalised naming would probably be better. Perhaps you could offer your view on Rich Farmboroughs talk page. Any chance you could ask the folks at map lab to make an svg map of Nigeria like Template:Location map Guinea? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 19:24, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I have a bit of cleaning up to do with Nigerian towns. I'm hoping that our drum editor will sometime show an interest in expanding them! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 19:54, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow that's an old one! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 20:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Mmm. I think the surprisingly strong response from the community for the Dawn Padmore article decided it! AFD at times as a peculiar way of improving an article.... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 16:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree actually. I couldn't find much on her, just enough perhaps for keeping but it is not exactly an essential article in my book. Care to AFD Joseph Checkler? Non notable blogger. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 16:31, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I dunno, I'm also intermediate level Spanish. What about something by Gabriel García Márquez? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 17:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Could you ask this user if we can use her images of the Bsous Museum? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 19:44, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Bsous Silk Museum

I wanted to commend you for saving the Bsous Silk Museum from AfD erasure. Good job! Warrah (talk) 13:01, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Some interesting sources at here. Plenty of public domain images of colonial Gabon to upload too! I've made a makeshift grey map for Nigeria, DRC and Gabon anyway until they make the maps, probably will have to wait until 2018. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 02:14, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah the sources he used look like they'd contain a lot of info. He did a great job getting hold of those photos though. Check out my new map on Calabar. Its better but we should still have an svg...03:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I love the Egypt one, check out Esna. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 03:14, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I was considering putting the Template:Expand up for deletion Its pretty pointless isn't it? I've come across sub stubs from 2006 or 2007 which have been vurtually untouched after having the tag pleastered over it. Is there really any evidence that they work? If somebody wants to improve an articles they'll do so regardless and they can see that many articles need to be expanded. Unlike the expand language templates which directly serve a purpose. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 01:37, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

The more experience I've had in seeing it the less useful I actually think it is. It asks you to expand it in the stub tags anyway... The expand section tag isn't so bad if it points to editors to develop a missing part of the article which is not immediately obvious but the overall "Expand this article" seems to have little effect. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 11:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeyeee!! That took a while!!! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 13:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

So I see. Once I've finished working on these LGAs and added a few towns with decent svg maps the stubs may start to even remotely resemble other countries on here. Hey I've started a mountains of italy by region template series see Template:Mountains of Liguria. I think I'll copy the articles on Italian wikipedia in the categories and insert them into templates by region to be transwikied. Probably the best thing we can do actually is to go through categories on other wikipedia and red link them in nav templates with the ones we already have. This way even if I haven't the time to start the article somebody at some point or other may want to start it.. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 13:34, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

E.g I could start a Template:Churches in the Province of Salerno etc and red link tons of churches which have articles on Italian wiki... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 13:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you believe Category:Museums in Nigeria is empty? There should be 30 odd. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 13:41, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Now we have 10 articles on Nigerian museums... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 20:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC) I see we are having a Dominican Rpeublic/Caribbean themed evneing/afternoon. Cool. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 21:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC) Can you do me a favor and move Template:LGAs and communities of Ogun State to Template:Ogun State. Its for adding landmarks etc later. Phew we now have no stone age pink maps for Nigeria now.. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 04:51, 11 February 2010 (UTC) This might sound funny but do you like lime? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 20:52, 11 February 2010 (UTC) Yeah I love Thai cuisine too. Lime is supposed to be good for a lot of things too. I came across this shampoo earlier which has yoghurt and lime in it , this. The smell of it is amazing!! Its like a honey lemon limey and tropical kind of smell but it leaves your hair feeling like a million bucks! It thickens your hair and gives it more texture but the amazing smell of it last all day! Strongly recommend trying it, I'm in love with the smell!! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 21:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC) Cool. you have a gym to go with the job? I'm impressed. Yes I have hair, unlike Dr. Blofeld LOL. quite a lot compared to some blokes actually, similar sort of hair type and color to this although I have more of a receding hairline. All the blokes on my mums side of the family are Blofeld types but on my dads side they have thick hair! I am at risk apprently of becoming a Blofeld, I heard you inherit the bald gene from your mother's father. Nooooo!!. Yeah I never really give a thought to shampoo, I don't normally care, but once I smelt this shampoo I had to try it, I'm certain you'd love it. And it actually makes your scalp feel better too it kinda has a soothing effect. You should definately try it, I'd imagine they sell it in the US. Pretty cheap too. Its difficult to describe in words, but imagine a rich honey/lemon tropical smell mixed in with fresh cream. Its liquid gold! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 22:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Talking about delicacies, try a cracker or water biscuit or whatever they are called in the states with Philadelphia cheese and Mango and Apricot chutney. Yum!! What was the food like in India? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 22:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC) That bad eh? Hope you didn't get Delhi Belly. Recently saw the news about Alexander McQueen. I must admit I have never heard of the guy!! Steve McQueen yes.... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 09:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC) LOL "Be prepared for a lot of penises ". I think somehow I'll give that miss.... Yeah for death/goth metal singing in the bellismo language of love doesn't exactly go together... Now have you bought the shampoo yet? ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 13:38, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Maps

Sorry, I don't know anyone who'd be up for this job (I mean all maps). It is my understanding that creating a map or two is not that difficult, but volunteers tend to run out of steam after converting a few maps, which is why we end up with a hodgepodge of maps of all kinds and looks... As for the maps we already have, I don't know how well they would work for other countries, but for Russia we really need one showing internal borders, otherwise the map is not going to be too helpful.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:17, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I misunderstood. But no, I don't know such a person either. Blo above is going to ask Nordnordwest; if he can't help, I doubt anyone else can.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:29, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

We better discuss conic location maps here as more users will read it: I don't know anything about programing templates. Last March I asked de:User:Visi-on how to transfer it to en:WP, especially Template:Location map Canada. He told me you better adapt these three templates: de:Vorlage:Positionskarte, de:Vorlage:Positionskarte+ and de:Vorlage:Positionskarte~. Then it should be possible to use conic maps. If you have questions you better ask Visi-on, I'm not able to answer them. As long as this isn't done it's senseless to discuss a better map for Russia. NNW (talk) 18:01, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Your Nigeria map questions were placed in Commons talk page[1]. Bogomolov.PL (talk) 16:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Jen,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Las Meninas 01.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 15, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-02-15. howcheng {chat} 09:43, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Can you give me points to rewrite Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo and how can I get all the work I wrote back to save in my hard drive? --AK 02:57, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Ivorian sitcoms

Alexander McQueen picture removals?

In this edit you removed five images from Alexander McQueen with the comment "(rm images - these are all copyvios)". Can you please be specific as to why you think so? The first is under a claim of fair use, but the four I added are on Wikimedia Commons, and you haven't nominated them for deletion there. They're all from Flickr, and seem to be properly licensed there. --GRuban (talk) 18:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Looks like you replied on my talk page, so so did I. --GRuban (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for formatting the refs on Battle of Ciudad Juarez!radek (talk) 08:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Thousands of African/Asian images

Hi. I was wondering if you could use the bot to upload these , especially these. I made the agreement with Grete Howard long ago but so far very few of the images have been uploaded except for a few in Benin like Zangbeto and Togo. The bot never works when I try to use it. She has a mass of wonderful images which would greatly help the project don't you think? Its a gold mine!! Check out these of the Peruvian Indians! ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 21:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

OK, but if you are so busy please tell me sooner, otherwise I wonder what the matter is! Yes Grete has me as her friend on flickr that's how I have the larger images. But we definately need that tool to upload them as her collection is so impressive of places we have little for on here that it would be a big shame to ignore them. I did recontact her back in late December and asked about her Greenland trip but she didn't reply. I wonder whether she is not happy that she made the agreement after all or just genuinely didn't read the email. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 21:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

signing vote

Hi. I think you forgot to sign your vote at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Zion Narrows.jpg. The vote should be signed, otherwise it will not be counted. franklin 14:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Teampimp Bloggers web page

A site with 16,000 hits about a the life of an Austin resident is not Notable? So I guess we all need to be wordsmiths and published writers to contribute...I'm curious of the content that you and anyone else who is the monitoring is choosing or not choosing to be allowed in a free web encyclopedia.. You know how excited I was to do this and it seems like you are egotistically making decision based off of what you find pleasing an what you find not and then say oh it's a guideline issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arainbolt (talk • contribs) 20:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

I have newspaper articles where Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo was mentioned. can I use those as a basis for rewrite? They are scanned into an independent site of hers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akiomoawo (talk • contribs) 05:37, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

...user page design

Hi. Stumbled on your user page while going around trying to improve mine. I really appreciate your design and have borrowed code from your user page. My revised one is here. I am going to be doing some minor colour changes but have retained the boxed design of yours. I hope this is OK with you. prashanthns (talk) 11:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Jewish peoplehood

Thank you for the heads up on this. It is in fact an article deserving some attention. Feel free to follow / join the discussion that you've kicked off. Thank you, Joe407 (talk) 10:48, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Mona Lisa Brookshire

Smell image copyvios? I do Either that or a classic case of COI which I think probably the more likely... ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 16:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Please speedy all images by this person. There is a few in the commons too I believe. i've actually been in contact with the subject of the article and she claims the article was a copyvio from a magazine about her and that the photos were scanned. Nuke em asap please. ‡ Himalayan ‡^ΨMonastery 22:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Calliopejen1. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 9.
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Hey, I replied! Tim1357 (talk) 23:54, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

BLP sticky template

Hi Calliopejen1/Archive 8! If there is any consensus at at all, it is that the entire discussion has become a tangled confusion, and as a result both proponents and opponents of the issues under discussion are abandoning ship. None of us want this. Your work on the template is valuable, even though it is stil possible that consensus might not be reached in favour of its use. However, In an attempt to keep the policy discussion on an even track, some users have decided to create a special workshop page for the development of the template at WT:BLP PROD TPL. It is designed keep the quite different major aspects of the BLP issue separate off the policy discussion and talk page, and help to move this whole debate towards a decision some kind or another. The page is well linked in a way that watchers will still find their way to it, the policy comments have been kept intact on the main talk page, and the main contributors to all sides of the the discussion are being informed. Cheers. --Kudpung (talk) 22:05, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Calliopejen1. You have new messages at Okip's talk page.
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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Phelsuma dubia.jpg

Hi, I have put up an edit at the nomination. I would appreciate your feedback --Muhammad(talk) 10:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 20:11, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you! Recognition for diplomacy would surprise some people I've worked with in real life! Happy (or at least tolerable) editing to you. :) Maurreen (talk) 20:14, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Refs

