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Ragusa

I think we may have both been editing the same aricle at the same time, perhaps it would be best if all the information for province and city were in the same place, as perhaps Ragusa, Sicily, with a redirect from Ragusa, Italy. Ragus on its own could be a disambiguation page. There is insufficient information for Ragusa city to be anything other than a stub, so I think it is better with the province. Regards Giano 22:06, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I don't agree. With some cleaning up (there's only architectural information about the city right now) I think it's better to have separate pages for city and province. I'm making pages for all the Italian provinces right now. There is already an ambiguation page for Ragusa (it's also the old name of Dubrovnik in Croatia). Regards, Markussep 22:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK Good luck! I have heard of Dubrovnik, its one of the reasons so many people assume I speak fluent Serbo-Croat! Regards Giano 22:23, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Luxembourg stubs

Hi Markussep - I notice you've been starting several articles about places in Luxembourg (good!). Just thought you should know that they now get Template:Euro-geo-stub, rather than just a plain Template:geo-stub. Loads of countries now have their own geo-stubs, and most of those that don't have continental geo-stub templates. There's a full list at the top of Category:Geography stubs (don't worry - no-one would be expected to learn the lot, but knowing the one or two related to countries you work on is a good idea!). Anyway, keep up the good work with the articles, and if you can, please use the more precise stub messages! Cheers, Grutness|^hello? 02:54, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Brabant

I've tweaked your edit to make the sequences of Brabant's division clearer. Please have a look that it's still perfectly accurate. Only one link for each nation is usual. --Wetman 22:09, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean with your last sentence. About your edits: they're not completely accurate. The split-off of present North Brabant became official at the Peace of Westphalia (1648). The rest (now in Belgium) kept the name Duchy of Brabant until the French occupation in 1795. Then it was split into Deux-Nèthes (which became Antwerp province around 1815) and Dyle (which became Brabant province around 1815). Actually I meant the little list North Brabant/Flemish Brabant/Walloon Brabant as a kind of disambiguation. I think it's clearer when I move it to the end as a "See also" block. I'll rewrite it a bit, see if you like it better then. Markussep 13:33, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Forêts

Dear Markussep, I saw that you contributed a lot to the article Forêts. As we in the lb-wiki also started to work on that one, some questions suddenly arose, as we found that the cantons listed in the English article differ from those in the French article (actually there are listed the chef-lieux, but anyway) and both differ again from what we found in the Arrêté Joubert of September 11, 1795. May I ask you which source you used for the cantons listed in your article? --Otets 08:06, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

My source for all the former départements I did (including Forêts) was the Almanach Impérial of 1812. You can find that on http://gallica.bnf.fr under "Recherche", mots du titre "almanach imperial". In the 1812 almanach, Forêts is on page 404. The canton seats are the "chef-lieux des justices de paix". Before 1805 the almanachs were called "Almanach national de France". I think the number of cantons varied considerably, probably the ones in the French article are from an earlier date. Beware of spelling mistakes, misprints, translations of place names etc.! I checked the years 1803 and 1807, they give the same capitals as 1812. 1801 (page 261) gives the same list as in the French article (except Chenogne/Sibret), but it says "ci-devant cantons". Some administration reform around 1801? Markussep 12:18, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you a lot. I did not think about the Gallica. It seems indeed that there were many administration reforms, with cantons renamed, chef-lieux transferred etc. We will dig that, but I foresee that it needs some time, given the complexity of the matter. I will keep you posted with respect to our final results. --Otets 15:00, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Alps

Hi! Are you currently working on a cleanup of the structure of the various ranges of the Alps? The reason why I am asking is that it seems to me that the your recent edit IMHO has made the page less clear than it was before, especially with respect to the Eastern Alps, where there already are pages on the Northern Limestone, Central and Southern Limestone ranges. The incomplete list of subdivisions in the Eastern Alps that is there now (with useless pages such as The Alps of Bavaria, the Vorarlberg, and Salzburg) is only misleading. Of course, the whole structure of the Alps pages (except for those three Eastern Alps subpages which I translated from the German Wikipedia) is still strongly based on the 1911 Britannica needs severe cleanup. Martg76 16:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

