User talk:The Anome

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Yemen

Oops, sorry about that.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I've also tried fleshing out a few of the Yemeni towns like Ataq, Ja`ar and Al Kawd. One of those xxx is a village stubs actually looks like this if you care to zoom in on google maps. At least google maps are now improving so you can actually see these settlements exist. Lawdar District is currently the centre of violent riots which nobody else on wikipedia knew of. A coincidence as I happened to be starting it and picked it up on a google search. Just shows how much of the world is undocumented on here. but then again deepest Yemen is pretty out of it. The districts of Somalia and Egypt will be started in due course. Actually the vast majority of the xxx is a village type stubs created in the past which looks like the middle of a desert for places like Iran, Tibet and Yemen thankfully can now be seen using google maps. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

The Anomebot2 and PL wiki

Hello, at User:The Anomebot2 you noted in 2008 that bizarrely-formatted disambig pages were causing problems for importing geodata from PL wiki. There are now over 10,000 articles about Polish places needing geodata, some or perhaps many of which have the data in PL wiki. I wonder if it's possible to look at this again, see if there is still a problem and if there is if there is a way to fix it? Thanks in advance, Severo^TC 07:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I and other WP:POLAND editors can help translate messages between editors here and on pl wiki, if needed. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 14:35, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello! The major problem with geocoding places in Poland is the large number of cases of multiple places in Poland with the same names, and the relatively low coverage of the Geonames database. This makes it hard to perform cross-matches between names and places, with many false negatives. Worse, in the past there were many pseudo-disambiguation pages for villages in Poland that described only one village, with mentions of multiple other places in the same article, but without creating those articles. Combined with the limited coverage of the Geonames database, these led to false positives where a false one-to-one correspondence caused the wrong villages to be matched up with a particular set of coordinates.

With the help of several other editors, I carried out a more detailed analysis that attempted to cross-correlate Geonames locations with gmina boundaries, based on bounding boxes collated from existing Wikipedia articles. This was then used to drive an altered version of the normal one-to-one matching algorithm used for other places. I may be able to re-run this, if I can remember how to work it by re-reading the code, and to regenerate the various intermediate files from the Wikipedia data and latest Geonames data.

I have also recently performed a mass update using data from other-language Wikipedias, which copied around 6000 geocodes from other editions of Wikipedia, and should have copied many of the coordinates from the pl: Wikipedia to en:. However, the data from other Wikipedias dates back to May of this year, and many newer coordniates may remain to be copied from pl: -- The Anome (talk) 11:34, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I have now done another interwiki pass, based on live data rather than dumps, which has copied geodata from the pl: Wikipedia into another 1000 en: Wikipedia articles about places in Poland.

The other option of another full gmina-level disambiguation run from dump data is too much effort at the moment: it's not just a matter of re-running software, there are numerous manual checking and testing steps which would need to be repeated, and manual fixups of outliers, in order to ensure that the input data was consistent before doing the final reconciliation run. This would take several days of work. -- The Anome (talk) 16:37, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much for looking at this (and completing around 10% of the job!). There does certainly seem to be a little imagination lacking when it came to naming places (how many Dąbrowa's are there?!) which isn't something we can overcome, but, for anything we can improve here on Wikipedia that will make runs easier in the future do let us know. One question about the most recent run: did it only look at places (towns, villages etc) or anything with co-ordinate data? Thanks again, Severo^TC 16:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I looked at all en: articles where the en: article belonged to one of the Polish {{coord missing}} categories, and where the pl: article pointed to by the en: article's interwiki also contained an unambiguous and well-formatted external coordinate link. A number of special cases will have got missed due to a number of shortcuts I took to make the job easier, but manual spot-checking seems to show that this bot pass has been fairly successful in catching most of the remaining cases. -- The Anome (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a stab at it. User:Kotniski is our (WP:POLAND's) resident expert on locales and things such as disambig, you way want to drop him a comment on the difficulties. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:58, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. User:Kotniski is indded the expert on this; they have already given me a great deal of help on this, by setting up the gmina bounding boxes used by the cross-correlation program. I'm now taking a look at the OpenStreetMap data set for Poland, to see if it has any data that might be of use. -- The Anome (talk) 18:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I've now taken a look at the OpenStreetMap data for Poland: it's in a well-thought-out XML format which is surprisingly easy to parse and analyze, but, on inspecting the data, all of the easy match-ups to Wikipedia seem to have been done already, with only partial data for the remaining 500 possible candidates for matching. -- The Anome (talk) 11:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Keith Madeley

