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New headquarters. Frickin Japanese government upped the rent charges and with the current financial crisis caused by too much indulgence in tamagotchi's in the late 90s, sushi and Pokemon, "magma" heating prices in Japan have soared, forcing me into my 76th floor penthouse suite in Kowloon. I welcome you to Hong Kong. The elevator to my suite "may" have a disappearing floor which leads to an unnnecessarily long plastic shoot into an unnecessarily large shark infected pool (all with frickin laser beams attached to their heads) so those who have come to frickin mess about with an evil Bald mofo such as myself please BEWARE! that I have a control switch panel in front of me with names of possible visitors to assassinate labelled on little stickers.

"Arming the frickin laser"

"Welcome #2. I've been expecting you"

"One of my many Belgian delicatessens. In stainless steel. A Belgian dip anybody?"

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[edit] Iran geo stubs

Hi again,

I'm looking into creating some Iran stubs as you suggested. I created a preliminary infobox at User:Passportguy/Sandbox, please take a look at it and suggest an additional info that could be added.
A couple of things seem to be difficult to obtain :

Population data
Arabic script spelling of names, especially for the smaller villages. Unfortunately I don't read Arabic, so I'd need a site where they are listed with their latin counterparts.
The Iranian county to which the villages belong - the site you gave ([1]) has them listed by provinces which is also useful to add but countries would be even better.

Btw : Is there an easier way to add the geo coordinates in decimal degrees as this is how they are quoted on above page ?

Passportguy (talk) 18:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I have now finished Ardabil provice. There are just a few minor points which still need to be addressed :

1) A map shows a "Givi county" but does not show the Kowsar county as per out template. Does this mean that Givi = Kowsar ??
2) We have an article called Khalkhal County, but the corresponding town has apparently been renamed Herowabad. Or is it the other way around ?
3) Valandaran is - according to the geo co-ordinates given, which do check out when double checked on other sites - clearly outside of Ardabil district. Yet multiple sites have it listed as within. An exclave perhaps ? Passportguy (talk) 18:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Passportguy (talk) 18:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sri Lankan parliamentarians?

I found a directory. I'll do that Iran tagging tonight - I thought it best to give Passportguy a chance to do all the stubbing before I get in there and start creating talk pages. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Just open the biographies; his reveals that his name is "Abdul Rahim Mohideen Abdul Cader". It's alphabetized in the index as "Abdul Cader, A. R. M." - that's how I'd presume it would be filed. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:01, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. I'd go with whatever they have there - tradition indicates that initials are acceptable, sometimes (like with S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike). Perhaps a rule of thumb - three or fewer names we spell out, more than that we use initials like in the profile? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:07, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

If you are doing something related to Sri Lanka, how can a Sri Lankan say "I can't help". I'm on it. Er... I'm taking a lil break though, to study for the exam on 5th. From Monday I'll be running in full throttle again. Is it fine with you pal? I checked the external page. The MPs names are given in their most known names. So I think the same naming scheme is alright in here. Cheers!--Chanaka L (talk) 03:33, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Awesome. Not sure what kind of time I'll have today, but I'll take a crack at it when I get the chance. Haven't forgotten Iran, either - sorry, it's been a hectic week. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks pal, did some minor edits on articles. I'll see the rest of them too.--Chanaka L (talk) 13:33, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Excellent - I'll see what I can do later. Enjoy the tennis! Cool-ish day here, but it's supposed to warm up for the Fourth. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

It's about 70-ish here, if memory serves - supposed to warm up to 90 or so by the weekend, though. So long as I'm inside, with the air conditioning running, I'm fine. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:21, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Responded. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Awesome. Although yesterday's count I did shows me closing in on 20,000...so it's a bit out of date. :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Not bad...want to work on making it 1 in 25 by the end of the year? :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm going to be doing my part; I'm going to try and get my total up to 20,000 by the end of the month. Should be doable, if I remember my numbers correctly. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:01, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

It keeps the newpage patrollers from going mad, as well. Speaking of which...I might put myself down for it, too - where does one go for that sort of thing? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

So where did you ask about it, then? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, will do. Oh...and it's 14,835 new articles by latest count - bumping that up to 20,000 by month's end is a tall order, but I'll see what I can do. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Right - perhaps this afternoon, when I catch a lull in the proceedings... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:16, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Indeed - it looks quite nice. Glad to see it coming along. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:59, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Talk page tags

Sure. I wasn't assessing the articles, but I guess anyone could tell they were stubs. Will do in the future. Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Phthisiatry

