User:Dr. Blofeld/January 2011

Merge discussion for Cidomo

An article that you have been involved in editing, Cidomo, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. d3j4vu ^(talk) 06:57, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Pureora Forest Park

Happy New Year! You may be interested in expanding Pureora Forest Park. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:29, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Wish you a very Happy New Year 2011. I have completed my inputs to the above article started by Rosiestep. You may like to review the imgs added now.--Nvvchar. 15:29, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Agree with the date convention; no reason to slow down and change what the template puts out. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

I nom'ed Pureora Forest Park, proving we can do a 5x expansion in 1 day in main space! As that particular tree is outside of the forest per the gov ref, I went with a different hook that is ref'ed by a respected journal. The gallery at 8 img appears bloated and the captions lengthy. What about interspersing some of the img in the article or narrowing the gallery down in some other way? --Rosiestep (talk) 21:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure any of the img were taken in the park. I assumed you added them to the article and checked that. My bad. I'm all for doing a double or triple NZ park set; you know I'm an NZ fan. If I'm looking over the wine selection at a store, and there's something interesting from NZ, I'll choose it over anything else. That said by a Calif girl. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:05, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

I've had a look at your talk pages to see whether you've been on holiday together in NZ, but that wouldn't appear to be the case. Good work expanding all those NZ articles. If you ever want a hand, WT:NZ is the place to go. It won't take long before some local will come and help.

Can I suggest, though, that you use British English when editing within the domain on New Zealand? Maybe you could even throw in the {{Use British English}} template when you start on a new one. Schwede66 20:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. Quoting you: "Thanks for the thanks. Equally Nvvchar and Rosiestep are responsible for the improvements." I had assumed that they have watchlisted your talk page, hence I'm sure they'll see my feedback. Schwede66 21:03, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Commercial graffiti

The DYK project (nominate) 02:03, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

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Happy, happy

Happy New Year, and all the best to you and yours! Bzuk (talk) 08:03, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

All the best wishes for the new year =) -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 20:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah... I will be resuming uni again in a couple of days though I am trying to be positive about it. That is my new year's resolution. =) -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 20:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

It would definitely have to be Inception. Christopher Nolan is a complete genius. Other than that I also liked The Fighter, Despicable Me and most importantly Toy Story 3 - I am a big fan of the Toy Story series and have grown up watching it. What about you? -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 20:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.

		The Citation Barnstar
		Thank you for coming to the rescue of those of us who lack the knowledge to create proper citations in articles! HuskyHuskie (talk) 18:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

This is for your help at Kankakee Torrent. Thanks! HuskyHuskie (talk) 18:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I have proposed that we help you out with it and expand it further too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:28, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Wow, that would be great! HuskyHuskie (talk) 04:28, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Again, thanks for all your help! When will I know if it has been chosen? HuskyHuskie (talk) 22:55, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I was trying to help out but there was editing conflict so I stopped, and I have now completed this article for you to add Wallblake House The infobox img may not be suitable and can remain till you are able to find the appropriate one before nominating on DYK.--Nvvchar. 07:14, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

This also needs more inputs for 5x.--Nvvchar. 17:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Franga

Hi Dr. Blofeld, first wanted to wish you a happy new year. I now am working on 'Franga article, do you now maybe someone who can help me with it? --Vinie007 12:39, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah i tried no response --Vinie007 13:05, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Lahe Township

Template:Lahe Township has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --Mepolypse (talk) 13:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm about to vote Keep on the navbox (since it's more useful now than when I nominated it). I was wondering if you would object to moving our sub-conversation about the notability of the place articles to WP:N/N. I'm considering moving everything from your comment starting with "See Template:Homalin Township." to my comment just before the Keep vote by Bsherr there. Would that be alright with you? (I tried finding any similar discussions in the archives of WP:N/N but found nothing.) --Mepolypse (talk) 20:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure, a much better place to discuss it. Actually the notability:geography thing was recently made a guideline but it was reverted back to an essay. I don't necessrily agree with the "inherently notable" naming of anything but experience has told me that virtually any verifiable geographical location is usually encyclopedic worthy and especially now with google books getting more resourceful all the time we can now make some headway and at least create some articles on settlements in the developing world which are beyond the horrid old "xxx is a village" type stubs.. I demonstrated this recently with my articles like Sausapor, Saukorem and Batuan, Bali which were proposed for deletion as "non notable useless stubs".

Interestingly i had this conversation with Jack Merridew and DGG the other day. PLease see the tlak page of User:DGG. If you are proposing a disucssion I strongly suggest you contact DGG. It really should be written into the guidelines... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:16, 2 January 2011 (UTC) (This paragraph moved from User talk:Mepolypse.)

Heh, I think I've been to Batuan, Bali many years ago, but it might have been another art village in Bali. Nice job with those articles. I'll move the conversation. --Mepolypse (talk) 20:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. OK. Yeah I've been there too I think, I certainly visisted lots of similar artisan villages in Bali. Lombok when I visited in the late 90s in parts was astoundingly "stone age". Some of the villages had their own cultures and customs. Ideally we'd have an article like Saukorem on every third-world settlement in the world, there is really no reason why similar content couldn't be written about several million other places. But you can be assured there are thousands of villages mentioned in google books which can be compiled to put together a half decent article. The internet is still in its infancy but I really do think these articles very important to the encyclopedia. The internet at the moment covers the majority of third world villages very poorly if not at all so scraps that can be found in google books are at least putting them onto the internet into a readily accessible platform like wikipedia. 12 million books scanned out of 130 million so far. Every year google books will continue to improve and turn up more and more sources which can be used to make many places worthy of starting. We must go wherever the info is and tackle those places first.

