User talk:Ernst Stavro Blofeld~enwiki/ArchiveJan2008

Happy new year
Lets hope 2008 is a good one and we make some money. King of the  North East 13:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Leyssard image
I am sorry. I just removed it because there was no image there. That was my mistake. Captain panda  14:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Best wishes for the forthcoming year! Universal Hero (talk) 17:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Salminen.jpg
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French commune pages
While I appreciate that you are adding articles about French communes, such as Polliat, please do not add in the "demographic evolution" graphs for these reasons: Maybe it would be better anyway to just add the link to the data. « D Trebbien ( talk ) 20:47 2008 January 1 (UTC)
 * 1) The axes are unlabeled.
 * 2) It makes the format of the French commune articles inconsistent with many other articles about small communities; the other articles don't have them.
 * 3) They are nearly impossible to maintain as they are constantly changing.
 * 4) They are not SVGs, even though they could be.
 * 5) No source of the data has been provided.


 * Do you speak Dutch? I don't know if that page on nl.wikipedia.org gives its source. « D Trebbien ( talk ) 20:54 2008 January 1 (UTC)


 * Hmm. I didn't know about the  &lt;timeline&gt;  feature. Maybe this would be alright, after all. I thought these were images that had to be edited or re-generated every time the data changed. « D Trebbien ( talk ) 20:56 2008 January 1 (UTC)

INSEE seems fine. Do you think the vertical axis is in thousands? « D Trebbien ( talk ) 21:07 2008 January 1 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I see that it is not. 1 means one person. « D Trebbien ( talk ) 21:08 2008 January 1 (UTC)

Referencing the site would be good. Thank you for your work. « D Trebbien ( talk ) 21:18 2008 January 1 (UTC)

I'm back
Thanks for the heads up - I've initiated conversations regarding the Korean project. (I'm a bit amused, because I very nearly started a Korean film task force shortly before I left, but thought better of it without any prior editor requests.) Good luck with the large cinemas you're getting ready to attack; I'm still working on tagging the relevant French and Italian articles! Btw, where did we leave off with discussions about the Biography stuff? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

My best wishes
Have a great year, my friend Blof! :) Well the only difference between me and this user is that he has no contribs at all... LOL! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  23:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


 * How are you Blof? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha ha ha didn't notice it LOL... Sexy Johnny Lever????? I don't know who this anon is, but he's crazy that's for sure. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:38, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Here's wishing you a happy and successful new year.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 23:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Page moves...
Please be aware that when you move pages, fair use rationales for non-free images need to be updated or the over zealous bots won't recognize back links.

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Rash of image deletion notices
Hi, Blofeld, and Happy New Year! Do you have any idea what's up with the recent outbreak of deletion notices for film poster images? Yesterday I uploaded some and got a "No Rationale" note on images which clearly had rationales. Image:Out to the World.jpg and Image:A Fine, Windy Day.jpg. Today I see several film articles with warnings that their posters are about to be deleted, yet no notice at the image: Talk:Happy End (film) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film) for example. What's up? Are the bots going crazy and taking over? Dekkappai (talk) 18:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:L'imperatorediCapri.jpg
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WikiProject Films December 2007 Newsletter
The December 2007 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominees
There was an older discussion Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 12 regarding this. There were two requests on 12/7/07 for speedy deletion; It was deleted by User:Lid on 12/7/07. The odd thing is I don't see a recreation of the category between 12/7 and 12/10, when it was de-populated and again requested for speedy deletion.

I'm assuming that you're wanting to recreate the category... if so, I think the best route would be taking it to Deletion review so that there won't be a question in the future about it's existence. Let me know if you take this route, I'll put my 2 cents in about it. SkierRMH ( talk ) 22:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

New pages
Hello. I know what you think but it is technically impossible to do that. Current state is also equal in the sense that it not advantages or disadvantages any user. It is just a plain technical list. -- Darwinek (talk) 12:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems my edits are not yellow, right. To be honest with you, I haven't watched new pages for a looong time, so the new technical changes gone out of me. - Darwinek (talk) 12:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That is exactly what I was talking about. Therefore it is better to map developed countries first. You are from Wales, if I recall it correctly, right? - Darwinek (talk) 13:20, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

So what do you think about Plaid Cymru? We've been talking about it recently at the university, following the SNP success in the elections and rise of their popularity in Scotland. - Darwinek (talk) 13:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ...
Thanks for your speedy work on the Lake Siskiyou stub! You beat me to it, and your assistance is appreciated! NorCalHistory (talk) 18:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm confused...
what $100 thing are you referring to? Remember (talk) 22:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know what's going on with Danny's contest. I tried to give him $100 but he wouldn't take it (See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Danny&diff=prev&oldid=174891502).  I never heard anything from him again.  So you'll have to ask him yourself. Remember (talk) 22:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Remember (talk) 22:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Tamil/Telugu films question
Hello Blofeld, long time no talk! Obviously I've been away from Wiki for a long time and am now back (more or less within the next month) and ready to get back to editing and WP:INCINE. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know of a discussion that has been posted at WT:INCINE. You may be able to clarify the issue. Thanks, Ekantik talk 15:10, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure i will contribute
I am from Andhra pradesh so was interested to contribute about telugu films. wikipedia helped me a lot to find about just anything i wanted, so i always want to contribute to it. I am not a movie buff but the information about Indian films is really not adequate so wanted to write something about them. Your right about IMDB, despite being most comprehensive movie database in the world, it doesn't have all the movies. i have tried searching in other databases, but no database in internet lists every single movie released in India. I wonder if even our Govt has the archives or not. --Ajay ijn (talk) 15:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

i feel exactly the same way about adding those templates in the bottom of every film page. I will try to the add templates to as many telugu films as possible. --Ajay ijn (talk) 16:20, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Even i have the confusion about when to begin the year of telugu films. dun have much of knowledge about films in past. But how many movies per year do you think should be needed in miniumum to create a seperate article?, may be we will have to depend on IMDB for the information. --Ajay ijn (talk) 16:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Telugu films template
I'm working on adding Telugu films on a yearly basis. For now, I created the pages of 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and will be working on films thereafter based on how many were made each year. If the articles expand with more films from these years, individual year pages can be added. Since, the list of films during the era of 1930s - 1960s is not that elaborate, having yearly pages would not really be appropriate. Based on what I gather in the next few days, I would be making the necessary changes in the Tollywood template as well. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 16:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Naming as "Telugu films of 19xx" sounds perfect for me. Since we did not really have a consensus on this, I just went with the Bollywood-based naming convention. If this could be changed, you may please do so. I really have little idea on these nitty-gritties. If about 20 films can be included in an article of a year, then right from 1960 onwards, I know there are films consistently made over 20 in number. Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 16:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I am presently active and if the necessary article name changes are made, I shall continue with the edits. I have a whole bunch of years to do: 1940s, 1950s, and 196x onwards to do! :) 1930s is pretty much done. Maybe you can have a look at it, if you have not already done so. Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 16:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

i agree, it should be telugu films instead of tollywood.--Ajay ijn (talk) 16:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds perfect! Thanks and regards, Mspraveen (talk) 16:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

exactly i agree with you, we should first expand the pre-2000s lists and then take the decision about which decade lists to split into year. BTW do you guyz know that heated dicussion between an Indian & a chinese member in the discussion of 1962 Indo-China war was so serious that the news got into one Indian newspaper DNA India. Read this Sino-Indian war breaks out on Wikipedia its really splendid to read such wiki articles. --Ajay ijn (talk) 17:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your words! Well, I just finished the list of 1940s and once I entered 1950, I realized that the number of films is steadily over 20. You mentioned 20 films/year for a new article, but 20 films will be shorter that the Template:Indianfilmlist. Most of Bollywood yearly films from 1961 have more than 20 articles, say even 40. What is the usual mandate of the number of films for a new article? Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 19:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Here is my source: Telugu Films It looks fairly correct with its content atleast to me. Your thoughts? I shall be updating the 50s decade and thereafter yearly from 1960. I could manage no other source and it is pretty pitiable that we don't really have totally verifiable database. Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 02:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your nice words about the Sivaji article. About Tamil films template, hmm..I could do so, but, with my affiliation to Telugu, I can do and check for any errors with earnest as well. However, if I find a good source for Tamil movies, I shall attempt that. For the Telugu films template, I've finished until 1961. Whats keeping you busy nowadays? Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 13:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Blofeld! I've a quick question that I asked Shahid as well. I guess, he is busy.

I've never done a DYK submission before. I wanted to submit a DYK about a Telugu actor for having done more than 750 films which earned him a Guinness World Record (GWR). I was not sure if facts from GWR could be submitted as entries. Any ideas? Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 14:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Trungpa Rinpoche
Are you sure that picture you recently uploaded is really Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Chögyam_Trungpa.jpg)? Where did you find it? I've seen some pictures of him in robes as a teenager before, but that one doesn't look him to me... Thanks! - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see Kunga Dawa (aka Richard Arthure) took that picture. That's authoritative! I'll add this caption to the image page: "Photo taken by Richard Arthure in 1968 during retreat at Paro Taksang BHUTAN Not intended for commercial use.Richard Arthure 1968 ©" - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see what you mean about the copyright. If I were to pick one I'd go with one of these:   . the first one is now the official picture on shambhala shrines, the most definitive. The second was the previous definitive picture. Both were taken during his prime. The third is unattributed and from his early years. And the fourth I suspect taken when he escaped to india. Which do you think would work better from a fair use argument? - Owlmonkey (talk) 18:17, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ya, let's swap it. Any of those would be good. I'm not sure if any would be more or less likely to magnetize a copyright complaint. I doubt any would really because none are controversial, they're all just thumbnails, and they're attractive. If you posted one of him in a military uniform, like that might cause a stir though... just because it would be harder for people to understand. - Owlmonkey (talk) 18:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good! - Owlmonkey (talk) 18:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the invite to the Tibet project. I'm honored to help, and I will. Though my time is somewhat limited, I'm working now also on another wiki project to collect references and citations on terms in Shambhala content (transcripts and books mostly) that I hope will help here and help generally. I just started that two weeks ago. That site is here, I'm basing it off MediaWiki software as well. - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I see where you're going with the template. I'm heading to take the kids to the zoo this afternoon, but can look at it more later or tomorrow. You're really getting a lot done here! That's awesome! - Owlmonkey (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Townships of Mandalay Division
Just an FYI that i closed this TfD discussion as the concerns @ nomination were clearly addressed. SkierRMH ( talk ) 22:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Tibetan Buddhism template
Dear Ernst: Thank you very much for all the fine work you have put into the new Tibetan Buddhism template. Of course I am thrilled and honoured that you have chosen one of my photos to include in it (although I am aware that it may well be changed from time to time - it does catch one's attention - doesn't it?). I also agree that there is a need for a separate template for Tibetan Buddhism as it is really quite different than other forms of Buddhism - especially Theravadin Buddhism.

Now, I really like what you have done - so please don't take any comments as critical - they are just suggestions. First, while I love the colours you have chosen, the dark blue on mauve is sometimes really hard to read. Please keep the mauve - it is is so evocative of Tibetan Buddhism (robes of the monks, etc.) - but it may be necessary to use black writing on the mauve sections to make it easily readable. What do you think?

Under "Key concepts" I would add Bodhisattva. Under "Major figures" I would add Karmapa Lama. Under "Practices" I would add tantric yoga. Under "Texts" I would add Kangyur and Tengyur.

Finally, I would change "Monasteries" and "Festivals" to "Major Monasteries" and "Major Festivals" so we don't get overloaded in the boxes.

