User:Dr. Blofeld/ArchiveJanuary2009

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Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Dr. Blofeld, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Ronz (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox French commune[edit]

Hi, the official figures of the last French census, are out since yesterday: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/recensement/populations-legales/default.asp. The infobox should be changed accordingly. Thanks in advance! --RCS (talk) 17:10, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

A bot, yes, but you could change the template, maybe? (i can't). Thanks! --RCS (talk) 17:14, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia of the future[edit]

Yep - sounds great.

I have an idea - it may be a pipe dream, but it's achievable with work. I'd like to see Wikipedia expand to more than 4 million articles by the end of 2009. We're not even at 3 million yet, I know. But if a lot of people buckle down and begin working on it, I think 4 million is doable. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're right. There was a great deal of growth this year, but it seems to have tapered off quite a bit. We'll crack 3 million this year, I'm sure - the question is when? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:14, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps. I don't know, though - I like to hope it'll happen sooner than that. With luck, around March; perhaps a bit later. With work, it can be done. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Come, now. Can't we get one that uses less energy than that? It is 2009, after all. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Speaking of editing...any talk pages you'd like me to create? I've got a whole weekend to fiddle around with AWB... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
OK, I'll do that tonight. And don't worry, I haven't forgotten the French communes.
Speaking of blues - ever hear of Arthur Crudup? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I don't know Delta blues from any other (Piedmont, I believe?) I just always loved the name of the town in which he died. Been there, actually...it's not much more than a wide place in the highway. Didn't stop me from buying one of his recordings... --19:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of Southern music...ever heard any recordings of Sacred Harp music? It's some of the most fascinating stuff I know. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:07, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - the style never really took off outside of the States, with rare exception ("Amazing Grace" is actually an old shape-note hymn, believe it or not). There's a whole database of them online: here's a couple of my favorites.
If they sound amateurish, that's deliberate; they're meant to be sung by amateur groups.
(Note: I don't make a habit of calling northerners Yankees. I'm not one of those Lost Cause people...although I have relatives who are.)--User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year![edit]

Dear Dr. Blofeld,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 21:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC)


Happy New Year[edit]

Dear Blofeld, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2009 brings further success and happiness! ~ YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

....runs away from the wrath of Dr Evil....YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


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Happy New Year[edit]

Dear Ernst, let's make of Wikipedia a swan in stead of an Ugly Duckling.
I wish you a very happy New Year and all good for your family, yourself and of course for the quality on Wikipedia.
Finest regards of Davin (talk) 16:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Featured picture[edit]

I'm not sure if it meets the size requirements. Other than that...yeah, I think it's splendid. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:22, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I mean, I'd love to work on an (a?) FP or FA someday, but for now there's so much else to do. Like fixing the redlinks in the article about the Seventy Disciples. OrthodoxWiki is great for that. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Have fun - I just caught a passle of South Korean footballers that need stubbing and catting that just showed up in the newpages queue. I'm using AWB on them now --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm still stuck on the disciples. After that, it's back to cleaning up more South Koreans. *sigh* An AWBer's work is never done... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 23:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, it's amazing the things you can find online, if only you look in the right places. Like some of the Eastern Shore things I've found on Flickr - who knew anybody'd ever been there? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Ach, yes - the coverage of Africa on here is pitiful compared to some other places. That and Oceania are the areas I would love to see grow exponentially in the new year. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - it's surprising, sometimes, how bad the coverage of certain parts of the country is on here. Like my home state; there are places I know exist, that I've visited or driven through, that haven't been added because nobody's thought to. I mean, I don't like having stubby little articles for every village in every county; I wish they could be larger. But better that than nothing at all. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Sometime I'll give it a try, then - I'm just not sure what kind of time I'll have to devote to translation in the near future. But I'll keep it at the top of my to-do list. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Those mechanized translations really aren't as bad as their reputation would have you believe; as long as you keep an eye on what you've got, and clean it up some, it'll probably be fairly accurate. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 00:05, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Dear Ernst[edit]

Can I ask you a favour? I'm finally nearly finished with Koh Kong (city) after much procrastination. I would like to try (again) for my first DYK. If you have time, would you do me the reciprocal honour of nominating it? If this one is actually successful I'm gunna get a few more of the provincial towns up to the same standard. Oh, and a happy belated new year! Paxse (talk) 15:55, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm worried I may be jinxed after Neak Leung! Paxse (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Ramblers Stadium[edit]

Hello Dr., Great work on the Namibia articles, the expansion is pretty impressive. I've worked on quite a few Namibia articles. Anyway, Ramblers Stadium is a bit strange. I lived in Windhoek for 4 months last year and never heard of it. I see that Ramblers Stadium does exist but i very much doubt it has a seating capacity of 10,000. Where did you see that?--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 01:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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Julia Roberts[edit]

Hi, Yes, I agree the crop is awful but the replacement/former version is worse in my opinion. To have half a person chopped off and Julia clutching onto him, looks ridiculous. We're very limited in what we can work with, but can you suggest anything? Is the crop bad because it's too big or because it's too tight? Could it work if it was "medium cropped" and some of the background was removed? It's surprising that all of the free images of Julia Roberts are of such poor quality. Rossrs (talk) 07:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I've tried an enhanced version, cropped differently, straightened etc. I think it looks much better, and although it's small it's bigger than the original but with all the excess clutter removed. Do you think it's better? Rossrs (talk) 10:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't see anything substantially different in the quality. Isn't the sole purpose to show what she looks like? I'd rather see her head straight and not leaning into someone's shoulder. Also, I have to say that I can't help but feel offended by the tone of your message particularly "that will do for now". I thought we were discussing this, but that reads as dismissive and final. I change it and ask what you think, and you change it back and say "that will do". I was asking you for an opinion not a decision. Rossrs (talk) 12:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year[edit]

(answering from de:) Thank you and a happy new year for you, too! Well, to be honest: I have all countries on my list. :-) They all are going to get new svg maps, it's just a matter of time. (And btw: "Wie heißt du?" means "What's your name?" Is this really your question?) NNW (talk) 09:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Ja. The Bald One White cat 10:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, that is – of course – a secret. --NNW (talk) 11:36, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Can I call you Nordby for short? The Bald One White cat 12:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

If you want to... --NNW (talk) 12:21, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan[edit]

Excellent - looks nice. I didn't know there was a Kyrgyz Wiki; can you tell if there's much there worth looking at? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

You'd be surprised - MamaHerring was in Kyrgyzstan once, with the State Department, and she still tells the story of driving through the countryside on the bus until coming to a little yurt, out in the middle of nowhere, that was selling 7-Up, Coke, and Belgian chocolate, among other things. No bathrooms, though... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey, now...you're talking to someone who's eaten chapulines and cactus, among other dishes.
Speaking of food...they've just opened a Nepalese restaurant here in DC. Should be interesting; it got a pretty good review in the Post on Sunday. Here's their website. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:16, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah...that's about what the review said. Still, looks interesting...right there next to the Burmese and Indonesian restaurants. We've got plenty to choose from in DC... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:49, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Indonesian food can be quite tasty - there's a good little storefront restaurant in Alexandria that does wonderful dishes. We have quite the selection around here - Ethiopian, West African, Burmese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Peruvian, Nepalese, and various subsets of Mexican, in addition to all the usual suspects. Although it's getting damn near impossible to find a German restaurant around... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:04, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - I wish there were a few more skins available. I mean, I like what I've got, but it would be nice to have more variety sometimes. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I like Cologne Blue just fine. I just think that it would be nice if they offered a change; I mean I can fix my internet settings, but what if I want the changes applied only to one site and not all of the ones I visit? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:31, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey - as long as he behaves himself. I don't even want to think about another sex tape scandal... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
See? This is why I don't watch reality TV. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
One wishes they would jump back off, and fall under the wheels... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Indeed. There's a wonderful show, I don't know if you get it in the UK, called The Soup, which does a marvelous job of skewering most anything to do with that garbage. Among my personal favorite clips is one from My Bare Lady when a contestant seriously says, upon being "exposed" (hurr) to The Taming of the Shrew, that Shakespeare was remarkably corageous...for an Elizabethan woman. I believe the exact phrase was "she had balls". Lady, you have no idea...
The mind, as they say, she boggles. Oy. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Dalai Lama birthplace pic[edit]

An excellent find. Real enhancement of the page. As a reader, just wanted to say thank you. Regards Wingspeed (talk) 18:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Tenzin Tsering[edit]

Hi Ernst,
Since you liked the articles about the football players, could I please ask you to look at Tenzin Tsering and react also on the talk page so this article will survive? It yet was quite difficult for me to find out the current information on this football player. Thanks, Davin (talk) 18:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Yet declined, never mind :-) Davin (talk) 18:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again. Can you please react again, now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tenzin Tsering? Davin (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

hi![edit]

