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Phew this is hard going! I was wondering if it wa spossible to use AWB to edit templates in Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam/Provincial templates. Basically I need to remove the words District of and , Vietnam so the title reads just ... Province. Also I need to rmeove the coloration to standard by just rmeoving the titlestyle and group style columns. Can this be done?

Thats great. You can see exactly what needs changing see the diff here. The flag needs reducing to 23px to. You can see the ones I've done on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam/Provincial templates page. Eventually I will have all the templates built up like Template:Ca Mau Province and hopefully with any other notable topics within these provinces like pagodas etc. I was beginning to get uninspired by the dull muddy brown/gold templates so the standard blue had to arrive! I think it looks a bit more airy now! Now I can get back to adding pop figures. I've also asked Mr. Accountable to help out with copying the Viet text into the talk pages, will share the load for you then. I translated the ones last night, I'll get around to doing some that Accountable copied tomorrow, it will take time but its on the right track. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. You can see the extent of the task I'm working towards. Basically in the end we will have 64 templates like Ca Mau crammed full of communes red linked. Then they all need starting, preferably with population and area data. Hopefully the guys at the Viet project will be able to auto generate a list in the least. So its around 9000 communes/small towns I think. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah those are some of the very few things I'm useless at, computer programming and sowing. I am literally clueless on such topics. I used to hate computers, still not too fond of them, its the Internet I care about! Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:30, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I appreciate that. Aargh I got really heady yesterday adding those figures, I'm taking a break from it today, maybe I'll do a few more tonight. I think I'll stub a couple of district towns you know what the articles were before before we moved them to ... District. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you looked at google maps recently, they seme to be getting better all the time. It is mind boggling how much potentially we could cover of the world in geography and roads alone. Using the maps we can start articles like Dăm Thnăm and at least give them a bit of text. The google maps have all the highways and roads of every country mapped out amazing. I just wish we had our own WikiMapia. They now have 9,590,000 places marked on the maps. I bet potentially we could have articles on most of those. With nearly 10,000,000 articles on towns and villages, landmarks and roads, just imagine what the actual article count would mean! Someday I hope we develop to the extent that you can explore any world map and we will have a decent articles about it, even on rural villages in communes in places like Vietnam and Cambodia. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I bet the coverage of some of the lesser mainstream countries other than Italy, Poland Germany and France are rather poor. Thats not to say that there isn't hundreds of articles missing from each of these countries but yes I know that Denmark and FInland have notable operas which are missing it truckloads. SOme time I'll try to get them onto here. There are a lot from the Baltic countries too that could be started. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me about it, excatly why I created stubs like Lithuanian painters in a frantic effort to transwiki 0.0005% of the content on that wiiki alone. The more you explore other wikis the more you get a headache. A high proportion of articles you will visit, mnay of them decent have no wiki links to english in most of the categories related to that country. Worse still is that there seems to be a ridiculously low number who seem to care about it and then we could massively benefit from existing articles on other wikis. Therte "should" be a highly orgniased project dedicated to transwikiying. I've started two Antikrist and Axel Grandjean anyway, if you need a hand starting any or compile a missing list let me know and I'll be glad to help you. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:39, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I've created Category:Danish composer stubs. You could probably add {{Denmark-composer-stub}} to the articles needing it using AWB in Category:Danish composers. I'll put it on my list to transwiki the missing 200 or so composers too. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:50, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I did that with the architects too, created some which weren't even on Latvian wiki. WHat I mean by "structured" is I compare categories between ENglish and the foreign and then red link those which are missing and then stub them. Seems the best way to work to me anyway as it means every article will get blue linked. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you mention it to Jen I might see if we can make a proposal at Wp:COuncils for new transwiki project. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's a good idea. Why not just call it something like WikiProject Translation? You might want to have a look at Wikipedia:Translation/Overhaul to see some of the things I've been doing and what I think is left to do to whip the translation system into shape. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:19, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, why not just repurpose WP:ECHO and do a recruitment drive? Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think we could safely leave messages for people who identify themselves as translators without being accused of spamming (not totally sure, but this seems fine as a common sense approach). We have categories of those, as well as a long list from ages ago. I think we should get all the infrastructure set up though before doing major outreach. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:37, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No good reason, I've always just liked the sound of the word. Also, it's weird enough that no one else has ever snatched up the name before I could take it. (A good all-purpose internet handle.) When I was little, I had a picture book that I liked that had to do with the circus and learning colors, and each thing in the circus was a different color. The last page was a calliope colored like the rainbow. I always liked the idea of calliopes after that. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

