User talk:Dr. Blofeld

WELCOME TO S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

SPECTRE frickin blew up the Bosphorus because the frickin Turkish government didn't pay our organization with the Turkish Delight they were obliged to ship us. As a result Asia and Eastern Europe is in frickin pieces

Nepal

Just noticed that. I'll try to fix the template. the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 20:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 20:36, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be cool if we could use the source code on the bot ourselves. I know next to nothing at this sort of thing but I could probably learn. Or we could use country-specific bots, like the Eubot or that bot that created all those articles on towns in India. the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 20:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for articles about places of Nepal. I had created these same articles in Nepali and Nepal Bhasa wikipedia about 2 years ago. One thing which I would like to suggest about articles like Amalachaur is that unless they are specified as municipalities or sub/metropolis, these are referred to as VDC or village development committee or simply villages and not small towns as you have instilled in those articles. So, I think correcting that would make these articles even better. Thank you.--Eukesh (talk) 21:05, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be faster and convenient if you could run the replace.py (or something similar) or ask some bot owner to run the code. I will try to expand these articles but I know very little about most of these places. --Eukesh (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't agree more. Perhaps you could ask User:Fritzpoll yourself of the real need to start these article? P.S you don';t need to know anything about the places personally, there must be sources available in Nepali either online or in a library which could be used to expand them? The Bald One ^{White cat} 21:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have some sources in Nepali (almost like encyclopedia about Nepal). Maybe translating them can be of help. By knowing personally, I meant that I could upload some pictures of these places as well!--Eukesh (talk) 21:24, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Giovanni Buscaglione

On 7 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Giovanni Buscaglione, 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.

Nice work Cbl62 (talk) 22:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Cbl62 (talk) 22:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Great Work

I tell you what, I wish I could just filter all your new dam articles from my Special:NewPages! You're doing fantastic work, and their is no reason I need to patrol them, the stubs are great. Thanks again for the great work.-- Matthew Glennon^{(Talk to me)} 13:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I just wanted it rescued.. I could see it would be important.. I just need to red-flag it so people would notice the rescue tag is the best way to get attention for that purpose. :) Great work as always. -- Matthew Glennon (^T/_C\^D) 14:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese Dams

Whoops! Sorry I was trying to get to it, have had limited on-wiki time this week. TravellingCari 13:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I just feel bad because you're always quick to help me and I couldn't help you. TravellingCari 13:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blof hey

Blof as you know I'm very busy. I ask you, please, keep an eye on the Madhuri Dixit article. One new user (who, as you can see on his userpage, is a big fan of hers) keeps adding one idiotic section, which resembles a fansite and is full of POV, OR. It is unencyclopedic and badly written (even if partly sourced, it is just not for WP). Please keep an eye. All the best, Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How dare you?! LOL! Of course I've noticed... It makes me feel good that our articles are safe when editors like you watch it. Thank you my dearest wiki-friend.;) Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blof thank you so much for reverting vandalism.:) Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful places!!! Have you there many times? Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:47, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What amazing places. I quite understand this nostalgia of yours... Shahid • ^Talk2me 11:59, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chitose Dam

Hi. The way to request the translation of an article from another Wikipedia is here. Now, if you keep the stub you already created, others may wind up turning it into an article on their own without regard to the Japanese version, and then there may be two sets of people working at cross-purposes with each other, them and the translators. If you post this article on the requests for translation page, do you want to delete the stub in the meantime and wait till the translation is ready?—Largo Plazo (talk) 15:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:Bhantemonk.jpg

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Talk

Hi Blofeld,
There's a talk going on over here on the major category of Tibet. I think it would be wise to have your opinion there too. Keep on doing the good work! Regards, Davin (talk) 20:00, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amin Joseph

I just cleaned up the article per MOS, removed some WP:Peacock and wikified. Care to help with sourcing? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cinema of Swaziland

Heh. You beat me to it. :) the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 14:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess. It's just so broad a topic -- I don't know if I can find anything other than news blurbs about this new film. the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 14:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Perhaps I should created one of them for Ben Diogaye Beye and Dani Kouyate. I'm getting most of the info from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1349_whoswho/page2.shtml : it can be used to create decent stubs for which I can expand to DYK status (which is where I want to take Maseko. the editorofthewiki (talk/contribs/editor review) 15:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks-perhaps I'll help with it. I'm not so sure I want to renominate it after the Gabon fiasco, but I will look to expand it. If you want to see a really crappy article on an important subject see History of Gabon. ~one of many editorofthewikis ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 22:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Zanzibar Revolution

Just rewrote this article. I'd be grateful if you could give it a quick check over as I am sure that there is something I have overlooked in my own copyedits. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 18:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed the barnstar, many thanks! - Dumelow (talk) 18:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Slovenia

