User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 14

Welcome
Welcome back Ser Amantio! Ciao!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 10:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Welcome back AH, your contribution to Sri Lanka related articles is never forgotten. But I like your original name than the new one. But your return is the most important thing. Regards--Chanaka L (talk) 11:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Really! May I know where is she worked? I think you should accompany your mom when you are coming here.--Chanaka L (talk) 13:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

What do you think of my new Aevil talk page design? They couldn't change my name so I thought if I'm stuck being evil I may as well be "Aevil". Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC) Looks great, very Italian and classy! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:27, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * We have only four sugar factories here. Sevanagala, Pelwatta, Hingurana and Kanthale. If you wish to expand something regard to Sri Lanka, Let me Know. Regards!--Chanaka L (talk) 14:36, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

That's odd. I've joust checked out my talk page in cologne blue and it doesn't show the white text at the top. Can you see the welcome part? Try how it looks in monobook. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC) But it doesn't in cologne? You use cologne don't you? Thats odd. I mostly use modern and it shows fine in that and monobook too. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Additional welcome back
Welcome back! Ottawa4ever (talk) 15:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Expansion has begun already. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 08:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Josiah Ogden Hoffman Sr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Ogden_Hoffman,_Sr.

Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao,

I believe there might be a discrepancy in the identity of the image you uploaded for Josiah Ogden Hoffman Sr.. If you take a look at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=josiah+ogden+hoffman you will see two images. The one containing the miniatures seems to depict late 18th century fashion than the portrait of the single man. I believe this is Ogden Hoffman Sr. and the image you uploaded to be that of his son. Just an observation as I can still be mistaken, I thought I would bring this to your attention for further analysis. Thank you.

JasonKeis (talk) 15:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Really, you have never met the man? :) Thanks and please keep me informed on anything else you might learn regarding the identities of these subjects. May I ask about your interest in the Hoffman family? As for myself, I'm conducting research for a screenplay.

JasonKeis (talk) 16:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Yep, likewise! JasonKeis (talk) 18:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

AWB
Hi, I know you won't want to autogenerate articles at the moment but I was wondering if you could do something VERY useful in the current situation. I was wondering if you could apply AWB to the articles we've managed to keep, listed at List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians and add a reference "Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands" and get it to replace the current self referencing. This will ease the problem initially and as I gradually work through the articles at human space I can add the direct links, but that would certianly be extremely helpful as a starter and at least state a proper source evne if it isn't linked. The main CDU website or regional websites obviously mention any of their politicians anyway. If you could go through and do this it would be very much appreciated and I'm certain Jenna would also b ehappy something is at least being done in the time being to add a reference. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

See an example. It is a makeshift ref which at least indicates the article has been generated using the CDU website or regional website. If anybody google the same with that source then they should find it e.g google both comes up with this. It just solves the major problem currently over the BLPs and we don't want these articles to be deleted. It was bad enough the others got deleted. At least with a reference to the party site, when I plough through them I can add the direct links and a bit of info later. So far I've reached the article above from A. If you could help add a reference like that and replace the interwiki one this should ease the pressure a little... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I can understand that you may not want to have anything to do with those lists again, but if people see you are making an initial effort to cite it, it should be an improvement on before anyway and paves the way to adding a different link and more info later. I have a feeling that if they'd have given you time you could have salvaged those other articles in the same way by finding a common site reference. Anyway.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Really? I thought it seemed quite straightforward. If you would prefer I'll let Julian know what you are going to do first if you are worried about anybody doing anything nasty. At least then Julian or whoeever would have authorised you to do it. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:44, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Hokay. Well it is certiaily an improvement from an uncited article mentioning German wikipedia anyway and would make referencing them more fully much easier later. I think I can sort out the Dutch politicians manually anyway. I've just remember I have a huge job to do with Argentine films too in fixing things with redirects and plating an article in its place, they don't show up in my new pages though.... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:50, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S. if Gavin shows his ugly head anywhere you'll know why, look what he has done to gate crash the project nomination and turn it arround so he has become centre of attention. I can't think of the name of the disorder.... When people crave attention.... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

If you are wondering why I have a frickin globe coordinates on my talk page it was not to make a minime of the big globe LOL! I need it to convert decimal coordinates into DMS from the world protected areas database. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, be careful though with the references, you don't want to overwrite any other valid refs! Just the ones that were started and haven't been edited yet... (most of them), maybe it would need semi.. )  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

If you create any more river stubs can you use regional Brazililan state stub categories? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 08:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey I found my old piano teacher on the web!! Here. I can't believe!!! how much she has aged in 15 years!!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 12:45, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Welcome back. Are you still up for doing adding those references? I tried going through manually earlier but it really should be done by something AWB assisted. If you don't want to do it let me know!, I'll see if somebody else can do it. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:17, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you feel up to it. I know I really don't feel like going through this list manually now!! I was considering asking Julian to delete the remaining articles as it is doing my head in having to attend to 3000 articles. That would be giving up though... I'll try and do as much as I can tolerate every day until it gets done. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 21:26, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Me neither! Too tired!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:30, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about, I have to added the birth dates anyway so it may as well be done manually!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Johanna of Pfirt
Sorry about that mistake, I pressed the wrong key! What do you think of her article? I've been meaning to create one on her for a while. Thank You--David (talk) 19:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

George Upfold
That's quick work on the categories -- thanks! Coemgenus 20:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

welcome back
Welcome back! Pzrmd (talk) 05:59, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Quick!
Thanks for the quick fix on Bishop and Clerks Light-- I was doing it and noticed you had beat me to the punch.... Do you watch all new articles? Jameslwoodward (talk) 14:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

PEI Lights
I'm pretty well done with Massachusetts -- there are still redlinks in List of lighthouses in the United States but they're all minor, or have no vestige left in service. I had in mind working my way up the coast through New Hampshire and Maine, then maybe south through the Chesapeake, all of which I know pretty well.

