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Well it has just proved inaccurate very often. Just a suggestion. Today I've created some Croatian castle stubs and just added some images to Bontioli Reserve. I've begun creating African national park boxes by country. Some of them can be expanded fully I;m sure. COuldn't find much on Ivory Coast national parks thoguh ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I;ve just added some images to Burkina geo and department articles. It makes a huge difference to have images of thes eplaces -it sort of brings them to life. Perhaps we could have a look and make some flickr agreements ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:04, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Good work on, its surprising how there is info available for places in Malawi. I always try to look at it as if you are in the country concerned. If you see a few stubs only on place sin the entire country wikipedia looks pathetic, I long for the day when Africa gets more access to the Internet and we start to see that actually there is a whole world in Africa which is not on here, evne in basic form and we knowledge get onto the web for the first time. Even by western standards the Internet is really in its infancy -how many times has the INternet increased in size and profit annually!! I still remain optimistic we'll get access to it gradually. Its just ridiculously uneven. The national highways and media stations are missing from most of these places, now how many articles to we have on American highways or turnoikes and radio stations huh? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if Limbe, Malawi could be expanded? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

You didn't change the Bam province name in the article! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Also is it the central est or central nord?? The inof box and categories say different ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries, I usually end up doing about five edit previews until I get it right. I think I;ve done the first three. I'm considering spitting the cities by province like Category:Cities, towns and villages in Boulkiemdé Province. Let me know what you think. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Its getting better. Have a look at this. Its kind of like a Burkina Faso encyclopedia of biogrpahies -tons of politicians in there. The number of sities I've come across seems to be on the rise. That site mentions some of the villages. Eventually I hope this will be in detail. There are some politicians missing I think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 00:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your !vote at my RFA

Thanks!

Thank you, Editorofthewiki, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

RE:2002 - FAC?

No, i don't think the article is even cosniderably ready for FAC. It would be nice if you expanded the section about the geography of the quake, using new references about the "hidden" Abdarreh plate and its movement. Thanks, --Meldshal42 (talk) 01:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. i think the biggest problem in the article is references. I am busy right now, juggling Scattered disc, Mount Baker, king Arthur, and this article all trying to reach FAC. It is very mind-boggling, so at the moment I'm going to focus on scattered disc which has been my aim for quite a while now. I'm getting tired! <sigh of relief> :) --Meldshal42 (talk) 01:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Nkhotakota

On 2 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nkhotakota, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 08:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could nominate Kareena Kapoor for a GA, Its bene long deserved I think. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Iranian earthquakes

Hi. Don't take my constructive criticism the wrong way, I just want to see the best possible article written for it and I don't think the article has completely filled its potential yet.... When I meant paper sources or documents I meant things likethis, which is shown here for the 2003 earthquake which gives statistics and information on aid reaching the region in the form of a chart or table with the funds sent from relative organizations. my feeling is that you would need to examine the international reponse from organizations further and it is indeed possible to do so. Also I;ve found this for the 2003 earthquake which has a fair bit of info and also an image of the disaster. I would suggest that you develop an earthquake which has the maximum amount of information available. there seems to be less info available on the 2002 quake than the latest ones I agree. My feeling would be do develop the 2003 Bam earthquake as there is stacks of stuff available on it. I fyou choose to do so, I would be willing to work with you to devleop it fully into an FA. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I can't believe somebody tried to nominate the 1992 earthquake for speedy! Power to ya for achieving a GA, that'll teach em!!! Well best of luck on the FA. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Happy Independence Day!

As you are a nice Wikipedian, I just wanted to wish you a happy Independence Day! And if you are not an American, then have a happy day and a wonderful weekend anyway! :) Your friend and colleague, --Happy Independence Day! Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

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The traditional rfa thank you message

		Thank you for the support!
		Editorofthewiki, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Help with 1556 Shaanxi

I've been working non-stop on at least 6 possible future featured articles, and your nomination has been driving me crazy. :) Could you please help me with 1556 Shaanxi earthquake soon, because I seriously doubt that Bou'in-Zahra will pass? I'm sorry, but you gave me no time to review at all. It never even went through peer review. Please consider helping me with this article. Thanks, --Meldshal42 (talk to me) 22:06, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Date of birth missing

Hi. Please note that the category Date of birth missing should be placed in Talk Pages only. In articles please use Year of birth missing category. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 16:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Just wondering, are you still translating Félix Houphouët-Boigny? Your last edit to the page was over two months ago. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 05:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Biruitorul (talk · contribs) was planning on translating it, but hasn't gotten around to it yet. Since you hadn't edited the page in over two months, I asked him if he would be interested in translating the article now. He said he was interested, but he requested that I contact you first. Would you mind if Biruitorul and I started translating from where you left off? Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 23:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Let's hope for the best! Biruitorul ^Talk 05:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

