User talk:Editorofthewiki/Archive 8

Sabaidee Luang Prabang
In case you weren't aware of it, this article is still too short for DYK. Gatoclass (talk) 13:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Glasperlenspiel
If the time arrives in which you find yourself searching for a new name, you could do worse than turn to the musings of a Nobel laureate. Have you previously encountered The Glass Bead Game?

I wonder about how you will be affected as you move closer to achieving your projected goals? That is, of course, a question I do not ask. I only wonder privately, mildly.

It is delight to encounter a circumstance which seems to have elements in common with Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi.

Wishing you continued success. --Tenmei (talk) 20:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

1964 Gabon coup d'état
Excellent work on the article! Heh, I was actually thinking of creating the article within the next few days. Maybe we can bring it to FA with M'ba. :) Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 12:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do you think the coup article won't become an FA? Length? Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:30, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think that should be a problem. As long as its comprehensive, it should pass FA. I think the article can be expanded (you can do wonders with even the fewest number of sources, e.g. Saint-Sylvestre coup d'etat), so I'll start looking for newspapers, books and journal articles with info. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look. I think I might be able to expand the article myself. I'll digging for sources in the next day or two. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:39, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've obtained around 15 news reports from 1964 detailing the coup. I think we can use these to expand the article. Send me an e-mail and I'll reply back with the PDFs. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Err, some of the PDFs are image-only. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * They're in the New York Times and Washington Post archives. You need a subscription to access those (I have access through my university). Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd send you the PDF files. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:41, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * In a day or two. I'll double-check for new sources and then I'll copyedit. I'll also ask some other editors to read the article. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 03:07, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just started reading the article from the top. I should be done in an hour or so. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 18:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've started leaving comments on Talk:1964 Gabon coup d'état. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:45, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Jean Konan Banny DYK
Hi. Thanks for pointing out my mistake about the source - kind of embarrassing! I've suggested a couple more alts. so hopefully it will get used yet. Olaf Davis | Talk 23:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

 * Nice! I was so confused at first. I thought you meant H-B, not the AAU, was the featured item on DYK. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 12:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK
Congrats. Two Ivorian DYK's on the front page at the same time. We can go months without an Africa DYK. We need to develop the 58 Ivorian departments sometime too, most of them are one liners without the basics on french wikipedia, and of course finish Burkina Faso settlement stubs. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 11:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Joseph Priestley FT?
Hello, Featured topics/Joseph Priestley shouldn't be where it is, as it was never a featured topic. Are you thinking about building such a featured topic? Anyway, I think we should either delete this page or move it to your userspace. At any rate, the template on the talk page should not be used because its use here is messing up the categories and causing the page to be tagged as a "former featured topic" - rst20xx (talk) 14:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Critical editors
I tell you what I'm sick and tired of people complaining about stubs and well, just about everything. I've begun stubbing those spanish politicians which I intended to do in sections and then translate within a short period of time yet people just can't help themselves and have to either say they aren't notable and complain about how short they are and in doing so waste my time trying to explain to them that they were Ministers of the country etc and major encyclopedic benefit once written. People are so narrow minded and also very short sighted if they can't see that articles can and will be expanded relatively quickly. Its really bugs me when somebody tells me how I should build wikipedia and it is always the ones who do little encyclopedic work themsevles. I've always translated about 7 of them. Not a word to say about that though. ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 13:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Honestly it doesn't interest me. All I would ask for is some extra buttons to do things quickly. In a way it seems the higher your edit count is and the more active you ar ein the mainspace the less attractive you are made as an admin. For people to be elected an admin with only 500 edits to the mainspace and primarily in video games and only a few montths experience of wikipedia and to get 119 supports is quite something though. I'm sure they'll make great admins but the less editing and experience they have, the less "evidence" there is to show any bad times they have had on here.

