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Pumpie,

Your last edit of this page duplicated all its text. I have taken the liberty of removing the duplication. Feel free to remove this note. Spacepotato 22:49, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Hey Pumpie, I hope you like the place and choose to stay. (I like your user name :)

Some links that may be of use:

And keep contributing! :) Dysprosia 13:18, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie. Did you take a second look at Prefecture of Elia yet? I made it look like several other country subdivision articles I wrote already. Do you like that design? I am still busy with german districts, thai provinces as well as brazilian states, so it'd be good if you would do more on the greek prefectures. I am only not sure about the english name of that prefecture - I found both spellings Ilia and Elia; do you have the greek spelling (you can add greek letters as well here).
Another note: your new List of Prefectures in Greece and Prefectures of Greece are duplicate article. However most of the links in the second one point to articles about cities or long outdated articles, so it needs quite a bit of work as well. andy 20:25, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hello pumpie, It is helpful to other users if you can write a quick summary for each edit you make. This way we can read your summary instead of search for your changes :) Kingturtle 18:09, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I'm just a starter, and I am a kid and a boy genius just like Jimmy Neutron, I am from the Free Universe.

Is there any article about highways in Greece, or dialing or area code listings in Greece, yet?

Do you have a complete listins of highways over there? is there a complete listings about area codes of the world, "geniuses" there?

How are going to update this first names article in order format?

Is there any information about a list of radio stations anywhere? Pumpie 22:45, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Double spacing in the display of articles

I don't like it to be double-the-line but single-the-line on every article, please, it made us dizzy? Pumpie 23:24, 5 Oct, 2003 (UTC)

If you edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pumpie/monobook.css and copy the text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MrJones/monobook.css then save, you'll find all pages are single spaced. Play with the line height until you're happy with it (try 1.1em, 1.15em, etc) Mr. Jones 20:17, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)


When will the allwiki.org will be running? Pumpie, 21:20, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)

When is this notice abotu finding a word on wiktionary to becoma any easier, like school to an Italian wikipedia for scuola, in the form of [it(/\)scuola] which is simply scuola on written texts, when will this [language(/\)word] thing will happen? Pumpie 21:31, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

When will mapquest.com/kids run. Go put back the railroad systems of the state of Canada on, and the expressways of Brazil. Remove advertising, and mapquest.com/kids will run only children's advertising like "Sonic the Hedgehog". Second, all rivers and streams of Canada has to be named, and third All roads and local streets, trails, and rivers and streams has to be on for Oceania, and South Africa. When will this be happening?

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Here are my chatrooms That I will be doing incase there isn't any room left unless we have a super-cord connected from goodly little known planets from outer space to turn this page into one, so we can have more room in the future.

This is my chatroom for users born after 1985: Pumpie's chatrooms

I'm moving this to your user talk page. If you really want to be an admin (nothing but work, no benefits), re-apply after a month or so.

[edit] Pumpie

Pumpie would like to become an administrator for Wikipedia. I will protect pages from vandalism, and I will may or possibly add Phases IV and V if necessary, and I may have ability to write using Greek and Cyrillic fonts as well. I may even create Wikipediatlas too.

I oppose this as I don't believe Pumpie has obtained a good understanding of Wikipedia yet. He has created inappropriate pages such as List of baby names and has been impolite when such pages are listed are listed for deletion; Greek names of states for example. He has also created sock puppet accounts in order to vote at VfD [1]. Here's quote from my talk page:

Our friend User:67.60.17.122 a.k.a. User:Pumpie appears to be obsessive about creating list while doing little or nothing to create content. We're also familiar with his efforts on Wiktionary where he is trying to list every imaginable given name. He's a young kid who doesn't seem to understand how much work he's generating for others. ☮ Eclecticology 01:30, 2003 Nov 5 (UTC)

Angela. 20:16, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose. Daniel Quinlan 20:44, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • I really understand, and I will not vandalize. I will make links for language.wiktionary.org in the near future. Pumpie 22:20, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. silsor 22:49, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose Alexandros
  • Hang around for a while, Pumpie. Get the feel of things and get to know people. Ask again after a month or so.—Eloquence
  • Oppose for now. Sock puppet creators should not be sysops for a reasonable period after the offence. Erik's advice of putting it off for a month or so is worthwhile. Maybe we do need to develop a policy as to how long after being caught stacking up sock puppet votes it should be before that person can be nominated to become a sysop. FearÉIREANN 06:50, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will probably create Wikipediatlas, and I will like to write with other texts with a mini-button which allows to write texts (Greek, Cyrilic, Japanese, etc.) someday.
    • It is better to do the work first, then request. Not the other way around (aka "the politician's way"). --Menchi (Talk) [[]] 03:32, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will protect pages from vandalism, and whether I am starter or not, I will try to become an administrator, I will create pages for language.wiktionary.org and I have removed vandalism once from Wiktionary.
  • Support Lirath Q. Pynnor
  • Oppose Maximus Rex 23:09, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose Secretlondon 23:13, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose Pakaran 23:15, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will protect pages from vandalism, write texts in Greek, and create Wikipediatlas as well, and Wikigeniuses follows that. Pumpie 23:24 Dec 8, 2003
  • Oppose, and please sign in too. --Jiang | Talk
  • Oppose. Pumpie you don't need to be an admin to do most of the things you want to do. theresa knott 13:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I want to create www.en.wikipediatlas.org someday?, and write using Greek, Cyrillic, and Japanese characters which I don't have. Pumpie, 16:25, Dec. 10, 2003
  • I may have an idea on creating some bots when I become an administrator.
  • Sigh. Oppose for having failed to grasp the comments of other users relating to the actions and their relationship to administration. -- Lord Emsworth

Why don't you sign in? Please reply to my question at my talk page. --Ed Senft! 21:57, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pumpie, I've moved this from RFA. It might be best for you to wait for someone else to nominate you before applying again as nominating yourself evey week isn't likely to help. You might find it useful to read the pages linked to from the Administrators' reading list to get more of an idea of what being a sysop entails. Angela. 22:02, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)


  • I would like to become an administrator since I have done over a 100 edits when I am logged in.
    • Oppose. Your statement simply tells us how many edits you have. How do we know if you can be trusted as an admin with just that statement? As I've said countless times all over the 'pedia, # of edits != Trust. Furthermore, you didn't specify a reason for any edits, which makes it all the more difficult to understand what your intentions were with each edit you've made. Elaborate a bit and I may change my vote. Metasquares 19:41, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • How many times does Pumpie have to ask and get voted down? Opppose. RickK 06:03, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a vote: asking so frequently makes people want you NOT to be an administrator. silsor 08:04, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Oppose, if he gets it then I'd deserve it too! Walter Simons

Hi, Pumpie. I think a week is far too soon to ask again! I suspect a number of people feel like Silsor, that asking over and over will annoy people and not help your case. Is there some great reason to rush to be an admin? I'd suggest you just spend your time being a good contributor and editor here. Don't resubmit yourself for, say 6 months-- do a good job here and someone else may beat you to it and nominate you first. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 01:47, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pumpie: If you don't ask to become an admin for 6 months, I will support you. Perl 02:57, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi! It should be {{msg:stub}}, not ((msg:stub)). Thanks! -- user:Zanimum

Is there a user that can develop some bots over here? Pumpie 9:40 (EAST), 14:40 (UTC)

