User talk:Waacstats/archive3

Hello, it is about the revision of the page Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly on 03.09.2007. The revision is made by IP 209.12.200.87. Who could be this user? It is a very important privat matter for me. Please contact me direct: vajda.bt@chello.hu or lacuspapa@hotmail.com. L. Vajda

O. Brune
Your edit to O. Brune. Are you certain he was american? His supervisor, Cauer, was German.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  16:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair cop, it WAS me.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  18:16, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok here's the real truth, he is not American and he is not German. He is South African and I have added a ref.  Don't know if you want to revisit the cats with that information.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  22:41, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

My 2p
I would like to modestly call attention to an essay I just wrote called "The nature of stub sorters." I am inviting a select few to peruse it at leisure and offer comments or changes if desired. I don't know what purpose it will serve, although I may cite it on occasions when we moppers are more than usually misunderstood. Thank you for reading. Her Pegship  (tis herself) 21:07, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Sports venes of Europe
Hi dude. I'd do some further research and propose creating the full whack of templates if I was you and reducing that 800 as much as poss, Count Blofeld  16:38, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah I thought there must be some reason for it as you are usually completely on the ball with stub sorting, especially sport related. Yes it is surprising that coverage is more even although I think that has a lot to do with User:Patken creating a stadium on just about every country in and island in the world. Are you certain that many of the Europeam countries don't have 60 venues? If so I can help stub a few to make them viable. P.S yes us Welshmen should stick together! There are few others editors who are "world renowned" on wikipedia from Wales except us and User:SethWales. Count Blofeld 17:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Washintgon? DominicanRepubilic?
Either you need to slow down with template creation or drink less coffee :) I've deleted the misspelt redirects. Grutness...wha?  00:37, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Friendly Notice of an Article for Deletion
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Edit count
Do you realise that between us Welshmen we have a crazy 370,000 edits. I'm approaching 200,000, you're approaching 170,000. Amazing!

Remember though we regularly do many edits a minute with stub tagging and tagging so the amount is rather inflated. It snot as if every one is a long studious edit. We pretty much function as bots half the time. Count Blofeld 21:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

metro stubs
Hi WS - I've just moved your new Chicago-Metro-stub to Chicago-metro-stub, which is what was listed on the proposal page. I hope it was right to be at the lower-case name. It probably doesn't make much difference if the other one (whichever is the wrong name) gets left as a redirect, but if you feel one of them needs to go to SFD, feel free... Grutness...wha?  07:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Odd stub-sorting...
Perhaps you need a new atlas? :) Grutness...wha?  08:54, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

CVC of Atlanta Categorization
Hello Waacstats. Since you added the CVC page to the organization stubs, I was wondering if you would consider evaluating the categories I put the page under: Atlanta based Organizations and Non-profits based in Georgia (U.S. State). I also put it under the nonprofit organization stub. But I am uncertain if it is really a stub. It is longer than some non-stub entries i.e. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Mullerman83 (talk) 17:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Stub sorting
OK I'll have a look in Spanish wikipedia but you can see the huge uneveness in coverage. Anyway thanks for sorting the French museums, check again you'll see there should now be just over 60 stubs  The Bald One       White cat 11:08, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. greatly appreciate your work with stub sorting there is a huge amount to do over the last few months so I have been trying to limit my new proposals as it keeps piling up! The Bald One      White cat 11:10, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Its amazing how you always seem to be thinking what I'm thinking!! Yes exactly at this moment I was just thinking the possibilities with the new image over flag with what they could be used for. I know hundreds of stub templates for people just have the flag which should of course be changed with a person over the flag. If you mix in the possiblity of a different person icon e.g a soldier over a flag then the possibilities are enormous. The Bald One      White cat 11:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Indeed the cold Dwyr Cymru or however you spell it. One idea as I was looking at commons icons I noticed the video game stubs proposal you could place Image:Joystick icon.svg over the necessary flag. You'd need to create new sets of icons of course like scientist but just switch the person or object icon. The Bald One      White cat 11:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I've created the french museum cat and Germany-chemist-stub. Remember I made a proposals for chemists a few months back but we haven't got around to it yet. See my comments on the proposals page, it might be time to make an assessment of biography templates by country and professio and think about standardising them to make them consistent even if many as yet aren't viable for cateogires. It would save us a lot of trouble at a later date  The Bald One       White cat 14:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Naturally it wouldn't be done over night. I was actually excluding Africa and much of Asia when I said it and was thinking more along the lines of Europe and the larger countries of Latin America. E.g I didn't mean create Rwanda-astronomer-stub for example but certainly for Europe and countries like Mexico, Brazil. The Bald One      White cat 14:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Me again. Can you list the scientists which don't yet reach 60 but you think could possibly be transwikied to reach it and I'll see what I can do? Also please can you speak to User talk:Bobo192 about why it is important to stub tag articles. Its really annoying that he is ignoring me and continuing to start them without caring about how they are expanded in the future. Ephraim Mokonyama etc. Perhaps you could a bit of "stub sense" into him and brandish him a few regulations? The Bald One      White cat 19:32, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Surprised with Chile and Colombia looks only about 40 max for each from spanish wikipedia and thats including evne mathematics. I remember starting the Carlos Conca article and thinking how much needs transwikiying. Oh Spain will be easy. Mmm. I could find a website for countries like COlombia and Chile, university websites etc that list notable scientists etc it shouldn't be impossible. I'll have a fish around tomorrow. But for Latin America Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are always the biggies to look out for  The Bald One       White cat 23:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