Not a term in common use, seems restricted to Eastern European and Russian science. However, there is no article currently on Tuberculosis research so this is all we've got. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Not too hot today, I'm not sure if we can say in the main TB article that it is "currently known as" phthisiatry, I'll reword that a bit. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Comment on my talkpage. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mistake

It says this on your userpage: "According to this Baldy is "Number 1" contributor to english wikipedia". You're actually number 2. Hahaha! Auric Goldfinger, (I don't expect you to talk, I expect you to die) 19:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Mmmoowwaaa Goldfinger you fat b*****d. Just kidding. I don't refer to edit count my Gold-enrusted portly friend, I refer to article count. Kotbot is a bot so isn't counted, besides which it has only just "stolen my crown". I rarely look at my user page but the last time I looked Kot wasn't there. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Kotbot can be destroyed, the solution is obvious. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Geography Barnstar

		The Geography Barnstar
		To my friend, Dr. Blofeld, for today's Brazilian river articles! Rosiestep (talk) 21:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou Rosie!! May our coverage of Brazil blossom as much as the Brazilian jungle! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Yeah, that image was one of the ones that came in a batch from one of my image contacts who keeps me updated when she takes new images. I always enjoy watching the actress in my favorite television action film True Lies (since it's always on television several times a month it seems!). Thanks for supporting the FAC, I was surprised by the number of reviewers (I think there was maybe eight supports). Now I get to play the waiting game and hope that it gets on the main page in April. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 23:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I've recently uploaded a few images this past week including: File:GaryColeJan09.jpg, File:SirMixaLotDec06.jpg, File:CameronDiazJune09.jpg‎, File:KatieHolmesTomCruiseJune09.jpg. This week I also had two different Flickr users reply to messages I sent back in February! I also contacted an author of one of the journal articles about the Oklahoma City bombing, and she said she is going to get me an image I can use for the article as well. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 23:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] German maps

Gee, you're impatient! Many municipalities already have maps showing their location within their district and state. The advantage of those maps is that they also show the area of the municipality. It could be a good idea (I've seen something similar at French wikipedia), but I don't have the time to work on it. Markussep ^Talk 11:44, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template talk:Infobox German location

It would be fairly easy to set this up, and I'd be happy to do the coding if that's what you guys decide on; but, personally, I don't really have a strong opinion on which map would be more useful for the reader. Kirill ^[talk] [pf] 13:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Yep, having two maps should work fine. I'll set up a sandbox version for you to look at in the next day or two. Kirill ^[talk] [pf] 14:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I've changed around the order of the fields on {{Infobox City Spain}}. The width is most probably going to be controlled by the size of the embedded images; do you have any examples of the template being too wide even if the images would allow it to be smaller? Kirill ^[talk] [pf] 02:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Indeed it is; I've just been rather busy with a few other matters, and haven't had time to attend to the infobox. I'll make the needed changes as soon as I can. Kirill ^[talk] [pf] 02:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Antun Vrančić

I could, of course... However, the Croatian Wikipedia article is unreferenced, so my translation would actually leave us with two unreferenced articles. (This is my gripe with the Croatian Wikipedia in general, and the reason why I only go there looking for ideas and pointers, not for actual content.) Still: the Vrančić article is not really substantial, so what the heck. I'm putting it on my todo list, could do it in a couple of days or perhaps a week. GregorB (talk) 19:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Iran stubs

I've prepared Template:West_Azarbaijan_Province. It still needs a bit of work with spellings which I'll do later on today if I can find time. However the task seems daunting, since there are close to 1000 villages in this province alone. I believe Iran as a whole has close to 70,000, which seems almost impossible to add by hand.
Btw : What happend to the planned bot that was going to add stubs for all towns ? Is that project still on or was it shelved for some reason ? Passportguy (talk) 20:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree on the navbox being too big. Ideally these should be sorted into new county tenplates for all provinces, which would provide for much smaller ones. But I don't have a list of villages by county, so i can't do this myself - at least until I find such lists. Passportguy (talk) 22:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Can you use |pushpin_label_position =right for West Azarbaijan anyway

I'm not quite sure what that means. What exactly do you want me to do ?

Btw : I am adding the geo coordinates for the provice in decimal citation, as the traditioanl coordiantes given seem to be rough approximations only. Passportguy (talk) 20:21, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Is this better : Agheshlu ?

