User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 22

Pre-Medieval Saints / Church History

Hi. My knowledge of the above subjects is minimal. I've just noticed that User 178.222.16.146 is making a lot of unsourced changes to a lot of articles. I don't want to revert them because I don't know if they are correct or not. If you have time could you take a look? Thanks Denisarona (talk) 14:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello Ser Amantio, do you have an example of one of the articles to which you were referring? I'd be happy to take a look. Best, --Polylerus (talk) 16:59, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

... Received your messages, many thanks for your help. Denisarona (talk) 13:34, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Changes to saints articles

Thanks, Ser Amantio. It looks legit to me. Usually, if the saint appears in the Western (Catholic) saints calendar, the Eastern Orthodox church will also venerate the same saints, especially early and medieval ones. --Polylerus (talk) 04:17, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

speaking of misspelled names

i note you redirected Dale DeArmond to Dale de Armond, should be other way around (married name). Juneau Empire paper rather than Alaska Northwest Pub. Co. i followed the misspelled red link again. sorry about that.Slowking4 (talk) 15:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Help!!

Please protect this page: 2018 Winter Olympics high level of vandalism. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 15:40, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Well you should be! Intoronto1125TalkContributions 15:48, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

AWB

When you are going to stand up for yourself and get it restored? I seriously miss your help on here and I find I get much less done myself because of not having the back up!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:04, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Oh it became quite obvious to me you are not missing it and quite like not having much to do with it anymore. In fact I think you did it on purpose so you'd lose your AWB privelages and keep a lower profile than you used to. Fair enough, but I wish you could have at least been honest with me about it. If you no longer wish to do anything or don't want to do something I appreciate honesty above all... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:09, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

I must admit it did occur to me that it was your way of just saying you wanted to reduce your time and energy on here as you have more RL commitments. If it genuinely wasn't then it certainly came at a very convenient moment! But for me that fact you haven't missed AWB one bit shows it had become a bit of a nuisance responding to my sometimes extravagant demands! Honestly Ser Amantio you should learn to be able to say no to people! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:32, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Well I thought at one stage you enjoyed using it and helping out, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you! But I think it got to the stage where it was taking up way too much of your time and it was part of your New Years Resolution to cut it out, which I may say so you've kept up quite admirably this year as from what I've seen outside working hours you are barely here anymore.. Oh I had noticed too that you never used to contact me, it was always me speaking to you and you responding. You would never contact me on your own accord. In the end I got the message mate. If I hadn't have spoken to you today I'd not have heard from you for the rest of the year. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:43, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Anyway, I greatly appreciated your assistance and companionship on here, I hope you know that at least..♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

You were one of the few people who actually motivated me to create on here! I quite liked you finding things for me to start. Although I have no problems finding masses to start myself it did sort of encourage me.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:00, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Well I'm sure most people much prefer the way I edit now than I used to but at times I do miss the sub stub runs in terms of long term goals on here. We need editors routing out content and starting them and the sheer amount missing often means sub stubs seem to easiest way to get them onto here.. Anyway don't feel guilty about asking me, if you want something started some time ask, although too many articles on politicians admittedly tend to bore me.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:14, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

There are also some 500 listed buildings in Ludlow I spotted, we have one article at present...♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:41, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Yey, you have AWB again! Awesome. I promise not to pester you though, only occaisnally! Basically I need you to add Category:Country houses in England to the articles in House in Cheshire I-Z and then Houses in Cumbria onwards of Category:Houses in England with the exception of London and Greater Manchester as I think they have to be assessed individually.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:44, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Whenever you have time, no worries. Right. me iz conjuring up some stubs...♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Yikes there's another 24 parishes of the Isle of Wight all with a similar number of manors in them.. We could end up with over 300 articles on the Isle of Wight manors. I am going to ensure they are all stubbed seems as the info is public domain, might take a while.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:44, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer! Well I'm sticking with the public domain material for the moment. The Isle of Wight manors can be found under each parish here. I've done Newchurch but I'll start at Arreton I think now. I think probably one of the best things we can do for wikipedia is to add all the public domain material we can to it. That British history website has a goldmine of info and is important as it identifies many notable figures from as far back as Alfred the Great. Its exactly the sort of content we need I think, 13th century manor owners and such.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:20, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Actually I'm pretty bad on anything pre Battle of Bosworth! Good on 1066 but know little about Henry II and Richard II and the medeival period and indeed very little about all of the Ethels. most of the info on the IofW manors seems to be 12 and 13th century and 16th-17th century.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:26, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Looks like you had the same history curriculum as I did! For some reason they left out 1066-1485! I was taught about the Romans, particularly Julius Caesar era, Battle of Hastings and Harold getting shot in the eye, then Battle of Bosworth and the Tudors through to George. Wasn't taught much about the Hanovers but from then it was the World Wars, Korean War and Vietnam. my A-level course was mostly focused on 19th century Europe like the 1848 revolutions and Italian Unification and 19th century British history from the Corn Laws of 1815, to Parliamentary Reform in 1832, Merthyr Rising 1831 etc and then the cause of Chartism and the Luddites and Richard Cobden and Corn Law repeal and that. I'd love to study medeival history from 1066-1485. Judith Keppel's £1 million question was Which King was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine? Obviously this period is poorly known by most so it was considered a very hard question! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:04, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

See Azor (landowner). Its puzzled me on numerous occasions why there is no Category:English landowners. A landowner is a major figure in British history it should be jammed full with articles. Unless i missing the cat under a different name? Either way I think we should create this category and aim to fill it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:53, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Ryan kirkpatrick

G'day again from Oz, where it's snowing outside at the moment :-) For a variety of reasons I have been pretty inacive on WP the last couple of weeks, hence my not replying earlier. Good call on User:BriitshNO1; after seeing his edits, I was quite certain that it was Ryan, but by that stage it was all done and dusted. I tagged his creations for speedy deletion, two were deleted almost immediately but unfortunately a different admin looked at List of tsunamis in Europe and declined to delete it per IAR, citing its usefulness (which is beside the point IMO). The only editor of that article so far is Ryan himself via IPs, and I am thinking about taking it to AfD - have you any experience of AfD discussions for articles created by sockpuppets? I am glad to see that the more recent incarnations that you found have been dealt with properly. YSSYguy (talk) 06:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