I was asked the question "what makes spanish politicians notable?". It is this outlook by many people on here that is almost as bad as vandalism. Many people just don't seem to see the potential of articles from other wikipedias or that wikipedia is really in its infancy. Gerardo Abad Conde, Fernando Abril Martorell, Alberto Aguilera, Pedro Agustín Girón etc are all articles with encyclopedic use and I bet they could all be written into full referenced article with some library study. What worries me is that somebody takes the stub as it is at the second of starting and brands me useless when they have little insight to how important the content is at improving the project in the long term. Asking others to share the burden and help translate the articles is not so bad I don't think. Keep up the good work on Malawi, I'll have a read of the 1964 Gabon article later, I'm losing track of all your recent GA/FA noms and reviews! ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 14:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Fırat Kocaoğlu
no it isn't... your edit also has spelling errors. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 17:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Your point is??? read WP:ATHLETE and WikiProject Football/Notability. Playing for a notable club does not make the player notable. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 18:11, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess you didn't read WP:ATHLETE. Association football is not an amateur sport. Poker, bridge and chess are considered amateur sports. Firat has not played in a professional league, thus making him not notable and worthy of deleting his article. Can't get much simpler then that. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 18:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe I will. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 18:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Burkina, Malawi
Thanks, you've been keeping yourself busy as well with the Burkina stubs and Malawi DYKs&mdash;and still making time for FAs! It's a pity Fritzpoll doesn't have the time to do the new programming. If that village pump disaster hadn't have happened we would have at least 10,000 more articles now... Good luck with the FA and the dreaded 1(a). Regards, EJF (talk) 20:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see about getting it this week or next. I'm sure you've noticed that it comes up a lot when searching Malawian towns. That's no problem, I'm sure I can trust you and Blofeld not to give my details to spammers :-) Although you don't currently have an e-mail address set in your preferences&mdash;it probably wouldn't be a good idea to start leaving passwords on-wiki! Mine is, I'll leave you a note on your talk page when I get the subscription and you can e-mail me to get your address. Great work with Gabon etc. I'll make sure to drop by at FAC in the next day or two, I'll give the article a good read first. EJF (talk) 19:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:Coup d'etat
Yup. I reviewed it for you. I gave it a weak support, you'll see my reasons there. Good luck with it! -- Meldshal  [discuss]   {contribs}  21:37, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied at FAC page. -- Meldshal  [discuss]   {contribs}  21:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied. -- Meldshal  [discuss]   {contribs}  21:49, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nah. Did I seem like it? -- Meld     shal  ''' 21:57, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope. Just a little stressed at the moment. Did I make you angry? Please accept my apologies if I did seem hostile. -- Meld    shal   22:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just life, sorry about that. Let's forget the whole idea and move on. Alright? :) -- Meld    shal   22:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Gabon and Spain
Wow thats quite excellent. Nice work! Yes I've pasted the spanish text into the remaining stubs I created for quick translation I must have done at least 30 biographies by now which have been translated! If you can translate a few of the smaller ones I;d be grateful if you have a moment. There is such an amount to do with Latin America and Africa also from french wikipedia that my head is going to explode! Probably just as well I don't speak much french or german and can concentrate on spanish. ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 14:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Will make a note although with this new spanish thing even I'm overflowing with my "to-do" list. I seem to have found my way into Chilean ecclesiastical history at present as I got tired of doing the spanish politicians (until later) as I'm about 3/4 through translating the ones I started yesterday. I need to try to get some things out of the way first! I had intended stubbing the rest of the Gambian forest parks from german wiki, I'll probably do that in the next few days and in doing so will probably see if I can sort that out too! ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 17:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Aubame article - took a look at it
Saw you asking Blofeld about it and thought I'd check it out myself. Fine article! I made a few small changes, like regularizing Léon M'ba as such, piping some links, etc. I guess if I had any suggestions, I would think about including a sentence about how M'ba rose to power himself &mdash; of course, most of that should remain in the M'ba article, but as the two were raised together, it's a particularly interesting aspect of the story and might be covered very briefly in Aubame's article as well. The other thing I'd mention is that this paragraph from the earlier version contains some items that didn't end up in the current version, particularly the possibility that exposing Aubame to politically-motivated prosecution was a possible motive in appointing him to the Court:
 * After Gabonese independence, Aubame worked with M'ba, accepting nomination on M'ba's slate of candidates for the National Assembly. Aubame was then elected as a representative of Moyen-Ogooué, and joined the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs. This only lasted until May 1962; after conflicting with M'ba, Aubame was demoted to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and then dropped from the cabinet entirely in 1963, when he refused to join M'ba's party. M'ba appointed him to the Supreme Court, as a way of forcing Aubame to give up his legislative seat and exposing him to prosecution, but Aubame instead resigned from the court (10 January 1964).

