Hi, Johnluisocasio, Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thanks for adding the subdivision of the Laotian provinces, it was something I planned to do for quite some time already but always too busy with other tasks. Do you have any direct sources for these, or is it basically the information from statoids.org? I ask because for Xaisomboun there was apparently a change, two districts might have been reassigned to Vientiane province. But it is very hard to find good English sources on Laotian topics. See also Talk:Xaisomboun. andy 20:18, 8 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Of course, your help is definitely welcome and appreciated. I just hoped you'd have more information, Laos is still a widely covered topic here, due to lack of interest of editors here, lack of Laotians with Internet access and English knowledge, but also due to lack of English information sources about it. Anyway, keep on editing... andy 22:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, John! I am sorry, but I had to revert your change to administrative divisions of Perm Krai again. The krai is not divided into "former Perm Oblast" and "former KPAO" as your edit leads to believe; rather, it is a single entity which includes Komi-Permyak Okrug (which itself is a transitionary unit). However, I can see that the current layout could use some improvement. If you want to help, modelling the list after administrative divisions of Adygea would be a lot more useful (and consistent). Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your interest.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Dude, I appreciate that and I respect it. But for those who understand Russian subdivision classifications, is the " rural settlement" or " rural locality" the same level as the " selsovet" or is it below the selsovet? I just want to be sure of it, just in case. Reply if necessarily possible. Johnluisocasio 13:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC) reply

I realize we keep responding to one other in one year increments, but, assuming you are still interested, I am going to answer this question (because I happened to notice it today completely by accident).

The way the terminology used in the English Wikipedia is now established, the term "rural settlement" refers to a type of municipal formation, while "rural locality" refers to a type of an inhabited locality. Rural settlements are municipal units which, more often than not, correspond to selsoviets (which are administrative-territorial units) one to one, while rural localities are populated places of rural type (i.e., villages, selos, auls, and such). On some (mostly older) pages, however, these two meanings are mixed up. Hope this helps!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 19:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC) reply

I see your point. But could you make a diagram that explains each territorial unit by level? jlog3000 ( talk) 15:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC) reply

I'm afraid that with my graphics skills the result is going to be quite ghastly, although if anyone is willing to make such a diagram, I'll be more than willing to help with the definitions, hierarchy, and explanations (although the bulk of information is already available in articles such as subdivisions of Russia, federal subjects of Russia, and types of inhabited localities in Russia).— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC) reply

No wonder in some federal subjects that the average is like 1.2 rural localities (inhabited and uninhabited) per selsovet. How come? jlog3000 ( talk) 16:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC) reply

A selsoviet is supposed to be a fairly compact unit. If there are quite a few villages located in the vicinity of one another, then the selsoviet may include many of them (minding the population caps, though). If villages are separated by large distances (as is the case in Siberia and in the Russian Far East), then a selsoviet is usually organized around just one village (minding the population caps again). Does this answer your question?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 18:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Can't argue with that, but just to be sure, can you post an example of a selsoviet with some rural localities? And how come most cities/towns correspond in districts and selsoviets while a few correspond "independently" by other subdivisions' jurisdictions? jlog3000 ( talk) 12:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Ashevskaya Volost in Pskov Oblast, for example, includes 36 rural localities (a volost in Pskov Oblast is the same as a selsoviet in some other federal subjects). As for you second question, there are two types of cities/town in Russia. Larger ones tend to be in direct jurisdiction of a federal subject (such as Pskov and Velikiye Luki in Pskov Oblast). While they sometimes serve as administrative centers of the districts (Velikiye Luki, for example, is the administrative center of Velikoluksky District), administravely they are never a part of them. Smaller towns are normally subordinated to the districts directly ( Sebezh, for example). In other words, if you look at the administrative divisions of any given federal subject (ignoring closed cities as to not overcomplicate the example), the first level is districts and the cities/towns under jurisdiction of the federal subject, and the second level is, for districts, selsoviets, towns under jurisdiction of the districts, and sometimes urban-type settlements. The second level for the cities/towns under jurisdiction of the federal subject is city districts and occasionally selsoviets which are under the city/town's jurisdiction (but are not a part of it). I haven't just confused you even more, have I? :)— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 16:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Any maps of some federal subjects with all the subdivisions within it? jlog3000 ( talk) 14:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC) reply

There's one of Moscow Oblast. Note, however, that it is the map of municipal, not administrative divisions (Moscow Oblast no longer has selsoviets). Most (although not all) of the municipal divisions correspond to administrative divisions 1:1, and municipal rural settlements mostly correspond to the old selsoviets.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Hey, Ëzhiki. To continue our talk, but in a different section, I found some links that are now defunct:

• Конституция Российской Федерации, Статья 65 ( Constitution of Russia, Article 65) (in Russian). In 1993, when the constitution was adopted, there were 89 subjects listed. Some of them were later merged.
• Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
• Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

I was wondering if you know someone that still has or had them after 2002. jlog3000 ( talk) 12:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC) reply

The Census site may be down every now and then, but I was able to follow these links just now without a problem. Perhaps you tried the links during the downtime? The Consultant site (at least its main database portion, to which the link above leads) only works in IE, so you wouldn't see the text if you tried accessing it with any other browser.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC) reply

OK, I've changed the Constitution link to a more static text on the Consultant site; should work in all browsers now. As for the Census links, come to think of it, they look as if they were done with ActiveX, so it is probably an IE thing as well. There should be a link to an Excel version (which is still restrictive); I'll see if I can dig it up.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:56, 23 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Well then, if possibly done, could you post the sub-links related with those above? Hope there's another to contact with you. jlog3000 ( talk) 13:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Sorry, I forgot all about it. I have made the changes now, though (you may need to purge your browser's cache to see the changes). Also, the best way to reach me is via my talk page—while I do keep your talk page on my watchlist, it's very easy to miss your follow-ups to older threads. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 14:12, April 21, 2009 (UTC)

Sure: [1] and [2]. You are welcome to muck around my contributions as well.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:09, April 21, 2009 (UTC)

Haha, good one! Muck around... lol What does that mean? jlog3000 ( talk) 15:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC) reply

According to Wiktionary, apparently the same thing as muck about :)— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 15:54, April 21, 2009 (UTC)

Please use the move function, instead of copy-and-paste, when renaming a page. This avoids splitting the page history in several places. Thank you. -- Geniac 20:52, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply

I have been reverting some of your good faith conversions of lists back from alphabetical to taxonomic order, and also some double linking (from common and scientific name. It's possible that I've also unintentionally reverted other edits that you have made, if that's so my apologies, but it's difficult to restore without using rollback at some stage. jimfbleak 19:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC) reply

Hi, John! I have reverted your edits which re-added Ust-Orda Buryatia. Please note that as of January 1, 2008 is no longer a federal subject, but merely an administrative division of Irkutsk Oblast. Please see Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug for further information. Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 16:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC) reply

John, please stop adding the quote marks to articles on administrative divisions of federal subjects of Russia. I had to revert your yesterday's additions because these quote marks make no sense where you are adding them to—they are ungrammatical, look ugly, and make readers wonder just why they are there in the first place. If you wish to emphasize the section titles, please consider other methods. Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 21:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC) reply

Now that you mentioned it, what do you mean by "considering other methods"? jlog3000 ( talk) 14:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC) reply

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All I wanted to do is make a page of articles of mergers of each prefecture that are needed to be yet complete. That's all. And I accidentally put Iwate Prefecture on the article List of mergers in Miyagi Prefecture. Now I fixed that part. Let me know if there are corrections for me to put or revert back to. jlog3000 ( talk) 20:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC) reply

You've removed the proposed deletion template, as you're entitled to do. There's nothing else for you to do for now. Stifle ( talk) 11:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC) reply

As of now, is it allowed then and what do you mean by "you're entitled to do"? jlog3000 ( talk) 13:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC) reply

