User talk:Editorofthewiki/Archive 5

Adoption Questions
Hi. I just had a few questions about some things.
 * 1)  How do i get a nav bar like yours?
 * 2)  Whats a subpage?
 * 3)  I recently put an article on FA review.  How do i know when the administrators decide if it will be a FA article or not?

Reply
Sure if you could make me a navbar that would be great. also i wanted to know how to make a subpage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Supeyman (talk • contribs) 18:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Admin coaching
I'm very busy in real life right now, but sometime within the next couple of weeks or so I will be editing at "full speed" again. I will be glad to help you when I have enough time, but if it is a priority, you may want to find someone else. Very sorry...  jj137  (talk)  02:38, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, FAs and GAs always benefit you greatly, well, everywhere. Best of luck. :)   jj137   (talk)  03:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Supeyman
Hi, on Supeyman's user page we BOTH adopted him. Can we share his adoption? If not, tell me. Thanks!-- B a r k j o n 14:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Zimbabwe Open University
What is the problem if the references stay?  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 15:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * No, they are relevant and no problem if they stay.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 18:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Co-adoption
I noticed your comment on the talk page for adopt a user, and I just wanted to say that if you need a co-adopter, I could help. Cheers! - Diligent Terrier (and friends) 17:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

3RR
Please be aware of 3rr. The sources support the claim that ZOU is a open university and it is located in Zimbabwe. The references are no harmful and there is no guideline that such references cannot be given.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 18:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Do not revert other people's talk page. Your behavior have been reported in ANI.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 01:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Additionally, please note the guidelines on user page harassment. —C.Fred (talk) 03:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

ZOU
The use of coercion is inappropriate. There is no need to respond as it has already been reported. Your comments regarding the article have been noted and while you do have some valid points, you are not making progressive actions here. --Lemmey talk 01:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I know your both at fault. Thats obvious from the pityness of the content you're fighting over. I normally wouldn't get involved but the statement 'respond here or I'll report you' really just hit a nerve with me as I've recently had an editor try the same thing on my talk page, except he redited his original statement a week later to give a false image. I'm going to advise you to not talk to each other or edit the article or even edit my talk page for next 2 hours. Theres other things to do on a Saturday night, why not watch US Marshals on AMC while tring to name all building in background of Chicago? Trust m,e its a lot more fun than getting blocked. --Lemmey talk 01:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Baseball uniform
Hello. Do you mind if you state your opinions on the article I created. It passed DYK, BTW. I'm just asking becuase you said I was inexperienced a while ago. Thanks.--RyRy5 (talk  ♠ wikify ) 22:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. Also, I don't know any others who would help. I'll go there in a about 15 minutes, as I am a little busy. May I have the link to the ANI disscusion?--RyRy5  (talk  ♠ Review ) 23:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I just remembered that my adopter, User:Steve Crossin, is a mediator. Ask him. He's very experienced even if he's been here for almost three months.--RyRy5 (talk  ♠ Review ) 23:16, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Admin Coaches
I think User:Pedro is a good coach. Try asking him.--RyRy5 (talk  ♠ Review ) 00:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar. But do you mind putting it on my talkpage first? Thanks.--RyRy5 (talk  ♠ Review ) 01:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ask User:Tone.--RyRy5 (<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">talk  ♠ <font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">Review ) 00:39, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

