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Hey, just wanted to let you know that your edit on

this one too. You might want to slow down when making such edits and check each one using preview, as this is not the first time I’ve visited your talk page after spotting such an error.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 11:17, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Nicolao. What are the rules of English Wikipedia for the use of cat-a-lot? Thanks. Vítor (talk) 19:04, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yh, I already have the cat-a-lot config to all wikipedias (from Meta.wikimedia.org). I mean what are the rules I must follow when using the program. Vítor (talk) 19:23, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is absolutely wrong.

Please remove.Xx236 (talk) 11:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I'll bite... why the removal of "Category:Olympic medalists in tennis" from players who have won an Olympic medal in tennis? Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - thanks for adding categories such as Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field. However, when you are adding them you are leaving behind parent categories such as Category:Olympic track and field athletes of the United States and Category:Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field), which are parent categories of this new cat. Please remove the parent categories when you add the child or you are creating unnecessary work for others. Thanks! Rikster2 (talk) 10:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I have completed the basketball categories for Silver and Gold and don't mind doing the same for bronze when created, but obviously that's just one sport. Rikster2 (talk) 16:21, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, where is the proof of that this river really exists? I cant find it on the map referenced.

Sadly your article concerning cellist Radu Aldulescu is full of mistakes. Dimitrie Dinicu was not his grand'father and not his real first teacher. Neither Gaspar Cassado ! My father (I am Aldulescu's daugther) was asistent to Cassado masterclasses, etc etc. Please contact me for further information at [email protected]. Best regards, Rodica Aldulescu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.29.212.18 (talk) 17:35, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you added a top to a number of biography talk pages recently. Thanks for this. However, it did leave them all with a Stub-Class evaluation. I contributed the article

Thanks for your quick reply on this. I'll alter the ones I know about, but there may be many more. All of these are at least 2000 words in length. I imagine they'll be largely ignored by the project if marked in this way, though I don't know how they prioritise things. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:23, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed also that all the articles I looked at included the entry "|listas=Golde, Adam", which I guess is incorrect in most cases. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:33, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also check where the WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom template is used. This project only covers the period after 1707. All the entries I'm looking at are medieval or early modern, and none fall within its scope. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:42, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you've misidentified a number of categories [1] as belonging to another WikiProject. These categories should belong to {{

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Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao,

I'm curious, can you tell me why you removed SARAH from the category of 21st-century American novels? It was published in 2000, doesn't it count as a 21st-century novel?

Yours, NVG13DAO (talk) 00:25, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK then. Thank you! NVG13DAO (talk) 00:45, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you know that this saying was also used in the game Hatred which is about a mass murder? Ever heard of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vds3azJeuEI --2003:C1:23C9:19B0:AC61:215B:A198:8FC2 (talk) 18:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding maps to so many Indian pages. With regards, Prof TPMS (talk) 01:32, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi About

Your recent changes to maps have put another few dozen pages in Category:Pages with script errors. This is the third time I have visited your talk page to report this. Can you please slow down in and check your edits using e.g. preview after making them. It is no excuse that these are semi-automated edits, in fact the AWB guidelines explicitly advise against not sacrificing quality for speed.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 04:35, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thank you for adding talk page templates to so many pages on India. With love and regards, Prof TPMS (talk) 08:26, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed that a lot of the villages aren't tagged for Gloucestershire, can you go through them?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:34, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for your edits, they are surely laborious, but please allow me to bring up two issues with them.

One is a particular note. As the editor of many articles on Romanian writers, I took care to sort out the categories, overall, by some recognizable criterion, and when you just drop the new categories you create in there somewhere I tend to despair after a while of finding them a place in the queue. I hope you can take some more time in noticing the pattern when you add them.

The second is a technical issue: Ser, I don't for the love of me understand why you enjoy making it so absurdly hard for your project by starting with generic and vague, and immensely vast, categories (Male essayists), dropping a random load of articles in there, instead of creating yourself the narrower categories (Category:Romanian male essayists, or even Category:Romanian 20th-century male essayists) from the beginning, and then putting the categories themselves into vaguer and vaguer ones.