Note my comment in Wikipedia_talk:Sticky_Prod_workshop#Referencing_for_beginners, I wonder if user:chzz/help/ref might be of use? Chzz ► 04:49, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

File:Argentina Clima.jpg

Please note that I am removing the Files for deletion tag you placed on File:Argentina Clima.jpg on November 20th 2008. I'm doing this because it appears you haven't created a discussion for deletion. If you still want the image deleted, feel free to nominate it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hopeless Arbs

What on earth can we do about idiots who go on about hypothetical cases that haven't happenned yet when both you and I have given examples of deletions this month? There previous motion was condemned by a huge number of experienced editors and yet these arbs still continue to demonstrate their inability to reason their way out of a paper bag.--Peter cohen (talk) 23:31, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I somehow managed to miss the last elections. Pity given the quality of appointment. Smith at least now seems to have recused himself.--Peter cohen (talk) 23:58, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

BLP template workshop

Hi Calliopejen. I think some users may be interrupting the workflow by discussing policy (albeit in GF), particularly that of the technically unenforceable WP:BEFORE, on the workshop page. I have suggested we create a new sub-page for this kind of discussion. What do you think? --Kudpung (talk) 03:12, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

One of the problems on the workshop page, is that some people are still attempting to turn it into a discussion on poiicy, while others appear to be simply peppering it with eloquent but cynical remarks in order to have something to say. Perhaps we can stimulate some support to keep the page on track, otherwise there is a risk that valued contributors will be bailing out again. I've run out of ideas, and I might be the next one to run away ;) --Kudpung (talk) 00:52, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I didn't respond earlier because I wasn't really sure what to say.... I'm not sure it's possible to discuss template development without discussing policy. My view at the moment is that policy issues have to be hammered out before the template is made, or at the same time, because otherwise how can we decide what the template is to say? I'm not sure how we can accomplish this and maintain contributors' interest, but I think it is necessary. It's too bad we didn't achieve an orderly discussion that continuously narrowed the possible policy options and working out compromises as time progressed. I think this is largely due to extreme actions by deletionists that provoked a violently defensive posture by the inclusionists, and then nothing productive could come from discussions for some time. water under the bridge, though, huh? Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:25, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Another friendly user has bailed, thanking us for our good work, and hoping we can keep things on track without his/her help.--Kudpung (talk) 01:28, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

And yet another. The project will soon be left with exactly the people who just turn discussions into a platform to hear their own voices and be generally disruptive.--Kudpung (talk) 05:29, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, mind if I butt in?

Something I had considered earlier, but didn't follow up on for multiple reasons ... Potentially, it might be useful with the workshop to somehow split up housekeeping.

Housekeeping seems to be "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." Maurreen (talk) 05:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

The latest response from an ArbCom member alludes to the workshop. Maurreen (talk) 05:58, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, I've been bold and split off all the pure policy threads into their own page, leaving the mechanics of template and bot programation to be done on the workshop page. There should be no problem merging any policy into the templates' templates, and into the bot code later. This way we get two tasks done in parallel, and any off-topic disruption can be thwarted with a flick of the wrist. Although I do have my own opinion, I don't really care whether the inclusionists or the deletionsists win the day, as long as I'm left knowing what to do with 500 unreferenced BLPs in my project, and the new unreferenced ones that will arrive. I'm not quite sure what to make of the Arbcom, I'm totally confused over there and the comments I have made might even be totally off topic. Natural leaders emerging? Golly, from what? We now have four interested parties left who are willing to do anything and none of them are template or bot programmers. And anyway, there were always too many chiefs and too few Indians in the whole saga.--Kudpung (talk) 10:07, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I noticed you suggested doing the developmental work on a live template page. I think that might be a good idea as soon as in the workshop page the basic elements and their functions wording have been thrashed out, but that for the moment it's just possible that some people who wold like to comment might not be comfortable working on the live template page. Anyway, that's my 2 cents - I'm just the janitor ;) . PS: If you (unlike me) know how templates work, and are going to continue with your excellent housekeeping, perhaps you would like to add your name to the taskforce members' list - the project would probably have more overview when we can distinguish between people like you who are genuinely concerned, and those who just throw in the occasional, not always constructive comment.--Kudpung (talk) 00:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Sticky prod workshop

Thanks for the archiving. Maurreen (talk) 04:56, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for collapsing the "Warnings" section. Maybe we can take turns keeping things on track. Maurreen (talk) 05:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Geolocation

See fr:Discussion utilisateur:Calliopejen1#Modèle:Carte avec géolocalisation <STyx @ (I promote Geolocation) 17:18, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Due to the fact

Heya Calliopejen1, I realize that what Strunk said 50 years ago still carries quite a bit of weight, especially since he said it so well and everyone reads and references his "little book". Be that as it may, there's really nothing wrong with the construct: "Due to the fact". There are quite a few peccadilloes of Strunk's that are in Elements of Style, but not all of them are accepted. I don't blame you for looking to make such edits, but you should at least try to not have that as the primary reason to make the edit. Regards,
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 04:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not making those edits based on Strunk and White (criticism of this book is often merited), but rather because it is a clumsy construction. If you want to change any one of them back, that's fine by me - but I have yet to see a sentence where "because" is not better than "due to the fact that"... Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:31, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Alright, that's cool by me. I try not to use it too often, but it's one of those things that gets to me when people seem to automatically ping it for being "wrong", you know? I realize that it's wordy, and you're obviously correct that "because" will always work in it's place, but... I don't know, to me, "Due to the fact" just fits better in some places (this is almost exactly parallel to criticism of the passive voice, in my mind).
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 04:35, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

File:DIAC Logo.JPG

I have removed your FfD tag from File:DIAC Logo.JPG, because it appears you have never made the nomination for it at FfD. If you still want the image deleted, feel free to tag it and make a nomination on today's FfD page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jen, This is John in Nebraska...I am doing my master's thesis at the Journalism college at UNL on the issue of restaveks, and the media's role in exposing the restavek problem...one part of my methodology, is contacting authors of articles on restaveks and asking them a few questions about how they learned of the situation...can drop me an email on jdbeecham@gmail.com? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdbeecham (talk • contribs) 17:49, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

File:KohKong1.jpg

For some reason the tagger is inclined to not give it the benefit of doubt and has tagged it was deletion just because the creator no longer has a flickr account. Its not my fault the original uploader has left flickr. So just because somebody leaves flickr and nobody bothered to authorise it in the meantime we must suddenly delete this image from wikipedia rather than give me the benefit of the doubt. Check my Blofeld talk page history of late. I can't express how pissed off I am with people on here at the moment. There just seems to be distinct lack of respect and humanity shared between editors on here. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:25, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, we do have images of the town anyway so I won't be heartbroken if you delete it. I would rather that all images are verifiable now anyway. Just seems a shame to have to do so.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:38, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I just want to say...

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For your assistance in copyright cleanup, and especially in this now completed CCI. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

...thank you. It's a great feeling to see one closed. :) You work there and around the copyright world in general is appreciated. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:45, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Courtesy note

You are receiving this note because you participated in this TFD. Some of these have been re-nominated here, where you may wish to comment. Thanks, –xeno^talk 14:26, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Opera in Latin America

Hi, I left a query on Talk:Opera in Latin America. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:33, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of African American culture

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article following its listing at Wikipedia:Good articles/Cleanup listing#Articles with 4 cleanup categories assigned. You are being notified as you have made a number of contributions to the article. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:African American culture/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 13:12, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Museo Bellapart

Thank you for providing coordinates for this museum. Your efforts are appreciated. However, note that the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the Dominican Republic is DO, not DR. Best regards, --Stepheng3 (talk) 04:07, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

File:FC Dragons Crest 2008.PNG

I have removed the FfD tag from File:FC Dragons Crest 2008.PNG, because it appears you have never made the nomination. If you still want it deleted, feel free to re-tag the page and create the nomination. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Same is true about File:Flag of Pennsylvania REVERSE W fringe.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:18, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

And File:Fools gold.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

William needs you

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		I am trying to bring the article William Windsor (goat) up to good article status; as you previously helped, I wondered if you might have time to look at it again, and perhaps help improve it. All contributions welcome. Thank you for your time. Chzz ► 15:29, 1 April 2010 (UTC) (No, this is not an April Fool thing)

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Sticky prods

Hi. You participated earlier in the sticky prod workshop. The sticky prods are now in use, but there are still a few points of contention.

There are now a few proposals on the table to conclude the process.

I encourage your input, whatever it might be. Thanks. Maurreen (talk) 16:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

File:F7d9 edited.jpg

I have removed the FfD tag from File:F7d9 edited.jpg, because it appears you have never made the nomination. If you still want it deleted, feel free to re-tag the page and create the nomination. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Same with File:Image 33256.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

And with File:KS.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:32, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

And File:LA1.JPG. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:49, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Copiapó

Hi! Interested in transwikiying this? Its one of Chile's main cities. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! How is the job going? I hope they aren't overworking you.... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:53, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Image you forgot to delete

Per your close here of the FfD discussion, could you please delete File:Ardeshir Coin.jpg, as it was apart of the above noted discussion.— Dæ dαlus^Contribs 02:25, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Monster frt lg.jpg

I have removed the Files for Deletion tag you placed on File:Monster frt lg.jpg. I did this because you didn't create a nomination at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2008 July 28, and didn't give a reason when you tagged the image. If you still think it should be deleted, feel free to renominate it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:58, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Same with File:N500732577 10995 5150.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

And with File:KS.jpg. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2

Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 22:51, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Ratanakiri Province

Hi there! I wanted to drop you a note to thank you for your efforts on getting Ratanakiri Province promoted to Featured Article status. My brother and his family are currently living there, and it was a delight to open up Wikipedia and see Ratanakiri on the front page as the featured article. Thanks!! --Stormie (talk) 00:34, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Love your edit summaries!