page deletion
How much time are we given to get offending information corrected or added appropriately? This corporation is new to both having and editing a wiki. Should we close this page and have it reopened when we have staff to assume responsibility? Is the skill set such that this is required? Filmmaker 1 00:59, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Review
Thanks for your review. To tell you the truth, I don't like to make articles, but I do like to help out with any of part of articles after they are already created, such as helping categorize pages in Category:Uncategorized pages, assessing articles, and other such tasks. Cheers, <b style="color:#6cf">Raz</b><b style="color:#6cc">or</b><b style="color:#6c9">fl</b><b style="color:#6c6">am</b><b style="color:#6c3">e</b> 15:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Re
Well, that makes 2 of us being veteran article writers. I have written over 1,500 articles over on the Simple English Wikipedia. I will review you tomorrow when I have more time to review you. If I don't review you tomorrow, feel free to write me a reminder. Cheers, <b style="color:#6cf">Raz</b><b style="color:#6cc">or</b><b style="color:#6c9">fl</b><b style="color:#6c6">am</b><b style="color:#6c3">e</b> 20:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny
I've added sources to my copy of section 3.3.1 at User:Paradoxsociety/Sandbox. Should I continue on to 3.3.2 and 3.4 or should I go back and cover other sections first? <font face ="arial black" color="#001A99">Paradox <font face="arial black" color="#006699">society (review) 21:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright. I'll just continue on from the point I stopped at. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing the same work as someone else at the same time. <font face ="arial black" color="#001A99">Paradox <font face="arial black" color="#006699">society (review) 00:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
Take a look at WP:MUSIC for the songs heading. It's what suggests that most individual songs are not notable and then suggests that songs that have charted are probably notable. Obviously, if a song has significant verifiable coverage in reliable sources, that would be another rationale for why an article would be appropriate. Erechtheus (talk) 22:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Editor Review
Do you mind reviewing me? You know the drill, just click "Review" in my signature.--<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">Ryan (<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">talk  ♠ <font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">Review ) 01:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's okay with me.--<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">Ryan (<font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">talk  ♠ <font color="navy" face="Times New Roman">Review ) 01:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Burmese places
HI editor of the wiki. Many thanks for your help with my work. I noticed you also helped a bit with the Burkina departments. I kept receiving bot messages from Coren last night with them also and I gave up on the Burma places. Eventually I of course want to cover everywhere in the same way. Perhaps you could also put in a word at User talk:Coren. I hope we can be white listed to prevent it happening again  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 11:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

ONe thing though. You are making errors with the maplandia links. You are using a capital letter for the village name in the link which gives a dead link. It needs to be in lower casing. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 11:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Alrighty then. Will do. Editorofthewikireview my edits here! 17:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I've run into a bit of difficulty with that wiki guy. I don't know how you can create three seperate pages of places with the same name in the same district when there is nothing on a fourth level division  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 12:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Great work!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 20:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I've tried to get something set up where it can generate 10 articles a minute but nothing has been done. If people are to get serious about the depth of coverage on here this is the best way to do it. It can get a bit monotonous adding them, part of the reason I tired of wikipedia earlier today because of the togo articles. But what is being done to burma and togo can be done to virtually any country in the world which doesn't have a full gazetteer. Creating district templates like so is the best possible way to cover territory on here anywhere. A bot would make like damn easier though is starting them. Perhaps we could repropose it using maplandia this time. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 21:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I've tried speaking to User:MBisanz who does a lot of work with bot approvals but rhings didn't go any further. If however a couple of us emphasise how important it is and what is missing and how easily they could be programmed to created them it might help things. See if he has anything elese to say -if not I will support anything you propose at Bot approvals. As for programming it, well I am clueless in compute science -a programmer would need to sort something out which may take some time ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:35, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply
I've reviewed you now. Cheers, <b style="color:#6cf">Raz</b><b style="color:#6cc">or</b><b style="color:#6c9">fl</b><b style="color:#6c6">am</b><b style="color:#6c3">e</b> Report false positives 22:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply
I left a reply to your message on Steve's talk page regarding the MfD for AWC. -- Sharkface T/C 23:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Just to say hai
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

Tinucherian has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend or a new friend. Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Have a nice day ! Btw I have tweaked and used you Navigation Bar code for myself. Thanks -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 09:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Rfb participation thanks
Hello, EotW.

I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the project-wide discussions regarding my candidacy for bureaucratship. After bureaucratic discussion, the bureaucrats decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect their decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. If you have any further suggestions or comments as to how you think I could help the project, please let me know. Once again, thank you for your support. -- Avi (talk) 17:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

War on Terrorism casualties
Under contractors I mean the private contractors that were killed in Iraq and Pakistan, the total is I think 14. Also don't include the French islamists, the table includes those on the side of the Coalition in the war on terrorism. The French islamist fighters were on the side of the Iraqi insurgency so they are included in the death toll of the targets of the insurgency. The military toll is up to date to edit the civilian part of the table as much as you want but again keep in mind that 14 of them are listed under private contractors. Top Gun

I was contacted by user Kormin and his talk page said to contact him at your talk page.Top Gun

Huh, sorry my bad, my mistake.

