User:Dr. Blofeld/November 2010

I thought you would like this. It is insane how high it is. The video was made shortly after the article was expanded and used some of the text too.--NortyNort (Holla) 09:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Category:French film stubs splits

Greetings! I see you have recently created one or more new stub templates or categories. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. This helps to reach consensus about whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries, where comments are welcome as to any rationale for this stub type. Please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! Dawynn (talk) 13:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Er, you do realise Dawynn that I am one of the most active participants of the stub sorting proposals project right? I haven't had time of late but if you actually look thorugh the archives...♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:39, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

United States Geological Survey

Hello, I`m just wondering how many articles can be exctracted from the U.S. Geological Survey website?--Александр Мотин (talk) 17:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Tirana County

It's complicated and you better can ask User:kedadi --Vinie007 18:46, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Tiger Wood's other life

I see you have reverted my edit to the subsection of Tiger Wood's personal life. If it is not a trivia section then what exactly is it other than other? A section titled other would seem to be an open dumping ground for anyone with a Tiger ref. So why not be honest and call it trivia. Since the section largely deals with the size of his boat and price of his home, perhaps the section can be retitled, "Some things Woods has spent his fortune on".--Wlmg (talk) 22:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Bhutan

I wanted to say that the Flag of Bhutan article is a current GA nomination. I got a flag expert to work on it and he nominated it. Also do you think the main Bhutan article is good for GA? Spongie555 (talk) 04:08, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Religion in San Marino

I am enlightened about San Marino. My knowledge of Christianity is limited to the appreciation of the Missionary zeal of the Christians since I have not studied this religion in depth. However, based on an important reference, I added some text. If you find it OK, I will try to find more references to add additional information, if any.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll do those church translations after work. How about Monte Titano? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok; the basilica for San Marino #2 . --Rosiestep (talk) 14:42, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I have now added some more text with references to both Religion in San Marino and Basilica di San Marino. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 21:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Not at all. It is highly educative.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 21:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I am collecting references for Breiðamerkurjökull and Hofn for a double article. Should be done by 4th. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 21:41, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I know about it since I suggested it and you created it on your sandbox page and informed me on my talk page. However, I have a further suggestion that let us exclude the countries where we have already completed two articles since all our collaborative efforts have been posted on DYK. We can come back to these countries after we have covered all the remaining countries out of the overall list of 185 countries. By the way, what is the source of geography and environment section ( I have not been able to locate the source) in Mount Titano article. I have already added from the UNESCO sources as relevant to the Mount.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 22:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Monte Titano; you and nvv did a nice job. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:47, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I've finished with my editing of Religion in San Marino, Basilica di San Marino, and Monte Titano. I couldn't get to any of the others; had to keep one eye on the mid-term elections. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:08, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Import

For articles like Legislature V of Italy the cleanest way to do it is to get an admin to use Special:Import to import the article, complete with attribution tail into enwiki, usually in a backwater namespace like Mediawiki talk, then move it into article space or userspace for translation. I'd be willing to do some for you (a limited number - I can't keep up with your edit rate). It's best for articles that have some history and content, I wouldn't bother with importing stubs. Acroterion _(talk) 18:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Good to know that my blood, sweat and tears are deeply appreciated. They do have content, the most important officials of that period. History and text can be added in due course...The reason why we have such gaping holes in the encyclopedia as this is precisely because people "wouldn't bother". Not good enough. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:49, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't be testy, I didn't put it well - I wouldn't bother to go through "import" for articles with a couple of revisions, but for articles with a few dozen edits and several paragraphs, it's really quite easy, and credits those nice Italians who labored on the articles. See what Legislature I of Italy's history looks like now. Acroterion _(talk) 18:55, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, "transferred from Italian wiki" is usually OK.. Feel free to do the remaining 6 legislatures.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Will do. I've imported rather a lot from frwiki, since I read French reasonably well, and I've filled in a number of the gaping holes nobody cared about, but which matter to me. I've found some quite substantial articles that have gone begging on enwiki that way. However, I personally have just gone ahead and written from scratch when it's just a stub, since there's nothing that needs attribution in such a case. I think Graham87 and I are the leading importers, Graham leads by a mile. Seriously, if you see something that you think ought to be imported, rather than just attributed, let me know. Acroterion _(talk) 19:04, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey I started Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI for this purpose!! There is massive amounts of material which should be transwikied from other wikipedias but very few are consistently doing so I'm afraid. We certainly do need some form of bot to do it smoothly but that is unlikely to go without serious disapproval. Thanks for your help.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd missed that. Importing's limited to fr, de, es, it, pl, nost and meta, but there's plenty there to do. I doubt that a bot will be possible, but I'll add my name to the list and will do what I can. Acroterion _(talk) 19:20, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Glad to have you on board. Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki is the project, (correction). We did start planning a bot to generate content like this and to increase the coordination between wikipedias but without any sort of system it is just left to vain attempts of individuals myself to occaisonally struggle to transfer things and not managing to do it regularly because its so stressful and demanding to do so manually.... !! If you would be interested in some sort of scheme to import content from other wikis let me know. A bot maybe..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I had a DYK today with an imported and translated article, Fort de Loncin. There's nothing left of the original text after I got done with rewriting and referencing, but it's the sort f thing I've been doing. Acroterion _(talk) 19:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Super work. Can I entrust you then to transfer legilatures XI-XVI (11-16)?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I'll do that now. It's easier than merging the histories of articles that already exist here. Acroterion _(talk) 19:38, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. Much easier that way. Just move them to the English title. Acroterion _(talk) 19:43, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Nono, what I mean is can you transfer the remaining missing articles, Legislature XI of Italy, Legislature XII of Italy, Legislature XIII of Italy, Legislature XIV of Italy, Legislature XV of Italy, Legislature XVI of Italy.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I can't change the name until I get it over here, so I have to import to the Italian name and then move them where they ought to go. Nothing's quite as easy as it ought to be. All done, just needs templates and such. Acroterion _(talk) 19:56, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Legislatures

I'll do what I can, but not today, so much, I'm afraid - I've had a few short bouts of editing to take a break from things, but it's a heavy day. And I'm leaving early, and I have rehearsal tonight. So likely not until tomorrow, sorry. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:51, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

If I can get to AWB tonight, I'll do so - otherwise tomorrow night for sure. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Italian bishops

I saw the proposal, thought I would see how many are already tagged and noticed some which could be moved out of Italy-bio-stub. Waacstats (talk) 21:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		I present you with this barnstar for cleaning up, referencing, and expanding Religion in San Marino beyond all expectations! Thank you for your work.--hkr Laozi speak 21:52, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

San Marino

Usually, I'm mainly focused on Eastern religions and philosophies, like Confucianism and Taoism (my first article was on a Confucian topic), but Western religions are intriguing as well! It's always enlightening to expand one's horizons.--hkr Laozi speak 22:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

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Italian cabinets

I discovered that we already have articles on Berlusconi I Cabinet, Berlusconi II Cabinet, Berlusconi III Cabinet and Berlusconi IV Cabinet after I imported their Italian equivalents. I deleted them, since the existing articles don't depend on them. They can be restored and merged if need be, but I'd rather not perform a complex history merge involving a foreign language, thank you, so any material that's incorporated should just be attributed the traditional way. Also, we already have Prodi I Cabinet,. Prodi II Cabinet and Tambroni Cabinet, so I didn't import those. Working on the others, and will move to Government of Foo X as appropriate. I haven't moved the titles already here. Acroterion _(talk) 02:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm up to Government of Leone II, will do the last batch tomorrow. Acroterion _(talk) 02:45, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Matengo people

Orlady (talk) 06:03, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Matengo Highlands

Orlady (talk) 06:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Antarctica articles

Hi. I have noticed that you have been creating articles on features of Antarctica mainly using USGS GNIS for the source. Earlier this year, I began merging many of the small articles, especially on mountains and peaks into the respective range page. It is highly unlikely that most of these small articles will be updated anytime soon with more information and most get tagged with various maintenance templates such as the "no or few articles link to this page". So it makes sense to simply merge the small articles on the mountains of a range into the respective range page. You can see examples of the merges at Quartermain Mountains, Deep Freeze Range and Admiralty Mountains. A redirect is put in place for the merged from articles. See Wikipedia:Notability (geography) especially on "Named geographic features" which I think applies to a lot of the articles based solely on GNIS. While that page is not an official policy, I do think that a lot of the mountains and peaks can simply be redirected to the respective range and that page contain the GNIS info on the mountain/peak. RedWolf (talk) 06:53, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I have no objections to merging, in fact I would strongly support this for many articles. However the text needs to be written into wikipedia first somewhere. Merging can be done later.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

re: Moments in Rock and Roll

Haha, yes, too much fret wankery indeed! Although I do like long improvised fret-antics. That said, I'm more of an alt-rock kind of person. Lugnuts (talk) 07:48, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Iceland

Breiðamerkurjökull and Hofn are done. However, Hofn may need little more expansion. Pl check. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:45, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Please go slow. Not at this pace. I can't cope so many simultaneously when they are to be substantially expanded.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 17:49, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Breiðamerkurjökull and Höfn ‎ except that I could not locate the reference for the tag. So I have deleted the sentence. Georgia articles, Abrskil Cave , Abrskil and Bzyb River are also done. Otap will be done this evening. It is a hard nut.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 08:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I can't find more than what is added so far on Otapi. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 12:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Of the Abkhazia articles, I only had time to work on Otap. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Otap

Doesn't look like it. In the data I have, there are no details for the Abkhaz ASSR whatsoever. Is there anything specific (apart from the population) you were looking for?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 3, 2010; 14:46 (UTC)

I'll check if I can find anything useful.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 3, 2010; 14:55 (UTC)

DYK for Pomegranate production in Afghanistan

-- Cirt (talk) 00:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Makambako

-- Cirt (talk) 00:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Can a talk page section heading be a possible libel of a BLP?

88

Shouldn't it be mentioned that she isn't a witch? Robert Berkshire (talk) 20:12, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Political campaigns, General election, 2nd paragraph. Tarc (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Why is this section titled "88" it would seem to have no relevancy to the editor's concern. The number 88 is however neo-Nazi code talk Eighty-eight is used as code among Neo-Nazis to identify each other and perhaps is libel of a BLP even if it's on the talk page. Eighty-eight is used as code among Neo-Nazis to identify each other --Wlmg (talk) 17:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC) Here --Wlmg (talk) 03:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I have no idea what you mean. i've never edited the Christine O'Donnell article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:54, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh I was soliciting a general opinion on the matter of libel. I know you didn't make any edits there.--Wlmg (talk) 13:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah I see. Dunno, but anything conflicting and anthing that could potentially cause a conflict or is strongly disparaging to any BLP should be removed from the talk page just to be on the safe side in my view..♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:27, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Tirana County

-- Cirt (talk) 18:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Reply

Will check it out later. Shahid • ^Talk2me 00:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting me like a vandal. It really shows that you don't give a damn about anything I have to say. That's it - adios. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:08, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

I cannot watch every possible article. You too have turned to me many times when some article of yours was facing troubles and I was there to support me so quit getting preachy with me. I told you "Will check it out later." because I had no time to go on. You take it personally and you even attack me personally in such a way that makes me wonder if it's really you or someone else. Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:23, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

First, I do not owe you any justifications. Secondly, I thought you were referring me to a discussion, not a particular revision, that's why. I was in a great hurry, and I care about every article no matter what it is where Bolly is concerned. Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

I inserted the image into the Barsaat article - now they can't delete it anyway. I think it's very relevant there. ? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:52, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Finland

I've expanded Kastelholm Castle. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:29, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

I have completed Åland Maritime Museum also for double artcile nom with Ålands Museum & Åland Art Museum. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 05:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

hello fellow evil mastermind

hi Dr.Blofeld of SPECTRE, i am gathering a meeting of the worlds greatest evil villians including, Darth vader, Ming the merciless, Skeletor, Dr. Doom, the Master from doctor who and of course me Lex Luthor (lerd is just a secret identity or is it?), and now we are going to use a traction beam to collide the moon with the earth! Mwahahahahahahaha, happy editting--Lerdthenerd (talk) 10:31, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Azeline Hearne

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DYK for Samangan

-- Cirt (talk) 18:03, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Samangan Province

-- Cirt (talk) 18:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Khulm River

-- Cirt (talk) 18:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Sulmues - > Sulmuesi

First of all thanks for the very kind words both at the Sulmues talk page and at the "Sulmuesi" ones. I can't edit under "Sulmues" because I don't have the password for it any longer. --Sulmuesi (talk) 21:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw Tirana County. Beautiful job as always. You have been one of the few constructive editors within WP Albania in these three weeks that I was absent. --Sulmuesi (talk) 21:26, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Id Gah Mosque

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Mignot Memorial Hospital, Alderney

This and Alderney Society Museum have been mostly completed. May be you could trace the BBC coverage! I could not find more.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC) Let us move on to other countries. For the present no more Alaska.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Brayo was already in my list. But most book references are of the 19th century. Can you suggest some recent books or references as the harbour now looks impressive? By the way do you have some links Alderly since you seem to be fond of this Island. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:06, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Russian translations

