User:Dr. Blofeld/November 2011

Cuan Sound

Cuan Sound or Glenorchy, Church Of Dysart or Inishail might interest you. And one more, St Conan’s Kirk, and now I'll call it a night. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:39, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Infant Jesus Higher Primary School for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Infant Jesus Higher Primary School is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Infant Jesus Higher Primary School until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. ^Bongo_matic 01:22, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Researcher's Barnstar

		Researcher's Barnstar
		I am both pleased and honored to present you with the Researcher's Barnstar in appreciation for your superb work in finding soures showing notability for the 1949 Argentinian film Diez segundos. Excellent work. Thank you. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 20:28, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Brazilian meso and microregions

I'm working on pt:Anexo:Lista de municípios do Rio Grande do Norte in my sandbox. None of the mesoregion or microregion articles have been created. My question: in naming the articles (for example pt:Microrregião do Seridó Oriental) would I drop the "Microrregião do" for the English translation or leave it there? Albacore (talk) 21:21, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Territories

I think I asked for that by saying territories and their admin center should have separate articles. If I start any more, I will follow that categorization style. I notice you added a redlink Pweto Airport, just when I was trying to clear all the redlinks out before it got into DYK. Sigh. But airports, particularly dirt strips, are easy. I can do that one. I don't suppose you want to tackle Colonel Karaka Karenze? Nice map. Pub time. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I have an uneasy feeling that there is no real Karaka Karenze. Just some bad-tempered army officer in the middle of a confused situation brushing off an annoying reporter's questions in this one situation. Never mind. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:17, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

The closest to an overview is Second Congo War, very poorly sourced and incomplete. It does not even mention the Pweto fighting. Karaka Karenze seems to feature in one AP report on the Rwandan withdrawal, propagated into various other sites. Leave it for now. I may start an article on this battle, which has plenty of coverage, and it may turn out that the head of Rwandan operations had a similar name, not the same. You did not have to scramble to clear the redlinks - I was not being very serious, and the airport certainly deserves mention - but thanks. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 13:46, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Stop creating all those stubs

You crazy madman. What do you think this place is - an encyclopedia?! Lugnuts (talk) 09:02, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

"It is always those though who never do any work on wikipedia with articles who turn up to moan though" - You've hit the nail on the head there. Some people don't seem to realise that lots of editors see creating a new article as a major hurdle, but if it already exists, they're happy to edit, no matter how obscure it may be to the wider community. Lugnuts (talk) 09:16, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Stop creating those stubs, and create some others

Yes, I like your ideas, and I am glad you have taken the time to explain the stub-interwiki connections on your user-page. I had vaguely remembered the systemic bias issues, so your active participation in stubs for notable topics helps to emphasize the efforts to make enwiki a mega-NPOV encyclopedia. -Wikid77 09:28, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Stop

At the very least, please have the courtesy to stop while we talk about it. Thank you.  Chzz  ►  14:18, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I probably worded it wrong. I checked a few of your recent Benin ones, and they are just fine to me. My preference is to go a bit slower and make slightly more substantial articles, but that is just a preference, not a particularly strong feeling. I prefer starting articles to expanding ones that other people started. Other people may be uncomfortable starting them but would be comfortable adding content. It would be interesting to run a trial. Take somewhere like Benin, create stubs for every other community from some list, then come back a year or two later and check results. I suspect you are going to keep getting flak on this subject now and then. Maybe just ignore it or ask "what policy is being violated?" Aymatth2 (talk) 16:17, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Red link removal barnstar

		Red Link Removal Barnstar
		Thanks for all your work in creating new articles. Albeit, some of them are stubs, but your content creation is still extraordinary. Identifying and creating over a half a million articles on notable subjects is quite a feat. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 16:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

...or your preferred stress-relieving snack! I'm sorry that I didn't see that thread on WP:AN before this (I just started a new job, & my already minimal participation on Wikipedia is about to be even less), but some of us believe your work in creating stubs is useful! llywrch (talk) 16:13, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Otium

This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 18:52, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Is there an Info Box for Latin terms?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 20:43, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Expanded article. Any ideas for a DYK hook?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 11:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I am going to try to turn this article into a Good Article. Any suggestions or help?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 11:53, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I've made it more concise. Does it need more "fine tuning"? Good Article possibility?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 16:28, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

How do I get an reevaluation through the WikiProject Latin and WikiProject Classical and Rome to get a possible B-Class rating and perhaps a rating in "importance"?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 21:32, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Answered.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 13:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Any ideas for further improvement on the article? Thanks.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:07, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Stubs

You contributed to a recent discussion about an editor who was creating many stubs. The conclusion was that this was just a case of a prolific editor, with no violation of policy. There remains a question about whether very small stubs are useful, regardless of how they are created. You may want to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Stub/Archive 15#Minimum size. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 19:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

"A-hole"

Isn't calling someone an "A-hole" a personal attack, per sé? I would appreciate it if you would strike that. As for you taking offense at the AFD of your stub Diez segundos, I found it in "random article patrol," by clicking the "random article" button. I had no idea that the nearly-content-less stub, which said only "Diez segundos is a 1949 Argentine film." was your creation, though it was admittedly of the "X is a Y" form. I nominated it for AFD when I could not find reliable sources to substantiate its notability at Google Books or Google News archive. The nomination was not part of some agenda. Have you actually retrieved and viewed the references you cited after the AFD was created? Are you confident that if an editor of the Spanish Wikipedia claimed a reference said something, then that claim is absolutely reliable to repeat in the English Wikipedia, and vice versa? Would you encourage continuation of my stub series of every US state legislator? (Like Ambrose Abbott?) Edison (talk) 05:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Its your holier than thou attitude and way of speaking about me as some entity rather than a person that irritates me. You come across as a bit of an asshole when you make comments like you did in a "how do we punish this editor". If you cut the crap and started communicating as equals on a personal level much of the problems we encounter would be avoided. Not offended by your Diez segundos nomination, hence no strong reaction form me at the beginning but I'll admit the fact that you couldn't bring yourself to withdraw the nomination days ago when it had been expanded and clearly would be kept shows stubborness.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:00, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

