User:Dr. Blofeld/March 2011

Damascus Citadel

Hi, thanks for the Damascus map! I was already thinking about creating one myself but I have no experience with that so that could have taken a while. I also noticed that you nominated Citadel of Damascus for GA. I was working toward that (and I do think most of the article meets the criteria), but I don't think it's there yet. The lead needs to be rewritten and the architecture section needs expansion and for that I have to rely on French sources, and that takes some more time than usual. Anyway, GA has a large backlog so I still have some time to try and get it ready before that. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 15:46, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I would love to get involved in Iran, but for now it's better for my Real Life if I stay out of it. The same goes for Oman, BTW. That having said, if there is anything you want to know about the archaeology of these countries (Ancient Near Eastern archaeology is my specialty), just let me know and I can see what I can do (if you want to get an article to DYK or need PDFs of scientific papers or something not too complicated like that). As regards maps, I would be interested in a pushpin map of the Tigris-Euphrates basin (similar to the map displayed in the infobox of Euphrates. But it would have to be without any names, at most modern borders could be displayed. But that is my wishlist and I could do without, so don't feel "pressured" in any way. Oh, and thanks for the Tabqa map as well. That is really awesome! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 03:05, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and on another level, which software do you use to create maps? -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks for explaining how to do that. Sounds like I can do that, so I'll give it a try sometime. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 14:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I just took on History of Mesopotamia as new project after I finish the articles on the citadel of Damascus and the Euphrates. Archaeology of Syria will have to wait a little bit longer, but I'll keep it in mind... -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 16:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the new map. I'll keep an eye out for the new one. I was thinking about making (pushpin) maps per period with important sites, so this could really come in handy. There's nothing better than a good ol'map with lots a dots ;) -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Oscars

Do you not consider Halle Berry's mom good-looking? Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:23, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hehe, yeh it's Rang Barse. Will do it. Shahid • ^Talk2me 20:57, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Paris Hilton maybe... But let's not talk about the worst, let's talk good things. Who are according to you the finest actresses, and well, which performances have particularly impressed or moved you? Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:42, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

She's lovely. BTW, speaking of Cate Blanchett, her article is truly awful, isn't it? It hardly discusses her status, talent, artistry and work. Sadly enough it's just one of many articles on great actors which are underdeveloped. Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Location map

Hello, I need your help with something, there has been several issues over location maps for places in Jerusalem.

I saw that you created maps for Damascus and Aleppo.

I was wondering if you can create one, just like those, but for Jerusalem? With the international borders also shown between East and West Jerusalem. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello, well neutrality is the way to go. So a map of entire Jerusalem with the international boundaries shown, and text showing "West Jerusalem" and "East Jerusalem". I only want you to create it as I don't know how to do that. You don't have to ad it to any articles if you don't want to, I can do that. I think Google maps have the correct boundaries. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, there has been a lot of reverting over this. I hope this will help. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:23, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks good. I saw now that the Jerusalem map doesn't work for the Cave of the Ramban article. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I just saw at my talkpage that you might create one for all of Jerusalem tomorrow. Hope that will work.--Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:47, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Is it possible for you to use a Goggle maps map instead for the one you used now? English letters would be more preferable. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:56, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

The International border should be shown. I believe this is very important. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:32, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

As I said , its all about neutrality, the international border is clear, it can say "1949 Armistice line" or "Green line" and no one would object to it. How it is now, its not clear exactly where the places are located. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Its present in one of your images: [1]. Its a thin purple line. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 23:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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List of Hutus List of Tutsis

You did heroic work referencing and cleaning up the List of Nazis. If you have time, could you take a look at these lists? Many names remain unreferenced, and some of the unreferenced names have been hidden until a ref is added. I have referenced some of the Tutsis. There is controversy as to whether we should even have lists of people who are or have been in conflicts (there could be lingering hard feelings and danger to the individual), and claims that even referencing is not enough if there is no article for the individual with his own self identification as a member of the group after the conflict(How many Nazis self identified as such after WW2?) Thanks. Edison (talk) 14:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Mexico (state)

You are the first one of the users listed as members of WP Mexico that have recent edits. Maybe you are interested in Talk:State_of_Mexico#Requested_move_March_2011. The current "State of" is completely out of line with all other state articles. First of all dab should go into brackets. I would also favor using the accents, but that is secondary. Chihuahua State (talk) 16:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Please speak to User:Thelmadatter about that one. She's the main editor of Mexican articles. But offhand I'd say there are far moe important things needing doing with expanding municipalities in Mexico, improving quality across the articles and getting missing content onto here than worrying about naming convention!! Mexico (state) or State of Mexico are both fine. Personally I prefer the State of Mexico as it immediately stops the reader being confused with the country or Mexico City.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

A user that writes in a naming discussion that he does not like accents, does not seem any authority for naming of Spanish-speaking regions to me. This is not about taste. It is not State of Georgia, but Georgia (U.S. state). Have a look at State_of_Mexico#External_links, where it says: Categories: States of Mexico | State of Mexico. Only the little s makes the diff. And then Tamaulipas is a state of Mexico too. This "state of" form is very misleading and nowhere else used for an entity of a country. So Mexico (state) or Mexico (Mexican state) are the formats used elsewhere and would make reading category names easier. Chihuahua State (talk) 17:06, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

• Just FYI [2] -- nsaum75 ^{!Dígame¡‎} 18:49, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Stone Canyon Reservoir

Materialscientist (talk) 18:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Malawi's a gas

The saddest part is that of all the countries in the world, this is one of perhaps two or three I can see being serious about such a law... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:32, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Potentially. I wouldn't necessarily expect it of Sudan, though, unless it were proven to be some sort of blasphemy.

Singapore, maybe? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:41, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Not only that, they can be a real cane in the butt. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:25, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Anthony Kamanga said that was not what the bill meant. I think one of us needs to take a break from Wikipedia. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:36, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll do so in a little while. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:50, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

If you want to take the rap, that would be great, although I was more thinking of a Certain Person who started this whole sorry business. But maybe it is not worth worrying about. Lets see if anyone raises a stink. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:06, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

A picture would of course change everything. With a picture, the article would definitely qualify for AfD or DYK - maybe both - if anyone wanted to risk their reputation as a serious editor by nominating it. Personally, I am still recovering from Roadkill cuisine. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Doctor

can you check the ISBN of the reference you are citing for the Serbian villages? Rich Farmbrough, 23:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC).

Help on map Arbil

Hi, I just created a location map of Arbil but I get an error message when I try to make the location map template. Simply copying another one and replacing the parameters don't seem to work. Could you have a look? The geographical limits of the map are top:36.25, bottom:36.14, left:43.95 and right:44.07. Appreciate it! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 23:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

EDIT: I just made the template here and it still doesn't show up. I don't see what I did wrong. Would really appreciate if you could have a look at it! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 00:27, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

EDIT2: I switched the E/W coordinates in the template and now it displays correctly. But that doesn't make sense at all, since in your Baghdad template (which I copied) you entered them correctly. Anyway, it seems to work now. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 00:31, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

EDIT3: it displays correctly, but it reverses location along the E-W axis when I use it to display a location (the airport is west of the city and turns out east on the map if I try to use it). I just don't get it. BTW, I can also take it to the help desk. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 00:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I finally figured that it might be something temporary; I had that once with a similar issue. Anyway, it works now. Thanks again! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 14:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

EDIT4: it seems to be my browser cache. Sorry for spamming your page like this! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 00:53, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Location map template question

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It appears that Wikipedia template location map helpdesk noticeboard was redirected to you talk page. Hope you do not mind. Do you care to share your thoughts about Template:Location map Golan Heights? I've converted coordinates from original image File:Golan Heights relief v1.jpg using calculator and tried to follow existing samples, like Template:Location map Syria Old Damascus. This new template is totally broken now. Figured you might know the answer. AgadaUrbanit (talk) 07:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Old Damascus Map

Hello Dr. Blofeld. Is it possible to make the Old city more distinguishable in the map? (like lining the walls that surround it with black?) Yazan (talk) 14:35, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Villages in Oman

You recently created a lot of new articles on villages in Oman and I noticed that the second word in the village names are not capitalized. Is this the proper capitalization? I do not know and guess you know that better than me, but it's not the same way as the linked source does it. Curiously, jonkerz♠ 16:38, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Knife collecting

