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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Governors of Kasaï Province
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Well done sir, I will be very glad if you answer my question. When will an article be visible for public after being published? Sadeeqzaria (talk) 01:47, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
- An article is visible to the public as soon as it is saved. It is a good idea to use the "Show Preview" button to see what it will look like first. You can also start an article as a draft, e.g. Draft:Articlename, which will still be visible to the public but will not show up in search engines, then move it to Articlename when you feel it is ready. Aymatth2 (talk) 11:20, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Prost
Hi, can you do me a favour and find Prost, a town which was called that in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in the Czech Republic. I can't find it, it's a current smaller town in the Czech Repuiblic which used to be called Prost but can't find it,
- I give up. He may speak a lot of languages but he can't spell. His wife was born in Macow, which is why she speaks Cantonese. Prost is somewhere in Moravia. Prostějov (Prossnitz, Prostitz) maybe. Cheers! Aymatth2 (talk) 13:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Thats it
- Somewhere I saw something he wrote that said his wife was born in Macow (aka Macau). But I can't find it now. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:08, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
I wonder if the Chinese/Hong Kong British did spell it that way once in transliteration, some of those Chinese cities in my 80s encyclopedia had ow in the spelling which I thought funny. I'm not convinced he is properly fluent in 10 languages let alone 20. Obviously he's very knowledgeable and spent 55 years learning. Even
- I don't think spelling has much to do with linguistic ability. I imagine that in the past there have been totally illiterate Levantine traders who could effortlessly discuss complex subjects in flawless French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
No, but he was a diplomat, so no doubt would have had to do written work. He lived in Hong Kong for a while so I think the spelling is deliberate.†
[1] [2] I'd guess that was a legit spelling in English in his time.†
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Can you find anything on this. The "largest hotel in Niue" asserts notability IMO.†
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I've just come across this article and wondered if I could urge you to be careful not simply to translate directly from non-free French texts in your future editing. I note there are a few parts of the article it comes dangerously close to the same phrasing as in the Biographie belge d'outre-mer, for example:
Les liens noués pendant le conflit avec Firmin van Bree amenèrent celui-ci, en 1945, à le faire entrer à la Forminière pour le charger de la haute direction des ventes de diamants de cette société. Pendant dix-sept ans, il sera l'organisateur de ce secteur d'importance mondiale et négociateur tant en Grande-Bretagne qu'en Afrique du Sud et aux Etats-Unis. |
Due to the links he forged during the war with Firmin van Bree, in 1945 he was put in charge of diamond sales of Forminière. He organized and represented this sector for 17 years in Great Britain, South Africa and the United States. |
I don't think this is
- @Brigade Piron: Thanks. It can be difficult to avoid similarity when the non-English source is very flat and factual. The English article obviously uses completely different words and does not carry across any creative expressions, but the same facts are given in the same natural sequence. If you can see a way to improve the wording to reduce similarity, by all means make the change. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:15, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
dominant hand
I saw your note about line breaks on your talk p. This summer, I had surgery for my right shoulder and for about 2 months had to use the non dominant hand for the mouse.
. I discovered Voice control for the Mac. The dictation part is too inaccurate, at least with my voice. But t some of the commands are very useful, such as select sentence. Also works on ipad. Seems to work best on Safari. Seems useful enough that I left it on, though I disabled the dictation part. There's probably something similar for the IBM. DGG ( talk ) 17:15, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
- That is interesting. I will take a look. I knew about JAWS (screen reader), but am sure there are other useful tools for Windows/Chrome. But this is not a big deal for me. I have found a style that works well enough, and am lazy about trying new ones. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:26, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
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Can you find anything on this? †
- @Encyclopædius: There are several academic sources. Hydrology (2019) gives a fairly thorough description. It is published by MDPI, which has been accused of predatory publishing and is still on a Wikipedia blacklist. The journal article looks fine to me. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:26, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Haggis pakora and beef
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I thought you should know that I have tagged a sentence in haggis pakora as having failed verification. It is something that has been in the article since you created it in 2015, but it isn't mentioned in the source given and seems unlikely to be true.
