User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 32

Wenceslao Selga Padilla

Dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Do you have, pelase, 5 minutes to read this new page and correct my mistakes?

I need also another information: when opened the page and I saw that there was the Christian leader infoboxes with deprecated parameters. What I wrote of wrong? Can you help me, please, to take off this red link?

Thanks a lot for your precious help and have a nice week-end!

Rei Momo (talk) 07:22, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Grazie mille!!! May be I already asked or you don' want answer, no problem: where do you live? Rei Momo (talk) 07:57, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Ok, grazie mille for your answer!!! See you soon!!! Rei Momo (talk) 08:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your precious advice!!! God bless you!!! Rei Momo (talk) 21:39, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Is it in this page a copyviol?

Dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

I want your opinion, please, and your help on this page, because I think there's a clear copyviol. There's a long "biography" at the beguinning that I thik was copied form the Sit of the singer.

I put the bio-box, but I think befor this one everything is copyviol. What do you think? Thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 22:58, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your precious help, and good night! Rei Momo (talk) 21:45, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Television channels in Denmark has been nominated for discussion

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Problem with multiple maps in Infobox Settlement

I think you should pause or modify your AWB run. What you're doing is generally a good idea, but when the |pushpin_image= parameter is used in {{Infobox settlement}}, the second map is broken. Let me try to fix. For now, can you skip such articles? An example of a broken map is at Mono Mills, California. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 06:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.

I don't mind if you delete this, as it's boring for visitors to your talkpage. If you delete it, then you have read it. That is what's important.

Thank you. I am also a gnome. But 0.6%! That's an awesome number. I won't send you cute pictures of things. I just wish to say thank you.

Rags (talk) 16:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

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You edit counter

I see that you have an edit counter through a link on your main page. Does it auto update or is manual?? VarunFEB2003 (talk) 13:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

No I think you misunderstood. I was talking about the edit counter you have as a link here - User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao#User_space_things is that auto or manual? Thanks --VarunFEB2003 (talk) 06:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

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stubs

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Your edit with AWB broke a template

Hey, just wanted to let you know that your edit on Carbon Canyon Regional Park broke the map in the infobox template. -- MorbidEntree - _{(Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)}(please reply using {{ping}}) 10:02, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

this one too. You might want to slow down when making such edits and check each one using preview, as this is not the first time I’ve visited your talk page after spotting such an error.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 11:17, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Cat-a-lot

Hey Nicolao. What are the rules of English Wikipedia for the use of cat-a-lot? Thanks. Vítor (talk) 19:04, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Yh, I already have the cat-a-lot config to all wikipedias (from Meta.wikimedia.org). I mean what are the rules I must follow when using the program. Vítor (talk) 19:23, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Category move Category:Earth satellites of Russia to Category:Earth observation satellites of Russia was wrong!

It is absolutely wrong. GLONASS is a navigation satellite, Ekspress (satellite constellation) are communications satellites. All those are Earth satellites of Russia but no Earth observation! Russia also had satellites around other planets, that's why this category was done this way. I haven't been able to find the discussion for the move but whoever made it lacked a fundamental understanding about the artificial satellites nature. Now I have to go around and create new categories and go article by article seeing if it applies. – Baldusi (talk) 12:02, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I am proposing

changing the name of an article that you were involved with from Vicken von Post-Börjesson to Vicken von Post Totten. Please see its talk page if you are interested in this process. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 03:26, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge participants

Please remove.Xx236 (talk) 11:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Category removal?

Ok I'll bite... why the removal of "Category:Olympic medalists in tennis" from players who have won an Olympic medal in tennis? Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Please remove parent categories when adding more specific category

Hello - thanks for adding categories such as Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field. However, when you are adding them you are leaving behind parent categories such as Category:Olympic track and field athletes of the United States and Category:Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field), which are parent categories of this new cat. Please remove the parent categories when you add the child or you are creating unnecessary work for others. Thanks! Rikster2 (talk) 10:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Cool. I have completed the basketball categories for Silver and Gold and don't mind doing the same for bronze when created, but obviously that's just one sport. Rikster2 (talk) 16:21, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Ipiranga River (Paraná)

Hi, where is the proof of that this river really exists? I cant find it on the map referenced. Cruks (talk) 11:57, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Cv Radu Aldulescu

Sadly your article concerning cellist Radu Aldulescu is full of mistakes. Dimitrie Dinicu was not his grand'father and not his real first teacher. Neither Gaspar Cassado ! My father (I am Aldulescu's daugther) was asistent to Cassado masterclasses, etc etc. Please contact me for further information at aldulescu@gmail.com. Best regards, Rodica Aldulescu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.29.212.18 (talk) 17:35, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Stub class articles

I noticed you added a top to a number of biography talk pages recently. Thanks for this. However, it did leave them all with a Stub-Class evaluation. I contributed the article John Cornwall (c.1366-1414) a few weeks ago. While I make no claims for the quality of the article, it seems to me that it's hardly a stub. For example, it contains over 6000 words, which is about the maximum recommended. It also has 108 citations, with a reference base of 44 books and websites. I'm not entirely sure how it came to be assessed as a stub, although it's one of many that received the same treatment. When an article is of reasonable length, I normally remove stub assessments and await someone from the Biography Project having a look, as happened more recently with John Burley. However, there are rather a lot to follow up here. I only raise this because I'm not entirely sure how Biography Project people work. Sjwells53 (talk) 12:43, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply on this. I'll alter the ones I know about, but there may be many more. All of these are at least 2000 words in length. I imagine they'll be largely ignored by the project if marked in this way, though I don't know how they prioritise things. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:23, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

I noticed also that all the articles I looked at included the entry "|listas=Golde, Adam", which I guess is incorrect in most cases. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:33, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Also check where the WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom template is used. This project only covers the period after 1707. All the entries I'm looking at are medieval or early modern, and none fall within its scope. Sjwells53 (talk) 17:42, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

WPHK

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Proposing an article for deletion

Hi. This article fit into AfD or speedy deletion? It's only a supposed new operating system. Pedrohoneto (talk) 01:14, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lea-Tuti Livšits

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Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao,

I'm curious, can you tell me why you removed SARAH from the category of 21st-century American novels? It was published in 2000, doesn't it count as a 21st-century novel?

Yours, NVG13DAO (talk) 00:25, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

OK then. Thank you! NVG13DAO (talk) 00:45, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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My name is not important

Do you know that this saying was also used in the game Hatred which is about a mass murder? Ever heard of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vds3azJeuEI --2003:C1:23C9:19B0:AC61:215B:A198:8FC2 (talk) 18:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for adding maps to so many Indian pages. With regards, Prof TPMS (talk) 01:32, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi can you help me with something?

Hi About Murder of Kylie Maybury ... It was brought to my attention through a 1970 article in The Age that the accused man in Kylie's case was charged in 1970 with attacking a 14 year old girl on a train with a hammer. Does the ban on mentioning prior convictions like that before the Kylie case is completed apply to us as well as the press? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 15:08, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Map errors again...

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Om P. Bahl

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Villages in Gloucestershire

Hi, I noticed that a lot of the villages aren't tagged for Gloucestershire, can you go through them?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:34, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Gender categories, century categories etc

Hi. Thanks for your edits, they are surely laborious, but please allow me to bring up two issues with them.

One is a particular note. As the editor of many articles on Romanian writers, I took care to sort out the categories, overall, by some recognizable criterion, and when you just drop the new categories you create in there somewhere I tend to despair after a while of finding them a place in the queue. I hope you can take some more time in noticing the pattern when you add them.

The second is a technical issue: Ser, I don't for the love of me understand why you enjoy making it so absurdly hard for your project by starting with generic and vague, and immensely vast, categories (Male essayists), dropping a random load of articles in there, instead of creating yourself the narrower categories (Category:Romanian male essayists, or even Category:Romanian 20th-century male essayists) from the beginning, and then putting the categories themselves into vaguer and vaguer ones.

By not working that, you make it a chore on everybody else to try and find out what other vague categories exist at this moment in time, but you also make it hard on yourself. One one hand, you revisit the same articles over and over again, each time narrowing the scope (isn't it exhausting?); on the other, it's much easier to keep track of what categories exist, and therefore much easier for others to help you include articles in them. Oh: and you also limit the sheer number of categories that pile up at the end of each article, and which in some cases (Felix Aderca jumps to mind) are so accumulated and hard to follow that they arguably defeat the very purpose of categorizing. Dahn (talk) 22:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Hm, small enough, you say? (There are quite enough there to validate a 19th-century category as well. Romanian literati were quite chatty in that very accessible genre.)

Also, mind you, I was not talking overcategorization (as in, putting Aderca into Category:Novelists, Category:Romanian novelists, Category:Romanian writers, Category:Romanian male writers etc.). The issue you create is a lot of valid categories, non redundant to each other, but so very many that the reader (and other editors) can't follow them. By creating directly the cross-sections of several categories (Category:20th-century Romanian male novelists, for instance), adding them to those would cut out about three categories that "pour" into that. Instead of keeping on adding categories to the foot of the article, you reduce them, and get the same effect you desire categorization-wise. Dahn (talk) 11:00, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

But Ser, did I convince you to start your categorizing from the smaller conceivable categories to the larger, or at least to have a look into what categories include before you add more categories to the articles? For instance, would you consider making a Category:19th-century Romanian essayists before you put random articles/each and every article on a 19th-century Romanian essayist into Category:19th-century essayists, and then revisiting each and every article in that category to narrow it down (or expecting others to do it)? As long as this categorizing seems to be your prime focus, would you please consider thinking ahead, for your own sake if not for everyone else's? Dahn (talk) 12:20, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

10,000

Hi, I hope I'm not inundatng you with too many requests, but I was wondering if you could somehow message all of the members of the Britain and county and Ireland projects with this invite. Something to alert people to the cause. Only if it can be done fairly easily and not a burden on you though! Someday we'll get around to one for Virginia ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:42, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Any reason why you have you stopped responding to emails? The old you would have been really enthuasiastic about the African 10,000! I do miss our old conversations at times!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:28, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

New watchlist record

I was impressed yesterday, when I saw you had added categories to 35 pages on my watchlist, all on Brazilian protected areas. Obviously you were on a roll. But today my watchlist had 167 talk page creations, also all on Brazilian protected areas. This has to be some sort of record! :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 10:53, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi

Because of the fact that I find you the most impressive editor on Wikipedia, and because I have to write so much before I reach a percent of what you've done, I thought I'll inform you that I got my first FL today :) I'm catching up with you. He he :) Lourdes 11:17, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Westchester House

Hello Sir.

I am one of the managers at Sohotel in NYC. You have created edits for a page listing us as The Westchester House. This hotel no longer exists and the side of effect of your page has led facebook and instagram to create locations for it and now our hotel Sohotel is named Westchester House on all Social media. This has created us a marketing nightmare as guests do not know which hotel is which. I know this may sound silly but it really is a huge deal.

Can you please change the name of our hotel on this page to Sohotel. This is our name.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alained (talk • contribs) 16:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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Brock Brower update

FYI, since you have made major contributions to the entry, I have updated Brock Brower. --Aboudaqn (talk) 15:33, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Mass categorisation

Can you please go back to marking these edits as minor (or even better, do it from an account with a bot flag)? I'm not sure we need a "20th-century politicians" category at the best of times, but without any way to filter it out you're making the watchlist of everyone in WikiProject Australian politics utterly unreadable. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

This is the second time in three days that our watchlists are unusable because of mass pointless recats being done without the minor or bot flags. Can you not? The Drover's Wife (talk) 03:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Cat-a-lot

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Attendance at an australian convention

does not make individuals politicians by default. George Pell was never a politician in the Australian sense. fyi. JarrahTree 02:12, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

mind you australian culture is a bloody pain and wikipedia doesnt really help to understand [2] - the Larrikin streak makes some conferences very strange events between unrelated occupations JarrahTree 03:36, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

yeah there was a pelican paperback book in the 1960s that was titled something like the 'southern mind' trying to explain the 'mentalite', but I no longer have my copy. In Indonesian where I did my fieldwork, the 'regional variations' of food, language and ways of thinking are so close in distance, it beggars belief that the variances can sustain against all the odds JarrahTree 09:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

how many people's categories were changed? My watchlist is also showing a number of definite non-politicans being miscategoried as such. But obviously I don't know about the ones not on my watchlist. Kerry (talk) 01:12, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

OK, I worked my way through the Delegates list and I think I have fixed the categorisation of all the non-politicians. All is well. Kerry (talk) 09:26, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

woaaah

you are lighting up all the guitarists on my watch list. Carptrash (talk) 05:07, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Having just walked in from my regular Wednesday night gig (I am NOT a guitar player) I get it. Carptrash (talk) 05:09, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

There is only one reason to stop.

and I'm not saying what it is, Carptrash (talk) 05:18, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Luigi Carlo Borromeo

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

Me fine, this summer I was in Pesaro and last 24 Aug. I was get up at 3,30 am from heatrhquake, the room was moving as a boat.... but just 30 afraid seconds, sigh-sigh.

I'm sad for the victims.

Well, I opened this page, and I ask you just 3-4 minutes for a short relecture, please. Thank a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 12:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Grazie milleeeee !!! Rei Momo (talk) 13:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Andre Gertler

I have expanded this article about Andre Gertler, partially from the German version. In the earlier English version, there is a sentence about Nazis:” he fled the country under the Nazis”. In 1928.it might not be the reason, while at that time there were no Nazis in Hungary. What to do with this statement? Is it possible to delete it? Gömb Adél (talk) 08:56, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, perhaps I will. Gömb Adél (talk) 09:14, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Projects tags

I've noticed that quite a lot of User:Fsmatovu's Uganda articles need talk page tagging for Wp:Africa Uganda=yes. Aymatth also has a lot of Brazil articles in recent months.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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Sportspeople & gender category changes

Hi, thanks for your recent edits of this nature. Can you please in future remember to also remove the parent category, saves someone else having to do it in the future. For example when you replace Category:Male boxers with Category:Canadian male boxers, there is no longer a need for Category:Canadian boxers. Thanks again. Jevansen (talk) 07:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Paddy Barnes (Irish Boxer)

Hi you recently changed the category on Paddy Barnes to "British male boxers" please note that he is not British, he was born in Northern Ireland (which is not part of Great Britain, but is part of the United Kingdom) and he has represented Northern Ireland previously and Ireland (which is neither Great Britain or United Kingdom) at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Please kindly consider changing as I don't wish to revert anyones good faith editsXyzspaniel (talk) 12:27, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you for the responseXyzspaniel (talk) 14:23, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

A Question

Yours is the last friendly voice on my TALK page, so you are elected.

This morning I visited the Scott Turow article, and in my genomic style, decided to correct an unnecessary capitalization. I often am reminded to log in first by a popup which says my IP is blocked. Using smartphone, so shared IP 's, no worries. My wiki-persona, when logged in, is not blocked. But today, after logging in, a new popup appeared, red lettering, saying something to effect of: Some of my input is questionable (!?!) Are you familiar with such a popup? There was no detail, or explanation. Did not seem to be a link. I could not seem to reproduce it, so after editing, I logged off, and then logged on again. The notice did not reappear.

I recently had a run-in with someone who seems, at least in my limited experience, to be a rogue administrator. He has protected an editor who seems to be territorial and of limited ability. I have opted to back out of the entire situation. Wikipedia is such an enormous place, with so much work to be done, why should I quibble over someone's childishness. I can edit elsewhere. But this guy, at least once, has followed my comments on a user TALK page, and made veiled threats. Something to the effect that I was disruptive, and could be blocked. At the risk of sounding paranoid, I can't help but wonder if I'm being targeted. It really doesn't seem likely, especially since I very rarely edit these days, but is there somewhere I can inquire about my "questionable input", and who my accuser might be? Probably I should ignore the entire thing. On the other hand, in the past I have found that such questions, if not dealt with, can take on a life of their own. I once almost lost a real-life job over a total fiction, a rumor which circulated unbeknownst to me, which upon investigation by an official, had no substance whatsoever. Two years later a friend told me how close I had come to disaster. I hadn't a clue.

Any ideas you have would be helpful. I wish I could quote the popup box for you, but my memory's not the best. Anyway, no specifics were on offer, only deniable vagueness. Rags (talk) 12:58, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

I think you are probably correct in your assessment. If there are any further developments, I will update you. ANI was primarily the answer to my question, but I will probably wait and see. The popup could easily be totally unrelated to the previous incident. And thank you for your quick response, as well as for the work you do here, gnomic and otherwise. Rags (talk) 09:51, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

I look up to you Texans123123 (talk) 02:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for improving the talk pages of so many Indian railway stations. Regards, Prof TPMS (talk) 01:21, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Turkey

Hi Ser, can you do me a favour and quickly send the following message to Category:WikiProject Turkey participants:♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I was wondering if you'd be interested in setting up Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Turkey), based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). Now it's not a contest in itself, it's designed to motivate people to inspire others to improve content and build something which demonstrates the hard work going into the country which is visible. The focus is more on quality improvements but new articles are welcome too. Eventually a Turkish National Contest could be created to fuel it, like Wikipedia:Awaken the Dragon, in which contestants can choose to keep the Amazon vouchers themselves to buy their own books for more articles or put them into book fund to help editors further improve Turkish-related topics by giving them the books they want. It will begin though as purely an improvement drive. If interested, or you think anybody else might be interested, alert them and sign up on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey talk page at the bottom. Thankyou.

Wow that was quick! Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:04, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Ser. Can you use that message tool to notify all of the editors of WP Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greeland and Faroe Islands about Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)? Something shorter and simple like:

Hi. I was wondering if you would be interested in contributing articles to Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)? It needs contributors to increase diversity of content from different countries and bring about large scale improvements. The idea at some point will be to host a National Contest related to your country of interest. Thanks.

Cat

Hi, just creating Tope Oshin Ogun. Can't seem to find a category for Alumni of Community College of Aurora?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:05, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

OK, no worries!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:39, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)

Hi, this sounds like a great project. I'm not sure if I have time right now to help, but I can try. I've been compiling a list of missing articles or ones that need to be expanded over the years which could be added to the challenge's page, as there is a huge selection of articles about Sámi women that could use to be written. Thanks for letting me know about the project! -Yupik (talk) 16:39, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Doualy Xaykaothao for deletion

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Template:Amasya District

Hi, can you use AWB to tack that onto the footer of every article? I've added it to the main town and the first two villages I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:35, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

October 2016
	Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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Baltic

Hi, can you do me a favour and send out this to all listed members of WP:Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania?

Hi. I see you are listed as a member of a WikiProject of a Baltic state. I was wondering if anybody who actively works on Estonian, Lithuanian or Latvian articles, would be interested in launching your own Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Baltic), based on the Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic) and Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea would be to try to bring about 1000 article improvements and creations on this region as an enjoyable challenge and potentially things like National Contests with prizes. If you'd be interested and think it's something you might regularly contribute to, comment and sign up at Talk:Baltic states. If there is interest we can move this to a project somewhere and set something up, thanks. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Now that was quick!!! Like lightening! Imagine if you could do that for content creation we'd pass 10 million by the end of the year ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Ivan Vihor

Hello, can You please write an article about Ivan Vihor, a Croatian classical and virtuoso pianist??He is one of the leading Young Croatian pianists. I've read it in Croatian but it is very poor,without photo etc.

Thank You,David--Cro88rec (talk) 18:36, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

All UK and Ireland

Hi, I was wondering if you could use the message sender to send out to all members of UK and Ireland projects, including the county ones. England alone has Category:WikiProject England. Obviously try to exclude the editors already signed up on the page though!

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge we're striving to bring about 10,000 article improvements and creations for the UK and Ireland and inspire others to create more content. In order to achieve this we need diversity of content, in all parts of the UK and Ireland on all topics. Eventually a regional contest will be held for all parts of the British Isles, like they were for Wales and the Wedt Country. We currently have just over 1900 articles and need contributors! If you think you'd be interested in collaborating on this and helping reach the target quicker, please sign up and begin listing your entries there as soon as possible! Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:47, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Are you sure? I just checked Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire members talk pages for instance.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

30 odd wikiprojects each with members in Category:WikiProject England from Bedfordshire through to Yorkshire!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

OK, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

years in art

surely you should also have the years project tag as well? JarrahTree 13:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

When I have done runs, and Dimadick I am sure does it as well when he finds a patch - of years in something, the years seems to make a sense when there is just the main subject project only. I have a real aversion to using the time project as I feel it is derivative and nebulous, but years to me makes good sense JarrahTree 13:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Dimadick and I's journey through the nether world of the talk page has led us to the thought many large edit main space compatriots do not have much of sympathy or understanding of project tagging and what it does for the health of the larger system... My metaphor is that main space only eds who never venture into talk space, are like people who check the water in the radiator, but always forget to check the oil dipstick - aka the talk page - but as they say, dont let me start... cheers JarrahTree 14:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

It is a pity there isnt a very hard lined definite policy on exactly that... I always like to have 2 and can cope with 3 three where the subject topic and the projects fit well, but over that I get nervous in a sense... JarrahTree 14:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

exactly - projects even if they belong in a set heirarchy do not necessarily equate to equanimity in weight either in authority relative to a subject of a category say, or of the collection of editors who may identify or associate with a particular subject/project - the dimensions to the issue are well beyond what I have ever encountered in the 'apprehensions' of supposed inactive/stalled projects as well. Hell I am using long words, I must get back to tagging before I exhaust the two cells. JarrahTree 14:23, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Indeed have a safe weekend, not safe in australia due to storms (South australia) or australian football grand final, you are lucky to be not here JarrahTree 14:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Mindy McCready article

Just an FYI, Mindy McCready was never technically categorized as a "pop" singer, even though her music leaned towards pop music. So if you are going to add pop to her genre category, you need to have a source to verify that. Thank you. Zredman (talk) 16:32, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Mistake?

Please check here. Thank you. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:44, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Domenico Mezzadri

Dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolaoe, how are you? Here Autumn is arrived, with the first frog.

I've opened this short page, and I'm asking, please, if you have some minute of your time to read it and to correct my mistakes. Thanks a lot for your precious help and see you soon.

Rei Momo (talk) 14:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Grazie mille for your help, have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 06:51, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Africa

Hi, can you send this message out to all members of WP:Africa and all the country projects on wikipedia, not just Africa? I think it might be something which a lot might be interested in beyond Africa:

OK, well see how long it takes, obviously notifying the African country projects is priority on this!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:45, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

If you could manage to notify all African members of country projects with the below and then the bottom message for members of those sports projects I'd be very grateful!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Did you manage to do this afterwards? Keep me informed of who you've invited so I know where I am LOL.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Occurred to me that the Wildlife projects could be invited. Can you try the following message for any of the ones you can think of like WP:Mammals, WP:insects, WP:Ecology, WP:Biology Category:Biology WikiProjects or whatever there is which actually have active members? I think we should be OK after that ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:29, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi, can you send out invitations to the biology projects members with the below message?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks.

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Can you also send this to all WP:Football, WP:Athletics and WP:Olympics members:

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks.

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AWB external links

Hello Ser Amantio. I was using AWb and when I was adding categories, it stop at external links for |parl_name=Provincial Assembly of Punjab (external links) and i have to manually click continue. The continuation is also manual. Do you happen to know about this? One more questionAnd how do I add categories to multiple pages using hotcat or is it not possible? thank you very much Saadkhan12345 (talk) 19:12, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

• • thank you very much. Very helpful. I added this category to awb (Constituencies of Punjab, Pakistan), made a list and than -add categories : pakistani election stubs. I click start. it stops, click save (alerts under. external link) continue and than again click save ...save...I think this is so as to fix the problem. anyhow thanks btw
• what do i do with that code? i copied the code and here. I have no idea what going on. Saadkhan12345 (talk) 20:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

• so sorry with this again but when i click start awb, i have to click save in order for it to continue and make the change. (this is for every edit to the page). check image Saadkhan12345 (talk) 22:02, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery cock up

Hi, Why on earth have you used Category:WikiProject Olympics participants as thing to send messages with "MediaWiki message delivery" too? ...
I now have messages at User talk:Davey2010/Member Of User talk:Davey2010/sandbox3, User talk:Davey2010/Userboxes, User talk:Davey2010/Userpage 1 Dec 2014/Userboxes, User talk:Davey2010/Userpage 1Dec14 and it would seem other editors have too got these messages in bizarre places,
Thanks. –Davey2010^Talk 21:37, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Overall he's done an excellent job Davey2010 in publicizing it though, not intentional. Your sandboxes nor anybody elses should be in that category anyway, consider taking them out or putting in Category:WikiProject Olympics participants' sandboxes or something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

I never said he hadn't ? .... Would you be happy if you received these in bizarre and random places and at the time not knowing how on earth they came to be sent there ? ... No!, The Olympics userbox is at User:Davey2010/Member Of and then that subpage is at User:Davey2010/Userboxes .... I prefer to be organised than disorganized but Anyway I know he done these in good faith and I have no issues - All has been resolved. –Davey2010^Talk 15:07, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Nevermind both subpages are different but anyway as i said all is resolved. –Davey2010^Talk 15:11, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello ser

So sorry to bother you with this again. Hope you are not troubled.

How do I add categories template like

to articles using AWB?

and also here am i suppose to do this using awb (clean up-delink) because it delinks the words.Saadkhan12345 (talk) 14:50, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Ernest Simoni

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine!

I opened this short page now, and I ask some minute to read it and to correct my mistakes, please. Just some minute, :-) , thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 21:46, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank youuuu, have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 05:48, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

"Male" artistrs

Hi, please be more careful when adding a "male" cat to articles. I haev reverted a series of these earlier today, but I notice that now again you have been doing the same, with e.g. Louise Abbéma. Fram (talk) 20:38, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Journalism banners on airport images

Hi,

I saw you have added the Wikiporject Journalism banner to this File talk:Terminal-baru-bandara-raja-haji-fisabilillah.jpg, and many other airport non-free airport images that I tagged for deletion. This doesn't make any sense that I can see. Can you explain? Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 22:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

hello talk page template add

Im trying to add {{WikiProject Pashtun}.} to pashtun related article on its talkpage. is this correct.? [4]. Saadkhan12345 (talk) 21:02, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

• Hi. Thanks for this. I'm off to Africa tomorrow, but cannot find a category of African wildlife stubs that I might work on. Very little African wildlife is endemic to one country. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Is there a way of rooting out wildlife stubs by country? @Charlesjsharp: Yes, you'd have to find stubs on anything which is known to be native to a given country, even if found in multiple ones. You then elect one country to list the destub under.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:45, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

@Charlesjsharp:, @Dr. Blofeld: - I've added wildlife stub lists for maybe 33 countries, and for the continent ... but the remaining countries don't have a Fauna category, and so no lists for them :(. Not sure why we're on Ser's page; hello anyway, Ser. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:27, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon: Thanks, there's also Flora categories though! There'll be lots of stubs which aren't categorized as such for the country though!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:47, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

2million

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Asian invites

Hi. Hoped you're well rested from the African invites now ;-). Can you do me a favour and send out the following invite to all of the Asian country project members:

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

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Some stroopwafels for you!

I will definitely join the Asian 10K challenge, thanks for the invite and best regards from Amsterdam. Amin (talk) 02:28, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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(this about the conference)

Your Italian sculptors

are lighting up my watch list like a pin ball machine.
This is a good thing. Carptrash (talk) 15:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Any fool can paint, so, yes, there are a lot of them, but not on my watch list. Carptrash (talk) 15:36, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

I've seen nothing to suggest that Heinz Warneke was a painter. Not listed as such in Mantle Fielding. I will look around a bit more, but that cat (egory) might go. Carptrash (talk) 15:27, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I have his bio around here somewhere but, longest journey begins with standing up, and I am not . . . ...up to it right now. If he did any painting of note I will gladly refund it. Carptrash (talk) 15:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: Mary Moore (sculptor), where you just were. How do I remove the tag about notability? In the history I started the article, it was up for deletion 1 minuter later. I added a few more source, then the tag was added. She is not a major figure but does belong here. Should I just remove it myself? Carptrash (talk) 15:52, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

And I got up, (ummmmpf) looked up Warneke, and like many (most? ALL?) sculptors he did a lot of drawing, but no painting. ciao. Carptrash (talk) 16:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I have a lot of Germans too. Carptrash (talk) 20:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I do have the book "Medallic Portraits of Adolf Hitler" which has a somewhat Bavarian lilt to it. Carptrash (talk) 21:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Gaetano Michetti

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

I've opened this little page, and I ask, please, some minutes of your time to read it and correct the mistakes of my poor English.

Thanks a lot for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 15:43, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank youuuuuuuuu!!! Rei Momo (talk) 16:14, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

The Asian 10,000 Challenge

I Want To Take Part In The "Asian 10,000 Challenge" Thanks H.R.H Prince Muhammad Zahid Zadran 16:09, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

• How are you selecting the users you're notifying of this? My watchlist is being flooded as you're spamming large numbers of Wikipedia's long-term trolls and vandals—could you at least consider removing the indefblocked users from your distribution list, since I see no benefit and plenty of potential drawbacks to your sending them these invitations, given that they'll reasonably infer from your invitation that their blocks have been lifted. ‑ Iridescent 16:05, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

If there was a way to programme AWB or the mediawiki message to skip that I'm sure he would do it. Any negative downside pales in comparison to the ones which have been well received. Over 50 people have joined up now and he's been getting a ton of Thankyous in things for his invites.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:11, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• I want to say "Thank You" for inviting me for this challenge event. I live in India and . Equiped with some knowledge of Wikipedia(I'm an amateur/enthusiast), I will try my level best to work in improving pages and wherever required creating new pages Day000Walker (talk) 15:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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About participating for Asia 10k Challenge

Just want to say thank you for inviting me for this challenge. I live in the Philippines, particularly Cagayan de Oro, Region 10 and it really saddens me to see many stubs around my place. With some knowledge of Wikipedia and lots of pictures(I'm an amateur/enthusiast) and references by my side, hopefully I can contribute at least something for this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nice Stranger5810 (talk • contribs) 11:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

"German male painters"

Dear Ser,

Thanks in general for your helpful editing. I wanted to query one particular item, namely replacing the category "German 18th century painters" with "German male painter". I'm not all that close to the field of art history but I have a pretty clear sense that century is an important descriptor in this field, since traditions of painting evolved so much over time. As for "male/female" -- well, maybe this is meant as a well-meaning gesture, but I also feel that highlighting this descriptor is a bit patronizing to the great female painters of the same era (such as Dora Stock). Thanks for listening. Opus33 (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Joke

Good day Ser :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.104.63.44 (talk) 18:46, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

An invitation to November's events

November 2016
	Announcing two exciting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

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Just this little stub!

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine.

Please, I ask 3 minutes of your time to read this short stub, and to correct, if you find, my mistakes. I thank you for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 22:16, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Grazie mille and have a nice day!!! Rei Momo (talk) 06:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you so much for inviting me to participate in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Asia/The_10,000_Challenge. I have been away from Wiki for such a long time that I almost forgot using many of its tools. But I do look forward to joining it soon. Arunbandana (talk • contribs)

Thanks

Thanks for finishing up with Category:Soccer clubs in the United States by state for me. I've been working on it all day and I was starting to feel burnt out on it, and I was reaaaaaaaaaally not looking forward to that Florida category. spiderjerky (talk) 04:52, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Help requested

Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao. If your time permits, will you please review my edit at Roland Dyens. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 09:45, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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Thank you for making 2,000,000 constructive edits! If each edit was a $1 bill, the money generated by the edits would weigh 2,000 kilograms, more than most cars. If each edit lasted for one second, the resulting time period would cover 23.14 days. If each edit was a person and they all inhabited a country, it would sit between Latvia and Slovenia in terms of population, and would be the 144th- most populous country on Earth. If each edit was a gram of table salt, this would cover about 128ml, or 21.6 teaspoonfuls. If each edit was a square kilometre of land within a country, the country would be between Mexico and Saudi Arabia in size, and be the thirteenth largest country on Earth. If each edit was a character within an encyclopedia, it would be twice the size of Encyclopedia Brittanica. If each edit was an article in its own language Wikipedia, the Wikipedia would be the fourth largest, in between the Cebuano and German versions. If your edits comprised all of the edits on a version of Wikipedia, it would be larger than the majority of the different language Wikipedias. Congratulations and many thanks. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, can you send out the following invite to all the European wikiprojects and all the members of Euro wikiprojects except the Nordic countries and UK/Ireland?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Hola, What progress have you made? Can you keep me posted on what you've done? Have you notified the members of each of the Europe projects like Albania and Bulgaria etc? The US one is next :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:43, 10 November 2016 (UTC) So you did haha, thanks. There's really not that many particularly active editors are there? We're way off our potential!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.

Watchlist

I do hope you have received something like feedback either on wiki or off wiki as to the logistics of whether the current challenges are indeed something that will improve quality on wikipedia. I have just watched the messages go to friends talk pages on my watchlist. I know their edit patterns quite well, and I am concerned that the canvassing people who are already at their limit of time and energy are probably not even responding, either by feedback, or from the messages. There are some philosophical positions that situate 'volume' well down the scale compared to quality, to the point that some of the largest edit editors canvassing others with encouragement to diversity might backfire with general indifference larger than expected. We do what we can do as it is, real life for many comes first. I wish you challenge people could have thought of other ways to improve quality.JarrahTree 02:57, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Also canvassing eds who havent edited for over 6 months is as equally perplexing. The important things is not to take this response personally, obviously you mega edit folks enjoy this sort of thing with more AWB encouragement flowing, please just realise that there are other ways of looking at how things can stem the tide of reducing numbers of editors, edits and so on... Simply acknowledgement of what people can do or have done might in the end be all that is going to work...JarrahTree 03:04, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

the nature of volunteer communities is that you are likely to get the good positive responses from those who like the challenge and have the time and energy, and a deep silence from those who already have their time budget already proscribed by real life, work, family etc. Best of luck with your enthusiasts. Trust you get results JarrahTree 03:10, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: You say "I wish you challenge people could have thought of other ways to improve quality", do you honestly think that Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon isn't improving quality? Overall sending out mass invitations maximizes the chances of people who see potential in the idea getting involved than possible negative repurcussions of alerting old trolls and inactive editors etc. If Australia had 1200 articles destubbed in 3 weeks would you think that a bad thing Jarrah? It's very possible through something like this. To be able to run the most effective contests and produce big results on here you do need to challenge people and liven up editing. I wouldn argue that given how many active editors there are on wikipedia, we're grossly underachieving in terms of producing consistent, quality. The challenges and contests are intended as mechanism to improve general quality. Based on your outlook, Africa would see 1200 article improvements in 3 weeks anyway, as people are doing their thing. It just doesn't happen, not even 1/10th of that normally in terms of quality existing article improvements. Yes, people are busy and can't commit to multiple challenges, but I'm doing my best here to try to find a way to improve the encyclopedia beyond what I can commit myself. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

High speed editing

Ser Amantio di Nicolao, making massive high speed edits with AWB without a bot flag undesired. (Edits such as these). Additionally, this is specifically what the Special:MassMessage utility is designed for, it avoids flooding recent changes and provides informational rather than alert notifications for editors - additionally it respects editors wished that have opted out of mass messaging. Please review the available options for the next time you want to send out project invitations. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

A thought

I have to wonder what sort of AWB rules you were using when you topped a brand of sunscreen with the project header for WikiProject Astronomy. I'm genuinely curious, because so far I've removed the WP:AST template from a half-dozen pages and I'm not even out of the Bs yet. Primefac (talk) 04:14, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Generating association football positions from position-based stub tags

as e.g. at Jimmy Cringan, Thomas Dunlop (footballer), John Duffy (footballer, born 1943). All these (and dozens of others on my watchlist) already had a position category, namely Category:Association football wing halves, which is a more specific subcat of Category:Association football midfielders. Are you sure it's necessary to automatically add the parent category as well? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:12, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

When I first saw them coming through, I thought 'what a clever idea', assuming it was just picking up the ones that didn't already have a position category. Thanks for explaining. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:59, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

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Impressed

Good day Sir.I love your works I'm very impressed by you issue Jabu Khanyile. I wish to know more about himMcT (talk) 11:32, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Footballer edits

So you make hundreds/thousands of edits adding categories to articles, before removing them all a day or two later - part 1, part 2; part 1, part 2; part 1, part 2 - do you need me to go on? What was the purpose of this? A cynic would say you are making automated edits without checking them, in order to keep up your ridiculously high edit count. Good job I'm not a cynic... GiantSnowman 20:57, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Now you're adding and then removing categories from article talk pages?! GiantSnowman 09:28, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Primo Mazzolari

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

I opened this new page about this antifascist priest, he saved lot of people from deportation in Germany!

Please, I ask some minute of your time to read it and correct my poor mistakes. Thanks a lot for your precious help!!!

Rei Momo (talk) 12:14, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very muche and see you soon!!! Rei Momo (talk) 20:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Templates after categories

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, thanks for your contributions but in your recent editing it seems that you but the category Category:Association football defenders after the stub templates such as Category:American soccer defender stubs etc. From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) but the templates should go after the stub for an easier read an access. In your recent edits hundreds of categories not have the stub template/category before that category you added, which makes it a bit confusing for people looking at the categories. Inter&anthro (talk) 21:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Association footballers not categorized by position

Fullback is a position. did you script wrong? [5] Matthew_hk tc 04:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Huh. Must've done. Thought I hadn't. I'll investigate further tomorrow and rerun the list - that should take care of it.

Thanks for spotting. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:00, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Frank de Boer already in defender cat, but still added to your cat. Matthew_hk tc 05:15, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Then I don't know what's going on. I may have missed one; I'd swear I didn't miss two. I'll run the program again tomorrow and see what results, but that's odd. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:41, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

It is three. Damiano Zenoni wrong but Milan Biševac right. Matthew_hk tc 05:45, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Right. That's it. I'll dig around further tomorrow and see what happened - I know I didn't screw all the categories up. Wonder if something's wrong with Petscan. Thanks for helping me spot these. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:51, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

I was coming to say I thought categorising as position missing was a good idea. I brought another example where the position wasn't missing: Laurent Blanc already in central defender cat. Hope you get it sorted. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 07:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Judging by my watchlist, the problematic ones are all Category:Association football defenders or subcats thereof. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

My two cents (saw it in Jorge Costa and Fernando Couto): if a player already has the category ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL GOALKEEPERS/DEFENDERS/MIDFIELDERS/FORWARDS, the "Association footballers not categorized by position" is overkill methinks, all those listed in the first instance are playing positions. Attentively --85.242.133.151 (talk) 15:38, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Why this edit when it's clearly categorised as Category:Association football defenders? I think you need to stop this AWB crusade.... Too many errors. I suggest you revert your recent edits as well. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:08, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting on that specific article, but you need to go back and fix all the others you've incorrectly tagged. It'll help with your edit count, after all. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:26, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Awesome, a thousand more automated edits in a minute! Well done you! The Rambling Man (talk) 22:50, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

It would actually be more productive for you to categorise these articles using AWB rather than simply tagging dozens per minute with "uncategorised" as you are currently doing. I guess edit counting is more important than enhancing the encyclopedia? The Rambling Man (talk) 07:05, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Note, you need to change your AWB script, e.g. Jonny Hurst is not a footballer. He has a football-related biography, but doesn't need a position to be added because he didn't play football. You'll need to go back and fix all such instances of this mistake. Thanks! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism detected on a page you edited

Hi there. I am just a Wikipedia reader, have never made or edited a contribution, so I am reaching out to you as I have been unable to correct or report some vandalism I noticed on a page you had previously edited, in hopes you can address. I happened to view the page for Dule Hill page and from there clicked the link to his former wife's page (Nicky Lyn). There I saw 2 strange references , one to Turkish pornography and one to pedophila recruitment. I looked up some info in site vandalism but was unable to follow the Wikipedia instructions, presumably because I am not an established contributor/editor. But I see that you are, and that you had previously made appropriate edits to Ms. Lyn's page. The vandalizing edits were made 2 days ago by someone whose username has no profile page. My attempts to look for a revert feature or other "report" feature were unsuccessful, and my own edit attempt was directed to a version without the vandalism showing, but I think something should be done to clean up the page and warn the user (my own polite cease and desist message was was rejected as unauthorized). Can you help? Thank you! Cretek (talk) 15:32, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	A little late, but once again thanks for sending out the invite template for Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge to all WP:WPUS members. Thank you! MB298 (talk) 00:32, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi, can you send out invites to the Canadian project and state project members, something like below?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Government ministers of Kerala has been nominated for discussion

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December 2016 at Women in Red

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Mitzy / Mitcy

You created Mitzy Larue and I was in the process of creating Mitcy Larue when I found your article. Sadly the reference you used is dead, but maybe you can find a link if the two are the same: "Seychelles President Faure reshuffles government, minister portfolios". seychellesnewsagency.com. Seychelles News Agency. Retrieved 21 November 2016. Agathoclea (talk) 20:55, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Afro Poli in 1948 Pagliacci film

Hi,

I see that you have edited both the entry for Afro Poli and the one for the 1948 Pagliacci film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Poli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci_(1948_film)

In the article for Afro Poli, there is a section for Film-opera and also a Filmography. I don't see the Pagliacci film listed. Shouldn't it be there? Since I am ignorant about this, I didn't want to make any changes myself, but want to bring it to the attention of someone who knows. Thanks!

Mark

Debell (talk) 01:22, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Samina (Liechtenstein)

The article Samina (Liechtenstein) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I live in Liechtenstein, and I know that Samina isn't even a place. It's just the name of a major river that begins in Liechtenstein, but it's not a settlement. Further, the only source on the page links to a bus stop that could have been added to OpenStreetMaps by any editor, and the village is not recognized by the Liechtenstein government, not to mention nonexistent. If there's any evidence about it, please do reply.

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Hillbilly's Discount in Oceana, WV

I'm not exactly sure what the image of Hillbilly's Discount is trying to illustration, especially considering that it is an image of one of the ugliest buildings in town, the storefront was completely renovated, and it is no longer in business, so I removed it from the article Oceana, West Virginia. If you like to explain what you are attempting to illustrate, I could come up with a suitable replacement, such as Dixon's Hardware, the antique shop, one of the pharmacies, Uncle Tom's Loans, etc. —Farix (t | c) 04:06, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

• shrug* Seems more like a way to stereotype the local residents. But in my view, even free-use images should serve the purpose of illustrating a point from the article and not be for decorative purposes. —Farix (t | c) 14:07, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

The Corbett Report is now Draft:James Corbett (journalist)

You contributed to The Corbett Report article created 27 March, 2013 but on 10 November, 2015 it was nominated for and was deleted. I was unaware of that deleted article when I started a new Draft:James Corbett (journalist) on 19 May, 2016 that was rejected. I've been revising it here and there since. Recent events spurred me on (feel free to ask me or watch this video then read the TCR comments section (not the YouTube comments) for the full disclosure of my involvement: https://www.corbettreport.com/what-i-learned-from-the-propornot-propaganda-list/ ). I discovered the deleted article and folded it into the new draft. Feel free to contribute as you like. ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 22:17, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Women cartoonists

Hi is it possible you could create a category? Also not seeing anything for Tunisian women artists. though there's probably not many articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:28, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Why did you add blank sections to Matthew Steen page?

Not sure why blank categories were needed here. Is there a reason why you added them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Steen&action=history SteveJEsposito (talk) 22:41, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Add your eyes to this

• Talk:And you are lynching Negroes. --evrik ^(talk) 15:33, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thought you might like an upgrade

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All the best for 2017!

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Overcategorization?

Hi. Thanks to my watchlist I saw that today you have re-categorized hundreds of articles about Moldovan politicians [6], adding additional parent categories like 20th-century Moldovan politicians and 21st-century Moldovan politicians to articles, even if they had already more specific categories, like Moldovan MPs 1998–2001, Moldovan MPs 2005–09, or Moldovan MPs 2009–10, which are subcategories for the previously-named 20th-century Moldovan politicians and 21st-century Moldovan politicians. Isn't this in fact an overcategorization? XXN, 21:36, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Festive greetings!

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A barnstar for you!

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Ser Amantio di Nicolao

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Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of a third over what we first found. Victuallers (talk) 13:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and Happy 2017

Thanks a lot for your message!!!

May this Christmas give you light for the 2017 coming!!! See you soon.

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Categorisation

Don't think so, somehow... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:04, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:43, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Project tagging

Hey Ser -- you added a bunch of unassessed project tags for WikiProject Equine to about 90 articles. I can guarantee you they are all "importance=low" and most all will be "class=start". You have some sort of tool to do these quickly and I do not, so would you kindly assess everything here so I don't have to do it all by hand? Thanks! Montanabw^(talk) 06:03, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Montanabw^(talk) 06:50, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Best Wishes

Dream Garden by Maxfield Parrish & Louis Comfort Tiffany

Ser Amantio di Nicolao ,

I wish you the best this holiday season.

May the new year bring you nearer to your dreams.

BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:13, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di Nicolao,

Merry Christmas!

I am responding to your enquiry regarding why I undid your revision on the Congressman Steve Rothman page.

My journalistic experience has been that biographical information and historical documents, which are the property of the U.S. Government and the City of Englewood, New Jersey, must be appropriately sourced.

All the very best,

Zoeae — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoeae (talk • contribs) 16:32, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Clock chimes!

Hey there! Merry Christmas. (:

I have something to share, and a question about it! Just this morning, while talking with my dad about the Westminster quarters, I realized there was no article about the concept of clock chimes in general. So I created it. Would welcome your contributions! Seems there are a number of books on the subject but not many accessible via Google.

I do have a question about the page, though. I initially created it as "clock chimes" before realizing that well, probably singular is best. So I changed it to "clock chime". But now I'm having second thoughts - many chimes are referred to as "chimes" even when only one of them is being discussed; i.e. the Westminster chimes or the Whittington chimes. It is kind of a collective noun. Any thoughts about whether "clock chime" or "clock chimes" is best?

--Vivisel (talk) 18:42, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, maybe I pulled the trigger a bit quickly on the name change. The process of adding more citations may help me decide too - I'll check back in later today or tomorrow. If you have further thoughts, please let me know! Vivisel (talk) 18:57, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

I saw some of those- OK sources but not great. I found a couple of bibliographies online, which have some great non-google-books-able sources; I put them in the talk page. I may try to drop by a library... Vivisel (talk) 23:20, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Comedian Maurzio Milani

Dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? I opened this little stub and I ask 3 minutes of your time to read it and correct my mistakes, please.

Thanks a lot for your precious help and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Rei Momo (talk) 11:50, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, see you soon! Rei Momo (talk) 14:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Riaria‎

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January 2017 at Women in Red

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	With the wish and hope that you have an even more active year in Wikipedia! Magioladitis (talk) 12:44, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Editor of the Week seeking nominations (and a new facilitator)

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Category insertion

You are inserting categories to the articles, but could you please follow the alphabetical order while doing it. Thanks, Egeymi (talk) 07:47, 30 December 2016 (UTC)