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Hi Markussep, thanks for all your help in cleaning up these templates. I'm learning gradually and feel slightly guilty that you have to keep sweeping up behind me! However, I wonder whether it would be helpful and save time if we could modify the template to cater for the parameters that it doesn't recognise. Also if it could read the coords (as some templates do) we wouldn't have to adjust those either. Thoughts? --Bermicourt (talk) 20:56, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into these Kyrgyzstan place names. I started on them myself but you are obviously better equipped to assess them. So, about Bor-Doba. First, I'm pretty sure it should be just Bordoba. But second, I can't find any evidence that it is an actual village; from what I can see it's the name of the border crossing point on the M41. The GMap dot is in the middle of a river but there is a building nearby, which is plainly not a dwelling; it looks to me to be some sort of inspection building. Mangoe (talk) 19:42, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
According to this Soviet map there is (or was in the 1970s) a tiny village (or three houses) called Bardoba (Cyrillic: Бардоба), at 39°30′27″N73°16′08″E / 39.5074°N 73.2688°E / 39.5074; 73.2688. Maybe the Kyrgyz name is a bit different, probably Бордөбө (Bordöbö) or Бор-Дөбө. That's also the name of the glacier to the southeast. So maybe it's not really a village, but it is a locality that has a name on the map. Notable? Maybe. MarkussepTalk20:22, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
GMaps shows one big building with some sheds at that spot on the map, and having sampled a bunch of travel blogs/etc. it's clear that it's a just a border post and nothing more. I did find one book reference referring to "Bor Dobo" as the location of a "checkpoint", though it doesn't say that there's no village. But it's clear that there's no village, and it's clear to me at any rate that making the article stop saying that it's a village is going to be a major battle. I assume it doesn't show up in the census listing? Mangoe (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
That's right, it's not listed in the census. I think it's safe to say it's a locality on the road from Sary-Tash to Tajikistan, not much more than that. MarkussepTalk20:01, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Temen-Suu
Thanks for your edits to Temen-Suu. I see that these edits include a change to the spelling of the name of the village to the incorrect "Tömön-Suu", with the only source you added offering a spelling of "Темен-Суу". These edits also included the change of the pitch accent to a stress mark (I've seen this a number of times before with Turkic transcriptions—there seems to be a concerted effort of some sort?). I've changed all of this back to previous (correct) forms. —Firespeaker (talk) 04:06, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, the source I used for the population indeed says "Темен-Суу", but note that it's a Russian language text. Russian doesn't use the "ө", so you'll find that all "ө" are replaced with "е" or also "у". That said, I'm not 100% sure that it's "Төмөн-Суу" in Kyrgyz and not "Темен-Суу". Kyrgyz wikipedia uses "Төмөн-Суу", and searching for "Төмөн-Суу" in combination with "Москва району" yields more results than "Темен-Суу". I haven't found the Kyrgyz version of the census results, the statistics website http://www.stat.kg/ seems to have problems. Since I'm not 100% sure, I'll leave the article like this. About the pronunciation, I don't think Kyrgyz has pitch accents, so maybe you need to get a reference for that. MarkussepTalk10:55, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Note that you can't predict Kyrgyz ‹ө› from a Russian ‹е›. This map uses ‹ё› for ‹ө› in several names, but just uses ‹е› in "Темен-Суу". And see the image I uploaded with the name in Kyrgyz. I also happen to be in Temen-Suu right now, and residents [quite adamantly] confirm that it is indeed normally called "Темен-Суу" (with /e/) in Kyrgyz. On the other hand, some people's ID cards are issued with "Томон-Суу" and similar spellings suggestive of ‹ө› (/œ/). Residents seem pretty sure that "Төмөн-Суу" is the original name, and it became "Темен-Суу" through Russian influence—but only documents from out-of-date or non-local sources use this name. As far as mentioning these facts on the page, this would probably be considered original research. It may not be mentioned reliably in this way in any sources. Can you think of any way to incorporate any of this? The best I can think of is a statement like the above, rephrased here: "(Төмөн-Суу in out-of-date or non-local sources, but called Темен-Суу in modern Kyrgyz and Russian sources)". The problem, then, I guess, is citing the proper sources. —Firespeaker (talk) 11:45, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
I tried again to find a Kyrgyz version of the population census, but no result. I added ", also Төмөн-Суу - Tömön-Suu", I guess that is enough for now, lacking sources. MarkussepTalk13:27, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Writer's Barnstar