My RfA
Am I doing okay so far? I wanted to spend the first day simply using the tools and getting used to everything. I even updated DYK! :D I will get round everyone in the end but I just wanted to say thanks for your support and trust, and obviously if you need anything you know where to find me! As an editor as well, obviously; that's still my primary focus. Best, PeterSymonds | talk  21:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Locations
I'm the wrong guy to ask about Corenbot or place locations. I'd try WP:RSN, Blofeld himself, or WP:BOTREQ before I'd ask me, especially if its high priority.  MBisanz  talk 22:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

WBOSITG's RfA
<div class="boilerplate metadata afd vfd xfd-closed" style="background-color: #F0F0FF; margin: 2em 0 0 0; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; border: 1px solid #AAAACC;"> Hello Editorofthewiki, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you!  weburiedoursecrets inthegarden  20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Mediation - Chiropractic
Hello editorofthewiki, Have you had a chance to review the request for mediation for chiropractic yet? You signed on for it last week, and at this point we have not heard much. Regards, DigitalC (talk) 05:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Mary Meader
Hi, Editorofthewiki. A few things have been changed in this article, but the most important has yet to be addressed. You have only three sources, and one of them is used 33 times. If you have access to a public library, I suggest you search information about Meader through newspapers. I would try Michigan newspapers first. If you can't find anything, I can send you information since I have access to a university library database. I would have to email it to you in a veritable bombardment of a dozen or so emails, so you have to let me know if that's ok for you. If I find things you could easily find, I will not be really impressed, so you will owe me $1,000.00 and a good article. I need a new gold-plated toilet seat, so this may be a great opportunity for me. Let me know... --Moni3 (talk) 17:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Chiropractic mediation
Are you watching Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-05-05 Chiropractic? I just responded to your comment there. If you are watching it, please let me know, and I won't bug you here when I make changes there. Thanks. Eubulides (talk) 21:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

ce
Eotw... Can I quickly copy-edit something in your nom of moni? Feel free to revert thereafter. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 02:05, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Editor, I appreciate the thought very much. However, I have been informed that there was a procedural glitch, and that will act against me. On recommendation from other editors, I've asked Balloonman to close the RfA. Thank you again. It was a lovely gesture.

WP:HAU
Hello again. The Highly Active Users project has gone through a complete revamping per popular demand. We believe this new format will make it easier for new editors to find assistance. However, with the new format, I must again ask you to verify your information on this page. I attempted to translate the data from the old version to the new, but with the extensive changes, I may have made some errors. Thanks again. Useight (talk) 04:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
Thanks for your participation at my recent Request for adminship. I’ll keep your concerns in mind as I continue to work within the project. I hope you find I live up to your expectations of administrators. Best, Risker (talk) 16:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Crime in Zimbabwe neutrality
I have done so on its talk page. M173627 (talk) 20:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

accidental removal
RE:
 * I assune this was accidental, I have reverted Ryulong's vote back. thanks--Hu12 (talk) 00:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam
<div style="background-color: white; border: #5B92E5 solid 2px; margin-bottom:.5em; padding: 5px; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><font color="#084C9E">, 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) 06:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Algeria geostubs
Hi Editor of the Wiki. I jhave just been going through some of the algerian towns and wondering why most of them aren't verified externally or have a coordinates/map. E.g where are the coordinates for Aïn Lechiekh etc? Could you help me fill in the maps by working backwards from Z. I'm nearly through A but some of them I can't seem to find form a google search. I'm certian its just the spelling or transaltion differences as with many of the ALgerian articles. If you plan on creating any more in future I would be more than happy to work with you to create municipal templates of settlements like we have done to burma and togo etc and the coordinates /sources can be added first time. Also I would suggest creating or using a Category:Communes of Algeria if they are communes also. Regards  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 11:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Places like Barbouche bring up nothing on google. Where did you get the info from? The links are dead on most of them such as Bathia also. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 11:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

What would you say to reorganizing the cities, towns and villages by province given that there are around 7,000 places in total??. Please communicate with me here so we can discuss how to improve this. Thanks  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 11:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

OK no worries but it is awkward when you can't find the coordinates. I seriously think we ought to stick to calling them Communes of Algeria; although communes and municipalities mean the same thing we always stick to what is used in the language equivalent as much as possible. Yes there are 1541 communes de Algeria. First of all you need to red link all of the communes in the page and we should consider starting them but in a way which saves time in having to chase them up later. Its just at present there are over 300 articles which need a lot of work and it is difficult when you can't find anything on them. Good initiative in recognizing they were missing though. I've just added a few more Tunisian painters also as you recognized there weren;t any started  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 19:30, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

