Hi Dr. B. I wanted to let you know that this is a newbie who seems to share some interests with you in Bhutan-related articles. He could probably use a friendly word from someone who shares that interest. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 04:34, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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Added a bit. If/When it's nom-able, I think I left you a note a week or two ago about an extra QPQ, which could be used for this village. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
See my note regarding QPQ in above section titled "Wilson". Also, East Worldham may interest you. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
East Worldham is a larger village with a much larger population. Nearby Hartley Mauditt is interesting because it is (from my unbiased point of view) the most haunted place on earth. It used to be a village with its own parish but now it's nothing more than a few houses and a church. Now I have no places to hide! Jaguar (talk) 13:42, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Harwell, Nottinghamshire
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I left another comment.
Vandalism/Edit War on Sholay Article
Hi Dr. Blofeld,
Sorry to bother you, but this tamil wikipedian named secretofsuccess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Secret_of_success) keeps removing hindi script from the article Sholay (and other hindi movie articles). The movies are in HINDI. You can't remove hindi script for the names of HINDI movies. Can you please tell him to stop vandalizing and possibly even give him a warning. Also, for further reference, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status_in_India .
Thanks for your time Dr. Blofeld. Please reply on my talk page if need be.
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Your welcome
I took the liberty of transcluding your barnstar award to my unblocked Poeticbent account following appeal to ArbCom on condition only this account is used. Thank you. Poeticbenttalk 22:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
reply to you
I don't mean to be difficult. I see what I see and I have explained it as plainly as I can. I don't want to look at it again unless you have changed it. I just keep seeing that wikilink and I cannot get passed it.--Ishtar456 (talk) 23:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
1. no, you did not do anything to offend me...until now. I felt as if I explained the problems several times to you and I was getting no where. I finally X'd the nom when it seemed to me that you were not going to fix the problem. I certainly was not going to change my mind. I have had a recent review removed from prep. and it is not my intention to be that kind of reviewer. When you posted on my user page yesterday, you did not even mention that you had changed the hook. All you had to do was say "I changed the hook, can you take another look at it". I certainly would have under those circumstances. It seemed reasonable to me for me to abandon the process when you come on to my user page and accused me of "making things exceptionally difficult"
2 I very recently suggested on the DYK discussion page that it should be a policy to that a reviewer finish a review once he/she starts it. I was told that that was unreasonable. So, I know I had no duty to continue that review, especially when you had been so contentious to me off the official discussion.
3. If you are disheartened by DYK, either become part of the solution to the problems that are bothering you or take a break from it. This experience with you has certainly disheartened me, especially the comments you made after your nom passed and you had what you wanted.
Just as a side note: Your nom has been there only a couple of days. Mine has been there a week (just under yours) and no one has touched it. It would have been far better for me to have made a quick pass of your nom (as I have done in the past) which is what I expected when I started it. Then maybe you would have seen mine and considered doing it. But once I realized that you were going to be stubborn about the problem I gave up. 'nuf said. Let's move on.
Burton Court
While approving your DYK nomination for Burton Court, I edited the sentence in the article to which the hook applies. You may like to check the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Ictis barnstar
Many thanks, indeed, Dr Blofeld. I shall not think of it as nepotism. Moonraker (talk) 14:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you...
...for the Barnstar! I think it's a shame when DYK nominations are unnecessarily delayed in making it to the front page, and I thought I would anticipate that issue arising. I'm sure we'll meet again at DYK, but until then take care. Moswento (talk | contribs) 14:27, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Bellville Sassoon
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In the words of the great golfer, "never give up, .., no matter how hopeles (sic) a situation may seem, there is always a way forward to be discovered." (http://www.garybirchjr.com/) So, what is the way forward with Billy Burges? KJP1 (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
St Lawrence's
Thanks for the message, Doc. If you'd like to do it please go ahead. I'm afraid I don't have that much time these days and have given that article about as much energy as I can muster. Good luck if you do decide to do anything! William de Alton could do with some expansion; I could find precisely zilch about him, and his date of birth is an embarrassment... Ericoides (talk) 22:45, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed that you'd done some work on those. You really are an honorary local and must know more about where I live than I do... Ericoides (talk) 22:50, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Sorry. I corrected articles (crew inside the infobox). Thanks. --M.casanova (talk) 14:02, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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For the barnstar! The article is nothing much, I've just been trying to develop the Syrian locales subject area lately. One town at a time. Look forward to working and discussing with you in the near future my old friend. Keep up the great work yourself! Regards, --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I've gathered some sources and will expand the Blue Mosque article within a few days. I'm a little busy with college right now or else I would begin work on immediately. Also trying to start articles on Inkhil and Harrah, Syria as well. I'll keep you posted. --Al Ameer son (talk) 15:22, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I've pretty much finished expanding the article for now. I might add more about the blue tiles later. Do you want to nominate it for DYK as 5x expansion? --Al Ameer son (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
You're too kind for an evil doctor ;) Thank you for your appreciation and let me know if you need anything else to be worked on. Cheers! --Al Ameer son (talk) 15:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I could take a stab at it although I don't know how much I could expand on it since it doesn't have a lot of history, being built a few decades ago. There's a number of articles I'm thinking about working on and nominating for GA, but I don't think it'll be anytime soon. I'll let you know if I do nominate one though. --Al Ameer son (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for barnstar. A user (user:Gaijin42) sent me many nominations for deletion of African films (see my talk page). Can you contact him and explain what I'm doing? Thanks. --M.casanova (talk) 17:15, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Every word is true, and the link is hilarious - this is tiresome, and from time to time it makes me want to just retire, which will happen one day anyway. Shahid • Talk2me 14:40, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
David Edward Cronin
I needed this painter David Edward Cronin, so translated from de. Now idea which Greenwich may be meant. Cats? Projects? Improvement? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Clint Eastwood
You have reverted with no explanation detail which is clearly excessive for the article. Please do not reinsert it, it belongs in the article about the film and not in a more general article about Eastwood. If you compare the edits, you should be able to see that it reads much better omitted. You have also by the way restored twice a grammatical mistake which I fixed. Regards, Jprw (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Clint Eastwood
Overall, I find his edit constructive, but the paragraph 2 content removal is questionable.--