@Grutness:

Ross Dependency

Hi SA - um, you've stubbed a whole lot of articles with RossDependency-geo-stub when they're not in Ross Dependency... they're all in Oates Land! Ross starts at 160°E - I'd left all of them because they're in the 150s E... Grutness...wha? 11:44, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Joseph Edgar

Are you sure about "Irish emigrants to the United States" for this person? As far as I can tell, he settled in Ontario, Canada. --Big_iron (talk) 20:15, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

No smack necessary. --Big_iron (talk) 20:35, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

South Sudan

Ah new country. Can you use AWB to rec Category:Populated places in Southern Sudan to Category:Populated places in South Sudan?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:52, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

I see you didn't have time for the country house categorizing. No worries but if you could get round to it this week I'd be grateful.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:27, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

No worries, if you want to get Antarctica sorted first go for it. Although I'd say the more constructive thing for Antarctica geography stubs would have been to merge as many of the articles as possible and turn the loose stubs into longer merged articles.. Still, I'm sure many of them are worth having separate articles on, just see the two GAs on Antarctica lakes I have for that!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:06, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Well potentially a lot of them could be expanded in their own right but for some features like a rock covering an area of 0.1 km for instance could quite easily be merged into an article about the bay it is in...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:21, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

As long as people are working on them.. Remember not so long ago I couldn't find 60 articles on Yemeni buildings?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:30, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Mmm, well we have 26 stubs only at the moment. I need to create 34 more.... We'll see.... I remember I was hard pushed finding 10 before..♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:05, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Indeed it will. Almost 30 now but I'm bored of Yemen now. I should aim for 60 over the next week though. In fact every country on the planet should have over 60 articles on buildings right and separate stub categories?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Also i want to create dab pages for the embassies of every country with a full list of embassies. E.g Afghan Embassy (Cairo), French Embassy (Lisbon), Japanese Embassy (Kigali) etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Ah, they exist like List of diplomatic missions of Afghanistan, but need to be red linked.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Well Micro states like Gibraltar, Monaco, San Marino Vatican City might be impossible but most countries it is possible I think...♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macao perhaps, mmm Monaco yes it is heavily urbanised but 60 notable buildings? It would certainly be a challenge... It is tiny though. San Marino might be possible but Monaco I seriously doubt..16:16, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I've created Template:World populated places. All we need now is a full list by country...♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:22, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I've been wanting a full gazeteer on here since 2006 of course. If we can't have stub on every place yet we should at least have the names and coordinates I think..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

You seen this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Poss. AWB stub task...

Hi SA - if you've got some time to use that AWB of yours, I've noticed that part of the reason Ross Dependency geography stubs is so big is that there are a lot of Victoria Land articles in there which should be marked with {{VictoriaLand-geo-stub}}. Unfortunately they're not marked with Category:Victoria Land, but a lot of them are linked to Victoria Land and so should be in that article's "whatlinkshere". Any chance of adding Category:Victoria Land to them and changing the stub template over from the RD one to the VL one? Cheers, Grutness...wha? 06:13, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Hey, whenever you've got time! I didn't mean you had to knuckle down and get them all done in one go! :) Thanks for the help! Grutness...wha? 08:41, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

No problem :) Grutness...wha? 05:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Another AWB task, if you're in the mood :)

Hi there, looks like you're on AWB again! Could you help me detag pointless translation requests? Someone who was making a ton of stubs on villages in Argentina tagged every single one to be expanded from Spanish, though the Spanish articles tend to be about two sentences long. These stubs just junk up the translation category by drowning out everything else. An example is El Manso. Could you detag these? I think you could go by the province categories (I think they exist for all provinces), looking for all articles with the text "is a village and municipality in" and then just remove the expand spanish banner. Would you be up for this? Thanks in advance regardless, Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:54, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for tagging some of them. If you view List of country houses in the United Kingdom you can see the extent of what need doing. I did up to Cumbria manually.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I removed the obvious townhouses when i created the list. The vast majority of them should be ok but there may be a small handful which I didn't spot. So definitely worth doing now.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:16, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Where from, pt wiki? Mmm in a few days maybe. Right now I have Kanak people at GAR and want to try to fill out the lisst in Scotland, N Ireland and Wales.

I've created an A-Z list from the Pt category in List of Portuguese composers. Hope this helps. Sucks that it is first name order not surname but haven't time to order alph surbame right now! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:25, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

That reminds me I must get back to creating more lists of people by Spanish language country. e.g List of Paraguayan writers. Resume with the Uruguayan lists first, I guess at least a mention of the missing articles on wikipedia is something.. Oh yeah Cheshire needs categorzing from I-Z. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

If you could also cat the list for N Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively e.g Country houses in Scotland, Country houses in Wales this would be great.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:20, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Did you do Cheshire I-Z? Peter got as far as H I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:53, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

There we go we now have a New Caledonia GA! Now I can concentrate on some sub stubs eh?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:54, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Excellent, I really appreciate your help! Right, watch out for the new pages shortly.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:02, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your edits.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:26, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I will second that. I appreciate your various improvements and corrections. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:43, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Good job on changing that CSD tag. I didn't realize the subject of the article was a user. I thought the author was referring to the character from a Pixar film. :P MJ94 (talk) 16:24, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Unnecessary

I don't know that this was necessary. The article is clearly a hoax, and not about a real person. It shouldn't really matter, though, because it will be deleted in short order anyway, but it's best to keep the proper DB tag on pages, as different tags get different levels of attention. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 16:25, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I thought the same thing, Dan. However, if you look at these contributions, MW has been reverting the author of the article recently. It's now obvious that the subject of the article is in fact our MW. MJ94 (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I tend to operate from a default position that any sort of attack on a named individual should be treated as an attack page. If it's not, it can be re-dealt with in short order. Still, different strokes, and all.