As for Canada -- I see that the Light Lists are available free on line and I own most of the charts, either paper or digital, so I could certainly make a stab at it. We're planning on an extended trip there next summer (see www.mvfintry.com) so getting familiar wouldn't be a bad idea. What kinds of resources are there like http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHMA.asp and http://www.lighthouse.cc/boston/index.html ? Jameslwoodward (talk) 15:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I just looked at the Maine list and there are at least 15 major lights, including Mt Desert Rock, Seguin, Petit Manan, that are redlinks. I'm inclined, as I said above, to do Maine and New Hampshsire first. Jameslwoodward (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I think you're over the top with tagging Deer Island Light with Category:1983 architecture. It's a fiberglass pole with a light on top -- not much different from a street light. I hesitate, however, to simple take it off -- I just a newbie..... Jameslwoodward (talk) 16:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

As for Maine -- why don't you leave it to me -- I've got an Excel template that helps me produce a stub from the Light List info -- I'll just pull up all the redlinks in the US list and knock off the ones that are in the Light List. There's no point in falling over each other....Jameslwoodward (talk) 16:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Please take a look at Doubling Point Light and Doubling Point Range Lights as I have 41 more like them ready to go. Any Categories or Stubs I missed? etc. ??  Thanks, Jameslwoodward (talk) 18:16, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


 * and the bolding -- beginner's mistake. That would have been painful to fix on the whole lot. Thanks again.Jameslwoodward (talk) 18:23, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

FYI
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. Jamie S93  16:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, people will probably be comfortable with you having AWB as long as you promise to not use it for creating articles (with an exception to Brazilian rivers, probably). Any admin can take your AWB rights away at any time (or leave it ungranted, as is the case currently), but I personally think there's nothing that really tells us to not let you have AWB if you'll just make more inane edits that don't relate to BLPs or automated article creations. I'd already added you to the checkpage and said my opinion on the talkpage, so I come from a POV here – but if the community never decided upon any such revoking through the discussion at ANI, you should probably retain the AWB tool. It was obviously in good faith, and of course you learned a lesson. It might do you good, actually, to comment on that page linked above; a quick clarification is all that might be needed to sooth people's concerns. Jamie S93  16:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'd understand why you might be reticent. I still think it might do you good to just clarify that you won't repeat the actions again. Btw, as far as I know you're not on the list, since you were removed on July 30, 08:40 UTC. Best, Jamie S93  16:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I've re-enabled your access. Per my comments at the checkpage, please do bounce any large-scale page creation tasks off an admin familiar with AWB before proceeding, or better yet, run the task through BRFA. As always, my talk page is available if you need to use me as a sounding board for potential tasks. –xenotalk 18:52, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If you need a second opinion on something, I'm available to ping, too. Jamie S93  20:31, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Are you ever going to create a new article using AWB again? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:39, 31 July 2009 (UTC) I'm glad to hear. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. x2! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 19:51, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject TRANSWIKI/Italian
I've put Ser Amantio's name down naturally. Hope you like my developments. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Have created the template, common sense would indicate that lighthouses may virtually be non existent in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba but there may be on or two on the bigger lakes I don't know. Either way you can remove them from the box if there are none at all. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:38, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I've made the neccesary preliminaries in regards to stub proposals and stub templates and categories too. I created a mock stub for Annandale Range Lights so this could be emulated to create the others. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:48, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Check out WikiProject TRANSWIKI/Japanese, things are moving nicely? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Later, can you add Canada-lighthouse-stub to the existing articles in Category:Lighthouses in Canada. and remove the old templates. Actually if you want I'll go ahead and created the lighthouse templates by province later. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Looks good. Funny looking lighthouse though!! Chuckle. We ought to draw up a list of missing notable Africans some time... Oh I still have that Georgian dictionary of biography A-Z to work on too. Right now that will have to be postponed somewhat... I'll create the lighthouse templates about 5pm my time, probably 12 noon your time, so you can add the relative ones later to the ones that exist and then build upon that with new articles. Maybe, just maybe we might be able to organize a bot to generate articles on lighthouses by country using that source. We'll see. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Let me guess. The time is mm, roughly 10:50 am where you are? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:50, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

You're probably on lunch break at the mo. I've made the lighthouse templates, all set up. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Hokay but before you start remmber to stub sort the Lighthouses in Canada first. Also if you intend creating any lighthouses from a different province tonight create a e.g Lighthouses in Ontario category. When you stub sort the Lighthouses in Canada you may as well change to the relative cat too. In fact I'll create the categories ready with the exepction of maybe Manitoba (until you start some). Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Hokay. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 13:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Aye, I'm OK. A little disappointed that more of the new project members haven't helped me out with setting up the project pages but people are busy! I don't mean you as you have the lighthouse lists to sort out, but some other project members... Anyway the idea is that they begin to be filled with missing articles like WikiProject Intertranswiki/Slovenian/Sports but the pages actually need setting up first! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:04, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes I hope the bot will be drawing up the lists, but the pages need starting first!! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 14:06, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Itt's also a shame that Jen locked the expand templates because most of the templates need sorting with adding the topics and direct links to the projects. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 14:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

At least maybe it will work with categories. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC) I'm thinking about creating an Economy parameter. What do you think?A re there likely to be many Economy/business related articles? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:06, 5 August 2009 (UTC) I was thinking in terms of companies and such. For example there are several hundreds articles on companies needing transwikying from Turkish wiki, most of which seem notable national companies. If I was to tag those there wouldn't be a parameter. Maybe create one for select countries then which have a lot of content related to this. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Lakes of Peru
Hi. Please have a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Lakes. -- User: Docu at  19:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Creating articles with AWB
Could you tell me how you create articles with AWB? Persian Warrior Contact Me! 03:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Persian Warrior Contact Me! 04:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Persian Warrior Contact Me! 05:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Offer of help
I must get myself on the AWB approved list. would certainly speed things up. Waacstats (talk) 15:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Signed up just need to wait, then figure out how to use the thing. Do you know if it can be used with Opera (web browser) or if it needs Internet Explorer. Waacstats (talk) 15:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like I might be better off using IE. just oout of curiosity what does the Italian? in your sig mean. ?Waacstats (talk) 15:31, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I wish I understood foreign languages, I'm off to the Netherlands and Belgium in October trying to learn some Dutch before I go. Given that 20 years ago I was over there for 2 or 3 weeks every year for 4 or 5 years I thought it wouldn't be to be bad but I guess I'm well past the age where learning is easy. Waacstats (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Atleast I can understand written and spoken Welsh (Can't speak it to well). When I was in school I took French and Spanish, Went in for my French oral exam and thought everything went really well till I had finished and my teacher told me I had been answering her french questions in spanish! Waacstats (talk) 15:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If language ability was passed on genetically I should be really good I had a grandfather (who passed away before I was born) who could speak Russian, Chinese, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, German and Italian but could never learn Welsh for some reason. Unfortunatly I'm stuck with speaking one language and understanding bits of others. Waacstats (talk) 15:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well it's know 5 o'clock here so I can stop pretending to finish off a piece of work and make my way home. I'll start on the next piece tomorrow.  Waacstats (talk) 16:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Persian Warrior Contact Me! 15:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Languages
Check out WikiProject Intertranswiki. Look OK? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:05, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Why is it in cologne blue white text doesn't show? Have a look at the page in modern. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:08, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

