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DYK for Red Dog, California

On July 3, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Red Dog, California, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it 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.

Wikiproject DYK 23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your review

		Military history reviewers' award
		By order of the coordinators, for your help with the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews April to June 2009, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.  Roger Davies talk 12:25, 5 July 2009 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Island infobox

Thanks, it was a nice break. If they are in others I think they should come off. It might be confusing to a reader to see that the island is listed as uninhabited but then they appear to have a population of over 1,000. I just happened to notice those two as you did the same thing I've done several times, copy & paste but forget to change a bit. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:11, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

That one I'm not sure about. I think it might be better replaced by a Canadian Arctic Archipelago template but for now the current template could stay. I think it might be better replaced by a Canadian Arctic Archipelago template but for now the current template could probably stay. What do you think? Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:42, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's the thing I'm not sure of. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 23:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject TRANSWIKI

Hi. In light of recent events and community concerns about the way in which content is transferred I have proposed a new wikiproject which would attempt to address any of the concerns and done in an environment where a major group of editors work together to transfer articles from other wikipedias in the most effective way possible without BLP or referencing problems. Please offer your thoughts at the proposal and whether or not you support or oppose the idea of a wikiproject dedicated to organizing a more efficient process of getting articles in different languages translated into English. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated. Especially coming from one who has done so much excellent work to improve this encyclopedia.

I just needed a couple of days to back off and cool down. Though this really wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision...it's been a while brewing, and things just came to a head with the ANI. Ah, well...I'm back, now, and don't intend leaving any time soon. :-)

Once again, many thanks. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 02:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Killiniq, Nunavut

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Wizardman 12:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Inuit

Hi, I just came across this edit. I was able to find a couple of references for the Tuniit as being giants but they are not the best. Do you have anything better? Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:36, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi CBW. I'll look again once I get home at the end of the week. From a quick google book search, I didn't find anything about "giant", but certainly adjectives such as "stronger", "stout", "bigger", "shy", "easily frightened" per this. Page 147 talks about where they went. --Rosiestep2 (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I see that at the end of page 143 it says "taller" which, while not saying they are giants, indicates that they were taller than the Inuit. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 04:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Islands of Frobisher Bay

I didn't realise that there were that many islands within the bay. As there are that many I think it would be best to go with Category:Islands of Frobisher Bay and Category:Islands of the Labrador Sea That would make Islands of Frobisher Bay a sub-category of both Islands of the Labrador Sea and Islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI/Spanish

Are you interested in joining this group? Hope you like my developments. If so add your name at the bottom. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI/Spanish/Culture/Museums Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:25, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Rosie! So I am hoping that Thaddeus will be able to use a bot to auto generate thousands of missing pages like the Spanish museums page and add the link to spanish wikipedia in brackets. Then on eahc page there will be a toolbox at the bottom, google translation,assistants google search for reliable sources etc. We'll also create categories within our workspace so finding topic and articles will be easy to find. I'm also hoping a bot can send out an invitation to all the thousands of language speakers on here and things will gain momentum. As I've always said "this organization does not tolerate failure" and the current situation really needing improving! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I am setting up the pages using a template so the topic will need tweaking on each one. i'll set up the rest today. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

You're doing great work with the Asturias transwikiying. Keep up the good work! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

See my proposal on Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2009/August too. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks also for your help with setting things up. While we are waiting for Thaddeus to code a bot, the next stage will be to set all of the core topic categories up by language. So e.g find a basketball team in Lithuania or something that needs translating and add e.g {Expand Lithuania|topic=sports|date=August 2009} you know. The red linked categories will have to be blue linked and started too. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Peru

Oh yes I usually do rmeove the coordinate missing I do a lot of work with The Anome so I know about that. I was tired last night and what with the project too I forgot. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:29, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Virgen de Copacabana

Hey, can you translate this lovely article from Spanish wiki? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:27, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

The Spanish Speaking World Barnstar awarded by Dr. Blofeld to his good friend Rosie for working hard at improving coverage and translating articles from Spain and Latin America. We need more editors like yourself. Congratulations! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:03, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Well deserved! I've just started a new series on Seismological history and an article on the Seismological history of Japan but needs a lot of work. I can't believe there are no articles yet which covers earthquakes in prose and their history. Seismological history of China, Seismological history of Iran and Seismological history of Guatemala etc have the potential to be massive articles. These are pretty important articles!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:57, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