I actually have his contributions on my to-(re-)do list since March of this year; I just never had a chance to look them over. Thanks for the reminder! I do, however, disagree that such edits are welcome and/or useful—if our readers want a broken machine translation, they can feed the article from ru_wiki to google translate (or any other translation engine of their choice) all on their own. Dumping such translations into our article space is like dumping waste in a bustling downtown in hopes that folks there might find something that's useful! If these machine translations were of a resource that's not easily available online, it would have been a different matter, but since they are just ru_wiki translations, I don't really see the benefit (although the users' intentions are, of course, in good faith). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 6, 2010; 17:08 (UTC)

USVI

Awesome - excellent expansion. Once I'm done putting laundry in I'll finish St. Croix, and I think we can get some stub tags for each of the islands to clean things up a tad. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:15, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it was fine. I'd love to see a bot get to work on some of these places, especially as the data is there. Perhaps it's time to float the idea again and see if one can't be coded? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:28, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps, but even a sketched-in gazetteer entry for any village would be nice. Right - off to finish those Virgin Islands entries. Tonight I'll do some more Antarctic place names. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:38, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure - I'll work on the mikims tomorrow; I'm going to do a few Antarctica articles before bed, I think. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 08:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll see what I can come up with - can't think of any offhand, though. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:19, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations

Briliant job on the religious buildings in Albania. Some of them, like the Monastery of St. John in Moscopole can be expanded with lots of historical info.Alexikoua (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Klotok

-- Cirt (talk) 00:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Vajrayana Buddhism

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National parks

I did not spot the National Parks template or would have used and extended it. I think Protected Areas works though. It will not get that large. There are still several missing articles, which I may start after cleaning up the stubs. This is a general subject that seems important to me, and has plenty of good sources. For example, a search on Omo forest reserve limited to books with preview and full view gives all sorts of results. It is easy to cobble together a starter article. And then the results are a bit depressing. No villains, just people doing what makes sense in their circumstances, what they have to do, but sad in a way. I will keep plugging away. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 01:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India

You like articles related to architecture. Here is one which is a comprehensive list of all UNESCO sites in India, both inscribed and in the tentative list. I am sure you will be happy to nominate this, after any editing that is needed, on DYK with a really catchy hook. I have seen a number of lists of UNESCO sites being nominated on DYK in recent weeks by other users. Thanks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:25, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I made slight additions to the hook to fit in an img and also correct the figure to 28. The second para of the lead section gives the details.Thanks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:54, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I am getting info on Braye Harbour, which should be ready by tomorrow. Please go ahead and nominate the Sugar production article as I won't be able to contribute today. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:05, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

See Braye Harbour. I have added lot of text. However, Entomology section needs referencing from the external links. I will start with Algeria articles now. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:21, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I am trying to fit infobox for Saint Anne, Alderney but not successful so far. Something is going wrong. Wasted two hours fixing it. Text is almost ready to be posted in main space. I tried to get some lovely pictures posted on flickr but the author refused to change it from the non commercial use restriction. You may now like to nominate Braye Harbour. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:44, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

The original suggestion was from you. I like the history of the place (World War II).-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 23:28, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Palo y hueso for deletion

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"... that the 1968 movie Palo y hueso ... ? Aymatth2 (talk) 21:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

RE: Port Harcourt

I'm slowly working through Port Harcourt from the top down, I just have to find sources for the paragraphs below the history. I'm also touching on Lagos as well. I'm glad you enjoyed the Enugu article. Ukabia - talk 14:50, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Arapaj

Found these good sources. [1] and [2]. The discoveries were made in 1973--Sulmuesi (talk) 16:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Cape of Rodon

It's north of Durres [3] --Sulmuesi (talk) 16:22, 7 November 2010 (UTC) No, thank you, I had messed up the coordinates. --Sulmuesi (talk) 16:25, 7 November 2010 (UTC) Sure thing, I didn't even know that. --Sulmuesi (talk) 16:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I've found somehting, although not too much. I will check further on both villages.Alexikoua (talk) 18:23, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Ohosu Game Reserve

You took off all my tags! I just discovered this great option that gives you a new tab. If you don't like a page you click on the tab, then check all the things you think are wrong with the article. Some of the choices are: article may require additional categories, article may require cleanup, article may be confusing or unclear, article needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, and/or spelling, article needs expansion, article needs attention from an expert on the subject, article lead section is too long and should be shortened or article lead section is too short and should be expanded (do not pick both), tone of article is not appropriate and article needs to be wikified. These all apply to Ohusu Game Reserve. Also they all apply to Palo y hueso. Come to think of it, they all apply to any article you don't like. I love it. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:17, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I was just kidding. I will expand the Ohosu article. I was playing with the new tool, forgot to back out the result. I personally find these notices giving vague criticism very irritating. "Don't complain, do something about it", my view. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:14, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I wish I could help - it would be useful. I also wish Lake Chad was still that big. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:57, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Ikoyi looks good, but the photo in Cross River National Park is spectacular! I also much prefer the relief map for these articles. But the pushpin is hard to see. There must be a way to define pushpin shape and color. To be picky, I am sensitive to the fact that 10% of males are color-blind. Ideally, a pushpin would be a symbol in white with a black border, or vice-versa, depending on how dark the background is. I can't see why Béla Bartók would be an unusual choice for the film music. Argentina is a sophisticated place with a very European outlook, not just Spanish but Italian, German, etc. Even Welsh. They say that in the world of fashion, most innovations start in Buenos Aires, move to Europe a year later, and finally make it to North America a year or two after that. Lately Uncle G (talk · contribs) has put in some crazy DYK hooks, sort of like "... that Palo y hueso launched the careers of Nicolás, Esteban and Julio?" You have to click to figure out what on earth it is about, which I suppose is the idea. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Maybe the pushpin could also be made a bit bigger? I spent some time in Uruguay some years ago and heard this joke: "How do you make an Argentinian? You take some Spanish sperm and mix it with some Italian sperm. And then you add just a little bit of shit. That is how you make an Argentinian." The relationship between Uruguay and Argentina is a bit like that between Canada and the United States. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 14:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

You are suffering from an extreme lack of focus in your choice of subjects. I think there is a medical term for the condition. Probably incurable. Stewed snails with onions and pepper rings sounds interesting. No more! I keep seeing redlinks that need fixing. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 14:43, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for P.E. de Josselin de Jong

Orlady (talk) 00:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong

Orlady (talk) 00:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Enugu

Hi Dr. Blofeld, I know you are interested in articles in Africa, and wondered if you might be interested in copyediting Enugu, a city in Nigeria. I peer reviewed it recently and it is already a GA, but I think it needs some work before it would have a chance at FAC. Hope all is well with you, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 13:24, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I agree it has some places where there seem to be gaps or more infroamtion is needed. I pointed out as many as I could find at Wikipedia:Peer review/Enugu/archive2, you might want to comment there or on the talk page of the main editor. Please let me know if I can help by reviewing it again, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Not a problem at all. I was just hoping someone could help with a copyedit eventually - thanks, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Rinia Park

Cbl62 (talk) 18:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

George J. Geis

You already diverted me. I keep getting diverted. Oaxacan municipalites, US megachurches and baptists, Nigerian traditional states and protected areas, French explorers, bandleaders, riots, Argentinian movies full of redlinks. This is ridiculous. :~) I may take a look, but tomorrow. He does sound interesting. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

O.k. No more redlinks in Palo y hueso. But I have an uneasy feeling that Miguel Ligero, the Argentinian film actor, has become slightly blended with , the Spanish film actor. Never mind. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

That is interesting. PD-AR-Photo is just 25 years from creation, 20 from publication. I will check around - probably easy to find photos. To me, photos are great. Maps too. Even an infobox is better than just plain text. I didn't nominate the movie. Maybe should, but not sure it has much general interest. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

The relief map of Nigeria

That is a beautiful job,It is highly useful and needed,thanks.Earlymen (talk) 02:23,9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Religion in San Marino

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Musicians

There are singers like that, too - like Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson. She was always something of a "singers' singer" - the critics adored her, to a man (I've seriously never heard one of them say a word against her.) I can't say I was overly enamored of her, but then I never heard her live...and that makes all the difference in the world sometimes. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Monte Titano

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DYK for Pawan River

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Lamandau River

The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Next

Hello! I'm back; hopefully the laptop will behave. Which country are we working on now? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:46, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I have added more than 5x text to Saint Anne, Alderney, and I have also requested Rosiestep to jump in with more text and infobox.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:15, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Rosiestep has noted on my talk page that she has completed her inputs to Saint Anne, Alderney.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 15:55, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hotels...

...are done. I may be able to throw my hat in on Antarctica today; we'll see how it goes. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:45, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Happy to be of help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:14, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Antarctic stubs

Can I suggest a few changes to your standard format for the Antarctic articles you're creating?

• The {{coor}} template has been replaced by {{coord}} (and I suggest display=title,inline is appropriate).
• The {{convert}} template is worth using for units.
• I think it's worth stating explicitly that the sites are in Antarctica (for those not familiar with the more detailed regions of Antarctica).
• DI (for Discovery Investigations) wasn't a familiar abbreviation to me, so I expanded and wikilinked it (likewise mention of the RSS Discovery as "Discovery") at Fantome Rock.
• WP:SHIPS recommends italicising the names of ships.
• I turned your "mapped by" and "named by" details into full sentences.

See [4] and [5] for examples of the sort of changes I've made. I may continue editing some of these but you're a long way ahead of me — and apologies if I'm teaching a grandmother to suck eggs. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. During the drive I won't be doing any formatting. The most important thing is that we get these articles started. Next stage then people can run AWB to make these sorts of minor edits, which are minor edits, which ever way you put it. Then the next stage in my view should be to merge all of the stubs related to one area into a single article if they can't be expanded. It would be different if I was actually writing the text myself but trust me it is much more efficient to do it this way and then run a bot/AWB to make these formatting changes later. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:17, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough; I'll stop editing them. But if you're creating them by some sort of mechanised process (excuse my ignorance) then it might at least be worth using the newer coord template. Must learn how to use AWB. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Yep, the text is already written,, its a paste job. It would genuinely be unfeasible to spent the time amending each one as the vast majority require exactly the same reformatting, to replace Named for with It is named after or to add Antarctica on the end of the opening sentences. Nautrally I agree with your reocmmendations most of which are minor issues I am fully aware of; that can be done much more efficiently later by an AWBer or a bot who could do the entire lot by ransacking a category within an hour I'd say. To my knowledge you can program say Category:Mountains of Antarctica and use AWB to add say , Antarctica at the end of every first sentence. If you are doing these sort of repetitive clean up edits it is almost a compulsory tool. Ask User:Rich Farmbrough about it who is the most prolific user of it. As I see there are no serious issues which would prevent them from being created especially as at a later date they will be sorted and many most likely merged into articles on a given area and made more comprehensive with other sources.. As I say it would be different if I was actually writing the texts but they aren't mine, its PD material already written...18:01, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for help

Hi Dr. Blofeld! Long time no see. Please see my talk in Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) and help me check the information in this article. It’s likely that the map and the list of countries included in this triangle is wrong. Thank you very much.Genghiskhan (talk) 03:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Great Mosque of Algiers

Simple. Editing conflict. I was in the process of editing. It is restored now.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Finished my inputs. I have counted the prose expansion which is more than 5x.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:09, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you are tempting me. Let me finish the targetted ones first. I will come back to it later. I have been to many places in Algeria including Oran and my interest in this country is quite deep rooted and goes back to the 80s. I did a dam project study called the Ouled Melluk Project. I will come to this mosque later after we finish A-Z list. I have started on Santa Cruz Fort, Oran in my User:Nvvchar/sandbox/Miscel.. Braye Harbour and Saint Anne, Alderney ‎ are yet to be posted on DYK. Rosiestep has added text in the latter article. Also please see Hofn article. There is some problem with the referencing for the double article hook. There were serious problems with the references used in the glacier article as pointed out by Hofnian. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I have moved Fort Santa Cruz, Oran to main space for further editing by you. Let us do Ghardaïa as two articles with M'Zab Valley as separate UNESCO site. I will work on both today.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 03:57, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I've expanded Ghardaïa. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:21, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• I have further expanded Ghardaïa. I don't think there is scope for making it into two articles as the present expansion needs a large input to make it 5x.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I could not find more on Ghardaïa. All three articles of Algeria are now completed and ready for DYK. I am now moving on to the American Samoa (the floating volcano) articles.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 16:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

You tempted me into this Ketchaoua Mosque. I could not resist finishing it. It is ready for DYK by the due date. But give me a break to finish some of my articles on India. I will do the Burmese articles a little later but before the due dates for DYK posting. No more suggestions for a while. My dear friend, at this rate it will take years to finish our ambitious two DYKs of the A-Z list. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 05:39, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Latvia photos

Requested! Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:24, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I think often they get handled pretty fast. If you want to bug anyone, the people with the software to do this batch uploading are listed at the bottom of the page under past batch uploads. Looks like there's three users that can do it. I'd bug one or more of them. Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:57, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Not bad - best we have here is a senator who once posed for Cosmopolitan. Excellent work finding the photostream, too - that will be quite useful. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:59, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Even so, we can't compare here in the States - for example... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll remember that the next time I fly American...