At times the amount of work that needs doing on here really causes headaches... The state of some of the city articles on Russian, Japan, Korea and China is just ... . Cities with 200,000+ which are still stubs and just neglected, unreferenced and just not enough. And then you think just about what is missing from these countries and other settlements, I can't cope!!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:45, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

The thing is you'll come across a great articles, really detailed and well written on some temple in say Seoul or something and then a city with 500,000 in Gansu Province will just be a one liner or something or jus totally unreferenced and even devoid of the basics. All I long for is eveness and consistency.... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, things like that don't always hit the headlines. Well spotted. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Even worse, let's face it, how many people have actually heard of Kiribati.... I bet a lot of people have never even heard of Dominica or something, some people are ignorant of the rest of the world.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:07, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

You often get really clueless people on the TV who think that Paris is a country and that East Anglia is also a nation. The late Jade Goody etc. You know like "what's the capital of Spain"? Duh uhhhh.. Benidorm? Dr. Blofeld      White cat 16:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

My dad had a list of "thick as s**t" answers to questions in a magazine a while back. Can't recall any of them but they of the same sort of ilk as that. Forrest Gump would be a genius is comparison.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:19, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

YES! It's finally arrived. Took a year to arrive but FINALLY a decent svg map of Brazil,.File:Brazil location map.svg Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

It's just a mixed bag though in terms of quality, often unexpected. NO sooner had I finished moaning about the poor quality of cities in China and Japan than I visit the top ten city articles for Brazil which are awesome. Basically my goal is to have an article on any settlement in the world like the Rio de Janeiro article etc. Shame most of the Brazilian municipalities though are still stubs. The you find another article on a place in a Brazil like Balneário Barra do Sul and the quality is just eons apart. It always seems like an article is either excellent or just really bad opposites!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:09, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Are you still working on the lighthouses? Dr. Blofeld      White cat 15:19, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Curt? Not at all. Generating big lists manually and formatting them takes time. That is why I still haven't got around to adding a full list of Italian films yet. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:49, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Interestingly my talk page attracts 100 visitors every day! Check out this. On one day 332 visits! It is quite interesting to see page hits, you'd be surprised how many stubs get hits. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Even Yak racing gets 403 hits in a month. Cool. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:55, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

It is just a shame that more people who view articles don't try to improve them! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 21:15, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Angelina Jolie got 424,000 hits in July!

No. it just shows how celeb obsessed people are.... I am certain that a lot of people don't realise they are human too. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 09:05, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Mmm, why do I get the impression that you loathe all the excesses of the United States in entertianment.... Me too to an extent. It does my head in in the UK when lowlife like Katie Price and Big Brother contestants attract so much attention. At least Jolie has a talent as an actress I guess even if she is grossly overrated as a person.

Anyway you said about all those lighthouses, I just found a Dutch windmill site lol at here. All 1200+ of them. We have 4 articles at present... Oh you might want to check out my Obesity in the People's Republic of China article too, I couldn't find a fat chinese kid pic though.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 12:59, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeha I know, Bono is the worst possible when it comes to charity work though. He thinks he is the Father Teresa of Ireland. What bugs me though is that there are millions starving and dying in Africa and that everyday and it never hits the news, and then suddenly Bono visits Congo or something and suddenly it is all talked about, purely for the reason a rockstar is there not because of the reality of the place. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:24, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

LOL everything alright? I detect a bit of sarcasm 'ere today and yesterday, you feelin pissed about something? As if to say, "I can't believe the geek who drew up a list of windmills". That's my role to be sarcastic! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:37, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Its fricking awesome to see practically all of my stubs on Yangon expanded into fuller articles with photos like this. Even Yangon Nursing College I started is now a start class article! Given time maybe all my village articles wuill be epxnaded too. This is what makes this worthwhile and why I believe in creating stubs. Whenever anybody knocks me or you down for expanding wikipedia I know deep down that it is definately a step in the right direction in the long term on here. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:23, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Burmese wikipedi article on a stub I created about a palace. I think I will set up a Burmese transwiki project.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:54, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Any chance you can AWB tag my Yemen place stubs later with WikiProject Yemen|class=stub tagging? I found only a few images of places like At Tawilah. Maybe someday more photos will become available. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:37, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Obviously the goal eventually is to have all of the articles looking like Tarim, Yemen. If that article can be written like that I'm pretty sure the others can be too. A lot of these "villages" are actually towns, I'm sure of it, i've seen how a lot of them look on dcoumentaries and on flickr etc and the architecture is very impressive, I noticed a number of towns have won awards. Yemen probably seems a very obscure country to us but it has a rich history, especially with the Israelites and Jews. Tudor Parfitt...  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:29, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Not many do. I know it has a long Jewish history as when the Israelites were driven out by the Egyptians they crossed the Jordan and settled in parts of modern day eastern Jordan and Yemen in the cooler valleys from the hotter desert. There is undoubtedly centuries of fascinating history and I bet that most of it will never be covered on wikipedia. Today, quite a different story, Yemen is probably one of the best examples of an Arab state I can think of. Strongly Islam, repression of women. Huge number of Yemeni terrorists in Guantanamo I've noticed... I wish the CIA would not use the same image in every article though, have you seen the articles inserted by them? Dr. Blofeld      White cat 17:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Remember those articles we talked about when you'll get shocked that it took 8 years to start them, on really important subjects. I just realised we don't have any articles which give an overview in prose of earthquakes by region!! I just started Seismological history of Japan, imagine what could also be written for places like China and Iran, not to mention United States and Latin America! The potential using scholarly sources such as this on such topics is amazing. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 14:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to bore you, you studied art history not geography and earth science like me! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:35, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Nah, vmsplice local root exploit are the incomprehensible type of subjects to me. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

