User talk:Aelfthrytha
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Aelfthrytha is on the move again: traveling until August 2008, may not reply so swiftly but will be checking occasionally.
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[edit] re: Romania
Ah, don't worry, it's not you at all, and nothing so routine as a categorization issue. (What it was, was some unscrupulous Romanian editor was threatening and blackmailing me via e-mail.) I appreciate the concern, but you're fine. K. Lásztocskatalk 01:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately I have not the slightest idea what would be best to do about that stub-sorting and categorization. That's really not my forte...sorry! K. Lásztocskatalk 05:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Ookay. This is simply a gut reaction and should be taken with a big pinch of salt (I could probably only name two or three cities in the whole of Romania, so I'm hardly an expert). It seems that Romania's lack of distinction between villages and communes is similar to the one here in New Zealand between townships and settlements. If it is like that (basically just two names for virttually the same thing), then the best thin to do might be to rename all of the "by county" categories to "Communes and villages in X County" and merge any that have been split into a separate village or commune category into it. BTW, it seems that one of the county categories may need a speedy rename anyway - for some reason the Ilfov subcat has a small "c" in county (all the others have a capital "C"). Grutness...wha? 05:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Saudi Templates
Actully this Stubs recognizer help us in Assesment of the articles , the Template:Saudi inlcudes the following code which direct the Talk Page of the article to the right category according to the Class Rate . If they are found twice to the category then maybe someone Manually added the Category because the code seems ok .
{{#switch:{{{class}}}
|FA=[[Category:FA-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|A=[[Category:A-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|GA=[[Category:GA-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|B=[[Category:B-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Start
|start=[[Category:Start-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Stub
|stub=[[Category:Stub-Class Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|List = [[Category:List-Class Saudi Arabia pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Template = [[Category:Template-Class Saudi Arabia pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Cat|Category = [[Category:Category-Class Saudi Arabia pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Dab|Disambig = [[Category:Disambig-Class Saudi Arabia pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|NA = [[Category:Non-article Saudi Arabia pages|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|#default=[[Category:Unassessed Saudi Arabia articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}
. A M M A R 13:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
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- You welcome A M M A R 09:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Casa Montessori
Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Casa Montessori, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 02:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Mediation help
I can't think of any mediators who speak Russia, however three administrators come to mind:
Might be worth asking one of them if they can help. WjBscribe 19:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry to butt in, but try: ru:Википедия:Администраторы
- That should be a list of administrators on the right. Any of the ones with en-3 or en-4 would be a good place to start. Hope that helps! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:48, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Well, that list on the right has each administrator and some of them have "en-3" or "en-2", which look like Babel ratings. Try leaving a message on one of their talk pages asking about mediators and/or translators - theoretically they'll be able to read it if you pick an en-3 or en-4 =D -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment/Categories for WikiProject Central Asia
I am quite worried about screwing up the banner if I try to fix this myself, so I was wondering if you can help. On the WikiProject Central Asia banner on talk pages, the quality ratings (A,B, stub, etc.) don't link to their WPCentralAsia ratings pages, but the general rating pages (for example, clicking on the "NA" on NA articles won't take you to Category:Non-article Central Asia pages, but to Category:NA-Class articles). I have no idea how to fix this on the template. Could you give it a go?