Ok. I'm going to search sources. Many thanks. --M.casanova (talk) 19:22, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
La Robe du temps done, also one for the director. This is sort of daft. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:37, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
William Burges (architect)
Blimey! That's a substantial piece of work. I'll be happy to review it, but give me a few days! I have already promised to review Christian Friele unless someone else gets in first. Meanwhile, I have my efforts on Georg Solti at peer review if you care to look in. More on Burges soonest. I have the feeling I'm going to enjoy him. Tim riley (talk) 20:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Right ho! I've marked my territory and will come back and sniff tomorrow. Tim riley (talk) 20:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
He likes it! KJP1 (talk) 18:22, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Coming along ok? Could you clarify the very first comment as I'm not sure I know what Mr Riley means. KJP1 (talk) 15:05, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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Haven't used my watchlist since November (schoolwork means that my wikitime is devoted to new writing, when I have any wikitime at all), but I've looked over the article. Note that you're at 3RR; this is definitely edit warring, and although 3RR hasn't been breached, I could block both of you, although since you came in and asked me for help, I suppose I'm involved and shouldn't be issuing any blocks or making any protections. That being said, I have to question the idea of splitting political and cinematographical careers; we don't do that with Arnold Schwarzenegger or Ronald Reagan, the only people whom I can think of that became prominent in film and then held important political posts. Nyttend (talk) 13:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
By the way, you refer to "his political article", but the only one I can find is
Chief Ministership of N. T. Rama Rao, which you started. What article do you mean? Nyttend (talk
) 13:30, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Umm, you must have misread what I said above: I definitely do not support Moviehub's removal of the political content. Nyttend (talk) 14:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Reverted to this version, since you can't. Thanks for the contrast with the actor/politicians that I mentioned; since I know very little about either one in India, I didn't know how much or how little was published about this one. I would have been more willing to participate in this situation if it weren't for the edit war; I figured that he'd keep warring against you and break 3RR, so I expected that the situation could easily be resolved with a blatant policy violation on his part. That's why I kept watching and filed the WP:AN3 report as soon as I could. If obviously blockable actions hadn't been likely to happen, I would have been more willing to participate myself, but I expected that this kind of block would be less disputable and more likely to have the desired effect. Nyttend (talk) 15:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I understand, I have reworded now. I think actually if the article was made into a good article, more people would care about retaining and preserving its quality. I received a nasty message from an ip at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chief Ministership of N. T. Rama Rao BTW, another POV pusher. The problem is that he is a cult figure amongst the Andhra Pradesh people, and attracts people who want to glorify him or write about, unfortunately its usuauly done with a poor command of English or/and and riddled with POV and lacks RS. Its definitely one of those article which should be watched by a lot of people to look out for it. I care about that particular article as I put a lot of work into cleaning it up about a year and a half ago and getting it up to a half decent structure and standard. If you let these people have their way before you know it it'll be like most of the Indian articles we have on wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, in turn I accidentally undid some of your improvements; sorry. I was attempting some grammar/spelling/capitalisation/wording/etc. fixes, and in attempting to keep up with multiple edit conflicts, I think I wasn't able to ensure that quite all of your improvements made it into my edit. Nyttend (talk) 16:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
I think I'll stop editing it now; you'll have an easier time without me causing all of the edit conflicts. Have to say that I chuckled at "uRama Raoustworthy", "coRama Raoibutions", and "6 ceRama Raoes" :-) Nyttend (talk) 16:21, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
My only suggestion would be to issue {{uw-npa1}} and successive warnings, since obviously incorrect accusations of vandalism are construed as personal attacks. Nyttend (talk) 16:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
When I issue templated warnings, I always use the template name in the edit summary, e.g. the summary is "uw-npa4", so that it's easily visible to anyone looking at the page history. You could do an AIV report with a comment of "user keeps removing warnings". Complicated situations, like today's content dispute, aren't easily blockable without investigation, but I doubt that you'd have difficulty implementing an NPA block when you've been innocent of violating NPA. Nyttend (talk) 16:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Oops, "getting someone to implement an NPA block" is what I meant. Frankly, I like the style of older encyclopedias better than the way Wikipedia articles end up, but there's no doubt that your reversion brings the article much closer to our standards. If you'd asked me and not done anything, I would have reverted as you did. Nyttend (talk) 19:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
please note this:
1. I have checked your issue of Bare URL's , there are only 6-7 bare URl's included, in the version which I recommended.
2. Your current version is full of grammar mistakes and lack of cohesion and original research in it, with kindergarten english level and unprofessional language.
3. I will correct The bare URl's and correct grammar and then will re write the quality version, that which you lacked. which I recommend will be included by me, in fact the reference of bare URls are appropriate, but they are just added as bare URL's all your cited references are un reliable.
4. I will correct your mistakes, so that in future you dont harras fellow editors
5. I cant understand why people like u make wikipedia a hell of a experience with non sense and POV
I use "kindergarten english level and unprofessional language", "I make wikipedia a hell of a experience with non sense and POV". Haha that's one of the funniest things I've heard anybody say in quite a long time on here!!! Coming from somebody who can't even spell the word "harrass" or "you", doesn't know to use a capital letter for English, and comes up with expressions like "please not this" and can't even sign his name properly. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Peer review
My dear Doctor, though I am very happy indeed to review at GAN articles such as Burges, now on the stocks, you are only getting Riley's view. Might it be preferable to put such articles through peer review, where it won't just be this old codger's comments but a range of input? Just a thought. Tim riley (talk) 16:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Aha! Just clocked your note on my talk page. I see we are ad idem, as the lawyers say. Good. Silly of me not to spot the PR request. Anyway, always happy to be of service wherever wanted! Tim riley (talk) 16:53, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
I laughed aloud at your cri de cœur! No, my dear Doctor, you must not feel obliged, and in fact I think I'll close the PR and barge on to FAC. Tim riley (talk) 17:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Painter
Thanks for your for a precious fast article about the painter whose work made Main page history, did you know? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Twas a nice article also!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:04, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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My apologies
Of course you are. You did get an acknowledgment for the barnstar (belated, as I was on and off when you added it), and I'm sorry if it looked more like a "meh" than my message to Gerda. But, come on, she's a lady - we always go the extra mile when ladies offer compliments, don't we?
