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Blofeld's nuclear command center for intercepting NASA, Soviet and "Kreblakistani" rockets. It is operated by my North Korean henchman, an evil nuclear scientist and former world snooker professional Ill lit'le Kim Taylor. Scientific research conducted in Pyongyang in the 1960s confirmed that gigantic spectacles block out harmful nuclear radiation and that snooker balls are indeed radioactive and hazardous to the health. See him in action here demonstrating that the adverse effects can be avoided if adequate eyewear is worn

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Other than this His Baldness welcomes you with loving arms.

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Hey

Hey there, I'm still working on the Tajik Wikipedia, although less so recently. I'm doing a PhD at the University of Alicante at the moment (well, for the next few years) and most of my time is taken up with working on Apertium :) Not seen Opeth recently, but if they come to Spain I'm sure to go :D - Francis Tyers · 20:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope, I don't actually speak it fluently, but I help out the guys with Wiki formatting etc. - Francis Tyers · 20:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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Festivals

Hi, Blof-- The two recent big projects I've worked on were Kim Ki-young and Anna May Wong, both of which I helped up to GA status. A group of editors and I are starting to put the Wong article up through FA review, and I'd like to do the same with Kim. I started the Template:Kim Ki-young and blue-linked all the films on that, except for The Housemaid which was already there... Other than that, a little of this & that... Been maintaining the articles in my area of expertise, I've started up the occasional new article :-) I've been adding a lot of film posters to articles-- many of which had had film posters before, but which were deleted by some admin who couldn't take the time to fix the image description-- one of my favorite Wiki-gripes... For the past week or so, I've been helping out a little with Fires on the Plain (film), and I've been checking in on Wikipedia:Deletion today to help save some obviously mis-nominated pages. Looking for another big project to start on now-- I've been thinking about filling out another article in Korean cinema-- either Im Kwon-taek, Na Woon-gyu, or maybe the big article itself. Dekkappai (talk) 20:17, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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Have you tried leaving him a note about it? Otherwise, just ignore it - that's what I ended up doing. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't let it get you down - honestly, I didn't let it get to me when I was doing Antarctic stuff, and I got tagged a lot for that. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:51, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't appear to have disliked those as much. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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Peace

Mr. Bigglesworth fighting for the mouse

Get out of the way Mr. Bigglesworth!

File:Blofeldthebaby.jpg

Mmmm. Which kitty? I think the third one looks rather like an obese feline version of Dave Gilmour

Upside down Mr. Bigglesworth

My North Korean henchman Il Littl'Kim Jong Taylor as a child with an embarrasing bowl haicut. "Mmm i love nu-clear glasses. Mmmm". See Il Little Kim all grown up alongside me here

Stifler's mom lol. OHHHH Finchy baby

LOL... This one who opposed in the beginning is back at FAC now. John gave him some very good answers. Shahid • ^Talk2me 07:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

See Zinta here -- she is so different here, isn't she? Shahid • ^Talk2me 08:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Someone has vandalised my user page... Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't know who it is. I've never come across this user... Just can't get who can be so keen to vandalise my user page after a gap of time in no editing.

Hey see something interesting: Times Online. See the bottom of this article -- you will find that the info they wrote was based on non other than..... boxofficeindia.com... Amazing!!! And it's Times Online, a western newspaper - not ToI which is Indian... Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

WOW that's amazing... Also, so many edits... Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Why have you removed the messages? Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

He is an extremely intelligent guy. I haven't seen many such editors as him, except for Zora, Blofeld etc... BTW, have you heard of Blofeld? He is a great editor. LOL!!! Talk to you later. Shahid • ^Talk2me 18:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe yes, but I'm not going to concede. It's just a caprice of one such editor. If Times Online can use it, so can we. Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

No I forgot about it... LOL!! I told Sandy about him canvassing editors to oppose in such a disgusting manner -- see it -- but she did not respond... Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:32, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! LOL! --- 15th August. Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

This Sarvagnya works so hard. See what he has written on one of the talk pages:

See what he says here: "Would you also be able to weigh in on this FAC? imho, it is bad enough not to be FA." !!!!

And see what Relata says on the notiboard re BOI:

"Well, whichever part of that was a response to Shahid's point is probably wrong. If this source is , as Shahid claims, by other reliable sources, that is, indeed, the best possible sign (and our original standard!) that it is reliable. Private investigation is secondary to that basic criterion."

Great! Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Lawngkyaw

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Settlement articles

It's good to see those new articles being created.... I'll try and flesh the articles out a bit more. Ta, --1qx (talk) 12:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

• I'll see what I can do with regards to those articles... it'll be needed. Ta, --1qx (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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oooops

Ooops...sorry I missed your messages (those were 3 or 4 messages up in my talk page, and I missed them).

Yes, hep is definitely needed for Gangtok article. So far, I have tried to add inline citations, and expanded several sections as I came across sources. I have not yet looked inthttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_sig.png Your signature with timestampo the "City institution" sub-section, and "Culture" may also be expanded further. Both these headings would incorporate things that would have some Tibetan connection. Also deficient is the History section.

Please help particularly in these sections, and, in general, anywhere you wish to in the article. You can also create articles on the institutions of the city. Thanks a lot. Regards, and sorry again...--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, districts of Laos seem to be very poorly covered. Almost all are in red links.

Regarding Gangtok, yes of course there are a lot of articles that can be created. And a navigation template as well. Let alone temples, institutions, there may even be notable localities near Gangtok (and Sikkim as a whole) that lack articles.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

That would be absolutely great. The template reminds me of Template:SouthAsiaWaters.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Created stub film articles for Bhagya Chakra, Dhoop Chhaon also. Nitin Bose, in today's DYK, is a good read.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I also went through Liberian National Museum. Bye the way, Nitin Bose was not written by me, it was another user User:GDibyendu, who is creating some very good film related articles as well.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

And, none in wikipedia is as prolific as you. You are the most prolific human editor of wikipedia, as far as I remember, (at least in terms of new article creation) right?--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot fun...

