User talk:Aelfthrytha/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Archive 3

GONE

As it says on my user page, I am going to be out of my usual location for the majority of the summer, effective 28 May. Due to being on the other side of the world than is normal, I will NOT be answering messages quickly if at all. Aelfthrytha 21:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:Counting stubs

All very simple (and a bit of a chore at times). When the stub-sorting project was first set up, we started dividing the geo-stubs up into regions. When that happened, I realised that we'd later have to split them further, so I started a database listing all the geo-stubs and the country they were from. Even since then I've gone through the regional geo-stub categories every couple of weeks and made whatever changes are needed to the database (usually adding a handful of names and removing another - smaller - handful). It's all done by hand - it could be automated, I suppose, but it would almost certainly be less accurate. And since it's done so frequently it usually only takes a couple of hours. The Stub-sorting project knows that I do this, so generally leave it to me to say when a country has 65 stubs and is ready for splitting. Thankfully some of the other stub sorters like Alai keep track on some individual countries that might need splitting into subnational regions. Sometimes countries do get "growth spurts" when one editor decides to write a load of stubs - it wouldn't suprise me if this happened sometime with Oman, but at the moment there aren't really enough stubs for a separate category. Grutness...wha? 02:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

sure - thanks. I doubt I'll need much help with the categories I look at - they're all slowly getting smaller due to individual countries being split from them - but there are always potential splits of different sorts coming up that need counting (earlier today I asked how many of the Norway-geo-stubs were likely to be from oslo, for instance). Some of that work is automated now, but there's always room for a keen stub tallier at WP:WSS! Grutness...wha? 03:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Asian history stub

Can you please not add this to Armenian related articles, particularly Hellenistic ones.--Eupator 12:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I understand that you were attempting to get rid of the clutter for history stubs. To be honest I would be satisfied with any stub notice other than Asia. How about creating a stub for articles related to the Hellenistic and Roman periods?--Eupator 20:35, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Armenia is not Asian or Middle Eastern, by any definition other than the geographic one that uses the Bosphorus as South-Eastern border. So if you have to put a continental stub notice put it under Europe as culture/ethnos are more important. Same for Cyprus, it shouldn't be under Asia or Middle East.--Eupator 21:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

No objection.--Eupator 03:27, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Section stubs

Hi! I see you have re-removed the stub which I'd reinstated on History of St Neots, where a previous editor had left a "to do" list in the final section. Obviously the whole article is much too long to be a stub, which is how it was marked when I found it, and replaced it with a History stub, which I repositioned in an attempt to make it obvious it referred just to the section, not the whole article. I thought that, in my early wanderings around Wikipedia, I had encountered a "section-stub" or two. Do such things no longer exist? Do you not think that they serve (or would serve) a useful purpose in flagging up an article that still needs much work, despite its length? (If I'd been able to find an appropriate template I would have used it, but life is too short to search the ever-increasing list of stub categories to find an applicable one. Had I done so I would also have removed the "Topics (to be expanded)" bit, which I reckon is a bit off-putting to the reader.) SiGarb | Talk 17:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit of American River College

Do you go there? The Ungovernable Force 04:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary request

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. User:Mathbot shows your usage of edit summaries to be very low: 0% for major edits and 71% for minor edits (based on the last 150 major and 87 minor edits). Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

South Asian history stubs

I wish you'd included a link, as it was far from obvious what template you were referring to: I certainly couldn't find it on the proposals page. I don't see anything wrong with the coding, though, which is about I can comment on, absent of that... Alai 11:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah! Sorry, that'd come under the category of "not thinking to look in the place someplace is actually supposed to be" -- my bad. And apologies for being grumpy about it, just having one of those days; obviously you did right by asking for help, if you were unsure. Have you finished sorting into this type? Doesn't look to be as large as would be ideal... Alai 17:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

sectstub

Hi Aelfthryna, thanks for that. In fact, I bumped into a sectstub on almost the next page I opened!!! SiGarb | Talk 22:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Iran-geo-stub

Thanks for that - looks like someone messed up while trying to add an interwiki link to the template. Hopefully it'll work now, but it may need a bot to find and null-edit any articles that were added to after the template was glitched. Grutness...wha? 02:36, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Warning

That message was sent in error my apologies. I am currently using a new tool to fight vandals. I removed my warning to you. ¡Dustimagic! ^(T/C) 04:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Those boxy things

