User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 15

Redirect
Hi. Could you pls assist me with the redirect of Through the glass? The redirect was first placed to point to Through Glass, which imo is a wrong redirect, considering the fact that there is now an article of a film with the exact name: Through the Glass (film). Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 00:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Amsaim (talk) 00:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

CatScan work-around
I don't know why I didn't think to mention this earlier, but something I've used in the past to find a wikipedia intersection is google. With CatScan down, I've returned to google searching. The basics in the google search box = -inurl:wiki-User -intitle:Talk -inulr:wiki-Wikipedia -inurl:wiki-WP -redirected-from site:en.wikipedia.org. Then, add a term or an intersection or etc. Have you used this before? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:25, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

St. George Littledale
Amazing. Two years ago when I started this article there was practically nothing online at all about him, certianly no photograph or birth dates. Now look at it! It needs a lot of copyediting and citations but it goes to prove that even if the web info is low it can attract people with books... P.S. you REALLY ought to speak to Coren or the white list guy and get this silly bot to bypass this website. Easily done I'm sure, I'll ask for you Himalayan   23:28, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, so I see. Same with wikipedia, thousands of websites stealing pages.... Yes it is good to see articles you thought might be hanging around unedited for ages expanded. Himalayan  00:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Na, way!! too fast and at times a little screechy and high for my liking. It has some interesting parts to it but doesn't have much melody, I have no idea what key it was in!! It kind of makes me feel all on edge from listening to it! If I'm listening to stringed music I'd prefer something a little slower and soothing with more melody and feeling, like this. Himalayan   00:58, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually it does grow on you if you listen to it again, but it seems to be mixing in a variety of different styles, one minute it sounds Irish folksy and good, and then it suddenly goes into what sounds like somebody falling off a cliff in an old cartoon or something, LOL. Good violinist, just a little too fast and sporadic for my taste...01:13, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I checked out a short (although poor quality sound) recording of McDuffie here That appeals to me much more, sounds good. Himalayan   09:22, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Himalayan   13:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you, Ser, for watching out for my userpage. It's been continually vandalized by the same individual for the past few days. I very much appreciate your vigilance! Basket of Puppies 22:14, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Music festivals
Hi Ser. Do you have time to AWB the following: CatScan intersection of  with depth 1 /  with depth 5. Then exchange the articles' festival-stub template with music-festival-stub? Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:38, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You're the best. Thanks, Ser. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:06, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Spring clearing with the CSB notices
Hi,

I took the liberty to remove all CorenSearchBot notices on the Natural Parks and refuge articles you created, all sourced to Public Domain information, in case an overly hasty editor starts looking at your talk page and gets wrong ideas. Cheers, MLauba (talk) 08:59, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Vauxhall Gardens FP nom
Please comment on the edited version of this nom. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 21:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Intertranswiki/Albanian/Missing articles
Good? 1300 kilobytes long. Fritz had a problem with formatting so he said he'll redo it. Eventually we should a massive bank of red linked articles by language like this. I created a template see the bottom earlier which will connect the main lists. Obviously for the bigger wikis the lists will go on tens maybe hundreds or evne thousand odd pages... Himalayan   13:50, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