Please let me know what you think about these suggestions. Oh, and by the way, on the 13th Jo (who is now finally retired - hurray!) and I will be leaving for a driving trip to the beautiful Atherton Tablelands to the south of us to visit friends and visit all the tourist attractions - something we have never done before. We expect to be away for about 3 weeks and using other peoples' computers at times - so I will only be able to check mail and do minor things until I get back.

All best wishes - and thanks again for all the very valuable work you have been doing - especially on Tibetan topics. John Hill (talk) 00:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments this morning (it is always great to wake up and find a note from you!). I do hope you can get the black to work on the maroon as I do think it would be much clearer. On second thought, perhaps gold or bright yellow would work all right????? That would certainly give it all in "Tibetan colours"!


 * Yes, I agree it is very appropriate to have Padmasambhava's image in the box. However, in all modesty, if I may say so myself, I do think the earlier photo of mine catches the eye better than the later one - especially as the image is quite small in the box. I think the main idea should be to grab the reader's attention. It is also clearer and less cluttered - but I hesitate giving you more work to do to change the photos again. Whatever you decide, please let me know what you think.


 * BTW, do have a look at the notes I added yesterday to the article on Bon under the heading: "Recognition and equality of Bon as one of the five main spiritual Schools of Tibet", and let me know if you have any comments.


 * I have just been looking through some of the edits you did yesterday. You certainly are busy! I send you my thanks and very best wishes. Cheers! John Hill (talk) 10:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello Mister
It's been a long time now we haven't talked... How are you? I just created the article for the critically acclaimed film Krantiveer, and then for the director of the film, Mehul Kumar. What do you say? And what are you doing these days? Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Great work as always:)
 * Yeh John is making some copyedits on a separate article, which is great because in doing so the goal can be achieved very very soon.
 * I wish I could take some of the two recently created articles to DYK, but I just don't know how... I can't think of good DYK questions LOL. Please talk2me when possible, regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Museums
I'm looking at improving the contents part. It should become a key and a navbox.

Then I think the page can be suitably wrappped up with no-includes and transcluded back, repurposing the content,

Of course the original problem where the number of icons exceeded the ability or desire of the engine to serve them still exists, but we can possibly use regional pages, as I suggested in talk.

Rich Farmbrough, 15:55 7 January 2008 (GMT).


 * Well, look at List of museums in Oklahoma, compared with my test List of museums in Alabama. Also there is in my mind, a question of whether there's a level of notability where a museum should be in the U.S. list, and below which it should be in a state list.  Lots to think about. Are you any-good with clickable image maps? I'm trying to re-factor the generic clickable US stateTOC, to make a more useful tool. Possibly someone has already done it of course...  Rich Farmbrough, 16:05 7 January 2008 (GMT).


 * Absolutely fine by me, if the content can be generated. I should stress I only got involved in this page today, because of a stray Ambox on it! Rich Farmbrough, 16:17 7 January 2008 (GMT).

Splitting up List of museums in the United States
I thought it was good as one big article too but there were a couple of problems that myself and others have run into while working on it. There were so many museums that we could not put an icon on each on because of a limitation of Wikimedia. Also the page was recommended to be split because of its huge size. And also the page really took a long time to load for most people.

Our solution was to split the article up so each state has its own article. I have designed the US Map at the top of all the articles such that you can click it and it will go directly to the appropriate article. In order to do this, I have made a TOC template so I can make a change at one place and it will affect all of the articles. The only tricky thing at this point is that the TOC template must be modified for each state that is split off onto a new article. This is why at this exact moment if you're, say, in the California article and you click Alaska on the map, it will bring you to the main US article and anchor you to the Alaska section where you would have to click the link to go to the Alaska page. When I fix the TOC template (in several minutes), it will go directly to the correct article skipping all that nonsense.

I believe that when every article has been split properly, we may decide to remove all the state sections from the main US article leaving just the stuff that's currently at the bottom.

Feel free to read and take part in the discussion here:

Talk:List_of_museums_in_the_United_States

Thanks, Ben —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 16:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

That looks good to me if you would like to go in and make those changes but that would be way too much work for me to do. You do present a good point, though. Because the museum pages are so much shorter now, that's a lot more feasible as far as how it will affect the size of the article and how much better it would look.

I say go for it if you have the time and patience. I have neither for that myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 16:18, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem formatting the current data into tables, if that would be useful.  However like yourselves I have not the time to fill in al the details - perhaps we should do it, and rely on various statians to fill the gaps.  Rich Farmbrough, 16:35 7 January 2008 (GMT).


 * I don't think that it's completely necessary to embellish these articles so much because they are list articles. I have been working on adding an icon to each museum to identify what type of museum it is and I think that this is more than enough information for a list.  I like the icons because you can tell at a glance what type of museum it is.  I agree that it would be much better to use your format, but I wouldn't enjoy doing it at all.


 * Right now, if the link is blue, you can click it to see a whole article on that museum and if it is red, you can click it if you have something you'd like to contribute. And that's the way that most list articles are intended to work.  Just for organization of real Wikipedia articles.  List articles do not need to be encyclopedic like ordinary Wikipedia articles.  It's like a directory or an index.
 * Ben Boldt (talk) 17:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Changing TOC templates on list of museums state pages
My plan was to use the template that had the clickable map on each list of museums page. This is what I had in mind when I made that TOC. We need to come to an agreement before you make that change. I believe that it should be the way that it was before.

The old TOC allows for the transition we are in. All links on the old TOC started out by linking directly to the main US page and going to the appropriate anchor link of that state. As new articles are split out, the old TOC would be updated to go directly to the new page(s). Eventually, when all the pages are split, the old TOC will work like the new TOC template you made.

I understand that the template with the map is large but I believe that it is easier to use and looks fairly decent. Please discuss this on the main US list of museums talk page with me before proceeding with your new template. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 18:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

These lists are organizational only. They are not for informational purposes. The large header allows you to easily click a different state. This is important because all of the states are in the same level of hierarchy. And you have confirmed this by creating a new similar template. The only differences are that your method now requires 2 templates, yours has no map, and your states are not neatly aligned in 5 columns of 10. I am going to revert all of your changes until we can get enough people to support them. I do not agree with a single thing you have done. We will come to a consensus this way and there will be no dispute as to how it should be done.

I am not offended nor am I trying to be offensive. I am trying to do what is best for these articles, organization-wise and I think that the changes you are making are not necessary and are actually making things less organized. Please discuss this on the talk page of the main list of museums in the US page so we can have an audience. Ben Boldt (talk) 18:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Please stop editing temporarily.
We need to stop making changes and talk about things for a while. Let's just take a break and see what we can figure out. We should come up with a detailed plan first, then carry it out. Right now I can hardly keep up with what you are doing. I have undone a lot of your edits just to give us some time to discuss and think about what we want so we can come to an agreement. I mean no hostility by undoing your work.

I had to undo what you did to the old template too because you had defeated the purpose of the transition. With the old template, all links can remain blue during the transition. The links should be changed only after the new article has been created. Ben Boldt (talk) 19:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Map Picture from Book
Hi friend, Thank you for helping me. Now I have a troble. I dont know how can I upload the map pictures for division and states, their disticts and township and cities. Can you tell me how can I upload?--Ekyaw (talk) 19:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC) they are from scanner copy. Yes in my country now government is establishing the law of patent. This images are sanned from the book published by Government of Union of Myanmar for Public and there is nothing about copyright. (In my country most private book have copyright). For example, in book of Myanmar-English Dictionary, at begin there is words "Copyright by Department of Myanmar Language Group". So I think they can't be copyrighted.--Ekyaw (talk) 03:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I left a message at User talk:Ekyaw - I think that the best alternative right now is to use a modified PD-because like I spelled out on his talk page. If you have any better solutions, the input would probably be appreciated.  SkierRMH  ( talk ) 07:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

This is not the right place
Please discuss design issues here so everyone can play a part:

Talk:List_of_museums_in_the_United_States

Clearly state what changes you would like to make and why. Then I will discuss whether I agree or disagree and why. From there other people can state what they think. Maybe this way we will find the best solution. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 19:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Fred West
Erm......no it's not. It's lyrics to Bloc Party.  WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN play it cool.  ☆ 20:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Redundancies
I'll be happy to get them all out at the end. No problem. I appreciate your work. I have been one of the only people really working on this list for a long time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 20:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Mixed messages and thanks
I am really sorry if I have been sending you mixed messages. It's probably because I am mixed up - but I am too mixed up to tell - so I'll have to let you decide on that one. ;^) Thanks so much for reinserting the original photo - it really does catch one's attention - which, of course, is exactly what an image of Padmasambhava should do. Apologies again for all the confusion. Best wishes. John Hill (talk) 22:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I have just had a good look at the box. It is a shame you had to lighten the maroon - but it really does make it all far more legible. You really have been busy! Thanks for everything - you have, indeed, provided a fabulous service to all readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism. Now, I've got to stop procrastinating and write my latest column for the Japanese on-line magazine Groovin' High! Thanks again, mate! John Hill (talk) 22:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Adminship
Someone needs to be able to work on the protected frickin' project templates, and that's why I finally gave in. Someone also revised, reasonably, it appears, the Africa template to remove the work groups. I saw the results and agree. It'll take a while, but I'll revise the banner myself in a few days, I hope. Right now I'm trying to actually work on the Zinta revision, believe it or not. :) John Carter (talk) 22:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Groovin' High
Hi again! Yeah, do have a look at the magazine (fortunately, all the controls are marked in English so it is easy to navigate). I think you would really enjoy it - it is focussed on young (20-30) urban Japanese with an emphasis on travel and music. Anyway, the main page can be accessed at: http://www.groovinhigh.jp/ If you want to have a peep at my first column (which is in both Japanese and English and contains some photos of my home and its more interesting inhabitants), then click on "Journal" and then on "Index", and then on the photo of the old bald and bearded man. This, along with my Wikipedia help keep me occupied when I am not working on my more "serious" studies and research. Hope you enjoy it! John Hill (talk) 22:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Myanmar motion pictures
Hey. I've been preoccupied lately starting a new Thai film blog, but once I've got it fixed up to my satisfaction, I hope to be making more contributions here. Nonetheless, I photoshopped the museum photo to remove the date stamp. I also want to migrate it to Commons. Just to clarify, the statue in front is the Myanma Academy Award? Once it's migrated, I'll do a crop.

Also, I haven't forgotten about the film icons for South Africa and the Soviet Union. I wanted to try and work them up in SVG format and am not quite ready to give up on that idea. — WiseKwai 05:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

curious
Why did you change? Why do you want the image deleted completely?--Rockfang (talk) 11:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

List of museums in the US system
I'm going to use at the top of each page. This currently contains the map but we can change that at the template level until we find something we agree on. I was thinking I could make the map collapsible so it will collapse down to look like the one you made and somehow remember to be collapsed from page to page. I'm just using the old map one for now to get it working.

Thanks for your work! I have removed the icon key. I agree that icons no longer are very useful. Ben Boldt (talk) 15:10, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

No, no - I'm not reverting anything! I like what you did a lot! The map is what will be the navigation from page to page. I'm going to add that on to what you did, then we can change the navigation to a style that suits us both just by editing the template.

Ben Boldt (talk) 15:13, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

All that I have to do to get the navigation working is to add this code to the top of each page:

I can do this in a relatively short period of time. Ben Boldt (talk) 15:16, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Upon further inspection, I like the way you used down at the bottom. It's more Wikipedia-like than the big map I made.

