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Proposed change to Démographie template

Is there any way we can change this so that it can have multiple rows?Ksnow (talk) 18:21, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

Railway diagrams

Hi Markussep

Thanks for your help with the Toulouse-Bayonne railway diagram, would you be able to sort out the 3 way junction at Narbonne for me too, and just check that I haven't missed anything. Also would you be able to leave each station as it is put on the diagram so that I can just click the link and make the article from there rather than find out if it is Gare de...; Gare d'... etc. I will get them all done soon enough!

Thanks

Chris0693 (talk) 16:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Naming of the Slovenian river Krka

Hi, I'm wondering why you've moved the article Krka River (Slovenia) to Krka (Slovenia) in 2009. The article was at its previous title to disambiguate it from the company Krka, which is also in Slovenia. --Eleassar my talk 11:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

French Railways

Hi Mark,

I'm sorry I hadn't replied yet (I thought I had!) Thanks for making these articles and cleaning up things. As you may have noticed I am doing all stations big and small, just as they come. Just lately I have been doing Gare de Brive-la-Gaillarde and all services from there. I plan to do all the stations from Paris down to Toulouse, with all connecting services, over time. But if you have articles you wish for me to create/edit or whatever just let me know, I will be happy to spend some time doing them!

Thanks for your help Chris0693 (talk) 19:42, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mark,

I think I will add move onto all the main stations on that line once I've done the branches off Brive (I don't look forward to Limoges!). I will also update the information already on there showing all stations a train will serve, as it shows well where the train goes and makes it easier for the editor as you just have to click on the next station in the table. I agree, I have never been sure what to call that section. I will have a look at some other examples, to find an appropriate title. Looks good! I have also tried to make a diagram for {{Carcassonne-Rivesaltes railway diagram}} but have struggled to just put in some closed railway track for between Quillan and Ax-les-Thermes. If you could help with this, and make the article for the line if you want. I have pictures of the Ax-les-Thermes to Rivesaltes section.

Thanks! Chris0693 (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for doing that looks very good! Only thing is the line finishes in Axat, as I visited it in 2009. Also I have attempted to create an article for a railway, this one was the Bayonne - Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port railway, but I know there are things that need adding, I'm just not sure how to write them. Would this be something you could do at all?

Thanks, Chris0693 (talk) 16:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello again Mark,

I am trying to improve the article Interlaken Ost railway station in Switzerland, and I was wondering if you could help me start the Template:S-line things, as I can't get them to work. I would like it to work, where you can type in the termini of each service and the next station either side, as I don't know the route numbers in Switzerland, I am just struggling to get them to work. Is this something you can help me with?

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 14:56, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I managed to work most of it out based on the Nederlandse Spoorwegen templates, just adding colours (such as the green for TER Auvergne and red for TER Aquitaine). Ideally it would be a red for SBB, green for BLS, blue or yellow for BOB, red for Zentralbahn and white for ICE. Would you be able to do this, I'm not quite sure how? Thanks for the advice, I will give it a go soon and is it alright if I ask you for help? Also I haven't finished with France, don't worry! I just needed somewhere new to work!

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 19:32, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello again,

I dont know why but this template just will not work Template:Brive-la-Gaillarde - Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway diagram, would you be able to fix it? You are welcome to write the article for the line too if you want as I have now done all the stations along it.

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 21:41, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for tidying up the Lyon-Geneva template. Can you please put the parallel lines back between Cornavin and the airport junction, they really function as independent from the Geneva-Lyon tracks. Also I just wrote the English article for Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains railway, if you would like to add the infobox and template, please go aheadOldboltonian (talk) 23:46, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the GVA upgrade, Markussep. I'll do the Col-Div railway myself from the German, which is much quicker to translate than from the french :)Oldboltonian (talk) 10:45, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Demography template revisited

I think we should translate Démographie2 for the communes that have full population histories. Ksnow (talk) 16:42, 22 February 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

