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Villages of Kiribati

Not in the least - on the contrary, I'm happy to see that someone with local experience is editing articles about Kiribati. Welcome aboard, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:22, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is good to see somebody showing an interest locally. But Ser Amantio might be happy to see you redirect villages to islands but I'm not. Antai has a population of 199 people, seems to be an adequate settlement. Please try to expand the villages. If you are certain they are small hamlets and can't be expanded or something then perhaps redirect to the island but be sure to at least list the villages on the island page. It being a stub isn't purely a reason to redirect. If you want any assistance in expanding articles feel free to give me a bell. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My personal feeling is, as you wish. I've never been to Kiribati (I long to go someday), so I'd rather default to someone who knows the terrain there better than I. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK then, that's a great map of Marakei BTW and you've given the pooulation data there so redirecting (if it can't be expanded) I guess is fine. But at least try to expand the larger villagers. I think the priority is to produce some decent articles on each of the islands and atolls and on general topics, always nice to have articles on obscure small villages though, but if they can't be expanded beyond population data then probably worth redirecting. Keep up the good work you've been doing!

BTW I made the flickr agreement for the images you see currently in the Kiribati article. We have so few images. If you could take photographs yourself or/and arrange with the government to release photographs of anywhere this would be very valuable and greatly help improve coverage on here. We badly need photos of the islands. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, not really sure what to do about Pulaka. As for redirecting all villages to Tarawa, ones like Bikenibeu I think can be significantly expanded using sources like [1] [2]. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the expansion of Bikenibeu. It would be wrong to redirect all villages just because they're stubs. I doubt we could get every village up to such a status but I believe each atoll will probably have a few villages worthy of separate articles.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:53, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, stick with expanding the islands and atolls for now, leave assessing the settlements until a later date. I don't know if you are aware of WP:DYK but if you significantly expand an article, x5 in length, you can nominate it with an interesting fact and it will appear on the front page of wikipedia. Might be a fun way to share knowledge to the world about Kiribati. I and several of my collaborators would be interested in helping you expand any of the islands I suspect. Let me know what you are working on and we can help you expand and get the articles on the main page.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:26, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for You!

Kiribati National Award of Merit

Me, the sinister Ernst Stavro Blofeld sent a telegram to President Tong based on one of SPECTRE's principles of extortion. As a result he has decided to honor you with this through myself! Humour aside, you're doing a terrific job which the expansions, keep up the great work and may we see much more to come. Hope you enjoy working on here, your work is highly valuable.It's rare to find a native editor of such places and people such as yourself are highly important for addressing systematic bias. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Bikenibeu

On 5 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bikenibeu, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bikenibeu, a settlement in Kiribati, could be completely flooded if sea levels rise by one metre? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bikenibeu. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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