Most settlements in Burma are now visible, every building on google satellite maps/earth... when you zoom in. Now if some scraps of info in google books can be compiled and they are clearly visible as populated settlements on a google map that is at least a start... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:45, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I've copied the conversation there, and added another comment there. I've not notified the editors you mentioned previously because I fear that would be considered WP:CANVASSING. Do you know of an appropriate forum we could post a notice about that discussion instead? --Mepolypse (talk) 22:49, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Canvassing? Aren't you against the notion of "inherent notability". Why would it be canvassing for you to notify DGG or somebody up on geographical notability? Its just I've had this conversation literally 10,000 times previously! It really ought to be written into the guidelines that articles on villages like Sado, Amarapura and Gwebin are accepted on wikipedia and at least in my view are valuable for wikipedia as a resource even if stubs. 99% of geographical articles which are verifiable always end up being kept at AFD!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I skimmed some of the conversations between you and one of the other editors after you mentioned that conversation, and noted that that editor was a strong inclusionist, so notifying only such editors seems inappropriate per WP:CANVAS#Appropriate notification. It's possible that that was over-cautious of me. --Mepolypse (talk) 23:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I honestly think its a waste of time. I've tried to convince scores of editors in the past on here that villages like Gwebin are notable and that the vast majority of geographic locations are most certainly worth writing about but there will always be people who disagree and agree. I could spend time on another discussion but who is to say that another two months down the line another editor without my experience will come along and try to hamper progress and claim places to not be notable? The evidence that verifiable geographic locales on here are always snowball kept 99% of the time is resounding evidence for me that places generally are accepted as "inherently notable" on here, even if I hate that term and would rather articles are properly researched.Now if you are intending to form a final consensus on writing up guidelines to geographic locations as in the essay, maybe with some terms that they nmust be researched I'd fully suport you, if it means that it will be promoted from an essay to a proper guideline and to be used to fend of possible deletions in the future. Maybe i'll look into it tomorrow..♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:17, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

How about for example Gwegyi (24°45"N 95°'3"E) though? With your experience from AfDs of these types of articles, would that result in a keep in its current state? As for forming a consensus and codifying it in a guideline, I agree that that would be great. --Mepolypse (talk) 23:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Its verifiable and is officially a populated settlement which is visible on google maps so the likelihood is that it would be kept. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:37, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Infobox locomotive

Hi, why are you reverting Plastikspork's edits such as this one? He is locating cases wher {{infobox locomotive}} has been given an unrecognised parameter, such as |built=, and replacing it with the most suitable valid parameter, such as |builddate=. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:26, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Bhutan

The Flag of Bhutan article recently passed GA and i was thinking if Thimphu is ready to be nominated again? The last nomination didnt have much problems. Spongie555 (talk) 04:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

lake

Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand -- I've nom'ed it. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Wallblake House -- I've completed my edits. It would benefit from an added img ... I left a note about that on Nvv's page, as well as a suggested hook if either of you would like to nom it, otherwise I can handle that tomorrow night. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:58, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I am sure you would like this Te Matua Ngahere in New Zealand. It needs more references and inputs, which I am sure you would be able to locate. One more article will be coming soon on St. John's Cathedral in Antigua. If you can find an img (I tried) for the Museum of Antigua and Berbuda I will expand it tomorrow. I will work on your other urgent suggestion soonest.--Nvvchar. 13:05, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Shark fin trading in Costa Rica - Copyedited and I've tagged several sentences with citation needed. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I have the reference for the remaining tag in Shark fin trading in Costa Rica. The other article can be done leisurely once you put in in sandbox.--Nvvchar. 14:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Subulussalam

• User talk:Jack Merridew#Kota Subulussalam

I think this needs another look, and that the fellow from Indonesia is right. I've no time, however, Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:32, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

nb: I had the commons copy speedied while this is sorted out; We'll undo that if appropriate, of course.

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=File%3ALokasi+Aceh+Kota+Subulussalam.svg

Happy New Year, Jack Merridew 07:40, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

moar

Hi. The following are populated with four Sumatran provinces' Kabupaten and Kota and the maps are in the en:articles:

• Commons:Category:Regency locator maps of Indonesia
• Commons:Category:City locator maps of Indonesia

Solok needs an infobox and I, uh, didn't do it. And I still thing th id:fellow is right about Subulussalam, but it needs another look. Cheers, Jack Merridew 06:58, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I started Meranti Regency (an archipelago) that was split-off from on of the neighbours; see: . I'll do some more ;) Cheers, Jack Merridew 20:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

moar ;)

• {{Jambi}} need regencies started; I started Sungai Penuh, but it needs moar detail. The locator maps are all available, but unsure about the lambang.
• Commons:Category:Regency locator maps of Jambi
• Commons:Category:City locator maps of Jambi

I also did all the locators for the regencies of Riau, and the other Sumatera stuff points north and west... I sprinkled some of this stuff around on places like jv, ms, nl, fr, sv... Cheers, Jack Merridew 06:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Albanian Francs

Maybe this is useful. Happy New Year Aigest (talk) 10:02, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

And a happy new year, to you, too!

I just need these long breaks to save the world, kill a few villains, jail the rest..(oooopsh, LOL! ...wrong movie! :D)

Take care, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:21, 3 January 2011 (UTC) M

DYK for Songgwangsa

Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 20:59, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Balsas River Lazaro Cardenas

Sorry for not getting back sooner. Holidays, vacation and both son and husband hit by a really nasty bug. Just postponed son's flight back to the States to Saturday. Generally not a good idea to board a tin can with recycled air when youre hacking. I see you got Balsas River expanded. I usually work on articles on topics Ive had contact with but if you need specific information on LC, I can look for it. Right now, I have a bunch to work on as we road tripped through monarch butterfly country and the Guerrero shore between Zihuatanejo and Acapulco. Hubby is still uploading the million photos we took.Thelmadatter (talk) 13:42, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Missed that particular one... lots of little places in that part of the Costa Grande. Worth another trip one of these days. I'm working on the articles in order of visit. Finished with Aporo, Michoacán (passed through on the way and the church caught our eye) and Angangueo. Tlalpajahua is next.Thelmadatter (talk) 13:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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From this moment...