I'm back from a long break - I was in Spain visiting my boyfriend's family for Christmas. Quite a nice time! I'm glad to see that you fleshed out the Michael Crichton article, and hopefully someone will upload a photo one of these days. Do you know if anyone ever emailed those people I mentioned as possible photo sources in the deletion discussion? As for Cambodia sources, you might actually want to wait a few months or a year or so to do Cambodia articles. They had a census in 2008 (the first since 1998), and the first preliminary results are just beginning to become available. At the moment the national census site is down (this seems to happen a lot - once it even seemed they hadn't renewed the site registration and it was a random godaddy page or something like that!). I hope that they put comprehensive results for the 2008 census up soon, so that I can redo the stats on the Ratanakiri page and finally put it up for FA. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Good work on the Michael Crichton photo! It looks fantastic. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Krypton factor burns.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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Am I supposed to protest the deletion of the guy with the comb over or something? The Bald One White cat 14:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
You can make an argument at the IFD as to why the image should be kept. As it's just used for decoration and as Gordon Burns is still alive, it fails WP:NFCC items 1 and 8. Stifle (talk) 14:36, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Why would I make an argument for why it should be kept? I think it should be deleted. The Bald One White cat 14:38, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
You uploaded the image and removed a deletion tag from it. Am I missing something? Stifle (talk) 15:53, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
If you've decided you're happy for it to be deleted, you can just tag it {{db-g7}} or let me know and I'll delete it now. Stifle (talk) 15:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Gone. Stifle (talk) 16:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Photos[edit]

Excellent, on both counts. I tried to find a good, free one of William Carlos Williams, but no success. Which I find hard to believe, given his stature in American letters. There must be something out there, somewhere. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Very good. I wish I had the time for that sort of thing - alas, duty calls, and all that. I'm doing well to keep up a handful of edits a day. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Indeed - there's a ton of material out there I'm sure just waiting to be looked at. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 01:27, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
I'll give it a shot in a bit - busy morning, sorry. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Worse than I expected - I work for a government agency (don't want to go into too much detail on a public forum), and we got a lot of urgent requests in this morning. I'm just now winding down for the day.
List looks great, by the way - if you like I'll try and replace "Naturpark" in those redlinks with "Nature Park" once I get home. (I think I can manage a way to do it with AWB.) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of User:Dr. Blofeld/Blofeld's Angels of Death[edit]

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MfD nomination of User:Dr. Blofeld/Blofeld's Angels of Death[edit]

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Infobox Colours[edit]

Hey baldy. I know < nothing about infobox colours so I'm not the best one to ask. Translation looking good. How's all in your world? Happy Y2K+9 :) StarM 02:05, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Those who don't give a Fuch[edit]

Blofeld is astounded by the actions of other users on this website at times. They take all they can get from me in my contribution and despite my 30+ user construction pages will not permit me to keep one gallery. I am disgusted that a user page could be subject to deletion by others. Therfore I am staying well away from this site until this silly proposal is over.

Ignore them! :) -- Tinu Cherian - 11:37, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
You have e-mail, good Doctor. Fritzpoll (talk) 11:47, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Uh, David, chill out please? Blofeld as I'm sure you know is a very good editor, and is understandably upset that someone has nominated his page for deletion. As things currently stand, it's on the way to an overwhelming keep. I think Blofeld should come back and ignore the debate, and David I don't know why you nominated the page, but such pages are common as is mentioned in the MFD, so why you pick on Blofeld's I don't know. Majorly talk 15:05, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Blofeld Frankly speaking I am a lil' disappointed by your decision...come on! Isn't this wikipedia after all...its all part of the whole project...be sportive man! For the love of those ladies come back! Imagine a 2000 edits person saying this to a 7943883272 edits editor!!! Hehe... Seriously man forget it and move on! --KnowledgeHegemony talk 18:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Madness, sheer bloody stupid wiki-drama-madness. It's bloody hard to stay away from wikidrama when it follows you to userspace like this. Ignore it Ernst, for it will go away. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 19:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Very sorry to see this has happened - hop to see you back soon once this all blows over - as it will, quite soon. I can understand why someone might consider nominating the page for deletion, but I can equally well see that a decision to actually make that nomination would likely be very wrong - and I'm frankly quite surprised that an editor of David's experience might make such a nomination. Don't take it personally - and hurry back! The stub project needs you :). Grutness...wha? 21:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Got to learn to keep a lower profile, Blofeld. Look at me. I've had a spectacular pair of tits in all their glory on display on my user page for about a year now, and not a word of complaint from anyone. :-) Dekkappai (talk) 23:55, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I read "it". I must say you made a wise decision to move it. But its still a KEEP (very soon its gonna be passed as "kept") so you can still have it as you want. Cheers! --KnowledgeHegemony talk 11:13, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks all, I think I've seen it all now. Not what I'd have expected to happen at all. If of course I was kindly asked to deleted my gallery in the first place I might have agreed. In fact I may delete it now as I'm not a tacky guy, just like beautiful women! There wa sjust something very wrong in the way it was addressed thats all. The Bald One White cat 18:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dr. Blofeld/Blofeld's Angels of Death[edit]

Has closed as a KEEP under WP:SNOW no less. :) Best, Paxse (talk) 12:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Blofeld triumphans. Devicta delitioniste barbarie, no less. Congratulatioms. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Please continue in your good efforts... You are one of the biggest assets of WP -- Tinu Cherian - 16:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. Keep up the good work! -- The Anome (talk) 16:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


My dear friend![edit]

Please forgive me for my absence. You know how much I wanted to come and see Zinta featured on the main page and to wish you a very happy Christmas. I'm sad I wasn't here to see all that, but I just did not have the opportunity to do so. I thank you for everything, friend. Oh, a very happy christmas... And please be strong, without you Wikipedia is not the same. My truly best regards, Shahid • Talk2me 17:36, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Dr. Blofeld, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! -- Tinu Cherian - 18:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

:) Just kiddin.. "welcome back" my friend :) -- Tinu Cherian - 18:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes LOL. Actually I strained my neck somehow last night, slept awkwardly on the pillow I think. I have a support around the base of my neck to keep my bald head upright. The Bald One White cat 18:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

At any cost, we cannot lose you... Continue to have fun :) -- Tinu Cherian - 18:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
Awarded to The Bald One White cat for his contributions to Indian cinema in Wikipedia. Thank you -- Tinu Cherian - 18:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey thanks! Yes I create 350 Indian films the other day. Only 215 to attend to! The Bald One White cat 18:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Did you see....[edit]

...this? - I'm quite pleased Fritzpoll (talk) 19:22, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Look forward to seeing it on the main page. Frasier too! The Bald One White cat 20:05, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

New topic[edit]

Hello Mr.Blofeld, I needed your advice on something. Currently, I am trying to develop articles like Bollywood films of 2007, Bollywood films of 2008, etc. As you can see, in the former article, there is a section indicating the "Top 10 highest-grossing films of the year". On majority of the Indian articles, people use BOI as their source. Before, for every year, BOI use to organize its chart, with the site having the "highest-grossing" film at the top of its list, and then going down in descending order, such as like this However, more recently, for its films from 2006-present, they have gone on to rank the films in the chart by "distributor share" and not the "highest-grossing" anymore, such as like this For the articles from Bollywood films of 2006 onwards, I was wondering if I should organize the films based on the "highest-grossing" or the "distributor share". For the charts, I do not plan to include the distributor share. I only plan to add how much the film has grossed. If you could give me your advice as to which would be more appropriate, I would greatly appreciate it. Regards -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 20:21, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Well it was listed by nett gross but if they are changing it, do whatever is necessary. Basically it just needs to list the top 10 grossing films of each year The Bald One White cat 20:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

That is what I am confused of!! See, if I list the top 10 highest-grossing films of the year 2006, in terms of how much the film has grossed, it would be: 1) Dhoom 2 2) Krrish 3) LRMB 4) Fanaa 5) Don 6) RDB 7) KANK 8) PHP 9) Bhagam Bhag 10) Vivah
However, if it were to be listed according to its distributor share, like how BOI did, it would be: 1) Dhoom 2 2) Krrish 3) LRMB 4) Fanaa 5) Don 6) RDB 7) Vivah 8) PHP 9) KANK 10) Bhagam Bhag
BOI only does it the latter way for films post 2006. However, films from pre-2006 are the same [they list it the former way based on how much the film has grossed.] Do you think that for all the years, we should organize it in the former way [pre-2006] to remain consistent? BTW, do you even get what I am saying or are you confused?? -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 21:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't mind mate but as long as they are all consistent and indicate what the top 10 list is for. The Bald One White cat 21:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Reverts!=[edit]