new article edits
I saw that you did some work on my new article George H. Shirk. Thank you, although I would like to request that in the future you hold off on editing new articles for a day or so. When you edit a page, it overwrites the history for editors that are currently working on it. I lost a fair amount of information on Shirk that I was in the process of writing at the time. BillTunell (talk) 23:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Patuxent Research Refuge
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CorenSearchBot messages
Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao. After going through the listings, I asked Coren about why the bot was still tagging your articles despite them having the Include-USGov. He thinks it may be the line break that was included between the "{{Include-USGov" and the "|agency=" parameter – so in future you should try the template without the line break when you create articles - that should stop you being drowned in CSB tags! Best, – Toon 13:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Category:Cities and towns in the Dominican Republic
Any chance you can use AWB to recategorize as Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Dominican Republic? Himalayan   21:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Nice one! Thanks! Congrats on your wikipedian of the day award too! Himalayan   10:22, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Seems I've stumbled across a mass of missing content on postal history by country. Luckily I have a 2004 A-Z catalogue in four volumes exceeding 4000 pages in total which I can use to st least stub most of the missing entities. I no longer collect stamps, in fact I sold off most of my collection but I am still interested in them. I find that they provide a great deal about culture/architecture/wildlife etc of a certain country and combined with vivid color and themes, some of them stunning like birds of the Faroe Islands etc makes it appealing to me. The mid boggles though with how much coverage philately could get on here with individual articles about notable stamp issues by country...I mean we have the most notable I think like the penny black etc but as you can imagine we could have thousands of encyclopedic articles about stamps issues alone!! Himalayan   21:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this book might interest you... Himalayan   13:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
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Welsh poets
Hi Ser. Do you have time to AWB another group? The articles are in : only those that are stub length, add UK-poet-stub + Wales-writer-stub. A few may have Wales-bio-stub, which would need to be removed. I started them using the list at CatScan but I've got a time constraint in RL. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW, congrats on Happy Ser Amantio di Nicolao Day! --Rosiestep (talk) 14:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Absolutely fine. I have a few other Welsh bio categories that would benefit from AWB, so let me know if you're interested and I'd be glad to give you the info. Like the Welsh poets, they could be done at your convenience. Cheers, --Rosiestep (talk) 20:00, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Grazie! --Rosiestep (talk) 01:54, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * within /subcats, add UK-nonfiction-writer-stub + Wales-writer-stub to stub-length articles
 * within /subcats, add UK-child-writer-stub + Wales-writer-stub to stub-length articles
 * within /subcats, add UK-novelist-stub + Wales-writer-stub to stub-length articles.

Thank you
I admire your engagement for Wikipedia. Thank you very much for your help.--Fox1942 (talk) 11:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

CatScan
2000 bytes is a good number. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I just looked at the Welsh writer stubs cat and it is really filling out. Thank you for working on this. That 2000 number, I should say, is a good one to go by, but obiously, going up or down a little is ok, too.  Sometimes I go up to 2500 and do a quick look at everything in the 2000-2500 range to see if there are any stub class articles in there, usually those with an infobox and/or a bunch of photos, but not a lot of content. Then I re-do the catscan at 2000 bytes. All this is predicated on those days when I've had plenty of time... something I've got less of lately due to job change. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:34, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It's within the same national corporation, but a switch to an affiliate org, so basically everything feels a bit different, but I know some of the people, and I keep my seniority, and they need my expertise, so there you go. Great job with the writers! --Rosiestep (talk) 16:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Russian map captions
HI. Can you use AWB to add a caption to the infoboxes like this for the federal sub categories of Category:Cities and towns in Russia so e.g Aleysk has a caption. I've done Adygea, but probably best done with AWB..... Himalayan   21:19, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Welsh, Chinese? My you do get around spotting tasks to do, whatever they may be!! Emailed.. Himalayan   21:30, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

And what brings you to be editing my native Wales? Himalayan   21:36, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Ahah stub sorting writers! Himalayan   22:10, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps you could use AWB to stub sort African dams with Template:Africa-dam-stub? You'll find a lot from countries like Zimbabwe.... Actually at the time same time they can be stub tagged with the relative country e.g Zimbabwe-struct-stub. Himalayan   14:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Great minds thinkalike eh? Himalayan   20:22, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Mongolian wiki eh? Cool. I'm making good progress with the Malla kings anyway. I'm just drawing up the bones at the moment to give us something to build on. I'll undoubtedly be able to expand a few of them using my book later but it gives me a headache reading it! Its tricky though as very few dates, especially pre 1600 seem certain and disappointingly there are no images of these rulers on the web. Himalayan   20:35, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I'm fascinated with Mongolia as I am pretty much anywhere else in central/eastern Asia. Hey the other day I listed a bunch of missing article for the Samoa project. We now have Architecture of Samoa! Himalayan   20:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Grrr you know already is there not a new page that you don't see? Himalayan   20:49, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes I always get excited when we find active editors who specialise in developing areas of poor coverage on here. FOr a long time it seemed you and I were the only people who wanted to see something of substance for these places. Samauga are articles we greatly need and it is looking promising. Can you point me to the person working on Eq. Guinea? Himalayan   20:55, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey, check out this. Is it me or is traffic seeming to increase and broaden out on here? This site seems to be growing faster all the time, especially in terms of numbers from non anglo centric countries, so important... Himalayan   21:51, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