... should be (hopefully) over now. Hersfold added your name to the same list where Coren added my name, when the bot didn't like Malagasy cruft. – Sadalmelik ☎ 15:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, think positive. I just run Interiots editcounter for the bot, and you have just become become the #1 enemy for the bot with 82 copyvio warnings while Afil (adding Romanian rivers) has 81. A rather suitable position for evil villain, I think! The Anome is a distant third with 47. Then AlbertHerring, Editorofthewiki and MacRusgail. I'm the public enemy #7 with 19 copyvio notices.... I'll take a look at what I have for Laos, perhaps I'm lucky this time. – Sadalmelik ☎ 15:49, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Dang, they beat me to solving the problem. MBisanz ^talk 15:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

That is pretty awesome in covering little-known subjects. I know BaldBot didn't work out, but hopefully down the road we'll be able to figure out how to deal with villenous super-contributors like you. Bwahahaha. MBisanz ^talk 16:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

5/9 DYK

On 9 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Liberian National Museum, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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New thread

Mass stubbing, recat etc count towards total edit. But 20,000 new articles is mind-boggling. I once met Raul who talked about his wish to create a huge number of significant new articles. After a few days, I saw his message in your talk page which led to that list of wikipedians by number of new articles created. And you were way ahead of others back then. This is really great. Take a bow!!

Regarding infancy of wikipedia, the problem is, as you have told, systemic bias i think. Non-English speaking nations are sometimes very poorly represented, such as the districts of Laos. Unfortunately a great deal of human resource here is wasted in debates and edit wars etc.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

He he...so is life...this just reflects real life :)--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

wikicookies

Yup, that's me, Betty Crocker, baking all those cookies (lol). I signed up to give out 200 wikicookies and decided to give them to new article writers while doing New Page Patrol. I was so pleasantly surprised with the responses. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice work!

Laos, I've never been to but seems to have lots of great sightseeing. Your working progress really impresses me and tempts me to plan a trip!!!! (I have to save money for that though)--Appletrees (talk) 20:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the awesome picture The view is breathtaking and I wish go there sometime. Man, you can run a top rated travel agency. Honestly, I did not know where Laos is located, just thought somewhere in Southeast Asia. I'm getting interested in Vietnam because of the history to the contrary to that of Cambodia. Thankfully, nature of many countries in Asian still are intact from industrialization which makes them special for tourists. --Appletrees (talk) 20:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, we're educating each other by creating or implementing articles here. Hey, by the way many Asian people want to travel Europe, because people tend to get intrigued to unfamiliar and unknown worlds? :) --Appletrees (talk) 20:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure, they're crazy about castles and château, because for most Americans, Europe is where their ancestors lived, so their enthusiasm for the historical areas is very much understandable. Funny thing about costume movies created by Hollywood these days is that when they make films set in Europe, they hire many actors from Australia, neither American nor British. Maybe because Australian accent is in the middle of the two English? Besides, even if film setting is held in France, actors try to speak in British accent, not French accent.....--Appletrees (talk) 21:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

You're right. The English gentleman image is very strong, so people do expect Hugh Grant-ish looking from British just like French woman image. I've only been to London areas in the UK, but will visit Wales and Scotland someday (Rossini's opera, La donna del lago is set near a loch in Scotland.) Yes, I'm completing over half of dongs in Seoul (over 350). That job is tedious, but I get to know the neighborhood anyway. --Appletrees (talk) 21:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I had thought Gwyneth is a British or at least her parents immigrant to the US. Oh, you seem to be a student and if you get a job in the field, I bet you can be a traveling TV show star just like the host of The Amazing Race (although the program is more like boasting how the US television has money and great sceneries are introduced a little due to the competition in hurry)--Appletrees (talk) 21:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I bet your assets would lead the job you want to be. I can't even imagine you're a 9-5 office worker. :) Anyway, keep up the good work!--Appletrees (talk) 21:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

OMG, that is quite a load of work and how did you find all the sources? Wikipedia is really getting shaped good with you!--Appletrees (talk)

Oh, you have a cute "baldy" bot enable to assist your gigantic task. :) Yeah, Wikipedia keeps growing, so eventually Africa and other places will have their own article to introduce their stories and cultures. I think some parts of Africa are in French speaking world, so if you can speak many foreign languages, you can get more info. --Appletrees (talk) 13:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

extra spaces and punctuation in your new pages

Hi Blofeld, In the Laos village pages you're currently creating, you have a space before the reference and an extra period at the end after the reference. Would you stop using those so they don't have to be cleaned up later? Thanks, Aleta ^Sing 20:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I think the period/full stop should go before the ref. :) Aleta ^Sing 20:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Boungbale

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Ow, err, I don't have a grudge against you, I use the new pages user script and pick random ones. – ThatWikiGuy (talk) 11:30, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

As a head's up, please do not remove the afd tag on the article unless the AFD is over. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 12:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Togo bot

I don't have any bots directly at hand, I'm afraid. But it generally works to just file a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests for such tagging. John Carter (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Understood, believe me. Unfortunately, I got no clue how to go about creating a bot, as that techy stuff is beyond me. I can try to get some help, though. John Carter (talk) 14:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I might wait on that until User:SatyrTN returns. He has a bot which will automatically add banners to articles in a given category tree which gets run on a regular basis. My guess is he'd probably be the one who would have the easier time of it. I am watching to see when he returns, because I have several other requests for him too. John Carter (talk) 15:09, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Tibet

Well, sorry if I took my anger out on you, it was only after I've cleaned up a dozen different articles where people do not know how to align images correctly, and it either leaves gigantic gaps in the text or scrunches them together. I guess seeing your edit was my boiling point after fixing other articles with the same problem over and over, and since I've never seen your edits before I simply assumed you were an amateur like the rest. Good work on the article otherwise.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I thought that was strange as well, removing the ENTIRE history section without at least providing a small summary. I would like to contribute more, but strangely enough my university library has a limited selection of quality books on Tibet (plenty of quantity, but not quality surprisingly). I was shocked to find how little JSTOR has to offer in regards to Tibetan history articles from scholarly journals. There are a number of items available on Google Books which provided me with a significant portion of the material I used to craft Tibet during the Ming Dynasty, but even this has its limits. If only I had time to venture out to the Library of Congress! Now that would be fruitful. I'll see what I can do.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

That's an impressive amount of articles you've created; I certainly hate seeing red links everywhere on Wikipedia, especially for critical geographic articles.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Stubs or not, you've made that important leap into creating essential articles that you or others can expand upon in the future. As for Tibetan cultural identity and its relation to China, the scholar Elliot Sperling from Indiana University writes that the idea that Tibet is an integral and inalienable part of China was largely constructed during the 20th century when China transformed itself from an empire into a modern nation state. Before that time, Tibet was merely regarded as a feudal dependent that China had fairly loose suzerainty over.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:42, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