If you going to revert atleast dont revert to images such as Image:Iran_topo_en.jpg in {{Iranianfilmlist}} which we both agree isnt needed Gnevin (talk) 20:59, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi![edit]

Good to see you back in action. Let me tell you something which you ought to know. Fr Blofeld is one of the most important person to this project. Thanks, --KnowledgeHegemony talk 17:29, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou. Although shouldn't that be "Herr" rather than "Frau"! The Bald One White cat 17:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

???
Oh fuch!! It was a typo and not a deliberate one like the one in this comment! Wow I never knew Fr. is used to a "lady" coz I donno German (just found out that thru google)!!! All I was trying to type was "Dr" but my finger went on F which is next to D!! --KnowledgeHegemony talk 17:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

LOL. The Bald One White cat 17:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Benin[edit]

Thanks - I'm also working on other Beninese political/military articles like Alphonse Alley, Maurice Kouandete, Benoit Sinzogan, etc. Nice job with Parakou - keep it up! ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 18:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm mostly using Samuel Decalo's Historical Dictionary of Dahomey (People's Republic of Benin), which is a bit dated (published in 1976) though contains some good info on diverse Beninese topics. I think you should probably find it somewhere. Two heads are better than one~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 18:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

maplandia.com[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Bresternica, Maribor do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. [1] --Ronz (talk) 17:58, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!! I'm just getting started on here, I've yet to make 100 edits on here so I need all the help possible to find my way about!! The Bald One White cat 18:04, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

After looking at how others are linking maplandia.com, I'm only objecting to direct links to the top-level domain, rather than specific maps. --Ronz (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Actually those Slovenian ones were created very rapidly which explains why the direct link wasn't there. Besides for Slovenia there is actually a better site for maps of villages. The Bald One White cat 18:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

To be sure I'm clear, use links to the maps themselves, rather than the site where people have to do the search themselves. --Ronz (talk) 18:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh OK. You'll have to train me I'm a newbie. The Bald One White cat 18:22, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind[edit]

You might find this helpful, in addition to the welcome message that I placed a the top: User:WLU/Generic_sandbox --Ronz (talk) 20:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Any idea who founded wikipedia? I can't seem to find the name of the guy who founded it. The Bald One White cat 21:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

;^) --Ronz (talk) 03:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
That's what I get for multitasking. --Ronz (talk) 16:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry mate you weren't to know! Thanks for your help. I always generally add a specific link anyway, you must have stumbled across the lot I did without a direct link. All the best The Bald One White cat 16:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

AFD - Museum of Photography of Skopelos[edit]

Since no one seems to have notified you, I thought I should let you know that Museum of Photography of Skopelos is at AFD. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Museum of Photography of Skopelos. Zagalejo^^^ 21:11, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Nobody seems to have notified me? Mmm mmm. Funny that. Of course as a newbie I guess I'm off the radar. Groan groan. Why hasn't anybody bothered to expand any of them? People can't leave everything to me to do, collaboration is what we need!. I can't believe nobody has come along and expanded them yet. The Bald One White cat 21:13, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Not so bad this week[edit]

At least, doesn't seem to be. I just took a moment to fill in a red link at Enzo Dara; I seem to recall almost having heard him sing in Washington once. A great basso buffo - it's shameful that he wasn't here before. Actually, the operatic coverage is sometimes annoyingly spotty, I find. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

It's pretty cold here today, but not much more than that. Speaking of reading material, this weekend I picked up a copy of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian in the clearance rack at our local Border's. So far it appears to be a lot of fun. (Besides, I just wanted to say "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" on your talk page...)
As long as you're willing to clean up what you get from one of those net-based translation services, they really are a big help in doing translations for the project. Hell, how do you think I've done most of my work from Italian? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I bought it for the title, but it's turning out to be a better read than I'd hoped. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and the weirdest things I've worked on are probably the heritage properties from the National Trust for the Cayman Islands. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, can't say as it surprises me that much. German is rather...odd, when it comes to syntax, I find. With Chinese and Japanese, one of my favorite things to do with my old computer (because it didn't have a character set for either) was to translate a passage from English into, say, Chinese, then tell the machine it was in Japanese and retranslate it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:40, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamding Tsering[edit]

Hi, I thought you might be interested. --J.Mundo (talk) 20:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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African photographs[edit]

Most excellent - they look great. Where did you find them, may I ask? And how does one go about gaining permission to upload photographs like that to Wikipedia? I've found a handful of things on Flickr that I think might be very useful. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, that has the potential to be phenomenally awesome. I can think of more than a handful of pages that might benefit on here. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - to be honest I've always held off on working with Commons for some reason. A lot of new syntax to learn, and I've only just begun to be familiar with a lot of the things you can do over here. Never mind, though. If I can find stuff that's worthwhile, I'll definitely begin using it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I'll do what I can. But I have no flickr access at work, and in the evenings I'm back to tagging the French communes for expansion. So it'll be a while, yet. Especially as once I'm done with France the Italian communes are going to need the same tagging... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
For the nonce I'll take your word for it - I'll check it out when I get home. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Not just Flickr, either, although they're much the best known. I've found things on Webshots that could be potentially useful...I need to write the owners and ask them for permission, actually. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:20, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

There are African airport stubs for most countries, by the way: {{Togo-airport-stub}}, for instance. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I think I've caught them all and restubbed them for you. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Anything for you, Ernie. ;-) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Sure - soon as I have a free moment, I'll take care of it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
OK, I've done some...back to the grind for now. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Not bad, all told. I've filled in the necessary stuff for Chad, as well - I'll do more of them later. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:09, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Haven't had a chance yet, sorry. Do you want me to continue tagging the French commune articles? To be perfectly honest, while I don't agree that the templates you created shouldn't be used, I was a bit worried that blanket-tagging a lot might catch some things that couldn't be expanded on that much. What say? You're the boss, O Doc. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, then. I'll leave off doing the French. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, it's like I said before - the ones I checked out myself were valid. No reason to think others weren't. Ah, well...I'm off lunch, now. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
OK - when I get the chance I'll dig a bit and see what I can come up with. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:35, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi! Need your assistance...[edit]

Is this, this and this image acceptable for uploading on Wikipedia? If yes what license should I use? I guess the 1st one is non-commercial personal use, the second acceptable for sharing but only by attribution and the last one is a CC?

I am very bad at uploading images and the licensing part...all my images end up being deleted! --KnowledgeHegemony talk 19:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

You may upload the last one only to the commons as Creative COmmons 2.0 flickr providing the uploader took the image and you attribute the author. The Bald One White cat 19:14, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

So Dr. Experienced newbie how do I make sure that the flickr uploader took the image!!? --KnowledgeHegemony talk 19:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately it was taken between 1977 and 1984 and not be the uploader as the images was taken in 2006 (obviously meaning a scan). It is more than likely a scan from a magazine on it so woould probably be deleted if you uploaded it. Try seeking some PD-Goverment images or claiming fair use on wikipedia for one. The Bald One White cat 19:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

New message[edit]

Blofeld, User:Martineejames is currently adding rubbish and non-encylopedic information on Rani Mukerji's article. Despite my best efforts in making him understand about non-encylopedic information, he insists that it should be added. If you don't mind, could you please keep an eye on the article? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks and Best Regards -- -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 19:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello Blofeld, remember I told you that User:Martineejames was adding rubbish and non-encylopedic information on Rani Mukerji's article. Now an anonymous user keeps on doing the same thing. I am pretty sure that it is the same person. Is there any way that you could get the page protected?? I would greatly appreciate it!! Thanks -- -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 20:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

refs[edit]

Hey Blofeld, when you add ref tags, could you please make sure there aren't any spaces before the tag? You can see the difference here. Thanks for your contributions, - Kingpin13 (talk) 21:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Tagging[edit]

Greetings, diabolic one. Here's my take on the "translate this from French" tagging.