Thanks for splitting out the merger histories from all the prefecture articles. I created Category:Lists of mergers in Japan in order to keep them all together. I also made a page for Tokyo, and am getting ready to do the same for Hokkaidō's subprefectures. At this point, List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan is almost redundant to the category, except for the external links that point to more info in each section. Those should probably be verified, and moved to the new pages as references. I'll start on that, if you don't beat me to it. Thanks again. Neier ( talk) 10:48, 4 May 2008 (UTC) reply

I appreciate your respect and gratitude for this accomplishment. jlog3000 ( talk) 14:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC) reply

Great job dude. Sorry I can't be on much. -- Hirohisat ^(Talk) 05:06, 14 May 2008 (UTC) reply

With due respect to all the activities to improve all merger related articles, I would like to ask for your opinion as better experienced/educated contributor than myself, about the word choices of the Japanese municipality mergers. I found Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan and judged "merge" is the preferred word usage than "amalgamate". so I edited Niigata (city) Merger subsection according to this standpoint. that undid most of the immediate previous edits that harmonized "merge" usage to "amalgamate". in my humble opinion, "amalgamate" is just a bit over dramatized nuance compared to the plain "merge" thus the latter is preferable.

of course I have not studied all other references in other articles, of primarily prefectures, cities and towns of japan, so I would accept if the vast majority of the usages prefer "amalgamate", but just wanted to have someone better knowledge on this topic in Wiki editing context to see if there is any standards that I missed.

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Hi - I'm wondering why you changed all the "Senboku" references to "Semboku". Although the town of Semboku may be using the "m" instead of the "n" on their website (a fact I find surprising and I think that actually is a mistake on their website), the Senboku Region (Senboku-gun) has not changed. I am in Misato-cho right now and all the road signs here that mention either the town or the area all use "Senboku". I plan on double-checking at the Misato-cho town hall this week, but I was wondering where you got this information. Thanks! BWH76 ( talk) 10:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC) reply

To answer your question, I did those just to match the context of the articles in Wikipedia. jlog3000 ( talk) 16:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC) reply

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Because I accidentally wrote the wrong name to make those redirects, and I couldn't delete them back. :/ jlog3000 ( talk) 16:57, 18 August 2012 (UTC) reply

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I notice that you've boldfaced the names of a number of college sports teams within the "Athletics" sections of articles on the colleges, e.g. at Peru State College. According to MOS:BOLD, this isn't correct Wikipedia style: the policy states that boldface is acceptable "only for certain usages", which are listed. None of those usages seems to apply to this case; so I'd encourage you to discontinue the practice, and to revert boldfacing that you've already done in inadvertent contravention of WP style. Thanks -- Ammodramus ( talk) 21:23, 11 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Could I take exception to a phrase that you've introduced to a number of articles on colleges, in the "Athletics" section? The phrase is, to quote one incidence of it, "Dana College teams, nicknamed athletically as the Vikings..."

First, "Vikings" isn't the team's nickname; it's their actual name. Second, "nicknamed athletically" is a very strange phrase in English. I can run athletically up a flight of stairs, or lift a heavy box of books athletically; but nicknaming something doesn't generally require a great deal of physical exertion and sweating.

I'd suggest an alternative like "Dana College's sports teams, the Vikings..." or "...teams, known as the Vikings,..." Ammodramus ( talk) 14:37, 29 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Ok. Thanks for the warning of advice. I'll try re-correct those as I possibly can. jlog3000 ( talk) 14:44, 29 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi there. As you have edited some related articles, would you like to join WikiProject Okanagan. Thanks, and happy new year! TBr and ley ^{( what's up)} 16:54, 3 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi Johnluisocasio. When you want to change the name of a page, please don't simply copy and paste the contents, as you did from UBC Okanagan to University of British Columbia Okanagan. Doing so violates the cc-by-say license that all Wikipedia pages are authored under. Instead, we need to move the page. Since the latter page already existed as a redirect, it did need to be moved by an admin, which you can do by leaving a request at WP:RM. I've gone ahead and done that change for you. Qwyrxian ( talk) 22:26, 3 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi. I have reverted a couple of your edits to the article for the following reasons:

• You keep adding the abbreviations for NCAA, ACC, and FBS, when the terms are not used in the rest of the article. We do not need to signify that these entities are known by these abbreviated names unless the names come up again. If you are adding them because you feel people should know that they are known by these names, readers can go to the NCAA and ACC pages linked to in the article.
• You also seem fit to remove links to the various sports that the teams participate in. While you may very be well aware that "Football" means "American football" and the like, there should be links to lead to the proper pages.

Please do not institute these changes again.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:04, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

I meant no disrespect about it. But if you don't believe me, then back off. Thank you. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

I have not said anything about not believing you. I just simply think the changes you are making are not necessary. You do not need to give the abbreviation for something unless that abbreviation is used on the same page in another instance.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:10, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Okay I'm seeing you're doing this across the project. You do not have to add this information to every article. And also when you put parentheses inside something already in parentheses you use brackets.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

But at least it should be necessary. If my help isn't enough, then it won't be worth it. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:16, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

You don't have to add "National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)" and "Football Subdivision Level (FBS)" to every article on American colleges that have football teams. It's not necessary so stop doing it. Just fix the articles in other ways that do not include adding abbreviations for these entities when they're not used on the page.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:18, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Please stop making these changes to university and NCAA team articles. They are not helpful.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:23, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Then where else can I edit changes for the project besides the articles here on Wikipedia? Then I'll stop. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

What are you talking about? What project?— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

The one that I'm recently editing the schools'/teams' articles with the basic specific info. And to make everyone happy, undo every other change that I've done of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 schools/teams that I've thought it was necessary (but in your humble opinion, it was not). That way, this argument should be over. I'm tired of being mocked because of something that I thought it was helpful for me to do. End of discussion. It won't happen again. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:31, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

I'm not mocking you. Is there some sort of language barrier thing going on? All I did was say "This isn't useful" and then asked why you were doing it when you continued to do it. No one gets to unilaterally decide to change the formatting of every article in a topic area without explaining why when asked about it.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:38, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

And I asked you where else can I put my edits, but you avoid that question, with you stating that I should stop those, which I did. And the others have been reverted back before my changes? jlog3000 ( talk) 15:41, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

You just shouldn't make the changes period. I'm not here to give youan alternative location to enact this project you have in your head.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:50, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Keep it up. And I won't make those changes. And as far as I'm concerned, this argument is over. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:52, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Keep what up? What argument? Seriously, I'm having problems understanding you, and it seems you are having the same problems as I am.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 15:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

See? You're doing it again. That's the argument. I've seen everything you said about not making the changes and stuff, but you kept talking about it after everything I've said about it and stopped. I just wanna end this in peace. jlog3000 ( talk) 15:56, 29 January 2013 (UTC) reply

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Question: what's the reason for the numerous removals of metric conversion in Japan municipality articles, e.g. 86 kilometres (53 mi) to 86.00 km² in Uruma? ---> Prburley ( talk) 01:50, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Only just because I wanna make things fairly balanced. Nothing offensive. jlog3000 ( talk) 10:59, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Cool. But the metric/customary conversions are standard across all articles, specifically geography-related articles--that's why the convert templates exist. Please read MOS:CONVERSIONS. Thanks. ---> Prburley ( talk) 12:28, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Now that you say that, do this favor for me. Try putting that template on ALL of the edits I did on all of Japan's current and defunct municipalities. jlog3000 ( talk) 12:44, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

This is across all current and defunct municipalities? And, did you remove them throughout the entirety of the articles, or just in the opening sentences? ---> Prburley ( talk) 13:59, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

On all current and defunct municipalities, yes. BUT, on the sentences that say "As of 2012, the municipality has an estimated population of ??,??? and a population density of ???.?? persons per km². The total area is ??.?? km²" jlog3000 ( talk) 14:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

I'd revert/correct them all--the article for Tokyo will give you an idea of how to use the conversion templates of all kinds.

