Hi again,
I'm looking into creating some Iran stubs as you suggested. I created a preliminary infobox at
User:Passportguy/Sandbox, please take a look at it and suggest an additional info that could be added.
A couple of things seem to be difficult to obtain :
Btw : Is there an easier way to add the geo coordinates in decimal degrees as this is how they are quoted on above page ?
Passportguy ( talk) 18:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Passportguy ( talk) 18:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I found a directory. I'll do that Iran tagging tonight - I thought it best to give Passportguy a chance to do all the stubbing before I get in there and start creating talk pages. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Awesome. Although yesterday's count I did shows me closing in on 20,000...so it's a bit out of date. :-) -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure. I wasn't assessing the articles, but I guess anyone could tell they were stubs. Will do in the future. Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 20:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Not a term in common use, seems restricted to Eastern European and Russian science. However, there is no article currently on Tuberculosis research so this is all we've got. Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
It says this on your userpage: "According to this Baldy is "Number 1" contributor to english wikipedia". You're actually number 2. Hahaha! Auric Goldfinger, (I don't expect you to talk, I expect you to die) 19:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
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To my friend, Dr. Blofeld, for today's Brazilian river articles! Rosiestep ( talk) 21:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC) |
Thankyou Rosie!! May our coverage of Brazil blossom as much as the Brazilian jungle! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, that image was one of the ones that came in a batch from one of my image contacts who keeps me updated when she takes new images. I always enjoy watching the actress in my favorite television action film True Lies (since it's always on television several times a month it seems!). Thanks for supporting the FAC, I was surprised by the number of reviewers (I think there was maybe eight supports). Now I get to play the waiting game and hope that it gets on the main page in April. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 23:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Gee, you're impatient! Many municipalities already have maps showing their location within their district and state. The advantage of those maps is that they also show the area of the municipality. It could be a good idea (I've seen something similar at French wikipedia), but I don't have the time to work on it. Markussep Talk 11:44, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
It would be fairly easy to set this up, and I'd be happy to do the coding if that's what you guys decide on; but, personally, I don't really have a strong opinion on which map would be more useful for the reader. Kirill [talk] [pf] 13:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Indeed it is; I've just been rather busy with a few other matters, and haven't had time to attend to the infobox. I'll make the needed changes as soon as I can. Kirill [talk] [pf] 02:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I could, of course... However, the Croatian Wikipedia article is unreferenced, so my translation would actually leave us with two unreferenced articles. (This is my gripe with the Croatian Wikipedia in general, and the reason why I only go there looking for ideas and pointers, not for actual content.) Still: the Vrančić article is not really substantial, so what the heck. I'm putting it on my todo list, could do it in a couple of days or perhaps a week. GregorB ( talk) 19:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I've prepared
Template:West_Azarbaijan_Province. It still needs a bit of work with spellings which I'll do later on today if I can find time. However the task seems daunting, since there are close to 1000 villages in this province alone. I believe Iran as a whole has close to 70,000, which seems almost impossible to add by hand.
Btw : What happend to the planned bot that was going to add stubs for all towns ? Is that project still on or was it shelved for some reason ?
Passportguy (
talk) 20:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what that means. What exactly do you want me to do ?
Is this better : Agheshlu ?
Long time no pester - Depan bisa belakang bisa a stub of yours from 2 years ago has been prodded - I have no idea of the size of yours (watchlist that is) you might have let it drop off (oh dear Im getting off this one now) - cheers and trust the sense of tumour is as ever ready to fire Satu Suro 12:47, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Not sure why you are telling me. What do you expect me to do with it? Am I expected to have an Encyclopedia of Indonesian cinema handy? If you want to delete it take it to AFD. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I didnt do the prod - I thought I found you as the first ed (unless I had read the edit history wrong) and no I dont want to delete it, and no I dont have an encyc of Indonesian film to hand either, and hope I find you in better humour sometime - I am more likely to try to find a ref or two to send the prod away - if possible - cheers Satu Suro 13:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL it is exactly that. The "Encyclopedia of Indonesian Cinema was humour my friend. I am feel in great humour, as they say "great humour=no tumour". As you referred my sensr of tumour I thought I'd play the wounded bald guy. I honestly don't mind what you do with it, I thought sometime it would be expanded. All I know is that at least two editors on the article seme familiar with the film see this. Perhaps we could ask them to find a link. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
One reason why I would have never followed my father into veterinary science - dealing with bloody tumours :( Satu Suro 13:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
You have enemies? garn a man with your edit count and stature? your imposing user page and even more so talk page? narh gerrofit (I'll be wandering through your country of abode in september - promise I wont try tracking you down and insisting on giving you a beer or three :) Satu Suro 13:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
OOps it will be north wales that I venture into for a day or two at most to meet a rellie never met Satu Suro 13:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops - I'm running AWB at the moment; give me about fifteen minutes and I'll take care of it. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Good to hear - I've seen a couple of opera-related stubs I created expanded to good length recently. It's quite heartening, really. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey buddy! I am a bit busy these days, however I support your initiative and wanna say, just let me know if you would want to ask about something, need some clarification etc. Read also this, please: Wikipedia:WikiProject Czech Republic/Guidelines/Geographical names. - Darwinek ( talk) 19:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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For writing articles about castles instead of replacing Michael Jacksons' page with "HE WAZZ A PEDO!!!!!!1111!!!!" I dream of horses ( talk) 13:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC) |
I just dropped around to your page tonight to see how you have been doing since you returned to the Wikipedia and to say "hi" and that I hope things are happier. BTW congrats on the new barnstar! Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 16:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in an interesting discussion at Wikipedia talk:Image use policy#File:Man Utd FC .svg. Your comments & suggestions are very much appreciated Arteyu ? Blame it on me ! 08:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry - was so busy stub-creating last night that I didn't get around to redlinking things. However, I managed to finish up Bahia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico (!) off of the lists that currently exist. I just did St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a morning exercise; otherwise I'm going to be hellishly busy today, so any further stubbing will have to wait (though I might tackle a small country or two, like Jamaica, over lunch). Speaking of which...I can stub things out of an Iran provincial template with AWB, as long as you don't mind a very rudimentary beginning. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Tremendous bias, indeed - there's so much that needs to be done to bring aspects of this project up to snuff. To be honest, I'm disappointed; I had hoped we'd be over 3 million articles by now. As it stands, I hope we pass that benchmark by the end of the month. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, it'll be inelegant, but if you want I can AWB those as well, while I'm doing rivers and lakes and things. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I just finished Tomorrow Never Dies and currently have The World is Not Enough on the way in the mail. I've already seen the films past Enough so I'm finally on my last film. Octopussy's last half was quite entertaining, although the Bond as a clown didn't work too well. I didn't care for A View to a Kill too much. I actually liked License to Kill quite a bit especially for the final chase scene. I enjoyed watching the progression of Desmond Llewelyn through all the films, and its a shame that they didn't work Q into Craig's films. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 18:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I never said I didn't think they were non-notable as a whole! If something has a decent-ish article on fa.wiki we should probably have it here. I just didn't think that being on that tageo list was necessarily indicative of notability - it seemed like many villages probably were the size of tiny neighborhoods, and those are probably best consolidated into lists one administrative level up. If you look on google earth and it looks substantial I think that is a good enough indication of notability for now IMO. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I believe there was an extension installed recently which allows something like this; let me look into it and get back to you. Kirill [talk] [pf] 11:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Yup, these are the ones I myself asked User:Obersachse to transfer to en a couple days ago. I have already integrated them with the city infobox and they show up nicely—see, for example, Novosibirsk. At any rate, thanks for the note; much appreciated!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 11:55, July 10, 2009 (UTC)
Good call. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 17:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see the automatic map of Belgium has been removed in July last year. I don't know why, I don't see any discussion about it on the talk page. I could work on it, but that will be after my summer holidays, that start tomorrow. I'll be digiless in Macedonia and Albania for a month. Markussep Talk 17:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I like white dogs better than white cats :) And also because I don't know of a way to do the surname thing and don't like admitting I am not all-knowing. MBisanz talk 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hello! I've done the first batch of articles with geodata given in the List of lakes in Nova Scotia. Some of the entries linked to disambig pages, and one linked to an article about a person, so they were skipped: see my talk page for a list. If you can tell me when all the lake articles have been created, and the disambig links fixed, I'll run a second batch to finish the job. In the meanwhile, I'll take a look at the other lists you mentioned. -- The Anome ( talk) 09:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Blofeld, I've got a question which you may or may not know the answer too. I've tried to use the File:Bavaria location map.svg, but had no luck. The File:Deutschland.svg but it does not seem to recognise that the Bavaria map exists. I saw your name associated with the map so I thought you might know. If not, no big deal, but if you could point me in the right direction I would be grateful. Thanks, EA210269 ( talk) 09:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Doctor! It is truly an honour to receive recognition by an editor with your level of contribution to WP. :) BTW, there is an ongoing Peer Review on the civil war article, if you are interested. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 12:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Is done. Tonight I begin the remainder of Nova Scotian lakes and maybe some Australian rivers. I'm holding off on finishing New Zealand for the moment until I hear back from the WikiProject. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:34, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