If you could find the articles at maplandia (may have slightly different spellings) this would be great if you could take care of what has been started to date by adding the map/coordinates. Once this is done we will be in a position to add the remaining 1200 odd in which we can work together in. Those blessed Cantons of France still need doing too ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 19:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'll see about adding infboxes to the tunisian places tomorrow. I just added one to Menzel Temime. Good work  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Well its not wrong, but sometimes the spelling is different. It is the most comprehensive location site on the web. Occasionally it is not fully complete but I guarantee the site is never "wrong". Yeha I'm puzzled to on that one but trust me that site is generally fully complete. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 10:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I know I was puzzled too why the names didn't show up on many of the other sites too. Usually whenever I start a world village it is listed at both maplandia and falling rain. But a number of the names are missing. Statoids is a good site for districts of countries but I remember when I did Kazakhstan and Krgystan the transliteration names were way off and it took me some time to work out which was which, I'm certian this is what has happened with Algeria. I would strongly recommend finding an Algerian government source  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 10:25, 20 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·  <sup style="color:blue;">T alk /<sub style="color:blue;">C ont 06:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

You're helping with this too, so you get your own message
I ran the bot, but I use a pre-built framework to interact with Wikipedia, which has a safety feature preventing me from creating pages in the article space. I got it to output a single country to my userspace at User:Fritzpoll/template/test. Don't move it, as I'm using it to identify the work the bot can do. Could you just check it to see that it is ok, and formatted properly. I need to check whether I implemented the category tagging in the code, and you can check if the infobox formatting is to your liking. I've also credited your names on the bot's user page User:FritzpollBot but I shall handle tech support if necessary! Fritzpoll (talk) 00:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
<div style="background-color: white; border: solid 3px; margin-bottom:.5em; padding: 5px; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"> Hello ! I'd like to leave a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully today (and to my surprise) with 83 supports, 4 opposes, and 2 neutral.

What I have taken back from my RFA is that I've perhaps been too robust in debate and I will endevour to improve upon that aspect of my usership. I would like to thank you again and state here that I will not let any of my fellow Wikipedian's down. Thanks again! --<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;border:2px solid #A9A9A9;padding:1px;">Jza84 | <font style="color:#000000;background:#D3D3D3;"> Talk 11:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Houmt Souk
Remember you said about Tunis being pooly developed? Check out this one compared to french wikipedia!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 14:33, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Cities, towns and villages in Papua New Guinea
A tag has been placed on Cities, towns and villages in Papua New Guinea requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Mblumber (talk) 01:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Fritzpoll‎
I've replied to your section thread on Fritzpoll on his RfA. Regards, Rudget   (Help?) 15:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

European category naming
Hi. I did change Latvia earlier but User:Darwinek reverted the renaming. I am certain the same would be done with Austria and any attempted renaming of the other European countries. Perhaps you could also address it to him as to Austria's government status on cities and towns. I did raise some concerns earlier and I can understand that certain European countries have distinct differences between cities, towns or villages which might differ to much of the rest of the world. Just thought you should be aware. Regards  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 16:53, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Also "You are not the typical Wikipedian nowadays: spends most of their time reverting vandalism and making 5,000 edits to AIV and AFD, 200% edit summary usage, and very little encyclopedia building in order to grab some admin tools and fluff their way through RFA". My god I swear sometimes its like I have a doppelganger on here. This is exactly!! what I think and serious encyclopedic editors are pretty rare on this site. Bravo Editor of the Wiki! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 16:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Well exactly. People can think what they want of me. If they consider somebody who has 2,000 edits at AFD /council discussions and 50 edits in the mainspace as what we consider to be an "exemplary editor" or a greater editor thats their problem. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with enormous potential. Stick to the task at hand I say as much as possible. Lord knows how many potential years of mainspace editing time has been wasted on all the faffing about and arguments that go on, on here. Adminship would only give me a few extra tools I could use, its not really a major thing is it. Believe me there are editors who would oppose me anyway and I don't have anything to proove or be put under the test by editors who I find disagreeable

Yes glad you are doing Burkina. If you can see if the french wikipedia has the list of villages and statistics. I copied most of these. What I have time I will add the villages to the nav. boxes and try to start a few manually as it will be some time before the bot hits burkina. I've added a map to all the exisiting place sin Tunisia anyway and am 2/3 the way through Suda. I made my own map for Sudan to replace the crappy looking grey one. Its not perfect but an improvement I think. A priority now is adding an inofbox and map to most of the articles in africa, asia and latin america  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:00, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