Thanks for giving me the idea to start this one.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, when I first saw that guy's list I cringed, because all the links were red. I'm not a big fan of lists, I prefer to write articles, but felt I had to support it on behalf of Project: Cutlery. I'll work on it more this weekend. Thanks again.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words...I try. As to Mr S...I wouldn't call him the "master of all masters", but he is good, he was the first Westerner to open an Aikido school in Japan and be respected by the Japanese (for the most part). He probably has done more than any one else since the founder to promote the art and for all that I respect him and admire him to a degree. However, he has a very "conflicted personality". For example, he basically lives on about $50k a year, his home/cars/etc are all paid for. He grows his own food and donates everything above his basic living expenses to charities. He is a friend of a friend, and according to our mutual friend when his gardener's daughter contracted some rare disease Mr S flew an herbalist and an accupuncturist in to treat her and make her well(it's Hawaii). He is somewhat known for giving firearm advice on the 1911 forum, even sending people parts, etc. At the same time, I've seen the bad side of him. I don't want to post the details, but it involved someone making him a very expensive item with a price range in the thousands; to which he said "No problem". When it was ready, all of a sudden he thought the price was in the low hundreds and refused it. I've seen him walking around trade shows by himself, shaking hands and posing for pictures and a few months later with an entourage of armed guards keeping people 20 feet at bay, then six months later mingling again.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Rescue Barnstar

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Awarded to Dr. Blofeld and Aymatth2 for their work saving Una Jaula no tiene secretos from deletion. Keep up the good work! - The Bushranger One ping only 07:09, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar of Diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For tireless and prompt improvements to so many articles I have worked on - your diligent help is invaluable.John Hill (talk) 13:59, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

. Thanks again! John Hill (talk) 11:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Reply

I do it when I have time. Recently I started sourcing articles like Saaransh. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:18, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Boat

Good choices! I've completed my expansion of Boat of Garten and Ullinish. I'll work on Mymensingh in between family time stuff. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:49, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Add to them if you'd like... photo would be great... also they need coords. Tonight, I'll continue on the Mym Mus; it's only about 1/2 way done. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:13, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Do you want to do any more work on Ullinish or let's nom it... something to do with Johnson and Boswell? I don't think there's enough material for Boat of G to be nom'ed unless you have some additional resources? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Margaret Creek

Thank you for your article Victuallers (talk) 10:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Talk:List of YouTube personalities#RfC: The criteria for inclusion on List of YouTube personalities

Hi Dr. Blofeld. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of YouTube celebrities (4th nomination), your input is sought at Talk:List of YouTube personalities#RfC: The criteria for inclusion on List of YouTube personalities. There are disputes over who should be and who shouldn't be included in the list. Cunard (talk) 23:21, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

The Bridge

You created "The Bridge (1986 novel)" but it's actually a short story collection, and it's the only one, and there really is a 1986 novel by that name, so I moved the article to The Bridge (short stories), and tidied up The Bridge DAB page.

• When more "The Bridge (YYYY novel)" articles actually exist (currently redlinks), we'll move the (novel) article to (1986 novel) for consistency.
• It was originally Yemeni, shouldn't its article have the Yemeni title? Curious... --Lexein (talk) 23:48, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:RománViñolyBarreto.jpg

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Clint Eastwood

I have finished the few books I have bought/checked out from the library in adding citations to his article (I'll still add some more citations to his film articles later this week). I'm probably going to give it a few more copyedits, and then set up a peer review. I started the directing style section, but if you think it can be expanded/improved, feel free to change it. Hopefully with the peer review we can spot some of the FAC problems early and then pursue a couple copyeditors. This article has definitely come a long way, and is really impressive in coverage. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:05, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

GAN Citadel of Damascus

Just FYI, I more or less finished Citadel of Damascus and asked Reaper Eternal to continue the review. I had to hurry it a little bit but at least I can now (hopefully) take it off my to-do-list. It's been on there for way too long ;) -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 05:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Helping with the Burma pages

I've been looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma and at the series of subpages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma/Shan/3 for example. I wonder if you could explain your strategy here.

What puzzles me is that it appears that none of the redlinks on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma/Shan/3 are piped, so all those names used by several settlements are linked to the same page. For example, Namkut appears under Mu-Se Township of the Shan State but it is linked to “a village in Homalin Township, Hkamti District, in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma”. And your table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma shows 3 against the name “Namkut”.

I searched for the three but found only two:

• on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma/Shan/3 under Mu-Se Township of the Shan State
• on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld/Burma/Shan/1 under Ke-Hsi Township of the Shan State
• there is a “Mān Namkut” so that may be where your 3 comes from?

Why didn't you create the links as [[Namkut, Mu-Se Township|Namkut]] and [[Namkut, Ke-Hsi Township|Namkut]] ? Then we would have a set of agreed unambiguous names, so that if I were to set about creating some of these pages, I would create them under the correct names (by looking at the piped link).

I guess you have a different strategy which I haven't quite understood. If you could explain, then maybe I can help out with this task.

Best regards — Hebrides (talk) 10:21, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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Where do you find the township data? I have downloaded the geonames dataset for Myanmar, but it only gives the state (Sagain, Shan, etc), not township. Is there another source gazetteer with that information? — Hebrides (talk) 11:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Hans Rémond sourcing question

Hi, I'm looking at Hans Rémond and note that the German version has 3 sources but they appear weak against the criteria of WP:ARTIST as there does not seem to be anything to indicate he has a permanent exhibition in a public gallery or has the sort of significant impact expected there. This is not a speedy and weak though the sources are, they could be migrated over from :de to the :en version, however searching GNews and GBooks I find no matches at all and wonder if this ought make its way for AFD, though if you feel it likely that sourcing may well be found with a more thorough search I'll happily let it go so long as we can resolve the uBLP tag on the :en version. Thanks Fæ (talk) 12:44, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Russia locator maps

The map is not perfect, but it is vastly superior to what we have now (which is nothing) :) Thanks! I'll incorporate it into the infobox today. As for the districts, there are still plenty which are missing. I'm only done through Primorsky Krai, but the work is slowly progressing (I'm trying to do at least one a day, although presently I'm reviewing some of the existing ones which could use some tweaking). Do you have any plans for the districts?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 14:12 (UTC)

Well, the ones I was going to work next are Murmansk Oblast and the Sakha Republic. We already have the locators for both (although, as usual, without the built-in locator within Russia), but the ones for Sakha are of an older type. After these two, I'll resume going through them in order (so it will be Stavropol and Zabaykalsky Krai and then the oblasts). If you want to start working on them in order as well, I'll have the maps available as I work. Does that sound like a plan? And thanks for doing it, by the way!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 14:23 (UTC)

I hope you understand that at the rate of one a day it's not going to be done this week :) So if you want you might as well start on those maps. By the way, are you planning to do them similar to the one for Khabarovsk Krai, or are you going to try to build in the small locator within Russia as well?

As for the order, I meant the order in which they are listed in this navbox. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 14:36 (UTC)

Oh, I can keep hounding him alright :) It's just that your first post gave me an impression that you gave up expecting anything more from that particular map stream :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 14:59 (UTC)

I'll have to look that up. It may not happen this week, but I'll put this on top of my list.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 15:15 (UTC)

Yes, certainly I will. I was actually about to do it, when I saw Ruhrfisch's message on your talk. If he's going to add an inset, I'll wait till he's done (maps with an inset go into another section of the subtemplate handling the maps than maps without an inset). I've also restored the subpage you asked for.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 15:41 (UTC)

Sure - do you want the inset locator in the upper right corner (cover land) or lower left (cover ocean and Sakhalin and the Kuriles, IIRC). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

D'Oh! I swear sometimes I am left-right dyslexic - I meant upper left and lower right - will do upper left. Sorry. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:30, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Here it is - OK? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 16:06, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Looks good to me; thanks a bunch! Blof, I've updated the template so for places in Khabarovsk Krai and Belgorod Oblast only the position maps with an inset are now displayed. Also, here's the list of the federal subjects for which no federal subject-specific maps are available at all: Kamchatka Krai, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and Orenburg Oblast. Also, while we have the maps for Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Kostroma Oblast, Kursk Oblast, and Magadan Oblast, they are simple outlines which don't show the internal district borders. Let me know if you need anything else.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 16:26 (UTC)

Done. If you are going to do a bunch, just let me know when you're done and I'll add the whole batch. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 16:32 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll add it, although would you consider later moving the inset to the top left corner instead? Bottom-right looks too much like it's a Russia-shaped island floating to the southeast of Kamchatka :) Other than that it's indeed good. Now go have you rest. Shoo-shoo :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 17:04 (UTC)

I've fixed Adygea (Astrakhan and Chelyabinsk are fine). I'll ask about NAO and Orenburg.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 18:49 (UTC)

Must be. I've been having cache problems in all sorts of places in the past few days. I usually blame it on our company crappy proxy, but I've been having the same kind of problems at home—even purging does not always help. I'm not seeing anything wrong with the posmap subtemplate, and the infobox in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is filled out correctly. I'd wait for a day or so; it should refresh eventually.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 19:00 (UTC)

