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Talkback
Nice one!!! :)  DBaK (talk) 14:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Gyrinocheilidae-stub
Greetings! A stub template or category which you created has been nominated for renaming or deletion at Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Just wanted to give you a heads up on one that you created. Dawynn (talk) 16:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Contents of São Nicolau (Porto) replaced with contents of São Félix da Marinha
Hi, I see that your last edit of São Nicolau (Porto) on 23:01, 6 September 2010, has replaced it's contents with that of São Félix da Marinha. I guess this is a bug? -- Peter (talk) 20:52, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

10 metre air rifle
I generally write on shooting equipment not record holders or ISSF shooting. If a Chinese girl recently equaled a current (perfect) world record she is should be mentioned. I only know official world records can only be achieved at a few international top level events governed directly by the ISSF, so it is possible her achievement does not qualify for a world record. In that case she achieved a national record. There is an article about surpassing world records; see List of national shooting records surpassing the world records. Wikipedian Joa might be able to help you answering your question better.--Francis Flinch (talk) 18:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Stub categories
Hi. Beverly Cross is on my watchlist, and I noticed that you'd changed the stub cat. I looked at the article and realised that neither nor  was appropriate (I too had missed this when I'd previously edited the article). I then tried to find a suitable stub for a playwright or dramatist and was surprised when I couldn't find one in WP:SST (did I miss it?). Somehow, I found my way to Category:stub categories, so all was well and I fixed it. It does seem to me that the WP:SST and the stub categories category ought to be kept in synch and, if that is difficult or impossible, there should be links between the two. What do you think? Let me know if I've got any of this wrong. If I've got it right, perhaps you could escalate the matter to wherever would be the best place for stub-sorters to discuss it. Best. --GuillaumeTell 18:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

stubs for categorization of hotels
Hi; I see you do stub-stuff. Could you look at something that blew up my watchlist? This seems a massive shift of how all of these hotels are categorized, and the shift to 'structures' seems quite off, to me. Much more conventional to organize hotels by the chains that operate them. Seems to be the last 500 edits of Dawynn, at least. Cheers, Jack Merridew 20:20, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * and
 * Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/February/8

Would you like a nomination for adminship?
I'm currently considering nominating you for adminship at WP:RFA. Are you interested? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:47, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Poor stub sort
This is not a particularly astute or constructive edit: --Mais oui! (talk) 11:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Wright_Smith&diff=358253999&oldid=352466738

Proposed deletion of Erna Lazarus


The article Erna Lazarus has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This article has had no sources inserted since it was tagged in 2007. That's long enough. It should be rescued or deleted. If rescued, the filmography should be turned into a "Selected filmography" and cut down to six notable films, per guidelines

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. David in DC (talk) 17:03, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Erna Lazarus
I've nominated this article for deletion, after the PROD notice was lifted. The article has been tagged for no having no sources on the article's page since 2007. WP:DEADLINE does not extend into infinity. The only source the editor who deleted the prior prod notice could find was evidently not sufficient to establish notability. assuming good faith, if it we're, the editor would have put it into the article, instead of onto the talk page. I agree. It's not enough to pass WP:GNG, let alone WP:BIO. I can find no better. If (A) the tag has been there since 2007 and (B) the editor who opposes Prod can find no source that establishes notability, and (C) I can find none either, WP:DUCK. David in DC (talk) 18:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Invitation
I have reopened the discussion about two blank lines before stub templates here. Since I noticed you have taken an interest in this subject before, I cordially invite you to join there. Debresser (talk) 10:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Sports teams by nationality
Hi, just wondered if you had thought about sports teams by country? At the moment we only have Norway as a top level template/category for sports teams (however that one happened...) and I haven't done any numbers but I think templates in the form of foo-sport-team-stub where we have is worth a look (although I have a lot of work on sport stubs by country project still to go!). Cheers, SeveroTC 18:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

NPOV Dispute: The American Assembly
I noticed you contributed to the American Assembly page a while back and I wondered if you would like to close out a NPOV dispute? --MarsInSVG (talk) 08:49, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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Georgia (U.S. State) Stub Sorting for Education Articles
Hey Waacstats!