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Modoc National Wildlife Refuge
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Talk:Hands of Perón
Please see the discussion I initiated at this page. Thanks! LargoLarry (talk) 20:26, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

AWB request
Expand Spanish Tag Spanish municipalities check out articles like this!!!. You could start with doing all of the municipalities of Catalonia that need expansion? Himalayan   23:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Yey, check out the awesome map NNW created for me at M37 highway!! Himalayan   22:01, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

The access to info is definately getting better. I was amazed today what I found in PDF files and google books... I was able to find info about a small town I would never have been able to find anything on a few years ago. Very promising. What is particularly impressive is when you can scrape together scraps of info was many different sources and end up with a start class article!! So say I wanted to start an article on File:AkBugdayMuseum.jpg I could use the French Arcaheology website and find something in google books... Himalayan  22:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to wikipedia! (How patronising).. Yup access to info is gradually getting better. When I started the districts of Laos back in May 2008 there was practically nothing online about the districts so I was worried they might remain empty for a long time. Howver increasing bumber of PDF files means we now actually have some info for districts like Pha Oudom District and enough info to even start some villages like Namkha, Laos! However most villages probably have nothing yet but databases, although it is definately surprising what you can find.. I'll gradually upload locator maps for Laos and expand them but its hard work! Himalayan   16:26, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Not much article creation? I've been working hard on the Clint Eastwood article!! I did say I would be balancing creating new articles and expanding existing articles of course.... There is just so much that needs to be done it gives me a headache, so often I try to forget about what is missing or needs work! Himalayan  16:38, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

November 2009
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AfD nomination of Irina Baleva
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WikiProject Intertranswiki/Danish/Missing articles
This might interest/astound you. What we are looking for? Himalayan  12:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Ho Lee Krakatoa! Hehe. Fritz has started on the biggy, German wiki next. If you take into account it is 10 times the size of Danish wiki and is likely to contain much more content that we don't have, I'd say we are probably looking at 1000 pages of missing articles!! Himalayan   14:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

See my article got partly translated into German here. To date this is the only article I found in my Hutchinson Encyclopedia that we didn't have. I was surprised, given that most of the entries in that encyclopedia are very good articles usually on here. Himalayan   20:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh yes I forget you did all that work on Zimbabwean sculptors. Excellent work! Himalayan   20:24, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

The Germans seem to have a big interest in Africa I think, from what I've seen... Himalayan   21:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Sometimes even the most obscure of articles get exapnded! Himalayan   11:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Interesting, yes I know they are very interesting stamps as I have the simplified complete catalouge from 2004 of all entities which I'm using as a source. I wasn't aware though than Bhutan stamps would attract much active interest though! Hey we've just bought a world map to go on the wall I'm facing when on the PC and it is HUGE!! Its like about 5 ft long and 3 and a half feet high! Looks good as a background to my worldly subjects though Himalayan   18:04, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