Btw : can you look into Agdash The coordinates put it in East Azarbajian, and I can't seem to find the correct data. Passportguy (talk) 20:30, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Aghmiun is another one. I hope that there aren't too many of these, otherwise the tageo list will be essentially unusable. Passportguy (talk) 20:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I've checked a few more and the West Azarbaijan data does not seem to be reliable, as all figures are rounded. The same is seems to be true for Maplandia (e.g. [2] or [3]). The general problem with maplandia is that it is very difficult to browse, requiring multiple clicks for every new village. I guess for the moment I'll just stop creating stubs then and go back to doing other things. If you find a good list (preferably one listing them by county), just drop by a line. Passportguy (talk) 20:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings o hairy one

Long time no pester - Depan bisa belakang bisa a stub of yours from 2 years ago has been prodded - I have no idea of the size of yours (watchlist that is) you might have let it drop off (oh dear Im getting off this one now) - cheers and trust the sense of tumour is as ever ready to fire Satu Suro 12:47, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Not sure why you are telling me. What do you expect me to do with it? Am I expected to have an Encyclopedia of Indonesian cinema handy? If you want to delete it take it to AFD. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I didnt do the prod - I thought I found you as the first ed (unless I had read the edit history wrong) and no I dont want to delete it, and no I dont have an encyc of Indonesian film to hand either, and hope I find you in better humour sometime - I am more likely to try to find a ref or two to send the prod away - if possible - cheers Satu Suro 13:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

LOL it is exactly that. The "Encyclopedia of Indonesian Cinema was humour my friend. I am feel in great humour, as they say "great humour=no tumour". As you referred my sensr of tumour I thought I'd play the wounded bald guy. I honestly don't mind what you do with it, I thought sometime it would be expanded. All I know is that at least two editors on the article seme familiar with the film see this. Perhaps we could ask them to find a link. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

One reason why I would have never followed my father into veterinary science - dealing with bloody tumours :( Satu Suro 13:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

You have enemies? garn a man with your edit count and stature? your imposing user page and even more so talk page? narh gerrofit (I'll be wandering through your country of abode in september - promise I wont try tracking you down and insisting on giving you a beer or three :) Satu Suro 13:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

OOps it will be north wales that I venture into for a day or two at most to meet a rellie never met Satu Suro 13:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Turkey

Oops - I'm running AWB at the moment; give me about fifteen minutes and I'll take care of it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually, looks like you caught it. Anything else you'd like me to AWB? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:21, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

OK - I'll get to it in a bit, then; just give me a list of links to work with. At the moment I'm cleaning up some after the Disaster Wikiproject, which seems to have requested an "aviation-accident-stub" tag and then not used it hardly at all. I may have a new category to request; it looks like it. I think I want to go through the earthquake stubs, too, and remove the "disaster-stub" from any that have it. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:35, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

It's next on my plate, then. Oh - there are also a lot of New Caledonian politicians over on the French wiki; I'll work on translating some more in the next few days. With luck we can get a stub category launched this week. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. Anything else? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:54, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do today. I went ahead and used AWB to stub a bunch of Brazilian rivers yesterday; I'm going to finish up the rest tonight. It'll save you a lot of work on that front... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I blasted through the 80,000 edit count this weekend. :-) Speaking of which - I need to transfer my talkpage contents to an archive, so I'm going to do that right now. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:26, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Will do. Sorry - busy day today here; I'll try and get some more stuff done once I'm home. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:41, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Good to hear - I've seen a couple of opera-related stubs I created expanded to good length recently. It's quite heartening, really. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

We'll see - possibly this afternoon I can do some things. I finished up the Brazilian rivers yesterday...I've still got the talk pages to do, but that may have to wait a tad. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:20, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. I'll put it on the pile with the others. :-) Now, let's see what we can do about those castles... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:34, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes...I'd say that's a fairly accurate assessment. I could give you a detailed breakdown of why it is, but that would take all day. :-) I think a large part of it has to do with the fact that castles are viewed somewhat romantically in our culture, and people associate them with the nobility and the monarchy, two things which we've traditionally done without in this country. They're unfamiliar - don't forget that the kind of people who first emigrated to the colonies weren't much for building castles or palaces, so the few that do exist are modern creations. Don't forget, there's only one real royal palace on American soil. So yes...I'd say you're right about that. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Most of the Indian ruins that I know about are out west, or towards the Midwest (ever hear of the Mound Builder culture? Very interesting.) There's not a whole lot on the east coast other than archaeological sites, due mainly I suspect to the ferocity of the wars the colonists engaged in with the Indians, and the fact that most native villages were made of wood and plant matter, not of mud or stone. We do have the Newport Tower, which is kind of odd, and rather interesting. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, pretty much. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:42, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I did, yes. I'll do some redlinking tonight, and some more stubbing; I should be able to finish the new Brazilian articles and do some more US rivers (I did Virginia last night). --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 00:11, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Czech municipalities

