User talk:FOARP/Archives/2023/November

Random musing

I glanced at your userpage. Shouldn't it mention Poland as one of your interests too? :) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:59, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Maybe when I get better at the language, I'm currently visiting Wrocław and am regularly reminded of how poor I am at it! The bot stuff is easy to work on a lot of the time because it was done mechanistically, and so can be undone in part mechanistically (not entirely, obviously). FOARP (talk) 07:54, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm thinking of starting an RfC on Antarctic geographical features

.. but I'm not sure the best way to do it, where the venue should be or whether there is etiquette around open AfDs. Should I start it and link it to the AfD discussion? Or maybe wait for another time? Any thoughts? JMWt (talk) 14:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm much in agreement: the idea that simply copying GNIS directly on to Wikipedia was the right way to go just doesn't make sense even if GNIS is copyright-free. This applies regardless of whether our coverage is grouped on a wider page or spread over lots of stubs: our coverage should not simply be a copy of GNIS, which is a primary source. WP:VPPR is probably the best place to go, but try work-shopping the question at the WP:NGEO page first. FOARP (talk) 14:53, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I hadn't thought of NGEO as a venue, that makes more sense than the ideas I'd had. JMWt (talk) 14:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Poking the bear

Hi there. I apologize for eavesdropping, but you're conversation with Uncle G might be bordering an ANI discussion where neither of you comes out on top (likely a user v user talk ban). I understand you're frustrated at him as he is way more frustrated and taking out the dictionary to hurl insults at your reasonable arguments. That being said, I think you may have to stop messaging him. If he continues to berade you though, well... I guess you'll know what happens next. Conyo14 (talk) 04:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Conyo14, thanks for getting in touch - way ahead of you here. I asked him to tone down the rhetoric and he point-blank refused, so there’s nothing much more to be said. FOARP (talk) 06:03, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Yet another GNIS dump

List of places in Idaho: A–K

I checked a few of the red links: all were in GNIS. Not sure how many are legit: some may be, and some definitely aren't. These do not exist for all states. Mangoe (talk) 01:47, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Polish towns

From user Piotrus I learned about the confusion on the English Wikipedia related to articles about Polish towns. We started a conversation about this topic on Piotrus' Polish discussion page. After discussions about deletion on Wikipedia, I saw that you were interested in this. Maybe you'd like to discuss it on my English talk page? XaVi PROpolak (talk) 18:28, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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