Don't we?
But you're right, I was being a cheeky monkey, comparatively so. Please accept my apologies, dear Dr. I should be rewarding you with your own barnstar, but it would kinda seem like a prompted gesture after this... in which case... expect it to hit you when you least expect it, though... least expect it...
...least expect it... Dahn (talk) 13:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
.......least expect it..... Dahn (talk) 14:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I've got admirers who do that for me, but apparently I've managed to short-circut the system - there's a "follow this link" on Talk:Ioan Gyuri Pascu since forever. I seem to be putting them out faster than they can handle, even when I'm not proposing them myself :D.
But seriously, though I know that the GA review guys are entirely reasonable, I tend to steer away from proposing the articles myself. I was really dissatisfied with the *&$$ᾊθ**ness of the FA process back in the day. It's also that I get much more satisfaction when fellow editors bump into the articles by accident and let me know that they have enjoyed looking over them, even when they do not propose them for GA review. And if they do, then even better. Think of it as my Easter egg hunt :).
I have actually lost track of how many GAs I have, and I never did keep track. But I would sure like to know how many DYKs I've pulled through, because I would really have an interesting benchmark! If you know something about counting DYKs without actually going manually through a backlog (mine or theirs) please let me know.
...least expect it... Dahn (talk) 14:31, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Now Dahn has 114 DYK in the list and no medal yet, time for three. I just gave him my own, otherwise I would start with 25. - New experience for me: a GA nom, see my talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Awright! Thanks a bunch, it feels good to know. And I appreciate the effort.
... least expect it... Dahn (talk) 15:51, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the star
And thanks for pointing to the list of AfDs - an interesting change of topic. I am done with them now, I think, but the films and director bios were interesting. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
For persistently encouraging contributors unfamiliar with WP, and for getting their efforts up to GA, I add this gong to your silverware. Tim riley (talk) 19:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for West Worldham
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Hey, I see you added some posters to the movie articles. You used the fair use rationale "to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration" - I don't think this is the case as there is no commentary from the poster, or about the poster, or using the poster as a reference. I think actually use of the poster for illustration only _should_ be fine, but that is apparently not what policy dictates. I think either we would need to remove the posters, or get some consensus/RFC that illustrative only is acceptable (and then we can change the fair use templates). Gaijin42 (talk) 15:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
I copied the rationale for the film poster for Fight Club, an FA. If you have a problem with that rationale feel free to address Erik or start a discussion about it. But where did I use the rationale " "to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration" "? Ah I see Template:Non-free poster. But that templates is used on tens of thousands of wiki articles when the posters are intended to illustrate/identify not used for critical commentary! Well spotted, you should bring it up at WP:FILMS♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
It appears that this has been discussed before, and that the posters are currently ok. I will bring up changing the template, since it is in disagreement with the current consensus. [[[6]] Gaijin42 (talk) 15:41, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Agree it is a very strange statement in it which seems to contradict why the posters are being used which is actually solely to identify the product visually in an infobx and not for critical commentary in the text as screenshorts might be. Appreciate that you spotted it though as I agree its odd.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:07, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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List of jazz standards - some questions "he/she" etc
I made some edits to List of jazz standards in the "A", "B", and "C" sections. I undid the "B" and "C" edits because I realized I need to learn what do do about songs with alternate titles.
I didn't realize - it's a huge issue for that page.
Examples
What should be done about gender issues? "Crazy He Calls Me" versus "Crazy She Calls Me"?
C C Rider is listed as See See Rider - how many alternate titles should the song be listed under?
In my 30s, so I remember the show. Interesting and sad at the same time. On a related note, I saw the documentary Fire in Babylon recently, and some of the West Indian cricketers who toured South Africa in the 1980s are now homeless crack addicts in their home towns. Very sad.
I'm glad you stopped by Dr B (hope you're well BTW). I've just started this stub and I was wondering if you could add a map? I stole the infobox from this article, which has a map you created! Speak soon. Lugnuts (talk) 20:44, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
MonmouthpediA project
Not sure if you are editting on "our patch" or not on purpose but you are very welcome. I have created a DYK but others may be possible. It weould be good if you claimed some credit here as it would encourage others to see if they could vanquish SPECTRE :-) (Party on April 21st in Monmouth)
Any other evil henchpeople are more than welcome Victuallers (talk) 12:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I can work in the Cwm article - but ithe incorrporation of text msg would need to be removed as I think DYK like to see even public domain stuff re-phrased. I thought this may not have happened on that article.... but do reassure me. I will be in Monmouth Thursday and Friday planning the event... banners etc - this is going to be big. Are you/Rosie close to Monmouth? Victuallers (talk) 13:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
At the moment its Monmouth, the rule is "if it has Monmouth as a blue link" - so "this village 7 miles from Monmouth" is in scope. This going to be big. We have someone fromn the council visiting head office in SF today to discuss. If you are interested then you could and help put up QRpedia codes. We will have over 50 made in ceramic and screwed to listed buildings!! We could do with someone to get a plaque on all these littl;e churches etc?? Victuallers (talk) 13:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
(Talk page stalker): I didn't realise one could go around screwing ceramic QR plaques onto Grade II* listed buildings! Martinevans123 (talk) 14:23, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I admittedly hadn't heard of it!! So let me get this straight. You are permitted to screw QR plaques into listed buildings and such? And then scan the phone on to the plaque to get the information? Wouldn't it just be easier (and kinder to the buildings) to just look the building up on wikipedia on your phone? Am I missing something?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:25, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Surprisingly, there seems to be no connection, other than geographical coincidence, between The Cwm and John Kemble (martyr), whose grave at Welsh Newton I was also able to photograph. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Researcher's Barnstar
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I am both pleased and honored to present you with the Researcher's Barnstar in appreciation for your work in finding sources showing Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin as suitable enough for inclusion within these pages. Schmidt,MICHAEL Q. 21:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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I read your introductory note above and googled "eye hospital" singapore but did not find enough to justify keeping the page. This states "Day Surgery Centre" and provides address & phone number, but does not confirm notability, and that was all out of the first 20 results. – Fayenatic L(talk) 22:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