don't think I have, but the title's clever! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One cannot visit another wikipedia without getting a serious headache. It really seems an impossible task at times doesn't it, we literally need millions of people working at building this site. Dr. Blofeld White cat 23:11, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check out the new maps I've got us, Sumatra: Banda Aceh, Bali:Pejeng and a new one for Vietnam example see My Tho. I'm chuffed with the Indonedian island ones. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've just created them as location map templates now at Category:Indonesia location map templates. I had no idea Sadalmelik had ever created island maps! We even have some maps of more specific islands also I will have to chase up the coordinates on them. It is excellent neews as it means we can begin building a fuller coverage of Indonesia and have better locators by region, if you check out Indonesia on a world map its coastline is HUGE! Have a guess how many towns and villages there are? Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On google maps over 34,000 towns and villages. I bet on Wikimapia the locations marked well over 100,000 as they mark landmarks too. 34,000 articles we could have, we have maybe 150 at present. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:34, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I'm probably not helping the headache get any better! We'll pretend we have them all thats best LOL. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Remember what I said about "if you build this thing they will come?" I started on the communes of Ca Mau and already by traffic editors have noticed and have started creating articles like Khánh An, U Minh. It really shows that potentially we get build what we want as there are always one or two around the world interested. Similarly remember the Bulgarian and Chinese templates I created? There are now editors steadily working on these too. Earlier I stubbed all of the Indian national highways too as I can see editors are working on them and can build on what I start.

Ah I've been pretty busy with the population figures to notice that you weren't here! There is one AWB task I have in mind actually, although it can wait until you are back again. It is copy and pasting infoboxes to all of the Category:Municipalities of Colombia by province. If the infboxes are all inserted into the articles, just changing whatever province it is in when going through the categories at a later date the infboxes can be built up with maps etc. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is what needs to be added going through eahc department. Obviously when the department changes you make the slight adjustments:

Here is the syntax for the Amazonas Department. Basically this needs inserting at the top of every article and just changing the label, and deparmtent flag/name when starting each department.

You can copy and paste it from here although of course you have to leave the no wiki out. You will have to make sure though that you change the label and flag/department name though when changing categories. It could probably we done fairly quickly manually but with AWB it would get done much quicker. You of course though will need to find the flag image files manually. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So it should look like this for starters. Soon enough then the munic map and national pin locators can be added later and hopefully referenced opulation/area data.

AlbertHerring
Municipality and town
Country Colombia
Department Amazonas Department
Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)