... so sorry for you Blof!! :) I can't believe she is 45. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

What's up by the way? Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Glad to hear that. I know that you're enjoying your time on WP, but it's good to have a balance. Any new film you saw recently? Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

re: María Ballesteros

Can't find anything on IMDB for her, but I don't know how comprehensive that site is for 1950s actors and films from that part of the planet. Lugnuts (talk) 20:40, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Gwebin

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Forget it, I went ahead and corrected it myself. --Muhandes (talk) 23:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Shark fin trade: Took care of it. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:06, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Mic Sokoli

Main article: Mic Sokoli

Can you help me with Mic Sokoli, you may like subject. already made something but cant get any progress any more --Vinie007 10:26, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Massaguet

Hi. What do you make of this? It looks like a joke/vandalism, but you never know... --Cattus ^talk 19:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Commune of Banikoara

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Am Harazé

Hi. Am Harazé has the wrong coordinates. Do you know the right ones?--Cattus ^talk 16:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks.--Cattus ^talk 18:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Paolo Padovani

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DYK for Wallblake House

–Grondemar 23:11, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I have made substantial additions to this User:Nvvchar/Saint Barthélemy. Will need much more. --Nvvchar. 13:46, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Clint Eastwood

I finally did a quick trim preview of the article in my sandbox. A lot of the details about the films or other people can be covered in the respective articles. I suggest removing some of the details about reviews and box office, as we probably shouldn't cover it for every film to give some variety while reducing length. I was probably strict on some areas, but I think it's going to take a drastic change to prevent issues with GAN/FAC. Information can always be readded if necessary, but hopefully we can bring the article down to a manageable level while still adequately covering the majority of his work and life. Let me know what you think so we can start moving this along further. By the way, good job on finding so much details from the book sources. The majority of the details I suggest cutting are still interesting and would help improve the film articles and subarticles. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I like the details as well, but they would be better off included in the film articles. With the subarticles, all details could be included (allowing the interested readers to get the more details while the casual reader could stick with the main page), but the main focus is getting his article down to a manageable level that would be accessible for GA/FA. Feel free to weigh in on the GA review so we can see how much of this should actually get trimmed to start. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:03, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Your comments are awaited at Talk:Clint Eastwood/GA1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:57, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Don't rush to chop it down. I would prefer that you take the time to properly WP:PRESERVE content in sub articles. Also, I am working on a script this week and don't want to spend much time with Eastwood until next weekend any ways. Take your time chopping it down.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:20, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I think you may need new sub articles for recent decades.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:44, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I did some quick cuts, but I'll wait till you've had your fill. I'll then go through and do some more after that. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

It would be great if we had actor articles as detailed with this one (with a large number of available sources to choose from as well!). After Eastwood's article is completed, at some point this year, I'm going to work on getting Tom Hanks up to at least GA. I've realized that he's one the other staples in my DVD collection and favorite films. Once the Eastwood article reaches GA, I think it could go on to FA pretty soon. We'll definitely need to have a few people come in and do some copyedits to avoid prose issues. It's definitely come a long way since before you significantly expanded it. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:12, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

John Wayne's article at least a start to it, but it definitely should be expanded further. I'd recommend going with the subpages first, and then pulling the best information into the article (so you don't have opposition to a very large article that would eventually have to be trimmed). I'd welcome assistance with Hanks' article, but I probably won't start work on that until March-April. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:31, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

The length looks good. I'll probably add a brief paragraph for the awards, filmography, and discography sections later on. It's amazing how much it came down in size. Looking forward to a review now. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

The expansion looks good, I'll work on copyediting it further tomorrow or Saturday. I don't think any of my books would cover the accountant (we never covered the film industry and its relation to accounting, although it would be interesting since they probably use the most creative accounting and accounting magic). I'll add the subpages and help link them to the film articles this weekend. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:37, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm glad you started the articles (I'm not to big on starting them, and I think you have just a bit more experience than me...). It's amazing the amount of detail that could be covered from the books, and this is just for one subject. If only each article on Wikipedia had just a fraction of the available source material available, this would be quite the impressive place. It looks like we have only a few red links left in the article. I'll work on the article tomorrow and Sunday. I rented The Eastwood Factor so I'll add a few details from that to add some video sources. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

I'll help out after I finish transferring the film details from the 1970s films subarticle to the film articles. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 21:37, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Gwebin

... 10 years ago there was no DYK. Luckily that's changed, so thanks Victuallers (talk) 23:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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Vegas

I've been distracted in RL last few days with CES. Stepping away from wikipedia seems to be good for me as I come back refreshed. Enjoy your time off; hope you do something fun! --Rosiestep (talk) 06:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I have been away this evening watching a Hindi movie in Bangalore called "No One Murdered Jessica" based on a true story that happened in Delhi. Nice movie. Since you write on Hindi film actresses also I am sure you will like it. Expanded prose in User:Nvvchar/Saint Barthélemy‎ is already more than 5x without infoboxes, imgs and tables. I have also added to Sampit which is also now 5x. I will continue tomorrow morning.--Nvvchar. 16:47, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Airport

See here. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:59, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Bodinnick

The DYK project (nominate) 06:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, my son dragged me to the picture hall. The air conditioning there has given me severe English cold and fever. I have completed my inputs to both articles now. Sampit is now more than 5x for posting on DYK.--Nvvchar. 09:07, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I have nominated Sampat. You may like to fix an alternate hook. I will be returning to Delhi tomorrow and I will attend to the lake article.--Nvvchar. 13:20, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Malibou Lake