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Stub categories
Hi, Waacstats. I have a query: here it says: "propose the following templates, categories if they reach 60". Does this mean: i) when "Category:Nationality writers" reaches 60, ii) when the "What links here" of an uncreated page called "Template:Nationality-writer-stub" shows 60 pages, or iii) smth else? In the first case, for example, "Category:Modern Greek writers" hits 60, and in the second case Greece-writer-stub hits no article, while Macedonia-writer-stub hits one. And if I create a stub-cat-template that has not a big enough list as a content, will it get deleted? As you can tell, I'm quite confused. Omnipedian (talk) 11:58, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Sports bio icon
Hi See User talk:Mangwanani. I've proposed he creates a general one for sports bios as at present I noticed the boffin or suited guy for sports. once created it could probably be used for most sports bios on here. WHat do you think of File:Greeks-stub-icon.png. I noticed a Macedonian one too. The Bald One      White cat 18:52, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Why have you stopped speaking to me? The Bald One      White cat 21:57, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Unless of course it is used for football managers like Mourinho who seems to relish the opportunity to show off his £10,000 Armani suits! The Bald One      White cat 09:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

i love!! the British ornithologist icon it looks rude!. It looks like the guy is looking up the bird's arse LOL The Bald One       White cat 23:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't normally have noticed but it was just the way the person icon and way the bird was standing in comparison to him as if he was under going inspection! The Bald One      White cat 23:35, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Hehe. Good one!! Ha. The Bald One       White cat 23:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
 Hello Waacstats! I just wanted to wish you and your family a merry Christmas! May this Christmas be full of great cheer and holiday spirit. Have a great day and a wonderful New Year, from  The Bald One       White cat 11:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Waacs. You may be interested to know that Template:Athlete icon has been created, so now all those smartly dressed sportspeople can remove their suits and start running! The Bald One       White cat 19:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC).

I was kidding actually...   The Bald One       White cat 22:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Mummy thanks you
for heeding her reminder.  Cheers! Her Pegship  (tis herself) 23:47, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

SKS Transnasional
Don't vandalise if you don't know how o edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.101.23.230 (talk) 09:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting Manuel Martins
hi !

thanks for correcting the article Manuel Martins. i don't contribute much to en:wikipedia and forgot to use the correct stub: i used painter-stub, but it should be about Brazilian painters.

all the best, --Hgfernan (talk) 00:19, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