History of European exploration in Tibet --> again, nice work!--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

For the info on Elliot Sperling I mentioned above, look here in the article I've created. You might find his material and others from that section useful in the main Tibet article, that is if you find space to include some of it.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it was a bit of work as you can tell. As for keeping the vandals at bay, I've got 446 different articles on my watchlist, so I'm in the same camp of reverting garbage on a daily basis.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Great suggestion; I've added my name to the roster.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 21:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. In the next few days, I'll scour what else my university library has to offer on Tibet (the books that I haven't investigated yet), and hopefully a universal text on Tibetan culture, geography, history, etc. will pop up. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 21:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Tibet history edits

Hi Ernst! Thank you for your comments on my Talk page. I am so sorry that I have upset you with my edits on Tibet. I knew this was going to be a most difficult (and controversial) job and that I had very limited time to do it in. I was so upset that having the two articles each with very large sections on Tibetan history was leading to contradictions, confusion and far too much duplication leading to an inability for readers to follow all the additions and POV aguments which were being added to each. It really was a confusing jumble and, I judged, made it impossible for ordinary readers to get any sort of coherent picture of Tibetan history. It seemed important to me to have the vast bulk of the historical discussions available in one place where the contradictions and unnecessarily long-winded duplications would become more immediately obvious and, therefore, more easily corrected.

One of the main problems has been that it all has taken much longer than I thought - so I hadn't got back to rewriting a much more concise history section before others started working on it.

When I first copied out the history section alone of the Tibet article it filled 15 full A4 pages in Word and was a tangled mess of some excellent material mixed up with numerous contradictions and repetitions and poorly referenced POVs. I tried unsuccessfully to straighten it out and then decided the only thing to do was to remove it entirely and try my best to merge it into the History of Tibet article before coming back to write an historical précis for the main Tibet page (something I never got back to do).

I am very sorry it has not worked out as well as I had hoped and now I have to ask others to help get both articles back up to speed again. I hope, though, that the exercise has not been totally in vain. It should, at least, be easier now to see what needs to be done. I hope so.

BTW I haven't (recently anyway) edited any other sections of the Tibet article - so I'm not responsible for the state of the Intro or other sections. I agree they need a lot more work. Apologies for all the hassles. Best wishes, John Hill (talk) 22:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Boungbale AfD

Hi Blofeld - just saw your note on the Boungbale AfD about disambiguating identically named places in the same region. One method I've seen used before is to show a direction and distance from the nearest larger place, e.g., Boungbale (12 km northeast of Foo), Boungbale (5 km southwest of Foo). A bit crude, but it works. Grutness...wha? 01:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Re. Tibet History

Hi buddy! Good to hear from you - and sorry I have caused you all this angst! There is certainly no need for you to apologise! This whole fuss is really my fault. I was reading the Tibet article the other day and was horrified by the size of the section on Tibetan history and the jumble and confusion and POV in it. I thought that, especially with the focus on Tibet-China relations at the moment it was really urgent to get something more coherent and accurate together in one place. I thought I could do it in the few days left before my big trip - but probably overestimated my own capabilities and hadn't counted on the stream of unannounced visitors coming to wish us a good trip (and wanting to stay for a couple of hours drinking coffee and chatting).

I really did mean to get back to writing a shorter history on the Tibet page but I was too slow off the mark and I should have decorated the site with big Under Construction warning signs and also I should have realised you would have been right on the ball as usual and warned you personally.

Anyway, from this point on - I think it should be much easier to straighten everything out. The historical notes you have added to the Tibet article are a good start - and I am grateful you have restored some of the photos.

My only suggestions are that we should now try make it as brief and punchy as possible without losing the basic flow of the history. I, for example, would like to see a bit more on the ancient kings and the establishment of the Dharma and the early Empire while separating out some of less critical material in the more recent history.

I will try to do what I can while on this trip - but it may not be much, unfortunately - and now is when large numbers of people are likely to be checking the Wikipedia for information on Tibet. Also, of course, all the material in the History of Tibet article needs to be rechecked and tidied up. Sorry to leave you such a headache! I send you my apologies once again and all best wishes and thanks for your concern and hard work. John Hill (talk) 10:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC) PS Do have a look at the long quote I have given in the History of Tibet article from the 821/2 Treaty between China and Tibet. If only something similar could be worked out again now!

Hi again, Ernst! thanks for your latest note - and do please have a look on my Talk Page for my apology (which includes a paste of my letter above). Oh, and please do read the quote from the 821/2 Treaty between Tibet and China in the History of Tibet article. I find it quite inspiring! Let's hope better days are ahead for both the Tibetan and the Chinese people - the whole world would be a better place if they could become friends once more. John Hill (talk) 10:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Oliver Beerhof

I was a bit hasty to do that at first, but Ghits of that exact term are little to none. I didn't want to insult your intelligence either, I've seen all the new pages you've been creating on the new pages page - it's difficult keeping up to mark them as patrolled - at least we know you're not a one-hit editor whose sole goal is to vandalise! Keep up the good work! Booglamay (talk) 11:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Image licensing

I was looking over Image:Tristan da Cunha5.jpg to finish its move to Commons, and noticed the Flickr page for that image says, "© All rights reserved", which conflicts with the GFDL license you had indicated. Which license is correct? If the GFDL is correct, could you arrange for an update of the Flickr page? Lyrl^Talk _C 13:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Admins don't handle OTRS. OTRS volunteers are nominated in a separate process: meta:OTRS/volunteering

I'm going to poke around the OTRS pages for a while and see if I can figure out who to ask for help in tagging these pictures correctly. Lyrl^Talk _C 13:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Mexico etc.

Haven't really had any luck with it these past few days; I haven't spent that much time close to an AWB-enabled computer. Looks like it'll rain tonight, so I should have some time then.

Thanks for the congrats - congrats yourself on getting DYK a couple days back. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:58, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

That...is a very nice shot.