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- @Yaris678: The cited BBC source gives a recipe for CHILLI SAUCE DIP that lists the ingredients given in the article, although it does not say "normally served with" this sauce. I have tweaked the wording and removed the tag. A sauce using ketchup and oxo cubes are what one might expect of the Scots, a barbaric race. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:40, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Hola. Any chance you could expand this one, it's rather pathetic and I remembered your interest in Nigeria!†
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Do you remember
) 22:54, 26 March 2021 (UTC)- @Uncle G: I have been floundering in the swamps of the Congo, where no rich people live, but may drag myself out. Jean seems notable. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:39, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
- Actually, the lawyer and investor who bought Escalle's estate and then held on to it for 30 years is notable. There's a fair amount about ) 08:53, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Did you say the Congo? Would that make you interested in User:Ivanvector/Ogedengbe of Ilesa? See the Administrators' Noticeboard for context. Uncle G (talk) 21:35, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Did you know …
… that Edgar "Eddie" Ray Woolbright did a lot more than just help invent and propagate the game of Balut (game) (AfD discussion)?
- Oaminal, Clarence Paul (2015-07-08). "Woolbright Drive, Beverly Hills, Cebu City". The Freeman.
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- I think that I dispute the deletion of Aymatth2's edit there, if not any of the other edits. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 21:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- I have no idea when or why I started the redirect to the parent, but have put it back. The article on Earthwatch Institute is very puffy too, not at all written from the viewpoint of independent sources, although the subject seems notable. O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us! Aymatth2 (talk) 22:25, 4 April 2021 (UTC).
Resorts of Lake County
- Hobergs, California
- Hoberg, Donna (2007). Resorts of Lake County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738547985.
As part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force thing I have been looking through the resorts of Lake County and triaging "unincorporated communities" that were actually fairly well documented resorts during California's resort boom at the start of the 20th century. Compared to our dismal article, just from that book alone there is a lot more to be said about Hoberg's. More than
If you need a change of continent …
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- I have been circling round this one, starting articles on a mountain, pioneers, creek, powerplant, businessman, earthquake, banks and airport. Not many resorts have a 5,000 foot airstrip. Maybe if it goes up for deletion ... Aymatth2 (talk) 20:56, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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I have just discovered an entire area of California. Uncle G (talk) 07:06, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
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Incorrect Picture
The picture shown for Harry G. Stoddard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_G._Stoddard) is incorrect. That is not Harry G. Stoddard; it is a picture of George Booth.
The picture I stored at my link https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/RPGJk1SMOemDEXmcOGbCXRtxx88MfvewZnZTZlCN9ID is of Harry Stoddard. I believe that is originally from his newspaper, The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, but I am not sure for copyright purposes.
- @PaxtonPhil: I have removed the picture from the article. The source claimed it was Stoddard, but seems to have disappeared. We can use another picture, even if it is protected by copyright, on the basis of "fair use", but would have to have some evidence that it was of Stoddard. The Telegram & Gazette would be a good source. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:34, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Pictures exist in the Telegram article https://www.telegram.com/news/20160715/may-22-1969-apollo-10-soars-to-moon-mr-worcester-harry-stoddard-dies. The third picture shown is of Harry Stoddard speaking at a lecturn and could be an appropriate picture. The picture I listed above is the one that looks most like him, but I don't have info as to when or where that was taken.
Harry Stoddard picture
Pictures exist in the Telegram article https://www.telegram.com/news/20160715/may-22-1969-apollo-10-soars-to-moon-mr-worcester-harry-stoddard-dies. The third picture shown is of Harry Stoddard speaking at a lecturn and could be an appropriate picture. The picture I previously listed (https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/RPGJk1SMOemDEXmcOGbCXRtxx88MfvewZnZTZlCN9ID) is the one I think that that looks most like him, but I don't have info as to when or where that was taken.
- @PaxtonPhil: I have added a cropped version of the picture of him speaking to the article on Harry G. Stoddard. Yes, clearly a different man from the previous image. Thank you for pointing out the problem. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
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Your recent change to use a template on this page seems to have broken the category sorting. The page should be sorted under "P" but it sorts under "L" instead. I tried to correct it but without luck. pburka (talk) 22:08, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Pburka: I think it is fixed. But should the list be under "pigs" as well as "lists of pigs"? Aymatth2 (talk) 22:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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Amazon Rainforest map coordinates?
Greetings from Amsterdam, NL. I am searching for a polygon with the coordinates of the Amazon rainforest, eg the basin and the biome as you produced for a.o. Wikipedia. Maybe you can send me in the right direction.