  1. I've just checked the last ten articles tagged by User:AlbertHerring, namely Longchamp, Lignerolles, Liernais, Licey-sur-Vingeanne, Levernois, Leuglay, Les Maillys, Les Goulles, Lechâtelet, Le Meix. It appears to me that only one out of 10 has any content at all which could be translated - and that has only 3 lines at my monitor's resolution. I could check a whole bunch more, but my sample satisfies me that to exhort users to translate from the french articles is nonsense. Possibly on stilts.
  2. YMMV, of course, but when I want to read an article, I want to read an article, not an advert for expanding the article. I don't like adverts. I'd prefer such banners to be placed at the foot of an article than at the head; or to be placed on the talk page; or to display nothing in the article but drive a category which can be worked through. In short, I think we're all too quick to forget the the normal reader comes here to read and not to contribute, and we would do well to allow them to get on with this, as unencumbered by our own adverts as they are by third party adverts. I recognise there's a whole lot more that could be said on either side in a debate about whether & where to tag, but having considered the matter over the years, that's the conclusion I've come to.
  3. So for me, with apologies, the "translate this from the french" tagging exercise was a fatuous waste of time first because of the extraordinarily low hit rate, and second because it promotes one (or a group of) contributor's interests in seeing the articles expanded, over the wishes of otherwise uninvolved readers who merely wish to read the article and resent having to pay attention to or skip over an advert, and worse a misleading advert. Even if we assume that overall the hit rate is better than my random sample, hundreds of pages are now left with the useless & misleading & irritating tag on them, to no purpose whatsoever. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Well if you consider a clear effort to try to coordinate the expansion of wikipedia which is extremely relevant in many places irritating then you clearly do not have the best interest of the project to heart. The fact that I have already translated many articles from the "irritatingly tagged" articles working through the categories ilustrates to me that it is a productive exercise and not a fatuous waste of time. If you consider the transwikiying of articles like Carthage National Museum and Tenerife a waste of time I suggest you go and edit Uneneyclopedia instead. Anyway the fact that you "want to read an article" not write it suggests to me you know little about expanding wikipedia and rely on the efforts of others and therefore are not in a position to judge the best way in which it should be expanded. The Bald One White cat 21:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo[edit]

Yeah, I'm sill here, just not as active as I used to be. Nice job with Parakou - it would be good if I could find some free images for Beninese history. I was not aware that we had data for Mauritania, and I will help you with it. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 23:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Where do you find the coordinates, may I ask? Is it from maplandia? If so, it would be good to include a link. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 23:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Bareina[edit]

Absolutely. I might even recommend trying it for Featured Picture (I don't know if it would make it, but it's worth a shot.) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree, Flickr has some amazing stuff. Like File:TangierCemetery.jpg, for instance: it does a better job than any other image I've seen of illustrating how crowded Tangier Island is. Actually, I pretty much illustrated that whole article with Flickr. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Will do, thanks. Quiet day today; I might actually get something done for a change. :-) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:48, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Well, if she has the larger ones, you can always ask for them. Me, I'm not always that hung up on the resolution, given how things look at thumbnail size regardless. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Most excellent. I shall probably finish up my apostles sometime this afternoon or evening. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Nothing in particular. Any Pacific Island is a good Pacific Island. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:18, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Do many people object, in your experience?
Oh! I know - I'd like to start trying to illustrate some of the opera-related articles; I'm sure there are images out there that could be used. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:23, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - I can sort of understand that, though. Still, I think a lot of people are really coming to see the value of freeware of all sorts, and the results are going to be ever more impressive over the next few years. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:43, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Sweeeeeeeet. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Marvelous. Tell you what - why don't you make a list of things to create, and I'll help? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey - every little bit helps. Speaking of which...I found a great picture to upload not too long ago. All I need to do is write the article that goes along with it... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Excellent. Mine's a little bay island in Maryland...I'll show you when I've completed it tonight. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
That looks great - I wish there were more like that. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:16, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
It's OK - you're not boring me. Today was a...strange day, though. So I wasn't entirely as coherent as I'd like to be. Hopefully with another four-day weekend coming up I can be more constructive. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 01:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I love it when a plan comes together. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

"Super pilot" is putting it mildly, I think. Talk about amazing stuff. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

The photographs are great - the rest of it I'm not so keen on, honestly. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Norfolk Island...don't they kill people there? Oh, yes... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:49, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh, excellent. This is going to be great. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind message[edit]

Thank you for the kind message. Let's score some more for Africa! Ecoleetage (talk) 18:16, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello![edit]

Hello The Bold One!

I guess you've been copying my name then eh? :D

The Helpful One 20:24, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed dams infobox?[edit]

I saw that you're the latest editor of the dams infobox, and was wondering if there's an infobox for a dam that was proposed but never built. I'm putting together an article on Rampart Dam, but am not sure what infobox would be best. If you've got a suggestion, it'd be appreciated. Thanks. JKBrooks85 (talk) 23:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Taffin Khan[edit]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Taffin Khan, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taffin Khan. Thank you. SyG (talk) 20:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

A barnstar[edit]

The Photography Barnstar
For your phenomenal work in getting images from Flickr to illustrate articles on Benin, Togo, Norfolk Island, and other marvelous places which I probably have no hope of visiting in my lifetime (else I'd provide a picture myself, naturally), I award you this photography barnstar. Excellent job - keep it up! --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:37, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Indeed. I'll see what I can scrounge up to add over the weekend, too. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 06:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely marevlous. Do you use a particular uploading program to add things to Commons, or is it all manual? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:36, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Most excellent. I'm not sure what I'll be doing with myself this afternoon; we'll see. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
So few? Really? And here I thought Mali was one of the more developed places on here. Kind of frightening, honestly.
There are some things with satellite images I'd like to do, I think. THat should occupy me some more this weekend. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
That's kind of unfortunate, to put it mildly. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 22:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Tangton Gyelpo[edit]

Dear Ernst: Thank you so very much for your encouragement and the excellent additions to the article. I am particularly pleased to have an illustration - as I couldn't find one I could use right away. However, I have written to Dharma Publishing for permission to use an excellent line drawing which shows Tangton Gyelpo with a section of iron chain in his hand (representing the work he did building suspension bridges). Hopefully, I will be able to add this in later.

Unfortunately, I haven't been up to doing much on the Wikipedia recently (although I did add a little to Gongchen Monastery as you requested and will try to get back to Longwu Temple when I can). Mostly it is because I am trying to finish my book which is taking far longer than expected and that Mr. Arthur Rightus has been make frequent unwelcome visits leading me to drown my sorrows in codeine, which is not conducive to clear-headed editorial work. Oh, well, I deserve it - an acquaintance the other day explained it all to me with great earnestness - apparently it is payback for taking the Lord's Name in vain so frequently! The trouble is I find a combination of doing this while in a really hot shower to be one of the very best remedies - even if the beneficial results are only short-lived! So, the Big Boss is just going to have to get used to it or, at least develop a less sadistic sense of humour and stop pestering me with various plagues. I really don't have Job's patience - but I am ready to work out a truce with Him and never take His name in vain again if only He will leave me alone. If you run into Him - please explain my proposal to Him for me - He doesn't seem to listen to me any more. ;^) Warmest wishes, as always, John Hill (talk) 23:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams[edit]

I removed the speedy from Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams since I was able to find a newspaper reference for Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams, and I edited the article so that it no longer reads like an advertisement. -- Eastmain (talk) 22:34, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh OK, just saw "family business" and initially seemed like an advert Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:35, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Child Museum[edit]

I have nominated Child Museum, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Child Museum. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. —La Pianista (T•C) 03:33, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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re User:Betacommand[edit]

In reply to your query at WP:ANI; yes, BC is now banned (although there does not appear to be an agreed period, so the tariff of the indef block remains.) LessHeard vanU (talk) 15:33, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah OK thanks, just a little surprised it took so long. I witnessed his unwillingness to listen to editors concerns for several weeks at one stage and in doing so continued to make more errors. His general idea and effort was good in principal, but you can't continue to make mistakes like he did and show no respect to anybody else. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Re. Ecoleetage[edit]

Hello Dr. Blofeld. You may check the last questions on his RfA and this for detailed explanation... Regards, Húsönd 15:59, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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Spanish films[edit]

Hi there, there was a major issue with an editor moving foreign film titles to their English "equivalents" without any reason, notably where a film had never been released under the English title. Obviously whilst fixing the dozens of issues I got this one wrong (I found a lot of fair use images without rationales, and didn't realise the copyright on this one had run out), and I see it has been reverted - if you find any more, please tell me. Thanks, Black Kite 18:04, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

  • OK fixed those two, please let me know if you find any more. Thanks, Black Kite 18:17, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Discussion on Articles for Deletion[edit]

Hi, Dr. Blofeld. I think you need to be more careful. Your comments in the debate risk giving the impression that you can just create stubs then expect others to fill in the details. Someone who formed that impression about your comments would probably conclude that you are trying to tell others what they should be working on, as if you were some sort of manager. I don't think that's what you are aiming to do, but it's the impression your words may give. --Philcha (talk) 18:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Really?? If I wanted to be a manager and boss people about don't you think that I'd have tried to grab some admin tools and run for bureacrat or become active at admin boards? And if you are implying or think I somehow implied that I add no content whatsever to wikipedia and expect others to do the work?... I am responding to an editor who clearly thinks that there is no point in creating stubs and am informing just how much I do on here with content building. Yes I create a lot of stubs, but I create them hoping people who come across them will try to expand them and build on what I start and in the end we are better off for it. Yes I do think that a lot of edits on here are far too in favour of pointless project discussions and many not showing an interest in rest of the world and places but thats my opinion and even if I wanted to be a manager I clearly cannot influence people to edit things which they are not interested in, so am somewhat baffled by your message. I cannot see how you have turned a request for the AFD system to be changed to allow editors who created them (myself) to expand them before an AFD listing into some idea that I do no work myself and dictate to people how to edit. If somebody comes across an article which in their view is crap, then why is not not reasonable that they could help improve it? After all they have come across it through their own choice, perhaps interest. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:17, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

