On1 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Myopia in animals, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that rhinoceroses are nearsighted but have superior senses of hearing and smell? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Myopia in animals. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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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On1 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article High cheekbones, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that male features of high cheekbones and a strong jaw and chin are a sign of a high level of testosterone, and also an attractive physical trait? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/High cheekbones. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Good morning. Nomed it and used your QPQ. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:05, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, great to see you back. I wish you drop by and say hello. smarojit (buzz me) 17:26, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Keep up the good work on Bollywood!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:47, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Joe!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld, I'm trying to follow your lessons (recent and past). Could you look over this article to make sure I haven't done anything gross, especially the Fair Use picture of Eugene Turenne Gregorie. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
This source. You should format the title, publisher. author, date and access date info.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Remove empty fields in the citation plates, take up unnecessary room. Try to format the dates consistently, I write them as 1 December 2012 as I think it looks neater. Like LA Times, Find a Grave needs publisher split from the title and the exact title given. Lead needs significant expansion to summarize the article.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:56, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar you sent me recently; it was interesting working on those but they do vary in quality. Even if no citation was added I have at least found them on a one-inch, 1:50: 000 OS map or (when a Commons image was available) OS Get-a-map. --Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 09:49, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed that all railway station names in India be suffixed only with ‘railway station’ and all pages named otherwise be suitably altered. Kindly give your views on this subject in Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. Cheers. - Chandan Guha (talk) 14:01, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
On3 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maison Novelli, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 2000, the holding company of chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's restaurant Maison Novelli ran up a debt of £200,000 and went into voluntary liquidation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maison Novelli. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:02, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking at finalizing the review process. Everything seems fine except "buzzintown", which needs to be replaced. —Vensatry (Ping me) 17:51, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, Dr. Blofeld! (I was appropriately amused when I saw your name) I noticed you had some edits on the Soyuzivka page and was wondering if you could find some time to improve the page? I dropped some links on the Talk page which can be researched. Cheers, toward World Domination. Gamweb (talk) 22:02, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Bit busy this week, but I'll see what I can do.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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On4 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Guldborg, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Guldborg is located at the narrowest point between the Danish islands of Falster and Lolland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Guldborg. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:02, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I saw this the other day and immediately thought of you. It is Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science or as the local's call it, Stalin's penis. I'm sure you could add that to one of your penis articles someplace. Hmmm, I see a penis and think of you... there are so many ways to spin that.
Not sure if you knew about the adopted changes regarding administrator's coming back. Bgwhite (talk) 21:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Sure, will look at sourcing Luang Prabang Province history. Still tidying up the refs, tedious, but it has to be done. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:30, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Looks like much of the history is verbatim from here. I'm too tired to chop it out (probably should just blank out the history to be safe), but it needs a total re-write. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:12, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Ergh, I got it from the main city article. I can't actually access that source though..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
How close are we to getting this project done, i.e. can you figure out which provinces need more work vs. which ones have enough content? I want to concentrate on the right ones vs. bouncing around the way I've been doing it. Also, I see you're currently at 991. Do you have other noms which will take you over the threshold, or are you still shooting for the Lao mega-hook? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:37, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Cool! BTW, I'm working through these today. I'll be editing "Protected area" section of the specific province, so shouldn't interfere with your edits. In the main sandbox, I created a header for "Meets requirements"; when you think an article is ready, please move it into there. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Definitely will not move anything!! Figure you'll be the one to pull the trigger on that. Great about the maps; and BTW I love the montages. Just saw the Luang Namtha map; it's awesome! Will do at the end of the day. Regarding the new maps: I love them, just not sure about the forced left placement. Try looking at them from firefox and chrome (don't know what you use). Wonder what they'd look like in the Admin/Districts section on the right as there's a gaping while space on the right. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Map placement in the infobox in Attapeu is perfecto. Go for it. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Phongsaly Province - History is done. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:40, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey! Thanks for getting it to ga. It seems the list of notable articles was fixed by Vensatry.--Dwaipayan (talk) 01:46, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
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Okay, so I was just wondering if I did something right. If you look at the edit history on Shammi Kapoor, there was this bit of stuff in the lead section, and I removed it, because it was a direct lift from the reference, and it wasn't capitalized properly. But what worries me more that it was sort of slandering Rajesh Khanna. OK, slander's a strong word, but still. If the editor comes back, rephrases it and puts the reference back, will it still qualify to be put up there? Also, the notice on the article about it being edited by a source related to the subject, but there's no proof for that. It's been there for eons and eons. Red Hat On Head (talk) 00:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Just revert such edits, they're common on Indian articles. I see you have done so.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Just remove it, yeah. Thanks, Rekha and Amitabh sometime maybe..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:39, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Dear Big Brother,