If you perceive a "holier than thou" attitude then it must be there, so I'll apologize for it. In the AFD, and in the Stub talk page, I've raised the question of "ricochet refs"; where one sees a reference, say to a book or journal in an article in this Wikipedia or some other Wikipedia, and wants to cite that for a fact in an article, or even to show that the article subject is notable (2 different objectives). I would have withdrawn the nom if anyone had indicated affirmatively they had actually seen the content of the refs they were citing and adding to the article. verifiability was never satisfied if people added references thay had not actually read. As I've asked a couple of times, is there a way a way of citing the ref, without making it appear incorrectly that one has actually obtained the book? In some cases, where I've found refs that are supposed to discuss a subject but have not been able to view the content,(newspapers or journal articles behind paywall, books with no preview) I have just pointed that out at AFD or on the article talk page, and claimed that sources exist to allow the expansion and improvement of the article. The hazard of such a secondary, indirect ref is that the book may not say what some Wikipedist maintains it says. I have found this problem in articles promoting some pseudoscience energy gizmo, or in vanity-spam autobiographies or articles promoting companies or products. In Diez Segundos, folks turned up several books that apparently have discussion of the film, some referenced in the Spanish Wiki, others turning up as snippets or as "no preview." On the good side, just being in several references indicates there is potential for expanding an article. If I had found the good-looking final version of the article while checking random articles, I would have kept looking and taken no action. As noted, I could not find sources which satisfied the film notability guideline. Note that I have come around to supporting the creation of "X is a Y" and "X is a Y in Z" stubs without much information, if the "Y" is generally a notable subject per guidelines and AFD common outcomes, and if there is a reliable source, and that I have praised your efforts to create such stubs. I suppose if I find more "X is a Y" articles without refs I can ask you to add a ref rather than Prodding or AFD'ing them, if I cannot find adequate refs myself. Edison (talk) 14:22, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Explanation much appreciated, thankyou. If you have any issues with any of my articles in future though I would greatly appreciate it if you come to me first.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:52, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

In regard to importation of articles and references from non-English Wikipedias, an activity which I encourage, there is a discussion at ANI Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Treating German Wikipedia as a reliable source which might be of interest. The current view seems to be that we should not cite a source we haven't actually seen, with an exception being that when a reliable source cites something, we can cite it as being quoted by the reliable source. Wikipedias would not appear to qualify as reliable sources, so it would be inappropriate to copy the ref from the German (or whatever) Wikipedia without having seen it. A snippet view or a snatch of the work in a search result would be citeable, if complete enough. Edison (talk) 21:40, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, we both know that it is insufficient to reference to German wikipedia. But generally it is high quality and appears to be generally accurate so using it for translation and then finding external sources to back it up it absolutely fine and should be encouraged.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:44, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The German and Spanish Wikipedias are ones I have read and edited. I would only take an article there as a starting point, and would suggest independently verifying that the references there say what they purport to say rather than just translating them, if that is what happened, into an article in this Wikipedia, since such a circular reference is frowned upon. Edison (talk) 04:38, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation and localization

Aspen, Botkyrka kommun? Perhaps Aspen, Botkyrka or (Aspen (Botkyrka)]] or something else, but not the current anomaly... Ramsjön, Haninge kommun has the same problem. Kagghamraåns sjösystem as well needs translation in its title, and perhaps Stora skogssjön.

A different problem is the use of disambiguation in Turkish place names. Often, there seems to be no need for this. It may be the custom at the Turkish Wikipedia, but we don't blindly follow other versions in this regard. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) has no Turkey-specific guidelines, and the general one indicates that it usually is best to either use no disambiguation at all, or to use the country name as diambiguation.

In one of the discussions, I suggested that the mass creations you do are essentially bot work and need prior approval. While your argument that you are not a bot programmer is of course relevant, this doesn't mean that you should just ignore the other part: your creations need approval, not because so many stubs are undesirable per se or that these localities, rivers, people ... don't warrant articles, but because they each have some specific problems which you are in general unaware of but that some help from other editors or projects may highlight before you have created hundreds or thousands of articles. Please, seriously consider taking all further mass creations to BRFA or something similar, so that they can judge the correctness of your creations and search for solutions for specific problems. Fram (talk) 11:16, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

geography articles

I realize you are not fond of me at this point, and don't care about my opinion, but I would just like to say that I think the current crop of articles you are creating are of much higher quality, and useful at this level of "stubness". Gaijin42 (talk) 13:51, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

although one note : it appears that the "template" you are using to create the stubs is causing a table of contents to include the "navigation box" you have at the bottom of the article to be considered part of the references. Gaijin42 (talk) 13:53, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Well I agree with Aymmath2 that all new articles should really contain one fact bare minimum and a source. If an editor visits an article and learn zilch from it then we are not doing our job properly. The vast amount off content missing and wealth of info on other wikipedias though is a major issue and if we are to truly reduce systematic bias and cover the world evenly we really need to plan how to transfer articles as efficiently as possible instead of desperately hitting and hoping. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I've corrected the template (edit conflicted with your effort, but mine was better ;-) Fram (talk) 14:00, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Wasn't my effort, just removed the block header parts. Thanks. I formatted some of the others but Plateau and Zou templates still need doing.♦ Dr. Blofeld

Russian districts update

I'm back and done with Belgorod Oblast. Could use those Bryansk Oblast districts now, if you have time. I'm also planning to turn Agapovsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast into a template next. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 2, 2011; 16:17 (UTC)

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Tankaman

There is Tankaman District. The place of that name is a village and I'm not doing villages yet. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The population in 2006 was 4,742, making it a relatively large village, but still doesn't have city status. I was going to do villages province by province, without regard to large ones first, but if you want to create the article, be my guest. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Michał Radziwiłł Rudy

Thanks for creating the article. I will see if I can expand it slightly, and then I think we can DYK it soon! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 21:40, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I've done expanding the article. Quite an amusing figure. Would you care to nominate it for DYK at T:TDYK? Should make for an amusing hook, too many choices, even... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 21:38, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

For DYKs one sources should be enough, I've had numerous one-source works featured that way. Btw, you may find this analysis/essay of mine of interest, since I see you are interested in translations. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 22:26, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

User:Piotrus/List of Poles. Needs some cleanup (disambigs, broken entries). Never got around to cleaning it up... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 22:31, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