Hi Blofeld: As a member of WikiprojectSlovenia, I would like to know your oppinion about the dipute I have with a couple of Wikipedians about the fact that Paulus Diaconus mentioned "Provincia Sclaborum" in the year 595 AD, it seem that some people get angry and erase my editions and they do not answer in the discussion pages. My information is cited with a reference, and they even revert pictures I obtain from WikiCommons. The articles are Carantania, Carantanians, Slovenes, and others. Thank you and greetings from Argentina--Marcos G. Tusar (talk) 22:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Egyptian Geological Museum

Hi. Thanks for saving that one. I sub stubbed a bunch of Cairo museums a few months back when I was going through an extensive missing list of museums and hadn't got around to expanding them. Any help you can give filling out the others would be much appreciated! Cheers The Bald One ^{White cat} 14:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. It didn't take much time to write a DYK-eligible article for the Egyptian Geological Museum from the eight words that had been the entire article ("Geology Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt.") I don't doubt that many of the others would also be reasonable targets for expansion. I will try my best to take a look through the list and expand some of them. Alansohn (talk) 00:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Xangzha

I have removed the infobox from Xangzha because it was corrupted. Didn't know how to fix it, sorry, so I hope you an help. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 07:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Translations etc.

Sorry to drop out of sight like that. I started a new job back in late August, and haven't had the time to do in-depth work like I'd like. Certainly not translating - while I enjoy it it takes an awful long time to do one article, and I can't afford that for the moment.

Two questions for you - one, how's the geobot project coming, do you know? Haven't seen anything in a while. Secondly - I'm thinking about proposing some changes to the translation request process, as I think that the current system doesn't work nearly as efficiently as it should. What I'd like to see, eventually, is a complete list of articles in all wikis that require translation into English, separated by pages so that people who want to can come and look at them. There are a couple of such pages now - including one on the Missing Articles Wikiproject - but they aren't that comprehensive (I was pulling some stuff from Russian to request; I found over two or three hundred articles that I've never seen mentioned in English.)

Here's my proposal; there are bots, apparently, that can be used to add foreign-language links to English Wiki articles. Why not make a bot to troll foreign-language Wikipedias looking for articles that don't have an English equivalent? Then they could be collected into one database and made ready to go.

What do you think? Does it sound good?

--User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In that event, I'd be in favor of something similar to what's supposed to happen with the Geobot - once the list is made, people should double-check notablity and weed things out before preparing a translation. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well given the number of users on the project, I don't see why we wouldn't be able to set up a WikiProject. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:06, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You want a project with a huge number of editors? Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - there's a ton of editors working on those (including me, from time to time.)

Maybe I'll work up a proposal this weekend and see where it takes me. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:12, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be very nice, yes - unfortunately, I doubt a really good translation program exists for now. Human translation will have to do. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 17:24, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Article aesthetics

I prefer not to add cast/character sections in film articles because I already cite the cast members in the Infobox and in the Plot Summary -- repetition doesn't make sense. For illustrations, I prefer to use the best looking artwork (best looking to me, at least). While this may not sit well with those who are sticklers for guidelines, I am actually thinking about the people in the real world who come to Wikipedia in search of information. We are not impressing them with repetitive data and unattractive artwork. Thanks. Ecoleetage (talk) 17:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC) ~~:P.S. Please do not revert edits that I make on my own Talk Page. If I choose to remove a message on my page, that is my choice and not yours. Ecoleetage (talk) 17:26, 10 October 2008 (UTC)~~[reply]

I just saw your new message -- I am genuinely sorry if I misunderstood your intentions. Ecoleetage (talk) 17:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WSS

Hi BoS - sorry to hear that... the two of you have been getting on well until recently. But it's often difficult for people working on WP to always be friendly with each other. Give it time - if you can still work together on stubbing (which seems likely), then hopefully this will just be a passing thing. Grutness...wha? 23:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WOW!!!

Cool?! That's just brilliant, amazing, wonderful, incredible, terrific!!!!!! Blof you're just an incredible contributor! --Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:24, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly LOL... Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:31, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Best of luck pal! Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see it's already fixed. It happens quite often because of the cite web tamplates. Remember when you repeat a reference, don't forget the "/". You should not use it like this (< ref name="XYZ" >), but like this: (< ref name="XYZ"/ >). Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:36, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I know, I always check if he is active and was shocked to see the new message. I did not write him a short message because did not find the right words. Like yourself, I hope it's not something terrible and he recovers soon. Shahid • ^Talk2me 22:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cathedral

Looks fine to me - I don't see anything wrong at the bottom. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:28, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would explain it, then. Excellent work on your translations, by the way.

If you need help with recategorizing, it's one of my days off, so I might be able to help some after breakfast - just tell me what you need. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 16:32, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So...to make certain I understand, you want the "municipality" categories removed and replaced with "cities, towns and villages", correct? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I do, yes. Let me run a set through AWB and see how that works.

By the way, how are things looking for the Geobot? --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I've figured out a way to do this - have a look at Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Antioquia Department and tell me if that's what you had in mind. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:40, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing - just wanted to make sure this is what you meant. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty much what I was planning on doing. I think it makes most sense to do it that way. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, looks like I'm going to be able to finish it after dinner.

If I may be a bit thick and ask a favor in return, would you mind doing some work on Virginia navboxes? I'd like it, ideally, if every county box in the Category:Virginia_county_navigational_boxes looked like Template:Madison_County,_Virginia - you can use this website to figure out what unincorporated communities belong with each county. Then I could go ahead and fill in the missing articles using AWB, and we'd have another state done. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:09, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's OK, then - I'll just put them in the boxes myself. With AWB, it won't take any time at all to fill the redlinks.

And yes, the disparity between disciplines bothers me a lot, too. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:24, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wish there were more bots at work here than there actually are - there's a lot of work could be filled in that way.

I'll tell you another thing, too - a lot of the people I know, well-educated, employed with the government and similar entities, have almost no understanding about Wikipedia. They view it either as some kind of large joke, or merely as some sort of weird game that people like me play when we've nothing better to do. And if they feel that way, think how the rest of the population must think. People just don't want to take the trouble to get to know anything about the site.

Anyhow, I'm off for a walk - I'll finish the Colombian stuff once I get home. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:42, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...no I won't, either. I screwed up, and it'll take a little time to fix it, and frankly I'm not in the mood. So I'll finish it all up tomorrow, then. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 00:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that - I'll finish up the main cat today. Sorry to leave you with so much work to do, cleaning up after me. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 18:34, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aaaaaaaaaaand done. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aww, thanks *blush*

Sometimes people just have a bad day, and one gets in the way of it. Goodness knows it's happened to me, too - I just try and bite my tongue when I feel it getting away from me. Where do you think I got this lisp? :-) --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems quite interesting - I wish we had more stuff like that on American television. Not that I see it coming any time soon... --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 21:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding stub templates

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but convention according to WP:STUB is to place stub templates "at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last." --Paul_012 ^(talk) 10:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jeez, sorry for trying to point out a guideline you didn't appear to be following without preceding it with loads of praise. Yes, I do appreciate your efforts in tagging those stub articles. I just thought that, in the case you were unaware, it would be beneficial to inform you so that subsequent edits wouldn't cause stub categories to appear first, which, as some editors, me included, think, is somewhat a hindrance in navigating articles by category. No, it is not a gross misconduct or disruption of the community. Your opinion is perfectly valid; Just thought I would ask. Sorry for asking though. --Paul_012 ^(talk) 11:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overreacted?

I beg your pardon, did you just say that I overreacted? And that my actions (or even lack of action) are motivated by pride? That strikes me as deeply ironic.

I refrained from replying because the response that I would have made would seemed likely to have simply sparked off a further round of melodrama. Please, quit poking. Alai (talk) 14:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And yet, you keep poking. I wasn't in a mood then to deal with this sort of stuff, I'm not in a mood now, and I wish you'd take the hint and leave it alone.

I can see how you might have been somewhat miffed. What I don't see is the need for this sort of dramatic escalation, proceeding from the apparent assumption that you're a gravely injured party, and need to have your feathers smoothed over. You don't exactly take a "kids gloves" approach to civility yourself, so it's a bit rich to demand it of others. Alai (talk) 14:16, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nabi (film)

Cheers! Just need to get a proper plot summary typed up (always my least favourite bit), then I can move onto something else... :) PC78 (talk) 00:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Ukraine Research

Hi Blofeld,

Subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasiya_Markovich

I’m back from the Ukraine and found the information!

I have changed the parts:

Culture impact of her living- and working town

Added:

a) Culture impact of her living- and working town

With the subparts:

- Her town Chernivtsi - Reference published

b) Examples of her work

I added 3 more paintings

c) Some minor changes

I hope the article is now ok and we can remove the tags.

With regards

Karel J. Labberté

Labberté K.J. 16:37, 13 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Labberté K.J. (talk • contribs)

Uploading Pics.

Hi B.

Second Question,

On my trip through Germany, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland my “car dome”, an digital high-speed camera connected with my eye sensors made about 10,000 pics how I can upload these pics for Commons. When I do it in the way Commons ask I’m 10,000x5/60= 833 hours busy! The old man is all ready death before he has uploaded all, he wants to travel more! Is there a quicker way to do this? Now it’s more a jail therapy!!!

Karel J. Labberté

Labberté K.J. 19:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Labberté K.J. (talk • contribs)

??????

What is the meaning from: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Labberté K.J. (talk • contribs)

on your site "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Blofeld_of_SPECTRE"

after my Question?

Labberté K.J. 19:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Labberté K.J. (talk • contribs)