I need some consultation from you, if you can help me. This article that I just wrote up and submitted to DYK needs a picture of the person. I can not seem to locate a copyright free image - so, may have to enter a Fair Usuage picture. An example I would like to use is from Carl Breer, Executive Engineer is the second picture down of a portrait of him from the Jim Benjaminson collection . Do you think that would be alright as a Fair Usage picture for the article? I'll capture it and enter as Fair Use if you think it is alright. Its a low quality picture, so I don't see a problem - and you?--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:31, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
He's dead, and died over 40 years ago so yeah, a fair use image of him is fine.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Guidance in the right direction | |
Thanks for steering me in the right direction. I appreciate any course corrections you give me. Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC) |
LOL, thanks!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:48, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
On8 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Monegros Desert, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the Monegros Desert in Spain, the Aregon Steppes are home for many endangered bird species including the Great Bustard (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Monegros Desert. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
On8 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Christoph Nichelmann, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that composer Christoph Nichelmann was the second harpsichordist at the court of King Frederick the Great of Prussia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christoph Nichelmann. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Thought you might be interested in this sitebyAndy Hayler. It's beginning to make me wonder if it might be possible to simply have an article with every three star restaurant on the same table, rather than splitting them up amongst countries as I previously thought. Although I'm wondering if the historic French restaurants might throw a spanner in the works... but I just can't see there being more than an extra fifty restaurants - after all, its not like those types of restaurants simply come and go. I might see what I can "cook" up over the Christmas period. Miyagawa (talk) 09:08, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Ach, must've been my early morning itchy revert finger kicking in. I can sometimes be like a grumpy bear being awoken from one's winter slumber—impulsive and quick to swat things away. Many thanks for bringing it to my attention. Looking back on it, I totally understand what you mean about the lead section stuff. Hence, I've added your contributions back with some bits cleaned up and many words linked to their respective articles. I think it looks pretty decent now, but do tell me if you spot anything disagreeable. I've been eager for some help on this article for the best part of four years, but nobody's come forward with anything new for a while. I really, really appreciate the fresh images too, since that grainy sepia one from 1976 was rather.. shall we say, outdated, for an infobox of a living musician! Mac Dreamstate (talk) 17:06, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Acoustic has never really been my thing. I do have tremendous appreciation for the skill and musicianship involved (Paco de Lucia comes to mind) but, as far as my listening preferences go, I'm strictly a distorted tone kinda guy. Nonetheless, for what's it worth, I rate this as the finest guitar performance of all time (at least since I first watched it in 2006, so I wouldn't rule out something else blowing me away.. one day). Mac Dreamstate (talk) 23:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Sure - it'll have to be later tonight, though. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 22:18, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Since you asked I've kept an eye out. He simply cannot resist! Regards, Ericoides (talk) 17:04, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
On10 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pencoedtre, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Forestry Commission reportedly advocated the cutting down of Pencoedtre woods in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, to make way for housing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pencoedtre. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm not finding anything reliable after a quick search, but according to a comment on this page, the Classical Guitar in Russia and the USSR encyclopedia published in 1992 shows his date of birth as December 29, 1977. I'll keep looking.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 11, 2012; 15:45 (UTC)
On11 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Sidi Bou Othman, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the Battle of Sidi Bou Othman, French Army Colonel Mangin (pictured) formed his 5,000 troops into a single large square with the artillery units placed at the center of the infantry formations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Sidi Bou Othman. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Mifter (talk) 16:01, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
That's an awesome barnstar, the Danish Barnstar of National Merit, and a new one for me. Thx! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:59, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Savannakhet is done. Then I reviewed each article. Made sure every non-Lead paragraph has an inline citation. Fixed some refs and headers. Four articles have minor issues which I'm too tired to work on tonight. --Rosiestep (talk) 05:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
This really is trivial but since one of my stalkers has recently drawn attention to the fact that I mentioned another contributor and didn't let them know that they had been mentioned, see User_talk:Salvio_giuliano#Legalese for a mention of your good self. This is a pointy notification: the stalker will see it, I am fairly sure ;) - Sitush (talk) 00:33, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Does BG stand for Big? ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:38, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
On12 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Klaus Hofmann, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that musicologist Klaus Hofmann reconstructed a trio sonata for violin, viola and basso continuo, and attributed it to both Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Klaus Hofmann. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Re: Cornwall === Yeah, it twasn't a good idea to stub them all, I took for granted they were all settlements as such but a lot appear to be farms. I'm all for coverage of tiny hamlets/farms which only appear on OS maps like Goldsland as I think it makes us more valuable as a resource, but only of course if sources can be found. I think a lot of the farms should probably be redirected to nearby villages. I've created Category:Farms in Cornwall anyway, might have missed some from the geography cat, if you could catch those I'd be grateful. Always open to working with you on any expansion of any Cornwall article, sure Gilderien and Rosiestep would also be keen. Just let me know what you want to work on! Regards♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:44, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Provincial and Prefecturial barnstar of Laos | |
For expanding wikipedia's coverage on the 16 provinces and 1 prefecture of Laos. Rosiestep (talk) 15:57, 12 December 2012 (UTC) |
Your proposal for WikiConcise seems to be hitting the dust. I see three reasons why this would happen- 1. Not enough coverage in village pump etc so other users can notice 2. Not enough active users on meta (I personally use en wiki a hundred times more than meta) 2. Not enough consensus and clarity among the editors to put it into action - Everyone simply proposed whatever struck their imagination, without realising what others had been saying.