College bowl stub templates
Hi Waacstats. Thanks for correcting the stub templates on 1987 All-American Bowl, 1992 Aloha Bowl and 1988 Freedom Bowl. DH85868993 (talk) 10:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Painter stubs
Hi Waacstats - you forgot about using RMacedonia again :) Grutness...wha?  00:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just one of the perks (?) of me going through the templates at Special:Newpages every day :) (that's also why I always so busy with nominations at SFD, BTW). Grutness...wha?  00:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi Waacs, everything OK? See you're still doing great work with the sorting. Fraid I've been busy with article work. COuld you help finish all of the Asian structure by country apliications I started, I only reached Brunei. My aim was to try to create 60 articles for eahc country to get the main Asian stuct category split too. Let me know which need filling and I'll see what I can do as Asia structure stubs is extremely broad. E.g let me know for ones like Category:Indonesian building and structure stubs and I'll try to create another 40 articles + etc. The best thing in the long run would just to be to create cateogories for each of the Asian countries I think. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, keep up the good work. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 23:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks thats a great help. Yes I'll take a few days sitting back but there is so much that needs to be done!! All the best  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 11:14, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Enjoy it! Yes it is a shame that few editors bother with the Paralympians. Many of them are wonderful athletes given some of their conditions. There are still quite a lot of weightlifters from 2008 Beijing main olympics to start too. I did a few weight divisions but got sidetracked. I'd imagine there are probably over 1000 missing articles on paralypians? Go for it! Anyway I'll create 3 quick stubs on Filipino lighthouses to make the category viable. I'll work on the others after my break. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 11:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I didn't word it that well admittedly. I'm making good prgress with the stub building, Philippines, Georgia, Sudi Arabia and Lebanon should now be viable. 23 more stubs to create for Cambodia now.... I see it as a priority, it just seems so dreadfully narrow of the encyclopedia to read an article on a mosque in Lebanon and have it classed as an "Asian building stub". There must be billions of buildings in Asia!! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 22:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I wonder why there is so much lag on these categories. Check out Category:Philippines building and structure stubs. 36 hours later and still they haven't all recategorised. Dr. Blofeld      White cat 23:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Edmund Turton
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 * I am really confused. Turton or Tull?  Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:06, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Paralympic taskforce/project
I think your idea would be good for a taskforce. To start, you propose your idea at WikiProject Council/Proposals. After that, follow the steps on the page, and if you need any help, ask me - I set up this taskforce in December, and it covers Paralympic football amongst other things. I would happily join. DeMoN 2009  19:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Paralympics categories
Hi, I was wondering if you had seen my response at the CFD you opened. Cgingold (talk) 11:33, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. All you have to do is add a reply to my CFD comment saying that you are in agreement, and then you can add the two that need renaming over at SPEEDY renaming as I suggested. (Just replace the old templates with the new ones for SPEEDY (subst:cfr-speedy instead of subst:cfr). I'll take care of closing out the CFD section. Cgingold (talk) 11:56, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks fine. Cgingold (talk) 12:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Ukraine
Some days ago, you created Category:Paralympic medalists for the Ukraine and some adjacent categories. The most common among Wikipedia's categories seems to use "Ukraine" without "the". I have not removed, added or renamed any categories. But where duplicates existed (you created both Category:Paralympic competitors for Ukraine and Category:Paralympic competitors for the Ukraine), I moved articles from "the Ukraine" to "Ukraine" and inserted category redirect in the emptied categories. --LA2 (talk) 22:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Naret Sukngam
Thanks for the Stub sorting

Paralympian articles
Any particular reason you haven't been categorizing them with "living people"? I've been going back and adding that and "Year of birth missing (living people)" to the ones you've created; I just want to make sure I'm not overriding some kind of policy. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:25, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries - and I don't mind adding them in myself. It ups my edit count, after all. ;-) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:53, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * True - we must find some way of disabling him...


 * Perhaps we could steal his computer? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I can dig up some evidence for you - let me see if I have those thumbscrews lying around. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:12, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, the thumbscrews are for me. I work better when I wear 'em.  I'll find an acid wipe or something for his bald head.  Those usually work well, I've found. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Then my work here is, 'ow you say, done. Soon, so shall my work here, come to think of it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:27, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Elkin Serna
Thank you for creating Elkin Serna! Keep up the great work, Kingturtle (talk) 19:26, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock
I noticed that you removed and  from Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock. Given your work on stub sorting, I am presuming that you are more familiar with stubs than am I. However, I am curious whether your implication here is that the article does not belong in those stub categories, or that it is long enough to be considered beyond the stub phase? Personally, I think it's still a stub, but again note that your judgment is perhaps more informed. --Geoff Capp (talk) 13:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Instant deletion??
Re: Harold Alfred Whistler

I was off-line a couple of hours, returned to find Whistler had been deleted, and never even had a chance to consider what to do about him. Heck, I am not even sure what disappeared. I read the deletion notice only after he was gone. If you are going to vanish 'em that quick, why bother with the message?

If given any kind of opportunity, I would have tried to work him up into a Start class article.

I think the lesson I have been taught is, don't bother creating stubs.

Georgejdorner (talk) 10:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.

I am taking up the matter with Wub, as he was the actual deleter. I conclude that you followed due course, and have nothing for which you should apologize. So I can't accept your apology, because you don't owe me one. Okay?

BTW, I am glad someone cleans out the deadwood. Keep up the good work.

Georgejdorner (talk) 12:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Paralympic athletes of Ukraine
I did my best to insert the Ukrainian versions of there name in there articles, not sure if there all right, but most of them should be! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 19:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Roland Schwarzl
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Roland Schwarzl, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * 10th place finisher at one Olympics isn't notable.

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Brixen
✅. There was a ]] missing on the province! Dr. Blofeld      White cat 17:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Texas A&M Stub deletion.
We have had a similar discussion on deletion of a university related template over here. Oldag07 (talk) 16:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Remove stub designation?
Hello Waacstats: Please take a look at the entry for John Wilde. It was categorized by you as a stub back when it was a stub, and I have now added a great deal more to the article. If you think that it is time to remove the stub designation, I hope that you will do so - Glassnote (talk) 14:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi - Glassnote here again. I broke down and read the instructions concerning removing stub designations and removed the designation myself. Another rung up the learning curve! Glassnote (talk) 15:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Sport stubs
I think the best use of your time would be to create upmerged stubs like Somalia-basketball-bio-stub rather than having to go back and create them later on.--TM 21:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Scott Emerson, Tracy Davis, et al
Hi there. I notice that you've stub-sorted some members of the Liberal National Party of Queensland with. The LNP is not the National party (it is a merged entity consisting of former members of the Nationals and Liberals in Queensland), and in the face of people like Scott Emerson and Tracy Davis quite inaccurate, as they either previously stood as Liberal candidates, or have only been a part of the new merged entity (ie: neither National or Liberal). It's an understandable enough mistake to make, but please make sure what party the person is a member of before engaging in future stubsorting on these articles. Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:58, 25 March 2009 (UTC).