What are those boxy things on your user pages? I am new to Wikipedia and have done a few articles but I do not know everything about Wikipedia or those boxes. Teddy Roosevelt 00:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you and when you do find out the link to these "userboxes" please tell me so I can put it on my user page, too. Thank you again. Teddy Roosevelt 01:04, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Turkey

Hi Aelfthrytha, I've answered your question in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Turkey. Cheers --Ugur Basak 07:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Aelfthrytha, i'll prepare a list tomorrow (19 April) and send you. Btw, where did you learn Turkish tr-3 ? Ugur Basak 23:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

You can check this tr:Türkiye'nin bölgeleri seven regions and all their provinces listed. Ugur Basak 20:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

STOOOOP!!!!

Those geo-stub categories for Turkey MUST HAVE THE WORD GEOGRAPHY IN THEM! See WP:WSS/P! Grutness...wha? 03:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've reworded the template and swapped over categories for the first couple - have a look at {{Marmara-geo-stub}} now, for instance. If you use that as a pattern for the others, I don't think it'll cause problems. It's a shame this started in the small hours of the morning (my time) - odd that no-one noticed the missing word "geography" - they are being split from a geo-stub category... Grutness...wha? 03:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

(ec):Oops, my bad for the sloppily-worded suggestion. I suggest you re-create as "... geography stubs", and I'll speedy the deletion if you're agreeable. Alai 03:32, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

S'alright - already done :) (hope no-one minds too much!) The categories that have been made are now all swapped over, and the wording of the templates now makes it clear they're geography articles. You can start with the others any time you like :) Grutness...wha? 03:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi again - I'll add the headings to my Ongoing splits page, but you'll have to add the lists of which article goes where! I haven't been keeping track of the different Turkish articles as far as which region they're from, and all my tallies are done by hand - so if I was going to have to open up each article to see where it was, I might as well do all the template editing too! Hopefully you've kept a list of what belongs where... BTW, do you think the seven categories could each do with a map highlighting where the region is, a bit like the Africa and United States region categories? Grutness...wha? 08:01, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Hey Aelfthrytha,

Thanks for you work on the stub-sorting of Category:Turkey geography stubs. I was wondering, what category would Adana be in, if it were a stub? It doesn't seem to be in any of the 3 sub-categories. Thanks in advance. —Khoikhoi 05:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm not sure if I'd be willing to do it, as I have to admit, I find those tasks pretty laborious. Anyways, if you don't mind me asking, what nationality are you? I couldn't help but be curious when I saw your Babel box. —Khoikhoi 05:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Heh, no problem. ;) —Khoikhoi 05:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, that sucks. Have you ever seen Total Recall? —Khoikhoi 05:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I see. Oh well. —Khoikhoi 05:38, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Translation Request

Aelfthrytha, Can you translate the article Ayyavazhi to Arabic. Please... - Vaikunda Raja 22:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. - Vaikunda Raja 00:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Latest geo-stub split

You asked for a wake-up call when these were ready to split... The templates and categories have been made, and the lists of articles will be at User:Grutness/Ongoing geo-stub splits in a couple of minutes time. Have fun! :) Grutness...wha? 08:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoa! Overheating on stubsort duty? I must create for you the Barnstar of a Thousand Clicks :) - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 16:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

{{Turkey-geo-stub}}

Hi again, I finally took care of creating and sorting the stubs. In sorting them, I discovered some stubs which rely upon the 1911 Encyclopedia for their information, meaning that their information references Ottoman provinces, etc, as being up to date. Because some of the information may still be relevant or otherwise useful, I don't want to delete the articles. However, at the moment I don't have access to references on the subject. Could you check the articles or suggest someone who can (or a suitable reference online)? Aelfthrytha 04:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Aelfthrytha sorry for late answer i was busy with real life stuff. If you can show me links, i can try to take care of them. If i could not do it, i'll try to find help:) --Ugur Basak 16:14, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Here are the relevant articles (which I could find right now): Enos, Turkey, Euyuk, Iskelib, Süleymanli, and Yuzgat. All of them reference which vilayets they were located in, as well as some discussing what sanjak. Of. How current. Aelfthrytha 17:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Aelfthrytha, i can take care of these. Maybe some of them can be merged like Yozgat and Yuzgat, both is about same subject. When i finish updating them i will inform you. --Ugur Basak 17:43, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I've fixed Süleymanli (Sulaymaniyah in modern Iraq). Valentinian ^(talk) 16:55, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey cool!

