That was very kind and helpful of you as i worked hard on that entry but was unclear about fair use and how to upload images. Tee hee, a bit cheeky but i just wrote an extensive article on the actress Nimmi and Ameeta I wonder if you could help with images on them too?
Thanks
NAvNavsikand (talk) 02:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Blofeld, I noticed that you removed the disputed fair-use tag for Waheeda Rahman's image page. I thought only admins can remove the tag based on two contending tags whether to delete/retain the images. How can you remove it on your own? Can you please clarify? Mspraveen (talk) 06:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your reply. Well, my knowledge from these tags was that only an admin's decision on retaining/deleting the image stands. With all due respect to your edits, I've never had any qualms about it. But, its just my knowledge of the jargon that surrounds these tags that prompted my question to you. Thanks again for clarifying. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 14:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Perfecto! :) Btw, I have a question here. You may look at this revision on Riya Sen article. I was not sure if this revision is appropriate. The concerned image is used under fair-use in the article page and yes, it surely can be used under fair-use. I really wonder the editor's rationale in deleting the image from the article space. The purpose of the image being used in the article is to indicate the actress' most well-received and well-acclaimed film in her professional career.
And, I'm not sure, but you might know the answer to my question - Image:428px-001 A.jpg: Isn't the licensing insufficient here? It should be in the OTRS, isn't it? Thoughts? Mspraveen (talk) 14:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks once again for your thoughts. I really appreciate it! :) Mspraveen (talk) 14:43, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for the false revert. With all the vandalism going on, I must say that on this revert I was a bit rash. Thank you for clarifying the blank with a template. --Amaraiel (talk) 13:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure! :-) Particularly, I think that we should add infoboxes to some Slovenian municipalities that are still lacking them. We should also replace the municipality pink maps with the orange ones that, in my opinion, look better. Regards, Húsönd 14:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent work! :-) By the way, later I'll get some data from the Novo mesto city website, the article is lacking data on its infobox. Regards, Húsönd 14:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I will go to Novo mesto in the coming weeks, I'll take many pictures then for sure. And this reminds me that I should add some pics I took of Kranj, Ptuj, etc., to the respective articles. Got plenty here... Keep up your outstanding work!!! Regards, Húsönd 15:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
PS: you can choose one of Kranj's from my gallery and update its userbox with it. :-) Regards, Húsönd 15:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey Blofeld, how are you doing buddy?? It has been so long since I last talked to you. I am practically done University. Now, I just have to finish my exams, which begins in about two weeks. After that, I am free. =) LOL. Anyways, there is some very good news. The good news is that the IndiaFM licence has been cleared. After getting the agreement from IndiaFM, I got in contact with Riana, as you suggested. Riana then created the licence for me, which can be viewed here. After that, I was in constant contact with the makers of IndiaFM informing them about the licence and everything. After that, Riana sent our conversations to OTRS. I am so happy that this is finally solved and we know have images for Bollywood articles.
Note: Read the licence carefully.To avoid the mess like what was the case with the Bollywood Blog images, we have to upload images in batches, for e.g. three-four images. BUT it must first have to pass through the OTRS system. You have to e-mail them at "permissions@wikimedia.org", providing the links of the pictures from the IndiaFM website. After they notify you that everything is okay, you can then upload the images onto Wikipedia. BTW, when sending an e-mail to OTRS, you have to store the ticket number in the subject of the e-mail (which the members of OTRS created to distinguish between things) and refer to it when sending them the images to process. I will send you that via e-mail. If you have any questions regarding this matter or need further clarification, feel free to let me know. Regards --BollywoodDreamz Talk 16:29, 1 April 2008
Thanks for the barnstar Blofelfd. I really appreciate it. As I told Shahid, it feels great when your work is appreciated by people. We will finally have images to put on the pages of Bollywood articles. =) To avoid the mess we had with the Bollywood Blog images, Riana suggested this system of uploading the images. Even though it is a bit confusing and long processing method, it's worth it!! Regards --BollywoodDreamz Talk 18:50, 1 April 2008
Blofeld, I finally uploaded the IndiaFM images. What do you think of them?? Since we have to send images in batches, I already uploaded the first batch. I am getting ready for the second batch (Karisma Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, etc.) I couldn't upload them before as I was busy with my University exams. --BollywoodDreamz Talk 05:44, 14 April 2008
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Another thing: why are Imperial units written before the metric ones? In Slovenia only metric units are used. --Eleassarmy talk 07:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Second another thing: OVL in the Slovene Wikipedia means either the description, the license or the source is missing, so please don't add such images to the English Wikipedia without providing additional data to verify they're free. They're mostly not. --Eleassarmy talk 07:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there I recently created some articles on some towns and villages in SLovenia and am currently adding the maps and some details. I uploaded some images on Gažon from slovene wiki but their license OVL -I have no idea what this is. It clearly is free to use but would you be able to shed any light on it? I'm not certain it is GFDL ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦$1,000,000? 21:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed the GFDL tag from this image. sl:Slika:Panorama-s.jpg may be marked "OVL" but we need proper verification that the license is free before we can use it. The folks at Category:User sl might be able to help you.
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Not sure what you mean by a fully fledged project, but in general there are no requirements. The only thing I might say is that it might be a good idea to keep using the Europe banner, simply for the purposes of reducing the number of banners on some of the pages about historical subjects which cross existing borders. If you're talking about changing the name to WikiProject Slovenia, that should be fairly simple, but you'd want permission from the Europe project in advance, considering it is right now a sub-page of that project. I can't see any objections to the name change coming up, though. John Carter (talk) 14:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about getting that impression. Your work is noticed. I reply when I have something to say. Perhaps it is too early to open a new project as unfortunately only a tiny fraction of all users who have signed up actually write content. It's best to communicate your ideas at the talk page of the task force before making big changes to gain consensus first. --Eleassarmy talk 15:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Again great work Blofeld, the templates are very nice and useful. :-) Perhaps User:Tone could provide better translations, my Slovene is improving by the day but it still sucks. I live in Ljubljana, not Novo mesto. Regards, Húsönd 16:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I think I have a couple other photos of the castle I still haven't uploaded. Will do it now and tell you once I'm done, shortly. Regards, Húsönd 17:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done:
Just uploaded.
Just uploaded.
Also this one, uploaded before, could be useful for the article as it's Ptuj as seen from the Castle.