Léopold Marien
Hi, I noticed that you linked dates at Léopold Marien. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Ohconfucius (talk) 15:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Charles Davis Tillman stub deletions
Why did you delete the stubs from the article on Charles Davis Tillman? Rammer (talk) 01:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I did remove the stub templates. Stub articles are generally only a few sentences long and this article is far from a few sentences. Hope that explains the reasons. Waacstats (talk) 21:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I caught on later.  The article is one of the big boys now.  Rammer (talk) 22:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Removal of content during stub sorting
Waacstats, in some of your edits where you are doing stub sorting, I noticed you are also accidentally removing content. For example, in this edit, you removed a non-stub category. In this edit, you removed a non-stub category and a reference list, causing a cite error. I have fixed these two articles, but please be careful of this in the future. Thanks and keep up the good work! --Mysdaao talk 17:41, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Peter Martin (athlete) name mis match

 * I'm sorry, but I've deleted this as meeting WP:CSD. You may want to carefully review Your first article.
 * For more general information about the deletion process, please see User:Dlohcierekim/deletion
 * If you believe the subject does in fact meet notability guidelines with reliable sources providing verifiable information, please contact me on my talk page.
 * If you wish to make test edits or work on the article before creating it, you can create a test page at User:/test.
 * Cheers, and happy editing.  Dloh  cierekim  15:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Peter Martin (athlete) => User:Waacstats/test1
✅ What confused me was the mismatch between article name and the name of the subject in the article. And I apologize for not realizing I was templating a regular. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  13:39, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Paralympic taskforce/project
As this proposal has recieved some support from you, I wondered if you thought there was enough support to start the project? al.is.ta.ir.jh ta.lk co.nt 15:45, 25 June 2009 (UTC) *      This user will be away for about two weeks, so don't expect a quick response to any comments that you leave.


 * Started a Paralympics task force: WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics. Please edit and or join. Bib (talk) 10:45, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Bib (talk) 11:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Oregon County Stubs
I have created Malheur to Yamhill following your pattern in Linn County. Thanks for your work! YBG (talk) 09:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

could i get you opinion
Just wondering if I could get you opinion on something Talk:Manchester mayoral election, 2009 (New Hampshire) is where the discussion is. So there is an disagreement between me and another editor on what the page should be I believe it should be the one posted above and he thinks it should be Manchester, New Hampshire mayoral election, 2009 just wondering if you could contribute thanks Gang14 (talk) 05:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
 G W … 10:19, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Back log
We have a huge back log to get through. Its hard to cope without Alaibot. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I feel a bit guilty I can't spend more time helping out with the stub sorting but my workload is horrendous at the moment especially with the new intertranswiki I've in the middle of setting up. It is giving me a headache when I think of how many months logs we have to get through. Somebody at least needs to go through and close the proposals from months gone by, I'll do so shortly. Dr. Blofeld       White cat 12:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If there's something I can do to help out using AWB, let me know - AWB is great for simple replacement tasks. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 13:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That I can't help with, sorry - but I can put in a good word for you if need be. :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:23, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about Opera, but it works fine with IE. It might allow you to switch back and forth, actually; my AWB runs on IE, but I use Firefox for my other regular tasks, and AWB doesn't conflict with it. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:27, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It means "What do they say in Signa?" and "That's what they say in Signa."  Ser Amantio is a minor character in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and the lines about Signa are something of a running joke in the opera.  "They say", basically, that Buoso Donati rewrote his will to leave everything to the monks in Signa, which is the cataylst for the whole rest of the story. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I speak French - but if it's any consolation I barely understand a word of Italian. Or much of anything else, for that matter... -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, my mother is Russian, and there was a girl in my high school graduating class who was Russian. And we took French together, and one day the other students were pestering us to speak to each other in Russian.  We started, but mine was rusty, and I found myself thinking in French when I was searching for a word.  Not that I ever actually spoke Russian well, but still. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * My father's a polyglot - he studied French, Russian, and Spanish in school, and taught himself German and Italian. Me, I've picked up lashings of one and another language, but can only really understand French well. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:59, 5 August 2009 (UTC)