Also, the first response that came to mind was a line from The Vicar of Dibley: "No, no. See your thinking, but: no." (Sorry - think of me as Dawn French, if that helps at all. :-) ) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:37, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Jesus was born in Dunstable.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Alice looks like a music teacher in my old school. If you think Judi Dench and Alice you have them! Surprised you've seen it, BBC America I guess♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:12, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Interesting, Sort of like the way they repeat Friends episodes over here.. Vicar of Dibley village and atmosphere is very much like Magor. I went to a church fete there a while back and we had delicious feast in a house which looked like Dawn's afterwards with stawberry scones and such.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:17, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

I can't thankyou enough for sorting out the houses. Thanks!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:10, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Been having real bad sinus trouble again lately. The hay fever season is now over but it clogged up my head. I disocvered though if you put your head in a hot water basin and breathe in through your nose underwater it seems to do something. Reminds me of my old swimming days when chlorine water would go up your nose the wrong way. I'll keep doing that for a few days, see if it gets better. Always worse first thing in the morning. I woke up this morning with a gigantic headache!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:30, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Brilliant idea

I just had a splendid idea, which is to ask you if you would kindly take a look at the recent discussions about the various "Musicals by" categories at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Theatre and see if you have an opinion about how to proceed. One editor wishes to (and had begun to) populate these (four?) categories, but they are very overlapping and, perhaps, of dubious utility. Various proposals have been made, and it would be nice if someone experienced with cats could help us to reach a consensus of some kind. I'd value your opinion. See: no good deed goes unpunished!  :-) -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:05, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Re:Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar. And don't worry, I got it. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 05:17, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Smithsonian Archives of American Art Backstage Pass

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Hermanus Berserik

Dear Ser Amantio di Nicolao, You made a stub article about the Dutch painter Hermanus Berserik. I started the Dutch version and I am busy now to make a translation for th english wiki. I feel a bit unsecure and sometimes make very stupid mistakes in English. Can I send you my translation for a final check to you before publishing it? Thanks for your answer. Friendly greeting, Henrik de Nie, --HWN 10:37, 19 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hwdenie (talk nl:user:hwdenie• contribs)

Oh noes! List of billionaires hit by pies is being considered for deletion!

What a shock! As the only other editor involved with this article, please consider contributing to the discussion. If you think it should be deleted, say so. I won't be offended, honest. - Denimadept (talk) 20:32, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Somebody created such an article? Lakes of Bosnian are finished ready for tagging. Thanks for doing the mountains.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:29, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For having the Cajones to rerequest AWB and finding time to fit it in around your schedule and being of great help to me and the project. It is very much appreciated. I salute you Ser. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:19, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter

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Tmabon

Can you add the populated places category to all of the tambon articles started so far by province in Category:Tambon. E.g Tambons of Chiang Mai, the article should also have Populated places in Chiang Mai Province as the tambons are also villages/small towns.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:21, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

OK I've covered Lamphun Province and ones I start from now on will include the category. so its just the three provinces. I will return for more later, if you do have time to link the tambons of Lamphun by district in the meantime this would be great, if you are busy no probs. Just need some air now..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

That's OK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:51, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

God, Polish wikipedia gives me a headache. I mean Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie look how many notables are missing. Its extreme, whole categories and sub categories without any articles on here. I mean one line stubs on towns we have not only have full articles on Polish wiki but also have articles on things like synagogues and notable landmarks within it and such.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:21, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The wiki links are so important. I mean my Hotel Florida (Madrid) article in just two article links (through Ksawery Pruszyński) connects with Rhynern and more red links!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:11, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

ah now I've got my head stuck into the Spanish Civil War. See this missing. Damn all of this is because of Hotel Florida (Madrid); I had intended doing some more Spanish hotels but keep getting sidetracked.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:38, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Check out this too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I've discovered a gaping hole in spanish geography. What I'm going to do is get a category started on Geography of for each Spanish province from here in User:Dr. Blofeld/Spain.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm about to create the categories but I think its a manual job.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:04, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The categories will need talk pages but I need to fill them as quickly as possible otherwise they'll be deleted. So plenty of sub stubs on mountains, rivers and geo features coming in the next day or two.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Oh there is one thing. Category:Municipalities of xxx Province can be fed in the relative Geography of xxx Province once created. Comarcas can too if we have them. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:15, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Awesome thanks! Will resume shortly.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC) Gonna take a long time to plough through that lot, as long as they have the sub cat in for now that's stop them being deleted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:49, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Might take a few months, its hard enough work doing a couple!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:29, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

notability

thanks for looking and bettering my articles i created.can you do me a favor please look at the articles William Soliman and Emmeline Ndongue a user named evaders has added non notability tag to athletes who represented france national basketball team,evaders has a history of reckless tag use by looking at his user page , i would appreciate it if you give it a good look thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lesueur878 (talk • contribs) 10:55, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

thanks alot for checking and removing those tags.i plan on making many articles about french sportspeople from athletes,basketball players,footballers,handball players ,kickboxers and mixed martial artists.i will make sure they meet notability for example footballers who have at least 1 cap in Ligue 1 or Ligue 2,handball players either capped for national team or top league for clubs.i would appreciate it if you look after my new articles,and if you see anything wrong or non notable i will quickly fix it .thanks very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lesueur878 (talk • contribs) 13:52, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

DC Meetup, July 29

DC Meetup 21 - Who should come? You should. Really.
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DC-area Meetup, Saturday, August 6

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Que dicono

Please translate the Latin saying of your father's colleague which you kindly added to my comment for Khazar. I only know "civis Florentiae", --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the translation. Why I am still around, I wonder myself at times, I got very weak when I was screaming. I stay partly because of "not let them". Do you understand German? If not I will translate that, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Awb

Ah yes there was something, Category:Populated places in Ghana needs emptying. If you can find a way to split it using AWb say by the "what link here" to the regions maybe you can root em out. If not and it has to be manual, no worries.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Ooh, how kind of you Ser Amantio, thankyou. I may find some more for other states, I'll check!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:24, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