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automatically supplies the per km²/per mile that you can use in the body text. ---> Prburley ( talk) 14:36, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Also "has" should be in the past tense--I've never seen a population statistic current to the day viewed on the prefectural/municipality site. And if the population given is pre-2013 you could update that by going to the municipality website, it's standard on those websites in Japan. ---> Prburley ( talk) 14:36, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Oh ok. Hope you didn't re-modify the " population density part as "density". jlog3000 ( talk) 14:47, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

I wouldn't use "population" + "population density" within the same sentence, it seems like overkill. But I wouldn't modify it either from what's already there. ---> Prburley ( talk) 15:17, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Back to reverting/adding back the Convert templates -- how many articles did you modify, and how can they be reverted? ---> Prburley ( talk) 15:17, 30 October 2013 (UTC) reply

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John, I love the Timeline you put on The Sun Conference. How did you do that? Thanks! Jacona ( talk) 12:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC) reply

No prob. But who are you? Anyways, I didn't create it. I copy/paste the timeline format and re-modify it. jlog3000 ( talk) 12:21, 11 March 2014 (UTC) reply

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Thanks, I try my best. But still, I wish I could find a precise list or source of info of knowing about the gazetted suburbs & localities (as well as its cattle/farm stations/locations) of every local government area (LGA; past & present) every state & territory in Australia though. jlog3000 ( talk) 04:24, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

I have the current suburbs and localities for Queensland in an Excel spreadsheet (courtesy of the Qld Govt) but not sadly the historic ones (I wish I did). If you would like it, I can send it to you via email (send me your email address via Wikipedia email for your privacy). It does not cover the pastoral stations as their naming is not a Qld Govt responsibility, but it does cover towns, suburbs, localities, mountains, rivers, small puddles etc if the Qld Govt has assigned an official name to it. Having said that, you will probably find some homestead names in there too. Kerry ( talk) 04:32, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

Sounds fair to me. :) However though, I don't know how to private message users on Wikipedia mail. lol Plus, when I meant historic ones, I meant the former LGAs (of which suburbs, localities, etc. belonged to them before the amalgamations/mergers). Hope this clarifies a bit more. jlog3000 ( talk) 04:46, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

I understood what you meant about historic ones; I just don't have the information. To email a Wikipedia user, go to their User or User Talk page and in the left-hand tool bar, you should see "Email this user" (unless the user has set their preferences to not receive email). So if you email me, it will disclose (to me) your email address and I can reply adding the Excel file as an attachment. Kerry ( talk) 04:51, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

Got it. Just sent to you back. Plus, thanks in advance. To be honest, it's an honor to be part of this project, because I admire "local government-style" geography. You know, involving knowing of how each local administrative subdivision/unit (from municipalities to settlements, etc.) were created to exist, etc. jlog3000 ( talk) 05:02, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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I presently work on the rural areas of eastern India and have put up many pages in Wikipedia, but I have little knowledge about the administrative divisions in other parts of India. There is a lot of confusion and there is a lot of unreferenced material in Wikipedia on the subject. The only administrative unit that is stable and accepted throughout the country is the district. In the 2011 census all data has been provided community development block-wise, but there are one or more levels in between the district and the CD Block. I am not sure about what those divisions are country-wise. I appreciate the interest you have on the topic but I am sorry that I am not in a position to help you. Cheers. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 16:42, 1 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Greetings. And no worries, I understand. However, what are those sub-division level names between the districts & the C.D. blocks? jlog3000 ( talk) 17:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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Hey Johnluisocasio. I just got your email regarding subdivisions in the country of Nepal. I'm afraid that I really know very little about Nepal. The only edit I recall making on a Nepal-related subject was correcting a disambiguation link. I can only suggest that you dig through Nepali categories for the information you are looking for. Sorry I couldn't be more help, Leschnei ( talk) 21:59, 24 May 2018 (UTC) reply

I was going to revert your large addition of the table, as it is literally duplication of the tables above, just in one table. Can you explain why this table is necessary? Vaselineeeeeeee ^★★★ 21:31, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Go ahead, revert it. Maybe I will make a small fix by adding those additional layers (in regards with the sub-regions part) on the original tables. Sounds about alright? jlog3000 ( talk) 21:38, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Ok. I wouldn't add Brant vs Brantford and Haldimand vs Norfolk in the tables, but maybe include their populations along with the note that's already there. Vaselineeeeeeee ^★★★ 21:40, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Sounds fair enough to me, but can you like guide me a bit? As my intention was to add the column layers for which census division corresponds to which primary & secondary region within the province. jlog3000 ( talk) 21:42, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

What do you mean by primary and secondary region? They are already broken into counties, regional municipalities, Single-tier municipalities, and districts. Vaselineeeeeeee ^★★★ 21:59, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Well, doesn't Ontario have non-official/administrative sub-division units that group the census divisions (i.e.: counties, regional municipalities, single-tier municipalities and districts)? Making reference to the regions of Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario (with their respective sub-regions). jlog3000 ( talk) 22:29, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

I see what you mean. That looks fine to me. Vaselineeeeeeee ^★★★ 22:55, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Glad that we have understood now, after the latest fixes I had to put into since you reverted my last edit. I thank you for that. jlog3000 ( talk) 23:03, 28 May 2018 (UTC) reply

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You sent me an email saying:

About your deletion request on the Wikipedia page of Wellesley, Ontario, may I ask why? It's an active local municipality as the Township Municipality of Wellesley within the Regional Municipality of Waterloo within the Province of Ontario.

Presumably this is about my administrative deletion which I then followed a minute later by undeleting all but the oldest version. As I described in the deletion summary, this was setting up for a history merge. See WP:HM for details on what I was doing. I admire your quick typing, as the page was only fully deleted for one minute. Wikiacc ( ¶) 18:24, 12 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Hello, this is in response to your email you sent me. Here is a good source map for the former municipalities (you'll have to scroll around): https://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=45.42500&lon=-75.67500&datum=nad83&zoom=8&map=50k&coord=d&mode=zoomin&size=xl Cheers. -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Are you sure that we should add a column for zones? Zones haven't been functional since 30 years ago. They are completely defunct. Also, as you have probably read in the history section, Thimphu didn't belong to any zone. TryKid ( talk) 00:07, 23 August 2019 (UTC) Just saw the note on your page, I'm also very interested in subdivisions of countries, specially in the Indian subcontinent; that's why I developed Districts of Bhutan and nominated it for featured list, I'm really happy that's it's on the front page today. About Nepal, it's pretty unstable and they can't decide on the names of their provinces, it's a very political issue, information changes fast and news comes out slow. TryKid ( talk) 00:14, 23 August 2019 (UTC) reply

Hi, John! Thanks for creating the Tokyo ward templates! Anyhow, I'd like to suggest adding all Tokyo railway stations: JR, Tokyo Metro, Toei, and Keisei, to their respective Tokyo ward templates. There should be enough room, I think. WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:27, 27 August 2019 (UTC) reply

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Hi John, in response to your email, see Local government areas of Queensland, Category:Former local government areas of Queensland, List of former local government areas of Queensland, Category:Local government areas of Queensland. To my very limited knowledge, this is a start. LGA articles past and present would have some of the settlement names you want. The names of properties and cattle stations is probably beyond scope. I'll have a scrounge around for a suitable portal/group where you might attract a more knowledgeable response. If you want, reply here, I'll watch. Bleakcomb ( talk) 22:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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I saw your response on the article. And to be quite honest, I got no clue. That is beyond me. jlog3000 ( talk) 10:04, 9 July 2020 (UTC) reply