Thanks for the link Aelfthrytha. I'll be speaking Turkish soon... :) —Khoikhoi 04:01, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Central Asia WikiProject Participants

Here is where to say if you're interested

I think what you're doing so far is fine. You might also try making comments at the talk pages for Central Asian country articles, but that might be inappropriate. Let's just see if people are interested at first. —Khoikhoi 04:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Not to butt in, but I saw the conversation on Khoikhoi's page and I'd be interested in whatever Central Asian projects might be in the works and I think abdulnr would be too, since we are in the process of revamping the Turkmen and History of Turkmenistan articles. Cheers. Tombseye 04:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Count me in :) What kind of thing were you thinking of ? Project, Noticeboard, Portal? - FrancisTyers 04:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes I am in. Please set a list of tasks and to do list. abdulnr 10:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm in too and thanks for the message, Aelfthrytha. -- Hux 12:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm interested as well, and thank you! Chris 16:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Same, would love to help. I have some largish contributions already planned for when I have time, but let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to see done, or if there are any group projects I should be participating in. —Firespeaker 03:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I would like to help as well. I've been living in Kyrgyzstan for all twenty years of my existence, and can share a lot of knowledge about my native country. The only thing I need to do before contributing is to improve is my English. :) Bektour 17:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Bektour: I currently live in Bishkek and English is my first language. If there is something you want to post I would be happy to help you with getting the English up to a good Wiki standard. If you're interested leave me a note on my talk page. -- Hux 06:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation! Too busy now, but will join in August. Sky Walker 20:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the invitation, I wish I could write some articles, but I do not think I have enough knowledge. I can contribute some photographs and some minor edits. --Atamyrat 07:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Central Asia Project Talk

And here is where to talk about what form this should take

I wasn't sure what I generally had in mind, because Central Asia as a whole is vastly underdeveloped on wiki. To create any kind of community would be valuable, because to invite those who I did invite required examining all the Central Asian language pages, talk pages of related articles, etc. So, suggestions? Aelfthrytha 04:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you thinking of something along the lines of Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board? You could also post a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias to see if anyone there is interested. --Cherry blossom tree 11:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Are we only talking about improving the Central Asia pages on Wikipedia.org, or is the plan to improve all relevant Wiki project pages? For example, I spent some time yesterday improving the Kyrgyzstan page at Wikitravel and it's still in dire need of attention! -- Hux 12:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think Wikitravel is a Wikimedia project. The license is not compatible iirc. I'll only be working on Wikipedia (chiefly en. and ro.) — I think a noticeboard might be a good option. - FrancisTyers 14:05, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

You're right on both points. There's nothing to stop people writing the same information on both projects but you can't copy from one to the other without getting permission from the author to relicence it. --Cherry blossom tree 15:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps people could decide what they want to do and discuss here it first etc. As for myself, I will be working with abdulnr (and probably Khoikhoi who is always ready to help out) on the Turkmen people and History of Turkmenistan articles. I have, in the past, worked on the Uzbek people page, but have not fully developed it as yet. That will have to wait until after the Turkmen at this point. Cheers. Tombseye 15:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for inviting me. I would also like to participitate in Central Asia Project. Siddiqui 15:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd be interested in participating as well. Thanks for the invite. Straughn 17:03, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite. I have decided to stop editing on Wikipedia however so won't participate. elizmr 21:35, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite, count me in. Where is the Project page? :) RamBow 10:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank thee. I will help you. ;) Kaygtr 17:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• I'll take a look at the project proposal at some point. I should note that these days I primarily use Special:Randompage to find articles to edit/fix, but when you have a page of things to do, send me a pointer and I might take a stab at those too. --Improv 23:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Seeing as this seems to be the central location for now, can I ask people to take a look at Tajik alphabet and suggest improvements on the talk page, or be bold! :) - FrancisTyers 09:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I saw your notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias; I'm interested in this project once it gets off the ground, though I don't know how helpful I'll be able to be. Ruakh 19:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Split of Poland-geo-stub

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geography_of_Poland#.7B.7BPoland-geo-stub.7D.7D_split I believe we had an agreement that this stub should be split up along the voivodship lines. Can this be done? I have proposed two new stubs (Portal_talk:Poland/Poland-related_Wikipedia_notice_board#New_stub_proposed_.28.7B.7BPoland-mil-stub.7D.7D.29) so it may be a good time to tackle that issue, too.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

NOT an Israel releated stub

Please stop adding that the Kfar Yarok article is Israel (or Israel geography) releated, it's a youth village, not a village. A youth village means a system of schools located in one bit area which also has a dormitory. Also, if there was a youth village in USA, would it be USA releated?