Scratch that. My bad.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 8, 2011; 19:02 (UTC)

Will do. In the meanwhile, I'll comment this one out of the combo section, so the default location map is used instead.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 18:11 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up and glad the map I made was OK. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Frustration

Yes editing has become increasingly frustrating. ABF abounds, in occult forms - people who don't understand stuff - even people who did, used to make polite inquiries, by and large, and if you had a good explanation, or said "oops, mistake", thank you for your response. Now it seems an explanation is treated as a defence, often as not, and a challenge to a competitive debate. Rich Farmbrough, 18:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

Oh yes I've been taken to AN/I three or four times over the past six months, and mobbed there once. And been blocked a bunch of times. And been called a vandal by a bureaucrat, who didn't even have the courtesy to answer me on his talk page. And had half BAG recuse themselves from my BRFAs. And had perfectly good articles nominated for deletion, and moreover, deleted in complete disregard to the temporal nature of the discussion. Plus seeing Geo Swann and Kumioko chased off the project. There's still plenty of good guys around though. Rich Farmbrough, 20:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

I looked at this, there's nothing that can't be handled, but there is a copyright issue - if this were America we could probably use the text. Since the site you referred to is based off English Heritage, I'd rather go to the horses mouth for the actual data. Rich Farmbrough, 21:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

Nope, nothing like that - I'm using it right now. Read Database right. Rich Farmbrough, 22:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

I can probably do the lang Scots miles tonight. List of cities in the UK? Rich Farmbrough, 22:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

Maps

Do you know where I can get real (terrain, like Google earth) maps of earth surfaces that are free to use on Wikipedia? Answer here. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:56, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

http://www.maps-for-free.com/ is the only relief maps we can get for free I'm afraid. I can make a map as an example for you to follow if you like. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Am I allowed to print screen an image from that link, edit it with paint and upload it to commons or Wikipedia? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:17, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, see File:Tabqa Dam.png. Providing you add the correct attribution as a source and state you adapted it yourself in the image summary page in the commons. It is also very good for rivers you can make maps of river basins etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

The same thing for the "Satellite" view? If you look closely it says "Google" on the map. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:22, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

No, it will not allow you to generate anything with google. IN fact that is only for viewing as are the google map listed towns on the maps. If you save an area of the map it will be relief only and blank.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

So I cant print screen from the "Satellite" view, edit it, and upload it to commons? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

As I said, physically the website will not allow you to take imagery of anything but relief anyway, even if it appears on the screen. If you want satellite imagery your best bet would be to search the NASA databases as Rich said.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

NASA images are free too, by and large. Rich Farmbrough, 22:21, 8 March 2011 (UTC).

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Ullinish

No worries. I nom'ed it and forgot to mention it to you. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:51, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Both Shaohao Tomb and Ixtepeque look interesting. Just give me a couple of days to finish up on some Alaska articles. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation

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Re: Towns and Townships

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. This time I have added a bit on naming conventions. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 23:45, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello. By the way, if you have noticed that I am not doing anything yet to the Xinjiang list, that is because I am working on Hebei and am not so willing to work on the autonomous regions so long as I don't have a good atlas or source for the local names. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 15:34, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Geostubs

Hello! Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. Can you give me some links to the missing articles pages containing these coordinates? Have you spot-checked any of them for accuracy? If so, and if I can easily data-mine the coordinates from those pages, I'd be happy to put them into the articles using my bot. -- The Anome (talk) 11:40, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi. See the pages here I will be creating the Afghanistan and Bangladesh places from this missing article bank which lists all the coordinates. I did check out a few of the villages on google maps and all I looked at were legitimate.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:57, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I've now extracted the coordinates from those pages, and set the bot to geocoding the articles listed there. When you have finished creating the rest, just drop me a note, and I'll process them too. -- The Anome (talk) 12:54, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

After a bit of manual spot-checking, I've just double-checked those lists, and found a fair degree of name duplication, which suggests that there are still disambiguation problems -- I've now gone over the lists again, and only generated entries for those articles with only one occurrence in those lists. I've now reverted the edits already made to the articles with questionable coordinates, and will set the bot off again in a moment. -- The Anome (talk) 13:18, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

GA

Thank you. I see that you are still waiting for someone to review Mother India. I am trying to follow in your footsteps to improve Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to GA now, but when I find books on Google books, they usually have access to only a few lines at a time, or none at all. Even looking at some of the references that you used on MI, I cannot always see the text that you are citing. Am I missing something here? I don't want you to do it for me, but to show me better how find info about these older films without having to buy a lot of books. Thanks, BollyJeff || talk 17:17, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Do you own the Chatterjee, Mishra,and Sinha books for you refs on MI? BollyJeff || talk 17:29, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I am 100% American. Haha, you thought I was Indian. BollyJeff || talk 17:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

No, I am not Indian at all. I just started watching these films a couple years ago and fell in love with them. I figure that I have enough knowledge about them now, and a good enough handle on the English language, to provide some real benefit in this area. The more popular subjects on en.wiki are pretty well covered by lots of other people. BollyJeff || talk 17:43, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't see a way to access inside the Mishra book, but the other two yes. BollyJeff || talk 20:58, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your works in Malayalam cinema related articles. And I can assure you that I can improve some of those pages you recently created. I didn't reply you because I am in the midst of a few "under construction" articles. I need your help in one of the pages I've created which have enough content for being a GA. But it still need to be improved in language and also some of the reduntant datas shall be removed. This is the article. Thanks -- Arfaz (talk) 18:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. But please note that a few references used in the article are in Malayalam. Is there any problem regarding that? -- Arfaz (talk) 18:56, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

International response

Hi, please see talk page of main article, the international responst section was removed mainly because it was riddled with copyvios. Feel of course free to use the sources to rebuild the list properly.
Cheers, Amalthea 21:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi! Oh deary me sorry I had no idea, I just knew there was a substantial amount of info in it earlier! Maybe the condolesnce messages are generic but I can imagine the article being written later once aid starts to arrive etc. Feel free to speedy it if you haven't already as a copyvio. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:49, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

No worries. I've deleted the page, it's certainly easier to start from scratch than bringing that baggage over. Cheers, Amalthea 21:52, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Kampala template map

Hello Dr., I had trouble finding your user page so I had left a message on my page. Anyways, I need some more time to finish work I am doing with Uganda's districts and district headquarters. I will move to the Kampala map project at the beginning of April 2011, at the earliest. Thank you. Fsmatovu (talk) 00:41, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

basin

You may be interested in expanding Silver Bow Basin; there are a lot of references. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:12, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Hope you feel better soon. I was wondering if there'd be issues with some of the older gbooks. That answers that. Have you heard from nvv; did he return from his trip? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

I couldn't view those pgs but I'm sure your additions are fine. I nom'ed the article. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:25, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Burma

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Location maps

I noticed that you created {{Location map Canada Northwest Territories}}, {{Location map Canada Nunavut}} and {{Location map Canada Yukon}}. I was wondering how you get the necessary information so that they can be used? I tried a couple of things but it didn't seem to work. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for giving it a go. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ([[User

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Interested

I am interested for expanding of articles about the villages of Mymensingh district. If you need any help, please inform me. **kironbd07 02:30, 13 March 2011

Sri Lanka

I decided to do some experimentation, and this is the result of complete replacement, with no loss of information. I will be able to do this fairly quickly if the TFD closes as delete. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 23:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tom Viezee

The article Tom Viezee has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced, orphaned BLP about a former local politician turned church minister. No significant coverage found, only a few small news stories about his switch from politics to church.

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Film .... country

Well they help idiot-proof alot of articles with the primary category. Some editors seem to remove the main category (for example American films, Australian films) and merge it into the genre cat (American drama films, etc, etc). With the template in the infobox, it forces the higher level cat, per WP:FILMCAT. There's probably alot more important work to be done than removing them. See also this. Lugnuts (talk) 10:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Kongo; DrBlofeld

Wow, that was fast( your lobby card to the film), matter of fact fastest I've ever seen when I created an article. It looks great. I take it you've seen this Pre-Code gem? Thanks 'Doc', a lot for the card. Peace Koplimek (talk) 18:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

De nada. Thanks for adding the article!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sorry...I've been in Richmond all day, and just got back.