Ay what pardon? Why are you a giant or something? Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a Great Khali then? Hehe. I know a guy about a year younger than me two streets away and his dad used to work with mine and he said his son is around 24 stone. 24 stone in case you are wondering is around 340 pounds I think. Now that is huge what I would call a lard factory LOL. He's around 6 foot I think but built like Big Daddy and kind a looks like a young Harold Bishop. Poor kid! Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Ah 200lb is OK thats pretty normal, I bet average in the UK is around 5'7"-5'8" and 190lb. I'm down to a little over 15 stone, around 212lb now which is a perfectly good weight-height for me as I'm rather a tall chap. I think for every inch it adds 5 pounds or something. There are still three or four people I know that are even 2-3 inches taller than me which in my view is just way too tall. I'd dread to be like a Peter Crouch! Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it mate, I was pushing 230 around Christmas and was feeling bloated too but I'm sure glad I lost 15 pounds and have got myself fit again. I would still lift weights quite often but I would not bother doing any cardio like running etc and I was eating too much junk. I go running every other morning now and I have my own rowing machine and I have to say feel much better for doing so afterwards, cardio exercise I think is the best way to feel better afterwards. I should probably go for more regular walks thoughout the day and it would help me concentrate more me thinks. Anyway I'm making good progress with Vietnam, friad I had to do it manually after all. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I started a new series, Template:Rice production Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Thanks. Without a doubt though the most important thing in regards to this wikipedia in the future is the growth of other wikipedias and spread of knowledge from their parts of the world which were previously inaccessible. I think it is a very exciting prospect that people in places like Vietnam, Nepal and Kazakhstan etc are steadily gaining access to the Internet and joining wikipedia. Give it 5-10 years probably much sooner in some places this project will explode in other languages. Arabic and Hindi notably but in many other languages too. I just transwikied Taskala and Chapaev, Kazakhstan from Russian and it is obivuous somebody in Taskala took those photos and wrote about the place. Ultimately though the most important thing is to think of the different wikipedias as one big project and keep the different language wikis as closely linked as possible. The most important thing probably on here is to get some sort of large scale language translation scheme going. If we can maximise its output and transwiki these articles as other wikipedias grow then we will develop much better. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Amazing I found a list of third level divisions of Tajiikistan and population! That means I can use this to build up templates in detail and cover the country better. This time last year there was absolutely nothing whatsoever. Things are really beginning to take off on here, I'm being able to access things which I never could a year or two ago and it would frustrate me so much. Situation is still not perfect was its getting better literally all the time. Another AWB task: capital district to District and move the ones in Category:Districts of Tajikistan Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Oh OK, thanks. I'm drawing up tables at User:Dr. Blofeld/Tajikistan Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:14, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate it thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Looks good, can you correct the template and naming though you added "Gorno" twice to the link so it was Gorno-Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province not Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province! E.g see Shughnon District. Dr. Blofeld White cat 23:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wp:HSITES

Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites has opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help re: DeGolyer

That was quick! Don't know if you're using something automated or just quick on the draw, but thanks — I knew there were more specific stub tags, but didn't know how to find the right one quickly. Hoping this article can grow rapidly, as he's an important figure for the whole Southwest region. The stub doesn't even begin to touch on his philanthropic side, or his work saving the Saturday Review, or anything like that. I'm about to add a section on the Talk page that will have several of the better links I found, to get others started.Lawikitejana (talk) 18:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gorno-Gorno-Badakhshan error

Please correct systematically the "Gorno-Gorno-Badakhshan" error that your recent changes have created. The correct name, as you no doubt know, is Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, which is sometimes abbreviated as Gorno-Badakhshan or GBAO. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 01:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are still zillions of them, starting here, in many of the districts, and probably in other places also. You need to do a systematic search and replace. --Zlerman (talk) 02:33, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks much! --Zlerman (talk) 02:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Guiar

Mate, thanks for catching that "parishs" typo, but drat, I've made the same typo on all the Asturian parish articles to date! I'll keep an eye to see if someone AWB fixes them, or else I'll go back and do it myself. Obviously, the ones I create here foward will be "parishes". --Rosiestep (talk) 01:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LOT 007

Thanks for the kind note. Unfortunately the original contributor, who was a single-purpose editor from quite a ways back, apparently contributed some illustrations, which were referred to numerous times in the part about the engine breakup. The illustrations have been deleted, probably because of the usual lack of license information, so with regret I weeded all the references out of the text. They would have helped a lot, I'm sure. The versions of the article on other languages' wikis doesn't contain them. Maybe this random single-purpose editor will return someday and re-upload them with proper attribution. Cheers - Tempshill (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that's why it looks better. Thanks! Tempshill (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Locust Grove (Dillwyn, Virginia)