Michaelas10 13:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

IS an Israeli related stub

Actually, I've changed it to a geo-stub.. Dormitory village or not, it's still a village. Looks like there is at least one more editor replacing the removed stubs as well, so unless Michaelas10 breaks 3RR it will remain correctly stubbed for a while at least. I'll add a warning on his talk page - removing valid stub templates is vandalism. Grutness...wha? 01:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't know that it was the right stub temple. I've disscussed it on my talk page and I was going to put it back when I would be proven wrong.

Michaelas10 17:16, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

NE-school-stub

Hey, thank, I didn't know that. I was about to propose that at stub storing after I dicussed with Wikiproject schools whether a mass stub creation project would be worth it as a editor recruiting drive. I was going to do all that after the 4th, though --Rayc 01:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hiya!

Joined up..will be glad to help --Zak 21:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Central Asia

Gladly ! Amir85 22:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: WP Central Asia

Thanks for the offer, but my knowledge of Central Asia is limited to a very basic knowledge of the Kazakh phonology! For now, I'll take my position as an interested observer. —Felix the Cassowary 10:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the offer, I will be glad to contribute within my knowledge. Lemonhead 16:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy to contribute, but I dont claim to be an expert. Jameswilson 22:19, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

i would like to be apart of this wikiproject, but im not an expert, however, i can help watch articles, fix grammatical mistakes, and improve on some. where do i join?Iranian Patriot 20:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd also be happy to help out, although my knowledge is restricted to some pretty limited niches. KASchmidt 19:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Gunt river

Hi, There are 'photos which I believe are not copyright at [1]. I uploaded them, but they didn't seem to fit neatly into any Commons licence so they were deleted. You might like to double-check the copyright status and re-insert them? Dlyons493 Talk 19:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia project

Greetings! Nice work organizing this project by the way. I wanted to put in a few suggestions. First the template should probably include the North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan:

This project aims to expand, cleanup and wikify, better organize, and neutralize the point of view on articles related to Central Asia, including, but not limited to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, western Pakistan (North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan), Xinjiang, Tibet and Central Asian portions of Russia. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Also, more importantly, if you want to get things done I would suggest a monthly or bi-monthly collaboration project. Basically people nominate articles they want to see improved right away and then people vote on whichever ones they want to. That way the group can pool its efforts and improve articles consistently rather than simply putting out there that various articles need improvement. Anyway, just wanted to add my two cents. Take care. Tombseye 21:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Please add and Khorasan, Iran to the Project Box. and Khorasan, Iran is also a part of Central Asia and is even coloured in the map. Thank you. 69.196.164.190

Okay

I have just singned in as Participant in Wiki Central Asia Project and defenitely would learn much and contribute lesser on such an impressive work. Take care! Haider 21:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Stub statement added to RCC article

Thanks for adding this stub statement to the RCC article. Although this is a very potent school when in session it is now tobacco season and the only students at school are making up for lost time or are trying to get an extra credit or two ahead and just don't have the time as of yet to contribute. Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 18:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Vacation

From today until 5 or 6 August I'll be on vacation, so don't look for me around here! :D Aelfthrytha 16:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 21:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

{{Uzbekistan-bio-stub}}

Nice work populating the Central Asian categories. And thanks for fixing the messed up template (I use copy-paste way too much ). Cheers. Valentinian ^(talk) 22:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Adding "Fauna of xy" categories

Today I noticed that you added "Fauna of xy" categories to not only Macrovipera, but also Viperinae. I'm afraid this is pointless. Those aren't even species! There are also two big problems with "Fauna of xy" categories to everything. First, it's way too general. Right now we may not have too many articles dealing with the fauna of Ghana, for instance, but what about in 10 years time? There could be thousands. Better to create categories that do not have the potential to become so large. I would suggest only creating categories that will never achieve such proportions, such as "Dangerous Snakes of Ghana". Such smaller categories could then be added to "Categories dealing with Ghana", for example.

