User talk:T L Miles

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This user really should be working on stuff in "real life", and thus is scaling back his watchlist considerably. He's also tired of dealing with incesant vandals, bullies, and those with more opinions than social skills who make up a large precentage of Wikipedians. Therefore he may blow this pop stand at any moment, blinkingly re-entering "real life", if not for good, then for awhile.

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Contents 1 I wanna remember to work on this: 2 Re: MV Joola 3 Re: Talk page deleted: revert please 4 Thanks in return 5 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 6 Niger departments/regions 7 cataloging the world 8 A proposed name change 9 Elizabeth Halverson Accusations 10 Bot 11 Popular and Social League of the Great Sahara Tribes

[edit] I wanna remember to work on this:

Remittances And these: http://www.siguiri-info.com/sekoutoure26032006.htm http://www.defense.gov.ml/newsdetails.php?NID=27 http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/public-participation/malis-peace-process.php

T L Miles (talk) 21:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: MV Joola

Hi, I did some updating to the article page - added ship infobox with additional information about the ship. Also, I moved it up from Low importance to Mid importance on the Project Shipwreck scale. If you have any additional information about the ships history or design, please let me know. I haven't been able to get alot of information via a web search.Shinerunner (talk) 15:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Talk page deleted: revert please

In case you missed Carl's post on my talk page, User:Comraderedoctober is clearly indefinitely blocked (see here). I guess someone just forgot to tag the user page. Once again proving that we're all human. : - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks in return

Greetings, Tommy, and thanks for the kind words re my passing edits in Wolof Empire. Yeah, I'm not a busy wikipedian at present, even in Western Oz but am never too shy to lend a hand (or interfere) in interesting stuff that seems to need it when I get there. Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 12:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Niger departments/regions

Oops sorry to tread on your toes. Wondering why you are moving to regions when I thought departments was official? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

What I'd recommend is creating some department templates for Niger like I have done for Burkina Faso, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates. This way the districts and towns and villages can be added to the navigation templates and the re dlinks filled out by area. Eventually I aim to cover Africa like this for every country ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

We were out of date huh? Well good on you for spotting this. Yes see Template:Balé. I;d like to see countrie slike Niger develop like this by districts and really cover the places in detail. I'm half way through adding the Burkina communes, but if you like and I draw up the bones for Niger templates later like I have done to Burkina and begin development ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:50, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'll create some templates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Niger/Department templates and we can begin covering the communes in detail. Sound good? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great. First stage will be to move e.g Agadez Department to "Agadez Region" etc and change the parameters in the town articles so they are structually uptodate. I've just created Template:Agadez Region. What I'd like to see is not only the departments started and their capital towns in seperate articles but I'd like such templates filled out with their communes and towns and villages so we have a nice beefy template like the Bale one of Burkina in which areas of the country can begin development ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

OK I've created a new template below and recategorized the "departments" as"regions". Now the "arondissements" will become departments and these should be started. I'll get to it as soon as I can. The new template avoids confusion I think but you'll have to correct the regional articles and say divide dinto department not arondissemeents

v • d • e  Regions and Departments of Niger Capital: Niamey in Niamey Capital District Agadez Region  • Arlit Department  • Bilma Department  • Tchirozerine Department Diffa Region  • Diffa Department  • Maine-soroa Department  • N'guigmi Department Dosso Region  • Boboye Department  • Dogondoutchi Department  • Dosso Department  • Gaya Department  • Loga Department Maradi Region  • Aguie Department  • Dakoro Department  • Groumdji Department  • Madarounfa Department  • Mayahi Department  • Tessaoua Department Tahoua Region  • Bkonni Department  • Bouza Department  • Illela Department  • Keita Department  • Madoua Department  • Tahoua Department  • Tchin-Tabaraden Department Tillabéri Region  • Filingue Department  • Kollo Department  • Ouallam Department  • Say Department  • Tera Department  • Tillabéri Department Zinder Region  • Goure Department  • Magaria Department  • Matameye Department  • Mirriah Department  • Tanout Department

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

There we go I've started them all!! Now we need to add the communes like I've done for Arlit Department ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] cataloging the world

Whatever. There are 87,000+ people who live there according to the government of Burkina Faso. If you'd like to substantially challenge its notability, go right ahead, and then you can go back to writing about something important like Max Headroom (TV series).

—User:T_L_Miles on Talk:Bilanga Department

First, there is no need to take it personal... or make fun of me. (for the record, I have yet to touch the Max Headroom article) Not all our edits can be world changing. (you forgot to mock my edits to the Star Trek:First Contact article) Anyway, the reason I brought up the issue is that I just see a trend where there are efforts to catalog every perceivable thing on the planer without asking if we have enough to say about it. What is the value of 301 commune pages that simply state that the entity exists? There are probably a million administrative units on the planet. Each page on Wikipedia is another page that needs to be maintained, and another page that could be vandalized. There is just no encyclopedic value in just creating articles that have no content.

Just as we don't create a page for every song in existence, or every book, or every street, or every mountain, or every river, until there are actually sources we can use to write an article. Maybe I should just ignore it... unlike the articles that get created about people who are not in the public eye (and should not have to suffer the invasion), or the articles promoting obscure companies, or the articles about lists of things one person thought were related... articles cataloging political divisions are mostly harmless.

I have nothing against the 87,000+ people who live in the region. But the article is not about those people... it is about some set of lines a government has chosen to draw... maybe in a few years they will redistrict. Unless there is something meaningful to say about the administrative district besides that the government says it exists, why bother?

Anyway, you probably don't care, and arguing over this one instance of this trend is pointless... I will try to figure out some central place where I can voice my concern. And in the future, there is no need to mean about it just because we don't agree. --Marcinjeske (talk) 08:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A proposed name change

I propose that 2007-2008 world food price crisis drop the "2007-2008". My reasons are in the discussion. I am told that the person who started an article should be consulted before any name change. Vincecate (talk) 23:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elizabeth Halverson Accusations

The fact is, sourced or not, the way the material was written was CLEARLY POV, and showed a clear bias, was not objective. As such the inclusion was improper. Proxy User (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't know why I left this rude message. But I am looking to find someone willing to lock the Elizabeth Halverson page from anon edits. I've tried to eliminate the clear bias from some of the article, but ThreeOneFive bot logged in and using an IP seem to think that it's important to have all sorts of trash/dirt/innuendo as well. I think my last edit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Halverson&oldid=213789446 is perfectly adequate within the scope of a Wikipedia bio, and that this version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Halverson&oldid=213786635 is clearly gratuitous, unnecessary, and just someone’s vendetta. It’s tabloid trash not fitting for Wikipedia. I might ad, it also opens Wikipedia to the kind of liability we have seen with other notable people who have been dragged through the mud in the pages of Wikipedia. Proxy User (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

Hi. glad you like the proposal. I will need as much support as possible when we get around to developing all the countries in Africa. Such a bot would allow me to concnetrate on writing articles rather than trying to take a nibble of country manually. Howz the work going on Niger BTW? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:15, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi I thought you were going to do some work sorting out the departments and region in exisitng articles. Many of the cities in niger needing sorting and they still link arrondisements and departments I just had to half sort out Maine-Soroa but even now the infobox still links wrongly. Please could you aim to sort out these articles and ensure the old confusing diviosn names are updated. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Popular and Social League of the Great Sahara Tribes

inco —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.108.46 (talk) 13:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)