1. Right now my priority is speed. That means quite bare-bones stubs. They will be filled in later, I promise.
2. I respectfully disagree with you on the need for the second category. The village is implicitly coterminous with the commune; there is really no reason to place a commune in a specific district category and in the one right above it. - Biruitorul Talk 21:59, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
ok dear friend I'll try to translate articles about Basmenj from its persian page, but you probably should make another page for this town before coz the right spell is Basmenj not Basmnj. Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pournick ( talk • contribs) 01:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC) =
Hi, came across Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon, great job you've done of Sri Lankan MPs. However, please note that UPFA is not a party, but an electoral alliance. Its probably best to identity the actual party identity of the MPs also, for example for categorization. Notably the second largest party in UPFA in 2004, JVP, broke with UPFA after the elections, and thus their politicians can't be categorized as UPFA politicians. -- Soman ( talk) 09:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't think that's doable using template code. I could do it in an excel spreadsheet - that you could you "text to columns" to separate first and last name using a space delimiter. Then you could manipulate the first and last names as needed. I really really really think you need to learn a bit of excel! It would make your stub creation even faster, by a large margin... Calliopejen1 ( talk) 23:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dr. B - I've replied over at User talk: Grutness. Grutness... wha? 23:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Seriously, many of them have little to translate. I'm just asking that you evaluate them individually before slapping a tag on them. When the czech article has like two unreferenced sentences it makes it harder to find the gems of articles that are high priority translations. Like I said, the French category has this problem. If we had an army of czech translators this wouldn't be an issue but we simply don't. In fact I can't remember the last time I saw an expand czech tag that got someone to produce a translation. My point is that when only a few czech articles realistically will get translated in the near future, we should make sure it is easy for translators to find high-quality ones. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 11:54, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I don't think they should be started without tags I just think you should look and see whether it really needs a tag (as in, not just a few lines of content). Maybe this is not feasible on fast-creation sprees. I'm mulling over whether I can think of an easier way to transfer data. Maybe just some sort of excel magic to automatically translate the infobox? Give me a few minutes. My trial office expired so now I either have to find my old office disk or learn to navigate the openoffice excel... BTW have you thought more about the German politician thing, with possibilities for excel? Can you make a sample article and show me the list of names you want this based on? I could probably make you a fast method to create them, along with the defaultsort. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Are you interested in trying to automatically translate the czech municipality infoboxes? If I knew what each of the fields meant I could work up something so you (or me or someone else) pastes in what's from cs.wiki and it spits out an english-language infobox. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:31, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
If I keep it up, I should be within 1,000 of my goal by the time I go to bed tonight. Got any other templates you'd like AWB'd? -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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For excellence in the creation of a whole bunch of stubs for Latvian (and other European) castles and manors and whatnot, I award Dr. Blofeld this architectural barnstar. You know the drill by now, I'm sure... -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
Sure thing, I'll make sure it's mentioned. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar Blofeld.! Vprajkumar ( talk) 17:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,Thanks for commenting. I must complete all year of List of Bengali films. Actually I am so busy of my native language Wikipedia ( Bengali Wikipedia) and I am admin there. Only I worked out about Bengali film and there list.( sometimes one or two several user help me to do this). So please give me time for that job.- Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 18:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you think I ever doubted that you are a wonderful human being or a great editor? I know that you really noticed how much I was fascinated by this book (which was introduced to me by you). By the way, I often get to read it online. And I thank you for this nice gesture of goodwill. And I also told you I was going to give you a barnstar a few days back. I have nothing against you, Blof. I'm just at such a stage in my life when everything seems difficult to deal with; I'm sensitive and this is for several reasons. Wikipedia is a place that I visit to distract myself and have some fun, because I like editing and chatting with different people, but somehow we got into such intense fights and unpleasant conversations that I took the decision to stop it definitively. I do miss our previous conversations, discussing films, cultures, or just spending time on nothing particular except laughing. I think this time will come, but for the next few days I need a break. Shahid • Talk2me 19:04, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
You can always retired to the gentle world of WP:VIET YellowMonkey ( cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 02:28, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind-of barnstar! :) Re the Czech villages I made a topic=village parameter for {{ Expand Czech}} so I think that is probably the best route for now. The category page is still a redlink so if you actually use the tag you should create it. Autotranslating the infoboxes will take more time than I can invest now, bc I should be getting hardcore about bar studying. BTW good news for developing world photos! I'll be in India for seven weeks this summer/fall and just bought a new camera! Also going home to Alaska for a while so I may get some photos there too. :) Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I've made it so topic=village and topic=muni both categorize as Municipality. That's what you're making right? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I agree - that's the sort of thing I like to see. A couple of my recent efforts have been well-expanded, too; there were two or three stubs on zarzuela librettists I wrote which have since been expanded quite a bit. Anyhow, don't know how active I'll be today; I've got a lot of stuff to get through before lunch. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't know if you know this, but it is part of a WP:GT ( Wikipedia:Featured topics/Millennium Park) that we are attempting to bring to WP:FT, I think the best candidates for promotion right now are Crown Fountain currently at WP:PR, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, McDonald's Cycle Center, and Millennium Park. With current standards, we need three more FAs, but the way that they keep raising the standards, we will probably need four in the near future. Any comments on the Wikipedia:Peer review/Crown Fountain/archive2 would be helpful.
Buddy, I am so grateful to you and Albert that you completed the Sri Lankan parliamentarian list. By the way I noted that you are just 2 short of getting 50 DYKs. I was wandering why don't you knock down two articles quickly. Hope you write something about Wales this time around. Cheers!-- Chanaka L ( talk) 09:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL... I couldn't agree more!!! I am a BIG fan of Mike Myers and his Austin Powers series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two movies; both of them are true classics. However, I was a little disappointed with the third one... but nonetheless, I enjoyed watching it. IMO, it would be great if they made the series continue... but there is nothing to continue it with. Dr. Evil and Mini Me have already turned into good guys (Austin finding out that Dr. Evil is his long lost brother... LOL) and the only bad guy left is Dr. Evil's son. It would be best if they didn't continue the series anymore :D Continuing the series further would just ruin the charm of the first three movies. Wouldn't you agree?? -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 15:35, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, got your message on my return. Well, my bot is going to be busy for a month or two making corrections to the Polish village articles. But I don't mind helping out with the Czech ones, especially if I don't have to run the bot from my own computer. Can you let me know exactly what needs doing?-- Kotniski ( talk) 10:27, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello and my greetings. Hi, Dr. Blofeld. My name is World Cinema Writer (call me WCW). I see you are a famous WP:WIKIPEDIAN. I would like to ask a little help from you. It's about WP:IPA in English. You see, I'm trying to bring up an article to WP:FA. I'm keeping it in my sub page. It's User:World Cinema Writer/TM. I wrote the name of the film in IPA also. Just, could you help me check whether the IPA I made was correct or not. Thank you, World Cinema Writer ( talk • contributions) 12:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
What categories do you want? The basic ones that French german etc have? If you're planning to do a huge spree all from one category I could set something up specific to that too. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Blofeld, could you please consider putting the living people category on these? Also, it would be better to begin them with "Joe Bloggs is a German politian" rather than just "Joe Bloggs, German politian", don't you think? Regards, Majorly talk 18:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
See User talk:Rjwilmsi. It will be sorted. I have tried generating them at slower pace but the sheer amount needing doing and mixed bag of living and deceased politicians makes generating them this way the most efficient possible. Ideally every articles would be generated with trtanslated content first time but unfortunately nobody has investe din a translation bot yet. If I say somebody "is" a politician and died 60 years ago it will not be correct. It will cause serious problems with my PC going back and forth to another site several times a minute. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
And my response is still the same as above, I don't know what else I can say. As I said my computer is not passing back and forth to foreign wikis very quickly at the moment and I am having trouble doing so. I can say ... is a German politician but half of them are deceased so is likely to be misleading as it is "was" a politician. If people care that much about them that they are concerned with the structure they'll not only correct it but translate the information we should have on these bios. I guess to say is is better than a broken sentence so I'll do that then. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure! Thansk for compliments... can you help to correct my English (I am Italian mothertongue?). Ciao and good work!! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 11:52, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey. Too much manual work for everybody. :) A bot would do that job perfectly. User:Kotniski operating User:Kotbot done a great similar job with Polish villages. - Darwinek ( talk) 15:45, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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Nice work on starting this list, Dr B! Lugnuts ( talk) 11:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Like the system I worked out? Extremely busy day today here...I don't know when I'll be able to do much of anything. Well...until I get home, at least. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI. User:MrAshJam has also put speedy deletes on Lukas Hoffmann and Michel Duboille articles I have created. The source that I have is legitiamte. He has tried to speedy delete several other articles as well. He could be a vandal, IMO. Chris ( talk) 14:30, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
In reply to your edit summary, I apologise for the bot, but please note that per policy, creators shouldn't removed CSD tags themselves, even if they ere wrong. You seem to get a lot of these incorrect CSDs (which is understandably since you create a lot of pages). And it's probably very frustrating to have them nominated for deletion, but remember, the admins aren't going to delete obviously incorrectly tagged pages. Cheers :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 16:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Meh, they're bots, they can't think for themselves. And yes, technically, you did actually remove a speedy tag from an article you created, which is against policy (or perhaps guideline, haven't checked). I sympathise. - Jarry1250 [ humorous – discuss ] 16:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
To get around the problem mentioned above of creating articles about people who aren't politicians, maybe you should auto-skip any article that doesn't include the german word for politician (Politiker?). You can do this in AWB easily. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That would be the majority. Most of the articles are politicians or at leats were involved in politics. Either way all of the biographies need translating. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Responded. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:53, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
What exactly you want I translate? My next task should be siege of Crema, an epic battle led by Frederick Barbarossa against Crema, which I'd take something from also for the siege machine I think. Ciao and let me know. -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 15:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld, can you read German? You are starting german stubs about politicians who never were politicians, see Christian v. Ditfurth. He simply was member Social Democratic Party for two years. -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 08:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)< Sorry you didn't start this article, but: -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 09:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Well change them and expand them then!! I know this but the fact is the article is now started and when expanded it will become more informative. Yes I can read a bit of German and if I checked each one on German wikipedia I could instantly adjsust them but I have so many to start this would slow down the task considerably. The fact is they were all members of the party. German wikipedia is at fault for putting all of the politicians in the same category as members. I am merely starting articles from categories on German wikipedia. As for Tissy Bruns, I never said the person was a politician, I said they were a Communist Party member which is true. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Albert Herring, can you read German? I wonder how you got the idea that Christian v. Ditfurth might be a german politician. He never was. -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 09:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Um maybe because his article says Von 1973 bis 1983 war er Mitglied der DKP For a whole ten years of his life he was a member of the Communist Party. Hardly no worthy of mentioning.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
What you are failing to understand Textkorre is that I am merely blue linking these articles from German wikipedia. They all notable biographies and are all party members whether you deny it or not. If the person is a writer or actor or whatever and is only affiliated with the party then this will be written out in due course. If you went back onto German wikipedia and sorted out your category mess mixing politicians with affilliates then it wouldn't be a problem. When I say so and so was a member of the party this is true. It might not be the first notable thing to write about a writer but it is a start. What don't you understand? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:57, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Here is a random article I selected. Guess what. They are a politician and a member of that party. I'll admit there are several articles about writers which have got mixed in which the politicians bag but only because German wikipedia lists members with politicians and awkardly lists them under German politicians by party. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you not think then it is a good idea to split politicians from members? Ask me why then the parent category is "German politicians" on German wikipedia? Wouldn't it be better to categorize them as German politicians of a party and then seperate them from the party members? WOuldn't that be easier for German wikipedians who only want to read about politicians and not writers who may have a loose affiliation? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:52, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Try seeing Category:German politicians by party. Right. Now the German version is? Not politicians? No politicians in those categories? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
As i understand the german category system, the politicans are sorted by funktion, as chancellor, or member of a parliament. there is no general category german politican. Politiker (Deutschland) is just for people who cannot sorted to sub category of funktion. the category parteimitglied is a subcat of politiker (deutschland) since feb 2009, i think this is a mistake, i will correct it. Also have a look at category tree [7] -- 80.133.137.76 ( talk) 11:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
In case you are wondering why I'm not creating any stubs anymore : I am seriously considering leaving Wikipedia. This has nothing to do with the geo stubs per se, but after almost two years on here I have to say that this has not turned out the way I invisaged it to be. I orginally came here to work on my speciality, which are immigration/passport related legal issues, but I have found that beyond POV pushing, vandalism and the occational well intended but ill-informed edit there is almost no collaborative editing going on. That goes for many other pages as well, where constant edit wars and POV makes collaborative editing impossible and many editors seem more interested in their own personal agenda and ego than in any collaborative effort to improve the pages.
In a way I think Wikipedia's greatest asset is also its greatest handicap : The fact that anyone can edit everything. Because of the fact that Wikipedia accepts edits by non-experts it is largely edited by people who - albeit well-meaning - take information from secondary sources like other encylopedias and newspaper articles with very little understanding of the subject matter. Unfortuantely in the process a lot gets misinterprested and as a result misrepresented on here.