A South Wales in Virginia eh? Funny thing is that the map looks very SPECTRE esque, just like Blofeld would have. I'm not wearing the aevil black/grey neck jumper today though... Himalayan   20:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: Malik Nadal Hassan
Re your message: I think a redirect is fine, though it is likely to turn into a full article at a later time. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:43, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Re your message: I agree. I hadn't heard about it.  I stumbled upon the newly created article through RC patrolling.  I'm reading about it now. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:46, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Cats before stubs
Thanks for adding Categories to Charles M. Wheatley. Please recall in the future when adding categories, that any stub template(s) should be kept at the very end of the article. Categories are next to last. --J Clear (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Lea Armväärt and others
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The FAIR criticism of Krauthammer
Hi - we're having a discussion about the merits of including it in Krauthammer's biography at Talk:Charles Krauthammer. Your input is welcome, as somebody who's been concerned with that particular section. Best, Ray  Talk 23:25, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Arístides Chavier Arévalo
Hi, I tried moving Aristides Chavier Arevalo to Arístides Chavier Arévalo. Your name cameup when I couldn't perform the move. What's going on? Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 17:36, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello
Glad to hear from you at last! I've been feeling very lonely on here the last week or two! At times it feels like a ghost town on here! Yes he is one of those artists that probably are included in many written encyclopedias, should not have been missing! Himalayan   16:09, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Ja, I've been pretty busy to notice what people have been up to actually both on here!I have a lot of work to do expanding articles on counties and districts at the moment. But I don't seem to get many messages from people on my talk page anymore! Thanks for your stubs on the Albanians, were they from the missing directory? Himalayan  16:21, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Haha, yes I'm drawn to names beginning with funny letters too, plenty of Q's and X's in Albania! Must admit in the UK, well where I live at least Albania has something of a bad reputation, its seen as a "dodgy" country in the Balkans. Actually as with many other war torn countries like Bosnia the countryside is spectacular. Himalayan   16:44, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Its communism and war which have cast a shadow over these nations, even Croatia and Montenegro which are otherwise stunning countries with many beautiful people. Its the whole Balkans which are notorious in the eyes of the British, I think since the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 before WWI. I would say, well in my experience anyway the territory between the Czech Republic and Greece evne Macedonia is seen in this way, which includes Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia etc. Slovenia, well in my view has a much cleaner reputation and is not seen as a rebel country plagued with war in this area I think...  All I know is that when I was growing up in the 90s all I heard on the news after the 1991 Iraq war was Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia, and Bosnia again and then more recently in the late 90s Kosovo... I guess at least it made the news, most conflicts in Africa seem to get little news coverage.... I was watching Long Way Down again yesterday actually and they were speaking to a Rwandan about the way the west shunned the Rwandan genocide. It coincided unfortunately with many events in 1994 like the Bosnian war, the World Cup and Kurt Cobain's death and it was poorly reported in the media at the time. Bill Clinton later said it was his greatest regret in his whole life, never helping in Rwanda as it happened. 500,000 lives could have been saved. Must be pretty tough to have to live with that. Himalayan  17:02, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Very true. What bugs me about the media though is the way they can allocate time to say David Beckham's new haircut yet a battle in like Chad or Sudan or water shortage in Ecuador or something doesn't get reported. This is why I think wikipedia is more valuable because it allows us to try to cover parts of the world which get ignored largely in western news outlets. As we know many people treat wikipedia in the same way and only care about the US/UK but we do at least have some work put into world affairs and recent events which are not broadast on terrestrial television. In regards to certain recent world events, I think wikipedia is probably the best source I've ever come across. The way articles develop on current hurricanes or elections in the developing world etc is very impressive. Himalayan   17:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Well in regards to overall coverage of the non Anglosphere nobody is as critical or as vocal as I am about complaining about the uneven coverage and how venturing into most given topics in these countries ends up giving you a serious headache at the workload needed but in regards to actual current events whether it is piracy in Somalia or guinean election it is OK although this is not always the case and sometimes major events like fires etc remain stubs for a very long time. WHat I am saying though is that in regards to the non Anglosphere, wikipedia often serves better as a news outlet than it does as an encyclopedia in terms of quality and content of information given. Which is really a flaw, as we should not only be providing recent information but previous existing information about topics. The online sites on Africa for instance a growing rapidly but there is still an enormous amount of info yet to be provided for say towns in Gabon and most of their assembly members. Given time I hope we can build numbers working on these articles as more and more info becomes available. Himalayan   18:51, 19 November 2009 (UTC) Yes, also we get a much more neutral account of events! Emailed.. Himalayan   19:35, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Any chance you could use AWB to stub sort Estonian writers/poets/novelists later? Template:Estonia-writer-stub Himalayan   14:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