You're right that the Alps aren't perfect right now. The 1911 structure ignores the difference between limestone and central alps, so that's obviously something to get rid of. The 1911-based subpages are little more than lists of peaks and passes (with 1911 road conditions), I'm going to start with the Western Alps to fix that. If you have suggestions, let me know. Though I really like the German maps, I'm afraid the structure of German wikipedia is too fragmented. Do you think there's a way to group some of the minor ranges? Until then, I think I'll remove the Eastern Alps sub-subdivision from Alps. What I also miss is clear categories "Peaks of the Alps" and "Ranges of the Alps" (Mountains is too ambiguous I think). Markussep 16:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

I think it looks much better now. I agree that de:Alpen looks a bit confusing, but it has a lot of geological information, which we should try to get maybe for Geology of the Alps (which is a mess). However, personally I don't feel really competent to translate that.

Category:Ranges of the Alps and Category:Peaks of the Alps are very good ideas. If I have time I might start work on that during the next couple of days. I would suggest that we make appropriate subcategories such as Category:Ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps etc. Martg76 12:06, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

I just had a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains. Apparently, there are no categories for mountain ranges and mountain peaks for systems like the Alps (e.g. Rockies, Andes, Himalaya) yet, it's all divided by country. Of course that doesn't mean we can't start something like that, it obviously has advantages. The ambiguity of "mountain" is not so bad as I thought, there are just a few miscategorized articles, we should check that. So, I propose Category:Mountain ranges of the Alps and Category:Mountains of the Alps, as extra categories besides the country categories. I'm not sure whether we need subcategories, but every article should contain info about in which range it is. About geology, I can't judge the accuracy of that. BTW, I think Tödi Range should be moved to Glarus Alps. Markussep 12:22, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Subnational entities

• NL: I extended counties of the Netherlands. 17 Provinces says nothing about a Zutphen County, maybe you know more.
• LV: Google seems to show that once there were okrugs in Latvia. I know it is not necessary but I would prefer/like one translation for all raions of former USSR. I know this is not easy to achieve. Good that you remove genitives in Latvia, I supported Talsi.
• HU: I think you once disliked to move the counties from "X (county)" to "X County". still the case?

best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

• NL:Zutphen has been in personal union with Guelders since the 1130s according to a Dutch site about the County of Zutphen. Later it became one of the 4 quarters of Guelders. The name Graafschap (county) is still used for the region east of Zutphen, and for a football club De Graafschap from this region. There is some info on the county of Zeeland at Zeeland.
• LV: No idea.
• HU: I'd use county only as a disambiguation, when necessary. About the form, and splitting some of the articles, let's discuss that with people who worked on them, like User:Alensha, User:Joy, User:Juro. Markussep 10:34, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

• NL: your words put in County of Zutphen.
• X County only as disambiguation, same for me. Would be same rule as for "X River". With Joy I already discuss HR: X county -> X County. I will see what comes out there. At the end I do not think that people who work on specific articles should be the only ones that decide how to name them. There knowledge is biased. Like for Ukraine, where some people insist on oblast' instead of Province. Fortunatly finally someone made them at least uppercase and without ' Tobias Conradi (Talk) 14:29, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you like to have a look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (provinces). Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:33, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm a bit worried about the tone of discussion there. Did you just move all of them without discussing it with people who wrote the articles first? I think your remarks about bias were pretty offensive, you might like to tone that down in the future, if you want support for your (usually constructive) ideas. And you're not going to move all the historical Duchies and Counties of X to X Duchy and X County, are you? That would only make a little bit of sense if people would ever browse through wikipedia alphabetically. About Italian provinces, I started most of them, but I don't really care whether they're Province of X or X Province. Markussep 09:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Hi, I came here to tell you a vote here [1] has elected for the titles of the Italian provinces to be reverted to their original "Province of X"; but I see you already knew. I didn't contact you before as I was keen not to be seen canvassing votes. As you say, you created many of them, but I note you have no strong opinion either way on their naming so assume you won't mind their reversion. Regards Giano | talk 16:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bulgarian language