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In response to your e-mail.
If you add up all -han that still existed in August 1871 to be turned into -ken, and add all -fu/-ken that had been created under the fu/han/ken system and were still around in August 1871, then you have the 300+ prefectures in August 1871 (according to the MIC, the exact number was 305 prefectures and that agrees with what I have read, and with what the ja.wikipedia article on prefectures of Japan says; but with changes happening almost with every sunrise in those days, it always depends on when and how exactly you count; and watch out for the Japanese/Gregorian calendar difference, some sources are very sloppy about it).
So, you could take together List of han and Fuhanken sanchisei#Established prefectures, take what remains by 1871 and it should add up to 305 prefectures. This link that I also added to the fu/han/ken article also contains lists by region of 1868– ex-shogunate-prefectures and 1871 domains-turned-prefectures and things in between – but I don't know if it adds up to 305. For a good old printed list or map, I'd need an afternoon in a good library or a stroll through the bookstores of Kanda; but that is something I haven't been able to do for a very long time, so I can offer you no good answer.
It is much easier, in my experience, to go backwards from a single of today's prefectures towards its precursor prefectures. In many cases, prefectural government websites or prefectural libraries, prefectural archives etc. have some kind of history portal/section/page and some material about the prefecture's creation and territorial evolution. Good, internet-accessible maps are rare, though, which is sad because that would be self-explanatory (but it is hard to create good maps in the first place, it was really very entangled territorially, especially in some central parts of Japan, less so with some of the more powerful "outer"/tozama rulers who still controlled more or less entire provinces under the Tokugawa, so there was much less ex-/enclave mess to clean up when their domains became prefectures). I've found only one pretty decent, comprehensive, online set of historical maps showing the territorial evolution in the restoration so far during my Japan-related Wikipedia editing: the Hyōgo prefectural government features on its history pages one pre-restoration map of the 130+ major and minor (shogunate/han/han exclaves/hatamoto/shrines/temples) territories in what is today Hyōgo and three maps of the prefecture 1868–1871, 1872–1876 and 1876–. (Though, if I get a wish for free, I'd wish they had included other early Meiji prefectures containing areas now part of Hyōgo in the 1868–71 map or in a separate same-period map for an even higher self-explanatory-score. If I get two, I'd wish for a better resolution of the bakumatsu map.) But at least, it gives a glimpse of how 1868 prefectures were everything but "approximately their current forms".
I'm sorry, but these meagre starting points are all I can offer you instantly. -- Asakura Akira ( talk) 03:29, 31 August 2020 (UTC) reply

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While you're updating Ghana pages, please remove the duplicative numerals in parentheses. There is no reason to say "nine (9)" at all. Thanks, Reywas92 ^Talk 21:35, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply

It will take some time, but I will try my best. On a sidenote, are you from there too? jlog3000 ( talk) 21:42, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply

No, I came across this from an outside topic. and you just happened to be editing them at the same time. I belive I've gotten most of them fixed. Reywas92 ^Talk 22:34, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Hold on. Don't get me wrong. I respect and understand your concern. But I got a reason that I'm trying to keep up-to date on how each MMDA (metropolitan, municipal and district assembly-level) unit is upto date, which so far there are 260 districts, and I'm trying my hardest to have that part upto date. And if I see a number in parenthesis, I will remove. Hope you're not being blunt and blatant against me about this. jlog3000 ( talk) 22:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for putting together the article on the New England Collegiate Conference. I understand there are actually two versions of this conference, the one that covered Division II teams and was disbanded about the year 2000, then the conference was either reinstituted or the same name used for a Division III conference.

I do have a couple questions. The article has an official site in the external links, but that site appears to be only related to the more recent Division III conference. Did I miss something?

I do not see any references.

I'm guessing you use the fandom site to help fill out the information. https://basketball.fandom.com/wiki/New_England_Collegiate_Conference

As you probably know, that doesn't qualify as a reliable source. I did some brief poking around and did not find a good source for the information.

My main reason for writing is that I'm working on New Hampshire Wildcats women's basketball. I've added the coaching history back to 1988 and now want to work on the earlier years. According to the NCAA, between 1981 and 1987 New Hampshire was a Division II team. Some of the data posted, for example the 1984 year, clearly indicates that the school was part of the New England Collegiate Conference. However, the article about the conference makes no mention of the University of New Hampshire.

Any chance I could get you to help track down what's going on? Many schools have media guides which provide a lot of relevant information but I haven't yet tracked him down for UNH.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 11:32, 11 May 2021 (UTC) reply

Please don't perform cut-and-paste moves like you did on Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District. I have fixed these by doing a history merge.

Also, I moved Talk:Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District to put it back in sync with the article. Generally, articles and their talk pages should be moved together, and if you cannot do this due to lack of administrator or page-mover privileges, you should ask an admin for help. Thanks, wbm1058 ( talk) 18:23, 14 June 2021 (UTC) reply

And in regards with the other articles in regards with those ending with "?" Municipal only? Plus, how come some MMDA's are fine without a hyphen? jlog3000 ( talk) 18:29, 14 June 2021 (UTC) reply

1) As to whether Ashaiman Municipal District should be Ashaiman Municipal, the former sounds better to me, but I have no strong opinion. There should probably be a consistent naming convention for the Districts of Ghana.

2) As to whether Bunkpurugu Nyankpanduri District should be Bunkpurugu-Nyankpanduri District, I have no opinion on the matter, and suggest researching sources for the most common usage. At 19:18, 5 June 2021‎ Natsubee moved page Bunkpurugu-Nyankpanduri District to Bunkpurugu Nyankpanduri District: "no hyphen in name of district". Perhaps they can explain. – wbm1058 ( talk) 19:18, 14 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Then it leads me to the following questions, but before I ask them, I believe the Districts of Ghana article should be renamed in the future as MMDAs of Ghana, when MMDA stands for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly or basically Local Assemblies of Ghana. Your thoughts? Anyways, here are some questions:

1) For all MMDA articles that have municipal assembly status, shall each of those end as "?" Municipal?

2) For all MMDA articles that have metropolitan assembly status, shall each of those end as "?" Metropolis?

3) If not, shall each of those end as "?" Assembly, regardless of MMDA status type? For instance: Cape Coast Municipal Assembly or Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, etc.

4) For all active MMDAs, which of those have the proper use for a hyphen within a MMDA name that has more than one sub-area? For instance: Weija Gbawe Municipal District instead of Weija-Gbawe Municipal District, etc.

Lemme know your thoughts or feedback about this. jlog3000 ( talk) 19:31, 14 June 2021 (UTC) reply

I'm not super familiar with Ghana so I don't have any answers and this is the sort of thing that shouldn't really be decided by just you and me on your talk page. You could review Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names), but that doesn't have much in the way of specific guidance for Africa. I think the best option is to ask your questions at WT:WikiProject Ghana, and hopefully you'll get some responses from members of that project. – wbm1058 ( talk) 11:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC) reply

Hello, came across this chat by accident. What I have been following generally is the names of the MMDAs on ghanadistricts.gov.gh which is the official Ghana government website which lists these districts.-- Natsubee ( talk) 00:17, 18 June 2021 (UTC) reply

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Then do you have any better ideas for me to post the history of that conference without causing any of those issues? Because that link was the source I could possibly find. jlog3000 ( talk) 13:51, 26 September 2021 (UTC) reply

It's fine to use it as a source and summarize information from it, but there is a copyright notice at the bottom of the website that reads "All Rights Reserved 2018 SUNYAC", which means that copying verbatim is not allowed. DanCherek ( talk) 13:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC) reply

I see. But I wasn't aware of that aspect. However, the only reason I wanted to add a history section was to put a timeline on how each member school joined or left that conference in a certain standpoint. If that makes sense. jlog3000 ( talk) 14:00, 26 September 2021 (UTC) reply