More gaping holes in the encylopedia. Category:1960 poems and Category:Romanian poetry were non existant!. Now look at Category:1960 films!! Himalayan  15:29, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

There should be thousands of articles on poems by year!! If you think of most countries and a discipline chances are we will have few articles on it. Lets say, mm, Category:Estonian archaeologists or Category:Egyptian theologians or Category:Honduran botanists... Those were thought of at random and two of them are not existent! Himalayan   15:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Constructing an encyclopedia of this scale indeed produces some odd, often paradoxical developments. Like some Boer War British generla having a good article on German wiki and English wikipedia not! Just hugely uneven wherever you look in terms of coverage and quality. Overall it is definately getting better all the time but evening up coverage is something thats likely to take many decades..... Oh yes I noticed you created a lot of by year categories by country too in the past. Nice work, if you think what likely happened in a given year in each country.. The further back you go and the less Anglophone the country the sparser it gets! Himalayan  15:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

How bizarre! I'll see if I can find an Estonian archaeologist to start... Himalayan   16:40, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh I have two or three to follow shortly. L Jaanvits is one of them. Incidentally he co-authored a book about Moora's work two years after Moora's death... Himalayan   16:59, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm off on a wikibreak for a week or so now.. If you could take care of the AWB for me sometime this would be great. Thanks. Himalayan   21:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about your computer. It can be very annoying I know! Hope things get better soon. Himalayan   14:44, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps then your computer will permit you to translate the side headers of Template:Doge of Venice while I add it... Himalayan   14:52, 30 November 2009 (UTC) Good to see another article I helped copy edit McDonald's Cycle Center being promoted. That, along with Cloud Gate are both FAs! That Korean city article I copyedited was also saved from the drop and retained its FA status! Himalayan  14:52, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, well I did my bit I think.. More credit though to Tony the Tiger who is adament that all landmarks of Chicago reach FA! The thing is as much as I want every article to reach FA I feel somewhat guilty spending much time on a single article like that when we have articles on major cities still stubs or very poor! I'm also thinking of returning to editing as Blofeld. Not to create stubs but it just feels more fun. At times this site can be exceedingly dull and the Blofeld persona was always a way of taking a light hearted view of things and to try to liven things! Himalayan  15:00, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

500,000 edits? I don't think even Rich Farm. has 500,000. 300,000 maybe... Na, I dunno... Himalayan  15:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC) Could you provide me the link? I saw that Charles Matthews was interviewed by BBC News which I thought was quite interesting! Himalayan   15:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC) Wow so he does he currently has a whopping 531,000 edits. Outstanding. You may also be interested in the "essay" about Make stubs and growth... Perhaps you have something to add? Oh see Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-30/In the news. Himalayan  15:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

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Evilness is back baby
Evil one has returned... Mwwwooaahaaa. Not to his evil ways. But just in spirit. Himalayan Explorer was just too cautious and meditative... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:29, 1 December 2009 (UTC) Ya know it just feels more at home being me.. It is more infitting with my personality. If people think I am some spotty teenager or childish who cares eh? Now how about 5000 new one line BLPs.... Just kidding....  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