I see no reason to make a Pumpiebot; whatever bot I'm using will be Robbot. As for developing a bot: The code of Robbot is open, and you are free to use it or develop your own bot from it. If you have a good idea, you are invited to bring it forward on the email list (see http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pywikipediabot-users ), and perhaps I or someone else is willing to write it for or with you. - Andre Engels 16:41, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Next question answered at my own talk page. - Andre Engels 21:14, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I have a unit to add and probably to add some Greek, Cyrilic texts on the right, including other alphabets ans syllabary if highlighted to add. (For example: A word like hgeinoj, and so on and if highlihgted, and I click the Greek alpha button, it translates into Greek alphabet, and becomes igeinos. - Pumpie - 14:42, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie, What's the deal with your last few contributions about the Bernese Oberland and railways? Did you copy&paste babelfish translations without checking? No sentence is grammatically correct and only half of them make sense. You did even translate place names literally (Engelberg is not angel mountain and Interlaken is not intersheets)! Please stick to languages and topics you know something about, you're only creating additional work for the other editors. --Zumbo 18:56, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Please read the changes I made to your page at Allmendingen before making new pages of the same type. Thue 20:51, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie, re Megara; I can't quite make sense of the following: "There is a bridge (to some residents) that will connect the island with the mainland, but is not yet planned." Is the bridge there now? Djnjwd 19:20, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • It is uncertain and the bridge is not there, distance from Pachi to the island of Salamis is about 200 to 250 m. - Pumpie, 13:34 (UTC)

[edit] Brazilian city articles

Pumpie, I've noticed that many of the articles on Brazilian cities that you've uploaded have many spelling and punctuation errors. Are you proofreading these? If not, you're creating a lot of work for others who have to clean up after you. Joyous 14:44, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Schloss Lenzburg

Your good intentions of translating the German article to include it into the english wikipedia are noted, but it seems like you don't speak any German, so your translation was not much better than Babelfish nonsense translations. Such translations don't help, they only create work for others, so I think you'd better don't continue those. There are still enough topics to be covered for which you can find english sources. andy 19:28, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I don't see the point in creating the articles on the villages which contain nothing more than just population and district data, that's IMHO not what belongs in a encyclopedia. But anyway, please translate Gemeinde as municipality, Stadt as town, and only Großstadt (i.e. a Stadt with more than 100,000 citizen) as city. andy 22:26, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki links

Hey, a lot of these articles you're importing from other Wikipedias have broken interwiki links: because the English Wikipedia does not use Unicode for article titles, you can't just copy accented symbols into the text and have the Interwiki work. See for example the versions of Großbartloff or Küllstedt before my changes - the de: link is broken. —Stormie 04:43, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

It's a waste of time trying to convince Pumpie, he won't listen anyway. --Voyager ch 11:06, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I didn't know this, I thought it was also convertible on unicode so when a non-unicode link, I thought it would be changed to unicode when surfing into another language. - Pumpie, 13:26 Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
Well, it's not, and I see from e.g. São Paulo Railway that you are still creating new articles with broken interwiki links. Please have some consideration for other editors, and don't just dump stuff in and hope that somebody else will fix it up. —Stormie 01:59, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Machine translations

If you continue using machine translations, you will inevitably be put on RFC by someone. And I assure you that won't help you get adminship. Please stop it. — David Remahl 16:58, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I totally agree with David. Stop this nonsense! --Voyager ch 18:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
How come, I am trying to translate without making any mistakes, How much errors did I do? --Pumpie, 20:08, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In that sentence, at least four. It should be: 'How come? I am trying to translate without making any mistakes. How many errors did I make?' I don't wish to be mean, and none of us are perfect. But if there are at four errors in 17 words, how many are there likely to be in the many articles you've translated? Jongarrettuk 22:42, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You now what Jongarrettuk, I am trying to do my best on not making any mistakes on translation, Germany is difficult along with Portuguese but with French and probably Greek, I can translate. I will try to reduce it to zero from four per 17 words. --Pumpie, 22:52, Oct 6. 2004 (UTC)

Anyway, where are you from and how old are you? I can't work it out. Jongarrettuk 22:58, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I know other languages, but I will continue to study tomorrow, anyway, I will try to translate better, since you don't know that many languages, I only know some primary words of other languages, but some latin-based words are easier to translate to English in some language using this (easiest) method. --Pumpie, 23:05, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
D'accord, je vous comprends. Mais où habitez-vous et quel âge avez-vous? Jongarrettuk 23:41, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
No, I was saying that I really know any languages (langues), and since you're not an expert, other experts aren't here. The easiest is less than 100 to 300 kB. Anyways, errors will be fixed, I'll be back tomorrow to find some translational experts, if there's one, this problem will be fixed, if not, another expert, like the one who fixed Boswil will fix every article that is impertectly translated, see ya. --Pumpie, 23:52, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In most cases, it would be easier for a good translator to translate the original source to English than to try and interpret your machine translation, even if he was allowed to look at the original too. Thus, you're wasting everyone's time adding mangled machine translations. — David Remahl 00:26, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I will slow down and translate articles to English properly, I know a little German, so, a translator like Rhymeless will fix all this problem, I didn't mean to, I thought it was properly, so it became 50% acceptable, I will fix it to acceptable translations (longer than 1000kb) --Pumpie, 20:40, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Have you checked with Rhymeless that he wants to translate all these articles into English? I appreciate your intentions are good, but you're just creating bad articles until someone chooses to correct them. I'm also concerned at how good (or rather bad) your English is. Unfortunately, at the moment what you're doing is just annoying people and antagonising them. Jongarrettuk 21:12, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Rhymeless does NOT want to translate all these articles into proper English! I didn't mind translating a couple, but translation isn't even what I'm best at. I'm a kid, like you, so I get busy. I might be willing to help you with translation on an article-by-article case, but this isn't the best way to do it, please ask me if you would want help. Please try not to flood en.wiki with machine-translated articles in the future. [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 07:28, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My English is almost good, I am trying not to annoy anyone, but to fix this problem. --Pumpie, 21:54, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
I though you were a translator, I didn't know, but that's okay, you don't have to translate, there are other translators (not via the machine, humanly) but they are not in the wiki or their favorites, or first-comers --Pumpie, 17:24 8/10/2004 (Oct 10, 2004) (UTC)
Pumpie, please try to understand that a poor first translation is of no help at all to a translator. It is a lot better to start from the source material (i.e. the German wiki) than to try to interpret the mess created by a machine or a non-native translator. DO NOT (!!!) add poor translations to the English Wikipedia under the assumption that someone will clean them up. Find something else to do on the Wiki. — David Remahl 17:40, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
David is absolutely right that there is nothing more horrible, tedious, unrewarding, unpleasant, for a translator (I worked as one for 20+ years) than translation review, especially where the translation is bad. Even when the translation is good, it requires enormous patience, a very fine sense of not injecting one's own POV into the review (over and above the normal sense of NPOV that comes, or ought to come, with being a translator); presented with a horrid translation, I'd tell my clients it would be better — and far cheaper — to just start over again. || Also, a comment: translation is slow; an average figure frequently put forth by translator associations etc. is 3000 words of finished translation a day: that works out to 6 words a minute! At my very best, in a field I was completely used to, as part of a massive project involving repetitive vocabulary and forms, and armed with fast-expanding keystrokes etc., I once hit around 11,000 sustained for a day — which is 23 words a minute. || So now, ad rem. Precisely because there is no way a human translator (or even a team of translators of the size we'd be likely to get here) could churn out these PumperSeiten, I view your machine-translated dumps as valuable: they are for the most part fairly understandable, and there's no shortage of other articles onboard in curious varieties of English; but by many different authors, thus not attracting the attention yours do. The net effect of this deluge of poor English is (a) to improve coverage; (b) to decrease overall quality, at least of readability. That makes your stuff a very tough call, in terms of the value of the articles themselves; but in terms of administering Wikipedia, you've created a situation calling for a great deal of work: I were voting for an administrator, I'd vote for someone who does not create work, but reduces it. || Towards a solution: (1) I suggest we create a template that you'd incorporate in your articles, which would say something like "Hey we know this is not perfect English, but the info is good. If you want to be involved in fixing it, see --> (2) And the "see" would be a place where people could sign up for distributed copy-editing; I borrow the term from "distributed proofreading" at Gutenberg. Believe it or not, there are people out there — sheer masochism's what I call it — who like fixing things like this: on my own (large) website I get quite a few people who show up out of the blue and plow thru multi-volume books for me]. We could provide a place for people who enjoy this sort of stuff: an automatically-generated Category page of all the PumperSeiten. — Bill 17:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Interesting and constructive idea. I created the following:
This article is a rough translation of an article in German.
It may have been generated by a computer or by a translator with limited proficiency in English or the original language. Feel free to enhance the translation. For reference, the original article may appear under "German" in the "other languages" list.