Hope you may find these useful. Regards, Húsönd 17:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What is still missing is template:Maribor. Why don't you create it first and I'll translate it then? --Eleassarmy talk 17:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've translated the template for Celje and Koper. I'll start with Kranj now. --Eleassarmy talk 17:35, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for having created the templates. They're a good basis to find and expand articles. --Eleassarmy talk 18:05, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Are you interested in the United Kingdom or the United States? A quick look at List of bridges in the United Kingdom suggests many articles may be missing. Just wondering how to find a complete data on UK bridges or US bridges or localities in UK or US. If you are interested in these countries, you can create nav boxes on these. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 20:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Only 41 in Djibouti? It's 23000 square kilos. 13 in Saint Helena, 15 total in the Seychelles, 77 in Swaziland, and 33 in the Western Sahara. Several thousand in several others of course. Probably not many total, but it might be fairly easily possible to at least ensure that those which only have numbers in the hundreds all get covered. I'll try working on some of them myself as time permits. I think I might be able to do the sites in the Spratly Islands in Asia. I dunno, it'll be a lot of work, but I think I just might be able to succeed. ;) John Carter (talk) 14:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, I'm just too busy in real-life... that's why I'm not that present these days... Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 11:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeh she was a fascinating actress! Among the Hollywood articles, I would also like to see articles like Joan Crawford and Meryl Streep reach FA status. Shahid • Talk2me 17:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh and Kat Hepburn also!! BTW, Davis would have been 100 years old today, perhaps that's why they decided to feature it today. Shahid • Talk2me 17:48, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh I see! I'm fine.. but still quite busy! How've you been? What are you doing nowadays? Shahid • Talk2me 16:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where do you get your willingness to do all that amazing work from? GREAT!!! Mister Shahid is very proud of you! BTW, what's up with the indiaFM license? Shahid • Talk2me 16:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Three at a time? What does that mean? Shahid • Talk2me 16:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It definitely is... I get very interested in its history and culture at times. Shahid • Talk2me 19:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OMG, there is no end to the extraordinary list of Wikipedia articles you have contributed to. You've done so much work, that's unbelievable. Kudos!!! ;) Shahid • Talk2me 19:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's exactly what I mean LOLZZ !!!! Shahid • Talk2me 21:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Responded to your e-mail, but why is your e-mail not available on Wikipedia? Shahid • Talk2me 16:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well I suggest you to remove this silly welcome message. I find it very offensive. This user may have noticed that you are not new to Wikipedia, because your user page and talk page indicate so, but he still sent you this message. LOL... Everybody wants to become somebody at the expense of great editors like you. Shahid • Talk2me 10:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
After an effort by several users including AlbertHerring, Basketball110, Blofeld of SPECTRE, Jj137, and Editorofthewiki, the project is out of inactivity (the removal of the template here). We have also completed creating the articles on towns. Now we are working on adding infoboxes and demographics to them.
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Hello Blofeld. I've visited the Slovene municipalities of Divača, Sežana and Komen today. Took some pictures, you might be interested. I've just discovered that we don't have the coat of arms of Komen, not even in Commons. Any ideas for getting this coat of arms? Regards, Húsönd 00:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Blofeld! :-) By the way, do you know how to make transparent the background of the coats of arms? I have a lousy image editor. Regards, Húsönd 12:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Several Slovene municipalities' coats of arms have white backgrounds. Check my Slovenia gallery and see the difference between e.g. the coats of arms of Koper, Kranj and Ptuj (all with transparent background) and the others with ugly white rectangle backgrounds. Húsönd 12:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Ta for that! I'm about to tag them with the project banner. Kaohsiung Museum of History comes up a red link, however. Search didn't turn up anything. Is there a better link for that one? THanks! TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 14:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to change my assessment. Our criteria is currently in a state of flux and you appear to know more about the museums than I do. Not sure if we had any of these on our requested articles page, will go mark them done if we did. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 14:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, nat'l museums are often high priority. WP:MUSEUMS has the assessment criteria (still in draft form as I mentioned) so feel free to chime in. Thanks for all your help. Requested articles are listed, so I'll keep an eye there and move any you've done. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 14:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah red links are daunting. Didn't you know had a bot, we should definitely think about that. I've been working lately through the list of museums in NYC to kill the red links there -- low hanging fruit at least. But after RodW expanded the other list I said my personal challenge was going to be a non-US museum so I'd learn something. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 15:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like an excellent plan. Thanks for your help TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 15:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know anything about navigation boxes so I can't really comment. Might bring it up at the Project's talk page, there are far more wiki-knowledable editors there as well. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 15:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much for all your help. If Greek museums have English (or Spanish, I read that) sources, I'm happy to do all I can to expand them. I imagine most, especially in the bigger citiies will. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 19:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can't really call it a project, I haven't been able to drum enough interest to even call it a task force. I would like to create lists of screenwriters and have been looking for opinions other than my own regarding list sorting. Do you have an opinion for or against the creation of lists of screenwriters by decade for television and film? There may be some bleed over from decade to decade of individual writers, but rarely would they be active for more than 2 or 3 decades, William Goldman is the rarity, not the rule. I haven't had much luck creating pages, nearly every one gets challenged, I think they get points to delete things the moment after creation. I can do some intense population of the lists before creation, but it would be easier to get them up and then increase population afterwards. Does this sound reasonable to you? EraserGirl (talk) 15:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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You should please note that i put a proposed deletion tag. This means that if any-one objects or is willing to edit the article they can remove it. I think that all articles should be improved not deleted Mczack26 (talk) 15:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Begging your pardon, is this title a typo? Is my system displaying the title incorrectly? Or, is there supposed to be an ampersand as the sixth character? Any one of these is possible. Oh, and: kitchen utensil museum? KITCHEN UTENSIL MUSEUM?? Is this really the sort of thing we need more of around here? Oh well, I guess that's why you're a doctor of evil medicine and I'm just an emergency evil medical technician. Cheers! OlenWhitaker • talk to me or don't • ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ 16:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You want frightening? Think how small a drop in the bucket 2.3 million articles is, and imagine the final scope of an encyclopedia of that size - that's frightening.
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It's accepted Wikipedia Policy. I suggest it is you, with the stuck up attitude, causing the problem here. Porterjoh (talk) 12:18, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
See, I've no problem with your last comment, be more civil first time round and I'd be more on board with what you're saying. As it is, I do not see why the fact I do not have as many edits as you makes me any less of a contributor or have any less right to enforce Wikipedia policy or make edits that I see fit. As I said, if you had a problem with the speedy deletion of the article, then add {{hangon}} to the page. And that would be fine! Being incivil on my talk page is not the way to resolve the situation. Porterjoh (talk) 12:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's fine. Now why couldn't you have said that about 20 minutes ago? ;) :) Porterjoh (talk) 12:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion taken on board. next time though, don't bite me, eh? I wasn't the only one who reverted you, and we all told you to use {{hangon}} if you had an issue. All I'm doing is following the policy that we're always told to, yknow? Anyway, no hard feelings. Porterjoh (talk) 12:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Do the work you're doing mate, ignore me ;) Porterjoh (talk) 12:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi James, I'm so sorry, I've been on a break. Could you please forward those e-mails to me that the flickr users have sent you? I will have it taken care of by tomorrow. If the images are deleted on Commons I will restore them with a link to the ticket number, no problems. ~ Riana ⁂ 12:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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She's not the kind of singer I would recognize the name of, even if she were a Yank; I'm more a Zappa/Weird Al fan. I've heard of people like Arwel Parry and Dafydd ab Hugh of course. (Arwel and I get along much better; fellow leftish trades unionists and all.) --Orange Mike | Talk 16:19, 8 April 2008 (UTC) Irishman married to a Manxwoman; "we're a little pan-Celtic league at our house"[reply]
In light of our discussion earlier, i've gone over to templates for deletion and put forward a 'wait and see' argument which I hope is okay by you. I'm neutral on the issue, as I said earlier. Fill the red links and then they proved to be a useful editing tool after all! Porterjoh (talk) 16:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I agree with you (although I don't know that violinist, specifically). That's the beauty of this project, isn't it?
