User talk:EJF/Archive 5

RfA thank-spam
EJF, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

And for putting me across WP:100 :) Gatoclass (talk) 09:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU has a new format
Due to popular demand, HAU has a new look. Since the changes are so dramatic, I may have made some mistakes when translating the data. Please take a look at WP:HAU/EU and make sure your checkmarks are in the right place and feel free to add or remove some. There is a new feature, SoxBot V, a recently approved bot, automatically updates your online/offline status based on the length of time since your last edit. To allow SoxBot V to do this, you'll need to copy to your userpage. Obviously you are not required to add this to your userpage, however, without this, your status will always be "offline" at HAU. Thanks. Useight (talk) 17:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

My recent RfA
Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA!  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 06:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Notability banner
You have placed notability banner at OMFICA wiki page. I've improved the article, and would like to ask you to review it. Kiranoush (talk) 11:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied EJF (talk) 11:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

My RfA
Hey EJF. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 18:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Whoops!
Whoopsie! I didn't mean to revert your edits to the article Cahnite. I did it as I was looking through the edits that were added to the article that I wrote when I accidentally clicked the rollback button :). Hope you can forgive me.  Cheers, Razorflame 23:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

No, It's not a sock
I am being totally honest here. The user you mentioned on SimpsonsFan08's talk page is not my (SF08) sock. I also saw a user called Grandoldman has been confirmed as my sock, he is not. I apolgise for socking and my socks are (a lot): I have decided to be totally honest. If there is a sock I have not mentioned, just tell me and i'll say. If i have forgot any, i'm sorry. 92.5.91.181 (talk) 17:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * SimsFan
 * Connorjack (my first account)
 * MrWP (i'm sorry)
 * DalekChicken (clean start, but can be blocked)
 * Doughnuts...Mmm!

No... Those accounts aren't mine
These account are not mine. I have come clean, but these aren't mine. Block these if you want. I cannot explain this, it is just a coincidence. If there is any other questions, just contact me. SimpsonsFan08  talk 17:35, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

They Aren't
Those accounts aren't mine. Honestly, they aren't. I am being totally honest here. I know it is like that post, but really, block them. I've came clear with all my accounts. But these are not. Can a check user not confirm we are different IP's or something, and check the location? <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08 <font color="#FF0000"> talk 17:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC) Just contact me if there is anything else.
 * I am trying my best to have a clean start. I have came clear with all my other accounts, why not them (if they were mine). Maybe you should contact those users to discuss this matter? <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08  <font color="#FF0000"> talk 17:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

No, Not Mine
I would submit a checkuser request, but it would be unacceptable. I said, if you suspect them to be sockpuppets, block them. Please see i'm trying to have a clean start here. Maybe we should get another user's advice. <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08 <font color="#FF0000"> talk 17:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Not Active
Both those accounts aren't active anyway, as (grand old man's) edit was 20 days ago. <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08 <font color="#FF0000"> talk 17:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
If you see any edits, its not me. Thank you for letting it go. <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08 <font color="#FF0000"> talk 18:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Please, if there any edits from that account Manfourd fan 06, check if they are like mine, and if they are the same articles. <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08  <font color="#FF0000"> talk 18:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Again
Thanks. Can you block account creation from this IP (92.5.91.181)? <font color="#0000CD">SimpsonsFan08 <font color="#FF0000"> talk 18:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

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Badié
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Kongoba
What is the criteria to distinguish between village, town and cities in these articles?  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh I've edit conflicted with Blofeld; what he says below is the same as I've been using.

1000 should be the divider.