As a result I find myself in a bit of a watchdog position when it comes to passport pages, constantly reverting and correcting mistakes others have made. If it were just that it wouldn't be so bad, but if you add the constant POV attempts - yes, strangely enough you can even push POV in passport pages - and outright vandalism I have come to the conculsion that I best take my efforts elsewhere.
I think Wikipedia has reached it's prime. It now covers almost everything and it is absolutely great as a quick reference to get an overview of a subject matter. However it will never become a truely reliable source of information as there are just too many mistakes in it and the articles simply cannot be checked fast enough by experts to keep them factually acurate after vandalism and good faith but factually wrong edits.
Passportguy (
talk) 13:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey! I'm currently on vacation. I'll try to expand it when I get back (although it's not my field of knowledge). Best, Viator slovenicus ( talk) 15:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Depending on how things shape up tonight, I might be able to finish off the German politicians. You mentioned some other lists - do you have them set up anywhere, even in userspace? If so, I can begin working on them once I'm done with the Germans. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:43, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I think the project would benefit more from a Wikiproject dedicated to expanding the thousands of sub-stubs you have created. The project does not need anymore one-sentence articles. That's generally not what people are looking for when they search for any topic. Lara 20:34, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
The idea Jenna would be that the project would have the ability to create better and fully articles more quickly with a reference or two so your concerns would be met. Do you honestly think that neither Albert or I would like to see every article fully translated upon creation? We'd at least like a project and bot to create missing articles and at least have a little content and references.Seriously, I don't know when people are going to wake up that we need to be transferring article enmasse from other wikis. The content exists it just needs putting in english. We need to build up teams of translators who work together at systematically transferring referenced information from other wikis. Having the odd person translate one or two articles every month is really not good enough given the scale of this project. I'd like to make a new project proposal and I'd like to see some support for generating content in a way that causes no objections and can be done much more efficently than is done at present. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I'll speak for Albert in that we both think the starting process is far from ideal but we really do need these articles put into english however much of a mess it creates. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:25, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
At the suggestion of JulianColton and some others in the AN/I thread, I have nominated the articles for deletion. The discussion is here. I realize the creation was in good faith, but I think it's best to get a bot written as you've suggested above, and start that way. Regards, Lara 06:52, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I want to say again, that I think these articles were created in good faith, and I believe a project dedicated to transwiking articles carefully would be very beneficial. I want to apologize to you if I worded anything in such a way as to seem as though I don't value either you or Albert as editors. That was certainly not my intention. I appreciate that you've endorsed the mass-deletion, and I really hope that the attention drawn to the AN/I thread and the AFD results in noticeable attention on your project proposal. Lara 16:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Royal broil 06:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I have not looked at the attacks on you in detail, but you can tell yourself that they just mean that others are taking you and the stubs seriously as something that can reasonably be argued. A spammer creating 3000 pure nonsense articles doesn't get such a reaction. I guess the problem is: People feel very strongly that it's a bad idea, they expect long discussions, and they are not keen on having to make up their minds why exactly it's a bad idea. You can decide that none of us can have thought it through and that you did and therefore you are right and should try to sway the opinion. Or you can decide that there is probably some wisdom in the crowd, collectively and/or individually. In the latter case I would expect any attacks to stop. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have stopped already, once it looked like a snowball decision. (Not that I would argue for applying the snowball clause, of course.) Hans Adler 11:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou Hans for clarifying that. I do have feelings like any human and sometimes people don't realise how hurtful they can be in discussions and causing outrage towards a good faith action. If you read my recent comments at the bottom of the deletion page you'll see why I see subjects as set and to work towards and believe even if somewhat too optimistically that we can achieve anything on here. I want to see this encyclopedia develop and ultimately I would like to see a decent article for each of these politicians. Rather we disagreed in the way it was done. A lot of people prefer to build us brick by brick, I often try to build us house by house if you see what I mean. We all share the same goals on wikipedia I am certain but I really wish people would tone down the drama. The articles can easily be deleted no problems if it is causing a major or potentially serious problem. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:50, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
BTW on a happier note I got my new camera in the mail! It's so tiny and beautiful. :) I'm not going to be getting any featured pictures from it (sensor tiny and not so great - decent amt of noise, fringing, etc) but I still like it! My new project is to take photos of National Register of Historic Places listings in my neighborhood. I'll have to take a couple on my walk to the coffee shop today. There are a ridiculous number in Cambridge and Somerville, near where I live. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 13:43, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Blo! Sorry for the delay with the answer, but apart from being busy I also needed some time to think this through. I'll try addressing your suggestions point-by-point, so it's easier to keep track of them. Feel free to comment on each one separately as well.
I was sorry to see the way your stubs were shot down. I agree that Wikipedia has too many articles on kid stuff. Keep on keeping on, don't let them get to you. Blast Ulna ( talk) 19:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I see that the mass created stubs have been (or are being) deleted. If you are interested in pursuing the recreation with more content via a bot idea let me know. It might be difficult to get community consensus for the project, but I would be willing to try. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 20:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I finally saw the note you left on my talk page asking for help with the articles you are starting. It seems that you are separating municipality and seat. Whether or not to do this has been debated a bit on WP Mexico with no real consensus so far. While it might seem obvious, there are problems. First of all, many, if not most, municipalites have the name of their seat. And many of the info sources on them in Spanish do not make a clear distinction between the town and the municipality. Second, even when the town officially goes by a different name (like Xico/Valle de Chalco Solidaridad) no one uses the official name of the town for the town but rather the municipality name. Municipalities in Baja Californa are large and divided into districts, but jsut about every little town in Oaxaca is a municipality. Last but not least, in more than a few cases, when the seat is a city,it is co extensive with the municipality. We will probably wind up with separate articles for both entities but we need naming guidelines. Thelmadatter ( talk) 23:00, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to help you with those lists of Polish politicans. Thank you very much for start those articles! Very good work! Ps: Sorry about my English. DK4]]$4 (Contribs) 11:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Don't have time at the moment to help out bc of bar studying. Glad to see a few have been translated by others. In your next big article batches (not BLPs obviously!!) you should only do half of the alphabet. That way a year down the road we can have some hard data for the number started by others from redlinks vs. the number expanded once the stub already exists. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate your speaking to Gavin.Collins about his unwarranted call for a block of AlbertHerring. Unfortunately, I do not think it will change Gavin’s views at all. Gavin is very firm in his opinions and interpretations of policies, and does not change them no matter how many people show him he is wrong. Gavin is still firmly convinced his actions were right and the correct interpretation of policy. [8]
This is nothing new as Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins 2, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Kender and the associated links clearly show. Edward321 ( talk) 22:05, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I can see that he is not a level headed individual otherwise he wouldn't have said what he did. I certainly don't and I doubt Albert really takes him seriously, for an apparent professional he sure gives off a sign that he is incapable of human interaction. I can see he has a history. I think it may have completely shocked ALbert at first but i just think he needs a good amount of time away from wiki to let it blow over and allow him to retain his dignity. He loathes drama as much as anybosyon here, even more so maybe so being involved in something like that and being unable to aboid prying and condemning eyes took its toll I think. Thanks anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:12, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I totally support your views that we need a concerted effort to transwiki articles across the different language wikis. While this effort may be met with resistance today, I believe it'll gain momentum. So stay the path... I think it's the right direction. Just my 2 cents. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou both for your kind words. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Don't worry they will all be restarted given time but it will take considerably longer than it should have. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:47, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
...Just in case you're not still watching the page. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 17:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw this in your edits comments to my tallk page. What are you talking about? -- llywrch ( talk) 21:11, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure it wasn't intentional but I read somewhere that you said something like: Nah nuke the lot of them, I create much better stubs than that. I'm not interested. I found that a little dismissive. I generally create a lot of good stubs, there was just banks of articles to be translated from German wikipedia so we didn't think starting them like that would cause a problem. I would have appreciated a reply from you personally. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I understand totally. Yes it does get pretty annoying at times, not you obviously, I don't find you rude at all it was more confusion over the mixed reaction I saw from you, I can see now why you gave up on them, not just to avoid more wiki drama but because the workload was too great. German politicians are not exactly top on my list of interests either but I believe as an encyclopedia we should be covering them. I know you feel the same way as I do that's why I had anticipated an earlier response. Yes I that is exactly how I feel, its kind of like being gunned down by a firing squad whenever you try to express a point to explain why you are the wrong one and the community are always right. It would have required a tremendous amount of work to sort them all out but the fact that many had already begun translation by various people and the relatively low threat from vandalism in the short term period I thought it would have been better to work through them than take the easy way out and delete articles which will be restarted soon enough anyway. If the view that " it is a bad stub it should be started properly" was the unviersal view on here we'd lose 85% of our articles because "they need to be started more adequately". Maybe I misjudged that content on German wikipedia and linked templates were enough to verify that these people are actually politicians and members of parties, I somehow doubt it. When people talk about the starting of new articles where the information is directly there for the taking as "errors" that makes me pretty annoyed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Doc. I figure there's a good chance you're not familiar with me, as I don't recall us ever interacting directly. Anyway, I do some BLP stuff, and worked on the whole "mass delete" thing a couple days ago. One thing I did do, was try to track what could be salvaged. Some stuff got deleted anyway (no refs I guess), but I did gather a list at: User:Ched Davis/Julian-list. If you'd like I could move it over to your userspace, or it's fine where it is too ... whichever you prefer. If there are any of the ones that got deleted anyway, and you'd like to work on them in your userspace - let me know on my talk page, and I'd be more than happy to restore them there for you. I don't speak German, so I probably can't help much with the individual articles, but I thought you might appreciate the effort in trying to track what we were able to salvage. Maybe you could even pass on a few words of encouragement to the guy who did the bot import - I thought he got some pretty unfair nastiness thrown his way over that. Hope he does return. Anyway, just wanted to let you know - All my best. — Ched : ? 04:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I see that you are taking the unkind, "derogatory" comments of others to mean that people are getting their way unfairly. I hope that my little comment was not considered derogatory. I think the reason people argued so vehemently was because they respect you as a content provider. They were afraid your status here on Wikipedia would lead to a different result than if you were a ordinary editor. I've been thinking about what you were trying to accomplish, and mulling over a proposal for an article creation drive with you. I'll explain further if you are interested. Abductive ( talk) 09:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I know, I didn't mean you. It is comments I regularly get by people like David Fuchs that I am "intellectually lazy" and resemble "betacommandbot" (the nuisance that spammed eveybody's talk pages with deletion warnings remember?) and that Blofeld is this terrible nuisance by people such as him and references ongoing to past events or articles that may not have worked out so well. It is unfair I think, so at least a new user name and a more attention to creating referenced stubs is the way to go I think. Besides which the user name reflects more my interests. Note that I am not renaming myself "German politician" because that subject is really not of prime interest to me. As an encyclopedia though I think we should have full articles (rather than sub stubs) on these people. Oh, I'm still planning on making a proposal, my goals haven't change, I just want to try to change the overal perception shared by some people to my current name that's all, I certainly think a lot of people have got the totally wrong idea about me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I agree!! What I hope the new project will do is draw up full banks of missing articles from other wikis and store all of them in our workspace. Then a bot can be assigned to start articles if they have a common source and can be started adequately. A lot of cock ups have occurred with automation on wiki. I believe Thaddeus is intelligent and cautious enough though to know what he is doing. What we need is to support each other I think and give it more of a focus that it has at present. One of our core goals is "the sum of all knowledge", I believe we can't gnore other wikipedias and their growth, but we just need to find a way to make their work added to our english wikipedia with sourcing. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
That would be good, the thing is though I'm not sure a bot would be able to start different often unrelated articles in a most visited list like that. I think a bot would have to work through categories of related articles. The bot though could certainly draw up a top 1000 list for eahc language wikipedia and for us to try to ensure we have articles on everyone of them first. That would be a good idea, definately. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Yep, and you are likely to find at least a million similar quality articles from German, Dutch, French and some of the other wikipedias. It is like a gold mine of encyclopedic content missing which is why we should definately have a large scale project devoted to transferring it. Search through city categories on German wikipedia for example and you'll see the huge amount missing. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
No I love pictures! I was just admiring the beauty of the aptly named Lake Baldegg. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:51, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I've started generating articles for the municipalities (most of those on the first row of Template:Jeseník District, except those that already existed). Once I can get it working fully automatically I'll do more. Am I right that you've finished all the regions before Olomouc? -- Kotniski ( talk) 11:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi !
Ambition always seems to be ending in faliure !
When I go after a better template , I find out that the new complex one does not works :
[9] can you please help me in that ? Thank you --
Alborz Fallah (
talk) 14:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
What are you looking to reference? The only sentence in the article is already supported by the external links.
A quick search also produces this review on the Tatarstan's Ministry of Culture website; more is available, but I guess it depends which way you want the article to develop.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:15, July 27, 2009 (UTC)
I misread your link "Mali expansion links" above as "Mail expansion links" & thinking this was some kind of special email method to reach you clicked on it. Instead, I suspect I discovered another governmental organization which has been co-opted into SPECTRE: who would suspect that the Mali "Commission of Food safety" was in truth yet another front through which your operatives can do your bidding throughout the world. Truly brilliant -- & evil! -- llywrch ( talk) 16:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if you might want to publicize your proposal more widely - maybe at the Village Pump (Proposals)? Lady of Shalott 17:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Mmm, I dunno, it could backfire.. There are a lot of people at ANI and village pump who'll gladly do anything they can to oppose me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I had brought it to the attention of a number of people anyway, I anticipate a lot of people will see in on their friends talk pages etc. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
By asking to be called Himalayan Explorer, you have already left behind the impermanent reputation of Dr. Blofeld and started your route to enlightenment. For your request to be declined because you've made 263,063 edits is a triumph, not that it matters. You have overcome the final barrier preventing Dr. Blofeld's transformation into a compassionate avatar of spiritual peace. Though praise and priority are hollow vessels, let me be the first to congratulate you anyway. - Pointillist ( talk) 18:58, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL indeed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:32, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Nah, you should investigate the Zen path of enlightenment: "What is the sound of a Martini that is neither shaken nor stirred?" -- llywrch ( talk) 20:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Constitution of Ethiopia Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm in Kyrgyzstan for another couple weeks. Go ahead and give me your picture requests, and I'll see what I can do. Btw, I've been doing stuff more for WPCA. — Firespeaker ( talk) 21:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I hope I did not upset you when I redid the episode list wikistyle as I know you must have put a lot of effort into it but I kept your links although I had to adjust a couple to get to the episode page. I am a fan of R&H and you have done a great job. You should do the TV IV [11] pages (for R&H would be nearly 40 pages). I did it to try and simplfy the main page as there is a lot of duplication. Also answering a question on the talk page about the DVD means the overview needs rewriting. I shall not do it. Except for the first episode there is no story arc, the episodes can be in any order. REVUpminster ( talk) 22:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Just repaired four links. They worked yesterday. They all work now REVUpminster ( talk) 23:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah similarly i didn't want to remove your work because you did a great job adding director and writer to the tables. Yes I love Randall and Hopkirk, quintessential 60s British TV. Someday maybe we'll have articles on the Avengers episodes too! If you can help improve any of the episodes for Randall go ahead, I couldn't find many reliable sources. A lot of them aren't complete. I did mean to continue with my analysis of the series but it is really original research although it would seme to give an informative analysis of the series and the concepts. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Original research is the one bugbear of wikipedia especially when dealing with film and telvision, I got into trouble over Zorro's Horse!!!, when the only source is youtube. The TV IV does not have those problems. In fact the way you laid out the episode pages is very similar to how they do it. It is a wiki site so has almost identical formatting rules. I have added the writers and directors to R&H there. Here on wikipedia I am working on the episode list for Department S another of my favourites. REVUpminster ( talk) 21:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Yep that was great too. The Saint was good too as was The Man from UNCLE. Z Cars was good too, love cult 60s TV. I also liked The New Avengers in 70s, a lot of people thought it was crap but Joanna Lumley was and always will be incredibly sexy to me! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
That's that taken care of, then. Back to business. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 02:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately not yet.... Still aevil.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I live on the far-side slope of the one what did the big boom some years ago; do see the description on commons. That caldera's about 15km across and the little nipple inside is what's pictured on the article. Cheers, Jack Merridew
fyi, mostly I'm trying to get things looking right at various screen resolutions. Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I probably have information on them. I'll have to look before I pack those books away. -- llywrch ( talk) 16:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Considering you didn't mention your own stub creations on German politicians when the other nearly 3k were up for AFD, and another 500 were just found, I was wondering if we've missed any more. Do you know? Lara 17:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Please help. Brain fried. Please look at Jasen Walker: notable? Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 18:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Seemingly, just lacks a serious amount of references though and needs a cleanup. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:28, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
No offense taken, I agree that more women should be on the site. BTW it's very hard not to stick everything Gavin Collins is saying in a collapse box and be done with it. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I'm very glad you are both here! Her Pegship and Rosie too! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Did you see? You created an article on Concordiasee, and User:Mazbln, a native speaker of German, comes along a few hours later and improves the article. He wouldn't have created the article on his own because, as he says on his userpage, he is unsure of his English. I take this as evidence that starting with popular topics will attract exactly the kind of editors the new project needs. Abductive ( talk) 08:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Awesome! See if you can add an imdb link at the bottom though. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi again! Yes, I like the idea of WikiProject TRANSWIKI very much. I think another way of expanding the project and making it of real educative value would be to get schools, colleges, etc. involved too. I used to get so bored having to translate passages from Caesar and the like that had been translated and re-translated over and over again by many generations of school kids. It really turned me off both Latin and French. What I would have loved was a project working with others to translate something that had not already been done to death - something NEW and EXCITING! My proposal would be to try to get teachers to assign a translation project to create new (or better) pages for Wikipedia. A group or a class taking French could, for instance, translate some article from the French Wikipedia. To make it even more interesting and educative - it could be to translate something of historical, geographical, cultural, or some other interest - so it would be even more than just learning how to translate (and to use computers to edit something like the Wikipedia). Maybe they could get extra credits if they could get an article to good article stage??? Anyway, this is just an idea of mine - I am not sure how to get anyone or any group inspired enough to try it. Whadaya think? Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 10:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I finished correcting the lists of Polish politicians, I also fixed titles (from Polish to English). Do you plan to do some of these articles about Polish politicians? DK4]]$4 (Contribs) 16:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Nice work. They will all be started in due course, however at present I have a tremendous amount of cleanup/error fixing to do so it might be delayed a while... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll try tonight - have a model for me to look at? I also need to finish talkpages for Brazilian rivers. And there are several new lists of them to start, too...those are safe enough to begin using AWB, so I'll do that. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:25, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
The lists should remain at the top - that's standard category organization, IIRC. As for the linked redirects...to be honest, I'm loathe to be responsible for the cleanup of a mess I specifically warned against at the time. Sorry. In any case, I'm in the middle of a protracted and belated task force tagging run right now anyway, so I can't really commit myself at the moment. Best of luck, though. Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 20:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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I reverted your deletion about Yangonites carrying stashes of cash. Well, stashes of cash doesn't mean buying power. In Yangon's (and Burma's) case, it simply means high inflation, not wealth. And people don't have access to credit or debit cards, so yes, even regular people have to carry lots of cash. Very annoying problem. If you ever visited Burma, you'd know. Hybernator ( talk) 02:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I can see now what you are trying to say but it was really written badly and misleadingly. "Stacks of cash" used in an encyclopedia looks very amateurish and it wa smisleading as if you were trying to claim everybody was reall rich and floating in money. Say something like, "Due to the problems of high inflation and the fact that many of the population do not have access to credit or debit cards, it is common to see citizens carrying a considerable amount of cash." A lot of that section reads as original research. You need to reference such claims. Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so very much for the link to the video with the exquisite Chopin piece! You are the only person who has every sent me Chopin! What a nice thing to do! If you ever go to Paris, look up the tiny Hotel Chopin - a very special experience if you love Chopin - and very reasonably priced when we were there some years ago. Thanks again - I hadn't got around to playing the video when you first sent me the link, but this afternoon was perfect - it really was soothing and a delight. Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 05:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
No problem! I've discovered some amazing films from Hungary, Poland, Japan, etc, by working on the Cannes festivals, so it's been really worth while.
In light of the recent headache about German politican stubs, here's a joke that needs to read in a deadpan-German style, that I thought you'd appreicate:
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Hehe. Lugnuts ( talk) 06:52, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL yes Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Blofeld!
I will look at some of the politicians from your list. But not all of them are "important" - and this is not "my party". But I will take a look and if I'm able to help, I will do this ...
Greetings from old Germany in old Europe -- Togodumnus ( talk) 20:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure - I didn't realize that there were stub tags for them all already.
Didn't mean to disappear today, but the firewall wouldn't let me edit anything for most of the day. Lord knows why... -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 21:12, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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I, hereby award Doctorate in Evil Medicine, A.K.A Dr. Blofeld the 50 DYK Medal in recognition for your hard work, particularly on geography of all around the world. Keep up the good work and it wouldn't be too long til you're eligible for entry into getting the 100 DYK medal! |
Caspian blue 21:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I looked through the list, and I actually don't own very many of them. But I have seen all of them except for seven or eight of them. Those would definitely be quite the additions to my collection at some point though! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 23:41, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Cloud Gate has achieved WP:FA status and you have been an active editor of the article. Thank you for your involvement.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
You inadvertently put the ARVN general under this guy! YellowMonkey ( cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 08:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've asked for clarification of your comment at the FAC on the Senate article page, hope you will oblige.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 14:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Just finished my bar exam yesterday (phew!) and am in Massachusetts till the 5th, then in Alaska till the 18th. I can help out. What needs doing? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 14:15, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
FAC pipeline: Crown Fountain recent WP:PR, McDonald's Cycle Center @PR, Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) @PR and whenever Dabomb87 gets around to tweaking Rob Pelinka it will get worked into the rotation.
GAC pipeline: Burnham Plan.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 14:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Er...I did a hundred more rivers the other night, actually...-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi again,
I'm looking into creating some Iran stubs as you suggested. I created a preliminary infobox at
User:Passportguy/Sandbox, please take a look at it and suggest an additional info that could be added.