I added more sources to MRR. I don't think DYKs need all sentences referenced, unless they are controversial/hooks. I will try to c/e the other articles, but I may not have time to expand them to DYK; in the end we have so many articles that need to be expanded (or created), and only so little time for all of that volunteer work :> --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 16:45, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I removed it already. I thought about sourcing it to the part where he was falling on himself to declare himself German and giving Hitler's the palace in 1939, but it sounds to me rather like simple opportunism then any sincere belief. He would probably be declaring himself Martian and painting himself green if it was War of the Worlds :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:01, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Treasurers

Hmmm, could be, I'll have to look into that more closely. Could you repost that issue at WT:POLAND? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 21:45, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I had a moment to look into the treasurer issue, and those are separate titles. If you look at Offices_in_the_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth, note that there were several treasurers (podskarbi). "Lithuanian National Treasurers" is IMHO a wrong name, it should be Lithuanian Court Treasurer, not National (pl:Podskarbi nadworny litewski). That is of course different from Lithuanian Grand Treasurer (pl:Podskarbi wielki litewski). Note that for most of those we don't have a well-established translations of the title (it could be Grand Lithuanian Treasurer just as well), and we don't have most of the offices stubbed on en wikipedia (usually we just redirect them to the general offices article). PS. The Polish (Crown) equivalent is Template:Grand Treasurers of the Crown, and we are still missing the Template:Crown Court Treasurer (pl:Szablon:Podskarbiowie nadworni koronni), if you'd like to finish the series. PPS. Finally, I wonder what is better: Crown/Lithuanian Court Treasurer, or Court Treasurer of the Crown/Lithuania... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:07, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion

If you're looking for some more fodder for your EVIL stubbin' and translatin' then click around the topic of the Executionist movement (some red links in there, also see Hieronim Ossoliński). I've been thinking for awhile now to try and do this topic some justice so that kind of thing would be helpful. But yeah, go somewhat slow as there is still all these Lithuanian Civil War peoples articles I would like to first bring up to a half decent level before jumping in on the Executionists. Volunteer Marek  22:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Geonames

Why do you think that their data is accurate enough to base stubs off of? Remember all the issues we saw when we looked at their Peruvian villages?.... Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:33, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Territory subdivisions

I strongly think it is best to qualify all names with the type of division, whatever the rules say: Bakuba Chiefdom rather than Bakuba, Banga Sector rather than Banga, Kanga Sector rather than Kanga and so on. This avoids links to the wrong articles or to disambiguation pages, and establishes a simple naming convention for these 1000+ potential articles. On the map, hatching means "chiefdom" and no hatching means "sector" or "city". For the reader, a search will show the redlink in the list entry, or maybe the redlink in the territory entry, and the context of the redlink will give all the information that is available. Some of them, like Moero Sector, will get articles over time. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

For example, do a search on "Chefferie Pweto". It is on the map and maybe some stuff will happen or information will be published so a useful article can be written. Short term, a section or just list entry in the territory article is presumably the best we can do. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:34, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure it does - you sent it to me, and it is an external link at the foot of the page. If the division is decorated with diagonal bands it is a chiefdom, if not it is a sector. :~) But I don't mind doing it, maybe useful as a cross-check. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:26, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the Lebanese Barnstar of Merit

Thank you for the barnstar and the suggestions. I really appreciate it. I uploaded today an image, File:BeirutRiver.jpg (used in the page Beirut River that I found on the web but is royalty free. Can you help get it approved or give me suggestions if the information I submitted along with the image is sufficient? Thanks again for your help. (User talk:Linaduliban)

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Yeh, an interesting article. What's up with you man? Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:52, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

The Polish Barnstar of National Merit

		The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 2nd Class
		On behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland, for your contribution to many Poland-related articles, I award you the Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 2nd Class. Keep up the good work! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:48, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
		this WikiAward was given to Dr. Blofeld by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me on 16:48, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

And don't forget to DYK MRR! :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 16:48, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Assessment templates

Could I ask you to add assessment templates to your new articles? It is quite easy (see VM's first edit to Talk:Michał Radziwiłł Rudy for example), it makes us not having to do it, and most importantly, it enables various cool tools such as Wikipedia:POLAND#Article_news (and others, such as the cleanup or popularity listings you can find on our project). For biographies, all you need is just wpbio and wp-specificcountry, for places, just the latter (usually). You can also quickly assess them, for wpbio its |living=yes/no and class=stub/start, for others, class= and you can leave the importance= blank. Thanks! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:09, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Image request?

Since the image of List of James Bond films is proving to be a point of contention, I thought of a picture of the series' DVDs (like this). However, not only my collection is incomplete (not because of lack of official titles - that photo is from before I bought QoS - but due to my Thunderball being borrowed... and I don't know if CR + Quantum + the 4 box sets is as good as all the 22 in the same shot), but the titles are in Portuguese. Can you take a picture of yours, if possible? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 16:48, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it is copyrighted - but is legal. As I said to SchroCat and posted on the FLC, on many video game FLs use an image of a collection of said series (and all use the appropriate fair use templates). This would only be the first case of this in a film list. I'll upload this I found on Flickr, but you're free to replace it with one showing all the boxes if you want to. igordebraga ≠ 15:08, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Given some advice I was given, maybe a picture showing the DVD spines instead of the covers (like this) could please those people who take Fair Use way too seriously... igordebraga ≠ 23:12, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought of asking to do two images, one of the spines and another of the front just in case we need a replacement... but maybe it's more urgent to add some arguments on the FLC on how the image both helps the article and fits the NFCC. (the demands/technicality of the guy are getting abusive...) igordebraga ≠ 23:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I requested knowing it is copyrighted - thus the image shouldn't be on Commons, but on the regular Wikipedia space. Sorry if I didn't say so. But man, I'm getting tired of the discussion on the FLC about how to illustrate the article. (your image could fit, but the guy who's bringing up the rights issues disagrees) igordebraga ≠ 22:54, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Deletion nominations

I have some I need to list here. I wasn't the nominator; you weren't notified of any problem previously (Just the bearer of the news) We hope (talk) 00:04, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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I apologize for all this and also if I've duplicated any. We hope (talk) 00:50, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