Hi Blofeld - hope you had a good Christmas/NY, etc. For the above article, I was wondering if you had one of your maps to add to it. Looks like some good sources have been added as bare URLs by the creator of this quite interesting article. Thanks! Lugnuts (talk) 10:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Dr B! Lugnuts (talk) 14:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I expanded it a bit, but doubt it can get to 5x. Some comments on its talk pg and my talk pg have led me to rmv BLP content. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I have further copy edited Saint Barthélemy. But there is some problem with the format for book references since another user has adopted a different version different from the google version. You may like to see. The new user has also removed the sentence which is taken from a book source.Nvvchar. 14:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Terra Chã

Olá Mr.B. I have done all that I could do on providing citations for the Terra Chã article, with my meagre resources. I would probably need to travel to the island to get anything else (obviously I don't have the resources to do that at this time). (Ironically, I passed through Terceira last Sunday, but there was little I could do during the 15 minute layover, to improve the quality of the article). I don't know if that is acceptable in order to publish this revision to the Terra Chã article. Regardless, I feel that it is more valid then both the original or Portuguese Wikipedia versions. Appreciate working with you on this subject. It has helped me to improve my editing/publishing skills, which I am using to expand other articles in the Azores name-space (specifically) and other articles in the Portuguese name-space. Thanks. Ruben JC (Zeorymer) (talk) 13:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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This must be a joke...

How can an article about Clint Eastwood, whose career has spanned over 5 decades be less than 80 KB long? Article length limitations must not at any cost come at the expense of its comprehensiveness. Quite a joke, considering the reviewers themselves are very aware of Eastwood's work and achievements. What are you gonna do now? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Pureora Forest Park

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Blofeld, I was wondering if you know where the statement that 'It is “recognized as one of the finest rain forests in the world”' is sourced from. The reference given didn't contain this quote so I have put a tag on it. Thanks, Ericoides (talk) 08:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ghorband District

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

List of abbeys and priories in England

Re your comment at AfD, I agree that how the lists are organised should be discussed elsewhere. My feeling is that this should be done at WP level, probably WP England would be a good host, with WP Christianity notified. Mjroots (talk) 07:07, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Shwenyaungbin

The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Shark fin trading in Costa Rica

The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

List of township-level divisions of Anhui

Hello Dr. Blofeld. A while ago, you started a article for translation work; List of township-level divisions of Anhui and requested help with it. You were going to create stub articles for the townships and required help to populate info into them. I can help with some of the translation provided if there is a corresponding article in around zh.wikipedia.org. If you decide to create other articles e.g. List of township-level divisions of Fujian let me know I'm happy to help with getting the English names of the town on it. --Visik (talk) 02:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Te Matua Ngahere

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Jens Blauert

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

The fact is now featured on the Portal:Germany. In case you write more on German topics, feel free to move a DYK fact there yourself and also archive the article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

copyediting

Terra Chã tomorrow, as Saint Barthélemy‎ took longer than I had anticipated. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:56, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I nom'ed Terra Chã. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:05, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Chinese towns

I'll give it a shot in a bit. Trouble is removing all those Chinese characters, which is going to take some extra doing. I can at least do some of it, though, I think. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

No, it doesn't surprise me. It does surprise me that you haven't visited in a while, though - good wikibreak? :-)

I have a few talkpages on my watchlist; I used to have a couple of vandals' pages, just to keep an eye on them, but I think they've been banned. I have a couple of others, too, for the same purpose - there's a really persistent sockpuppet who doesn't seem to understand that he shouldn't be editing, and I have a couple of people on Rolodex to alert in case he shows up. That's about it, though - I don't have you on my watchlist, either. No need to. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:05, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Excellent. Looks like I may be in for a quiet day, so we'll see what I can manage later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Do what now? You can't - you're the engine that keeps this place going! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:23, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean - if you notice, I've been quiet on the article-creating front myself for a little while. Actually, I've taken it pretty easy this month, so far - but I'm slowly working on those Antarctica stubs. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:29, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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Nice work on Hallsteinn Sigurðsson!

Cheers! --j⚛e decker^talk 22:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Italian governments etc

Hello Doctor. At WP:PNT it has been announced that a lot of imported articles about Italian goverments have been nominated for speedy deletion as db-foreign. I already noted to Acroterion that all those are probably better left in your user namespace until fully translated, so I've already moved User:Dr. Blofeld/Leone II Cabinet and User:Dr. Blofeld/Moro IV Cabinet. Cheers, De728631 (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't restore anything, I'm not an admin. De728631 (talk) 23:31, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St. John's Cathedral, St. John's

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Yeshayahu Yerushalmi

The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Tourism in Albania

Hey Dr. Blofeld, today I was reading the article of Tourism in Albania and I was shoked how undevoleped it was. Maybe you can help expanding it, my writting is not so good but I will do my best :P --Vinie007 16:02, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Imogen Toner

Hi, I know you're a member of wikiproject filmmakers and actors, and was wondering if you want to help me cleanup Imogen Toner. It's a mess at the mo. Thanks FilmFan2011 (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Sampit

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Saint Barthélemy

I have refixed some references. I have also given my comments and suggestions in the discussion page of the article. You may like to add. Malibou Lake is still short of 5x--Nvvchar. 15:26, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, don't know what is going on with St. Barts. I thought the article was improved over its previous state. For sure the article needs more copyediting but so do most articles. Anyway, for now, I want to work on something else. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Natural dye

Thank you! Guess I am going to have to standardize the citations. :-)

Now if I could just get it through DYK... - PKM (talk) 18:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on the article. I've been procrastinating on it since 2007 because I knew how much work it was going to take... PKM (talk) 19:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Clint Eastwood

Sure - I'll have a look in a bit. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, it's only going for GA - it doesn't have to be that comprehensive, yet... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

It really is a good article. I think I've only made a couple of changes so far. There's a sentence that ends with a preposition ("for") that caught my attention, but I left it alone; I want to see how the GA review folks treat it. Looked like we needed something on the creek, although there's something poetic about a creek with no article and a man with no name. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:12, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