I have to admit that I picked Quaife to write about primarily because I was amused by his name (not nice, I know.) Other than that, I've been trying to gain coverage for some anonymous European painters here; there are some interesting artists I've encountered that don't have any coverage. It's frightening, sometimes, the sheer scope of what's missing here. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Africa aside, there's gobs of stuff missing in Europe and the United States, to name but two places. A bot would be great for taking care of some of the geographical tasks, though...free up time for other pursuits. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure, to be honest. I'd hope that there will be much better coverage of the Third World, and I'd like to think that some of the most dedicated editors are going to transfer their energies to other things once their WikiProjects are completed. And I think some of the gaps in art and music topics will start to be somewhat closed. What I don't forsee, without committed effort, is a lot of growth on articles that are already there. There's so much that ought to be at, or near, Featured status, but that isn't because people haven't devoted the energy to making it better. I'm guilty of this myself, to be honest. I hope it'll get better, though.

What about you? Where do you see the project in ten years? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

As I say - it depends on who gets involved, and what his chosen focus is. Look, for instance, at "cephalophore". I started it as a two-line stub a couple of years back, and look what it's become. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:12, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

It does. But that's the Saints WikiProject at work - they're awfully dedicated, and have done a good job cleaning up some of the other stuff I've cobbled together, too. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:28, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

The Danish film? Not really - just italicizing the translated title. Sorry if I stepped into anything. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Danish Films

It was hard not to notice your name all over the place when I started adding to the Danish cinema section... but I didn't check out your page until I was writing Inger Stender's bio today. (All those Inger Stender movies! Did you have a thing for her? I do now.) Anyway, as you noticed, I reformatted the pages to fit the side table, and I think the American Film pages are nice, but I also think that I'll wait until there are a whole lot more danish films added before reformatting in a similar style. In the meantime, I'll just keep jumping around, adding movies, bios, links and the like -- in general, just plugging away on the stuff that sparks my interest. You made a great start, and I'll continue on. CactusWriter (talk) 20:11, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree wholeheartedly -- fascinating stuff to learn. And fascination is definitely the key. (Or is it addiction? Hmm... probably both). While adding films, I keep finding new names to investigate. Especially from the early years. There are a lot of forgotten names, and those early actors and directors were definitely cool. CactusWriter (talk) 20:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Arturo Corcuera

I can try, but Spanish isn't really my forte. It'll have to wait a bit, though, as I have to be out of here in ten minutes. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Taoism

Too Get on "My Hero List", You have to Impress me Beyond Belief and Have & Hold 99.9% of the Pieces to "The Big Picture".

My Hero List

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blofeld_of_SPECTRE

ODD's & IN's

My Nomination for the Up Comming Election is

         "Blofeld_of_SPECTRE"
                   4
Board elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions

I pledge $100.00 US to WIKIMedia Fundrasing If, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blofeld_of_SPECTRE Submits an Honest Effort Entry to be on the

    Board of Wikimedia Foundation 

UBUIBIOK@GMAIL.com Ubuibiok (talk) 02:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Go for it. I don't think Jimbo would mind $100 more in the corporate coffers. And 100K edits is enough to impress a lot of people. Why not? :) John Carter (talk) 21:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Just to say hai

Tinucherian has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend or a new friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Have a nice day ! -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 09:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Re

I say go for it!

Hey nice image above... Shahid • ^Talk2me 10:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeh she's really beautiful! Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

That's the case, there is a reliable source, and the reliable source is BOI. I think those editors themselves don't believe the opposite... Who would ever think that Times Online uses unreliable sources? With all due respect, the fact that Girolamo sided Sarvagnya means nothing, because, at the end of the say, he is an editor like you and me, as you very frankly stated on his discussion page. I can replace now sources, and get it promoted, but would it be fair toward all those 300 articles which cite BOI and will be destroyed if the source is removed? Was someone brave enough to question to accuracy of the information provided on the site? Does someone doubt it? I can't think only about Zinta, I have to think about all those Bollywood-related articles. This is the only source that collects all the possible Bollywood film statistics in one site. Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Well that's what you should tell Girolamo and others, who are on good terms with you. I think you remember my dispute with Girolamo over Wikiproject back in time. Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

That's not the case, I'm just not going to concede. Please do not replace yet. I do have very precise sources for the facts. I first want to see the final verdict. Shahid • ^Talk2me 12:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it's wrong that instead of fighting Sarvagnya, you are going with him. You said section is very well referenced but there's no reference to that. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

It does not support the claim. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

But I disagree with removing the site. Let's first discuss rather than give up. Why don't you try to argue and fight for the source if you believe it's reliable. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You should not work so hard, I told you already I have references to replace these with, why are you looking for references then? Well I appreciate that but it's not the matter now. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

So let's wait for the final decision then... It's not the end. And if it were teenagers, it wouldn't be cited by Times Online... Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:43, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Well Wikipedia is a bad comparison. Please remove your messages from my talk page. Some editors will now utilise that... Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I asked you to remove the messages in which you say teenagers because someone will quote it... Well you don't understand and it doesn't matter. In fact, I'm leaving Wikipedia very soon, so there's nothing to be worried about. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Will respond soon. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes and I replied. Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

HAHAHA responded. Shahid • ^{Talk</span>2me} 15:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You must see the noticeboard! Sarvagnya now questions the reliability of boxofficemojo.com as well in the same way he did that with BOI. I think it makes some things clear. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You've got a mail :) Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Does not look good honestly... Very dark and stretched and the tear is hardly seen. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

And I knew you'd know what I'd say :) Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

On the noticeboard, in the "break on Boxofficeindia.com: special invitation for broader input" section, User:John Z left a looong message which was unnoticed. What do you think about it? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Here - his point is extremely valid. It's a big WOW! But it went unnoticed because it was not posted in the right subsection, because there are several subsections after "break on Boxofficeindia.com: special invitation for broader input" which he may have mistakenly considered new topics. We should contact him and ask him to move his message to the last relevant subsection of BOI. Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Very great and impressive as always. I wouldn't like to move his comment. I think asking him would be the best thing and then he will also add some things to his note. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Well it's most likely not to pass FAC, but some points are valid, so it's good to improve the article. I'll see your mail later mate. Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm tired Blofeld, very tired. It seems like my dream to make it FA is.... you know... Thank you for the help. Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Congratulations on getting WP:Thailand up and running. Sorry I am not around to help with tagging and editing. Thing is, my job has changed and has become a lot more demanding, plus I have another project that I've been doing and it has ended up taking more time than I thought it would. At the end of the day, I am so tired, I don't have any more energy for work. I hope one day I can get back on Wikipedia, and I still dive in occasionally to make small edits, but I doubt I'll ever be back up at the level of contributions I was making before things at work changed. I hope you understand. TAke care. — WiseKwai 20:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

bot

Do you know if we can rerun the BaldBot to create all these towns and villages? They are really starting to become a pain, especially since I'm working on FAing Ivorian politician Felix Houphouet-Boigny. I don't know a thing about them, though I did create one: User:EditorBot, when I was new. Its intention was to, ironically, create articles on French villages. Alas, it was rejected for I didn't know a thing about them. Nut much has changed. :) I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 21:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