I'll tell you another thing, too - I've got a pile of Slovenian CDs at home that probably have information worth uploading in their liner notes. I should get on that sometime, maybe. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:02, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see that you reverted my comments and I see that as very rude. Regardless of what I am working on now, Kansas or not, I am not going to waste any more time on this. Let it go. --Acntx (talk) 21:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just read your last message. It looks like we were both having a bad day. I am sorry if my failure to respond to you came off as me not being interested in what you had to say. I'm usually not that confrontational and enjoy working with other Wikipedians. If there is anything else that you need assistance with in the future, I would be glad to be of assistance. Thanks. --Acntx (talk) 12:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The provincial-level templates idea sounds like a good one. Since the French Wikipedia uses departments, I would call them that as well for the sake of uniformity. --Acntx (talk) 13:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I really thought that the Department page looked excellent. I like the template as well, but with it being kind of large, I would probably do away with the map so that each of the columns could extend across the template, making it smaller in size. Before I go, I wanted to tell you that I usually work on Wikipedia during the late night hours, but a round of severe thunderstorms blew through my area (Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex) last night and I lost power for around four hours, which delayed my response. --Acntx (talk) 15:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You do Gabon, France, Hungary... but what about this?[edit]
I've started creating articles for Romanian villages. Communes, I think, are nearly done (if not done). Can I count on your help with this (there are about 41 other counties in Romania that need doing as well)? Basketball110pick away... 23:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I've just revamped Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand to allow for a WikiProject template (and made a bot request to have it slapped onto the talk pages of all Thailand-related articles so we can start figuring out how many Thailand-related articles there are and which need improving, and not rely on just using the WPSEASIA template. However, I'm trying to figure out how to get the stats in the rainbow-colored assessment box updated. Anyway, anything you could do to help fix up the project and get things rolling would be great. Badagnani (talk) 08:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The biggest question is the amount of space some of these templates will take up. If it were to be possible to collapse it a bit further in some cases, that might be useful. John Carter (talk) 18:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'm actually going out for a while to enjoy the beautiful weather we've been having today, but when I come home tonight I'll add some stuff from my CD liner notes that I've got around here. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi ! You wrote the Thingplatz and you wrote there following text" Some 1200 Thing sites were planned, but only about 40 were built. On the other hand, there are different data in the dewiki: Geplant waren zwischen 200 und 400 Thingstätten, fertiggestellt wurden nur etwa 60. Unfortunatelly, both version are without any sources or references. Could you give me sources/references of your edition (number of the planned and realised Thingplatzs) in enwiki? I am very interesting in real numbers of the Thingplatz because I am writting short article about Annaberg in Opole Silesia. Best wishes. My addresses in plWiki is: [[1]] --156.17.102.70 (talk) 16:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh there are always concerns. But it is from Dwai, who is a great editor and is doing that for the sake of the article (remember others??? ;)). How are you doing? Shahid • Talk2me 19:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No I haven't... ?Yeh Dwai tries to help. But now there is no evidence that the site is unreliable. It is being updated weekly, and all the info is well supported on the net by other reliable sources, only that figures are not easy to find. Only do I take the time to forget, it comes again. Shahid • Talk2me 19:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WOW!!!! Indeed incredible!!!
WOW!!!! Great article! Oh Blof you're so brilliant! I have no words, Shahid • Talk2me 19:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh Hey yeh I'm fine. How are you? Dod you know that Zinta is now on PR? Shahid • Talk2me 15:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've now decided that my next project after longstanding Zinta article will be Kal Ho Na Ho. I have one question. I'm soon gonna create a Release section. Would it be appropriate to include in the section its releases out of India. It was one of the first Bollywood films to attain wide theatrical releases in Germany, Poland etc., so what do you think? Shahid • Talk2me 16:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I LOVE Sarah!!!! I think she is a fantastic singer. She has some amazing songs. I have one album of hers, and a number of great songs. Songs like Time To Say Goodbye with Andrea Bochelli, and particularly A Moment of Peace with Gregorian. Just fabulous! Shahid • Talk2me 16:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh the article has a long way to go, but I think making a film GA is much easier than making a BLP on a living person, and in our case, a media person. I think with some additions of new sections like reception and release, references, expansion etc., it can easily reach a high status. What do you think? Shahid • Talk2me 16:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh thank you so much Blof. BTW, John is such a nice editor, he is that amazing willingness to help, just like yourself.:) Shahid • Talk2me 17:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeh, I must say I think as one who is so much involved in Wikipedia, you MUST become an admin. Listen this guy has come again!!! Jodhaa Akbar! You must see his awful version of the section - full of POV. I've requested a page protection. Shahid • Talk2me 15:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think about:
Did you know that Kaash was the first and only movie produced by Yokohama Productions?