A history section certainly makes sense! It would be a nice addition to the page if it's written in your own words. Until then, it would be better to leave it out rather than add something that is copied from a copyright source. I appreciate your understanding DanCherek ( talk) 14:02, 26 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Gotcha and understood. Like I said, the main focus of purpose for my attempt to add a history timeline for that athletic conference is for other readers or viewers to understand how certain member schools were associated and their tenures, either with full membership (as of all sports being available or provided) or with temporary membership (as of competing on certain sports when those schools' primary athletic conferences couldn't provide). I'll see what I can do to try to make it summarized. jlog3000 ( talk) 14:17, 26 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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Was it something I said or did? All I just did was simply moved the history sub-section on top over the current members sub-section, within the same article. jlog3000 ( talk) 16:03, 15 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Oh my! I really goofed. That'll teach me not to look at the entire edit. However, in my defense, it would have helped if you had included a comment about what you were doing. I'll delete the material in question. Indyguy ( talk) 16:24, 15 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Upon further investigation, perhaps my apology was somewhat overblown. The history of the article shows that this edit which you made on 15 March 2015 was the one that added the history. I realize that one can easily forget making an edit over six years ago, but it is ironic that indeed it was something that you did. Indyguy ( talk) 16:43, 15 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Hold on. Don't get me wrong. I understand your motive and reason. But I wasn't intentionally added another comment within the membership history sub-section. Plus, I the only other edit I only added was like another bar on the membership timeline graph table to group which eras were the MCCC and the CL. But now that you mention that part, is there a way that I can summarize as a re-edit to avoid of the link source to be mirrored in a sense, in regards with the membership history sub-section? jlog3000 ( talk) 16:59, 15 November 2021 (UTC) reply

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Regarding your questions a) to d) I will try to answer them:

Do you have a full and complete list of the following subdivisions within the country of Georgia (as of 2020)?:

Question a.) regions (mkhare) & autonomous republics (avtonomiuri respublika) & occupied territories (ok'up'irebuli t'erit'oriebi) & the direct-controlled city municipality of Tbilisi
Answer: All regions (mkhare) are listed on this official page ( gov.ge Regions), including the two Autonomous Republics as recognized by the constitution

Question b.) districts (raioni) & municipalities (munits'ipaliteti) [i.e.: city-type (k'alak'i) & community-type (t'emi)] within each region & autonomous republic & occupied territory & the direct-controlled city municipality of Tbilisi
Answer: All municipalities (either city type or community type) are listed in the link at point a), but a separate official registry is here Municipal Registry. It also lists all administrative subunits (communities, temi) and settlements within these subunits. It also lists, just like above, a few "temporary territorial units" that were formed in 2006 with the local governance reform, which transformed districts (raioni) into municipalities. These temporary territorial units were formed to govern the territories that Georgia still controlled in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2006 (and lost control of in 2008). These are entirely located in these regions, and since 2008 they exist pro-forma with administrative bodies in Tbilisi or in the IDP settlements composed of residents of the occupied settlements. These are Upper Abkhazia (Kodori gorge), and in South Ossetia: Akhalgori, Kurta, Eredvi and Tighvi. See Law on Local Governance, Article 164.

Question c.) administrative units [administ’ratsiuli erteulebi; urban-type (urbanuli) & rural-type (sopelis)] within each district (raion) & municipality within each region & autonomous republic & occupied territory & the direct-controlled city municipality of Tbilisi
Answer: The full list of all settlements (and administrative units, temi) per municipality is available in for example the Census of 2014. Main results 2014 census in Georgian This is for all settlements in Georgian controlled territory and not the occupied territories.

Question d.) populated places [dasakhlebuli adgilebi (i.e.: towns (kalakebi), villages (sopeli), localities (adgilobrivebi), settlements (dasakhlebebi), communities (temebi), neighborhoods (ubnebi), hamlets (hamleti), etc.)] within each administrative unit within each district & municipality within each region & autonomous republic & occupied territory & the direct-controlled city municipality of Tbilisi
Answer: See above. A complete list of all ubnebi or hamleti I have not at hand at the moment.

Hope this helps. -- Labrang ( talk) 14:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC) reply

About question C, where else can I find a list of administrative units/settlement groups for the occupied territories I mentioned prior? For the rest, I will check each one out and I want to thank you for your time and effort in that regard. jlog3000 ( talk) 14:33, 28 February 2022 (UTC) reply

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Ok. Thanks for the fair warning. However, then how come this particular draft isn't yet an official article as it should be? jlog3000 ( talk) 12:58, 31 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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You've been editing several articles about colleges and universities to change and update their section about athletics and that has been very helpful. Could you please change from using the formulation "<institution> athletic teams are nicknamed as the <team name>" when you make these edits? It's a really awkward phrase and I don't think that "nicknamed" is correct either. It would be simpler and more correct to just say "<institution> athletic teams are nicknamed as the <team name>." Thanks! ElKevbo ( talk) 02:51, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

I would gladly try to do that. But can you give me an example of such? So I can re-edit some of them? jlog3000 ( talk) 02:54, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

You're very consistent so it's easy to find examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=North_Greenville_University&curid=7262427&diff=1084013890&oldid=1076203706, https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Newberry_College&diff=prev&oldid=1084013674, and https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Guilford_College&diff=prev&oldid=1083988916. ElKevbo ( talk) 03:18, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

Not sure if I take it as a compliment or as an insult. But my intention isn't to cause harm about it based on my edits. If you know what I mean. My other use for a 'past participle' verb aside from "nicknamed" would be "known", without making the context or way of expression in an awkward or weird manner. jlog3000 ( talk) 03:35, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

Neither compliment nor insult; just an observation.

This specific phrasing isn't harmful, just a little bit clunky. I wouldn't use anything complex at all. Keep it simple: "North Greenville athletic teams are the Crusaders." I think that's more accurate - these aren't "nicknames" - and it's easier for readers, many of whom read languages other than English as their first language. ElKevbo ( talk) 03:41, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

I hear ya. That would make sense. I will consider it on my future edits. Thanks for the hint of advice. Will begin on some right away, although it would take a while for some articles on some active and defunct institutions when it comes to athletics sections. jlog3000 ( talk) 03:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC) reply

Curious as to why you think this version is better prose? It repeats the awkward "Saint Mary (CSM)" twice unnecessarily, mentions "women's sports" which is redundant since it is a women's only college. My edit seems to provide improved readability and brevity. Your thoughts? ZimZalaBim ^talk 20:01, 3 July 2022 (UTC) reply

No comment. jlog3000 ( talk) 20:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC) reply

Yet, you proceed to incorporate much of what I edited. Whatever. -- ZimZalaBim ^talk 20:06, 3 July 2022 (UTC) reply

So? Let it be. Readable or not, it is how it is. jlog3000 ( talk) 20:12, 3 July 2022 (UTC) reply

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I’m not sure why you’re getting defensive with everyone (maybe because you’re guilty?), but no I’m not “scrutinizing”. It is Wiki guidelines that you should be using the summary. Maybe be more courteous towards your fellow Wikipedians give a summary. Just a thought. Corky 02:07, 9 July 2022 (UTC) reply

Me? Guilty of what? I'm just like a bit bothered to a degree that some of my edits were or are not adequate per se. Like in the case of the institutions or universities with athletic programs. I was just trying to add some conference names based on their past tenures, which most are accurately fact. Why all of a sudden it's becoming an issue because of a lack of a summary? Just an honest question. jlog3000 ( talk) 02:28, 9 July 2022 (UTC) reply

This is a collaborative project with tens of thousands of people who only communicate by what we write in this project. Using edit summaries is one of the primary ways in which we communicate with other editors when making edits. The summaries don't have to be long or complex; they just need to say enough to help others understand what you're doing and why you're doing it. If you're making the same edits or the same kind of edits to many articles, it may be helpful for you and for others to use the same edit summary when making those edits; that helps us all know what you're doing and, over time, many editors will learn to trust your edits and not worry about those edits because they trust that you're being consistent and truthful in those edits. ElKevbo ( talk) 20:15, 9 July 2022 (UTC) reply

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This article is at GAR, mostly for big sections being a decade out of date or more. I'd appreciate it if someone experienced could look at the athletics section and see what is worth mentioning and what needs updating. Sammi Brie (she/her •  t • c) 02:57, 9 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Hello, thank you for the email. Hope it is ok to reply here.