Thanks for the contribution to the standardising of the transliteration of the Bulgarian articles here!! VMORO 23:21, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Carpathians

Since you seem to be interested in the division of the Carpathians, maybe the following links could help you: the modern geomorphological division of Slovakia at sk:Geomorfologické členenie Slovenska (and the old orographical one at sk:Orografické členenie Slovenska). Juro 2 July 2005 20:32 (UTC)

There are several ways how to divide mountain ranges. I am not an expert, but since I have written e.g. the German Carpathians article I have become an expert on this. The only "scientific" division of mountains is - as the name suggests - the geomorphological one, therefore it is used in e.g. in the Slovak article (it is based the newest version of the 90s) and thought at universities as the only modern system. The same system is used in Czechia, Austria, and Germany (at least). Then there is the orographical, physiogeographical etc. division, which is - again as the name suggests - is more "practical" (descriptive) and "geographical". Now, I did not check it, but as far as I remember, what you say about the differences seems to be exactly the old (orographical) system, which was abandoned in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, because - as I have found in an encyclopaedia - it was not "scientific" enough. (This does not mean that one cannot divide the Carpathians in more than two vertical units Carpathians, but if one goes into details, the system cannot be used systematically.) Also, the Slovaks know their own mountains (Western Carpathians) better than anyone else, I assume... If you insist, I think I can find the modern system for the whole Carpathians in a certain book (which I do not have here now). Juro 3 July 2005 22:09 (UTC)

P.S: (1)I have checked the Polish page quickly and it uses definitively the old system (even the names of Slovak and Czech mountains are not correct anymore), so I would not use the system, for territories outside Poland at least. (2) As for Poloniny, this is the Slovak equivalent of German de:Waldkarpaten. At the time Carpathian Ruthenia was part of Czechoslovakia the whole Eastern Carpathians were alternatively called Poloniny. The problem is that the eastern border of "anything" in Ukraine is disputed, so that I cannot tell you whether Hoverla is still "there". Another problem is that the Ukrainians call another (smaller) part of the Carpathians "Poloniny". (3) ad: Hungarian circles. I'am afraid I do not know which "circles" you mean. Could you give a link or so? Juro 3 July 2005 22:31 (UTC)

Defunct Napoleonic-era départements outside of present-day France

I'm not sure if you've edited non-English Wikipedias; but the Dutch, German, and Italian ones sorely lack articles on these former départements now located in Germany, Benelux, Italy, and Switzerland(just a couple dedicated articles for Mont-Tonnerre and Ourthe in German Wikipedia plus Forêts in Luxembourgish Wikipedia, none at all so far in Dutch and Italian).Just a heads-up suggestion...Ranma9617 4 July 2005 05:43 (UTC)

asking for support

Hello, since you are interested in goegraphy I thought hat you might support our letter to Centre for Cartography, Vilnius University. We are asking to release their maps found at www.balticdata.info under GFDL licence so they could be used in articles about Lithuania. So far we got 14 people to "sign" it. The draft in very very rough English is available at user:Renata3/letter. If you decide to support it, I'll need just your first and last names together with your user name. You can leave it on my talk page or send it via email: just attact @gmail.com to my user name. Renata3 22:31, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Luxemburg

Thanks for providing the location maps of the munic. of Luxemburg on Commons. If you want a up to date database of pop, surface per muncip message me. Today I added the 118 munic. to Wiki-nl (see e.g. nl:Bech). nl:gebruiker:Michiel1972

List of country names in various languages under attack !!!

Dear Markussep,

The List of country names in various languages, List of European regions with alternative names, List of European cities with alternative names, List of European rivers with alternative names, and others, have come under attack by a certain Mikka, who, having just stumbled into all these lists, having found them of little use to himself, and having repeatedly ridiculed them and their users, has then promptly filed a petition to delete the lists in question.

Please cast your vote to keep these valuable, informative, and indeed fascinating lists at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of country names in various languages.