What I suggest is that we make an optional group/WikiProject/Userspace project or anything of some sort, where we invite others to make concise versions of Original Wikipedia articles, and store them in the unified Userspace. Being in the En wiki domain, we can get much more coverage; and having only a few people initially, (Possibly contacting only those who signed on the WIkiConcise page), we will be much more efficient in decision making. Once the project is decided upon more-or-less, and picks momentum among editors willing to contribute we can then invite other editors to join in (through Village pumps) and if it becomes big enough, we can always propose to make it separately under Meta, and simply move all our userspace articles there.
What do you think of this idea? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 19:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I am much more in favour of strictly allowing only a given (x) number of articles. That will force us to focus only on the highest quality and importance articles, rather than have 4 articles on preparation, background, aftermath and response of 9/11. We could also merge very closely related articles, and get things shown in the true Concise way. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:11, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Great work on jazz standards tonight. We've needed these articles for such a long time, thank you! Gareth E Kegg (talk) 23:13, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I aim to not only get the missing ones started, but complete the list from I-Z over the next few days. Help fleshing them out is always appreciated of course! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello good doctor, see you are busy as always. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Vietnamese)#Capitalizing Province etc., your name cited in good context here. Would appreciate checking with you on how you intended your advice implemented. Your advice on capitalization seems to have been entangled with undiscussed moves countrary to recent VN RfC majority and countrary to VN geo RMs to retain Vietnamese names for Vietnamese provinces, which I don't think you support. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:09, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Very sad demise of a Bharat Ratna awardee, an iconic sitar player. We can write some related articles. You may like to contribute to these Maricha, of epic Ramayana, which is almost finished and Kaurwaki, a historical figure who was the wife (first, second or third is not known) of Emperor Ashoka. I ahve asked Redtiger also to contribute. The Laos template is yet to be moved to DYK talk page, but I don't know how to add names to all articles as at present names of authors for 8 articles appears.--Nvvchar. 08:42, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
One of the greatest musicians of the 20th century and one of the greatest Indians of the 20th century indeed, and a bridge between eastern and western music. That's how he will be remembered. RIP Sir Shankar. Nvv please answer your email!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:17, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
[1] - any interest? Specialists in water fountains, apparently. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I have started working in this article Ananda Marga. But, I don't know what to do with Ananda_Marga#Chronology, Organisation and Activities. Any idea? And can you please help in copyediting in 1-2 section(s)? --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:07, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Fries Scheepvaart Museum - I nomed it. Can you QPQ? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Right now I am working on getting Priyanka Chopra to FA. It is awaiting a copy edit from the guild, but I also have almost half a dozen "helpers" on that one. I wouldn't mind you giving some opinions. I was also working on Kuch Kuch Hota Hai for GA, but I am somewhat stuck for new info on that one right now. Do you want to have a look at it? After that I will be free to try something new, maybe non-Bollywood related. Any ideas? BollyJeff | talk 14:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Blofeld. I do remember asking for your suggestion on Kajol's article, quite some time back, but I never heard back from you. :( I personally admire your work here and have always wanted to collaborate with you on an article, and I still hope we can do so, sometime in the future. With Balan, however, I give the credit completely to Dwaipayanc for encouraging me to take up the FAC. I still hope, that you are happy that we made it this far. Cheers. :) --smarojit (buzz me) 14:35, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Yeah I get pretty busy, if you want to collaborate you need to be persistent hehe!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:51, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Sure - maybe even tonight, once I'm done with my Christmas shopping.