I noticed you placed an education sorting stub on the Quitman County School District (Georgia) page and well I have a proposition to you. If you wanted to increase your edit total or further help out with the Stub sorting you can go down this list of school districts in the state of Georgia to assign education sorting stubs List of school districts in Georgia (U.S. state). I went through this list last summer creating about 97% of all the pages present. I would go through them all and add the tags myself but that would increase my edit count on those pages. But if you don't want to do it, that's cool with me-no worries, it can always wait for someone else to come around if and when they are bored. haha. Anyway thanks again for all that you do to make Wikipedia what it is today! :] T amer_of_Hope   talk  02:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

David Payne (artist)
You worked on this article last November, I gave it a polish this week. Fancy a day away from the keyboard? You can see his painting and more here. Victuallers (talk) 21:17, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:United States ice hockey team stubs
You may want to redo your change on the 19th of March to Category:United States ice hockey team stubs as it looked like a copy/paste mistake to me, so I undid the change. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:58, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

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naber neil yaf görüşemiyoz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.174.97.214 (talk) 14:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Madagascar Stubs
Hey -- which area are you planning on working on? It looks to me like we're bumping into each other -- I keep getting edit conflicts for the VatovavyFitovinany-geo-stubs I'm trying to sort. Can we coordinate for more efficiency? Aelfthrytha (talk) 16:55, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't want to chase you off -- you sure it's ok? Aelfthrytha (talk) 16:58, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It will be. Now if only there was something we could do about the Algeria category. Completely oversized but nothing suitable for splitting that I could find.  Aelfthrytha (talk) 17:02, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

University Work of Wikipedia
Hello Waacstats, My name is Jonathan Medeiros, I’m a graduate student and I’m doing a university work about Wikipedia. My work is about mass production of information in peer, and I'm using Wikipedia as an object of study. We developed a field research and wonder if you could answer. 1)     Please list below in order of priority what else motivates you to contribute to Wikipedia. prestige in the community

Contribution in the Science

Recreation

Self-realization

Social Valuation

Keep interconnectivity with other collaborators

Strengthening staff - (The amount that the contributor gains acceptance or approvalof other members, strengthen social status in the community)

Awards Archives (Ex: Barnstar)

Increase the prestige of the world to Wikipedia

Sense that all can share the benefits generated

Other: _____________________________

2)     List 1 to 5, where 1 is highest and 5 is lowest of important that you consider the following values ​​for Wikipedia. In the end, please explain what you consider most  important.

a) AUTONOMY

b) INDEPENDENCE

c) LIBERATION

d) CREATIVITY

e) PRODUCTIVITY

f) INDUSTRY

g) BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM

h) SOCIABILITY

I) CAMARADERIE/FRIENDSHIP

L) COOPERATION

k) CIVIC VIRTUE

Below is an explanation of each item:

AUTONOMY

Collaborators are free to act according to the targets set for them. They can feel free.

INDEPENDENCE

Collaborators will have independence and freedom of spirit.

LIBERATION

Collaborators have the freedom to work as and when they want, they can decide by themselves.

CREATIVITY

Collaborators has more freedom to explore creativity, because he does not have to follow orders that they are imposed.

PRODUCTIVITY

Collaborators are always pursuing excellence in their contributions.

INDUSTRY

The mass production of information opens new doors to creativity and the creation of productive practices, when compared to the industrially organized market

BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM

Collaborator does not want financial rewards, he assists in helping the communitythinking, the only reward is the reputation that he get with the collaborations they do.

SOCIABILITY

Make contributions with an open heart, thinking of the common good, which is for the community as a whole.

CAMARADERIE / FRIENDSHIP,

Collaborator help themselves to build something of value to everyone.

COOPERATION

Collaborators help themselves to build something of value to everyone.

CIVIC VIRTUE

Collaborators are arranged volunteers with common goals and promote cooperation between them.

Thank you very much for your attention, Can you send me a e-mail with this answwers? my e-mail address is jhoumedeiros@gmail.com

Thanks very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.64.241.23 (talk) 03:08, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello Neil Edwards
Bonjour,Thank you for your work on English Wikipedia but you removed the  in 3 Wikipages: Centre Sportif Bois-de-Boulogne, Soccerplexe Catalogna and  CEPSUM. Sorry I does not understand your gesture ? Please can you explain me Thanks --Charlesquebec (talk) 20:58, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Neil. --Charlesquebec (talk) 22:09, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Bot help?
Hi WS - I forget, do you run a bot? If not, do you know anyone stubsorting-friendly who does? It's for the Ross Dependency split I recently mentioned at WP:WSS/P. All the Victoria Land and Ross Island stubs are in subcategories of the permcats for the two areas, I'm just looking to exchange the Ross templates for new ones for those two places. If necessary I can do it by hand, but since there are over 1000 Victoria Land ones, a bot would be a great help. Grutness...wha?  12:32, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that - I'll help out with some if I get time, but want to start on the huge West Antarctica category, which'll probably take most of my time. Grutness...wha?  01:46, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Whee - done already! Thanks heaps! Victoria Land and Ross are both oversized, but they're split as far as is probably practical - two categories of 1400 stubs each are better than one of 3000 anyway... Grutness...wha?  08:53, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Amanda Fraser
Thanks for adding this article. DYK needs you. Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Your paralympics work
Hello Neil, my name is Leigh Blackall and I am involved in a project that aims to support the development of better coverage of Australian Paralympians. We've noticed your prolific work creating good article stubs, and want to know what we can do to encourage and support your work. I was hoping you wouldn't mind giving me a brief interview, so I might publish a post on our project blog about you and your work on Wikipedia. I was going to write about where you're from, the work you've already done, and the work you are planning to do. Most of this I can already glean from your user page, but I was hoping I could get some insight into who you are (maybe a photo), why you do it, and what your motivations are, pet hates, what you appreciate, and what you might suggest we do to support and encourage work like yours more. I hope this comes across as genuine and wanting to celebrate your work. I can be contacted at leighblackall@gmail.com or I'll return here for your response. Leighblackall (talk) 05:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