Hey buddy! I am a bit busy these days, however I support your initiative and wanna say, just let me know if you would want to ask about something, need some clarification etc. Read also this, please: Wikipedia:WikiProject Czech Republic/Guidelines/Geographical names. - Darwinek (talk) 19:16, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The WikiChevrons
		For writing articles about castles instead of replacing Michael Jacksons' page with "HE WAZZ A PEDO!!!!!!1111!!!!" I dream of horses (talk) 13:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

I just dropped around to your page tonight to see how you have been doing since you returned to the Wikipedia and to say "hi" and that I hope things are happier. BTW congrats on the new barnstar! Cheers, John Hill (talk) 16:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright & fair-use rationale of SVGified logo

You are invited to participate in an interesting discussion at Wikipedia talk:Image use policy#File:Man Utd FC .svg. Your comments & suggestions are very much appreciated Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 08:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rivers

Sorry - was so busy stub-creating last night that I didn't get around to redlinking things. However, I managed to finish up Bahia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico (!) off of the lists that currently exist. I just did St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a morning exercise; otherwise I'm going to be hellishly busy today, so any further stubbing will have to wait (though I might tackle a small country or two, like Jamaica, over lunch). Speaking of which...I can stub things out of an Iran provincial template with AWB, as long as you don't mind a very rudimentary beginning. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - I'm going to try and mop up some of the others I missed this evening; I'm running an article count now to see where I stand. :-) By the way, I owe you a barnstar; when I have a moment to think I'll dig it up. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I'll probably restrict myself to low-key edits for most of the day; the sorts of things that don't require a lot of thought. What can I say? I'm a good multi-tasker... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Nope - I'm a northpaw, as it were. My mother isn't though - perhaps I've picked some of it up from her. She was actually forced to use her right hand for things in school, so she's somewhat ambidextrous now. She writes with her right hand, though. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:21, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I've inherited my musical talent from my father; he's a fine amateur tenor, and I've got the same voice. My mother, bless her, can't sing a note - but she understands music well, better than I think she realizes. I can't draw to save my life, which is why I became an art history major instead. My "genius" (hah) lies in pontificating about art more than in creating it. Both of my parents write well academically, which is where I suppose I picked it up. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I'd be a decent lyric tenor with some good training, but I've never been interested enough to follow up on it. And I'll wager you that most decent art historians are failed artists of one sort or another. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Sure thing - I'll get to that one tonight. Busy night again last night; I stubbed Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua/Barbuda, Minnesota, and Jamaica. Looks like I might actually meet my page-creation goal for the month. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Ain't that the truth - pity there's been no attempt to get the geobot off the ground again. That and a species bot would really alleviate a lot of the work that needs doing. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Tremendous bias, indeed - there's so much that needs to be done to bring aspects of this project up to snuff. To be honest, I'm disappointed; I had hoped we'd be over 3 million articles by now. As it stands, I hope we pass that benchmark by the end of the month. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed that - and while I'm not entirely displeased with the new content (any new content is good), I'm a little bothered by the direction things seem to be taking. I mean, there's a lot of other stuff that ought to be covered, too, and I feel like some of it is being overlooked. Look at the lists of rivers of Africa, for instance; it's laughable how much is missing from those. Ah, well - between you and me, we ought to put things a damn sight closer to 3 million this month. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, Lord - periodically I go over to the Wikiproject and weep; the amount of missing content is mind-blowing. Anyhow, I've got more rivers to stub tonight, and I want to get cracking on adding a few more New Caledonian politicians; with luck, I can have a stub category ready for the end of the month. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:36, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

If you could find a way to do that, it would be AMAZING help. Anyhow, I should probably get to work on other things; we'll see what I can come up with later. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps that's a goal you can look at once the 3 million article mark has been reached? That's how I like to think, at least; reach one goal before starting on another. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

OK - it'll have to be tomorrow, most likely, as I'll be out this evening. I tried to do more last night, but AWB was slow and uncooperative; hopefully it will be better tonight. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Excellent - looks quite nice. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I may be able to help some this afternoon - I'm not sure. Looks like the workload's winding down a bit for the week. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, it'll be inelegant, but if you want I can AWB those as well, while I'm doing rivers and lakes and things. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Very. Maybe this weekend I'll work up some kind of bot proposal and see if we can get somewhere with it again. Meantime, yes, I create things in AWB the way you do manually; I use the {{subst:PAGENAME}} tag and all. It just speeds the process up some. (Well...it should, at least...last night was an anomaly.) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:46, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Almost done