I just stubbed a bunch of French Polynesian atolls, incidentally...it felt good. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:38, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Doc, Unless you have any objections, I'm going to rename the page as Bernard Lee on stage and screen, as that's a better reflection of the content. Is that OK with you? - SchroCat (talk) 16:16, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Sure, I was following the John Le Mesurier example rather too closely LOL.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:18, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
On15 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Hong Kong), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that chef Joël Robuchon has twelve『L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon』restaurants around the world, including in London and Hong Kong? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Hong Kong). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
On15 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (London), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that chef Joël Robuchon has twelve『L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon』restaurants around the world, including in London and Hong Kong? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
On15 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fatima-Zahra Mansouri, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fatima-Zahra Mansouri's father, who was pasha (deputy governor) of Marrakech for eight years, died the evening Fatima won the mayoral elections? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fatima-Zahra Mansouri. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:03, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, very nice job! 1000 DYK milestone has been reached!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:09, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi and welcome again (sorry for the late welcome message). Great to see you back and also congratulations on your 1000 DYK. If you want to expand some Bollywood films then just msg me. I am looking forward to help you expanding Bollywood film articles. Thanks and keep up the good work. Torreslfchero (talk) 11:24, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks mate! I was going to continue with some Bollywood films in the next few days.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching 1000 DYKs! I'll try and finish the Turkey fixes today. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 11:42, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks TAP!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:42, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
The Exponential Editor Award | |
For not just a single good DYK, or 10, or even 100, but for all 1000 DYKs. Your hard work makes the rest of us look bad, but you do it by making Wikipedia look good. Thanks again! Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 13:46, 15 December 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:33, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations from me as well. --Meno25 (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:44, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching four figures! Impressive work! BlueMoonset (talk) 17:52, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Ser and Moon!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:12, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Indeed congratulations on such an impressive milestone! --Rosiestep (talk) 18:17, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks both. Somebody needs to make a new 1000 DYK award, it'll be you and Nvv soon enough!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:19, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, look forward to more, and some with you of course!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:29, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Nvv and Martin.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld
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Congratulations on your 1000th DYK, Dr.! Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:42, 15 December 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:59, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Amazing coincidence indeed!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
That looks like a funny show. We Brits are rather partial to satire, I think. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:45, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Here is the official award, which you are the first to receive! To many of us, climbing Mount Everest would probably seem less of a challenge. Moonraker (talk) 06:44, 28 December 2012 (UTC) |
I think I'm almost done mucking about with this chap - is that more or less what you wanted done to him? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:47, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Excellent! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:59, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm assuming you'll nom this one? I'll nom Crocodile Zoo, Falster when you're done with it. Can you find more refs for Juan Gómez "Chicuelo"?Manuel Jiménez Moreno "Chicuelo" may interest you; more in his es article. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:31, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Fixed the translation; added infobox; agree img would be helpful but must leave that to you as I'm no guru for bringing in from outside commons. Trinitatis Church and Trinitatis Complex. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:01, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Nomed Juan Gómez "Chicuelo". With Ipigott heading out on vacation and not accessible for a bit, can you sort out the had (not has??)atCrocodile Zoo, Falster, and then I'll nom it? Started Javier Latorre and Miguel Poveda; more in their es articles. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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Dr. Blofeld, congratulations on DYK number 1001! I am pleased to award this MBE to you in recognition of your stunning and numerically palindromic achievement. (Personally, I've had 10001 DYKs, but that's in binary.) Thanks for all of your hard work which has resulted in high quality articles on Wikipedia in general, and specifically in the DYK section. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:44, 16 December 2012 (UTC) |
Dr. Blofeld MBE. I love it!! Thanks!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:59, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Doug and Jafeluv!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
According to this BBC News article, there's a temple to the Goddess of English in "Banka village, Uttar Pradesh". However, at Banka we seem to have villages of that name in Bihar state but not in Uttar Pradesh state.