For once I agree its not notable! And yes, I appreciate you checking and having a valid deletion warrant unlike virtually everybody else.. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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Russian districts updates
I'm only about halfway through Kirov Oblast, but I went ahead and created a template for Kostroma Oblast (at Antropovsky District) ahead of time so there's no pressure on you to complete it as soon as possible. The Kostroma Oblast refs are identical across all of its districts. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 16, 2012; 14:28 (UTC)
Re: Tonga
Thank you very much! I'm just glad to see that the articles are occasionally read, meaning there's a point to me working on them. ;) Aridd (talk) 17:32, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Lazaret
is discussed in all sorts of Google books with previews, of which deux seulement sont anglais. Tous les autres sont français. Avec les sources du web, aucun problème avec Google Translate. Mais les sources du Google Books, sans le "cut-and-paste", merde ... Aymatth2 (talk) 00:17, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I do appreciate that as the verifiable directorial debut of a notable person, this article meets a criteria of WP:NF, and that it does have coverage... but I ask that you take a look at this edit and consider that a "redirect" is pretty much okay for now just so long as there is no prejudice toward a recreation of the article if/when more sources become available AND as long as the returned article be properly sourced and maintain a properly neutral tone. Reasonable? Schmidt,MICHAEL Q. 21:34, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Tahiti location map
Hi! I was wondering whether or not you could help me out regarding this location map which you created: File:Location map Tahiti.png Next year Tahiti will be hosting the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup and a location map will be needed to display the venues for the tournament, as in the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. However this file has not been created in the same style as the Italian location map used for the previous World Cup. I was wondering whether you would be willing to create a Tahiti location map (including island of Moorea on the map) in the style of this map: File:Italy provincial location map.svg, as I have no idea how to do it. Thanks for your time. TurboGUY (talk) 00:53, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Sure, would be my pleasure to. Will do it shortly. Actually I wouldn't be able to do the lines provincially. You might want to ask User:NordNordWest on his German wiki talk page if he can do one for you. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Hilston Park DYK Nomination
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Hook
I've replied on the DYK page since March 11[7], so if you're going to finish the review please continue otherwise ask for someone else to finish it.--08:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Believe it or not its not actually my job to watch DYK hooks I review..♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:01, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Issue was with incomplete source citation. If you're not right person to follow-up with I'll send note to other two folks mentioned in nomination. Just wasn't sure if they were aware that article was nominated for DYK.--Orygun (talk) 19:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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Lough Rynn
Hi. I got that aerial photo from the hotel's own website - here -so would promotional photographs not be acceptable for Wikipedia? The same photo is used on almost all websites which sell rooms in Lough Rynn. What do I have to do to keep it on the page? Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (talk) 19:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. :) I'm dropping by because a series of articles you created in November 2010 are listed at the copyright problems board. It seems that you may have created these as unattributed splits from other Wikipedia articles (I'm not sure about all of them, but I know that in this edit, you added content to the article that had been previously published here). I assume that in November 2010 you did not know that content on Wikipedia is not public domain and can only be reused if you provide attribution to its authors. I realized that it's quite possible that you've learned that since then. In accordance with Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, I've provided attribution in the edit summary of the split article ([8]) and at the talk pages of both articles ([9]; [10]). Can you please come by Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 March 3 and repair attribution for any others that may have been split with the requisite notices? I'm not sure if they're all split or from what articles. This'll bring those articles into compliance with copyright. :) (Oh, if you can leave a note there when it's done, I'll be happy to finish the mop up.) --Moonriddengirl(talk) 20:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
Hey dude, just wanna say thanks for the YouTube links you posted in my talk, they were really helpful :) Yellowman94 (talk) 23:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Cardigan Priory
There's a lot of material here and a bit here if have the time to expand it. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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We should publish Dahn's articles in a book
Dear Dr. Blofeld,
Allow me to join in your admiration for Dahl de la Macha: he deserves all the laudations that you have bestowed upon him. But permit me to go even further. I think it would be a good idea for us to publish all of Dahn's articles in a book, in the same matter that previous material produced on Wikipedia has been published and sold for profit or for charity. The title of the book could be something in the style of, "Dahn--A Life", or "Dahn's Collective Works". If Dahn chooses to remain anonymous, the mystery surrounding his name could surpass that of Pseudo Longinus; if he, however, chooses to come out, then he could go on a tour ... I for one would kill to get my hands on a signed copy of his book! Wouldn't you? Let me know what you think. :) Yours truly, Defestistul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.52.15.110 (talk) 15:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, his writing is certainly of a professional standard and he could have books published.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Then I leave the task for selecting and compiling his work to you, my good sir! You should also write the introduction note, which, I believe, should not be any less modest in style than Hugo's eulogy in honour of Voltaire's centenary. Defetistul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.52.15.110 (talk) 16:33, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
For me as a fellow writer who can very much relate to it, the below speed of Dahn's content-creation occurring on a routine basis is a curious phenomenon. I'd love to know the whole secret. Poeticbenttalk 18:24, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
→ 12 March 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+46,490) . . N
→ 10 March 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+99,402) . . N
→ 27 February 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+64,621) . . N
→ 21 February 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+138,995)
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Yes, well, that does not account for the long breaks, nor does it show the torturous issues that motivate me to spend as much time on wikipedia every once in a while. In these past weeks, and then again a couple of months back, I've had windows of editing that went around the clock - the word for that is "insomnia". It also does not account for the drafts I keep on my computer, even though, lately, most of my editing has been entirely transparent - you can check out my many sandboxes and the rest of my editing history. The main secret, in short, is that I love to edit. Or, if you're not buying that: we love to edit, all 16 of us who tag-team at plagiarizing obscure works in this sweatshop we call "Dahn" ;).