Burkina Faso
Hi there! As you may have noticed I created all of the template at WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates and would warmly welcome people adding the missing articles as much as possiblr. Most of the templates still need the villages writing into it. If you want to evade Coren, you'll have to be white listed. Ask User:Coren or somebody who has dealt with this before. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 17:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes 1000 is a standard. ALthough obviously the majority of Africa can't be compared to developed countries in Europe where a town of 10,000 in Burkina Faso may be more like a village than a settlement of 300 in france or something. But 1000 is a general cut off point. Yes basically the villages can be copied from the department articles I created and pasted into the templates to produce complete coverage by province. Eventually I plan to do this for the whole world, and am currently looking into getting several bots, and bots which can create templates to become a reality. Best regards  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 17:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Dabbing yes has to be done by hand. The directory page we created is WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places -feel free to help go through them and dab them properly but let either Fritz or myself know what you are doing or have done. Eventually everywhere will be drawn up but they will need dabbing properly. Eventually I'm aiming to have an article on every world location on a google map and have a template on every district of the world connecting articles on places/landmarks within them together. So eventually I'm hoping for a full set up directory templates like Burkina Faso for every country of the world. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 17:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Sources tell me there are about 9000 towns and villages in Burkina, If you plan on adding more I think we should think about reorganizing by region with categories  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 18:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest splitting into 13 sub categories roganized by region. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 18:07, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll create the sub cats in a minute but the r should be capitalized for Region. Actually I have long had a suspicion that some of the departments in certain provinces are out of date and are actually been incorporated into the provinces that maplandia suggest, so if anything maplandia is likely to be correct with the current situation. I've noticed several overlapping betwene the diagrams and what is listed as of 2005. I'll ask one or editors to look into it later  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 18:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes that can be off putting when there is some confusion over a few of them. Where possilbe I try to copy the settlements listed under a district from maplandia and base it around that. I created the sub categories at Category:Cities, towns and villages in Burkina Faso. If you aren't going to be adding any more settlements could you help recateogrize them by region? Thanks  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 18:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

If you can't find what region the province is in just check french wikipedia. The provincial articles themsevels are shockingly undeveloped. They have nothing even on what region they are in population etc, they don't even have the proper department links. When the settlements are recategorized I would strongly suggest we sort out the province articles. Add an infobox to put the maps in and correct the links. Sound good? It doesn't have to all be done tonight but this is a priority I think  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 19:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes once that it is done.. I have formatted Balé with a tidy infobox and some details and added the full links to its departments. Wrongly the rest of the province articles read as "communes" which is politically incorrect as the Burkinabe goverment appear ot name them "departments". So the tables will need changing. It may also be a good idea to list some of the main towns within the provinces too. If you could copy this format for the others this would be great. Thanks  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 19:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

My god its really time priorities started changing on this site. I;ve lost count of how many important geo articles are stubs without any info or references on here but have half decent articles with references on the other wikipedias suchas french, german and dutch. This site seems to suffer the consequences and in turn gets full articles on fictional characters and crappy bands or cartoons when articles on major cities in over half the countries on here are two line stubs without any info. Why does it seem like there are only a handful of editors actually doing anything towards geography on here....? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 19:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I know, the worrying thing is that there are equally developed articles on series or characters which most people have never heard of. Yes once those provinces are sorted out I think the existing settlements on Burkina need checking. MOst of the infoboxes were devoid of the regions, provinces and departments they are in and population figures. See Léo, Burkina Faso. I have added the standard and also boosted the map size to 300 which I believe gives fuller more detailed view of the country. That infobox could also be used as a guideline for how the articles should be looking ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes exactly like you did to Bagassi but boost the maps to 300 also  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'll see about that.. But if you create anymore make a note... Thanks for your help see ya tomorrow  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Finally, another person, that is willing to work on actually important stuff--the geography and cultures of real people and real places that are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY underdeveloped! Myself and that bald guy have been working so hard on developing african geography instead of your favorite book or TV show but now we have a 3rd guy in the picture. Consider yourself among the enlightened, Master EJF, and soon we shall reach an african version of nirvana. I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 23:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC) You are correct... that's what happens when you add the names of all the regions to the articles in one day. I think I'm the one who needs a wikibreak... I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 10:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Yes remember I said that before that some of the department images looked out of date. If you can update anything using 2006 info this would be great. Of course the province pages still need sorting too with the infoboxes etc  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 15:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Time
That is a template, that is auto updated. If you would tell me what time I should set it for, I will do so. <em style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;color:DarkBlue">StewieGriffin!  &bull; Talk 21:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Talkback
<em style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;color:DarkBlue">StewieGriffin!  &bull; Talk 21:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
For this revert. Fast acting man! In light of the IP's specific comment that they are only here to vandalise I've blocked for 48 hours. Pedro : Chat  14:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Life of Brian

 * Please explain why Wikipedia articles concerning a particular date and month always begin with the month and follow with the date then, eg. today - May 29. I was not insulting anyone's English at all; as an Irish person wishing to use this method on the article about the leader of my own country surely I am perfectly within my rights? And that was not a violation; it is a well-known fact (straight from the horse's mouth at that) that our Taoiseach experimented with marijuana in previous years. I notice how you've only been using Wikipedia since March 2007; I have been editing for much longer. Thank you. --86.45.215.243 (talk) 18:47, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm giving you this.