Is it likely that Banka village exists in Uttar Pradesh but we don't have an article on it, or that it's referred to by some other name, or that the BBC are confused about what state it's in, or something else? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Banka, Uttar Pradesh? I'll see what I can do, sorry had forgotten about this.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Now that the provinces of Vietnam are half way of being fixed, someone decided to introduce his style in Colombia. Maybe you can move back before templates and other links are changed? NVanMinh (talk) 08:00, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Waldir's a good guy but I'm unsure why he is moving to lower casing. The general consensus is upper casing as its the name of an admin division.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:21, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Template%3AInfobox+settlement#bottom ... I think 500 000 is not too far away. NVanMinh (talk) 08:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Not too far away? Its taken me 6 and half years to almost reach 100,000 articles, another 200,000 to go!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:21, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
NEED your help. You see now the counter is 304251. This highly likely comes from my replacements of redirects with the direct link. We can very easy get ~3000 more, with just replacements.
I have many more plans on improvements, but we need some more tool support. This streamlining may also help with going towards a concise WP. NVanMinh (talk) 22:49, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
We have not done any article together on the above subject. I have started one here User:Nvvchar/Sandbox/Palitana. You may like to expand. I am asking Rosiestep to join. The original article is not well covered. I will look into Puri article. I am asking another user who is from Orissa to also join on this. You may like to see Jagannath, which he has expanded and he is keen to take it to GA.--Nvvchar. 10:28, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Both were there. Palitana Temples is what we expanded but it got merged with Palitana city article. It was my fault. I made the request to Materialscientist for the transfer but to a wrong article. There is also an article titled Palitana temples. How do we rectify this confusion?--Nvvchar. 15:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
I also did put in a request at 4 AM this morning. The transfer is done and Rosie has nominated the articles. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 01:42, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
The latest official data from Statistics Sweden is:
Other tables are available at http://www.scb.se/Pages/ProductTables____13013.aspx
I updated all articles back in January. However, they all have the Swedish tabel as a source. Cheers --Skizziktalk 12:16, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
The official definitions are:
Since these are official terms, I think it is best to separate them in the template. I edited the Botkyrka template, what do you think?
The official data (in english) for smaller localities:
More tables: http://www.scb.se/Pages/ProductTables____13025.aspx
The smaller localities has not been updated, or even created. However, I don't do much editing on Wikipedia any longer. --Skizziktalk 10:24, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Suckle of my zipple?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:51, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you kindly. I shall work on more talkpages tonight, and add to my tally a bit. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld, this has been asked of you before, I'll ask it again now: when you create new pages with a dismbiguator in the page name, please don't use template:pagename as the start of the article, but use the article name without the disambiguator. Something like Yeşilçukurca, Bozüyük shouldn't start with『Yeşilçukurca, Bozüyük is a village』but with "Yeşilçukurca is a village". You have created numerous similar articles, all with the same problem. It is minor, but with the sheer number of articles it does add up.
The same change also needs to be made in the infobox of the article, at the "name" parameter. The disambiguator is not part of the village name, only of the article name. Fram (talk) 16:00, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Further, what checks do you make to prevent e.g. Dodurga, Bozüyük vs. Dodurga, Bilecik?Fram (talk) 16:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Fram, it's sorted, Thine is going through after me. And eventually pages which don't need dabbing will be moved to plain names so what is the problem? They are being created this way to ease facilitation between the Turkish wikipedia article which uses the same system.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:44, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Yaylapınar, Bayburt created on 14th Dec. Not a problem. Anome will add coordinates in due course, I'll prompt him again now. Now go and create us some Belgium comics Fram and stop fussing, grrrrr LOL. At some point a lot of missing dab pages will need to be done, but I think that can be sorted out later; the amount of people searching for the names in Turkish will be minimal. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:48, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
If you could evaluate which haven't been sorted I'll try to organize an AWBer to fix em.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Very interesting, will you nom it at TTDYK? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:54, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes, once the great Yngvadottir has finished of course, although I might still have some additions, quite a lot of material in google books I think.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Awesome, I'll take a look tomorrow and nom. Thanks for that.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:13, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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It seems you're involved in an edit war on From Russia with Love (film); you've already reverted in excess of the maximum of three times. If you revert again, I will block you from editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.138.143.220 (talk) 18:42, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Hehe, I think you'll find I've reverted twice, and you don't have admin tools to block me, loser. On the contrary, I'm awaiting for the blocking of your IP sock accounts which I predict will come not too far from now.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:45, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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You work for an IBM store or something? That's a staggering number of computers you have!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:04, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
I tried researching it, but alas it is not my cup of tea, ami. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I just converted 500 Template:Infobox SettlementtoTemplate:Infobox settlement, left are 24414 says:
For Template:Infobox settlement there are still only 304294 transclusions according to:
But there may be some lag and maybe in a few hours the number jumps up by 500. NVanMinh (talk) 06:30, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Of course it also doesn't cover the thousands of settlements which should use infobox settlement but have wikiprojects opposing the changes.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:30, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes, this is additional. But I hope we can at least consolidate the others, where no specialized code exists. See:
Due to the redirects, it is only "302168" and only in position 159. This is a misrepresentation. Persondata has 1 million. Where could settlement be...
