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Anastasios Andreou
That sportsman is both greek and cypriot. so please don't delete the greek stubs KRBN 02:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Use of American
I notice that you are currently creating a number of article related to American atheletes. Could you use American to link the word American? American points to a disambiguation page and will probably cause more confusion than anything if you continue to link to that article.. Not to mention people like me will have to go through and change those links to American anyways. Thanks!--Bobblehead 17:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I apologise I hadn't realised that American did not redirect to United States like many other nationalities. I will try to be more careful in future.

Use of German
Similar to the American problem above, German is a disambiguation page as well. In your pages about German athletes, please use one of:
 * German to refer to the country
 * German to refer to the German people
 * German to refer to the German language

Thanks --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I had spotted that and have changed some myself thankyou for the notice, I have also checked other nationalities before anyone else points out I've made the same mistake with japanese or something. Waacstats 07:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

When creating articles...
...please add the proper categories. See for instance my edit to Juliet Cuthbert. Thanks, Punkmorten 15:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Birthdates can be found at http://www.databaseolympics.com/index.htm. Punkmorten 20:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I just found three of your newly created articles at Newpages, and frankly they're not too impressive. Ali Ezzine was not an athlete, he is. Abdoulaye Seye did not compete for Senegal. In addition Saleh Hissou was a duplicate article. Punkmorten 21:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hans-Joachim Walde
Hi Waacstats,

I noticed you recently created the article about Hans-Joachim Walde. I just wanted to inform you that you can post any new Germany-related articles at Portal:Germany/New article announcements and Portal:Germany/New articles. Happy editing--CarabinieriTTaallkk 11:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi nice articles on olympians similar to my work but the way it is worded as if people born in 1881 are still decathletes and still living!!!! I mean there is year of birth but no death and you say ...... is a German decathlete. It needs putting in chronological context e.g ...... was a german decathlete who competed in the 1920s. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi good going but remember e,g category:1900 births and {southafrica-bio-stub}} I know you have the African athlete categories but anyone looking to expand south african bios needs this is national stub categories. Cheers Ernst Stavro Blofeld 13:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
I think you're doing great work on articles for Olympians. However, if I could make a couple of suggestions.

A) New pages should not be marked as "minor" changes. B) I'm working hard on sorting the Olympic medalists into country subcategories. For example, Harold Cagle should be categorized as Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States instead of just Category: Olympic silver medalists. C) The style guide on Wikipedia is really picky about capitalization. Something like "High jump" should have an uppercase H and a lowercase j. However, if it's used in the middle of a sentence, it should be all undercase. In the header box in the medals table, athletics should be undercase (Men's athletics not Men's Athletics).

Please let me know if you have any questions. Sue Anne 10:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello. My name is Tadas. I'm lithuanian. I can't speak in english very good. And I want to please you maybe you can amend mistakes in my essay. :)

''We all are thinking about our future. Fututre in our imagination always, I think, is good. And I believe that my future will be good to.''

''I think that I will have finished 10 class in one year' time. I'll be playing with accordion and be reading books. believe that my marks will be better and I hold examine in next summer.''

''I'll have finished school in five years' time and I'll be looking university where I'll be studying. I think that I will be living in my own house and will work in job, but I don't know in what job.''

''Ill have travelled all Europe in ten years' time. I think that I'll be having a family and will be living in my own house in ten years' time.''

I believe that I'll have a good pay work and I believe that my life will be wonderfull.

