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Categories
I see you dabble in category-pruning ;o)

Last year I proposed that the categories related to the military side of things be rationalised. Currently there is the and. I see no need to have two since the former can also be called Category:Military Conflict as opposed to Economic or Social conflicts that are also sometimes called wars. Wars can theretofore become that for which they are mostly known, large scale events in. The past Military History Project coordinator had put in quite a bit of work and some excellent suggestions towards this end, but the whole thing petered out after a while. I was going to bring it up in the categorisation working group (I'm sure there is one) when I got around to it, but looking up your user page reminded me of the need. Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 22:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Maybe you can help me. Long story really, basically I made a few test edits and User:Barneca deemed them vandalism and gave me warnings. I then went to ask him/her directly why exactly I had been given warnings. I said nothing offensive, though I did question his heavy handedness with the warning botton and suggested that a more reasonable admin might have greated a newbie in a somewhat nicer way. I was stunned when my comments resulted in a 24hr block. Now the block is over I have been trying to talk to User:Barneca about the way he deals with people in general on here, and more specificly his ostensible heavy handedness with new editors when he adjudges them to have commited a minor act of vandalism. Unforunately User:Barneca refuses to talk about this with me. I get the impression that he is an admin whose power has gone slightly to his head and it makes me concerned that he/she may scare away new editors, albeit perhaps unitentionally. As such I was wondering what you might suggest I do about this. I just wish User:Barneca would give people the benefit of the doubt more often and be a bit more pleasant in his dealings with non-admins. 79.69.199.112 (talk) 22:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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Netball image
Well, I did only get around to regenerating it today :-) - I missed your response because the stub sorting proposals page is just too busy! A correctly sized image will always look batter than one resized in the browser. dramatic (talk) 02:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Split of Album stubs
In the propoosal you mentioned you would be able to populate the templates/categories by bot. I've done 2000s-R&B-album-stub from R&B-album-stub. I'm still working my way through 2000s-album-stub but have been using the new tempaltes where needed. Hope this can cut down on some of the work. Waacstats (talk) 09:42, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help. One question thuough, are you able to populate by bot from the genre stub cats i.e an article with folk-album-stub and 1995 album categories would get the 1990-folk-album stub instead. If not it means more fun with catscan for me when i finish the 2000s albums (now below 800!). Waacstats (talk) 08:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

show globe
I will add categories to the show globe page next week. thanks, NatalieNatalie kupferberg (talk) 21:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the barnstar
Thanks. The DAB cleanup category has skyrocketed lately, and that's one little area I kind of enjoy doing. The Manual of Style is really well written and easy to apply in most cases.

Thanks for fixing my user page regarding horses too. I had no idea, but I always thought the phrase "cloven hoof" had a funny sound to it. I'm glad it's correct now. :-) Hoof Hearted (talk) 12:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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German-opera-stub
I had some trouble when I created these so decided to leave it up to the Opera wikiproject. Before doing anything else with the Opera articles it may be worth getting the wikiproject on side. Waacstats (talk) 10:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Kachin State
I wonder if 316 stubs and counting qualifies for a Kachin-geo-stub sort? Burma geo stubs is now over 800  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 14:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC) Category:Cities, towns and villages in Kachin State ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 14:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Some of the states at present probably don't have 60 in yet but it will only be a matter of time before there are several thousand in there. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 18:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Remember the towns in Burma are organized by state. It should be ready for you Category:Cities, towns and villages in Burma So I'd imagine you could AWB the relevant categories with the stub sorting. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 09:22, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh top man on sorting that and also the bengali film stub. Cheers!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 20:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Bengali-film-stub
Hi! Sorry for teh delayed reply. I have no problem if you go on to do the up-merge. Actually I was quite unaware of the stub-sorting, new proposal process etc, and went on to create the stub category.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:48, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * One question, How do I actually show 60 articles needing the stub template? I mean naming 60 articles is a tedious job. Or, do I point you towards the category (in this case, Category:Bengali-language films) containing 60 stub class articles?--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Gene/Protein stub bot
I see you have him up and running now....excellent!! ~ Ciar ~ (Talk to me!)  15:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Museum stubs
Hi I was wondering if it would be feasible at least to split them by continent. E.g Asia-museum-stub Africa-museum-stub, south-america-museum-stub etc. Asia-museum-stub would naturally also be a sub cat of Asia-struct-stub There clearly ought to be more than 60 stubs. COuld you do a check and if there arne;t 60 I'll see what I can do. Cheers  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 16:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree with Bloefeld here. FWIW, I just created an Australia template and although it was unproposed (I wasn't aware of process), it seems to have been accepted and passed. I agree that there's a need/use for this stub. It makes zero sense to be limited to what we currently have US/UK/Aus. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 18:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * actually we now have greece and korea categories after my little stub session the other day  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 18:58, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * forgot about those, I also see a use for Canada stubs but haven't gotten that far. Working on filing Africa ;) TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 19:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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Stub creation question
Hi, I proposed a stub the other day, and since you seem to be into the stub-game, I though you might be able to answer my question. Concerning the proposal process, I suggested norway-rail-stub. It was a little confusing explanation, so am I to: I ask because what other people are doing is a little ambiguous. Thanks in advance, Arsenikk (talk)  11:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Either: propose, wait for approval, then create stub and start tagging
 * Or: propose, create stub and start tagging, then when it reaches 60 create category and receive approval.