Secondly, from the viewpoint of at least some species articles, country categories (of any kind) are not always practical either. Macrovipera occurs in some 20 countries, while The Viperinae are a subfamily of snakes found thoughout the Old World. Do you know how many countries that would be? I'm sure there's a list somewhere, but would it really be practical to add all of those country categories to this one article? If you did, it would become rather difficult for anyone to find what they were looking for in such a long list. In other words, the current system has its limits. Unless that's changed, a solution might be to create only a category for the "Venomous Snakes of Africa" instead. --Jwinius 18:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

(Replying to your message in User_talk:Jwinius#Fauna of xy)

However, I think that in other cases it would be useful for now to add them.

But, that's my point. How many country category tags do you want to add to a single snake article? For a species like Vipera berus, that would be a tag every country between Great Britain and China. When do you stop adding countries? Better to just make a page with a list of species for yourself instead of adding category tags to all of those articles (and easier too).

The classification system you suggested would be useful at some point, but there isn't really enough information to know which categories would be appropriate.

How so? You can make up any categories you want. Just as long as they don't get too big.

What is your opinion on adding fauna of ___ to individual species?

It's pointless. I don't mean to sound negative, but think of the results. If you wanted the category "Fauna of Ghana", for example, to be complete, you'd be tagging articles almost forever, just for that one country. It would be huge! "Fauna" is too general: it means all the mammals, all the birds, all the reptiles, all the amphibians, fish, insects, arachnids, worms, etc., etc. The list is almost endless. And even if it were ever complete, it would be so long and so general, that it would be completely useless.

What I'm saying, is that it's therefore better to keep lists (or categories) like this relatively short; to something like a few hundred entries at most. For instance, at the moment all of the snake articles have "Snake" category tags in them, but that's really only good for getting an idea of how many snake articles there are. Otherwise, my feeling is that these Snake tags are pretty useless -- there are too many snake articles already! What good is a list of 4000 snake names? Completely useless!

That's why I'm saying, if you must make categories and add tags to everything, it's better to plan for smaller categories. For example: "The Snakes of Ghana". Or, even smaller: "Venomous Snakes of Ghana." Every category will results in a list, but that list must remain practical. Always think: "What will the results of my new category look like in 10 years time?" --Jwinius 23:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Replying to your message in User_talk:Jwinius#Fauna of xy)

I strongly disagree with you because the majority of those things which I tagged don't have such a distribution.

Well, earlier you attempted to tag a widespread genus and an entire subfamily. What am I supposed to think? Plus, it's not just you; somewhere along the line, other people start to follow your example and just add tags like this to all of their articles without thinking. Your project begins to take on a life of its own, after which it becomes hard to stop. Soon the list of articles in your category becomes so long, that it becomes useless whether you planned it that way or not. Just because nobody stops and thinks about it; they just copy what the other articles look like. On the other hand, if you make the list yourself (an article, not a category), you always retain complete control and there's never any danger if it getting out of hand.

If the categories for Fauna of Central Asian countries become too big, they can be split at a later date.

And who is going to do that? Are you? For thousands and thousands of articles? I think not. Somebody would have to set up an automated process to do that, and that in itself would be a lot of work. And all that work can be avoided just by thinking a little in advance -- before you set the wheels in motion.

Also, I would appreciate a little bit if you would soften your tone; I'm not sure if it's your intent, but you seem rather harsh.

There I think you have a point. I apologize for my tone. It's been a long day. However, you did ask for my opinion, and it was only after you tagged Viperinae and Macrovipera that I really began to think about this issue. Hey, all this time I've been tagging without thinking as well: all those Snake tags! I've got one in every single one of my articles, including the last one I created today, and now I realize how useless they are! :-)) I think somebody even tried to warn me about this early on, but I just ignored them. Sigh.
Another user, AshLin, has suggested to me several times now that we start up a wikiproject "Serpentes". So far, I haven't said anything to him about it, but I think now that that would be an excellent idea. It would certainly be a good way to tackle big problems like this useless "Snakes" category and discuss ways to replace it with something more intelligent before things really get out of hand. Smaller, nested categories might be a good solution, perhaps based on subfamilies (some are rather large though). However, our own wikiproject would be good for other things too. Hmmm.... --Jwinius 00:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Arabic