Please move Livadia (yacht) back. If any of the two deserves the top slot (without year) it's the 1873 ship - it's the one mentioned in all the ambassador's memos and memoirs of the period. East of Borschov (talk) 20:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Desireé Bassett edits

I was hoping to discuss with you your edit here. You seem to be aware of the subject, but not what an endorsement is? That's why I wikilinked the word, in the off-chance that non-speakers or folk unfamiliar with the inner workings of the music industry (like me) would know what an endorsement deal is. I think its pretty apparent that endorsement = money and swag, in exchange for using/promoting the products of the company offering the endorsement. Looking at at the FA-quality articles of professional sports athletes (like Wayne Gretzky, Yao Ming) and musical artists (like Mariah Carey, Jay Chou and Celine Dion), all mention endorsements without going into explanation as to what sort of endorsement it is. More than the endorsement itself - to my mind - was the fact that it didn't come from a representative of Peavey Amps, but from Mr. and Mrs. Peavey themselves. I think that the statement should remain, though if you think it needs to be said better, I'm willing to help find the right wording. Thoughts? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 03:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The examples you cite are where the subject of the article endorsed something else, which is an indication of their success. (That is, someone is paying the musical artist to endorse something.) On the contrary, someone else endorsed Bassett. I don't think it necessarily means that Bassett got swag and money. The Bassett article is still kind of a mess IMO and fails to make clear why she is that notable. It goes into a lot of detail about when she played concerts for several hundred people, but it doesn't seem like she's that big of a deal. Checking up on the sources, a lot appear to be copy-pastes of promotional material. Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:51, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Respectfully, perhaps the article is worded incorrectly. Either way, you appear to be misinterpreting the nature of endorsement. A company isn't going to endorse anyone unless they have a good chance of increasing sales. That's the cold, hard world. Not that I was there or anything, but I am guessing that Bassett wasn;t the only act playing the NAMM Show so, when the head of a company steps up and says 'hey, I want to give you money and swag to endorse our products' (which is what happened here), it is precisely the same as any of the examples I noted who also used their success and/or popularity to get endorsement deals. If you think that an endorsement from Peavey Amps is composed entirely of an "attagirl" and a pat on the back, you might want to ask around for a second opinion. It doesn't really work like that in either sports or music.

I agree that the article isn't the best; you've got experience, help make it better. I'm here to work with folks, and my email voicing my opinions are based on that. I didn't call you a moron and slap you with a trout; I respectfully disagreed - and disagree still with you. To whit, your argument that she isn't notable isn't really based in fact or even reason - but then, maybe you have a couple of CDs out and tour around the country with your band and jam with rockers like Sammy Hagar, Living Colour and the like. And you are 17 years old. If she's playing to hundreds of people, I would submit that she might be doing something right. Of course, you should feel at liberty to find dissenting sources that talk about her being naught but a blip on the radar.

I would further submit that you are being a wee bit too harsh in your criticism of the subject; maybe this is how prodigies start out. Some trn out to Bobby Fisher, while others turn out to be Rain Man. As for Bassett, sure, she might stop playing in a few years and become a Happy Homemaker; the smart money isn't really on that, though. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The source says "getting an endorsement from Peavey Amps, by Mr. and Mrs. Peavey themselves!" - this is the opposite of the Mariah Carey case. Mariah endorses products. Here, the Peaveys endorsed Bassett. It seems more like what I would call a sponsorship than an endorsement, but in any event, I still don't see why this is anything significant at all. My problem with the article is not that she is not notable necessarily, but that the article contains so much filler and fluff as to obscure why exactly I should care about her. It is better to have a concise article than an article crammed with filler. On the notability front, I think she probably barely squeaks by? I see that she has two apparently self-released albums, 80,000 views on her myspace (a decent amount but nothing too amazing), and has occasionally performed with or opened for bigger acts. The google search "Desireé Bassett" guitar gets something like 4,000 hits. The sourcing is mostly to blogs and local sources. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

No, I get that you think there is a lot of filler. I don't mind making the article more concise (though I have reinstated a version of the endorsement thing; I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on what endorsement means; yes, when you become a diva, you can pick and choose what you are going to endorse, but when starting out, you take what endorsements are offered, and Carey isn't always the best example to use here. I noted other examples). I've also added back in the info about her being called the future of rock and roll; its well-cited, was the basis of the DYK and it happens to be part of her notability. That's why I also changed the name back to the previous section name. Section titles are supposed to summarize their contents; that one does.

As well, I've removed the notation about her being proficient with drums, as that contradicts two different sources where she admits that she isn't. There's more, but we can go from there. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

So, I really don't care about Desiree Bassett at all, and so this will be my last message on the subject... :) I think your interpretation of the endorsement thing is still wrong - the article says that the Peaveys endorsed her, not that she endorsed Peavey amps. Her endorsing Peavey amps might mean something, the Peaveys endorsing her does not. The "future of rock and roll" is just something someone unidentified introduced her as at a random concert. People introducing artists at concerts say all kinds of crap that doesn't mean anything, mostly hyperbole to hype up the crowd. I don't care enough about the article to edit it anymore. Take my suggestions for what they're worth. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I do appreciate your suggestions, Calliopejen; just because I disagree with them doesn't mean I discount them. Maybe sponsored would be better, as a few citations (of less reliability) use "sponsor" in place of endorsement. Either way, I do want the article to improve, and want to cut the fluff, but sponsorship/endorsement deals don't really qualify as such. (a little update: I began to wonder about the endorsement/sponsorship confusion we were encountering, and found an unequivocal wording of "sponsorship" amidst one of the sources. Clearly, if you could think that endorsement was simply an 'attagirl', someone else could as well. So, I'll alter the wording to reflect sponsorship instead.) - Jack Sebastian (talk) 15:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Nice job Jen, you've continued what I had started last night. It now looks like an encyclopedia article. Thankyou. P.S miss speaking to you, I hope you have some time to talk to me during the week... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 08:23, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, email me if you like, glad to hear from you! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Jen, work permitting can you do me a favour. When I wrote the 22 Jermyn Street article I contacted Henry Togna and his press secretary Laura who was more than happy to freely give the images given that the place was being demolished and he wanted to keep the spririt of the hotel alive with having a wikipedia article and photos on it. However Fastily has speedy deleted all of them because they weren't ticketed. They were high quality images of a historical hotel which sadly no longer lists. Henry himself would be upset to see these images deleted from the article. Please can you contact him and sort out OTRS ticketing and get the darned things back onto wikipedia. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, I almost didn't get into any tiffs. But it aint my fault he threw the AFD my way again. But the guy who renominated the article for AFD within just days is time wasting again when all our time and effort on here is best geared towards developing things... I don't know when they'll get the message. The same thing annoys me with LibStar spending all his time nominating bilateral relation articles and them mostly always being kept. There are way less notable articles on here. Google maps is ually a good way of seeing if a place is substantial, but they choose to nominate small towns rather than the non existent places or single shacks which many similar database articles on the web throw up. Remember those Iran "villages". Those have better validity for nuking.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Very good!

I'm impressed! Most admins wouldn't have a clue how to do that and would just remove the image or something daft, but you managed to restore the old image, move the "pictured" and put the blurb back to how it was before the image was added, and all without screwing up the rest of the template! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:41, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Le pigeon aux petits pois

Here, the Paris official webpage searchable database, click on the "INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES", and search the picture. The source cannot be used, because you need to open/save the PDF archive, but it prove that was painted in 1911. Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 19:05, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I think Calliopejen1's point is that there's no evidence of it being published. I'm going to take this to WP:PUF though. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:13, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Sent to PUF, see here. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:18, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Happy Calliopejen1's Day!

User:Calliopejen1 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Calliopejen1's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Calliopejen1!

Peace,
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13:40, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:25, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Article P S Ayyaswamy

Hi, I edited the article P. S. Ayyaswamy and added quite a few third party references. If you go to the links provided there, you will find out almost the same things as written in the article. Is it possible to remove the following tags now?: 1."This needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources." 2."This biographical article is written like a résumé. Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic." Thanks Pratanu.roy (talk) 19:35, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for modifying the article P.S. Ayyaswamy and making it more encyclopedic. I have edited some additional things so that it does not look like a resume. Please see the talk page there so that we can resolve the dispute. Pratanu.roy (talk) 06:19, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

PRODs

Hey, just a polite note to ask if you wouldn't mind using a descriptive edit summary when PRODding, since you neglected t on Alejandra Soto. It's helpful to the admin who has to check the history when it expires and to anyone viewing it on special pages and watchlists. Thanks :). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned images is back

Hi Calliopejen1, wanted to let you know the orphaned images tool is working once more. Thanks for the note on my talk page - little encouragements like that mean a lot to me. --JaGa^talk 21:03, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Calvià

Hi. Cambodian provinces now all have nice svg maps. I;ve begun translating Calvià from Spanish, The article in SPanish is a giant one so I need all the help I can get. When you have a moment please gradually help translate sections. I'm hoping transwiki it literally with the sources and pictures too. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

OK, its going to be huge when I've translated the whole thing. Might take a week or two. It was only a paragraph long (see Tourism section) before I started. Its already shaping up to be massive. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:05, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Excellent idea. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry the toolkit was scaring me. Seeing the size of the article. I find it easier to work on wikipedia and to do it in smaller chunks. Nice idea in principle. If it helps you translate some more sections go for it! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:03, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		In recognition of your work in this now completed CCI. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:32, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Hard to believe it took almost a year to wrap, but that one was particularly grueling. :) Your work there is appreciated! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:32, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Anna Wintour

Jen,

Long time no exchange. One of my long-term goals when WP:FASHION was started, getting Anna Wintour to featured status, is at the point of the nomination. I have done everything I wanted to do that was practical to get the article to this point. Before I do, I'm inviting you to take a look at it just to see if there's anything more I ought to consider (and of course, your input at the FAC will be welcome). Daniel Case (talk) 02:48, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Hundred Years of Solitude original cover

Hi Jen,

Thanks for posting the original cover for "Hundred Years of Solitude." I have been working with the publisher on reproduction rights (which we have confirmation on), but we don't have the image in a high enough resolution to use. Do you have a higher quality image and are you willing to share it? Thanks so much!

Todd —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptod212 (talk • contribs) 19:43, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Jezwels

Tell me about it. Complete waste of time when there is no consensus to delete unreferenced BLPs. I've opened an ANI report about him. I don't like to have my Sundays ruined by drilled warnings... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:43, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

His response is to now persist with AFDs like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jose Luis Gonzalez... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:47, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enda Oates

I have begun imroving and sourcing Enda Oates.[2] I think if one takes the number of positive reviews found for his decades of stage work, adds the rather in-depth article from Roscommon Herald,[3] mixes in the various awards, and then tops it off with significant roles in film and television, we move from tentative to keep. More to do... more to do. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 07:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay... I think Enda Oates is perhaps a little more than "tentative" now. Whatcha think? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 04:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. As if we didn't have enough to be getting on with with DNB like Jabez Burns. Only several thousand more to go... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

How do we get hold of the text though? Eventually it would be nice to see them copied into wik source in spanish, put into english and then used for wikipedia!! I gather you aren't due a trip to the National libraries in Lima and Santiago soon to get hold of some copies? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:05, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Its says "No preview available" on my computer"... Can you provide me a direct link to a page inside one of the books? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Must be. Its completely empty of anything except the title. I clicked the link on spanish wiki and still get the same thing. I havewondered in the past actually because a lot of books I've served for in the Americas just have the brown cover and are completely useless. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:35, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Would you be interested in helping me find somebody (who like you is able to access it) to download the books to wikisource using a bot? If we could get the Spanish text inserted into wikisource at leastit would be accesibable. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Got it! Q-Z I think. Well done! Shame though I can't copy and paste the text....