I know nothing about the subject, so I couldn't guess whether it was left out because it's untrue, unsourceable, just by oversight, or what. Anyway, great stuff!  Mr. IP  《 Defender of Open Editing 》 18:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to help where I can on that Gabon series; I'll keep a watch on it. I'm about to start two sets of articles (a series on the short stories of Hemingway and a series on random concepts which have no WP coverage at all), but I'll still have plenty of time to chip in elsewhere.  Cheers,  Mr. IP  《 Defender of Open Editing 》 18:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes I've just been looking at the Gabon articles, impressive. This is exactly the sort of quality articles that should exist for much of Africa not the sub stubs we have an major African figures, history and places at present. The inbalance in coverage is laughable for most of the African countries but that of course is to be expected. It will improve eventually in parts but we need good contributors like yourself and Nishkid to develop them and unfortunately too few people think there is a world outside the Anglosphere. I'm too tired to peer review them now but I'll make a note to do it tomorrow. Best ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 19:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could try to borrow some books on African history and politics from a library. Are there any decent libraries in your area? Where it is you are living again? ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 19:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Hakha-Chin language
is it long enough now?MY♥IN chile 17:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * sweeeeet!MY♥IN chile 18:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK question
Hi. I wonder if I could ask a bit of advice/a favour. A DYK proposal of mine is about to expire - it's right at the bottom of WP:TDYK now. It's been approved (twice), but I imagine it would be a conflict of interest if I made it part of the next update myself. Would you by any chance be able to do that? Biruitorul Talk 22:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent - many thanks! It's pretty stressful when DYK goes right down to the wire like that, which seems to be happening quite a lot lately. Anyway, one does still learn little things here now and then. Yesterday I was creating lots of articles on Romanian villages (actually communes - we emphatically don't want articles on Romanian villages, as information on them can almost invariably be summed up in articles on the parent commune), a process I see you're not unfamiliar with - and someone quite reasonably complained I was going too fast. And then as a favour I tried to patrol my own pages, but found that can't be done (which of course makes a lot of sense given all the spam/vandalism that gets uploaded). Biruitorul Talk 22:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

1964 Gabon coup d'état DYK

 * Hey, congratulations! I am sooooo glad to see African articles being honoured in DYK. You are doing a splendid job -- keep the great work flowing! Ecoleetage (talk) 19:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes I agree. Editor, I will look through those articles and nominations when I return. I'm signing off now as I feel exhausted. I'll probably be back tomorrow or later this evening if I feel better. Its affecting my concentration. Regards  ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 13:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi feeling a bit better for now anyway. What is it that is up for review or nomination again? ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 19:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Date links
I believe someone asked a few days for date links to be removed. Someone removed half of them, so I used a script to remove the other half. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 15:30, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a fan of date links as well. But one of the copyeditors had already removed some of the date links, so I decided to get rid of the rest of them as well. We either have complete date links or none at all. The latter seems easier to manage for now. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 15:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

possible coordinator election for WP:QUAKE
Just wanted to let you know, and please post your ideas on the WP:QUAKE talk page. Cheers, -- Meld    shal    42?   23:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, the coordinator deals with the WikiProject and all its subsets. It's pretty much like the President. Ok, maybe not that broad (lolz), but uh, see this for an example. Cheers, -- Meld    shal    42?   20:50, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK
Ha! It brings a smile to me face to see how Blofeld-esque some of these articles are! Banana production in Côte d'Ivoire was recently started which I suggested long ago.