And I'm afraid there's yet another:We hope (talk) 05:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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Chelyabinsk Oblast

Hello. Agapovsky District can now be used as a template for the rest of the districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast whenever you have time. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 7, 2011; 16:25 (UTC)

Ping! (I'm almost done with Bryansk Oblast). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 14, 2011; 17:09 (UTC)

Wasn't me re: tagging

I didn't tag any of them--you just weren't notified that they'd been tagged before. That was the part of it I did--letting people know because the tagger didn't. We hope (talk) 17:43, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories

Sure - I can do that tonight. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:58, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Leusink

I've come here to praise you for establishing the conductor! So many red links filled! He was high up one my unwritten to-do-list. I started not mentioning his recordings for the single Bach cantatas because of only red links, but will change that, starting with the two on T:DYK, then others, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. There is one I wanted to start today, if you want to do that and we improve it together, great, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (de:Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover), also before called Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (most red links so far) or simply Musikhochschule Hannover, German name(s) please and translation. It will be at least a DYK link if not an article with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Very impressive! Thank you! Should I include it in the Kämmerling DYK or do want to create a new one? - I will take a closer look and will be back, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps you can use this for the president, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:19, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Bouquet

This for Ext link? At least it has the latest figures, different from some others who still say 15 courses. Enjoy some music @night and a bouquet from --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:07, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Do you know a good way to say once that of course all the "people" listed have an article in de, rather than supplying individual links? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

While you added the cats, I added some people - should be the same. Are there similar cats yet for the Mozarteum? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:44, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the alumni cat for our First Lady (trivia), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Mixed remarks: I fixed the interwiki for the cat "faculty", de has nothing for the university itself nor alumni, as far as I can see. Plenty of (possible) red links in de:Kategorie:Hochschullehrer (HMTM Hannover), smile. Will improve Strohbach today. Landesbühne is not Landestheater, but the latter is (now) Staatstheater, complicated, sorry. I don't think his bach-cantatas bio got that, so added the German bio from a publisher for support. - When writing about the Hochschule, please consider the time. The official name is "umständlich" and only one year old, so should not be used in text regarding older events. Musikhochschule Hannover will do in the many cases of musicians. - Alfred Koerppen deserves an article as well ... - I will be busy/travelling and be less available for the next week. Enjoying your powerful start of the hmtmh, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:07, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

No grief, please, not all of them will be of interest to the en WP. See them as opportunities, and Koerppen would be the next to go for, as a composer, imo, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Thoughts on the disclaimer

Hi, Well, i just want to state the obvious! You are doing a remarkably wonderful job, and are an invaluable contributor to Wikipedia. Of course, one or two might disagree, but to hell with them! Regards, Joyson Noel ^{Holla at me!} 16:31, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Punta Brava

Hey Ernst, can I call on your geographical expertise to beef up Punta Brava? I'm thinking about nominating it for DYK, but it needs meat on its locationary bones. You'll get co-credit and your usual $20 check, of course. Ser, got anything to add? Drmies (talk) 17:56, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

photos

If you could assist by uploading various photos from the fa Wiki to commons, it would be most appreciated. The first set are listed at User:Carlossuarez46/photos. Thanks. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:21, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Added part 2, AFAIK that's the lot at the moment. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Never trust anyone over 30

But the biblioteca is if I say so myself as done it. A good break from the noise and dust of open-pit mining. Aymatth2 (talk) 03:46, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Rivers in Poland

Hi Dr. Blofeld. While checking the Portal:Poland/New article announcements I noticed a bunch of new stubs you created about the lesser-known Polish rivers. I like the idea. I added photos from Commons to a few of them. The only problem I see is that the template you used does not acknowledge the fact that some of the rivers might flow also through the neighboring countries under different names i.e. Witka. I wonder if this can be checked automatically somehow against the articles in Czech and German, etc. Just like the rivers, the photos might already be there in Commons under different names. — A. Kupicki (talk) 18:15, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

I did a c/e for the river, and posted a name comment on Talk:Wittig River. In the future, feel encouraged to ask for review of any article at WT:POLAND rather than my talk page (more people will see it there). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 16:52, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Iran photos

I don't have a bot to upload them.... And I don't think I'd like to move them manually myself, because since I don't speak Farsi I couldn't really assess the copyright status or categorize them appropriately. Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:46, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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Re File:HavanaMontage.png

I can work on it, but I know very little of Havana and would not know what images to choose (the current odd black patches are from deleted images having been removed). Could you pick a few more images and I will see what I can do? By the way, I just realized I never made those Nordic maps - eek and sorry. Have been very busy in real life - are they still needed? If so I will look through my talk archive and see what I can do. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 23:51, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes. And because I said I would, I will check on the maps and make them if they are still needed. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Here's the Aust-Agder map for you. Will work on the Havana composite over the next day or so - not sure how long it will take. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:14, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I uploaded it at Commons File:HavanaMontage.png - calling it a night, but still need to update some of the information and transfer the one photo from here to Commons. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 05:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the beer! I will keep plugging away at the Norway county maps. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 05:19, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Many thanks! Johnbod (talk) 13:26, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Ukrainian raions

Hello. I was just looking around and noticed tons of redlinks on the raions of Ukraine, found on the different templates of Ukrainian administrative divisions.(Template:Administrative divisions of Ukraine). You can find the redlinks once clicking on one of the Oblasts on the template, then going down the page to the template about the oblast. ex:Template:Cherkasy Oblast. Was wondering if your planning on creating some of these? --Hockeyben (talk) 15:16, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I will be creating the raions of Belarus, as they are missing also. --Hockeyben (talk) 15:31, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey hi again. Need suggestion

Hi, my template is nominated for deletion according to wiki deletion policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_November_11#Template:Indian_Superhero_Films

I have doubt about the user who nominated it since user seems pretty new here. Still would like to have your comments if there is anything wrong about the template.

Hey hi again. Need suggestion

Hi, my template is nominated for deletion according to wiki deletion policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_November_11#Template:Indian_Superhero_Films

I have doubt about the user who nominated it since user seems pretty new here. Still would like to have your comments if there is anything wrong about the template. ASHU^IND 18:11, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Embleton Bay

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh well

What can be done about that? POV everywhere. Removed this nonsense. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:56, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Well he is now. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:26, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

need some stubs, and a comment

• Template talk:United States topic#Outlying islands

Seems we need some stub, or user:Night w will cut navigation, again.