Thanks! Pasquale 16:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

RfA for Halibutt

Hello Markussep! In case you are unaware, Halibutt is going through the administrator vote process. I believe that any input you could provide would be valued. Olessi 08:08, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

1469

Dude. Look at the Lower Left hand corner of the painting. It sez 1469 there.--Ewok Slayer 22:18, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

translation of names

arab: Ash Sharqiyah, long discussion at Talk:Ash Sharqiyah Province. I until know favoured keeping subnational entities worldwide in the local language. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 03:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

A request

Thank you so much for your work on the DE imp. infobox. I was wondering, since you seem to understand infoboxes quite well (I'm terrible at them) could you rewrite the infobox at Wąbrzeźno for me? I'm currently translating the article from German, but I have no idea what to do about the infobox, which again only uses metric units. If so, I would be so endebtted I would have to give some kind of reward, like cookies :) RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 03:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I think you'd better ask the users who created the infobox. Probably User:Halibutt. Markussep 06:43, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Koper Capodistria

I see you have renamed the article. I've already reverted you uncorrect action. The city is official bilingual and I don't accept your impositon. Don't revert again. If you don't agree with the double name, contact a moderator. He will tell you the Wikpedia rules about NPOV. Greetings.--Giovanni Giove 19:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, in this case, "Capodistria" should be the correct name. Because it's the historically name and the more known internatinally . Believe to me: it is better to have respect for the other opinions and feelings. Keep the name you find in the sign you see outside the city: that name is Koper-Capodistria.--Giovanni Giove 20:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

If you live in Holland, you don't live in a bilingual country. Your "correction" is not correct, because you don't give to the Italian name the same value of the Slovenian one. In Slovenia people think the opposite, so they officially named the city, Koper/Capodistria. That is a question of respect. Italy did the some with its small slovenian towns, not to say about South Tyrol.Furhtermore, you can not tell which is the "correct" English name, Koper or Capodistria?. Finally, you are goingvery close to touch wounds and you don't imagine how deep they are.--Giovanni Giove 21:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

NB[2]

Probably Netherlands have blingual region, as Frisland. Anyway: who cares? 1)I repeat: respect the official bilingual name. 2) A name it's not only a name. It's to recognize your identity. To recognize you are a part of a land, that is your homeland. You said right: today italians are not so much and they were more before the war: about the 99%! The nationalism has pushed them off! A battle of opposite nationalism (nobody is innocent!). Do you know how this battle is started? Yes: neglecting the names. I know the results: my family has paid for them: we have only our greaves there. Respect double names, they are a sign of respect, to show that is possible to live togheter sharing the same land. Learn from the past if you don't want to live it again--Giovanni Giove 08:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Indeed: there are TWO official names. And as you said wikipedia must give information. So: let it be. Two names are the right information, for the reasons I've tried to tell you. If you think you are right, and I'm wrong, I beg you to contact a moderator. But don't try to decide on your own. End of discussion.--Giovanni Giove 12:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Târgu Mureş

I've moved the page for you, so feel free to make the necessary changes now. Cheers, Khoikhoi 02:23, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem! By the way, do you remember me when I was Hottentot? :-) Khoikhoi 05:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Shhhhhh. ;-) Khoikhoi 22:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Feiten over Brussel

Hoi Markussep, ik heb de feiten die je over Brussel had toegevoegd vervangen door de cijfers uit de eerder door mij aangehaalde studie van de VUB. De verhouding 85% Frans-15% Nederlands die op de Franse Wikipedia vermeld wordt en door een anonieme gebruiker op de Duitse Wikipedia is toegevoegd, is volgens mij enkel gebaseerd op de verkiezingsuitslagen van Franstalige en Nederlandstalige partijen in Brussel. De lijst met voornamen vond ik eerlijk gezegd nogal ver gezocht: heel wat jongensnamen zijn islamitisch en veel namen kunnen zowel Nederlands als Frans zijn. Neem de lijst met meisjesnamen: Clara, Emma, Laura, Sara, Elisa e.a. uit de top-20 kun je toch moeilijk Frans noemen, die komen ook in Nederland veel voor.