That reminds me the counties of South Sudan and Sudan also need fully starting.. Should be over 100 new politician stubs for South Sudan, have proposed a new template..♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:38, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Too much of a task to start them all by state now but you might be interested in creating some stubs some time from here by state. I'll finish Central Equatoria. You might link it on your user page. Should you create any, just copy by source and layout, all you have to do then is change the name, position. County COmmissioners of South Sudan also have a new category. Thanks for creating the women categories.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:02, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Tambon and Category:Populated places in Thailand need emptying and reorganizing by province,. Any chance you could use AWB going through the what link here to the province names or something. Remember that most tambon also need the populated places in xxx province category. If it helps a very large number are located in Category:Phitsanulok Province♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I'll likely resume with the tambons in the next few days then..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:06, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Grreat. Don't forget though that the tambons also need the duel Category:Populated places in Phitsanulok Province etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:13, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Hokay, we'll wait then until I add the tambons and they naturally populate and it can be split gradually.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Split? How? By district of Paris? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

More Antarctica AWBing if you're keen

Hi SA - I've started work on the Graham Land geo-stubs... done one of the three sections (Danco Coast) and made the templates and categories for the other two, but they need populating. Any help you could give would be appreciated! Note that there's a slight naming problem with one of them - I made the permcat and filled it, then discovered that the source for most of the articles was ignoring accents. All is explained at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2011/July#Antarctica_VII:_Graham_Land. Cheers, Grutness...wha? 12:19, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Brilliant! That looks like the lot. Thanks :) Grutness...wha? 08:49, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

"Template:Country data GRN" (Grenada) shows the flag of "Template:Country data DMA" (Dominica) rather than Grenada. Seems to be write-protected. Whom to contact or how to fix?

CroesJ (talk) 23:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the penguin - I shall be sure to keep it in a cool place :) (BTW, we have real blue penguins that occasionally visit the beach 500 metres from where I live!) Grutness...wha? 00:52, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Ser -- A big thank you for all the Geo AWB work you've been doing. You rock! Rosiestep (talk) 04:25, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Louis Renault (industrialist)

Perhaps you can explain why you recategorized Louis Renault (industrialist) as a "Sportsperson from Paris"??? 842U (talk) 10:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Because he was a French race car driver. I agree that Category:Businesspeople from Paris is best so I created it. Ser you might find articles to populate this with in French businesspeople category. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

He did not have a career as a race car driver; he won a bet racing a car. His brother raced cars. 842U (talk) 10:18, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

When then is he categorized as a "French race car driver".♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:22, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Can you go through Category:Hotels in Texas and recategorize any in Dallas with Category:Hotels in Dallas, Texas? Should be quite a few of them.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:10, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Nice one thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:20, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

Hello Ser Amantio, I trust all is well? I think I need your help to bring to DYK the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. Can you please give a review and give me an opinion of a hook? I'm scratching my head and not coming up with anything, and I want this to a be a four hands DYK. Thanks!Divide et Impera (talk) 20:26, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Vieri Tosatti

Hi,

Thank you very much for creating the page! ([[9]]) It was a wonderful surprise for me (note it doesn't exist an Italian page for this composer...)

I would like to inform you that I have edited one reference link updating the hyperlink from capitoliscompagni.it (that is my personal site) to the new (and in progress) site dedicated to Vieri Tosatti (also managed by me): vieritosatti.org

Hope you like it!

Best regards,

Andrea Riderelli — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreariderelli (talk • contribs) 11:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Manuel Antonio de Rivas

You're good. Now why don't you go ahead and bring it up to DYK status? ;) Drmies (talk) 20:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Cecil Partee article

Hello Ser Amantio, Could you specify what the issue with the "Cecil Partee" Wikipedia article is? Thank you, ~Motstravail Motstravail (talk) 01:42, 17 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Motstravail (talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

errors

The summary of the cottage photo is completely inaccurate--, for instance, FDR had no child named Theodore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.12.92 (talk) 00:20, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Hello! I hope you enjoy this treat as a friendly greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 02:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Another possible AWB job?

Hi SA - if you've got time, there's another possible AWB job for you... over at WP:SFD there's a nomination from over a month ago to replace {{retail-stub}} with {{retail-company-stub}} on all articles using it. With small numbers of articles, I'd be happy to deal with them by hand but there are over 600 in this case. Any chance you could help out with this? Cheers, Grutness...wha? 11:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Uttaradit Province is now done, can be tagged with class=stub importance=mid.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:26, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Before I start the missing localities of each Spanish province can you go through each province of Category:Municipalities of Spain and add Category:Populated places in ...? ONce that is done I can use those categories to add more, more than the municipaliies.

William Randolph Barbee looks better now. I'll ask Rosie if she can find more.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:39, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

What the heck... I thought earthquakes were reserved for California, Alaska, and New Zealand! Are you ok? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

The bust is pictured in here. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Category of Houses on the National Register

I noticed the category swap out you did on Asher and Mary Isabelle Richardson House. I'm wondering if the Houses on the Natl Register also applies to Capt. Charles Schreiner Mansion, even though, technically, the mansion is currently functioning as a museum. Maile66 (talk) 17:49, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Battles of the Luso-Brazilian invasion

Hi Ser Amantio, can you please give some input here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Sauce? We will either need to merge all the battles in one article or find a way to keep/expand them. Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 23:10, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Random survey

Hi, This is a random survey regarding the first sentence on the Wikipedia policy page Verifiability.

"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true."