Hello. I saw you can understand Arabic language. Can you please translate one line of Arabic text at Turaif article. Thank you. - Darwinek 14:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the tip, I will change them when I get the chance. Cpuwhiz11 13:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Yemen

Merhaba and Welcome to WikiProject Yemen. We are happy that you joined us. If you have any questions, need help on something, or suggestions, then please don't hesitate to tell us. To identify yourself as a member of this project, you can add this template to your user page:

{{User WikiProject Yemen}}

Cheers, Jidan 20:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Pakistan geography stubs

I've created these, and mostly sorted them by bot, as these initially seemed to be largely disjoint and straightforward. However, I've after the fact noticed some false positives under Category:Sindh (I forgot to check for overlaps from the territories). If you could look over the ones I've sorted, to check for any errors I missed, and the remainder that are currently unsorted, that would be very handy, thanks. Alai 04:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

• Lovely job, don't think that category will be troubling /To do for a while. I imagine there might be enough for an Azad Kasmir, Northern Areas, or at least for a collective Pakistani Kashmiri stub type, if we wanted to be completist about it. Alai 20:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Isle of Man Examiner

I've reverted your stub sorting which would have placed this as a UK newspaper [2]. To quote Isle of Man: Although it is not part of the United Kingdom, it is a Crown dependency. :) Computerjoe's talk 09:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Categorization

Hi, just wanted to say thanks for all the great work that you're doing on categorizing articles! --Elonka 04:38, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Bots (etc)

I'm not sure how much faster you'd be able to go: you seem to sort at a pretty remarkable rate already! But here's some possible ways of saving yourself some manual searching, and some typing. Firstly, StubSense isn't a bot, it's a toolserver query page: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/stub_sense. Just fill in the fields, and you get a breakdown of existing stub-tagging, etc, in a particular category. I'd also suggest looking into AWB, which is in effect a "semi-bot". You can get StubSense to produce output that can be fed straight into AWB to process a "batch" of stubs in a uniform manner, have it traverse a whole category, use results from a google search, etc. Finally, I use the pywikipedia bot framework under the account Alaibot for things like removing, renaming and merging stub tags (either from WP:SFD, or on the basis of re-stubbing candidates from database dumps). If you have any specific questions on any of those, please feel free to ask. Alai 06:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Stubs

You had left a message on my user talk page about stub sorting. I have stub sorted all the articles in Category:Stubs. At this time there are zero articles in that category. --- Skapur 08:23, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

American

I noticed that you recently added a link to American here. American is a disambiguation page as the phrase has many uses including a person from the Americas or the United States. In the future, could you link the term to one of the articles listed on the American disambiguation term, that would be great. As an example, if you're linking to something related to the United States, you would input [[United States|American]]. Thanks! --Bobblehead 07:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Diplomat-stub

Good question. I'd possibly list them with, and sort them under {{Poli-bio-stub}} / Category:Political people stubs, since Category:Diplomacy is (somewhere) in the {[cl|politics}} hierarchy. Alai 19:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Taiwan pictures

Nice meeting you. Actually, you may yourself uplaod the same. In case, you send me the pics by e-mail, and want me to upload, I will do that if you give me the right to upload. You should have the right to those pictures. Have a nice time. Many wikipedians will be coming to Taiwan next year. --Bhadani 17:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Link styles

Sorry, I've no idea about that. Good luck with sorting it out... Alai 16:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Me neither, I'm afraid. Try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) - someone there's bound to know. Grutness...wha? 22:48, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that... looks useful - I'll have to remember that if I ever need it! Grutness...wha? 04:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Taiwan Pics #2

Hey - my e-mail address for this purpose (due to desire to evade spam) is superemma85 at yahoo dot com. Drop me one from your address and I will send you at least a few pictures. Aelfthrytha 17:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I am sending you a mail from one of my two usual e-mail IDs. I request you to please send me the pictures with short descriptions indicating the pages where that should be suitable. I also request you to please give me a right to upload the pictures in wikipedia, if you so wish. I think that the pictures shall be free from any copyright issues. Thanks for your interest. Please remain in touch. --Bhadani 17:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Just sent you the email. Ok. --Bhadani 17:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Kazakh ministers