Overigens, hoe lang loopt de peiling nu eigenlijk nog? En heb je al een idee wat er daarna moet gebeuren? Groeten, Diemietrie 14:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Brussels-Capital Region

Hi Markussep, I am independently doing the same work as you just started, and so far got results very similar to yours, making me feel good about process reproducibility. My search is a bit less restrictive, allowing names in addresses (as long as they are not street names, or appearing together with Brussel or Bruxelles) and taking somewhat larger samples. The only difference so far is a much closer call for Berchem-Ste-Agathe/St-Agatha-Berchem. I have now complete results for the first 9 municipalities. Would you mind if I added my results as a second line for each municipality in your table? LVan 15:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Missing topics of GG

Thanks for your notes in the missing topics list - Skysmith 13:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 05:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

Another double name

You may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Arvandrud/Shatt al-Arab; it began as a move request to Shatt al-Arab/Arvandrud. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Blofeld

Hey hows it going these days. Remember me? I used to be User:James Janderson. I have seen your name on various pages a few days in a row so I though I'd see how you are!!!! Isee you have been working on Belgium. Great - no longer on Greece!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 12:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Great work. No I have hardly touched geo articles since about October - I have worked immense;y on Films by country. E.g see List of Argentine films and List of French films etc and have been creating hundreds of film articles my most recent Joymati and Uttara (film). However I am the creator of WikiProject Tibet and WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers!!! I did complete setting up every village in SLovakia and was 1/3 the way through Hungary when I saw how vast a missing part of wikipedia film was and it kind of changed my wiki direction. When the lists and films becaome more complete i will then go back to concnetrating on geo articles which is where my true interest lies - yesterday I added some images to some Sardinian comunes.

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 12:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

If you are interested

In case you are interested, there is a proposal to move an article about a 97% ethnic Hungarian settlement in Romania to its native Hungarian name. The town is called Székelyudvarhely by locals and Odorheiu Secuiesc by Romanians. For more, see the talk page of the article. Please remember that this is not a vote; comments must include reasons to carry weight. Information about Hungarians in Romania can be found at Székely, Hungarian Autonomous Province, Hungarian minority in Romania. --KIDB 06:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

You were reverted as per WP:NCGN --84.95.241.145 16:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

May 2007

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Sorry!!

Sorry 'bout that!! Your article has been reverted. Mhzfutbol5 22:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Pleas use English

Bitte schreiben Sie hier keine Artikel auf Deutsch: dies hier ist die englische Wikipedia. Artikel auf Deutsch gehören in die deutsche Wikipedia. Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

To have a page translated, list it at Wikipedia:Translation  Andreas  ^(T) 20:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Location maps

Would you consider dual-licensing your contributions to {{Location map}} and related templates under the cc-by 2.5 license so i could use them on the english wikinews? Happy editing. Bawolff 00:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Note I'm refering to the templates, not the images. Bawolff 21:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Adamello-Presanella

I'm part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Short article clean-up. The article Adamello-Presanella does not have any references, and I couldn't find any through Google search. Since you created the article, would you happen to know which sources you used? Thanks, Psychless 00:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

On wikipedia mirrors.

Hey there. I've added the four mirrors you found to the list.

Incidentally, feel free to User:CorenSearchBot/exclude add entries to that list as well if you find more. Please make certain you only include urls that are only wikipedia mirrors (so as to not accidentally allow other contents just because it cohabits with a mirror). — Coren ^(talk) 15:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Most prolific article writers

A new list of the most prolific article writers is out and you're in the top 10. See description here Raul654 16:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel

If you work around this page please leave the finish as it was. Second time now "contents" was repositioned! No objections if you place links but keep the form please!

I will consider a attempt to place "contents" back to it's genuine place as ecxuse! :-) User talk:Atyx

Fine! :-) ...dont worry be further good as you are!

Was die Fotos betrifft: Die sind in Ordnung und nehmen voll Bezug auf den Text auch wenn Du das nicht sehen kannst da Du nicht ortskundig bist - oder doch?

Der link auf hypermart ist in Ordnung, schließlich habe ich die Fotos gestellt und mir auch Arbeit gemacht zum Vorteil der Stadt oder? Atyx (talk) 20:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC) Atyx (talk) 20:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Slow but shure I get the story! :-) You are a wikiholic and you prefixed the code inputs in all the villages/Cities concerning Lower Autria, right?