As a result I;ve created this template:

I think it would be a good idea to do this for all of the african countries but all in good time. OK? ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦      "Talk"? 13:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

African economy
Hi. I've started a full set of templates for each of the African economies at WikiProject Africa/Economy templates. Basically I see them as a good instrastructure to develop each of the economies on wikipedia. It gives us the chance to link case studies on many of the main exports/industries in the country was is very important as a vast proportion of the population is often involved in such industries. See for example Pineapple production in Côte d'Ivoire and how the template is used. Any help you can give on building up the templates with potential articles related to the economy, distributing the templates in the articles linked or filling in the red links for be much appreciated! For instance Template:Economy of Ghana has some notable content already but potentially these templates can be crammed full with articles related to the economy by African country. Regards  ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 16:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back! Crime? Well it could be added certainly,but I was thinking more laong the lines of honest economy!! Template:Economy of Ghana is kind of what I have in mind. Hey I've added infoboxes to the Gabon places today. Also created Liechtenstein wine and am working on Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica which I started earlier. Also if you have any info on Template:Institutions of Costa Rica by all means help! Didn't you have an uncle in COsta Rica? The Bald One     White cat 19:51, 18 August 2008 (UTC) ‎

Sorry to hear about your great uncle. This signature is here to stay. The Bald One     White cat 19:59, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Thats OK I created that template from the category on spanish wiki so they can be translated soon enough. Right now I'm getting the municipalities of Chihuahua up an running. Shockingly articles like Aldama (municipality) are missing when they cover nearly 10,000 square kilometres. The Bald One     White cat 20:11, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Shadow ArbCom
Just an update on the SAC. I set up a page for all news and updates at User:Mr. IP/Shadow ArbCom. We'll soon be taking on the stalled C68-FM-SV case soon (at the proposed decision talkpage for the case itself), as the real ArbCom seems unwilling to deal w/ it :D  Mr. IP  《 Defender of Open Editing 》 00:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

My RfA
Editor, thank you for your contribution to the discussion at my recent RfA and for commenting how I have saved articles. If ever you have any concerns about my actions, adminly or otherwise, don't hesitate to let me know. Best wishes, Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 20:24, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Maldives-related AfD
Hey there! I thought this would be of interest:. It is not often that the Maldives pops up in any discussion, let alone an AfD. Hope all is well. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:36, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
There is a disagreement over the inclusion of Image:AntiSmokingNaziGermany.jpg in the article in Featured article candidates/Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany. For this reason a consensus is necessary and discussion is going on in. Notifying you because you are involved in it.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 14:34, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Just wanted to make sure you saw Brian's latest comment at Talk:Félix Houphouët-Boigny/GA1. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:29, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought the same about his assessment at first, but after reviewing some of the sections, I can see why he ran into some confusion. Let's hope we can get everything covered in the next three days. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, Brianboulton finished his review of FHB. See the GA review page. I think we can handle these this weekend. By the way, why don't you have section editing enabled on your user talk page? Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

thx
Assuming you started at the bottom... then thx for the help ..that worked well Victuallers (talk) 12:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

FAs
Just a heads up. Sandy Georgia and Tony if you weren't aware are kind of like the "FA specialists" on here. User:Rahul finalises any FA nom and whether to promote it or not but generally the decision to promote is largely based on the comments of these two. They've had experience with thousands of FA candidates. Their requirements can seem exceedingly tough or strict but in my experience their input has helped polish off articles to ensure they really are of the finest quality which unfortunately may delay a candidacy considerably and make it a frustration one at times. Some issues they bring may seem very trivial such as MOS and will often be a reason why they oppose even if an article is bloody brilliant in encyclopedic content. Just stick with it. The Bald One     White cat 14:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes thats often the case though isn't it. Best of luck! The Bald One     White cat 15:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you try to expand Libreville if you have time. It ties a lot of important articles together and is little more than a stub at present. The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 18:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

African Protected Areas
Welcome to WikiProject African Protected areas!!

Please add Template:User African Protected Areas to your user page.

<font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 13:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, good job on this! Ecoleetage (talk) 21:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
for all you have done.

why adminship?
Wait until Pedro's ready. He knows a lot about RFA. And I don't even know if i will pass. What makes you so eager? Cheers, -- Lord    Sunday   23:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes, I'm a boy. -- Lord    Sunday   00:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