Is there a reliable source? When last I looked (a year or so ago, as I recall) there was not, but that may have changed. If so...sure, I'd be happy to help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:31, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

There was a Statoids on it, as I recall, but it didn't match what we had, and the task is so large that I haven't had the patience to tackle it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:39, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

There you are. Wondered where you'd been all day yesterday. Sorry to be not-present, but this is an insanely busy week for me. Two rehearsals, a meeting, an all-day trip to Richmond...I'll have some time to myself tomorrow night and Thursday night, but that's about it until Monday. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:52, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

The first one's beeter looking, if you ask me... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Diosso

I've expanded it. It's good to go. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ullinish

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Suggestion

Hii, when you create articles about Malayalam films, try to remove the square brackets around [[Malayalam]] next to the language section in infobox. The language will be linked automatically and a category will be added. Thanks -- Arfaz (talk) 16:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Minkovo

I don't know what Your Evilness thought when making this edit, but you started something that you probably didn't even suspect :) The titles of the articles were constructed correctly from the start, but your edit prompted me to double-check the entries one more time. Interestingly enough, it turned out that the corresponding Russian page only contains one entry for Minkovo in Vologda Oblast. I almost added another one there, but decided to consult one of the historical references just in case. Imagine my surprise when the 2000 book on the administrative-territorial divisions of Vologda Oblast also only had one Minkovo. What of the other one? Well, some legislative dumbass called it "Minkovo" in the text of the law, but in fact its name is "Minkino"! So, while I don't think initiating this chain reaction was your original intent, it is because of you another mistake was found and rooted out :) This is a kind of correction that's very hard to find on purpose. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 15, 2011; 18:43 (UTC)

What you failed to notice is that both entries referred to places in the same district of the same oblast. Using the selsoviet name inside the title in addition to the district/oblast is the only way to address this properly, and it's what our guidelines recommend, too. Yes, the name will be quite long, but creating the network of redirects/disambigs/set indices addresses that. Titling an article "Minkovo, Bereznikovsky Selsoviet" makes it very difficult to do such incorporation, and the name at the same time still remains ambiguous (there are at least four selsoviets by this name in Russia, two of which are in Vologda Oblast—how is the reader to know s/he landed in the article they needed?). Anyway, this is moot now. The other place turned out to be called "Minkino", not "Minkovo", so I made the appropriate corrections.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 15, 2011; 18:54 (UTC)

P.S. Hit me on the head. Will do so now.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 15, 2011; 18:54 (UTC)

I do need to (and you do, too), because that's how all other articles on places in Russia are titled, and that's what the guideline tells us to do. "Minkovo, Bereznikovsky Selsoviet" is one of the worst titles one could come up with—it's ambiguous, emphasizes an obscure administrative unit type at the expense of mentioning what readers will actually look under (i.e., oblast or district), and is impossible to incorporate cleanly into the overall structure. It's like moving Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey to "Washington Township, Warren County" (only even worse)—there are numerous Washingtons and numerous Warren Counties. The county designation is meaningless without mentioning the state, and the selsoviet designation is equally meaningless without mentioning both the district and the federal subject.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 15, 2011; 19:09 (UTC)

Nomination of List of hotels in Guinea for deletion

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Public markets, mercados públicos, or something else?

Im working on a overview article on the mercados públicos/mercados municipales which exist in Mexico. These are government sponsored, fixed installations in which a number of private vendors sell their wares. These markets mostly sell food and other basic staples (like La Merced Market, Mexico City), but not all (seeMercado de Sonora or Central de Abasto, Mexico City)). They are called mercados públicos in cities, where there tend to be more than one, and in the municipal seats, there tends to be one "mercado municipal" whether or not there are other, usually smaller, mercados. However, the operating principle is the same. So...what do I name the article??? When I rewrote tianguis, another market tradition in Mexico, it seemed obvious that keeping the original word was the right course. Here, Im not sure. Thelmadatter (talk) 03:24, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I dunno, "markets of Mexico" may be too general. After all, there are stock markets, tianguis are a type of market, supermarkets... etc. Let me see what other suggestions come in. Itll be a couple of days before the article is finished.Thelmadatter (talk) 15:48, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Chief Dan George

Hey Dr. Blofeld. I was just closing some requested moves and came upon the above page. I closed the discussion on its talk page as you had already moved the page. I'm not sure you were aware there was a requested moves discussion on the talk page at all when you did the move. In any event, after doing the close, I checked the normal suspects for cleaning up after the move and saw that they had not been done. Basically, there are three things to do after a move: fix double redirects, go to any fair use images that are on the page and point them to the new name, and fix the page's category sort key. A detailed description is at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Cleaning up after the move. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Linas Jablonskis for deletion

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• Aiaiai Ernst--can you save Linas? I tried but couldn't find anything useful anywhere. Drmies (talk) 21:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

It's not notable as you say. If you come across any more please let me know and I will db author them, no need to waste time on AFD. We are both capable of making judgements based on google books. The Lithuanian artist sub stubs were created from the Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia assuming they were notable. Apparently their criteria for inclusion is slack...♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:55, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks Ernst. I tell you how I came across it--I got this "Unreferenced BLP" button on top of my talk page, so I ran into it by pure chance. Take it easy, and keep up the good work--and enjoy your spring break, if you're having one! Drmies (talk) 22:23, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
  • Ernst, have I ever told you how much I like you? Thanks for those stubby stubs too--gives us something to work on. There wasn't anything this time, but usually there is. Keep the faith! Drmies (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Afghanistan stubs

Hi! I just looked at my recently-written code, and saw the parsing code for the Afghanistan pages. I wonder if you are planning to fill in the rest of the easier-to-resolve Afghanistan geostubs on the list any time soon? If you are, I can re-run the parsing code and then set my geocoding bot on them once they are done. -- The Anome (talk) 12:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Guinea etc.

Sorry for not answering. I was just aimlessly following threads and forgot. Photos would be great. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:41, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

A map of downtown Conakry would help a lot. Not sure how far up the peninsula it should stretch - most of the main buildings are near the tip. I prefer solidly sourced bluelinks or else redlinks during the AfD discussion. Stubs weaken the argument. Some of the hotels seem a bit dubious anyway. If the only online sources are tripadvisor, I would leave the hotel off the list until someone feels a need to add it. Based on DGG's argument of encouraging contributors, I prefer redlinks anyway. Aymatth2 (talk) 02:33, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Nice locator - a big improvement. But it needs an inset. Somewhere in French Guiana, right? Picky, picky, ... Aymatth2 (talk) 20:24, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Back to editing

Thanks, Dr. B. My visit to my hometown (T.Narsipur) was a long drawn religious extravaganza which involved more than two weeks of hectic activity with all my siblings present for the occasion. I am now back to editing. Yes, I will add to the articles that you have suggested.--Nvvchar. 05:18, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

There may be enough material, though much in es and ast, on Asturias' Sierra del Sueve; please join in if you wish. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Template:Infobox place Ireland and Template:Infobox Indian jurisdiction

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List of Hotels

Hi Dr Blofeld,

Would you consider changing List of Hotels into an actual list of hotels that have bluelink status on wikipedia rather than a list of lists which don't exist. It seems to me that if somebody who shared your passion for hotels came on wikipedia, this is where they would go, and I feel that if they were confronted by this page, they might well just leave.

Regards,Bob House 884 (talk) 13:27, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

It seems as though there are about 500 hotels with articles on Wikipedia (according to Wikiproject Hotels). I think if they were categorised by continent and country, as well as a section for 'multinational chains' on the 'list of hotels' page then we would have a pretty managable article. It would always be possible to break off lists where a country clearly had a lot of hotels. If we just keep it as a list of lists then each sub-list is going to contain an average of 2.5 bluelinks, and it doesnt seem worth creating 200 of these lists.

Whilst I appreciate that you think this approach will encourage contributors, I think it is overall more important to the aim of Wikipedia that visitors with no intention of updating content and no subject expertise can navigate and research effectively. At the moment the list of hotels article does not directly link to any of the most notable and best hotel articles we have. It can take me to a stub about the Majestic Hotel in Tunisia, but it cannot get me anywhere near the MGM Grand (B) or the Ryugyong Hotel (GA). Bob House 884 (talk) 14:13, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Certainly sounds like an improvement, give it a shot if you get time :) Bob House 884 (talk) 14:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey good work so far, it might need a bit of cleaning up when your finished, but I certainly think this is a good way to do it Bob House 884 (talk) 16:19, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Not sure what the right criteria are. A hotel could be architecturally interesting, or interesting for what happened there. The typical Holiday Inn surely does not qualify. Big and old seem relevant. One test could be "mentioned in more than one book other than travel guides and business directories". Aymatth2 (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I'd suggest just ad hoc basis for now, ideally things which are extraordinary in one way or another (really big, really old, architercurally interesting, events happened there, frequently mentioned etc) but this will need to be addressed once the redrafts done - probably just have to bring it into line with GNG Bob House 884 (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah doing a good job, the AfD nom is by a guy who has, to be frank, a history of spurious nominations and borderline abuse of CSDs and PRODs, and this nom clearly doesnt have any basis in policy, so y'know don't worry about it. I've directed him to deletion policy and the fact that there are alternatives to deletion. Keep up the good work and we can clear up when your done, you might want to see about recruiting some help though - its gonna be quite a lot of work. Bob House 884 (talk) 13:26, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Something strange in your old userspace...