How do you propose we do so. I apologise, I can't be of much help setting this thing up. perhaps we could ask some person who is more experianced at creating bots. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 21:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I have added a request at WP:BOTREQ. Please comment there. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 21:50, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Museum in Vietnam

I was checking "what links here" for Albert Memorial, and was surprised to see a Vietnam museum pop up. The article was a mess, so I redirected to the city article, but I remembered that you were creating museum stubs recently. Do you want to have a go at turning Nha Trang Live History Museum into an article, using the material in the page history at Nha trang live history muesum? I think this is meant to be a different museum to the Yersin Museum, which looks quite interesting (and doesn't have an article). But it might be the same thing. What do you think? Carcharoth (talk) 22:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I should have left User:Synitti a message. I'll do that later, but if you do end up doing something here, maybe you could leave a message instead? If you don't have time to deal with this, just say, and I'll explain why I redirected it and help them if they want to write an article on the museum. Carcharoth (talk) 22:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I suspect the bit about the London museum got carried over in a cut-and-paste when trying to find a suitable template on which to base the article, and the editor forgot to remove that bit. Still, the editor has been welcomed and maybe someone will one day write something about the Yersin museum. Carcharoth (talk) 16:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

It's not that uncommon. Anyway, his article explains all:

"Soon afterwards (1890), he left for French Indochina in Southeast Asia as a physician to the Messageries Maritimes company, in the Saigon-Manila line and then in the Saigon-Haiphong line. In 1894 Yersin was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong-Kong, to investigate the ongoing Manchurian Pneumonic Plague epidemic, and there, in a small hut next to the institute ( from "Plague" by Wendy Orent) along with his co-discoverer Shibasaburo Kitasato, he made his greatest discovery, that of the pathogen which causes the disease."

I came across another scientist-museum connection the other day. See John Allan Broun, Napier Museum and Trivandrum Zoo. Carcharoth (talk) 17:01, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Smile!

Mapping system

Hmm, this is a good idea, but I'm not a coding expert, so I have no idea how to code it. I've pasted your message to User:SQL who does know more complex things like that, so hopefully he can figure out how to have a bot work off a standardized list to make articles. Its been done before by Rambot, but his operator is no longer active. Good find. MBisanz ^talk 15:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Crying Shame

An editor in India has spent a great deal of effort to create an article Tanjore Diary, which is a collection of economic and demographic data on several villages. His work is on the verge of being deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanjore Diary because he didn't format it correctly and nobody can figure out his intent. Could you take a look at it? I believe that it could be the basis of 11 articles. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 15:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Response

Lack of civility is unbecoming in an experienced user such as yourself. Everyone makes errors of judgment, and your tone seems to elevate these to mortal sins. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 16:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Cleaning up is a matter of degree: coming across a sorry stub or a dab with one blue and one red link. I'll add what I can for inhabited places - which are inherently notable so deletion is not an option. But I don't expect anyone who tries to improve an article to either make it an FA or leave it be. If I can find a citation in the online databases I'll populate it with that data - an infobox that will have nothing more than the geographic coordinates doesn't do much to advance the ball at that level. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Museum-stubs

Just to make sure, maybe I'll go and create some African museum stubs right now :) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Oooh, looky what I found! --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I know - my mind was elsewhere and I screwed up on that first one. Corrected now. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Durrr...thanks. I'm a bit slow today. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:39, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Categpry:Museums in Rwanda

Just letting you know that you appear to have created the above page in the wrong namespace. I would move it, but you can't move pages into the category space. J Milburn (talk) 18:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Botswana National Museum

In the midst of my filing attempts, I expanded this one and added it to the DYK suggestions. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 20:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I am! I just got distracted in the Bs. That's my 'problem' with working on articles -- I get caught up in expanding and sourcing and end up 'losing' a stub that we need to fill a cat. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 20:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Tristan da Cunha5.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Tristan da Cunha5.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Lyrl^Talk _C 21:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I have also listed the other image in this series still on Wikipedia, Image:Tristan da Cunha1.jpg. I'm hoping you'll add more input to this discussion, but just from what I have seen so far it looks like the images may not meet Wikipedia's licensing requirements. If this is the case, for future image permissions you may find Wikipedia:Example requests for permission to be a useful page. Lyrl^Talk _C 21:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Permissions that just say "For use by Wikipedia" have been prohibited by the Wikimedia Foundation. The copyright holder actually has to say, "I release this image under the GFDL". A release under GFDL means the copyright holder is OK with people using their images for any purpose - not just Wikipedia - including commercial purposes, and that they are OK with derivatives of their work being created. The only rights they retain under GFDL are the right of attribution, and the right to not have any derivatives copyrighted.

You have done a lot of valuable work on Wikipedia and I don't want to discourage that. But Wikipedia's Foundation believes it necessary to adopt restrictive guidelines for images. These guidelines can be confusing and complicated, but it's important that we make an effort to comply with them. Let me know if you have any other questions or if there's anything else I can do to help.Lyrl^Talk _C 22:55, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't have access to the OTRS system, so I can't fix the tagging myself. I also consider myself intermediate-level at understanding the licensing requirements, so I'm more comfortable having a second person look at the permission email anyway. That said, it looks good to me. I don't have much time now, but I'll ask the OTRS contact about these images tomorrow (it sounds like you already forwarded the new email to the OTRS?). Unless something comes up to surprise me, I expect the licensing tags will be straightened out in a few days. Thanks for all your hard work on improving Wikipedia! Lyrl^Talk _C 02:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Did you receive any reply to your previous emails? The images were not tagged as verified because the original permission did not meet Wikipedia's requirements. But if you received no reply at all that is a different issue.