This is great, made work for me really easy! Instead of working and experiencing all the wiki rules to edit a page I only had to fill in your prefixed form!

Thanks for this great help. Atyx (talk) 22:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC) Atyx (talk) 22:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

2007-12-16 / Hi Markus!

I have in mind to create a page about LEDNICE / CZ which is really a wonderfull place, a place I´m very often over there and I have plenty pics. This page should just be a suggestion to visit Lednice on a weekend and tell people some storys about Lednice. But I must log in and if I try that wiki always reply: The user atyx is unkwon! Do you know why please?

Atyx (talk) 14:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

2007-12-18

HI! Great the new finish of Wolkersdorf! Looks very professionell :-)Are you still alive? I get a look in your talk page and it seems more and more you are a wikiholic! :-) Please try - if its not too much asked - to place the content box on its genuine place! I give up, wikipedia`s internal structure drives me crazy... Atyx (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Atyx (talk • contribs) 20:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC) 

Unapproved bot.

You appear to be using your content as a bot, in violation of WP:BOT. Please, stop using your main account as a bot until it is approved.

If your bot is approved, please make sure it is flagged as a bot and listed on Wikipedia:Bots/Status. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 05:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't quite get the message you put on my talk page. I can assure you that I'm not a bot, and that I don't use automation tools for my edits (except AWB for minor things, replacements etc.). Markussep ^Talk 10:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

That's difficult for me to believe, considering your contributions list. First, you've only made edits on the very narrow subjects of European athletes and European geography, and your edits often follow certain patterns:

i.e.

You're generating full articles of content at an astounding speed and you aren't involved in that much actual discussion. So far, you've made roughly 1,500 comments on talkpages, while making roughly 42,000. Even if you're doing this manually, please stop. By flooding Wikipedia with so much content without discussion, you don't give users a chance to collaborate to dispute whether certain European athletes or European geography is notable.

And if you're not using an automation tool, then where are you copying this material from? ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 10:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Most of the folks seem to think I'm just paranoid and I'm willing to let it go, but I will say, though: What you're doing is bad for Wikipedia. Bots which generate geographical directories are bad enough. Even if you're doing it manually, it's just as bad. You've added tons of stuff that it would take years to pick through, just to read it all, to see if it's notable or encyclopedic. That's not really in the spirit of "collaboration," and I don't understand why you'd do this. But you can do whatever you want, I guess, and I'll just have to let it go. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 10:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Please don't stop your excellent work. Perhaps Zenwhat hasn't seen that you actually do return to your stubs and add infoboxes and other useful information, and that it doesn't take long to figure out that real villages are notable and encyclopedic... Happy editing, Kusma (talk) 10:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Actually all my edits he listed above (the pinkish collapsed thing) are additions of infoboxes to articles. I guess there's no way of pleasing him, so I won't try to. Markussep ^Talk 11:46, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

• He does a excellent work. He returns to his sites and he takes care on his sites. I think he is a wikiholic not a robot. Unvelieveable to read how much he is doing! The only point I dislike: Somebody is doing the job (on geographical sites for example) and the public link placed in the infobox is a other one. So third parties are the winners, my own work may is a gift for a competitor! Whats the problem if he is able to Copy and Paste in his articles? Everybody can do this on his own PC too and will do it approximately in the same time! --Atyx (talk) 09:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

comment: this remark of Atyx is about Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel, and what external link should be in its infobox. Markussep ^Talk 09:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes Mr. wikiholic! :-) --Atyx (talk) 09:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

WOLKERSDORF IM WEINVIERTEL

From now on I denie wikipedia to use my text and my pictures for this article. Sorry but if wikipedia takes my time and my work without a minor effect for me this is not my thing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atyx (talk • contribs) 23:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Voluntary work

• • • If you think doing voluntary work without reward equals being cheated, that's your problem, not wikipedia's. Markussep Talk 00:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC) ***

Meanwhile, just for your information, the german Parliament is discussing voluntary work. People, still 40 years old, working as volunteers since the the left from university, did never a get salary as normal worker.