California Film Commission, will do. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:22, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I tweaked a few little things I found - looks pretty good. I'll give it another look tomorrow, too. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure - always happy to be of help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, nice - it'll be nice to have you back. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, in case you haven't noticed, I've been somewhat slow myself this month. It's not been a condusive month for editing...and I can't think of what to AWB off the top of my head. Last year was a huge year for me, too, so I think I might want to ease off just a bit for a month, at least. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:56, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

We shall see. If it happens this year, it won't be for a few months, at least. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:13, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

It's more a matter of wanting to diversify my interests, really. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:40, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I often start a review something to the effect of you are stuck with me. I am fussy at WP:GA. Few things I suggest get undone at WP:FA. Yes I could just pass the article as it is. However it is a WP:BLP and I find no reason not to do my best to guide it up the quality path, while I have a captive audience. If you find any of my suggestions deleterious to the article let me know. If you find any of my suggestions offensive to the subject of the BLP let me know. See User:TonyTheTiger/Reviews at the bottom and determine if I am being any fussier with you than with most others. I don't do a lot of GA reviews, but the ones I do take time. You are always free to stop responding to my suggestions or to withdraw the nomination.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:24, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Fanfani VI Cabinet

Hi, I've also moved this one to User:Dr. Blofeld/Fanfani VI Cabinet for the time being. De728631 (talk) 22:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I honestly can't be bothered now to restore them....♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Petatlán

Basically there are only two things to this city/municipality... the Christ image (which is common enough in Mexico) and all the violence related to drugs and the environment. I was kind of trying not to make it seem that Petatlán is nothing more than bullets flying. (Though I admit when we were at the church my son found a spent casing in the atrium!)Thelmadatter (talk) 15:42, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Malibu Lake

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I am taking it easy for a while. Malibou Lake making to front page is entirely to your credit. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 14:27, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

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Towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka

Hi Dr. Blofeld, I have noticed that you create missing wikipedia articles and that you are very rapid pace. I have been in the process of listing all the towns in Sri Lanka through the article List of towns in Sri Lanka, which I think you have come across in the past. I have not been able to finish it all but I have just finished listing all the towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka and I was wondering if I could get your help in creating all these articles. It would be much appreciated and all that is neccesary would be something like this. Regards--Blackknight12 (talk) 16:21, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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Temples

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university

Expanding the University of Cambodia or Rim Kin may interest you. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for expanding UC. I've nomed it. If you can review someone else's, please do, or I'll do so after I get back later today. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2011 (UTC) Thanks for expanding UC. I've nomed it. If you can review someone else's, please do, or I'll do so after I get back later today. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Terra Chã

Materialscientist (talk) 18:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Talk:All Saints Church, Patcham/GA1

Review started. Please watch this page, thanks, /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 19:55, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Kagara, Nigeria

I am not sure if the move from Kagara, Niger is right, but not sure what the right title is. There is also Kagara, Sokoto, another Kagara in Nigeria, and I got mixed up at first making the two articles. As far as I know, there are no Kagaras in Niger. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:34, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

That works. A slightly awkward title, but I can't see any better. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:10, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Hungarian villages

Sure - when I get a moment later today. I didn't realize the undertaking would take quite as long as it did.

Ah, it's good to be back to stub-creating, even for just a bit... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:07, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, it looks like there's plenty of fodder for work among the Hungarian villages. I may take a crack at that at some point. It'll have to be this evening, though - I have the day off, but that means that I have other things to attend to. (Including a little photography for a couple of articles, hopefully.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:10, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

In DC? I'm not sure - but then, this town tends to be a bit prudish. He seems to have fallen a bit flat generally, but I don't know why - it's not like American audiences haven't seen him before. I wasn't watching - Downton Abbey was on Masterpiece Theatre. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:53, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Óbidos, Portugal

I will be happy to add information to an Óbidos article revision, although elaborating the municipality's name-space is more valid than the city name-space. By elaborating this type of article, most readers will get the mistaken impression that the city of Óbidos is a legal entity. As I have promoted in our past discussions, elaborations of municipal and parish articles will help eliminate any misconception on the administrative divisions of Portugal. Regardless, I can create a infobox and elaborate citations. You will pardon me if it is not completed immediately, I will be teaching courses in ArcGIS for the next week-and-a-half, although I may be able to sneak it in before I leave.Ruben JC (Zeorymer) (talk) 22:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Malosco

Sorry, I have simply overlooked your post behind the bottom ones. Expansion is fine. Materialscientist (talk) 22:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Ticha Reservoir

Hi, it's a good catch that one, thanks for that! Indeed, pretty big and important and it was missing an article. The article can be expanded further, I'll see what I can add tomorrow if I have the time. Best, — Toдor Boжinov — 23:32, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Now at DYK! :) — Toдor Boжinov — 13:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Six Bridges to Cross

HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:04, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Italian villages

User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough#Località, looks like the smaller places are missed? Rich Farmbrough, 02:35, 18th day of January in the year 2011 (UTC).

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Edits etc.

A few over 3,200 - I'm not sure of the exact number. It's one of the best single-day totals I've ever managed to achieve, I think. Also, I've sent you an e-mail. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:47, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure. It'll be later this evening, but it shouldn't be a problem. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I'll see - if I can do it later today, I will. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Have a look and tell me what you think.