The off putting thing is that is it extremely slow and inefficient not being able to copy and paste and google translate/proof read. I am having to make notes which takes a lot of time. I was wondering if we could work together start a few articles every few days in which I can stub them with the names and dates and profession and you can google translate the text and add it? I've started on page 17 at the start of Q. So far i've done Quepuantú, Vicente Quesada, Pedro Quintavalla, Francisco Quintanilla. I'm likely to give up on it otherwise as it is mind numbingly slow work. Can I stub like 5 at a time and you add to them whenever you have a moment and then start another 5 etc? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

What A-P? The best thing I think would be to make a list in either my or your workspace of all of the biographies in it. Then we can see the scope of it and start building it piece by piece. Its gonna take a lot of work and there will be some days when we don't feel like it but if we could process 5 articles in a few days to a week dependon on our mood this would be great. Its a highly valuable source not only is it counteracting systematic bias in the part of the world it is but also that it is a detailed account of the 19th century in Chile. Congratulations for finding it!! This was exactly what I was tlaking about.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:08, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Excellent work on the expansions. I'm hoping that if you use google translate the time and effort needed to expand each one will be minimal. Tomorrow I'll create 5 more and so on...I've transikied some Peruvian chemists today anyway! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:47, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I blue linked one of the red links in one of the biogrpahies Chañarcillo. I also found a valuable pic from 1862!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 23:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Excellent work setting up the list and sorting out the template. I've created a few more.... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:17, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Nup just tried it. I click the small marker next to the list of volumes and nothing happens...Grr same situation of the foreigners book. "No preview available". Its so odd that you can access it and I can't. Maybe they think nobody in the UK wants to learn about historical Chile... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:45, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah I think you're right, which sadly eliminates thousands of potential sources for various articles I can access.. I don't blame google for being paranoid about it, they've had a lot of fuss over copyright. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:11, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Note to self

I am User:Calliopejen on simple english wikipedia. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:57, 16 July 2010 (UTC) I am also User:Mangostar on wikimedia commons. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

You should be able to merge your simple.wiki account now. -DJSasso (talk) 21:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Caribou photo

Thanks for the notification. Can you email me the photo? Address is my username through gmail. — BRIAN0918 • 2009-09-02 16:49Z

Martín Alonso Pinzón

About half a year ago, you asked for translation from es-wiki for the article on Martín Alonso Pinzón. I've done the translation, and then some more work. Have a look. - Jmabel | Talk

Expand Icelandic

Hi. Icelandic is now available on google translate. Please update this template with google tranlsate link. Also note the other languages available, others like Belarussian may need updating.P.S. for some reason google tranlsate when visiting a page now tranlsates articles into spanish by default. Any idea how to get it back to english default? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Puerto Rican maps

Hi Jen, As you are active in the commons I was wondering if you sort this out. Yesterday morning I created 78 maps Purto Rican municipalities. However, a few had typos. I was wondering if you could reupload the following images into the following names and then delete the typo files.

File:Locator map Puerto Rico Mayaquez.png -> File:Locator map Puerto Rico Mayaguez.png, File:Locator map Puerto Rico Gurabe.png -> File:Locator map Puerto Rico Gurabo.png, and File:Locator map Puerto Rico Comero.png -> File:Locator map Puerto Rico Comerio.png? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:27, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

I await your expansion of the Chilean bios I started before I create any more. I don't want to burden the load. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

See User talk:Ruodyssey. If you've given up on the project can you at least copy the diccionario text onto somewhere on here and advertise it on the WP:Chile project page??? Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 17:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Alaska articles

Yes, what an incredible place Alaska is! The cruise was simply spectacular. I have written five articles on my return. The last one on Glacier Bay will be posted soon. I hope you liked the artciles. Thanks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk. 20:44, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Butterfly IDs

I just wrote Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory (been approved for DYK) and have ID'd 20 photos of their butterflies [4], but still need to ID 12 more: [5]. Can you or someone you know help ID those 12? Some pics have more than one butterfly. Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi.

Welcome to Korean Wikipedia :) Tsuchiya Hikaru (talk) 15:29, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't think I'll be a very useful addition. Mostly I am just looking at interwiki links. Google translate is all right with Korean, but not good enough that I will be able to contribute very much!! Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:31, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

New message

Hello User:Calliopejen1. Last year, you were helpful enough to copyedit Kareena Kapoor's article during its first FAC. Since then, I have been working on the article. When you have the time, could you please make a comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Kareena Kapoor/archive2 so that any discrepancies can be eliminated. Thanks :) -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 04:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Chilean dictionary

User:Ruodyssey, very active on Chilean articles has requested to see the dictionary. Can you give him the google books links or send him the download file? Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 13:36, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

HI. If BHG doesn't get to them can you restore all the red links in User:Dr. Blofeld/DNB on condition I'll promise to source them all tomorrow. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 22:09, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Country study

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Petroleum industry in Iran

Hi, I reverted you here a few days ago but i forgot to give you a real-good reason. Here it is: Talk:Petroleum industry in Iran.

....and thanks for the cookies! (me love cookies ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.236.229 (talk) 10:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Tom Ford Beauty

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Glacier Bay

Hi! I have posted the last of the six articles that I prepared after my cruise trip to Alaska. I enjoyed the trip and also writing articles on the basis of pictures and information I gathered during this cruise. I would love to go visit Alaska again in the near future. I hope you will like this latest article, which is DYK niminated. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk. 04:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Papiamento orthography

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Buster Keaton

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[[Ugg boots

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Obama Portrait 2006.jpg

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Expand Hungarian

Thanks but I am well aware of the articles needing translation from Hungarian. The problem is most of them are geo stubs, so one can't see the meat for the potatoes. Instead, I find it more useful almost to translate on demand, since then I know there is at least one interested reader.

I've done some work on the geo stubs, particularly with {{Infobox Hungarian settlement}} which makes them a bit easier and through the good work of another editor, all the coats of arms are now in a standard filename format at Wikimedia Commons, so they can be transcluded really easily. Similarly it's easier (not perfect because of the limitations of Wikimedia software, but easier) to transclude data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) with {{ksh url}} and its brethren. So I've not been idle there, but frankly it is rather boring to translate 2,000 or so articles about Hungarian villages. You might also see that when I and my missus User:Monkap have put them into Hungarian Wikipédia with more information, it has been removed as being too much information. So we kinda gave up frankly.

Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 07:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

I know, I do try to keep good faith. But when I've translated German, Hungarian, Latin, Spanish and French all for one article on the request of an IP user who doesn't say thankyou, occasionally I get a bit fed up. Si Trew (talk) 14:56, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

School crests/logos

Hi Jen, I seem to recall you are an expert on image FUR. We've been using a standard FUR for a long time for school badges lifted from school websites in order to illustrate infoboxes. A typical example of the many 100s of these FUR hat are in use on school pages is here; File:J_Sch_crest.jpg. We really need to continue using this FUR, but a reader suggests we shouldn't. Could I have your thoughts on this please? --Kudpung (talk) 16:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Human trafficking in Albania

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Nomination of Human trafficking in Albania for deletion

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Signature

What do you mean? Just click it, it should lead straight to my talk page. Try that.Dr. Blofeld 16:48, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, try it again. It works fine on my PC.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Yeha it was a colon. Somebody left a message on my talk page I had a missing colon in the my signature. I added one earlier, form what I gather it affected the link for some reason. I fixed it. Thanks. Now that Chilean dictionary, did you give that Chilean editor access to it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:59, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Success!

File:Bielat-congress.jpg (from this now-CC-licensed photograph) courtesy of Paul Keleher. Thanks again for the help! jheiv ^{talk contribs} 17:35, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Image help

Hi, you deleted File:P1000114.jpg because the image was moved to Commons as File:P1000114 Brandon League.jpg but the transfer looks really bad, the original upload log is somehow the information box content and none of the original info, if any, is there. Could you please restore the file so the information can be transferred properly with, say, the Move-to-commons assistant? Thank you Hekerui (talk) 20:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Identity

I thought you were a commons admin? That's odd. I would ask Julian Colton but he is inactive I think. kNow anybody active on here who is a commons admin?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

I'll try Stan Shebs.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:17, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Remember Passport Guy started all of those Ardabil Province Iranian villages and at the time they looked like they didn't exist. Most of them check out like this but the coordinates need tweaking. Good to see google maps evolving...♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Binky (polar bear)

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File:Snailbomber.jpg

I've addressed your concern about the orphaned status of this image. Please rescind your deletion suggestion, or please let me know of any continuing concern. Best, Erie lhonan 06:24, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

FfD nominations

I moved a few of your FfD nominations from Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 October 31‎ to Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 November 1 so that the links on the file description pages will point to the right place ... just letting you know so you don't have to wonder where your nominations went. :) Cheers, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 04:22, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyright warning

Wikipedia cannot accept images taken from elsewhere on the internet, because this is a copyright violation. (There are some exceptions for images that are freely licensed, but the VAST MAJORITY of images elsewhere are NOT USABLE.) I have deleted all of your image contributions because they all appeared to be uploaded in violation of copyright. This is a very serious matter. If you continue to upload copyrighted images, your account will be blocked. Thank you for your cooperation. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:18, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Mr/Ms Calliopejen1, None of images which you have deleted from my uploaded group, are neither copied nor violating any copyright policies. I am surprised note the deletion. Can you kindly make me aware about: where from these have been copied?? If you prove that they were copied, you are welcome to delete. Otherwise, please restore those. Thanks.--UtharaMalabar (talk) 06:33, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Freedom of religion in Iraq

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Hi, you removed the proprosed deletion and linked to an alternative being to tag the article with the clean up tag, it already has been tagged with a neutrality and clean up tag for two years and the situation has not yet been changed. Would it be ok with you to reduce the article to a stub which needs to be expanded perhaps? IRWolfie- (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