Could we use the big map just on the main US page and then leave the individual state pages just as they are? I would like to have it somewhere because it took me FOREVER to make it as perfect as it is. Notice that it's even an SVG (vector) image. It can be scaled to any size and not ever loose quality.

Ben Boldt (talk) 15:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I would like to congratulate you on a job well done. I think these pages are looking great. I was not looking forward to doing all of this and you did it in a matter of hours! You introduced new perspectives that I would not have seen on my own. I would never have thought to put the navigation on the bottom but that's where it really belongs. I would never have used tables. Again, good job. I look forward to seeing more of these tables you're working on.

Ben Boldt (talk) 15:53, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Zinta draft
Well, the possible copyedit of Preity Zinta is now done at User:Warlordjohncarter/Preity Zinta. There are still a few questions in my eyes regarding the phrasing, but it might be a good idea to review the existing changes before discussing anything else. John Carter (talk) 18:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Template:Townships of Ayeyawady Division
It looks like he did create the template with the TfD notification from the first edit. There is no deletion history for it under that title, and the TfD page doesn't show any attempts at adding it into the mix. This happens once in a while, there are a couple of us that go through the TfD category just to make sure these inadvertent goofs don't sit around too long. SkierRMH ( talk ) 23:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Template colours
The template has so bright colours. Can the colours be replaced by some other more soothing colours, which are reflective of Tibetian Buddhism???? Even the Image:Dharma wheel.svg is not clearly visible. Maybe a dark maroon red similar to Padmasambhava's robe is better suited. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 07:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I beg to differ from the above suggestion. I thought I should add here that I like the colours. Tibetan Buddhists use lots of bright colours in their temples, tangkhas, statues, prayer flags, etc. Have a look at Tibetan tangkhas - they are often deliberately designed to catch and hold your attention (check out the eyes in the statue of Padmasambhava in the box and on many large stupas). Tibet is full of intense colour - many visitors remark on it - I think it is partly because of the high altitude and generally sunny weather - and it certainly carries over into the artwork. Finally, I think the maroon background is particularly evocative as it is the colour used for monks' robes. Cheers, John Hill (talk) 09:32, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I liked the dark maroon, used in earlier version. I suggest it looks better as its not very bright. Maybe the colour of the writing can be changed? --Redtigerxyz (talk) 11:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * IMO, white on dark maroon will look good.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 11:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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Flickr
It doesn't happen to me also... I can save images properly... What's the problem? Maybe it's your comp... How are you? Shahid •  Talk 2 me  13:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

OHHH I also have the same blank... When you asked me, I saved Zinta's image and it's fine but this one comes out as blank! Maybe the problem occurs with this particular image? Have you tried other images? Shahid •  Talk 2 me  14:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha ha ha not really!! Just kidding, of course... Just wish the next FA would not be full of our lovely POV pushers! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Renaming templates
Please use the "move" tab instead of cutting and pasting, as you did at Template:Mon State. I have merged the edit histories so the original author gets fair attribution. Happy editing, Kusma (talk) 13:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Top Secret!
Haha, I didn't do it purposely against you or anything! :), It's just well, not policy but preferred to have the poster instead of the dvd cover for more of a historical state for films. I'll try to find a crease-less copy of that one. Cheers. Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Ok..... I will get those pics up as soon as possible......

Good luck on the rocking out..... I've been sick so I've been out for quite some time now...... Still sick but kicking at least.......

Rianon Burnet 16:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Category
Good idea, thank you. With the extant list, one can find most of the these in a single location anyway, and it definitely helps to break down the category by subdivision. John Carter (talk) 19:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Kazakhstan
It did, but they've since been reverted. That banner's in line, believe me. If I can finish the Africa Project banner, today, that's the next one. John Carter (talk) 20:05, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Regarding separate banners, honestly, that might not be a bad idea, except possibly in cases when an article deals with a subject related to more than one country, in which case there would probably be a lot of banners on those pages, which is frowned on. Also, while I personally hope just as much as you that there's no reason not for each group to become active, one of the problems we'll probably face is having those projects be declared inactive, and have them proposed for merger into a larger project later. A few US state projects are already inactive, and that surprises me more than a little, given the number of American editors we have. If we start them as work groups, they also hopefully might draw more editors to the parent project, which would probably help as well. I wouldn't mind adjusting the banners in the future to maintain entirely separate projects, though. And, regarding the Central Asia banner, someone didn't like how it changed the importance parameters. I've noted the India project banner has separate importance rankings for main project and work group, and I'm going to try to adjust it for use for Central Asia. That would probably ensure that it doesn't get reverted again in the future. And, with luck, I can probably change some of the other multicountry banners like that as well. John Carter (talk) 20:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the Burma article edits
It was only for a short period of time I was actually looking, and I saw his/her name come up an awful lot, creating relevant, new, articles. If I see yours start to come up, you'll certainly be in line for a barnstar too, friend. Ase nine  (talk) (contribs)  10:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Being a native English speaker and a GCSE English grad, I would be happy to correct any articles with broken English you come across? Ase  nine  (talk) (contribs)  12:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, right. And good job on that template. Ase  nine  (talk) (contribs)  12:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Article
Yes I need to change the correct coordinates of most cities in Myanmar. I searched in http://www.maplandia.com/ but my computer is not good may be memory error so I cannot get the data. Can u help someting?--Ekyaw (talk) 11:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC) do u receive my feedback? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekyaw (talk • contribs) 11:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC) See PaTheinGyi need to add coordinates but i this <-- --> but there is something wrong. I dont know how to talk about this wrong he he--Ekyaw (talk) 12:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC) what is mean of in the!!!!--Ekyaw (talk) 12:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC) Phawbwe is between Thazi and Yamethin. --Ekyaw (talk) 13:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry this is my mistakes Pyawbwe is correct. Thank you for your coperation. In Mandalay Division, there is double names in some towns. But Now mostly is correct. Some wrong name must delete. For eg. Phawbwe How can I delete? --Ekyaw (talk) 13:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC) I cannot think because Pyawbwe in Pyawbwe Township and Natogyi] in Natogyi Township is 80 miles away directly. But the coordiante is very near. 20° 35' 0" North, 96° 4' 0" East for [[Pyawbwe and 21° 25' 0" North, 95° 39' 0" East for Natogyi. Why? Do u know? --Ekyaw (talk) 14:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Another one is I did not find the Pyawbwe, Natogyi, Mandalay Division in list of villages, towns in Natogyi Township. How do u think? Is http://www.maplandia.com/burma/mandalay/natogyi/natogyi/ correct?--Ekyaw (talk) 14:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thazi
In Thazi search on http://www.maplandia.com/search/, I found place location country search results for thazi So I checked out first one Thazi Myitha, Mandalay Burma. But it is not found in list of towns and villages in Myittha, Myittha Township, Mandalay Division But I found two villages same as Pyawbwe, Myittha Township, Mandalay Division and, Katha, Myittha Township So I think http://www.maplandia.com/ is something wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekyaw (talk • contribs) 14:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC) I have the list of villages in burmese language so I am afraid to translate to english. There are so many. So I check this so many village later. for eg, Kyaukse is many location in Myanmar. I will continue towns and townships and districts lol--Ekyaw (talk) 14:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Burma-geo-stub split
And I don't much care that you don't care: the stub guidelines are very clear on that point. See previous reply. Alai (talk) 15:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If they're growing rapidly, it's never too early to think about doing it. But like I said last time, do it with upmerged templates for the time being.  Until there's 60 for each potentially sub-type, don't create undersized categories.  Alai (talk) 16:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem: I'm sick at the moment, which is doubtless augmenting my inherent grumpiness. I'll mention it at WSS/P, and create the upmerged templates once my head is less feverish and pounding. Alai (talk) 21:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Concerning Horizon International Education Center
I've restored the article and put it here. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 16:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I shall leave it where it is for now, perhaps for somebody to work upon it; it can be moved back to mainspace some time in the future. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 16:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Momauk
See Momauk in http://www.maplandia.com/search/#form-2 u will see two result but the same name but different location????????--Ekyaw (talk) 18:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Burma
That was just a suggestion because it a proper encyclopedic look will be achieved by complete articles. This stubs are expanded rarely, that is why the suggestion. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 18:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Burmese geo stubs
The deleted version of the page only contained two words "Bawlakhe District". It wasn't a matter of patience, there was simply no context to judge the subject fairly at all. That said, I have no problem with the current stub. Regards, PeaceNT (talk) 19:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Vietnam image
Very nice image. Great coloring. Maybe non-neutral (most things don't look that good naturally), but certainly very much contributes to the page, and certainly artistically. If you've got more of them, keep 'em coming. John Carter (talk) 20:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Image use question
User:GeeAlice has contacted Jaron Lanier and seemingly gotten his permission, as the subject, to use an image from his website through e-mail. I don't know a bloody thing about whom that editor should contact to let them know about that, though. I hope you do. The current conversation is at User talk:GeeAlice. Oh, and about the Mexico Project, it's getting assessments now. When I'm done finishing the categories, I'm going to ask for a bot to tag the articles as well. John Carter (talk) 22:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Stub
Yes I am going to do townships, districts, villages for all divisions and states in Myannar. Pease wait sorry I can not reply quickly coz I went back to home and had dinner. After that now I am surfing computer. Did u finish dinner? --Ekyaw (talk) 13:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Reply
Not a big deal friend! We'll wait... I'm actually very confident about the article, it's well written, well-referenced, very neutral (if you compare the versions, you'll see how much LOL), comprehensive, and above all -- it's only a GA. How have you been? What are you doing today? -- Shahid •  Talk 2 me  13:37, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * He is very busy these days, so am I...
 * Who is this user?  Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha ha ha ha!!! Brilliant article! LOL! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've seen all Zinta's films. I see almost every Bollywood film, I watch them weekly... But what specific film are you talking about? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh yeh but she had only a cameo there...
 * Preity has turned quite artsy and choosy these days, and now mainly works in art films...
 * Ohhhhhhhhhhh Goddddd see these images SHE'S SO HOTTT


 * Isn't she? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:43, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha ha ha LOL!! Sorry but when it comes to Preity I can't contain myself... If you think she looks good in green so see this one,
 * What do you think? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * HA HA LOL I knew you would come drooling too... Exactly she is amazing in that way!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * WOW you're really right!!! It suits her very much particularly with her skin colour. Great observation :) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * On the other hand, you will be shocked to see her here... But IMO, she looks great in tradional clothes as well. I like it when she wears sarees... It is her first art film, The Last Lear. And she has apparently completed her Canadian/Punjabi film Heaven on Earth. She plays a battered wife. She found it very difficult to play such a complex role, it had really stressed her . But nevertheless, an actor is an actor, and you can't do always commercial films. You have to prove yourself further. And I'm so happy that internationally recognised Deepa Mehta, whose last film was nominated for an Oscar, cast herin that film. What do you think? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:34, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeh LOL he plays a 70-yrs-old Shakespearean failed actor, and Zinta plays his co-star. I can't wait for this film... It was showcased in Toronto, London, Goa and several other festivals, but its domestic release has been delayed for some unknown reasons... It is scheduled for release this February or March... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Of BTW I have excellent news, boxofficeindia has been completely updated and renewed... They have expanded with more details their "disclaimer", "Privacy Policy" and "about us" pages, and now it looks even more than reliable. I think nobody will question its reliability further... Even the "You asked it" section is updated... What do you say buddy??? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh Blof that was a good one LOL!!! He he he!!!
 * Just found out that someone has uploaded all the parts of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke. Everytime I see the end, I'm so excited; just like EVERYBODY was saying, Preity stole the show in a big way, the film clearly belongs to her even though she is the supporting actress. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Please elaborate. Didn't get your message... Going throgh this article, I don't get to whom you are referring... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oohh bbbhahaha... didn't notice the image... And I was thinking whom are you referring to... OK now I get LOL... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a great news!!! I'm very happy for you... Congrats, as always you're doing the best work on here... :) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm well, and I'm particularly happy to see YOU so happy. It makes me feel so honoured that a brilliant editor like you is my friend. Keep up the great work! You rock!! :) Best wishes and regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You're not boring me at all. I'm always very happy to see a new message from you, whatever it is about, and I think this one is a big progress for Wikipedia. Imagine to yourself, what a happiness it would be if we met some guy who permanently meets Bollywood stars at press conferences, award functions and events, takes photos and uploads them on flickr... Ha ha ha... a sweet dream... LOL. But we have Bollywoodblog, which is great. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh that's really a wild dream.. Yeh who knows.. You may not know, but HOT actress Ayesha Takia was even registered on Wikipedia too!!! See User: Ayesha Takia. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Are these images the ones of this guy from flicke! Great huh! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha Ha Ha Ha I'm killed LOLLLLL you're soooo funny Blof!!!! Huh... I think the matter is that he helps you with the images, which is great because copyright issues are so bothering... I would be so happy if Wikipedia permitted the usage of every photo that comes from the net... LOL... Btw, did you notice my last message when I told you that I hottie Ayesha Takia was registered on Wikipedia as User: Ayesha Takia? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh yeh she is very very attractive!! But who knows I personally do believe that it is Ayesha because of her edits, but it doesn't really matter...