All the best
- For File:Amazon biome outline map.svg I roughly traced the outlines at Inside the Amazon and then fitted them over File:South America satellite orthographic2.png. As I recall it was hard to get a good fit because the underlying images were taken from slightly different perspectives. The boundary of the biome is of course approximate. Probably somewhere there is a polygon for the basin, but I have no idea where. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:29, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
about the exception on wikipedia to reference itself
hi there. so i was wrong thinking that it was your edit which originally added the exception to wikipedia on circular. im sorry about that.
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Hope you're well, and wasn't the one who found that bitcoin guy dead on the beach! We have articles on every US and UK politician, why shouldn't we have articles on these from Republic of Congo. I don't know if there are sources, but they are party members. Ah you don't do BLP articles though I think. Maybe there's not sources on a lot of them... †
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Hope you're well and haven't been affected by the floods or weather. Can you find anything on this chateau, it was deleted.†
- I am fine and hope you are too. Normal hot weather here.
- I dug around a bit, can't find much. 45°12′40″N 0°38′43″W / 45.211174°N 0.645416°W. Mostly self-published material says it is a small vineyard on flat land to the east of the Gironde estuary north of Bordeaux that basically dates to 1857, wrecked by phylloxera and then by World War II, restructured in the 1970s. Typical wine guide reviews say good but not brilliant wine. Nothing on the architecture (which looks uninteresting) or history that I could find. I think it would be a stretch to make a useful article. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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CFD about bishops of the Church of East / Persian bishops
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- @Bibliomaniac15: I apologize. My thinking was that there was clear consensus that the categories like "1st-century bishops of the Church of the East" made no sense because the Church of the East did not exist until the 5th century, but there was value in keeping these "eastern" bishops separate from the general "1st-century bishops" category. Still, I should not have made the change while the discussion was still open. Aymatth2 (talk) 11:45, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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List
- Certainly on votes there was no concensus. I rather like lists like that because they encourage readers to browse. There is a valid point that the list would eventually empty out as the last survivors died, but that could be fixed by renaming it to something like "List of centenarian actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood." Another point, which I think is weak, is that there may be no reliable source that gives the list as a whole, so it is a product of original research. You could challenge the deletion. I did that for Forest Lake Resort in May (Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2021 May 18) and got it restored. The key is to avoid naming voters or rearguing the case, but to show why the closure did not reflect a clear consensus. A fine line. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:11, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I can't believe that resort got deleted, it goes to show you how useless some people are on here!†
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Missing cite in Apcar and Company (since 2013)
The article cites "The Arratoon Apcar 1890" but no such source is listed in the bibliography. Can you please add? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]] to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata•3 01:58, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Renata3: I started that one in 2013 and had forgotten all about it! I tracked down and added the missing source. No idea how that happened. I have 'User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js', which flags these problems, but obviously did not have it back then. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 12:57, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
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Way way too much on the history for the main town article. Would you be willing to split it into a separate history article? Looks interesting anyway. †
- That is a difficult one. I agree that it is mostly history and says very little about the town itself. But Google Maps 7°42′54″N 26°11′42″E / 7.7151°N 26.1950°E does not show much there now, so maybe there is not much to say about the physical town. A split would have to be discussed and agreed on the talk page. Some of the material probably belongs in Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur and some in Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan). I would have to think about it more. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:53, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Western Sahara work. Another of those areas with astonishingly poor coverage, though it is largely desert. I'll have to do a scan of countries again sometime and find our weakest areas geographically. I still think that global Geograph project to photograph different grid squares of the planet was an excellent idea but nothing came of it. At one stage I was in talks with the developers of Geograph and some of the Wiki Tech guys to merge with Wikimedia and scale it globally. And I discussed the idea of giving grants to photographers to photograph "Lonely Planet" type weak areas with poor photographic coverage, think rural Chad etc. Of course this was pre-COVID.₪
- More pictures would definitely help. But I am a bit skeptical about our ability to maintain articles about the more obscure communities. Physical geography and historical events and people are more stable. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:25, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Bot_requests/AutoAssessBot I am interested in auto assessment of articles and saw your bot request. Was the bot created? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 02:20, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Wakelamp: No. It needed an interested developer, and nobody volunteered. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:22, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- -( Were you thinking along these lines Automated essay scoring such as https://edres.org//betsy/
- I am interested in it for very low ranked articles, as one tool for editors who are trying to fix up all the tagging by wikipedia:new page patrol. Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 12:40, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- The bot would rely on ORES to score the articles, which tries to emulate the rating a human would give. I don't know if ORES uses Bayesian networks. The bot would try to solve two problems.