I didn't, no. I ought to though... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Princess Maria Adelgunde of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Rosie, an article I recently created, Princess Maria Adelgunde of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, has been nominated for deletion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Princess Maria Adelgunde of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Given your attention to other Hohenzollern-related articles, please take the time to weigh in and stop its deletion. Thanks again for all your wonderful contributions to Wikipedia! --Caponer (talk) 13:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

• Caponer, After finding substantial coverage at GoogleBooks, I'm under the belief the article meets WP:N so I weighed in at AFD as Keep. See also the article's talk page with some suggestions. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Rosie, thank you for your thoughtful review and suggestions. I'm continuing to identify additional resources and will incorporate them into the article. Again, thank you for all your help in this matter! --Caponer (talk) 18:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religion and Public Intellectuals. Borock (talk) 03:55, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Over-precise co-ordinates

Hi Rosiestep. I've noticed that you've been creating articles for Candadian islands. Can I ask that in future articles you restrict the geographic co-ordinates to just two decimal places - you've been adding co-ordinates precise to 9 decimal places. For Algak Island, you gave co-ordinates of 67.500808662, -108.402313109... this gives a precision of less than one centimetre. (I've now amended it to 67.50, -108.40.)
9 decimal places is just way over-the-top. Two (or maybe three) places is all that's required. See WP:GEO.
Thanks and keep up the good work. Bazonka (talk) 16:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Sure. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:39, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Thankyou! Haven't heard any news from the bot coders yet.... We can't really do anything until they download the missing directory, we'll have to translate the odd article before then... Himalayan 16:45, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Looks OK now. You know the reason? The poor state of the server means that when you stub sort it usually takes hours to recategorise, it has been known to take as long as 12 hours with me. Server lag is the reason. Pretty lame eh? Himalayan 09:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

I had a suspicion that might be it. Thanks for looking at it, though. I'll do the other 2 ghost town cats (US, Calif) when I get back. Cheers, --Rosiestep (talk) 16:13, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Read the news

Thought you might be interested. I just came across http://nortext.v1.myvirtualpaper.com/ which is the online edition of the Nunatsiaq News in a pdf format. Unfortunately the most recent issue they have is 31 July 2009. I don't know how far back the go but I did see some from 2008. To look at other editions add Nunatsiaq_News_YMMDD. Y is the one digit year, MM is the 2 digit month and DD the 2 digit day. The paper comes out on Friday so you need to use a calendar to check for the correct dates. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 08:36, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I had a look through it. I think I'll drop over to the new tasting room at the vineyard after I take care of the shipload of tourists that are coming in. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 09:30, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Happy Labor Day!

Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, --A Nobody^{My talk} 05:56, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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Severe weather RfC

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DYK for Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet

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BC Wine regions - re cat

If I'm not mistaken, policy on wine regions is that such cats should only go on AVA articles, e.g. Cowichan Valley AVA, Okanagan AVA, Fraser Valley AVA, not that those articles exist yet, but certainly in the case of the Fraser Valley article at least there's not even a section on teh AVA; note Columbia Valley AVA and the like.Skookum1 (talk) 15:35, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, OK, so they can't be AVAs (American Viticultural Areas); what's the Canadian equivalent, and maybe I guess there is no policy regarding Canadian wine areas - or ??Skookum1 (talk) 15:36, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Note on British_Columbia_wine#Growing_regions that the Similkameen and Gulf Islands are also official viticultural designations; but I'm uncomfortable with using hte cat unless sections are added to those articles.Skookum1 (talk) 15:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Skookum. I created Category:Wine regions of British Columbia and Category:Wine regions of Ontario for some depopulation of Category:Wine regions of Canada; and where I categorized an article with Category:Wine regions of British Columbia (or Category:Wine regions of Ontario), it was as a replacement for the Category:Wine regions of Canada cat. I'm aware of British_Columbia_wine#Growing_regions, and I agree that BC Wine Region categorization for Similkameen and Gulf Islands should coincide with adding wine region content. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:16, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Akaitcho

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DYK

Thankyou for your kind words although I think Punkmorten/Geshicte probably holds that record for Norwegian biographies! I still haven't forggoten about the transwiki project, in fact I asked Fritzpoll to see about programming a bot, we really need a bot to generate missing lists first to give us something to organize. Himalayan 18:21, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

MILHIST admins

Hi. Since you're an admin and a member of the Military History WikiProject, please consider listing yourself here. Cheers, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:45, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

botanic-garden-stub and arboretum-stub

Hi Rosiestep - please stop using these new stubs until there's a decision on whether they should haave been made in the first place - they're not a speediable type, and I've suggested another option which IMO is more appropriate. Grutness...wha? 22:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

{{Australia-botanical-garden-stub}}

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