There was me thinking a Linux kernel was some kind of space age nut. Computer jargon, web programming and extreme advanced mathematics are the subjects that baffle me. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:49, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Some evidence... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 13:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Just a heads up too LOL. When you stub sort an article can you say "stub sorting" rather than "restubbing". Restubbing makes it look like you re created the actual stub article rather than sorting!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:44, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Still training?Yeah Rich Farmborough had the restart them as it was easier to do using AWB, they needed moving to capitals. They are all moved now, I noticed you did start on them sorry about that, I thought he was going to move the pages... This evening I will be stubbing some more chinese counties, you could tag all of em for china later... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:18, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Well there are Polish politicians..... If that is not to your fancy how about an A-Z_ of missing books here? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:59, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

AfD
Your fast; beat me to nominating :) --Scythre (talk) 14:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pitangueiras River


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 * I contested the prod. Lady of Shalott 23:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguated skipper genera
Hi, did you know that some of your AWB genus articles with "(skipper)" in the title also erroneously have "(skipper)" in the body? For example, Argon (skipper). Melchoir (talk) 05:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

...Hmm, same deal with other families, e.g. Thymus (animal genus). Melchoir (talk) 05:18, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Help with AWB
You once said if I needed help with AWB then you would try to help me out. Well here I am. I created a load of stub tempalates for Virginia with a disambiguator of VI instead of VA, is there any way you know of moving all these templates (100+) using AWB, I'm sure I know how to change the template on the article once the templates have been moved but I'm not sure how to move the templates. Waacstats (talk) 14:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've got the tim on Sunday to do it manually, just thought there might be a way to do it quicker and then spend Sunday retagging everything. Waacstats (talk) 14:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Main page
Another success. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:55, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

You mean you don't feel like writing a "monstrous 1000kb" article like Ion Creangă? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Nice, looks like the setting of a 70s horror film or Stephen King! I almost expect an axe wielding psycho or or something to emerge. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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A request
Hi, I noticed that you've created a lot of organism pages using AWB but have a few tips regarding them. Firstly the "name" parameter is generally not needed in the taxobox - removing it italicises the title which is something that the tree of life wikiproject have decided they are doing. Secondly, when creating pages such as Virga (butterfly) you need to be a bit more careful and make sure that the bracketed section isn't included in the taxobox. The titles for these can be italicised with italictitle - this will only italicise the genus name and leave the bracketed section normal. Thanks for creating the articles though! Smartse (talk) 22:29, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries, just to clarify though, if you use italictitle you will need the name parameter - annoying isn't it! Smartse (talk) 22:41, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking me but I'm not really too hot on the nuances of taxonomy either. I'm sure someone at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_life would be able to answer your question though. Smartse (talk) 21:31, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING
You... you're creating so many articles... dear God! Doesn't that belong at WikiSpecies?! ZS
 * I have to agree. List of Bulbophyllum species and Category:Bulbophyllum are now impossible to navigate; there's no longer any indication of which species actually have articles and which species really don't. Melchoir (talk) 08:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Second account
Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao, may I recommend you register a second account and request a bot flag for creating organismic stubs? Your current editing style is clogging Special:NewPages (even with the Autoreviewer flag). Thanks, –blurpeace (talk) 08:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Er, now that I'm "awake" (it's now 5 AM on EST) it's unnecessary to register a second account. Though, for your question, coding is not a requirement for running a bot (i.e. you can continue to use AWB on a bot account). –blurpeace (talk) 21:25, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Using a bot account would also provide the additional benefit of having your large-scale tasks "rubber stamped" by an authoritative body. Did you drop a note at the WikiProjects for these tasks like I suggested? That would also stave off the ANI threads... –xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 13:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Three millionth article
I hope you'll be going for the 3 millionth article today? I would have created loads today but I feel ill again like I did back in February... I'm kind of half lying down now looking at the screen. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

OK. Urgh I've managed to stay out of bed as long as possible now, my head is fuzzy... off to bed now is sensible I think. Feels like flu symptoms... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:05, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:06, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed block re article spamming using automated tools
I have raised the issue of using automated tools for article creation at WP:Village Pump and have proposed that you be blocked for this activity at WP:ANI.

Please be advised that this is not a personal issue, but I am very conerned that what you are doing is undermining the Wikipedia project by recklessly creating articles without exercising any quality control by not ensuring that these article topics provide evidence that they comply with Wikipedia's content polices. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 09:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Sulgrave club.
Greetings, Ser Amantio di Nicolao. I'm interested in creating a page on the Sulgrave club in the District of Columbia, in Washington D.C. I have a sketch of the article worked out in my sandbox, but I'm not sure it's ready for creation yet. As you are in the WikiProject related to National Register of Historic Places, I was hoping you could help me; if there are any tweaks or fixings you think could be done to improve the page so it is its best before creation, I'd appreciate the information. Thanks! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don&#39;t mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 09:17, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd appreciate it very much, if it's not too much trouble. I really just have that notice at the top of the sandbox to warn vandals (I think these sorts of signs reduce the chance of damaging edits by about 3%). Thanks! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don&#39;t mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 04:55, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. And thank you once again! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don&#39;t mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 05:08, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for all your help! I hope you'll accept this as a symbol of my gratitude:

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Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don&#39;t mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 17:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don&#39;t mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 00:55, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Templates
Just wanted to point out it would have been much simpler to edit Campaignbox East Africa WWIthan to create a new template (Campaignbox East African (World War I)) and switch all article manually as you did. I've redirected the previous template to the new one. Circeus (talk) 17:23, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, my very bad then.
 * As an aside, the Battle for Lake Tanganyika and this template's many red links outlines for me the idiosyncrasies of systemic bias on enWP:, in that such an extensively studied conflicts with many aficianados still has quite significant gaps in coverage, especially where the involved armies are not British or American (e.g. the primarily French-related early Southeast Asian theater is poorly covered too). Circeus (talk) 17:35, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Bulbophyllum abbreviatum
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what? no sense of humor!
you deletionists obviously have no sense of humor whatsoever! what's the harm in a simple page outlining that it's the last page of wikipedia? good grief! And no, I am NOT a new user, and I was not testing. Get a life! Dr. Cash (talk) 15:11, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

"To be honest, once I saw who it was behind it I got just a teensy bit worried myself." What, do I resemble Jimbo Wales, or something,... ;-) Dr. Cash (talk) 21:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Armeniş
Hey amigo. I noticed that the Romanian commune articles are not tagged for WP Romania. Do you think you could AWB project tag them? Meanwhile I'll try to reference them... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Kool. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:28, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

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Online?
Hello Ser Amantio. Are you online today? You have an email. <font style="color:white;background:#B00760;">Himalayan Explorer 17:38, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Druif
Is not a village. I wonder where the data came from that suggested it was? Rich Farmbrough, 20:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC). Looking at Google maps it might even be called Drulf Beach. Sigh. Rich Farmbrough, 20:40, 23 August 2009 (UTC).
 * Most of these sites use the American govt database, which they then break. The database itself is a little broken, perhaps deliberately. Rich Farmbrough, 21:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC).

Barnstar
You'd better have one of these

I didn't choose gold writing on my talk page BTW, I asked Jack for a gold border and normal writing, maybe he will adjust it in a few days.... Himalayan Explorer 16:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Well in that case I'll request just a gold bolder (border) then.... Himalayan Explorer 16:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

LOL, that is an orange "bolder"!! Ha ha Himalayan Explorer 17:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Which signature do you prefer. The new one or the color one? Himalayan Explorer 21:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeha its more attractive I agree. Hey I just found out that somebody I was in school with got jailed for murdering an old man back in 2007. There must have been about 5 kids when I was school in my year, really nasty pieces of work that you'd have predicted they would be in jail within ten years. One murdered his friend when he was 16, another is in jail for running a drugs operation and now this guy. So 3 out the 5 names I can think of in particular rang true.... He remember he had the greasiest lankiest hair I've even seen (most thugs in Wales are bald) but I remember he was one of the few kids who could run the 100 m faster than I could! I remember in school he used to go around head butting people, incidentally he head butted this guy too! I bet you can think of a few like that in school.. Or did you go to a school where people were rather less brutish than mine....

Howz dat? Himalayan   13:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Sounds nasty. Well I remember the first thing I knew about this kid when I started secondary school which merged primary school kids from across Barry and part of the Vale of Glamorgan and I knew that he had been expelled previously. Incidentally one of the kids I went to the regional tennis center with knew who he was too (having gone to the same primary school) and always said how nasty he was and had been expelled on several occasions even as a little kid. In thinking about it he looked like the typical US low-class southerner criminal you see on some of the US talk shows like Jerry Springer with greasy long hair.... Such a look is quite rare around here... I am not in the least bit surprised what he did... Himalayan   14:21, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Less fun for me I'm afraid, these Pakistan articles are horrific... Himalayan   14:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm wonderfully happy with the quality of articles on wikipedia.... Himalayan   12:40, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I haven't even looked in the people categories yet either, one can only imagine what level of POV exists... Himalayan   16:39, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Name any article you want improved. Himalayan   17:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. Did you know who wrote the Lucijan Marija Škerjanc you've got linked? Himalayan   17:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

There you go, that's a start class anyway! I cna't believe how many missing articles we have on Preseren Award winners still... Himalayan   18:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Admittedly I hadn't heard of him. I'm not a big fan of 20th century composers really, I'm more a baroque-romantic period fanatic. Basically any classical music where the composer is wearing a pirate costume LOL. Himalayan   18:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

You lived in Slovenia? Himalayan   18:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Cool, you didn't tell me that when I started the article on it!! Himalayan   18:35, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey I expanded Aizenay ealrier and I requested some photos on flickr! Now look! Himalayan   20:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey can you recall where you left off with Greece? It might relieve some of the articles listed in Category:Cities and towns in Greece. Himalayan   17:49, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yep, me neither. There might be some clumps left in one or two prefectures which are bloating out this category. There are a lot of articles on Greek settlements! Himalayan   18:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I tell you what, this building an encyclopedia of the highest quality is extremely time consuming... There is never enough time to get done what we want to!! Himalayan   18:10, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I think wikipedia has to be the most ambitious project EVER. The work needed to make the whole thing work is huge. One can only dream that sometime in the future we will have tens of millions of quality articles on absolutely any topic under the sun. I know some people think we are "nearing capacity" already but only on the surface, ouch my heead hurts..... Oh I think Messenia Prefecture needs doing, I seme to have come across a lot from Messenia.. Himalayan   18:25, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, now I'm focusing on going through categories too it is giving me even worse a headache than ever because I can't get it done! It is just too huge. It kind of feels like somebody is squeezing your brain every time you venture into a poorly developed category or huge list of missing articles.. At times I wish I was only interested in a narrow topic and wasn't concerned about, well everything!! We need like at least a hundred bots working on articles on here... Himalayan   18:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Why, is there a hidden supply of bots or several thousand Lemmings stuck down the salt mines wanting ti sort out the wiki LOL? Well I think if there was a large number of bots running sorting out things like bad categories, unreferenced articles and actually adding things rather than just adding seemingly pointless tags that so and so is unreferenced (ahem we can see that!!). At least if the bots did all the grunt work like this and started our missing articles too we could leisurely write articles and not have to worry about tackling the impossible by ourselves... Himalayan   19:01, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I need a break... I'll return in an hour or so. See ya. Himalayan   19:04, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Dodecanese Prefecture is another I think... I think there were lists of places by prefecture anyway... Himalayan  20:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Hokay, I'll do as many as I can humanly manage manually anyway... Himalayan   21:00, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I think I can manage Messenia, anyway, gives me a chance to see what the condition of the articles are! Himalayan   21:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

There you go. Howz dat. Chopin is my favourite, cool to see a "Haitian black Chopin". Himalayan   20:41, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. The great thing is more and more books are being digitized like this recently done in June 2009 so more knowledge becomes available. That book doesn't have it all on here yet but it seem that the original source you used it derived from this book published in 1991.. I'm trying to find some more sources but my computer slows down everytime I hit google books annoyingly.