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Cantacuzene

Albert, what are ya doin'? I just started the article and you're in there. If you want to take over the edits, that's cool with me, as you can see, I'm not the hottest at it by any means. :-) PR (talk) 18:53, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PS - love your user page. Not only did I attend class at that National Historic Registered Building, I got married there four years ago. And I now live in the land of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProperlyRaised (talk • contribs) 18:56, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! Tonight, I'm going to work on her husband's page. Strange that someone who is the g-daughter of a US president ended up married into Russian nobility. Their g-g-grandson works in DC, but I probably won't go that far down the family tree on privacy issues. Hey, can you fix those birth dates/death dates? Every time I do it, she turns out to be 132 years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProperlyRaised (talk • contribs) 19:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are a gentleman, through and through. Thanks for deleting my date of graduation. I will e-mail you later, but back to work for me. By tomorrow, her husband's page will be up and I will be adding more to hers, fleshing it out a bit. Thanks again! (PS - Robot Chicken?) PR (talk) 19:13, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya again! I finished out the page for her, so if you want to run thru it, put on your Nikes. I'll work on re-directs and a bit of his page tomorrow. Thanks for everything today! Hark upon the gale! --PR (talk) 01:43, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK! I finished hers, I did the husbands, I did some redirects and a disambiguation for her grandmother (the President's wife.) I think that about does it. Whew! PR (talk) 18:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Danish composers

OK A. Herring. Can you wiki link List of Danish composers. I'll try to begin transwikiying tomworrow. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've started 8 new articles anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will try to tackle a few more later, I got side-tracked by Vietnam and copying several thousand sub districts of Indonesia onto here. I was wondering if you could do me a favor with AWB. Can you prgoramme AWB to convert all of the existing Vietnam province templates (which haven't been formatted already) like this. I'm in the middle of filling them out with communes to the initial conversion will make life much easier soo enough when I copy them into the templates. Category:Vietnam subdivision templates - I've done the first three and two or three others but the rest need converting with the sides. All of them need doing except for Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi at present. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Tonight I'll make some more maps and start some more composers. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I should be able to manage the template task manually. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've done it, didn't twig i could get it done quickly thats all! I'm afraid though the listings will take rather longer... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:04, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ya know I pretyy much function as a bot at times. Somehow I just generated 8 articles a minute to start the communes! I was wondering if you could AWB project talk page tag the Vietnam ones later? Ya know WikiProject Vietnam|class=stub Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its sure been a productive month on here, close to 2500 new articles so far this month. If only though I could transwiki 10 full articles a minute! Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gets so much cooler when we have images. Check out Cô Tô, Oc Eo, Tri Tôn. Some day we will have full articles on these places and images too! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I definately think that Vietnamese wikipedia will develop to the point where they have information on the communes too, just a matter of time. I've encountered one or two from Vietnam on here already which are watching progress, one IP who was adding missing communes to my nav boxes was from Ho Chi Minh City I checked and another IP was from Hanoi. I'm sure the members will grow on Viet wiki and will spread the info so eventually transferring info on these communes will become possible. Probably in a few years a lot of the communes will have their own websites on the Internet, there are already a large number of district websites growing up on here I was browsing earlier. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah its cool to see some of my local photos too being used on like Indonesian and Czech wiki etc. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yay my first featured picture File:Bareina, Mauritania.jpg Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:15, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I'm taking it easy today. I might make a start on Colombia later though manually I'll see. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Wow you have been busy. The idea of course is that every article eventually has afilled out infobox like Belén de Bajirá Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:40, 26 March 2009 (UTC) If you could continue when you can with COlombia I'll gradually fill in the boxes. One thing though if the article already has an infobox it doesn't need two! Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:08, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Yeah you did add one to Barranquilla LOL, but nobody seemd to notice... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Well exactly, just shows how neglected countries like Mexico and Colombia are on here. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Yeah admittedly I don't know what it is but few people in the UK who I know and myself included know very little about Belgium. People could probably tell you a fair deal about France, Spain or Germany but Belgium, not so much. The irony of that, as Blofeld himself is from Bruges. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:45, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Ah someone else I've started an article on has died Thubten Jigme Norbu. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow quickest expansion ever? And people wonder why I create stubs: Anton Kolm, Sascha-Film, Xinjiang Medical University! Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Thats quite awesome. If only we had the numbers to transfer all this content from other wikis. We really need a solid translation project going. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Cool thanks for the help we nailed that in minutes! Next one List of noctuid genera:A 4273 missing articles... Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:19, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey fella make sure you change the reference link to noctuidae:

References

Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:42, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK I got as far as Acanthopolia form the beginnign then realised I hadn't changed the reference link (even though I could have sworn I did). So its just those few up until there and a few you started that need fixing. SHouldn't take a minute or two, take care Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:47, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi sorry for the delay I've been in Cardiff all day, yeah go for it using AWB to the max. As long as the reference is right, should be fine. I'll resume on those Danish composera tomorrow most likely. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cementeries

Good one, Albert! I missed it. Amandajm (talk) 04:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Logrezana

Wow... that was fast on the image fix! Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Editing: James Kwak

I am a novice with this editor. You put James Kwak in the category of "American economists." Although The Baseline Scenario blog is certainly an economics site, and Simon Johnson is a professional economist, nothing in Kwak's background would suggest he has any academic training as an economist. He has mostly been an entrepeneur and consultant since getting his PhD in history. He obviously understands a lot about economics, and is good at explaining financial issues, I do not know whether this is the proper category for him. MidwestGeek (talk) 01:46, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think "American businesspeople" is fine, at least, for now. MidwestGeek (talk) 16:24, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oy, vis ze new pages!

Mind slowing down for a bit with your AWB stubs? I'm trying to patrol the new pages and your constant new articles make it difficult to find possible problem pages; I have to patrol 30 of yours to get to one article made by another user. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 01:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, and thanks for the speedy response. I created about 75-100 articles on various species/genii of fauna myself (mainly Cricetidae, but also some Pteropodidae) so I know where you are coming from. Always nice to see someone filling one of the more noticeable holes in WP coverage :). Ironholds (talk) 01:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Capital! And if you need any manual help (I don't have AWB) then give me a poke. Following after you, googling for further sources and details, that kind of thing. Ironholds (talk) 01:45, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As it happens I'm done with NPP for the moment; I'll follow up your new stubs with google and a small brush. Happy writing :). Ironholds (talk) 01:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You start, I'll finish. At the end of the day a stub is always preferable to a redlink. Ironholds (talk) 01:53, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't tell me people actually suggested a list or something instead of individual articles? Ironholds (talk) 02:03, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'd agree with the comments about Blofeld's work in that he creates masses of near-useless stubs and refuses to talk to anyone who disagrees with him. I think a redlink ("you can create this article and help the wiki!") is more alluring to new users than something that says to the casual reader "here is a line. The only way you will get more than this line is if you are willing to TRANSLATE THE ARTICLE FROM FRENCH! VITE! VITE!". Ironholds (talk) 02:09, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Really??? Have you not seen all of my thousands of articles "with" content you cheeky mother crunker. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed on the last bit. Would you happen to have a resource that indicates the species within the genera? I'm just filling those out in your stubs as I go along. Ironholds (talk) 02:14, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I managed to find some info for Barbesola at least, so I've expanded it a bit and I am currently writing an article on one of the species. Ironholds (talk) 02:20, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the barnstar! Really, it is no problem; I burnt out on fauna articles a while back, and it is nice to get slowly back into the swing of things after a string of articles articles about lawyers. I just finished Barbesola defixa; as you say, a stub is better than nothing at all. Ironholds (talk) 02:25, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent! Ooh, one thing; the standard taxobox template, in the future could you include:

| binomial = | binomial_authority =

After "genus = "? I'm wandering around adding those in, and it would be helpful. Ironholds (talk) 02:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Came onto your talk page to pretty much ask the same thing as Ironholds, I'm patrolling too...nice to see this kind of friendly co-operation going on, that's how great encyclopedias are made :-) --Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 02:31, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought they were made with a team of paid individuals who cut out anything they can't be bothered to update or pack into books? :P. Ironholds (talk) 02:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Haha. Well, some would argue that we don't know anything either. A politics and law student and an art history graduate writing about animals? Got to end up flawed. Yet somehow it seems to work :P. Ironholds (talk) 02:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well WP has been beneficial to me in the real world. Example: I get interested in a little-covered legal history thing. Result: I'm now writing a journal article about it. Ironholds (talk) 02:44, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Something you might like; I just discovered that this has a listing of every species within a genus. Excellent fun. Ironholds (talk) 02:47, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nice! I wrote one on my cousin once. I still haven't got around to writing something about my grandfather, who designed a famous yacht called the Alacrity. Ironholds (talk) 02:48, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. I'll try and chase the rest of those articles up in a tick. Ironholds (talk) 02:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Filter 96

