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Japan-geo-stub
Hello! Can you put some nice image of Japan to Template:Japan-geo-stub ? Server isn't already overloaded. -- Darwinek 14:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

relativity-stub
Hi Grutness. Thanks for fixing the category. I suppose I should have read through the details of creating stubs more carefully. Regarding the image issue, if there's a problem with browsers, that's ok, the image can be changed to a static pic. - I don't mind. ---Mpatel (talk) 13:41, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Question about stubs
Hello again. :) Do you plan to include Tibet to your Geo-stub tallying page? There are stubs created for Mainland China and for Taiwan, for Tibet there is only a Template:Tibet-stub. You like to count :), so if you want you can add Tibet to your counting. Some Tibet locations are included in Template:China-geo-stub. Cheers mate! - Darwinek 21:33, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I hadn't intended to, no. Tibet-stub is for things specifically Tibetan about the culture, and can be added without stepping off that line of trying on to offend anyone. Making a separate Tibet-geo-stub, though, is likely to cause offence to someone somewhere. The China geo-stub category's not so big that it needs splitting yet, anyway. Maybe sometime, but it's not a high priority - for now Tibetan stubs can quite happily stay in there. In any case, I have enouh of a job keeping up with other geo-stub splits! Grutness...  wha? 

England-geo-stub
Fair enough. By the way, I really do like the stub sorting project. It is kind of sad though that the stub sorting project is better at categorising articles than the rest of wikipedia. Hopefully that sort of methodology can be applied elsewhere. Morwen - Talk 14:27, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I'd argue that enough categories should be created so that England-geo-stub can be emptied. Maybe on a per-region basis. Morwen - Talk 14:44, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

OK I was mostly moving Wiltshire stubs which isn't on your immediate list for sub-categorisation. Is the intent to remove all individual entries from the UK stub and then only create categories for some English counties? Dabbler 11:02, 8 September 2005 (UTC)



For the Shropshire-geo-stub can the image be a single gold loggerhead (the head of the lion or leopard, as shown above on the Shrewsbury/Shropshire crests) on a blue background? That would be very nice. Thanks for setting up these county geography stubs by the way. Once you've finished creating them, you could perhaps help put the UK and England geography stub articles in their right places! ;) David 12:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Here's an example for the image to go with the Shropshire stub that I just made:



Something like that (if not actually that).. David 12:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello (Vietnam-geo-stub)
I have created a map of Vietnam, which can be used in Template:Vietnam-geo-stub, but due to country's shape it seems to be the wrong solution. What do you think? In any case, just revert my edit. - Darwinek 10:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

London-geo-stub
The London geo stub has the arms of the City of London as it's icon. This seems most inappropriate - rather like using a French flag to represent Europe. Can it be changed to something more London-wide? Mucky Duck 10:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. In theory, Image:GLCArms.jpg would probably be better, but I'm a bit hesitant to change it for three reasons: Firstly it's a copyrighted image, which is fine for one article, but using it on a stub template means it'll be on lots of articles). Second, the city arms are far more widely known. Finally, WikiProject London put the icon there, and I figured they knew what they were doing! I suppose you could always change it and see whether someone else changes it back - that's usually a fairly good indication of whether it's an acceptable change. I must admit that I should be annoyed at it personally, having been born in Greater London, but not in the city. Grutness...  wha?  11:03, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Indonesia-bio-stub
G'day James,

No, I wasn't aware of the stub-creation rules &mdash; and I was so proud of having done it "properly", too! Gah. I'm sorry if I've caused you guys any unnecessary grief; I should have been more careful when creating the stub, and actually read through the rules, etc.