For French cantons, going to the end of the world, or, more accurately, of France. (A sphere has no end, and the western end of Eurasia isn't really in France, because the end of the world in Spain and the end of the world in Portugal are further west.) Robert McClenon (talk) 21:43, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, there are at least 3 places called Rancourt: Rancourt, Somme in the Somme department, Rancourt, Vosges in the Vosges department and Rancourt-sur-Ornain in the Meuse department. Of these 3, the one in Vosges is furthest from Belgium, the other two are within 70-90 km from the Belgian border (but pretty far apart). I hope that helps. MarkussepTalk20:47, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello. It's a pretty good general rule that if you end up blanking a category like Category:Defunct railway stations in Poitou-Charentes then you're doing something wrong. In particular, the best way to handle the French region renames would be to rename (and if necessary merge in) the old categories via WP:CFDS rather than creating new ones. The big advantage of that is that you don't have to do these kinds of edits manually, a bot will do them for you. No doubt there will be a bit of tweaking round the edges where boundaries have realigned, but it would save you a ton of work. Cheers. Le Deluge (talk) 20:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up this template for new articles on German villages. I guess the problem is that the German Wiki template has changed since it was imported into English Wiki. So I've been wondering whether we can modify it to accept the latest German version and avoid having to keep cleaning up the template every time. --Bermicourt (talk) 13:16, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
I don't think there's much we can do to avoid converting the coordinates manually. For the other fields like "Gemeindename" we could make a workaround. MarkussepTalk14:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
thanks for the heads-up on this problematic user(s). I have cleaned up here and there, whenever i come across their "deeds" (on a related note... WOW that's a loooooooooooooooooooong list), will of course continue to help out!
Hi, the other reason why I merged List of people with craters on Mars named after them into List of craters on Mars, besides the notoriously unreliable contributions of Terriffic Dunker Guy, is that it is superfluous. All information that was in that list is already in the sublists of List of craters on Mars, and a lot more (diameter, coordinates, USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Names references). The references you added may be useful and could be added, if they add more info to what's already in the GPN link. Unfortunately I don't have access to the full text of most of the references you used. MarkussepTalk08:46, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
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I guess you mean this edit? Indeed Romanian wiki has three rivers Gardu, but by now I think that two of them don't even exist. And if they exist, they're very small and will never meet the notability requirements. Take ro:Râul Gardu, Gruița: this should be near the village Gogoșești, but even on a detailed map, I only see the Valea Satului, no Gardu, no Gruița. ro:Râul Gardu, Geamărtălui should be nearby, near Bușteni, also in Dolj County. I only see Pârâul Mijlociu, no Gardu. Then ro:Râul Gardu, Sebeș: I actually found a Pârâul Gardului on this map, southeast of the Tău Bistra reservoir, but it's very small. MarkussepTalk19:46, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Since you are on thewikiproject Germany, i wanted to ask you something. One user has created several maps which basically hint that Germany was part of the Spanish Empire because Charles V was both King of Spain and Emperor of Germany. I find it absurd and I have also found many other mistakes. See File talk:Imperio Español Completo.svg on wikicommons.
Barjimoa (talk) 15:15, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
I see you and Nagihuin have more or less reached an agreement, and the Holy Roman Empire is out of the map. There's (at least) one error left: the Northern Netherlands gained independence from Spain in 1648 (Treaty of Münster), not 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht). MarkussepTalk21:18, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
Streams
Good to see you're going through the German rivers. Badly need work. If you want me to db author any compile a list and I'll do them all in one go rather than template me individually. OK?♦ Dr. Blofeld12:31, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the guy who made a recent edit to Hauts-de-France regarding the Dutch/Flemish exonym for that region. Part of my motive for putting that name next to the official name was to acknowledge the historical presence of the Dutch language and culture in present-day northern France, partially in light of French linguistic and cultural oppression of dutch-speaking peoples, particularly during the middle ages. That said, I could also be missing something here. I also saw that the French regions bordering Germany and Italy, among other places, had exonyms for those regions in their respective languages; therefore, I thought, why not the Dutch name for that bordering region? I hope this all makes sense.
In any case, I just thought it was worth explaining my previous edits and the motives behind them.
Thank you for listening, and please let me know what input you might have in regards to this page and other related topics.