User:Blofeld of SPECTRE/wtf. Created in 2007 by someone else with a three-word insult and not edited since, but wasn't moved when your name changed. A {{db-g6}} maybe? Alzarian16 (talk) 15:43, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes its vandalism (obviously) please speedy. Atually you could probably delete most of the old Blofeld of Spectre pages.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm not an admin so someone else'll have to do the deletion, but I've tagged it. Amazing the stuff you can find when looking through old RfAs... Alzarian16 (talk) 16:27, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Morag Bellingham

I don't mean to be a pain here, but I read your comment. I find it a terrible job after writing an article in chosing a hook. Would you perhaps look over the article and see if you can fork a good one out? It took me ages to decide on that one along. (Oh dear, I know).RAIN*the*ONE ^BAM 19:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

No one has verified the hook for Morag, but you obviously know it is true. sooo. .. ;)RAIN*the*ONE ^BAM 23:08, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Asturias

Sorry, although I have Inkscape, I am pretty hopeless when it comes to svg editing, so I am unable to fix the Asturias maps. Have you tried the Graphics Lab? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of hotels for deletion

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Krishnapuram Palace

I hope I have done justice to this article. You may like to add more text and nominate, pl.--Nvvchar. 10:05, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Since you started this article, it would be proper if you nominated it before the five day limit. I will be out again for three more days from tomorrow morning. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 10:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Was this article not worth nominating on DYK?--Nvvchar. 12:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

My suggestion for the DYK hook if it can still be posted...…that the museum in the Krishnapuram Palace in Kerala, has a copy of the Bible in Sanskrit (pictured) printed in Kolkata in 1886?--Nvvchar. 14:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi!

Good work finding the Guinea images! Hopefully one of the flickr bot operators will get them loaded without too much delay. I don't think that image stands much of a chance as a featured picture. The depth of focus is too low for the subject, making most of the child just a big blur. How are your projects going lately? I haven't been around so much because I was in Ecuador 11 days for vacation, plus I've been busy at work, plus I have a new boyfriend I'm spending all my time with.... Maybe I'll be spending more time here sometime soon-ish, though I'm considering studying for another bar exam this summer so maybe not?.... Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:59, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

The images are a big improvement: they always help an article. List of hotels will not be deleted, obviously. I am vaguely thinking of nominating Donka Hospital, something about Mia Farrow and $1 vaccinations. A bit depressing. Atelier LWD needs more sources and content - that is first priority. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:13, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Silver Bow Basin

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Pakistan village articles

Greetings, the several articles I created recently were cut-and-pastes from Chhachh, which had somehow become a repository for a ton of "sections" covering individual villages which should not be lumped into the greater regional article. Rather than simply delete the village info, I moved it to new articles and linked to them from Chhachh. It's not that I'm writing lengths of poorly-copyedited unreferenced text, I'm just preserving existing text so we have some idea of the kind of facts we're looking to verify. Further, since the articles are concretely extant physical locations, they shouldn't be deleted (which would also lose us the unreferenced locally-added info which is of historic value to WP, if not article value). Instead, if anything they should be trimmed down to stubs just noting their location and coordinates from FallingRain or similar, since it is a Wikipedia goal to catalog all of the world's cities/towns/villages. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:57, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

I was not aware that Falling Rain was up for blacklisting; thanks for the heads-up there. Concur that there is a lot of info added by local editors on non-documentable local conditions, and this has been an issue of debate at WP:INDIA and other places, in terms of whether the info itself has some historic value even if not verifiable. I'm not a fan of leaving it in the article (though some have supported leaving it until proper references can be found), but I am a supporter of removing it but not deleting the article, so that the History will show this information which may be of interest to researchers in later years. Agree that verifying very basic population or coordinate data from geodatabases or census records would be a great way to at least maintain stubs until such point as more Pakistani media sources are available online for citing. I'm just opposed to completely deleting any trace of unverifiable IP info; they're basically "post-modern pottery shards", and have anthropological value even if they can't remain on the main articlespace. Overall, just wanted to emphasise that the articles I created were others' texts (as noted in the History summaries); when I write my own articles I do source, but I do prefer to split off unsourced sub-sections rather than delete them entirely. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Not an issue of grateful; I'm just bogged down on some major POV fixes on Ram Rahim Singh. I appreciate the tool links, will keep that in mind as I move forward. MatthewVanitas (talk) 12:51, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Motives

If you read what I wrote at the Guinea buildings discussion, I did not say I was not obsessive. I often get intrigued with a subject and try to squeeze out all the available online information, using all the search tricks I can think of. I try to turn redlinks blue in most of the articles I start. As far as possible I try to be neutral, balanced, source everything and so on. I do my best to make good-quality contributions that follow all the rules. Obsessive, maybe. But I have no illusions about the value of the articles I start or expand. There are always huge gaps in the information available online, so at best they are impressionist and maybe surreal sketches.

I am skeptical about the value of Wikipedia. There are quite good articles on some of the most important subjects, but there are many junk articles. When I am feeling optimistic, I think maybe some of the content will be carried forward into other, better structured and verified sites, perhaps Wikipedia 5.0. Other times I think the project will just fade away into the archives as other databases take over. I do not claim any noble motives. It amuses me to piece together articles on subjects I knew nothing about, like doing jigsaw puzzles. I hope my little essays do no harm. They keep me from boredom. I am probably more addicted than obsessed. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Burma navboxes and unique names for settlements

I left a message at User_talk:Plastikspork#Burma_navboxes requesting the 41000-line text file. I will let you know when Plastikspork replies. No point me doing anything more until then. — Hebrides (talk) 13:51, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

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belated thank you

I was going through some old notes, and was reminded of this, did I ever thank you for Saving Hallsteinn from my PROD? If not, please accept my thanks now, if I already did, well, enjoy it again.  :) Have a great week! --joe decker^{talk to me} 00:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Ellis Wainwright

I thought you might be interested in expanding this one. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:48, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

As usual, great job. And I thought you'd enjoy it for the same reason that I did, the fellow being a bit flamboyant. Kinda reminded me of Henry W. Howgate who also was on the lam for a bit. And the hook is already in queue! I'm working on the Buckingham. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:24, 26 March 2011 (UTC) Errr, now I'm done with it and nom'ed it with a baseball hook to boot. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:05, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Diosso

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:03, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

What's up man?

How've you been? Long time no see. Is everything okay? La Liz is no more, sad isn't it? Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Amazing. Yeh I see what you mean. There's one actress who I think was consistently good - Shirley Maclaine. Have you seen The Apartment? Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Hehe, to each their own, but I agree with you. Off screen she was a cocky lady, but I think she was always an intellectual and very humorous woman. And well, I've always liked her performances - she was witty and was very good at comedy. In fact, Maclaine and Diane Keaton are my favourite comic actresses. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

More map stuff

Can you look at the three examples at User:CambridgeBayWeather/Sandbox. It seems to be putting the dots a little too far north. The longitude looks fine though. Is this the same problem as the other northern Canadian maps? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:26, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 18:02, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Northern communities

That sounds great. I got some images from Flicker but I never really thought to ask. Deline, Enterprise, Northwest Territories, Fort Good Hope, Fort Liard, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Gamèti, Hay River Reserve, Hay River, Northwest Territories, Kakisa, Lutselk'e, Nahanni Butte, Norman Wells, Sachs Harbour, Trout Lake, Northwest Territories, Tsiigehtchic, Tulita, Wekweeti, Whatì and Wrigley, Northwest Territories all in the NWT could use pictures. Ulukhaktok has a picture but I took that back in the 80s and the Ulukhaktok/Holman Airport picture could do with updating. There are a couple of small Dene communities around Yellowknife that we have school images but no community shots. However, I'll be there in May so I'll remember to get some. In Nunavut Coral Harbour, Kugaaruk, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Sanikiluaq, Taloyoak and Whale Cove, Nunavut need pictures. The first three have images but Coral and Kugaaruk are of the airport and Rankin is of a camp site. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 21:49, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Excellent. I'd forgot the Mad Trapper was from up there. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Got one of Deline I'm uploading now too!♦ Dr. Blofeld 01:16, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Sure thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:26, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I noticed that they also have some of Fort Good Hope and the Alexandra Falls on Hay River (Canada). I'll grab the waterfall ones after. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:53, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll get the Good Hope and Fort Res images in a while. That mapping program looks good and easy to use. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:45, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Just looking through the Flickr images now. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I've uploaded and added images from http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturallight/ and have asked http://www.flickr.com/photos/benandjenn/collections/72157601585900834/ for some of the Yukon. How does the map at Fort Good Hope look? I used the maps-for-free link you gave me. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Most maps that far north look a little odd. Easy enough to make another with the name moved into the ocean. The font was too small anyway. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:25, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Great thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 23:25, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I still need to make the font and the locater map larger. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 14:19, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Messing with stuff

Funny - he doesn't look like Texas to me... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:51, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

OK, yes...now that looks like someone I wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley late at night. For one thing, I'm not sure how I'd fare in the encounter... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah - it doesn't really give you any idea what sort of muscles he might have. On the other hand, this is me. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:59, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Tell me about it. Considering I nearly reached 250 myself...only most of it wasn't muscle, if you catch my drift...