Pumpie socks

Hello Markus! Be advised that Pumpie has begun using sockpuppets (Funkariffic2 (talk · contribs)). He's been blocked, but next he might target the French railways again. BTW, great work on the Greek administrative division articles! Best regards, Constantine ✍ 14:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Lichtetal am Rennsteig

I'm now at 2 reverts (3 if you go back to 1 March) on this article turning back changes by User:HHaeckel. He's also at it on Lichte. I've explained my rationale more fully on the Lichtetal talkpage, but in case any of his translation changes are improvements, could I ask you to cast an eye over the 2 articles? You created at least the Lichtetal one, but the preferred rendering of Verwaltungsgemeinschaft may have changed since then. I have left alone the change of the list of parts of the municipality/municipal association from a list to a table because it seems harmless, though it looks odd to my eye, and I really don't want to discourage the guy - I'm trying to save his Morassina article at AfD and I left him a welcome message. But I think he's reducing clarity rather than increasing it. --Yngvadottir (talk) 18:48, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

French Railways

Hi Mark,

Firstly thanks for writing the article Moret-Lyon railway, its very good! I have created a page User:Chris0693/Templates, in which are a number of templates I have edited or created and if you wish you can write an article for them or help me write one. Secondly, at Nevers I thought the direction it showed was the wrong way (as the train sort-of leaves in a left direction) so I preferred to use it where you enter the points manually. What do you think. Also, would it be possible to show a few more larger places for the Template:Paris-Marseille railway diagram, as I feel it would be better if a few more places were shown?

Anything you feel needs doing?

Chris0693 (talk) 14:39, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello again,

I have just completed the Template:Nevers-Chagny railway diagram, would you be able to try and get the junction with the LGV Sud-Est working and also add the triangle junction at Chagny? I think how the french version has shown it over complicates it!

If you can explain how you solved the LGV junction problem, it may help me understand it better.

Also do you know if SNCF are planning on building any new stations, or if there are any important changes planned anytime soon?

Thank You

Chris0693 (talk) 15:55, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Gare de Bourg-Saint-Maurice

Hi Mark,

I have just created this article, but cannot get the Eurostar or Thalys s-line's to work, is this something you would be able to sort out please?

Thanks,

Chris0693 (talk) 17:46, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

WPGreece barnstar

The Barnstar of WikiProject Greece
A truly well-deserved – and long-deserved – award for numerous contributions to Greece-related articles. Your role in updating Wikipedia on the Kallikratis reform in particular has been literally indispensable. On behalf of WP:GREECE, thanks, and keep it up! Constantine ✍ 18:39, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

More Railway Diagrams

Hi Mark,

Sorry to be a pain, but I just can't get the arrow part of this to work at Amsterdam Sloterdijk. You may be able to think of a better way for the diagram here. I don't know if you are from France or wherever, so don't know if you are familiar with the layout of the station? Basically it is a bi-level station with a seperate branch on the Hemboog. Would you be able to have a look into it?

Template:Amsterdam-Schiphol railway diagram

Thanks, Chris0693 (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mark,

Thanks for doing that, only problem is that curve from Amsterdam Lelylaan goes to Zaandam, not Haarlem and the Zaandam line goes off after Amsterdam Sloterdijk. Anyway you could fix this?

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 16:39, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mark,

I've decided I'm going to work on improving all of the Paris articles, as it is the capital of France! I have started with Gare Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 RER but I can't get the S-line diagrams to work. Before there was just one and it said part of it was to a place called Robinson, which wasnt on this line. Could you fix it please!

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 23:11, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Template talk:LGV Sud Est

Ok, that is indeed another solution. Sry for that CSDs, but that is quite common to CSD "empty" talkpages (in this case it would be a empty after removing the wildbot template) for getting again a redling (for indicating that there is no discussion on that page!). mabdul 18:51, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mabdul, I guess the db template wasn't clear enough: the message said "This template may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion because I fixed the reported (by wildbot) links - template and talkpage are not longer necessary". Of course you meant the wildbot template, but it could also have been the LGV template itself. But probably you would have tagged the template itself then, not the talkpage. Regards, Markussep Talk 07:35, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
You are right. My description can be confusing. Since I had tagged and successfully removed all wildbot-templates (with talkpages if needed) in the template-space, the problem has gone. For the next time in a similar situation I will choose a proper name. mabdul 14:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Dutch railways

Hi Mark

Is it possible to improve the Infoboxes at the stations, because the French ones seem much better, although it is good they have a map. I will try and improve the Dutch articles, is there anything in particular you thought would be good to add or really needs changing?