Now all we have to do is begin articles for all of those deputies... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Even so, there are worse... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:21, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hell, I don't even remember everything that I started. Seriously - I was looking at an article not too long ago and was shocked to discover that I started it sometime last year. Is that a sign of Wikiholism? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:23, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Disconcerting, isn't it? Right - I have a few things to attend to, but I hope to do an Antarctica marathon at some point today. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

She reminds me of that lady from You Only Live Twice - the one who got fed to the piranhas. Helga Brandt, she was. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:34, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes - I can see that. (Though I don't much remember OHMSS - I only saw it once, and it remains my least favorite of the canon.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:58, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Nope - Roanoke County isn't an area I know well. Roanoke proper I've been to once or twice, years ago - my father lived there when he was a boy. It's a not unpleasant place, from what I can recall. Botetourt's a different matter, now - the freshman dorm complex where I lived at W&M was called Botetourt, and he has a county named for him as well. Popular fellow, apparently. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

It's the largest in that part of the state. Not very flashy, but as I recall it's become a financial center in recent years. Still, with all due respect, one isn't likely to go there unless one is passing through the area. I seem to recall having been there twice, once when I was very young; I don't get down to southwest Virginia much, though I have a soft spot in my heart for Buchanan County and Grundy. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I know - it's freaky. Makes newpage patrol a bit tricky sometimes, though. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:09, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, remember when they tried to create their own site to rival Wikipedia? Yeah, that didn't work out, so now they're piggybacking on our success. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:37, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hopefully I can do a few before I leave; if not, tonight for sure I can do some. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:46, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Awesome - I've run into a couple myself. Can't remember offhand what they were, but they suggested distinct alternatives that might be misconstrued. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:27, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure - let me do some more Antarctica and then I'll do that. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:10, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Right. I'll work on Antarctica a bit more later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:55, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Very nice - excellent work. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Loads. I'm going to do another Virginia county or two once Antarctica is finished. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:41, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes - she lacks that self-satisfied air that I always get from Jolie. Much more pleasant-seeming. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:38, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Breiðamerkurjökull and Höfn

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Proposed Tibetan naming conventions

A few months ago, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks — Nat Krause^{(Talk!·What have I done?)} 22:21, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Monte Titano

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Religion in San Marino

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Abrskil Cave

The DYK project (nominate) 12:05, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Otap

The DYK project (nominate) 12:06, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Abrskil

The DYK project (nominate) 12:06, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Bunkers in Albania

Could you help me bringing Bunkers in Albania to a DYK? --Vinie007 15:35, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Braye Harbour and Saint Anne, Alderney

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Hi. Oh all is well here now that puter is fixed; hope with you too. Lots of fam stuff planned over the next couple of weeks what with Thanksgiving and all. I noom'ed Botetourt Springs. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe that the BaRozwi and Rozwi are the same people so that one is covered. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

The first sentence would need to be reworded. I suggest this reference which says "Where a harbor (Braye Harbour) is sheltered by a long breakwater" [6]. I have also mostly completed this article Makushin Volcano under Aleutian Islands. However, I could not reference to para of the lead section. May be your search could help.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 07:03, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

My inputs are now complete. I have found two references to the native name of the Makushin but could not locate the Russian meaning. May consider deleting the text in the lead part related to this. Expansion is several times more than the original text.

-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:27, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Yup, edit conflict, but actually I'm running late to pop out and meet up with my niece. Figured I would just give some minor brush up to the volcano before leaving. So go for it! --Rosiestep (talk) 15:05, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Reference 7 of Alaska Volcano Observatory is the most authentic. Most other sources also mention 1800. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 15:17, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

If the common references for the Braye Harbour and Saint Anne articles, pl consider posting them as individual DYKs with separate text for the hooks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 15:22, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Change suggested is OK. No problem. I have refixed the imgs in multiple format. The infobox image looks very impressive. But the central img looks very big, Can its height be reduced. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 15:43, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Glacier articles posted on 4th November qualifying the 5x criteria. But there is review remark rejecting one artcile on the glacier and suggesting expansion of the Hofn article by 500 ch. May be you could reply to these observations. Another observation is on the double article hook on the Åland Maritime Museum. Suggestion Lai is good but I can't find the reference for the book given in the Grain Race article and quoate the page number. Please have a look at both these hooks, apart from the other observation on the reference which is a wiki source. We seem to be getting into trouble with our DYKs.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 12:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

The Breiðamerkurjökull prose was expanded from 154 ch (0n 31st October) to 3852 ch now. It is more than 5x. I don't know why 2x has been mentioned by the reviewer. I have noted this in the DYK talk page. I have also noted that Hofn prose has been expanded from 793ch to 5381 ch. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I added some text to Kanmaw, but very hard to find more text.I spent four hours finding sources with several combination. Great Tenasserim River is doable. On Tenasserim, there is more on the province than on the town. May be Rosiestep could also help, if she has time.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:59, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Makushin Volcano is still to be nominated. It is really a very informative one. Should get maximum hits.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:03, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Two for each country is still fine provided we don't do double article hooks. Each can be posted with an independent hook unless very strong references linking both can be found as in the case of Tibetan and Sikkim articles.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:15, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Fixed reference and also an img to the hook. Fagatogo, and Tutuila as it could subsume Hurricane Val in view of status of references. Umnak we can do after Burma. I have listed two Indian articles one on Coffee production in India and the other on Rice production in India. I have gathered most of the references. Two days job to do the rest. I think we forgot to post this Basilica di San Marino on DYK.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 16:07, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I've expanded Parque Batlle. Later today, I'll take a look at those that nvv mentions. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:16, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I have nominated Makushin Volcano. You may like to post an alternate hook.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 01:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Lest you forget, Parque Batlle is now ready for nomination. Can I nominate the List of UNESCO Heritage Sites of India on Featured List nomination? I will add to the Montavedu tomorrow. I should be able to finish my inputs for GA review also by tomorrow. Thanks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 17:16, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Bzyb River

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Deol

The imagw was kept. Shahid • ^Talk2me 08:58, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Missing articles

Hey man that's great! Glad to have you on board! As for myself, I have been quite inactive the past few months (only doing minor gnomish related things hear and there) but I am sure all the others working at the missing articles section would be happy to see your contributions (recent example eliminating the missing companies sub project). But having said that while doing the stubs feel free to do your DYK articles as well as I actually had a look through some of them and they are quite amazing! My personal favorite being Pomegranate production in Afghanistan! Oh and that is fine re: Antarctica! If you find other lists like that put them on the missing project list for them to get the most visibility!Calaka (talk) 14:12, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Dude, I haven't seen that sub page before and it is brilliant! Don't worry about Time's person of the year: You would be Wikipedian of the year by far! Yeah I really don't think people would make much issue with you creating so long as there is a source or two (and they have no issue with the source as once upon a time with the geo related articles) then it should be all good. Cheers man!Calaka (talk) 14:50, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

AWB

Not sure, sorry. I'll have a look, but it'll have to be later today; I'm going to be out for most of the afternoon. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I can imagine. Especially with the regime in charge now, I'm sure that the flow of information is very tightly controlled. Geography might not seem like something they'd care that much about, but I know that in Soviet times even road maps were carefully regulated by the government. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mignot Memorial Hospital, Alderney

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma Art Club

Starting to think I am being stalked! :~) No problem whatsoever - collaboration is great. If I come across some, I will add them in. I seem to be on a roll doing Burmese artists. Extraordinary the lack of articles. Three when I started. And it is easy to find sources. The only thing annoying is that images of their pictures are not freely available. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:44, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I try to suppress sarcasm, but often fail. Maybe I should stay clear of talk pages altogether. My interests are random subjects I know nothing about, although often I find an area with a lot of potential articles and explore it for a while. I like doing bios. There are so many untouched areas. I am often quite pessimistic about the value of the project, but enjoy doing the verbal jigsaw puzzles. I think I am maybe a bit less willing than you to make a quick entry and move on. A harmless hobby. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

The pictures are great! They hugely improve both articles, bringing them to life. I just assumed there was no way to reproduce recent works, so did not try. I will remember that in future. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 13:14, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I suppose the concern is reuse for commercial purposes. But if the image is a 200px x 300px reproduction of a picture hanging in a national gallery somewhere it is hard to see how it could be exploited. One more artist, then I have to take a break for while - the real world is interfering. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

You probably think that a self portrait is an excellent way to show what the artist looks like and their style in a single image. Very clever. Be warned that the image police have you on their watchlist, and are discussing the right moment to strike, when you are least expecting it.

They really do look good though. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 20:27, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Palauk Subtownship

No problem. Will merge. Done. --Bejnar (talk) 18:50, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Kutkai article is very nice. Actually, the only subtownship that I've found so far is Palauk, and that was pure happenstance. --Bejnar (talk) 19:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Taninthayi Township

Well, the old capital of Tenasserim Township was the same as the state capital, namely Tavoy. With the name changes, it should be the same, i.e. the capital of Tanintharyi Township (with that new extra "r" that the Burmans add) should be Dawei. Why did you think that it wouldn't be Dawei? --Bejnar (talk) 19:56, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll look deeper. --Bejnar (talk) 20:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah, the British townships weren't the same. On the Tanintharyi Division topo map (Map Id: MIMU270v01, dated 15 February 2010) it shows a town named Tanintharyi as the capital. The town of Tanintharyi is on the main north-south coastal road. --Bejnar (talk) 20:14, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

• Actually, we don't usually do a hatnote for regions/townships with similar names when all is disclosed in the lead sentence. I will fill out article on town, at least a bit. --Bejnar (talk) 20:20, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
• According to the 2010 topo map (above)) the modern name is Kyunsu Township, and that is what is used in recent articles in The New Light of Myanmar. --Bejnar (talk) 20:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
• I find no, non-Wikipedia originated, mention of Kiyttsu, either the town or the township. Is it possible that it was a typo by Ekyaw back in 2008? The spelling is not typically Burmese. There is no mention in the GNIS database. I would kill it without redirect. --Bejnar (talk) 21:15, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
• the former name seems to have been Mergui. Coord for Kyunsu Township is: 12° 14' North, 98° 35' East. --Bejnar (talk) 21:30, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah, they used to be one township and were divided. Which is why my old map shows all of those islands as being in Mergui. Corrected for centering, and still on land, I then get 12° 5' 0" N 98° 26' E. The town of Kyunsu is south of center on Kawmaw Island (Kawmaw Kyun). The best map I've found for detail there is here, no lat/long. --Bejnar (talk) 21:59, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I started Kanmaw island, but I need to log off. --Bejnar (talk) 22:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kastelholm Castle

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Uruguay Clearwater Revival

Hi Doc, Well, 'no promise' is a fairly good deal! I am getting things assessed (especially in terms of importance) and classified to "topic=x" so that one (=me too) can easily see what exists or not and where it is best to develop. There are many general articles missing or way too undeveloped. The only active users (2) in Uruguay are mainly focused on sports. The Spanish side is somewhat better. But most of WP South America is not very active. I guess the way things are going, people in these areas have less time to spare. So any help you manage to scrape up will make a difference. By the way, your name seems to be under every stone I turn :) Hoverfish Talk 12:06, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Um, I would be ++thankful if you tell me more about "using those (mapmaking) tools". I am having a lousy time with my learning curve of Inkscape. I have a map, say a jpg or even pdf, I import it in Inkscape, put a new layer over it and then I try to trace out the borders and subdivisions, rivers, whatever. Well, I do it by hand, every milimeter of it, yet with the thought that I missing some much more convenient way. If you have any practical info (beyond the basics which i have read over and over), I would appreciate some links. Oh, and no, I haven't been yet to Termas del Arapey, but everybody sais it's a nioe place, so I might try it some time. Hoverfish Talk 12:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I will asap. Today I doubt I will get any more chance to concentrate on it. Till then, and thanks. Hoverfish Talk 13:07, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, that's really really great! Congrats! I will jump into learning asap. Also there is lots I can do for this article. I will probably get these "cite sources" tags, but I will see what I do about them. Hoverfish Talk 13:11, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I have more for Parque Battle (the barrio). Give me some time to sort it out. Will notify when done. Hoverfish Talk 18:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I will mention a very notable monument which falls slightly outside the West side of your map and the Zoo of Villa Dolores, which falls slighly off the SE side. Take a look at the Google map I have highlighted here and, if possible, strech it out a bit. You don't have to include the area that protrudes towards the NE, as there is nothing notable to mention there. Just West enough to get the Obelisco included and SE to get the Zoo in. Hoverfish Talk 19:13, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

From Spanish to English I can do fairly well. Glad you started a translation page. Are you doing some part now? how shall we ccordinate? Hoverfish Talk 10:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Etymology done, with an uncertainty about a fact on the last section. Hoverfish Talk 13:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Alderney Society Museum

Orlady (talk) 18:02, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Kanmaw Island

Now Kanmaw Kyan. Too bad about the map label for "Kanmaw Island"; something you can change? --Rosiestep (talk) 20:03, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Help. Please differentiate Kanmaw Island, Kanmaw Kyan, and Kanmaw Kyun? --Rosiestep (talk) 20:15, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I put in a request at WP:EAR#Kanmaw Kyun so this doesn't get botched up some more. Also created dab Kanmaw. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Kanmaw island is also done. If I have intruded into your personal article then I don't need credit for this. I thought country articles were to be done first together. I have no probllems with this.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Tanintharyi is also done. I am now working on the Great Tanintharyi River.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