I'm suffering the same problems today!! Must be google's server, it has been known to be lagging of late because of growing useage... Himalayan   20:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Brazil rivers
I did come across a task that could probably be automated, fixing Category:Rivers of Santa Catarina (state) - a whole bunch of rivers are being listed as the lead article for the category instead of being alphabetized. I also think the whole thing can be moved to Category:Rivers of Santa Catarina (I don't think any of the other Santa Catarinas are likely to have a list of rivers), I already moved the list itself over. Kmusser (talk) 14:10, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Referencing transwikied articles
Hi. I regularly check for new opera articles via User:AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult. I notice that you have created quite a few stubs via translations of equivalent articles on other Wikipedias. As you know, Wikipedia articles are not legitimate references. Could I please ask that where references are available in the original language WP article, you add them to the stubs you've created, e.g.. If the original article was unreferenced then you should add something like this. This alerts the projects looking after them that they need references. Also, could you please add appropriate project banners to the talk page, so that they don't slip under the radar. For anything opera-related (singers, librettists, composers primarily of opera) simply add  . For non-operatic classical composers in general, you can add  . Thanks. Voceditenore (talk) 11:02, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
For fixing the name on the infobox in The Private Life of an Indian Prince. I didn't realize that I left the other name in when I copied the infobox. cheers. - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 18:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Ser Amantio di Nicolao, I appreciate your compliments on my work about African nobility. I am honored.Fsmatovu (talk) 12:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Page move
You recently moved San Benancio to San Benancio, Monterey County, California with the edit summary "Proper titling". Since there is no other entry for "San Benancio", I'm not sure the extra specification is necessary. Certainly the county name is not needed; "San Benancio, California" would have been more than sufficient. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:06, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Dapani


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Delicate Edible Birds
I will continue to improve the article. I usually do an inital post and then do a little more research, which might not be the most appropriate approach. I know it needs additional citations and I will work over the next couple of days to make the story descriptions sounds a little flatter. Best Regards. Botendaddy (talk) 02:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC) Ditto on Monsters of Templeton, lots of spelling errors, grammar, lack of citations, etc., etc., I am working on it. Botendaddy (talk) 02:55, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Small world
Amazing. I started an article the other day on a Ugandan economist/politician named Onegi Obel. However I was unsure as to whether some of the info was about another person, and it indded turned out to be his son Geoffrey Onegi Obel. Interestingl the ip who edited the article since removed the info about Geoffrey and left a note saying they are often confused. The ip address was interestingly registered in Malaysia... Seems odd eh? Have a read of this, it seems that he is involved with a number of Malaysian corporations! It says "Earlier information had indicated that the investor, Dato Hashimuddin Dato Abdul Kadir, who is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian firm, Perspect Prime, had met President Museveni at State House Nakasero on March 10, 2005 and convinced him of their interest to develop a hydro power plant at Kalagala falls." The power of google or wikipedia reached him or one of his associates maybe? Such is our ranking that if you google search the surname here, we now rank alongside the sources used to start the article! Sometimes people underestimate how much traffic and interest creating new articles can create... Himalayan   16:49, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

P.S. check out M'tsamoudou and Dapani! Himalayan  17:38, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Cool, we now have a Mayotte pin map see M'tsamoudou. Himalayan   14:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC) If you are interested there are still missing settlements from Comoros, see User:Dr. Blofeld/Comoros. They actually have population data too on world gazeteer like Antsahé por exemplo. Himalayan   15:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

If you do feel like it, Bandra Lamahalé is probably a good example to copy. In the list the last names are the island name so it is easy to work through each island first. There shouldn't be any community concerns about referenced geo stubs with population... even if it just the 2009 estimate.. Himalayan   15:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC) That too would proably not be a candidate? Looking at these pictures of Tibet makes me so happy.There are 867 images in the commons like this to upload of Tibet and Kham! Himalayan  18:34, 8 September 2009 (UTC) A pity, lovely blue colors! Oh while, wiki drama aside I've at least managed to pull of two astonishly notable missing Tibetan articles today, Valley of the Kings (Tibet) and Pabonka Hermitage! It is like a different site for me not having to justify myself to other people at forums and their talk pages. I think I'll sign the No Forums, No Drama form from now on. Other people can bear the brunt of it, I'm supposed to be living peacefully in a Tibetan monastery! Himalayan   20:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