Chris0693 (talk) 15:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I think you're right about the infoboxes. The maps of the {{Infobox NS-station}} are nice, but it's possible to use those dot maps in the {{Infobox station}} with a trick: in the "map_locator" field you can use a template like {{Location map|Netherlands Randstad N|lat=52.382778|long=4.671111}}. It would be even better if Infobox station could do that automatically. I think we should turn Infobox NS-station into a wrapper for Infobox station, that way we don't have to replace all the infoboxes manually. About writing articles: my priority would be creating articles for the main railway lines, since many important ones are still missing. For instance Meppel-Groningen, Apeldoorn-Deventer, Utrecht-Kampen, Amsterdam-Arnhem, Arnhem-Nijmegen, Tilburg-Nijmegen, Utrecht-Boxtel, Utrecht-Rotterdam, Breda-Rotterdam, Gouda-Den Haag, Roosendaal-Vlissingen, Antwerpen-Lage Zwaluwe, Breda-Eindhoven, Eindhoven-Weert, Venlo-Eindhoven, Maastricht-Venlo. You know I like doing the infoboxes, or at least fixing the difficult junctions ;-). I still have quite some work to do for Greek municipalities, but I can help out every now and then. Markussep Talk 19:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
OK Mark, I will get on with writing some of those articles! Are you happy with the style I have written the Almelo-Salzbergen railway and Deventer-Almelo railway aricles? Also would you be able to create one of these Infoboxes which I could use, as I am a bit confused!
Thanks, Chris0693 (talk) 12:51, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
The two railway articles are good IMO. What references do you use, or do you translate Dutch wikipedia? If so, it's better to add the template {{Translated page}} (with the proper fields added, see template description) to its talk page. Do you mean the station infoboxes? Markussep Talk 15:01, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Well I use my own knowledge for most of it and then yes translate the rest, but i'm not good at referencing and don't quite get how to do that. And yes I mean the station infoboxes, thanks!

Chris0693 (talk) 09:06, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Basically you need a written reference for what you write, preferably a book or a reliable website. See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. Markussep Talk 10:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Question about Swiss municipality infoboxes

Where does the population come from on these? It does not match the text in the editable version. For example, Servion has 1062 and a date of 2007 in the editable version, and 1.073 and a date of 2009. The period is the problem. Can't we get English number formatting? Ksnow (talk) 16:21, 5 April 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

I've never worked on the Swiss infoboxes, but the population apparently comes from a database template: {{Swiss populations data CH-VD}}. I see a comma (i.e. English formatting), not a dot. Markussep Talk 17:30, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

A Milestone

100000 Edits
Belated Congratulation on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that very few editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work! 06:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Buster Seven Talk 06:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)This award design created by User:Bugboy52.40 ________________________________________________________________

Congratulations! Currently writing User:Nvvchar/Loire River BTW...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Glitch in Demography template

On the Saint-Christophe, Allier page, the 16th-century date is not showing up in the population table. Is there a limit in the template? Ksnow (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

That's right, the template can't handle years before 1600. Markussep Talk 19:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Disambig deletion

Hi. When marking disamb pages for speedy, would it not be helpful to create the stubs that are related to the disambiguation? Cheers, Dlohcierekim 23:05, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I wouldn't mark a page for deletion if it contained useful information. If you want to create articles about Greek villages, that's great of course. If you can read Greek (I can't really), you can use Greek wikipedia or other sources for some more information about the places, for instance the municipality they're in, population, coordinates etc. I can point you to some good sources if you're interested. Markussep Talk 21:07, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Despotiko (disambiguation)

This one seems useful. Should we not turn those redlinks blue? Dlohcierekim 23:10, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Cedral (disambiguation)

I noticed that you had nominated this page for deletion. I took a look and was able to find the correct article names for the two entries that were red links, so I updated the article. Cheers! --Auntof6 (talk) 08:50, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Good! Markussep Talk 10:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Lahn

Thanks, Markussep, for sorting out Lahn and its infobox! Are you any good at roads? See my cry for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways#Austrian highway problem. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:34, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, not really, I do work on railroads every now and then. Markussep Talk 07:49, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Reopening a discussion

I want to reopen the discussion Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic)#Example_convention regarding bibliographic references because I think Unicode changes the game somewhat. Since you have participated in the same talk page, I hope you will visit the discussion and give me your opinions. Thanks! LADave (talk) 23:26, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Greek municipal subdivisions

What are the second level (if considering 'settlement', Οικισμός, as the lowest level) units of municipalities called according to the current law? The ones that used to be municipal districts or communal districts (Δμοτικά διαμερίσματα or Κοινοτικά διαμερίσματα) in 2001 census and local districts (Τοπικό διαμερίσματα) according some newer law. --Sivullinen (talk) 12:28, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

In the document I'm using (http://www.kedke.gr/uploads2010/FEKB129211082010_kallikratis.pdf) they're called Δημοτική Κοινότητα and Τοπική Κοινότητα (municipal community and local community, resp.). Since I don't know the difference between the two community types (if there is any, except maybe size), I call them both "community". Markussep Talk 15:09, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Paleochora

The official name of the village is Paleochora and no Palaiochora..... In google search Paleochora is 1.000.000 times and Palaiochora..... only .000 times so redirect Palaiochora to Paleochora....... in Greek language "ΠΑΛΑΙΟΧΩΡΑ" TRANSLATED TO PALEOCHORA BECAUSE "AI" TRANSLATED TO "E"

THANK YOU — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhs xania (talk • contribs) 14:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

paleochora/palaiochora

if i change the content of paleochora ,you redirect again the page to palaiochora?

thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhs xania (talk • contribs) 14:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Makrinisi

I've declined the speedy deletion tag on Makrinisi; note that the A10 tag is for recently created pages that duplicate an existing topic. Just redirect it. Ironholds (talk) 22:40, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

OK. Markussep Talk 08:37, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your intrest, i wanted to start these articles for that reason i did it on that way, i have no other references. --Vinie007 13:16, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Ok, agree --Vinie007 18:18, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Great work :D --Vinie007 12:02, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Paulskirchenverfassung

Ping on Talk:Paulskirchenverfassung#Title_of_this_article. Int21h (talk) 08:25, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Redirect of stubs at Mures river

Hello, i do not think that redirecting stubs, which means almost deleting the stubs is a very good idea neither your argument is valid. Stubs are to be expanded and not making them disappear. Moreover, in most cases there is info in these stubs eg. Alternative names, region, county, major settlements on its bank which is not contained in the Mures river article. It a mistake to decrease the available info even it far from ideal. Rokarudi--Rokarudi (talk) 15:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

These articles have been around for three years now, and noone has bothered to add even the most basic information, like coordinates, length or places along the river. When a stream can't even be found on a detailed map of the judeţ, I strongly doubt its notability. As you may have noticed, I have expanded the articles about the bigger streams and rivers, e.g. Topliţa River (Mureş), Gurghiu River, Abrud River. If you want to restore and expand them, go ahead. I'm taking a wikibreak now anyway. Markussep Talk 17:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

What does "a.o." mean?

In an edit on May 3, 2007, to the lead section of Duchy of Limburg, you added (among other things) the following two items:

(a.o. Voeren, Rekem)
(a.o. Herzogenrath)

What does "a.o." mean? It is not a common abbreviation in English, and I cannot find its definition anywhere. Could you expand it in that article, please, so that those of us who are unfamiliar with it will understand what it means? Or, if you prefer, just let me know what it means and I will edit the article. Thanks very much.--Jim10701 (talk) 18:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I hope neither of you minds, but since Markussep hasn't edited for a few days and it's pretty clear from context that a.o. is intended to mean "among(st) others" on the model of, for example, German u.a., unter anderem/n, I went ahead and changed it to "for example". Yngvadottir (talk) 17:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
That's what I meant, thanks for correcting it. Markussep Talk 11:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Well done for spotting the creation of the Heidekreis and making the changes needed! Bermicourt (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Updating Belgium information

Hi,

the page Template:Infobox_Belgium_Municipality/Population puts automatic information of NIS in the part population Template:Infobox_Belgium_Municipality

example look to Aalst, Belgium, it's 2006, look the dutch one http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalst_(Oost-Vlaanderen) and you have the 2010 information

so you can't change it you're self but the current information is quite old 2006!

there is a list of 2010 on http://economie.fgov.be/nl/binaries/Pop%20Bevolk%2001012010_v2_f_tcm325-109882.xls

is it please possible for someone to update this?

it's really ridiculous because on the dutch page everything is 2010 but when people of other countries update information they look mostly on the english page and copy that information so they put the 2006 information of the english page while correct information of 2010 is on the dutch page

so please can someone do something?

Klodde (talk) 20:57, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

So why don't you go ahead and do it? I don't read Dutch and have had no prior contact with the subject, which would be best updated by someone with a direct interest in the subject and proficiency in the language. Acroterion (talk) 21:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't know how thos things work, the problem is dates! By example for Erpe-Mere I changed the people information, like on 1/1/2010

But when you look to the page, the population info is up to date, but he keeps giving the date 1/1/2006, and I don't find any possibility to change that stupid dates :(

Klodde (talk) 21:16, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Updating database templates like that is definitely beyond my abilities: try asking Markussep (talk · contribs), who's Dutch and who has worked on that template. Acroterion (talk) 21:19, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

thanks :), good tip Klodde (talk) 21:20, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Markussep,

I copied the post I did on the talk page of Acroterion, he gave me the good advice to contact you, I hope you can help

Klodde (talk) 21:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I found the Belgium list with the updates http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België

also for economic, ...

see below

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Inwoners

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Leeftijdsopbouw

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Buitenlanders

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Oppervlakte

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Werkloosheidsgraad

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Infobox_gemeente_België/Inkomen

maybe information can be transfered from the Dutch wikipedia, of you know a solution, thanks

ps I know we speak both dutch, but I don't know if we may communicate in dutch on the english wikipedia

greetings

Klodde (talk) 21:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Klodde, I'll reply on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belgium page (in English, since others may want to comment). Markussep Talk 09:24, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

The law for the new transcription

Sorry, my mistake, this is the full link to the law: http://195.26.159.34/Uploads/Zakon%20za%20patnite%20ispravi%20na%20drzavjanite%20na%20RM-neoficijalen%20precisten%20tekst%20okt%202010.doc.pdf Best regards, AL3X TH3 GR8 (talk) 12:15, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Correction needed in 9 pages about Erpe-Mere

Hi Markussep,

I translated 9 articles about municipality Erpe-Mere and it's 8 sub-municipalities. The articles are not that long but I hope you can take a look on it. My English is not that good an't I think there are mistakes in vocabulary and grammar.

the pages are

thanks if you could do that or maybe know someone who wants to make corrections in municipality-articles

greetings

Klodde (talk) 11:21, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I will check Aaigem as a test. My first impression is rather good, but I'm not a native speaker either. Maybe my changes will give you an idea for improving your editing. I see you translated them from nl: wikipedia. Apparently nl: wiki has another sourcing policy, at en: wikipedia you should use external references (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). But since the nl: original doesn't give these, I'll just tag it with {{citations missing}}. Markussep Talk 13:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Although we regrettably had some conflicts in the past which I am very sorry for, I can't but admire your dedication to the project and just the sheer extent of what you've done on here with geography and railway articles. You've cleaned up an awful lot of subjects and have had the patience to undertake massive tasks which lesser folk would not have the will to do, like updating census data etc. You are a wonderful asset to the project and I want you to know that every single one of your edits is genuinely appreciated.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, of course your French railway stubs were acceptable to me and are greatly needed. I am sorry if I implied otherwise. I'm just not a man who likes being told that's all, and I think it came at a very low moment complicated with another serious annoyances as you say, that's what triggered it. I wouldn't normally snap quite that much.. Regards.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

McPom

I believe you are the one who knows where this data should go. I lost track in my break. Agathoclea (talk) 18:45, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. MeckPomm's going to be a hell of a job after 4 September, and we don't even know the names of the new districts yet... I'll start a to do list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities/Changes. Markussep Talk 12:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I have been checking de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Kommunen und Landkreise in Deutschland/Kreisreform MV 2011 to keep informed. Agathoclea (talk) 12:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I will be away this weekend so will try and mop up whatever there is left on Tuesday. Agathoclea (talk) 12:14, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know when the chosen district names will be announced, do you? Before that, we could already do the Gemeindeschlüssel. I think we can use AWB for the most tedious part: replacing the district names in the municipality articles (in lead, infobox and navigation template). The maps of the municipalities within the new districts have been created already (see e.g. File:Altentreptow in MBS.svg), the file names may be temporary since they use a guessed license plate code. That's a job for AWB too. Markussep Talk 08:09, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

"MeckPomm's going to be a hell of a job after 4 September" - Genau. Ich war nach den ersten paar Dörfern schon bedient, aber du bist ja richtig fleißig dabei. Ein großes Dankeschön von meiner Seite. Skäpperöd (talk) 10:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Couple of things as you are faster than myself :-) can you please include the replacement of municipality in to [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in in your AWB. Also I just tested the removals of categories. We can safely remove Category:Municipalities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Category:Towns in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as they get autogenerated. Agathoclea (talk) 14:55, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I'll do the [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in in my next round of AWB. I think I'll go over your Bad Doberan edits first, replacing the Gemeindeschlüssel and fixing your "the the"s ;-p Categories OK. Markussep Talk 15:16, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
yep I noticed that when adjusting my settings for Güstrow. Agathoclea (talk) 15:45, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

FYI

WP:AN discussion - the IP problem seems a little more widespread and longterm. Agathoclea (talk) 10:11, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmmm. At least one source of vandalism has been blocked now (2.224.12.20‎), I hope someone has time to clean up the damage. I could check Switzerland later (after all the MeckPomm work has been done), but Finland, Japan, Peru, Niger and Burkina Faso are a bit outside my language range. Markussep Talk 11:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Vandal IP's:

195.62.170.97 blocked on deWiki. Torn between leaving a warning and blocking right away. Agathoclea (talk) 16:08, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I take it you speak German and hopefully a little Italian Agathoclea (talk) 16:27, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
The edit he/she made on Altmarkkreis Salzwedel was exactly the same as the one our friend 2.224.12.20‎ made. Typical. I speak German, my Italian is ... rudimentary. Markussep Talk 16:28, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Ile-Molene

This page needs to be deleted and the Molène renamed Île-Molène, which is the official name of the commune.Ksnow (talk) 15:32, 9 September 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

Hi, I can't do that, you need to use the WP:RM procedure. Markussep Talk 16:43, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
This appears to be a straitforward mess that seems to baffle the interwikibots. Maybe because of this move in 2009 where they moved the island to the commune article on frWiki. Agathoclea (talk) 17:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Edits at Serravalle, Switzerland and associated pages.

Hello Markussep. I have a question about your edits at Serravalle, Switzerland and its associated pages. You give a date of 15 March 2011 for the merger of Malvaglia, Semione and Ludiano into Serravalle. When I look at the reference you provided it mentions that date, but I can't read it well enough to understand exactly what it says. However, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office says the merger will happen on 1 April 2012. The municipal website of Malvaglia doesn't mention the merger and the Serravalle website only indicates that on 25 April 2010, the measure was approved. What do you think? Regards, Tobyc75 (talk) 11:54, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm afraid my Italian isn't good enough either. In the ref I used it says: "Con DL 15.3.2011 i Comuni di Ludiano, Malvaglia e Semione sono stati aggregati in un nuovo Comune denominato Comune di Serravalle - BU 2011, 251" I assumed that made it official, but your ref "Angekündigte Änderungen 2011" is quite clear: "gültig ab 1.4.2012". But here I see "Nome del Comune modificato dal DL 15.3.2011; in vigore dal 10.5.2011 - BU 2011, 252" I suppose "DL" stands for "Decreto legislativo". I'm not sure, I guess I was too fast then. Markussep Talk 12:09, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Yep, that's strange. The stuff from the Canton says 2 different dates both of which disagree with the federal information. Maybe there are different stages in the change over. I'm ok with just leaving it as is, since at the worst it will change in 6 months anyway. Tobyc75 (talk) 16:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Clean stations

Nice cleanup and removal of garbage from Netherlands railway stations. Try adding "noclear=yes" to the s-rail-start template to bring the succession boxes into line, where they are in the body of the article. Sw2nd (talk) 14:14, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Belgian infobox

You can find a few test cases here, you can add a few more if so you wish.--Nero the second (talk) 13:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

About the infobox, I've given my support for the new version created by you and Nero on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belgium.--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Serravalle in Ticino

Markussep, this is just to inform you that there is not a real municipality called Serravalle as of yet, it exists only on paper for now, not unlike what happened for some months to Monteceneri. I don't know if you can read Italian, but if you can, you can read all about it on the RSI's website: [1].--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 14:12, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, see also the discussion I had above with Tobyc75. Do you know when the merger will come into effect? We found some contradicting references. Markussep Talk 10:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The municipality does not exist as yet. The decree you found was meant to update the act of the cantonal parliament which lists all the subdivision of Ticino ("Legge concernente le Circoscrizioni dei Comuni, Circoli e Distretti"), and that was passed on 15.3.2011, but it won't be effective until a new mayor and city council for the whole of Serravalle are elected, and the new municipality is assigned a SFOS code and listed on the official list of communes, which going by what Toby found won't happen until the 1st of April of next year.--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 11:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
OK, I've modified the article accordingly. Markussep Talk 11:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

FYI

WP:AN discussion - the IP problem seems a little more widespread and longterm. Agathoclea (talk) 10:11, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmmm. At least one source of vandalism has been blocked now (2.224.12.20‎), I hope someone has time to clean up the damage. I could check Switzerland later (after all the MeckPomm work has been done), but Finland, Japan, Peru, Niger and Burkina Faso are a bit outside my language range. Markussep Talk 11:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Vandal IP's:

195.62.170.97 blocked on deWiki. Torn between leaving a warning and blocking right away. Agathoclea (talk) 16:08, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
I take it you speak German and hopefully a little Italian Agathoclea (talk) 16:27, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
The edit he/she made on Altmarkkreis Salzwedel was exactly the same as the one our friend 2.224.12.20‎ made. Typical. I speak German, my Italian is ... rudimentary. Markussep Talk 16:28, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Edits at Serravalle, Switzerland and associated pages.

Hello Markussep. I have a question about your edits at Serravalle, Switzerland and its associated pages. You give a date of 15 March 2011 for the merger of Malvaglia, Semione and Ludiano into Serravalle. When I look at the reference you provided it mentions that date, but I can't read it well enough to understand exactly what it says. However, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office says the merger will happen on 1 April 2012. The municipal website of Malvaglia doesn't mention the merger and the Serravalle website only indicates that on 25 April 2010, the measure was approved. What do you think? Regards, Tobyc75 (talk) 11:54, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm afraid my Italian isn't good enough either. In the ref I used it says: "Con DL 15.3.2011 i Comuni di Ludiano, Malvaglia e Semione sono stati aggregati in un nuovo Comune denominato Comune di Serravalle - BU 2011, 251" I assumed that made it official, but your ref "Angekündigte Änderungen 2011" is quite clear: "gültig ab 1.4.2012". But here I see "Nome del Comune modificato dal DL 15.3.2011; in vigore dal 10.5.2011 - BU 2011, 252" I suppose "DL" stands for "Decreto legislativo". I'm not sure, I guess I was too fast then. Markussep Talk 12:09, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Yep, that's strange. The stuff from the Canton says 2 different dates both of which disagree with the federal information. Maybe there are different stages in the change over. I'm ok with just leaving it as is, since at the worst it will change in 6 months anyway. Tobyc75 (talk) 16:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Belgian infobox

You can find a few test cases here, you can add a few more if so you wish.--Nero the second (talk) 13:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

About the infobox, I've given my support for the new version created by you and Nero on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belgium.--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Serravalle in Ticino

Markussep, this is just to inform you that there is not a real municipality called Serravalle as of yet, it exists only on paper for now, not unlike what happened for some months to Monteceneri. I don't know if you can read Italian, but if you can, you can read all about it on the RSI's website: [2].--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 14:12, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, see also the discussion I had above with Tobyc75. Do you know when the merger will come into effect? We found some contradicting references. Markussep Talk 10:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The municipality does not exist as yet. The decree you found was meant to update the act of the cantonal parliament which lists all the subdivision of Ticino ("Legge concernente le Circoscrizioni dei Comuni, Circoli e Distretti"), and that was passed on 15.3.2011, but it won't be effective until a new mayor and city council for the whole of Serravalle are elected, and the new municipality is assigned a SFOS code and listed on the official list of communes, which going by what Toby found won't happen until the 1st of April of next year.--Ultimate Destiny (talk) 11:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
OK, I've modified the article accordingly. Markussep Talk 11:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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Rotenburg category

Hi Markussep. I see you've just moved the Rotenburg (Wümme) district category to Rotenburg district. However, there are several places called Rotenburg in Germany, so we may have to move it back at some point. --Bermicourt (talk) 06:36, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Did you notice you created both categories? I proposed to merge them. There aren't any other districts named Rotenburg, neither Rothenburg ob der Tauber nor Rotenburg an der Fulda has a district named after it currently. We'll see when someone wants to create a category (or even an article) about the pre-1972 de:Landkreis Rotenburg (Fulda). Markussep Talk 10:20, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Chris0693

User:Chris0693 is a hopeless case. I've given up trying to improve any station articles he creates because he repeatedly introduces the same problems; non specific External links shown as References, links to Commons categories or images that don't exist, and of course long rambling tables detailing every route that serves the station. None of these belong there. The best we can do is to protect any projects we are involved in, like you have just done with Amsterdam Centraal. Thank you. Sw2nd (talk) 16:44, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

I haven't given up hope yet, and left him a message. He has been quite productive, and I thought he had improved his edits, but this Amsterdam edit was quite a relapse. We'll see whether he responds, and improves. Markussep Talk 17:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
I saw that you left a message. The unfortunate thing is that he is very productive. With a few minor changes and attention to detail the quality of the new station articles created would be good stubs. I previously redirected some generic links to specific station pages but no attention was paid in any further creations. Why would anybody link to the Deutsche Bahn website home page and think that it is valid reference for the station? I can see if you are creating a new article from a working template those kind of things can happen, but to go out of you way to add those irrelevant VBB, DB and Commons links to existing articles, like he did at Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof, is beyond comprehension. I am not going anywhere near German railway stations - but that is another set of problems. Sw2nd (talk) 18:26, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, how would you folks like an article on a station to look ideally? Chris0693 (talk) 20:53, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
You can get a good idea for what a station article should look like from some other articles that have been rated "good", see Category:GA-Class rail transport articles. See for instance London Paddington station and Trondheim Central Station for large stations, and Eidsvoll Verk Station and Jordanhill railway station for smaller stations. See also the structure and article template sections of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations. My main suggestion would be: avoid details that are not specific for the given station, such as which type of material is used. You'll see that the good articles I mentioned above don't show that kind of detail, nor listings of other stations that can be reached. Markussep Talk 12:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I wish you would just get a grasp of the basics. A stub article is a good enough start. Let me analyse here User talk:Chris0693#Let me explain station articles again, one of your recent station aticles. Sw2nd (talk) 21:52, 16 November 2011 (UTC)