A couple of things seem to be difficult to obtain :
Btw : Is there an easier way to add the geo coordinates in decimal degrees as this is how they are quoted on above page ?
Passportguy ( talk) 18:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Passportguy ( talk) 18:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I found a directory. I'll do that Iran tagging tonight - I thought it best to give Passportguy a chance to do all the stubbing before I get in there and start creating talk pages. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Awesome. Although yesterday's count I did shows me closing in on 20,000...so it's a bit out of date. :-) -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure. I wasn't assessing the articles, but I guess anyone could tell they were stubs. Will do in the future. Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 20:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Not a term in common use, seems restricted to Eastern European and Russian science. However, there is no article currently on Tuberculosis research so this is all we've got. Tim Vickers ( talk) 16:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
It says this on your userpage: "According to this Baldy is "Number 1" contributor to english wikipedia". You're actually number 2. Hahaha! Auric Goldfinger, (I don't expect you to talk, I expect you to die) 19:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
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The Geography Barnstar | |
To my friend, Dr. Blofeld, for today's Brazilian river articles! Rosiestep ( talk) 21:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC) |
Thankyou Rosie!! May our coverage of Brazil blossom as much as the Brazilian jungle! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, that image was one of the ones that came in a batch from one of my image contacts who keeps me updated when she takes new images. I always enjoy watching the actress in my favorite television action film True Lies (since it's always on television several times a month it seems!). Thanks for supporting the FAC, I was surprised by the number of reviewers (I think there was maybe eight supports). Now I get to play the waiting game and hope that it gets on the main page in April. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 23:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Gee, you're impatient! Many municipalities already have maps showing their location within their district and state. The advantage of those maps is that they also show the area of the municipality. It could be a good idea (I've seen something similar at French wikipedia), but I don't have the time to work on it. Markussep Talk 11:44, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
It would be fairly easy to set this up, and I'd be happy to do the coding if that's what you guys decide on; but, personally, I don't really have a strong opinion on which map would be more useful for the reader. Kirill [talk] [pf] 13:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Indeed it is; I've just been rather busy with a few other matters, and haven't had time to attend to the infobox. I'll make the needed changes as soon as I can. Kirill [talk] [pf] 02:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I could, of course... However, the Croatian Wikipedia article is unreferenced, so my translation would actually leave us with two unreferenced articles. (This is my gripe with the Croatian Wikipedia in general, and the reason why I only go there looking for ideas and pointers, not for actual content.) Still: the Vrančić article is not really substantial, so what the heck. I'm putting it on my todo list, could do it in a couple of days or perhaps a week. GregorB ( talk) 19:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I've prepared
Template:West_Azarbaijan_Province. It still needs a bit of work with spellings which I'll do later on today if I can find time. However the task seems daunting, since there are close to 1000 villages in this province alone. I believe Iran as a whole has close to 70,000, which seems almost impossible to add by hand.
Btw : What happend to the planned bot that was going to add stubs for all towns ? Is that project still on or was it shelved for some reason ?
Passportguy (
talk) 20:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what that means. What exactly do you want me to do ?
Is this better : Agheshlu ?
Long time no pester - Depan bisa belakang bisa a stub of yours from 2 years ago has been prodded - I have no idea of the size of yours (watchlist that is) you might have let it drop off (oh dear Im getting off this one now) - cheers and trust the sense of tumour is as ever ready to fire Satu Suro 12:47, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Not sure why you are telling me. What do you expect me to do with it? Am I expected to have an Encyclopedia of Indonesian cinema handy? If you want to delete it take it to AFD. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I didnt do the prod - I thought I found you as the first ed (unless I had read the edit history wrong) and no I dont want to delete it, and no I dont have an encyc of Indonesian film to hand either, and hope I find you in better humour sometime - I am more likely to try to find a ref or two to send the prod away - if possible - cheers Satu Suro 13:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL it is exactly that. The "Encyclopedia of Indonesian Cinema was humour my friend. I am feel in great humour, as they say "great humour=no tumour". As you referred my sensr of tumour I thought I'd play the wounded bald guy. I honestly don't mind what you do with it, I thought sometime it would be expanded. All I know is that at least two editors on the article seme familiar with the film see this. Perhaps we could ask them to find a link. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
One reason why I would have never followed my father into veterinary science - dealing with bloody tumours :( Satu Suro 13:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
You have enemies? garn a man with your edit count and stature? your imposing user page and even more so talk page? narh gerrofit (I'll be wandering through your country of abode in september - promise I wont try tracking you down and insisting on giving you a beer or three :) Satu Suro 13:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
OOps it will be north wales that I venture into for a day or two at most to meet a rellie never met Satu Suro 13:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops - I'm running AWB at the moment; give me about fifteen minutes and I'll take care of it. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Good to hear - I've seen a couple of opera-related stubs I created expanded to good length recently. It's quite heartening, really. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey buddy! I am a bit busy these days, however I support your initiative and wanna say, just let me know if you would want to ask about something, need some clarification etc. Read also this, please: Wikipedia:WikiProject Czech Republic/Guidelines/Geographical names. - Darwinek ( talk) 19:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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For writing articles about castles instead of replacing Michael Jacksons' page with "HE WAZZ A PEDO!!!!!!1111!!!!" I dream of horses ( talk) 13:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC) |
I just dropped around to your page tonight to see how you have been doing since you returned to the Wikipedia and to say "hi" and that I hope things are happier. BTW congrats on the new barnstar! Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 16:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in an interesting discussion at Wikipedia talk:Image use policy#File:Man Utd FC .svg. Your comments & suggestions are very much appreciated Arteyu ? Blame it on me ! 08:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry - was so busy stub-creating last night that I didn't get around to redlinking things. However, I managed to finish up Bahia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico (!) off of the lists that currently exist. I just did St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a morning exercise; otherwise I'm going to be hellishly busy today, so any further stubbing will have to wait (though I might tackle a small country or two, like Jamaica, over lunch). Speaking of which...I can stub things out of an Iran provincial template with AWB, as long as you don't mind a very rudimentary beginning. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Tremendous bias, indeed - there's so much that needs to be done to bring aspects of this project up to snuff. To be honest, I'm disappointed; I had hoped we'd be over 3 million articles by now. As it stands, I hope we pass that benchmark by the end of the month. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, it'll be inelegant, but if you want I can AWB those as well, while I'm doing rivers and lakes and things. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I just finished Tomorrow Never Dies and currently have The World is Not Enough on the way in the mail. I've already seen the films past Enough so I'm finally on my last film. Octopussy's last half was quite entertaining, although the Bond as a clown didn't work too well. I didn't care for A View to a Kill too much. I actually liked License to Kill quite a bit especially for the final chase scene. I enjoyed watching the progression of Desmond Llewelyn through all the films, and its a shame that they didn't work Q into Craig's films. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 18:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I never said I didn't think they were non-notable as a whole! If something has a decent-ish article on fa.wiki we should probably have it here. I just didn't think that being on that tageo list was necessarily indicative of notability - it seemed like many villages probably were the size of tiny neighborhoods, and those are probably best consolidated into lists one administrative level up. If you look on google earth and it looks substantial I think that is a good enough indication of notability for now IMO. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I believe there was an extension installed recently which allows something like this; let me look into it and get back to you. Kirill [talk] [pf] 11:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Yup, these are the ones I myself asked User:Obersachse to transfer to en a couple days ago. I have already integrated them with the city infobox and they show up nicely—see, for example, Novosibirsk. At any rate, thanks for the note; much appreciated!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 11:55, July 10, 2009 (UTC)
Good call. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 17:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see the automatic map of Belgium has been removed in July last year. I don't know why, I don't see any discussion about it on the talk page. I could work on it, but that will be after my summer holidays, that start tomorrow. I'll be digiless in Macedonia and Albania for a month. Markussep Talk 17:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I like white dogs better than white cats :) And also because I don't know of a way to do the surname thing and don't like admitting I am not all-knowing. MBisanz talk 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hello! I've done the first batch of articles with geodata given in the List of lakes in Nova Scotia. Some of the entries linked to disambig pages, and one linked to an article about a person, so they were skipped: see my talk page for a list. If you can tell me when all the lake articles have been created, and the disambig links fixed, I'll run a second batch to finish the job. In the meanwhile, I'll take a look at the other lists you mentioned. -- The Anome ( talk) 09:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Blofeld, I've got a question which you may or may not know the answer too. I've tried to use the File:Bavaria location map.svg, but had no luck. The File:Deutschland.svg but it does not seem to recognise that the Bavaria map exists. I saw your name associated with the map so I thought you might know. If not, no big deal, but if you could point me in the right direction I would be grateful. Thanks, EA210269 ( talk) 09:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Doctor! It is truly an honour to receive recognition by an editor with your level of contribution to WP. :) BTW, there is an ongoing Peer Review on the civil war article, if you are interested. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 12:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Is done. Tonight I begin the remainder of Nova Scotian lakes and maybe some Australian rivers. I'm holding off on finishing New Zealand for the moment until I hear back from the WikiProject. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:34, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