By the way, I realized after I got home yesterday that I'd forgotten to say thanks for the barnstar. Actually, I realized it as I was on the way to bed, and as the computer was occupied, I had no recourse. Sorry about that; I didn't mean to overlook it, only I was especially woolly-brained yesterday morning. (Dealing with student-loan people and a quarter-inch of ice on the windshield didn't help much.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Incidentally, looks like I'll be out of commission for the duration of the morning. We'll see what I can get up to after lunch. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:07, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Samrong Sen

I have started it here User:Nvvchar/Samrong Sen. You may like to add and edit. I will start on Chinit River tomorrow.--Nvvchar. 15:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I've nom'ed Malosco; can you add the castle photo? --Rosiestep (talk) 06:07, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

This User:Nvvchar/Chinit River is also done for further inputs from you. A few imgs and maps would be helpful. --Nvvchar. 15:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

As regards the Island article I will not touch anymore since the references are all questioned. Let him do what ever he wishes. It is his island. I wonder why he did not improve the article for 3 years on his own with his own reliable references.--Nvvchar. 15:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I have completed my inputs to Ssmrang Sen. If Chinit River is also addressed by you and Rosie, the two could be posted as double article hook, as suggested by you. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 07:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Nominated Samrong Sen. Chinit River is not yet moved to main space. I have requested MS.--Nvvchar. 17:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Can you add a map to the Samrong Sen infobox? Pity there doesn't seem to be a picture available of the site or an artifact. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Benin places

Hello. I noticed that you created Template:Commune of Banikoara. None of the links were working, so I created all the articles. I noticed that Benin has another level after commune, namely arrondissement. All the places in the Banikoara template are in both the Banikoara commune and the Banikoara arrondissement, but there are more places in the commune, but in a different arrondissement. At least, this is as far as I can tell from looking at sources on government websites. Frietjes (talk) 16:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Should I divide Template:Commune of Banikoara into sections by arrondissement? Frietjes (talk) 16:28, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Another idea would be to move Template:Commune of Banikoara to Template:Arrondissement of Banikoara, and then have Template:Commune of Banikoara list the arrondissements. With 10 arrondissements in the Banikoara commune, having 10 sections would be long. Frietjes (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

The only change you made to Arbonga was to use the "cite web" template? Okay. Doesn't seem to be the most pressing issue, but sure. Frietjes (talk) 17:25, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Nearly finished? I used some sed/vi/pdftotext magic, so it probably needs some checking. The semi-unfiltered output is here. The source doesn't have the accents, and there are some repeats. Signing off in a few. Frietjes (talk) 23:08, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I just realized that the pdf source clips the names after some fixed number of characters, and doesn't include the accents. I am going to fix it using the GeoHive data, which doesn't have this problem. Frietjes (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

There are still some inconsistencies between the sources, I noted some in comments in the text. I guess the way to fix that is just to have some redirects. Otherwise, I guess it's finished now. Frietjes (talk) 18:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

For names appearing twice, I did this. The idea was if they are in different departments, then add the department name. If they are in the same department, but different arrondissements, then add the arrondissement name. Go ahead and change it if you like a different way. The places are Banigbé, Djègbè, Lèma, Ouénou, Sè, and Zoukou, which will need some hatnotes when they are made. I will update the templates too, if they are there. Frietjes (talk) 20:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Maps, see around page 312 of [1]. The map for Allada shows Lon-Agonmey in Allada, but Google maps calls it Long-Agomey, and other sources say it is in Toffo. I think the other sources are probably wrong. Anyway, these maps are helpful since they have places not found in other online sources. No coordinates, but you can get close by looking at the map. Frietjes (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Just found this, which has maps of the arrondissement boundaries. Also, some insight into differing spellings for the arrondissement names. Frietjes (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Congress of Lushnjë

Hi Dr. Blofeld, Today i saw a documentary about Congress of Lushnjë on TVSH maybe we can start improve this article because now it is a mess. Maybe we first can make a list of battles, such as that of Kavajë an Tirana. --Vinie007 11:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Geo stubs

Hi. Thanks for creating so much geographical stubs. It is cool. I'm working on municipalities of Spain. Lot of articles are missing! emijrp (talk) 13:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

WOHOHOHOUUUUU. emijrp (talk) 16:53, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK issue with Hallsteinn Sigurðsson

Hello! Your submission of Hallsteinn Sigurðsson at the 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!

Hi! I've had a look at Hallsteinn Sigurðsson for DYK. I'd really like for the article to be accepted (and you've done wonderful work transforming this previously unloved, unreferenced BLP), but there are a couple of little nags that caught my eye:

1. Some of the prose is still quite close to sources. Mostly I don't think it's a problem, but there was one particular phrase that I thought should probably either be directly attributed, or else paraphrased.
2. I'm slightly uneasy about the copyright status of the pictures. It seems clear that the photographer's copyright is fine; but are they also touched by the sculptor's copyright in the underlying sculpture, as derivative works? I didn't know enough about Icelandic copyright law / Icelandic freedom of panorama to be 100% comfortable; but we can't link off the main page to any page which might have a rights problem.
3. Assuming we can clear the photos, in my view the link would be far far stronger if we could include a thumbnail of one of the sculptures on the main page.

Sorry to bring these fleabites to you, but I really hope we can clear them and give this page the thumbs up. Jheald (talk) 16:18, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply

That's quite a long review considering it's a GAN, but I do understand why people expect to have the best possible article on Eastwood. I hope this review helps, because making an FA for someone as famous as Eastwood is not an easy task. Shahid • ^Talk2me 20:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I think it's got a lot to do with this. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Paolo Padovani

HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Bang duck

With a name like that, how can it not be awesome? As someone I knew online once said: "It's like a party in my ears and everyone's puking." --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:44, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, better her than some others... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:30, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Interesting info...