For the above, I used {{CrudeTranslation|German}} {{RoughTranslation|German}}. What do you think? It places articles in Category:Crude translations Category:Rough translations, which is a subcat of Category:Cleanup. Perhaps we could have several Crude Rough translations categories for different languages. (By the way, Bill, I'm impressed by your attention to detail in your message above, I mean all the no-break-spaces. Very pedantic, cool and impressive ;-) — David Remahl 17:55, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
David — flatteries aside, thank you — your template has my vote, with one slight change, rough for the somewhat POV crude. — Bill 18:05, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Done. — David Remahl 18:12, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Alert

Hi Pumpie, sorry for my English: I'm Italian. You are editing many towns of Italy with a mistake: Regions of Germany is uncorrect. You mean Regions of Italy I suppose. By --Archenzo >> ███████ 20:33, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Now they are OK! By --Archenzo (Talk) 12:06, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop

Pumpie, would you PLEASE stop translating my German articles with Babelfish? The junk you're producing is just horrible. In future, I will put EVERY article on "Votes for deletion". Maybe you will learn something. But I really doubt this. You just don't seem to understand. :-(
--Voyager ch 19:24, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will not translate any more articles into English with Babelfish, Voyager ch, I will translate new articles without Babelfish or grammatic errors. -Pumpie, 20:50, 10/11/2004 (UTC)
So that means you won't translate anything at all in future. I doubt that your knowledge of the German language is sufficient for translating my shopping list. Do us a favour and stop bothering us. --Voyager ch 21:14, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Brazilian municipalities

I see you've added a couple of the towns that I recategorised as Category:São Paulo state back to Category:Brazil. Are these towns of special importance, or is it your opinion that all towns in Brazil should be added to the top level category? Since there are so many of them, I think other articles in the category will get lost, and it's better to have them just in the state category. Alternatively, they could go into Category:Cities in Brazil, although I would prefer to see only the major cities (perhaps, those over 100,000 people) go into that category (as well as into the appropriate state category).-gadfium 22:37, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

For the categories, Wikipedia just got started! As we input the thousands of places — I'm a firm believer in what Pumpie is doing, if not keen on the machine translation — there's going to be categories for the individual states of Brazil; the towns should be inserted into cats by state (Minas Gerais, etc.). Other parts of Wikipedia have found it useful to distinguish between Cities and Towns, the cut-off being 100,000; when I found that, it seemed quite good to me, so in my Categorization of Category:Italy and elsewhere I've been using that, if that helps. — Bill 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Uh, Pumpie...I hate to be a pickle, but your Moji das Cruzes article is utterly incomprehensible. I know you mean well, but these Babelfish translations just don't make any sense. Please consider contributing in other ways, perhaps to your native language Wikipedia. Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 18:30, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Also, I have to agree with Gadfium. Wikipedia really isn't the world's geographic text dumping site. OK? Feel free to add articles, but please do more than just copy the geographic positions and paste them here. Tell the reader more about these towns. - Lucky 6.9 18:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pumpie, please stop with the text dumps. - Lucky 6.9 19:08, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
For the machine translation, see the discussion above; there is now a template: {{RoughTranslation|insert language here}}; I just inserted one in Moji das Cruzes. The template categorizes these articles to suitable stub categories, I'm told (although I didn't check). Pumpie, you should consider inserting them yourself as part of your standard procedure: it would save others a lot of trouble! — Bill 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Look, lots of us have asked you not to use this site as a text dump for geographical information about Brazilian municipalities that are readily available on other websites. - Lucky 6.9 20:02, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • OK, you've left me no choice. I've posted your user name on the "requests for comment" page.  :^( Apparently, several others have left comments dating back to last February on your behavior as well. You've refused to answer and when you do, it's usually some bizarre statement and not a straight answer. You continue to post information that belongs in much larger articles...and then you post them as stubs in need of expansion! None of us are trying to be mean. Heaven knows we need good, dedicated and prolific writers but what you're doing is just wrong. PLEASE contribute in other ways. No one's chasing you off. OK? - Lucky 6.9 20:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pumpie, let's try this once more. You are creating a TON of work for others to clean up. - Lucky 6.9 03:42, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Regretfully, I'm adding my voice to Lucky's. While I still think these geographical dumps are useful, you're showing no sign of wanting to spare other people extra work. — Bill 08:45, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm a genius, I am an expert, I will fix this solution. Pumpie 01:15, 10/28/2004 (UTC)
What exactly are you going to fix? You never listened when people complained about your behavior. Plop 08:09, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • My behavior isn't bad at all to about 90% of the articles. I am trying to improve my behavior. I am intelligent, I am brilliant, I have a great IQ level and I will try to continue without any interruptions someday and actually, I have listened. Pumpie, 17:25 10/28/2004 (UTC)

[edit] Quality, not quantity

  • Let me add my two cents. Pumpie, while I understand what you're trying to do, I believe that Wikipedia is more about quality than quantity (help me guys, if I'm wrong). Look at most people's contributions. Most of the editing done is minor and simply reorganizing or cleaning up. Don't try just adding stuff because anybody can do that (it's quite amazing how much there is out there really). Take what you've added and clean it up. It's the organization that's the most important. If you're simply copying machine translations over, I suggest working in the sandbox. You should probably copy and paste text in there, and then try to convert the non-readable characters. You seem like a bright guy, as you're apt to telling us =), so maybe you can make a bot or something that will convert these characters if there's some sort of pattern to them. If you can do that, that's quite impressive and lots of people will be very happy with you. Also, telling people that you will fix it later (or get someone else to fix it later) IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER. When people go to these site NOW, it's a mess and that's all that matters at this point. If you really want to become an administrator eventually, you should focus on creating a few pages that are detailed and clean. Personally, do you really think it looks good to see that all your contributions require MASSIVE editing? Look, it's better to add a few bit of very good work than to add tons of poor work. I've probably rambled a bit too much, so I'll wait to hear back from you, or from others. Ricky81682 21:31, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] misleading links