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poltroon photo

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Latvian politicians

Hi Jen. I've discovered a gold mine for Latvian politicians at here. The flickr user is Saeima (which is the national parliament of Lativa) and has the official national parliament coat of arms. Given the extent of the photos 2300 odd including valuable ones of sessions like this etc I'd say it is definately a photographer insider of the Saeima. I wondered if you could use a bot to upload all of the photos of the politicians to the commons unless there is some problem. Photos like this are very hard to get hold of; its obvious to me that the person who uploaded them to flickr is the photographer so has the right to release the images under this license. I hope you'll respond. I've uploaded one, and started the article, Inese Šlesere,. It was because she was so striking looking that I stumbled upon it.. And a politician too, how unusual for a politician to look that good!!.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Is anybody actually likely to upload them in the near future though? I might ask a few people just to raise some interest.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Oo OK. I've also asked a few you I have been in contact with previously on the commons. Somebody will do it, I'm sure. I listed the Deputies of the 9th Saeima previously but only had a chance ot start a few.. I tell you what though Solvita Āboltiņa who seems to be the most photograph by the Saeima looks extremely hard. You wouldn't mess with her, she looks like a villainess from a Bond movie or something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps these images could be first priority? They are all of Deputies of the 10th Saeima - the newly elected Latvian parliament. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 15:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Are you able to use AWB in the commons.? Its just Zils has started uploading here but they all need recategorizing as Category:Deputies of the Saeima. Can you help?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm really proud of the maps I made for Kanmaw Island. What do you think? I also made ones like Template:Location map United States Unalaska Island etc for pin. If there are any you want me to make let me know.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Just a thanks

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		Thank you for your work on this CCI, freshly closed. Another job well done. :) Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Montevideo

I've begun a big translation of Montevideo the capital city of Uruguay at Wikipedia:WikiProject Uruguay/Montevideo. Can you help me translate it? It may take a week to fully translate or longer and fully write. It doesn't need to be done immediately and can be gradual... Once the translation is done it can further be expanded, there must be a wealth of sources on it. But if you look at the current state of it the only decent part of it is the history and even that needs improving. And it a major South American capital city.... I'd be very grateful if you could help out. I'll also invite a few more Spanish translators to help so between us we ought to be able to accomplish it..♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:40, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

That's primarily what put me off completing my law course... my cousin is a top QC up in London (and who is a former chairman and vice-president of the UK Employment Lawyers Association) and he rarely gets a day away from working. Preparing advadavits on Sunday night etc. The money is excellent like being a doctor but the amount of hours per weke it depends is seirously testing, as I'm sure you can vouch for. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:16, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Bagyi Aung Soe

I just hit an edit conflict on your updates to this article. I have tried to merge, so nothing is lost, but please take a look to see if it is o.k. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 17:16, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - definitely improved. Slightly sad story, though. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:07, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks both for your edits. Yikes have you seen the Montevideo progress of late? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm going to try and say this as best I could

Honestly, you were extremely unfair and unjust in your decision. I explained it all in my Unblock request, the reasons. I'm not going to come here cursing you out, even though I'd love to, but what you did was completely uncalled for. You didn't even check back for me even after leaving a notice saying you would remove it if I understood. A week is ridiculous, its for a mass vandal. I am going to report you; whether I get laughed at or whether you think its absurd, I'll be the first decent Wikipedian to try and change this corrupt system.--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 05:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Your not worth it, I can do better. Hope you get caught one day!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 05:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Nathan, please weigh in these few things before condemning Jen's actions or intent. First, (thanks to you editing some contentious articles on my Watchlist), I have been following you on Wikipedia for quite some time, so I have some idea of what to expect from you and what not to - and what I'd excuse as accident or assume is intent. I suspect Jen does not have that. Second, keep in mind that there are some admins (and editors) who spend a lot of time searching out copyvio issues and dealing with them (as Jen may happen to be one of). I, from just a little bit of involvement in that area, can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, that many copyviolators give all sorts of nonsense excuses to hide their actions - and then prove the insincerity of their later apologies. As a matter of fact, a recent 10,000 (yes TEN THOUSAND) article deletion spree on Wikipedia was due to just such a person who copyvio'd the content for those (and possibly more). So... it tends to make one highly suspicious when they run into a situation like yours.

I disagree with Jen's choice of wording because I've been noticing your actions all around Wikipedia for quite some time and have your actions and history and what I've seen to judge your claims of having made a mistake by. I think Jen possibly doesn't have that background to go by. If I didnt, I too would have suspected you were lying - though I'd probably not have chosen that word... and I too would have (especially after what I deemed a lie) blocked you, simply in an effort to protect Wikipedia and ensure the message was delivered. Now... if it was edit warring or such... well... that's a different story... ;-) But intentional copyvio? Probably not.

Perhaps you can take that into consideration and understand where Jen is coming from and what warranted her actions... if so, perhaps you can retract your second post and apologize for it with the understanding that, even if for you particularly, the block length/block was unwarranted, she had no way of knowing such and had to do what was best for Wikipedia. With situations such as the one that happened just recently (the one I mention above), her choice of words aside, could you really expect her to react differently? Best, Rob ROBERTMFROMLI | ^TK/_CN 05:59, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Robert :) glad you joined in. I wish I could see it that way, but heres why not. These "Admins" are supposed to be trained at catching these things. She should have seen my contribs and talk page, and seen 'm not some Joe Shmoe vandal who is trying to upload mass copy-righted works. I've been warned before, and that sufficed in getting the message across. Kww, my old mentor could have told her that. Secondly, I do not understand why she could not have approached me and discussed it civilly with me first, its not like I was endangering the safety of Wikipedia. Now this week block had me crazed. I know an editor that has been warned at least 40 times regarding similar things, and he has never been blocked. I, who am on a mass GA spree (I have 7 in 2 weeks) and I get blocked for a week, and threats of indefinite block? Its absurd, and I wish Wiki weren't so crooked so other Admins would see it.--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 07:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I stand by my block. I had actually originally just deleted the image outright, but I undeleted it and then nominated it for deletion when I saw you were a regular contributor. In recent months, we have seen many regular contributors who have turned out to be serial copyright violators. Your explanation sounded totally made up--and to me, still does--considering the fact that you uploaded three images, all of which you tagged as created by you, all of which were taken from the internet... and then you claimed a friend who had been to the show gave you the photo. These are excuses I have heard many, many times. All I can say is hopefully this does not happen again, which I do not believe it will. So now you are back contributing, but the block had its intended effect. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Condensing

Enjoy the circus show yesterday? Please don't condense yet. The article has to be around 125kb to qualify for a DYK as part of our User:Dr. Blofeld/DYK A-Z country challenge. At some point though Hoverfish and I may develop it to GA level so work can be done on it then.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:54, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Well I logged in yesterday with a rotten headache and encountered a series of very surprising negative messaages at once. The two seemd to be ganging up over me on the lhasa article and reduced it to nothing. I agree that it needed condensing which I've now done to an extent but to rant on at me DO NOT write articles when he had barely 9 edits to his name really got to me. I'm sure if you've been in traffic and somebody pulled out on the side walk or acts like a jackass on the road you've said similar things or at least thought them. Before you know ANI is involved and eventually I'm blocked at a point in the day when I had actually calmed down and was getting on with writing an article. I had calmed down in the afterrnoon too until His HIghness Sarek of Vulcan pointed his finger and got me annoyed again. If I was still blocked today the retired notice would be back up as I believe i was wrongly blocked especially after I apologised and tried to work constructively with them. In future it is probably best if I stick to the saying "If you haven't got anything good to say don't say anything at all" as on wiki the expectaitons of 100% civility are a bit steep and the least little comment gets blown up into some horrendous. Yes those African nations will be covered on my list. Feel free to list two articles for any country you want which you really think should be expanded or started. Be my guest and well get around to it as we go through. No biographies though, Nvvchar is not keen on those. As long as there are plenty of sources and pitures if possible... Actually i had a Pineapple production in Guinea planned and added some links in User:Dr. Blofeld/Launch Pad 1 as a follow up to my Pomegranate production in Afghanistan article..♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi again

You know I gave it some thought, and while I don't in the slightest bit agree with what you did, I really would rather just make peace with you. If ever there is another similar issue (I doubt there will be) I only ask for you to please come speak to me first before taking such drastic measures. Thats all I ask. Thanks and hope the airs clear :)--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 23:55, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

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Borrèia

Some relation to the bourrée, perhaps? They seem to exist in the same neighborhood. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:31, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Not necessarily - the article says "The bourrée of lower Auvergne, also called Montagnarde, is in triple time, while that of high Auvergne is in double time." So they appear to be variants, but potentially separate articles? Especially since the bourrée as I think of it is a classical form, not a folk form. Could be wrong, though - it's not a form I know well at all. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, that's the interesting point - I'm used to things going the other direction (country dances developing into courtly dances.) Ah, well - no matter. As I say, I don't know the form well. (Except for its use in "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead!") :-) ... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Lake Untersee

Hi. Hope you having a nice thanksgiving. I was wondering if you could find some PD NASA or whatever images of this lake. Given the fact that NASA have conducted several studies into it I find it odd I can't find anything.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Bagyi Aung Soe

On 27 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bagyi Aung Soe, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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US GEOGRAPH?

See my idea at User talk:Jimbo Wales. Any thoughts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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Petroleum industry in Iran

Hi, an article that you created months ago has been designated GA today. I thought you should know about it. Congrats! 68.197.144.38 (talk) 03:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Your selection of wording in your recent block of PeterGriffin9901

Hi Jen,

In Nathan's recent block, you accuse him of lying... There seems no proof on that, and no block log that shows a pattern (zero blocks for copyvio) and a comment by an author who has had contentious/tenditious issues in the past making clams he also did not substantiate (and that the block logs dont either).

I'm suggesting, since there is no such proof, that perhaps better choice of wording could have been used, such as "misrepresenting copyright status/ownership status/etc" as opposed to making a claim of lying when one has not or cannot prove such - especially when one of the tagged files is on the guess that "(you) doubt it's any different."

So... I was simply suggesting a change in the block rationale since nothing is supportive of being proof Nathan lied. If he claims it was a mistake, then it's a double claim he's lying - once when he did the upload, and again when he claims the attribution was an accident - which is still unsupportable. Better wording in the block indicates the same or similar reasons, without making an unsupportable claim.

Of course if there is some other log to show this is a blatant repeat situation, that's different... but I cannot find them - all I find is an editor at odds with Nathan making such claims without providing any such proof, and your block supporting such as lying.

Now... as to whether the block is supported or not... I dunno. I wont speculate, as I am not privvy to what the original upload rationale is, or whether there are similar images that have been previously deleted for similar reasons. So again, I wont weigh in on those.

Keep in mind, this is all irrelevant if you are privy to other logs and image deletions (that I am not) that show pattern of such to support your wording. In which case, my apologies... but all I have to go by is what's publicly viewable.