2002 Bou'in-Zahra

The article just failed FAC. Please, allow me some time to promote scattered disc, by sending 2002 through peer review. Thanks, --Meld§hal *talk to me* 17:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Please, allow me to help with 2003 Bam when I'm not working on scattered disc. In fact, I'm gonna do some work now. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 01:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you should give me a barnstar :)... lol! Good work so far! And as for the peer review, I'll try taking it up, but I already took care of most of the errors. So I think we should let someone outside our camp mark up the article. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 01:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I can't accept it... or maybe I can :). I really felt so minor and insignificant and felt my work was going unnoticed. Thanks so much, --Meldshal (§peak to me) 02:08, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: PR request

Absolutely. I'll see what I can do. I think a full review should be up by tomorrow morning - I might have some openers tonight. --haha169 (talk) 04:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem! :) --haha169 (talk) 17:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Naval Sources

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Jane's is Jane's Information Group, specifically Jane's Fighting Ships. J. J. Colledge is author of Ships of the Royal Navy. Benea (talk) 01:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, Military Press, New York, 1919, p. 101 Benea (talk) 01:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Peer review

Sure I'll try to look at it later. Welcome back. Where did you go on holiday? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Why are you going back today? Isn't two holidays enough? Um the forst week you were away I mostly concentrated on film particularly Italian westerns and created some actor stubs like Jose Calvo etc. The past few days I've been sorting out countries like Lebanon, Malaysia, South Africa and Pakistan. Haven't done much work on Africa. We need to get back on track with Burkina ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 12:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Cool., loving the Boigny article its a monster!!! Mangochi looks good, but I would do away with the "vaguely Swahili feel", "Arab-looking people " or reword it so it sounds more encyclopedic. Those words stand out as out of place. Have fun ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh I did finish nearly adding all the remaining places in Bhutan. I went through the list but also added many which weren't there from world gazetteer. Strangely there was no population figure for Paro, Bhutan but check out those images! I managed to find some info for places like Gedu. Suarez completely added every place in Armenia too so there are about 1000 odd articles for that country now ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

2003 Bam

Um, here are some things I wanted to point out for you and Blofeld:

The article needs references, I'd say about 70. That's gonna be tough.

General expansion would be nice, an image here or there.

Once it is expanded a bit I'll be able to do more. Thanks, --Meldshal (§peak to me) 18:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake in Peer Review

I did not come up with the policy on my own - it came about as a result of discussions at Wikipedia talk:Peer review (most recent archive). If you think it should be changed, by all means please raise the issue there. I will take a look at the article but it may take me several days. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I mis-spoke (mis-typed?), sorry. It was actually still on the PR talk page here: Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. Did you know your talk page has no edit links? I had to edit the whole page to add to this thread (unless I am just being very blind / dense and am missing them). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry - I am not sure how to fix it either. My guess is the templates at the top may be responsible - perhaps ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Houphouët-Boigny

Just a heads up, I'll be translating the "L’homme de la France en Afrique" section tomorrow. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 02:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

My French is about as good as yours? Thanks for the compliment. I don't know French at all; I'm just working off of automated translations and occasionally poking on IRC to ask for a translation of a difficult sentence. I hope we can get the article ready by August. There's a lot of tasks to look forward to: expansion, proofreading, replacing non-RS sources, etc. I guess Biruitorul is taking a break from translating. I think he'll be back soon. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 02:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Oof, I was in the process of reformatting all the refs. For future reference, I'll be making sure multiple pages are listed as "pp." instead of "p." and that books listed under the cite book template in the "References" section are repeated again with cite book in the article (Ellenbogen, for example). Thanks, Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 01:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I'll remove the {{fr}} tags for simple XX, p. 15 refs. I wasn't sure what to do myself, but I decided to ahead with the plan. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 01:39, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations to the both of you for your outstanding work on this article. Well done! I have responded to my "running of the bot" on my talk page and at the AFD, scoff scoff ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:57, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Blofeld. Editor, I was translating a section of HB, but I had some difficulty with the translation, so I decided to start working on M'Ba. I'll put it off until we're done with HB, though. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 12:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Regarding [1], I'm going to include the full cite book code for all non-Encyclopaedia Universalis sources only in the "References" section, not in the actual text. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 22:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny‎ – Are we done? Proofreading time/working on M'ba? Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 03:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Date of birth missing (2nd warning)

Hi. Please note that the category Date of birth missing should be placed in Talk Pages only. In articles please use Year of birth missing category. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 18:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I hope I am not making a mistake but I think you created many articles for politicians and you included Category:Date of birth missing. If I am wrong please accept my apologies. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Mangochi and Henry Okah DYKs

On 23 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Mangochi, and Henry Okah, 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.

--Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 21:17, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Prodim

Hey there! I don't see Prodim as spam. It is not very well written and it could use better referencing, but there appears to be some degree of notability. Thanks for asking my opinion. Ecoleetage (talk) 01:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Felix...

I really don't think anything significant is needed yet, the article is quite impressive. --Meldshal (§peak to me)`

FA-Team proposal

I moved the article to the FA-Team proposal page. Please list what help you require, etc. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 12:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, Editorofthewiki!