The new abuse filter extension has a filter that recognizes created articles that do not include their title in the text. You have repeatedly tripped this filter this morning. Have you got any idea how it happened? The articles obviously include the title somewhere. Do you use magicwords? - Mgm|(talk) 10:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Hallsteinn Sigurðsson

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Speedy deletion of Sigurlaugur Elíasson

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Maps

Looks like a little persistance paid off A project is now in the pipeline. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey you need to stop apologising. You shouldn't have to apologise for creating articles and neither should you for not being here. You're a wonderful help on here. Hey I was wondering if you tell me the place you work or the nearest building that has an article. I've been exploring Google Street View today and its awesome. I've been walking down streets in my town and in San Fransico and NYC. Let me know ot would be cool to see streets who know of on the maps. Afraid I'm having virus trouble again, false alerts again. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:23, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

14th & C St, Independence Avenue or Jefferson Drive? Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:59, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow you;re surrounded by many museums! and important buildings. What are you, government agent? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. I've replied. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:22, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just been watching a documentary on the great pyramids and how they made it. Fascinating there is an article on it here if you need a break from moths later! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:26, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EEK!

More moths! :-D Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 19:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a bother, fair play for taking on a mam-moth task! Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 19:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Holy species spam —Preceding unsigned comment added by Habanero-tan (talk • contribs) 21:00, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit rates

Your edit rate for article creation has started to stray into "community approval needed" territory. Would you mind keeping it down to around 6-7 epm? (Of course, no one doubts your integrity, but policy has an annoying habit of ignoring integrity.) Cheers, - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:09, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well when you have 4250 missing articles needing starting on a genus of a major family which in turn have species then they are pretty important articles even if they are just "moths". The faster the better in my view, the same task still needs to be done and nobody has to patrol them so it shouldn't matter but yes I agree Jarry the "community" can by like that. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:57, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wow you've made amazing progress. Well done! I notice nobody else thanked you, just a criticism or two, pretty normal then! I'm afraid my computer has a virus so I'm unable to edit at present, every other page I visit it comes up with "threat of virus attack". It started a few days ago when I was looking on a Vietnam website for info and I clicked page back and suddenly I was directed to this hard core porn site. That happened a few times over the last few days until yesterday lunch time when I was looking at Machu Picchu on google maps did a google search and suddenly it did it again and came up with all these warnings! Then it tried to get me to pay $100 to buy a new potection package. Somebody obviously trying to tap into my details, rogues. I can still edit a little but I'll have to keep copying and pasting so I don't lose my edits. Keep up the good work! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:10, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great I've actually only managed to make any edits today myself because of sheer patience with it. Every third page I click it comes up with the blank screen and internet security warning. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm my enthusiasm has died a little at the moment anybody I have regular spells when I just don't feel doing much, sometimes it just seems TOO much work to even begin to edit wikipedia fully. Perhaps a small wikibreak is on the cards, and give the computer a rest. WHen I return of course we will have an article on every moth? Hehe. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:27, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking earlier, yes there are a few missing articles on other families, but mos tof them have like 10-15 genera, evne less in places so it wouoldn't be a huge task. You can always explore other families of moths and butterflies and see what is missing, take care. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File Copyright problem
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Email sent to you

regarding a speedy deletion. Did you have a chance to view it?

Thanks!

(PS boy, does the Grant family need editing. That's where I've been.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProperlyRaised (talk • contribs) 17:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit rates (2)

Watch it! NPP can't cope with 18 article creations per minute! The universe will implode I tell you! Good work, just slow it down at little, huh? - Jarry1250 (t, c) 18:16, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, no worries. In the future you might consider creating a sock, and filing a BRFA / contacting a bureaucrat to request the bot flag on that account. The bot flag comes with the "autopatrol" right, which may prove useful. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 18:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Peregrine of Opole

Thank you for fixing the article, I still can hardly deal with the Wikipedia code. Kameal (talk) 20:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the tip and the encouragement. Regards. Kameal (talk) 20:10, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in taxobox

Just to let you know, the last batch of Lymantriidae genera you created all have the same taxobox that redirects to the genus "Lymantria", and not the genus the article is about. Cheers, and keep up the good work. By the way, if you want, you could make the articles you create more usefull by inserting the genus authority and the species that are in the genus. You can find all that info on: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/index.html Ruigeroeland (talk) 10:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Herring

Lots of herring!