BLP Violations
Hi. Great work creating stub articles about Paralympic athletes. This is an area that really needs work. I was going through some of the new articles you created on WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics/New articles and noticed that probably half the articles you created about living people have no citations. This is a violation of WP:BLP and a number of these articles have been tagged with that problem. If you could please, please go back through the articles you created about these athletes, fix all the WP:BLP violations by citing sources, that would be really awesome. There are at least 10 to 20 articles and the sheer volume of BLP violations just appears daunting. Rather than create new articles, which are needed, can you please clean up the ones you've created? --LauraHale (talk) 22:32, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

sockpuppet editing
There is an open WP:SPI case looking at sockpuppet editing primarily on the Johann Hari/ Talk page. As you edited the Johann Hari/Talk page between 2004 and 2011, your input is welcomed. Yonmei (talk) 21:47, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Andorra-university-stub
Template:Andorra-university-stub has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. 68.165.77.223 (talk) 04:43, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Elias Zurita
What support do you have to saying Elias Zurita was an Argentine footballer? It looks like he was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey. Mohrflies (talk) 17:13, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Add persondata short description using AWB
Hi, I've noticed that quite a few of the women footballers you have added the discription "English footballer" with AWB to are not English. Of the section on my watchlist there were at least several Irish, one Dutch and one Israeli player incorrectly marked as English. Just thought I'd point it out in case you maybe hadn't realised you'd been doing it. Thanks, Clavdia chauchat (talk) 20:37, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
You've not just passed me but have passed me by around 60,000 edits! I tend to leave repetitive edits to Ser Amantio's AWB. If I'm not stubbing then my edit count generally is not huge. In fact I think I've only gained about 80,000 edits in the last two years.♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Yup, not bad. That's one that is unlikely to be surpassed within the next five years! Unless a bit is programmed to use google translate and start every missing article from other wikis!♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah there's a lot missing for sure!! BTW I'm currently ploughing through Turkish villages and aim to get all 26,000 started sometimes. might be a good time now to create templates by province!♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:01, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I think the Turkish issue should be discussed there's going to be a few thousand stubs created in coming weeks..♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of David Jenkins (athlete)


A tag has been placed on David Jenkins (athlete), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:28, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Lotfi A. Zadeh
Lotfi Zadeh is an electrical engineer and computer scientist, he is not an "artificial intelligence researcher". Please stop adding this to the persondata in the article. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I apologise for editing this twice, I hadn't realised I had. I only put in "artificial intelligence researcher" as I had a quick read of the first paragraph and the categories and as the categories contained nothing like "foo engineer" or "computer scientist" i assumed (Wrongly) that this was the area he worked in and was a more precise description of what he is known for.Thankyou for changing the persondata info but you might also want to look at the categories he is in. Waacstats (talk) 12:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Careful
What was this about? Shall I assume it was just carelessness? DS (talk) 01:44, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

AWB edits
You're spelling "baseball" wrong in the descriptions. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:24, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Again, it's baseball rather than "basebeall". Your edits are at a speed where either a bot's doing it through our account or you're clicking save without reading them. Cease and desist to fix the typo, as I'd rather not block you for what's a rather tiny issue. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 20:41, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

No British politicians before 1707
People who lived in the British Isles before the Act of Union 1707 were not British. So the change you made to William Heveningham(1604–1678) is not correct. It says he was an English politician in the first line and the stub is England-politician-stub so how did you come to the conclusion that he was a "British politician"?