The Gambia forest parks
Hi. I stubbed them from German wikipedia working with the editor who has done all the work on Gambia on there. The idea was to stub them and have them translated later with the book reference, hopefully Black Falcon can do a few. Other than this there is a UNEP website database for all the national parks and forest reserves in The Gambia which is what I used to draw up the template. Click on search for sites and then country and it lists every protected area in Africa. SOon enough I want to get all of those listed at the database into proper articles on here. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 08:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, EotW
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Ecoleetage (talk) 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. Cheers, and Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Nepal
Thanks. Well I was going through Burkina but I keep having difficulty accessing the site, it would frustratingly take like over a minute sometimes and often not at all. Yes with Nepal I;ve found a good site which has details on population, and demographics and education, sort of what we have been looking for elsewhere. The only problem is the geo satellite coordinate data sucks for countries like Indian and Nepal and most of the places don't have the coordinates at present. Its probably best to take on the countries where adequate data is available first, geogrpahically now I'll be balancing my time between Nepal and Mexico/Central America and any African places which have population figures missing from world gazeteer. My only hope is that once such countries are done, there will be adequate information for elsewhere. Things seem to be opening up gradually. Watching that inspiring honey hunting documentary in Nepal and the lives of the village people and their rice farming on the hills of western Nepal made me realise how much could be written about each and every place there. It was quite fascinating. Such a beautiful country, Bhutan and Tibet too. Someday I'll get some specialist books on some of these places and write some full articles. P.S 50 DYK's is quite impressive!! You;ll be catching BINguyen and that Singapoean guy who has written articles on practically every building in Singapore soon enough <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 14:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Well I never thought I'd reach Charles Matthews's edit count let alone Rich Farmborough and have now passed them both. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 15:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh I'm not bothered about edit count its really isn't important thats why I haven't used an edit counter display since I passed 20,000. I do check it out every few weeks though just to see how active the others have been. Some guy could spend all his time on here tagging articles and have 140,000 edits, and some other person could spend their time carefully writing full articles to FA standard and use edit previews all the time and have less than 30,000 edits so it really can be deceptive in some circumstances. We both know though that I am not just one of those taggers! The tasks I do on here require the highest number of edits, so its not surprising that it adds up <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 15:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Yep thats true, the counter stops at 45,000 I think. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 15:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Reckon you could expand Sandhikharka for a DYK? A google search shows a lot of info on Maoist rebels which looks interesting. Nepali Times has a lot of info on the district too. Whatever is available. Good luck <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

The idea of course was that we had a bot running adding similar articles like I'm doing with Nepal. The whole point in me proposing the idea was so I could refocus my work on wikipedia from spending most of my time creating stubs to developing articles and writing fuller articles. Nothing has changed, but I know a bot could be creating these articles at ten times the speed and programmed with several times more initial content <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 18:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

It might have been a different situation if we hadn't have come across that village pump scenario. Wasn't it an aim to have 1 million by Christmas at one stage? <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 19:05, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Good work Ed. I'm not going to be here today so I'll probably look into the FAC tomorrow. This site is going mad somebody deleted Bulgarian Center for Not-For-Profit Law under the criteria that it isn't a "notable biography". Are they stupid or something? 10:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Bou'in-Zahra
Yeah. why? -- Lord    Sunday   00:19, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh. i forgot, sorry. -- Lord    Sunday   00:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha, lol. -- Lord    Sunday   00:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * and I already asked Nishkid. -- Lord    Sunday   00:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:1966 Houphouet-Boigny coin.jpg)
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Thank you
Thanks very much for the 100 DYK medal, for your contributions to DYK, and the rest of your work here on the 'pedia. Best wishes, - Boston (talk) 06:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Bulgaria
Just as well I requested it to be be restored. I wasn't going to bother. Believe it or not it was speedied intially without evena prod. I wasn't going to edit today but I kind of got curious at the sources I found and had to expand it. I can't remember ever creating it but people still bring up articles created back in July 2006 which in wiki years is like 1000 B.C. for me <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Injecting color into the Burkina templates
Hi. I was thinking about injection some colour into the Burkina templates to sort of make it look African and representative of the flag you know red, gold and green. I did trial Bale and Bam province but thought perhaps the color was too blocky. Any thoughts? <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 10:50, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry
Seems you've been accused. Check out Requests for checkuser/Case/Kitia. - <font color="#000080">auburn <font color="#CC5500">pilot  talk  22:43, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