• cuts a huge swath of navigation
• redirects stub to bolster case for cutting navigation
• History of Palmyra Atoll needs watching.

You see how {{United States topic}} expands to many navigation templates on many topics? Anyway, the United States Minor Outlying Islands topic area needs defending, and expansion.

Alarbus (talk) 13:06, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Noted, will look this avo.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:10, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Good deal; I have to go. Alarbus (talk) 13:12, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

History of Serranilla Bank is half-way to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Serranilla Bank (still red). Alarbus (talk) 13:25, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Fail magazine

Hi - there is no such thing as fail magazine - its a fake mocked up time magazine cover. Off2riorob (talk) 13:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Eh, I see, thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Dresses

I may already have commented on the articles you created/wrote about some famous dresses, but I don't think I had yet seen this. OMG!!!! --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 16:00, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Warny's a lucky guy huh?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Retired?

Hey, come on man! You are not really serious. You know what a huge loss to our online community that would be, right? I'm looking forward to you being back again. In the meanwhile, here are some delicious baklavas to cheer you up! :-) Joyson Noel Holla at me! 17:26, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Hmmm, some baklava always comes in handy! Welcome back, dude! Joyson Noel ^{Holla at me!} 17:29, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

An administrator childishly refused to do his duty by exhibiting stubborness. As administrators are supposed to be leaders on this website I considered resorting to his own stubborness and refusing to edit until the change was made. As the main page was swiftly updated to link it that was all I asked for. Above all its incredibly irritating to spend time writing an article on an important event in world affairs and to get blown away by Hans Adler and Jimbo with no offer of support and then Fox. Believe you me if I didn't enjoy editing and improving content on here I would not so much as sniff at contributing here on a website which more than likely will turn their nose up at your work rather than show appreciation for it. Seems the more work you do the less warming the site seems to be towards you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Admins aren't good at content stuff - but most can count to 3. Dr, if you're retiring then Wikipedia will lose probably the most important person on here as we are building an encyclopedia, but nobody seems to understand that. There are good guys and bad guys on Wikipedia - the good guys are like us, expanding content and doing something useful whereas the bad guys just threaten people who are trying to do a good thing but they never do any good them to Wikipedia themselves - somethings I just don't understand. Wikipedia is overrun with people like this, so the best thing is is to just ignore them. All of the best, Jaguar (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Ignoring certain people on here at times though will not change the fact you write articles like Resignation of Silvio Berlusconi and are far from thanked for your efforts but actually encounter negativity towards them and end up coming out of it the bad guy.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

True, sometimes the people who run this encyclopedia do like running things corruptible - maybe all the power and extra buttons just gets to their heads? Jaguar (talk) 18:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Angola Project

Are you and John Carter identical? Whether yes or no: could you please explain the (for me) cryptic comment you left on John Carter's talk page? Thanks. Aflis (talk) 18:21, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok so far, but I still don't understand your remark - posssibly due to a low IQ....Aflis (talk) 12:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

I did understand that you are not John Carter, and why you put you comment there (which was a nice gesture). However, I still don't understand the message you are trying to convey. Pro memoria:

You wrote: Its Angola, likely inactive. Feel free to continue working on Angola topics though and use it as a workbase though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:48, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I answered: I am slightly bewildered. Are "Dr. Blofeld" and "John Carter" identical? What does the first sentence ("Its Angola...) mean?? And what does, in this concrete case, mean "using as a workbase"??? Aflis (talk) 14:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Its of course not all that important; I should just like to understand. Aflis (talk) 13:04, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thats clear then. And what did you mean by "Its Angola, likely inactive"? Mind you: I am not a native English speaker! Aflis (talk) 20:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Ok once again: I would never have guessed that was the meaning. I agree as far as the poor participation of Angolans is concerned, but I am not sure bias is the main motive. There is also a lack of knowledge: many things Angolan are not publicized in the country. Also, there is fear of sanstions for bringing up facts considered critical by the regime. Still, Angolan students very often use WP (mainly pt:WP, of course) as source. Aflis (talk) 20:34, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

re: Not a good idea

Haha, you've noticed that too! The idiot factor certainly has gone up of late. I could understand if they were all Italians... Lugnuts (talk) 18:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

You need to be more specific! Link to an instance? Ta. Lugnuts (talk) 12:20, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

The Knight's curse

Hail Dark Doc - I note that an editor named Malarious has invited you to talk to me about one or two technicalities in Italian politics. My limited understanding is that the outgoing PM (alias Mr B.) officially stays on in a limited caretaker role until such time as the new government is voted in (a necessary procedure, one would suppose). The BBC has dubbed Monti "PM designate", which I suspect is a translation of "incaricato" (lit, charged). Nevertheless, it's worth remembering that not every doughnut comes out with a hole, as one says in Italian (non tutte le ciambelle escono col buco). So caution is of the essence. I hope this helps, though I have to confess I've got thoroughly bored with this whole infobox bagarre. Respectful regards--MistyMorn (talk) 21:07, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

No idea what the issue is..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, it's all a bit embarrassing. The tone of my post was in response to your visual presentation at the top of the page. The content, such as it was, stemmed from the frustration experienced trying to protect a WP page (S. Berlusconi) from a series of grossly misinformed edits and reversions involving infoboxes etc. Since you were simultaneously trying to reason with other editors (and Malarious had asked you to talk to me about the issue), I just wished to confirm that Berlusconi really was caretaker PM and that Monti's candidate premiership wasn't yet a done deal. But it's all over now. So, back to Miss Moneypenny.--MistyMorn (talk) 13:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Irritating users

I had a really bad hair day attempting to "negotiate" with a pair of lousy, stuck-up and arrogant editors who partnered together to do all sorts of complete bullshit against me (pardon the pun). I don't know why, but I find some editors extremely irksome right form the start, and have had bad blood between them ever since. I saw the issue about your report to ANI, hope everything is fine. Cheers! AnkitBhatt^{Talk to me!!}_LifEnjoy 13:07, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Yeah yesterday a lot of people just seemed to be getting to me. Only the pointless individual who reported it to ANI is like that all the time to my knowledge. Never mind. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:18, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Ra.One/GA1