If that is fine with you, then let it be the first article of Uruguay. We can surely come back to Montevideo, which is now 27000 ch a little later when we are somewhat free from the A-Z, as you have called it, the "World Challenge. I am very much disheartened by the GA reaction on the huge article of Thimpu, and the Kathmandu article which has been much interfered by horde of users from Nepal and other places, which has now no hope for making it to GA ever, and on which we worked on for several days.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)"

Thanks for that 200 DYK barnstar. You know how it goes... you just keep writing because that's what you want to do, and eventually, it really adds up to a lot of articles. Also wanted to say it's been nice working on some of these 200 with you. It's noticeable how teaming up improves an article. With the Tanintharyi/Tenasserim articles behind us, what's next on the A-Z? --Rosiestep (talk) 04:54, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Montevideo needs lot of work since most references are not properly cited. (Errors). GA review for Glacier Bay has started. It needs lot of inputs. I will start working on it. However, I would need your help after the simple corrections suggested by the reviewer are attended.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:11, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Yin Yin Nwe

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma navboxes

Basically, I ran the web spider, and created a bulleted list with the hierarchy of places. I wikilinked the titles, although many of these are obviously not going to go to the right place. I split the first page into sections to match to the top level of divisions in Burma. On the second page, I listed all the duplicates, which will be necessary to disambiguate. If you still want navboxes, this should be possible, but I thought I would use this as a first step, and subsequent steps can be made without running the web spider again (i.e., simple post processing). Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 09:11, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Update. Okay, see here. I hope you are coming back some time soon. Best Regards. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:31, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Update. See here again. In particular, look at Shan, since I believe the rest are basically empty. I didn't check that closely. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 18:23, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I believe I figured out the issue with the wonky linking. Check it now, here. I also made a list of the repeated place names (e.g., if the coordinates were removed), which will require disambiguation. Hopefully I got it right this time. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 23:34, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Botetourt Springs, Virginia

The DYK project (nominate) 12:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Request

Do you know an admin who would move Central Montevideo back to Centro, Montevideo. It is a redirect, so I can't move it back. I give my reason in detail here: Talk:Central_Montevideo. Thanks. Hoverfish Talk 14:11, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Alas, the highest level tool I've got is AWB. No time to run for aminship. Hoverfish Talk 15:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

You've done a wonderful job with the neighborhoods! --Góngora (Talk) 17:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, prima! (Btw, did you invent the term "stubbing" or does it precede you?) Yes, following the 59 barrios as shown on the template, some of them will have to be redirected. Itwill not always be easy to decide which to let in mainspace and which to redirect. The way it is, there are composite barrio names containing two or more formerly separate barrios. For example "Capurro and Bella Vista" is one barrio with a composite name, including two areas with different stories and outlook. Neither can claim alone to be one of the 59, so we will have to chose between messing with the leads or move to a composite name (which doesn't sound good} or something. Now that an evil organization has cast the dice, we will have to find a way. Back to history translation now. Hoverfish Talk 19:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Bagyi Aung Soe

Would it be permissible to use [7] to illustrate the article? Great photo - if one could be sure it is of the subject. But the text at http://tinminhtet.blogspot.com/ just looks like ခ်ိဳျမေနတာေတာ့ မဟုတ္။ ဖန္တန္တန္၊ ခ်ဥ္စုပ္စုပ္ ေနရာေတြက အမ်ားသား၊ ပုတ္ေနတဲ့ ေနရာေတြက ရွိေသး။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ဒီထဲမွာ ပိုးေကာင္ျဖစ္လာေတာ့ to me. See User talk:Uncle G#U7 for a discussion of related issues. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Karnataka Map

See Template_talk:Infobox_Indian_jurisdiction#New_karnataka_location_map. I'm not sure if there are any objections to changing the map. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:13, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Höfn

The DYK project (nominate) 06:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Belvedere, United States Virgin Islands

The DYK project (nominate) 06:05, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sugar production in the United States Virgin Islands

The DYK project (nominate) 06:05, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Breiðamerkurjökull

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Palo y hueso

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma Art Club

There's more on the Burma Art Club, including its name change in 1930, in Myint 2004a, pp. 2 and a whole load of potted biographies in Myint 2004b, pp. 3. I've pointed your co-conspirator in the direction of another biographical source (Htun 2007, pp. 89) for U Nyan Shein that I came across. Uncle G (talk) 13:39, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

• Myint, Sein Myo (2004a). "Traditional Ancient Myanmar Painting" (PDF). Myanmar Chronicle. Vol. I, no. 8. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |other= ignored (|others= suggested) (help)
• Myint, Sein Myo (2004b). "Biographical Sketches" (PDF). Myanmar Chronicle. Vol. I, no. 8. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |other= ignored (|others= suggested) (help)

Hello

Burma Art Club: I've completed my edits. Loved it! Btw, it needs to be nom'ed no later than tomorrow. I would have done it myself but didn't know if you were coupling it with something else for a doubler. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:54, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Has Parque Batlle been nom'ed? --Rosiestep (talk) 05:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Well I did get some work done on Montevideo but it's definitely not a piece of cake. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Oops -- got up early to work a bit on Montevideo, made minor fixes, then noticed the tag. Are you doing a major cleanup, or is there any area I can work on? Thanks mate. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Agree it's time to be bold and pare it down. I'm working on the old city section, plaza independencia, etc. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, better! Off to work. Note, with fam arriving for week my time here will be limited. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Montevideo

I should be able to do that with AWB tonight, long as there's no rush. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:53, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Actually - never mind. I can do it sooner than that. I may also do a little copyediting, just to smooth some bits out a little. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

It does. Sure - I don't see that much that needs doing, but I see a few things I could work on. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:07, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes - it looks quite good so far. As I say, just a few small things. Word order, mostly. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't know - I kind of prefer her, actually. Personally, I like Anna Netrebko best of all (and she sings, too, as they used to say about Elisabeth Schwartzkopf). --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

She's funny, too - she's a total stage animal. Can't say that about many singers today. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:10, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I know a lot of people who say that - somehow I'm not among them. But then, I've always had to be different. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:54, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Depends - do you feel like doing Brazilian politicians? I just found a ton of articles about state governors in the Portuguese Wikipedia. Otherwise I can't think of anything shovel-ready, as they say. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

OK - expect a dump there in the not-too-distant future. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:22, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Not sure when I'll be able to get to it, but I'll try to sometime this week. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:36, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

That I can probably make a start on sometime in the next couple of days - I should have some free time to work on it this weekend. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, it's more a matter of not being sure when I'm getting home, so I don't know how much time I'll have to work on anything. In the event, I had less than I expected today, so I just managed some talk pages. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Marseille

All of those arrondissments (and the parent article ) are imported, with the exception of the 1st and 2nd, which already had articles here. Acroterion _(talk) 15:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Replies to all your queries....

I have been SWAMPED at work lately, so I haven't had a lot of time to spend here.... Those maps are very nice. If I see any articles needing maps, I'll let you know! :) I don't know how to use AWB on the commons, and I don't think I have AWB loaded on my new laptop yet. Hopefully those top-priority images are uploaded. I don't know if the bots can sort the images by priority, but once they get started they are very fast getting all the images loaded. I am definitely interested in helping to translate Montevideo, but I'm not sure if I will be able to contribute much for a while (say, until after Christmas). I have a case going to trial on 11/29, and the trial is scheduled to last three weeks. Lately I am working every day, including weekends, and I am staying till 11pm-ish most weekdays. Blagh. Yesterday I was here till 2am. :( Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:57, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

GA review of Park Crescent, Brighton

Nice article. Just a few minor issues I've listed here. Malleus Fatuorum 16:42, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Montevideo

Hey there, maybe I could help out on a section or two. Do you have any specific sections in mind that I could focus on that no one else is working on? --Polylerus (talk) 23:10, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Great going!! I changed the spelling of Villa Muñóz to Muñoz. For some reason this is the way it is written here [8]. Also I redirected Villa Dolores to Parque Batlle, as it is not a barrio by itself and we have now a subsection for it. Also I started Reus al Norte, which you see on every postcard stand in the city. Back to history now. Hoverfish Talk 10:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Keep in mind that the Central Cemetary is something of a museum (not officially as such though), an area where some cultural events take place and generally a "state of the art" place. I was astonished when I visited (I rarely care much for cemetaries). Hoverfish Talk 11:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

There is a mix of British and American English in the article. In Uruguay, generally most of English is taught by Cambridge standards, though there are also American private colleges. I thing it should be neibour, theatre and so on. I'm about to do a full find and replace, but want to have your opinion first. What do you think? Hoverfish Talk 13:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Right! Can't imagine it spelled SPECTER! Ok, done correcting. I even posted a note in WP to keep it British. Hoverfish Talk 15:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, the economy here is in a terrible state anyways, so the article simply reflects this I guess. Shall we import any from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econom%C3%ADa_de_Uruguay? Hoverfish Talk 16:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC) Mmm, not much on Montevideo specifiaclly, now that I look at it...Hoverfish Talk 16:34, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

It used to be a sort of Switzerland, but in recent times they approached EU and they have to conform with several restrictions. So it's not valid any more. Maybe part of history of its economy, like "it used to be called" etc. I'm sure you will find valid search results for "Switzerland of America". Hoverfish Talk 16:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Braye Harbour

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Åland Museum

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

U Mania

One of us is cracking up... I cut stubs out of the list, except Bagyi Aung Soe. I have been holding back on fixing that one, but he really is promoninent with plenty of sources. Will do it now. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 15:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Saint Anne, Alderney

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Åland Maritime Museum

The DYK project (nominate) 18:05, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Montevideo

I can take a look, after I get some more content into Boita and Maritime history of Orissa. I actually spent a fair amount of time there, years ago, working on an IT project. It has seen better days, the climate is not the best, apart from the beef and Tannat the food is nothing special, and yet I really liked the place and would love an excuse to go back. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

My Spanish is enough for the most important purposes, e.g. "Uno fileto de lomo, medio, por favor, e una copa de vino tinto - tiene Tannat?" I can get by, verbally. But Google translate is a big help. Orissa seafaring has potential to be a sizable article. Getting descriptions of the ships is a bit harder, so I am working on that first. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

• The U list is shrinking. I took out Bagyi Aung Soe because User:Calliopejen1 made some real improvements, then put it in for DYK, probably not spotting the mass nomination. To me, this is one of the more interesting of the series, and I prefer a separate entry. I printed out 5 PDFs on Orissa maritime history and took them to the pub. The result is I am not able to do anything more on it this evening apart from putting in the source links, but am convinced it is a major topic and will try to start seriously on it tomorrow. At least two maps are needed, one showing the locations of the ports, which changed due to silting, and another the trade routes. A rich and complex subject Aymatth2 (talk) 00:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

LOL, the scope of the original on the Italian Hospital is as broad as it could get! From history of U., to relations with Italy, to demographics, to schools and theory of architecture (to think of it, the Faculty of Architecture is only a few blocks down Artigas Av. from the hospital)... Even the main article we start will have to discount on some of it. Probably several articles can be started from all the material here. I will be doing this today, and if nobody else gets into them, will also be doing the sports and transport you proposed yesterday. Great going doc! Thanks for the shove. Hoverfish Talk 10:44, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, take your time and stay cool. We should be enjoying this, but I know well how frustrating it can get. Ultimately agendas and politics impose their obscure goals even here in Wikipedia. I'm used to this. I can fight off only indivuals not agendas. And even so it takes being extra cool. I'll be here when you return. Enjoy your day (I think that's Wales, somewhere near the coast?). Hoverfish Talk 11:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Côte d'Ivoire

Great to see you working on Côte d'Ivoire. I started most of the stubs on the places we have so far. Rather poor I'm afraid but they had to be started somehow. Ita rather embarrasing the state of the department articles too.... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, this had been on the stub sorting "To do" list for some considerable time. Kleopatra and I have been clearing the list. Almost done! I have been going a bit beyond just stub sorting. I've also been filling in some of the Infobox Settlement stuff, including filling in the region and department and adding the pushpin map. Coordinates would be helpful on several of the articles... Dawynn (talk) 23:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gaden Choeling Nunnery

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Did you scout for sources prior to the prod? Eh, no.... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Côte d'Ivoire

The cities are on my list! I'm starting with the geo stubs which include a lot of smaller towns, and a few important villages, rather than the cities, as there are probably many more editors who can tackle the cities and very few who can place the small towns. --Kleopatra (talk) 05:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Ketchaoua Mosque

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for George J. Geis

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kutkai

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Brighton nominations

Hi – yes, that will be fine. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 13:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Re your message

This is what happens when I edit at 1 in the morning; I can have spells of semi-coherence. If I had been thinking rationally, I probably would have tagged it G12, but I suppose you've taken care of it. Ugh. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 14:35, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

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Blofeld, be politer and don't bite the newcomers; Pal2002, you don't own the article so stop acting like you do; HXL49, grow a thicker skin. Are we done here? – iridescent 18:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DON'T TELL ME to grow a thicker skin without any reasoning. I treat that as a personal attack. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 01:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Exactly. That was all that need to be said. Yawn yawn. Now who is going to write about religion in Lhasa eh?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