 * With regard to your use of British English I should point out that Ireland (or the Republic of at least) has not been a part of the British Empire for the past 86 years and questions could be raised as to what extent it played its part in the Empire even before that. Try this for size.

And yes:
 * Biographies of living persons (BLPs) must be written conservatively, with regard for the subject's privacy. - That is not mere speculation, it was openly admitted to by the man himself.
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid; it is not our job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives. There was nothing remotely "sensationalist" or "titillating" about the way that it was written. It was formal; there were no italics, exclamation marks or anything that could have put its neutrality under threat.
 * An important rule of thumb when writing biographical material about living persons is "do no harm". No harm can be done to someone who has admitted to such a thing and is duly allowed to be promoted to Taoiseach without national uproar. More damage has been done to him by his recent outburst of swearing in the Dáil than could be done by an encyclopaedic article of any sort, least of all Wikipedia. There was no mockery intended and no obvious mockery cited. The statement was perfectly referenced.

As for Biographies of living persons, the examples given clearly illustrate my point.

Example
 * "John Doe had a messy divorce from Jane Doe." Is it important to the article, and has it been published by third-party reliable sources? If not, leave it out.

I used neutral language, not declaring that this experimentation had messed him up. The article was published by a third-party reliable source and has been cited by many more such sources since.

Example
 * A politician is alleged to have had an affair. He denies it, but the New York Times publishes the allegations, and there is a public scandal. The allegation may belong in the biography, citing the New York Times as the source.''

This incident may belong in the article? Yet it is an allegation. If this can then surely something that has been confirmed and never denied should be included? --86.45.215.243 (talk) 19:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * PS: The trout is not a "monstrosity". Trout are fascinating creatures, often taken advantage of by humans. --86.45.215.243 (talk) 19:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no time for wikilawyers - you are also gaming 3RR. Do you really believe that "Brian Cowen is a former marijuana smoker notable for being the current Taoiseach of Ireland" is neutral and unbiased? Think on. EJF (talk) 19:28, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Not sure this was a good removal
The comment you removed had been there about a full day.. nobody else apparently considered it a personal attack that needed to be removed. It's strong criticism, sure, and it may even be factually incorrect or otherwise way off base. But this doesn't make it a personal attack. I think you're way better off leaving it there and explaining why it's wrong than simply removing it. Friday (talk) 20:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot approved: dabbing help needed
Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. Thankyou  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 12:03, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

No its only the blue links that need to be checked. Once you finish a province leave a ✅ at the top to everybody knows what has been done, Cheers  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 12:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Page 2 isn't completed yet though. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 13:16, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

If there is only one place in the country with than name it would be ...., Afghanistan. If there are names in various provinces then yes it would be e.g [...., Ghor] or [...., Ghazni]. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 13:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I really appreciate your help. Thanks friend  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 16:27, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Whatever gets it done quickest!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 17:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Remember though with Chakari etc to link it to Chakari, Afghanistan on the directory page too. You created the dab but didn't correct the link  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 17:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry, I'll start on page 4 to avoid any edit conflicts then  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 17:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Super I nearly completed page 4 earlier. I got abit through Wardak and came across tons of places with the same name -Cambodia will be a nightmare!! Page 4 is nearly done  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Afghanistan ✅. Only the few on the problems page. The irony thing was that one of the last places I did was actually called Dab!!! Tomorrow I want to empty Category:Cities, towns and villages in Afghanistan by province (best thing is to check categories like Category:Badakhshan Province etc and relocate them. like we did with Burkina and then make a start on Bangladesh. Tomorrow I'll create the categories for Bangladesh ready too  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep 64 categories to be created tomorrow for Bangladesh. See Districts of Bangladesh  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)