Hi would appreciate your help in reviewing this article if you get time. This is really a long one and was more of written as a publicity since people in India are pretty excited about this film. Will need some one like you with neutral point to help reviewing the article. Thanks. ASHU^IND 15:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Just a progress report

We now have stubs or better for all 1,066 (auspicious number on your side of the pond) cities in Iran. AFAIK, there may be other newly announced ones, but I cannot find reliable sources in that directions. Villages to follow in due course, but are proving stickier (will have 20% of them without coords I'm afraid - sources for coords for the small villages seem to be non-existent even in Farsi web sources. BTW, my Farsi is getting quite up to snuff; I can read most geo type articles but wouldn't hazard a guess on vocabulary related to arts or politics or botany, etc.. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

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Poster

For Off to Havana I Go I think you've got the wrong poster - looks like that one should go to the 1941 article. LOL @ the prod too! Lugnuts (talk) 12:51, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

We can't allow you to make the same mistake again. Lugnuts (talk) 13:37, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

The old Chinese master Uma Thurman's character visits in the second Kill Bill film! Lugnuts (talk) 14:21, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

George Ho

Which images? I'm looking through his contribs, and most look valid, but there are so many that I'm likely to have missed bad ones if they exist. If an image was taken pre-1971 (and published pre-1976, but I think it most cases that could be presumed) it would be {{PD-US-1996}} regardless of the author. As to the images with no sources that may be post-1971, I am generally in favor of deletion but would have to look at the particular case.

That should be fine - tag it {{PD-AR-Photo}} and {{PD-US-1996}}. It would be better to have proof of original publication, but IMO that date is fine. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

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coffee

Coffee production in Honduras and Coffee production in Guatemala. Coffee production in Nicaragua --Rosiestep (talk) 16:13, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Russian districts progress

I've finished Bryansk Oblast and created a template for Irkutsk Oblast at Angarsky District (that's in addition to Chelyabinsk Oblast). For Irkutsk Oblast, the municipal references are district-specific, but if you could change the name of the districts in the reference names as you go along, I'll take care of the missing ref templates later. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 16, 2011; 19:47 (UTC)

Didn't mean to pressure you, by the way :) But thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 16, 2011; 20:14 (UTC)

No problem—I've started cleaning up the Sakha Republic anyway, and I will be mostly out tomorrow. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 17, 2011; 22:01 (UTC)

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Norway maps

I made another one at File:Location map Hedmark.png. I did not update the Template:Location map Norway Buskerud or Template:Location map Norway Finnmark maps as they are svg files. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Jessica Lange

I'm having a certain dispute, which may not actually be a dispute really, with a user who's probably a fan. Considered taking it to WP:DRN, but thought maybe it's better to the it to Wikiproject actors. Could you please visit the page and reply after checking the revisions? I'd like to know what's your opinion on that. Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:01, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I just hope someone at least looks at this page. Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:40, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Well he'll probably revert it again. I see he's a fan and I do sympathise with it. I myself really like Lange (do you?). But the article is full of POV. Just looking at the page is irksome. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:19, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

You must be kidding! You've not seen King Kong, Blue Sky, Tootsie? Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:46, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey she's good! I know this song already, was sung by Savage Garden, who I used to listen to as a kid. Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:46, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

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A completely ridiculous barnstar, just 'cause I can

	Order of Karl Marx
	For making all 'em East German film stubs and taking the heat for it. You can always use Ernst Thälmann and Naked Among Wolves - among many others - to point out the need for such stubs. Best regards and sorry for occasionally messing up your work. Bahavd Gita (talk) 22:02, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

London maps

Hi,

I've finally gotten around to having a crack at these - see commons:User:Nilfanion/Maps/Requests#London borough maps for links to what I've done. Some tweaks may still be desirable, but I think they are mostly "good enough" now.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:54, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Templates are listed at Category:London location map templates, I'd suggest double checking to ensure I got the correct parameters before using them.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:51, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Seismological history

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Rietoog, a settlement in Namibia

So, I heard you like mu settlement stubs? I wonder if your evil organization would be able to help finding additional sources for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Rietoog in order to help shepherd it through Articles for Creation? I don't know much about how to treat articles regarding settlements in far-off lands, or how map websites can be used for that, so any help you can give would be much appreciated. (Expedia promises "Need a hotel in Rietoog? Choose from over 1 Rietoog hotels with huge savings" which sounds a bit optimistic.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 06:30, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Resignation of Silvio Berlusconi

If the AfD closed as speedy keep, why did you merge? DGG ( talk ) 06:53, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

all in all, I think it probably was a good solution in this case,if only by IAR, though as a general rule I think that we should increase the degree to which we follow the intent of the AfD consensus in deciding whether or not to merge if the possibility of merge was considered in the AfD. That's why I mentioned it DGG ( talk ) 16:13, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Kilham, Northumberland

Hi Dr! You were instrumental, about a year ago, in getting Aberdaron nominated as a good article. I would never have dreamt of doing it myself, and so am extremely grateful. I was wondering whether you could take the time to have a look at Kilham, Northumberland and see what you think. I could, of course, simply nominate it myself, but would prefer a second opinion. It isn't the most important place in the world, but it has an unexpectedly fascinating history for such a tiny backwoods community. Skinsmoke (talk) 02:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comments. Now nominated. Skinsmoke (talk) 18:15, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Have left a message for you on my Talk page! Skinsmoke (talk) 23:58, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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From George Ho:Film posters are not photos; they are different types of art and may not apply for {{PD-AR-Photo}}.

The movie was released in 1959. Movie posters of Argentine movies made in 1959 are out of copyright in Argentina, their source country, and, because they are works of anonymous that belong to either corporations, institutions, or legal entities, may apply for {{PD-AR-Anonymous}}. This URL, http://www.ebay.com/itm/TANGO-MOVIE-POSTER-HE-NACIDO-EN-BUENOS-AIRES-1-Sh-/320704420931?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aab791c43, proves that this image is replaceable by any free image with the similar content.

