User talk:TheBlueMapper

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Historical regions of Romania[edit]

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I've added sources for the regions, that explain what they have to do with Romania. What's wrong now? Why are you still removing the content? TheBlueMapper (talk) 08:58, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Regions that have to do with Romania, but were not part of it.[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Regions that have to do with Romania, but were not part of it. requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time.

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Personal attacks[edit]

Hello TheBlueMapper. Your report at WP:AN3 contains serious personal attacks against User:Borsoka. "Borsoka actually clearly does it because of hate towards Romania, because he is Hungarian." It may be in your interest to withdraw the report, before an admin takes action. Otherwise, the most likely result will be a block of your own account. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 14:57, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've edited it so it doesn't look like that anymore. TheBlueMapper (talk) 16:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Ovidiu Island[edit]

Hi, I'm Reb1981. TheBlueMapper, thanks for creating Ovidiu Island!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. When you use the same source more than once, please use refname. So it doesn't duplicate in reflist.

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June 2017[edit]

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Can you please tell me what was wrong with that edit? It was just to help people new to the subject distinguish the two peoples. On the Romanians page for example, we have the same thing, but with Romani people. Why not remove them too? TheBlueMapper (talk) 21:57, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I opened a thread on the article's talk page here. Please feel free to comment there if you believe that the DAB hatnote serves a useful purpose. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:53, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Horea[edit]

Thank you for an excellent job of improving my rather incomplete new article Lake Horea. I realize you could do that by consulting references in Romanian.

I would suggest further efforts:

I could take the draft for Horea, and create draft articles for the two nearby lakes, Lake Crişan and Lake Cloşca, for which I have co-ordinates, or I could invite you to do so, letting you have credit for creating two new articles, which I would prefer.

All these lakes are in need of more references, but you could find them in German or Rumania. Start with Horea. If you have any technical problems, consult me.

Mihai Viteazul is Michael the Brave in English, but I could only find streets, not a lake named for hom.

After every lake in the list has an article, however brief, then those with "Lacul" should be changed to "Lake" instead.

Any lake without coordinates should be supplied with coordinates.

After that is done, the list should be revised to be in alphabetical order.

Please reply to me right here, with a numbered list.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:36, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I am glad I can help.

I think I will create the two other articles as well.

I will look for more acceptable references. It's very likely that there are books, but I am afraid the sources are outdated.

About Mihai Viteazul, it might not actually exist. After some more research, I've found out that there is no other source than the one I've used, for it. It might be an outdated source, which makes Mihai Viteazul a lake that doesn't exist anymore. But it might even have been invented by someone. 1930 map of the mine doesn't show the lake.

I don't think that all of them should be turned to lake, because it would probably not be correct. Even if it would be, it would sound very stupid. For example, Lacul Negru means the black lake. Turning it to lake Negru, would be like turning it to lake black, which makes no sense.

I will look for coordinates.

I will also do that.

TheBlueMapper (talk) 12:22, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have a good plan above. About the names, notice the redirects for some of the lakes. If it is "Lake XXX", perhaps there should be a redirect "Lacul XXX" and the reverse, too. This accomodates English readers, and allows a Romanian to find a "Lacul" here. (Note the colons {:} to offset talk entries.)--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:02, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea about the redirects. I don't have a lot of experience on Wikipedia though, could you please tell me I make one? I would also make infoboxes for them, but I don't know how. I tried to do it in the past for other pages, by copying and pasting boxes from other pages, and then editing them, but it didn't go very well. TheBlueMapper (talk) 13:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Consider Template:Infobox and Help:Infobox to start on infoboxes. Also, learn to use the online books at Bibliography of Wikipedia, especially the first two books, classics, but updated online just like other articles. Enter Lacul Horea and it will redirect you to Lake Horea with a line showing the redirect.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I've tried to add a source to Lake Vrajitoarelor, but it doesn't really work. Could you please take a look? TheBlueMapper (talk) 21:38, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good start! I will correct it later today. (Note brackets added above. Courtesy to editors to have brackets on any article needing work.)--14:55, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Ghelari mine[edit]

Please look at Ghelari mine and its Romanian reference. The Infobox mine box says it closed in 2005, but the text uses past tense but says there is a very large iron reserve. The text should explicitly say the mine is closed, and the reason if known.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That page doesn't have to do with me. I did take a look at the source, trying to find the mine with Ctrl+F, but didn't get anything, unfortunately.

PS: I've started improving the Ocna Sibiului lakes. TheBlueMapper (talk) 21:22, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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