And to the Swedish expatriate: give me a break, man, I'm not in the mood. Dahn (talk) 20:01, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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WP:TPS) Thanks for the insight Dahn. I really appreciate it. I've been exploring the intricacies of a program called TeamViewer in recent days in order to help my sister maintain her own project online. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it. Anyhow, what caught my attention was that Dahn's account didn't stop submitting every few minutes (or even twice a minute) for 14 hours on March 17, 2012. For example, see: Special:Contributions/Dahn (copy from March 17). Time: 12:10 (+1,043), 12:14, 12:16, 12:45, 12:59 (+549), 13:02, 13:05, 13:17, 13:19, 13:23, 13:30, 13:31, 13:33, 13:35, 13:36, 13:38, 13:40, 13:49, 13:51 (+626), 13:56, 14:51 (+2,257), 14:54, 14:56, 15:00, 15:33, 15:36, 15:39, 15:45 (+505), 15:47, 16:37, 16:39, 17:08 (+949), 17:50 (+666), 18:00, 18:15 (+842), 18:16, 18:17, 18:24, 18:29, 18:32, 18:36, 18:43(+516), 18:43, 18:45, 19:03, 19:17, 19:18, 19:18, 19:36 (+555), 19:47, 20:42 (+1,067), 20:43, 20:44, 20:49, 20:53, 21:17, 22:07 (+1,970), 22:09, 22:12, 22:13, 22:16, 22:37, 22:39, 23:40 (+2,053), 23:42, 23:54, 00:04, 00:19, 00:20, 00:41, 00:54, 01:19, 01:22, 01:33, 01:41, 01:50, 02:09, 02:14, 02:30, 02:39, 02:41. All best to all of you. Great work. Poeticbenttalk
20:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Why, but Rasselas was written in a week and surely Dahn can't be less industrious than Johnson! (I'm still waiting for Lives of the English Wikipedians). If we must employ logic so to explain his omnipresence, considering that we can neither prove nor falsify anything on this matter, at firt glimpse we'd have to agree that Dahn is a name that stands for a collective of individuals. Alternately, you could summon all Wikipedia bishops to Nicaea and put the matter to vote in order to decide on Dahn's true nature. Is he, indeed, several persons; or do these persons belong to the same hypostatic union? If you ask me, I always thought of Dahn as a god. Defetistul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.116.91 (talk) 14:49, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, some people worship Prince Phillip of all people so you are entitled to start worshipping the guy, although one might say your approval of him is a little extreme..♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, you know the saying ... love is blind. :) Defetistul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.117.214 (talk) 19:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Talk page stalker friendly note: unless there are any problems with Dahn's articles (in which case this should be discussed at AN(I) or another applicable forum, the above discussion, started by an IP could be seen as verging close to harassment. Btw, playing devil's advicate, Dahn could be writing articles off wiki and batch moving them. Lastly, Dahn's and in fact everyone else's articles
I couldn't agree more. Don't want to embarrass the poor chap now!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
African films
Thanks. I completed the creation of articles just before I was stopped. Now I'm going to create film articles from this African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival in Italy (22 editions). As you can see here, they adopted CC BY-SA on their texts (with also an English short translation) as a collaboration with Italian Wikipedia. What do you think about this source? Should they send an OTRS to avoid problems with en.wiki? Thanks again. --M.casanova (talk) 17:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hereford Cathedral Library
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Dear Doctor
I want this read aloud, in a creaky voice, to a drum roll:
Dear Doctor, you are undoubtedly one of the good friends I've made here on wikipedia. It is hard for me to sum up how much I've been helped and touched by your generosity and your wit, your encouragements and your attentiveness, your competence and your passion for editing. It is a subject of pride for me that you so much as read my contributions, let alone reserve praise for them; I know I erred in not showing my appreciation for you, and your work, in all these years we've been colleagues here on wikipedia. If I haven't told you yet, I am your dedicated reader, and, to say the least, the scope of your activity never ceases to amaze me.
If you'll permit me to say, I have always pictured you as one of the wikipedia friends I can never catch up with as much as I should, but whose friendliness, whether they know it or not, has been crucial in helping me return to wikipedia whenever I felt like leaving in disgust. In addition to so quite a few of my fellow Romanian editors (they know who they are!), that category includes luminous figures: (in no particular order) Illythr, Attilios, Tazmaniacs, Piotrus, Khoikhoi, K. Lastochka, Halibutt, Jmabel, Todor Bozhinov, and quite a few others. Some of them, alas, have since retired, but they are all in my thoughts and they all deserve individual praise for writing that has immensely helped this project. You are all decent, well-spoken, competent, helpful beyond what words can express. If ever I have accomplished anything worthy of note on wikipedia, it was by standing on the shoulders of giants, and you, Dr. Blofeld, are one of the gentlest giants out there.
I am sorry for the (surely unnerving) suspense between my last posts. Truth is it took me a while to put this into words, and I am still not entirely satisfied with the result. It is eerily emotional, pathetic even; but I am humbled and grateful, and these are strong emotions to have. I have searched far and wide for a barnstar that would formulate at least part of my esteem, and found that no such barnstar exists; I have pondered fabricating my own award, but that would seem either pompous, self-serving or even frivolous; I have, in the end, decided to attempt my hand at writing you a message that is not just well-deserved and (as you so gently put it) gifted in style, but also has the human touch.