You mentioned arguing for its creation (now, I s'pose, keeping). I figured having a bio-stub category for Indonesian people was worthwhile because: As for projects/likelihood of use, well, it's a bit of a mixed bag. There don't seem to be many Indonesians (any?) on en-wiki, and even id-wiki is less than inspiring if you ignore the raw numbers. I'm personally trying to increase the number of articles related to Australasia, but I'm just one newbie and couldn't possibly support an entire stub category on m' own even if I was willing to work on it. I, uh, guess that's why there's rules, huh? --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:14, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, Indonesia has people in it, and some of them are notable
 * Information on even the most famous Indonesians (especially pre-independence) is hard to come by on the Internet, so many articles would be stubs

Thanks from West Virginia
Thanks kindly for sorting out the West Virginia stubs from the US-south stubs. Best wishes - Malepheasant 03:28, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Ge0-stub
Thanks for letting me know on the Geo-Stub for WV. Just kinda learn it as I go.--71Demon 12:56, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * And thanks from me too. I knew there wasnt a Trinidad and Tobago one but didnt see the Caribbean one. And sorry I got your name wrong :) BL Lacertae 09:43, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * S'alright. It's an easy one to mis-spell. It's happened before - it'll happen again. Grutness...  wha? 

TT stubs
Hi James. Good to see you back. Trinidad-geo-stub would probably be fine with a Tobagonian - they'd probably be more bothered by being called Tobagan ;) An alternative would be TT-geo-stub, but that might not be clear to everyone.  One thing though - I have been thinking for a long time that what we really need is a Caribbean-bio-stub, since there are a lot of Caribbean bios.  On a gut level that would seem like a higher priority, but the facts may say otherwise.

So - if I have "my own" category of geo-stubs, does that mean that I have to create stubs for the other 100 or so towns and villages on List of cities in Trinidad and Tobago (a list that badly needs renaming). Guettarda 13:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoops - so my guess was wrong :) I think Trinidad-geo-stub will be the one to go for, then, since TT might be a little too ambiguous or obscure. You're right about the bio-stub - I'll propose that at WP:WSS as well. And you don't have to make articles for all those places... though it would be nice, of course... ;) Grutness...  wha?  13:39, 15 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I didn't realise there was someone else writing TT-related articles. You should have let me know - well, now I do, so I went over and gave him a stern warning about intruding into my turf welcomed him to the cult club.  As for all those articles - if I could make articles out of them it would be fine - I was threatening to create 100 sub-stubs :) - Guettarda 15:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Leicestershire-geo-stub
There should be enough for a now. Morwen - Talk 15:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Australia-geo-stubs and Japan-geo-stubs
Hello! Australia-geo-stubs category is becoming very large. Do you think we should substub it into the territories? - Darwinek 20:17, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe - by state, at least. Sigh... more to count up. Japan desperately needs a split, too, but I don't know enough about Japanese geography to know how to go about that one. Grutness...  wha?  01:19, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it can be stubbed by prefectures, but it may be confusing for other users. Try to ask some Japanese Wikipedians on how to substub it. - Darwinek 13:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Wiltshire stubs...
I think we just met in the middle. Thanks for the list, I was initially using google, which is always very hit and miss. Hope you don't mind me "semi-speedying", seemed an obvious one, especially give they've been agreed in principle already. I was hoping to avoid duplicating work in moving from UK to England to [shire], but looks like most of those had been moved once already... Alai 05:28, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Derbyshire -geo stub
Might have been easier to make one, rather than delete the too-early cat and leave it looking like the Dark Peak is principally in Yorkshire :-) Linuxlad 09:18, 20 September 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the patient explanation on this (it's clear why you're an admin and I sh/could never be :-)). I'll see if I can find you another 10 candiadtes (might try & move Flash, and the Cat & Fiddle across the county boundary...)Bob aka Linuxlad

