User talk:T L Miles/archive3

Re: MV Joola

Hi, I did some updating to the article page - added ship infobox with additional information about the ship. Also, I moved it up from Low importance to Mid importance on the Project Shipwreck scale. If you have any additional information about the ships history or design, please let me know. I haven't been able to get alot of information via a web search.Shinerunner (talk) 15:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Talk page deleted: revert please

In case you missed Carl's post on my talk page, User:Comraderedoctober is clearly indefinitely blocked (see here). I guess someone just forgot to tag the user page. Once again proving that we're all human. : - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks in return

Greetings, Tommy, and thanks for the kind words re my passing edits in Wolof Empire. Yeah, I'm not a busy wikipedian at present, even in Western Oz but am never too shy to lend a hand (or interfere) in interesting stuff that seems to need it when I get there. Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 12:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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Niger departments/regions

Oops sorry to tread on your toes. Wondering why you are moving to regions when I thought departments was official? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

What I'd recommend is creating some department templates for Niger like I have done for Burkina Faso, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates. This way the districts and towns and villages can be added to the navigation templates and the re dlinks filled out by area. Eventually I aim to cover Africa like this for every country ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

We were out of date huh? Well good on you for spotting this. Yes see Template:Balé. I;d like to see countrie slike Niger develop like this by districts and really cover the places in detail. I'm half way through adding the Burkina communes, but if you like and I draw up the bones for Niger templates later like I have done to Burkina and begin development ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:50, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'll create some templates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Niger/Department templates and we can begin covering the communes in detail. Sound good? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great. First stage will be to move e.g Agadez Department to "Agadez Region" etc and change the parameters in the town articles so they are structually uptodate. I've just created Template:Agadez Region. What I'd like to see is not only the departments started and their capital towns in seperate articles but I'd like such templates filled out with their communes and towns and villages so we have a nice beefy template like the Bale one of Burkina in which areas of the country can begin development ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

OK I've created a new template below and recategorized the "departments" as"regions". Now the "arondissements" will become departments and these should be started. I'll get to it as soon as I can. The new template avoids confusion I think but you'll have to correct the regional articles and say divide dinto department not arondissemeents

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

There we go I've started them all!! Now we need to add the communes like I've done for Arlit Department ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

cataloging the world

Whatever. There are 87,000+ people who live there according to the government of Burkina Faso. If you'd like to substantially challenge its notability, go right ahead, and then you can go back to writing about something important like Max Headroom (TV series).

— User:T_L_Miles on Talk:Bilanga Department

First, there is no need to take it personal... or make fun of me. (for the record, I have yet to touch the Max Headroom article) Not all our edits can be world changing. (you forgot to mock my edits to the Star Trek:First Contact article) Anyway, the reason I brought up the issue is that I just see a trend where there are efforts to catalog every perceivable thing on the planer without asking if we have enough to say about it. What is the value of 301 commune pages that simply state that the entity exists? There are probably a million administrative units on the planet. Each page on Wikipedia is another page that needs to be maintained, and another page that could be vandalized. There is just no encyclopedic value in just creating articles that have no content.

Just as we don't create a page for every song in existence, or every book, or every street, or every mountain, or every river, until there are actually sources we can use to write an article. Maybe I should just ignore it... unlike the articles that get created about people who are not in the public eye (and should not have to suffer the invasion), or the articles promoting obscure companies, or the articles about lists of things one person thought were related... articles cataloging political divisions are mostly harmless.

I have nothing against the 87,000+ people who live in the region. But the article is not about those people... it is about some set of lines a government has chosen to draw... maybe in a few years they will redistrict. Unless there is something meaningful to say about the administrative district besides that the government says it exists, why bother?

Anyway, you probably don't care, and arguing over this one instance of this trend is pointless... I will try to figure out some central place where I can voice my concern. And in the future, there is no need to mean about it just because we don't agree. --Marcinjeske (talk) 08:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

A proposed name change

I propose that 2007-2008 world food price crisis drop the "2007-2008". My reasons are in the discussion. I am told that the person who started an article should be consulted before any name change. Vincecate (talk) 23:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Elizabeth Halverson Accusations

The fact is, sourced or not, the way the material was written was CLEARLY POV, and showed a clear bias, was not objective. As such the inclusion was improper. Proxy User (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't know why I left this rude message. But I am looking to find someone willing to lock the Elizabeth Halverson page from anon edits. I've tried to eliminate the clear bias from some of the article, but ThreeOneFive bot logged in and using an IP seem to think that it's important to have all sorts of trash/dirt/innuendo as well. I think my last edit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Halverson&oldid=213789446 is perfectly adequate within the scope of a Wikipedia bio, and that this version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Halverson&oldid=213786635 is clearly gratuitous, unnecessary, and just someone’s vendetta. It’s tabloid trash not fitting for Wikipedia. I might ad, it also opens Wikipedia to the kind of liability we have seen with other notable people who have been dragged through the mud in the pages of Wikipedia. Proxy User (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot

Hi. glad you like the proposal. I will need as much support as possible when we get around to developing all the countries in Africa. Such a bot would allow me to concnetrate on writing articles rather than trying to take a nibble of country manually. Howz the work going on Niger BTW? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:15, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi I thought you were going to do some work sorting out the departments and region in exisitng articles. Many of the cities in niger needing sorting and they still link arrondisements and departments I just had to half sort out Maine-Soroa but even now the infobox still links wrongly. Please could you aim to sort out these articles and ensure the old confusing diviosn names are updated. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Popular and Social League of the Great Sahara Tribes

inco —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.108.46 (talk) 13:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Tree of Tenere.jpg)

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Serer

Hi
I saw that you did some major expansion on Ngalandou Diouf and was wondering if you could also try your hand at Serer? User:Dadiouf created both articles, in parts using the French articles, and although I just tried some minor copyediting I think it needs a more thorough rewrite.
So if you happen to take a break from you wikibreak and have some time on your hands, maybe you can have a look at it? :)
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea (talk) 10:47, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Great, Thanks. :) --Amalthea (talk) 11:08, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes

On 8 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 15:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Niger article

Thanks for your thanks, and you're welcome for the help. I've noticed it seems to be a magnet for the obvious vandalism. All the vandals probably think they're being original too. RainbowOfLight ^Talk 00:02, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of apartheid deletion notification

Some time ago, you participated in a deletion discussion concerning Allegations of Chinese apartheid. I thought you might like to know that the parent article, Allegations of apartheid, was recently nominated for deletion. Given that many of the issues that have been raised are essentially the same as those on the article on which you commented earlier, you may have a view on whether Allegations of apartheid should be kept or deleted. If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (fifth nomination). -- ChrisO (talk) 17:48, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Tuareg

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

But pls check the Mali figure I believe it's much greater.. Cheers, --TheFEARgod (Ч) 11:33, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, you should do a better organisation of the timeline, the September 2007 - February 2008 section and its sub-sections seem strange a bit to me. Do we need those sub-sections?? It's been bothering me for months, I wanted to update the page and had some difficulties as to where to add new info. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 11:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Fulani

Hey TL MIles.. That was actually me who edited that material under my IP. Of course I'd have made the revision long ago if I'd caught it. Such makes me sick how certain people like to claim everything under the sun for themselves. In any event, stay up.Taharqa (talk) 23:44, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

My vandalism to culture of niger

I'm sorry about that vandalism earlier. I don't know what came over me, I'm not usually like that. I was just being silly and didn't mean to be offensive. That's all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.150.208.87 (talk) 22:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Did You Know problem

Hi. I've reviewed your DYK submission for the article Leptotyphlops carlae, and made a comment on it at the submissions page. Please feel free to reply or comment there. Cheers, Art LaPella (talk) 03:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Your revert on Fula people (content removal by User:Abbarry)

Hi Tommy. I just thought I would let you know since I saw the edit summary twinkle left behind on this article, that the reason abbarry most probably removed the link to Ibrahima Barry is that the article is currently being considered for CSD as a Biographical article which does not assert notability. Ibrahima Barry has 3 hits on Google, 4 on Yahoo and 2 of those are duplicates, so I tagged it accordingly. Please be advised that this link may soon become a red link. Regards, Thor Malmjursson (talk) 03:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Moors

Hi, Two things: 1)Kindly do not insert your own personal POV descriptions of paintings you unilaterally substitute for existing images (and with no explanation to boot). 2)Do not list external links in the footnotes section. They do not belong there and, if indeed they are references (though most weren't), they belong in the references section elsewhere on the page. Also note that when I performed my edits, I actually explained what I was doing as I was going along per Wikipedia best practices. I therefore didn't need to blab on the talk page about things that are ultimately unrelated to my actual edits. Causteau (talk) 03:18, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the primer on Wikipedia ;-D It was most fascinating to learn about what other editors -- or "we" as you put it -- do on Wikipedia. I'd be interested to know where exactly I have violated the Wikipedia civility clause, or where your own edits are supported by consensus (we both know they never were or would be, especially the paintings). I'd also like to know the exact portions of the text as it currently stands that were drawn from each and every one of those sources I quite rightly moved to the external links section. If even so much as one of those sources is not cited in the text in some capacity, then no, they cannot stand per the Wiki policy you yourself just cited which only applies to "an item used as a reference", as I've already stated. If they are, then they belong in the references section, like I've also already stated because they are not footnotes. Causteau (talk) 03:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)