Bot request
Could you create a bot to help refine a category for me? I'd like to replace Category:Infrastructure-related Registered Historic Places with Category: Lights Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places for all articles in the former category with "light" in the title. I recently created both categories and realize now what a large number of NRHP lighthouses there are - deserving their own subcategory. Thanks.--Appraiser (talk) 14:25, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * By "former", I just meant "first mentioned". So the task is to modify all articles with "light" in their title that are in Category:Infrastructure-related Registered Historic Places. Replace Category:Infrastructure-related Registered Historic Places with Category: Lights Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places. Does that make sense?--Appraiser (talk) 15:16, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Protein/gene stubs
Hi! Could you please tell me, where this topic was/is discussed? I already looked at WP:CAT, WikiProject Categories, the appropriate template talk pages, but could not find any discussion on the topic. Kind regards, —  Tirk&middot;ﬂ  &ldquo;&hellip;&rdquo;
 * Okay, I have dug it out: WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/Archive/March_2008. It was NOT suggested to categorise ALL protein stubs as "gene stub". It was agreed that existing gene articles are categorised that way. I strongly suggest to think over this problem again. It is not acceptable to put (all) protein stubs into gene categories! Please help moving this discussion to the appropriate talk pages. Kind regards, —  Tirk&middot;ﬂ   &ldquo;&hellip;&rdquo;  08:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I just found another discussion on the topic at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology. I agree with the idea to name the category "protein encoded on chromosome 1-stub". I am going to reactivate the discussion. Kind regards, —  Tirk&middot;ﬂ   &ldquo;&hellip;&rdquo;  08:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Request comment
Please read Bots/Requests_for_approval/FritzpollBot. The bot is about to create 1100 odd Afganistan geo stubs. I was suggesting the bot-owner to use state-level stub templates. That will need stub proposal though. Would you suggest we create a up-merged stubs templates for use with the bot? I was trying to reduce re-work, and getting the category splits accomplished on the first bot run itself. Please let us know your thoughts at the bot page. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 14:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You are welcome! This bot is about to create thousands of geo-stubs for missing places around the world. See WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Places. Afganistan just happened to be the first country. Thanks for your response on the bot page. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 14:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot possible?
Hi A - I'm tackling the mesogastropoda issue (God knows why) and I wonder, is there some kind of automated way to just remove the code mesogastropoda-stub from each of the stub articles? Or just the ones that are double-stubbed with sorbeoconcha-stub? Or even just change them to gastropod-stub and start all over? I use a Mac, thus AWB won't help. thx - Her Pegship  (tis herself)  17:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, here's a preliminary plan. Take a look at the two lists I made in my sandbox; one is all the items double-stubbed with sorbeoconcha-stub and mesogastropoda-stub, the other is all items which are only stubbed with mesogastropoda-stub. They should all have mesogastropoda-stub removed; items on the second list should be re-stubbed with sorbeoconcha-stub. That would make  pretty huge; by my hand count I think the sub-type hydrobiidae-stub would be viable, to siphon some off. Her Pegship  (tis herself)  22:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I wanna give you a prize
I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.

I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.

Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.

Javitomad (...tell me...) 02:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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In case you haven't noticed...
In case you haven't noticed, I thought you might like to know about this :) Grutness...wha?  09:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Great Hunger
Hi, you participated in a recent straw poll at Talk:The Great Hunger on a possible name change. Most of the editors that participated in the recent polls were invited to participate in the most recent, but as far as I can see you were not. Your opinion should still be heard. The editor who opened the new poll said this to the other participants. "This is a friendly notice that I have opened another straw poll, this time to find the names that editors are most opposed to. If you know of anybody who did not vote in the last straw poll, but who has an interest in the name debate, please feel free to pass this on. Scolaire (talk)". Regards Wotapalaver (talk) 13:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * PS. The poll closed 36 hours ago. The result was move to Great Famine (Ireland). I posted friendly notice to everybody who took part in this poll (you didn't), but Wotapalaver apparently "didn't have time" to pass it on until just now.  Confused?  I sure am!  Scolaire (talk) 15:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)