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[edit] Water supply and sanitation in Nicaragua

Hi, Thanks for tha awesome article! I learned a great deal. Do you have any information on the projects the German government has been working on (Matagalpa & Managua) that you can add?. Kind regards, --Agrofe 14:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC) Glad you liked it. I can put you on touch with them or ask for more info. Can you please post your e-mail address here?--Mschiffler 20:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply and sanitation navbox

Hi, I've nominated your article Water supply and sanitation in Venezuela for main page display.
Just a hint, {{South America topic|Water supply and sanitation in}} provides an useful navbox for this series of articles. I've added it to the Venezuela article as an example. Also, {{reflist|2}} provides a well laid-out references list. Thanks for your contributions, Sandstein 13:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Glad you liked the article. I am not familiar with the process to vote about articles to be displayed on the main page, but I am proud to be nominated. Please note that there are other articles on water and sanitation in Latin America that are of similar quality in my view, such as the one ones on Nicaragua and Ecuador. The navbox provides a useful tool - I just forgot to include it. Actually I would like to modify the navbox to take out the dependent territories and to include countries from Central America and the Caribbean, but I don't know how to do it. Any hints?--Mschiffler 01:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
(I've reformatted your reply for easier reading) To change the navbox you would have to change the template {{South America topic}}, but as this would affect many articles, you'd need to get consensus for it first. It may be easier to make your own template, as advised above, or to also include the standard navbox template that has the countries you need. You can find these templates at Category:Continental navigation templates. Sandstein 05:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply and sanitation category rename

I proposed renaming the category you created, Category:Water supply and sanitation country notes to Category:Water supply and sanitation by country, to be in line with other Category:Categories by country. Please add comments to the discussion here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rigadoun (talk • contribs) 18:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Water supply and sanitation in Venezuela

Updated DYK query On 11 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water supply and sanitation in Venezuela, 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.

BTW, you should probably link this article from some other Venezuela-related articles if you can. --howcheng {chat} 23:22, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indonesian article

Thanks for that - it had been missing from the project -we at the project had talked about it - and zap you put it in -thanks for that - SatuSuro 23:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)Glad you liked it!--Mschiffler 15:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 27 May 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water supply and sanitation in Indonesia, 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.

--Smee 01:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply and sanitation in the People's Republic of China

Hi Mschiffler. You are off to such a great start on the article Water supply and sanitation in the People's Republic of China that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page would help bring publicity to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 14:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC) Glad you liked the article! I do not feel very comfortable nominating articles I wrote myself for anything. But if you'd like to nominate the article after the waiting period is over, that would be great.--Mschiffler 23:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 30 June 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water supply and sanitation in the People's Republic of China, 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.

--Carabinieri 00:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 29 September 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Electricity sector in Argentina, 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.

--Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia

Hello, I just discovered that not only did you write this article, but unsuccessfully asked for a peer review. Had I seen it then, I would have commented that it needs a lead section, & that the section describing the local government might be replaced with a link to the relevant article in Category:Government of Ethiopia. As a general comment, since you specialize in describing the conditions of this part of the public infrastructure in many countries, in the future you may see if these countries have a related WikiProject and touch base with them for useful feedback. Telling people what you're doing usually leads to more visibility. -- llywrch 16:52, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I usually include new articles in the category of the respective country, which usually draws some attention. I have not much experience with WikiProjects, but if that helps in getting the word around I can check for them. Concerning the local government section, I always look at the local government section of the country articles or a local government country article if it exists, which are often very good, and try to summarize them in the infrastructure article plus make a link to them. Lead sections are a must. Not sure why this one does not have one, but it will be added.--Mschiffler 20:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Table with Colombia articles by importance and quality

Hi Mschiffler, Nope the table itself was based on another wikiproject. If you need help establishing it I might be able to help you. most wikiprojects run under the same system Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments and a bot does the rest... see here Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects

I don't know how things work in the Spanish wiki.. my contributions there are limited to some "interwiki links".. I think they don't allow this type of projects (I mean the whole concept of organization)... I haven't seen the first one yet.. --F3rn4nd0 (Roger - Out) 02:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Start-Class water and sanitation articles

Really the talk pages are supposed to go in these categories, not the articles themselves. There should be a project template that goes on the talk pages of all the articles, and it identifies both the quality and the importance of the article. -- Prove It (talk) 15:08, 24 November 2007 (UTC) Good point. Got to change it now.--Mschiffler (talk) 15:24, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watsan

There is an ugly little stub at watsan that you might care to clean up. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 04:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC) I wish I know how to do it. Maybe someone who knows a lot about templates can help?--Mschiffler (talk) 19:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC) Done.--Mschiffler (talk) 23:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Society Barnstar
For your almost single-handed work in an area of national administration that had been so far mostly ignored. Circeus (talk) 07:34, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
well you simply deserves it. i highly appreciate your efforts. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 15:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