auto
Please see MOSNUM, which now deprecates the mechanism. What I like or dislike is irrelevant. But since all people to do with the move to deprecate it are pledged not to edit-war over it, you're probably safe for the moment in reverting an article you've worked on if it's treated by the script. It would be expected that none of the other contributors had an objection to such reversion. The change will take some time to evolve. Best. Tony  (talk)  15:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Police and earthquakes
Hi Eddy. Aargh yeah I know the image policy is a highly frustrating one. We are missing out on so much factual information provided through images because of it. Accusations of sock puppetry have affected evne some of our better editors including MSpraveen so I'm not surprised. Hope you don't mind me commenting on the article. I wasn't going to say anything but Lord asked me to give an oppose or a support. I've offered a few points but I hope you understand that I want to stay neutral and refraining from leaning either way for this article. I hope you'll respect me for being completely honest. Best regards for it anyway Ed maestro. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Ha I quite like the name Eddy. It suits you amigo! I know the situation on here is not getting better. I couldn't care less what petty squabbles editors have at ANI and elsewhere and gladly stick to content like yourself but whenever I see an imposing threat of mass deletion which is unjustified boy I give a good argument. I really don't like wasting time an ANI though I groan everytime I come across a mass deletionist, but what else can we do to get some justice around here? The outlook of many editors on here is terrible and is certainly not possibly based around a concerted effort to improve the quality of wikipedia which many of us are striving for. Given that the site is supposed to have an element of enjoyment to it, what fun is there is policing the site and acting like a judge in a crown court? At least of thats what you want to do go out and earn that as a profession rather than pretending to be a lawyer on wikipedia. Oh I often pick up on MOS issues and copyediting, a number of editors often ask me to help copyediting an article but I agree I also find FA's often too picky in that editors will find the slightest of faults. I'm not happy finding minor flaws on single articles you see, when 95% of the rest of the encyclopedia needs a massive amount of work to even start or get up to start class level. This is why I don't choose to go for more FAs. I've always found Sandy and Tony's standards extrmeely high and often seemed impossible to live up to but I think they have a very good overview of the requirements. Sandy reminds me rather of a strict examiner and a comparison of criteria for marks but I have a lot of respect for her and her dedication to FA candidates on wikipedia. An FA article should be amongst the best on here but perfection is not something that can really be achieved.

Yep good work. Shame we can't find the coordinates though <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 16:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Earthquakes Newsletter (August 2008)

 * Newsletter delivery by <small-- Lord   ₪   Sunday   20:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for thinking of me
Just weighed in on the Bhagwanpur Bhabua AfD. That was very nice of you to think of me. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Trolling
See what I mean. Within a few minutes of uplaoding Image:Soe Win2.jpg it is up for deletion. Clear he is monitoring everything closely that I do. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 20:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Soe Win Corbis/Britannica image
Hi, Editorofthewiki. Please don't readd that image from Corbis, copied from the Britannica website, to the Soe Win article. That's a blatant copyvio. If you disagree, plese seek advice with someone in the community with some expertise on image policies. Thanks, --Damiens .rf 20:26, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Editorofthewiki, please, don't readd that image to the article. The template used is not a blanket permission for using any images. That image belongs to a photo agency called Corbis, and they license this image for a fee for anyone interested. Indeed, they whole business model is based on licensing images like this and collecting usage fees. Brittanica, a traditional encyclopedia, has paid corbis for using this image on their article about Soe Win. Blofeld of SPECTRE copied that image from Brittanica's website and used that on Wikipedia's article agbout Soe Win. For free. Can you notice something wrong here? Fair use does not allows you to use copyrighted works for free just to have a competitive advantage over those who pay for the copyrighted work.