Caribbean-bio-stubs
Thanks for the cat. Although, in reality, the "average" Caribbean person is actually Cuban (there are ~15 million of them, versus ~5 million English-speaking) I suspect Marley is probably the person that wouild be most widely embraced, across the region. It would have been fun though...I'd love to have seen the reaction of certain people to Castro's pic scattered all across Wikipedia. :) Guettarda 12:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Massachusetts-State-Highway-Stub
I did get the stub article approved with the huge batch of road stubs I proposed last month at Rschen7754 02:42, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Victoria-geo-stub split
you've listed Gulf Saint Vincent as needing the Victoria-geo-stub tag, yet the article and suggest it's in South Australia. I've left it in the list, but thought I should point it out. I'm no expert in Australian geography, so I'll defer to you on this. Mindmatrix 17:11, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, someone else added that to the list. Other than the obvious ones I've only checked A-E and R-Z so far. Grutness...  wha? 
 * Ah...luckily, I quickly scan the articles before submitting changes; all other pages seemed in order. Oh, and thanks for the kind words on my talk page; your virtual Barnstar is appreciated! Mindmatrix 12:33, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Trinidad stub
Thanks for the stubcat, and for moving them all over. Guettarda 10:13, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Counties and Wards were the administrative units in Trinidad until 1990, when they were replaced with Regional Corporations. See Counties of Trinidad and Tobago.  Tobago was adminstered as a single Ward (now somewhat self-governing under the Tobago House of Assembly.  I recently took the material from the Trinidad and Tobago article and started a Counties of Trinidad and Tobago article, but I haven't yet developed the articles.  It should answer your question though.  I need to get & upload some county and regional corporation maps.  Guettarda 10:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I think counties still exist (at least as lines on the map). Until recently the health service (such as it is) was still organised by county.  Wards are still used as administrative units for revenue collection, etc, AFAIK.  I really don't know what the legal usage is - there is still a sense of their existence as parts of the country.  A lot of foreign language Wikis still list the counties as did en. until I got here, a lot of web sites do too...I assume courtesy the CIA fact book.  (Another interesting error propagated across a lot of the non-english wikis is calling the president George Maxwell Richard, rather than George Maxwell Richards.  I've changed that in a lot of places though (that I can change in anything using the latin script, the other stuff I can't change because I can't speak the language).  It's also interesting to see my writing filtering into the non-english wikis, things I inserted in en. making their way over.  Which is cool.  Anyway, I have to finish two lectures for today (which is why I got up at 5 am), so I'm off.  Guettarda 10:40, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support (Sam Hocevar)
Hi James, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucratship
Hi, Grutness. Thank you so much for your support and kind words on my bureaucratship nomination. Unfortunately, it didn't pass, but I intend to run again soon. If you'd like to be informed next time around, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks again! Andre ( talk ) 05:14, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

admin nomination (Lectonar)
I thought it over (I think about the SfD. mainly); do you still stand by your offer to nominate me?. If so, feel free to do it, but I still see the problem with the restricted access and would be happy if you would mention it in the nomination...Thx a lot Lectonar 08:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * answered (and nominated!) Grutness...  wha? 
 * Thx again; let's see how it works out....Lectonar 08:57, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! (Splash)
Thanks for the support on my RfA. I was very pleasantly surprised to see so much support throughout the week, especially from users I respect as much those like you. Please do keep an eye on me and my logs, especially while I'm learning the ropes with the new buttons. Thanks again! -Splash 23:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (Lectonar)
You beat me to it; I'm just back from lunch and wanted to start the thanks-parade....and started with the bureaucrat...So: thanks for nominating and supporting me all the way; I'll try to be good Lectonar 10:44, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Another thank you! (Rx StrangeLove)
Thanks for your support in my recent RFA! All those extra buttons might not be a big deal, but getting all this positive feedback sure is, please let me know if you have any problems or comments regarding how I use all these shiny new levers and cranks! Rx StrangeLove 00:19, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Android79's RfA
Thank you for your support on my RfA and for your kind comments. android 79  15:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you (Bhadani)
I thank you for your support in my successful RfA. I hope I can live up to expectations. I will feel free to come to you to have the benefit of your experience. --Bhadani 09:44, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA (R.Fiend)
Thansk for your vote of support at my RfA. It's nice to know that even people who disagree with me quite a bit can still bring themselves to put that aside and support. -R. fiend 18:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

An answer... (Fingers-of-Pyrex)
...I have considered a request for adminship, but I don't think I'm ready for the responsibility it would require. I do appreciate your nomination offer. &mdash; Fingers-of-Pyrex 14:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Who's RfA
Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?&iquest;? 20:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA (Journalist)
Thank you very much for your vote on my RFA, it is now the 8th most supported RFA ever, and it couldnt have happened without your vote. I look forward to serving wikipedia. Again, thanks. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  23:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Category:Flag_images
I figured out that this is where most of the FOTW copyvio images are at. I have re-drew some, but I noticed many are orphans. What we could do is start CSD'ing the images that are oprhans and clear copyvios, and those that do not violate copyvio, but are still orphans, can be sent to WP:IFD. Does this sound like a compromise? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:07, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds fair to me. Grutness...  wha? 

