Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Netherlands

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One comment, would you mind removing the word proud from the userbox, that smells a bit too much after nationalist sentiment, I will only put the box on my userpage without. Thanks Arnoutf 14:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing the old municipality templates

In the near future, I want to convert the infoboxes of the Dutch municipalities with the general {{Infobox city}}. This has a number of advantages: uniformity with cities/towns outside of the Netherlands, less maintenance, and we can profit from the well developed general template.

I am at this moment writing a bot that can do the conversion automatically, preserving all information currently in the infoboxes. For practice, I've already converted Eindhoven (compare with e.g. Amsterdam (municipality), which has the old infobox). At the same time, the bot will update the statistics in the box with the latest numbers from the CBS.

Does anyone have any helpful feedback before I start? Like the idea, or not? -- Eugène van der Pijll 19:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Great idea! I have no experience with bots, but this sounds like a botjob. Arnoutf 21:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

The bot is ready, and it has already converted two articles (Ommen and Bladel). I'll wait a few days before starting the mass conversion. Eugène van der Pijll 23:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)