And did you know that 16 Million germans are working for less than € 5,-- a hour? A woman, working as hairdresser was shown on SAT TV, is earning € 3,25 per hour!

So what is the problem if I request my url as main url in the infobox on a wikipaedia site I created with your help? Wid did the job together, I offer you € 1,625 for your voluntary work! :-))

--Atyx (talk) 09:45, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Overestimate my work? Sure not *g*

To make my City map takes much time. I´m proud I did it - but I dont think I'm the greatest, just feeling well I did it - nobody else did it since 2002 and guess why. I know too much about Internet and all the new technics to overestimate something in this field.

Translate the german article, no problem for me, go ahead but close my article forever in this case even if it is gest of courtesy.

I'm also loosing interest in discussing this issue but wikipedia should take this seriously. No problem to place a link on my HP to the public HP - not as a gest of courtesy just to make the decision for wiki easier. --Atyx (talk) 16:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan

You;ve been there several times? How unusual! Looks a beautiful country . Well I do work on countries all over the world. I;ve managed to stub the districts today but frightfully little is available in english.I suggested to a user to add some places; we had about ten articles and now we have about 520 towns and villages!! There is so much missing it is quite insane. Here are some of the districts I;ve managed to start to date:

v • d • e  Districts (Raions) of Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek (also a raion) Batken Province Batken · Kadamjay · Leilek Chuy Province Alamudun · Chuy · Jaiyl · Kemin · Moskovsky · Panfilov · Sokuluk · Ysyk-Ata · City of Tokmok Issyk Kul Province Ak-Suu · Jeti-Oguz · Tong · Tup · Issyk Kul Jalal-Abad Province Aksy · Ala-Buka · Bazar-Korgon  · Chatkal · Nooken · Suzak · Toguz-Toro · Toktogul Naryn Province Ak-Talaa · At-Bashi · Jumgal · Kochkor · Tyran'-Shan' Osh Province Alay · Aravan · Chong-Alay · Kara-Kulja  · Kara-Suu · Nookat · Uzgen Talas Province Bakay-Ata · Kara-Buura  · Manas · Talas

v • d • e  Districts of Eritrea by region Capital: Asmara Anseba Adi Tekelezan  · Asmat · Elabared · Geleb · Hagaz · Halhal · Habero · Keren · Kerkebet · Sela Central (Maekel) Berikh · Ghala Nefhi · North Eastern · Serejaka · South Eastern · South Western Gash-Barka Akurdet · Barentu · Dghe · Forto · Gogne · Haykota · Logo Anseba · Mensura · Mogolo · Molki · Omhajer · Shambuko · Tesseney  · Upper Gash Northern Red Sea Afabet · Dahlak · Ghelalo · Foro · Ghinda · Karura · Massawa · Nakfa · She'eb Southern (Debub) Adi Keyh · Adi Quala · Areza · Debarwa · Dekemhare · Kudo Be'ur · Mai-Mne · Mendefera · Segeneiti · Senafe Southern Red Sea Are'eta · Central Denkalya · Southern Denkalya

v • d • e  Departments of Gabon by province Capital: Libreville Estuaire Komo · Komo-Mondah · Noya Haut-Ogooué Djoue · Djououri-Aguilli · Lekoni-Lekori · Lekoko · Lemboumbi-Leyou · Mpassa · Plateaux · Sebe-Brikolo Moyen-Ogooué Abanga-Bigne · Ogooue et des Lacs Ngounié Boumi-Louetsi · Dola · Douya-Onoy · Louetsi-Wano · Ndolou · Ogoulou · Tsamba-Magotsi Nyanga Basse-Banio · Douigni · Haute-Banio · Mougoutsi Ogooué-Ivindo Ivindo · Lope · Mvoung · Zadie Ogooué-Lolo Lolo-Bouenguidi · Lombo-Bouenguidi · Mouloundou Ogooué-Maritime Bendje · Etimboue · Ndougou Woleu-Ntem Haut-Komo · Haut-Ntem · Ntem · Okano · Woleu