I was thinking the other day about doing some Nigerien building stubs, but I haven't had the time this week to really think about it. Nigerien and Malian, perhaps. Also a set of Virginia politicians, but I'll do those when I get back in this afternoon (I'm heading out for a little bit). --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:59, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, I thought I was, but apparently I ballooned without realizing it. I was at 227 when I stepped on the scale at the gym for the first time a month ago. I haven't looked in a couple of weeks, though I know I'm losing fat, at least - at my choir concert last week I was actually able to button my tux for the first time in ages. And my thighs are smaller than they have been in a while. I know I've got work to do yet, but it's been a good start...and once the summer comes around and I can make a daily thing of it, so much the better.

Speaking of pasties, they have now come to Northern Virginia; pity Vienna's as far away as it is, otherwise I'd have gotten out there by now. Oh, well...at least I have the mobile empanada truck near my office from time to time. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:56, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

It is, yes. But I was talking about Niger - Nigerien, not Nigerian. Why they can't decide on different names is beyond me... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Bridgetown, Barbados

You may like to contribute to this Barbados article User:Nvvchar/Chamberlain Bridge, Bridgetown.--Nvvchar. 03:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I have also added more text to this article User:Nvvchar/Nahuel Huapi National Park. You may like to add or edit before it is moved to main space.--Nvvchar. 14:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I have completed my inputs to Mehadia. I am now working on Tierra del Fuego National Park.--Nvvchar. 10:00, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

I suggest this hook for Mehadia ...that in Mehadia, Romania women wear costumes and braided hair made up of hair from mother, grandmother and great grand mother, along with their own, as customary inheritance? Nahuel Huapi National Park has been moved to main space. If you have completed your inputs, it could also be posted on DYK. Tierra del Fuego National Park is also in the main space for your inputs.--Nvvchar. 06:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Re: St. Louis

Nice locator map - I made state locator maps for 49 of the 50 US states and the District of Columbia several years ago - glad to see they are still useful. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:54, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

maps-for-free lake images

What's the standard font name you used? Why pgn? Is jpg okay too? I will use the twin map idea that you used at Napaktulik Lake as a model. I would like to use the format of other pushpin articles: Closeup for infobox main image, with zoomed-out "location in Canada" somewhere beneath. Do you think that's okay? By the way, sensational looking maps. Really nice colours. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Lake Beechey

The map... I like it and it is so helpful to visualize the area. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:02, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ellis Wainwright

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:04, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Any help with this?

I've added a couple of refs and filmography for this. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 10:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Now that's what I call an expansion! Thanks again Dr B. Lugnuts (talk) 13:21, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Yep, I'll sort that out. Cheers. Lugnuts (talk) 13:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For saving the article Martin Miller (Czech actor). I feel ashamed that to have ever nominated it after your heroic efforts to establish notability, and to produce a first-rate article. Great work! Jay Σεβαστόςdiscuss 13:44, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

On Martin Miller, at first look, I'm only finding the same refs that are already mentioned in the article. I'll do some more research later. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:37, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Burma images

You should request a batch bot upload of all appropriately-licensed images by that photographer. It looks like all of his photos are good and would add value to a lot of articles. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:55, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

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IMDb?

I notice you're in the middle of creating a large number of stubs for East German movies created in the 50s. These stubs are not much more than links to IMDb. Why are you doing this? You have not added any information to the lead to indicate why each movie is sufficiently noteworthy for inclusion in an encyclopedia. If someone wants information about a movie, wouldn't he more naturally look in IMDb instead of Wikipedia? Johnson487682 (talk) 15:22, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Erm. Do I have to say: this film is notable for inclusion in wikipedia because... They can easily be expanded within a few minutes.. The average one is subjects like this which are covered in credible books. Notable subjects are always notable and just need to be expanded. If you don't like them take any one of them to AFD and I'll show you that you are wrong as most usually are who challenge me with AFDs. Think long term wikipedia goals please. There are people actively working on East German films on here and a WikiProject German cinema.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

It is not my intention to challenge you. I am merely asking why you are adding apparently-non-encyclopedic information to Wikipedia when it is already readily available in more natural places. Your answer is "long term wikipedia goals", but this says "Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files" and "Wikipedia is not a directory". It seems to me you are merely creating a directory of links into IMDb.

If the WikiProject is trying to show that East Germany was a prolific but frequently-overlooked source of quality movies during the 50s (for example), you could create a single wiki page highlighting the qualitites of these movies, discussing the controversy about why they are overlooked, and including a list of the movies. However, I don't see why each of these movies should warrant its own page.

Johnson487682 (talk) 15:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

You are very shortsighted indeed and are blind to what wikipedia can actually achieve. Try doing a search in google books and German film websites, plenty of sources exist to expand these stubs asap. using book sources and others and people with expertise and interest in this area we can achieve articles far better than imdb and build on what we have. I can't get over the complete ignorance of people like you who assume that short stubs cannot be dramatically improved within two minutes and that wikipedia wouldn't be more valuable if people actually thought, OK we can build upon this and actually make it better than imdb. Why should I do all the work on here and be expected to write every article fully? Your outlook is very common on here, which is why so few are actually doing any work. Martin Miller (Czech actor) (the person also thought "why should it warrant a page") is a perfect example or shortsightedness in terms of potential (even if I like the person who AFDd it and respect him for admitting fault). Because damn sources exist to write a fairly decent article that's why!!!! Would you not rather see similar length articles for these films eventually?? Would I love to be able to magically start every East German film article like Martin Miller is now first time? Of course but there's nothing stopping anybody else from expanding anything I create. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:47, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't think this conversation is worth expletives or multiple punctuation marks. Please attempt to engage in a calm conversation.

How am I "blind to what wikipedia can actually achieve"? Are you suggesting you believe Wikipedia should become a complete repository of human knowledge, such as the fictional Memory Alpha from Star Trek or the eponymous guidebook from Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

I'm not contending that these movies don't have the potential to become full-length articles. However, I am suggesting that the pages shouldn't be created until someone has found something noteworthy to say about a particular movie.

Johnson487682 (talk) 15:58, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Its a case of disagreement then over how wikipedia should be constructed. Google search and book search any of the titles I started, as I said they will mostly all be notable and contain notable actors. I only start content I'm convinced are notable and can easily be expanded. OK if you are a reader looking for information about these films then right now at this moment its not good enough. The complication is that we are building an encyclopedia at the same time as people are reading. But the idea is that people searching for the articles see it is undeveloped and find it easy to add some details. Most people would not want to start the articles and if they found them redlinked they'd not bother. Of course many people would not bother to help wikipedia anyway. I think long term and how wikipedia will look in say five years when these articles can have a chance to be fully expanded and look like Ernst Thälmann (film). I've seen small stubs even on silent Austrian movies and Chinese universities I started be expanded full length which now are very beneficial to wikipedia. At least 95% of any short stubs I've started could easily be expanded. I'd expand everything fully if I had the time. But why shouldn't I share the workload with millions of other people who visit the site to build it? The way I see it is that wikipedia works by people adding what they know bit by bit; if the articles didn't exist nobody would at least have a chance to built upon it... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Let me see the first stub was Berlin im Aufbau. detailed coverage in German here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:30, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I rest my case. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:14, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

OK Dr. B, I can't resist chipping in here,

First, I don't think that you should feel that Johnson is trying to threaten or challenge you, presumably he's been new page patrolling and notice you are creating lots of articles and just stopped by to ask why, thats not a threat or anything, he's just trying to look into what your doing and ultimately help the encylopedia

Second, I think a lot of people have noticed that your 'MO' seems to be to create loads of new articles, have some unsuspecting soul nom one of them for deletion, and then turn it around into a really good stub in frankly a very impressive timeframe. My feeling is that the frequency of noms etc kind of suggests that consensus doesn't really support the mass creation of pages like this, after all Wikipedia is a Work in Progress and we can always make new articles later.