Unfortunately, nothing like what you are asking about exist. At least not anything up-to-date. There are a number of ways to get a lot of the information about the administrative divisions, but most will be offline or old and out of date. There will be inaccuracies you will need to solve in them. Such as knowing a ward was moved to another district, and tracking it and all of its villages and hamlets along with the move. That requires many different sources to figure out, and they are all from different dates in which places belonged to different divisions .... and such.

Some useful sources are the 2016 and 2012 censuses. The postal pages. Some GIS shape files (maps). And any region or district councils official guides, plans, socio-economic profiles, or anything like that. The postal pages are very helpful for what you are asking, but please keep note they are very outdated and that is what I was referring to above about needing to figure out what has moved where on your own.

Also please keep in mind the 2022 census was just performed (technically still in progress). This is a much larger one, similar but bigger than 2012. I would expect to start seeing updates coming out from it by December. And over the following year many of the guides and other documentation will be updated. Tanzania operates under a phase type government system. The expectation is 10 years per phase (2 x 5 year terms for a president). Obviously that was complicated in 2021. So phase 6 (President Samia) is now.

For maps, there is nothing I know of online that is current to how things are today. There are the districts shapefiles linked above. Nothing smaller that is current I know of online. Sorry. City population has some good map interface that includes wards, but it is not fully current. So need to make sure to check everything you use on it.

Hope some of that helps! Please feel free to visit my talk page and ask me anything anytime you want. Amani kwako. BevoLJ ( talk) 10:05, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Another thing that is important to know is some native language if you need to track wards, villages and hamlets over the various moves they have made. For example a village that is promoted to a ward is likely to change its name a little. You can discard the first to letters (such as any 'ki', 'gi', 'bu/a/...' and so on) and look at the actual word used by the village for its name. Same with the letter 'I' at the start of many of the central and southern regions wards/villages. Also never assume anything when you see a 'l' or 'r'. Rs and Ls are pretty much interchangeable. Especially near the ends of words, including names. BevoLJ ( talk) 10:19, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

This article needs new information. It appears from https://www.patten.edu/accreditationandlicensure and https://www.patten.edu/affiliations that the Patten Educational Foundation who ran the previous Patten University have now in some way taken responsibility for American Graduate University and renamed it as Patten University. AGU was, and Patten now is, run in a strategic partnership with the Defense Acquisition University which appears to be closely connected in some official way to the US military. I am British and do not understand these things. But someone needs to get to the bottom of it and update the Patten University article. PeterR2 ( talk) 22:56, 3 October 2022 (UTC) reply

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I need help. Two editors on this page (Reinhardt University) keep deleted "notable alumni" and "notable staff" - I am not sure I agree with their reasonings. The items they deleted have been on the page for years and years. They keep pointing to vague reasoning. "Jeff Clemmons" was removed because they think he needs an entire page dedicated to him; there are many pages with people listed that don't have full blown pages. The other reason for deleting a former professor is vague. Can you weigh in? 23.31.129.3 ( talk) 18:44, 9 March 2023 (UTC) reply

With all due to respect, I have no say in those regards jlog3000 ( talk) 19:21, 9 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Thanks 23.31.129.3 ( talk) 20:49, 9 March 2023 (UTC) reply

You're welcome. No worries and I tried. Maybe a small hint, but could you try contacting to those folks that had the reason to remove your edits? jlog3000 ( talk) 20:50, 9 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello Johnluisocasio, I noticed your revert of my rollback use here. The rollback was part of undoing edits by an IP sock of an indefinitely blocked editor; one reason that editor was blocked was because of persistent, disruptive editing consisting solely of altering links through redirects. These sorts of redirect links do not need to be "fixed" per WP:NOTBROKEN, so please be aware that generally speaking, your edit summary "current name for article in question is X, Y is a redirect" does not show a reason to reinstate changing things to direct links. (In this case, WP:ERA also tells us to go by WP:RETAIN and not switch era to period or vice versa, but I know you did not alter the running text here.) Best, Dekimasu よ! 03:48, 10 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Then why not change or move the article to "Meiji (era)" from "Meiji era" so that there wouldn't be any redirects? jlog3000 ( talk) 07:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC) reply

One reason is our preference in policy natural disambiguation, but more broadly, that would just create a different set of links targeting the article through the new redirect Meiji era. The underlying idea is that there is no problem with a link that arrives at the right place via redirect. Dekimasu よ! 04:10, 11 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Then why bother to 'fix something' when it's not technically broken? jlog3000 ( talk) 04:18, 11 March 2023 (UTC) reply

In the case of the editor who I was reverting, that is exactly the correct question. In my case, I was performing reversions as part of an attempt to discourage WP:BLOCKEVASION. Dekimasu よ! 11:08, 11 March 2023 (UTC) reply

But here is the link that led to Meiji era as a redirect: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Meiji_(era)&redirect=no Your thoughts?

P.S.: I assume that you're an administrator. If that's the case, by any chance do you read or understand or even "transliterate" Japanese texts? Because I'm trying to like add some translations of some of the defunct and current districts of Japan, alongside their timelines when it comes to modern municipal unit mergers and establishments prior and since the 1889 reforms. jlog3000 ( talk) 11:47, 11 March 2023 (UTC) reply

I am not sure what the question is regarding the redirect link, but it appears to be functioning properly. I do know Japanese (and I am an administrator, for what it's worth). If you have any specific questions about sources in Japanese I may be able to answer, time permitting. Best, Dekimasu よ! 12:13, 17 March 2023 (UTC) reply

About the link, the actual article name should be 'Meiji era' instead of 'Meiji (era)' where your edit somehow reverted the case, hence it defeats the purpose to avoid any redirects in case any viewers or readers would click on the link.

And about the Japanese stuff, I was wondering to suggest a small idea for the Japanese Wikipedia sub-site if it's possible to have a "Latin" version (as of 'transforming' the letters from hiragana & katakana & kanji to normal English-style letters while keeping the Japanese text without actually being translated). As it's impossible for me to like add or share some texts from the Japanese versions of the articles involving the defunct and current districts of Japan, alongside their timelines when it comes to modern municipal unit mergers and establishments prior and since the 1889 reforms, as well as the modern prefecture mergers and establishments since the 1869 reforms (when the Meiji era began) back it was like 3 "fu" and 302 "ken". Looking forward to hear your thoughts about this matter or subject. jlog3000 ( talk) 17:52, 17 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Recently I updated the page List of college athletic programs in Puerto Rico to include the athletic programs in the LAI, in addition to the three that maintain dual membership in the NCAA. In regards to branding and team names, I tried my best to piece together what I believed the team names to be, using the existing LAI page, the universities' athletics page, and exhibition match recaps against NCAA universities on the mainland. However, there just isn't that much information on Puerto Rican college athletics out there, so I'm a bit unsure if I really got the team names right (like Puerto Rico-Cayey Bulls vs UPR Cayey Little Bulls vs. Puerto Rico-Bayamon Toritos). I've seen you around a lot of the college athletics pages on here though (appreciate the thanks you've given on some of my edits, btw!), and you're also a native Puerto Rican, so I was wondering, could you look over my recent edits to the page and see if there's anything I got wrong if that you would change? I understand if you'd rather not, this is my first time talking with you, but you seem really passionate about the college athletics pages on here and I think it would be a huge benefit to see what you think. Thanks! Finchwidget ( talk) 16:52, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Greetings. It's an honor chatting with you. About your proposed suggestion, I will consider it. And for starters, do you have any recent edited posts about the LAI teams? So I can check each one out. And for example, the UPR Bayamon nickname is the "Vaqueros & Vaqueras" (meaning "Cowboys & Cowgirls" in Spanish). The "Toritos" one does mean Little Bulls in a literal translation standpoint. Although I must contact to each university/college within here in Puerto Rico, to see if they adapt a "dubbed" version of their nicknames (meaning the English translated versions), otherwise, their original versions are in Spanish, like the UPR (or UPR Rio Piedras or Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras) Gallitos (meaning Bantams in Spanish) and so on, among others.