By not working that, you make it a chore on everybody else to try and find out what other vague categories exist at this moment in time, but you also make it hard on yourself. One one hand, you revisit the same articles over and over again, each time narrowing the scope (isn't it exhausting?); on the other, it's much easier to keep track of what categories exist, and therefore much easier for others to help you include articles in them. Oh: and you also limit the sheer number of categories that pile up at the end of each article, and which in some cases (Felix Aderca jumps to mind) are so accumulated and hard to follow that they arguably defeat the very purpose of categorizing. Dahn (talk) 22:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, small enough, you say? (There are quite enough there to validate a 19th-century category as well. Romanian literati were quite chatty in that very accessible genre.)

Also, mind you, I was not talking overcategorization (as in, putting Aderca into Category:Novelists, Category:Romanian novelists, Category:Romanian writers, Category:Romanian male writers etc.). The issue you create is a lot of valid categories, non redundant to each other, but so very many that the reader (and other editors) can't follow them. By creating directly the cross-sections of several categories (Category:20th-century Romanian male novelists, for instance), adding them to those would cut out about three categories that "pour" into that. Instead of keeping on adding categories to the foot of the article, you reduce them, and get the same effect you desire categorization-wise. Dahn (talk) 11:00, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But Ser, did I convince you to start your categorizing from the smaller conceivable categories to the larger, or at least to have a look into what categories include before you add more categories to the articles? For instance, would you consider making a Category:19th-century Romanian essayists before you put random articles/each and every article on a 19th-century Romanian essayist into Category:19th-century essayists, and then revisiting each and every article in that category to narrow it down (or expecting others to do it)? As long as this categorizing seems to be your prime focus, would you please consider thinking ahead, for your own sake if not for everyone else's? Dahn (talk) 12:20, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I hope I'm not inundatng you with too many requests, but I was wondering if you could somehow message all of the members of the Britain and county and Ireland projects with this invite. Something to alert people to the cause. Only if it can be done fairly easily and not a burden on you though! Someday we'll get around to one for Virginia ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:42, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason why you have you stopped responding to emails? The old you would have been really enthuasiastic about the African 10,000! I do miss our old conversations at times!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:28, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was impressed yesterday, when I saw you had added categories to 35 pages on my watchlist, all on Brazilian protected areas. Obviously you were on a roll. But today my watchlist had 167 talk page creations, also all on Brazilian protected areas. This has to be some sort of record! :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 10:53, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because of the fact that I find you the most impressive editor on Wikipedia, and because I have to write so much before I reach a percent of what you've done, I thought I'll inform you that I got my first FL today :) I'm catching up with you. He he :) Lourdes 11:17, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sir.

I am one of the managers at Sohotel in NYC. You have created edits for a page listing us as The Westchester House. This hotel no longer exists and the side of effect of your page has led facebook and instagram to create locations for it and now our hotel Sohotel is named Westchester House on all Social media. This has created us a marketing nightmare as guests do not know which hotel is which. I know this may sound silly but it really is a huge deal.

Can you please change the name of our hotel on this page to Sohotel. This is our name.

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Can you please go back to marking these edits as minor (or even better, do it from an account with a bot flag)? I'm not sure we need a "20th-century politicians" category at the best of times, but without any way to filter it out you're making the watchlist of everyone in WikiProject Australian politics utterly unreadable. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is the second time in three days that our watchlists are unusable because of mass pointless recats being done without the minor or bot flags. Can you not? The Drover's Wife (talk) 03:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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does not make individuals politicians by default. George Pell was never a politician in the Australian sense. fyi. JarrahTree 02:12, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

mind you australian culture is a bloody pain and wikipedia doesnt really help to understand [2] - the

Larrikin streak makes some conferences very strange events between unrelated occupations JarrahTree 03:36, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply

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yeah there was a pelican paperback book in the 1960s that was titled something like the 'southern mind' trying to explain the 'mentalite', but I no longer have my copy. In Indonesian where I did my fieldwork, the 'regional variations' of food, language and ways of thinking are so close in distance, it beggars belief that the variances can sustain against all the odds JarrahTree 09:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

how many people's categories were changed? My watchlist is also showing a number of definite non-politicans being miscategoried as such. But obviously I don't know about the ones not on my watchlist. Kerry (talk) 01:12, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I worked my way through the Delegates list and I think I have fixed the categorisation of all the non-politicians. All is well. Kerry (talk) 09:26, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

you are lighting up all the guitarists on my watch list. Carptrash (talk) 05:07, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Having just walked in from my regular Wednesday night gig (I am NOT a guitar player) I get it. Carptrash (talk) 05:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is only one reason to stop.

and I'm not saying what it is, Carptrash (talk) 05:18, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

Me fine, this summer I was in Pesaro and last 24 Aug. I was get up at 3,30 am from heatrhquake, the room was moving as a boat.... but just 30 afraid seconds, sigh-sigh.