In your own words, what does this mean? Thank you. Regards, Bob K31416 (talk) 05:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Your latest articles on Virginia communities

I was looking at your latest articles about communities in Mathews County, Virginia, and I noticed that most of them have the same coordinates, which seem to be the coordinates for Kremlin, Virginia in a different county. I fixed a few, but I thought you'd want to know so you could fix the rest. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 22:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Speaking of the Virginia communities, I found an issue with some of the ones you created in Richmond County. It seems that a lot of them have coordinates in the city of Richmond but were miscategorized by the GNIS as being in Richmond County (Ampthill Heights and Broad Rock, for example, but there's a lot more). I asked the GNIS about it a while ago, but they haven't gotten back to me. If they are neighborhoods, they probably don't deserve standalone articles. Any idea what to do about this? TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 06:29, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

This neighborhood map by the City of Richmond includes some of the places; i'm inclined to think that those at least are neighborhoods. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 18:46, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

I left a note about it with WikiProject Cities; I'll see if I get any response there. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 20:24, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Howz the weather breezin?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:08, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh, there was me thinking right now you are being bombarded with a hurricane! I gather it blew over in the night then? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:25, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Helpful hints

Thanks for the hospitality! I will start using that. Thanks, Ashley Freeman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshleyFreeman (talk • contribs) 16:53, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I do hate to have you undoing your own good work. It's just that I am almost hysterical on the subject of architectural sculpture. Carptrash (talk) 22:06, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

thanks for patching up

some categories, However, these folks http://www.archsculptbooks.com/home.htm do not have Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson as an architectural sculptor. If you know of some architectural work, well then those sods missed it and better learn about it. Carptrash (talk) 22:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

I am finding that I prefer root beer floats to metaphysics today. Carptrash (talk) 23:19, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

and I'm more of a I'll Sleep When I'm Dead kind of a guy. Carptrash (talk) 01:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the welcome note. I will ask for help as I progress. Aquilanus (talk) 05:37, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

AWB for Turkey

Hi. Can you do an AWB run through User:Dr. Blofeld/Turkey and do this, Its removing the , xxxxx from the title and infobox (although leaving the tr: link intact to Turkish wiki) and adding a xxxx District category. Can you do this? I'll generate the rest of the list and move into the mainspace at List of populated places in Afyonkarahisar Province. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:41, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

That though and the talking page tagging WikiProject Turkey|class=stub|importance=low might require a lot of edits. Is that OK? I think there are about 26,000 odd in total, but I'll tackle a province at a time gradually. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:48, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

84 provinces! And each one has a fair number of districts often with 100 odd settlements in each! Something like Template:Lists of populated places in Turkey to connect the lists.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:21, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

So can I count on your help with this then? Başmakçı District is done, the rest can be viewed at the mainspace list List of populated places in Afyonkarahisar Province. The ones I create from today will have the District category, its just the other ones I started which need them. But I'll need your help removing the end names on them all. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:32, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I've asked Plastik to code something to create me a list by province. If I could do that first and get a full list of settlements by province staritng them should be straightforward. If I can aim to get a province started every day or two, should get them all started by Christmas. That's my target anyway.. Meanwhile I'll get on with the tambons and try to finish off the rest of the Serbian villages.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Don't forget the one in the infobox and to add the District category. I believe up to Hocalar they need the district categories,♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:25, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

This is ridiculous. I looked for the village of Ternholt too and it also has articles on all the villages. The quality/coverage difference could not be more extreme♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:51, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

German rivers, can you also tag for WP:Rivers? Can you add class=stub for both, it defeats the object of tagging unless you say what state it is in!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Nehemiah Shumway

Could you check to make sure that in trying to understand "Schenectady, Albany, and Jefferson County," I haven't made the article say something different from what you were trying to present from your source? I had no independent source but found the references to the cities unlikely. Wareh (talk) 19:08, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Cheers for helping out with the redirects! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:41, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

my fault- I should have seen that the original red entry spelt the name wrong Chrisdoyleorwell (talk) 21:19, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Redi'rect

I've taken it out as R3 rather than G8... Peridon (talk) 21:30, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

That

FGastest Draw Award

was fast. Myra Reynolds Richards, in case you are wondering. Carptrash (talk) 20:13, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hattiet's ghost is safe with me - and visa versa, I hope. Thanks -I've just scooted it over to my "Awards" section on my user page. One of the smaller sections. Carptrash (talk) 22:26, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Intertranswiki

See the bottom. Apparently you can create some missing lists using AWB. Perhaps you could ask SunCreator about how to do it? As the more lists created the more articles will be started! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:31, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Need rationale for File:Swarthout.jpg

The file is missing a rationale and the old NOFUR template is gone; the only no rationale tag left is the SD one. We hope (talk) 18:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

EPM

Your edit per minute count is 69. Please stop flooding the recent changes. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 21:11, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok 89 is too much. PLEASE STOP. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 21:12, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Well Wikichecker showed you at 85 EPM. One of them is wrong. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 21:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok I misinterpreted the data. Sorry. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 21:16, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Museums

How come you forget to add WP:Germany tag and the class=stub to the Portuguese and French castles?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:57, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

No worries. Are you going to be here for AWB this evening? If so I'lll finish off the current Turkish province..♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

List of populated places in Adıyaman Province is done ready for the AWB clean, can you also programme it to remove the end of the infobox title?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Happy holidays!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:29, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Welcome back!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:14, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Can you check on St. Paul's Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia), its not Rock Creek Cemetery is it? Can you locate it for me. Also the John Young Mason article claims he was buried in Richmond but the source says Alexandria.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:12, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Check your email.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:29, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Can you find me the registry file for Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House with the architectural details? Another GA in the pipeline.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:34, 14 October 2011 (UTC) Now this has the be the best expansion yet from a sub stub!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 00:38, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

You up for AWB tonight?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

DC-area Meetup, Saturday, October 8

National Archives Backstage Pass - Who should come? You should. Really.
	You are invited to the National Archives in College Park for a special backstage pass and scanathon meetup with Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, on Saturday, October 8. Go behind the scenes and into the stacks at the National Archives, help digitize documents, and edit together! Free catered lunch provided! Dominic·t 16:31, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Mary Creek British COlumbia for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mary Creek British COlumbia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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O category master can you add suitable diplomat categories to Robinson McIlvaine and other recent articles by Aymatth?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:54, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Gracias, I'll finish off Serbia shortly and then more German rivers this evening..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:01, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Minor planet articles

Hello,

When you add a WikiProject Astronomy template to the talk page of these inconsequential minor planet articles, would you mind setting the importance=low? You are absolutely swamping the list at Category:Unknown-importance Astronomy articles. I use that category to track new astronomy articles. Regards, RJH (talk) 20:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