 * Yeh I see what you're saying... I've gone through several of his upload pages and most of his images are --- images of guys... LOL... But the ones he takes on different landscapes are very beautiful... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL are you kidding me? Is it really the most expensive? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  19:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * He he he I see LOL... No nobody has taken it yet, but as I said, it's not a big deal, we'll wait. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh sorry, didn't notice your message... My watchlist showed Bollywood Dreamz username, so I automatically clicked on the section link in the edit summary...
 * You won't believe this but... I'm also left handed!!!!!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hahahahahahahahaha LOL that's really a pleasure talking to you... Everytime I read your messages I can't stop laughing! Yeh teachers always have the penchant to make a big deal of every insignificant thing. Oh and that's damn incredible the way you have noticed so much of my features during our interaction on here! :) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  23:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Navboxes in filmographies
I've run across a few actor filmographies in which someone has come along and converted to navboxes. I'm a little confused by this, as it seems to me to be in conflict with the goals of the WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers. It also precludes making any notes whatsoever, including roles, and renders the font into a very small format, which is difficult to read. My example is Gene Hackman. We have this collapsible navbox vs. huge and unwieldy awards boxes (which to me seem excessive in this case). What is your take on how to handle any of this? I couldn't find a discussion anywhere that supported the use of navboxes in filmographies. What I've been doing with awards is moving lists of awards into the filmography table and only leaving lesser awards in a list. However, the Hackman article is one of the most excessive awards box collection I've come across. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:01, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll work on it. I've been working through the actors lists (started with the awards section on the list), with a little over 50% of the Academy Award acting awards done. I noted it on the project discussion page. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

No. of Districts, Townships, Cities/Towns, Wards, Village Groups and Villages in Myanmar in December 31 2001
See Myanmar No. of Districts, Townships, Cities/Towns, Wards, Village Groups and Villages in Myanmar in December 31 2001--Ekyaw (talk) 15:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Myanmar Edit
I want to cut down and change the topic like United Kingdom and Singapore is OK? We call UK as Britain but why not incorrect?--Ekyaw (talk) 16:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC) See and In Yangon Division there are missing some township. But dont worry I will complete it or if u know u can. and Morning Good Morning! he he Now in my country there is morning with beautiful.--Ekyaw (talk) 03:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

See Myanmar I add history of Myanmar. So I want to move the follwoing sub heading and content to History of Myanmar Or how do u think?--Ekyaw (talk) 03:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 3.38 Early history
 * 3.39 Bagan (1044–1287)
 * .40 Small kingdoms (1287–1531)
 * 3.41 Taungoo (1531–1752)
 * 3.42 Konbaung (1752–1885)
 * 3.43 Colonial era (1886–1948)
 * 3.44 Democratic Republic (1948–1962)
 * 3.45 Military rule (1962–present)

I also want to move this article in Myanmar to History of Myanmar
 * 9.7 2007 economic protests
 * 9.8 20,000 monks protest —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekyaw (talk • contribs) 03:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

National templates
I've found that the WPBiography includes some code which allows for the replacement of the regular seen banner with a project specific one in some instances. I'm probably going to try to figure out how to adapt that template for the national subprojects. Right now, though, there is the matter of the category list for Mexico tagging to be concerned with. I don't know that I've ever seen so many subcats in my life. I've been at this for about half a day know, but do, finally, think I might be making some headway. John Carter (talk) 17:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone suggested it sounded too belligerent, and they're probably right. I've had some trouble getting any of my thark buddies like Tars Tarkas here down here, so I wasn't able to get Tars to discuss with that person how he might be mistaken. The xenophobia of the police here in the US is getting a little extreme, really. Just because someone's uncommonly tall and rather distinct looking, he can't even walk down the street without people staring at him. Also, unfortunately, Tars' discussion tend to be like the one pictured. John Carter (talk) 18:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure anyone would object to your name really, as it's I think derived from a fictional character, but doesn't have explicitly unfortunate characteristics. If you're really him of course, I wish to offer my highest regards and express my total contempt for the British government for having so often unjustifiably stuck their noses in your business affairs. John Carter (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Evening in Byzantium
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Evening in Byzantium, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add  to the top of Evening in Byzantium. Pinkadelica (talk) 11:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Delicatessen
Why did you offer Bond a delicatessen in For Your Eyes Only? I really don't get it. O_o gren グレン 12:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

King of Baldness
Image:Revival sivaji.png

Blofeld, this is your Superstar promotion. As you may know, Rajnikanth (bald left) is a superstar like you! (also bald) (right!?)...anyway....Keep Rocking. Universal Hero (talk) 13:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Map syntax
hi, sorry for being dim, but I can't figure out the syntax for using the Location map Argentina, perhaps you could put one on Monte Hermoso (in the infobox?) and then I'll copy what you did for other locations. Regards, King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 14:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

They seem good. More correct borders - better maps. --Darwinek (talk) 18:52, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I am a member already, however I am now at the beginning of my exam session, so I spend less time on WP. --Darwinek (talk) 18:57, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Aah, this Pomerania, beautiful part of Poland, where sea swells and wind gently blows through the forests near the beaches and lakes. Lovely region. I love Polish films of course and maybe in the future I will start some articles about Polish actors, so desperately lacking here. - Darwinek (talk) 22:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Photos
Do you know where I can download any free photoshop style software for cropping photos. I don't have anything suitable on my PC. <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 19:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Small is better than nothing, I'll ask a friend if he's got anything useful, but it'll take a few days to get it even if he has.... <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 19:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've found a bit about Tarrío, but there are big gaps, I've no idea when he made his debut for Ferro Carril Oeste (pre-1925) where he played between 1931-1935, and in 1939, his date of birth or place of birth. Also I can only find one club in his managerial career (there must be more). I'll email a few contacts for the birth info, I don't like starting articles with loads of missing info. <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 20:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