And, not least of all, thank you for taking up that awful chore of counting up my DYKs (and creating me an entire subpage!). I am in your debt. Dahn (talk) 20:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I would be honored to receive that sort of peer-review from you, and keen to know what catches your eye. If that is a task you really want to embark on, I only have two minor requests: please don't nominate more than one at a time (I might not be around to answer all the requests/objections that a reviewer may raise); please make sure you don't nominate those articles that still have what some might consider to be many redlinks - there are those out there who want to see them obliterated, and I just don't like removing links or creating stubs for the sake of a GA promotion (Dahn's No. 1 pet peeve). Dahn (talk) 21:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
It's all good. Did I mention I'm part-Bulgarian? Dahn (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Oh... Leave it on, I'll just bake two more! (Or one more...) Dahn (talk) 21:50, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Let's just say I know who the guy is - I keep getting spammed on my rowiki page, which I almost never bother to check, but sometimes he gets so bored that he pings me down here. Sometimes it's okay, but his main problem is that he has to be told when to quit. It's all an act, btw: I presume there is some genuine admiration involved, and he is an intelligent fella all in all, but he also gets at least some of his kicks from making me feel uncomfortable. Dahn (talk) 13:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
You'll have to forgive my intrusion but you see, after reading the welcome message on this talkpage, and seeing how you and Doctor Manhattan acted like brother-in-arms--thus counting the two of you as belonging to the same "organization"--I thought you wanted me summoned. And now I'm here! :) --Defetistul (talk) 23:32, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Why should I have to through the clerical trouble of getting them to close this new account by an indeffed user? (Incidentally, dude, it the "thank you Sanger" message up there, you're not making it hard on anyone to trace your steps.) Do you believe I actually enjoy exposing you to public shame? I don't; but if you give me reason to, I will, in the bat of an eye. Dahn (talk) 14:01, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
My dear Dahn, creating a new account is as easily as posting without having one. As for tracing my steps, I find it difficult to believe that my gratitude towards Sanger constitutes as proof for anything other than ... well, holding him in high esteem. As one who should be acquainted with Wikipedia, it is a well known fact that Sanger is revered by many and, if someone who wants his stand known on this issue risks of being banned, then so be it. So I say to you: do what you will; but know that the anonymous user finds it difficult to feel shame or pride. :) Defestistul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Defetistul (talk • contribs) 16:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
For the record, I don't particularly care what your attitude on Sanger is, and I couldn't care less about that whole incident as a matter of fact. The entire scandal was, is and will be utterly irrelevant to me. I'm just saying that since you were wasting a lot of everybody's time with this meme back in the day, and are now back to the same tricks, you're not really giving your new account a chance to escape even a scrutiny by an admin of average intelligence. He pesters Dahn, he likes to quote the Philosophes, he's in [a northern city] and he's back to discuss who gets the praise for inventing wikipedia (or whatever)... who could it be, I wonder? 123 people watchlisting my talk page, and you think this is a bright move? Dahn (talk) 22:06, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Dahn, you seem to be having a bad day, so I'll go easy on you (because I'm an awesome guy). The reason I created this account was to make it easier for you to identify me under a nickname rather than under different IPs. I also like to think that it makes my presence warmer than it would otherwise have been, were I to simply post under a "Swedish IP" (to quote Doc). And so to ban this nickname is equivalent as to banning one of those IPs, ergo: it would be useless. It takes less than three seconds to create a new account, albeit under a new IP. If Wikipedia was to ban the motherboard, that would have made things more difficult; but they won't do that for the same reason that many other sites located in America (and in many other countries) won't do it: one is for privacy reasons (they'd have to collect the info and store it); secondly and most importatly, because it would affect many innocent users. Thirdly is because--and this is also fairly important to understand--those sites that enforce a strict protocol and bans many of its users expects a part of them to return, hopefully somehow rehabilitated. And that concludes the technical part of things and the effeciency on banning users. When it comes to Sanger, I'm afraid you lost me on that one. There never was a scandal where I was involved with Sanger and Jimmy. There was one brief discussion on the subject; it was so brief that I doubt any of them remembers it. As for the things you mentioned there, that this and that reminds you of a certain person who was previously banned ... that may very well be, but it still doesn't constitute as proof; and who's to say that someone else residing in the same country where I live wouldn't take on impersonating my style (whoever I might actually be) for his own entertainment? Think about it. If, hypothetically, Wikipedia was to ban this nickname without having adequate proof to connect this account to a previous account, Wikipedia would cheat on its principles; and surely you remember how disciplined and composed the stewarts entrusted with this empowerment are. If they were to investigate on this matter, the only violation they might find, however trivial it may seem, is your editing of my userpage (don't worry, I won't report you). I must say, Dahn, you really do like this gentleman club thing, this whole 18th century style of men-of-letters and this etiquette of greeting one another, paying respects and so on. What a facade this whole business is, or "phony" as Holden would say. So you have some dilettante Westerners reading your stuff and you're all hot about it. That's even lower than self-publishing and advertising it on Facebook. No, Dahn, if you had to ask a question, you should've asked if it was moral of me (still hypothetically speaking) to infringe on my ban. But you didn't ask that question. Now stop victiming yourself and get to work, you working bee, you! ;) --Defetistul (talk) 23:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
It is so very pathetic that you would waste this much time educating a hopeless editor while creating account after account this hopeless venue. Dahn (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Are you well today Dahn? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:04, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, Doc, I should've made it clear I was addressing "Defetistul". Dahn (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I gathered that but you seem a little edgy! I've responded to your "Oppose" on the DYK talk page BTW.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, the "utter nonsense" reply I got on DYK did get on my nerves a bit, especially since that user doesn't seem to care about the practical issue I brought up; but I'm not really worked up on any level. I just don't like the proposal, because, I have said, it just moves the problem around - if the issue is the competence of editors to deal with an article's promotion, then making it harder on others to verify that review is not really the way forward. I do not object to having GAs there on principle, I just feel that it is a false solution as far as the desired outcome goes. If you have a problem with, for instance, self-styled pornographic content on the main page, then the GA requirement simply means that the porn enthusiasts will just have to get their articles through the GA net while nobody else is watching. The GA review may be slower, but it is equally exposed to callousness, coteries and plain incompetence. Dahn (talk) 14:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
for the kind words... Qom is the smallest province, so I'm tiptoeing back in. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Gotthold Schwarz
nominate
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Thank you for the little celebration of 800 years Thomanerchor! Did you see my first trip into GA land? (top of my talk), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Wow that's old!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
For entertainment, read the talk of the choir, name of the article, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
Super, thanks so much, my first barnstar :) You're very kind, looking at a list of what you've done is mind boggling
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DYK for Hilston Park
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Only I took a sick day Tuesday. Which meant that yesterday was double-crazy because of all the work I had. And I had two concerts this past weekend to sing, so I've been going every which way but loose. Sorry...didn't mean not to respond. Things just fall into the cracks sometimes. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:25, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line
Too well dined to comment coherently tonight, but will, I promise, do so tomorrow (conceivably a touch tetchily in hangover vein). Tim riley (talk) 22:15, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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DYK for Sebastian Weigle
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do you know whether the automatic linking of mayors at {{Infobox Town AT}} is a feature or a bug? (and if the former, is there a way to disable it?) The reason why it bothers me is that Hafning bei Trofaiach links to the wrong Peter Gruber; is there a way to change it without changing the template code?