Keep in touch when you can.

P.S.: Hope you try create or design more maps of current and defunct athletic conferences. jlog3000 ( talk) 17:50, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

It's an honor chatting with you too, thank you! I'm glad we can finally meet formally! I don't have any other recent edits about LAI teams, other than editing the LAI page to reflect the closure of American University this year. There's definitely less of an emphasis on college athletics in general in PR, so even for the PR university pages that are more than just a stub, I don't think it's worthwhile to add anything about their athletic teams to them.

I was also wondering about whether to represent the team names in English or Spanish too. I chose Spanish ultimately, because that's what the LAI uses, but it's nice to have that reaffirmed; although it is worth noting that Caribbean University uses the English "Gryphons" for their team name, instead of the Spanish "Grifones", so I wonder if that's the case for any others. The other main sticking point for me was how to represent the name of the university itself. For the UPR campuses, it was easy to just follow the lead of the NCAA and do Puerto Rico–[campus] [team name], but for the others it was a little trickier. For example, I was pretty split between Polytechnic Castores and La Poly Castores for Polytechnic University, as I could see a case for either one, and there wasn't much in the way of official sources to clarify. Or alternatively, just represent the entire name in Spanish for all of them (Castores de Politécnica for example), since it is a Spanish speaking league ultimately... there's a bunch of different ways to go about this, so maybe you can see where I was sort of starting to doubt myself (especially as someone who doesn't speak any Spanish!) Finchwidget ( talk) 20:22, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

You mean the American University of Puerto Rico? I never heard any news about the university closing down. Meaning that this school year would be their last.

For the non-UPR campuses, I was thinking of the following title names for their articles, such as: "Ana G. Méndez Taínos y Taínas", "Bayamón Central Halcones", "Caribbean Gryphons", "Sacred Heart Delfines", "American Piratas", "PUCPR Pioneros", "Interamerican Tigres" and "Polytechnic Castores".

However, for English reader purposes, they could be the following: "Ana G. Méndez Taínos and Taínas" (assuming that nickname has no direct English translation), "Bayamón Central Falcons", "Caribbean Gryphons", "Sacred Heart Dolphins", "American Pirates", "PCUPR Pioneers", "Interamerican Tigers" and "Polytechnic Beavers".

Your thoughts?

For the UPR campuses, they should follow the Puerto Rico–[campus name] [team name] format, such as: Puerto Rico–Aguadilla Tiburones, Puerto Rico–Arecibo Lobos y Lobas, Puerto Rico–Bayamón Vaqueros y Vaqueras, Puerto Rico–Carolina Jaguares, Puerto Rico–Cayey Toritos y Toritas, Puerto Rico–Humacao Buhos y Buhas, Puerto Rico–Mayagüez Tarzanes y Juanas, Puerto Rico–Ponce Leones y Leonas, Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras Gallitos y Jerenzanas and Puerto Rico–Utuado Guaraguaos.

And for the English reading folks, they could be: Puerto Rico–Aguadilla Sharks, Puerto Rico–Arecibo Wolves and Lady Wolves, Puerto Rico–Bayamón Cowboys and Cowgirls, Puerto Rico–Carolina Jaguars, Puerto Rico–Cayey Little Bulls and Lady Little Bulls, Puerto Rico–Humacao Owls and Lady Owls, Puerto Rico–Mayagüez Tarzans and Juanas, Puerto Rico–Ponce Lions and Lady Lions, Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras Bantams and Lady Bantams (or Hens) and Puerto Rico–Utuado Guaraguaos.

Lemme know your feedback when possible. jlog3000 ( talk) 21:13, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Yeah I meant American University of Puerto Rico. I came across an article saying as much as I was doing my research on the team names, and sure enough, someone already updated the Wikipedia page for it citing a university source stating it would shut its doors. Kind of a shame, always sad to see a university go.

I think the names you have written would work phenomenally, that works great! The only thing I'd suggest is using Pontifical Catholic Pioneers/Pioneros instead of PUCPR-- I was able to find a fairly recent article on the athletics site for the University of Minnesota-Crookston (link here), where the two schools faced off against each other in men's basketball, and the Crookston site uses Pontifical Catholic whenever referring to them. I know it's not necessarily an official source, since Crookston and PUCPR don't even play in the same league, but it's as close as I could find, so I'm somewhat partial to "Pontifical Catholic" myself. It could go either way though, so if you think "PUCPR" would work better, I'm all ears.

Otherwise, this looks fantastic, I'm completely on board. Maybe we could use the Spanish name under the team column and add a translation column for the English name? Some of these names definitely don't lend themselves to English quite that well (Toritos & Toritas definitely has a better ring to it than Little Bulls & Lady Little Bulls), so I think keeping them in Spanish and adding the translation elsewhere would probably be the way to go, in my opinion. However, I think the NCAA section can probably be left as is in regards to names, as those are the official names that the NCAA uses to refer to those universities when they participate in NCAA play, which is reflected by their respective member pages on the NCAA website. Finchwidget ( talk) 03:38, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Ah, I thought so. Because all I know that there's the OG American University located in DC. But overall, I'm with ya in regards with some universities and colleges having to either remove their athletic programs or being shut down altogether due to lack of funds or accreditation or even being merged to a nearby but a bit bigger institution (with a potential to rebrand a bit and have an athletics program but not as an independent instutition), which has been occuring in recent years like a bit before COVID began (but a bit rough since after COVID), mostly private schools than public ones. :(

About the small debacle with the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico codename in an athletics standpoint, it would be normal to use "Pontifical Catholic" instead of "PUCPR", although the latter would be shortened, like on some other sample institutions, such as UTEP (instead of Texas–El Paso) or UTSA (a.k.a. Texas–San Antonio) or USCB (a.k.a. South Carolina–Beaufort) or UCSB (a.k.a. California–Santa Barbara), etc.

And as far as I know of, I have seen articles of some local pro sports teams in Puerto Rico that used their original language like Vaqueros de Bayamón. Only the difference for the college sports names of PR should be [university name] [team name in Spanish] to avoid any other messes.