RE: Mount Cavendish
I created a new stub, Mount Cavendish, I thought you might have something to add, also it would be nice to get both photos of, and from, to add. WikiDon 06:03, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Haikucronym
Thanks for the belly laugh at Articles for deletion/Haikucronym.

PS: Would you mind watching my User page? User:Imdaking has threatened to vandalize it. Blank Verse  &empty;  15:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. No problem. Glad you enjoyed my haikucronym (the middle line was difficult!) Grutness...  wha?  00:28, 10 September 2005 (UTC)


 * As someone who writes "real" haiku, I was more impressed with you use of a five syllable word for the last line (I once started a haiku with "momentarily". Too many haiku that I read in haiku journals use lots of one and two syllable words, so reading lots of them at one sitting feels very much like everyone had tried to put words to a morse code message. :-)


 * The problem with User:Imdaking has escalated. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Imdaking. Unfortunately I have no confidence in any of the Wikipedia dispute resolution processes. What is really needed is some good mediation, but both the Mediation committee and the Mediation cabel seem disfunctional to me. Blank Verse   &empty;  11:11, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Uffington.png
Could you please add a copyright info (PD or GFDL etc.) to your image of the horse. Best would be a new upload to Wikimedia Commons for shared use. Thank you and greetings, Longbow4u 08:46, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Commencement Speaker page
Much obliged on merging it with the commencement speech page! &mdash;Mproud 07:29, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. Two stubs on almost identical topics - it just made sense to put them together. Grutness...  wha?  07:56, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

North Island Volcanic Plateau
Kia ora James. A query about North Island Volcanic Plateau article. I'm wondering where you got the info for the extent of this plateau, because I'm sure it's not right. You give the synonym Waimarino Plateau, which is not a common term or one that I'm familiar with. I wonder whether the scope of the article actually represents the Waimarino Plateau. I'm sure the VP extends to the north of the Rotorua lakes, ending where it dips down to the Bay of Plenty coastal region. Nurg 11:42, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ooo. Good question - that was several thousand edits ago! A lot of the articles I was doing back then I was using the Wise's guide as a major reference, but it isn't in there, so I probably got it from an on-line source. Unfortunately, I can't find that source. Now that you mention it, it doesn't seem quite right - feel free to change it to something better! Grutness...  wha? 

New Zealand elections
I'm off to bed. Since you are more of a night owl than I am, can you write up something on the election results for Current events and Template:In the news (I'm also asking User:Adam Carr since he's got a couple of hours time zone advantage over us).-gadfium 11:17, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah. Problem was I was out at a party (at a Party) trying to work out whether to celebrate or not. Boyt it was a close one! Grutness...  wha?  00:36, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I had a quiet night at home with my partner, glued to the TV / electoral website / Wikipedia. I'd been tossing up whether to vote Labour or Green, as I agree with almost everything the Greens say except about genetic engineering (and that issue has stopped me voting for them in the past; but now they're less vehement about it). I finally voted Labour, and was on tenterhooks for many hours into the count.-gadfium 02:41, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'd say we're fairly compatible politically. If you're ever in Auckland, let me know.-gadfium 09:12, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Hayle
I noticed that you had tagged a page I substantively wrote as a copyvio. You must have had an off-day. Not only have I never seen that webpage but it bears no resemblance at all to my article. It mentions some of the same things, naturally, because it's on the same subject. But it's hard to imagine that someone could think they were the same piece.