List of Zimbabwean films
I'm sort of stymied on this one; there was no prod, no nada as far as I can tell, it was just deleted right after the template. I've restored it, assuming that there was a thought that the one linked to the other. SkierRMH ( talk ) 05:10, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Bolivia
I can't explain why. I guess I thought there was a project in place. I'll set up the categories as soon as I finish with the cat list for Mexico. Thanks for catching the oversight! John Carter (talk) 16:35, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Images of CharlesFred
Hi Blofeld Thanks for uploading various photographs by CharlesFred; but why don't you upload them directly at Wikimedia Commons so that other Wikipedias can use them too? Regards, Béka (talk) 17:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Ghana group
Go ahead and place the banner in as many places as you want, but it might be a good idea to try to ask for a bot to either generate all the subcats of Category:Ghana, to see if they're all relevant, and/or place a request on the Bot requests page for a bot to place the banner on all articles in a given category. It's a lot faster if someone else does it, believe me. And I just found the Category:Mesoamerica, almost all of which seems to be relevant to Mexico. Arrgh. John Carter (talk) 20:18, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope, the lists are generated after the banners are tagged. I've found the template for the Biography project can be adjusted to display the templage image of a work group, specifically for the British royalty group, as seen on Talk:Alburga page. I'm going to try to get the various multi-national banners to function in the same way, but it'll definitely take a bit of time. I also probably should finish the categorization for the Mexico project now, before I forget about it completely. But that's the kind of template I'm going to try to enact for all the multi-national projects. John Carter (talk) 20:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Questions - answers?
Regarding having the banners ready, there might not be a problem, although they might later get deleted. No lists of work group articles yet, though. And regarding automatic assessment, it can be done, and several projects do it already, basically copying an existing assessment or automatic stub assessment of articles using a stub template. It would probably take a specific request to do so for a specific project, though. John Carter (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If one wanted to start, maybe the best place to start would be Central America. Many of those articles are already assessed, just not given the work group tags yet. If you were to file a bot request to tag articles for various work groups by category, Betacommandbot does that fairly well. It just demands listing every category individually. But, with the smaller countries, there might not be that many. Just be careful of categories that overlap national borders; those you'll probably have to go through by hand, like I'm doing with Mesoamerica. Anything you could do would be extremely welcome, though. John Carter (talk) 21:50, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The problem with separate national banners, although I like the idea in general, is taht they will almost certainly be shot down or be argued for merger later. This would be particularly a problem when boundaries are fluid, thus placing locations in more than one country, or for articles which cross national boundaries, thus requiring multiple banners. But it is a reasonable question, and I'm not sure myself of what would be best. I'm going to leave a message on the talk page of the WikiProject Council and ask for some input there. I have a feeling that they might know a lot more about this sort of thing than I do. John Carter (talk) 22:03, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Banners
They are added, as they're constructed right now they're just not displayed in all cases, and you have to hit the "see also" or whatever link at the lower right. I'm still trying to adapt either the Hinduism banner, which shows subprojects as separate templates above the main banner, or the Biography banner as above. That's going to take a while, though. John Carter (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Argentina map
Hi, I've just been looking at the Dutch version nl:Bahía Blanca (stad) and noticed that the infobox is specific to Argentina. I'm going to have a go at figuring out how to add in the best bits of the placebox designed by Pablo Flores (post code & telephone links) with the Dutch version (map generation and inclusion of the IFAM link). I'll let you know how I'm getting on. <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 00:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I just made a few modifications to the infobox on Azul, Buenos Aires Province, its better, but not as good as the Dutch version, if only I could understand Dutch I'd have a better chance of understanding what they've done to create the 2nd map. BTW how come you moved all those pages from xxx, Buenos Aires to xxx, Buenos Aires Province? I'm not sure I agree with the moves because it's not like there are places called Azul or Zárate in Capital Federal so there's not really any need for further clarification. <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 01:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * This is the state of the infobox with Argentina specific parameters used on Tres Isletas. I'll use it on new articles and articles without placeboxes and then go through and replace the old placeboxes at a later date. I think its more important to create new articles for departmental capitals than worry about which type of infobox is being used. Regards, <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 16:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah I can tag em, not sure about how important they are though, maybe mid for cities and 1st level municipalities and low for everything else. Definately stubs though. <font color="#66CCFF">King of the <font color="#FF0000"> North <font color="#66CCFF">East 16:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of Western film actors
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of Western film actors, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/List of Western film actors 2. Thank you. Jeepday (talk) 02:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation‎
Why did they delete this article Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation‎ ? I wrote this artile with my word but delete. why--Ekyaw (talk) 05:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Banner sharing
Um, yes it is; you just need to hit the [show] button next to "Additional information". ;-) Kirill 16:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's on the bottom right of the template on that page. Kirill 16:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Up to the project, I suppose; it's easy enough to default either way. If you have many articles that fall under multiple groups, though, you're likely to see complaints about template bloat if you default the tags to being shown. Kirill 16:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Re
Well, I have no comment on this person. I just sincerely hope he will quit editing one day ... for good. -- Darwinek (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Question on photos from Charles Fred (from Flickr)
I noticed that you uploaded alot of photos from Charles Fred (Flickr user) as GFDL, while most of his photos appear to be various (illegal) CC licenses. Did he Email you this permission and, if so, does WP:OTRS have it? If that's the case, I'm thinking that they should have an OTRS/PermissionRecieved notice on them (Since they've been uploaded to Commons now). Thanx, 68.39.174.238 (talk) 20:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have never met you before, so I certainly can't tell if you're the sort of person to "[...] upload a truckload of images if I didn't have permission to use them[.]". Anyway, something clearly went wrong since they haven't sorted out the tagging. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 12:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks
I swear I'll get to the banners soon now. John Carter (talk) 21:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Alaska Coastal Airlines
I've made a start on the article. Feel free to pitch in! I've not got any books etc. on ACA so it's only about 7k's worth so far. Mjroots (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Have got about as far as I can with this using internet sources. Only thing I haven't done is a google search for all subsequent registrations of N95431.Mjroots (talk) 13:26, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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Charles Fred OTRS query
Hi there, my name is Adambro and I'm an OTRS volunteer. I'm currently working to confirm that permission has been received for a series of images by Charles Fred that you have uploaded so that I can add details of the relevant ticket to the image page. Searching though OTRS, I've not been able to locate the relevant ticket so I'd ask your assistance in doing so. Could you confirm, via an email through Wikipedia to me, the email address you sent it to and the email address you sent it from which will make it easier for me to find your ticket in OTRS and so allow me to resolve this issue. Regards. Adambro (talk) 18:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Hello Blofeld of SPECTRE, I've granted rollback rights to your account. The reason for this is that, after a review of some of your contributions, I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended use of reverting vandalism: I do not believe you will abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck. Acalamari 19:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. :) Yes, you do create a lot of new pages: I think I read somewhere that you have created more new articles than anyone else: impressive work. However, to my knowledge, I don't know of anything that will automatically mark articles you create as patrolled. It's possible that there may be a user script, but I don't know if anyone has written one like that. Acalamari 19:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. Anyway, Shshshsh does a lot of reverts, and many good, but there are some I reviewed which didn't look like vandalism reversion to me and I believe there should have been an explanation to the reverts, see, , and . In those reverts, I think he should have left a reason in the edit summary to why he reverted them. Rollback is supposed to be for reverting vandalism only, and if an edit may require an explanation, rollback shouldn't be used, as rollback doesn't leave any explanation other than "reverted edits by X to last version by Y". I think with Shshshsh, I'll leave a note on his talk page first before granting him rollback. Acalamari 21:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi. I did not abandon it. I am waiting for the other judges. Also, in the meanwhile, I needed two root canals, which put a slight damper on my ability to pay the reward. That said, I should have that resolved by early next week, and plan on pushing ahead with announcing the winners. I sincerely regret any delay. Danny (talk) 21:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, the pain was unbearable. Only now is it mildly better, and I still have plenty of dental work ahead of me. I love th Kiorastami article, especially since I have seen many of his films: I even have a copy of Bread and Alley here. The only problem is the fair use imagery, which we do not accept. Would you mind me removing them temporarily, then restoring them? Danny (talk) 21:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I just ran it through our parser: These are the problems: Fair Use Images:
 * Last_Tango_in_Rhome.jpg
 * Where_is_the_friends_home.jpg
 * Close_Up_Film_Poster.png
 * Through_the_olive_trees.jpg
 * ABCAfrica.jpg
 * Taste_of_cherry.png
 * Tenxtremecloseup.jpg
 * 10ontenshot.jpg
 * 1990Iranearthquake.jpg
 * Wind_Will_Carry_UsGraveyard.jpg
 * Life_and_nothing_more.jpg
 * Tasteofcherrycolour1.gif
 * Kiarostamidirectorbbc.jpg
 * Kiarostamicover2.png
 * Nantes-kiarostami.jpg
 * Kiarostamiwithscorcese.jpg
 * Kiarostami-poetry.jpg

Dead external links (shortened forms of the full link):
 * http://www.firouzanfilms.com Errorcode was: 404
 * http://www.firouzanfilms.com Errorcode was: 404
 * http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com Errorcode was: 403
 * http://moma.org Errorcode was: 404
 * http://www2.indiepix.net Errorcode was: 404
 * http://www.festival-cannes.fr Errorcode was: 404
 * http://zeitgeistfilms.com Errorcode was: 403

Disambiguations;
 * The_Key is a disambig.
 * Kurdish is a disambig.
 * Thematic redirects to Theme which contains a disambig.
 * New_Yorker is a disambig.

If you fix the dead external links and the disambigs, we can remove the images temporarily, and upload it. It is definitely worth it. Danny (talk) 21:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!!!!

 * Yeh! Thanks for the image LOL! I like Pings! Very cute!:) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy to hear that, Congratulation!!!!--Ekyaw (talk) 15:07, 16 January 2008 (UTC) At the same time I am creating oh my friend.--Ekyaw (talk) 15:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Hey my friend I did not found the list of cities we created see List of cities in Myanmar. I did not find 52 towns in Shan state and other towns in other state and division. I am so disappointed. How can we solved? --Ekyaw (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL what? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I said and I repeat, I have absolutely no problem with you talking about Geography. Everything you tell me is interesting, and BTW, I like very much geography!

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 * Shahid •  Talk 2 me  17:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha Ha Ha!!! Yeh, I think he resembles me in a way!!!! Just wanted something original LOL!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, was working on Javed Siddiqui... Happy for you friend.:) I cannot say that I'm a big fan of metal, because I'm more into melodious (including rock) ballads, Hindi Ghazals, new wave music (I LOVE Enigma), Country, Blues, etc. BTW, just saw some beautiful performances of Whitney Houston on youtube. WOW, what an amazing voice. Her "I Will Always Love You" version is fantastic. Has she really damaged her voice over the past few years? Is it true? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:31, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh this one??? Ha ha ha I love this song. This is the kind of music I like. I meant that I didn't like immensely noisy songs such as that of Metalica, but I definitely like even hard rock when it comes to good music. For example, Aerosmith's "Crazy" is one of my favorite songs... I love Roxete, Guns N Roses (Ballads), Scopions. I'm a very western guy when it comes to music and films. Don't get the wrong impression of me :)
 * Just a little poll question LOL... Who is according to you the better singer? Whitney or Mariah? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Three Divas! Celine is brilliant. Yes, she is at times too noisy ha ha ha... Just kidding. According to me, Whitney's voice is much more soul than Mariah's, although I like Mariah's screams and shrieks too!!! Both of them have range, different singing style, and their collaboration is great as it can be seen here. And this is according to me the best perdormance for "I will Always love you".


 * In any case, Shania Twain is the best !!!!!! :))))) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh great! I like Bon Jovi's "Always" it bring back old memories. And November Rain!!!!!!!1 Of course! How could I forget it?
 * And Scorpions... Wind of Change, Holiday etc... are all time great!
 * And Adams' Everything I do!!! So romantic. It was a huge chartbuster wow...
 * I generally like very much singers with husky voices, eg. Tina Turner, Bonnie Tyler, and Brian himself... Oh and Michael Bolton... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Congrats friend! Great! Who knows, maybe, with some great work you end up with an FAC for these articles. LOL Don't you like Madonna?:) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:30, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry friend I can't find it. I've seen Kala Bazar and this one doesn't seem to be that one. BTW, finally created an article for child actor Darsheel Safary. His performance in Aamir Khan's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par is HUGELY acclaimed and you can't even imagine how much. Now there are talks that he deserves a National Film Award for this role. What do you think? Does the article have a chance at DYK? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Well the third ref states that he is 11 years old. But who knows... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you have some DYK question idea for this article? I always get confused. I can't get if it has to be related directly to him or not. In the Bravery Awards, it wasn't. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You're right. A DYK question seems unlikely for this article. In fact, I have nothing else to add, because he is very young and still a newcomer. That's not that I've created an article for some veteran actor. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  19:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Without a bias and very honestly, your version looks thousand times better! Really! Why don't you restore your table? It seems like you had worked hard on it. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Why don't you do something? Restore it, argue with them. It's unfair! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, you have worked very hard, and I think your versions are much better, but if you don't really care, good for you!:) Forget it. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Great image! Thanks.. I don't really know if he is going to continue his work now. He is still at school, so who knows. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Great article, as always! Needs some expansion, but still great and pleasing to the eye. You know, most of the stubs that are created on Wikipedia look terrible, and your articles always look good:). Haven't you still created a braglist of your creations? You can update it gradually. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  23:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I you create a braglist, I will help you update it:) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You don't remember? Ha ha ha! That's the main problem with brilliant editors like, who have created over 12,000 articles LOL!!!! You have written so many articles, that you don't remember three-quarters of them! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL nice article. It doesn't matter how long it is. In fact, what else can you add about a dog whose only notability is being featured in the Guinness?? LOL! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Just to note, there is a library next to my house, but I really doubt that there are old articles and newspapers/magazines there. In fact, I don't visit the library at all. I have a lot of books at my home in Mumbai. I miss my home... but circumstances force me to stay here for some more time... I was going to comeback in January and start my uni enrollment, but our plans have been hampered... Good luck with your work! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Templates
Currently creating categories and bot taagging lists for the projects which have already had the banner altered, basically meaning European Microstates and then Southeast Asia. After that, I'll probably work on the South America banner, trying to see if I can get it to display only the task force category banner, like the Biography banner does for the British Royalty work group. I'm basically choosing it because I think with the comparatively small number of work groups, it should be a bit easier than the others. If and when I get that to work, then that'll be more or less copied for the Caribbean, Western Asia, Central Asia, and Africa projects. With a lot of luck, the final banner adjustments should for Africa and the others should be late this week or early next. John Carter (talk) 15:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Hey my friend seee I created.

Localisation
Hey Blofeld, I thought that was a good point you made the other week on Jimbo's talk-page about the lack of localisation for Wikipedia articles on "faraway" places. As you probably saw, I especially agreed with the way editors on Commons appear to be more trigger-happy than they are here. It's a shame I think. Ekantik talk 01:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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Images
Sorry - it's just that the GAC requested less Fair Use images. I didn't knew who to contact or warn for this, so I removed the ones I felt contributed least. But now the article passed, and only 9 (8 if The World Is Not Enough passes) films left to improve. igordebraga ≠ 12:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

OTRS image query
Regarding your recent message, you'll have to excuse me for any delay in responding to you but you should understand that I do have other commitments beyond editing Wikipedia of which my job is a significant one.

The idea is not that you email any information to me, instead you should email it to [mailto:permissions-commons@wikimedia.org permissions-commons@wikimedia.org] so it can be stored in OTRS and reviewed as necessary by other OTRS volunteers to confirm the permission.