On the other hand, your ability to rapidly turn a redlink or very short article into a good, well sourced stub is a very useful skill and its great for the wiki, I personally think that if you spent the time you invested in making really awesome stubs that would be a better (and I hesitate to add, probably more fulfilling) use of your wiki-time. Remember that whilst encouraging people to edit more (or at all) is certainly a positive thing, the overriding idea behind Wikipedia is to be an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia which has 10 good articles is probably more useful to somebody than one which has 1000 micro-stubs.

I don't mean to antagonise, I just want to give my thoughts, please feel free to ignore them and keep up the good work. Bob House 884 (talk) 17:55, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't always wish to create short stubs. In fact some of the time like the past few days I'm happy expanding existing articles like Mehadia and Martin Miller (Czech actor). But to be blunt I'll edit whatever I feel like at the time.... Of course those articles are more valuable than short stubs. There are very few people who seem to understand the idea behind creating "useless sub stubs". We are a wiki, which means any of the masses of people visiting wikipedia can expand articles. I only create content in general which I believe is notable and could reasonably be expanded by anybody. Given that I believe them to be notable I think wikipedia should be striving to cover them and build. Personally in my construction viewpoint, stub which are consistent with the proper instrastructure in place like infoboxes and external links in place is a lot more useful to wikipedia than a red link and are more likely to be added to than if they didn't exist, hence building wikipedia's knowledge. Xinjiang Medical University and Der Müller und sein Kind began as a "substub which is no use to anybody", you are completely missing the point of wikipedia and the concept of it in sharing and building it. You are also failing to see the benefit of my stubs in term of our future knowledge coverage. If you look back over this Xinjiang article you'll see that the stub was planting a seed. In a few years time some of the stubs I created today will have the same growth. We are not a paper encyclopedia and neither is it expected to be completed today. Wikipedia is as much about building an encyclopedia ambitiously as an ongoing development than it is about providing encyclopedic information. If we were a set encyclopedia like Britannica that nobody can edit then it would be reasonable to create one full article at a time. Would I rather create them like Berlin im Aufbau first time, OF COURSE!!. But its very time consuming and there are so many topics which need to be started and expanded.. I try to cover whatever I can... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Deary me people you greatly underestimate the value of having pages for these subjects even if they are short stubs. Nothing is stopping anybody from expanding any one of them like A Berlin Romance. WOuld you be moaning if they were all like this in a few years? There is a reason why the sub stubs I create are never speedy deleted and I'm yet to have a single new stub speedied... A Berlin Romance is the reason. Notable subjects will always be notable subjects and I think I'm pretty good at rooting out what is notable from what is not. If I create 1000 film sub stubs its because I see 1000 potential articles like A Berlin Romance...♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Creating a new article is a difficult threshold for a newbie to overcome. But once, as Dr. Blofeld mentioned, the basic article infrastructure is created, it is much easier, especially for a newbie, to add information and paragraphs into the article. Also newbies get intimidated by the prospect of creating something new and even when they create it, the article often lacks the proper infrastructure. It is much better for an experienced user to create the stub structure properly. Once the proper stub is created, less experienced users can add more information to it later. It is similar to the expression If you build it, they will come. I find this approach great because it is inviting content by creating new topics and making them visible and accessible to everyone. This is collaborative editing at its best. By making content visible here, even at the stub level, we invite contributions, big or small, to improve it. First comes visibilty, then comes improvement. Without visibility, i.e. when the article is a red link, there is no opportunity for the small contributor to add anything. Becoming an article creator is more difficult than being simply an information contributor. Also I don't think we should presume to guide Dr. Blofeld as to where he is supposed to direct his editing here. Dr.K. ^{λogosπraxis} 21:44, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Agreed in general. (I do have a nit. I don't personally believe that single-sourced-only-by-IMDB, a source that consensus generally regards as unreliable, is a good fit for untagged stubs bypassing NPP. Putting all these stubs through NPP doesn't sound optimal either. It'd be better, in my view if they all had a reliable source, or at the very least were tagged BLP IMDB refimprove.) But stubs? Stubs are a useful part of building an encyclopedia. --joe decker^{talk to me} 22:09, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

The way see it we have two main goals. a] Produce an encyclopedia of the highest quality. b] Provide the sum of all knowledge. Given that time is limited and time passes on wikipedia extremely quickly when your busy and have multiple topics to deal with I try to divide me time which I believe it most effective. Some days I'm happy to sit down and improve quality/do cleanup tasks but other days I am very conscious of how poorly covered the encyclopedia is in certain areas and the sheer number of red links. If we are trying to build the sum of all knowledge then these red links which are mentioned mutiple times in reliable sources is a gaping hole. Given that I don't have the time to write everyone like A Berlin Romance I try to set them up in a way in which they could easily be expanded by anybody in the same way. Sure, it might leave some people disappointed by the lack of content but in a way it may also encourage visitors to join wikipedia and improve the information in the given area. The way I see it is wikipedia now includes these topics which is better than being completely ignorant of their existence and at least are there to be worked on. Of course ideally we wouldn't have an stubs on wikipedia and every article would be featured quality. That's the goal eventually obviously. But if we are missing a vast amount of content which eventually would make wikipedia a much more comprehensive source and a much more valuable one then I believe identifying them and starting them is the first step. That's the problem of wikipedia is that we are trying to achieve the "sum of all human knowledge" whilst building an "encyclopedia of the highest quality". This itself is a conflict between quantity and quality which is also reflected in the way I edit wikipedia because i'm trying to balance my editing time effectively in addressing both. The idea is that the stubs I create like Xinjiang Medical University are expanded in exactly the same way all over. Its difficult to know exactly how people will react and nurture the articles. I've seen some very surprising expansions yet have been bitterly disappointed by say the people expanding my Greek museum stubs for instance which I thought would generate interest. The best way really is to create rich new stubs with a few reliable sources and useful facts like Gwebin and Shwenyaungbin which I mostly try to do and find the most satisfying. Like Penally Abbey, formerly just a direct... I find country houses so interesting that I almost can't leave them as stubs anyway!! But when I see masses of red links the scale of the task is just too much to do it alone...♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:55, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

So, you really do think Wikipedia is supposed to be the sum of all human knowledge? I don't think your "main goal b]" (above) is supported by Wikipedia's policies, which are formed by community consensus. I was mostly kidding when I suggested you thought you were creating a real Memory Alpha, but you actually seem to believe that. Remember, "In any encyclopedia, information cannot be included solely for being true or useful."

I agree newbies find it easier to expand stubs than to create new articles from scratch, and I believe starting stubs is a valuable service to Wikipedia. However, I don't think all of the topics you choose to throw yourself at are suitable for inclusion. For example, how many people (besides the few hundred souls that live there) are interested in a tiny village in Burma or will ever research it? Yes, some of your stubs have been expanded into impressive articles, but I suspect the ratio of impressive articles to those that remain neglected stubs is very small. I don't think you have any special mojo for choosing good topics for stubs; I think you just find obscure almanacs and start typing things into Wikipedia in alphabetical order, and once in a while you get lucky.

After scrolling through the massive list of articles you've created, I can see that it's only natural for you to be defensive about your methods, because you've dedicated a lot of time and love to Wikipedia, and no one wants to believe his efforts have not been 100% useful.

• I thank you heartily for all you have done (and will do in the future) to support Wikipedia.
• I have a lot of respect for your efforts.
• I wish I could devote as much time to it as you.
• I wish we had more people like you.
• I won't be so presumptuous as to tell you what you should or should not do here.

All I ask is this: when you open the next obscure almanac and turn to "A", please ask yourself if this subject has encyclopedic merit, or is it just a collection of trivial facts that is better suited to something like H2G2?