Hi Blofeld! There is a interesting fact in a new article which I have created: The church's main treasure, famous icon of Mary Odighitria, which was one of the protective icons of Constantinople and attributed to St Luke, survived the fire in 1731 which burned down the earlier church. That is, if you are still into 'Did you know?' thing...Regards, Kebeta (talk) 23:05, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Surfer hair for deletion

The article Surfer hair is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surfer hair until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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DYK for Irving Leonard (accountant)

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:04, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Church of SS Peter and Paul, Istanbul

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Raiyat

You may be interested in expanding raiyat; there are many refs in addition to the ones that I barely mined. It would make for a double with zerat. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:14, 22 January 2011 (UTC) Raiyat and Zerat should be one article. I have added some text to Zerat article. I have also completed this User:Nvvchar/Luoyang Museum to which you may like to add more. Uige and Chinit River are also ready for posting.--Nvvchar. 09:33, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

The pdf document referred under Bibliography gives coordinates of Chinit River information in the beginning itself in a table.--Nvvchar. 12:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

The river joins Tonle Sap Lake on the downstream and forms the Tonle Sap River thereafter. I could not locate a map either except that of the Lake.--Nvvchar. 12:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

The same pdf reference on page 25 gives the longitudinal profile of Stung Chinit and its tributary also. The length is correct and the reference is reliable.--Nvvchar. 12:25, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Very nice.--Nvvchar. 12:50, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't think so. They are two separate rivers. The ADB references and bibliography pdf can not be wrong. The best way out is probably to delete reference to Stung Sen River. I have no other documents or maps to further supplement.--Nvvchar. 13:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

I nomed Chinit River before I saw your messages on nvv's talk pg; are these issues resolved? --Rosiestep (talk) 20:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Raiyat now a re-direct, with content mrgd into ryot. Zerat looks ready for nom. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:31, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Dates

So it is...thanks for reminding me. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:47, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Right - thanks again. I'll do a quick fix now. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

My pleasure. I'm going to try and get another province done before dinner, and a couple more tonight. Though I won't be near the computer that much until later. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:08, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Malosco

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:02, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

In case you need it...

While visiting WP:GAN I noticed that your nomination of 1907 Tiflis bank robbery has been taken up by a reviewer who only created their account in December 2010. While I'm assuming that he's probably an IP editor with plenty of experience who'll do a wonderful review of this extensive and fascinating article, in case things go awry I'd be willing to assist the process at either the primary review or a reassessment. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:ArgentineAliceinWonderland.jpg

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Kwango River

• I have also started this User:Nvvchar/Kwango River. But I am not able to find much information. May like to expand.--Nvvchar. 09:02, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
• I have started this User:Nvvchar/Organ Pipes National Park. I could not fit an img of Organ Pipes in the info box. There are major references of the official web site of the park which really importatant. May like to add. Please post Kwango River on DYK. --Nvvchar. 09:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

• I have nominated Kwango River and also reviewed another article. You may want to change the hook.--Nvvchar. 14:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

• I almost forgot this User:Nvvchar/Health benefits of honey. I will do it this week end. In the mean time kindly see Kwango River DYK review. Kindly copy edit and reply. User:Nvvchar/Organ Pipes National Park article is also being edited by Rosiestep. You may like to add more to it. --Nvvchar. 14:03, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

• You have still not looked into this. Booth Rosie and me have almost completed our inputs.--Nvvchar. 14:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Slovenian television programmes

Sure, I'll expand it. By the way, where are you from? Sportomanokin (talk) 16:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Do you know how to create a new infobox in slovenian, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox i wanna create it but i don't know how to? Sportomanokin 18:40, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ticha Reservoir

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:05, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for University of Cambodia

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:05, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Johann Heinrich Zedler

Don't know if you saw my comment on your DYK nom, which I spotted by accident. This is a great article, If I say so myself as did not write it. It is a translation of the featured article de:Johann Heinrich Zedler. Maybe I should have stayed quiet. On the other hand, it did take some work and (I hope) is not too inaccurate, and is new to .en Wikipedia, and is (I think) interesting, and there is a lot of value in translations ... Aymatth2 (talk) 00:45, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I think it is enough to put a link to the source in the edit summary. The link in the talk page is redundant, but polite. There just has to be some attribution somewhere. As for whether it belongs in DYK, that depends on whether DYK is treated from an inward-looking view as a reward to the editor, or an outward-looking view as interesting to readers. We lean towards the inward view. Some of the articles that make it through are technically fine, but the hook and the article may not be very interesting to the general reader. But it would be impossible to define a simple method of deciding if an article is "interesting enough". Not important. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Claude Yvon

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 06:03, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Chinit River

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 06:04, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

A Star Is Born (2012 film)

I added some alt hooks to A Star Is Born (2012 film) at DYK. You may want to verify them.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 09:35, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Guy Delcourt (editor)

Thanks for the help - I was going to look some things up myself, but I got in too late last night to do anything worthwhile with it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I had chocolate mousse for dinner last night.

(OK, I didn't, actually - but the opening was too good to resist.)

Ordinarily I'd just let it rise or fall on the merits, but this fellow is a knight of a major French national order. So I'd expect there to be something available. That being said, I have in the past noticed that French sources can be sometimes surprisingly difficult to obtain; there are things they ought to have digitized that they don't. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:06, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I haven't looked in a while, but I know there are counties that need filling out. {{Louisa County, Virginia}}, {{Warren County, Virginia}}, {{Culpeper County, Virginia}}, {{Mecklenburg County, Virginia}}, and {{Lee County, Virginia}} probably have some locations missing - in fact, I'm sure of it in Warren County.

Thanks - I'm flattered. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:14, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

No rush. I can get to them, too, at some point...not today, though, not likely. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes - Linville's population in 1870 was 3547 - there were 17 "productive industries" in the town at the time. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Any time. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I saw it right about the time you added it - incredible what you can find online, with a little digging.

Sorry - I had to leave work early because of the storm, and it took me ages to get home, so I missed your message earlier. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:30, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Next county, nothing - I've never heard of Schneider Crossroads, Virginia, Makleys Corner, Virginia, Barkers Crossroads, Virginia, Jermantown, Virginia, Donovans Corner, Virginia, Comptons Corner, Virginia, Crowells Corner, Virginia or Cooktown, Virginia, and they're in the same county as I am. Now granted, some are at the other end of the county. But Barkers Crossroads is in an area I travel through somewhat regularly...I could probably get there in twenty minutes.