General comments about city articles

Hi Blofeld, I don't want to wade into whatever dispute you're having with Pal-whatever, but I generally agree that city articles don't need to include detailed descriptions of all landmarks. (This applies to Montevideo too.) Maybe these would be best put into a subarticle (e.g. Landmarks in Montevideo or something like that)? Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Jen, really this is not a good time to comment on this. Wikipedia:WikiProject Uruguay/Montevideo is taking shape nicely and discusses parts of the city which are certainly notable like the Old Town, the three main parks and museums. It certainly does not discuss every building. IN fact I've condensed 50kb this afternoon of cutting down on what doesn't need detailed info. A summarised description of the MAJOR landmarks in perfectly appropriate, and I happen to disagree with you. Landmarks are what constitute a city and in my view should be the biggest part of an article. The info on the Old Town and park, even cemeteries are essential to the history and understanding of the city. If you want to condense it further be my guest, it is still in the middle of writing..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, landmarks are fine as long as we create some balanced proportion for ALL the things that need to be mentioned in a city/capital. At this stage it's really hard to see the whole picture, but we are moving fast enough to where this will become visible soon. We don't have to make it perfect yet, but before we transfer it from Project to Main space there has to be some proportioning done. Then if we go for a GA, we can have it reviewed and we can take it from there. Keep in mind that IF we had enough material on all main topics we could easily make it x5. But we only have SOME parts available. I care for the overall quality and I intend do some relative resizing where needed before or after we hit mainspace. Right now I am very greatful for all this wealth of info that's coming in. I am sure all sides will be pleased with the final result. 48 hours for an evil organization! That's preposterous! Consider all the good things that might happen to world meanwhile. Hoverfish Talk 22:20, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, where are you going? The show has to go on... Hoverfish Talk 00:53, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I am really astonished at the work and good speed of Montevideo. I had just arrived home when I read you had moved it to mainspace that I though "oh no" but when I looked it was like -WOW-! Congrats you and every one all of the team you have gathered. Me still snailing my way through the Hoispital articles. I looked at the original and hey, Gongora started it and also worked on it in the italian wiki! And surprize: it's the hospital my health insurance would take me if anything nasty happened to me. So it's good to know lots about it. Ok enough talk, back to work. This discussion about who puts content and who not is making me feel very much "lazybones" or something. Hoverfish Talk 16:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

What sparse areas are you referring to? Can you specify? I will give it a try when I catch the point. Hoverfish Talk 18:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I have never been concerned with TV, never had one, so it's not an area I would be very helpful. But for the rest I will do what I can asap. I have a lot of web sources, official mostly, but in spanish. English web sources are very poor here. This is why I was motivated to make the website on Montevideo in English. Hoverfish Talk 18:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Category:Townships

Shouldn't the country specific stuff, like Townships of Burma, go into Category:Townships by country along the lines of the other in Category:Subdivisions by country:

• Category:Cantons by country (6 C)
• Category:Central business districts by country (7 C)
• Category:Counties by country (27 C, 3 P)
• Category:Departments by country (19 C)
• Category:Dioceses by country (2 C)
• Category:Districts by country (24 C, 1 P)
• Category:Governorates by country (16 C, 1 P)
• Category:Municipalities by country (53 C, 29 P)
• Category:Oblasts by country (2 C)
• Category:Parishes by country (18 C)
• Category:Praetorian prefectures by country (2 C)
• Category:Provinces by country (78 C)
• Category:States by country (19 C)
• Category:Territories by country (4 C)

? Trans-Dniestr (talk) 20:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure, yes! Please do.. But oersonally I think Category:Third-level adminstrative divisions by country would suffice and would be a better way of organizing them.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

replied at Category talk:Townships, so others can profit. Trans-Dniestr (talk) 20:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

done, see Category:Townships by country. Also added Category:Third-level adminstrative divisions by country, thanks for the suggestion. Trans-Dniestr (talk) 20:52, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Nunnery

Yes. I noticed the warning, took a quick look, thought "this is daft" and added a few sources. Much more could be added. Check the editor's history. POV or POV? Aymatth2 (talk) 20:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

• I thought the same, and wonder which ministry and what the job title is. Oh well, I will get on with trying to untangle the history of Orissa, which I want to do before getting into the interesting bits. At one time, according to the map at right, they had a huge empire. Too bad there are no sources for it. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:59, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I haven't even started on the body of the article, although am starting to see the shape of it. I kept getting distracted today. There really does seem to be a lot to be said. E.g. Sailendra dynasty. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48hrs for attempting to harass and making personal attacks on other users, as you did at User_talk:SarekOfVulcan#Warning. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Funny, just as I'm develop one of Sarek's very stubs. Such is wikipedia.... Its far more beneficial of course that I am blocked for two entire days when I am in the middle of writing this. Perhaps somebody with some sanity could add the following to the article, or maybe you will take my comments with a pinch of salt and accept good humor.... Is it more beneficial to wikipedia that you stop playing policemen and allow me to expand this stub???? From what I gather the "establishment" are a bunch of emotionless robots who do not understand that editors have emotions when their work is attacked and that they do not appreciate people intruding in their affairs with pointy moral fingers eons after something has happened (or that they run wikipedia with self-made rules or do not have the slightest sense of humor). Fine play sheriff. We are an encyclopedia!!!!! The sooner you people just cut the crap and get on with writing wikipedia the encyclopedia and hang up your sheriff badges the better.

The odd thing about this is that I actually genuinely requested Sarek of Vulcan to write an article with me. Seriously. Shortly after I did so Sheriff hounded me with another unnecessary "pointy finger" and I told him to hang up his badge after he asked why my comment was constructive. He asked me a question... So this is now a blockable offence from developing wikipedia as a resource. In all honesty I had no intention in going back to "harrass" him and only planned on visiting his talk page again once I had completed my orchestra inputs and inviting him to work with me not against me. 22:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey Blofeld, I think I can understand you. There will always be an admin deleting a stub, pointing you to some guidelines etc. Always? As long as the WMF does not change the rules. Some admin actions really are bad for WP. But they cannot stop us. Us the CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS. Trans-Dniestr (talk) 22:40, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Blocking admin's comment (similar to the e-mail reply I gave to DrB when he e-mailed me). The "threat" to punch somone deserved a warning. Sarek gave it to you- just a warning. To then browbeat Sarek over that very valid warning, that then ventured into WP:NPA territory was inappropriate. Since your first (and second) blocks for NPA were each 24hrs, this one has followed the principle of escalating blocks - and is up to 48. Nothing personal, simply professional, and all the good article-writing in the world does not make one immune. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 22:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Response:

Nobody said it did. But i had alreayd apologised for my initial outburst and actually invited this 2002 user to write the lhasa amicably with me. I had moved on to sweeter pastures when Sarek turned up 8 hours after it happened to rub my nose on it and point his moral finger. I responded to him and said surely he has something better to do and then to add further fuel to the fire his friend sheriff turned up also to tick me off. If you check the history of my talk page I was the one harrassed by them 3 times in total and sheriff even provoked me into answering his question on Sarek's talk page when again I had moved on and was writing an article. I gave him an honest reply that I think he should quit playing policeman and write articles and did it in a light hearted fashion which was intended to be humorous. I certainly did not say anything uncivil to them except that I said Sarek tdoes zilch to contribute to wikipedia but runs about on his high horse preaching at people. Again I had moved on writing an article when this block came about which was ridiculous givne that I had not only apologised to 2002 hours ago, even if I had every right to be angry with him. I had genuinely offered Sarek of Vulcan to constructively edit an article with me and was actually writing an article, not harassing people when I was blocked. I was led to Sarek's talk page provoked three times. The block was completely unwarranted and poorly timed. I even pout up a wiki break banner this morning to acknolwedge that I needed to cool off. I cooled off lunch time but later Sarek caused unnecessary conflict when he should just mind his own business. There really has to come a time and a place when adminstrators actually investigate "uncivility" and to find that in cases like this they are entirely provoked by other people. That doesn't make it right to threaten to "knock somebody's teeth out but if they actually investigated what happened as at ANI I was justified in being angry. As for me swearing I rarely if ever use very strong profanity considerably milder than the words that often appear on the main page and which I objected to last Sunday. I tend to call people assholes a lot because that is the way they are acting. Look it up in wiktionary for a definition. If you part in hard work to wikipedia and you have it obliterated and then an editors rants on at you about DO NOT write it, somebody you used to consider a friend tells you NOT TO CREATE ARTICLES and DUMP them and somebody places a deletion warning on a vlaid article and you receive thes emessages all at once first thing in the morning when you log in feeling rotten anyway and you try being sweet about it. No it is not acceptable to be uncivil but SERIOUSLY the blocking admins in cases like really do need to why a person flared upand that they have human feelings. If people stopped messing with me and worked with me to write articles absolutely nothing like this would ever occur. This should never happen again. Blocking me is the most pointless thing possible. Is it meant to teach me a lesson? Because nothing can stop me flaring up from time to time if I feel I've been badly treated. Its a natural humane reaction. 99% of the time I am more that civil to people and happen to be one of the most encouraging editors on wikipedia to content contributors and have a great dela of respect for them which I hope is reciprocated. Unfortunately we are surrounded by many negative people who do little to generate content and pretend to govern the site. I've invited Sarek of Vulcan to write n article with positively but is he interested, no, because he will only be negative about everything. We are better off without having these sort of people around. Look what he cuased here last night. Nothing but aggravation and blew it all out of proportion by making snide remars when the situation had alreayd been appeased. For heaven's sake I'm much better than all this. Stay out of my affairs and I'll remain civil, but people have to treat me with some respect otherwise the bad feelings will be returned. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Ghardaïa

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

• Yesterday I did a lot of translation and condensing on the Montevideo artcile. It still needs a lot of work. Please consider reducing the number of img as I find there too many. I have complied to all review comments on GA of Glacier Bay today. In case there are still some issues which I can not resolve I will need your help. You forgot to nominate Parque Batlle by due date (18th). I will give some more inputs to the Montevideo article this evening. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I have read the entire exchange of words. It is a one way street I suppose. I am trying to add some more tex but there is edit conflict. I will do it later after I finish with GA of Glacier Bay now renamed as Glacier Bay Basin. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

No problem; I won't nom it. Gotta scoot; RL is taking over today. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Great Mosque of Algiers

Gatoclass (talk) 12:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Drama....

Hi again, looks like you're unblocked? I never want to be involved in the fallout from your outbursts! Things always seem to get sorted out without me.... :) Today I was trying to piece things together, but it wasn't worth my effort... Glad to see you're back, and hopefully a bit calmer. :) I'll hold off condensing Montevideo for now. It's looking much better! Whether the content eventually ends up in subarticles or in the main article, it's good to see it developed and added. Your DYK challenge looks fun. What I think would be a good project in the geography realm would be to work on getting countries of the world up to GA, or at least close to GA. Some of our country-wide articles are still in pretty sad shape, especially in Africa and elsewhere in the global south. I think these would probably be the most useful improvements for our readers. A few country articles needing improvement: Benin, Angola, East Timor, Gabon. I'm planning to go to Ghana in January so I'd also be interested in improving that one to brush up before I go. Would you be interested in working on any of these? Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kanmaw Kyun

Hello! Your submission of Kanmaw Kyun 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! The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 16:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

A message from an old friend

Dude I feel you're taking WP too seriously. It's not real life nor is it a source of livelihood or anything of this sort. You cannot reason with everyone who comes your way and fails to see the frighteningly and hugely essential work you are doing on here day after day. This makes you very upset and angry and as a result you end up attacking your own friends. I was quite surprised to see this message of yours concerning the Bobby Deol image. I was going to fight them all, and you know I was, but I could not understand where it came from. Now I see another chain of messages on another talk page which don't really help you and don't really enhance the quality of your work and don't really change others' views, but just make you angrier. I got the feeling that you are not the same Blofeld whose username was so constantly present on my talk page, with helping advices, suggestions, funny stuff, wishes and just friendly discussions about young exotic women. I don't want you to be bitter on here, and I don't think they're worth it. Forget everything and go back to work. Best regards.

Oh, and just a little P.S note:

		The Special Barnstar
		For a special editor, a special friend, a special human being, whose special work is easily one of Wikipedia's best. Blofeld, you are the epitome of goodwill on this site, and your work just says it all. Please accept this little award and... thank you for everything. Shahid • Talk2me 16:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Well - unfortunately you cannot reason with stupidity. Ever since I joined this project, I've had to deal with so many bored idiots - I had to fight for some obvious things and not once did I think of just retiring. That's how it works here, and one should understand it. I'm fine, I'm glad to see you back in form - and wow, I'm overwhelmed at the extraordinary amount of DYKs you are responsible for! :) Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

"I actually think that a lot about the wiki lawyers on here Shahid that they take the site too seriously" - great then, it's a great sign not to take example from them. Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I stick with my analect, they rather take themselves too seriously. And the 'pedia can hang as long as the rules are followed. Rich Farmbrough, 22:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC).