I guess you will have to run the AWB again and fix all similar edits. -- PBS (talk) 09:34, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

AWB usage suspended
I have |suspended your AWB usage, for two reasons the first is that this talk page show that you have been careless on at least 3 separate occasions this month. But more worrying is that despite being warned about carelessness, you are making 10 edit a minute. There is no way in that time you can check the that changes you are making are correct. In your last 50 edits: from to
 * 08:28, 26 November 2011 m Didier Boulaud ‎ (→References: Add persondata short description using AWB)
 * 08:32, 26 November 2011 m Francis Hillmeyer ‎ (→References: Add persondata short description using AWB)

The minutes (28 and 32) my well bot be full minutes: (I've miss counted by on there are only 49 edits there)
 * 28, 8 edits
 * 29, 10 edits
 * 30, 11 edit
 * 31, 10 edits
 * 32, 10 edits

I conclude that you have broken at least the first two of the AutoWikiBrowser. I will follow this post up at WP:ANI, the suspension is like a bot stop, it may be on refection that you can have the privileged back very shortly it depends on the consensus but as an administrator seeing your careless edits on three separated occasion in less than 2 weeks I am not willing to let you change 10 pages a second while a consensus is reached at ANI. -- PBS (talk) 10:15, 26 November 2011 (UTC)


 * See Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents -- PBS (talk) 11:14, 26 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Well there so far there is a resounding silence at WP:ANI (and silence is taken to be consent), so what do you propose to do over my concerns? BTW you are allowed to justify your actions at the ANI if you so wish. I will put your talk page into my watch list so you can reply here and keep the conversation in one place. -- PBS (talk) 01:19, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I have been trying to cut down the biggest back log on wikipedia and thought that some relatively small use of AWB would help, I only used articles that were stub tagged to what I was adding not all articles as some people might be better known for exploits outside of say politics and these would need to be done by hand. Obviously I am not going to use AWB for this task again without checking each edit, which will probably mean I won't use it at all for this task as I could probably get more done by editing manually the way I have been.  I would also like to point out that the first edit you mention wasn't done with AWB and the writer has since agreed that my edit was correct and the other two I went straight back and cleared any mess (hopefully I got all the english parlimentarians).  All I can say is I'm sorry for the trouble it has caused and I will be more careful with any future AWB edits. Waacstats (talk) 10:43, 27 November 2011 (UTC)


 * As you are using AWB again you obviously read my posting on ANI. One point I wanted to rais on your posting here. When AWB highlights a page, it you click on the link in he left hand list it will open up a web page to that article which you can then edit by hand if you want to make more changes or different changes for that specific article, than those you have set up in AWB. It is often faster to access articles that way than through just using a browser without AWB finding the pages for you. You may already be aware of that feature in which case sorry for teaching my grandmother how to suck egges. I am taking your talk page off my watch list. Happy editing.-- PBS (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Lotfi Zadeh
Given that Zadeh lists "Artificial intelligence" in his areas of research on his faculty page, you would appear to be correct about Zadeh considering himself to be an artificial intelligence researcher. I have restored this description, which I reverted when you added it, to the article, and I do so with my apologies for having been mistaken. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:06, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
For all the hard work you do on sport related articles. :)

LauraHale (talk) 01:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC) 


 * Thank you for the kitten, it was very much appreciated and I am sure I can find it a good home as unfortunately I am allergic to cat hair. Waacstats (talk) 19:36, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Zhang Yimeng
Hi, check this, please:. --Regasterios (talk) 17:22, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan national rugby union team
Hello Waacstats. The above article, to which you have contributed, was mentioned in an Articles for Deletion discussion. It looks very weak to me, and the only reference is a web page that doesn't work. Do you think it's salvageable? I am only asking as I have never put an article up for deletion and I don't want to make a fool of myself. The creator of the article hasn't contributed anything since 2007, which is why I am coming to you for an opinion. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 08:57, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Persondata false positive
Greetings... about this change, note that Larry Solway was an unsuccessful election candidate and did not get to be a politician as such; his primary career was in broadcasting therefore I have corrected that. When updating pdata for politicians, you should probably avoid categories such as Category:Ontario New Democratic Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections. Elected politicians will likely not be in such candidate categories. Hope this helps and Happy (almost) New Year. Dl2000 (talk) 03:22, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Persondata short description
Greetings, I notice you are adding short description to a lot of articles. I was wondering if you are doing this with a script of some kind or something else. --Kumioko (talk) 03:34, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

and
Greetings! Two or more stub types which you created have been nominated for renaming or deletion at Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Dawynn (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

LZl
Done. SHould not have the human birth and death cats. Rich Farmbrough, 16:41, 22 January 2012 (UTC).

American politicians?
Multiple changes have applied to William Henry Taylor, Elizabeth Bentley, Harry Dexter White & John S. Service, labeling them as "American Politicians." They were not politicians. None of them ever ran for office. Elizabeth Bentley was never more than a private citizen.

Please reverse these changes. DEddy (talk) 14:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)