If I may butt in... My jaw dropped when I read that-- Stubs can be improved, or just left to be (at least they could when I first joined Wikipedia), to no one's harm, and to Wikipedia's betterment. No one is forced to do anything to it, and the creator of the stub has provided a service by giving some minimal information which can be built upon. However, putting an article on a verifiable subject up for deletion "manages" other editors time and effort in a very real way. It forces us to make a choice: Do we sit back and watch good material get deleted, or do we allow our own time to be hijacked into saving an article on a subject in which we may not have much interest. Currently, I have taken the third path: Do not look into the Deletion tarpits, and try to ignore the fact that a large number of "editors" spend nearly all their time here committing the highly anti-encyclopedic crime of info-cide. Dekkappai (talk) 18:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed Mr. Dekkappai, the irony of that! But in all honesty I'm not shocked by anything I encounter on here anymore. I try to avoid wiki drama which I find you can't get away from. You can minimise it by never looking at a non encyclopedia page, but in the end it'll come looking and before you know you're part of it! If only I was a manager on here, wow now that would be great. We'd sort out all the wrong AFDs and negative time wasting that goes on here in an instant and get more people to concentrate on expanding our stubs!! Sounds like a perfect solution to me! Seriously though all I asked for is for people to ask me to expand the article first before taking it to AFD, I don't know how we got to this point. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Right. I'm trying to stick to working on articles in my own interest areas for now. But I'll expect the Wiki-drama to sneak up & bite me on the arse once in a while, when I've got my back turned... Guess it just has to be expected in a large project... Dekkappai (talk) 18:52, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool, best words of advice. Stay well away from any "community" discussion, evne asking questions as other editors will try to look down on you or make a criticism, and if possible refrain from editing anything except an article or talk page. When trouble comes a lookin, AFD or negativety, let me know and we'll save it and hopefully rid of anything which is not fun. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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Cairo Children's Museum Article Name[edit]

Hello, Dr. Blofeld, you participated in the AfD for Child Museum (which has now been moved to Child Museum of Cairo). While I appreciate the value of making Child Museum into a disambiguation page, I'm concerned that by naming this article Child Museum of Cairo we've created a neologism. At the moment I write this, no sources give the title of the museum as "Child Museum of Cairo": doubtless wikipedia mirrors will pick up that name and distribute it. Most sources cite the museum's name as simply, "The Child Museum"; a few cite it as the "Cairo Children's Museum". I would recommend moving the article to either Child Museum (Cairo) or Cairo Children's Museum; feedback is appreciated. See the entry on the article talk page. Thanks, Baileypalblue (talk) 12:41, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK's[edit]

Thanks for your congrats - I'm definitely having fun. Next for the front page is the story of Phnom Voar... Cheers, Paxse (talk) 18:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC).

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Eco[edit]

Wow... I really do not know what to say. He sure had me fooled, though I do not regret supporting him, as I could only judge him as he was online, just like anyone else. It's almost like the Matrix, a reality created by computers. I'm going through many emotions at the moment, and am going to actually wash my hands right now to signify the end of our wikirelationship, which I call We Will, We Will Shock You. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 23:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Virtual reality[edit]

Yes, it's quite impressive; I believe NASA has applied similar technology to some aspects of its NASA World Wind program - I'm trying to figure out how to license images made with that now.

I'm not at work today - no way in hell am I going into DC for anything short of a dying relative. It's a madhouse down there. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:27, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

That's about it. "Most accessible inauguration" my...er, edit button. And tomorrow there's a protest planned in front of my office - hooray. This week's going to be fun fun fun. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:33, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't want to go into it in public - check your e-mail in a few minutes. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I agree with you there - he exudes confidence. I'm just not sure that's going to be enough. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 00:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Ah, well - enough politics. Anything you want me to do with AWB? --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 00:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Sure - talk pages I can do. Just tell me what category you want them in, and it can be done. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Righty-o. Like I said, though, talk pages are really easy, so if you've created a body of things that need them I can take care of 'em for you. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks fine to me from this angle. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

That's awesome you're awesome. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:20, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
You, too? I love sheep - in fact, I think I must have gone to school in the sheep capital of Virginia, there were so many in the pastures and paddocks in town. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:31, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
There's nothing Roman in my neighborhood, alas - the oldest thing in the vicinity is Mount Vernon itself. Well...that and Woodlawn Plantation. Might not seem that old to you Welshmen, but believe me, over here anything over 200 years old is worthy of note. Not much animal life in the area, either, other than a surprisingly large deer population and some rabbits. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I quite agree. There are few places I love as much as Shenandoah National Park. And the Blue Ridge Parkway...although I think one of my favorite experiences was driving into Grundy (despite the coal-mining past, the town has its own rough charm). Some of the forest down there is unbelieveably wild. Here's a sample of some of the places I've visited over the years:
These are just a few - I'm sure I could dig up some more landscapes with time. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
It does look a lot like swaths of the UK, no? I remember my father and I once were standing on a hotel balcony overlooking the hills in eastern West Virginia, and my father said something to the effect that he could understand how the first settlers thought they'd found the promised land, given how it looked. We were in Canaan Valley, funnily enough (they pronounce it kin-AIN, not KANE-an).
Burke's Garden is one of the most fascinating places I think I've ever seen...it's in an absolutely lovely corner of the state where not a lot of people ever find themselves. Gorgeously green, too. And there's a State Route 666 running through it... --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah - it's amazing what you can actually find online, if you dig for it a bit. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:44, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Seems to be a website issue - I've had the same trouble off and on all morning. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Favorite themes of Tenzin Gyatso[edit]

Hi Ernst,

Little question. I'm working on the details of the article "Tenzin Gyatso" in Dutch and there is still one question of a reviewer that I have not yet completed satisfactorily in my view. He said: "Tenzin" translated means 'defender of the faith', and it would be good to include in a spiritual sense what themes Tenzin Gyatso is talking about / preaching / occupied with / etc. I'm looking for a handful (5 or more) of themes to write on. Do you know what themes are most important/favorite for Tenzin Gyatso to preach about, especially for us in the West?

Thanks, Davin

I Corrected translation ("Tenzin" in stead of "Tenzin Gyatso" means 'defender of faith'). Davin (talk) 14:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
The footballers were viewed from a football-point-of-view only, that's a pity. One wins and one looses in life, nothing to change for that. Tenzin Gyatso has written very many books, even in Dutch. I'm yet searching through lists and I have found quite some returning themes yet. Thanks anyway. Davin (talk) 15:21, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: Turkmenistan[edit]

Thanks for the tip. I feel very unsure about the various infoboxes available: really have to study carefully what's what. My main goal is to get a pushpin map into the article first, and worry about infobox styles later -- but will bear you comment in mind for the future. I see that you are sweeping in a wide front after my preliminary Protected areas of Turkmenistan. Wonderful work! Cheers, --Zlerman (talk) 15:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Tom Cruise[edit]

Thanks, I was so glad to find some of those images. I've uploaded almost thirty images in the last week. I was really glad to get that one Tom Cruise image so that I could make File:TropicThunderDowneyCruise.png match up better. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 20:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I saw Valkyrie at a free screening a few days before it was released and thought it was alright (of course I got to the screening late and had to sit in the second row, so it's hard to enjoy a film when you can't take in the whole picture!). I've been working on Tropic Thunder which is currently going through an A-class review. I plan to take it to FAC at some point as well. My next project will probably be not-film related as I like to vary the articles I work on. That's cool you're getting more images as well. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I saw that that just passed. Are you trying to get an image of Zola? --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
If you look at the image of Steve Carell, it came from that author. I just got that one in this last week as well. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 22:08, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
It was just that individual one, I didn't ask for the others. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Agriculture in Burma[edit]