Why are you piping commune to Communes of the Calvados département in articles like Puteaux and Courbevoie? The correct link would be Commune in France, even if the area is in the Calvados department, which those two are not. —No-One Jones (m) 02:09, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Why do you persist? Please stop linking commune to Communes of the Calvados département: it is a misleading and erroneous link. —No-One Jones (m) 01:20, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oops, I was a little nervous, I will correct them to their correct places. Pumpie, 16:25 (UTC)

Hi, Pumpie! I really appreciate the fact that you are working on a lot of articles, and especially on many communes articles. But really, you sometimes make me nervous: most of your contributions need serious cleanup, and sometimes, I am wondering if it would not be better to start an article from scratch rather than cleaning up what you have written. In any case, I think you can do a good job, but please, please, pay more attention to what you are doing. Thanks and cheers! olivier 02:16, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] More quantity versus quality

Pumpie, what in heaven's name are you doing now? You're now making taxoboxes that take up a HUGE amount of server space and the "articles" that accompany them are no more than a single sentence. You're already the talk of the RfC page. Let's try this once more, my friend: This is not your personal site. Anything you add is the property of the community and the site's owners. These are the nice people who pay for server space. As such, these nice folks expect a return on their investment. The fact you're contributing is wonderful. The fact that your contributions are only semi-formed and server-intensive is not. Please. If you're going to continue to add these geographic stubs, the least you can do is say a bit more about them. Deal? Friends? Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 21:43, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

To be fair: Surely the server space used is very much negligible....But it may be true that he is not crediting the original authors of the information that he translates to English. — David Remahl 00:24, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'll buy that. He's got to be getting this info from somewhere. True, the server space is negligible but he's really taking up a lot in comparison to what he was originally doing. - Lucky 6.9 01:26, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Incidentally

Although you do assure us that you are not using babelfish, a lot of the articles you're producing aren't in readable English. Are you a native English speaker? Do you understand German or Itialian? If not, I think you should stop moving over these stubs. Most of them aren't linked by other articles (except for postal codes) and have small populations. We can delay creating them until an article references them, I think. Cool Hand Luke 00:21, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It is linked also to the province of Brescia where there are a list of communes and Category:Towns of Lombardy which goes to Category:Italy. I am not a native English but I speak English and a little of French and Spanish. I am a genius. Pumpie - 9/10/2004, 21:17 (UTC)

Pumpie - where are you from and how old are you? It would be useful to understand where you're from and what motivates you to pump out all these articles despite all the comments raised above. jguk 21:40, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

By whoising the ip addresses he posts from when not logged in, it would appear that he's from Canada. Plop 13:44, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

It doesn't matter where I am from but I am very brilliant. Pumpie, 10:43, 10/9/2004 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what part of the world where I am from, I am a genius. Pumpie, 16:14, 10/11/2004 (UTC)

Maintenant, je comprends. Il est québécois. jguk 17:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No I am not, I am a genius. Pumpie 18:43 11/11/2004 (UTC)

Inuit or some other French-speaking area? jguk 19:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am not from these speaking-areas, where I live has many different languages, but I know French along with other languages and I am still learning those languages. Pumpie, 19:24, 11/11/2004 (UTC)

So where are you from - or more importantly, what is your first language? I'm only asking to see if I can suggest areas where your input into Wikipedia may be more appreciated than what it currently is. You certainly have a lot of enthusiasm - carefully applied you could be an asset to the project. jguk 20:06, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] adminship

Hey pumpie, per your request on irc I nominated you again for adminship at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship

[edit] Looking better!

Yo, Pumpster...the article at Herdecke is looking good! Suggestion: Add a bit more about the points of interest, history and such. Kind of dry without it. Otherwise, great! Nice work. - Lucky 6.9 01:28, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Here we go again...

You're doing it again. Just when I thought you were finally growing up and contributing something of note to this project along you come and start pasting those geographic substubs.

I don't know what to do short of motioning to have you banned as a vandal. To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement. - Lucky 6.9 00:03, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I will stop this, I promise and I will not break it. Pumpie, 00:09, 11/18/2004 (UTC)

  • OK, I hope so. Mind you, I'm not looking to have you banned outright even though I've listed you on the vandalism page since I honestly don't know where else to post this concern. I want to help and so do others. By the way, you can save yourself some time by signing your name with four tildes like this: ~~~~ . The system will automatically sign your name and date stamp. Thanks for answering. Really. You're obviously interested in the project but you need to look at other ways to contribute. Please do the right thing. - Lucky 6.9 00:15, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I was not a vandalist, I was that it became a stubber, articles that have information on its coat of arms from Brescian communes are not stubs. - Pumpie 22:43 (UTC)

I will say this in his favour, he has had the honesty to leave all this criticism of himself in place on this page. RHaworth 07:40, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

[edit] geo-stubs

I am contributing to wikipedia since october 2004, but couldn't help noticing that you do seem to create especially geo-stubs with an amazing (also alarming) frequency.... as i don't want to repeat the comments of the others, just one word: STOP!

Do the project honor by honoring ist intentions.

Lectonar 12:41, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

  1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
  2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 17:43, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Since so much of Pumpie's contributions are _translations_, presumably performed with support in the GFDL (though not always attributed, as I've noted above), I'm not sure he/she has the authority to release all his edits into the public domain or under a Creative Commons license. — David Remahl 17:48, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edits

Would you mind turning on the "mark edits as minor" flag in your prefs? I noticed that most of your edits are a few characters long, but they're not marked minor. Of course then the opposite also becomes a problem when you forget to turn it off, but c'est la vie. Maury 22:11, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I don't think you should follow Maury's advice here; forgetting to turn it off is worse than not having it on. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 02:25, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ampelokipoi (Ilia), Greece

You moved this page, and then blanked it, removing the redirect. If the redirect is incorrect, you need to list it at Redirects for deletion, not just blank the page. I put the redirect back, as I didn't know any reason for it to be wrong. (I don't know anything about the topic.) Thanks! JesseW 03:02, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC).

I forgot to put that page to redirect, I thought I already did it, Ampelokipoi is not the correct name for a village named Ampelokampos which is the CORRECT name in northern Ilia And for that, apology accepted. Pumpie, 18:45 (UTC).

Ampelokipoi which is not the correct name should be removed. Keep the Ampelokipos page. Pumpie, 18"$7 (UTC)

[edit] Ierapetra

Hi Pumpie, I noticed you do a lot of work on Greek towns and villages. This week I've created a page for Ierapetra on Crete, but as I don't live in Greece and don't master the Greek language very well, I found most of my information on websites meant for tourists (and in my memory, maybe an even more biased source...). Therefore, the wiki has become a bit biased (too much of a tourist guide...) and lacks a lot of factual information. Maybe you could have a look?... Paul 20:56, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mycenae

put the municipality info on Mikines instead, please. [[User:Dbachmann|dab (T) ]] 16:53, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Auerbach

Hi! I added "Red Auerbach" to the list of persons. Boston Celtics fans will rejoice. :^) Take care and do keep up the good work. - Lucky 6.9 01:07, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Greece dialing codes

I thought that Category:Area codes was looking very messy so I have:

  • Moved entries for 22410 and 22410 (which are not your work?) on to sensible names
  • Added or amended Category:Area codes:3xxxx on every page.