Best, Robert

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The image of the pinch tube in ZETA was taken personally by James. It's in the collection in the University. What is wrong with the permissions? Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:59, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

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The Pic

is for common use, no problem for the copy right I have already placed it under public domain tag, hope not to be deleted. Thanks--Jogazai 23:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for writing the article on Human trafficking in India

Hi Calliopejen1,

I am very gald to write you today(28/11/2010) for saying thanks on behalf of all my beloved citizens of India, for writing the article on Human trafficking in India.
Thank you...so much.

Warm regards,

Yours truly.
Wikirockwriter

Yeah she spent weeks upon weeks researching that one LOL...♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:49, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, for once it's nice to have someone glad that these articles exist, instead of threatening with deletion as usual!... Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:10, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Copyright

I know you don't generally respond anymore unless it is to vote Delete! or tick me off about something or other but I was wondering if you would have any idea if the text in this is public domain? Its dated to 1906. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:48, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks that's all I wanted to know. It has just been frustrating when I've spoken to you and let you know about something and you not respond for weeks. I'd understand that you are !! busy with work but the fact you had the time to vote delete on one of my articles yet couldn't spare me 30 seconds of your time I saw as very negative. I did agree with your delete vote as I said myself and voted delete myself, just wonder why you only seem to pop up over negative situations that's all...♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits to the "All I Want For Christmas Is You" article (Mariah Carey song).

Hello. Your recent edits to this article have gone a bit too far, in my opinion. In your attempt to consolidate the article, you've ended up created misinformation:

"The song was ineligible for inclusion on the Billboard Hot 100 during its original release, because it was not released commercially as a single. When this rule lapsed in January 2000, however, the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 83."

This recent edit by you makes it appear that the Billboard Hot 100 chart rule lapsed in January 2000 (which is when the song peaked at #83). But that wasn't the case. In fact, the chart rule the had allowed only commercially-available singles to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was changed for the first time on the chart dated the week ending December 5, 1998 (a full year and one month before the song peaked at #83 on the Hot 100). Please change it back before someone else does. --Sliv812 (talk) 19:50, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jen. Thanks for your help with copy-editing and other stuff in the article. I'm sure it will help the FAC process a lot. Thanks again!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 20:04, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely :) I really appreciate it!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 00:09, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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Nanda Malini

As part of WP:URBLPR project, User:TiMike referenced the above article. Your pre-emtive copyvio rollback removed that reference. Can you please reinstate it. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 02:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Robertsch55

Hey, I saw you edited this CCI which has been stalled for a while. Just as a heads up, one of the reasons I haven't worked on it recently is because quite a few of the remaining articles cite "M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999" which I don't have a copy of (and haven't gotten around to checking for at the library). It's also only available in snippet view via Google Books and the text isn't the same as the 4th edition which actually provides a preview. I don't know how often he followed that source closely, but I think I found at least one copyvio from it just using the snippets, so it's something to watch out for. :/ VernoWhitney (talk) 18:08, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you so much

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Great to see one complete. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:02, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

James Nangwala

Found some sources, more out there. Happy holidays, Racconish^Tk 16:33, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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Good solution! --Macrakis (talk) 19:24, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Request re: adding additional files to the same nomination

As you've probably seen, I've closed many of your discussuions over at FFD, mostly ending in delete. I have a request for you, though: when you do the "also nominating" part and add additional files to the nomination, could you please use {{subst:ffd2a|File_name.ext|Uploader= }} when you add those additional files? That helps save the reviewing admin time because that template includes a delete button right on the page. Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:46, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure - didn't know that template existed. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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Copyright status

Could you please tell me the best way to go about determining the copyright status of an image? Specifically, I am interested in the image in a news article, the screen shot of which is here. It is an article from today's South China Morning Post, the image was shot in 1935, the journal claims it is the source. I have no idea if it has been previously published. Cheers, --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

So first I tried to figure out where it was published, to no avail. I searched google for (hotung OR "ho tung") AND ("john garner" OR "jn garner" OR "j n garner" OR "nance garner") and didn't come up with anything. Considering that the photo is of an American and someone from Hong Kong in Hong Kong, now being published in a Hong Kong paper, I would assume that {{PD-US}} and {{PD-HK}} are the two ways this would be in the public domain. (To find those, I just poked around licensing templates looking for the appropriate ones.) The normal PD-US route is for things published pre-1923, so that isn't going to apply. I think there is at least a good argument for PD-HK. The paper is claiming that it is its own image, which is not always authoritative (a lot of image agencies just slap their names on images they didn't take), but here it's plausible. The only issue is whether we can say the work has unknown authorship. Considering the paper itself did not identify the author, I think that would be sufficient. So then the image would enter the public domain 50 years after then end of 1935, the year it was created. So the work passed into the public domain in Hong Kong in 1985, which would mean that it is also PD in the US based on the URAA agreements (it needed to be PD in HK before 1996 for this to apply). So... that's the long answer for you! I'd tag the image {{PD-HK}}. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much for taking the time to explain the factors in such detail. What you wrote is most helpful, as it will also help me apply the rule in future. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 15:58, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I have now posted it. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:51, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Can you advise on the copyright status of this newspaper clipping, please? --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 12:23, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

{{PD-1923}} Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

thanks. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:49, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

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I have removed the FfD tag from File:Bandera1.GIF, because you never actually noinated it at FFD. If you still wan it deleted, feel free to renominate it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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picture

i put that picture up like 5 years ago, i dont think i ended up using it for anything. you can delete it if you want

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Your article Kebab Norwegian has been nominated for deletion

Hi and see the discussion. Userpd (talk) 17:27, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for recent welcome, let's discern...

Caliopejen1, thank you for welcome. I assume you contacted me in response to my message to Mr Wales. If I cannot know that my time is well spent and that my general concerns are a part of a broader, higher level, useful discussion within your organization, then it is unlikely worth my time to continue contributing.

For the truly general nature of my concerns, see for instance: << en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Polyphenol#General_comment_and_readings_regarding_quality_of_citations >>.

Bottom line: You and your peers and seniors are in the process of creating "the new academe", and if the scholarly and ethical aspects of this are not wrangled, it is not only not worth a scholar's time, it is actually something to consider "opposing" (i.e., through devotion of time elsewhere).

So, thank you again for welcome; please, let's discern if/how we can engage, to ensure my continued devotion of time to writing/editing. Prof D.

Meduban (talk) 20:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, no time for more now.

Callio, thanks for the reply, and no disagreement or umbrage taken, but there are still questions... More as time allows, later. Too much time already spent today. Cheers.

Meduban (talk) 21:53, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I have something to tell you

Email me Jen, I have something to tell you which would definitely be of major interest to you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Would you be interested in having millions of images uploaded and available? Why do you ignore me these days?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

You work hard...

... cleaning up files. That is so good to see. :-)

If you can find the time perhaps we could combine our efford to cleanup? I move files to Commons and you get a lot of "bad files" deleted. So my idea is that we take files in Category:User-created public domain images from old to new and empty the categories one by one. It is much easier for me to move files to Commons once someone has checked that the files are not copyvios or "junk". So if you have checked a category (or a part of it) I could use my bot to move all good files Commons.

You do not need to mark ok files - I'll move everything that is not nominated for deletion. Unless I think the file should not be moved.

A few weeks after we can return and see what is left in the category.

You do not have to say yes. It was just a suggestion. --MGA73 (talk) 16:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Teaming up would be great! For now I have been working through orphaned images in Category:User-created public domain images from December 2006. It's a pretty massive category compared to other month categories, though -- maybe it would be better for me to move to a smaller one to give your bot a test run. Can your bot detect which images are orphaned? I like going through the orphan images because 1) there's a lot of crap to get rid of and 2) useful orphan images would be nearly impossible to find. I've been moving some images to commons using CommonsHelper, but that's a little slow. Maybe the bot would be an improvement. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

As a reply to your note on my talk page: That sounds really nice :-)

Starting with a smaller category is easier because it is faster and it is easier to remember which files is in there. But it works on larger categories also. And in time we will get to December 2006 :-D

Once the bot is running it only takes a few seconds to move a file. So it is much faster than moving with CommonsHelper. The bot works almost like CommonsHelper and it works on all files - used or unused. However it can only find categories for the file on Commons if the file is in use on en-wiki.

It would be best to check all files before moving them because the file could be a copyvio. So if you spot any copyvios it would be nice if you tag those also.

If you think the file looks nice even if it is unused we could just move it to Commons. There is a much bigger chance it will be used if it is moved to Commons. Often users use search option to find files so if there is a text on the file page telling what the photo is then it can be found. --MGA73 (talk) 18:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay a few more questions... So is it possible for your bot to filter to only transfer orphan images? For now I was hoping to concentrate on orphan images for the reasons I mentioned above. I use this tool to review them, since it adds links to the uploaders' contributions immediately after uploading, which lets me figure out what a lot of these images are when the descriptions are lacking. You might be able to get Jason to give you whatever code he's using to do the orphan/non-orphan sorting. It would be hard for me to go through an entire category of images, both orphan and non-orphan, because I need to use this tool to review orphan images effectively, and if I then go through the category over again, I'll be reviewing many of the same images twice. Also, could you make so I could just manually write which categories in the Commons the images should be added to? (For example, I could write [[:Commons:Category:Mariah Carey]] and it would stick it in the appropriate category when it transferred over.) User:Δ used to run a bot that would move images to commons this way, but that bot got turned off after all his image drama. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:48, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, You can just check the orphan files - then I can check the ones that is is use. Or perhaps I can move (some of) the files that is in use before you start checking the files. If you edit the files it would be nice if you also add a description and links (you know [[something]]). That makes it much easier to use the file. --MGA73 (talk) 19:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

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Guinea

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/4140374881/ Would this be good enough for a featured picture?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help, I've uploaded and put it in the article now --Aegoceras (talk) 22:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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So what you saying that the creator of a monument still has rights in a photo of the monument under United States Law, and french law because it is a derivative work. That may well be true in the USA and France but that may not be the case in the UK were this image was uploaded to Wikipedia. Being a lawyer, can you explain to me why I should have to comply to the law you Quote when the image was uploaded within the United Kingdom and as it states in (see commons:COM:FOP) that it is

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Hotel Plaza Grande

I've created a new locator map for old town, Quito at Template:Location map Ecuador Quito centre. I did try to make one for all of Quitio but the server at OSM won't let me at the moment.. You may wish to use it in cathedral articles or whatever. Also note Category:Buildings and structures in Quito needs populatiing. I think I'll work on that today creating some Quito building stubs.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:36, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. Tropical diseases are never one to mess with! Probably being bitten on the tongue and roaming around the Ecuadorian jungle didn't help. You should have said you were going back to Ecuador!! Hope you feel better soon. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:47, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