You've previously said that you've "forwarded my email to the permission branch of wikipedia -its up to them to sort out the OTRS ticketing now" however your recent comments suggest this isn't actually the case so my attempt at finding the email in the system was pointless.

Please forward any emails relating to permission to the email address above where they will be dealt with by me or another OTRS volunteer. If you'd like me to continue dealing with this then let me know the email address from which you forward any messages to Wikimedia and then I can look them up easier. Regards. Adambro (talk) 16:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your work on the museum lists. You did a lot of the initial work on the List of museums in Connecticut, which I and another Connecticut editor have been adding considerably to. I appreciate your contributions on the other museums lists as well. I didn't know about sortable lists before. Is there a place on Wikipedia where I can go to find out how to make one from scratch? I might want to create one for List of high schools in Connecticut, which doesn't work very well right now. Best, Noroton (talk) 18:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, the List of high schools in Connecticut is very likely full. What I want to eventually do is make it a sortable list. I'll have no problem getting the Connecticut data, but I don't know where to go to find out how to create a sortable list from scratch. Is there a spot you could point me to on Wikipedia that shows how that's done? Thanks again for your work. Noroton (talk) 18:33, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh! I didn't know it was THAT easy! I thought I had to punch in something much more complex. Got it. Thanks! Noroton (talk) 18:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Very nice user page, by the way. Best of luck with that Bond fellow. Noroton (talk) 18:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

District infoboxes
Hi! Well, I know, these navboxes are pretty useful, and they create more mutual links to pages to save them from becoming "orphaned articles", but it's not my invention with the navigation templates :-) I copied the idea from Template:Germany districts bavaria or Template:Orange County, California, which are used for most developped countries. PS: IMHO, you perhaps should use the "state=collapsed" parameter, especially for the two navboxes you gave me as an example, which are very big, compared with the size of the articles, as even large articles have these boxes collapsed, except if they're small... But that's only my opinion. Greets, --<font face="Futura, Helvetica, _sans"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#ddd7a3;padding:0 3px 0 3px;background:#aba67e;cursor:se-resize;">escon dites   19:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * For Oran District, it redirects to Oran muncipality as they're coextensive, and for the census data, I got it from this site, which uses Algerian census data. --<font face="Futura, Helvetica, _sans"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#ddd7a3;padding:0 3px 0 3px;background:#aba67e;cursor:se-resize;">escon dites  19:49, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

A complete hash of those lists
"Several editors are making a complete hash of those lists."

That may very well be. But once we get our plans organized, there will be a lot of us working to straighten all of that out. We'll make these lists way better than their current, and possibly deteriorating state. I encourage you to express your opinions on the main talk page. You made a lot of decisions and changes on your own, some of which appear that they may be kept and others that may be removed or altered. I really would like to hear your input.

I know that you like to do everything as quickly and efficiently as possible and these articles are "rotting" right now, so to speak, but it's in everybody's best interest to take our time with this. We will catch back up when the discussion is complete. There really is nothing to worry about. Ben Boldt (talk) 23:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Filmography navboxes redux
Hi. I've been through and checked the film actor navboxes at Film actor templates and, acting on our discussing about Gene Hackman, nominated for deletion all the ones that are repetitions or serve no further purpose. If you wouldn't mind, could you look in and give your opinion on the deletions? There have been a couple dissenting opinions. Thanks! Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Dear Sir Blofeld: You have done a great job on the infoboxes! Sorry I will have to beg out from helping for a while though. I am visiing friends and they only have a dial-up service (if you remember what those were like!) and daughters attending university - so my time on-line is rather limited at the moment. I don't think I'll get a chance to do much until I return home (probably in the 1st or 2nd week of Feb). Sorry! I wish I could be of more help. Cheers, John Hill (talk) 23:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sincere apologies for misplacing this note. Put it down many years of advancing brain damage - I turned 65 just a few days ago! There is only so much one poor brain can handle! John Hill (talk) 09:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

C'est la vie Wikipedie
A while back, after getting extremely frustrated when other editors were able to frustrate my far superior conception of what Wikipedia should be, I decided that I had to accept that. Sometimes you're able to convince people, sometimes you don't do it right and sometimes their minds are not going to open up. And then sometimes I find I'm wrong but don't ever tell anybody I said that. Noroton (talk) 17:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Africa Banner
Working on the Banner now. It should be available shortly, I hope. John Carter (talk) 20:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem
No problem. I will find some info if I have time.-- Jerrch 22:52, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Kai Tak Airport
I think the old airport hotel is located in Kowloon City District. Nearby San Po Kong belongs to Wong Tai Sin District. I'm not sure where the boundaries lie, but I'm pretty sure it's quite a distance from Kwun Tong District. HkCaGu (talk) 06:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

PD-Italy
The problem with PD-Italy is that it only applies to files created pre-1941 - thus they may not be PD in all countries, only in Italy. It's safer to use files which are public domain in US too, and use PD-Italy ones under fair use. That's why there isn't a PD-Italy template on Commons, because they may be unfree.

As for OTRS, I haven't had a chance to check in a while, but please send them in and I'll try to process them ASAP :) Hope you're well too. ~ Riana ⁂ 15:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Your Baldness!
(LOL!) I will get on those icons later today. I'm glad to still be useful to the Film Project Cadre. And I love what you've done with the place (your talk page). Cheers, Her Pegship <small style="color:green;"> (tis herself) 16:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Africa template
The template is currently ready. The categories aren't yet though, and generally have to be created separately. That'll still take awhile. Also, if you are interested, I've made a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject reform which might potentially relate to this subject. John Carter (talk) 18:13, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You have a point regarding displaying the groups. The question there is whether there is a way to draw the line automatically or not. For instance, if a given river flowed through ten countries, every country involved would reasonably think that their particular project should be specifically displayed below, which would just make the one banner take up as much space as three or four do today. If I can figure out a way to make an automatic cut-off at some point, though, your proposal would be the way to go, and I am going to try to see if there is any such way. John Carter (talk) 18:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Banner
Libya's done already. The category structure can be found in Category:Libya articles and its subcats. Just create those categories and pages substituting in the name of the country, and it should work fine. Just make sure to add the "Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments]] to the articles by quality and articles by importance categories or the assessments won't get done. And the three "Wikipedia:Version ..." pages listed under the Category:Libya articles by quality have to get created too. Egypt we might leave alone because they seem to have actively done some assessments, but South Africa hasn't yet and would probably welcome the help. I'm working on Chad right now. John Carter (talk) 19:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The countries that seem to already have assessment structures are Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia, so I'd leave those five alone for right now. Also, one could create categories for the French Africa, Madeira, Saint Helena, and Spanish Africa work groups, following the same naming patterns. John Carter (talk) 19:31, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The work groups are each designed so that eventually the assessments there will be able to function for both Africa and whatever country they're governed by, thus saving banner duplication. And the WikiProject Africa/Spanish Africa work group is for the Canary Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla. It was the only name I could think of to refer to them all. John Carter (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * On conclusion, I figure to add the articles of the Spanish Africa group as subcats of that project's existing assessment scheme, thus allowing the one assessment to function for both. The Spain project has been advised of the work group as well, although I admit I forgot to advise them earlier. John Carter (talk) 20:18, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it's impossible to move categories. The categories which that group will use will all be Category:Benin articles, and those categories you mentioned will all have to be deleted. Samples of the categories to be used can be found in the category section of User talk:John Carter/Sandbox, and should follow that format. The Unassessed articles should be the only ones of the quality categories not specifically incorporating the word "-Class" in their name, like "Start-Class Benin articles". If you look at the categories and pages in the Category:Libya articles, just substitute the name of the country for the one in there in the name and the categories it's placed in, and it should all work out. But you are right, the categories you mentioned will have to be deleted. John Carter (talk) 20:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * User:ProveIt's just changed the name of the parent categories, so that's why the name you indicated is going to have to be used. I think it might actually work best, given the changes, if I stop the Chad tagging and actually do all the categories myself, as I myself am not sure what all has changed as a result. John Carter (talk) 20:47, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. John Carter (talk) 21:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good enough. Thanks for all the help. John Carter (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

re
I'm no journalist, no shitty failed writer. I've never even tried to ever write a book. I'm a science student. I don't know Banker and actually, quite admire his Ramayana series. I have nothing against him. I'm just another editor trying to add whatever little bit I can to WP, and this is what I get for it.

I haven't done the things I'm being blamed for. My only blame is trying to clean up an article which had been turned into a fan/personal page by Banker and his friends. Now my name (and indirectly my identity and character) is being dragged through the mud by Banker.

What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to clear thing thing up?

Maybe RickK was right, ''There is a fatal flaw in the system. Vandals, trolls and malactors are given respect, whereas those who are here to actually create an encyclopedia, and to do meaningful work, are slapped in the face and not given the support needed to do the work they need to do.''

There is no reason to continue here.

-xC- 19:26, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

The link suggested by Banker and his friends is

Now lets see whats wrong with this -


 * Its all written in a single block. It needs to be in sections to be in line with manual of style for WP articles.
 * Phrases like "was earlier known as" and "well-known for his" - known by whom? where are the refs for these self-publicising claims?
 * the bibliography has around a dozen titles TBA (to be announced). Theres no place for these in the article, no crystal gazing on WP.
 * Half the external links cannot be accessed, or redirect to a blank page
 * Phrases such as "He's also said to be working on an " - who said he is working on them? where is the ref for this?
 * All the refs in the initial portion of the article are from 'Epic India .com', which is a site run by him. More importantly, none of them have any content on them. They just have the words 'epicindia.com' written. For example, 12
 * Therefore I don't find any reliable sources stating anything which has been mentioned as sourced.

I'm just tired of it. I'm tired of continously fixing it and then being accused of destroying the article. -xC- 19:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't know. Am I wrong in doing this... is it possible you could make the required changes? Or at least explain why that older revision isn't suitable on the article talk page. I refuse to edit the article any further. -xC- 20:03, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I completely understand. No problem friend.
 * I've posted the same reasons above on the article talk page. Lets see how it goes. -xC- 09:12, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Tania Zaetta
Of course I know her. She is very very famous here...

Yes she played Zinta's best friend in Salaam Namaste. A great film BTW, very modern... It's available on youtube... The whole film!! (in parts).. See this part ... You'll like it. They're both so hot!!!

Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  19:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Awesome!!!! Just like you are happy when I create articles, I'm happy when you do that. I was going to respond, but you removed your message... So I thought you are no longer interested in reading a reply...:)
 * Oh I feel very weak these days... Yesterday I had a serious fever, but I feel better now.
 * GREAT articles. It's sad that so many people who seem to be notable don't get the recognition they deserve. In the very beginning, I thought Wikipedia covered every possible notable person. Only now I get how it misses. Your articles is great. I see one of them has died recently. Sad:(
 * How are you?
 * Shahid •  Talk 2 me  13:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeh I know, I heard about it yesterday. It has been poblicised on all over the country. Yeh that's sad. Young, talented and very promising actor indeed. That's it. I still can't get, why? how? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeh it is indeed horrible. I hope youngsters do get the matter with this death. It's a pitty; he was yet to prove himself. What are you doing these days? Do you have any plans on here? I would love to create some articles (I have time today), but I feel very bad, so I don't think I will be able to do that. I think I'll have to do that some time later. What about you? Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * he he he LOL, that's what I'm saying. Changeable weather conditions always make me feel weak. I hate being ill in the summer, though my fever has nothing to do with the weather right now.. It's just me, especially in Melb. All the People I know are on the beach now, considering it's the hottest city in the country (I guess so from what I have seen here). That's what drives me crazy. In the summer, it's the hottest, in the winter the, it's the coldest. But overall I like this oceanic climate, although I'm not accustomed to very cold days.
 * So have you seen this part from Salaam Namaste? Zinta is so hot here, and so is Tania. I've been there... How could I miss Zinta? Have you seen it? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I really suggest you to see this short slideshow video of Zinta. It starts with the image you showed me now, and ends with some amazing images. I particularly like the ones from 1:00 to 1:10 (especially the thirs one among the three). Please see that and tell me what you think. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:21, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh yeh Britt Ekland I think she's beautiful. Blunt's voice is indeed irritating, vut I like the song. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOLLLLLLL exactly!!!!!! That was a good one! I thik he sucks in every frame. All his songs are flops, apart from this one. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL I see... That's exactly what happens in such cases: nobody cares, and once it is created, everybody is editing it. I really think you have to create a braglist. You also have many DYKs to your name don't you? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  10:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's so great! Please, I ask you beseechingly: please please create a braglist. You will update it gradually, I'll help you. Please do so, so that I can go through it when I have some leisure and read your beautiful, beautiful articles. How can you create such informative articles so fast? It's just amazing! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If you don't create a braglist, I'll do it for you!!
 * One moment, I'll try that. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No you're not one of these arrogant editors who think that they are the best with just adding a new title etc. It doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to work hard to expand it... in fact, you already have too many articles to your name.
 * It is just a format. It is very useful. As you said, you do not use a watchlist. With having braglist, you can also go through your articles, and see wherever copyedit, correction and clan-up is needed.
 * Nice format. It looked better that the other ones, and it doesn't take ages to become accustomed to it. But there is only one problem with this format --- my popups don't work!!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:WalterBryanEmery.jpg
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re: The Rising of the Moon (film)
Started off the first version of the page. Lugnuts (talk) 12:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem! Yep, I've added a few of Ford's earlier films myself.  Happy editing!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lugnuts (talk • contribs) 12:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * And you might want to have a look at this Lugnuts (talk) 13:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:American film list
Whups! I'm a little late to help aid this battle. It seems nearly settled, but call me if you need anymore backup. Cheers! Andrzejbanas (talk) 20:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

French communes
Hi there! I've been creating the "difficult" articles (ambiguous names etc.) of the Aisne and Allier departments, so others can do the rest easily, for instance with AWB. Not sure whether I'm going to do that for all departments though, 36000+ municipalities is a bit much. I've seen your tracks here as well... Markussep Talk 22:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I completed Ain and Alpes-Maritimes yesterday, if you like you can do Aisne or Allier (Wikidudeman started doing Aisne with AWB). Markussep Talk 22:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Stavro, thanks for adding communes articles, but... there's a problem. You should not use but  . Could you fix that please? Markussep Talk 14:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If you're looking for a new French department to do: Hautes-Alpes is ready for you. I'm gradually working my way down the list, in the order of the French department numbers (Hautes-Alpes is 05). Markussep Talk 16:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, but you're going much faster than I can. Besides, I'm still working on Austria and Germany, and I do have other things to do. Actually, it's not bad if you go ahead and create articles for all red links. You won't create "bad" articles that way, and if they have to be moved to make way for a disambiguation page, that's no big deal. Or I can teach you my "clearing" method. Markussep Talk 16:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Invitation
Thank you Mr. Blofeld, I have signed up at the appropriate place. For my welcome to your sinister organisation, I'd like a Martini shaken but not shtirred :P Green Giant (talk) 00:23, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Burma FYI
Talk:Burma You do a lot of work for articles in Burma and there is a discussion to move the article to Myanmar. &mdash; <font color="#0000CD">MJC <font color="#FF0000">detroit (yak) 03:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Places
I have one potential reservation. Some of these locations might have some difficulty being established as meeting WP:NOTABILITY guidelines, particular for references in the English language, and based on what little I know they might be considered for deletion. I've placed a request for clarification at Wikipedia talk:Notability and hope we hear something soon there. That's the only reservation I can honestly imagine, though. Good work! John Carter (talk) 18:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Notability generally means non-trivial mention in two sources, so you're probably basically right that most places have been mentioned in at least two reliable sources. But that doesn't mean that someone might not try to delete them anyway, if those sources aren't indicated up front. John Carter (talk) 18:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Bolivia
Personally, I don't doubt that they are. The question is whether others will agree, or maybe nominate them for deletion. And, personally, it wasn't so much the larger areas like those I was thinking of so much as the various places in Category:Settlements in Mayotte and the like I was primarily thinking of. And I have seen some fairly strange AfDs, so I think it might be possible someone would try to nominate these as well. But if you place a banner on them almost immediately, even if they are deleted they'll appear as red links in the log, and it'll be possible to request deletion review later. John Carter (talk) 20:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I know about the multiple names. Believe me. You know how many "Saint Paul"s and "Saint John"s there are, including people, locations, buildings, and so on? And I think I heard some years ago that their are 30 or more "Greenvilles" or some similar name in Tennessee alone. For those purposes, creating some disambiguation pages would probably work. And my complements on that article. If that's the quality of article you create, I seriously doubt there will be many nominated for deletion. And I wish you the best of good luck with getting more photos like those or others. They would be wonderfully useful. John Carter (talk) 21:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

South America banner
Yep, it's probably next. I'm also going to try to incorporate the code allowing for different importance parameters for the work group and the parent project, considering this one will deal with fewer countries. Right now, I just noticed that a major group of release nominations still hasn't been reviewed, most about figures from the developing world. As I'm one of the few people who seem to do such reviews, they may take a day or so. John Carter (talk) 22:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

maps
Hi, I reverted two of your maps. I think, light blue and green is an awful combination of colors. You'd better used more neutral colors. Do you agree? --Obersachse (talk) 23:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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obsessing over your talk page
Hey Your Baldness, every time I come here I'm anxious about the fact that half of the TOC is covered up by images and other (necessary, of course) accoutrements. Would it be too bossy of me to try clearing up that problem, without disturbing your talk page's general majesty? grovelingly, Her Pegship <small style="color:green;"> (tis herself) 05:05, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * nononono...please decorate as you like. I will overcome my neurosis. Someday. Her Pegship <small style="color:green;"> (tis herself) 17:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Just busy is all
Sorry I haven't taken time to respond to your messages. I've been busy with other projects. It's hard to focus on Wikipedia stuff. — WiseKwai 12:24, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Have I told you lately...
...that you rock? Damn, they need to make a bureaucrat out of you if you aren't one already. All those years of evil medical school must not go to waste! Thanks for renewing my faith in this doggoned site. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * My pleasure, believe me. That's another problem.  Hard work on this project is often overlooked and admins are often abused.  That's why I dropped out about two years ago and only recently decided to try again, this time under a new username and without the mop and bucket by my own choice.  I'd promised myself that I'd spend more time editing and less playing "whack-a-vandal" and damned if I'm not doing just the opposite.  In fact, it's become difficult to even add new content.  I had one article deleted and another barely survived AfD.  Those French towns and their steeeenky cheese shall forever be in the debt of SPECTRE.  Gotta run.  :)  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

NOT an admin? Just a pure editor? Heck, you need to crank out a few more Mini-Me clones to work here. You made my day. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Good Lord Your On A Roll
Just doing my new page patroll and WOW your on a roll!! Keep up the good work!!! Dustihowe <font style="color:#GGGGG;background:#FF4444;"> Talk 17:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

o bald one
I have created Image:Sovietfilm.png and applied it in one place, but I will leave it to you to figure out if we need a separate Sovietfilmlist that doesn't include Russia (for example). Cheers! Her Pegship <small style="color:green;"> (tis herself) 18:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Rani Mukerji
Hey Blofeld, I had some free time, so I decided to expand Rani Mukerji's career section. LOL, currently all of the edits on the history's first page are from me. I also did an analysis of film reviews on Talk:Rani Mukerji (just like Kapoor's and Zinta's) to show the majority opinion. What do you think? --<font color="Blue">Bolly <font color="Red">wood <font color="Blue">Dreamz <font color = "Black"> Talk 04:19, 26 January 2008
 * Thanks Blofeld for the kind words. Yeah, I did try to keep the article neutral that's why I did an analysis of certain films on Talk: Rani Mukerji to give the majority opinion but I wasn't able to find certain reviews that Shahid did. His edits on the page has helped the article become better. --<font color="Blue">Bolly <font color="Red">wood <font color="Blue">Dreamz <font color = "Black"> Talk 20:13, 26 January 2008
 * So basically, you're saying that for example if three reviews say something like, "AB performed the role with utmost conviction" while some say, "AB hams throughout the script and seriously needs to take acting lessons." LOL. So you're saying include both of them right?? --<font color="Blue">Bolly <font color="Red">wood <font color="Blue">Dreamz <font color = "Black"> Talk 20:28, 26 January 2008

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villages
Your village articles are too small. <font color="purple" face="Lucida Calligraphy ">Gaogier: 15:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Are you going to keep removing my comment?, i can easily put all those villages up for speedy deletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gaogier/Autographs - SIgn please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaogier (talk • contribs) 15:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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You can be nicer you know, the word dick is offencive to me, aslong as your not going to leave them small i am ok.

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Sounds good actually, lets start a wikiproject?

Please sign my autograph page also, i like your page so i would like a link to your name to be inspired <font color="purple" face="Lucida Calligraphy ">Gaogier: [[User Talk:Gaogier|Chat 16:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

French less of a madness
Okay. Oh, and I would suggest that you archive your current talk page. It takes a while to edit, and to get up and down it. Basketball<font color="#FFA500">one <font color="#FFA500">ten  16:05, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. Basketball<font color="#FFA500">one <font color="#FFA500">ten  16:07, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Your new pages
I noticed you have been creating large numbers of new pages in the category, "Communes of the Aude department." While this can be helpful, they all have basically the same content. Do you think it necessary to create all these new pages? With content as vague as that are they really helping anyone? Thanks! -- GorillaWarfare  talk 17:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I apologize -- I did not see that. Although this is not the style in which I would attack this problem, there is nothing wrong with yours. Keep on going then! =] -- GorillaWarfare  talk 17:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, more power to ya in this. Sounds like quite an undertaking. Have you considered creating a WikiProject? -- GorillaWarfare  talk 17:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Ottrott
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Ottrott, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add  to the top of Ottrott. Warrior4321 23:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You can't just take the tag off, you're as per the notice only allowed to take the PROD part out, please undo your changes, or this will be reported to an administrator. Warrior4321 23:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Warrior4321 (talk • contribs)

Italian films
Got your message. Last time we communicated you were hoping that the film In Praise of Love would get worked on. Mission accomplished! I also voted a few times as per your request. I'm working on film noirs right now and some Italian films. Plus I got lucky, checked out my local library and have a had a chance to see about 15 Argentenian films (udating/adding to all of those). That's been fun. One of my favorites is now Son of the Bride. If I get a chance I'll try to work on Death Rides a Horse. Best-- Luigibob (talk) 11:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

South America banner
The draft model is at User:John Carter/Sandbox 2. Given the number of articles that banner will deal with though I tried to work on the Antarctica banner first, which only has about 2000 articles. I'm going to try to include differential importance assessments there, and if that works, I can copy it to the South America banner and elsewhere. With any luck, Antarctica should be done today, and South America might be finished tomorrow. John Carter (talk) 19:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Pass the Barnstars, please

 * Great! Keep it up! <font color="#4682B4">Basketball <font color="#FFA500">one <font color="#FFA500">10  23:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

the freaky timewasting smile! it's everywvere! mwahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

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. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Someone dedicated to making your day a little bit better! (talk) 12:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

By the way, this is not the only thing i do on wikipedia!