 * If you're still don't buy my words, ask guidance for any other Wikipedian with some knowledge on image use. I'll be removing that image from that article. I hope you understand, --Damiens .rf 20:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not arguing for the inclusion of that specific image. He uploaded that because you are trying to delete Image:Soe Win.jpg. An person of Soe Win's importance needs at least one image which depicts him. Chose one. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 21:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The fact that we need an image of Soe Win give us no right to ignore AP or Corbis's copyright. --Damiens .rf 21:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure I'll look now. Its really bugging me. On a good note remember I said about Burmese libraries and the vast amount missing. Well a major step has been taken by the new Online Burmese library. Theres over 15,000 extracts. It has some fascinating information on Burmese archaeology. Great news isn't it but too much work for us!! <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 20:31, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

We both know how the administration of wikipedia, meaning the bureacrats feel about copywright on wikipedia. I seriously doubt anybody would have let a licensing template with a copywright marker inside and fair use compatibility under the circumstances survive if it wasn't legal. Given that it has a rationale for fair use it appears to comply with what is required and as a not for profit site we aren't profiting like other sites. There is a certain criteria for claiming fair use in which every image I upload appears to meet it. If he is claiming otherwise, then every non free image on wikipedia is unacceptable and should all be removed. He won't so much as utter a word to me anymore which shows a clear lack of willingness to discuss a problem rationally. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 21:01, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

bugger
This "Kitia" thing doesn't seem to be going away. I just blocked an editor for changing your userpage to be a SSP report. Is there anything you can do to make this go away so that everyone can move on with their lives? I'm positive you are not "Kitia", but if you are, I would still support you as being a fantastic mainspace editor that is a net positive to Wikipedia. If it's you, confess, and I'll rail against the powers that be to protect your "new account" as a productive one. If it's not you, give me something to go on? I want this to be in the distant past as much as I'm presuming you do as well....<font color="#21421E" face="comic sans ms">Keeper  <font color="#CC7722" face="Papyrus">76  22:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright. I unequivocally and absolutely believe you.  You definitely have a different "editing style", and certainly appear to be a completely different person wrapped up in an unfortunate coincidence/trolling.  That said, even if it does turn out to be that you are "Kitia" (someone I've never interacted with, to my knowledge), and I don't believe that you are, what I do know is that you are a productive and valued member of Wikipedia, as EotW.  If you ever need a Catholic confessional, let my talkpage serve your needs, you'll get no judgment from me :-).  <font color="#21421E" face="comic sans ms">Keeper   <font color="#CC7722" face="Papyrus">76  22:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Thanks for your note. I replied on my talk (I don't know if you watch my talk) how do you turn this on  01:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey - do you watch my talk (just wondering so I know whether to reply here or there) Very impressive. I noticed you made this edit to Jeanne's article - I've been changing Biography to Life, since the whole thing is really a bio. Am I wrong?
 * Great work with Lazare Ponticelli. I don't think I'll be continuing with Jeanne, basically because I don't have anywhere near enough info to include more stuff on her, without having buying books (which isn't feasible). Hmm. I don't tend to do Geography related articles, but I'm sure we can find something to work on! I wrote some stuff I'm interested in in my editor review (link on my userpage). PS would you mind giving a review, since you appear to be a lot more experienced than I am! Cheers how do you turn this on  01:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

If you have a chance...
If you have a moment, can you please weigh in on this AfD debate:. It is an article I wrote...am I right or wrong? Ecoleetage (talk) 15:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input. Ecoleetage (talk) 15:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The strange this was that this was originally a DYK offering and it was considered not notable enough. Eh, this place can do a number on your blood pressure if you're not careful! :) Ecoleetage (talk) 15:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Error at AFD
Just letting you know, you made an error at Articles for deletion/Bruce McAbee‎. The subject was not the president of the company but the vice-president. He also no longer works for the organization. he has never been a president of any organization.Nrswanson (talk) 15:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope! See for yourself: . Ecoleetage (talk) 15:46, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I appologize. I feel like an idiot. Well that changes things a bit. Makes him a borderline article in my view.Nrswanson (talk) 16:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

PRODs
Take a look at my talk page. I can see why you nominated the system for deletion. Highly irritating... how do you turn this on 16:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Gabon
It says it's not enabled when I click on the link. Besides, I could not attach files right from Wikipedia emailing system. So can you drop me a short note to my full username + gmail.com? Thanks, Renata (talk) 17:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, sent as plain PDFs... Renata (talk) 18:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I am happy you found the articles useful and it was not just a waste of time. BTW, your email still says not enabled. Renata (talk) 01:02, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Replying to Jean-Hilaire Aubama Request
I have reviewed the article, a few corrections remain. -- Lord   ₪   Sunday   23:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

RE : Hey what happened
It's past nine days and we discussed about dropping some hooks to relieve some of the backlog.