Why does Keith Madeley have a Wikipedia entry at all? He does not fit any the criteria and most of the links do not work. In addition, he is <redacted>. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spamfinder (talk • contribs) 09:40, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Can you provide any evidence for your assertions? If not, you cannot add them to the article. If you believe the article does not belong on Wikipedia, you may nominate the article for deletion using the Articles for Deletion process. -- The Anome (talk) 09:44, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "100Gbit Ethernet"

A page you created, 100Gbit Ethernet, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it redirects from an implausible misspelling.

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Thank you. WikiTome ^Talk 14:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Please see http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%2240Gbit+Ethernet%22 and http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22100Gbit+Ethernet%22 -- The Anome (talk) 15:01, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "40Gbit Ethernet"

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Thank you. WikiTome ^Talk 15:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Please see http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%2240Gbit+Ethernet%22 and http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22100Gbit+Ethernet%22 -- The Anome (talk) 15:01, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

The Image novel

Contacting you because you started "The Image (novel)" article at Wikipedia. Article copied to LGBT Wikia, but has been nominated for deletion. Hope you have time to look at http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Category_talk:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion#The_Image_.28novel.29 and post a reply there. --EarthFurst (talk) 20:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm fine with whatever the LGBT Wikia decides about that article. -- The Anome (talk) 21:30, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

The left hand of the authorities devises a list of symptoms, and the right hand harasses dissidents into reporting those symptoms.

In reviewing your edit history of psychology-related articles, it appears you are pushing a POV. It's not clear to me whether the bias I perceive is malicious or not.

Here's something for you to think about:

http://areyoutargeted.com/2010/11/tricking-targets-mental-illness/ Jeremystalked_{(law 296)} 21:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you be more specific about the nature of the POV you believe me to be pushing? I'm not aware of anything in my contributions that might be controversial within the context of Wikipedia's WP:NPOV policies. -- The Anome (talk) 21:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Any NPOV discussion of delusions should include the possibility that the person diagnosed with them is being harassed into reporting their symptoms. At a bare minimum, a link to Political psychiatry under See Also sections would be appropriate.

An example of POV editing: linking a type of delusional ideation to homicidal impulses.[1] Jeremystalked_{(law 296)} 18:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

coord missing oddity

Hi, Pretty minor issue but this edit added coord missing to a revolution/war. I browsed the categories and their parents a bit, but didn't see anything leap out to me as "Oh, that's causing a mistaken assumption this happened in one place." Figured I'd mention it. (Also, while wordy, it might not hurt to add a reason behind these bot additions - i.e. "Adding coord missing because is a subcategory of Military Installations" or the like). SnowFire (talk) 20:01, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Foxy boxing for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article Foxy boxing, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foxy boxing until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄_{(background check)} 17:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Culture of fear

This is an article that you have edited in the past and you appear to me to be an active editor on Wikipedia today. You may wish to be aware that the article has been nominated for deletion. You can can comment on the proposal by following the link in the panel referring to the proposed deletion at the top of the article. Kind regards --Hauskalainen (talk) 00:29, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Kochi Prefecture

HI I created this categry for geo coordinates. You may wish to alter the other missing from japan to kochi. If you could use the bot to add coordinates to the Japanese dams I create from J wiki this would be great.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)