In List of dialing codes in Greece alphabetically and List of dialing codes of Greece numerically you say the TD code is 11. Please define TD code - it's all Greek to me.


Changing the subject entirely, have a look at this picture of Aghia Paraskevi which is in the chapel at Scotino, Kriti. What is the Greek name for those little pieces of tin plate (eyes and a man in this case) which hang beside the ikon? In English, I would call them votive objects or just votives.


Kalo taxidi (the only Greek I know) on your way through the wiki.

RHaworth 07:08, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

[edit] Ierapetra II

Hi Pumpie,

could you explain to me why you disambiguated the links to Psathi, Myrtos, Anatoli, Ferma and Episkopi on the article Ierapetra? Myrtos (Lasithi), Greece is a redirect to Myrtos, so I don't understand why you created the disambigution. Psathi, Anatoli, Ferma and Episkopi don't even have a page yet, so I don't see why you would want to disambiguate.

Thanks,

Hippalus 07:00, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

There are other places that have the name Episkopi, one in Eurytania, Anatoli in other parts, Ferma is used in other languages and there are a few more Psathis in Greece. Pumpie, 17:56 (UTC/PMST), Jan 17, 2005

I thought Myrtos was a disambiguation page. It is switched back to Myrtos and other places will be in the Myrtos (disambiguation) page. Pumpie, 17:578 (UTC/PMST), Jan 17, 2005

[edit] links at user pages

  • Halló Pumpie, Thanks you for the additonal information provided at stubs on ro:. I just want to let you know that some of the links on your user pages are wrong, especially the link to meta:. I want to let you know, that you are not using the prefix [[w:]] consistenly and sometimes [[wikipedia:]]. You should check the links one by one.
  • I will spend most time at ro:, please let a message at myro: talk. Thanks! Regards Gangleri | Th | T 01:24, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)

[edit] Test page/France-geo-stub

Hi Pumpie, I'm busy working through geo-stubs, sorting them into their correct subcategories, and was surprised to find your test page listed there. Firstly, is it meant to be there? And secondly, if (as it looks) you're making a standard page for French villages, then you're better using {{France-geo-stub}}, as it will put them where they can be found more easily. Grutness|hello? 02:34, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More on geo-stubs

Me again :) I'm astounded at the number of Azores stubs you've been producing lately! Good work! There's now a separate {{Portugal-geo-stub}} for use with Portuguese articles (including the Azores) which you can use. There are about 90 articles so far - many of them yours - which I'm putting that template on! Grutness|hello? 07:35, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ribeiras

I see that this place has three-quarters of a person living there - ie 31.75!!!! Peter Shearan 07:25, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Agios Ioannis Rentis

Did you mean to blank the above article? If so and it needs to be deleted could you please apply the {{delete}} tag to it so that it can be dealt with? If not you may need to revert your last edit. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 00:44, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about that, It was a mistake to remove that page, the last edit has been reverted back. Pumpie, 15:29 (UTC/PMST)

[edit] MHNARA!

Pumpie, mhnara, WTF??? dude, are you on crack or are you autistic? you keep making empty articles in the greek wikipedia and you keep adding irrelevant information in the en articles? so, proinos kafes kame to patra? so fucking what? dude, stop polluting articles with noise...

not to mention you added antreas mikroutsikos, but you forgot to add his brother, who's 10 times more famous outside of greece? wtf? jesus christ on a segway... Project2501a 10:01, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Relax, that's Pumpie's style. I am working hours and hours correcting the huge mess he did in the articles about French towns. olivier 17:10, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
The fact that it's his style doesn't mean it is acceptable. His articles of Greek towns also need hours of work to be corrected. I think that he has done more bad than good to Wikipedia so far.Jimzoun 21:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Omplos

Χαιρετε! I'm editing the Omplos article, but I'm having trouble understanding some of the English. Could you let me have the original Greek, please? many thanks. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:19, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No, I'm afraid that you'll have to take it from me — much of it, especially the second part, is impossible to understand. If I don't have some help with it, I'll have to remove some of it to the Talk page and ask for help more generally. Could you explain what you meant, perhaps in Greek? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:29, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I'm English, but I can manage OK in Greek. The parts that I can't understand include:
and aligning in the middle of the main road linking Ovrya and Paralia
The two rocky ledges and landscapes of other mountains
Your new changes help in one place, but reintroduce grammatical errors in others. It's OK, I'll do the English if you tell me what you wanted to say. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:47, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK, I think that I've got pretty well all of it; all that remains is to reorganise the material, which at the moment is somewhat desultory and difficult to gollow. (Please don't change the English, though — your last edit, though helpful in a couple of places, just reintroduced a lot of grammatical mistakes. That's not an attack; I imagine that I'd make even more mistakes if I tried to write an article in Greek.) Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Having trouble

I am having trouble with a simonP. I edit Arete (virtue) and he immediately reverts the edits. Him and his friends have deleted [Classical definition of republic] and after the many facts and the quoting of material they will not acknowledge they won't even let an external link and the talk is ongoing at Talk:Republic. This man doesn't know what he is doing. I ask that someone step in and stop this please. This man has no expertise in the classical field. He is an anonymous user. Please see also Talk:Arete (virtue).WHEELER 17:34, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Portuguese

Posted on your user page by 201.1.113.235 and 201.1.116.177 (probably pt:Usuário:Juntas):

Hey genius. If you don´t know how to write in portuguese, why do you do it? Why don´t you limit yourself to write in a langauage that you know?

Plop 15:18, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Yes it was me. thank you Plop. Juntas 00:32, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violations

If you think that an article marked as a copyvio should not have been, you should explain on the Talk page, and append a note to the entry on the Copyright Violations page. You should never simply remove the notice yourself. I've replace the notice for Skopelos. Please provide evidence for your claim that there's no violation on the Talk page.

For details of the procedure, and what you should do if you want to create a new article in place of the old copyvio one, see here: Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:01, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Lombardy

Hi, just to let you know, I made a series of changes to the infobox for towns in Lombardy (mainly, but also elsewhere). For example "Cigole", I changed the coordinates (West => East) and the region link (Germany =>Italy). I included this when reformatting the coordinates with the coor template. -- User:Docu

[edit] Greek names

Hi there. I see you edited up a Greek name of a soccer player recently (from memory, Yannis Goumas, though I may be wrong). Is this a general area of expertise from an orthographical POV, a sportological POV, or a language POV? Eitherway, if you have time, could you please look at Category:Greek footballers and see what else you could do in this area? These transliterations come in good use for those of me who can't speak or understand Greek orthography - to my own detriment.