My I'm scared. Now that's somebody who might need cosmetic surgery. Is that photo for real, its not symetrical!!!!. It looks like two faces superimposed. Busey freaks me out., creep! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 23:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Freak! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Nice expansion eh? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:18, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Can I tempt you into creating some stubs and blue linking Tonguefish? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 22:16, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Its best to get them started with a bit of info first time, saves coming back later, then it can be left up to the experts. to expand them!! The thing is there is just so much that needs starting and expanding this really is the sort of thing that should be started by a bot. Everywhere I venture I just keep finding masses of things that need to be done whether its an entire list like this or a stubby/badly written existing article that really should be devleoped by now. It never ceases to amaze me how developed wikipedia is in the some areas and undeveloped it is in the next area. It stresses me out!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 22:32, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I had trouble earlier actually accessing the site too. I stuck with it though and it now works.. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC) I wonder if a bot could be used to generate articles from Fishbase. It is just too much work starting them all so slowly. If they could be generated a few a minute with decent content then this would do the trick. I find I can't concentrate on a task for too long unless it can be done quickly. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:45, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

The thing is when it takes half hour to do like 5 with details and you have 133 left to do it gets too tedious. If somebody said heres 100 bucks go start these I could manage it! but it is difficult to be motivated otherwise, unless they are created in factory mode without specific links or details which nobody likes... Either way the work has to be done by somebody at some stage but the answer to the problem really is bots in terms of quality and speed Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC).

I rthink I've found a way to compromise. Can you sort out the redirects as I go along? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:14, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Tis OK, only took a minute to do. I'll resume with those Porto translations later after I enjoy a nice Tandouri Chicken Curry!....  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 16:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's better!! I've tried Vegetable Pulao but thats about it. I've had a lot of Bangladeshi cuisine though. I was friends with a Bangladeshi kid in school and his parents owned the takeaway and when I used to go around his house we used to eat a lot! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:48, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Cardiff must have hundreds of Indian takeways, where my nan used to live in Canton, Cardiff I'd say 3/4 of the population are Indian or Pakistani, certainly not "ethnically diverse!, most of the Canton population are Asian!! . Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:17, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Funny, but browsing over the last few days and coming across Speke Hall and Nunnington Hall what's the first thing you think when you look at them? Do you sense the same thing I do? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 19:51, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Haunted mansions! The first thing I thought when I saw both of them was that they are spooky and then I find out they are actually supposed to be haunted! I can sense it. Perhaps I've been watching too much Randall and Hopkirk.... I am admittedly fascinated by English country/manor houses though. The nearest to me is at Dyffren Gardens. I can walk straight to it across the farmland behind my house. Check out pic. Looks pretty grand doesn't it? I adore Tudor architecture though in particular. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:04, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Kinda like Sir Hugo Drax did in Moonraker!! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 22:01, 9 December 2009 (UTC) Awesome!! Thanks for that photo and infobox. I'll reference and scout for more sources tomorrow, its shaping up nicely. I couldn't resist starting it! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 22:51, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for finding that. I'll pop it into my sandbox and tomorrow I'll condense and write it into my own version. Now I think I'll create havoc and create some sub stubs on 5* hotels in London.... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:01, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Fixing dates on Earthquake articles
Hi and thanks for spotting the deliberate mistake on those two articles. Anyone one would think that I had just copied and pasted the infobox from the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake :-). I'd better check that I didn't leave anything else unchanged. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 23:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Wisconsin Barnstar