Oh many movies actually - Dabbang, We Are Family, Raavan, etc. And yours? Shahid • ^Talk2me 22:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Raavan quite OK - not great but not as bad as people claimed it to be. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Ottoman Empire biographies

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albania#Ottoman Empire Biographies--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 20:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma

Sure thing - give me a little while, but I'll work on it tonight. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI: Russ Rowlett's lighthouse site has a great page for Uruguay lighthouses, if you're interested. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK

A message for you and Nvvchar: DYK got much criticism lately for boring hooks, and it is/was quite serious, to the point of taking the project to pieces. It is often difficult to find something catchy after writing, thus I for myself either think about something interesting in advance, or just do not nominate the article. Please think about it - I admire your article work, but promoting your hooks is becoming a risky matter, and changing them I simply don't have enough energy for. Materialscientist (talk) 00:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

The issue is practical - DYK brings fact checking and copyedit (mostly by WP insiders rather than outsiders), which is useful. Many articles got fixed/deleted/moved, etc only because they appeared on the MP. My only wish is for you and Nvvchar to either spend more effort on polishing the hook or not nominate. You are both much respected at DYK, and it is hard to reject your noms, but the current lack of reviewing workforce lowers the chances that someone finds a better hook. DYK is getting pushed to work on quality, and I'm redirecting this pressure on you :-). Good work on Montevideo and Burma. Best wishes. Materialscientist (talk) 11:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Mauricio Rosencof

Obviously needs expanding. When I was there, most people did not want to talk about that time much. It was still a somewhat socialist, bureaucratic society with high inflation. People would wait until the last possible day to pay their phone bills, then wait in line for a few hours to pay them. Cheaper that way. Yesterday's drama was unexpected, don't know what to say. I am not that serious, tend to see Wikipedia as a place to play verbal jigsaw puzzles: "pick a random subject, research it, organize the results, link it in". I am more cynical than you about the value of the project, less likely to get upset. Also, perhaps, colder and more brutal in swatting away nonconstructive critics. The best approach (and the hardest to follow) is to simply state policy then unwatch the talk page. Perhaps the type of pages I work on attract less POV though, apart from silly attempts to puff up bios.

Maritime history of Orissa is moving slowly. I had no idea how rich the subject was. It needs a map of Kalinga at its greatest extent, a section on ships and navigation, with maps. Seems like square-rigged boats following the monsoon winds, but I need to get a better feel for that. It needs to cover Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali... And it needs to avoid assertions on speculative topics, of which there are many. There are redlinks and related articles I am tempted to clean up first. Moving slowly. I think I will stick with it until I get something I am not totally uncomfortable with before looking at anything else. Then, for sure, Montevideo, if it is not all done by then. Statues are important. There are statues everywhere in Montevideo. Drive in from the airport, walk along the Rambla, and it is just statue after statue. Ghandi, Tito, Bolivar, Churchill, and every Uruguayan president, mayor, poet ... Statues. Also, filete de lomo, con Tannat. Best in the world. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:10, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm off for good.

I've been off for a month and no single soul has missed me since. My opinion hasn't changed; vandalism rules Wikipedia, and when I see all that goes on with Dr. Blofeld, for example, I can only conclude it's just not worth it. Adios y saludos.Qwrk (talk) 01:38, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

It seems like your block is making people retire, :-). I deduct that if you retire, half the contributors will. --Sulmuesi (talk) 22:46, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

The problem with retiring is the paychecks stop coming in, although that is not a big problem with Wikipedia. Aymatth2 (talk) 02:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Makushin Volcano

Gatoclass (talk) 06:03, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I added more text on Demographics and the Church. The double article hook is cleared now. Congrats. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:43, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I have rtead Materialscientist's note here. The double article hooks are sometimes a problem. Let us not do any more of such hooks unless there are strong catchy incidents to quote. The village or town articles are normally dull. I belive that DYK is the best medium available now for getting exposure to our articles. Let us pursue till we ourselves get bored with it. Finally my GA jinx is lifted. My Glacier Bay Basin article is through now. It was a very smooth review.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 12:28, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Lte us go back to our sandbox mode for future articles as it would not put pressure of 5 days in completing the articles. This will help us to find the right references without being told that references are unreliable. Yes, we do the Samoa articles next.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 12:38, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

More about Lhasa on my talk

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Montevideo cont.

Er, ...sure. But it wasn't me who removed it... Hoverfish Talk 17:01, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm just now checking the edit history to see who did it. I will take care. Hoverfish Talk 17:06, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Done, reduced the infobox image a bit because Scientist mentions it looks lousy on some resolutions (and I happen to be low resolution friendly). Also I think that we can discount the barrio maps from the main article and use the extra space for images instead. But we should link to "main article" for each park, area, etc and the map is right there. What do you say? If you agree I will do the image/text layout where the maps are now. Hoverfish Talk 17:31, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

No, I meant it about the maps you did on the parks, old city, etc, not the barrio-by-numbers one. But you just said you like it as it is, so I have no big problem as it is. Hoverfish Talk 17:48, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Hm, from the things you listed, I get now to Parque Rodo. It sure needs rewriting. You see, for some administrative reason, the park is not counted in the homonymous neighbourhood, but belongs to Punta Carretas along with the rest of the cape/point and the beach. But (there is always a but) to the people here, "Parque Rodo" is mostly the Park, unless you specify "barrio" too. I will get into it later this evening if can. P.S. I replaced all neighbors to neighbours, meters to metres, etc. Hoverfish Talk 20:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in. The infobox map is an obvious duplicate to File:Uruguay mapa.png, which is much better as it lists countries - this is my reasoning for removal of that svg. My "screen resolution" note is not relevant to the infobox - it reflected the fact that an article with too many images is hard to arrange for every screen resolution (and it loads slower). Some images were too trivial (a shop - is it common? people walking on a street), but this is off course just personal opinion. On 1024x768 some left+right images were obviously squeezing a text to some 20 chars in between. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

It is customary to have a pin map in infoboxes. The CIA maps are NOT superior to the svgs and are not very good quality. However for the sake of understanding geography it is fairly useful to see where the city is in Uruguay to accompany the text. It is not a photo of people walking down a street. It is a photo of a street in the old town area which has an old look to it clearly. And it is not a photo f any old shop. It is a photo of montevideo artist at work and his paintings, perfectly fine to accompany the art section. I really have no idea Material Scientist why you've shown unusual interest in this article.. Its not a bad thing but you seem a little picky about it.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:20, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

We are talking about different images and things: not this but this (which I removed, but without hard feeling). Not this but this (also removed). Why not just copy that PNG image - that pushpin map is simply not informative (common sense, I understand that pushpinmap conventions). Materialscientist (talk) 22:47, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

His moustache made it a very encyclopedic image for the sake of moustache elegance. Tom Selleck would frown upon you..♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:02, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

*snickering* (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about what loading times you guys get, but it goes verry slow here, so the lighter we get it the better for all. Concerning resolutions (doc): I do some web design with HTML, CSS, and a few scripts, and one thing I do is check everything with every possible combination (Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, Opera) plus several resolutions and I try some zoom in and out (and zoom-text-only like Firefox has). Well, you can't please everyone 100%, but you can avoid some lousy cases. The most important here is to be extra careful that right and left aligned images don't jam little stripes of text between them. So try some zooms and play with the width of your window to make sure it's ok. Hoverfish Talk 00:01, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to interrupt you from your Burma template-making. Can you check Parque Rodo in Montevideo. I am right now looking for sources, but I'd rather you get to phrasing matters before the others. If you stick some {{cn}}'s here and there I might know better what I looking for. Hoverfish Talk 16:33, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Im pleasantly surprised how fast the article got translated. I did a little work, came back and most of the rest was finished!Thelmadatter (talk) 18:59, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I'll locate them on a map and go for a photo safari tomorrow or so. (btw, why them 2 are they supposed to be something top? There's a most renowned one opposite the Solis Theater- is it one of them?) Hoverfish Talk 23:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, now I see. Let me tell you one thing about section Cuisine (I hadn't seen it earlier). The cuisine here is 99% Asado, not fancy restaurants. That's only for few tourists and few richies. Should we present Montevideo as if it's Paris? For the average tourist the cuisine is over at Mercado del Puerto, steak sausages and some more steakes with some more sausages. Really.Hoverfish Talk 00:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, looks much better with both sides presented. I'll get the pictures asap. Hoverfish Talk 00:57, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Under weather, I corrected translation per Jmabel's comment. Is it "giving an unpleasant chilly feeling" or "giving an unpleasantly chill feeling" better? Yes, it looks like we are already working on a GA nomination. Hoverfish Talk 10:26, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, education now. Will bring in all I can get my hands on. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 10:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Ivory Coast

Done. I have to go down to dinner in a minute, but tonight I want to take a crack at sorting Togo, which is also getting oversized. Also I have your Burma template to redo - after dinner, shouldn't take me long. And I want to go back to Antarctica for some articles tonight, too. Think we can get that finished in the next week or so? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:22, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Happy to be of help. I think we can start some Togo geo-stub tags soon, too. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Maritime history of Orissa

I am struggling with this. I will undo your change for now, but not in any way meaning to be critical. The article needs an outline of the history, but presumably shorter and more coherent than this version. The parent History of Orissa article has a huge blank space for the most interesting period, just a list of dynasties. Some content could be transferred to it and a lot more added to it - there are good sources. A great deal needs to be added to this one on Burma, Siam, Sumatra etc. I am not comfortable with the title. Orissa clearly had great influence in the countries to the east, which deserves an article, but the sources almost all talk about the influences, not the boats or voyages. Any ideas on a better title? Aymatth2 (talk) 00:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree that the main history article needs a lot more, and will probably do that too. This one should be mainly about involvement with other countries, but should have a brief section on history of the state to give context - less than is there now, but something. It should also say a bit about the people themselves, maybe a paragraph. Then there should be corresponding articles on Tamil, Malay, Chinese, Arab etc. maritime history. And maybe a general article on sailing in early times in that region, covering winds, types of boat, methods of navigation. The whole area is full of gaps. For now, I will add material into this one, then some can be split out or moved. More interesting, to me, than London bus routes. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:38, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma place disambiguation

I had a little look, the first place Abok dabs to two states, only one corresponds to the two items we have. Rich Farmbrough, 17:02, 21 November 2010 (UTC).

Yes creating dab pages/entries is on my mind too. And it would be good because then the other bit of code to do the dabbing, will always have a target. Rich Farmbrough, 17:24, 21 November 2010 (UTC).

If it will help, I have the entire hierarchy of Burma from maplandia in a multilevel bulleted list. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra

Nom'ed it. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:43, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Just noticed you wanted to make it a double-nom! Um, cross-out and make an ALT1? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:03, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

colonias

I dont know about the colonias for the other boroughs/delegations. Cuauhtémoc was easy enough because it has the longest history and even then, a number of them arent much more than what the borough's web site had. Im working on expanding Coyoacán which has 140 some-odd colonias, barrios, unidades habitacionals (apartment complexes) and "pueblos" (which keep some of their old village structure). I did not see anything on that borough's website listing info for all of these divisions. I am finding a TON of info on the borugh and its historic center (the original village of Coyoacán), so Ill be able to list and give info on the best known of the colonias through there. Itll be even rougher with the more rural boroughs such as Tlalpan and Milpa Alta, much of which are still isolated villages despite officially part of Mexico City. See San Pedro Atocpan and San Andrés Mixquic to get a good idea.Thelmadatter (talk) 23:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing

Materialscientist (talk) 00:05, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Paw Oo Thett

Materialscientist (talk) 00:05, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Aung Khin

Materialscientist (talk) 00:06, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Aung Myint

Materialscientist (talk) 00:06, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Ba Kyi

Materialscientist (talk) 00:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Kin Maung

Materialscientist (talk) 00:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Lu Tin

Materialscientist (talk) 00:08, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Lun Gywe

Materialscientist (talk) 00:08, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U Ngwe Gaing

Materialscientist (talk) 00:09, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Po Po

Materialscientist (talk) 00:09, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

U Who?