Hi Blofeld. Thought you might be interested - someone has proposed a move back to the original title of this article. It would be great to have your input. Please chime in. Thanks. Yunfeng (talk) 20:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Blofeld of SPECTRE. This is second time for us to meet each other after the South Korean PD template. I saw your contribution on Korean museum related articles and you seem to be into museum related subject. I really appreciate your effort and boldness, however, almost all of them have no reference and nothing but just one sentence! I'm concerned that the articles could be out from here because of the poor status. I implemented some of the articles, especially 'national museums' as adding one or two more sentences with references. Those are unlikely deletable due to the titles having "national" but the rest of them seriously need to expand soon to prove their notablility. Well, I've tried doing the job but these are over 80 articles, so I need your cooperation for the articles. --Appletrees (talk) 13:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, some of the articles are soon tagged with template of lack of reference and notablity by admins and there has many precedences like the articles, so my worrying the situation is valid. If each articles of over the 80 articles have one or two more sentences with references and external links, I would not worry them being deleted.--Appletrees (talk) 14:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It indeed would be very helpful if you add official site to the articles. Thanks--Appletrees (talk) 14:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I was really glad that you cared about the project. But why I feel pressured to expand them is the list articles was initiated by me. Anyway, you said you have a bot to create such stub articles which sounds fantastic! Could you introduce what bot you used for them?--Appletrees (talk) 14:21, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, you're very good at coding and deserve to be awarded by people for your devotion to Wikipedia. :) Yes, this site is owned by "American businessman", so articles are inclined to being US-centric. I'll ask your help if I think red links ought to be gone. Thank you and keep up the good work! --Appletrees (talk) 14:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, just leave them, I will search related information in Korean sites. Thanks--Appletrees (talk) 14:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks!!! I think the newspaper use alternate names instead of the official title but I'll add info from Korean sites --Appletrees (talk) 15:41, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. The source on Arzemiro dos Prazeres seems useful. I'll see what I can do with it. As for the bridges, I like to create articles with at least some more info other than "x is a bridge in Portugal" because I don't want people coming to my talk page complaining the article has no real info and stuff like that. So, sure I can help, but it will take me some time. :) P.S.: Since you did the São Toméan minister articles, you might be interested to know about this, this and this, all created by the same editor, User:Rjhatl. Cattustalk 17:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can't believe there was no page on mining in Nigeria, but you're right. I just wrote one. I'm no expert on mining issues, so I didn't go into great geological detail, but I tried to hit the high points based on the references I could find. Rjhatl (talk) 17:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Amigo means "friend", just like in Spanish. I'll check that external link now and see if there's something worthwhile for the article. "Arzemiro"'s got to be one of the worst name choices ever. Regards, Húsönd 18:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Assessments for the Madeira work group are also automatically added to the Portugal project through the functions in the Africa project banner. I set it up as part of "Africa" because of its physical location, but acknowledged the ties to the parent country, so the one Africa banner now functions for both Africa and the parent country. The Africa project banner is set up to allow such assessments for all the formally designated work groups. John Carter (talk) 18:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I thought it was 245 thousand. Seeing 245 million shocked me for a second, making me wondering about just how fast they breed over there. There isn't a separate group for the Azores, which still fall directly under the Portugal project, basically because there isn't a separate geographical project, like the Africa project, they would fall under. I suppose it would be possible to create one, probably directly under the Portugal project, but you'd probably want to contact that project directly to set it up. John Carter (talk) 18:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, sorry i was gonig to get into that, Thanks for the help though --Geodeo (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
alright, i kind of got the hang of it. its sort of complicated with those boxes and filling in the cordinates. hopefully ill get used to it. somebody has to do this work. thanks for watching out --Geodeo (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is this correct Kumardad article. i think thats the way. --Geodeo (talk) 20:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Its simple actually. got it --Geodeo (talk) 20:03, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
yeah, im going to go through all them and add the stubs and cats. ill let you know if i get messed up. thanks for the help --Geodeo (talk) 20:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
its soo easy. i found out how to use the chart easily. yeah, im going to add those cats that i forgot about. --Geodeo (talk) 21:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Image copyright problem with Image:15 aout.jpg[edit]
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CfD nomination of Category:Geography of Mallorca[edit]
Hello! An article of mine is up for AfD HERE. She starred opposite John Wayne in two of his early films. Looking for anything to help it to be retained (esp. references!). Thanks! Lugnuts (talk) 07:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Because I'm fed up dealing with uneducated, unkind, POV pushers and teenagers who don't really know what should and what shouldn't be included in every article. I'm fed up with finding myself fighting with sockpuppetors and trying to explain things. And explain what? That a historian's view cannot be regarded as a fact -- but a view! What kind of nonsense is this? That's tiresome! And above all, I have to fight for over an hour to make an admin understand that the page must be protected and only after pleading with him, he does the required! I had to go through several admin talk pages and ask for page protection. Only after my edits had been reverted and constituted another clear evidence of an edit war, it was protected. It's literally silly! Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 17:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly! This is exactly what makes Wikipedia suck in a big way! I wish the editors on the Wiki were as kind, great, intelligent, hard-working, dedicated and nice, as you are.:) Shahid • Talk2me 17:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Blof, please feel free to start a new section when you see that someone else messaged me after you. I did not notice your messages (and there are many:)). Only now I see your name on my watchlist. Let me go over your nice messages. How are you BTW? Shahid • Talk2me 18:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh I also do, but there are some days one does not really have the patience for that. Well, I'll have a read through the stories. Sorry for not having responded before, my dear Blof:). Shahid • Talk2me 18:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Great stories!!! Are you here? Shahid • Talk2me 21:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OMG your edit count is huge. Do you have the most edits among Wikipedia editors (except for bots)? Shahid • Talk2me 21:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You are very likely to surpass them in the very near future. Shahid • Talk2me 21:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I admire you for such wonderful words.:) I think you're a great human being! Shahid • Talk2me
Yes indeed!! Very beautiful images - only miss captions ;) Shahid • Talk2me 21:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It will also prompt editors to expand them. At least I think so! Shahid • Talk2me 21:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You're very happy aren't you? LOL I'm happy for you! Shahid • Talk2me 21:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey buddy! I strongly agree with you. If we don't say that about Zinta, who is a top-actress, how can we say that about Riya, who is not as popular, and is mostly known for her item numbers, but that is something you'll have to post on the article talk page. Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 18:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Blof you are so intelligent, I like that when you are opining on something, and giving your very based and professionally written view! BTW, the image on this article is very beautiful. I think you now have created article even more than those bots who were listed first on the created-articles list LOL... Shahid • Talk2me 19:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hhh LOL right!! You know, I'm now concerned about the Zinta article.
As you know, a few months back, Zinta won ownership rights for a cricket team based at Mohali in an IPL bid for $76 million (!!!).
As a result, over the past few months, she has frequently been featured in the press. But I still don't know if this new activity deserves a new sub-section in the Other work section, and quite frankly, I'm afraid to start a new section (because I'm afraid to ruin the article with a badly written stuff pre-FAC!). She received many positive reviews for her new work and has been described as "actress turned businesswoman" by journalists etc. You can see this recently published article by The Australian, it covers that pretty well. Today her team is going to have its first match BTW. !!!!
As of now, I have only three sentences in the In the media section:
Along with Ness Wadia and others, Zinta in 2008 became the owner of the Mohali Twenty20 team of Indian Premier League. The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise. The team was later named as Kings XI Punjab.
That's all! But I'm very insecure starting a new full-fledged section... After the Zinta FAC, I feel I'm a very bad writer!!!