I am grateful for your confidence: My RfA passed by a count of 64/3/3, so I am now an administrator! Of course, I plan to conduct my adminship in service of the community, so I believe the community has a right to revoke that privilege at any time. Thus, I will be open for recall under reasonable circumstances. If you have any advice, complaints, or concerns for me, please let me know. Thanks again! Okiefromokla ^questions? 21:45, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA thankspam

Thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed with 140 supporting, 11 opposing, and 4 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have given to me. If I can ever assist you with anything, just ask.

Cheers!

J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

LoC references

It seemed pointless to repeatedly include the full reference when we could just have "Chapter, Ivory Coast: A Country Study". I'll add accessdates back to the references. Regarding [2], the chapter/title designation does the exact same thing as title/work. I think I had previously used the chapter/title designation, which is why I decided to reformat that particular reference for consistency. Also, why did you remove my inline comments regarding source reliability? Both are self-published sources. They're valuable resources, but they don't meet WP:RS. 17:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't have many articles to work on at the moment, so I've started translating M'ba. I'll probably take a break from that shortly and get back to some of my other projects. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 17:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Could you substantiate your claim? The African Elections database needs to meet WP:RS and WP:SELFPUB, but I don't think it does. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 17:38, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

It fails points 4 and 5. It involves claims about third parties (the election and its candidates are third parties) and it involves claims about events not directly related to the subject (the election is an event not directly related to the subject, I presume). In any case, I've found another source, which is 100% reliable. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 17:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

You are invited...

to join the Earthquakes Wiki! Of course, you would be an administrator there. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 19:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

GAN

Should we just bypass GAN and go straight for FAC? I thought that was the original plan, actually. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 21:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Usually, I go from article complete → FAC. However, since this is a translation, I wanted to send this through a peer review before submitting it to FAC. I also planned on doing the same for M'ba. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 21:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA thank-you

Thank-you for your support of me at my recent RFA, which was successful. I have appreciated everyone's comments and encouragement there. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Image

Thanks for letting me know. I;ve speedy tagged it as a free image is now available ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 08:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

RfB Thank You spam

Thank you for participating in my RfB! I am very grateful for the confidence of the community shown at my RfB, which passed by a count of 154/7/2 (95.65%). I have read every word of the RfB and taken it all to heart. I truly appreciate everyone's input: supports, opposes, neutrals, and comments. Of course, I plan to conduct my cratship in service of the community. If you have any advice, questions, concerns, or need help, please let me know. Again, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 08:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

2002 = 2000 ?

I have moved 2000 Sumatera earthquake to 2002 Sumatra earthquake for obvious reasons. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 12:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

RE:2008 Los Angeles earthquake

Thanks for that. There seems to be a strong keep speculation, so I don't think we should worry. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 00:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Peer review of Boigny

I have commented at the peer review. Please review my comments and take them into effect. --Meldshal [Chat] 18:12, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'll read it a bit later and offer any perspectives. Unfortunately I'm having server trouble on here today and everythime I save something it comes up with a HTTP 500 error. I'm not sure if you are editing as you did in May and June but you may be interested that here are 125 missing articles with population figures for Kazakhstan ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes its not a problem when I browse, just when I edit. I'll read the Boigny article now. Yes those Kazakh cities and towns just need stubbing with the infobox and population reference. I did a few a minute ago. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:53, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Ivorian Barnstar

		The Cote d'Ivoire Barnstar
		I Blofeld the Bald award this to you for your outstanding effort at writing a full and highly resourceful article on an Ivorian subject and for your hard work on Africa in general. This is exactly the sort of content that I rave about and try to get onto wikipedia in parts of the world which should quite rightly be equally covered as America and Europe. What this article does is address the subject almost as if it was written from an Ivorian perspective looking out at the world as "America and Europe=other" rather than Africa always being "the other", something very rare on wikipedia. This is exactly what wikipedia should be striving to do across the world, being written as if it was from that place rather than from America. I congratulate you for having been one of the first people to really achieve this on an African subject in such a detailed way. If only we could get all of the articles up to this standard. Congratulations! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 12:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

It does need a major copyedit and restructure in places though thats my only complaint, I'll post some comments now. I can't really be more specific as it generally refers to all of the article ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 12:56, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

In that case it really is an amazing achievement considering it has all been translated. Well done! I'd get some good copy editors on the case with it, I'll make a note to help polish it when I can. My main concern is that it needs copyediting and to become more comprehensive and also in need of a restructure in places. I;d prefer the later sections to be before the death section as I feel it begins to explore the subject again which should be covered before this. I think it would be possible to merge the African politics section into the main body. Good luck on developing the others. In case you haven't noticed of late I've been developing some articles on Central America and trying to cover all of the municipalities. I am improving my knowledge of Spanish so I can help translate articles. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you would be interested in starting articles on Coffee production in Côte d'Ivoire, Banana production in Côte d'Ivoire. I;d imagine potentially a lot could be written about them. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

This is a good suggestion. I would like to start these article, if you haven't already, and aren't particularly hot after the. I did run up a quick article on Cocoa production in Côte d'Ivoire that could be checked for the usual as a starting point. --Blechnic (talk) 20:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Interested in stubbing those in List of Costa Rican politicians?. They all have articles on Spanish wiki ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:09, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Earthquakes ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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