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Newfoundland

Nono, I'll work on them; just recently have been concentrating on backlogged stuff from my To Do list like all the missing Newfoundland geo articles. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:47, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Beautiful photos of Northumberland!!! --Rosiestep (talk) 16:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Will do, but for now being methodical with the bays. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Anhui

Sure - once I've had done with breakfast and begun my laundry I'll take a look. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:06, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure and it's my pleasure, same as always. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:10, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

So we're stepping on each other now? I knew it was bound to happen. :-)

I was just listening to something of his over the weekend - I found a couple of concertos online, and the third symphony. Quite pleasant to listen to...I'll send you a link later on. Incidentally, I just started Category:Mongolian composers - fancy a crack at expanding those? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:43, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, if anyone can do it, it'll be you. I listened to something of Gonchigsumlaa's the other day, also. Not bad...a bit boring, though. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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The Nidan church collection

Thanks for the straight pass on St Nidan's Church, Llanidan! Incidentallly, WP:LEADCITE says "The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and quotations, should be supported by an inline citation", which is why I cite the couple of quotations used in the lead. I'm keeping an eye on your review of the Old Church and will respond later when you've finished. Incidentally, if you want to complete the set, Nidan himself is also at GAN... and all three are waiting unreviewed at T:TDYK!! (Cheeky, aren't I?!) Thanks again, Bencherlite^Talk 13:41, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Actioned (to use a word I hate) your points at the Old Church and the Nidan reviews. Thanks, Bencherlite^Talk 14:18, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Welsh saint photoshoot

	Blessings from a Welsh holy person (probably not fictional, unlike many of them...)
	For conducting three more GA reviews, oh evil genius mastermind, please accept in return a picture of St Padarn, who did turn up to a photoshoot as requested by a Wikipedian, only to find that the camera had yet to be invented. Boy were his arms tired by the time the picture was finished... BencherliteTalk 14:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, linking years

Hi Dr. Blofeld, sorry for reverting "projections of population growth" without an explanation. I accidentally submitted before writing a proper edit summary.

About the actual issue: User Doloco justified his edit by linking to Wikipedia:YEARLINK which is a very good reason to un-link years. What is your rational for reverting that edit? Thanks, --EnOreg (talk) 18:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

(copied from EnOreg's talk page:)

It is different with future years, the link to the article on 2030 is very relevant in the context and is obstructing people who may wish to visit that article. I believe it should be linked.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:39, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't quite follow. The MoS doesn't mention any exception for future years. Why would they be different from past years? And more importantly: What exactly do you find in the 2030 article that is related to population growth? Cheers, --EnOreg (talk) 19:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

It is different because whoever searched for the article is keen to learn about the future. Its natural to link to the year 2030 from the article in browsing. Whereas linking to a year from the past for most articles will not be related to the topic.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I still don't see anything in the 2030 article that is remotely related to population growth. Nor is it convincing that year articles are more relevant to future projections than they are to past events. Be that as it may, an individual wikilink is probably not worth our time. Cheers, --EnOreg (talk) 23:30, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

No, but I do, and I created the article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:38, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Blofeld, I appreciate the work you put into creating the 2030 article, but please remember that it's linked a zillion times from chronological articles (years, decades, centuries, and probably others too). Here, it does not appear to be remotely relevant to the topic. the third bullet is a 2006 pie-in-the-sky prediction that most New Zealand cars will be hybrid, bio-fuel, or electric by that year (let me think about that one), and we learn that "The joint venture partnership between Volkswagen Group China and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation is due to end." (fourth bullet). Oh, and Sydney will have a tram network ... yeah right: I live there, and I can tell you new public transport proposals are put up and pulled down around each electoral cycle, with what is now zero public credence (it's a joke—would you like the Sydney WPian category for verification?). Same for the rest of the predicted events. Sure, creating a future-year article is challenging; I suggest you trim it back, even though you've got "sources" for the predictions. A stub with a few authoritative, believable predictions would be better. And please, a link is misplaced here. I've raised the matter more generally here. Tony (talk) 12:30, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah, you wrote the pop. article, not 2030. Good, interesting article, the pop. one. My point still stands about the linking, though. Tony (talk) 12:54, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

For you

		The Mongolia Barnstar of National Merit
		For your work in ferretting out Mongolian composers to fill out Category:Mongolian composers, I award you this Mongolian Barnstar of National Merit. Wear it with pride! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:22, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I knew if anyone could do it, you could. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:22, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. And I didn't know we had one, either - I had to search for it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:42, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey, we created and populated a category today. And found more than I expected. Besides, I just created Asankhan Dzhumakhmatov, doubling our coverage of Kyrgyz composers. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:11, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Now if only I could find a recording... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:18, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Some mageu for you

	Some mageu for you
	Please accept this fine southern African beverage in thanks for your help expanding, formatting and referencing Rietoog --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:18, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Arashan

Different. If you look at the map located on the Arashan article page, you'll see that the village is located to the west-northwest of a big lake (Lake Issyk-Kul). See here for a map showing Altyn-Arashan as being south-southeast of the lake, with more info on Altyn-Arashan on pg. 65. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:27, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Caves of Belize, Guatemala

Propose merging (or renaming) Category:Caves in Belize to Category:Caves of Belize &Category:Caves in Guatemala to Category:Caves of Guatemala (see discussion) Hugo999 (talk) 11:33, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure, just do it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Punta Brava

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File:Crawford Red Versace 1991.jpg

Updated the NFUR on this, as you seem to be listed as the up-loader, I'd appreciate you doing any clean-up you feel is needed :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:40, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thankyou, but not sure what is needed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Article of the Month idea

Hey Dr. Blofeld,
I'm afraid I don't know much about the proposal you are referring to. I know there was a proposal a while back to have Article of the Week, Article of the Month, and Article of the Year, but none of these had much community support. Typically issues like these are decided by the community, while things like software improvement are handled by the Foundation. Could you tell me a bit more about what you are proposing? Kaldari (talk) 18:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh yeah, now I remember. I still think it's a good idea, but unlikely to be sponsored by the Foundation. I would suggest two courses of action: 1. Try to get community support for reviving Article of the Month in some form (with or without incentives), 2. See if there are any chapters (or other organizations) that would be interested in sponsoring. If such a project were successfully implemented and there was strong community support for it, you might even be able to convince the Foundation to get involved, but otherwise it isn't likely since similar incentive programs in the past haven't worked well and are difficult to manage (The Phillip Greenspun project for example). The Foundation ideally wants to put money into scalable projects that benefit all the wikis rather than small projects with limited results and significant overhead. Kaldari (talk) 19:09, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Qolian, Lorestan