But then, this area has changed so much over the past half-century that most of those are little more than neighborhoods now. Fairfax County has upwards of a million residents, at last count. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, thinking of it in those terms, there's not a lot of Virginia that I know that well. Mostly the Route 50 corridor out of Warrenton, Virginia, up to Shenandoah National Park through Sperryville, Virginia and New Baltimore, Virginia, among others. Gainesville, Virginia, too. Other than that, I've been a fair number of places, but haven't spent a lot of time in any of them. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Right after college my parents and I went down to southwestern Virginia for a week or so. Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Tazewell, Virginia, places like that. I was quite taken; it's a beautiful area, and I want to get back there someday. Even Grundy, Virginia - it's a coal-mining town, but most charming. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Organ Pipes National Park

Uige is already posted on DYK and is being reviewed. Please look into this to expand and edit User:Nvvchar/Organ Pipes National Park. I will be away on a short visit to Jammu for two days and will get back to editing on Friday night.--Nvvchar. 15:57, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Review

Do you think you could review my other speedy deletion nominations, if you're an admin that is, thanks. SilverSoul91911 (talk) 18:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I replied to you on my talk page. SilverSoul91911 (talk) 18:44, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I added that ages ago

I placed that ages ago, before I even knew when to properly put a speedy delete tag on, would have thought someone would have removed it by now. SilverSoul91911 (talk) 20:14, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi again,

Need some help over at Same-sex marriage and the family, might get into an edit war soon, it's an ip. SilverSoul91911 (talk) 17:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program is looking for new Online Ambassadors

Hi! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.

If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I noticed. I remarked that unless I'm given some sort of compensation its not a "job" I want to do I'm afraid..♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:43, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Irving A. Leonard

Regarding the article you recently created - you might be interested in this [2]. I only, briefly, checked out the first three books articles listed and discovered that each of these (individually) appear to be in more than 2000 libraries throughout the world. Even an article he wrote, entitled "A Frontier Library, 1799" appears to be cataloged in more than 1400 libraries in different parts of the world. I am thinking that you might find this information useful. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 22:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Steve! I will note his other publications..♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:43, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Halle Berry

I really was surprised the author agreed to change the license since it's such a great pose. I've been searching for a quality image of her for a long time after I read this New York Times article bashing the lack of images on Wikipedia. I've now found images for three people listed in that article that had poor ones or were lacking an image altogether. I'm currently working on securing a few more images for the Eastwood article (to help replace the non-free ones we removed), and am awaiting a reply from an archive collection from Florida. Hopefully I hear back this week. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:52, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for not helping out that much the last week. I've checked out a few more biographies from the local libraries and am scouring those for additional sources. I plan to also use some to replace a few of the McGilligan ones to help round out the citations and ensure we're not relying so heavily on one source. In the coming weeks, we'll definitely need to have multiple editors give it a copyedit once it's stabilized for a while. I know that I need to go through the citations as some still have inconsistent formatting or are lacking parameters. I'm guessing this could move on to FAC in a month or so depending on the sourcing additions and whoever we can get to review. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 07:05, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Ransom Dunn

I'll add more content tomorrow. Just found this bio but too late for me to work on it. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:22, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

You might want to add a userbox or an img if you can find one to upload, but otherwise ready for nom. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Beautiful amber tones in that img and thanks. I haven't forgotten about the No.Wales ones; will get to them tonight or over the weekend after I do that Kwango River copyedit (didn't realize it was already on dyk). Glad it's casual Friday as I'm not up to putting on a corporate outfit this morning. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:40, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Samrong Sen

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

1907 Tiflis bank robbery

Hi Dr. Blofeld, just a courtesy notice to let you know that I've reviewed 1907 Tiflis bank robbery for Good Article status. At present, I do not believe that this article meets the Good Article criteria. I am putting this article on hold for seven days, after which this article will be failed if my concerns have not been responded to. Editors have until February 3, 2011 to fix all of the issues I have raised. If the article has not been fixed by then, the article will be failed, and editors will need to submit the article through the Good Article nomination process again once they feel that the article is ready. Arctic Night 16:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

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Ranveer Singh

Wassup Blofeld? I was thinking wats your opinion on steam rolling the above baby for GA? — Legolas ^(talk2me) 19:30, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Lol. 70+ freakin GAs!!! I can probably even make Madonna's biceps pass as GA. :D — Legolas ^(talk2me) 12:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Ha ha. Ya, Madonna's biceps do scare me and I'm a thin guy if you look at my user page. Well, I got quite a lot of info on Ranveer from the StarDust and FilmFare magazines. I will start work soon, hope you mentor the changes, because I have never worked on any Indian actor, except for helping BOLLYWOODDREAMZ with KAreena Kapoor. And yes, your music taste is impeccable. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 12:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Lol, you know what, being straight, being Madonna fan, and being married is pretty difficult. I seem to be doing pretty well in that respect. Are you a fan of Norah Jones? — Legolas ^(talk2me) 13:18, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

How can I forget Ray? As for Bach... call me and you will know. He is always my caller music tone. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 15:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Buttrills

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DYK for Tojg

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Clawdd Coch

Saw your note; that's fine, no worries. I added content on Clawdd Coch, but then removed it as I believe what I found was referring to a same name place but in eastern Wales. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Zerat

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I have completed my inputs to User:Nvvchar/Health benefits of honey. --Nvvchar. 04:19, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

I have requested Rosie to add and edit as required.--Nvvchar. 11:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

I've been finishing some other articles so didn't start yet on Roberto González Goyri but definitely this interests me so I will get to it. Started on the honey article yesterday and am thinking I'll continue tomorrow. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Skye cats

Please see various notes. As you can now see, Category:Villages in Skye has the main Skye settlements in it, so that they feed into the Category:Villages in the Inner Hebrides etc. as well as Category:Populated places in Skye and Lochalsh. Lochalsh villages should not be in the island cats, which is why there needs to be a distinction. Ben MacDui 16:33, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Protected area

See here. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:53, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Church of SS Peter and Paul, Istanbul

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)