I very please you delete mistakes. If you can writte good text in my user talk. Tadas12 15:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Glynn Hurst
Hi there. I removed the Ghana-bio-stub you added to Glynn Hurst. As far as I know, he's always been classified as South African, despite being born in Britain, where he's spent his entire career. I'm not sure if you want to put an England or SA bio stub on the article instead. It already has Africa-footybio-stub. sʟυмɢυм • т • c 17:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Olympians
THanks again for your great work particularly I have noticed this weekend. But one pointer. On your articles on Athletes you can be more specific in your links for example. Johnson competed in Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics rather than just 1932 Summer Olympics - this will take you directly to the Athletics page. Good luck and thanks Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Sue Rodriguez
Ms. Rodriguez was Canadian, not American. Just letting you know. I also fixed another anomaly, where you mislabelled Ms. Rodriguez as 'Georgakis, Kostas' in the 'People from Winnipeg' category. Have a good night. -Wyndallin 13:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Stub Sorting
Hi Waacstats,

I noticed you helped sorth the United States sports venue stubs, I've now finished those and there are only buildings in places like Guam or the US Virgin Islands left. I was wondering if you wanted to help double stub all the articles in the sub-cats of the US building and structure stubs such as airports, bridges or museums with the appropriate state-struct-stub tags.

I would suggest starting with the airports, only if you are interested in doing so of course.

Thanx,--Carabinieri 15:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your tireless work stub sorting. MKoltnow 06:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Ezra Suruma
Thanks for stub sorting Ezra Suruma. KazakhPol 23:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Yrik Utembayev
Thanks for stub sorting Yrik Utembayev. KazakhPol 19:03, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

How to delete article ?
Hello. I found an article about 'fake' football club - FC Warsawa. This club doesn't exist...How to delete it ? Thanks in advance Bartekos 13:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Annamária Tóth
I've added the "prod" template to the article Annamária Tóth, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Annamária Tóth. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Oo7565 21:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Carel Godin de Beaufort
Hello Waacstats,

Would you be kind enough to explain to me, why the article on former Formula 1 racing driver Carel Godin de Beaufort is still considered to be a stub? Having read it, in my eyes it gives quite a good and more or less complete picture of this former Dutch sportsman. Being a fellow-countryman and having followed most of his career from near by, in my opinion there isn't much more to add to what already has been written up to now. Of course one could dwell on the subject a lot more, but looking at the modest role De Beaufort has played in Formula 1, I think the present article is appropriate.--Piet.Wijker 19:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Frans Wackers
This article needs refs or it will probably very soon be deleted, tho not by me. Look at similar articles fro the style. Newpaper articles/professional papers/etc are needed. DGG 06:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Stub category??
You modified the stubs on Francis Tregian the Elder and Francis Tregian the Younger to 'crime' stubs. I honestly don't think this is right - the former is noted for his staunch Catholicism (there have been recent moves calling for his sanctification), and the latter is most famous for his compilation of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. No 'crimes' were committed, unless you call recusancy a crime, and in any case even if you do, these people were notable for things other than their recusancy. I should be grateful if you would consider reverting the stub types to 'bio-stubs'. With many thanks. Nick Michael 12:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * That's fine with me: thanks... Nick Michael 23:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

All-Africa Games
Thanks for posting "Athletics at the All-Africa Games" results. You needed only one day to do so! I had several months of time, but managed to contribute only 2003 results. Julius Sahara 23:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Muhammad Assad
Hi! See message over there, please. Thanks, Tazmaniacs

Charles Luther
I have added a "" template to the article Charles Luther, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Zazzer 22:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Use of WPSS*B
WPSS*B adds a link to the related stub biography category, so it shouldn't be used with templates like Chad-bio-stub that are upmerged templates since the category doesn't exist. However a note beside or below the template it upmerges to would be appropriate. Caerwine Caer’s whines 00:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Salvatore Todisco
You wrote an article about Salvatore Todisco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Todisco

You should write 2 things about him. 1) He could not fight in the LA final because his hand was broken. 2) He died in a car accident in 1990

http://www.mondoboxe.com/start/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=676