1. Right now my priority is speed. That means quite bare-bones stubs. They will be filled in later, I promise.
2. I respectfully disagree with you on the need for the second category. The village is implicitly coterminous with the commune; there is really no reason to place a commune in a specific district category and in the one right above it. - Biruitorul Talk 21:59, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
ok dear friend I'll try to translate articles about Basmenj from its persian page, but you probably should make another page for this town before coz the right spell is Basmenj not Basmnj. Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pournick ( talk • contribs) 01:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC) =
Hi, came across Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon, great job you've done of Sri Lankan MPs. However, please note that UPFA is not a party, but an electoral alliance. Its probably best to identity the actual party identity of the MPs also, for example for categorization. Notably the second largest party in UPFA in 2004, JVP, broke with UPFA after the elections, and thus their politicians can't be categorized as UPFA politicians. -- Soman ( talk) 09:30, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't think that's doable using template code. I could do it in an excel spreadsheet - that you could you "text to columns" to separate first and last name using a space delimiter. Then you could manipulate the first and last names as needed. I really really really think you need to learn a bit of excel! It would make your stub creation even faster, by a large margin... Calliopejen1 ( talk) 23:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Dr. B - I've replied over at User talk: Grutness. Grutness... wha? 23:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Seriously, many of them have little to translate. I'm just asking that you evaluate them individually before slapping a tag on them. When the czech article has like two unreferenced sentences it makes it harder to find the gems of articles that are high priority translations. Like I said, the French category has this problem. If we had an army of czech translators this wouldn't be an issue but we simply don't. In fact I can't remember the last time I saw an expand czech tag that got someone to produce a translation. My point is that when only a few czech articles realistically will get translated in the near future, we should make sure it is easy for translators to find high-quality ones. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 11:54, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I don't think they should be started without tags I just think you should look and see whether it really needs a tag (as in, not just a few lines of content). Maybe this is not feasible on fast-creation sprees. I'm mulling over whether I can think of an easier way to transfer data. Maybe just some sort of excel magic to automatically translate the infobox? Give me a few minutes. My trial office expired so now I either have to find my old office disk or learn to navigate the openoffice excel... BTW have you thought more about the German politician thing, with possibilities for excel? Can you make a sample article and show me the list of names you want this based on? I could probably make you a fast method to create them, along with the defaultsort. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Are you interested in trying to automatically translate the czech municipality infoboxes? If I knew what each of the fields meant I could work up something so you (or me or someone else) pastes in what's from cs.wiki and it spits out an english-language infobox. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:31, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
If I keep it up, I should be within 1,000 of my goal by the time I go to bed tonight. Got any other templates you'd like AWB'd? -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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WikiProject Architecture Award | |
For excellence in the creation of a whole bunch of stubs for Latvian (and other European) castles and manors and whatnot, I award Dr. Blofeld this architectural barnstar. You know the drill by now, I'm sure... -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
Sure thing, I'll make sure it's mentioned. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar Blofeld.! Vprajkumar ( talk) 17:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,Thanks for commenting. I must complete all year of List of Bengali films. Actually I am so busy of my native language Wikipedia ( Bengali Wikipedia) and I am admin there. Only I worked out about Bengali film and there list.( sometimes one or two several user help me to do this). So please give me time for that job.- Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 18:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you think I ever doubted that you are a wonderful human being or a great editor? I know that you really noticed how much I was fascinated by this book (which was introduced to me by you). By the way, I often get to read it online. And I thank you for this nice gesture of goodwill. And I also told you I was going to give you a barnstar a few days back. I have nothing against you, Blof. I'm just at such a stage in my life when everything seems difficult to deal with; I'm sensitive and this is for several reasons. Wikipedia is a place that I visit to distract myself and have some fun, because I like editing and chatting with different people, but somehow we got into such intense fights and unpleasant conversations that I took the decision to stop it definitively. I do miss our previous conversations, discussing films, cultures, or just spending time on nothing particular except laughing. I think this time will come, but for the next few days I need a break. Shahid • Talk2me 19:04, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
You can always retired to the gentle world of WP:VIET YellowMonkey ( cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 02:28, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind-of barnstar! :) Re the Czech villages I made a topic=village parameter for {{ Expand Czech}} so I think that is probably the best route for now. The category page is still a redlink so if you actually use the tag you should create it. Autotranslating the infoboxes will take more time than I can invest now, bc I should be getting hardcore about bar studying. BTW good news for developing world photos! I'll be in India for seven weeks this summer/fall and just bought a new camera! Also going home to Alaska for a while so I may get some photos there too. :) Calliopejen1 ( talk) 12:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I've made it so topic=village and topic=muni both categorize as Municipality. That's what you're making right? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I agree - that's the sort of thing I like to see. A couple of my recent efforts have been well-expanded, too; there were two or three stubs on zarzuela librettists I wrote which have since been expanded quite a bit. Anyhow, don't know how active I'll be today; I've got a lot of stuff to get through before lunch. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't know if you know this, but it is part of a WP:GT ( Wikipedia:Featured topics/Millennium Park) that we are attempting to bring to WP:FT, I think the best candidates for promotion right now are Crown Fountain currently at WP:PR, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, McDonald's Cycle Center, and Millennium Park. With current standards, we need three more FAs, but the way that they keep raising the standards, we will probably need four in the near future. Any comments on the Wikipedia:Peer review/Crown Fountain/archive2 would be helpful.
Buddy, I am so grateful to you and Albert that you completed the Sri Lankan parliamentarian list. By the way I noted that you are just 2 short of getting 50 DYKs. I was wandering why don't you knock down two articles quickly. Hope you write something about Wales this time around. Cheers!-- Chanaka L ( talk) 09:47, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL... I couldn't agree more!!! I am a BIG fan of Mike Myers and his Austin Powers series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two movies; both of them are true classics. However, I was a little disappointed with the third one... but nonetheless, I enjoyed watching it. IMO, it would be great if they made the series continue... but there is nothing to continue it with. Dr. Evil and Mini Me have already turned into good guys (Austin finding out that Dr. Evil is his long lost brother... LOL) and the only bad guy left is Dr. Evil's son. It would be best if they didn't continue the series anymore :D Continuing the series further would just ruin the charm of the first three movies. Wouldn't you agree?? -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 15:35, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, got your message on my return. Well, my bot is going to be busy for a month or two making corrections to the Polish village articles. But I don't mind helping out with the Czech ones, especially if I don't have to run the bot from my own computer. Can you let me know exactly what needs doing?-- Kotniski ( talk) 10:27, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello and my greetings. Hi, Dr. Blofeld. My name is World Cinema Writer (call me WCW). I see you are a famous WP:WIKIPEDIAN. I would like to ask a little help from you. It's about WP:IPA in English. You see, I'm trying to bring up an article to WP:FA. I'm keeping it in my sub page. It's User:World Cinema Writer/TM. I wrote the name of the film in IPA also. Just, could you help me check whether the IPA I made was correct or not. Thank you, World Cinema Writer ( talk • contributions) 12:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
What categories do you want? The basic ones that French german etc have? If you're planning to do a huge spree all from one category I could set something up specific to that too. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Blofeld, could you please consider putting the living people category on these? Also, it would be better to begin them with "Joe Bloggs is a German politian" rather than just "Joe Bloggs, German politian", don't you think? Regards, Majorly talk 18:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
See User talk:Rjwilmsi. It will be sorted. I have tried generating them at slower pace but the sheer amount needing doing and mixed bag of living and deceased politicians makes generating them this way the most efficient possible. Ideally every articles would be generated with trtanslated content first time but unfortunately nobody has investe din a translation bot yet. If I say somebody "is" a politician and died 60 years ago it will not be correct. It will cause serious problems with my PC going back and forth to another site several times a minute. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
And my response is still the same as above, I don't know what else I can say. As I said my computer is not passing back and forth to foreign wikis very quickly at the moment and I am having trouble doing so. I can say ... is a German politician but half of them are deceased so is likely to be misleading as it is "was" a politician. If people care that much about them that they are concerned with the structure they'll not only correct it but translate the information we should have on these bios. I guess to say is is better than a broken sentence so I'll do that then. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure! Thansk for compliments... can you help to correct my English (I am Italian mothertongue?). Ciao and good work!! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 11:52, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey. Too much manual work for everybody. :) A bot would do that job perfectly. User:Kotniski operating User:Kotbot done a great similar job with Polish villages. - Darwinek ( talk) 15:45, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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Nice work on starting this list, Dr B! Lugnuts ( talk) 11:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Like the system I worked out? Extremely busy day today here...I don't know when I'll be able to do much of anything. Well...until I get home, at least. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI. User:MrAshJam has also put speedy deletes on Lukas Hoffmann and Michel Duboille articles I have created. The source that I have is legitiamte. He has tried to speedy delete several other articles as well. He could be a vandal, IMO. Chris ( talk) 14:30, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
In reply to your edit summary, I apologise for the bot, but please note that per policy, creators shouldn't removed CSD tags themselves, even if they ere wrong. You seem to get a lot of these incorrect CSDs (which is understandably since you create a lot of pages). And it's probably very frustrating to have them nominated for deletion, but remember, the admins aren't going to delete obviously incorrectly tagged pages. Cheers :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 16:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Meh, they're bots, they can't think for themselves. And yes, technically, you did actually remove a speedy tag from an article you created, which is against policy (or perhaps guideline, haven't checked). I sympathise. - Jarry1250 [ humorous – discuss ] 16:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
To get around the problem mentioned above of creating articles about people who aren't politicians, maybe you should auto-skip any article that doesn't include the german word for politician (Politiker?). You can do this in AWB easily. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That would be the majority. Most of the articles are politicians or at leats were involved in politics. Either way all of the biographies need translating. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Responded. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:53, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
What exactly you want I translate? My next task should be siege of Crema, an epic battle led by Frederick Barbarossa against Crema, which I'd take something from also for the siege machine I think. Ciao and let me know. -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 15:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld, can you read German? You are starting german stubs about politicians who never were politicians, see Christian v. Ditfurth. He simply was member Social Democratic Party for two years. -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 08:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)< Sorry you didn't start this article, but: -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 09:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Well change them and expand them then!! I know this but the fact is the article is now started and when expanded it will become more informative. Yes I can read a bit of German and if I checked each one on German wikipedia I could instantly adjsust them but I have so many to start this would slow down the task considerably. The fact is they were all members of the party. German wikipedia is at fault for putting all of the politicians in the same category as members. I am merely starting articles from categories on German wikipedia. As for Tissy Bruns, I never said the person was a politician, I said they were a Communist Party member which is true. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Albert Herring, can you read German? I wonder how you got the idea that Christian v. Ditfurth might be a german politician. He never was. -- Textkorrektur ( talk) 09:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Um maybe because his article says Von 1973 bis 1983 war er Mitglied der DKP For a whole ten years of his life he was a member of the Communist Party. Hardly no worthy of mentioning.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
What you are failing to understand Textkorre is that I am merely blue linking these articles from German wikipedia. They all notable biographies and are all party members whether you deny it or not. If the person is a writer or actor or whatever and is only affiliated with the party then this will be written out in due course. If you went back onto German wikipedia and sorted out your category mess mixing politicians with affilliates then it wouldn't be a problem. When I say so and so was a member of the party this is true. It might not be the first notable thing to write about a writer but it is a start. What don't you understand? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:57, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Here is a random article I selected. Guess what. They are a politician and a member of that party. I'll admit there are several articles about writers which have got mixed in which the politicians bag but only because German wikipedia lists members with politicians and awkardly lists them under German politicians by party. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Do you not think then it is a good idea to split politicians from members? Ask me why then the parent category is "German politicians" on German wikipedia? Wouldn't it be better to categorize them as German politicians of a party and then seperate them from the party members? WOuldn't that be easier for German wikipedians who only want to read about politicians and not writers who may have a loose affiliation? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:52, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Try seeing Category:German politicians by party. Right. Now the German version is? Not politicians? No politicians in those categories? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
As i understand the german category system, the politicans are sorted by funktion, as chancellor, or member of a parliament. there is no general category german politican. Politiker (Deutschland) is just for people who cannot sorted to sub category of funktion. the category parteimitglied is a subcat of politiker (deutschland) since feb 2009, i think this is a mistake, i will correct it. Also have a look at category tree [7] -- 80.133.137.76 ( talk) 11:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
In case you are wondering why I'm not creating any stubs anymore : I am seriously considering leaving Wikipedia. This has nothing to do with the geo stubs per se, but after almost two years on here I have to say that this has not turned out the way I invisaged it to be. I orginally came here to work on my speciality, which are immigration/passport related legal issues, but I have found that beyond POV pushing, vandalism and the occational well intended but ill-informed edit there is almost no collaborative editing going on. That goes for many other pages as well, where constant edit wars and POV makes collaborative editing impossible and many editors seem more interested in their own personal agenda and ego than in any collaborative effort to improve the pages.
In a way I think Wikipedia's greatest asset is also its greatest handicap : The fact that anyone can edit everything. Because of the fact that Wikipedia accepts edits by non-experts it is largely edited by people who - albeit well-meaning - take information from secondary sources like other encylopedias and newspaper articles with very little understanding of the subject matter. Unfortuantely in the process a lot gets misinterprested and as a result misrepresented on here.