Aymatth2 (talk) 01:59, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Burma Art Club

Gatoclass (talk) 06:02, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Lei barnstar

		The Wiki Lei Barnstar
		This is a thank you Lei to you for helping me learn how to edit and improving articles under Wikiproject Samoa. Aloha! teinesaVaii (talk) 07:28, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey man, just a personal question for you

How do you have time to make so many edits each day? Just wondering, thanks :)--ElvisHairDude420 (talk) 10:50, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Unmak

I have started expanding Unmak.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

One, can you help put my talk page on the archives upto date. Two , I have made changes in Kanwa Island (Burma )article to meet reviewer's observations. You may like to further add or comment. Three see your user page on A-A. I have added few more names for articles. I will start American Samoa tomorrow after finishing the second article on the American island.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:37, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Prose part of Umnak at the last editing of 5th November was only 510 ch. There are enough catchy text for the hook.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Public Education UY

Edu sourcing is moving along well. BUT, I have to find and add some text on public primary and secondary education. There is zilch about them and although I am a privately schooled nerd, I like to feel there is equal... coverage (I wanted to write "equal opportunity" but it belongs to SF rather, I think). Anyway the pics we have with the little people there are wearing public kindergarden and primary scholl uniforms. Hoverfish Talk 12:36, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll do my photo shooting treck now. Today is partly sunny, should be good enough. It may take me a while to get to education as I have an important meeting later on. So till later. Hoverfish Talk 12:50, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Restaurant El Fogon.jpg File:ArcadiaRestaurant.jpg Hoverfish Talk 17:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC) PS-- File:BotanicGardenPrado.jpg Hoverfish Talk 17:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks for those. Unfortunately it is extrmeely slow on here at the moment. It took me like half hour before I could even post this message. Hopefully it will be sorted tomorrow..♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:17, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Info box & Burma

Hello Dr. Blofeld,

Two things, 1) if you need help with any Burmese related articles, I'm happy to assist. I've sent you an email about that. The other thing is the info box on Vassieux-en-Vercors. Way too big. I'm trying to add content about the village in World War II and also expand about the economy, the caves, tourism, etc. But the French Commune info box is huge because of that map. Can you help slim it down like the one on Ireland and others? Malke 2010 (talk) 20:15, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Dr. B, are you seeing a 'huge image' problem with any of the recent revs of Vassieux-en-Vercors? 270px is a bit large, but should not be a problem. The infobox has 280px hard-coded for the overall width. Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:46, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Nope, the map is normal size I think. Standard is 250px, 270px for the map and images is reasonable. By actual concern about the box is its length and the French land registry notes.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I've uploaded quite a few photos here: [9]. I'll do more later. Let me know if there is a particular need for something and I'll look to see if I have it. Mostly, Yangoon and environs, Patain, and Bagan.Malke 2010 (talk) 02:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kanmaw Kyun

Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Have a look at this Yanar Dag a in Azerbaijan. Very interesting. It needs more text for 5x. I have added all I could find.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:10, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

• It is more than 5x now. You may like to edit and suggest a hook. I have nominated Umnak on DYK with tow hooks. Now all pending articles have been cleared on the DYK page.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 07:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Guinea

Shouldn't be too difficult - I'll look into it when I have a moment. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

No - I want someone to go in behind me and make sure I haven't missed anything. I just like having someone check my work, is all. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah - I've got my eye on another list or two for today. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:25, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Right - that's it for me. Tomorrow, once they're done (as it looks like) I'll begin AWBing talkpages and some of the needed changes. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:10, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I should be able to do at least some tonight - it's rehearsal night, after all. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations! Sorry I couldn't be of more help last night, but I was able to create one last handful. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, they're fairly easily portable to me; I don't need a special program, so I can fit them in any old time and create them on any machine. Ah, well...perhaps I'll finally get to finishing Mauritania today. And at least make a stab at a stub for each remaining mayor of Baltimore. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:37, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tanintharyi, Great Tenasserim River

Hello! Your submission of Tanintharyi, Great Tenasserim River 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! Yoninah (talk) 20:57, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Antarctic place articles

Hello! I'm currently reformatting several thousand of these articles to use the {{coord}} template with the display=title option, instead of the current inline coordinates: see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Mangin_%28Antarctica%29&diff=prev&oldid=398520625 for an example edit. This avoids using a deprecated template format, makes it easier for external bots to recognise that this is the canonical coordinate for the feature in the article (which in turn can help things like automatic infobox generation), and also, I think, looks nicer.

Would it be possible for you to create your new articles in the same format? -- The Anome (talk) 22:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

We have almost finished Antarctica now. The articles are all set already to be posted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:43, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, no problem. I'll catch them retroactively, once they've been created, as with the others, if that's OK with you. I've taken care to make numerous checks that the article is appropriately formatted before editing, so if articles contain (for example) more than one coordinate, or are otherwise unusually formatted, the bot will not edit them. -- The Anome (talk) 22:47, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

OK thanks. I should have the remaining started tomorrow.The only problem is that many of them really ought to be merged into other articles so when they merge it would actually be better to cite the coordinates inline.. Anyway..♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:51, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

In that case, I'll stop the bot for now. -- The Anome (talk) 22:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I can't remember who brought it up now. The only thing is that it would is likely to be ages before they actually get merged as much as possible. uP to you but i'd say easily half of the articles could be merged into geo articles of a given area of Antarctica. like individual glaciers and mountains and rocks merged into an article on a mountain range etc. That is of course of the articles can't be expanded. I'd imagine that some of the mountains and glaciers could by expanded as seperate articles but I suspect that many on small groups of rocks etc you'd be best merging into an article on the bay etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:59, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

It's now stopped. Please let me know if I can help with re-formatting these articles at any later date. -- The Anome (talk) 23:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

An example of how they should be merged is at Undine Harbour. I do hope though that most of them can devleop as individual articles.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Burma

I replied further to your message on my talk page. Best regards — Hebrides (talk) 05:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Herr Doktor

Stop playing with your geography at once young man, you'll go blind you know. I see you are creating articles at your usual snail-like pace (i.e.3 articles/second or BlofSpeed for short). Wikipedia seem to be a touch nastier than when I went off for a break. More people playing minor gods and goddesses and fewer working on content. Very sad. Still, how the bejasus are ya? It's been way too long and you're still one of the nicest articles. How they hangin' sunshine? Paxse (talk) 14:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I was reading wikidramaz :) What have I been doing? Working, raising kids, buying some land, presenting at conferences all the usual stuff. How about you? Are you studying, working or both at the moment? Paxse (talk) 14:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Done, you've got mail! And now I'm fucking off for a while. I'll be back online tomorrow (my time). I'm keen to get back to working up the district articles. I'm sorry for not getting in touch sooner. Cheers big ears. Paxse (talk) 16:27, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

It's a date, I've got the day off tomorrow and I'm pissed off about districts and want to get a couple on the front page (if I can remember how to write DYKs). Paxse (talk) 16:31, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Congrats on the article completion!

Great news man! Now as you mentioned above it is just a matter of the articles getting merged as appropriate but it can easily be done over a period of time. Well I would have suggested Wikipedia:List_of_quizbowl_answers due to its random bunch of topics but if you are feeling more literal you can always put up Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Literary_Encyclopedia as the monthly focus. :) I usually ask on the talk page if anyone has any preferences and if no then I just put it in but I don't see why not we can go with the quizbowl answers (as there is only less than a 100 of them thus far anyway). Cheers man! If I was a boss in a company and I was looking for a hard worker; I would hire you haha! (although I might have to block wikipedia.org from the computers ;) )Calaka (talk) 15:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

All done. :) Good stuff man!Calaka (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Tanintharyi

Materialscientist (talk) 00:08, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Great Tenasserim River

Materialscientist (talk) 00:09, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I think I mentioned it to you previously, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving here and I've been more preoccupied with visiting family than I had anticipated. It's been really nice having them around. But once the holiday weekend is over, I'll resume my work here. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Japanese dams

There are two websites I think a lot of the ja.wikpedia dam articles originated from, one being here. I have some other sources posted on the WP:DAMS, page that I can use but I'd be glad to help. I have a break from work this weekend and can rummage through some references before going on a two week no internet trip. The hardest ones to reference are of course those really small dams. These stubs are coming from WikiCommons, not necessarily articles on ja.wikipedia? Japan needs work and China more so. They are the building the biggest and most dams nowadays and have similar sourcing difficulties.--NortyNort (Holla) 03:28, 25 November 2010 (UTC) Also, you can do searches at the Dam Association of Japan or check out their Dam Handbook 2010.--NortyNort (Holla) 03:51, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Yea, we have about half of the prefectures done now. Those Japanese websites are difficult and I use Google translate to some effect. Tomorrow I will be able to do a lot of editing for the first time in awhile, so I will see what I can do. I will try to cover some tracks. If I figure out something good, I will let you know so in the future you can do the article and ref all in one shot.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:10, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Fort Santa Cruz, Oran

Materialscientist (talk) 06:04, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I hope you liked Pielinen. I will post it later in the evening. In Antarctica, two lakes could be started Lake Untersee and Lake Burton, Antarctica, the latter will be new article if you can find some maps and pictures.

I am working on Maiden Tower in Azerbaijan. It should be ready by the weekend.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:17, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Lake Untersee is almost done. You may like to add some more text (to make it 5x, about 500ch) and edit post it on DYK. Very nice lake, real original information. I have started on Maiden Tower. You may also like to expand. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 10:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:For Your Eyes Onlydrag.jpg

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. SchuminWeb (Talk) 17:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Parque Batlle

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Montevideo

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, this and the previous one are excellent!! Congrats and thanks. Erm, in this edit [10] you took out my exploring montevideo site as spam. If you think it's spam I have no problem and won't insist any further, but I went through a lot to keep it as informative and encyclopedic as possible. So I am interested to know if you think it's not useful here. Hoverfish Talk 01:28, 26 November 2010 (UTC) Thank you for the recognition! :) I am not supposed to insert it by myself though... :( Hoverfish Talk 12:25, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the observation. The above article probably will get about 40,000 hits as it stands now. Can you pl add about the more on Legend of Medina Tower and also architecture from this The Mystery of the Maiden Tower and this The Maiden Tower t make it more than 5x. I have not been keeping well for the last few days. Get tired a lot as temperature is persisting. But I can't resist editing on wiki. Please post the Lake article on DYK. Burton Lake and Ace lake are two subjects for another article on Antarctica. We can pick the latter as it has better references. I have searched in flickr and there are no imgs. American Samoa will be done a little later as I found Antarctica and Azerbaijan more exciting. Fogatogo has least references but Pogo Pogo may be better subject. Tutulia would be good.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Lake Burton, Antarctica is done. May like to add and suggest a hook.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 04:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

• Ok, will do and notify when ready. About the Italian Hospital... I will discount a lot of what I think should go to Italian uruguayans or similar. I started Bay of Montevideo translated from the spanish article and I am doing some de-orphaning right now. Hoverfish Talk 16:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

What does "language package" refer to?Hoverfish Talk 16:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

• Oh, I see. I use Google translate, but I rephrase and correct vocabulary a whole lot. Hoverfish Talk 17:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Jazz

Not a field that I know very well, I'm ashamed to say - though I did study Coltrane as part of one of my classes in college. I'm ashamed of myself - it is the ultimate American art form, after all, isn't it? My non-classical music education has been woeful, to say the least. Something to work on in the new year, perhaps. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:18, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Funny you should mention that - there was an obituary in yesterday's paper for a former NSO cellist who didn't take up the instrument until he was 21. Odd career choice, to say the least - though it seems to hit composers that way sometimes, I've noticed. They don't take up music until their late teens, some of 'em.

As for improvisation, I'm sorry to say that it seems like most classical musicians these days don't know much about it. Though I remember hearing a young pianist play one of the Beethoven concertos once, and he improvised his own cadenzas in place during the performance. Very impressive - alas, I don't remember his name, and I'm not sure if he's still active. But then I read a story about Mendelssohn, and about how he could improvise variations on the theme at the drop of a hat... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

To say nothing of that name. A boy with a name like "Linzi"? Uggh. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, God - I hadn't even noticed...oh, God. (We used to use this image to punctuate something like that on one of my forums; called it "gonk".) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:53, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jennifer Frautschi

Materialscientist (talk) 06:03, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

This didn't charm me. DYK process fixed blatant errors in many articles, including yours, and without reviewers it will simply collapse (it is in a strong decline right now). Frankly, I do not expect much refereeing from you and nvvchar, but the idea already works for others. Help from some other writers (who were hesitant to review until recently) is keeping the project these weeks. In other works, what doesn't work for you doesn't mean wrong. Materialscientist (talk) 13:11, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, "frankly" I am not charmed with your ongoing persistence and increasingly extravagant demands over the DYK process articles I really do not care if it hits the front page or not. It was your comments about our "boring" hooks which equally did not charm me.. You are in great danger of actually stopping people contributing to DYK. It is perhaps reasonable for people to review another article if they really want their article to hit the front page and go through DYK. But my time would be better spent expanding and starting articles at various lengths in the manner I desire and skipping this tiresome unrewardable process... Honestly you've been a terrific help with DYK but can't I count myself out without having you rant on at me? Personally I think a better idea would be to to appoint a panel of DYK reviewers who are happy to do it than to force every editor who writes an article to look at others.... I think you'd be surprised just how many decent articles now will never appear on the front page because their contributors are unwilling to have to meet your demands and review another article they may not wish to do or even have time for. I also think that many reviewers who are not really interested in reviewing but have to to meet the new "requirements" will not put much time and thought into the articles of others and may even approve of them without really bothering to research their hooks and in the end the articles will have to be doubly checked anyway.

At the end of the day, wikipedia works best and most efficiently by volunteers who want to do the tasks and work they are doing. That is a core principal of the project. If there is a problem with the current number of reviewers I can think of better ways to address the problem than resorting to extortion which is really what this is.