If you wouldn't mind doing that (modifying the minor planet pages you've already edited), I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:11, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks again. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:27, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

lowLow

Is there a category now called lowlow? I have reverted your edit. -- Kheider (talk) 01:21, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Could you please go through your edits and revert similar edits where necessary? I could quickly find several more. Thanks in advance. --JorisvS (talk) 09:46, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Now appears to be  Done--Shirt58 (talk) 11:05, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Addendum: I think this fuddle may well have originated from my own mass-adding of talk pages without correct {{WikiProject Astronomy|generic assessment level=n}} for Merovingian's new page creations a few months ago.--Shirt58 (talk) 11:24, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for your message. When I did my first article two or three years ago (on Wikipedia Germany, but not as "Succ holz"; I couldn't create an article with that old nickname, so I created this one), I didn't read anything about the tildes - maybe I missed it or it's new. I will use the tildes in the future and I will go through the help pages. If I see, that I need help, I will sure ask for it. Thank you so much for your welcome and the introductory help. Succ holz (talk) 20:03, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for adding box description to pages i create Miniboglins (talk) 23:23, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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Socks

I know you have a six-sense for these have you seen 1953 Nutts Corner BEA Viking crash ? MilborneOne (talk) 20:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that. MilborneOne (talk) 21:08, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Stubs

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Thanks

Thank you for the apprecation. I hope you don't mind my keeping you busy. Regards Motmit (talk) 19:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

A little question

Dear Ser Amantio di Nicolao,

Many thanks for you addition of a category to the new little article on the Goatley boat. I am just here to ask how you spotted my new article? It is only curiosity. Best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 17:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC))

I think he´s back

I´m on holidays in Europe at the moment (no thanks to Qantas and Alan Joyce) and really don´t have the time, but I´m sure our ´friend´ is back as Fly191 - you just can´t keep a good man down can you. User contributions are here - would you mind doing the honours? YSSYguy (talk) 21:55, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Help with my page

Hi, I'm a student at Clemson University and for my english assignment we need to edit a wikipedia page and get feed back from other wikipedians. I've been working on the St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School page and I was wondering if you had any suggestions or comments for me. Thank you so much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Surrey3601 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Judith Hearne

Thanks. Headhitter (talk) 14:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Upload

Hi, can you help upload the school logo at: http://www.malonefamilyfoundation.com/malonescholars2011.html onto wikipedia and replace the photo in the article infobox? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheezesatzu (talk • contribs) 23:19, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

You have been

lighting up my watchlist like a pinball game (a good thing) but I went to a recent article John LaFarge you'd touched, and a strange thing occurred. I thought that I had uploaded the picture there so I clicked on it and learned that I had not. Or so it appeared. I looked in the history and found this [10] edit. Now I know that this has nothing to do with you, but I am such a luddite about this sort of thing and thought that perhaps you could offer some insights. I posted something like this at the Village Pump, but thought I'd toss this out to you to. You seem so productive now, I just felt a need to share my pain and perhaps break your concentration just a bit. Einar ak Carptrash (talk) 04:19, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Ignore that message. I got a good answer at Village Pump. I am just having a rough day, my wife is in the hospital and my dog has not returned from going out earlier. Here that usually means that the coyotes got him. Sign. Carptrash (talk) 04:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC) thumb|123px|right|All about your dream

I was on my way out this a.m. to paper the town, heard a WOOOOF and there he was, after an night on the town or something. Thanks for your thoughts. Carptrash (talk) 15:51, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

So I was at the library HUGE ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE this morning and picked up a deck of "Dream Cards" to take to my wife in the hospital, figuring she might enjoy them. Then I came home from lunch and discover your dream. So I cut the deck 3 times, flipped over the top card and here it is. What does it mean? That's your job to figure out. Life is supposed to be interesting. PS feel free to delete the card because it is on very shakey copyright ground. Carptrash (talk) 20:32, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Can you replace the ones in Category:Kingston, Jamaica with Category:Buildings and structures in Kingston, Jamaica? Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:50, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

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Anhui

Hi. Can you use AWB to go through all of Jaguar's Anhui stubs up until 13:00 GMT Sunday. He's been linking the Hebei link. Can you replace the url in the references with http://www.xzqh.org/html/ah/ ?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

AWB cleanup and tagging appreciated as always last night..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Expanded Quddus Khojamyarov which ironically I started in the first place...♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Later perhaps. Overdosed on the green tea I think, too much caffeine on the heart, didn't think about that one!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Ooo thanks, didn't know it existed! Can you create the missing categories in Byambasuren Sharav, more later once the heart settles down!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:27, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Mongolian musicians, such a pathetically underdeveloped part of wikipedia.. must have a break now and return when I feel better..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Can't find any more (composers) I'm afraid.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Most excellent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:12, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

My modifications to U.S 63 in Missouri

Hello Ser,

Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia. My name is Jim Przybylski (jprz67) and I just wanted to modify the section of Wikipedia about the Missouri leg of U.S. Highway 63 in the Kirksville, Missouri, area. I guess you'd call it a minor edit.

On October 26th, MoDOT changed the routing of U.S 63 and made it a two-lane bypass along the eastern side of Kirksville. The old Highway 63 (which passed through Kirksville along Baltimore Street) became Business 63. I'm not very savvy with the social media, but I decided to make myself a Wikipedia editor and modify the last section about the Missouri leg of U.S. 63. to reflect these changes. It seems to have worked! If you have any suggestions for modifications to make what I wrote more readable and/or efficient, I'm listening.

Thanks for the links about Wikipedia. I hope my changes concerning U.S 63 are helpful. I also hope you'll get this message and not 500 others. I'd feel more comfortable with e-mail.