How you feeling Jen? Any thoughts on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gulzaeb Beg Ali?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:28, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Glad you are feeling better, wow you doing an A-Z of trafficking!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:33, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Cool, although I suspect some of them will become magnets for wiki tiffs.. I thought we had those articles already actually... lWhat am I up to? Absolutely anything! Check out Pedro Virgili, Tomb of Akhethetep ‎, Christiane Ziegler‎, Vilallonga del Camp, Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía , Luoji Township , Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Timothy E. Gregory ‎, Csóványos , Anthoceros laevis ‎, Theâtre de l'Étoile du Nord. I try to approach subjects as randomly as I can, there's only a tiny fraction of stuff we'll ever be able to cover of course... Its the best way to build an encyclopedia I think create one article and then start another red link within it and so on.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Yeah Egyptology is one of my biggest interests actually. I did start half of the pharoahs back in the wiki dark ages but I haven't done anywhere near as much work as I'd have liked to on it. I'm slowly working through the List of French Egyptologists which all have articles on French wiki and starting some missing tombs. Of course many of the major expeditions are deserving of their own articles too. i find that sort of stuff fascinating, imagine unearthing a mummy and the reliefs on the walls and that!. My sister has bene to Egypt in the summer and said is was extremely hot like 50-55 celsius. She said she was disappointed with it but went to Japan immedately after where she met her current boyfriend she's living with. She went to Lesotho yesterday to do with her school., so hope she doesn't come down with anything!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:04, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

WOWWWW!! Reunion?? You;d have thought. Crikey. Sure I'd love to help, I've almost finished starting the Comoros villages which I found population figures for, once that's done I'll start on Reunion. Thanks! I'll create the relief map for it seems as it is used on French wiki. Take care.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

User:Calliopejen1/to do/Thierry Caro articles (2001-2500)

Hi, what is the purpose of User:Calliopejen1/to do/Thierry Caro articles (2001-2500)? I don't THINK links to other Wikipedias should be in User space. Corvus cornix_talk 20:27, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I know you can't link to categories in your User space, I had just assumed that you can't link to other Wikipedias. I may be mistaken. Corvus cornix_talk 20:31, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, sorry, never mind. :) Corvus cornix_talk 20:34, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Myself

Hi. What you have written about me is really nice. Yet, I doubt that everything that I have produced is as good as what you say about it. Whatever, as you seem interested by Mauritius and Réunion, you may find it interesting to have a look at our index of articles about the Mascarene Islands. It is up-to-date since filled through a template. Thanks. Thierry Caro (talk) 15:43, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

You're so modest! :) I'll check out your link to look for new pages to translate. Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:24, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Human trafficking articles

I think you still need to include the {{StateDept}} template in the Reflists of all of them, as that template will add each article to Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Department of State Background Notes, as done with many of the other articles which include information from the U.S. Department of State website. The following format should suffice for all of them (just place right under the "References" heading):

{{StateDept|url=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/index.htm|title=Trafficking in Persons Report 2010}}

–MuZemike 19:59, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

These aren't Background Notes publications, so that notice isn't really appropriate. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:24, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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Hi. I've copied the FA Spanish article to Talk:Barranquilla. I've begun translation. Its a huge article so all help is needed! Should take a few weeks but like with Montevideo and Tenerife etc is a core article. If you could help whenever you can translating a few paragraphs this would be a great help.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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I'm planning on translating some material from the spanish wiki Machu Pichu article. I want to promote it to GA sometime but it needs a lot of work. It gets thousands of hits a day... See also Loire (river) which was expanded from a pretty shoddy uncomprehensive article.. I think we should draw up a list of core articles which desperately need work... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:07, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Funny you should mention that actually as I've long thought the infobox island needs a complete makover, I hate the mint colout scheme too. And I had also requested a pin map for infobox lake for some Antarctica lakes. Lake Untersee and Lake Burton, Antarctica. User:Plastikspork is the one to ask.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:13, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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"Propose merging Template:TemplateName with Template:Infobox Cardiff Bus route." I think you messed something up there. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 21:25, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed, used wrong nomination template. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Train/metro station infoboxes

Are you aware of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations? I have been quietly working on converting this kind of custom station template for some time. Many were really just duplicates of the standard version, but others are going to be slightly more difficult. Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:57, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

No, I didn't know that existed. I guess my message would have been better directed there! Re your conversions - Keep up the good work! :) There are really a variety of train station formats that may be a hassle to convert. If you need a helping hand, let me know, though my attention tends to wander and I'm not sure this is a big priority for me... Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:28, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Drink-related infobox templates

May I ask who requested that those be deleted and their reason why? --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 18:44, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I didn't delete any infobox templates. (I did combine some subtemplates for the tea infobox, and then delete them, but that didn't change any functionality - it was just sloppy coding to begin with. I got deleted some categories, but that was only because there were a number of subcategories with one template each. I thought that would be uncontroversial but I can restore them and then nominate for deletion if you'd like. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:06, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Nah, I was just curious. Thanks for the explanation. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 03:02, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer

Thought that might interest you...♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Blofeld has been a busy boy, and been caught up in royal weddings fever! --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 16:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. Jen, I've started Al-Sakhir Palace. Google image search picks up some US visits to the palace with Bush and that. I wondered if you could find me an image which asserts that it is the work of a US government employee.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:42, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Aw thanks! Yes that is it. but I noticed in a few sources they got it mixed up too and said it was in Manama. It isn't, that's definiately the palace with the minaret on the end, probably has its own mosque.. Its not that far from Manama as Bahrain is very small.. Thanks! Yeah, we definitely needed some coverage of the best known dresses, there a still a few more I want to create which are in a top most famous dresses list, Audrey Hepburn etc. Someday... Cheers, have a good day.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Bus Route

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Images at Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

Hi, there are two images at Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad that have been nominated for deletion at commons. However, it seems strange to me that there is no indication of those deletion discussions in the article in which they are used. I recall seeing somewhere before a template for the article that notifies of the deletion discussion of related media, but have no idea where to find it. Can you help? Cheers. In the meantime, I have improvised a notification message in the article. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 08:56, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't know that such a template exists for deletion discussions at the commons. It probably should though... Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:03, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, I requested the two photos anyway, just need the watermark removed.. I must be an influence on people. My response!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

+ more!! Green Versace "jungle" dress of Jennifer Lopez , Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn, White floral Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn, Pink Ralph Lauren dress of Gwyneth Paltrow, White bikini of Ursula Andress, Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket + Black and white Valentino dress of Julia Roberts ‎ ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:24, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Can you find me a bigger USAID image of the photo in the infobox of Marjan Bojadziev?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:23, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

LOL a crop of him would be about 40px! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:47, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Deleting {{NowCommons}} iamges

Hi. Please make sure when deleting NowCommons images with a different name on commons, that you delink the images already on en.wp, or it leaves redlinks. If you want a bot to do it for you (i.e., OgreBot), you can just use the nowcommonsreview script to mark the image "OK", and I will come along later and finish it for you. Also, ideally, it's best to move over all of the old versions of the file; this can be time consuming, so I'm currently using a bot to do this as well (I'm reasonably close to the point of putting up a public interface as well). Magog the Ogre (talk) 10:46, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm mostly just deleting orphaned images... If I left a redlink somewhere, it was a mistake... I mean to fix the filenames for images that are in use. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

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Elto Eradication

why was the Elto jpeg deleted?. I have been busy. Gonna stop wasting my time on the poxy page if weasels come behind me and undo hours of work and effort to make Wiki a usable, useful set of pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.23.169 (talk) 15:42, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_May_8#File:Elto.jpg (i assume this is what you are referring to). The image was not public domain as claimed by the uploader, because it was not created by the US federal government. Since it was non-free, it failed the stringent criteria for the use of non-free images in Wikipedia. (See specifically WP:NFCC#8.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:04, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:PD-Nepal

See Talk:Public_domain, A request has been made for a new PD-Nepal template, I thought you might like to look into it and create one.Tibetan Prayer^᧾ 15:01, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

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I've undeleted this article that you had PRODed per a request at WP:REFUND. However, there's no need to nominate this article for deletion as I have done it for you. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 04:06, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

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Incomplete FfD

You recently nominated File:Royal portable with instr. sold for $33 2.jpg for deletion, but the nomination was not created. I have removed the tag. Feel free to renominate. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 19:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Removing expand language tags

Hi. User:Deor and User:SilkTork have got it into their heads that all tags should be moved to the talk page. I've tried speaking to them that this should NOT be done but Deor's taken this to AN and ignored all warnings. Can you try to explain to them why the tags are needed in articles rather than hidden on talk pages? See also Template talk:Expand language for the moving to the talk page desires. This specifically. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:41, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm at trial right now, so I don't have time to join this discussion at the moment.... Hopefully I can contribute in about a week or so, once my work craziness subsides. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks good Jen, thanks for that. I've also asked Rosie to expand your Goman article..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:48, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of page "Sherwin Gooch"

Sir,

Why have you deleted the page "Sherwin Gooch"? People were after me literally for years to create a page so that the connections to it did not end in a stub. I considered it a hassle, but eventually succumbed to their requests. Now I find that you have deleted the page – technically moved it without redirect.

At this point I am calmly and respectfully requesting that you reconsider, and revert your deletion.

Thank you.