Removing stub tags
I don't understand what the point of that was. The article is clearly still a stub, and remains classified as one by WP:BIO. Cf. here. — SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;   ‹(-¿-)› 04:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Sidney McKnight
I have proposed the article Sidney McKnight for deletion as not notable. Discussion at: Articles for deletion/Log/2007 April 24. You are receiving this notification because you corrected Canada-bio-stub to Canada-sport-bio-stub on his article on 7 April 2007. --Bejnar 21:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Nigeria-sport-bio-stub?
Hi there, Do you have a stub count for a Nigeria-sport-bio-stub? It seems that, while Africa-sport-bio-stub is undersorted, Nigeria would be close to the needed number of articles.--Thomas.macmillan 02:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Austrian sportspeople stubs
No problem, it's a done deal. I'll delete the old category later, once it's finished emptying by job queue. Alai 18:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Sports stubber extraordinaire!
For your deluge of sport-stub-sorting efforts, I award you the Stub Sorting Barnstar. Cheers! Her Pegship  (tis herself) 23:12, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Augusto Polo Campos
I just want to thank you for your categorization of this entry, and also to congratulate you because you have put your name in your name in your username Page. Well, if you have time try to listen Peruvian music and better yet try our food, hope in Wales you have some Peruvian restaurants, let me know because I am visiting England again soon. Thanks. John Manuel -&quot;-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día&quot; 14:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Robert Fitzgerald (politician)
Please explain the reversion of my recent stub-cat change. This person has never held political office, and therefore cannot be considered a politician, can he? Until such time as he has, he's a political activist at best. Thanks... &hArr; ChristTrekker 22:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Stub sort
I find it amusing (not laughing at you, though) that your edit summaries vary between stub sort, stubs rot, stub srot, stubs ort, amongst others. Doesn't your browser offer to complete the summary when you type in the first few letters in the edit-summary box? - Dudesleeper · Talk 17:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Film categories
I probably jumped the gun by a couple of hours, but I created the following: Category:1920s comedy film stubs and Category:Pre-1920 comedy film stubs. Thanks for your comments on the stub creation page... SkierRMH 05:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:Cricket tour of NZ stubs
Done. Given that it was a creator-requested rename, I figured it was speediable. I hope I haven't stuffed up the page histories - I can't work out how to merge them properly for categories (which can't be easily moved). Grutness...wha?  02:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

-Rugbyunion-stub moves
OK, all done (I think), go ahead and use when you're ready. BTW, you don't need to be an admin to do the moves, just an "autoconfirmed" user. Alai 23:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Been there, done that. :) Not a problem, and happy sorting!  Alai 14:06, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Tony Beach
See my answer there. Please mind the distinction between failing notability (slow deletion standard) and making no claim of notability (speedy deletion standard). -- Y not? 12:10, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Ken Catchpole
A "" template has been added to the article Ken Catchpole, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. KenWalker | Talk 18:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Michele or not Michele - that is the question
Is 'Michele" the correct spelling of the 1964 Olympic and triple CG medalist? The Commonwealth Games site gives it as "Michelle Mary Brown (nee Mason)" and this is the more common spelling in Australia. See http://www.thecgf.com/games/athlete.asp and then dig for the 1958 games results in Athletics - Womens High Jump) as does http://www.olympic.org/ which renders her family name as "MASON-BROWN". I will amend this bio entry unless someone (you?) has better provenance. Albatross2147 04:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