Sincerely,

Jim Przybylski Jprz67 (talk) 06:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Newfoundland bays

Thank you for the talk pages, and Happy Thanksgiving! --Rosiestep (talk) 02:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Happy thanksgiving Ser Amantio and Rosie! i have a request. Can you create categories for monuments for each period of the dynasties of Egypt and try to find articles to populate them. French wikipedia would be a good starting place. Maybe something like Category:Buildings and structures of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:26, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Nother thing, can you rename Category:Bavarian literature awards Category:Bavarian literary awards and replace award-stub with lit-award stub? Also shall I propose a {{Germany-award -stub}}?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:11, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, on second thoughts rename in Category:Literary awards of Bavaria as there are others and you can't have a Baden Wurttemburgian literary awards!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:20, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Didn't get round to it yet? No worries. :if you are hear now can you be on the look out for city names and add things like Category:buildings and structures in Aachen, Dortmund etc?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

I'd forgotten too! Starting another batch now.. Then I'll just go through the Munich categories I think..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Tis OK, my sub stubs make up for it I guess.♦ Dr. Blofeld

Ser, I need some assistance. Can you create categories for the parishe sof Andorra as I go along and also add a sub section to parish articles like Notable landmarks and list the articles under them as I create them?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:54, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Well if you can manage the categories it would probably be more efficent to add them all at once afterwards this evening straight from the categories. I couls probably do it but I've got a big task ahead as it is, but nothing in scale by my standards of course!..♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:58, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. And we have photos for every one of them. The Wiki loves Monuments thing was a huge success. If you give people an incentive and launch competitions we got 200,000 more images than we have had otherwise and images of monuments which may have taken years to get hold of. We should be doing the same thing with articles. They always work.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

The listing may have to wait a week or two, i'm tiring of it right now, I'll do all of the casas today though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:41, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't forget WP Germany tags!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:14, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & DC Meetup 26!

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & Meetup - Who should come? You should. Really.

FINE ART EDIT-A-THON & DC MEETUP 26 is December 17! The Edit-a-Thon will cover fine art subjects from the Federal Art Project and the meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. You don't have to attend both to attend one (but we hope you do!) Click the link above and sign up & spread the word! See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 17:54, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography templates

Hi. I'm noticing that you're putting in a lot of WikiProject Biography templates on various deceased English (and maybe other) political figures; thanks! For the ones that are indeed deceased, is there any way that you could set the "living" parameter to "no"? Otherwise, the backlog of biographical articles without this set is growing very rapidly (Category:Biography articles without living parameter); this could cause problems if some living person's article got lost in the shuffle, it wasn't kept an eye on properly because the living parameter wasn't set, and they sued Wikipedia. It would also be nice if the article class was set to Stub when there's a stub template on the article (or to List for the various List articles - are those supposed to have a WikiProject Biography template on them in the first place?). The "listas" parameter is probably going to require manual intervention, unfortunately. Thanks! Allens (talk) 02:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Stanley Holloway

Hi. I know that you're a very good reviewer. Stanley Holloway has been [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stanley Holloway/archive1 Nominated at FAC]. If you have time to review the article and [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stanley Holloway/archive1 comment here], it would be much appreciated. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

United Neurodiagnostic Professionals of America

A bot placed tags on the article United Neurodiagnostic Professionals of America. Someone removed the tags. Should the tags be placed back? The article is new.Msruzicka (talk) 03:12, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Redirects

A user called Hoops gza has created about 2 dozen redirects for example List of streets named after Adolf Hitler and List of squares named after Adolf Hitler and List of places named after Adolf Hitler and List of roads named after Adolf Hitler and List of streets named after Hitler and List of streets and squares named after Hitler and List of squares named after Hitler and List of places named after Hitler and List of roads named after Hitler and Streets and squares named after Adolf Hitler and Squares named after Adolf Hitler and Places named after Adolf Hitler and Roads named after Adolf Hitler and Streets and squares named after Hitler and Streets named after Hitler and Squares named after Hitler and Places named after Hitler and Roads named after Hitler and List of streets and squares named after Adolf Hitler and eventually Streets named after Adolf Hitler. Are all those redirects necessary, they seem a little excessive.Msruzicka (talk) 03:37, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Swiss

Urg we have both Category:People from Burgdorf, Canton of Bern and Category:People from Burgdorf, Switzerland. Can you merge and also categorize those listed on the town page? Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Excellent, sorry if I've been plodding of late BTW.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Its difficult to really get in the "encyclopedic" mood of late. It requires a lot of concentration. My outlook on wikipedia can range very dramatically at times. Tomorrow, hopefully, I'll create over a hundred.. The problem I have chiefly is the content missing vs readability thing. At times the sheer amount of work needed to make it the quality encyclopedia we all want is overwhelming and there are just to many topics which could potentially be developed!.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:25, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry I've been very inactive of late. I've been on a strict calorie controlled diet with things like spinach and tuna etc and been exercising to the max and I haven't had the energy to concentrate on anything substantial as I usually would. I've had my first high calorie meal in over a week this evening pasta and bacon and I feel much better now!! I'm still in my usual good shape but I'm trying to get down to very low body fat but its pretty gruelling and I like my food! Obviously its not all I'm been doing though! Sometimes its good I think to take a decent break from active editing, you find you appreciate it more when you come back then..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:51, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Yeah its a sacrifice alright. Its achievable if I remain consistent and keep it up for 4-6 weeks. I really needed that pasta today though!! My focus is that once it has burnt off and your metabolism is at an all time high, as long as you continue to exercise regularly you should be able to go back to relatively normal eating and maintain it. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:38, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

This has been my daily consumption for about 10 days now, except for Sunday and Wednesday when I have a roast dinner, but its still all veg,

• Breakfast - Banana and apple, cup of green tea
• Lunch - Large bowl of cereal with milk, nuts, bananas
• Mid Afternoon - Chopped celery and apple and coffee
• Dinner - Large spinach salad, half a tin of tuna, celery, apple and small baked potato. Half a grapefruit for dessert..
• Supper - Green tea and one row of chocolate.