I'm sad for the victims.

Well, I opened this page, and I ask you just 3-4 minutes for a short relecture, please. Thank a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 12:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grazie milleeeee !!! Rei Momo (talk) 13:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have expanded this article about Andre Gertler, partially from the German version. In the earlier English version, there is a sentence about Nazis:” he fled the country under the Nazis”. In 1928.it might not be the reason, while at that time there were no Nazis in Hungary. What to do with this statement? Is it possible to delete it? Gömb Adél (talk) 08:56, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, perhaps I will. Gömb Adél (talk) 09:14, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed that quite a lot of User:Fsmatovu's Uganda articles need talk page tagging for Wp:Africa Uganda=yes. Aymatth also has a lot of Brazil articles in recent months.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for your recent edits of this nature. Can you please in future remember to also remove the parent category, saves someone else having to do it in the future. For example when you replace Category:Male boxers with Category:Canadian male boxers, there is no longer a need for Category:Canadian boxers. Thanks again. Jevansen (talk) 07:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi you recently changed the category on Paddy Barnes to "British male boxers" please note that he is not British, he was born in Northern Ireland (which is not part of Great Britain, but is part of the United Kingdom) and he has represented Northern Ireland previously and Ireland (which is neither Great Britain or United Kingdom) at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Please kindly consider changing as I don't wish to revert anyones good faith edits

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Any ideas you have would be helpful. I wish I could quote the popup box for you, but my memory's not the best. Anyway, no specifics were on offer, only deniable vagueness. Rags (talk) 12:58, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are probably correct in your assessment. If there are any further developments, I will update you. ANI was primarily the answer to my question, but I will probably wait and see. The popup could easily be totally unrelated to the previous incident. And thank you for your quick response, as well as for the work you do here, gnomic and otherwise. Rags (talk) 09:51, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I look up to you Texans123123 (talk) 02:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving the talk pages of so many Indian railway stations. Regards, Prof TPMS (talk) 01:21, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ser, can you do me a favour and quickly send the following message to Category:WikiProject Turkey participants:♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I was wondering if you'd be interested in setting up

Wow that was quick! Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:04, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ser. Can you use that message tool to notify all of the editors of WP Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greeland and Faroe Islands about

Hi. I was wondering if you would be interested in contributing articles to

Hi, just creating

OK, no worries!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:39, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this sounds like a great project. I'm not sure if I have time right now to help, but I can try. I've been compiling a list of missing articles or ones that need to be expanded over the years which could be added to the challenge's page, as there is a huge selection of articles about Sámi women that could use to be written. Thanks for letting me know about the project! -Yupik (talk) 16:39, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, can you use AWB to tack that onto the footer of every article? I've added it to the main town and the first two villages I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:35, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Baltic

Hi, can you do me a favour and send out this to all listed members of WP:Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania?

Hi. I see you are listed as a member of a WikiProject of a Baltic state. I was wondering if anybody who actively works on Estonian, Lithuanian or Latvian articles, would be interested in launching your own

Now that was quick!!! Like lightening! Imagine if you could do that for content creation we'd pass 10 million by the end of the year ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, can You please write an article about Ivan Vihor, a Croatian classical and virtuoso pianist??He is one of the leading Young Croatian pianists. I've read it in Croatian but it is very poor,without photo etc.

Thank You,David--Cro88rec (talk) 18:36, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was wondering if you could use the message sender to send out to all members of UK and Ireland projects, including the county ones. England alone has Category:WikiProject England. Obviously try to exclude the editors already signed up on the page though!

