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[edit] Burkina Faso

HI there. I noticed you created the articles on the Burkinabe province such as Bam (province). Well I am looking to create the subdivisions of these and have already created Bourzanga but I would like to know why the departments have been renamed as communes on these articles. According to french wikipedia they are departements and various sources show the Burkinabe government uses e.g Bourzanga Department rather than commune. Now I have done some work on French communes which are a subdivision of actual departments. Could you help clear up what the naming convention is, as I will be looking to create some templates and start these articles in the coming weeks. Personally I would rather name them departments as some of them cover quite large areas .Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

This was lifted from the french wiki.

I'll also be looking to make provincial templates which include the communes and all the villages within them ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry if you got the wrong impression of me. I;ve had a particularly bad day on here -I didn't mean to appear to be rude. Thnkgs can get pretty tight at times on here. I had just hoped you would have known more about it seems as you did a cool job setting up the provinces. As you didn't respond I just assumed you didn't acknowledge my efforts to continue where you left off. Best regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 22:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I feel really bad about it too I gave you the totally wrong impression of me. I had just had to spent hours trying to stop something I had worked on going down the afd which was sort of disrupting and I was feeling pretty bad. Sometimes you can slip in something you wouldn't normally intend to and I shouldn't have said that you weren't concerend with it as I know you also do a lot of great work.

Anyway that national tmeplate is good, but I was thinking about also drawing up some Burkinabe provincial template sin which we could covers the departments/communes and also perhaps some of the towns and villages. I also am rather busy at present but I'll see about developing this in the coming weeks -its pretty daunting as there are 45 provinces!!. I think if it is OK I'll name them as departments -as this is the usage on the french wiki of which burkina is french speaking I believe.

Now cheer up too buddy! All the best from the Bald One ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 12:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thats what I thought, I think I may get rid of the above national template once they are started as they will be in an A-Z in the category. The provincial templates will be for more useful but will take some effort to create. Usually for African countries (e.g Republic of the Congo, Eritrea) I would create a single template with them all but due to the huge number of them for Burkina splitting is best I think. Best regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 13:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


Its quite scary how much is missing but I was thinking along the lines of provincial templates like Template:Balé. What do you think? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 14:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC) I'll create them like Bagassi Department I think. I'm not sure its 2006 census though ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Wow thats sounds like severe weather -its funny that another American user was telling me what a beautiful day it was where he is!! Its pretty murky here too but nothing as electric as where you are!!! Yes I wasn't too certain about the map, after all the maps are there on the department pages but I'll see how it develops. I;ll try to get them all started in newxt week or two, today I;ve been busy with Slovene composers Lucijan Marija Škerjanc‎ , spanish ceramics companies Porcelanosa and Ecuador telcommunications companies Etapatelecom. Pretty diverse huh? I think the best thing we can do for African geography is lay out the smaller areas of countries in templates -this gives us a structure to begin building content on -as it is African geography and topics are very poorly developed because of obvious reasons. Hopefully this will change over time, but it is likely to remain very uneven well for our life times anyway.

Take care in that storm, and don't forget to cling onto the clock for dear life like The Doc ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maine stats

I'd recommend leaving Maine out of the sentences you're adding. The articles have already established the town or city's state in the lead, and it looks a tad untidy to have the designation broken by the comma. - Dudesleeper / Talk 12:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image source problem with Image:MZ-Marracuene.png

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[edit] Berlin, New Hampshire micropolitan area

Several places in the total boonies in Vermont have been placed into the "Berlin micropolitan area." However, this chart does not show any connection to Vermont from Berlin which I would expect since cross-state roads are terrible in Vermont and New Hampshire (mountains). Also crosses the Connecticut River. The only slight connection that Vermont might have with New Hampshire could be in the Littleton area, though that is really too far away. Also Hanover-Lebanon and White River Junction. Those are at least close enough to help each other out. But Island Pond and Essex county are moose country! Two lane roads, lucky if they are paved!  :) Student7 (talk) 14:19, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Butler Elementary School (Arlington, Texas)

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[edit] CfD nomination of Category:College Station-Bryan metropolitan area

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[edit] New Project

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[edit] Springfield metro area

...does NOT go anywhere near Northfield. I'd say it pretty much cuts off at South Hadley at most, and would be more inclined to say Holyoke. Northfield, Montegue (Turners Falls), Northampton, and Hadley are definitely outside of that zone. They're physically and mentally away from Springfield. - Denimadept (talk) 13:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I just checked what that "statistical" unit is, and I just disagree with it. There's such a thing as outside a metro area, darn it. - Denimadept (talk) 16:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bad link

Just wanted to let you know: on Virden, Illinois, you placed a bad link for the subcounty population estimates: the link ends with "177", but is actually "17". Easy to fix, but I wanted to let you know before you place a similar URL on other pages.

[edit] Abbreviation

I'd appreciate your comments on a discussion I've initiated at Talk:United_States_micropolitan_area#Abbreviation. --Russ (talk) 12:53, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Departments

You'll be pleased to know we now have a full set of Category:Departments of Burkina Faso. Now the articles on towns are being developed. Hopefully more info will become avilabale to expand beyond stubs! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 14:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I;ve just bought a 450 page book on Burkina too so hopefully we can expanded some of the articles and topics! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi wow you did a lot of preliminary work on Africa a few years back whhich is great. I noticed you started Inhambane which I just managed to expand ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 11:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Turks and Caicos politicians

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[edit] Fillmroe County

Thanks for pointing it out: it's quite an implausible redirect, so I deleted it. Nyttend (talk) 23:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)