Waz up!! I thought you could use some more herring to keep you company. Must admit I'm not feelin all that enthusiastic about wiki at the moment as you can see. I'll try to get back into it within a few days, I need some inspiration! Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LOL what are you doing? LOL. Evil Selleck. Why's that? Is Selleck the devil of lighthouses? Selleck always reminds me of my dad, I think its the fact that both look weird when they shave off their moustaches. They should know by now to ditch the 70s porn star look but it aint workin! LOL Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:39, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You know you'll have to delete that image as the one of Selledk is copyrighted Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:58, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah LOL those bristles could probably bring down an army themselves! Can't see why some guys wear moustaches in all honesty, but I must admit I've had a half goatee on my chin though since I was 16 as its always suited me and my face shape, not a huge ugly thing like James Hetfield but a smaller one rather less extreme one which looks natural a bit like this. I would feel weird if I shaved it off, I guess moustache wearers feel the same LOL. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. Mmmooohahaa! Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:14, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah its pretty low maintenance I just use the trimmer on my electric shaver every few days to keep it in order and am clean shaven other than that although I occasionally a bit of stubble if I'm feelin lazy! Yeah I want to start more of those Danish composers, the problem of course is the more work it entails translating to less you feel like doing many. If however I could quickly get them blue linked I would feel more up for doing them en masse. Its the quality vs quantity thing though isn't it. The sheer amount missing vs "the community" who expect the stubs to be started with fuller information. If for instance you cinsidered creating 1000 subst: geenrated articles it would seem pretty straighforward, however the thought of creating 1000 articles with translated content is considerably more off-putting, Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have a guess which wikipedia stresses me out the most and gives me a fat headache? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:38, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh no, definately 10 times for headachey than any other wiki, it has to be German wikipedia. Every time I access German wikipedia it just drives my head into pain. Its just their standards are so high for articles and there is just thousands upon thousands of articles missing or devoid of content on here which German wikipedia has full, referenced quality text on. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:55, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lighthouse pic

I think it has a fair shot. It looks good technically, with no obvious problems. Though it's very compressed (528kb), I'm not seeing any obvious artifacting. My caveat is that I'm not sure if it has the je ne sais quoi that makes a featured picture, and since the subject is just a landscape, standards will be high (it could easily be retaken). I think it's worth a nomination. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:45, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lonetree, Montana

Can't imagine how/why I forgot ghost town category/stub. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 14:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AIV

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Diderot for patron saint

I second that! Awien (talk) 02:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Translations

Why do you ask us to translate articles that have no sources?? Punkmorten (talk) 08:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They could be legit. It's just that we have no way of knowing.. Punkmorten (talk) 14:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


File Copyright problem
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AWB

Can you project tag Template:Bac Giang Province and Template:Municipalities of Angola? Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just been looking at the RFAs. Its ridiculous. Some people have barely been here since since October yet are administrator candidates and have had zilch experience in potential conflicts or even decent editing. Seems the most successful candidates these days are the ones who have little experience and therefore have had little opportunity to get into any tiffs. By the sheer amount of supports these people get it really looks as if we are desperate for admins.18:08, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes in all honesty it worries me the sort of people who are candidates. People who make edits likethis. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have a Ukrainian egg!

OK Happy Easter anyway! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well I've done Colombia adding boxes anyway. Nearly finished Angolan municipalities yesterday, currently I'm doing the Districts of Panama. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:38, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Teenly

Wikipedia can be an impersonal enterprise at times, but there is a living being behing every pseudonymous Wikipedian. I do not know whether the passing of a human being whose path once crossed yours in a small way is a matter of concern to you; but in case it is, I am bringing THIS to your attention because you once made her happy, and for that I thank you. Fenneck (talk) 21:21, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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