- Articles often get assessed "stub" after the first version is saved, then never reassessed even when they have been expanded considerably. The bot would run after any significant expansion, so would revise the initial assessments
- Assessments are often poor. See WP:Assessing articles. ORES would give more consistent results.
- The problem with ORES is that it may copy the bad habits of humans and assess short articles as stub and long ones as C regardless of actual quality and completeness. I am a bit pessimistic, but at least if there were a bot it would help and could be improved. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:07, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- The bot would rely on ORES to score the articles, which tries to emulate the rating a human would give. I don't know if ORES uses Bayesian networks. The bot would try to solve two problems.
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Figured you'd want to know, as you made the article: This is finally up at Featured picture candidates. I kind of had to sit on it for a while due to... long story short, the latest this could have been made was 1925, and I wanted to make sure this would have no copyright issues before nominating it, which meant waiting for the slow march of American copyright to put this definitively into out of copyright there.
I'll let you know how it goes, but... other than featured pictures being in a very slow period right now, I'm not seeing much problems. If it doesn't pass now, I'll just... renominate it in a few months.
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- @Adam Cuerden: Thanks. I will watch it, and hope it makes it through. It is a good picture and Avril de Sainte-Croix was an interesting person. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:52, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- Well, it's hit five supports, which is a quorum. It's largely guaranteed to pass at this point. FPs04:00, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- Well, it's hit five supports, which is a quorum. It's largely guaranteed to pass at this point.
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Hi, thanks for adding the language. Can you tell me where to find a list of the Indigenous Australian languages so I can fix some of these too. All I can find are the 2-letter codes not the 3-letter ones. Thanks Kerry (talk) 03:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Kerry Raymond: There is a list at wikt:Appendix:ISO 639-3 codes/Australia. Don't know how complete it is. Somewhere there must be a map. I search on the native name + modern name to try find the aboriginal group or language name, and then try to find the ISO code. If I cannot find the language anywhere, I code it like {{native name|und|name|paren=omit}}. If I can find the language name but cannot find a code for it, I code it like {{native name|mis|name|paren=omit}} (language). Sort of sad to see all these complex cultures being swept away. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Given there are many Indigenous Australian languages (and there's always arguments about which languages are similar enough to be considered the same or distinct), it probably isn't complete, but at least it's a good start. Your suggestions on how to use it are more helpful than what I read in the template documentation, so many thanks! In terms of a map, this map and this website (for Queensland only) may be helpful to you. The map is somewhat coarse-grained. For exmample, the islands off Brisbane (where I live) are shown on the map as ) 03:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Can you find anything on this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:05, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- I pumped it up a bit, but had to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Just a big, plain house built about 150 years ago. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:57, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
I just came across this article you wrote nearly 10 years ago and did a little bit of cleanup - would you be interested in nominating this as a Good Article? I haven't checked the image permissions and it will need a longer lead, but otherwise it looks pretty good at a glance. I'd be happy to review it, or to nominate it if you'd rather not do so yourself.
By the way, I love how you use hard returns on the end of each sentence. Makes the wiki markup so much easier to read! -- asilvering (talk) 20:15, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Asilvering: That was a long time ago. If you want to work it through the GA process, please feel free. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:42, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Sure thing! Thanks for all your work on it. -- asilvering (talk) 20:50, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Success! The cleanup I did was minimal, and the reviewer's changes even more so: the congratulations are all due to you. Thank you for writing it! -- asilvering (talk) 18:54, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Asilvering: That was fast! I was expecting a long, painful process. Congratulations. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- It helps a lot that he could slide into the "Agriculture, food, and drink" category at the top of the nomination list, haha. -- asilvering (talk) 18:54, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Asilvering: That was fast! I was expecting a long, painful process. Congratulations. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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Ukrainian villages
I just expanded Bziv from a one line stub and can't believe how much is still missing, this category for Kyiv Oblast alone on Ukrainian Wiki has over 1100 villages and we only have a small handful of articles and only one article for the district Bziv is in. There has to be a database with population data and some basic facts which could be used to draw up a bot to create articles. We should have run something back in 2008 when Fritzpoll was coding a bot and all the inconsistencies we now have and the huge amount of missing articles would at least be on here with some basic facts.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:35, 10 March 2022 (UTC)