As a result I find myself in a bit of a watchdog position when it comes to passport pages, constantly reverting and correcting mistakes others have made. If it were just that it wouldn't be so bad, but if you add the constant POV attempts - yes, strangely enough you can even push POV in passport pages - and outright vandalism I have come to the conculsion that I best take my efforts elsewhere.
I think Wikipedia has reached it's prime. It now covers almost everything and it is absolutely great as a quick reference to get an overview of a subject matter. However it will never become a truely reliable source of information as there are just too many mistakes in it and the articles simply cannot be checked fast enough by experts to keep them factually acurate after vandalism and good faith but factually wrong edits.
Passportguy (
talk) 13:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey! I'm currently on vacation. I'll try to expand it when I get back (although it's not my field of knowledge). Best, Viator slovenicus ( talk) 15:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Depending on how things shape up tonight, I might be able to finish off the German politicians. You mentioned some other lists - do you have them set up anywhere, even in userspace? If so, I can begin working on them once I'm done with the Germans. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:43, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I think the project would benefit more from a Wikiproject dedicated to expanding the thousands of sub-stubs you have created. The project does not need anymore one-sentence articles. That's generally not what people are looking for when they search for any topic. Lara 20:34, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
The idea Jenna would be that the project would have the ability to create better and fully articles more quickly with a reference or two so your concerns would be met. Do you honestly think that neither Albert or I would like to see every article fully translated upon creation? We'd at least like a project and bot to create missing articles and at least have a little content and references.Seriously, I don't know when people are going to wake up that we need to be transferring article enmasse from other wikis. The content exists it just needs putting in english. We need to build up teams of translators who work together at systematically transferring referenced information from other wikis. Having the odd person translate one or two articles every month is really not good enough given the scale of this project. I'd like to make a new project proposal and I'd like to see some support for generating content in a way that causes no objections and can be done much more efficently than is done at present. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I'll speak for Albert in that we both think the starting process is far from ideal but we really do need these articles put into english however much of a mess it creates. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:25, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
At the suggestion of JulianColton and some others in the AN/I thread, I have nominated the articles for deletion. The discussion is here. I realize the creation was in good faith, but I think it's best to get a bot written as you've suggested above, and start that way. Regards, Lara 06:52, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I want to say again, that I think these articles were created in good faith, and I believe a project dedicated to transwiking articles carefully would be very beneficial. I want to apologize to you if I worded anything in such a way as to seem as though I don't value either you or Albert as editors. That was certainly not my intention. I appreciate that you've endorsed the mass-deletion, and I really hope that the attention drawn to the AN/I thread and the AFD results in noticeable attention on your project proposal. Lara 16:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Royal broil 06:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I have not looked at the attacks on you in detail, but you can tell yourself that they just mean that others are taking you and the stubs seriously as something that can reasonably be argued. A spammer creating 3000 pure nonsense articles doesn't get such a reaction. I guess the problem is: People feel very strongly that it's a bad idea, they expect long discussions, and they are not keen on having to make up their minds why exactly it's a bad idea. You can decide that none of us can have thought it through and that you did and therefore you are right and should try to sway the opinion. Or you can decide that there is probably some wisdom in the crowd, collectively and/or individually. In the latter case I would expect any attacks to stop. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have stopped already, once it looked like a snowball decision. (Not that I would argue for applying the snowball clause, of course.) Hans Adler 11:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou Hans for clarifying that. I do have feelings like any human and sometimes people don't realise how hurtful they can be in discussions and causing outrage towards a good faith action. If you read my recent comments at the bottom of the deletion page you'll see why I see subjects as set and to work towards and believe even if somewhat too optimistically that we can achieve anything on here. I want to see this encyclopedia develop and ultimately I would like to see a decent article for each of these politicians. Rather we disagreed in the way it was done. A lot of people prefer to build us brick by brick, I often try to build us house by house if you see what I mean. We all share the same goals on wikipedia I am certain but I really wish people would tone down the drama. The articles can easily be deleted no problems if it is causing a major or potentially serious problem. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:50, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
BTW on a happier note I got my new camera in the mail! It's so tiny and beautiful. :) I'm not going to be getting any featured pictures from it (sensor tiny and not so great - decent amt of noise, fringing, etc) but I still like it! My new project is to take photos of National Register of Historic Places listings in my neighborhood. I'll have to take a couple on my walk to the coffee shop today. There are a ridiculous number in Cambridge and Somerville, near where I live. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 13:43, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Blo! Sorry for the delay with the answer, but apart from being busy I also needed some time to think this through. I'll try addressing your suggestions point-by-point, so it's easier to keep track of them. Feel free to comment on each one separately as well.
I was sorry to see the way your stubs were shot down. I agree that Wikipedia has too many articles on kid stuff. Keep on keeping on, don't let them get to you. Blast Ulna ( talk) 19:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I see that the mass created stubs have been (or are being) deleted. If you are interested in pursuing the recreation with more content via a bot idea let me know. It might be difficult to get community consensus for the project, but I would be willing to try. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 20:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I finally saw the note you left on my talk page asking for help with the articles you are starting. It seems that you are separating municipality and seat. Whether or not to do this has been debated a bit on WP Mexico with no real consensus so far. While it might seem obvious, there are problems. First of all, many, if not most, municipalites have the name of their seat. And many of the info sources on them in Spanish do not make a clear distinction between the town and the municipality. Second, even when the town officially goes by a different name (like Xico/Valle de Chalco Solidaridad) no one uses the official name of the town for the town but rather the municipality name. Municipalities in Baja Californa are large and divided into districts, but jsut about every little town in Oaxaca is a municipality. Last but not least, in more than a few cases, when the seat is a city,it is co extensive with the municipality. We will probably wind up with separate articles for both entities but we need naming guidelines. Thelmadatter ( talk) 23:00, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to help you with those lists of Polish politicans. Thank you very much for start those articles! Very good work! Ps: Sorry about my English. DK4]]$4 (Contribs) 11:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Don't have time at the moment to help out bc of bar studying. Glad to see a few have been translated by others. In your next big article batches (not BLPs obviously!!) you should only do half of the alphabet. That way a year down the road we can have some hard data for the number started by others from redlinks vs. the number expanded once the stub already exists. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate your speaking to Gavin.Collins about his unwarranted call for a block of AlbertHerring. Unfortunately, I do not think it will change Gavin’s views at all. Gavin is very firm in his opinions and interpretations of policies, and does not change them no matter how many people show him he is wrong. Gavin is still firmly convinced his actions were right and the correct interpretation of policy. [8]
This is nothing new as Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins 2, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Kender and the associated links clearly show. Edward321 ( talk) 22:05, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I can see that he is not a level headed individual otherwise he wouldn't have said what he did. I certainly don't and I doubt Albert really takes him seriously, for an apparent professional he sure gives off a sign that he is incapable of human interaction. I can see he has a history. I think it may have completely shocked ALbert at first but i just think he needs a good amount of time away from wiki to let it blow over and allow him to retain his dignity. He loathes drama as much as anybosyon here, even more so maybe so being involved in something like that and being unable to aboid prying and condemning eyes took its toll I think. Thanks anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:12, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I totally support your views that we need a concerted effort to transwiki articles across the different language wikis. While this effort may be met with resistance today, I believe it'll gain momentum. So stay the path... I think it's the right direction. Just my 2 cents. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou both for your kind words. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Don't worry they will all be restarted given time but it will take considerably longer than it should have. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:47, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
...Just in case you're not still watching the page. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 17:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw this in your edits comments to my tallk page. What are you talking about? -- llywrch ( talk) 21:11, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure it wasn't intentional but I read somewhere that you said something like: Nah nuke the lot of them, I create much better stubs than that. I'm not interested. I found that a little dismissive. I generally create a lot of good stubs, there was just banks of articles to be translated from German wikipedia so we didn't think starting them like that would cause a problem. I would have appreciated a reply from you personally. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I understand totally. Yes it does get pretty annoying at times, not you obviously, I don't find you rude at all it was more confusion over the mixed reaction I saw from you, I can see now why you gave up on them, not just to avoid more wiki drama but because the workload was too great. German politicians are not exactly top on my list of interests either but I believe as an encyclopedia we should be covering them. I know you feel the same way as I do that's why I had anticipated an earlier response. Yes I that is exactly how I feel, its kind of like being gunned down by a firing squad whenever you try to express a point to explain why you are the wrong one and the community are always right. It would have required a tremendous amount of work to sort them all out but the fact that many had already begun translation by various people and the relatively low threat from vandalism in the short term period I thought it would have been better to work through them than take the easy way out and delete articles which will be restarted soon enough anyway. If the view that " it is a bad stub it should be started properly" was the unviersal view on here we'd lose 85% of our articles because "they need to be started more adequately". Maybe I misjudged that content on German wikipedia and linked templates were enough to verify that these people are actually politicians and members of parties, I somehow doubt it. When people talk about the starting of new articles where the information is directly there for the taking as "errors" that makes me pretty annoyed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Doc. I figure there's a good chance you're not familiar with me, as I don't recall us ever interacting directly. Anyway, I do some BLP stuff, and worked on the whole "mass delete" thing a couple days ago. One thing I did do, was try to track what could be salvaged. Some stuff got deleted anyway (no refs I guess), but I did gather a list at: User:Ched Davis/Julian-list. If you'd like I could move it over to your userspace, or it's fine where it is too ... whichever you prefer. If there are any of the ones that got deleted anyway, and you'd like to work on them in your userspace - let me know on my talk page, and I'd be more than happy to restore them there for you. I don't speak German, so I probably can't help much with the individual articles, but I thought you might appreciate the effort in trying to track what we were able to salvage. Maybe you could even pass on a few words of encouragement to the guy who did the bot import - I thought he got some pretty unfair nastiness thrown his way over that. Hope he does return. Anyway, just wanted to let you know - All my best. — Ched : ? 04:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I see that you are taking the unkind, "derogatory" comments of others to mean that people are getting their way unfairly. I hope that my little comment was not considered derogatory. I think the reason people argued so vehemently was because they respect you as a content provider. They were afraid your status here on Wikipedia would lead to a different result than if you were a ordinary editor. I've been thinking about what you were trying to accomplish, and mulling over a proposal for an article creation drive with you. I'll explain further if you are interested. Abductive ( talk) 09:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I know, I didn't mean you. It is comments I regularly get by people like David Fuchs that I am "intellectually lazy" and resemble "betacommandbot" (the nuisance that spammed eveybody's talk pages with deletion warnings remember?) and that Blofeld is this terrible nuisance by people such as him and references ongoing to past events or articles that may not have worked out so well. It is unfair I think, so at least a new user name and a more attention to creating referenced stubs is the way to go I think. Besides which the user name reflects more my interests. Note that I am not renaming myself "German politician" because that subject is really not of prime interest to me. As an encyclopedia though I think we should have full articles (rather than sub stubs) on these people. Oh, I'm still planning on making a proposal, my goals haven't change, I just want to try to change the overal perception shared by some people to my current name that's all, I certainly think a lot of people have got the totally wrong idea about me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I agree!! What I hope the new project will do is draw up full banks of missing articles from other wikis and store all of them in our workspace. Then a bot can be assigned to start articles if they have a common source and can be started adequately. A lot of cock ups have occurred with automation on wiki. I believe Thaddeus is intelligent and cautious enough though to know what he is doing. What we need is to support each other I think and give it more of a focus that it has at present. One of our core goals is "the sum of all knowledge", I believe we can't gnore other wikipedias and their growth, but we just need to find a way to make their work added to our english wikipedia with sourcing. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
That would be good, the thing is though I'm not sure a bot would be able to start different often unrelated articles in a most visited list like that. I think a bot would have to work through categories of related articles. The bot though could certainly draw up a top 1000 list for eahc language wikipedia and for us to try to ensure we have articles on everyone of them first. That would be a good idea, definately. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Yep, and you are likely to find at least a million similar quality articles from German, Dutch, French and some of the other wikipedias. It is like a gold mine of encyclopedic content missing which is why we should definately have a large scale project devoted to transferring it. Search through city categories on German wikipedia for example and you'll see the huge amount missing. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
No I love pictures! I was just admiring the beauty of the aptly named Lake Baldegg. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:51, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I've started generating articles for the municipalities (most of those on the first row of Template:Jeseník District, except those that already existed). Once I can get it working fully automatically I'll do more. Am I right that you've finished all the regions before Olomouc? -- Kotniski ( talk) 11:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi !
Ambition always seems to be ending in faliure !
When I go after a better template , I find out that the new complex one does not works :
[9] can you please help me in that ? Thank you --
Alborz Fallah (
talk) 14:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
What are you looking to reference? The only sentence in the article is already supported by the external links.
A quick search also produces this review on the Tatarstan's Ministry of Culture website; more is available, but I guess it depends which way you want the article to develop.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:15, July 27, 2009 (UTC)
I misread your link "Mali expansion links" above as "Mail expansion links" & thinking this was some kind of special email method to reach you clicked on it. Instead, I suspect I discovered another governmental organization which has been co-opted into SPECTRE: who would suspect that the Mali "Commission of Food safety" was in truth yet another front through which your operatives can do your bidding throughout the world. Truly brilliant -- & evil! -- llywrch ( talk) 16:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if you might want to publicize your proposal more widely - maybe at the Village Pump (Proposals)? Lady of Shalott 17:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Mmm, I dunno, it could backfire.. There are a lot of people at ANI and village pump who'll gladly do anything they can to oppose me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I had brought it to the attention of a number of people anyway, I anticipate a lot of people will see in on their friends talk pages etc. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
By asking to be called Himalayan Explorer, you have already left behind the impermanent reputation of Dr. Blofeld and started your route to enlightenment. For your request to be declined because you've made 263,063 edits is a triumph, not that it matters. You have overcome the final barrier preventing Dr. Blofeld's transformation into a compassionate avatar of spiritual peace. Though praise and priority are hollow vessels, let me be the first to congratulate you anyway. - Pointillist ( talk) 18:58, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL indeed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:32, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Nah, you should investigate the Zen path of enlightenment: "What is the sound of a Martini that is neither shaken nor stirred?" -- llywrch ( talk) 20:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Constitution of Ethiopia Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm in Kyrgyzstan for another couple weeks. Go ahead and give me your picture requests, and I'll see what I can do. Btw, I've been doing stuff more for WPCA. — Firespeaker ( talk) 21:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I hope I did not upset you when I redid the episode list wikistyle as I know you must have put a lot of effort into it but I kept your links although I had to adjust a couple to get to the episode page. I am a fan of R&H and you have done a great job. You should do the TV IV [11] pages (for R&H would be nearly 40 pages). I did it to try and simplfy the main page as there is a lot of duplication. Also answering a question on the talk page about the DVD means the overview needs rewriting. I shall not do it. Except for the first episode there is no story arc, the episodes can be in any order. REVUpminster ( talk) 22:33, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Just repaired four links. They worked yesterday. They all work now REVUpminster ( talk) 23:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah similarly i didn't want to remove your work because you did a great job adding director and writer to the tables. Yes I love Randall and Hopkirk, quintessential 60s British TV. Someday maybe we'll have articles on the Avengers episodes too! If you can help improve any of the episodes for Randall go ahead, I couldn't find many reliable sources. A lot of them aren't complete. I did mean to continue with my analysis of the series but it is really original research although it would seme to give an informative analysis of the series and the concepts. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Original research is the one bugbear of wikipedia especially when dealing with film and telvision, I got into trouble over Zorro's Horse!!!, when the only source is youtube. The TV IV does not have those problems. In fact the way you laid out the episode pages is very similar to how they do it. It is a wiki site so has almost identical formatting rules. I have added the writers and directors to R&H there. Here on wikipedia I am working on the episode list for Department S another of my favourites. REVUpminster ( talk) 21:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Yep that was great too. The Saint was good too as was The Man from UNCLE. Z Cars was good too, love cult 60s TV. I also liked The New Avengers in 70s, a lot of people thought it was crap but Joanna Lumley was and always will be incredibly sexy to me! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
That's that taken care of, then. Back to business. -- User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 02:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately not yet.... Still aevil.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I live on the far-side slope of the one what did the big boom some years ago; do see the description on commons. That caldera's about 15km across and the little nipple inside is what's pictured on the article. Cheers, Jack Merridew
fyi, mostly I'm trying to get things looking right at various screen resolutions. Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I probably have information on them. I'll have to look before I pack those books away. -- llywrch ( talk) 16:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Considering you didn't mention your own stub creations on German politicians when the other nearly 3k were up for AFD, and another 500 were just found, I was wondering if we've missed any more. Do you know? Lara 17:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Please help. Brain fried. Please look at Jasen Walker: notable? Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 18:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Seemingly, just lacks a serious amount of references though and needs a cleanup. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:28, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
No offense taken, I agree that more women should be on the site. BTW it's very hard not to stick everything Gavin Collins is saying in a collapse box and be done with it. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Well I'm very glad you are both here! Her Pegship and Rosie too! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:54, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Did you see? You created an article on Concordiasee, and User:Mazbln, a native speaker of German, comes along a few hours later and improves the article. He wouldn't have created the article on his own because, as he says on his userpage, he is unsure of his English. I take this as evidence that starting with popular topics will attract exactly the kind of editors the new project needs. Abductive ( talk) 08:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Awesome! See if you can add an imdb link at the bottom though. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi again! Yes, I like the idea of WikiProject TRANSWIKI very much. I think another way of expanding the project and making it of real educative value would be to get schools, colleges, etc. involved too. I used to get so bored having to translate passages from Caesar and the like that had been translated and re-translated over and over again by many generations of school kids. It really turned me off both Latin and French. What I would have loved was a project working with others to translate something that had not already been done to death - something NEW and EXCITING! My proposal would be to try to get teachers to assign a translation project to create new (or better) pages for Wikipedia. A group or a class taking French could, for instance, translate some article from the French Wikipedia. To make it even more interesting and educative - it could be to translate something of historical, geographical, cultural, or some other interest - so it would be even more than just learning how to translate (and to use computers to edit something like the Wikipedia). Maybe they could get extra credits if they could get an article to good article stage??? Anyway, this is just an idea of mine - I am not sure how to get anyone or any group inspired enough to try it. Whadaya think? Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 10:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I finished correcting the lists of Polish politicians, I also fixed titles (from Polish to English). Do you plan to do some of these articles about Polish politicians? DK4]]$4 (Contribs) 16:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Nice work. They will all be started in due course, however at present I have a tremendous amount of cleanup/error fixing to do so it might be delayed a while... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll try tonight - have a model for me to look at? I also need to finish talkpages for Brazilian rivers. And there are several new lists of them to start, too...those are safe enough to begin using AWB, so I'll do that. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:25, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
The lists should remain at the top - that's standard category organization, IIRC. As for the linked redirects...to be honest, I'm loathe to be responsible for the cleanup of a mess I specifically warned against at the time. Sorry. In any case, I'm in the middle of a protracted and belated task force tagging run right now anyway, so I can't really commit myself at the moment. Best of luck, though. Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 20:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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I reverted your deletion about Yangonites carrying stashes of cash. Well, stashes of cash doesn't mean buying power. In Yangon's (and Burma's) case, it simply means high inflation, not wealth. And people don't have access to credit or debit cards, so yes, even regular people have to carry lots of cash. Very annoying problem. If you ever visited Burma, you'd know. Hybernator ( talk) 02:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I can see now what you are trying to say but it was really written badly and misleadingly. "Stacks of cash" used in an encyclopedia looks very amateurish and it wa smisleading as if you were trying to claim everybody was reall rich and floating in money. Say something like, "Due to the problems of high inflation and the fact that many of the population do not have access to credit or debit cards, it is common to see citizens carrying a considerable amount of cash." A lot of that section reads as original research. You need to reference such claims. Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so very much for the link to the video with the exquisite Chopin piece! You are the only person who has every sent me Chopin! What a nice thing to do! If you ever go to Paris, look up the tiny Hotel Chopin - a very special experience if you love Chopin - and very reasonably priced when we were there some years ago. Thanks again - I hadn't got around to playing the video when you first sent me the link, but this afternoon was perfect - it really was soothing and a delight. Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 05:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
No problem! I've discovered some amazing films from Hungary, Poland, Japan, etc, by working on the Cannes festivals, so it's been really worth while.
In light of the recent headache about German politican stubs, here's a joke that needs to read in a deadpan-German style, that I thought you'd appreicate:
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Hehe. Lugnuts ( talk) 06:52, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
LOL yes Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Blofeld!
I will look at some of the politicians from your list. But not all of them are "important" - and this is not "my party". But I will take a look and if I'm able to help, I will do this ...
Greetings from old Germany in old Europe -- Togodumnus ( talk) 20:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Sure - I didn't realize that there were stub tags for them all already.
Didn't mean to disappear today, but the firewall wouldn't let me edit anything for most of the day. Lord knows why... -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 21:12, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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The 50 DYK Medal | |
I, hereby award Doctorate in Evil Medicine, A.K.A Dr. Blofeld the 50 DYK Medal in recognition for your hard work, particularly on geography of all around the world. Keep up the good work and it wouldn't be too long til you're eligible for entry into getting the 100 DYK medal! |
Caspian blue 21:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I looked through the list, and I actually don't own very many of them. But I have seen all of them except for seven or eight of them. Those would definitely be quite the additions to my collection at some point though! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 23:41, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Cloud Gate has achieved WP:FA status and you have been an active editor of the article. Thank you for your involvement.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
You inadvertently put the ARVN general under this guy! YellowMonkey ( cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 08:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've asked for clarification of your comment at the FAC on the Senate article page, hope you will oblige.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 14:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Just finished my bar exam yesterday (phew!) and am in Massachusetts till the 5th, then in Alaska till the 18th. I can help out. What needs doing? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 14:15, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
FAC pipeline: Crown Fountain recent WP:PR, McDonald's Cycle Center @PR, Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) @PR and whenever Dabomb87 gets around to tweaking Rob Pelinka it will get worked into the rotation.
GAC pipeline: Burnham Plan.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 14:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Er...I did a hundred more rivers the other night, actually...-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 19:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)