See what a difference it makes with an infobox and images to Juba, Sudan? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 21:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Yey. More images Rumbek, Port Sudan, Malakal. Sudans done anyway in regard to infoboxes. I'll try to complete Ethiopia tomorrow with the infobox maps. I wish we could get hold of more photos on Algerian and libyan settlements too. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 22:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah which province is which?? Koudougou Department  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 22:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

It says "Koudougou Department is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province". Yet the infobox, nav plate and category say Boulkiemdé Province. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 09:34, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Whoops. I messed up while mass-creathing them. So fixed. I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 09:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice work with 1994 Bolivia earthquake though. I had to create a category:Eartthquakes in Bolivia. as unbelievably there was nothing. I remember starting an article on an earthquake in guatemala. There must be several hundred articles missing from guatemala and el salvador alone! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 10:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I also have in mind to create some articles on Latin American earthquakes. But mine would more likely to be from the 1600s or 1700s. 1693 earthquake which brought on a new Baroque revival etc (in Italy though not South America). I think I'll tackle Demo Congo now -get the largest countries out of the way first. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 10:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/The Fingerpoke of Doom (2nd nomination)
Hi, thank you for your comments at this AfD. You felt that the article should be deleted because it contained no reliable sources. I added three print sources this afternoon, so I invite you to look at the article again, as I believe it now demonstrates notability. I agree that it needs serious cleanup, but the notability is now at a point that warrants keeping the article. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for revisiting the article. When you have a second, could you please cross out your initial "Delete" using to make it clear that you changed to "Keep"? Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 17:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Some list uploads complete
See the pages at


 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/afghanistan
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/armenia

I have streamlined the process now, and Azerbaijan should be finished shortly, so although this will be red for the moment, it should be blue by morning:


 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/azerbaijan

And, as it is only 2 minutes to do, I will also have done this:


 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/bahrain

I'll post up a total count for places processed this evening. Bangladesh has 27,000 places, so I may run that overnight and it should be uploaded by 12noon Saturday. These are all pre-article creation lists. Happy editing Fritzpoll (talk) 01:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That's 9280 article titles that need checking - Bangladesh is being processed, and I'm off to sleep! Enjoy Fritzpoll (talk) 01:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * An additional 26657 articles added for checking at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/bangladesh - took a while because of sorting it into district groups. Popping offline for a bit - need to go shopping and get away from the machine.  Let me know of any further problems Fritzpoll (talk) 13:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Districts of Mauritania are missing I've noticed. I think ther eis a way I can use the existing region maps to make some department locators using Image:Mauritania departments.png. Right now though the priority is Afghanistan and dabbing those new directories  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I've begun creating them here  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 22:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...
for your vote of support in my RFA. I will do my best to live up to it and not goof up too quickly! --Slp1 (talk) 19:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Burkina Faso
Yes, I intend to do what I can! Hopefully I can start by helping to improve the provincial and regional Burkina Faso articles. I saw you added that Balé Province was in Hauts-Bassins Region, I changed that to Boucle du Mouhoun Region - revert that if I got it wrong. I've always been interested in French Africa, so hopefully I can do my bit - I'm supposed to be taking a break from editing at the moment but I'm finding it difficult! I'll definitely get to work on WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates sometime as well. Regards, EJF (talk) 10:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't believe how you and Blofeld manage to just keep on editing... I would have burned out ages ago with the amount you two have been doing. EJF (talk) 11:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ELF. Editor I've started Category:WikiProject provincial templates by country where I intend creating the bones of the provincial/district templates by country. Please could you list and fix the Algerian ones as I'm not sure what templates exist already. I'm not sure whether they should be by province or district. Basically I'll be looking to red link the templates by country such as I've done to Afghanistan etc.  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 14:55, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Great. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 20:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The only thing is departments like Nobere Department are very much eastern Burkina rather than central which could mislead some people ...  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 21:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Its kinda scary but I was going to ask if you could do that yesterday, are our brains connected or something? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 21:14, 27 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? 12:00, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

DYK nom of Tourism in Tunisia
Hi - there is an issue regarding this DYK nom. I am uncomfortable with this hook about why Americans aren't visiting it regarding WP:NPOV. It seems backed up by a reliable source, but it states it so flatly, as if there is no possibility of any other reason or absence of bias. It will be contested by other sources and can be considered as defamation of Americans, insinuations of Islamophobia, etc. I suggest it should be changed - its ok in the article, but maybe not for main page DYK. Please give your views there, <font face="Verdana"><font color="Red">Vishnava <font color="Blue"> talk  20:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)