How about that, you can assist to verify those valid hooks including Tony's, and restore the heading with those that you've verified. We will try to squeeze them into the Next Suggestions. - Mailer Diablo 14:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Said article verified and on queue. - Mailer Diablo 15:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This one is more difficult to verify. The sources online are foreign, while hook is linked to a book/author which does not show up on Google. - Mailer Diablo 15:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Kathmandu districts
Agree Homeopathy article is controversial. Any way, you are mentioning in the infoboxes that the religion is Hinduism. But Nepal has non-Hindu population also. How did you know a particular village does not have non-Hindu population?  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 15:21, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

The website in the references for the Nepalese towns and villages has the information on religions. In most places in Nepal Hindu is actually practised by at least 80% of the population, valid enough to count it as a main religion. In soome areas Buddhism is practised, but to a lesser extent. Anyway anything you disagree is easily verifiable <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 11:48, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hinduism is the main religion, not the only religion. This is my point. Many villages may have a tiny non-Hindu minority.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 13:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with Otolemur. Some districts and villages may have a majority non-Hindu population, indeed in some, the Hindu population could be a very low percentage. Best not to add a religion to the infobox unless there are statistics on religion given for said village. EJF (talk) 13:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

If you look at the vast majority of villages in Nepal using that site you'll see that Hinduism and Buddhism are the main religions. More often than not Hinduism strongly outweighs any others. The site has details on religions and number of the population. Probably the best thing would be to reference data on it or otherwise don't mention it. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 14:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

FAC
My specific concern is that the prose is kind of marginal all around. I will try to edit the article more later tonight or tomorrow maybe, but there are more things than I can specify. (Really, listing would be about equivalent in effort to fixing, which is why I do the latter when I can.) The prose still needs to be worked on, as Tony said. If you look at the edits I did, you will see that I made TONS of small changes. This is really too many for me to be comfortable supporting an article. (The sections I didn't touch were sections I didn't get to, not sections I thought were okay.) Two further things: hopefully I'll check back in later today or tomorrow. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "What sort of technical assistance they required is unknown." This fact tag should stay I think. You may not know what technical assistance they required, but that does not mean it is unknown.
 * "a Peace Corps officer was deported from Gabon for trying to stop it from becoming a show election." the vague part wasn't fixed. What does "trying to stop it from being a show election" mean?
 * No, you only addressed the specific examples Tony listed, which were symptomatic of a problem throughout the article. I might remove the technical assistance thing, because I can't really make anything of it either and it doesn't seem that important to the text. And it is vague because what did he do that he was deported for? Was he speaking out against the regime? Etc. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

A gutful
I've had a gutful this week Ed on here. The cynicism and accusation thing seems to be getting worse. I've now been accused of disruption for creating referenced content on a notable condition because I indicated that I wanted to see how long the article would survive by itself before merging it. If ever I was on a downer about the wikipedia community it is now. The negative seems to outweight the positive most of the time in all but content. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 11:48, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you please check this out?
Hello again! Sorry to bother, but can you please review the August 28 DYK entry for Czesława Kwoka? It appears someone is trying to deny the entry based on "unwritten rules" that do not appear to be part of the official DYK policy. If the entry passes, as per the DYK rules, can you please verify that? Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 18:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, someone got there already with the green checky-thing. But thanks, again, for listening.  I hope the day is a good one for you! Ecoleetage (talk) 19:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK!
Thank you for your contributions! ^o^ - Mailer Diablo 01:20, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny
I wondered if you wanted to make an FA push on FHB any time soon. This would require serious copyediting and focused attention on the article. When preparing an article for FAC, I have found that it is often a good idea to spend some intense time preparing it. Do we want to commit about three weeks to this project during September? Awadewit (talk) 17:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Your NPWatcher application
Dear Editorofthewiki,

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Nepal
Hi Editor/ You;ve been very quiet the last few days!! Just to let you know I;ve discovered that our villages and towns also constitute municipalities. See my work on Dhanusa District I 've begun adding is a town and municipality in etc/ Also can you follow the exmaple of adding the external link to the map of the district to find the location. Cheers <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One      <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 19:59, 31 August 2008 (UTC)