What do you think? Should it be written in one sole independent section? Shahid • Talk2me 19:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh that's a great developement! Shahid • Talk2me 22:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly! That's the way Wikipedia should work and develop, ain't it? ;) Also, the images on these pages are extremely beautiful :) Shahid • Talk2me 22:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ohh what a wonderful place!!! Now I can completely identify with your nostalgia!!! I'm also getting amazingly nostalgic from time to time!! Everything can make me feel so: pictures, music, films, relatived whom I haven't seen for quite some time -- all as one! That's great that you have such great memories of your childhood. Everytime I see this library, this river, the Howrah Bridge, and Mumbai images like this and Image:Chowpatti.jpg I get so excited!!! Sad and happy at the same time!!! I miss those days!!! Shahid • Talk2me 22:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wow beautiful places!!! Now you also know where I was grown up! Shahid • Talk2me 11:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I on the other hand feel like creating some film articles! Have a great day pal!!! Shahid • Talk2me 12:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OMG is it real?? I tend to believe, but it doesn't sound related... But it's 91!!! Almost a half!! Well let's wait five years and see if others die too LOL kidding!!! Shahid • Talk2me 12:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'll start with the 1987 film Kaash, a heart-rending picture by Mahesh Bhatt. Shahid • Talk2me 12:32, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Blofeld.. How are you buddy?? I finally uploaded the IndiaFM images. What do you think of them?? Since we have to send images in batches, I already uploaded the first batch. I am getting ready for the second batch (Karisma Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, etc.) I couldn't upload them before as I was busy with my University exams. BTW.. are you good at copy-editing?? --BollywoodDreamz Talk 18:27, 15 April 2008
Now that University is over, I am doing well!!! LOL.. I know you are really busy but I was wondering if you could help with copy-editing Kareena Kapoor's article. I really want to see the article achieve a GA status before I go back to University in Sept. Can you help me?? --BollywoodDreamz Talk 18:36, 15 April 2008
Blofeld, sorry to bother you but I needed to ask you one quick question. On the discussion page of an article, an article is rated by classes (B, A, GA, FA, etc...) For example, let's say that if you expand & improve an article that is initially rated as "start" or "stub", who changes the rating to correspond with the new and improved article?? --BollywoodDreamz Talk 21:03, 15 April 2008
I totally agree with you!! LOL.. When I was uploading the first batch, I found an image of her but that time, there was already an image of her in the infobox, which was later deleted. That's why, I didn't upload an image of the actress... but now that the previous image was deleted.. I need to get one for her page. --BollywoodDreamz Talk 02:16, 20 April 2008
Hi Blofeld. Nice to see photos added, but could you remember to use the image_skyline parameter for this, please, rather than making the image part of the commune’s name? See here for an example. Cheers, Ian Spackman (talk) 18:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've just declined a report at AIV regarding you. Taken your long record on Wikipedia, I declined it straight away, and notified the user that you are most likely using AWB. I let them know here. Regards, Steve Crossin(talk)(anon talk) 10:38, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you are reported again, I'll remove the report. As long as you aren't vandalising. But I doubt you are, are you? ;) Steve Crossin(talk)(anon talk) 11:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I hadn't seen your stubs. Still haven't actually, been offline and playing catch-up. What did I miss? Why wouldn't I be pleased? TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 16:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
been offline again, but still not sure what I missed. Can you ping me when you respond? I have some trouble with yout talk page on my geriatric laptop so I'm not watching it. Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 17:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ernst! So good to hear from you again! Yes, I have been away for short periods a couple of times and have also been so busy working on my books and articles and just dealing with everyday chores that I have only spent minimal time on the Wikipedia recently. Mostly I have just been trying to keep an eye on a multitude of articles I am particularly interested in and reversing vandalism and making minor editing changes where appropriate.
I think I am busier now that I am "retired" than I was when I was working! I have been meaning to write to you but just haven't got around to it. I notice that you have been contributing mightily to a vast array of extremely diverse and esoteric subjects as always. Good on yer!!!!! It seems like you are really enjoying yourself. (Please let me know when Goldfinger has completed the body painting in gold - and send me a photo please!).
Thanks for the info on the History of Tibet article. I will certainly have a close look at it over the next few days and see if I can make any improvements or additions. BTW - I will be away from the middle of next month until the middle of July (H.K., Canada, and the U.S. of A.) and may be unable to make much in the way of contributions during that time. All best wishes. May the magma keep you warm!
Hi -- I see you reverted my edits. I hope you can find a better way of describing the caves and tunnels rather than a name which may have been made up by the media. I'm afraid that forums as links are not allowed as external links [[WP:EL} and this one is also copyvio as it leads to a New York Times article and I'm removing it as soon as I finish this.Doug Weller (talk) 16:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The down side is the Venezuela project created the banner. The up side is the South America banner does everything it does and more. And it is included in over 250 pages, so it's around a little. My guess would be to replace the Venezuela banner with the South America banner on the talk pages individually, and then at the end, maybe tomorrow or so, transclude the Venezuela articles by quality statistics page onto the project page. I can try to do some of that myself, after I figure out how to fix the freaking Agriculture banner. John Carter (talk) 17:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And there have only been three edits to the project itself this year, but one was a new member joining in March, so it probably still qualifies as active. But, I dunno why, I think the newest member might agree to deprecating the old banner. Call it a hunch. John Carter (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
They use the {{WikiProject Polynesia}}. I remember there's one of the countries down there where most of the inhabitants belong to a church I don't remember having every heard of, which isn't found outside the country, but I can't remember which one off the top.
By the way, you saw the new template image for Zinta, right? I think most of the questions about it ever getting FA are pretty much gone now. John Carter (talk) 18:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sort of envious. You have a relative mentioned here. I don't know of any people I'm related to mentioned anywhere here. John Carter (talk) 18:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, Kazakh translation of a word "district" is "аудан" (audan, pl. аудандар - audandar). For example, the website of Almaty Province in Kazakh [2], click on Аудандық құрылым. Район (raion) is a Russian name translation of the word. BernardTom (talk) 22:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've corrected names of districts. Also some districts have been renamed or merged since 1997. I will finish work, hopefully, next week. BernardTom (talk) 00:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've done a few new Venezuelan footballers, and recently did a campaign to ensure that the most important international footballers in S America have at least one ref/external link & an infobox. In real life I just started a new job, so I'm pressed for time, probably wont be able to do as many large edits as I used to. I've got a list of important South American players needing articles, but the annual trawl through Argentine footballers, (weed, update and add infoboxes) is top of my list. All the best. Englishpeasant 22:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm working in a bin lorry repair workshop. Englishpeasant 12:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Riya Sen should be ready for another go at GAN. Would you care to take a look and leave your comments on the talk page? Aditya(talk • contribs) 07:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fair use rationale for Image:100añosdeperdón.jpg[edit]
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I did not delete this since it was also used on another article. Rettetast (talk) 14:20, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did not look into that, but tagged it since it had no rationale anyway. You can remove the rfu template if you want. Rettetast (talk) 14:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Blofeld. I was wondering, and I know you're busy, but could you help me create French canton articles? I've noticed 2 by Markussep and a few by Dickie, but other than the ~100 I've created there is basically nothing. I know you know about this, but I would be glad if you help me get the over 4,000 uncreated ones started. Editorofthewiki 18:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I know exactly what you mean by you feeling your head is going to explode. Just take everthing a thing at a time. As to the question can they be copied directly from FR: sort of. I have created {{Infobox Canton de France}}, {{Début tableau des communes d'un canton français}}, and {{Démographie canton}}, all to be copied from the French equivalent. In addition, I have created {{Canton interwiki}} (to be substituted) for copying of the canton name. It stinks that we cant use subst:PAGENAME, so we have to recopy the canton name to the intro and Canton interwiki. A typical article looks like this:
{{Infobox Canton de France
|nom=Canton de Montluçon-Est (4e Canton)
|rég=[[Auvergne]]
|dépt=[[Allier (département)|Allier]]
|arrt=[[Arrondissement of Montluçon]]
|ville=[[Montluçon]]
|nbcomm=[[#Composition|6]]
|insee=03 20
|sans=15 035
|date-sans=1999
|hect=
|km²=
|dens=
|cons=Daniel Duglery
|dates=[[2008]]-[[2014]]
|}}
The '''[[Canton in France|canton]] of Montluçon-Est''' is an administrative division in central [[France]]. It includes the following [[Commune in France|communes]]:
{{Début tableau des communes d'un canton français}}
|-
| [[Chamblet]] || align="right" | 941 || align="right" | 03170 || align="right" | 03052
|-
| [[Deneuille-les-Mines]] || align="right" | 351 || align="right" | 03170 || align="right" | 03097
|-
| [[Désertines (Allier)|Désertines]] || align="right" | 4 646 || align="right" | 03630 || align="right" | 03098
|-
| [[Montluçon]] || align="right" | 7 827 (1) || align="right" | 03100 || align="right" | 03185
|-
| [[Saint-Angel (Allier)|Saint-Angel]] || align="right" | 685 || align="right" | 03170 || align="right" | 03217
|-
| [[Verneix]] || align="right" | 584 || align="right" | 03190 || align="right" | 03305
|}
(1) fraction of a commune.