interested? Himalayan   21:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

prefix:Talk:Main Page
Google led me to the top item on your happy funtime page. I have collated several cases of suffix "prefix:Talk:Main Page" here. It seems very strange that what appear to be totally independent people have all used this suffix. Have you seen anything in our help files, etc. that may be causing them to do this? &mdash; RHaworth 12:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK
I did credit you for this DYK too at the nominations but they didn't send you it. Don't worry it happens to me all the time I officially have 71 bu I am certain I have nearer 80! Himalayan   16:39, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, sorry just caught your first message, you must have posted at the same time as somebody else... You mean expand Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court? Mmm, possibly I'll look into it later. At the moment I am just beginning to finish of the translation of Tunisian cultue and then I need to copyedit merge info on the cinema and sports and then reference it! Then I have an article on a missing Georgian national park to start of which I've collected sources here, plus the book on the Kennedy Curse arrived this morning... Plus I have those Armenian infoboxes to complete given that Carlos no longer seems bothered... So I now have a sandbox for translating/expanding existing articles on here and a different one for new articles so write in my workspace before posting... Himalayan   16:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I'll definately take a look at it tomorrow. Have you seen my Culture of Tunisia huge transwiki job yet? So far over 120 references! Himalayan   21:05, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorting the refs and tying it up is the hardest thing. I always find it difficult to complete something in one sitting, it gets too tedious! The article now exceeds 90 kb and I still have a bit more to do! Tomorrow I need to copy edit it a little so see that everything makes sense. I obviously did that when translating but just to ensure it reads well. With a lot of work it might eventually be good enough for GA but that is way off just yet, it has only just been expanded, it would need full proof reading anyway, given that I am far from fluent..  Himalayan   21:21, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I did look at the article but I don't know what I can do with it.... Ridiculous isn't it this bank earns only $6 million a year yet English footballer Frank Lampard for instance earns at least $15 million by himself. I see you awarded the Ugandan editor with a barnstar, you beat me to it. He is doing an awful lot of good work singlehandedly for Uganda and thinks have developed very well thanks to him. Now imagine we had several hundred editors from each African country on here and imaginw what they could accomplish together. Yet if you see his talk page you'll see once again the bad faith and negativety he initially faced, rather than getting a welcome it is usually "Your edits appeared unconstructive and you will be blocked and things like that before actually greeting people and it worries me that kind of initial recpetion will turn away potential valuable contributors like this away. Himalayan   22:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeha I know, if I hadn't have faced such degrading comments about me as an editor in what was done in good faith to improve our coverage in the long run I would probably still be editing as Blofeld and feeling a lot more free to start whatever I feel like. It completely takes away the spirit of wikipedia by feeling you can't contribute and start articles in sets because they are not start class. Sorry you also feel this way but it just isn't worth the trouble is it? If say creating 200 new articles on missing settlements which are stubs is going to cause ANI reports, people moaning about you in forums and just treating you as some sort of vandal then I'll pass I think. I have genuinely have been wanting to focus more on quality for a while but there are still so many missing articles that need to be started like Chinese and Sudanese counties etc but I feel I can't even create a decent stub anymore without causing strife. Please do keep contributing, even if it is the odd composer from transwiki. Himalayan  10:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I am having fun actually, today I've expanded Naqa and just started Wad ban Naqa. I have a great interest in Ancient Egypt and the history of the middle east, well I have a major interest in most encyclopedic subjects!! but this is fun. No editor though should feel that they can't contribute in whatever form, I believe that the end product still requires the same amount of work and if we are to attain the "sum of all human knowledge" we cannot ignore articles. Himalayan   15:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Check your email in about five minutes, I'm about the post to you.. Himalayan   14:08, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Himalayan   14:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Peter Jules


The article Peter Jules has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * link to national football database doesn't seem to suggest international caps, thus would fail WP:ATH

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330 million
Funny. If 330 million people really use Wikipedia every month why is it there is rarely more than 2 editors willing to work on some topics! If every one of these 330 million added something however small to any of our articles or creating them themsevles we would literally have like 100 million articles with content. What we are achieving right now is miniscule in comparison to our real potential. The big question we need to address is how to be get people when visiting wikipedia to help write/ start articles rather than using us. Himalayan   21:46, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes I think if there are reasonable amount of stubs then it can attract people to edit them. However if there are too many, like 5,000 sub stubs in one category I think some people may find it too daunting. Same with the German politicians, I was very disapoointed that few people showed an interest. If they really want to write articles about then it is pretty easy to restart them. For mor epopular topics thought that get more traffic I definately see the benefit of stubs as often ips browsing may not want to start the article but will willingly add things to it. In many areas though I must say overall I'm very disappointed at the rate in which articles do get expanded, you might see a handful expanded but the majority remain stubs for a long time! Same with the French communes, they definately needed starting but the rate in which they are exactly being written and translated more fully is very slow.... The truth is that most stubs on here could be expanded and greatly improved, the pages are there we just need more contributors. Himalayan   18:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree, the worrying thing is that some people seem to be blind as to what actually we are missing on here and how much we really need to be working towards something. LOL the stub tags should tell these people to "edit me" and contribute. I guess at least a stub tells people to expand them which otherwise wouldn't be there if the article didn't exist. The problem is the amount of people who actually do do something about it and expand it especially when there are a huge number of stubs needing working on in a given category. We definately need more active editors. I mean this is how we've grown to date by editors seeing something they can add to and then it all adds up but we need more people who add good things and not come across a stub and think oh, not a good articles, lets find something better. Its kind of taking people out of their comfort zone as a casual reader and to become an editor, evne if only occasionally. The amount of people using wikipedia and the amount actuall contributing shows that the vast majority are not coming out of their comfort zone and are not adding to wikipedia. Himalayan   19:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

You were saying some about the value of stubs. Shame they didn't reference or wikify it... Himalayan   11:43, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Towns in Greece
I'll do it manually then.... Don't worry the task isn't that big, I should get it done this afternoon, the main cities cat anyway. Villages later! Himalayan   12:45, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually I could sure use you AWB help with moving the articles in Villages in the Achaea prefecture, Villages in the Elis prefecture (82 P), Villages in the Arcadia prefecture and Villages in the Fthiotis prefecture into the proper e.g Elis into Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Ilia Prefecture... Himalayan   13:40, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Hokay I got the main cat down to about 280 now, it was originally 600 odd. Once the towns and villages categories are emptied perhaps Markussep will catch on... I've asked Kotniski if he can add infoboxes to the French communes he said he would in a few weeks so that then will also be something taken care of too! Himalayan   13:46, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Himalayan   14:05, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Who'd have thought eh? Himalayan   18:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I'd be willing to bet that a good number of administrators on here have dual accounts and I;d guess that some of them even managed to promoted more than once. If having "power" is important to some people as it is on here I would imagine that some people will go as far as they possibly could with socks to turn out at various forums. Quite scary isn't it if the very admin who is up for RFA, the case could actually be closed by his sock admin! And there was me thinking we were out to build an encyclopedia... Himalayan   18:20, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