Wiscipidier (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2020 (UTC)Wiscipidier
Hi, my problem with "Opper-Frankrijk" is that it might be an accurate literal translation of the French name, but it's not used in the real world. I'm Dutch myself, and I have never heard or seen this before, unlike other Dutch exonyms like Elzas, Lotharingen, Normandië, Parijs, Rijsel, Duinkerke. See for instance these lists from the Taalunie, the official board for the Dutch language: http://namen.taalunie.org/land/fr and http://namen.taalunie.org/nederlandse-namen-voor-plaatsen-frans-vlaanderen . The region was created just a few years ago, that may explain why it's not there. I couldn't find "Opper-Frankrijk" on the websites of the neighbouring Flemish province https://www.west-vlaanderen.be or the Flemish city https://www.kortrijk.be either (that do mention "Hauts-de-France"). The Flemish government uses "Hauts-de-France", see https://www.fdfa.be/nl/hauts-de-france. If you look for "Opper-Frankrijk" in Google you only find Wikipedia and obvious clones. We should reflect actual usage, not invent it. There are better ways to show the Flemish heritage of the region. MarkussepTalk08:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Carpathian mountains map
Hello, I have fixed your map but didn't want to upload it without your permission. You included a city, city of Vršac in Serbia, Voivodina as a part of the Transylvanian plateau which is a really old scientific classification. Officialy, it's the part of Serbo-Macedonian massif. I have it here: https://imgur.com/a/R0tteVX , and city of Vršac is on these coordinates 45.1201 21.3043. God bless you my man! Christ is risen!
Kolikojerokoko (talk) 14:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Hey there, thanks for calling me out on that. I was under the impression that there was a discussion at WikiProject Rivers that was still running its course (pun unintended) that could impact the fate of the categories, so I closed it conservatively, although I should have taken into account the suggestion for CFDS for that specific instance. I have gone ahead and placed Category:Dnieper River system to Category:Dnieper basin at WP:CFDS, since that did seem to be generally agreed upon. bibliomaniac1517:18, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
As a general piece of advice, in the future if there's a line that is discovered to be more applicable to a speedy instead, as a nom it may be better to strike it out and list it on CFDS instead. bibliomaniac1519:58, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
A lot of the German rivers are poorly sourced, even by German wiki standards and don't have many sources available in a search. We have stubs on small tributaries and even the parent rivers which are tributaries of more notable rivers are still short stubs. In looking I think we'd be better off having stubs on the larger ones and redirecting the smaller tributaries and simply listing them as tributaries and at least trying to write a few sourced paragraphs. Dill (river) for example we ought to have a detailed article on that and tributaries such as Aar (Dill) summarised within it. If we keep that separate, the German wikipedia article is detailed but poorly sourced so it's difficult to transwiki it and chase up the sourcing. I don't think we should have seperate articles on tributaries of the Aar too like Monzenbach (which I redirected). The granddad river needs writing properly first! I really think a great number of the German rivers should be redirected into a tributary list/summary in the larger rivers until they can be researched properly. It's difficult to find detailed sources on a lot of them.† Encyclopædius10:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
I don't think stubbiness is a good criterion for redirecting an article, notability of the subject is more important, see WP:GEOLAND. I agree that not all rivers in Germany are notable, I cleaned up several of those myself. It's not so difficult to find sources for basic river data, also for the small ones like the Monzenbach, see for instance http://wrrl.hessen.de/mapapps/resources/apps/wrrl/index.html?lang=en , select "Gewässerthemen" in the "Themen" tab, and zoom in to Herborn. It's 4.5 km long apparently, but you already found that site, I see. If you search for "Monzenbach Aar Herborn" you'll find some more information, maybe not enough to call it notable. Actually I think that most of the rivers that have articles now are more or less notable, I already cleaned out the worst. MarkussepTalk11:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
A lot of the ones under 20 km in length tend to not have the best sourcing available, even the German wiki articles are generally poorly sourced. I couldn't find anything other than mention in some books or on a map for a lot of them. Some of the ones under 10 km look like the stream in my local golf course. In an ideal world we'd have a full article on every stream in Germany but it makes no sense to me having a short stub if there isn't sourcing available to write a good article and if the parent river is still a stub and unsourced etc. Priority should be the more notable rivers first and then if somebody can be bothered ot fully expand those and find enough info to write an article on the tributaries then expand them. Even with what you could find to write about Monzenbach, I would be surprised if you could find more than could be comfortably be summarised in the Aar article.