To be a copyright violation, an article has to actually be a lift from another source. Even if I paraphrased the entire original article, which I did not, it would not be a violation of copyright. Worst case, you could claim I plagiarised it if I did not source it. But, as I say, I did not. The two bear absolutely no resemblance. How could they? I have not until now read the webpage in question. I doubt it even existed when I wrote the article (the site it's on seems to be just slightly older than the article and I doubt it sprang fully formed from the author's head, do you?). Now that I have, I'm certainly going to include some of the stuff from it!

Apart from anything else, I'm an editor in good faith. You claimed I had violated a copyright without bothering to alert me to your concerns, either at my old username or at the one I now use (the old page links to the new). If you think this is an acceptable way to approach an issue where you are making a serious accusation of malfeasance against another editor, think again. You cannot rely on an editor's watching pages. I generally don't bother watching pages I'm no longer planning to add to, because I don't feel I need to guard them. Obviously, that was a mistake in that case. I have also had to revise my previously very high opinion of you. Next time you stumble on a page you feel an editor who is not anonymous may have lifted from elsewhere, I suggest you drop them a note on their talkpage before (or as well as, at the very least) taking any other action.

As it happens, Hayle was my home town as a child, and I don't need to borrow anyone else's history to write about it. Had you been able to highlight passages you felt I had lifted, I would have been able to rewrite them without difficulty. Grace Note 02:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I saw this here so I thought I'd point Grutness to the explanation, it's in the Hayle section on my talk page. Long story short, to make sure copyright violations are not present the Hayle page history it was deleted and restored without the violations. That explains why Grace couldn't see them....an editor had copy pasted the contents of a Hayle site into the article, someone slapped a copyright notice on it and the rest is history...as I say the full version is on my talk page. Rx StrangeLove 03:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The version I deleted was not GraceNote's - the version I deleted was word for word that on the website I cited, and were inserted by 195.248.120.131. I did look through previous versions in the history, but didn't see any non-copyvio ones. I may have simply overlooked one, or it could be because of RadicalBender's deletions. Apologies for any annoyance caused. Grutness...  wha?  04:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, man. Fvw reverted my comment! I removed the intemperate one and replaced it with a more moderate one. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I know you're a fine editor and I'm glad that we could clear this up. -- Grace Note (I actually logged in but the damned server logged me out)

And sorry for inadvertently deleting Rx StrangeLove's comment. So far as I know it wasn't there when I started writing my second comment. I've seen it happen on talkpages a couple of times -- no edit conflict even though you're writing at the same time. All well, all's well that ends well! Grace Note 04:49, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Public school (UK)
Request for comment re Talk:Public school (UK). There is unreasonable resistance to acknowledging Scottish linguistic differences.--Mais oui! 09:05, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't think that "knowledge" is what is missing from that Talk page. What is lacking is reasonableness and common sense. You just seemed like a fair-minded kind of chap who might be able to inject a wise word of sanity on the topic. The whole problem is that the term "Public School" is loaded with status issues in England, and people become far too defensive extremely quickly.--Mais oui! 09:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Useful tool - is it possible?
I've an idea for a useful tool for the AFD pages, but I'm not sure if it would work given the daily transcriptions. Is there any way of putting a link at the top of each day's transcription leading to the previous day and next day's lists? it would be very useful if navigating a few days' worth of AFDs (something which I'm sure I'm not the only one to do). Grutness...  wha?  06:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * If you like, I can have AFD Bot create that. The only disadvantage to it is that it there will be a red link for the next day.  Come to think about it, I could comment out the link and have the AFD Bot uncomment the link when it closes the AFD day.  What do you think?  Oh, by the way, there is an existing template: Afd log --AllyUnion (talk) 05:56, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

AFD List
I haven't fixed that tool yet. Not much to worry about. Still trying to think of a way to easily do it. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Um, we can all have theories, but.....
Your theory on the origin of Moriori is interesting, and very well may be as good as anyone else's. But shouldn't we cite some sort of evidence, or support, for such an opinion? Cheers. Moriori 09:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Cricket
WikiProject Cricket beckons Grutness. The cricket cabal has just caught a talented kiwi. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  17:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)