Thank you for your time. Bobo192 20:58, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Madeira

Hi Pumpie - I think you're the person who's been stubbing lots of Madeira articles as both Portugal-geo and Africa-geo. I've taken the Africa-geo-stub off a lot of them; when I was going through Azores articles a couple of months back and started putting Africa-geo-stub on them, I was told off for it, as "the Azores are technically part of Portugal and should only be stubbed as Portugal". I suspect that the same is true with Madeira articles. Grutness|hello? 01:18, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Interesting... you respond to my suggestion of stubbing Madeira as Portugal and not Africa by stubbing it as Africa and not Portugal. Any particular reason for being contrary? Grutness|hello? 12:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:PT

Before you are banned, you might want to check your talk page at the portuguese edition of Wikipedia. -- Get It 00:24, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)'

I don't WANT TO BE BANNED, What part do I have to understand, OK? I checked at that on my talk page at the pt language Wikipedia. It is not yet shown up. Pumpie, 01:42, Mar 30 2005 (UTC)

It's simple Pumpie. Why don't you try to understand all parts, or write in your own language? Juntas 00:58, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ban

Oky doki
I talked to Juntas, his willing to help with what he can.
Keep up with the good work and try to fix the bad work or just stop with it.
PS: I can't ban you just like that, I'm not the king of WP:PT, you know ? Image:Wink.png -- Get It 01:54, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Italian Places

I've been fixing a diambiguation ISTAT -> Istituto Nazionale di Statistica : if you create any more Italy pages can you build this in. Rgds. Rich Farmbrough 13:34, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I'm not quite sure how old you are, but if it applies, have you considered adding yourself to the list of teenage Wikipedians? Please contact me when you get a chance. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 18:57, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I am not going to list in that teenage Wikipedians. Pumpie, 00:22, 5/14/2005

[edit] Heads-Up

Hi Pumpie, I want to thank you for all the work you've been doing on location articles for Greece. You've added a lot of good information, but you also tend to create some messes sometimes. I'm tinkering with some of the pages you've contributed too, like Argos and Argolis. I'm not deleting your work, but in some cases I am moving some of it to the discussion page while I tinker with table formats, infobox templates etc. I am not trying to destroy what you have done, only to improve its presentation in certain cases. I also have a few suggestions:

  • Don't cite amateur personal homepages or put them as external links except in rare cases where they have info that you can't find anywhere else. Websites don't need to be cited if the info is widely available (postal codes, list of licensed radio stations) and they shouldn't be in external links unless they are truly relevant. (If people want to find the neat travel photos from John Q. Smith's trip to Argos, for instance, they can Google "Argos Pictures" and find it.
  • I'm working on a cities in Greece infobox Template:Infobox Greece based on a similar one for Polish locations - don't use it yet, because it still needs some work. When it's done, try to use that for cities and municipalities. I think we should have a separate one for villages - they usually don't have their own websites, coats of arms etc., so it should b a smaller infobox. I'm going to discuss it with some of the Greek sysops and I'll let you know when we have something.
  • I've also created a standard {{Peripheries of Greece}} and {{Peloponnese}} templates, based on Greek models. If you need them for other prefectures, just let me know and I'll whip them up ASAP (I just swipe them from the Greek Wiki and translate them).
  • Some of the other info that you put in big tables can probably just go in a bulleted list. When it does call for a table, think about putting it in smaller font size so that the table doesn't overwhelm the prose sections.
  • If you have a machine translation that just doesn't sound right in English, contact me or one of the people listed at Category:User el. That way, we can work out any kinks before some gobbledygook gets posted on the page ;)

Keep up the good work! --Jpbrenna 19:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Good job!

I just read one of your articles, and it is great! Keep up the good work, please! Sam Spade 10:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

Guy M/LV (praise) 23:03, May 31, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Cherbourg arrondissement

Hi there... are see you added a lot of data on the various canton's on the Cherbourg arrondissement. I hope you don't mind, but I've moved it into a seperate article, so as not to overwhelm the main page on the city of Cherbourg-Octeville. It's now at Arrondissement of Cherbourg-Octeville. Some of the data seems a little out dated now though, where did you find it? Any chance it can be updated? Keep up the good work! UkPaolo 22:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Araxos

Pumpie, good work on araxos, but it has its holes. for example, what refugee camp are you talking about? there are no refugee camps next to the village or the airport. How do i know? i serve there. I am from patras. anyway, I plan to move araxos to araxos, greece or araxos, achaia. I'm asking your opinion, since you are the article's creator Project2501a 13:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure what is that camp in the northeast, now I figure it out, it is a training centre.Pumpie, 20:29, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that USED to be 124 Training Wing back in the 1970s, before it moved to Tripoli. Now, it hosts the 284 Advanced Resupply Unit and a scrap yard.

[edit] Olympiakos

Pumpie, the website info is useless, as the layout is subject to change. i'm going to remove the whole section.

Project2501a 02:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. Since you've been previously nominated I added an '*' immediately before your name in this list. If for any reason you're NOT interested, my apologies and please remove the '*' (you could entirely remove yourself from the list also, if you'd like). I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:40, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy of your information.

The industrial area is founded in the eastern part, formerly 100 m of the southern terminus of the superhighway, it is now near an interchange? where factories are founded. from Tripoli, Greece

Pumpie, um, how are you so certain of your information? you either live there, or you got some REALLY good maps and you got extremely good topography skills, OR you got access to some satelite imagery. So, which is it? if it's the third option, i want in, too ^_^ Project2501a 19:55, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I saw it on my map atlas in Greece, I visited Tripoli and I also looked at a sign reading the Industrial area near that area and a present-day interchange which was the southernmost terminus is southwest of the entrance, probably connected with a northbound (for Corinth and Athens) access. It's located east of Tripoli. I have looked at the maps and I also have good topography skills. Pumpie, 20:25, 15/4/2005 (UTC).

[edit] Avas

Hi,

I saw your disambig note on the Avas article. If you (or anyone) write the article on this Greek community, we can make that one the main article and this one can be moved to "Avas Hill", because towns, villages etc. are more significant than a city district. Do you think there'll be an article on this Greek place soon? regards, Alensha 16:44, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It will be Avas, Greece, the disambig pages will be @ Avas (disambiguation) especially subdivisions or neighborhoods to the first on some, may also redirect Avas to "Avas, Budapest, Hungary". Pumpie, 23:44, 20/6/2005 (UTC)


[edit] Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian)

I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is a poll in the talk page of the 'Macedonian Slavs' article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your contributions to the discussion and the poll are welcomed.

Poll ends at 24-6-05.

[edit] thru or through

I see from your edit on Thessaloniki reverting User:Cmdrjameson that we agree that thru is a valid spelling on Wikipedia. I just thought it might be worth keeping in touch--Dejvid 11:22, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Azores-geo-stub

Hi Pumpie - I've noticed that over half the geography stubs on the Azores are either directly or partially your work. Just thought you'd like to know that WP:WSS have just created {{Azores-geo-stub}}, so if you ever plan to make any more... Grutness...wha? 30 June 2005 12:24 (UTC)



[edit] Perioikoi on DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Perioikoi, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Please

Can you help me with my Lisa Kushell article please good afternoon Wiki brah 05:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Provinces of Greece

Hi, you contributed to some articles about provinces of Greece, for instance Province of Elis. I'm confused about the status of provinces in Greece. Are they official government entities, or just informal, traditional regions, or were they official, and have they been disbanded some time ago? Markussep 14:15, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, so they still exist then. Do you know if the list on provinces of Greece is accurate? And what other powers/duties do the provinces have, for instance, do they have councils that people can vote for, are they involved in town planning, etc. The article about the provinces should contain that kind of information I think. Markussep 18:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] de: contributions

Hello Pumpie, do you know All your base are belong to us? I had to think of this when I saw your contributions to the German Wikipedia. They are full of errors. Please think about concentrating your work on languages you know. It is very hard to correct all your edits and in the past many errors seem to be not corrected at all. --::Slomox:: >< 22:50, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalized article