Well, it's for your work in creating well-develloped and sourced articles in that "Water supply and sanitation in foo" series. Despite what some say, massive areas of Wikipedia still have not been worked on much (there are still large holes in biographies of scientists and scholars, for example, and "by country" topic outside certain countries are woefully lacking). Circeus (talk) 17:07, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hi Mschiffler, you can now start replacing the categories you placed before on the talk of each article with this tag {{WikiProject Water supply and sanitation|class=|importance=}} have fun..--Zer0~Gravity (Roger - Out) 03:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

All right.. I replaced those old cats for new ones.. as soon as you place the template above.. those cats will automatically be placed in the article too. I also changed the chart on the Wikiproject, the bot will update it once in a while. You should just watch this page to see the bots updates: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Water supply and sanitation articles by quality statistics. --Zer0~Gravity (Roger - Out) 04:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 22 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Simplified sewerage, 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.

Cheers, Daniel 11:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 27 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water supply and sanitation in Portugal, 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.

--PFHLai (talk) 00:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammad Shahrur

Hi, on second reading, I think that the references in this article may indeed establish notability (especially the NYT ones). However, the article needs to be wikified and some better references than blog-like stuiff would help. But then, there may not be much else, Syria perhaps not being the best source.... --Crusio (talk) 10:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Little context in Category:Infrastructure in Mexico

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[edit] Clientelism

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[edit] Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For taking the time to actually ask me about an edit rather than blindly revert or edit over top of it. Pairadox (talk) 16:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate it THIIIS much! Pairadox (talk) 16:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Mschiffler! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply in Colombia

thanks for letting me know. I won't be doing any GA reviewing for a while now due to other commitments, so unless it hangs around for a long time again, it's likely to be someone else doing it. I can see improvements have been made, but the first thing a reviewer will notice is that there still seem to be a fair number of items without refs, so while you are waiting, it's a good idea to make sure that there is nothing where you can be challenged wrt to refs. Jimfbleak (talk) 06:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply and sanitation in Rwanda

Well written article. Great work. Cheers, Basketball110 what famous people say 04:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Water supply and sanitation in Rwanda DYK

Updated DYK query On 26 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water supply and sanitation in Rwanda, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 13:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA Nomination:Water supply and sanitation in Colombia

Hi, I have volunteered to review Water supply and sanitation in Colombia. I will be working on reviewing this article over the next several days. Good Luck in your efforts, and I hope to have some feedback for you in the next few days.Davemeistermoab (talk) 04:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your letter to the Economist

I saw it in this week's issue. As an admin who has reviewed some of your DYK hooks, I appreciate that someone in your position is not only writing this type of article but is willing to speak up for Wikipedia (I thought the article had some valid points, as in the three-plus years since I began editing policy changes (some necessary, some not so much) have made Wikipedia a little bit more daunting to the novice editor than it was, but I don't think the inclusionism-deletionism thing is one of them). Daniel Case (talk) 13:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Glad you liked it and thanks for letting me know!--Mschiffler (talk) 09:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Idem : merci beaucoup pour votre engagement et la promotion faite dans The Economist. MaCRoEco (talk) 20:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

C'est un grand plaisir de pouvoir contribuer à l'aventure extraordinaire de Wikipedia. Je n'ai pas contribué grand chose en français, sauf l'article sur l'eau potable et l'assainissement en Haiti que je vous invite à visiter.--Mschiffler (talk) 05:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Water privatization in Brazil

I might still make a few changes based on your original comments tommorrow, but you can go ahead and comment on responses/changes thus far and propose any other issues you have with the article if you wish. Savidan 05:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I've been so slow in completing the list; I've been on the road. Please go ahead and make any edits you want to the article in the interim: I'm only really planning on completing the table and shortening the history sectoin. Good job on populating the "Water privatization by country" category, by the way. Savidan 15:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Your edits look good for the most part. One thing strikes me about the article at this point: the list of concession agreements should be moved to a separate article perhaps (once I finish it...) and just replaced with a short summary (e.g. "There have been X privatization contracts, Y of which were concessions, Z of which were...") and maybe a breakdown of whether they were granted at the city, state, or municipal level. Do you agree? Savidan 15:46, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 4/28 DYK

Updated DYK query On 28 April 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water privatization in Chile, 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.

--Bedford 05:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4

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[edit] Water sanitation

Keep up the great work. These are highly important articles and as you can see most of them are missing for Africa which is dreadfully underdeveloped. Anything you can do on Africa is warmly appreciated. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nile Basin Initiative

Updated DYK query On 22 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nile Basin Initiative, 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.

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[edit] Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping scandal

Hi,

I've just moved Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping scandal to Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping controversy because I think this is a more WP:NPOV title.

--  Chzz  ►  04:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Mini:NRW

Hi, do you know [1]  ? Gruß --Simone (talk) 05:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)