(ec) You missed my point and might be not be in a right mood right now. We can talk about it later. Your comment sounded like "I won't do that, so don't do that". "You won't do that" is fine with me, the other half is not. Please understand that your noms are always welcome, but these weeks DYK desperately needs reviewers. It is not about what good articles don't make it to the main page, right now it is about not to put some crap/plagiarism/BLP violation/fact error/etc/etc on the main page so that the project would not be shut down. There are quite a few out there waiting for that, and we've already lost for good an admin over this, and that editor was working really hard for DYK and WP. Every time an admin is promoting a hook, xe is risking their head for that crap/plagiarism/BLP violation/fact error/etc/etc. One more thing, please keep in mind that there are a few who are ready to scorch if they find sentences only slightly paraphrased from the sources. Sorry for all this mud. Its Ok, we just need to smile more :-)

It is not easy to have any new proposal get accepted. A panel of reviewers won't work simply because only a handful managed to stay with the project for long - people keep changing all the time. Any extra pair of eyes can notice some blunder, which nearly every other DYK article has. Materialscientist (talk) 13:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Granted, the DYK process is very effective for detecting plagiarism and for reviewing work of others and to correct blatant errors. Really there ought to be a formal review system to assess new articles anyway.... But again it comes down to numbers. Look. The way I see it the number of reviewers is an obvious problem, otherwise you wouldn't have made such a proposal. But the fact is that some people really do not feel compelled to have to review an article of somebody else's just so they can make their own article a valid nom. Especially if they write a high number of articles and are a very regular contributor. For instance with the Burmese painter articles or Vietnamese provinces I'd have had to review over 10 articles of others just to push it through. That is just not worth it. Instead I would propose that a maximum number of articles can be nominated on any given day or some process which only extracts the best articles to reach the main page and the other excluded to make it more mangeable and people are given a notice every time they nominate an article saying "DYK needs your help! Please consider reviewing an article to help the project" rather than a you must do it kind of force.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I did a few articles initially without posting on DYK. Once I got hooked on DYK, it has remained my passion. I would not do any other way. If review is a problem for me, I will rather retire from wiki. Another issue, when we are collaborating it is a give and take and not a one way street. It is in that spirit that I say "expand to make it 5x or 5 day limit is so and so or post it on DYK. That is why I still have about 10 user boxes in my name where we have worked for almost 150 articles and there was no pressure then to post it on DYK. It was only when you moved 11 articles of Vietnam that the pressure on me increased the collaboration almost failed -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 03:06, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I can only say, very unfair observation when you look at the amount of contribution I make to each of the articles posted on DYK. Are you averse to the count when it gives credit to you as well. How opinion changes overnight!-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:23, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh what a twist this has taken. If rules are made then I follow it. I am an ex-bureaucrat. I can't help my serious nature at the fag end of my life. Let us get on with the work as suggested by Rosiestep, if it is acceptable to you.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. That is like my trusted friend. I am also doing some more expansion of the tower article. I have also requested Rosiestep to add. Either me or Rosiestep will nominate it tomarrow. May like to suggest a hook for each article. I have guests from USA to take for dinner. I am out for two hours.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:46, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

It is still warm in the day and just cool in the night. Not like Scotland.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 13:49, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

No hurry for the article. Get well soon. Delhi has also become cold now. (10 C min).-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 01:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Guinea

Siradiou Diallo: expanded it. --Rosiestep (talk) 08:08, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Yup, I'm back! Expanded Fodéba Keïta. Couldn't find a decent ref, though, for his association with the national anthem. Do you have anything in your research materials on that point? --Rosiestep (talk) 20:20, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Excellent picture! Re dyk changes, I'm giving this some thought. I'm one of the few high-volume female contributors to dyk, and I like being a part of it. I don't like someone telling me I have to participate in QPQ, but as I've been a nom reviewer in the past on my own accord, I'll probably acquiesce when it becomes regimented. Rules and rules and more rules, the organizational behavior of wikipedia. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you point me to the "new email"? --Rosiestep (talk) 21:07, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

• I am not that good at tracking down specific bits of information. I generally just search on the web and see what turns up, patch it together into what I hope will eventually be a coherent picture. It doesn't always work. Moussa Diakité is sort of fragmentary, flooded out by a guitarist and a Mali ambassador of the same name. Diakité's wife was Tata Keïta, sister of the president's wife Andrée, and my guess is a close relative of Fodéba Keïta. His son married the daughter of Ismaël Touré. I am starting to think a family tree makes sense somewhere. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:10, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
• I have made a crude start at Politburo of the First Republic of Guinea (not sure if that is the best name) as a sort of working area to document the names and dates, plus a corresponding template to link the articles. Aymatth2 (talk) 02:56, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Hospitals

If you are interested in contributing more to articles about hospitals you may want to join WikiProject Hospitals (signup here).

Ng.j (talk) 18:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks but it is only related to the work I've been doing on Montevideo.. I will for sure though try to start more notable hospitals in the future...♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Virginia House article looks slick

Seriously, wow. And looking at the series of edits, you did all the work in creating it. TCO (talk) 20:25, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I actually contacted the Virginia Historical Society too and they kindly donated us the pics.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I've been there. Thought it was really cool, the library. The guy had a huge one and actually had a card catalog (and an employee to type the cards and file books and all. He even used the Dewey decimal system to organize his home library. TCO (talk) 20:37, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Wow, I bet that was interesting. I'm British and have a love of old manor houses. I actually wrote that article after linking it with a manor in England it was partly built from... I love those sorts of old interiors and medieval armor and that....♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

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Ambitious

Aptly put, Dr.B, aptly put. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Lake Untersee

Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Guru Ghantal Monastery

Hi again! I have just discovered your article on the Guru Ghantal Monastery which is really just an alternative name for the Gandhola Monastery I created an article on somewhat earlier last year. If you can spare the time from your very busy editing - would you please have a look at them both as I think they should be merged and, either merge them or let me know what you think? Sorry to be such a nuisance - but there really so many names, not to mention alternative spellings of them, for Tibetan Buddist monasteries, it really is very confusing, and not at all surprising to discover the odd duplication of articles. I look forward to hearing from you whne you have a moment. All best wishes, John Hill (talk)!

Hi again!

Yes, I've been back from India for a week and a half - but have been so busy and sick with a bad cough & cold that I hadn't got around to contacting you yet. Please excuse me but I still haven't finished unpacking - not even all the books (for which I paid dearly in overweight baggage charges).

It was truly a great trip in spite of very painful back, etc., etc., I will try to write up a group letter account sometime soon to mail out to all and sundry - so please send me your home email again - I can't find it here. I took literally thousands of photos but have only managed to edit a few hundred so far. I have loaded a very few already - some on a new article called Trilokinath Temple at Tunde (but I have more to add here when I get the time). Also, I added a not very exciting one of Poo (town) - but I will be adding more and more as I get things together here gradually.

Good news - I lost some weight and my back is somewhat stronger and I can walk further than before I left on the trip so my local quack here says I can postpone my back operation for a while (with reviews every couple of months) so I am getting hopeful that I may actually get my next book to print in the new year. Hurray!

Have had a lot of accumulated bad news, though, which I din't learn of until I returned as kind friends didn't want to apoil our trip. A couple of close friends (one of them my main Aboriginal mentor and guide) have died and a couple more are seriously ill at the moment and I don't dare visit them with my cough. Goodness a lot things can happen in three and half months! :(

Anyway, I am glad we are in touch aghain and look forward to further chats soon. Will try to merge the articles as soon as I can (glad you agree). All my very best wishes, John Hill (talk) 11:57, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Hospital photos

I live a few blocks north of Vilardebó, but I walk a lot daily, so going to Ballle Park to shoot photos of the ones around it is quite within my range. Will do soon. Hoverfish Talk 12:32, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Take a look when you can: 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état Hoverfish Talk 02:25, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. You're a very good coach, BTW. I'll be off for the hospital photo safari soon. Will start translating the spanish Port of Montevideo asap. Have a nice one. Hoverfish Talk 10:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, last night I talked with my bro who lives just outside London and he reported a -3C. That's what seasons are for, I guess. Ok, will do some avenues. Tricky though. I have to think of where to get some typical skyline or include some notable landmark for each. Might be better to do this going around by car. Hoverfish Talk 10:54, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Done some hospital photos (commons:Category:Hospitals in Montevideo). In the next days I will be in the Ciudad Vieja and I will also get Maciel. For saint Bois I have to make an excursion NW and then I will also get skylines for some NW barrios. Hoverfish Talk 19:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Vilardevo was like you expected until a little while ago, but it has been restored. There is still a wing that has been left in a delapidated state. But it has a lush garden all around it with many trees. Hoverfish Talk 22:06, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi, do you know if old postal cards (from the times they used to retouch them for colour) are public domain or could they be private? I found some interesting from the way back machine, no copyright is stated. They are supposed to be cards they sent to the webmaster, but the page is blank since end 2008. Hoverfish Talk 00:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I'll ask there. Meanwhile, I added in Geography of Montevideo nearest cities by road and did some ammends in Cemeteries, the Rambla, and mainly in Museums. Here is today's diff if you want to check on it: [11]. Hoverfish Talk 14:29, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and here's a tip I just found. I downloaded a most simple Pixel Meter here: [12]. This opens a measuring frame on top of all others and if you open it say 800px wide, you can reduce your browser's width to fit in and see how a 800x600 screen can get in, how images squeeze text in some parts, etc. I did add text where necessary (the text was needed there too) so that at 800px width, no two images squeeze any text between them. Hoverfish Talk 14:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of 1965 in jazz for deletion

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Lots of important things happened in each year of the 1920's. Does it make more sense to create the missing year articles, or to move any existing year articles to "1920's in jazz" with a section for each year, like there now is for the 1930's?King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Bix Beiderbecke all were doing notable and innovative things which have received considerable scholarly coverage since. Many important records were issued. Nice referenced entries for several events/records each year is easy, given time. Edison (talk) 02:59, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Years

Sure thing - give me about ten minutes and I'll get to them for you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:12, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. Perhaps I'll create some later, too, when I have a moment...I've got quite a bit to do today. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:26, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes. My only concern for some of them is that there won't be that much written history after you go back beyond a certain point, I don't think. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure - give me a moment and I'll work on it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

How's that for quick-'n'-dirty? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:47, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh - yes, certainly. Sorry. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

That better? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:54, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Will do - I'm just stub-sorting some politicians, and I'll get to those next. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure - almost done with this batch now. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

1960's done. I'll get to the 1950s later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

OK - I'll have a look at them later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Excellent. I've begun taking a stab at sorting some of the Antarctica stubs, to get that major category down to some kind of more workable size. We'll see how it works. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

No idea. Right - time for dinner. I'll finish up what I'm AWBing later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing - I may do it tomorrow instead, but we shall see. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

With pleasure - tonight. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Eesh, that doesn't sound good - hope you feel better. Happy to help on anything African, as you know. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't turn out to be recurring. It's pretty cold here, too - there was frost on the car this morning. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, do. We'll be here when you get back. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:35, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that - I was beginning to wonder where you'd gotten to, though... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Cotton production in Azerbaijan

Expanded and nom'ed. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:57, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Maidan Tower and Lake Burt also on nominated on DYK.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 09:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I was working on this on my user page User:Nvvchar/sandbox/Saptha Badri. Costa Rica could also be shifted to any one of my User pages.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

US GEOGRAPH, cool, what a great idea; let's see how Jimmy responds. Will you be nom'ing Siradiou Diallo and Fodéba Keïta? --Rosiestep (talk) 06:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I will add the table today in the coffee article. Can you add a picture or map to Lake Burton article? There is a review comment below our DYK hook asking for a img to be added. Thanks.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 08:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

How can I miss it! As you wanted I have added a table from the Lee book. I need to add little more text still.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 11:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Great inputs from you and Rosie. It is my home state product. Shall I move it to main space and request Rosi to nominate it? I intend starting on these articles of Azores next - Gruta das Torres and Monchique Islet in my sand boxes 1 and 2 soon for us to work on. -- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 14:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I nom'ed Coffee production in India, Keita, and Diallo (Diallo was nom'ed late; we need to keep a closer eye on dates). --Rosiestep (talk) 05:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Rosiestep has a valid observation on transferring articles done from my Sandboxes to main space as such a transfer does not reflect the contributions made by each contributor. Is there a way of out of this? Otherwise, we go expanding within the usual 5 day expansion limit on the main space itself. In such a case those who feel that they can not contribute substantially within the 5 day limit could decline to contribute for that particular article.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 06:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

The "correct" procedure is not copy/paste, but move a sandbox. This preserves the editing history, with all contributions. The move is also reflected in the article history, but some DYK reviewers miss that and think the article is old. Thus when you DYK-nominate it, leave a note, like "moved from userspace on ..., 2010". This is for new articles.

If the article was already present in the main WP space, and you were expanding it in sandbox, then you can ask an administrator to move the article and perform "history merging". Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 06:50, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, that should suffice. We need to make sure though that we write the articles in fresh new sandboxes though..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I have now posted this User:Nvvchar/Gruta das Torres in the new format which can be transferred to the main article with help from Admn, as suggested by Materialscentist. You may like to add.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 16:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

May be you can find some good references for this one too User:Nvvchar/Monchique Islet.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 03:01, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

I have added all the text that I could find to this User:Nvvchar/Monchique Islet.-- N.V.V. Char ^Talk . 15:40, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Cotton production in Azerbaijan

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

D'Oyly Carte

Hi. Thanks for the message. I don't have time to work on it right now. I have many other articles that I need to improve first. Eventually, I will want to take this article to FA. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Geopics

It is hard to tell if it would work or not, but seems worth a try. It would certainly be useful. Back to the black hole of Politburo of the First Republic of Guinea. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Similar names

Hi Dr. Blofeld, I completely forgot you had helped me with biography articles in the past :) Could you please take a look at my request to editor Courcelles [13] and let me know on your or my talk page if you have any suggestions? Tuscumbia (talk) 20:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Replied on Courcelles's talk page. Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Provided requested info, although in Azeri. Thanks! Tuscumbia (talk) 21:13, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Pielinen

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Eastwood

It may be sunny, but it's starting to get cold. I was just looking at Eastwood's article on Saturday, and wondering why it wasn't to at least a GA. I'll probably be a bit more focused on the Nielsen article for the next few days (unfortunately), but whenever you nominate the Eastwood article, I'll help with cleanup and addressing any issues raised during the nomination. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:43, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Umnak

Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)