You suggested I might be interested in starting Agriculture in Burma sometime. Not really, though I might do the fishing industry sometime. But if you are interested, there is enough information accessible from this new FAO site to write the article. --Geronimo20 (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, this "way out of date past information" is a bummer, and applies to the fishing industry too. We can only do what can be done. My approach is to try and get the framework right, so as time goes by it's more a matter of just plugging in updated statistics rather than radical rewrites. I don't know whether it applies in agriculture, but in the fishing industry there is radical over reporting (China) and radical under reporting (Pacific Islands). --Geronimo20 (talk) 11:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Waal now, not being an American, it's never really registered with me that I should check out the Library of Congress. So thanks for that and I'll check it out from now on. --Geronimo20 (talk) 12:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I find that you are working with an article on Agriculture in Burma. With respect to rice production in Burma, I found this article to be informative. The financial exploits of the Nagarathars in British Burma triggered a revolution leading to its separation as colony.-RavichandarMy coffee shop 16:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

No mention :-)-RavichandarMy coffee shop 16:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Zangbeto[edit]

Dear Ernst: Thanks for this reference. I think that there are "similar" enforcers in many societies - there certainly were in many Aboriginal societies here in Australia (in some Central Australian societies referred to as "Kadaitcha Men" who could kill a person by various means (the best known one - by "pointing" a bone). I was actually with a young man with an important position in an Aboriginal organization in Alice Springs when he died from this sort of magic - he was killed for giving out secret/sacred information. He knew he was going to die and, as I tried to reassure him, he died in my arms bleeding profusely from his mouth - the coroner was very puzzled and said he died from "esophageal varices" (sp?) - a bursting of blood vessels in the esophagus - something never recorded before in young men who didn't drink very heavily (which was not the case here). And, in the Trinidad of my childhood when shango was still very active - there were men and women with special powers to punish wrongdoers. Sometimes they would send a ball of fire (rather like ball lightening) to burn a miscreant. Every society needs some kind of enforcers to keep the peace and to deal with antisocial or rogue people such as psychopaths (who occur in every society) - and they must have credible force to enforce the society's laws. In many societies this entails using "magic" as a tool of law enforcement. Cheers, John Hill (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Mauritania and Mali[edit]

Yeah, sure, I'm in. Soory for the late response. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 01:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Dushanbe synagogue[edit]

I am concerned about the use of the two synagogue photos in Dushanbe and Dushanbe synagogue without further explanation or identification. Who took these photos and, more importantly, when? How did they appear on Wiki Commons? The synagogue was demolished, razed to the ground in the middle of 2008: the two photos of a dilapidated building already included in Dushanbe synagogue were taken in 2006 when the synagogue still stood partially intact in the midst of demoliton. Today all that remains is a building site, which looks like a war zone. There is no synagogue today. The two photos of the glorious interior that you have included need to be put in a time context. What do you suggest? --Zlerman (talk) 15:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

  • Can you clarify with Alan when these photos where taken and what synagogue they represent? Maybe this is a new synagogue that was built in the last few months, and this has to be explained. I was in Dushanbe in October 2008 and I looked with my own eyes at the site where the synagogue had originally stood. There is nothing there -- so the photos are either from distant past or represent a new building. This is also relevant for your listing of Dushanbe synagogue among notable buildings in Dushanbe: if there is a notable building of the Dushanbe synagogue, we have to list the address or at least the general location, because its existence is not generally known. --Zlerman (talk) 15:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK nom[edit]

Hi. I've nominated Coffee production in El Salvador, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, RavichandarMy coffee shop 17:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Zangbeto redux[edit]

Sorry, hadn't seen it earlier. It looks great - weird but great.

I've got some stuff to do regarding French historical monuments at the moment...we'll see where that gets me. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey...[edit]

How's life been?!!! Shahid • Talk2me 18:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey that's great! I was happy to discover this page somewhere on the net on one of some guy's blogs. Amazing ain't it? Shahid • Talk2me 21:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK nom[edit]

Hi. I've nominated Agriculture in Guyana, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, RavichandarMy coffee shop 18:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

No mention. I don't think finding sources is going to be the problem. Once you finished your expansion, most of the work is over. It's past midnight here. I am going to sleep. Bye! Good night! -RavichandarMy coffee shop 18:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

RFA[edit]

Hi. I notice that you've been quite active in creating and maintaining beautifully written articles like Agriculture in Guyana, and that your edit count of 215629 is one of the highest of any Wikipedian. Since I think that you'd be a great administrator, I would like to nominate you. RFA is empty right now; you could have it all to yourself :) The Nordic Goddess Kristen Worship her 23:52, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

He's not going to accept. In case you're not familiar, at RFA they pick apart every single idiosyncrasy of a person and, since hardly ever will anyone agree, it will usually end as a fail. For example, his high edit count can be seen as a negative to some, as it suggests the Dr. runs some type of script (which he doesn't). ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 02:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Actually, many RFAs pass, including some drama llamas like Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/lustiger seth. We have nothing to defeat us but defeatism itself :) The Nordic Goddess Kristen Worship her 03:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, 63 of them were in January and February alone. A whopping 18 were in the last two months of the year. My RFA was little more than a public shaming, which I have noticed in many candidates who refuse to act as the RFA crowd wishes. Dr. Blofeld has made his share of friends, but based on my experiance with RFA his RFa would probably be in the discretionary rage at most. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 03:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Indeed Ed. Thanks Kristen for your kind words but you may have wondered why I am not an admin when I am so involved in the project. If I had been interested I would have gone for RFA two years ago in Jan 2007. I naturally refuse to be judged by other people, in my view RFA provides an opportunity for other editors to grill you and find evidence of anything which isn't positive despite the overwhleming good you do on here. I've put in ten times as work on this project as many of them put together and would find it somewhat peculiar to be judged (negatively) by many who little edit the encyclopedia. While I can imagine I would get a lot of support i'd anticipate a great deal of drama and a number of editors who would oppose. To what purpose? For some tools which I rarely if ever need anyway? I'd rather concentrate on the encyclopedia itself. You can be assured that if I did have admin tools I would use them completely fairly to the benefit of the project and I feel I would be absolutely as good as anybody else on here, but I like to feel an element of freedom anyway, if somebody particularly nasty or disagreeable comes into contact with me then I should feel free to say what I think and not feel obliged to be overly courteous in a manner expected of an admin. I even avoid commenting at RFA because I hate to see the way in which other editors are judged and how petty it can be. Thanks, but I've managed so far. Some people seem to give admins a greater respect and stress a high degree of importance for it but am in the Jimbo frame of mind about it and see little I could gain from it. A lot of people know of the work I do on here, and thats enough for me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:40, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for those comments. It's encouraging to read them. Still, the mechanisms that rule means that Wikipedia often operates in ways that thoroughly demean content editors, and empower futile wikilawyering cowboys who demand and suck up, to no useful purpose, more energy than doing the vandalism patrols. Still, so long as we are not admins we can say it how it is. --Geronimo20 (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Couldn't agree more my friend. The fact that some people see a high edit count or high content creator as a negative thing just goes to show how some people on here have strayed way of course to what this project is about. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of infinite potential, not a law court! But yes, regardless of edit count, some people who spend a lot of time in ANI don't seem to realise what an effect that number of productive edits as had on the mainspace for sure. Some will tell you edit count or productivity in the mainscape is "irrelevant" and it is how civil you are (how much you suck up) to others at ANI or in disputes that give you the better "credentials". A perfect example is the fact that one editor opposed on Ecoolage's RFA because the editor had over 3500 edits! Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:37, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I think that editor is trying to be ironic, standing on an absurdity to protest the general absurdities that now result in the failed RFAs of high contributing editors. To succeed in an RFA it is best that you haven't done anything much. If you are an obsequious school boy focussed on impeccable "correctness", you are probably in. --Geronimo20 (talk) 12:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Darn it, my good evil Dr., I wish you would run stand for the Admin bit. I'd vote for you. Just tell everyone that if you don't get the right to block troublemakers, you'll use your orbital death ray instead, so everyone is better off. Besides, if they gave the Admin bit to riffraff like me, they'll give it to anyone. (Although the process is less pleasant now than it was when I undertook it.) -- llywrch (talk) 20:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:Reg DYK nom[edit]

Hey! Do you mean it as a sarcasm or are you being serious. Yeah, I don't have problems. Just tell me that the refs are fine and I'll nominate it :-)-RavichandarMy coffee shop 14:45, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK nom[edit]

Hi. I've nominated Guyana Sugar Corporation, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, RavichandarMy coffee shop 15:17, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I've nominated Gory, Mali, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, RavichandarMy coffee shop 15:17, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm! Gori reminds me of the town of the same name in Georgia where Joseph Stalin was born-RavichandarMy coffee shop 15:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Heheh actually it reminds me of Hammer Horror. Thanks Ravi those are great hooks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Why, buddy-RavichandarMy coffee shop 15:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
No mention :-)-RavichandarMy coffee shop 15:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

MALI[edit]

It's not just good, it's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Dr. Blofeld!!!!!!!!!! ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 17:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Excellent work. Sorry to be absent so long - I've been out all day. Got some good images to work with, though. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 01:17, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar of Awesomeness Award[edit]

The Barnstar of Awesomeness
I hereby award you the "Barnstar of Awesomeness" for your tireless work on a multitude of awesome articles and projects and your constant encouragement and guidance of other editors which has all contributed so greatly to making the Wikipedia a far better, more interesting, and rewarding experience for us all. Thank you, Dr. Blofeld! John Hill (talk) 11:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi[edit]

Hi! Any new DYK articles buddy? :-)-RavichandarMy coffee shop 14:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I've been having this doubt for a long time. Are Flickr images considered to be in public domain?-RavichandarMy coffee shop 14:29, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Fraid not. I wish!!! If you want images directly then they have to be licensed under attribution only e,g Creative COmmons Attribution 2.0 or 2.5 sharealike. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Agriculture of Bolivia and Under construction[edit]

I'm writing with regards to:

"When I say under construction, did you not get that the whole article will be referenced? WOuld you please stop removing images too."