            Sherwin Gooch

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Flickr washing Q

Hi Jen, someone raised a point regarding this picture before I upload it. So, he's given me permission to use it, and will change the license soon. Thing is, an editor suggested I make sure it isn't Flickr washing. Can you help? :)--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 19:43, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks so much for that information :) No, not a specific claim, just a suggestion prior to uploading. If anything else comes up, I'll be sure to ask you. Thanks again Jen :D--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 20:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Jen, I've expanded it a bit. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 05:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

FAOL links

I'm rather puzzled about the reasoning behind your edits today. Your comment seems to imply that because our :en article is at FA, there can be nothing in the linked FAOL which could help to improve it. Is this the product of some discussion and decision that I've missed? LeadSongDog come howl! 03:21, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Ah, thank you for the explanation. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:36, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Red panda

Thanks, the notice about translation has bugged me for a while, but I didn't think it my place to remove it. The Portuguese was originally translated from English and improved, then the French from the Portuguese. Before nominating for GA, I made incorporated all extra info in both languages to the English (while re-verifying all the links and working from the sources), at which point (IMHO, and of course I am not prejudiced) it was better than either of the other articles. There have been quite a few improvements since then as well, mostly by others. Donlammers (talk) 18:14, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

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Intertranswiki project

The biggest thing we need is a bot to draw up a directory of missing articles. Then we need some sort of actual organization to create them. Sadly the vast majority, myself included tend to work loosely and across a wide range of topics and rarely have time to focus purely on one task. I genuinely believed Fritz would complete the list like he did with ALbania so the pages would still be needed. We need to somehow inject more importance into transwiki again and at least get a bot to complete Fritz's directory. If you consider we are missing over 5 million articles which do not have an article on en wiki how many articles get translated everyday? You'd be lucky to count 5 in a 24 hour period on new pages. If we can't get a bot to actually start articles translating we should try to at least see about one which pastes the articles and a google tranlsated verison in the wiki space for editors to rpoof read and start. But then it comes down to numbers who would actually bother o start them, again fewer than 5. The best thing is seems then would be a bot which actually translates articles into english and starts them but places a cleanup maybe needed tag at the top. But given how many articles current;y needing cleanuo, I can't see such a bot being approved..♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:46, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Nono, humans and masses of them, translators in all languages are of course by far the most important, you misunderstand me. I mean the biggest thing we need initially is a bot to draw up a full directory of missing articles and then of course the bigger thing would be the numbers to translate them.. The most important? For every article currently tagged to be fully translated asap of course.. I was talking about scaling the project and it reaching a full scope♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

The biggest factor on any subject or language translation is generating interest. if people are not interested in the subject matter than they are unlikely to even remotely be interested. Then you ask the question, who is most likely to be interested in writing articles about German and Austrian municipalities, Spanish municipalities and churches etc. And it always comes down to local people or at lease native speakers who are familiar with their part of the world and want to see it better covered on wikipedia. Then you ask, where are all these people? They are editing German and Spanish wikipedia or are unaware of what wikipedia actually needs even if they casually use it every now and again in RL. If we are to be serious about attracting individuals on the scale we need then we would need to create a list of translation schools in countries such as Spain and Germany or in the US and UK and systematically send out emails to them inviting them to join wikipedia and use translating articles of their choice from other languages into english. It could work, but this is the only way we could achieve anything major with Intertranswiki. The current log shows we are way off having the numbers needed or willing to translate those articles currently neding translation on here let alone the remaining 5 million odd!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:15, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

I want a list of every populated settlement recorded by geonames by country, a full A-Z list of settlements by country starting with Afghanistan through to Zimbabwe created in list format like List of United Kingdom locations: Aa-Ak with the name, state, coordinates, preferably DMS and then the final column, instead of OS grid, left blank for potential notes. ALl I require is for somebody to download the database by country and to simply program into a table and publish. Basically as you said. It of course would need to be split like the UK has, but I think the biggest thing we can do on here in terms of infrastructure is to have some recognition of every populated places and coordinates. Then those which have enough info can be started in their own right and it can be built gradually. Can you program something semi-automated or something to do this? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah exactly like that, but I'm looking for every populated place in a country to be listed just for comprhension sake. Geonames regularly updates I've noticed to some which may no longer exist it gradually gets round to correcting them. The idea is that every settlement that appears on a google map anywhere in the world, and even those not listed on them but can be seen are listed. If we have a full database this would be a massive aid as the entire possible scope is there and can be built piece by piece... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I've started Template:World populated places. If you are happy going for over 1000 I'm OK with that but I think in the long term it truly would be best to list all. As for many countries I could easily write a full article on a village with 400 people.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, look forward to seeing it. The reason I created one template rather than the usual continent templates it because I literally want to be able to find any settlement in the world directly from one nav box. I've shrunk it down anyway to collapsed. Recognising the places that exist and their coordinates is definitely a start anyway. Over time I hope it becomes very productive. I'm sure thousands of people would find it useful having a full gazeteer type lists anyway. You might though want to give the date of the census... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

No worries, that could probably be found out by some detective work anyway comparing with government stats.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Mmm that's not good. The thing is we already have Lists of cities which are really for settlements above 1000 people... Mmm. I think a solution would be yes to create a full list but to name the articles List of places in and in the intro mention that some sites like that may be thrown in. I would say the vast majority actually are settlements though right?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Thing is in countries like Lithuania the vast majority of settlements have population below 1000, most below 100 actually. My feeling is that it would be best to create a [[List of places in xxx and trust that over time any obvious errors can be removed. I believe that the vast majority will be legitimate settlements. I think its worth doing. Of course eventually we want half decent articles on as many places as possible but I really think the first them is to acknowledge their existance. Of course after creating each list one could look through the archeaology cats and remove any that get mixed of course. As long as the list doesn;t include things like bus stops and farm barns!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:07, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah but what would you say the accuracy rate is looking through it? If like 99% of the entries are legitimate I think its worth having 1% which may not be..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:33, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah best thing would be to create them by letter e.g List of populated places in Peru - A. BTW does locality refer to region, province, district or municipality?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:07, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

If every village looked like Acain we should do it but I agree with you some of them are dubious. We should stick to solid settlements for now. The only way possible to extract the good from the bad is to go through them all like this but neither of us have the time for this. So I say go ahead but maybe lower it to villages with over 500? As long as the lists are more comprehensive that the "List of cities". ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

You are wrong about Acacoto look on google earth. Its a major village in a valley. The coordinates were slightly too northwest though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

OK but I doubt that the 1000 limit applies to every country. Best thing would be to assess each country first and what has data and then create, Where possible try to include verifiable smaller settlements. Maybe try Ecuador next. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Are you still up for creating the lists then?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:40, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

To be honest I agree with you. Its fine for coordinates but nothing beats up to date reliable government sources when it comes to creating a gazeteer. But it just frustrates me how much is missing and being ignored at present. I think a truly comprehensive source would have a gazeteer of every settlement by country. Tanzania has government data available I think. Maybe such a list could be created bit by bit using government sites? Offhand I know there is an up to date UN source listing all Afghan settlements and their district. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:50, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Jean-Baptiste Perrier

On 13 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jean-Baptiste Perrier, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Goman was an ex-slave leader who led a peasant revolt in Southern Grand'Anse, Haiti between 1807 and 1820? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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AWB

With pleasure. I'm not sure quite when I'll be able to get to it, but with luck I can make a start on it tonight. Tomorrow's more likely, though. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Jen. Again regarding that photograph. The author allows me to use it, however claims he does not know or isn't able to change the license. What can I do :( Can I give you my Flickr account password so you can review my conversation with him as proof that he gives permission? I mean its readily verifiable to anyone who questions it. Its the only thing I can think of. He even gave me a name to put as an author :( Thanks!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 04:01, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm comfortable taking your flickr password! You might be able to copy-paste the flickr permission to OTRS, though I think they prefer having something from the copyright holder directly. (And did you get an affirmative statement that it is freely licensed? Permission to use it in Wikipedia alone is not enough.) Alternately you could have him email the consent form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries to OTRS, though his email presumably is not linked to his flickr account. Obviously it would be easiest if he could just change the license on flickr. Have you explained to him how to do this? My standard flickr letter (collapsed below) contains some instructions you could copy-paste. Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:13, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I understand. Thanks a lot for that note, I will send that to him. If he still does't respond to that, I will try and have him, as you said, email that info, because he did offer to do that. Thanks a million! :D--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 04:17, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Also, sorry to bother with another inquiry, but was wondering you're opinion. Now, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Mariah Carey, or her performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards. You can see at "Fly Like a Bird" that the performance induced the night's only standing ovation, with critics commenting on both her voice, choir, performance (positively) etc. There are loads of stuff like that. Do you think its possible to warrant a non-free photo like this to the article and similar ones? Citing critical analysis on her vocals that night, the choir and churchy feel etc.etc. What do you think? It really did receive a lot of coverage!--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 04:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I really don't think so. All that photo shows is that she was singing in front of a choir. That could easily be explained by stating that she sang in front of a choir--readers don't need to see a photo. Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:24, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Extended content

Dear Sallam,

I am a volunteer administrator of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), the free open-content encyclopedia.

I have enjoyed browsing your excellent photographs of recent protests in Yemen. I am writing to see if you would consider freely licensing your images, so that they can be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles (such as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Yemeni_protests), and so that images of Yemeni protesters can be spread even more widely.

Wikipedia can only use your photos if you are willing to grant permission for them to be used a free license. You can do this by using Flickr options to change the photo's licensing to Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike - click "edit" next to "All Rights Reserved" on the photo page. (Note that Wikipedia cannot accept "No Derivatives" or "Non-Commercial" licenses.)

This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely ( "share-alike"). You can read this license in full at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ . Please do note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license, as well as the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the image to a different purpose.

If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you on the Wikipedia image page, state that the image is your work and is used with your permission, and provide a link back to your flickr page.

I hope you will consider accepting our request.

Deletion/Move

Howdy. Have a customer, were you ever able to address this? Best, NonvocalScream (talk) 02:19, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

I chose not to restore it because I think it unequivocally met A7, as I said on his userpage. I could restore now, but would immediately nominate for deletion. Is this what he wants? Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:38, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Redundant templates

Please place them at CFD instead.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:32, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Well the system with Plastiksork and that is to place at CFD, convert to wrapper then use Sporkbot to convert to standard at a later date. I've successfully nominated tens and tens of templates in this way in a step by step process.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah but are you actually changing the coding of the template itself to act as a wrapper? To me it looks as if you've just placed a noticed in the template talk pages and are not actually converting them to a wrapper.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:44, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Ah. OK that'scool. BTW thereis an argument over actresses vs female actor at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers. Some female input on this would be appreciated. It started as a proposal to split Category Actors by gender like singers but it has been highlighted that "actress2 is apparently no longer accpetable. Your thoughts either way are appreciated.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:54, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Infobox Town AT and Infbox German location and Infobox Swiss municipality wer etop on my list for deleting. The first two especially are written in German which is not good enough in articles.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:07, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

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File:Rosette nebula Lanoue.png

The uploader is on a wikibreak can you hold off on this for a bit? --TimL (talk) 23:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

I just changed the date so he has until August 7. I think this is reasonable considering he went on his break July 1 and said it would last a few weeks. If he gets back and wants to verify the permission after it's been deleted, I (or another admin) can always restore it. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:38, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

The image owner sent me a personal reply that stated "Yes, I release it into the public domain." However I know this is not sufficient, so I directed him to WP:CONSENT. That is the best I or anyone, for that matter, can do, based on my reading of WP policy. --TimL (talk) 02:39, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

A statement that he is releasing it into the public domain is basically sufficient. I'd just forward that email to OTRS - it might be enough. If they have follow-up, they can contact the image owner. Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:05, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. I went ahead and did that. --TimL (talk) 13:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)