Please go ahead and submit your new email to OTRS. Once that is done, I will ask one of the OTRS volunteers on their talk page for assistance in reviewing the permission and hopefully getting all the tags placed. Lyrl^Talk _C 21:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Bengali film stubs

I did the recat for Bengali film stubs not Her Pegship and I also did the same for the other Indian film stubs. Kathleen.wright5 24:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Maplandia

Please note, that I have never opposed the idea of using a bot to create missing articles. My advocacy for using government sources is simply due to fact that I would have preferred bots creating bigger articles later to bots creating one-liners now, but I'll certainly accept that I'm in one-man minority with this.

The significant argument I had in the last time (bot using fallingrain) was that the articles created would not have had any administrative hierarcy (province this, county that, commune so-and-so). Lack of that information would have made future expansion difficult, as it would have been time-consuming to figure which is what and where. This issue is made worse when the same name is used for multiple settlements. In the case of Madagascar perhaps 10%-15% of the communes will require disambiguation, but if one were to include villages the fraction will go much higher (80%? 90%? no idea, but a large fraction anyway). Now maplandia has the information about the administration: fine. I still have some minor concerns, but I'm not opposing... as long as we are in the clear regarding the copyright.

Considering the scale of the proposed operation we really need to be sure that we are on solid ground legally. Quite possibly I'm paranoid about copyright, probably due to overcomsumption of mushrooms; in that case everything is fine and I'll try to include more fishes in my diet and stay away from mushrooms. Or then there is a problem with using maplandia in this way... either way it needs to be settled before a bot starts operations. Even if the source could not be used without their permission, the idea of having hundreds of thousands of links on wikipedia pointing towards maplandia might make the site owner quite happy. They might consider sending an email to OTRS to grant the permission a good deal. – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, Burma just like North Korea, Somalia or Congo Kinshasa are not the easiest places to get any reliable information. Well, we'll hear from the site owner then... Coincidentally, the do claim copyright for all the information on the site... I'm actually a bit suprised they also include maps in their statement, but essentially that's between them and Google, and there is probably a long lawyer-speaksy document somewhere in Google sites explaining why/how/where. Cheers, – Sadalmelik ☎ 05:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Museum stubs by contintent

I'd prefer upmerged per-country templates, but "container" categories by continent seem like a good idea. I'll crunch some numbers when I get the chance. (Hopefully there'll be a new db dump relatively soon.) Alai (talk) 15:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Wiki-brother

I miss trading notes w/ you. I trust you are well. I'm still having fun editing on Wiki. My best -- Luigibob (talk) 16:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey cool cat. Things are good. Skier has been a great help and I've met some great people along my Wiki-journey (namely SilkTork). Overall I think I've become a darn good Wiki-editor. You are doing great things on Wiki; by far the best contributor, with the largest number of edits. I'm proud to have you as my friend and mentor. My best -- Luigibob (talk) 16:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Third opinion

Under recife I put down a fine link, do you think it should be there, explains crime in the city, certain crazy editor who wants to be administrator says, well who knows what he syas, you decide. Link does not bother anybody! He simply wants to look innocent! Watch out for him reverts everything! How come you dont want to be adm? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rioreport (talk • contribs) 17:58, May 14, 2008 (UTC)

more images

That's it for this bunch. SkierRMH (talk) 01:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Argentine films - Arrrrrrgh, you're right, what a morass... It does appear that photos in general have a 20 year (c), but works of art, including films & posters appear to be 50 years after (c) holder (normally there it was the director/producer) dies. However, it also appears that if a corporation holds the (c) and has chosen to renew it, the old rule goes out the window. I did a quick scan of what I could find online, and it's massively confusing - and my guess what I could find is incomplete. That's the reason that we probably should consider those non-free until there's an official ruling on it. And, just in case, a FuR don't hurt anything and would appease the obsessive-compulsive bots. Ciao for now, and keep up the good fight! SkierRMH (talk) 05:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:ToninoDelliColli.jpg)

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Cursing

No, but I seem to remember that you have some Austrian/Swiss or whatever background from the movies. On that basis, I might call you a fucking "fill in the blank". I love the photo of the sign there, by the way. And, after the block I expect to receive for this wears off, I will try to give a bit more attention to some of the smaller countries, particularly including the myths. There's one myth of a monster in British Columbia. If you try to take the water from a given lake, the lake will follow you home, drown everyone in the village, and then recede to its old banks. Stephen King would like that one. John Carter (talk) 19:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

It's going to be huge, but it will be worth it. It should also help encourage some editors in the various areas involved, as they'll have reason to think that content relating to their subject already qualifies as notable enough. Having said that, it's going to be huge. Togo isn't that big, and it has over 500 already. If we can get one of the bots to autocreate articles, that'll help enormously. Once it's started, I think we'll probably reach 5,000,000 articles within a few months. John Carter (talk) 21:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Interesting

He changed his name from Vikrant Phadkay to Ultraviolet scissor flame, he has been blocked twice as a vandal for being a page blanker [Phadkay]. He also failed spectacularly when he tried to be a Wikipedia Admin Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Vikrant Phadkay. He is also a master sock puppeteer, Paerduug, [1] and then when he realised he had given himself away, he tried to cover it up [2] 81.130.223.198 (talk) 13:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Shania

Hahaha, I almost forgot you have a crush on her... Hey why wouldn't you try to improve her article? BTW, the image in the article you gave me is beautiful. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Why would you remove this nice message? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Well that is just that the first image was better in quality (I absolutely love the tear image, but you see...), and even using this one, it can't help as you see Black Kite keps steady on his oppose. I would not have removed that if it had helped to change his opinion. Is that why you removed your message from my talk? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh OK so I won't re-add the messages. Yeh I also think this image does that, but it is not that clear. Have you even been to NYC? Yes I'm very attached to that bridge LOL particularly because of the brilliantly acted scene which always excites me. See here. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Have you seen the bridge scene? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I did!!! She's beautiful and I think she is a fantastic singer. What did you think I was doing in between the messages? I think she gives amazing performances in live. Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Let me have a look. Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey the article(s) is (are) just amazing... WOW!! Shahid • ^Talk2me 09:56, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeh I'm just shocked when I see articles like Raj Kapoor, Hema Malini etc., so short. Shahid • ^Talk2me 10:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

The article clearly has no way to pass FAC. The comments by these editor are according to me irrelevant and baseless. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

After it fails, I'll renominate. Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Preity makes her third appearance at Cannes. Aishwarya was also present as well as Brad and Angelina. I think it binds people together doesn't it? Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey the article is very good. Just needs some more referencing... I say, go for it. Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Madagascar

Hi-I noticed that 1)you're an exprerimented pro of wiki 2)you're interested in Madagascar island history (notably), I've just added some info in the article Andrianampoinimerina + info in the discussion page: thankyou in adva,ce for your critics! --Mountblow 16:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your encouragements --Mounblow (talk) 17:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Awesome!