Huh? Both the infobox and text say Aligudarz. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:33, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Navbox now fixed. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:37, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

• The edits you've made has lost the hierarchy; there's no semblance of what rural district belongs to what district. I think I'll revert the edits to restore the hierarchical structure. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:28, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

• You think Aligudarz County is bad; there are counties with six districts, each with 3 or 4 rural districts, and upwards of 1500 villages. How should those be dealt with. I'd rather not have rural district templates, because they'll never be expanded. I really hope something will become of these. Some of the Armenia & Azerbaijan stubs I created a while back are full-fledged articles now. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

• 3/4 of the width is villages on my screen. Without losing hierarchy, what would you suggest? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

• My eyesight is better than 20/20, so I can tolerate mousetext. Try reading Persian script at 10 point, where the presence or absence of a small stroke or some dots changes a letter from K to G or T to S to N. As for boredom; nearly anything new isn't boring. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

How did you know that today I looked up if there was at least something on them in de? Thank you! I will try to expand, but first nominate Graßmann, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Two things I would like for that one, if you have the time: a stub for Halunkenpostille (a word play on de:Hauspostille), and the proposed merge of Kestnergesellschaft and Kestner Gesellschaft to the former, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Can't help the pianist, found nothing in the last 5 years, Krieger improved though, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Odd

I was going to support deletion for this trivial stub, but the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/El Hijo del crack discussion page is not there. Seriously, if it comes back I may take a look. These ones are not hard to salvage. But I have real life stuff to do, and have also been totally sidetracked by Gangster, which seems to be turning into a huge smorgasbord of real life gangs and gangsters throughout the ages and around the world, not to mention books and movies. I will of course add a plug for Soy un delincuente. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:03, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Do you mean Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/El Hijo del crack XD =)?--♫GoP♫_T^C_N 22:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

request

You might consider if you want to refactor parts of the 4th and 5th sentences of [1]. I do not see it as constructive, even as a response to some rather unconstructive activity. DGG ( talk ) 00:15, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

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Coislinianus

It was privilege for me. There is only one thing - on en-wiki - which I do not understand - How you can create so numerous articles. Some of them are very long. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 13:37, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

De nada. Hehe, usually I get slated for them being "micro stubs". Go tell any of the moaners here about my longer researched articles!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:41, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Chirton

Thanks for that; I think it should be fine. I'll look at the bay. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Egypt

I'll give it a look later today and see what I can find. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:33, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Will do. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:52, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure - I'll do it tonight with AWB. And I think a stub tag would be most useful. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Works for me. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:40, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

I've expanded Temple of Monthu (Medamud). --Rosiestep (talk) 01:48, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry - completely slipped my mind. I'll try to get to it tonight. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:51, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

OK. I have things to put to bed now - but I may be able to help in a little while, we'll see. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:59, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Grading

I have recently started Red Cross stove and Klaus Bringmann. How would you rate these on the various WikiProjects?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:14, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Red Cross stove definitely start, Bringmann weak start (not meaning weak effort LOL!), add a few more sources and lines then I'd say start. I'd classify it still as a stub personally but its borderline in my opinion. Usually about 3 bytes of readable prose is start class.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:38, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 20:01, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

I assume you mean 3 Kbytes (3000 characters) of readable prose is start class.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 20:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the last time I looked the whole article was on 2.8 kb.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:34, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Lithuanian court treasurer template

What did you base this template on? I think there might be some errors in it [2]. Volunteer Marek  08:35, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Twas taken from Polish wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:27, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah I see, I think they screwed it up over there. Volunteer Marek  23:06, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Kalyana Rathriyil for deletion

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List of hospitals in Benin

Hi Dr B. For info, this article is listed for deletion, although it looks like a pretty strong keep already. And there are a couple of similar ones (Cameroon, DR Congo and New Zealand) also nominated by the same user. Lugnuts (talk) 09:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, well

Wow. I didn't know you expecting me, of all 'pedians.  :-) benzband (talk) 09:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I caught you on my surveillance trying to sneak into the volcano roof with a team of ninjas.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:45, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Right, that explains it. benzband (talk) 09:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Prizes

You deserve a prize for creaing all those prize articles. How do you feel about Musikpreis der Landeshauptstadt München and some more of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, and the academy? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I added the essay prize to Krieger's nom (for Christmas). Will look at some others today. But Coburg will stay a stub, too many details, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:22, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Schwetzingen ball well received, translated what I could for the Akademie, Ludwigsburg tempting, Ruhrfestspiele also, but that is a festival, not a theater, and very big, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Michał Radziwiłł Rudy

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DYK for Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 18:39, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Bickerstaffe

Just scratched the surface with Philip Bickerstaffe. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Good job! I'll give it a bit more attention in the next couple of days. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:12, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Reinhard Febel

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Theatres

Great performance, creating all these! I write theater, because German is Theater, and I started to do redirects with "Theater xyz", because who would ever look under "Schloss..." or "Stadt..."? I concentrated on Schwetzingen and - surprise - Ruhrfestspiele. The latter has few links in English, but look in German, Lotte Lenya, Mary Wigman, to name just a few ... curtain down for today, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Good news: Ruhrfestspiele nominated for DYK. The other: there is Cuvilliés Theatre, we don't need Cuvilliés-Theater (I noticed soon after I started expanding), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:06, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

sigh2

The point of my message was not to restart the same fight, I am resigned to your effort at this point. I was just pointing out that you had an error in your template, and were mass creating articles with a fixable error. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

No, you approached me in a "thou ought not create sub stubs" manner rather than just simply saying you added 4 bold marks instead of 3. If I had the time to translate every theatre article I'd do so. When I see a mass of missing content missing like this and don't have the time to translate them all merely starting them with a translation link is, at least in my opinion, a step towards doing something about it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

007ipedia

"The name's Wales, James Wales!" Haha, very good. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, even more so when 007 has a beard. Hair not blond enough though.♦ Dr. Blofeld