I just finished Tomorrow Never Dies and currently have The World is Not Enough on the way in the mail. I've already seen the films past Enough so I'm finally on my last film. Octopussy's last half was quite entertaining, although the Bond as a clown didn't work too well. I didn't care for A View to a Kill too much. I actually liked License to Kill quite a bit especially for the final chase scene. I enjoyed watching the progression of Desmond Llewelyn through all the films, and its a shame that they didn't work Q into Craig's films. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 18:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Del Toro had quite the gruesome death. I liked how Bond was just hanging off the edge about to fall into the grinder, and when his female partner arrives, she just stares at him for a few seconds instead of immediately helping him. I thought Dalton did alright as Bond, but he wasn't one of my favorites. It took me a few minutes to figure out what film I had seen him recently in, and then remembered he had played the villain in Hot Fuzz. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 23:11, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Iranian towns

I never said I didn't think they were non-notable as a whole! If something has a decent-ish article on fa.wiki we should probably have it here. I just didn't think that being on that tageo list was necessarily indicative of notability - it seemed like many villages probably were the size of tiny neighborhoods, and those are probably best consolidated into lists one administrative level up. If you look on google earth and it looks substantial I think that is a good enough indication of notability for now IMO. Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Substituting surname

I believe there was an extension installed recently which allows something like this; let me look into it and get back to you. Kirill ^[talk] [pf] 11:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Locator maps

Yup, these are the ones I myself asked User:Obersachse to transfer to en a couple days ago. I have already integrated them with the city infobox and they show up nicely—see, for example, Novosibirsk. At any rate, thanks for the note; much appreciated!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 11:55, July 10, 2009 (UTC)

I don't really like the white margins this produced, but I don't care all that much about them either. The infobox is due to re-design anyway :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:03, July 10, 2009 (UTC)

Well, I've been thinking about the re-design for about a year now. The way I work, it could be another year or so until the re-designed template actually materializes :)

Making the new template more condensed is definitely one of the ideas (I'm thinking of cutting the whole Events section out and replacing it with a two-liner for previous names—that's the information the section mostly contains anyway—and the rest is too much detail and belongs in the article). Moving stuff to the side, not so much. The template needs to be consistent with the rest of the Russia-related templates, so the color/tiles aren't going away. Besides, with the Events section gone, the length of the template isn't going to be much different from a similar template not using tiles/color. All in all, however, if you have any additional ideas, I'm listening.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:29, July 10, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Steven Seagal

Good call. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 17:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Belgian infobox

Hi, I see the automatic map of Belgium has been removed in July last year. I don't know why, I don't see any discussion about it on the talk page. I could work on it, but that will be after my summer holidays, that start tomorrow. I'll be digiless in Macedonia and Albania for a month. Markussep ^Talk 17:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Eh?

I like white dogs better than white cats :) And also because I don't know of a way to do the surname thing and don't like admitting I am not all-knowing. MBisanz ^talk 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for File:ShannonReed.jpg

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[edit] List of lakes in Nova Scotia

Hello! I've done the first batch of articles with geodata given in the List of lakes in Nova Scotia. Some of the entries linked to disambig pages, and one linked to an article about a person, so they were skipped: see my talk page for a list. If you can tell me when all the lake articles have been created, and the disambig links fixed, I'll run a second batch to finish the job. In the meanwhile, I'll take a look at the other lists you mentioned. -- The Anome (talk) 09:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bavaria location map

Hello Dr. Blofeld, I've got a question which you may or may not know the answer too. I've tried to use the File:Bavaria location map.svg, but had no luck. The File:Deutschland.svg but it does not seem to recognise that the Bavaria map exists. I saw your name associated with the map so I thought you might know. If not, no big deal, but if you could point me in the right direction I would be grateful. Thanks, EA210269 (talk) 09:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

What you are planning to do, I assume, is to replace the Germany map with a more local one, like the Bavarian one? If so, I think its a good idea. Do you know why it doesn't recognise the Bavaria map when I try to use it in my Sandbox? EA210269 (talk) 09:51, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. I added the category to my Usefull links list. I left my opinion on the talk page, too. I think, this map(File:Bavaria location map G.svg) is quite good for the purpose you have in mind. It serves both purposes without having to have two maps. EA210269 (talk) 10:00, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Byzantine barnstar

Thank you very much Doctor! It is truly an honour to receive recognition by an editor with your level of contribution to WP. :) BTW, there is an ongoing Peer Review on the civil war article, if you are interested. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 12:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)