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

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Are you sure? I just checked Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire members talk pages for instance.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

30 odd wikiprojects each with members in Category:WikiProject England from Bedfordshire through to Yorkshire!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

surely you should also have the years project tag as well? JarrahTree 13:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

When I have done runs, and Dimadick I am sure does it as well when he finds a patch - of years in something, the years seems to make a sense when there is just the main subject project only. I have a real aversion to using the time project as I feel it is derivative and nebulous, but years to me makes good sense JarrahTree 13:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dimadick and I's journey through the nether world of the talk page has led us to the thought many large edit main space compatriots do not have much of sympathy or understanding of project tagging and what it does for the health of the larger system... My metaphor is that main space only eds who never venture into talk space, are like people who check the water in the radiator, but always forget to check the oil dipstick - aka the talk page - but as they say, dont let me start... cheers JarrahTree 14:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is a pity there isnt a very hard lined definite policy on exactly that... I always like to have 2 and can cope with 3 three where the subject topic and the projects fit well, but over that I get nervous in a sense... JarrahTree 14:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

exactly - projects even if they belong in a set heirarchy do not necessarily equate to equanimity in weight either in authority relative to a subject of a category say, or of the collection of editors who may identify or associate with a particular subject/project - the dimensions to the issue are well beyond what I have ever encountered in the 'apprehensions' of supposed inactive/stalled projects as well. Hell I am using long words, I must get back to tagging before I exhaust the two cells. JarrahTree 14:23, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed have a safe weekend, not safe in australia due to storms (South australia) or australian football grand final, you are lucky to be not here JarrahTree 14:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI, Mindy McCready was never technically categorized as a "pop" singer, even though her music leaned towards pop music. So if you are going to add pop to her genre category, you need to have a source to verify that. Thank you. Zredman (talk) 16:32, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please check here. Thank you. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:44, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolaoe, how are you? Here Autumn is arrived, with the first frog.

I've opened this short page, and I'm asking, please, if you have some minute of your time to read it and to correct my mistakes. Thanks a lot for your precious help and see you soon.

Rei Momo (talk) 14:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grazie mille for your help, have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 06:51, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you send this message out to all members of WP:Africa and all the country projects on wikipedia, not just Africa? I think it might be something which a lot might be interested in beyond Africa:

OK, well see how long it takes, obviously notifying the African country projects is priority on this!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:45, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you could manage to notify all African members of country projects with the below and then the bottom message for members of those sports projects I'd be very grateful!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Did you manage to do this afterwards? Keep me informed of who you've invited so I know where I am LOL.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Occurred to me that the Wildlife projects could be invited. Can you try the following message for any of the ones you can think of like WP:Mammals, WP:insects, WP:Ecology, WP:Biology Category:Biology WikiProjects or whatever there is which actually have active members? I think we should be OK after that ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:29, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you send out invitations to the biology projects members with the below message?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to the African Destubathon

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Can you also send this to all WP:Football, WP:Athletics and WP:Olympics members:

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks.

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Hello Ser Amantio. I was using AWb and when I was adding categories, it stop at external links for |parl_name=

• • thank you very much. Very helpful. I added this category to awb (Constituencies of Punjab, Pakistan), made a list and than -add categories : pakistani election stubs. I click start. it stops, click save (alerts under. external link) continue and than again click save ...save...I think this is so as to fix the problem. anyhow thanks btw
• what do i do with that code? i copied the code and here. I have no idea what going on. Saadkhan12345 (talk) 20:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• so sorry with this again but when i click start awb, i have to click save in order for it to continue and make the change. (this is for every edit to the page). check image Saadkhan12345 (talk) 22:02, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Why on earth have you used Category:WikiProject Olympics participants as thing to send messages with "MediaWiki message delivery" too? ...
I now have messages at User talk:Davey2010/Member Of User talk:Davey2010/sandbox3, User talk:Davey2010/Userboxes, User talk:Davey2010/Userpage 1 Dec 2014/Userboxes, User talk:Davey2010/Userpage 1Dec14 and it would seem other editors have too got these messages in bizarre places,
Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 21:37, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Overall he's done an excellent job Davey2010 in publicizing it though, not intentional. Your sandboxes nor anybody elses should be in that category anyway, consider taking them out or putting in Category:WikiProject Olympics participants' sandboxes or something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I never said he hadn't ? .... Would you be happy if you received these in bizarre and random places and at the time not knowing how on earth they came to be sent there ? ... No!, The Olympics userbox is at

User:Davey2010/Member Of and then that subpage is at User:Davey2010/Userboxes .... I prefer to be organised than disorganized but Anyway I know he done these in good faith and I have no issues - All has been resolved. –Davey2010^Talk 15:07, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply

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Nevermind both subpages are different but anyway as i said all is resolved. –Davey2010^Talk 15:11, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So sorry to bother you with this again. Hope you are not troubled.