Your thoughts? jlog3000 ( talk) 17:02, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

So like doing Ana G. Méndez Taínos y Taínas, Polytechnic Castores, and so on? I'm totally on board with that. Should the UPR campuses be referred to as Puerto Rico-[campus] [team name] though? I was originally fine with that, but if local news articles are just referring to them by the campus name alone and omitting the preceding "Puerto Rico-" part, maybe that's the way to go. Finchwidget ( talk) 02:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC) reply

On the non-public or non-UPR institutions, correct. As far as the UPR campuses, I never seen one that only shows the campus names only. I mean, it aint like Omaha (a.k.a. Nebraska–Omaha) or Kansas City (a.k.a. Missouri–Kansas City) or Green Bay (or Wisconsin–Green Bay) or Milwaukee (a.k.a. Wisconsin–Milwaukee), etc. But the other alternate way to name them as separate articles if it go under this format: "UPR [campus] [team name]". jlog3000 ( talk) 03:13, 20 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Ahh ok I get what you're saying now. I think leaving it as Puerto Rico-[campus] works fine then, I don't particularly favor one style over the other. I'll update the page to reflect all the changes we settled upon, thank you once again for all the help and insight! I really appreciate having a fellow college athletics frequenter to bounce all of this off of :) Finchwidget ( talk) 03:23, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Fair enough. And you're welcome. I always try my best, when it comes to certain things. :) jlog3000 ( talk) 03:52, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi! Got your email. So far I can't find anything that the Purdue programs at IUPUC will become their own Purdue campus. The article itself says there's only one Purdue program there anyway, so it might just be administered by the Purdue Polytechnic that's already there despite the program being engineering and not technology. Even then, there is just above zero news about how IUPUC will be affected by the IUPUI split. The only source I saw just said that IUPUC is becoming IUC, and it didn't mention anything about the Purdue programs. I'm assuming that the Purdue programs are going to be administered by Purdue in Indy in a similar way that the IU Fort Wanye programs are admin'ed by IUPUI now, since there are so few. Speaking of that, from what I can tell is that IUPUI is, almost in its entirety, becoming IU Indy. Purdue is turning its school of science there over to IU and just taking engineering/technology and computer science. Seems like the plan is to build a new 28-acre Purdue University in Indianapolis campus somewhere else in addition to what it already has there. They keep saying it's going to be a "direct extension of the flagship West Lafayette campus," and from what is said in the FAQs here it seems like that's the case. Basically it'll be a second Purdue main campus, kinda like how Purdue Northwest is two campuses too despite being one university. Invinciblewalnut ( talk) 20:40, 24 June 2023 (UTC) reply

You're saying that there isn't a chance for a Purdue University at Columbus? I'll give you credit though, on the fact that there aren't any sources to back up these changes.

And with the ones in Fort Wayne, with the Purdue side getting the athletics stuff and the Indiana side getting the rest, since that split occured in 2018 or 2019, IUFW eventually has gotten a mascot, but no established program of athletics (either in a club level or an intercollegiate level yet by far). So I wonder if PUI would eventually pull a IUFW, while IUI gets the athletics stuff and other programs. Your thoughts? jlog3000 ( talk) 20:55, 24 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Probably no chance, no. I believe there just isn't the need for it, and starting a new Purdue campus there completely from scratch would be super expensive, and Purdue is already a bit strapped for cash with the tution freeze having been going on for so long. I'm pretty sure the IU system owns everything on the IUPUC campus... at least Purdue owns some stuff already at IUPUI. Purdue Indy might "pull an IUFW," though again it seems like it's not going to be an separate campus from PWL in the same way IUFW is to IUPUI. In all likelihood they'll probably have their own club sports, but the "official" sports teams will remain in WL. Invinciblewalnut ( talk) 21:54, 24 June 2023 (UTC) reply

Then in all fairness, and before all the splits, how come the IUPU system begin in the first place, especially in these particular campuses of Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Columbus? When you said the sports teams will remain in WL, does that mean that the FW campus doesn't count, and it was originally IUPU-FW (a.k.a. IPFW)?

P.S.: And I assume you mean IUFW is to IU Bloomington, in regards with the PUI to PWL analogy. jlog3000 ( talk) 22:04, 24 June 2023 (UTC) reply

I saw your e-mail asking for advice about EasyTimeline. Sorry but I don't know anything about it! ElKevbo ( talk) 02:46, 21 July 2023 (UTC) reply

I see what you mean. But thanks for your honest though. However, do you know anyone who can help with my request? jlog3000 ( talk) 02:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Not offhand, no. If I were in your position, I'd probably begin by following some of the links at Wikipedia:EasyTimeline. If that doesn't prove fruitful, you might get someone to help at WP:VPT. ElKevbo ( talk) 02:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello. I will consider that hint on your behalf. And for context, here is what the graph would suppose to be or look like:

 Run with option -b (bypass checks) when this is correct.

 

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But it would result as an error, which you would notice above. But when you click on to 'edit' it, it would show the scripted stuff. jlog3000 ( talk) 03:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your email from 26 August 2023. You requested:

full and complete list of sub-divisions within the country of New Zealand (before 1989 and since 1989 upto the present)?

a.) regions (or regional councils) & unitary authorities
b.) territorial authority units (district councils/district or city councils/city municipality) within each region (or regional council) & unitary authority
c.) wards within each territorial authority unit within each region & unitary authority

d.) populated places (suburbs, towns, villages, localities, communities, settlements, neighborhoods, etc.) within each ward within each territorial authority unit within each region & unitary authority

Land Information New Zealand has a website called the Gazetter which shows the entire list of official regions/districts/towns/cities/wards/etc, including others such as lakes. I am not sure if there is an official list of authorities before the 1989 reorganisation, but please reference List of former territorial authorities in New Zealand and you may find one. Land Information New Zealand is where you'd most likely find it. Panamitsu ( talk) 02:57, 27 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Greetings. Thanks for the info. I will check that link out LINZ. At least it wasn't like Statistics New Zealand, because it's mostly a different type of data that's almost not compatible. Because at some point in the future, when I use the LINZ website, I would like to try to add every populated place (from important ones to less important ones), depending on the territorial authority unit/area it's being assigned to. jlog3000 ( talk) 09:33, 27 August 2023 (UTC) reply

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Hey @ Johnluisocasio! Thank you for your email regarding the sub-divisions of Uganda. Unfortunately, I don't think I can really help. I also have not found much of any in-depth information about Uganda past the district level. One good place to start though may be the Ugandan Bureau of Statistics ( https://www.ubos.org/). I think they have some provincial data, but there's quite a bit to comb through. These links ( 1 and 2) look promising though. BaduFerreira ( talk) 00:57, 8 September 2023 (UTC) reply

Greetings @ BaduFerreira Thanks for your prompt response. Also my apologies to hear, although I appreciate your honesty. However, I will consider check out these links or sources you have provided, despite my main focus is to find how each district was formed or created from its parent district, plus the lower level administrative subdivision territorial units/areas within the nation. Regardless, thanks for reaching out. jlog3000 ( talk) 01:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC) reply

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Then why not do it for the OTHER articles for the other prefectures of Japan that are similar to List of mergers in Kagoshima Prefecture, if it worries you so much or if you have found a problem? jlog3000 ( talk) 22:59, 8 September 2023 (UTC) reply

I want to get consensus using this one as a baseline before doing a mass-nomination, since mass-nominations are very controversial and a lot of people don't like them. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 23:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC) reply

As if it's good enough to prove your point. jlog3000 ( talk) 00:55, 9 September 2023 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for adding these to the North Shore City! I'd put them into the article in a draft I'd made, but somehow they went missing. -- Prosperosity ( talk) 23:53, 14 December 2023 (UTC) reply

You're welcome. And I try, when it comes to the former TLA unit of North Shore City. Plus I had seen on the templates of some (if not, all) of the other territorial authority units (or TLA's: territorial local authorities), with their current wards based on the recent local election representation formats in a three-year basis, having some or few populated place units/areas (or P.P.U.'s as I would abbreviate them). And I'm just speaking upon or expressing from a local administrative geographical standpoint.

I can understand if there are just only a few listed as major P.P.U.'s or top towns or settlements or villages, etc.; while implicitly not showing the rest of the localities or hamlets or communities or farmsteads, etc. due to their status of minor importance. And for the record, I slowly realized that the P.P.U.'s do not necessarily become conterminous towards the 'area units' according to StatsNZ. Hence I see the P.P.U.'s being located almost accurately within a digital topographic map like: http://www.topomap.co.nz or from a gazetteer like the LINZ: http://gazetteer.linz.govt.nz as outside sources. Your thoughts? jlog3000 ( talk) 00:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC) reply

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