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Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful) Discussion tracking Contributions by The Transhumanist/Archive 19 to: User talk pages Article talk pages Wikipedia talk pages Favorite Wikipedia quote: The argument for deletion that a Category already exists is simply not consistent with WP:CLN and should not be even considered. --Mike Cline (talk) 17:28, 14 September 2008 (UTC) [1] Indonesia project Is barely scraping by these days with more fly past edits than any coherent organisational structure at the noticeboard or any form of collab (although we dont tell anyone that) and one of the biggest issues is the english challenged indonesian editors who put a name up on the english project (rather than on the indonesian one where they could just as easily do) usually in lists so that in parts we have these marvellous untouched lists of unalphabetical names to make red links and then no activity there ever again (unchallenged tags are between 1 to 2 years in some cases) - well i am very slowly systematically going through the more obvious lists - removing all the red links to the talk page - so that eds know that if they add red lnks theyre gonna get removed - otherwise the project looks like a paradise of red links that never get worked on. SO I have your list to deal with which has red links everywhere - any thoughts? at least you speakk da english :( SatuSuro 09:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Yes. Thank you for contacting me with your concerns. The red links in that list are part of a standard format for lists of this type - there is currently a list of this type under construction for every country of the world and they all have a common set of links (in addition to custom links). The links in the standard format were chosen because they are very typical for countries, and very highly likely to turn blue in the future - articles tend to expand and use those article names for the expansions. They were also chosen to maintain standardization between these lists - too many synonymous title types would make them confusing. Some of the topics using standard names are spread across Wikipedia somewhere, either under synonymous titles, or under a subheading in another article -- and therefore many of the red entries in the list can be bluelinked by creating redirects. So please, do not remove the redlinks.  ;) Also, there is a team of editors preparing these pages for a big competition called "Around the World" which will bring many editors to the set of country pages to which this list belongs. One of the main things participants will be doing is fixing redlinks via the "bluelinking" process. Note that redlinks are an important feature of Wikipedia. They show where development is needed, and make it easy to create needed articles (it takes just a click to get started). And in the case of these country lists, editors are being assigned tasks to perform on all of the lists rather than being assigned a particular list to work on. For example, I'm currently filling in the "Location:" item for all of the countries. Others are working on the "Regions" sections on the entire set. And still more will jump in to help once "Around the World" gets underway. One of the main task types that will be assigned to participants will be "bluelinking". Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics for a complete list of the country pages in the set. Let me know if you have any more questions. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 18:35, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Oh well - looks good - and glad you have such a positive outlook from where you sit at your computer - its a very different story from where I sit at mine as there are very different meanings to red links in the Indonesia project and despite your positive and obviously optimistic outlook I wont waste a breath waiting for a single one of them to be touched. I do hope the bluelinkers are not as geographically and culturally challenged as some I have met to date - cheers and as they say in so many movies from the heart of the planets optimists good luck SatuSuro 00:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)SatuSuro 00:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC) Simple edits, Around the World I saw your note on Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics. We need someone to do some simple edits to the set of country profiles we are developing. Really easy stuff, like adding the population figure for each country (which you would get off of each country article, so no hunting is required). We also need editors who would like to work with the finding and placing of images (like pics of cities, other cool places, animals, presidents, people in a cultural context, etc. etc. etc.). Things like that. There is a team of editors working on the set, and we'd love to work with ya. Here is an example of the type of pages we are building. We're developing one for every country of the world, and everyone on the team is working on all of them, each team member completing a specific task or item for all of the countries of the world -- this approach keeps thing interesting, and is a lot like traveling around the world. If you are interested, drop me a note. And as you progress in the project, we'll introduce you to some wiki-tools to help you go... ...faster! The Transhumanist 03:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Just tell me what needs to be done. Erikzann (talk) 12:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Cool. Do you use Firefox? If not, please download and install it, because there are key tools and Wikipedia scripts available for that browser that are not available to other browsers. Let me know when you've got it up and running. The Transhumanist 18:15, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Okay, I installed Firefox; I don't know how to use any of the tools though. Erikzann (talk) 03:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC) List of basic mining topics Hi, I started working on List of basic mining topics, which was on the 'requested basic lists' section, but now it's slated to be deleted. Could you take a look at it to see what's wrong with it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikzann (talk • contribs) 13:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Looks good to me. I've contacted the person who posted the prod, at User talk:Andyjsmith#Lists of basic topics, to familiarize him with the relevant WikiProject and have invited him to help us build lists of this type. The Transhumanist 18:06, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Message Hello, The Transhumanist. You have new messages at Gimme danger's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Complex Your Talk page is very complex...Javascript and html lib....It scrolls late,pl change or i will help if u ask.  ;-) 127.0.0.1 Report | Evidence On :: 12:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC) No problem here. There were lots of pics, which might have caused the lag on your connection. Archiving done. Problem should be solved now. The Transhumanist 18:54, 4 August 2008 (UTC) Glad to be back and some minor concerns Hey Transhumanist, It is good to be back after a long while of summer traveling. I look forward to jumping back into the fray here on Wikipedia, although I must confess that there is a deep reluctance to commit to any major undertakings here, as I have been a bit flaky regarding my on-wiki work this summer, as evidenced by my contribs. Between my full time job, community service, hobbies, vacations, family, and other commitments, I find that I have been spending almost no time here this summer. I am, of course, willing to help in any area that you may need assistance in. As it stands, however, any assistance I am asked to render may be deferred or at least delayed substantially. Hope your summer also is going along swimmingly --SharkfaceT/C 19:38, 3 August 2008 (UTC) Any help you provide will be most appreciated. Every little bit helps. The Transhumanist 19:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC) My user page design Thank you for the reply. I sort of like this one, but don't like that the page is closed, and only the subtitles are showing. Can that be managed? Northern Romania (talk) 21:34, 3 August 2008 (UTC) I don't know what you mean by "the page is closed". Please explain further. To make it so that the whole boxes are showing and not just the subtitles, remove the "class=Nav" (NavFrame, NavHead, NavContent) entries and the "display: none;" entries from the wikicode. Then everything will show up. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. The Transhumanist 18:49, 4 August 2008 (UTC) The second sentence of your reply is exactly what I meant by "the page is closed." Thank you for the help. Northern Romania (talk) 16:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Graphics request Hey Transhumanist, I'm terribly sorry for being so inactive in the past 2 weeks. I am also sorry to tell you that I am going out of the country for another 2 weeks without any access to graphics software. I know this may be very frustrating to you. You might want to ask someone else with graphics capabilities to complete your request on atlas. I would sent you the layered file but atlas is >72MB and is over 22 layers. Not very user friendly unless you know exactly what layer is what. Also there is no way I'm going to be able to attach that on an email. Yahoo mail's max attachment is 10MB. I think whom ever it may be that finishes on atlas will find it just as hard to start from my latest draft as it would be to start from the layered file. When I get back, if you sill aren't successful, I promise to get it to you asap. Again I'm really sorry for being such a droll. I turned down another request recently you're not the only one. -- penubag  (talk) 07:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC) Looks like the prep work on the page set will take at least that long. Filling in just the location item took me 4 days, and it needs going over again for error checking and missing regions, which may take another 4 days. Who knows how long the regions and government branches sections will take, even with a few people working on them. And then the leads need to be culled for facts that belong in the list body (and those facts must of course be moved). There's lots of work left. So, no worries. No hurry. The Transhumanist 01:56, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Adding wikilinks in external links Please be careful not to add wikilinks into external links, as you did here. Could you review your edits to fix any other cases of that? Everyking (talk) 01:51, 6 August 2008 (UTC) I've fixed that one, and will look over the rest as I find the time. Thank you for the heads up. The Transhumanist 02:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC) I noticed you removed the link from the part of the cite that wasn't bracketing the URL. I wasn't worried about that; the problem was that you had also added a wikilink inside the brackets, breaking the external link (I had already fixed that part before notifying you). Everyking (talk) 02:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC) I'll look into the link thing further. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. The Transhumanist 23:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Around the World What exactly is this? Can you please explain? Thanks! spider1224 11:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC) One of the projects on Wikipedia is the building of a topic outline of knowledge That's right, an outline of all of human knowledge, in the form of a hierarchy of topics. And of course, wherever possible, the topics are linkified.  :) A subproject of that currently underway is the development of the branch of the geographical portion of the outline dedicated to all the countries of the world. Each country has a page in the outline currently under development. Around the World is an event that is currently in preparation as a joint collaboration between the Lists of basic topics WikiProject and the Geography WikiProject, which shall focus efforts upon developing the portion of the outline pertaining to countries. It's going to be a competition between editors using advanced wikitools (such as WP:AWB, Linky, etc.). Rather than work on one country at a time, each participant shall work on a particular type of information, filling it in for all the countries of the world, and sort of taking a trip "Around the World" in the process. It's just a fun way to work on these pages, which are in need of a large number of volunteers to complete them. Twenty-four of the pages are near completion, and have been moved to the main namespace: Countries: List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics • List of basic Germany topics • List of basic Iceland topics • List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iran topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics • List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics • List of basic United Kingdom topics • List of basic United States topics A team of editors is currently preparing the competition for participants, including the creation of awards to be presented, and getting the rest of the pages in the set ready enough to move into the main namespace. And that's just to get the pages ready for the competition, which will focus on things like fixing redlinks (called "bluelinking"), adding population and area information, filling in the names of the head of government and the head of state for each country, adding a particular kind of map, particular theme of photos (into various sections), and many more tasks required of every page in the set. The entire set of pages is listed here. Status report: One of the images for the three awards is ready. We are looking for experienced graphics artists to help on the other two. Before we can move the rest of the pages into the main namespace, their leads need to be refined, and the temporary "placeholder" (incorrect) data in the regions and government branches sections need to be replaced with actual (correct) data. As soon as our preparations are complete, the competition will begin! I hope my explanation has been informative and inspirational, and I hope you plan to participate in the competition.  ;) How many times "around the world" can you go? We're also looking for coordinators to help run the event (and these editors are also the ones responsible for preparing for the event), if you feel up to it. Thank you for inquiring. Have fun on Wikipedia. Cheers. The Transhumanist 23:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Hi there, I may not be the The Transhumanist, but as a co-coordinator I should be able to answer your question, a while back, The Transhumanist distributed a notice to a bunch of people who had expressed interest in the project describing what it is, if your interested in helping out with the project, then ask The Transhumanist and he should have no problem finding something for you to help out with :). Thank you Transhumanist. Hving read what you wrote, I have to say that I don't have near enough experience to help; I am very very sorry. spider1224 18:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Ahh...what the heck, I can't hurt anything. Let me know when y'all start. PS is the CIA world Factbook considered a good source?spider1224 18:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC) What is Around the World? It's a collaboration using advanced wiki-tools. It is sponsored jointly by WikiProject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography. Using these advanced tools, we are building a profile for every country of the world. These drafts are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics. These profiles summarize essential information on each country. They are "topic outlines", but at the same time they are so much more, because Wikipedia is a hypertextual environment. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a sort of site map to material about each country on Wikipedia. The profiles share a standard format. So rather than tediously working on a single country to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages. For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" (the set of country profiles) feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees.  :) The energy is contagious. And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling all around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors. The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc. Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections. Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators. The Transhumanist 23:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC) I hope that this answers your question :). All the Best, Mifter (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2008 (UTC) P.S. The Transhumanist, I apoligize for not being around for a while there, I was on a short vacation and I was very busy and as such I couldn't do much in the way of helping out with the outlines, if you still need any help I'd still be happy to help :). All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Reply Yep I got your messages and I'll get to work on the drafts that aren't finished yet :), --Mifter (talk) 19:03, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Recommend an admin for IP case I request a recommendation for an admin to handle, and if necessary, follow up long-term on an IP incivility-pattern case, with anti-Semitic, nationalistic, and OS-abusive-cult features. The admin needs to be the fair-but-firm type to correct this pattern in its early stages. It's also helpful but not absolutely necessary, if the admin is a techie, yet not a user of any un*x operating system. The IP user appears to be an angry northern-European teenager with incidentally cultural-anti-Semitic family or friends. The French/European method of dealing with reported cults is through cult-watching, which is close observation and prompt enforcement against minor lawbreaking. The concept is that groups with cultic tendencies aren't likely to commit serious crimes if they can't get away with minor ones (typically labor law violations). (Please reply here if desired) Milo 19:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC) You really should take this to WP:ANI, where the community of admins will discuss it and decide what to do about it. This guy sounds like a real problem, so Wikipedia's whole team of admins should be made aware of him. If in addition to WP:ANI you'd like to talk to specific admins about what can be done, I would recommend Spartaz (you'll have to email him), David Levy, and The Rambling Man. They'll have a pretty good idea of what can and should be done. But definitely post the problem to WP:ANI. And be prepared to answer lots of questions. The Transhumanist 03:34, 8 August 2008 (UTC) List_of_basic_France_topics Hi Transhumanist, I wanted to note that I saw all of your work on the List of Basic France topics, and I appreciate it! Lazulilasher (talk) 02:12, 8 August 2008 (UTC) I appreciate your praise. Knowing that somebody finds the page useful and informative makes it all worthwhile. Thank you. The Transhumanist 02:18, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Re:Your expertise is needed Simple enough. I should be able to get this done some time in the next couple of days, if nothing else interferes.--Dycedarg ж 02:30, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Thank you! The Transhumanist 02:32, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Your second request shouldn't be difficult either so long as the formatting for all the articles is identical. I should be able to get to this tomorrow, but if not then definitely over the weekend.--Dycedarg ж 00:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC) Hi! I can help with this too... if the village pump notice is all that needs to be removed. I will be starting with S onwards. I'll I'm doing something wrong. Please leave a message ChiragPatnaik (talk) 17:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC) See diffs [2] [3] [4] and some more Special:Contributions/ChiragPatnaik. If this is alright I can finish the rest. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 17:58, 16 August 2008 (UTC) I'm thru with this. U mentioned there was ither stuf to be done. Do let me know. If it is complex. I will ask you for help to start of... Cheers ChiragPatnaik (talk) 18:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC) Navy  Done It is simpler using Linky. But let me turn this into a learning opportunity for me to try and learn Regex and use that in conjunction with AWB to accomplish this. Please bear with the delay. Cheers ChiragPatnaik (talk) 04:05, 18 August 2008 (UTC) Isn't using "Navy of x: None" unnecessarily verbose? Simpler to leave it at Navy: None. let me know what you think. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 08:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC) It's consistent with the naming of the rest of the entries, and with the entries on the rest of the lists (of the countries that have navies). If we simplified this one, it would beg the question of why not simplify all the entries on the page, and on all the pages. But, if we removed the verbose entries from all the lists, from the subheadings and from the links (using pipes) and what not, then it could become difficult to tell which one of these lists you were looking at (especially if you were browsing through them, going from country to country) because they are all arranged in pretty much the same order. Having the country name plastered all over the page makes it immediately obvious which country's page you are looking at - it also helps reinforce learning/memory of the country's name, and these lists are intended as intros to their respective countries. The Transhumanist 01:23, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Eventually, we may use the format that's on List of basic Canada topics, that is, include the (exonymous) name for each branch of the country's armed forces. But for now, the standard link (Navy of x) is being used as a placeholder. A redirect is going to be made of each (for easy future article access and list-building), and when the redirects are done for the whole section, the links can be used to access the actual branches-of-the-armed-forces articles and grab their names for the improved format. The Transhumanist 02:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC) I'm done... ChiragPatnaik (talk) 11:15, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Municipalities, etc. Wow, these lists are a lot more work than I thought! Anyway, I'm not sure how I missed those divisions of Palau. And about the municipalities, I got the impression that the Municipalities subsection is only for divisions designated as such. I didn't know that it applied to all towns and cities in general. Also, I just came back from vacation, so I'll be back to working on the lists after I catch up for a day or so. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC) I hope you had a fun vacation. Sorry about the ambiguity on the municipalities. Having fun yet? Hopefully when Around the World is underway, we'll have a lot more people working on these pages, which should speed things up. The Transhumanist 23:14, 11 August 2008 (UTC) Done, finally. Are we ready to get ATW up and running yet? –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:07, 16 August 2008 (UTC) Wow. I'm impressed. That was a big chore. In answer to your question, we're getting very close. But there is still some work to be done. The government branches sections need to be corrected/completed - their contents were generated using a template, but the standard data used doesn't fit all countries (not all countries have a parliament, for example). Also, we still only have one of the awards completed, with two more about half done). The Transhumanist 23:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC) Hatnote I left a post about you adding a hatnote to Republic of Ireland a little while ago. It seems like an attempt to duplicate the long existing and more comprehensive List of Ireland-related topics already listed in the "See also" section. ww2censor (talk) 04:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Thank you for the heads up. I've replied there. The Transhumanist 04:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Hatnotes I don't understand why we need a link to the "list of basic XXX topics" at the start of every single country page, surely you could have just added the link to the respective disambiguation pages (as I just did for Iceland). --Closedmouth (talk) 04:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC) They are key introductory articles on the subject, with the same (encompassing) scope as the main article, and therefore highly relevant. Disambiguation is for subjects that share the same name, while the List of basic Iceland topics covers the same subject -- it's not merely synonymous -- it isn't an "other use" of the term, it's the same use. And readers will find it very useful for studying Iceland. The Transhumanist 04:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Alright, then it should go in the See also section of the article. I don't really see what's so special about that particular list that would make it worthy of being mentioned in the hatnote. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC) I agree. Most country articles already have several methods of linking "related subjects/sub-articles" in the body text and elsewhere. Whether through the use of navboxes, or with the well established convention of using "main" and "see also" templates at the head of the relevant section. Frankly I think that this "list of X related topics" is not (as Closedmouth notes) "special" enough to warrant inclusion in this manner at the top of every country article. And, at the very least, it would have been appropriate to consider WP:CON before dumping this new "standard" header in multiple country articles. Guliolopez (talk) 14:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC) I'm curious what Wikipedia's readers prefer, and would like to gather some data on this test batch - I've replied to your concerns at Talk:Republic of Ireland. The Transhumanist 22:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Navies Some countries don't have navies. what of those? redirect ot Military? Also some countries will be protectorates and as such will not have Navies and will have the navies of the parent country associated with it. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 03:02, 20 August 2008 (UTC) PI have finished the clear cases of A. I recommend that u see A (and the preceding list) on my Talk page, they pretty much enompass all the exceptions. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 03:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC) Leave the ones that don't have navies red, and make a little note on your list next to it: "(None)". We can use that to track these later. When the country lists are moved to article space, the redirects can be created like these: Navy of the Isle of Man, Navy of Macau. The Transhumanist 18:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC) I'm Done with the ones that have naval articles or naval subsections to the the main military pages. I'll add the None bit later. You can see this here Cheers ChiragPatnaik (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC) Speedy deletion of Portal:Physical science A tag has been placed on Portal:Physical science, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason: Wrong redirect: cross-namespace redirects should generally be avoided Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on [[Talk:Portal:Physical science|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines. For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. RekishiEJ (talk) 16:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC) Armies  Done Started on this... should be done in a couple (or so) of days ChiragPatnaik (talk) 16:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC) Cool. Next is the Air Force of x link. To change the list of Army links I set up for you to Air Force, load Firefox, then install the Wikipedia Editor (WikEd) to your monobook.js page. Then use WikEd's search replace feature on the list. How did you generate the tale u left on my talk page? specifically the headers. I'm working ona Quick reference sheet on Census data for India and I need a quick way to do it... ChiragPatnaik (talk) 19:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC) I don't know what you mean. What is a "tale"? And what headers are you referring to? (Please provide links). The Transhumanist 20:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC) oops I meant Table of armies and navies. and the headers. I'm sure, you are using automation. I want to know what. Sort of. I started with a list of countries (they are all over Wikipedia), and added each country name a second time on each line. Each of the two names must start and end differently (I use punctuation outside the link brackets for this), so that you can specify the names independently in search/replaces. Then when I need a list of country links with two links on each line, I just use search/replaces - you can change the links to just about anything with the country names in them. Any of the lists created from these lists can be used in the same way. For example, the army list can be used to create a list of country links on any subject. Just use the search/replace feature in WP:WikEd (very powerful). "Army of x - " can be changed to "Theatre in x", etc. WikEd replaces Wikipedia's edit window (but only in Firefox), and has an on/off switch which makes it even more convenient. There are many forms of automation available on Wikipedia. If the above method doesn't quite fit what you are doing, let me know what you want to do exactly, and I'll let you know if I know of a way to do it faster. I'm really into speed (velocity, not the drug).  :) For a general treatment of speeding up your Wikipedia experience, see this page I wrote: WP:OTS. The Transhumanist 20:55, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Next task I'll get to it as soon as I figure out what exactly is wrong with the links –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Most of them point to List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas, which is not the right page for any country elsewhere in the world. Some of them have been fixed, but most haven't. Keep in mind that some countries don't have any World Heritage Sites at all, and need to state: "World Heritage Sites: None". The Transhumanist 23:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC) I get it. I'll try to get it done within the next couple days or so. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Actually, scratch that... I'm busy lately, both on and off Wiki. Might take a few days... –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC) Regarding my absense Hey Transhumanist, Sorry it took so long to reply. As you have noticed, I have been highly inactive this summer. Unfortunately, I have been preoccupied by the reasons stated before (work, school, getting into college, etc.) and as such have been pretty incognito. I am not back but will make an effort to drop in here more often. If urgent contact is needed, send me an email. Thanks --SharkfaceT/C 23:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Education and career come first. No prob. Good luck in all of your endeavors. By the way, what's your major? The Transhumanist 23:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Heyo I sent you a couple emails several days ago, hope you'll get around to them. Cheers, JaakobouChalk Talk 01:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC) It's been quite a while so I'd appreciate if you give it a bit of priority. JaakobouChalk Talk 23:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Jaakobou's AfDs Unreviewed [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], Needs a second review [80] - N You merely piled on and paraphrased what others said. Nobody mentioned why a factually accurate category with only 2 members is inappropriate, and you didn't seem the least bit curious about this - 'cuz you didn't ask them! And no guideline was cited, by anyone (including you), which leaves me scratching my head on this one. Interesting point. I will try to look up the appropriate policy about this one. JaakobouChalk Talk 07:50, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Found it. WP:OC#SMALL is the most relevant reasoning. JaakobouChalk Talk 11:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Observations Cite policies and guidelines whenever possible. Look them up for each deletion - that'll get you very familiar with them very fast, as you will be reading them in an applied context. See WP:CUTS. Redirects need to point to coverage on the subject. No coverage = no point. See WP:REDIR#What do we use redirects for? A redlink of a viable topic that has no coverage anywhere should remain redlinked. Hopefully someone will click on it and create an article for it. See Wikipedia:Red link#When to create red links. State your reasons rather than paraphrase "delete". See WP:POLLS Avoid vague reasons, and tell us specifically why something should be deleted. "Unencyclopedic" is meaningless, as it could represent just about anything. Please don't hide behind words like this one. WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC explains what WP is not, and each section has its own shortcut. Familiarize yourself with these. Don't bite the newcomers. Read Wikipedia:Learning the ropes. Familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's navigation features, especially the navbars at the top of WP:Community portal, Help:Contents, and Portal:Contents. For a large collection of nav aids, see Wikipedia:User Page Design Center/Navigation aids. Suggestion: copy the ones most useful to you to your user page. The Transhumanist Userboxes You might want to create a picture with Gimp or something, but here's one: LOBTThis user is a member of of the WikiProject Lists of basic topics As an aside, here's one for Around the World: This user is participating in Around the World. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Done with Thailand. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Wow, good job filling in most of the article. I dug around for a bit and found some decent images for the remaining blank space. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:59, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Nootropics This subject is also of interest to me; for memory enhancement/cognition and general alertness, any particular compounds you'd recommend as a place to start? (Ive been researching things like caffeine and theobromine and the fun things in Yerba Mate, etc...). Please excuse the semirandom question, but I saw it marked as one of your interests. Zelse81 (talk) 00:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Main article: Nootropic I'm very happy to answer questions on anything pertaining to Wikipedia or its contents (that is, on any subject in the World).  :) The most basic and most cost effective nootropics are the precursors to the main neurotransmitters, and the cofactors the body uses to turn those precursors into the neurotransmitters. Precursors become part of the neurotransmitter molecule, while the cofactors don't. The main neurotransmitters that the brain uses are acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin. Taking these directly is useless, because they are broken down in the degestive system. The precursors to those are: For acetylcholine: choline and/or DMAE For dopamine: phenylalanine, or tyrosine, (or L-dopa (prescription only)) For serotonin: tryptophan, or 5HTP The cofactors are: For acetylcholine: Vitamin B5 For dopamine: Vitamin B6 and Vitamin C For serotonin: Vitamin B6 and Vitamin C All of the above are readily available (for cheap) at the local health food store. The idea is, in order to optimize brain function, optimize the brain's level of neurotransmitters to support its functioning. End result: enhanced mental performance. Keep in mind that too much of these creates the opposite effect: a drop in mental performance. So you need to find the right levels for you. Remember, the most important nootropic of all is knowledge about nootropics. Good luck, be careful (though all of the above are relatively safe), study up, and have fun. The Transhumanist 00:42, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Atlas I'm not sure if you watchlisted my /graphics but the next version is finished. Please provide feedback. -- penubag  (talk) 02:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC) Help! I've been blocked. When I try to edit a page, I get the following notice: You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia. This is because someone using this internet address or shared proxy server was blocked. Your ability to edit pages has been automatically suspended to prevent abuse from the other person. The other user was blocked by Daniel Case for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "TT Bot". The reason given for TT Bot's block is: "Approval was denied; no reason to leave this account open". This block has been set to expire: 04:13, 4 September 2008. Note that you have not been blocked from editing directly. Most likely your computer is on a shared network with other people. All I did was submit a bot proposal (and created a corresponding account "TT Bot"), in good faith, but the bot proposal was summarily dismissed without discussion or explanation, and I was immediately blocked. The same block also appears to be affecting an entire public library (from where I've been accessing Wikipedia). There's something wrong with the bot department. Users should not be penalized for making a proposal, and the coordinators should explain why they denied a proposal in common English so the proposer can understand. All that was provided was a link. It doesn't make clear why my proposal was rejected. I'm left scratching my head, and a little miffed for being blocked. The Transhumanist 02:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC) Hi there, to start off with, let's get you back to editing. I've changed your bots block, so that it won't interfere with this account, but, I am not able to clear the block on your account at this time, without the 'autoblock ID'. With this, I, or any other admin can take care of this for you quickly. Thank you. I appreciate it. The Transhumanist 18:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC) Regarding the approval, I think what Bj may have meant, was that you should put in a bot request, instead, as a project like that can be quite complicated, and it is generally preferable for something like that to be run by it's programmer in case of minor stuff ups. Just guessing however, hopefully Bj will show up here shortly. If you need anything further, don't hesitate to contact me on my talkpage (or, regarding that block, you can always use the {{unblock-auto}} template, to attract an available admin if I'm not around) SQLQuery me! 04:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC) That he left us guessing is what concerns me. He might as well have been speaking Swahili. The program would be fairly simple. There's a little parsing, but nothing difficult. I could do the whole thing with macros if I had to. The Transhumanist 18:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC) Re: Almost there Alright, I'll start the Government branch work as soon as the basement dries out. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC) Is there any website or article to get the information to fill out that section? I've spent a while now trying to find it. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:59, 7 September 2008 (UTC) The government branches of each country are covered in Politics of x or Government of x, and failing those, in the main article on the country. The Transhumanist 19:25, 7 September 2008 (UTC) Ok. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 14:01, 8 September 2008 (UTC) Sorry to be a pain in the neck, but filling in the government branches is a tad overwhelming for me. Is there anything else I can help out with? –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC) Thanks, that's a lot easier. I did what I can for Angola, adding some pictures and filling in some sections. I'll get started on the other task soon (seriously this time). –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:54, 10 September 2008 (UTC) Atlas trophy There are some problems I hadn't told you earlier about my current atlas, I can fix some of the changes you want. See my /graphics, I've replied over there -- penubag  (talk) 08:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC) I've replied on your graphics page. The Transhumanist 18:45, 9 September 2008 (UTC) I've also replied there. Is my graphics page on your watchlist? If it is, then I don't really need to write these little pointers, do I? -- penubag  (talk) 01:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC) I specialize in building pages, and let others maintain them. Therefore, I've never made much use of the watchlist feature. The Transhumanist 22:01, 10 September 2008 (UTC) Assuming there's no deadline for the Atlas, I will redo it to the best of my ability, and just because I don't upload a draft for a while, it doesn't mean I've forgotten about it either. I really wish I could have more free time so this whole thing didn't have to become an issue, my free time is really scattered right now, 10 minutes here and there, but I'll get it done eventually. -- penubag  (talk) 04:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Medal Selection The Second one (Less Edgy) —Remember, the Edit will be with you, always. (Sethdoe92) (drop me a line) 12:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Now that's what I call a delayed response.  :) The Transhumanist 21:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC) List of Blogs proposed deletion Hey, a while back I helped you with the List of online encyclopedias article. I like your layout for the page both visually appealing and useful, so I modeled a list I created, List of blogs, after it. Now, some deletionists are trying to delete this page on about the same grounds they tried to delete your list. I request your input on the subject at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of blogs if you can. Thanks! Scapler (talk) 23:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC) Thank you for the heads up - yes, the two lists are very similar in scope and structure. You did a great job saving that other list by improving the list itself, and this new list is of equal quality - congrats on a job well done. It's a valid list and should not be deleted. Thank you for contacting me. Please keep in mind that I'm always interested in AfDs of navigational lists. Please inform me of any further nav lists that you come across in the future that are up for deletion. To anyone and everyone who is reading this: please inform me of any navigational lists that are nominated for deletion that you come across. Thank you. The Transhumanist 21:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC) Template Round corners and div classes On this page Wikipedia:User Page Design Center/Style in the WIKI. You have a section called Show/Hide sections. In that section you have in the code a template call {{Round corners}} I have tried to find this template to see how the code whas written. I play the game called Fallen Sword on the internet and I have a profile on the WIKI for this game. I am trying to build a menu to put on the top of my pages to cut down the space that my tabs take up at the top and to make it more eaiser to follow. One of the problems is that the people who run the WIKI stopped some of the scripting functions to work. I do not know if these div class="NavFrame", div class="NavHead", and div class="NavContent" will work in the game WIKI either. DavidAHare (talk) 16:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC) I'm always happy to help. Here's where to find what you are looking for: Round corners. I forgot that was one I created; a couple years ago when I was called User:Go for it!. Templates can all be found in the "template" namespace. Just add "Template:" (don't forget the colon), in front of the template name, like this: Template:Round corners. That works in both links and searches. The wikicode for classes (that is, the classes not limited to a particular skin) can be found in MediaWiki:Common.css. To find the section you are looking for fast, search (Ctrl-F in Internet Explorer or Firefox) for "thingy".  :) I hope that helps you find everything you are looking for. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Good luck. The Transhumanist 22:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC) "navy of" Landlocked country That's not how soft redirects work though. We don't soft redirect to other articles within the same project as far as I know. Plus, is anyone really going to search for the navy of a landlocked country? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 23:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Then they don't fit the definition of soft redirect - I didn't know what else to call them. I guess they are informative stubs. The Transhumanist 23:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Some landlocked countries have navies. Bolivia, for instance. And someone might be looking up the navies on every country of the world, in which case they would need to know which countries have them, and which do not. Though I figured out another solution. So never mind. The Transhumanist 23:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC) If they're stubs, then they're stubs with no expansion. We don't need a zillion articles telling us basically that a landlocked country lacks a navy. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 00:27, 18 September 2008 (UTC) A few handfuls is a far cry from zillions. But it's moot anyhow. Another solution has been found. The Transhumanist 00:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC) RfD nomination of Navy of Sudan I have nominated Navy of Sudan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC) RfD nomination of Navy of Belarus I have nominated Navy of Belarus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 16:01, 18 September 2008 (UTC) ATW Sorry I haven't been doing it lately. I've been rather busy with my RfA and all. That's interesting about the redirects. I don't have an opposition to them, and I don't really see the harm in them. About the lists, I'm AWBing as I write, and I've just done about 50. Should be done shortly. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:28, 23 September 2008 (UTC) Navies an Armies and others... Hey! Sorry about the vanishing act. Have been a bit busy the last few weeks. Took time of to get engaged :) Anyway. will try and finish the rest soon. BTW, some joker is vandalising my talk page. Can you get someone to protect my talk page? I've requested twice, but for some reason no one seems to be responding to it. tx ChiragPatnaik (talk) 00:57, 24 September 2008 (UTC) Thanks :). Added to download queue... :)) ChiragPatnaik (talk) 04:41, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Cut and paste moves and bold Hi. Long time no see. Just grumbles I'm afraid. Please don't do cut&paste moves. It splits up the article history, which is Bad for a number of reasons. Cool Hand Luke just fixed 15 of them![wrong diff] You may wish to thank him for spending 45 minutes doing that. Please don't use bold in notices at the CBB. It's specifically cautioned against in the template's notes, and other editors keep removing it every time you make a posting there. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC) What cut & paste move are you referring to? I don't recall working on Victor Bravo (the page you provided in the diff), as I'm not a football fan. By the way, bolding the primary link in a message at the CBB is harmless and makes the blue link easier to see against the blue background of the page. The Transhumanist 17:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC) My mistake, wrong diff (I copied the "last" diff code, instead of the specific diff). The relevant section was directly below though, and shouldn't have been hard to see... He fixed 15 of your cut&paste moves from the lists of basic topical outlines. I had only seen the first one, when I submitted the merge-request. Using Bold simply for emphasis is recommended against, because it is counter to our MOS (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(text_formatting)#Boldface). It's not a habit we should be propagating. It also leads to other editors bolding everything they consider important in their own posts. It has been discussed before, but you can bring it up again if you want. (by the way, the CBB's background is purple, not blue. If links don't show up properly, then the background should be changed.) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC) The Manual of Style (MOS) applies to encyclopedia content, not community notices. And I see no reason why editors should be disallowed to use bold in their messages of the things they consider important. It lets them let you know what they want you to notice. It's a very useful communication feature of print, and is especially appropriate for the main link of a notice. The Transhumanist 18:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC) It is considered textual shouting by many. It's as inappropriate as ALLCAPS. That's the other reason it is specifically proscribed, as a harmful meme to spread. -- Quiddity (talk) 07:52, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Done... ...with the lists. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:16, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Ok, I added some images. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Good to see we're progressively moving into the mainspace. Done adding pictures to Algeria. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:42, 27 September 2008 (UTC) Thanks... ...for supporting my RfA, which just passed a few hours ago. Hope this doesn't qualify as RfA spam! :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC) List of topics Great work on the List of topics project. Just few questions: I'd like to improve this list; could you point me to a list (may or may not be of the same topic) which I could use as a model. Plus, I remember that there have been some discussions about the name format these topic lists should have. What was the result? Thank you. Eklipse (talk) 22:02, 27 September 2008 (UTC) End border Hi, it's been a long time since we've last saw each other. I've an issue with a card I'm currently trying to develop i.e. I can't type anything below the card. Take a look at this page to see the problem. I appreciate your help. By the way, nice user page. Cheers, Zacharycrimsonwolf 12:42, 29 September 2008 (UTC) Thanks for helping with the card; I'll check it out later. About the collaboration, I'm glad to help with Malaysia. Cheers, Zacharycrimsonwolf 03:26, 30 September 2008 (UTC) The da Vinci Barnstar For helping me so many times. and for my wonderful userpage. Cheers, Zacharycrimsonwolf 04:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC) Malaysia Umm...I'm not really sure what I want to do, but I'll try my best. I'll let you know how its going. PS: Glad to know you like the barnstar. Cheers, Zacharycrimsonwolf 01:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC) Halloween Happy Halloween! Click there to open your card! → → → Dearest The Transhumanist, Zacharycrimsonwolf wishes you a Happy Halloween! Send this card to other spookers, even if it's a little early. Have a spooky Halloween and cheers! Zachary Credits Thanks to JetLover for his pumpkin image! If this card comes to you, tell Zachary how you like his card! 03:11, 1 October 2008 (UTC) Remember to look here for other cards! Air Force  Done it's done... ChiragPatnaik (talk) 07:43, 3 October 2008 (UTC) ok In some cases I put it in already. Some places like islands don't even have standing armies. and yet others areprotectorates. For these I will redirect to the country page. Foxy Loxy's RfA Hello, this message is to inform you that User:Foxy Loxy has restarted their RfA. The new discussion is located at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy 2. GlassCobra 09:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC) Question At List of countries by GDP (nominal) - which column does one use to find the country's rank? iMatthew (talk) 00:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC) But in the example you gave - you only wrote 50. Some of them have multiple ranks, how would you handle that? iMatthew (talk) 00:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Wow, It's a lot of work. Unfortunately - I'm currently working on 1 DYK, 2 GA, 1 FA, and 3 FL - so I don't have much time for other stuff, sorry! iMatthew (talk) 20:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC) That would just be another ten pounds on my back. I'm sorry, I hope you are able to find somebody else to help. Sorry!! iMatthew (talk) 20:17, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Population info See reply on my talk page. Pie is good (Apple is the best) 00:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Re: Are you around? Hey Transhumanist -- good to hear from you. I'm still around in a minimal sense, but I haven't done any substantial work lately -- I started college a little over a month ago, and that's been keeping me rather busy. So I don't know if I'll get around to working on the basic topics/topical outline pages any time soon, but I'll definitely consider it if I get some free time. Thanks for your hard work. — xDanielx T/C\R 09:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Help with Menu style. I wish to 1st thank you for your respose to my topic "Template Round corners and div classes". The Wiki Sysop on the Game Wiki looked at the code on the page and then at another file and told me he would have to rewrite some stuff to be able to use those class in the Game Wiki. He did tell me how to do something similar which I have. My Question is if I was to post the code for my tab menu could you show me if it is possible to incorporate a collapsible field to where it would be able to have like a drop down list or something similar. DavidAHare (talk) 20:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC) You're on your own on this one. Elonka has some drop-down boxes on her user page, here with backgrounds, here without. Maybe you can adapt the code for your purposes. The Transhumanist 00:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC) You could look over the best user pages on Wikipedia, to see if any of them have done something close to what you want. Many of them are presented at the User Page Hall of Fame. Wikipedia has navboxes that collapse. See Template:Navbox. Hope these resources help. Good luck. The Transhumanist 00:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC) I like the Template:Navbox but they have to many other templ;ates involved to where I can not tell what is and what is not the actual code for each style of the Navboxes. If there was a way to see the navbox code with the parameters with out any documentation or the extra templates for each style I could see if it would work. I am teaching myself this type of programming and I have to be able to see how things look very simply without any extra stuff added to it. DavidAHare (talk) 01:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC) Reply Unfortunately, I'm busy at the moment getting Major League Baseball to FA. Sorry.--LAAFansign review 21:38, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Basic topics lists for countries Hello Transhumanist. Thanks for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics#Basic topics lists for countries invite. I'll give it some thought. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC) Yes for all 3. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC) I got approved for AWB 2 days ago, tried to install it, but was unsuccessful on this computer. Will have another go on it over the weekend on my other one. Sorry if I didn't clarify previously that I'm approved for AWB but not using it yet. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Project I really like the idea and I think it's great but I'm not sure I'll be that much use, but I'm willing to help on minor things if you need any doing... Highfields (talk, contribs, review) 15:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC) Country topic outlines I'd like to help. How do I do so? Bart133 t c @ How's my driving? 00:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Yes, I do have them. Bart133 t c @ How's my driving? 00:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC) At the National Geographic Bee, they asked geographic questions similar to those here or here, in a format outlined pretty well on our article on it. The questions were mostly about identifying specific places. Any more questions about it? Bart133 t c @ How's my driving? 00:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC) With regard to the lists of basic topics, is this considered appropriate? Since Andorra is landlocked, it wouldn't have any fjords or islands, but I'm not sure about the policy of this specific WikiProject. Bart133 t c @ How's my driving? 02:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Re: AWB question Answer: Using regex. Contact me if you have a specific requirement you want help with. Rjwilmsi 22:04, 7 October 2008 (UTC) \n is a newline; you'll have to check the regex box. --NE2 02:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Thank you! The Transhumanist 22:40, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Vatican City topic outline Should the topic outline for Vatican City refer to it as "the Vatican City" or "Vatican City"? Usage in Wikipedia seems to favour the latter, but the official name is Stato della Città del Vaticano (State of the Vatican City). Bart133 t c @ How's my driving? 22:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Good question. Searching Google, "Vatican City" is clearly the more common usage (43 million versus 330 thousand with the "the"). All articles with "the Vatican City" in them should be renamed without the "the". But be careful not to change the ones with "the Vatican City State".  :) To assist you in finding them, here's a Google title search of Wikipedia for "the Vatican City" The Transhumanist 21:40, 8 October 2008 (UTC) French language I've moved French (language) back to French language, which is correct according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages). I'm not sure what you read in MOS, but the interpretation was not the intended one. With controversial moves, it is best to hold a discussion on the article talk page first and post a notice at Wikipedia:Requested moves. This allows for a consensus among interested editors. — Gareth Hughes (talk) 22:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC) They changed the convention. Interesting. Thanks for the heads up and the fix. By the way, I think the consensus method we just used (Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle) is best. It resolved the "controversy" much faster than the procedure you mentioned would have.  ;) The Transhumanist 21:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Re: Move request  Done. The extra tools come in handy for things like that, but it's really no big deal. And don't worry, you'll get there eventually. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:26, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Vatican city Wow, that looks great; good work. I found very little to change, and I added a picture and preformed minor copyedits. Just one question: should the empty Education section be removed? I can't find any links relevant to that section. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:37, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Looks good, I'm surprised at how much you found. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:05, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Re: Taiwanese, do you think there should be a brief discussion first? –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Good enough for me;  Done –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Cool, looks good. Keep up the good work. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Thank you. Found a few more adjustments. I think it's done now. The Transhumanist 20:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Done with German People. Sorry for the delayed response. ;-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:01, 17 October 2008 (UTC) Done. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Topic Outlines I`m rather busy with school, but I want to help when I have some spare time (e.g. weekends). What tasks can I do to help? --Patar knight - chat/contributions 23:48, 10 October 2008 (UTC) h+ In case you haven't seen. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/16/new-online-magazine.html :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:21, 17 October 2008 (UTC) Taiwanese Hokkien Hi tH, Several people have objected to the name Taiwanese Hokkien, as the term used by the ROC is evidently Taiwanese Minnan (or actually, just "Minnan" in English, but it's disambiguated in Chinese). I don't care either way myself (against govt usage, "Taiwanese Hokkien" appears to be twice as common as "Taiwanese Minnan" on Taiwanese websites, at least according to Google), but thought you might want a say. kwami (talk) 20:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Ethnic Serbians A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Ethnic Serbians, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Soman (talk) 21:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC) Hi! Just to let you know that I haven't forgotten about Atlas and that I'm nearing completion! But don't get your hopes too high yet, it looks nearly the same as the previous version, and there's still a lot more to be done. -- penubag  (talk) 02:03, 18 October 2008 (UTC) :( The Transhumanist 22:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Okay, I AM FINISHED! Phew, found enough time to work all day this weekend, and finished it! I know you'll probably have another laundry list of stuff you want me to do but this time I can edit the image with ease. I actually like this one a lot more than the other one. Atlas actually looks gold. Linky -- penubag  (talk) 04:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC) "Lists" mass-renaming Hi there. I noticed you're mass-renaming lists against the manual of style on naming conventions of long lists. I'd highly suggest that you stop for the time being and gain consensus for this move before continuing, as I could easily see lots of people disagreeing. If you have already gained consensus for this, please feel free to trout me with the link. Cheers =) --slakr\ talk / 20:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC) OK. I'll wait. Thank you for your concern. The Transhumanist 22:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC) ArbCom elections are now open! Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. 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This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2016 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Outline of self If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article. You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles. A tag has been placed on Outline of self requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. HagennosTalk 04:00, 3 March 2018 (UTC) Nomination of Outline of self for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Outline of self is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of self until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sandstein 14:11, 12 March 2018 (UTC) Nomination of Outline of transhumanism for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Outline of transhumanism is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Outline of transhumanism until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. 0bvious (talk) 17:37, 17 October 2021 (UTC)