==Demographics==
{{Démographie canton|-|-|-|-|15 453|15 035}}
==See also==
*[[Cantons of the Allier department]]
*[[Communes of France]]
{{France-stub}}
[[Category:Cantons of Allier]]
{{subst:Canton interwiki|nom=Montluçon-Est}}
Editorofthewiki 19:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've just deleted this image- images from Bollywoodblog are released only for non-commercial use, so aren't counted as 'free' by Wikipedia standards. J Milburn (talk) 10:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Issue is actually a little more complex than I thought- we do have permission for some to be released for commercial use. I'm looking into it now; maybe the image is valid. J Milburn (talk) 11:08, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've restored the image until I can get to the bottom of the issue. J Milburn (talk) 11:15, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've just realised the image I linked to wasn't from Bollywoodblogs at all- I've restored to the version that was. I am contacting Riana, as she was the one who handled the OTRS ticket on the subject of the images that were released. J Milburn (talk) 11:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, Riana has just confirmed that. I'll nuke it. J Milburn (talk) 11:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I mentioned it to her on IRC. J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
She says it's just OTRS lag, and she'll have to process them herself. Happy editing! J Milburn (talk) 11:46, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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What do you say about it? Tell me when you're back:) Shahid • Talk2me 14:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh you won't be editing... Anyway, have a great day... It's good to spend your time on some good film... Yeh The Aviator is a great picture, and I liked Blanchett's performance as Kate Hepburn. She's a great actress, have you seen Elizabeth? It was directed by Shekhar Kapur, the one who discovered Zinta, whose wife accused Zinta of having an affair with him... Isn't that great how Bollywood and Hollywood connect... LOL!!! I suggest you to read the plot of Kaash! One of the best Hindi films ever. If it was a recently released film, I wouldn't even spend a minute and try to make my best to expand it. That's why I like arty films, they're so realistic, and this one is, as I said, heart rending! Regards, Shahid • Talk2me 14:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
LOL thanks!! I cry everytime I see this movie! Shahid • Talk2me 14:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh great! Listen the Zinta PR is inactive, and I thought it's time to take on aother FAC. I turned to Sandy, maybe she knows how I can close it... Shahid • Talk2me 17:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the support, my friend. Sandy left you a message on the FAC. Shahid • Talk2me 19:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh LOL I also have almost 1000 edits on your talk page!!! And you have also sent the maximum number of messages to me -- 1361!!!! Shahid • Talk2me 11:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes exactly the same applies to me... Shahid • Talk2me 11:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Right!!! Those beauty queens are so beautiful... Did you know that India won the Miss world contest the most number of times - 5 - tied with Venezuela... Aishwarya was in 2000 crowned as the most beautiful Miss World ever. Shahid • Talk2me 11:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WOW really?? How didn't you tell me that before? They look nice! Shahid • Talk2me 12:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
About what? About the twins? I think, you can never know... Some good looking gals can fall for ugliest/silliest guys... So I guess it was the case of this twin.. LOL! Shahid • Talk2me 22:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
mmm she is good looking, but I can't say she has that to-die-for face or irresistible beauty.... but she's hot! Shahid • Talk2me 12:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly! The first one was so loaded... Shahid • Talk2me 12:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I know it sounds silly, but so you think there's any way to take Kaash to DYK? Shahid • Talk2me 15:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any DYK question you can think of at the moment? Shahid • Talk2me 15:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think about:
Did you know that Kaash was the first and only movie produced by Yokahama Productions?
Hey LOL thanks for the copyedits it's GREAT... I meant the DYK question... Is it well written? (haha I killed two birds with one stone ;)) Shahid • Talk2me 16:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe to change to "released" to "to be released"? Shahid • Talk2me 17:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Posted DYK question. Hey very great work!!! I have seen several Turkish films... Shahid • Talk2me 17:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well I must say, the fact that Hindi cinema is relatively more developed than any other world cinema, is a clear evidence of it being very popular isn't it? Shahid • Talk2me 17:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WOW!! Great work... Aren't you getting tired? :) I make 1000 edits only per month!!! Thanks for the Zinta column title. Shahid • Talk2me 22:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I guess so yeh, but I'll change it when I hit the 20... Shahid • Talk2me 22:17, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I still haven't hit the 20... LOL!! In comparison to you... I look quite idiotic with my hardly 20000! Shahid • Talk2me 22:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeh!!! I'm so happy we had reconciled before she took a Wikibreak. I miss her very much!!! Shahid • Talk2me 22:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey pal... Great work... Amazing dedication I must say!!! I must go now, I'll talk to you later.. Shahid • Talk2me 14:42, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Of course, I do. My stubbing neighborhoods of Seoul is the first step to implement museum articles. Museums in Seoul are strongly associated with their geographic area. Right after finishing up the job, I will focus on museums. --Appletrees (talk) 21:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you mean country-wide locator maps for Uruguay, Jordan and Egypt, or provincial maps for them, too? I'll try to do them soon. I have been away for a while – I had a work related deadline, and was too busy... In the mean time, an anon managed to gently remind me that I haven't finished Botswana villages yet[3]. Cheers, Sadalmelik (talk) 05:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Madagascar does make some distinction between communes urbaines and communes rurales, and the former may even divided into two categories. Should the categories reflect this? They don't currently... the list I have been using gives 45 communes urbaines, List of cities in Madagascar claims 48 and Category:Cities in Madagascar 88 (most or all of cummunes urbaines are here, I think). Another question then is that when the towns are splitted into provinces (which needs to be done, as Madagascar currently has 700+ articles about settlements), should Category:Antananarivo Province also be removed...