-bio templates
Just noticed that your list of -bio templates is missing Comoros-bio-stub, Macau-bio-stub and Seychelles-bio-stub. Btw, I believe the name for the Solomon Islands template should be Solomons-bio-stub to be consistent with Solomons-geo-stub. Happy editing. Valentinian T / C 08:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Makes sense. I'll add templates for Greenland and the Faroes myself given that these territories are part of the Danish realm. Valentinian T / C 08:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award
Feel free to place this award on your user page, as a token of appreciation for your contributions. If you're willing to help spread the good cheer to others, please see the project page for the Random Smiley Award at: User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award originated by Pedia-I (Explanation and Disclaimer) Luk suh  04:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Stubs by country
Hi W - Thought you'd like to know that I've finished the list of "country"-specific geo-stubs at User:Grutness/Geo-stub list. That should give some sort of template to the -bio-, -politician- etc stub types. Note that there are a handful of countries that may need their templates changed to bring them into line with all the others before making too many templates for them (most are like the BiH one and just need a swap-around of redirects) - they're listed separately at the bottom of the list. Cheers, Grutness...wha?  01:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Stub templates.
That sounds great. Are you going through the list alphabetically? Africa, Europe and Central and South America are almost complete -politician-stub wise (the Falklands and Cyprus are missing and French Guiana is probably not worth the while as it has only a single article about a politician). I've put Macedonia on hold since these templates are up for renaming. I'll be doing Asia next, but it might take a few weeks. The Caribbean and Oceania lack a ton of templates, but I'll focus on Asia and probably go through the continent in alphabetical order. Valentinian T / C 19:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like you're making great progress. On second thought, I have a feeling I might also "accidentally" begin cherry picking the Asian material. :) Keep up the great work. Valentinian T / C 21:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Waacstats - hope you don't mind but I've just moved one of your new templates from SaoTomePrincipe-bio-stub to SãoToméPríncipe-bio-stub, leaving the original as a redirect. Diacriticals are no longer the problem for WP they once were, and those countries that have them in their names generally now also have them in their stub templates (with a "plain language" redirect). I think the only other "national" level ones where this is worth noting are Réunion, Curaçao and Åland. BTW, I agree with Valentinian - looks like you're doing a ton of work on this! I'm busy trying to get the last of the redlinks off that geo-stub list; hopefully they'll all be gone very soon. Grutness...wha?  01:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Question about stubs
Hi Neil, I see you're part of the WikiProject stub sorting. I am a newer user to Wikipedia -- I've really only edited pages -- but I want to propose a stub for the Big Brother (US) main page to create a section devoted to the various strategies used in the game. I made it part of the main article and one guy had a problem with it -- even though no one else seemed to take issue with it, I'd rather not argue with him and I think it would make a good stub article anyway. I read the directions on making stubs and I'm still confused. Am I allowed to make a stub or does someone with more authority need to? Am I supposed to plead a case as to why I think this topic deserves a stub, or do I just state my interest in creating it? And I don't quite understand the category business, either. Sorry I'm such a newbie, Wikipedia has a very unique way of doing things and I'd appreciate any help or pointing me to someone who can help. Cheers. --Teehee11 04:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

, etc
Did you see my comment at WP:WSS/P (and that of the "closer") on the naming of these? Alai 04:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Can do, though I see someone's else is ahead of me. When I have some more time later on, I'll try to help out with populating these.  Kudos on this whole plan and implementation thereof, btw.  Alai 15:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Robert Young (athletics)
I noticed that you were the one who created the article for Robert Young. Do you happen to know if he's still alive or not? Cheers, CP 21:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... and an SSDI search turns up no results for a Robert Young born on that day. Not conclusive, but it's certainly possible that he's alive and 91. I'll keep him in the possibly living people category unless I find otherwise. Thanks for the reply. Cheers, CP 21:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Mandy Meyer
That was a good edit to this page, so much to learn here. I would like to learn more about stub sorting as you metioned in your edit. Can you give some info on this and how to get started? Vic dood 02:16, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

To de-stub or not de-stub, that is the question...
When I created the Padraig O'Malley article, I was able to find and include more information than is typical for a stub. On the other hand, I haven't (yet) found his birthdate or his specific academic history. (The latter point is covered solely by the list of universities he attended, according to his website, with no third-party sourcing and no specifics about dates, degrees, and fields studied. For a professor, those lacunae are significant.)  Therefore, I thought it should be considered a stub. Another factor was that, in a close case, I lean toward labeling an article as a stub when I myself created it.

You aren't subject to the latter consideration, so I appreciate your objective assessment that it's not a stub. You evidently work with stub sorting much more than I do, so I'll accept your view that it's not a stub even though key data are missing. Thanks for reviewing the article! JamesMLane t c 18:44, 22 October 2007 (UTC)