Thank you very much!
Sasha (talk) 13:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
No idea, but that infobox ought to be replaced with infobox settlement. Problems like this wouldn't happen then!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! I have left a note to the template's author at User_talk:Attilios#question_about_Infobox_Town_AT (probably you are right about deprecating the template completely, but — since this is my first encounter with this template — I prefer to start with less radical solutions and leave the more radical ones to more competent editors). Sasha (talk) 14:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dr. Blofeld. Since you do a fair amount of article updating in less known areas and have an active interest in combating the systemic bias I thought you might be interested in my new project WP:Small News - a place to showcase and encourage article writing on newsworthy material in other areas than international politics, sports and disasters. Feel free to contribute some blurbs when you update small but newsworthy articles.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Count
Hi Dr. B. Yes, I'll take a look at those. (Coffee break.) I've been spending a lot of hours of late on the Teahouse project, but just started working on some Welsh monasteries, and am hoping to have some reasonable articles created on at least the ones that have a Commons img + gbook refs. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:42, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Maenan Abbey may interest you. Adding some of this would probably take it over the required threshold, though there are plenty of other gbook refs I haven't looked at yet. Must run errands now. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:27, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
I think the Teahouse is working out well. We're doing a lot of newbie recruiting and question answering. The bigger job, crunching numbers, will fall upon the Foundation. If the project goes well, it's conceivable it will be rolled out in the future as an improved way of interacting with newbies. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:26, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I was really flattered when i saw your comment. You are the user with 86,000+ articles and still considered my request. Thanks for taking intrest in autopattroled. Though, it failed, I'll come back after one more month keeping the issues raised in mind. Keep up the good work! Yasht101:) 00:58, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
PS: Yes Sir. There are more then 41 areas in Ahmedabad which all have different municipal wards and function under coorporators elected from the areas. Happy editing! Yasht101:) 01:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
If you can create 100 sourced new articles on Indian towns and villages over several weeks and show you always reference your work I would support you being auto patrolled. But articles do need verification, especially on places like India.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at yasht101's talk page.Yasht101:) 06:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Why on earth should this be deleted? Crazy. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:31, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Indeed, but as KJP says, I'm used to getting such prods and AFDs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:54, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
William Burges
Evening, Dr B. No worries, I'm not taking it anywhere yet, and won't without talking to you. Firstly, I've got to work through Tim's review again, to deal with those points I noted, but didn't action at GA. Then I need to incorporate some of the material he sent, particularly on Burges's furniture, but also, perhaps, adding a section on Trinity, Connecticut, to interest any American reviewers. Then I think both the Metalwork and Stained Glass sections need a bit more, to really demonstrate his notability in these areas. Then we need to decide does the Gallery stay or go? Then the images of him, that add so much to the article, but which will, I fear, be heavily scrutinised - although at least I've got rid of the internet as author! And anything you will want to add. So we're a way off yet. But not too long I think.
Another deletion on notability grounds above, I see. You'll love that! KJP1 (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for David Edward Cronin
nominate
) 02:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with this one, see him also in this gallery:
Düsseldorf school of painting, - and if you compare to de, there is room for many more, I only took the blue links, --Gerda Arendt (talk
) 09:23, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I tried not to include personalities who don't even have a link in de, worked on the links, this for example is nonsense in English "Hans Peter Feddersen d.J. (1848–1941)", what can we do? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:21, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Ah, well feel free to revert and move to the talk page maybe, but I'm unlikely to remember to add them. I still have truckloads of German politicians to restart and keep forgetting!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:23, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, will revert for the moment, you can take it from the history to some user page. Whoever wants the details can see de. (Will avoid links such as Fritz Riess) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:34, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah its headache material seeing all those red links LOL!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:35, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Some of Swiss are blue but only one line, if you need work, LOL. (I didn't look up who created them.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, me! I was very disappointed though as I thought Swiss painters would be a topic which would attract editors to expand them but like much of German world topics most of the potential editors edit de wiki.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:09, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Did you know that now - for different reasons - even en editors write de, for example Move Like This? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I hadn't realised you edited German wikipedia!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Did you realize I am German? They are missing even more Bach cantatas than en. But I was talking 28bytes, for example, I only helped, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:28, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
With a name like Gerda Arendt? Never crossed my mind, LOL! Nah, I thought you were German American or something who might still have family living in Germany. Do you live in Germany?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I sing here and here, see my user and memories, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Wonderful. Yeah I can remember seeing something on that, sorry it didn't register!! You are proof though how extremely valuable it is to have German wikipedians editing English wikipedia. I genuinely wish we could clone you by the thousands!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:21, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for music three times. Thanks for the above, music in my ears, related reading. Thanks for the Schiersteiner Kantorei, just in time to have Marktkirche with a picture on the Main page, after it's too late for the architect. The organist will appear without pic tomorrow. Finally, yes, I like "this". For music #4: just returned from rehearsing Agnus Dei (Barber), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Mpedia
Oh I thought you'd forgotten us! Can you find the gaps in thisVictuallers (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm was hoping we might get a video from Dr Blofeld for our publicity. Say 45 seconds of whats cool about Monmouthpedia? A heavily shadowed face and disguised voice would be ideal! Of and the party is on April 21 in Monmouth Victuallers (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
What! you havent got the suit and you NEED a bald mask? Are you an imposter? Still the world's crime hasnt dropped off and you are still creating lots of articles.... I should have known that you werent the real deal! Victuallers (talk) 19:03, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Blowers, that is just incredible! You are the epitome of what Wikipedia should be about! One tiny wave of Merlins Magic Wand and within the hour a superb new article appears. Just brilliant. 20:13, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I don't have much info on non-population centers of Iran, such as mtns. The name is not Persian but Turkish/Azeri (meaning "white mountain", of which no doubt there are dozens if not hundreds). GNS shows 11 mountains, 1 hill, 2 villages with this name (Romanized as "Agh Dagh"). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:20, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Enzo Petito, Teatro San Ferdinando, Piccolo Teatro (Milan)
Did you do three review for this triple nom? Apparently question is what is holding up the acceptance. --Ishtar456 (talk) 23:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Hereford Cathedral Library
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Ishtar456 (talk
Hi Dr. B. I, along with Ssilvers, have listed Leno at FAC and we would really value your comments if you have any. If you have the time, could you please comment here. Many thanks. -- Cassianto (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Some stroopwafels for you!