Since you have been doing a lot of these recategorizing, notice, that [4] and its talk page mention about a bot which keeps these redirected categories free of entries. Apparently there has been at least two bots working on this, neither of which are active anymore. However, on quick look all the entries in Category:Wikipedia_category_redirects are empty, so perhaps there is still a bot somewhere depopulating them. Another option would be to use CfD for renaming, as I believe there are bots implementing those decisions. This would not work when the cats need to be splitted, but that should be easy with AWB. – Sadalmelik (talk) 05:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done, I think... could you take a look whether the category tree is ok? AWB does really speed up recategorization even though it took me for a while to figure out how to use it. – Sadalmelik (talk) 20:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't forgotten about these maps - Jordan & Afghanistan are easy, Egypt I may not be able to do, but I'll take a look whether I can find more up-to-date boundary data for it. I'm yet to try Uruguay & Canadian Provinces... I sort of get caught playing with drainage maps for Malagasy rivers during the weekend :) – Sadalmelik (talk) 06:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I was just wondering if you wouldn't mind going to Portal:James Bond. I'd really appreciate any criticisms or support that you could provide for this Featured portal candidate. Thanks. Ultra! 10:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
When I started doing this, I thought it was just going to be for the medalists at the Winter Olympics only, but I was told that the project was to get biographies on every single competitor which I thought was a bit over kill, but decided to get it done any way to the best of my ability. It may be time to set some standards for this in the future and make it applicable to all Olympic-based sports. Oh well. Chris (talk) 23:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yo, bald guy. Massive kudos to you for Wikipedia:Size in volumes; completely exceptional piece of work. I'd be very glad if you'd explain what's going on inside {{nts|{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}}*435*6/(500*2*2*80*50) round 1}}}}, notably #expr: and the :R. Meanwhile, the calculation excludes from consideration images. I'm wondering if there's a basis for calculating the size of these. We can, I think, make assumptions about the average size of images; but can we get an idea of the average number of images per article? --Tagishsimon(talk) 18:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, no-one's going to fault you for that (mainly out of sheer eye-popping fear, you understand). Well fsck. Kudos for putting the page together & generally being you. I'll speak to his madness about the maths. --Tagishsimon(talk) 18:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I've requested that the disambiguation page you created at Stari most be deleted so that Stari most, Bosnia and Herzegovina can be moved back there. The other bridge you've linked to from the disambiguation page is called the Triple Bridge so I don't see the need for the disambiguation. There may have previously been an "Old Bridge" on the site of the Triple Bridge, but when people use "Stari most" it's almost exclusively to refer to the one in Mostar. I've added an other uses template to that bridge's article though, in case people are looking for the former Slovenian bridge. I think that's more suitable than having a disambiguation page. Cordless Larry (talk) 10:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Jamie. I think Madagascar one should stay under "Cities in Madagascar" cat, or at least "Cities and towns", since there is an official distinction between cities/towns and villages in this country. --Darwinek (talk) 21:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, it is the best thing to do when there is no official distinction between towns and villages but this one is pretty clear. Don't mix apples with pears. Those 48 ones should be under "Cities and towns", rest under "villages". Very clear and clean thing. --Darwinek (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing "suddenly" here, no worries :). I just watch Madagascar ones and, as you know, I like things to be pretty consistent. All European countries have clearly defined status of all their settlements. It is good Madagascar is one of a few African countries to do this as such. Feel free to create this category, I can delete redundant ones. --Darwinek (talk) 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I am going to sleep right now. Please, inform me when Sadalmelik will express his mind, so the proper consensual decision can be taken. - Darwinek (talk) 22:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think the subdivision into provincial categories is the way to go. We will eventually have 1,500 articles on Malagasy settlements, which will make the country-wide categories not very usefull. It also removed the clutter from provincial categories e.g. Category:Antsiranana Province (I'm probably the guilty party for the clutter, though). If/when the provinces are dissolved, they will have to be splitted further. The point about official distinction is very valid, and I wish I had thought about it a bit more before I barged ahead. The term Malagasy government uses is commune urbaine in French, but Category:Urban communes in Madagascar doesn't really tell anybody anything here. Re-adding Category:Cities in Madagascar to official cities might be the best thing to do, as it makes it clearer than Category:Cities and towns in Madagascar that these are important places. I have no strong preference either way, though. The government also divides communes urbaines into two classes, but I have never seen a list that would break them down. Interestingly, Ilakaka is not officially a city/town, even though calling it a village is stretching it a bit. Same thing also applies to Botswana, where there are officially towns, urban villages and villages. Sowa with 5000 pop is a town, while places like Maun, Palapye or Molepolole are urban villages with a pop of 50000+.
There are also very few articles about Malagasy settlements, which are not defined at commune-level. I'm not sure what should be done with them - if anything. Another category still needed is for the capitals of regions, though one could also tie them together with a template. – Sadalmelik (talk) 06:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The novels came first, therefore, should have a higher priority. The Nav box should list the characters in novel order.
This orderisation should be continued in any lists/articles/templates that show extreme bias towards the films. Ultra! 12:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can try, but it'll have to wait until tonight when I'm back home, as my work computer doesn't have AWB. I'd be happy to do it, though, soon as I get in for the night. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:02, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you really think you will be able to imagine your entire dream? Shahid • Talk2me 09:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
LOL!!! Well so do I, I forget every dream, every person has that I guess. Shahid • Talk2me 10:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Kaash is now on the main page!!! In the DYK section... Shahid • Talk2me 10:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WOW that's great, I think there is no article on Wikipedia or at least article that belong each to different Wikiproject that you have not edited. You must be very tired... Aren't you? Shahid • Talk2me 19:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Your work developing articles is infinite!!! When will you have the time to make some non-exhauting edits? ;))) You're such a great writer, you must do something that will fulfill your real abilities... I'm nevertheless so proud of you for expanding the encyclopedia with utmost dedication :) Shahid • Talk2me 19:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for enering in between your edits, but I replaced unreliable sources, which is the major concern now, considering what happened back in time when this user started tagging it and blanking the page. I'll try to find reviews, but it's a problem since there may be critical comments, but from new articles, not old. Nevertheless, it's so great seeing you working on this article. Brilliant indeed. Shahid • Talk2me 13:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh he is one of the best. I'm a big fan of his films, of his imagination, romance. Ao many articles about different cinematic figures from India deserve to have good articles, but see his article - a dreadful stub. To write such a biography, there's a need in books etc. Shahid • Talk2me 16:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh I know. Great work. See you later. Shahid • Talk2me 16:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey... Yeh something like that, I'm very busy, and will not be as present for the next few months... At least not as before. Shahid • Talk2me 09:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not younger, but my elder sister... Well she has her own PC. Great work on that article. Shahid • Talk2me 10:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
They can be directly described not only acclaimed, but the most acclaimed, but many of them are not Hindi films, many of them are old films, and as you know, Bollywood is the main representative industry for Indian films on Wikipedia... well that's, of course, unfortunately... Shahid • Talk2me 15:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh she has acted in an English film by Rituparno Ghosh, a telented Bengali film director who BTw has won numerous National Film Awards in different categories. Also, Jahnu Barua, one of the best known film directors of India, who has won more than 10 National Film Awards (and believe me, if you wanna win a NFA, you must do an exceptional work) for another realistic tale called Har Pall. Of course, I believe she didn't receive as high salry as/(let alone)than before. The payment in art films, which are often realistic, low-budget movies intended to a niche audience, is very low. Most of these films don't even do well at the BO, so you can imagine.