The times I've noticed people turn up in two and threes in rapid succession at various controversies is more than a little suspicious... Three "overly concerned and angry editors" suddenly becomes 8 or 9 if you know what I mean..... Anyway, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.... Himalayan   18:32, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Nice image? Himalayan   20:26, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Probably not good enough for a FPC? Himalayan   21:09, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Sometimes it pays off to set high targets for people on here by requesting things. We now have maps of places like Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Sudan thanks to my pestering NNW, and my request to Simon to expanding Tikal evne if it took about 7 weeks paid off check out this magnificent expansion here. Unbelievable isn't it! Himalayan   21:31, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Ooops. see Karytaina, I think you used lower casing for prefecture Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Arcadia Prefecture? Himalayan   21:09, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

OK grrr. Annoying when that happens isn't it! Himalayan   21:13, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

When you've corrected those if you could fish out bulk groups from both Category:Villages in Greece and Category:Cities and towns in Greece by using those lists of settlements this ought to reduce these cats down and you can use AWB for that.. The rest will probably need to be done manually. I'd start with the Xanthi Prefecture like this, looks like a load of those villages are from Xanthi... LOL it seems that Category:Villages in Greece are all from Xanthi! DOn't vouch my words on that but the vast majority seme to be Xanthi so should be easy to sort.. Himalayan   21:22, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Yikes, just discovered articles about suburbs of Riga with loads of pics and info on Latvian wiki like his. Now that is where wikipedia has its strength above paper encyclopedias! Looks as if part of tomorrow will be uploading the city district maps and photos to the commons and maybe translating some Latvian stuff... Himalayan   21:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hokay thanks for that, there wasn't as many from Xanthi in Villages in Greece as I thought.. Himalayan   09:55, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, thanks for that. Three new articles who might want to see if you haven't already, Kolkheti National Park, Tromzikhang, Tibetan beer, I told you I would be still creating new articles didn't I? Himalayan   16:55, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, always good to check up on your local articles every now and then. It really is quite amazing really how things are developing on here beyond our visibility. Although most of the villages in my county are still stubs in terms of overall development it is coming on leaps and bounds, particularly Cardiff districts and related articles. My dream is only to have such a detailed coverage evenly around the world and be able to browse any country on here in that level of detail like on wikimapia. Himalayan  18:59, 27 September 2009 (UTC) OK, get better soon!! Himalayan   10:02, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

So you think its worth starting one liners about politicians from Republic of Congo in this list, most of which have no other mention on the web yet. Over 200 articles with nothing but saying xxxxx is a member of the xxxxx Party. RCongo-politician-stub. We both know they are notable but can they be reasonably be expanded at present into something a bit more substantial given the current web situation? One line stubs for French and SPanish politicians is difference and a lot more valid because we know there is online info right at this moment which could be used to write them into good articles. Personally I think its probably best to go where the info flows and start and expand articles about those politicians which have sources currently on the web to expand them. I dare say that soon enough there will be more info about the R of Congo politicians so maybe it would be better to start them when we know they could be immediately expanded. That was my point with the Gabonese politicians, no google hits except mentioning in one list. That isn't source material to write comprehensive articles... Unless there is somebody who works in the Gabonese goverment on here and has access to domestic sources to expand them all which is highly unlikely then I can't see the point in keeping them. When somebody wants to write an article on them they can remove the redirect and write aproper article. Doesn't that make sense?It still comes down to how much information is available in the current situation and how many editors are working on the articles. Now if I was to one line stub on a missing Spanish politician at least would know it stood a chance of being expanded right now...

For instance google search Georges Matoko a RCongo politician. Can you find anything? I do not think it is worth starting his article yet, personally even though I am pretty sure he is notable in his native country. Same with the redirected Gabonese politicians. So I just think there comes a line between one liners being useful as a start to expand with plentiful knowledge about it and those which you currently cannot write a single thing about using the web, especially on a topic like gabonese politics which are hardly on the top of the traffic trends. There are plenty of more prominent Gabonese politicians which are getting better coverage right now so I would say it is best to write about those first and write the others later when they too get better coverage... Do you see my point? So I would support the one line stub creating of Augusto Rollandin for instance as it can be expanded immediately but Georges Matoko created as a one line stub would not be the same. I'd support a one liner about Luc Bengono Nsi because of potential!! Himalayan  20:44, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

But that was my point. The info in those Gabonese stubs is exactly the same as being in a list in the National Assembly article that they are politicians and a member of the National Assembly. It conveyed nothing more and a google search genuinely showed nothing otherwise I wouldn't have done so. At this moment there are a lot of short stubs about French Senate members. They are valid stubs because I know I could randomly select anyone of them we created a while back and expand them. If there is nothing online that can be used to currently expand an article or it is only mentioned in a list then I don't feel so certain about it. I doubt that if I visited my local library I'd find anything either so its kind of a dead end until somebody in Gabon puts info out about their Assembly members. So when that moment happend then I say we we write them. Otherwise they would be sitting around unedited and making it seemingly impossible to find a half decent article amongst them all. Your Dominican stub is a perfect stub. It contains a decent amount of starter info and this is a solid source. If each of the Gabonese politicians had a page like this then the stubs would be worth something as they can be expanded. If they can't currently there little point in having 100 one liners saying that they are politician and nothing else.... I would love to have good articles about all of those RCongo politicians too but right now the info just isn't there because of web bias and poverty in such countries. It is sad as I think these people should have articles about them... Things are gradually developing online so I think we should go with the flow... Himalayan  21:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

If I could find sources like this sort of thing about Gabonese assembly members I'd flesh them out. You'll get quite good coverage of the main leaders but most assembly members for Gabon at the moment is basically just a list. I am sure this will change eventually. When it does then we just restire and expand them into the article they should have!! Feeling better today? Himalayan   22:04, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Emailed Himalayan   16:31, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Mari Aakre
I have nominated Mari Aakre, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Mari Aakre. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Animatronic Fruit Loop (talk) 18:48, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I see you too have caught the AFD furry of this guy who seems to think he will be able to go through the entire encyclopedia alpabetically and delete what he wants.. Himalayan   11:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)