Johnson487682 (talk) 16:50, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Whether its articles like Clint Eastwood I've written which get thousands of page views daily or Burmese villages which only get a handful of views daily they each have their place in encyclopedia. It doesn't matter to me, so long as people do view them both which they do and that people enjoy reading it and/or are glad the article exists. So according to you we should focus on improving Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Anal sex etc just because the page views are high and they are really more important that a town of 20,000 in Asia or something? I would happily delete several thousands of article we have on list of fictional characters, web comics and non notable businessman/sports bios which have been stale for five years and containing nothing in google books. I personally prefer traditional encyclopedia subjects, although I believe that films and television series are notable. You claim "I don't think you have any special mojo for choosing good topics for stubs; I think you just find obscure almanacs and start typing things into Wikipedia in alphabetical order, and once in a while you get lucky." That's an ignorant comment as the majority of my articles are NOT started in sub stub mode in "hit and hope they are notable" through some obscure A-Z almanc they are created like St Teilo and Gallardet Dolmen which I put some thought into and am happy to find some decent sources. Not to mention my ongoing work with Nvvchar and Rosiestep in which we've greatly improved things like national parks and towns like St Anne, Alderney, Kathmandu and Thimphu, notable buildings and places which are not obscure and are very useful to people daily.... I'm an intellectual who enjoys researching articles like Deforestation in Brazil, Coffee production in India, Banana production in Honduras and Naqa for instance. Of course when I created Deforestation in Brazil I was thinking "mmm is the sum of this subject more than just a few trivial facts or is it one of the biggest problems facing planet Earth today".. The funny thing is that most of the content I've created are real world places and topics which affects thousand of people daily, you make it sounds as if all I do is create sub stubs on star wars characters or obscure films... Sadly you have completely got the wrong idea of who I am and my purpose on here. I do more than my fair share of good content work, creating stubs just happens to be part of expansionist goals on here. If I was actually paid to write featured articles and given an incentive to focus purely improving existing articles to the best possible quality and ignoring missing content then it would be different... Writing long and detailed articles requires a great deal of hard work... Who are you to dictate the nature of how I should be editing all of the time? I spend hours a week writing articles on here and am one of the most active contributors to User:Dr. Blofeld/DYK. Creating short stubs are ongoing development tasks which are just a mere part of what I do on here. You also grossly underestimate the thousands of decent stubs I regularly create like Gallardet Dolmen, Schallaburg Castleand Imphal River, all created in the past few days. Oh and if there is one particular article you want expanded which is "neglected" please ask kindly for me to expand and I almost always will as soon as possible.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Please don't get so defensive. Why do you say "Who are you to dictate the nature of how I should be editing all of the time?" I have specifically and explicitly avoided telling you what you should or should not do here. I'm sure you have created (and have contributed to others') excellent articles, and I value your contributions. I'm only asking you to consider the encyclopedic merit of articles you create in the future, because I've seen some questionable things in your history. Just because something is true doesn't mean it should be included in Wikipedia. Johnson487682 (talk) 18:16, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Nono, this is what I mean. I always!! consider the possible future encyclopedic merit of articles I create. I always assess even batches of sub stubs too. It was I who had selected those East German films into the list in the first place as they seemed notable... This is exactly why I have like a 99.9% success rate and less than a handful of articles I've created ever deleted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I apologize for offending you. I'm glad to hear you always consider encyclopedic merit. I doubted that, because you also said we have a goal of trying to "provide the sum of all knowledge" in your 10:55, 29 March 2011 (UTC) post, and these statements seem contradictory to me. (By the way, lack of deletion does not necessarily imply merit, because it is much easier to create a new article than to get one successfully deleted.) Johnson487682 (talk) 18:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Ich bein ein Berliner! Lugnuts (talk) 07:38, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Berlin im Aufbau

Didn't take too much. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:24, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Novotel Grand Hotel de L'Independance

The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Atelier LWD

The DYK project (nominate) 00:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Guy Lagneau

The DYK project (nominate) 00:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Burj Al Arab

I would rather do six smaller articles of A-Z than the hotel which caters to the super rich.--Nvvchar. 03:58, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

A few years ago, I could muster strength to go only up to the front gate of this hotel. As regards this Tierra del Fuego National Park article I have mad substantial additions today. You may like to add and edit. If you have completed your inputs to Nahuel Huapi National Park and Mehadia shall I post them on DYK? Rosie seems to be busy. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 11:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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East German films

I added a hundred or so movies yesterday, and rashly enough not to notice that they were listed alphabetically. I'll mend that later. Some of the films on the list, like Ehe im Schatten, are extremely important, while others are barely covered in any source. P.S., Der schweigende Stern already has an article which uses its English-language title. Bahavd Gita (talk) 08:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

There are ten or so films from that list that I'll turn into basic start-level articles in the next week or so. I've expanded Five Cartridges today to the best of my ability, and I'll continue in others. Thank you for your work in this area, it is a rather neglected one. Bahavd Gita (talk) 14:27, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Credo accounts

I thought you might be interested in getting free access to Credo Reference, see Wikipedia:Credo accounts. Shdjuey (talk) 08:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Unique names for Burma settlements

I processed Plastikspork's data and discovered it contains 49 exact duplicates, and only 37775 unique records. I've asked for clarification.

You can see how far I've got by looking at my current version of proposed renamings (with rationale) at User:Hebrides/Burma/1, User:Hebrides/Burma/2 and User:Hebrides/Burma/3. This data still contains the 49 duplicates. I've spotted a few other things that still need attending to – for example, I'm adding a test to check whether an existing page is actually a disambiguation page – in which case, the settlement pagename will need ", Burma" on the end. Please take a look at the proposed renaming scheme and feedback to me any problems. Once the names are agreeable, I'll add the code to churn out all the navboxes and disambiguation pages. — Hebrides (talk) 11:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Napua Stevens

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Missing content

Yes - especially with France. The data is there, but I've found very little effort tends to be made to incorporate it into English. Or translate it, for that matter. I think of all the large foreign-language Wikis it's still the one that needs most transferrence. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:05, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Funny how that happens, sometimes. Happened to me once; an article that I started was hugely expanded. And then I read a novel set in the same village, and came to look it up...and added the novel to the article. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Mmm. I still think the worst I've encountered has been Mauritania. Can't even find a decent word about their cathedral...only that there is one. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Aye, that's true. And a lot of people are turning here for coverage (of course) - check out stats.grok.se for terms like "Libya" and "Muammar Qaddafi". They've shot up thousands-fold in the past month. Especially Qaddafi, whose article was relatively quiet before the unrest started. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:31, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, yes - I think those SSIs are certainly inherently notable - I haven't seen anyone claim otherwise (though it wouldn't surprise me). We don't have much in this country that's quite comparable, though - perhaps the National Wildlife Refuge system, but that's about it, really. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Local libraries are a boon for that kind of research. Fairfax County has a County Room in the main library in Fairfax - you can't check a lot of material out of there, but there's a lot of primary sources available. Ah, well...I have the Library of Congress available to me, so I'm spoilt for choice, really. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Ooh, nice and slick, thanks. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I played around with it a bit when it was new. It's a lot of fun; it has a great deal of potential if it takes off. Just needs a little time, is all. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:20, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Even on fairly minor subjects, it's quite good. As long as the material is there for it to be created. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure the time is right just yet. The website may support such videos, but I'm not sure how many computers would. I'm sure there are still quite a lot that would not - hell, I still have trouble with the sounds sometimes. Perhaps it's something to consider in the next decade or so... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:32, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Maybe in the next couple of decades, once second- and third-generation computers have more sophisticated video capabilities, we could begin talking about it in earnest. As it stands now, though, I think that too many people would be unable to access the technology, and thus would be driven away from the encyclopedia as a whole.

Sorry, busy, busy afternoon. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Llanwenarth House, The Good Hotel Guide

Hello! Your submission of Llanwenarth House, The Good Hotel Guide at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:09, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

St Teilo

I have added some text. I hope it is OK.--Nvvchar. 18:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Wonderful work

As always. Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:35, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Mother India GA nomination

Just to let you know that I completed the GA review of Mother India and placed it on hold pending a couple of relatively minor issues that need to be resolved. Please see Talk:Mother India/GA1 for details. Thank you, –MuZemike 20:35, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

A-Class Review Request

I was wondering if you could do an A-Class review on the Frank Buckles article. If you can't, that's cool, just please let me know either way. Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • Coor. Online Amb'dor • 22:07, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Zygmunt Turkow

Thanks for appreciating my new neighborhood in Wikipedia. I started editing because the musicians I am currently researching for my cd project were not represented and that was frustrating - and also because the wonders of modern technology (eg somebody at the New York Public Library created an online index for it) have made it possible for me to use the gazillion-page Lexicon fun yidishn teater without having to print it out!!!

I think it would be great if you felt like working on Zygmunt Turkow and his network, which is a little out of my purview because I'm sticking (at present) to musicians, and if they are considered dramatists as well, that's fine, but straight serious actors (like Turkow and Ida Kaminska etc) who don't sing are a whole different thing - still, they keep coming up over and over again in my sources. Jane Peppler (talk) 23:32, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Krishnapuram Palace

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:03, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I have completed my inputs to Fishing industry in Greenland. Let us finish A-Z as originally planned. I am not yet ready for Africa articles of the magnitude you have mentioned.--Nvvchar. 07:37, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Mother India GA

Congratulations. I marvel at how you were able to improve it so quickly. I added it it here as an example. BollyJeff || talk 12:52, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Mother India

Thank you so much for your hard work - I'm very proud of you. Hey nice link... What is this site? Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't think it's impossible, but it's tough. Mother India appears to be an article with more coverage and unsurprisingly so. But even articles like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaenge are not that easy to expand despite their great stature and success and the fact that they are relatively recent. When I still had the time for it, I thought of exapnding articles like Dil Se, Dil Chahta Hai, Umrao Jaan and Ankur. Some of Raj Kapoor's movies deserve so much better articles than they have. Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)