Kim Ki-young
Thanks for the fuller image rationale, Blofeld. I'll use that from now on, as I've used your Film poster template. Feel free to tidy up any of my image descriptions. I've done it for others, and others do it for me all the time-- Anything to keep those goddamned 'bots from deleting perfectly good images just because there's a typo, or an incorrect dab... Cheers! Dekkappai (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Chile map
Vertically, it takes up a fair amount of space, but like you said that's more or less unavoidable given the shape of the country in question. It might be a decent idea to add the locations of any other comparatively nearby landmarks or easily recognized areas, to help but the locations in a bit of perspective. John Carter (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Tagging
As soon as the banners get done, I'm hoping to get Betacommandbot to run amok tagging all the relevant articles for all the relevant projects. That should take care of a lot of the existing undertagging around the world. And the South America banner is set up for Chilean assessments, although it might involve adjusting a few of their existing categories. John Carter (talk) 21:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mont Roonui
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Chile
Responses: I didn't know Sao Tome and Principe has been remade a work group. My intention was that every independent nation would have its group given the full WikiProject name, while dependencies would be named work groups, so that they could indicate which projects they were subprojects of, generally the continental project and the Project of the nation of which they are a territory. Regarding categories, at this point I don't know how to change the categories of the banner to individually conform to those of existing project's assessments, so that the names for the projects' categories as per the banner more or less have to be consistent across the board. Also, as the newer category has more quality subcategories, this way it may be possible ultimately to deprecate the older, national banner entirely. In short, I don't know at this point how to adjust the categories of the South American banner to fit all the different kinds of category names of the existing projects. It is my hope that in time when Betacommandbot tags all the articles which haven't yet been tagged, the members of that project may decide, in the interests of clearer assessments and reduced banner clutter, to adopt the continental banner, which will have been placed on all the articles relative to their project that they haven't yet tagged. If they don't, possibly by that time I'll be able to adjust the categories so that both banners will feed into one set of categories. Alternately, at that point, I might adjust the categories of the national project banner to conform to those of the continental banner. But, basically, at this point, I don't know how to adjust the banners to take into account the variant categorization names of the existing projects. John Carter (talk) 21:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Go ahead with the tagging. Regarding the new categories, unfortunately, that person also changed the categories of the four Africa work groups to "WikiProject" categories. I remember now that it was an individual from the extant Chad WikiProject, which didn't previously have assessments, disliking the name and changing the names of the categories in the banner on his own. I'm hoping to find a way to introduce different categories for the Projects and work groups, because in all honesty "WikiProject Saint Pierre and Miquelon" sounds kind of silly to me, particularly since the group is named WikiProject France/Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group. If and when I can figure how to adjust the banner to permit different phrasings of names, I intend to do so. John Carter (talk) 22:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Probable optimum phrasing would be . That allows for the daughter projects to have their own separate importance assessments as well. John Carter (talk) 22:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I honestly doubt it'll get any real dedicated members, but at least this way the France project will know that they have a lot of articles about a small place in generally bad condition. Also, if there's one editor there, and, yes, that's a big if, they'll more easily be able to determine which articles are relevant to their area. And Tahiti should fall in the WikiProject Polynesia/French Polynesia work group. John Carter (talk) 22:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah. The Saint Pierre and Miquelon group is the only one that doesn't have a specific continental project, and it is I think the only regularly-inhabited foreign territory in North America. It felt a little weird making it the only one "left out" of having a dedicated group though. John Carter (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

So many pages...
I think what you are doing with the French village/commune articles is great, its much easier for users to expand existing articles than it is to start one from scratch. But in the future, if you're going to create thousands of pages at a rate of multiple per minute, would you mind applying for a bot flag? Bot articles won't show up on recent changes, can be filtered out of newpages, and are automatically patrolled. Mr.  Z- man  22:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hm, the main issue I can see, if you aren't actually using a bot, people might not be willing to grant a bot flag. You could ask someone on the bot approvals group though. Mr.  Z- man  23:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The creation of so many pages is outstanding, but for the speed of editing, I would suggest creating a bot account, perhaps User:BlofeldBot or something like that. I would be happy to Speedy Approve it for you if you want, and get it flagged for you. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  23:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * (ec)I'm not in BAG, but I responded there. My main suggestion if you want to keep all your edits on 1 account would be some sort of script that auto-patrols your mass-adds. I'd suggest Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts as a place to file a request or contact User:AzaToth who is something of a master scripter.  MBisanz  talk 00:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

US Museum discussions
I've asked Ben Boldt to comment on the discussion at Talk:List of museums in the United States when he gets back. After he's commented (or if he still hasn't been back to Wikipedia after a few more days), I think it's time to wrap up the discussions and decide that we have a consensus on what the lists should look like to start out with. I've begun adding lots of museums from the online list FieldMarine had linked to, starting with List of museums in Rhode Island and List of museums in Maine. Sound good? Noroton (talk) 00:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Re "Bot"
Have replied on my talk page (in the case you are not watching). → Aza Toth 13:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

He he he!
What? You are allergic to peppers and onions?? I love them!!!:) I generally like hot and peppered food. Especially hot steaks - Yummy!

But yes I also have some weird allergies... to ... citrus fruits! Oranges in particular... I get that unpleasant feeling in my skin!! Ohh and I don't like pineapples!!

See this LOL ... They're rich!

Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh my heavens! You have had almost 1,000 edits today!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ha ha ha!!! No I haven't seen the film, and uite frankly, seeing the clown, I'm happy that I haven't! LOL! Hey that's great work what you're doing! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:11, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No I haven't... Please give me an image, so that I can drool like you do LOL... How are you???? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * O---M---G!!!!!!!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * WOW she's so HOT! I think there is something irresistible about eastern woman in western and modern outfits... Amazing!  Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * She's very hot.. Is she talented as well? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Another FA.... Your take on it??? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:49, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * That's what hurts me the most... So much of hard work from you, Dwaipayanc, John and myself, and no GA reviewer appears in the area to review it and give it at least the well deserved GA status... I'm so sad when I see that. One GA reviewer reviewed it and said that it's definitely a GA, but he didn't list it because, as per him, it's not fair that an article will be listed whereas other articles are waiting for reviews and are nominated for a GA for longer period, as if it mattered at all... Well I don't care... Oh that's all because of our dear POV pushers... If they hadn't come across this article to ruin others' work, it would definitely have remained GA... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  17:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * All true:)-- Shahid •  Talk 2 me  17:20, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * She's just stunning!!!! So sexy OMGG... thanx for sharing LOL!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I definitely do..:) I think it's great that you like women of a more exotic nature, our tastes are very similar:) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I think we share the same taste in exotic looking women. Don't you think? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you visited Australia? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:59, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi friend! What did you mean? I just have the problem that popups windows don't show up... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No they still don't work... Nevertheless, I'm satisfied with the default version. You know, as a person, I'm someone who finds drastic changes very difficult to deal with... LOL Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Again... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's OK... Just thought to let you know! I'm also extremely busy in real life... I don't think a reply is needed there at all.:) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Great name! I don't really understand, what is the purpose of having a bot? What does it do? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  11:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know... I think he came to ruin and disappear again...
 * See the article of Reese Witherspoon. It's surely going to be promoted today or tomorrow. Great article, and you won't believe this: there is no even one negative review.
 * BTW, she has worked with Mira Nair too. Yes, this Indian who makes us so proud there in the USA! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  12:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sandy, the lady of the strong oppose in Zinta's last FAC, says it's ready to become an FAC (I asked her). Now we have to wait for a GA reviewer to make a final review, and then, within two-three weeks or so, we can renominate it for FA... Great, no? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  12:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeh I know. Really great! I read it already:) What about Reese's article? Did you like it? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * GREAT! Congrats! Good luck! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:08, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh I think I misunderstand something here... What is a bot? I thought it works independently... Otherwise, what's the sense using a bot as just another account? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hehe this "$1,000,000?" is so funny! I like your sense of humour LOL...-- Shahid •  Talk 2 me  15:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL!!!
 * I would like to know your opinion on the following:
 * "The film was both a major financial and critical success. It became the biggest hit of the year as well as Zinta's highest grossing movie to date, with a domestic gross of Rs 489 million;[25] and, among other awards, won the Filmfare Best Film Award."
 * What do you think? Does it sound well?
 * Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's not KANK, it's Koi Mil Gaya... No, Sandy just commented in general. She just said it's ready to become a FAC... Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  15:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * OMG LOL!!!


 * Well, after my experience with the Zinta article, I don't really think I want to work on some article for this particular purpose. I'm yet to complete my work on the Salman Khan article, Manisha Koirala's one etc. I want to start working on the pages of Tabbu, Karisma Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit etc. You know, GA is just not as easy as it seems to be, so I think I'd rather try to expand and improve rather than trying to concentrate on one goal: a GA!! Believe me, when I'm not thinking of it, the results are way better. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  19:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The very beautiful and talented Miss Zinta is 33 today!!!!!!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  08:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * HEYY!!! How have you been? I had a long tiring day!!! Udita to be quite honest, I don't find her too sexy... She is a bit wicked and misses gentleness... I'll start the article later. What are you doing now? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey it's GREAT work what you're doing. I'm happy that we now can also have wikilinks to years in the filmo, so that we are not deprived compared to Bollywood. I personally think it's just a shame that these X in year pages don't include Bollywood films but only American films. That's unfair... Nevertheless... Do you really think that KANK is up for a GA? I doubt it! On the other hand, the Oscar-nominated Lagaan is a GA and was a FAC for two days!!!! Another shameless act... After only one week and two editors opposing, the article was not promoted. What do you say about that? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  16:45, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Eh? Which lists are you talking about? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I think articles assessment is a great recognition of good. Maybe the Preity FA nomination was not a big deal, and as many say, was just "not there yet". What do you think? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Plus, I think you have done a marvelous job on KANK, it looks so much better, that I have the feeling that it was a stub before your amazing work!!!:))))) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * All the Bollyblog images are gonna be deleted now... See Sarvagnya's last act! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Administrators' noticeboard - that's it!!! almost all the images have already been removed. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you think restoring the images is possible Blof? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * He will now undelete all the images!!!! Yes!!! Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL What? Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  12:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I really don't get how come there are problems when everything was quite clear in the very beginning... What's the problem... Thanks anyway, but I'm very very sad that our articles are coming back in these terms... So disheartening... :( Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  12:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Your bot
I have created your bot for you, see here. I will e-mail you the password for it, but be sure to change it to something you will remember. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  13:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Go here and fill out the BRFA form and I will get you approved. I have e-mailed it. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  14:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFBOT
Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  14:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I am getting it flagged currently, it may take some time. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  14:37, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * To flag a bot as a bot, you must be a Bureaucrat, which means you must be an administrator first, then a Bureaucrat, which are powers I don't have, I can only approve the bots, or deny them, and then a B'crat will flag it. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  16:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, and an admin is good, but you must be a B'crat to flag it, see this page to see who can do it. I have requested that Deskana do it. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  16:05, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Go here as they need more input for the bot creation, because it is a semi-bot that needs to be flagged as a bot. <font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="3"> ~ Dreamy    §  20:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
...for your kind note about Reese Witherspoon. It's nice to know that my copyediting efforts are appreciated :) Maralia (talk) 23:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Unlawfulentrydvdcover.jpg)
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