I also take green tea extract 7000mg and drink tons of water, you feel less hungry when you drink more water! i eat as much of the greens as I like, all that fibre in your stomach makes you feel less hungry and low calories at the same time!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Reckon you could get by on that with 1-2 hours of cardio?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:55, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Yeah the single row of chocolate is the only treat I allow. That and cheese on the baked potato! The amount of calories in total is less than half the daily recommended intake. But I don't feel starved on it, you need to eat enough, but your brain does feel a little heavy and grumpy because its not getting 800 calorie meals at dinner! About to start a load of Turkish geo stubs anyway..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Just bought a 22 inch wide screen monitor. Currently got a 17 inch square one. The pedia should look a lot different on it don't you think?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Two eh? Well I've got an Acer PC and am still using the Dell monitor form the old PC. The monitor is still pretty good but I think the new monitor is going to be a visual improvement and will be good for watching DVDs on.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:19, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Do you have any problems with Cologne Blue setting these days? I tried it a few weeks back but the new category gaps in lines have messed up the top alignment and on pages with many categories and interwiki links it looks ridiculous. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Haha on a new monitor things looking very wide... Thanks for your tagging and cleanup but can you use AWB to fix the dab link on the Gölbaşı pages. I hadn't realised it was a dab and just got spammed by the dab bot!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:01, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm using cologne blue now on the widescreen and it looks great. Only thing is my sub stubs look frightfully short and even fair sized articles look smaller!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Visual changes make a big difference with me, its almost like a new encyclopedia now! The screen is 10.5 inches high, same as my old one but 18 inches wide instead of 11... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Seasons greetings Ser Amantio! How are you? Sorry I didn't develop the fire article to GA but I found sources and it sort of gave me a headache!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:36, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

What disambiguating?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:17, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh yeah! Sorry, thanks for that! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:21, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Is it me or is Miley Cyrus extremely irritating? Her 40 year old smokers voice and laugh too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:31, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I think she must be the male Bieber. I can't believe millions of young girls would actually aspire to be her!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

oh I didn't mean success or momentary relevance. I just meant in the annoying stakes.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:58, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Yeah it screamed "lesbian wanabee" didn't it LOL. The funny thing is that millions of kids across America and UK suddenly grew their fringes to impress the girls and try to look like him!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:46, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I used to wonder why on earth Brooklyn Beckham had a bowl haircut for a few years. Then one day Bieber got a haircut and so did he. Can't blame the kid with the amount of teenage girls who like Bieber. I and lots of schoolfriends once had curtains for a few years in the mid 90s too rather embarrassingly because of Mysterious Girl and Peter Andre and of course Daid Beckham too. Every good looking teenage girl used to go on about Peter Andre and David Beckham's "gorgeous" hair. Porbably the same with US girls and guys like that Nick Carter from the Backstreet boys. LOL my hair used to look exactly like his in the 90s! Can't blame me though... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:06, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

worth doing?

Are assessments like this Talk:1160s in poetry worth doing? There are more than 1000 of these unassessed poetry year articles on WP:Poetry. I'm rating them NA.--INeverCry 06:39, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

French basketball players

first i want to thank you for helping to improve my articles,i was wondering if you can do me a favor i created loads of french basketball player articles ,i make sure they all played games in France's top league pro A,plus i put the number 1 French website basketlfb.com on the Pro A players .yet a wikipedian (night of the big) wind most likely in good faith tagged my articles stating that i fail to describe the notability yet its crystal clear ,i even mention that they play for pro A for men or league feminine de basket(lfb) for women according to wikipedia's rules the french pro A league and LFB are notable enough as TOP leagues plus the source i add can't get any better its the official source for both the men and women even used on french wikipedia articles,i worked so hard on these articles i don't want to see them go.again i feel my description of the players notability although a stub is crystal clear plus even though i added 1 source i feel its enough as its the top website on these players.i can always add more sources another time but i feel basketlfb for women and the one for the men is more than enough without the tags.i come to you cause i feel you have authority or know someone who is an administrator who can help,once again i feel wikipedian (night of the big wind) added the tags in good faith but i feel he doesnt understand that the stubs clearly give the reader the notability and reason for it plus my sources are solid.i like creating french biography articles i put alot of work into them usually i create stubs cause i like to make lots of articles quickly but i will try to add more to the articles later.i would appreciate it if you can look into this,and thanks again for helping my articles with categories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marquette984 (talk • contribs) 09:16, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

no problem, the more i think of it the wikipedian (night of the wind) who tagged my page with the blp tags most likely did right thing.looking back i over reacted when all my articles were tagged i thought the tags at first threatened my articles with deletion ,but i think those tags are just a maintenance issue my introductions are a little messy.i was getting worried all my articles would get deleted but i think those blp tags are just for maintenance.and thanks again for adding extra categories to my articles .i created this account mostly for French basketball players but i will also create French athlete and French handball players.by the way are you French? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marquette984 (talk • contribs) 13:57, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Moultrie Flag

Thanks for helping with the categories. I didn't know about Hotcat, and I remember when I could keep the categories on Wikipedia in my head. --Kaz (talk) 18:53, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

please check out my new article

Willis_H._Flygare and thank you for your help ! Standard2211 (talk) 03:02, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Ho Ho HO

You just set off about half a dozen of the Massachusetts sculptors on my watchlist. Don't you have presents to wrap or something? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:49, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

And I am trying to decide if I have enough on Tomás "Tomasito" Romero to start a stub. I don't really have my sources that well together, but, hey, isn't this the time of year to be generous? Carptrash (talk) 02:06, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Peter Mansfield

Hi there, you recently added "Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences" to Sir Peter Mansfield's page. Is this correct? The only reason I doubt it is because he's not American, and hasn't worked in the US for a great many years (i.e. before he became well known). GyroMagician (talk) 20:55, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

National Archives ExtravaSCANza

You are invited to the National Archives ExtravaSCANza, taking place every day next week from January 4–7, Wednesday to Saturday, in College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC metro area). Come help me cap off my stint as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives with one last success! This will be a casual working event in which Wikipedians are getting together to scan interesting documents at the National Archives related to a different theme each day—currently: spaceflight, women's suffrage, Chile, and battleships—for use on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. The event is being held on multiple days, and in the evenings and weekend, so that as many locals and out-of-towners from nearby regions1 as possible can come. Please join us! Dominic·t 01:36, 30 December 2011 (UTC) 1 Wikipedians from DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, New York City, and Pittsburgh have been invited.