How do I add categories template like

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to articles using AWB?

and also here am i suppose to do this using awb (clean up-delink) because it delinks the words.Saadkhan12345 (talk) 14:50, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine!

I opened this short page now, and I ask some minute to read it and to correct my mistakes, please. Just some minute, :-) , thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 21:46, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank youuuu, have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 05:48, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please be more careful when adding a "male" cat to articles. I haev reverted a series of these earlier today, but I notice that now again you have been doing the same, with e.g.

I saw you have added the Wikiporject Journalism banner to this File talk:Terminal-baru-bandara-raja-haji-fisabilillah.jpg, and many other airport non-free airport images that I tagged for deletion. This doesn't make any sense that I can see. Can you explain? Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 22:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Im trying to add {{WikiProject Pashtun}.} to pashtun related article on its talkpage. is this correct.? [4]. Saadkhan12345 (talk) 21:02, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi. Thanks for this. I'm off to Africa tomorrow, but cannot find a category of African wildlife stubs that I might work on. Very little African wildlife is endemic to one country. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tagishsimon: Is there a way of rooting out wildlife stubs by country? @Charlesjsharp: Yes, you'd have to find stubs on anything which is known to be native to a given country, even if found in multiple ones. You then elect one country to list the destub under.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:45, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Charlesjsharp:, @Dr. Blofeld: - I've added wildlife stub lists for maybe 33 countries, and for the continent ... but the remaining countries don't have a Fauna category, and so no lists for them :(. Not sure why we're on Ser's page; hello anyway, Ser. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:27, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tagishsimon: Thanks, there's also Flora categories though! There'll be lots of stubs which aren't categorized as such for the country though!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:47, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Hoped you're well rested from the African invites now ;-). Can you do me a favour and send out the following invite to all of the Asian country project members:

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The

which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thankyou.

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Some stroopwafels for you!

I will definitely join the Asian 10K challenge, thanks for the invite and best regards from Amsterdam. Amin (talk) 02:28, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	HI I am BOTFIGHTER I am glad that someone personally wants people to join in I thank you for this may your day be great! You are a true wikipeidan BOTFIGHTER (talk) 07:50, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(this about the conference)

Your Italian sculptors

are lighting up my watch list like a pin ball machine.
This is a good thing. Carptrash (talk) 15:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Any fool can paint, so, yes, there are a lot of them, but not on my watch list. Carptrash (talk) 15:36, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen nothing to suggest that Heinz Warneke was a painter. Not listed as such in Mantle Fielding. I will look around a bit more, but that cat (egory) might go. Carptrash (talk) 15:27, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have his bio around here somewhere but, longest journey begins with standing up, and I am not . . . ...up to it right now. If he did any painting of note I will gladly refund it. Carptrash (talk) 15:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Mary Moore (sculptor), where you just were. How do I remove the tag about notability? In the history I started the article, it was up for deletion 1 minuter later. I added a few more source, then the tag was added. She is not a major figure but does belong here. Should I just remove it myself? Carptrash (talk) 15:52, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And I got up, (ummmmpf) looked up Warneke, and like many (most? ALL?) sculptors he did a lot of drawing, but no painting. ciao. Carptrash (talk) 16:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have a lot of Germans too. Carptrash (talk) 20:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do have the book "Medallic Portraits of Adolf Hitler" which has a somewhat Bavarian lilt to it. Carptrash (talk) 21:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

I've opened this little page, and I ask, please, some minutes of your time to read it and correct the mistakes of my poor English.

Thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 15:43, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank youuuuuuuuu!!! Rei Momo (talk) 16:14, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I Want To Take Part In The "Asian 10,000 Challenge" Thanks H.R.H Prince Muhammad Zahid Zadran 16:09, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

• How are you selecting the users you're notifying of this? My watchlist is being flooded as you're spamming large numbers of Wikipedia's long-term trolls and vandals—could you at least consider removing the indefblocked users from your distribution list, since I see no benefit and plenty of potential drawbacks to your sending them these invitations, given that they'll reasonably infer from your invitation that their blocks have been lifted. ‑ 
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If there was a way to programme AWB or the mediawiki message to skip that I'm sure he would do it. Any negative downside pales in comparison to the ones which have been well received. Over 50 people have joined up now and he's been getting a ton of Thankyous in things for his invites.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:11, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• I want to say "Thank You" for inviting me for this challenge event. I live in India and . Equiped with some knowledge of Wikipedia(I'm an amateur/enthusiast), I will try my level best to work in improving pages and wherever required creating new pages Day000Walker (talk) 15:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Just want to say thank you for inviting me for this challenge. I live in the Philippines, particularly Cagayan de Oro, Region 10 and it really saddens me to see many stubs around my place. With some knowledge of Wikipedia and lots of pictures(I'm an amateur/enthusiast) and references by my side, hopefully I can contribute at least something for this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nice Stranger5810 (talk • contribs) 11:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ser,

Thanks in general for your helpful editing. I wanted to query one particular item, namely replacing the category "German 18th century painters" with "German male painter". I'm not all that close to the field of art history but I have a pretty clear sense that century is an important descriptor in this field, since traditions of painting evolved so much over time. As for "male/female" -- well, maybe this is meant as a well-meaning gesture, but I also feel that highlighting this descriptor is a bit patronizing to the great female painters of the same era (such as Dora Stock). Thanks for listening. Opus33 (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good day Ser :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.104.63.44 (talk) 18:46, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine.

Please, I ask 3 minutes of your time to read this short stub, and to correct, if you find, my mistakes. I thank you for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 22:16, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grazie mille and have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 06:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for inviting me to participate in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Asia/The_10,000_Challenge. I have been away from Wiki for such a long time that I almost forgot using many of its tools. But I do look forward to joining it soon. Arunbandana (talk • contribs)

Thanks for finishing up with Category:Soccer clubs in the United States by state for me. I've been working on it all day and I was starting to feel burnt out on it, and I was reaaaaaaaaaally not looking forward to that Florida category. spiderjerky (talk) 04:52, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, can you send out the following invite to all the European wikiprojects and all the members of Euro wikiprojects except the Nordic countries and UK/Ireland?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I do hope you have received something like feedback either on wiki or off wiki as to the logistics of whether the current challenges are indeed something that will improve quality on wikipedia. I have just watched the messages go to friends talk pages on my watchlist. I know their edit patterns quite well, and I am concerned that the canvassing people who are already at their limit of time and energy are probably not even responding, either by feedback, or from the messages. There are some philosophical positions that situate 'volume' well down the scale compared to quality, to the point that some of the largest edit editors canvassing others with encouragement to diversity might backfire with general indifference larger than expected. We do what we can do as it is, real life for many comes first. I wish you challenge people could have thought of other ways to improve quality.JarrahTree 02:57, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also canvassing eds who havent edited for over 6 months is as equally perplexing. The important things is not to take this response personally, obviously you mega edit folks enjoy this sort of thing with more AWB encouragement flowing, please just realise that there are other ways of looking at how things can stem the tide of reducing numbers of editors, edits and so on... Simply acknowledgement of what people can do or have done might in the end be all that is going to work...JarrahTree 03:04, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the nature of volunteer communities is that you are likely to get the good positive responses from those who like the challenge and have the time and energy, and a deep silence from those who already have their time budget already proscribed by real life, work, family etc. Best of luck with your enthusiasts. Trust you get results JarrahTree 03:10, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ser Amantio di Nicolao, making massive high speed edits with AWB without a bot flag undesired. (Edits such as these). Additionally, this is specifically what the Special:MassMessage utility is designed for, it avoids flooding recent changes and provides informational rather than alert notifications for editors - additionally it respects editors wished that have opted out of mass messaging. Please review the available options for the next time you want to send out project invitations. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have to wonder what sort of AWB rules you were using when you topped