Seven dyk noms in one day... you are the bomb (... and in case that doesn't translate into UK English, it means good job)! Rosiestep (talk) 01:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Someone set us up the bomb? RichFarmbrough, 19:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC).
DYK for Llanrothal
nominate
) 01:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Cwm, Llanrothal
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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nominate
) 01:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Henry Milbourne
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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nominate
) 01:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I thought I'd better hurredly make a few token edits on this one. Thanks anyway, haha. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Marktkirche, Wiesbaden
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.
Thank you! edited a bit and moved, would be a good DYK if sourced, sigh, I don't have time, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Do you think that if you had enough of Spa (thanks for improving!) you might turn the hymn poets to blue (stubs) - simply because the red doesn't look nice on coloured background, see bottom of my talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Expand language
My point with that new language was to discourage people copy-pasting who can't actually read the original to clean up the bad machine translation. Can you think of a better way to indicate that without making it sound like starting from Google Translate is forbidden? Maybe I could have a note in the collapsed section of the template? Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar!! Want to brainstorm with me more about optimizing the template? Now that there is a bot adding the article parameters (finally!!), would it make sense to convert everything {{Expand French|articletitle}} to {{Translate|French|article=article title}}? That way there would be less maintenance in terms of maintaining 50 or whatever different Expand Whatever templates. (Would require a repurposing of {{
Translate}}, which is currently a redirect to {{Not English}}, which is used pretty infrequently.) On the other hand, it would be harder to customize the topic parameter as needed by language. (e.g. now Japanese has a topic=manga or something like that, which other languages wouldn't need, and many languages shouldn't be subdivided by topic.) I suppose we could create subpages for each language with topic lists. Thoughts? Calliopejen1 (talk
) 16:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
AS you say, the issue is not supporting the variety of topics, but documenting them in a user-friendly way. I think I know how to do that too, I'll cogitate. RichFarmbrough, 19:27, 28 March 2012 (UTC).
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.
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.
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.
The list is actually easy to do - but blue-linking them would lead to problems. See
¡¡¡Natacha!!! which is even now prodded, although the Spanish article indicates there is something of note. RichFarmbrough
, 12:15, 29 March 2012 (UTC).
Unrelated to the discussion at hand, although I was interested in the example Rich provided. The Spanish article says little is known about the book, and although it Is his first in the series, it may be the same book as Natacha (novel), but with exclamation points (based on my limited Spanish and a translator). Looks like I have a project for mañana. --kelapstick(bainuu) 12:41, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I am fairly sure that ¡¡¡Natacha!!! and Natacha are the same. The name is the same, the author's list of Natacha books only shows the one and the anniversary set came 10 years after Natacha was published in 1998. On the other hand, he does not list La Tarea Segun Natacha, and that is definitely a book in the series,
This is just a rough translation. Annoyingly the :es version does not cite sources, and I could not find enough to confirm all or even most of the content. Notable enough though, or at least the series is. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I would never add unsourced material to an article, mainly because I never write about subjects I know anything about. But the unsourced material from :es seems plausible, consistent and uncontroversial, so I have no problem leaving it. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:14, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Lazaret, Niger
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.
Dear Dr. Blofeld, thank you very much for the award of the Barnstar. It is my first Barnstar at all and sometime I was courious and envious to get one of them. Sometimes I am prejudiced against user:Dr. ... but Gerda told me that you are a good guy. Read you again.--Symposiarch (talk) 12:46, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Never thought that you are the ‘real’ Blofeld {;-)) --Symposiarch (talk) 08:35, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Africa
I'm sure there are more lurking about, too. I've page-tagged some languages before using only the WP:Language template, for instance. Still...perhaps that's a goal for the end of the year?
Incidentally, if you're interested in an area that could stand improving, African cuisine could use it. There are apparently a number of individual dishes without articles. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:36, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
That seems to be the case for many cuisines, actually. Incidentally, I think there are a few countries which require cuisine articles, too - Kenya, for one. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there! I am interested! (Just give me a second! :P ) I could probably help with translations from French. I'll think about the most efficient way going forward... Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:52, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Can't say as I have - I usually use GoogleMaps for navigation around DC these days. (Speaking of...what initiated the above about cuisine? The discovery that there's a Kenyan restaurant over in Maryland, of course.) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:15, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Oh, yes - and think about where it's going to be in the next five years, too. We're even starting to see some of the smaller US localities come online with local information, which is a huge help. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:21, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, that hadn't made it over to these shores. Neither has the
2012 Tuareg rebellion...and the only thing we ever heard about the coup in Mali was something along the lines of "oh, ho, ho, those crazy Malians and their failure at democracy". *sigh* And people wonder why we're so insular here? Hint: in large part it's because the media have no interest in telling us what's going on elsewhere in the world. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.
23:00, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
How are you intending to count the Africa articles to get up to 100,000? I think a lot of African articles aren't included in the WP:AFRICA count, like articles only tagged with {{WikiProject Morocco}} (and I don't think it makes sense to add the Africa banner to these where they're already tagged with that....). Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hydrography
A number of templates have appeared entitled "Hydrology of ..." but they just deal with the surface hydrography and not with hydrology. What do you think about renaming them? --Bejnar (talk) 01:42, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Krenholm Manufacturing Company
Much of
Krenholm Manufacturing Company is PD content, but if given a good scrub, it could by ydk worthy. I think the closer to 1500 char the better, retaining only the most useful material. I'm thinking that Paul Chemetov would be ok with just a bit more or a re-write... the list of buildings could be fleshed out in a paragraph form. --Rosiestep (talk
) 16:09, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Just read finally getting somewhere. Was totally unaware. So is it happening? --Rosiestep (talk) 16:35, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
So cool! I love Italy, too. I've been to Venice (my fav), Genoa, Milan, Florence, Rome, even Bari and Brinidisi... I liken the port in Brindisi to Mos Eisley as there were so many strange looking people there. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:14, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