† Encyclopædius11:40, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Well, if we just take the Monzenbach example again: the article had mouth coordinates and location, which didn't make it into the parent article. I'm not saying that's a big problem, but before you start redirecting a lot of articles, I think it's better to discuss it at WP:RIVERS and/or WP:GERMANY. Then we may find some nice criteria to prune out the non-notable streams. MarkussepTalk13:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Hello! I would like to thank you for the time you are spending on wikipedia to improve the information. But, one of the pages you deleted was a transparent page, and I don't understand how can I move it from English Wikipedia to Romanian Wikipedia. Please do to me one more favor and help me. EusuntBabi (talk) 10:09, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm sorry that i sent a remark message, but I'm struggling to understand how wikipedia works. After you edited, I saw that the page Mârzănești is posted on English Wikipedia. I did not knew that this is a problem. So, I want to move it on Romanian Wikipedia, but I don't know how to do this. Now I understand too why it is not good to post a Romanian text on an English language platform.I don't think that the Western World would like to hear about my small village in Romania :). — Preceding unsigned comment added by EusuntBabi (talk • contribs) 10:23, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
About the recent population of the districts and jamoats of Tajikistan
About the recent population of the districts and jamoats of Tajikistan, for instance, the former Ghonchi District (now Devashtich District) of Sughd Region, do you know any certain types of information if the jamoats have smaller division units within their territorial borders or jurisdiction; such as villages or townlets or neighborhoods or localities or settlements or communities or hamlets, etc.? Lemme know when you possibly can. jlog3000 (talk) 20:04, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
While working on Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları female slavery markets in Ottomans, I came across an Ottoman escapee slave "George of Hungary" His account of escape from slavery interests me. so I initiated a Draft:George of Hungary. Frankly I am not sure I can spare enough time alone for this particular article since I am focused on related larger scope project of Women , conflicts and conflict zones, So..
1) You seems to have earlier edited article Sebeș. I am looking for volunteering support in expansion and update of Draft:George of Hungary if the topic interests you and if you are unable to spare time for some reason may be you can help out by referring the article to others for expansion.
2) If you happen to come across any information on Ottoman women slavery by any chance at any point of time please do support Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları by updating the same.
Hi Markussep, I removed the hatnote from Komsomolobod because I couldn't find an appropriate article to link it to. Darband is a disambiguation page and, assuming that you meant Darband, Tajikistan, there is no mention of Komsomolobod as a former name. If I have made a mistake, please let me know and I will fix it. Leschnei (talk) 13:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing that. You're right, I meant Darband, Tajikistan. I added the former name to that article, and a reference. MarkussepTalk14:47, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Le Mont Dore
Hi, I reverted your unsourced edit, because I was unable to find a source which declared his victory, rather than that he was ahead in the second contest. Please find a WP:reliable source which states he is mayor, and support it with a WP:inline citation. Also note that saying he was in office through 2026 should be replaced by "2020-present". Thanks!--Quisqualis (talk) 18:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
I found a reference, "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020., and have added it. I don't quite agree with your "2020-present" proposal, since mayors in France are elected for a specific term: until the next local elections, that will take place in March 2026. MarkussepTalk19:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the sourcing. Regarding 2026, Wikipedia does not predict the future, and people sometimes resign, are deposed or die in office. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the infobox is not equipped to tell us the term length, so we must read in the article to find that. (somebody tell the infobox authorities, svp)--Quisqualis (talk) 19:09, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
I've just fixed ~170 German municipality pages which you've mostly started, or significantly contributed to, from 2006 to recently, and I've noticed a pattern of disregard for MOS:ORDER. Please ready it & try to follow it. Thanks. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)22:23, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, it would help me if you could be more specific about the errors you found. I have no intention of violating any guideline, and in some cases I wonder whether MOS:ORDER was that specific about the order of e.g. stub tags and categories at the time that I made the edits, back in 2006 or 2007. MarkussepTalk07:18, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Map of Carpathians in svg format?