 * One quick note I am trying to removed redlinks involving Wisconsin by starting articles. Lot of this is interesting involving public officials who may be obscure today were well known in their lifetime and era. This makes Wikipedia special and unique. Thank you again-RFD (talk) 22:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your kind comments-RFD (talk) 23:16, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Kristin DeDycker
Hey, just wondering why you've added "the" in front of the club name for the Kristin DeDycker article. Surely clubs are referred to with discretionary plurals, therefore the phrase was correct and needed no change. GauchoDude (talk) 20:17, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It may be an "American" thing to do, as the page does mention that American English uses the singular version. I don't care either way, just sounds funny to me.  GauchoDude (talk) 20:59, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Finished Regarding DC Meetup #9
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Fair use rationale for File:The Equal of God by de Cordier.jpg
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Virginia House
Expanded. Now we desperately need you to visit it and take loads of pictures. Maybe you could get permission to go inside too and photograph the rooms? Other than this is it possible to email the Virginia Historical Society and request photographs? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 13:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I've contacted librarians and internet coordinators of the VHS requesting images, although your own will still be welcome!! Hopefully we'll get a response and what we are looking for... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 14:14, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Check out Virginia House now. You have an email too... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 22:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Babatunde Osotimehin
You are going to make me totally slapdash. One minute after I created this initial stub, you came in and fixed errors in the categories caused by cloning the standard structural stuff from another article. Seriously, thanks, and keep it up! Aymatth2 (talk) 16:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the very quick
cataloging at Kenneth Hayes Miller. Life is suppsoed to be interesting. Carptrash (talk) 21:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A self portrait would be a great addition to the article. I was working on one of his students (actually his student's husband) and saw the name and did a search in wikipedia and discovered a bunch of references to him but no article so I am just slash and burning my way through one with what ever books I have at home.  Your help is much appreciated. Life.  What a place to live.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Miller had a student named Louise Emerson Ronnebeck and I was working on an article about her husband, Arnold Ronnebeck, trying to remove the "Citation Needed" tags that I find to be very annoying. But I digress. So that got me started on Miller. Thanks for the image, we'll see what happens next. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 23:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this one too! - Wikidemon (talk) 05:12, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Per your request...
Check out: User talk:Btilm--Blargh29 (talk) 23:08, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

page creation summary
I thought at first that you were using a bot or maybe it was vandalism when I noticed the huge amounts of pages being created so fast. Would be a nice heads up for new page watchers if you stated in your summary that you were creating them using some sort of batch process and that it wasn't completely automatic. Cheers! &eta;oian  &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  06:56, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Usually when I page patrol, I don't see people using batch processes with the edit summary "another", rather they write a short summary like : Add Town using (Optional Reference Site Used to Pull the list from). Actually, any short summary that gives a clue to the editor looking at the list of what the batch is about should be fine. &eta;oian   &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  07:02, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

It isn't essential to use edit summaries when creating new articles anyway. In factif you start them without it automatically shows the start of the page anyway. But "initial" or "another" isn't really important, the most important thing is those editors in Brazil get expanding these stubs eh!! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 13:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate article
A user has created Alenia (butterfly), which appears to be a near-duplicate of Alenia (skipper), an article you created several months ago. This person appears to have a superiority complex when it come to Nomenclature codes, so I'll let you deal with him direclty. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 16:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Granite River
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Hotels
Mwwoooahaa I've created a Template:Hotels in Washington D.C. and one for New York City... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool I wasn't sure about the notability of the 3 star or "diamond" hotels but seeing the articles on Topaz Hotel and the one you mentioned I can imagine they are all notable in their own way.... It is the 4-5 star hotels that interest me though, I am just aways really attracted to elegant buildings and luxury! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:28, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Yep I noticed. Ritz-Carlton, Washington is quite ugly looking although the Willard InterContinental Washington looks good! The hotels in London and Paris are grander! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 15:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh yeah I forgot, some of the most beautiful hotels though are wider rather than tall though! You know where i can get a location map of Washington D.C from to put landmarks on the map? Dr. Blofeld      White cat 15:47, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Emailed. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Río Anon


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I can't find any mention of this river online or in google books. While that isn't always the only place to look, it usually turns up something about a river. How do we expand it? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

The same case is for a lot of the Brazilian rivers which appear on maps but as yet nothing online. Little online about all of the Sao Paolo roads yet either... Soon enough there should be more and more become available I guess.... Dr. Blofeld       White cat 20:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Responded! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:34, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
I was not aware of that category. I am adding it to the template I am using when creating the pages. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:04, 1 January 2010 (UTC).

HMS Wagtail (1806)
Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Many thanks. Acad Ronin (talk) 03:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * And a Happy New Year to you too. In about 52 minutes local time. Acad Ronin (talk) 04:09, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Cities of Brazil
Thankyou Ser Amantio di Nicolao for creating many small cities pages of Brazil, especially in the Northeast. But, they look a bit incomplete... (Angenhariaus (talk) 14:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC))