User talk:SlaveToTheWage/Archive 3

Rahul Peter Das
You have tagged Rahul Peter Das as in need of cleanup. Please specify why, as the tag alone is unclear. 84.144.107.200 07:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Munich
Would you like to join WikiProject Munich? Kingjeff 21:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, helping my project is almost like helping WikiProject Germany. The only difference is these are Germany articles related to Munich. I see you know some German. Maybe you could help a little in WikiProject Munich's Translation page. Kingjeff 01:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Germany project: Templates and categories
I think we could just categorize these pages using the WikiProject Germany tag on the talk page, just like we do with articles and the Portal (with a class=Template or class=Category switch). Categories that contain articles shouldn't be categorized in a WikiProject anyway, to keep article space and project space as separate as possible. Since templates allow a noinclude, the matter is slightly different for them, but I still think the best way to deal with these pages is via the talk page, which has the additional advantage that it allows automagic sorting for subprojects. Currently only the "Munich=yes" and "Mainz=yes" switch do anything, but I'll add a Frankfurt one soon and have hopes that a Berlin switch will be next after that. Anyway, it would be great if we can get some overview over how many templates and categories we have. If you want, you could go ahead and boldly start the categorization subpage. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 15:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

My WP:GER experience
As our project is only about a month old, I can't really tell you what works and what doesn't work. So far I am most happy with WikiProject Germany/Article requests and Portal:Germany/Things you can do, both of which help to tell people what could be done. Unfortunately, it is not easy to create a good list with interesting missing articles, so I put a lot of work into this. The importance assessments are impossible to get right, so don't worry about them too much if you decide to go with the WP:1.0 stuff. (Our Top-importance category is more or less correct, but those are hand-picked articles; for the rest, we only have rather approximate ideas of what is "important" - perhaps normal if you consider that we are trying to sort several thousands of articles across all encyclopedic fields). Maybe you should ask someone from one of the larger and older projects like WP:INDIA for help. Of course one difference is that they probably don't have such a heavy focus on translation as Germany and France projects naturally have due to the strong Wikipedias in German and French. Anyway, the most important thing to do is attract good contributors - organizers, WikiGnomes for the talk page tagging, copyeditors to polish your almost-FA articles etc. How best to attract people is something else that I don't know - what I try to do is welcome people who create new pages related to Germany, announce their articles at the portal and invite them to the project. Sometimes it works, but most people you'll get will be more interested in article editing than in administration, so if you want to get "administrative" things done, the way to go is to be bold and do them yourself. Good luck and happy editing (joyeux rediger??), Kusma (討論) 17:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Stub Sorting
Diocese of Magdeburg and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia (those are the first two examples I found for what you mentioned on my talk page) are not about any church but about the Church in those regions. Many individual churches belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia. Church (disambiguation) explains the difference. Lower case church is a building capital case church is the instituion or organization.--Carabinieri 19:01, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject France
A proposal for a WikiProject France was made at WikiProject_Council/Proposals, it is still in the pipe line. Would you like to contribute to it? STTW (talk)  17:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that such a wiki-project would be a good idea but I'm not sure that I'm really ready to join it at this time. My contributions, for better or worse, tend to be all over the place and I'm not sure that I'm really ready to commit to being an active member of a wikiproject right now. Nevertheless, I believe that wikiprojects are extremely important. So if anyone at WPjt:France wants me to translate an article or to contribute on a topic about which I'm knowledgable, then please don't hesitate to ask me. I'm not just being polite! :) -- Zantastik  talk  19:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I have set up a few projects lately (don't ask how many, OK?), and if you want any assistance in the layout of the France project, or in any details, please feel free to contact me. I can't guarantee I'll get to them right away, but I will probably get them done within a few days of being asked. Badbilltucker 19:54, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

India project experience
STTW, The India project was recently created. Prior to it we used to organize everything under the notice-board for India-related topics. The notice-board is very important to have for informal discussions in addition to the project page. We have now redirected project's talk page to the notice board for central discussions.

To list stuff to do work well in India: We have an outreach deparment that welcomes interested users with links such, India quick links and India Links. These templates are big-help in getting new members.

I was maintaining the Indian version of the collaboration-of-week for sometime and saw a number of articles improve really well.

We also got all related-projects converted to workgroups (or taskforces as in WP:MILHIST). This helps centralize of them under one project and helps members to find other interesting workgroups. The navigation bar helped link all the India-related project pages.

Recently we joined the Version 1.0 team and that is helping identify article quality. We made all workgroups use a single project banner. This helped standardize the process and made it easy to add new workgroups as they come in. The importance parameter needs some work though. There isn't good understanding on how to use it. I am planning to create a importance parameter at the work-group level to avoid confusion. This is still in the works.

Guru came up with a novel idea of feeding DYK section of the Portal:India. He started a quiz page that lets members have fun while helping identify new articles that need to be created and also feeds the DYK section.

Recently we launched a project newsletter, first edition went out in November.

We do use automation wherever possible. Much of the project banner tagging was doing using the AWB plug-in.

If I could choose one thing that really helped the India project, it was the Dashboard. It is linked from the noticeboard. Everyone pitches to keep it up-to-date. It helps identify articles on FAC, PR and other collaboration options etc. New articles page is useful too.

Our FA writers need special mention. Their prolific work put us in the third position on the list of the projects that had the highest number of FA articles (after Biography and Military History). We have around 51 featured articles.

For France project, think about starting geography-related child projects such as States, Cities etc and standardize conventions under them as we did in India.

Let me know if you need help with anything. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 03:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Shipping Corporation of India
See Shipping Corporation of India --Records 22:47, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Germany
Welcome,, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template WikiProject Germany. A few features that you might find helpful:
 * The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
 * Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to [ watchlist it].
 * We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! Kusma (討論) 13:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject India
 Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the India WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India.

A few features that you might find helpful:


 * Please participate in any of our descendant workgroups that might interest you.
 * The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but several other formats are available.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:


 * Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every India article in Wikipedia.
 * Can you code? The automation department uses automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be tedious to do manually.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! ­ &#2384; Kris (&#9742; talk | contribs) 17:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Setting up Project France
I probably shouldn't do this, but if you want any help setting up the project above I've been involved in creating (or re-creating) quite a few. I could probably give you a rough draft of a project page at least. If you wanted to tell me what specific items you would want to see included in the project page, I could probably get at least a fairly detailed draft of a project page together for you. If you do, just let me know what you would want included. Best of luck with the project in any event. Badbilltucker 19:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have added a little to the project already. Please feel free to remove it if you so see fit. Although I am kinda strapped for time right now, I would be happy to offer any assistance I can. And sorry if I made any mistakes in what I did, I think I've been kinda ham-handed lately on the keyboard for some reason. Badbilltucker 22:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Maryline Salvetat
Thanks for your message. I'm not French myself, so will not create articles about French people that much, but I will try to remember it for next time. Cheers, SportsAddicted | discuss  22:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditto re Auteuil Hippodrome etc. - Handicapper 17:10, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

France project
The France project page looks good. Right now I am in the process of tagging the Dogs articles which the banner and in some cases an assessment, but hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday I will be done with this. If you wish, I can do what I can to help with the new project proposal at that time. I have also added my name to the list of interested parties. Good luck, and let me know in which ways you think I could help. Badbilltucker 16:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite to help out but I will be quiting wikipedia due to disputes with other editors. good luck. Hurkummer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurkummer (talk • contribs) 00:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite.Right now I'll keep on improving articles related to french football.But as a French maybe I would be helpful for others articles.Let me know about this. User:Latouffedisco
 * Hi STTW- Thanks for the invite. I've done little edits here and there to France-related articles, but have been too busy with work to really contribute a lot. Some day I will do more! Let me know if you guys need input on anything. -Eric (talk) 20:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

(stub sorting using AWB)
Why do you make many edits like ? The categories are automatically shown at the bottom of the page, and the stubs above. Why should one want to have a confusing reverse order in the source code then? -- Matthead discuß!    O       13:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I still disagree with the order AWB sorts stubs, especially when they are placed between a succession box and the categories, as in many Teutonic Order Hochmeister bios like Friedrich Wettin von Sachsen. See my request to change AWB settings. -- Matthead discuß!     O       20:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate removal of stub template
When you are sorting stubs into more refined categories, please do not delete other stub types which the article also belongs in. Why did you remove from the Géo Lefèvre article? Cycling biography stubs are not a subcategory of French sports biography stubs, therefore the article should be in both. --Mais oui! 09:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Tack så mycket. --Mais oui! 09:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Stub sorting (II)
Hi SlaveToTheWage,

You have been merging poli-bio-stubs and Germany-bio-stubs to Germany-politician-stubs. This is wrong, because poli-bio-stub also includes political experts, activists, etc. Thomas Brehl, e.g., is not a politician. Please be more careful when using AWB.--Carabinieri 20:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Could you please also go through all the Germany-politician-stubs you added and make sure the subjects of the articles really are politicians and revert any wrong edits of yours.--Carabinieri 20:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject France
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk)  15:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think my knowledge of French would be beneficial, however I live in Quebec and I don't know much about France other than the typical stuff you learn at school about the French Revolution, and the fact that I visited Paris and Lyons :-) Would I still make myself useful? -- AirOdyssey (Talk) 15:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * And me, I don't contribute for a very intelligent reason : my english is too bad for the moment, I'm not good at ease. I suppose you are tolerant, but I prefer not being reverted at all ^^ But one day, I will contribute on this project, sure ^^ Erasoft24 16:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * My knowlegde about France, as I am too from Quebec, is rather small. Dravick 18:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm from Paris. I've not so much time. It's difficult to me to write an entire article in english. But i can rewrite translation from french if you need. And i can take for you photo from France, Paris or others places, if you need ( You can see my photos, alls are on commons ). I can also find you articles in french wikipedia if you need. So, if you need, leave me a messsage and i'll do my best. And i'll look the evolution of your project. CaptainHaddock 21:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I took the liberty of turning the comments above into a list, I hope no one will mind ^^; Thanks for your invitation to join the wikiProject ! I live in Paris, and I like to take pictures to illustrate articles (mostly for the Paris Métro, you can take a peek there). FiP  Как вы думаете? 19:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the invitation. However, my knowledge of French is limited and I don't have a particular interest in France as versus other countries and subjects. Which of my contributions has caused you to call me up - the mayor of Toulouse or the Museum or neither? Tragic Baboon 18:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * In the process of writing it, I discovered that the French article is a copyvio. I just checked - it's been deleted. Perhaps you and/or your francophone Wikiproject buddies wish to recreate a non-copyvio revision there? Tragic Baboon 18:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I sometimes modify fFrance-related articles. But I cannot promise a regular contribution, I've got so much to do on FR projects ;-) -- cdang| write me 21:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll see if I can contribute on a regular way. I've tried to create stubs for articles about Cantons of the Seine-et-Marne department. Would you tell me if it's OK? I've stopped, waiting for a decision for that discussion about region/région and department/département. — M-le-mot-dit (d) 17:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * About the articles for the cantons in the Arrondissement de Fontainebleau (Canton of Nemours and so on), I was thinking to fill the infobox and give the list of communes as a first step; so I was asking your feeling before going on. I don't know where to find a map free of rights with the delimitations of each canton. I've seen small maps in Commons for departements of Britanny, but not for Île-de-France (see Cantons of Finistère). — M-le-mot-dit (d) 19:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your invitation. I put my name on the Members' List already. In fact, I wrote a few articles on French composers, and I know quite a bit of French history, and I have travelled all over France, Monaco and Andorra. Kraxler 17:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Canjth vs WikiProject France
Have you looked at my userboxes? Yes my first language is French, but I live in Canada, so I am not interested in joining a project related to France! Sorry. Thank you for inviting me anyway.Canjth 16:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I am pretty good in translating from English to French but I have never done the opposite on Wikipedia because I am not very good at translating into English... and as soon as school re-starts on January 22 I won't have time for that! Thanks for the answer anyway. Canjth 21:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, I'm not really active on wikipedia (a handful edits per year) so I won't promise more than I can deliver, but I'll do a diary on European Tribune pointing to this project in the coming days Guerby 22:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation. I would like to help if I can. How does this work ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filiep (talk • contribs) 22:12, 16 January 2007

Wikiproject France
Thankyou for your kind invitation. Of course I will join you.I am interested in the very important role France has played (and continues to play) in the development of entomology.I will think about this some more but in the meantime,are you able to help me? I would like to donate a scan of a plate from a work on Diptera by Pierre Justin Marie Macquart to accompany my article at present in English only. Could I send this to you by e-mail so that it may be added to Wikipedia Commons? Best wishes from Ireland RobertNotafly

Incorrect Attribution
At the excellent Project Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ An introduction to entomology or Elements of the natural history of insects is incorrectly attributed...See

Type : texte imprimé, monographie

Auteur(s) : Kirby, William Forsell. Auteur du texte Titre(s) : An introduction to entomology or Elements of the natural history of insects [Document électronique]. by William Kirby,... and William Spence,... Type : texte imprimé, monographie

The author of this four volume work with William Spence is William Kirby.Willam Forsell Kirby (also on the Gallica site) is a different entomologist. Perhaps you would inform Gallica. My French is poor. RobertNotafly