Also, I'm confused about the Category rating vs. the NA rating. See Category talk:Kyrgyzstani football clubs and Category talk:Elections in Kazakhstan for examples. Should tags for categories have the former or the latter? The same can be asked for disambig pages and images. The template page says NA is for all of these kinds of articles, yet now separate categories already exist for each of them (John Carter created them - see the subpages of Category:Central Asia articles by quality). I don't believe those classes are included in the code for the template, however. Overall, I know it's not a major deal, but having standard one way or another would be helpful for organizational purposes. Thanks! Otebig (talk) 12:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Invite
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As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~ |
Jccort (talk) 02:49, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] translation request
Can you type out the Arabic text on the top of this image? I have a graphics editor who will fix these if I can get him the text. Image:--1999sudangg save for top text.jpg I just need the top text on this, we already have the bottom. Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for trying, I do appreciate it. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] living in the 'stan
Yes, I lived there for two years, what can I help with? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Not unless they've moved the country from the Tien Shan to lowlying swampland. They do have this weird biting nightbug sometimes, but no malarial mosquitoes. That's like the embassy missive one August "don't go out after 4:30, a woman got beaten for her fur coat..." Wearing a fur coat in August is pretentious and likely to get one beaten. Bring a can of Off, if the crawlies are out, that's about it. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Stubsorting
Hi, when you are stubsorting could you mark the edits as minor please, you are filling my watchlist too much. If you mark them as minor I can filter your stubsort edits out, Cheers EP 17:21, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Categorizing Failures
In your attempts to "clean up" the categories in the language articles I have made you have made a serious error. You have removed the category labels of higher nodes so that there is no reference anymore. You have removed Category:Afro-Asiatic from Somali and left only Category:Cushitic, for example, but then under Cushitic you have REMOVED AFRO-ASIATIC!!!! That means that a subbranch of a family is left stranded without being included in the Category of its next higher node. Be more careful with your "cleaning" or you will remove the value of your "filing system" approach (which, in my humble opinion, masks more than it reveals). Fortunately, someone is cleaning up your "clean up". I didn't notice this at first, but now I will have to go through and rework all your "clean ups". (Taivo (talk) 03:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
- Examples of overkill in the "cleanup": in Cushitic, Semitic, Egyptian language, Chadic, Omotic and Berber languages you removed the next higher node in the family tree--Afro-Asiatic; in Algonquian, you removed the next higher node--Algic; in East Chadic, West Chadic, and Biu-Mandara you removed the next higher node--Chadic; in East Semitic, South Semitic, and Central Semitic you removed the next higher node--Semitic; in North Omotic and South Omotic you removed the next higher node--Omotic; in East Cushitic and South Cushitic you removed the next higher node--Cushitic; in Northwest Semitic you removed the next higher node--Central Semitic. I haven't checked in other places yet. (Taivo (talk) 05:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
- The lower levels aren't affected. It's when you reach the level where the article is a member of BOTH its own category and the next higher category. You cannot just reduce all category lists down to one--sometimes an article must belong to two categories in a hierarchy. (Taivo (talk) 08:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
Hi, My concerns with your edits are the same as those of the editor above. Your edits remove all reference to the next highest branch on the language family tree. For example, on the Semitic language page, that means Afro-Asiatic. Ditto the Berber language page. I tried to put things back the way they were, so that Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, etc. are all categorized again under Afro-Asiatic like they should be. However, I didn't finish the job. Hopefully someone will have already done it, or I'll try and complete it later when I have more time. Causteau (talk) 08:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I have checked several of the places where individual languages were subordinate to a categorized node. Most are OK. The problem is that you were using a chain saw to cut every cat down to the lowest one without knowing what you were doing. Since individual languages didn't have their own cat (in most cases), the last cat was the immediately superior node, so they were "protected". Just goes to show how much damage can be done by the nonspecialist going to work to "fix" Wikipedia articles based on some automatic rule. (Taivo (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
To answer your question, I think the above principle should be applied to both the language family pages and to the individual language articles. For instance, the Egyptian Arabic language page ought to be filed under Afro-Asiatic languages->Semitic languages->Central Semitic languages->Arabic languages since that is where it fits in phylogenetically. Luckily, just about all the language pages on Wiki I've seen were already properly categorized by earlier editors, so all we have to do is revert the changes made. Causteau (talk) 00:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Greece geo-stubs
Hi Aelfthrytha (I still have to stop and check the spelling of that!) - you wrote:
- I had some questions. First - how to structure the stub templates for these complex names? Second - what the heck is with the "worms" in this discussion? Third - is there any reason you know they haven't been created that they shouldn't be created (is there some political or other issue except from it just not being gotten to)?
Template names, I'd go with WestMacedonia-geo-stub, Ionian-geo-stub, WestGreece-, EastMacedoniaThrace-, but you're right, there are other combinations that would work just as well. The "worms", are the potential can of worms (i.e., problems) with stub types using the word Macedonia - does the Republic of Macedonia also have a region called West Macedonia? If so, we'd need to use something like WestMacedoniaGR-geo-stub (assuming GR is the right code for Greece...). The major problem, though, is that Greece seems to use both Regions and Peripheries, which seem similar to the ceremonial and administrative counties in England. We seem to be using the Peripheries for this split, but I don't think that's ever been formally discussed or decided. Grutness...wha? 00:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