Hi, Pumpie. Listen, I just deleted your "Tres Fronteras" article because of the vandalism. It looked as if someone or something hijacked your user account...but that wasn't the case. I'll try and restore it, but the system's giving me problems. If you still have your version on your computer, go ahead and paste it back on. Sorry about the extra work. Best, Lucky 6.9 23:40, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Never mind...looks like you're on top of it. Take care and have a great weekend. - Lucky 6.9 23:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

That isn't quite what I meant.  :) Some mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging idiot of a vandal took and blanked the page and replaced it with the word, "wookie." The edit summary described the title as "the sound a Wookie makes." Guess that's true if he's a Portuguese wookie. Seriously though, your work has improved about a million percent since you started and it doesn't deserve to have some coward come along and screw it up. If anyone vandalizes one of your articles ever again, you feel free to come to me. I'll be glad to handle the problem for you. Gotta run, but take care and we'll talk again soon. Keep up the fantastic work! - Lucky 6.9 23:48, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie, greetings from Bochum. -- Simplicius 23:11, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Germany Geo stubs

Hi Pumpie, I've been editing a lot of the Germany geo stubs you've created. Just thought you should know the format for dates is (for example)
[[11 January]] [[1921]] rather than [[January 1921|11 January 1921]]
which renders as
11 January 1921 rather than 11 January 1921 Regards, Rich Farmbrough 23:47, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

...of National merit for your work pertaining to Greece.

Image:Barnstar of National Merit.png

Take care, Image:Smilie.gifMolotov Image:Caranimationforvmolotov.gif (talk) e
 02:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Copyright infringements?

Pumpie, many of the articles on Greece you've been working on today seem to come from other sources on the internet. Although I don't know the details on the rule, I'm pretty sure that this is against the rules. You may want to check it out. Cpaliga 02:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

  • You're right. After looking closer, the sites take their information from Wikipedia, not the other way around. I'm sorry and in the future will look further before I say anything. I apologize sincerely if I offended you. Cpaliga

[edit] cabo verde municipalities

Pumpie, please note, when translating from portuguese wikipedia:

the municipalities you called former municipalities are, in fact, new municipalities, created (and therefore not supressed) in 2005, as you say when you write the articles... please correct it... --84.90.67.66 21:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Verde geo-stub

Pumpie, Pumpie, Pumpie. You of all people have had enough contact with stub sorting that should know by now that stub templates are only created after debate, and only when there's a genuine need for them. That need is indicated by teh number of stubs there are that can currently take a template... and new templates are only made when that number is over about 60. So why create a Cape Verde geo-stub template when there are only about a dozen Cape Verde stubs? There are loads of countries in Africa alone which haven't yet got separate stubs because they don't have enough stubs, but which all have more stubs that Cape Verde. Please do not create any new stub templates without first going through the formal procedures of proposing them for debate at WP:WSS/P. Grutness...wha? 10:52, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Attica

Hi Pumpie, I saw you added the "prefectural sects" part to the Attica article. Is that a translation of Νομαρχιακό Διαμέρισμα? I have been puzzled about the status and subdivisions of Attica. If I understand the Greek ministry of the interior correctly (my Greek is very shaky), Attica is a periphery (Περιφέρεια). It is subdivided into four prefectures (Νομαρχιακή Αυτοδιοίκηση): Athens, Piraeus, West Attica and East Attica. However, some prefectures (Athens, Piraeus, and outside Attica also Drama, Kavala, Xanthi, Evros and Rhodope) are called differently (Νομαρχιακό Διαμέρισμα), and grouped into Νομαρχιακή Αυτοδιοίκηση. If we consider all prefectures to be equal, that means that Attica is a periphery, divided into 4 prefectures. Greece then has 54 prefectures in total. Is this correct? If it is, this should be reflected in the various articles about the subdivisions of Greece. Markussep 12:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Greek National Roads

I changed all the "Greece Interstate" articles to Greek National Roads. The term Interstate is a specific term for highways built by the US Federal Government, and as such a US-specific term. The name is derived from the Latin inter - between and the word state, because Interstate highways connect the states of the USA. There are no states in Greece, so the word Interstate does not make any sense for Greek roads. No other English-speaking country uses this term, not Canada, not the UK. I find it important that Wikipedia does not give the impression of beeing dominated by the culture of the USA . Andreas 00:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:42, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template Help

I want to use template Football in Cyprus table cells but unfortunatelly it has problem. Can you help me to use it on the article Cyprus Cup?? See what i mean: |- ! colspan="3" style="background:#ccf;" | Football in Cyprus |- |- |align=center |Cyprus Football Association - National team - List of football clubs in Cyprus |- |align=center | Competitions: Cypriot First Division - Cyprus Cup - Cyprus FA Shield User:KRBN

[edit] Cities in Sao Paulo

I see you have been creating articles for cities in São Paulo i.e.. Altair, São Paulo. I wondered where exactly you got the information for these articles from? The information seems to differ from that of the Portugese Wiki - and you have added information like rank by population - including Altair, São Paulo which ranks 547... If such a list should be compiled it would be very helpful if you could relate where you have gotten the information from. Regards. Celcius 20:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

"I got it from my head"???
Anyway, you had gotten "city" confused with "municipality" and erroneously linked to the wrong list in the process. I have corrected all links now - if you are planning on creating anymore articles about municipalities you should link here from now on. Regards Celcius 03:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 12% for major edits and 92% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 02:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thessaloniki on the Article Improvement Drive

Hey Pumpie! I noticed your work on and interst in Thessaloniki and wanted to let you know that I nominated the city's article for the Article Improvement Drive. It is very close to reaching Featured Article Status and it deserves that recognition. Please feel free to vote for its candidacy at the AID! --Caponer 01:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sand Viper's Gloss

Hi, you have this article in a circular redirect. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ha!

You are SuperSmartPumpie! Rich Farmbrough 21:20 15 June 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sesklo

Hi, you once added some population statistics and other details about the modern village to the Sesklo article ([2]). I'm just trying to clean that article up a bit - needs more separation between the prehistoric and the modern stuff, and generally better sourcing. Could you provide your source for the population data? And, is the commented-out line in the table really meant to indicate that the village is now depopulated, or did you just not find the data for that year? I just wondered why the lead sentence has been saying "was a village" all the time. Thanks, Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:51, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amykles population data

Allo! I noticed in Amykles that the population data was inconsistent, probably due to a subtraction error. If I read the edit history right, you added that data. Could you come over to Talk:Amykles#Population data to discuss? --Stebulus 23:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paralia

Is the place called Paralia Chiliadou or Παραλία Σεργούλας (Sergulas) ?? Travelbird 22:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Portuguese locations

Please, the next time you edit a Portuguese parish or municipality, keep a standard. I've been cleaning the articles you created since April (yes, and I haven't finished yet). With due respect, you made the geography of Azores and Madeira a total confusion. Use the infoboxes and categorize them according to the standards (Category:Parishes of Municipality), see Santa Maria de Lamas for a parish stub example or Ovar for a municipality. And avoid confusing districts with municipalities and municipalities with parishes, if you don't know how Portugal is subdivided, please ask me. And don't treat Azores and Madeira like countries, they are not even dependencies, they are part of Portugal, like the mainland. Afonso Silva 18:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Sci Fi Channel (United States) programs