I did assume that under construction would entail including references and the like. However the article has a lot of content, and I felt you might like some help on exactly which bits need citing, I know I would have. If you don't appreciate some aid when writing in a community encyclopedia then I don't really understand why you're here..

Additionally I have not removed any images while editing. I reduced the size of one because it was ridiculous and actually stretched the page.

Regards. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 14:33, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

You should have clearly seen I was in the middle of editing it!! And you really don't understand why I'm here? Mmm I wonder.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I apologise if whilst in the middle of editing your article to provide an extensive list of citations required I accidentally misplaced one or two images. I think that on consideration the effort for me to completely re-enter my citations is a lot larger than for you to insert again two images. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 14:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

OK no probs I can see you meant well but you can be rest assured the article will be even more referenced than that within half hour or so. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear it, I'm really look forward to seeing the article in a couple of days, you seem to work very quickly and skillfully. I've had a look through your awards and they are impressive. Something for myself, who has none, to aspire to! I'll check back in the future and see if I can't help with the article in some capacity. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 16:28, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, oh the setting the article up part is done now, but it won't be a priority to write; I've got too much to do all over the encyclopedia. Writing with new sources and intergrating the old into them takes a long time. I'll gradually try to find new sources and rewrite it into "my own" but the most important part of setting it up using LOC material has been done and contains a lot of very informative information. Shame the LOC haven't updated a lot of their case studies, otherwise we'd get it right first time. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:39, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Tunis[edit]

I'll see what I can do when - but I've got another translation in the queue as well. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, I'm entering a period of rather low/sporadic wiki activity, since I'm starting to get a little busy in real life, so I probably shouldn't make any promises about this article (I might not be able to go through with them). I noticed, though, that most of the content of the article now is the stuff that's been imported from fr-wiki...how long do you think it'll take the get the translating done, with help from the other editors you've contacted? If it'll be more than a couple hours, might it not be better to do it in userspace and then merge into the main article once the translating is done? Politizer talk/contribs 18:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Depnds on how much people are willing to help me. I'm afraid I don't have the tolerance or perseverance to do the whole thing in a few hours. I anticipate it will take a few weeks. I will try to do a paragraph every day. Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:44, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

That is phenomenal. Excellent work on Bolivian agriculture. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I can imagine. I think I'll take it easy today - put my feet up and listen to some Arthur Bliss. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) Ok.... I feel like a jerk for saying this after already mentioning that I probably won't be able to help much, since that makes me part of the problem rather than part of the solution, but anyway: if you think it's going to take a couple weeks, I really think you should move all the French sections into userspace and merge them back into the article one at a time as the translations get finished. Leaving the article—which is a pretty high-traffic article, 500-1000 page views a day—in its current shape for any amount of time will not look good to readers. If people start scrolling down and see an article the majority of which is not in English, they'll think "wtf" and not want to read it—some people might think it was vandalism and just remove all the non-English sections. I mean this will every bit of respect, since I know you've been around here a long time and know what you're doing...I just really think this updating should be done in userspace to avoid confusing people. Politizer talk/contribs 20:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Agree with Politzer. Keep this userfied for the time being. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. I NEED HELP with it. Who is going to help me translate in my user space? Nobody. If a page gets 500-1000 views a day, it is likely that somebody who has a knowledge of French can contribute to it as they can see the article is under construction. There was in all honesty little to read there before this is why I am taking the time to transwiki it. I am not fluent in French only have a basic understanding. Couple of weeks was an exagerration I will have it done in a few days by myself, quicker with help. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

But a few days is still long enough for a couple thousand people to see it.... As for who will help, it looks like you've contacted a good number of editors who would be able to help out; I think there are also enough people watching the article that you could leave a message on the talk page (with a link to your user subpage where you would be working on the translation) and get some help. I see a lot of edits from Nono64 and Editorofthewiki in the history, so they might be able to help out as well. Politizer talk/contribs 20:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Mmm I doubt that any of them will help out. They are usually busy with other things. Well I can move it into my user space and add a paragraph at a time which would make more sense, I was just really hoping I could get more people on board to get it done quicker and by people who speak French better than myself. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Blofeld, just add a tag on the top of the page and direct users to the translation effort on your user subpage. That should do the trick. It's unacceptable to have a major article in translation limbo for days or weeks. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Mmm, good idea but I'm certain less people would edit my user page. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Gonna have to agree with Nishkid64 on this.... Having large chunks of untranslated text in an article simply looks like vandalism to readers who aren't familiar with how WP works, and it can harm the site's credibility (imagine if you were searching WP for your first time ever, to look for some fact about Tunis, and you encountered a bunch of stuff in a foreign language...you might never come back). In a way, it's disruptive to the article (even though you never intended to be disruptive), and trying to get help or get people's attention is no reason to disrupt an article. Doing the translation in user space might make it take a couple days longer, but in the end I think it will be worth it. Politizer talk/contribs 21:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I sincerely doubt that it all fairness that somebody is going to judge the entirety of wikipedia on one article where somebody has tags up claiming under construction and translation clearly giving it a major effort to develop. Well give it three days, if it doesn't make any progress and nobody helps out then I will move all text into my user space. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

BTW not one of you has thanked me for trying to get this into English, rather you have a] accused me of being disruptive and have b] described me as unacceptable. Thanks for the endearing support fellas. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:35, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

My message was not meant as an accusation, but merely to explain why I think it would be better to conduct the expansion in userspace. Since you don't want to do that, I'll drop it; I've said all I can say. Politizer talk/contribs 21:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree it would definately be best to do that if I was fluent in French and was 100% certain of doing it correctly myself. However I'm not and I was hoping people would help out and see that it is a core article and use their superior French skills and gradually translate it. I'll try to get it done within three days, is this unacceptable? If it is in the workspace and I feel more pressure to edit it it will get done. Already a lot has been translated but I must say I feel a little disheartened from your view on my wish for better French speakers to help with it. If in the future somebody tries to develop the article to a higher standard the translation issue will become a major problem, this is why I wanted the assistance of Fluent speakers rather than doing the whole thing my google translate and common sense. People can clearly see that the bones of the article are being drawn up, I sincerely doubt somebody is going to never come to wikipedia again because of it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree with you that French speakers should help with it and I'm glad you made such an effort to contact so many editors; it's just that I personally am not in a position right now to get involved in another big project like that, which is why I apologized above for not being able to help more. As for the expansion, it's great that you're doing this to improve the article, but I just think that trying to rush it like this isn't a good idea; this is just my personal view on editing, but I believe that in an ideal world our regular readers should never have to see a major article that's in the middle of major reconstruction, but rather that should be carried on behind the scenes and then merged into the article when the changes are ready, even if that means it takes longer to prepare it. (For example, a month or so ago I expanded the Neurolinguistics article with a bunch of subsections, and I didn't have a lot of free time so I had to prepare each of them gradually; I didn't set up a bulleted to-do list in mainspace and use the article as my work area, but rather I had the to-do list in a user subpage and only updated the article whenever a new section was ready.) I think the legibility and accuracy of what we present to readers is the most important thing, and shouldn't be sacrificed for speeding up an expansion.
But anyway, that's just my opinion; what to do with the page is your decision and I won't do anything about it other than offering my advice (which I already have now). By now this discussion has probably used up a bunch of time we could have been using to clean up the article more quickly, so I guess I'll keep my mouth shut for a bit so as not to get in the way of the translating. Politizer talk/contribs 22:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I actually agree completely but somebody has to write wikipedia and many people are well aware of this. As I said I would do it in my user space but I am very concerned that the article is accurate and well translated which I know I can't assure as I'm not a fluent speaker, this is the reason why I didn't paste it into my user space. Well when I log on tomorrow I'll see what I can do but somebody has already translated a bit of it which wouldn't have occurred in my user space. I always expcet to do the bulk of the work, just ideally wish I had a legion of people who love translating articles! The reality is though that people are busy and have their own projects on the go and don't want to feel rushed. Take care Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Jeez, I've been looking for a good frech speaker recently! I will help you with Tunis though, as I've been wanting to work on that for a while. By the way, check out Source Seine - and this town only has 50 residents! It does leave me with a bad feeling though, as there are cities that have a population of 100,000 that are stubs. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 23:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


Tunis[edit]

Couple of people are out, so it looks like I'm going to be doing some covering today. I'll see what I can do on my lunch break. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, French translates very well, I've found. Much better than many other languages - very smoothly. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Interesting fellow. Never heard of him. Although it seems like he was around during the reign of Anna of Russia, who I find to be one of the most fascinatingly unpleasant creatures in world history. To call her a Westphalian cow is an insult to German cattle everywhere. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Anna was the only tsarina of that name. So it was probably her doing the expelling. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:42, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Yep. That whole era between Peter I and Catherine II has always fascinated me. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:54, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Not as yet - it's been pretty hectic all day (and I ended up stepping out for lunch, per invitation.) If it can wait a bit, I should be able to polish it off tonight. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Sure - if that's fine with you it's fine with me. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

References[edit]

Would it be possible to convert all those reference in French to English ones? Or at least have two references, one if FR and one in EN? - 4.240.165.75 (talk) 21:36, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

You may help fix the references into English. Feel free to edit the article. You can always get an account, only takes a few minutes and start contributing. A massive amount of work needs doing on places like this and believe me it is hard work! Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

{{coord missing}}[edit]

Could you please add {{coord missing}} tags to new articles about geographical locations? For example, for an article about a place in the Republic of the Congo, you would add: {{coord missing|Republic of the Congo}}. The tag is generally placed at the end of the article, before the category links. This will help people to find and geotagg your articles later. -- The Anome (talk) 17:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

C'mon Anome I've been taggin articles like this for weeks, didn't know you wanted the tag for all geo features too. Actually you wrongly tagged it anyway see the diff Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Please accept my apologies. Yes, please tag everything that can be legitimately associated with a fixed position or area on the Earth. -- The Anome (talk) 21:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Apology not needed, thanks for the tip. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Category:Asian building and structure stubs[edit]

I've just done the Asian sports venues, will add the structs to this weekends blitz. Waacstats (talk) 23:03, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Cambodian protected areas[edit]

Gidday! Hope you are well, I'm having fun with the DYKs at the moment. I reckon I can expand one district article per day to start class and get them on the front page.

I think we should keep the straight geography separate from the national parks - so we have Cardamom Mountains already, but we need the Central Cardamom Protected Forest. If you're too busy right now, that's cool, no rush. It's gunna take me a thousand years to expand all your Cambodian stubs to start class! Cheers, Paxse (talk) 08:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Way ahead of ya baby! Check out the tables in Chamkar Leu and Batheay, both in the DYK queue, working on Cheung Prey right now. I've got the hard copy 1998 census Gazetteer and the full census on CD - so if you need population data, I got it. I want to get the quality of the district, town and province articles up first before diving into the commune articles. I'm also trying to save myself a few redlinked towns to take straight to start class for DYK later on - Like Koh kong (city). Sometime soon Phnom Penh and Koh Kong (city) are going to GA as well. Staying away from wikidrama is the secret to happiness! (but that you already know ;) Cheers, Paxse (talk) 11:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I added the provisional 2008 census figures to all the national/provincial/municipal articles last year (and informed people about the new census via various talk pages). We actually work closely with NIS (remember I run a research company here?). So I can tell you for certain there won't be any data released for district level (or lower) until at least the third quarter 2009 (probably 2010 to be realistic). Cheers, Paxse (talk) 11:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually I've got several different types of maps for each district in the country - I'm going to do some tracing and scanning one of these days. I liked Andy's maps he started in Banteay Meanchey but we need more geographic features to make them interesting. Replacing the boxes would be cool - I've been filling them in. If you can give me a link to a workable decent settlement box for second level administrative divisions - I'll migrate all the districts and transfer the info. I've done 5 or 6 provinces worth of districts already (population, refs, GIS locations) but changing the infobox now will save me swapping the info over to the new box later. Paxse (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I KNEW you'd say that! I already have photos for about 9 or 10 districts waiting to upload to commons - I'll keep adding to the collection during my travels. Paxse (talk) 11:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I've found a great image for the Cheung Prey District article (and an interesting DYK hook to boot!).
Fried spiders for sale at the market in Skuon

Scary!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

My wife just assured me that they're very tasty - crunchy on the outside and soft inside (bleaueuergh!) Paxse (talk) 11:55, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Your new template is indeed a thing of beauty (and a joy forever). The Koh Kong commune tables are also very scary and require sunglasses, Kratie is worse, but all were created by good editors (with interesting colour sense). I had to stop to have dinner and then remember where I was up to with putting in the basic district info (Kandal, I think) - I'll put the district template in as well. Patience grasshopper - I lack your bot-like speed! Paxse (talk) 15:30, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Mr. IP[edit]

I would like to share a few observations with you if I may. Mr. IP's first edit was to the Tunis talk page. Mr IP's knowledge of Manual of style specifically red links and refernecing is intriguing given they haven't been editing wikipedia for long. they use words such as "wikietiquette" and achronyms like "rvt". This all leads me to believe that it's indeed an active editor who has logged out and decided to be pointy. Maybe someone has a chip on their shoulder about your editing....--DFS454 (talk) 18:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed I had noticed. This user seems "very" acquainted with wiki policy. Know any wikipedians from Alberquerque? Wouldn't surprise me if it was actually one of the people who weren't too happy with it. Well if he has a chip on his shoulder about my editing I think I would have seen a lot more of him up to now! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:26, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Greater Buenos Aires map[edit]

Hi mate, I was thinking of doing a mousover map template for Greater Buenos Aires. Is there any chance you (or one of your map mates) could fix me up a replica of File:Gran buenos aires.png without writing, just the colour key (in english). I would be immensely grateful. Regards King of the North East 00:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Have fun[edit]

I've been on semi-wikibreak myself for a few days, if you couldn't tell; my brain needs a vacation. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, well, there ain't much of that around here right now. First snowfall of the year was yesterday; first ice storm of the year has been today. Loads of fun, I can tell you. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Sounds a lot like what's happening in Russia, too - the income gap is getting worse and worse. Buffett's a remarkable character, and I'm glad he does something constructive with all that money. Bill Gates, too, for that matter. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
He looks freaky, is what he looks like. Seriously...creeps me out. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Not somebody I'd like to meet on a moonless night in Dakar, that's for damn sure. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Enjoy real life![edit]

I've got three in the queue now - so with luck there should be a few more coming when you get back. Enjoy the break and get your computer fixed and regain your automaton like speeds. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 17:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Asian structures[edit]

You asked for a list of the countries that didn't quite make it to 60 for stub categories

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Hope you enjoy your break, and that the weather is nicer down south than up here in the North. Waacstats (talk) 11:09, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

  • Tell me about it, I happened across the Paralympic result pages and couldn't believe the number of medalists withouot an article, when propably have 90% of Olympic medalists with an article for the paralympians it's probably closer to 10%, a new project for me! It's a while since I created a mass of articles, should be fun. Waacstats (talk) 11:33, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

African stubs[edit]

Hi Dr. Blofeld,

Sorry for my lack of response until now, my wikipedia editing is down these days. Yes, I'd like to work on creating more bios ofcourse, but I'd hope we can include more info in them. I've been working on Members of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia--TM 15:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey dear friend[edit]

How've you been? Have not seen yet Slumdog unfortunately. Have you? Shahid • Talk2me 16:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Coffee production in El Salvador[edit]

Updated DYK query On January 29, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Coffee production in El Salvador, 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.

Dravecky (talk) 21:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Date of birth missing vs Year of birth missing[edit]

Hi, concerning some edits of yours, I would like to inform you that in articles we use Category:Year of birth missing. On the other hand, if more information is needed then Category:Date of birth missing should be place in the talk page. Please read WP:BLP before adding Category:Date of birth missing in the talk page. Moreover, consider adding Category:Year of birth missing (living people) instead of Category:Year of birth missing. for living individuals. The addition of Category:Living people is also useful. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Shikawa Dam[edit]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Shikawa Dam, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shikawa Dam. Thank you. Johnfos (talk) 23:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Agriculture in Guyana[edit]

Updated DYK query On January 30, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Agriculture in Guyana, 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.

Dravecky (talk) 08:48, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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