Hi, do you have this map [1] in vector graphics (svg)? It could be very useful, e.g. for localization? Thanks. --Pavouk (talk) 11:21, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
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I noticed you removed the additional registration codes from the infobox that have been reactivated some years back due to a change in registration laws. I don't see an obvious technical reason for removal as the resulting output is not linked anywhere. Am I missing something? As a general rule the historic codes are available in all districts that inherited parts of the historic districts as long as the modern district makes that option available to vehicle owners. So I imagine that 99% of the infobox usage was correcty stating current codes. Agathoclea (talk) 09:42, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Yes, I removed some, especially from the Erzgebirgskreis (see e.g. this diff) since it was simply too much, and it doesn't make sense to me that someone from Marienberg (former Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis, MEK) would choose a licence plate from a former district that Marienberg never was part of, like ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, STL, SZB, ZP. If you don't agree, I can also leave them there. MarkussepTalk09:50, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
It is rather silly, but that is how the rules work. It really took me a while to work out why Hof offers the Stadtsteinach plate, that was down to a hamlet that got merged away from its municipality at the time. Some people with multiple cars have been known to use the same letters/numbers but different prefixes. The question is in the end what each district allows, and I know that in places had been a contentious issue. People have been complaining in the more restrictive districts, especially if there where cars in the neighbouring district registered with a particular towns plate due to those border issues. But I have got no comprehensive overview of the final rulings. Agathoclea (talk) 10:27, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, see the note at Category:Rivers of France that says "For convenience, all Rivers of France should be included in this category. This includes all the rivers that can also be found in the subcategories." Since there is no note like that at Category:Rivers of Brittany, one could argue for removing it from that category. In this case, Arguenon is only in three categories, so cluttering is a minor problem here. MarkussepTalk16:32, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
For me it's convenient to have all rivers of France in one category. I do appreciate consistency, but consistency among all hundreds of thousands of river articles may be a bit difficult to achieve. MarkussepTalk19:13, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
I doubt that it would be impossible. I would divide countries into those that have few rivers, those that have many, and the ones in between. "Few" could be less than 20 or less than 5 per region, and "Many" could be more than 200 or more than 50 per region. Something like that. The "few" countries would have all the rivers in "category:Rivers of countryname"; the "many" countries would have no rivers in "category:Rivers of countryname", and the ones in between could be decided case by case. Most countries probably already follow rules like this, and working through the others standardizing them would just be a mundane job that would probably find and fix a lot of anomalies.
But the basic assumption is that enormous lists in "category:Rivers of countryname" should be avoided, and it would probably be impossible to gain consensus on that. Out of curiosity, what do you use Category:Rivers of France for? Aymatth2 (talk) 12:31, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
I use the Category:Rivers of France for maintenance, to check (with "Related changes") whether new articles have appeared, or whether articles have been vandalised. That would be more tedious to me if I have to check every regional category. I looked in the guideline for categories, but there are no definitions of "overpopulated" categories. Apparently, Rivers of France is treated as a category with non-diffusing subcategories. MarkussepTalk13:36, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
The French wiki takes a minimalist approach with w:fr:Catégorie:Cours d'eau en France. Petscan shows articles for 4,272 watercourses. Maybe someone will set themselves the task of translating them. I only did Arguenon because it was mentioned in another article I started, but there is something peaceful and uncontroversial about articles on rivers... Aymatth2 (talk) 12:29, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
@Aymatth2: I think a general category for Rivers of France is fine for navigation if there's sub cats too, though there are some awkward ones. The important thing is that you're expanding our coverage of Corsica, which is much appreciated, I'm sure Markussep will agree.₪ Encyclopædius17:55, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Linking via pipes and redirects
Hi, thanks for your contributions to towns, regions, and geographic features of France. Just to save you a lot of unnecessary edits, there's no need to retarget a link via a pipe to the actual page title that is already working via a redirect, and there are usually good reasons to keep the redirect as is; these are explained at WP:NOPIPE. This is especially so when the page title contains parenthetical disambiguation; one almost never wants to see the parenthetical part in the rendered page. The converse situation, is explained at WP:NOTBROKEN, which concerns links that are already working and point to the correct target page. There is rarely a reason to "fix" these links. Thanks, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 17:04, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Just noticed your revert at Departments of France, with the summary, rvt, there are more rivers named Nièvre. If Wikipedia has articles on more than one river named Nièvre, then the redirect Nièvre (river) should not be targeted at a single page title, and should be turned into a disambig page instead. Do you know how to do that? If not, I can do it if you prefer, if you let me know what the page title of the "other" river with this name is. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 17:12, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
I guess you're right it's not very useful to replace redirects, I'll give it a break. About Nièvre, the other river is a tributary of the Somme, see fr:Nièvre (affluent de la Somme). There's no article about that one in English wikipedia yet, once that's created we could make a disambiguation page for the rivers and the department. MarkussepTalk20:30, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
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