Ello there Pumpie, since you seem to be the creator of tge Template:Programs, you might want to wish to comment on the future of List of Sci Fi Channel (United States) programs since the Deletionists definately seem to be on the more victorious side.. Personally, I feel the demise of this would compromise the Sci Fi Channel (United States) article itself and would add a third blank in that very template but that's my viewpoint and would rather like to see what your say is. DrWho42 06:56, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antiparalleogram

I notice you created the antiparallelogram article recently. Unfortunately, there are many grammatical mistakes in this article, which make it almost impossible to understand. And I suspect there may be some factual errors as well - for example, are you sure that an antiparallelogram has five sides, not four ? Could you perhaps tidy up this article ? If you are translating from a non-English source, perhaps you can find someone to help you improve the translation. Gandalf61 11:14, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek infoboxes

Hi, I noticed you've been trying to enter decimal as well as radial (degrees+minutes) coordinates into Greek town infoboxes. That way, you mess up the link to the map sources (kvaleberg.com etc.), so please don't. I guess most people will understand degrees and minutes, and if they don't, the coordinates are no use to them anyway. BTW did you know there's a naming convention coming up about how to convert Greek alphabet to Latin, WP:GREEK? Might interest you. Markussep 21:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Language

All your edits concerning Greek-related articles are in very bad shape in terms of language. Numerous grammatical errors, nonsence, etc. No offense, but it most cases it seems like the language a 5 year old would use. Please be very careful in the future, and please do not use automated translation programs, as they are prone to creating wrongful or inconsistent text like that. Jimzoun 21:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Language again

In response to your reply in my user page, let me add the following. Most, if not all, of your text is in a very bad shape in terms of language. Since you don't use automated translation programs and translate/write "from your head" as you say it means it's 100% your fault. Among other things, you don't seem to know how to use a fullstop (.) since most of your text is sentence after sentence separated by a comma (,). Therefore, because other wikipedians spend too much of their time to correct just your mistakes, please refrain from writing anything in English until you learn to speak and write English properly. You can always write articles in your native language. Jimzoun 18:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information about Greek cities

I wanted to inform you as well that after reviewing many of your articles about Greek cities and roads, they contain numerous out of date information, not to mention other useless trivial information, which are inconsistent to the article (something that other users mentioned above as well). Please refrain from editing and/or creating further articles about Greece if you intend to do so with the same -wrongful- sources. As a Greek with first-hand knowledge on the refered roads and cities I had to completely erase some of the articles and replace them with the correct information. Hopefully others will do the same, since I could not correct every one. Jimzoun 18:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek cities and roads

Since you said (in my user page) that you will now create better/correct articles, indeed you should not refrain from doing it. My comments were about previous articles. As for language, probably other users can correct it like you said, althought it would be nice if it was good from the start... but anyway, that's one reason for which we can all edit articles. Jimzoun 17:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek national road 8a

Thanks for editing the specified article. Your details in dating road upgrades are amazing! Could you help at similar articles (about greek national network)? --Giorgos Kollias 16:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting things

You have a lot of interesting ideas going on, with a lot of people talking to you. You should organize your user page, and perhaps archive your talk page to clear some room, so you can link to Wikipedia better. I notice a URL on your main page doesn't lead anywhere. Others are described as URLs but not made into them. Would you like me to rewrite your user page for you? Tyciol 18:04, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English

Pumpie, people have been telling you that your English is horrible for at least three years. Can you please stop writing? Your articles make Wikipedia worse, and they waste everyone's time. Adam Bishop 17:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smile!!

Pumpie, I gotta tell ya: You've turned into one ot the best editors on this site. Keep up the outstanding work.

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Keep Cape Verdeing wikipedia up mate. Nice going. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 21:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monte Aprazível and citing sources

Hi, Welcome to WikiPedia. I was just reading the article you had created Monte Aprazível and I found it quite interesting. However, it didn't have any cited sources. I would regret to see it nominated for deletion. Would you be able to cite the source of your information? Please see wp:v and wp:cite. Thanks. Alan.ca 09:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Empty redirects

Hi Pumpie, you created the two articles Belem, Cape Verde and Vairao, Portugal but the redirects you added are empty. Can you correct this ? Otherwise, it they were made in error, I'll ask for their deletion. Cheers, Schutz 17:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amfipoli, Greece

Hi. I made added some info and some external links on a page about a town called Amfipoli in Greece. Could You check it out and maybe it edit please? Thank you! Neptunekh 02:39, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Junqueirópolis on DYK

Updated DYK query On 22 January 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Junqueirópolis, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

The article was recently expanded. — ERcheck (talk) 05:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Douai, France

Your redirect from Douai, France doesn't go anywhere, I think you might have forgotten to put anything between the brackets, though you have probably fixed that by the time I've finished writing this... oh well. Cheers, SGGH 00:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] E n g l i s h

Dear Pumpie,

Your English is horrible. Just a small example: You translated Yiannis Poulakas as writer. He was a painter...

--142.77.225.75 14:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New infobox for Greek towns

Hi Pumpie, could you use the new infobox template {{Infobox Greek Dimos}} instead of the grey infobox you used e.g. on Kallithea Elassonos? I saw you created more articles with titles like Platanos (Achaia), Greece. The "Greece" part is not necessary here IMO, just Platanos, Achaea will do. When you use the name of a prefecture for disambiguation, please use the spellings of the articles themselves (see Cat:Prefectures of Greece). When you add a link to a disambiguation page, please check whether it exists (in the Platanos case, the disamb was at Platanos, not Platanos (disambiguation)). Best regards, Markussep 18:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you have made a series of new disambiguation pages with red links to articles, like Zoodochos Pigi (Evros), Greece on Zoodochos Pigi. As I said above, Zoodochos Pigi, Evros would have been enough. And you still don't always use the same spelling for prefectures as the article titles, for instance Fthiotida instead of Phthiotis on Pournari. I think it's best to keep one standard for disambiguating Greek places, with only a comma and the (short) prefecture name, or the municipality name if there are more places with the same name in one prefecture. If you have a better suggestion, let me know. And another suggestion: read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). For instance piping is not recommended. Markussep 13:14, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Τονυ

Καλημέρα. Θα σε παρακαλούσα τα άρθρα μου ,και όχι μόνο αυτά ,που μεταφέρης απο την Ελληνική βικιπαίδεια εδώ στην Αγγλική ,Να βάζης ότι προέρχοντε απο την Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια όπως κάνουμε κι εμείς όταν μεταφέρουμε άρθρο απο άλλη γλώσσα, Επίσης αν υπάρχη φωτό μου (στο Ελληνικό) να με ενημερώνεις να την μεταφέρω και στο Αγγλικό άρθρο .--tony esopitalk 15:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


Kanis oti kanis, alla pr;osexe l;igo otan eidi iparxi kapoio protipo i arthro Template:AFCA A Division --tony esopitalk 18:52, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Δεν καταλαβαίνω το μηνυμά σου --tony esopitalk 20:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Write in English, please, on the English Wikipedia. I have no idea what you wrote - Adrian Pingstone 22:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Mesochori

An editor has nominated Mesochori, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mesochori and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 18:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguating French towns

The naming convention for French towns, if disambiguation is necessary, is Town, Department, see Wikipedia:France-related topics notice board#City names. And please no piping, like you did on Mirambeau. Markussep 11:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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