v • d • e  Districts of Mozambique by province Capital: Maputo Cabo Delgado Ancuabe · Balama · Chiúre · Ibo · Macomia · Mecúfi · Meluco · Mocímboa da Praia · Montepuez · Mueda · Muidumbe · Namuno · Nangade · Palma · Pemba-Metuge · Quissanga Gaza Bilene Macia · Chibuto · Chicualacuala · Chigubo · Chókwè · Guijá · Mabalane · Manjacaze · Massagena · Massingir · Xai-Xai Inhambane Funhalouro · Govuro · Homoine · Inharrime · Inhassoro · Jangamo · Mabote · Massinga · Morrumbene · Panda · Vilanculos · Zavala Manica Báruè · Gondola · Guro · Machaze · Macossa · Manica · Mossurize · Sussundenga · Tambara Maputo Boane · Magude · Manhiça · Marracuene · Matutuíne · Moamba · Namaacha Nampula Angoche · Eráti · Lalaua · Malema · Meconta · Mecubúri · Memba · Mogincual · Mogovolas · Moma · Monapo · Mossuril · Muecate · Murrupula · Nacala-a-Velha · Nacarôa · Nampula · Ribáuè Niassa Cuamba · Lago · Lichinga · Majune · Mandimba · Marrupa · Maúa · Mavagoago · Mecanhelas · Mecula · Metarica · Muembe · N'gauma · Nipepe District · Sanga District Sofala Buzi · Caia · Chemba · Cheringoma · Chibabava · Dondo · Gorongosa · Marromeu · Machanga · Maringué · Muanza · Nhamatanda Tete Angónia · Cahora-Bassa · Changara · Chifunde · Chiuta · Macanga · Magoé · Marávia · Moatize · Mutarara · Tsangano · Zumbo Zambezia Alto Molocue · Chinde · Gilé · Gurué · Ile · Inhassunge · Lugela · Maganja da Costa · Milange · Mocuba · Mopeia · Morrumbala · Namacurra · Namarroi · Nicoadala · Pebane

v • d • e  Districts of the Republic of the Congo by region Bouenza Boko-Songho  · Loudima · Madingou · Mfouati · Mouyondzi · Nkayi Cuvette Boundji · Loukela · Makoua · Mossaka · Okoyo · Owando Cuvette-Ouest Ewo · Kelle · Mbomo Kouilou Kakamoeka · Madingo-Kayes  · Mvouti · Pointe-Noire Lékoumou Bambama · Komono · Sibiti · Zanaga Likouala Dongou · Epena · Impfondo Niari Divenie · Kibangou · Kimongo · Louvakou · Mayoko · Mossendjo Plateaux Abala · Djambala · Gamboma · Lekana Pool Boko · Kindamba · Kinkala · Mayama · Mindouli · Ngabe Sangha Ouésso · Sembé · Souanke

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Given the large sizes of some of these places potentially ther emust be an enormous amount that could be writen about them which looks pathetic at present. If only we could access everything in english!!! Imagine what you'd find at Bishkek library for Kyrgyz stuff ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I can tell it is an amazing country thats why I;ve done a lot of work on it and tried to obtain some more photographs of it . Some the images of the mountains, lakes and the culture -you know the yurts and general culture blows me away. Geographically it is very similar looking to Tibet and mongolia and as you know I am obsessed with Tibet. A magical part of the world. I've managed to make an agreement with Joshua Kucera at flickr for wikipedia to use all of his images on central asia. This agreement isn't finalised yet because the ticketing needs sorting but it looks cool doesn't it! I'd love to visit that part of the world someday. There s also something amazing about wikipedia gradually revealing the ex-soviet republics to the world as there is something mysterious about them which few people know anything about at all. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are countries I will be aiming to do some work on. Do you have any photos to upload ? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

See Besh barmak . Appetising ? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC) I;m pretty sure Nookat is the same place as Iski-Naukat. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Ah I thought it might be the other way around and that Naukat might be the more modern one. If you could move Naukat District then this would be good cheers, yes I can imagine having a sheep head by it might not exactly invite you to eat it! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)