Thank you for the award and that thoughtful message. Hopefully I will be able to contribute more to Tibetan related articles in the near future. As for this summer, I'm taking 2nd and 3rd level Mandarin Chinese courses while working at the same time, so unfortunately I'll be busier than Hu Jintao preparing for the Olympics. Lol. Cheers.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 21:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey once again. I wasn't on my computer last night to see your next message (out at a concert at Jaxx Nightclub). I've been playing guitar since 1996. I can't believe you have a friggin sitar and a banjo! That's pretty cool. As for the Dalai Lama lineage, that would be a must. I'll see what I can do in the near future.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Since my university library has an odd lack of books on Tibetan history (the same with the online scholarly journal database JSTOR), let alone the history of the Dalai Lamas, I'm afraid that any more sources I glean about the history of Tibet or the Dalai Lamas will have to come from books that I myself will have to purchase, which is going to cost me a pretty penny. There is a new library that has opened up near my home, however. I will scour it before I make the drastic decision of actually buying books, but I have a feeling that library won't have as much books on Tibet as my university library does. Like I said above, I'll see what I can do.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 18:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

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Dear "Bald One"

Thanks you so much for the "smiles" and note. I am on a very poor internet connection here in H.K. at the moment and am not sure if even this will get through - so I had better keep it short. It is great to see though, that the Tibet during the Ming Dynasty has reached FA status! Fabulous! When I am on a more stable line I will read it right through. Also, I must get back to the Tibet and History of Tibet articles - but it may be a while as next week I will be visiting my Mum and sister in Vancouver and getting ready for Mum's 94th! Thanks again for taking the time and effort away from all your multitude of other interests to do something to bring the Tibet material up to speed. Also, I think you have been really instrumental in getting a number of other people involved. Great work! The Bald One From Down Under, John Hill (talk) 12:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC).

PS I am sure you will be pleased to hear that we went to Macao yesterday to pay our respects to St. Francis Xavier's humerus - we saw most of the rest of him in Goa years ago (in a fabulous baroque solid silver casket in the Bom Jesus cathedral there) - but have been most distressed to hear that they have taken the forearm of his blessing hand to Rome - so I guess I will have to get to Rome sometime to complete the pilgrimage!!!

Dalai Lama and images

Fabulous work - wonderful images! You are doing really fine work - do keep it up. I am trying to use my own laptop - I can receive mail but can't send it for some reason on the hotel network without going through my browser and I can't be bothered searching AGAIN through all my papers for them. Am able, however, to see access Wikipedia - though I don't want to spend too much time on it when I could be outa and about doing other things. Yes, you are right - I do have a fairly good personal library on Tibet - particularly on the early history of the country - but it is all at home in Cooktown. I will try to go through some of these articles on Tibetan history when I return - checking facts and adding quotes - but that won't be until late July, unfortunately. Keep up the great work - and thanks again on behalf of all who love Tibet! John Hill (talk) 01:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Deleting talk pages

I'm sorry, I don't really know what you're talking about. I do a variety of talk page deletions, most recently cleaning out ancient test edits from old pages, (e.g., content was "'''hola'''Boldtext"). If I come across a page that is tagged with a WikiProject tag, I usually remove the test edits below the tag. You've left me a bit confused. --MZMcBride (talk) 16:24, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Err... ok. : - ) By the way, Maxim has 86,928 deletions, while I have 132,802. --MZMcBride (talk) 16:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Cats, etc.

I'm working on it - I did up to half of Armenia the other night as well. It's going slowly, but I hope to do more sometime in the coming week. Maybe when I'm not so doggone tired of an evening.

For the moment, I'm trying to cover some more tranlsations out of the Italian, mostly little-known anonymous artists. Like the Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa, for isntance. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

GeoBot

I've dumped out discussion off into User:Fritzpoll/GeoBot because it will get long and rambling - create subpages there if you need to show me a "template" for different article types - do we need ones for different administrative levels, etc. Cheers, Fritzpoll (talk) 21:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, we're nearly there. I need to know what do do with multiple hits of the same name. One of the safeguards within the program will be to check if a page exists first. If it does, and can't write a new one, I'll drop the data on-wiki so that you and other volunteers (including me) can verify it. I will drop the list of created articles on a separate page so that they can be reviewed - I may split this one by date the bot was run.

I have a few other problems involving the bot - how to properly wikilink the articles, for example. For instance, one the page you demo'd to me at User:Fritzpoll/GeoBot/Example. There is a wikilink to Waingmaw Township, but the actual data page doesn't have this. The text I would extract has the following "Waingmaw, Kachin, Burma, Asia". Now, other areas that don't have townships, give me different data such as "Badakhshan, Afghanistan, Asia". So if the extra name at the front is always a township, and has the article name "XXX Township", then that's fine. A secondary issue is, are redlinks within the article ok? For example, Achin in Afgahnistan gives me the locale information "Nangarha, Afghanistan, Asia", but Nangarha doesn't have an article. Should I redlink it?

Finally, town or village? No way of determining this from maplandia. I can have a look and see if I can reference this against another set of documents...but can you point me somewhere if you know of anywhere. With the answers all sorted, I can have this written in 72hours, ready for BAG approval. Fritzpoll (talk) 22:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

VERY last thing! are there any countries not needing processing? Fritzpoll (talk) 14:09, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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A possible alternate source

From this page here - I could download all 900MB of data, and process it to possibly create the original files. It has the names, and the coordinates. The only problem might be the level of detail on the location names, in that for some areas (I've looked at Burma) the administrative depth isn't enough. The data also has other infor - just thought I'd chuck it in there as an option; otherwise, get back to me on the above questions. Best wishes, Fritzpoll (talk) 23:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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• Can you add a reference or further information to the article In Oudad? Many thanks. --Eastmain (talk) 02:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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Westphalian Museum

Thanks for filling in that redlink - apparently a bunch of the artists I've been dealing with have stuff that's ended up there. How goes the geobot? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the geobot - I hope it comes online soon; I'd like to see some of that stuff get good coverage.