I cannot keep current ministers in the gov category? Why? If they're currently ministers then they're high ranking members of the government. On another note, I think I already joined the Central Asia WikiProject. KazakhPol 14:47, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Well... creating a category on gov ministers is a possibility, but I think the template on Current Kazakh Ministers achieves the same purpose. What I've done so far is to put current ministers in Cat:Gov of Kaz and former ministers into Cat:Kaz pols. Thanks for the response, KazakhPol 21:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

What? No, no, you misunderstand. I'm only putting current ministers in that category. That's about 15-20 people. I'm creating pages on retired ministers but im putting those in the Politicians category. Cheers, KazakhPol 01:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I get it now. But do not worry, for lower level officials I use the Politicians category. Usually though, I dont spend my time working on anyone lower than a national-minister. Do you have expertise on Kazakhstan? I could use some insight into Terrorism of Kazakhstan. I have done my best so far, but the article lacks the context of how the U.S.-Uzbek relationship has gone south. Fortunately, I have a few links at the bottom of my userpage with content to be-added. Cheers, KazakhPol 03:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Piping

Hey, thanks for the tip. If you see any other mistakes I make, in procedure or policy, please point them out. KazakhPol 17:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The lighted path

Hi. Do you know about Diwali? I wish you All The Best on the ocasion of the Indian festival of light, Diwali. I am sure that the light of hope, confidence, and all positive attributes shall always remain inside you – lighting your path and guiding you to attain higher and higher levels of excellence in all your endevours! And, ID Mubarak too. All the best! --Bhadani 17:08, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

I also thank you the e-mail with the pictures. I am figuring out how to use them in the best possible manner. Thanks for your support. --Bhadani 17:08, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Deletion

My apologies. It was an honest mistake. The article was tagged speedy, and it had been empty for 4 days. (If you want to see the revision, I'll post it for you.) My object wasn't to disrupt your editing; I'm sorry that I did. I was trying to clear out the ridiculous backog in CAT:CSD. In any case, it's been sorted out; if you want me to restore the old revisions I can. Happy editing. ♠PMC♠ 19:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yerzhan Ashykbayev

Hi, if you have the time I would like your input on whether to delete the article on Yerzhan Ashykbayev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman of the Government of Kazakhstan. Thanks, KazakhPol 18:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Kyrgyz politician stubs

Thanks for the tip on stubs; that's exactly the kind of tip I was looking for. I'll be sure to add in the template in future. Danohuiginn 21:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

{{Uzbekistan-geo-stub}}

Hi Aelfthrytha

I'm glad you liked the new image. I think an image like Image:Turkey stub.png is a lot better than Image:Flag of Turkey.svg when it comes to geographical articles. I can't draw myself, so I've copied them from the Czech Wikipedia. Unfortunately, their list of images is pretty incomplete. I've found images for Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (+ Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and several other nations) but I can't find any for the last three Central Asian nations. Perhaps we should ask the Czechs for more images? Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 21:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi again.

I didn't have luck with the first Czech I asked for more images, but Pavel (User:PaD) has created an image for Turkmenistan and plans to do both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well. He is even creating these images as .svg, so it looks like we're in luck. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 09:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I'll bear that in mind. Slight problem because we didn't have enough stubs for a cat. Fixed by creating a whole load of stubs :) -- ~20-30. - Francis Tyers · 16:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Human rights in Central Asia

Please note that this article is referenced from Human rights in Asia, which divides Asia into East Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. If you delete some countries from Central Asia, they should be moved to somewhere else. Any suggestion? --Gabi S. 16:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Central asia

What is this? a project? I don't understand it. Can you help me? Thanks. --F.Mehmet 12:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Pakistan & Philippines University Stub

Could you please use {{Pakistan-university-stub}} for Pakistan Higher Education institutes rather than {{Asia-university-stub}}. Also, Could you please use {{Philippines-university-stub}} for Philippines Higher Education institutes rather than {{Asia-university-stub}}.
-- Asfandyar 15:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I think both these stubs have reached more than 65 articles.
-- Asfandyar 16:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Iran University Stubs

This also meets criteria. Take a look {{Iran-university-stub}}.
--Asfandyar 04:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/History of Central Asia

Your input on this F.A.R. is desired. KazakhPol 02:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)