Take for example Raveena Tandon, who was doing always these silly masala comedies, known for her beautiful face, and regarded as simply as that, an average actor who looks a million bucks. This was till the 2000s, when she started working with art film directors. She acted in Kalpana Lazmi's low-budget Daman as a battered and cruely abused wife, and did it absolutely free of costs. And she shocked the industry twice, firstly, when the film was released and everybody witnessed her talent, and secondly, when she won a NFA, it was a flawless performance, I must say. Shahid • Talk2me 16:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh it's Helen (actress) - Bollywood's eternal item girl... You must see her here] - she is just gorgeous... Shahid • Talk2me 15:41, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well don't forget that India was colonised by the UK from the mid-nineteenth century until 1947, so here is the cultural impact the colonialism. Shahid • Talk2me 15:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And tell me why you felt there was a need for a move anyways? Cheers Ingolfson (talk) 21:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You are violating a core concept of Wikipedia. References. As I noted on my page, I have one for my point - all you do is saying "you're wrong". Ingolfson (talk) 21:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh well, I have no isssues with "Esfahān". But even so, can you provide refs, so this doesn't all have to happen multiple times with new people in three months? Ingolfson (talk) 21:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not bad. Me, when I have the chance today, I'll be doing some translation from the Italian and French Wikipedias; I knocked out a few yesterday afternoon, and hope to do some more today. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 12:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
For the time being I'm working on new stuff, primarily - I may get to the communes and such after a while. Truth be told, even with nine more years' education in French than in Italian, I'm finding the Italian translations a far easier matter. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 12:47, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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I'll work on it a bit once I've finished my current translation (it:Torre della Lanterna - one of the most important landmarks in Genoa, and I can't find a comparable article in English). Although I've found that running stuff through Babelfish helps a lot - just run a paragraph of text through and then rework what it spits out into recognizable English. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 13:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I used to play piano - can't say I was ever that good at it. Oh, well...I'm off home in a minute or two - meantime, check out Torre della Lanterna, which I've been working at off and on all day.
By the by, anything you want me to work on with AWB tonight? If not I may content myself with stubbing some of the as-yet missing Brazilian cities and towns, just for completion. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK - I'll work on some of that when I get home.
Incidentally, I'm amazed at the fact that it's taken this long for somebody to write an article here about the lighthouse in Genoa - it's probably one of the most important landmarks in Italy. Ah, well...no rest for the weary, and all... --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Italy's gorgeous - it's been too long since I last went.
I don't know that much about Italian film, but I'd be more than happy to get a stub run going for any articles you may need on the subject. The more the merrier, say I.
Hi! i remember the evening when you authored the article on Buddhadev Dasgupta's Uttara. Yesterday I saw Kalpurush, the director's latest offering. The film was quite good. Indeed, I could understand it better than Uttara. And some elements in the film seemed to me to have some common themes with Uttara. "Troupes of masked dancers" are here, too.--Dwaipayan (talk) 08:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Added the plot. It's a complex one. Please see if my writing is lucid enough to at least give an approximate idea of the story. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No I did not find any poster. One image is available in this review.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, then add the image. Bye the way, the film also won National Award for Best Film in 2006. Added that bit in the lead.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wow! That will be great. I see most of his films do not have wikipedia articles. Those need to be created as well.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's marvelous!!! Yes I am trying to add something to Tahader Katha. I saw the film years ago, and have forgot the story. Trying to find out something.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I saw your post in Shahid's talk page. Yes, all the films you authored articles on are quite acclaimed, and still lacked an article here. This is really sad, and probably, once again, points towards the systemic bias. Among Indian films, Bollywood films are much more represented in WP than other language films, including Bengali. Again, overall, Bollywood films are much less represented compared to Hollywood flicks. This will continue, perhaps :( Anyway, thanks a lot for creating the articles. Hopw you will be able to create many more such articles, somewhat reducing the systemic bias.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Another similar case is that of Mrinal Sen. Very few of his films have articles.--Dwaipayan (talk) 13:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
thanks a lot. I shall also try to create/expand some articles. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
FYI: Since you told you are interested in art house films, you can have a look at Ritwik Ghatak as well.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It was actually seeing all those stubs popping up on the newpages list that reminded me of the whole bunch of redlinks I found the other day. I'm working on a couple more from the French right now.
For more food for thought, go to nmafa.si.edu and look at some of the artists whose names come up in exhibits. I tried to do stubs for a bunch of them at one time, but I'm sure there are some I've missed. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:08, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeesh - sorry to hear that. It's been pretty nice here today - makes a nice change after that horrid drizzle we had yesterday.
If this works I may decide to write the Trust for some more information, and photographs, to be uploaded here. I'd like to see these things get some decent coverage. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, can you move your talk archives so that they're all subpages of this page, rather than of User talk:Ernst Stavro Blofeld? As that's not your username, and there is no such user with that name, they technically fall under the criteria for speedy deletion, and recently there have been cases of such pages being deleted. Just a heads-up! --RFBailey (talk) 04:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, good thanks. Oh, I agree, and I'm glad they'll be expanded as they look quite interesting. Your articles cropped up quite a bit during new page patrol so keep up the good work! Thanks, PeterSymonds | talk 06:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I gave it a shot. Trouble with the French Wikipedia is that a lot of their artistic articles go into criticism of the subject as well as merely reporting on it, and I'm never sure how much to keep and how much to leave out. I excised a bit here, not very much. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 14:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes - most of north Africa and a fair chunk of west Africa speak French as their first language. I've been trying to catch some things out of the French Wikipedia to enhance coverage, but sometimes the language is so frustratingly obscure that I miss things. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:01, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's like me and my Caymanian National Trust articles - I'd eventually like to see coverage of every heritage site in every country on here, and what better way to start than with some of these places in the Caribbean? --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 15:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To be perfectly honest, it was seeing the work you were doing on French communes that inspired me to get off my duff and do something of my own; I'd let the account lie idle for a while.
Namibia should be fairly easy, as it appears to have been nearly finished. Question: do you want anything filed under [[:Category:Settlements in country|Category:Settlements in country]] to be recatted to [[:Category:Cities, towns and villages in country|Category:Cities, towns and villages in country]]? That would take care of a couple of things in Namibia. Uganda's straightforward - soon as I dump some laundry in I'll go ahead and work on it. I can do Vietnam, too, if you want; just give me a list and some guidelines. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 18:59, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Meantime, I've done Uganda, and Namibia's taken care of. The one "settlement" listed in that category for Namibia I chose to leave as-is, as it's described as a squatter camp and so really doesn't sound like it's got any sort of permanent status. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:12, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, but that's the beauty of AWB - I recatted those two Brazilian provinces - about 800-900 articles in total - in just about two hours the other day. It automates a lot of the process for you. --User:AlbertHerringIo son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot find the discussion for renaming all categories "cities and towns" to "cities, towns and villages". Can you please point me to that discuusion, thanks. --Ezeu (talk) 20:08, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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