Regarding the unknown artists - it's interesting; as more information becomes available, more of them get named. And then there are the fascinating cases such as the "Master of the Washington Coronation", who was, then wasn't, and now is again, Paolo Veneziano. It's all art historical smoke-and-mirrors, really. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd be more than happy to run one, given the chance. Show me the tools, I'll do the job. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:30, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The red links that bother me are the ones related to history and to art history. We didn't even have a category for anonymous artists when I started this work last week; the German, Italian, and French Wikipedias all have one. The German even has an article about the concept of naming such artists, who they call "notnamen". This Wikipedia, by comparison, has woefully little coverage of such artists. I know they're not the most important part of art history, but I think it's interesting to consider just how many have been identified.

A NatureBot sounds like a great idea - I'd be happy to run one of those as well, with the understanding that I know nothing about science whatsoever. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

You'd be surprised - I've seen some people making an effort at filling in some of those redlinks. And I see new things from the Catholic Encyclopedia popping up every day. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:09, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The reason for that, I think, is that there's a certain stigma towards creating substubs of that nature; people want to put together something a little more substantial. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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Ian Fleming exhibit in London

Came across your talk page - thought you'd be interested (though you may already know about it): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/books/19bond.html?ref=books 72.92.4.157 (talk) 18:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Algeria

Most of them are from this french equivalent of the Municipalities of Algeria page. There are less than 2 thousamnd so this shouldn't be that hard. I also thought I talked to you about this a while ago, but I haven't been working on this because I'm shooting for an FA on William Tubman and Felix Houphouet Boigny. I used the subst:PAGENAME parameter for most of the fallingrain links but a lot of them turned up to be dead links. I'll try to sort through the ones I've created today and use Maplandia coordinates. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 19:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

BAM!!!!! [Head exploding] Could you make a bot to create more hours in a day? I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 19:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, those tunisian communes need doing too... not to mention the capital Tunis is a disgrace compared to its FA french counterpart. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 19:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems that maplandia caught 6,600 locations while in actuality there are only 1,500 municipalities. I'll only work on the ones that are from the FR wiki. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 00:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Uh oh. On my searches, I found that Maplandia is wrong. It didn't include Bouda, Algeria, no matter how hard I looked but nothing. I think we may have to abort this mission. Do you know of any other webites that I can use, since Maplandia is incorrect? This may be a major setback. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 00:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Not to mention that they have 6,000 entries when there are only 1,500 municipalities. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 10:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, it's not as automated but....

I listed the first five places in Afghanistan using the output of the bot at User:Fritzpoll/afghanistan . Unfortunately, the GNS data gives me no population values, so I can't make that judgement automatically. If we can find a different source, great...and I'll have a look for that. See if there's something I can do to the formatting of the list to make it easier to assess. Fritzpoll (talk) 20:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Recent activity

You'd be amazed at just how many furschlugginger religious groups there are out there. I found a volume today which will be useful in making at least a couple of stubs on some of them. But good God, there are just so bloody many of them. Sorry for not responding earlier, but I've been trying to finish the article of the moment first, to keep the number of open screens down to a minimum. I do think that there is a good chance that the bot will be approved, although I really hope it can add the banners as well. John Carter (talk) 22:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

JohnBot

You know no such thing exists, right? :) I do hope to see SatyrTN return soon, as this sort of this is what his bot was designed for. John Carter (talk) 22:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Oops, screwed up big that time. Sorry. I think it might be best to wait until the category is completed, to the degree that there aren't expected to be any more articles added to it soon, before making the request, though. And I didn't mean the tagging and assessment, more the creation of missing articles, like the one on Robert Ernest Dickhoff, a man who is a shame on Buddhists everywhere. I have no idea where some of these loons come from, man. John Carter (talk) 22:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Approved for 100 edits

In case you hadn't seen - I just want to check the code one last time and then I shall process the first 100 Afghan locations to the wikiproject pages we talked about. I'll update you once the run is complete, then if you and/or others can do the check, I'll convert the list to articles. Cheers Fritzpoll (talk) 22:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Places/afghanistan. Some blue links exist. The bot will be programmed to ignore all blue links, and will leave the data for blue-linked articles on this page. If you want the articles made somewhere else, simply change the wikified name. Similarly, all the other data, change it and that's how the article will be. Generally should be a find/replace job for mistakes. Notify me when you're done, and let me know if there's someone else I should be telling about all of this. I will probably logout soon, but will run the bot again tomorrow night if you're ready Fritzpoll (talk) 22:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good

I believe you will do more great job with the future bot which would allow wikisphere to be getting shaped well. Hmm.. these days, I'm enjoying creating some cuisine stubs, casting votes for RFA and fighting vandalism (well the last one is actually least favorite one). The artist's work on his article page looks great, although it reminds me of Marc Chagall a bit. Thank you for the heads up. :)--Appletrees (talk) 22:52, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Edits to Tibet

Hey, don't get me wrong, I wasn't accusing you of vandalism. I was trying (poorly) to point out that you were attempting to improve the page. I don't really care about having to remove those pictures again, I was just venting about losing that work. Sorry for the confusion and, just so we're clear, I appreciate the work you did on the page. Thanks for your help out, Cumulus Clouds (talk) 00:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Abdelaziz Gorgi

Just thought you wanted to know that Abdelaziz Gorgi is currently at DYK. I simply love to see articles on the main page about little known subjects (even though this guy was one of the most famous in Tunisia) and, of what I have seen, there have been no Tunisia-related articles there. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 01:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Geobot

Wow! this is gonna be great. I went through the bot proposal. There is a bot called Ganesbot that created articles for Indian locations. Hope geobot will be extremely succesful. --Dwaipayan (talk) 05:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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Hi!!

Hola amigo! (I think that's right!). How you been? I've missed talking to you! How's everything? I've been so busy with uni, that I did not have the time to edit. I've got some spare time on hand, although I think that I'll edit once or twice in a week or so. Anyways, hope your well. Please say HI to Mr. Bigglesworth from me! I look forward to hearing from you. -- Pa7 17:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

AWWWWWW! I'm really sorry Blof and Mr. Bigglesworth! It was university, too much to do! Like I said, I got some spare time, so and pumped and ready to roll! I wanna catch up with everything and I'm ready to help you and Shahid. I'm gonna browse around, and get reaquainted with everything. Hopefully, I'll try and stay on a regular basis. Brilliant to hear from you. :-) -- Pa7 17:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)