Would you help to get rid of the redirects? At least all the upper case stuff should be deleted, so no one uses this ever again: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 December 18#Template:Infobox County. I have so many plans, but the opposition against streamlining without any benefit (what are the upper case versions for?) is surprising. NVanMinh (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Forgive me if I'm a bit blind, Your Evilness, but I can't find any "Image" parameter in the song Infobox (Why isn't there any?), and putting the pic in other parameters would be inappropriate. So sorry... Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 11:39, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to drop by and say thank you for all your work. Congrats on that 1000 DYK thing too. I find it so very sad that some people see a need to belittle your efforts (apparently they think it's how they become some greater thing ... idk??). Anyway .. thanks Dr. It's appreciated. — Ched : ? 17:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Thankyou Ched. And thankyou for everything you've done too mate.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
... has been nominated for deletion Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_December_18#Category:Compositions_by_key. Tim! (talk) 20:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Funny isn't it how often the most encyclopedically useful categories and articles end up at AFD prematurely.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:12, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks Kevin. I dunno, maybe something like "bugger off from wikipedia. Nobody could give a monkey's right testicle about old jazz standards and villages in darkest Turkey." Although that might bring out the civility police and speed you away in the newest company police car, bought by Sue Gardner's personal secretary.... ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:19, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Cool, thanks!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 07:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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I made a control panel for us:
Two more days there will be the next WP DB report. NVanMinh (talk) 07:41, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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That's not a legitimate deletion rationale. Most of our articles need expansion but meet notability requirements. Did you scout for sources? You should be assessing WP:Notability NOT how much content an article has. Notable subjects will always be notable, however short.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 09:42, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
You asked the one that lower cased against WP style and consensus to revert. Now there is the possibility to raise your voice at Talk:An Giang province#Requested move. Upper case is also supported by WP:VIETPLACE and the people at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Vietnamese). NVanMinh (talk) 05:39, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
I had a look at the Knut Boeser book, but it isn't and doesn't pretend to be, a factual work of scholarship (it's a novelisation of a film). I also checked out Edgar Leoni's large book. The problem seems to be that the bulk of Nostradamus literature concentrates primarily on the prophecies and interpretations of them. So far as the biography is concerned I reckon the article is probably factually OK and as full as the available material permits. However, I agree with you that the article is conspicuously short of citations for many of the statements made in it. The section on "Works" has six paragraphs and a single citation, and throughout the piece there are statements that are wholly unreferenced. It wouldn't, I think, get through FAC if submitted now. – Tim Riley (talk) 14:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks a lot. But mind me asking what specifically is it for? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 15:22, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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Couldn't find much at all on him. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:12, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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Yes, Merry Christmas Bonkers!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:46, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you comment at Talk:Amazonas department? I tried to be bold and revert, but every second of the ones I tried, I could not move. Target needs to be deleted. NVanMinh (talk) 05:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
You asked on my talk page to locate Banka, Uttar Pradesh. I said that it was a hamlet of Jang Bahadur Ganj; you then added an infobox to the Banka article with a completely different location, without any source for this. Your location is some 200km from the one I proposed... [2] Any reason why? Fram (talk) 08:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Because I like winding you up Fram. I don't think you showed me the location of it, do you have the coordinates?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:44, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes I googled Jang Bahadur Ganj and I believe I found a landmark or something with the coordinates. Obviously wrong.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:07, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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I would have offered a beer, but I seem to recall from the novels that Dr. Blofeld didn't drink. Still, your moped, your very evil moped, is waiting... :) Have a great weekend! --j⚛e deckertalk 18:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Hehe, never trust what Bond and its author tell you!! Mr. Bigglesworth would have great fun on that moped!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:32, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas! I nomed Palitana temples and Shatrunjaya. And by the way, Mr. Bigglesworth better got off that moped pronto, or there won't be any milk in his saucer the next time he comes over for a visit. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Awww look at Mr. Bigglesworth, he wants to have some fun!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:42, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:43, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Howdy, you created a page yesterday, "Quiero" Album (El Amor), for an album that I don't believe exists. I went to the reference you provided and found nothing, nor could I find it anywhere else. Iglesias has an album El Amor, but a page already exists for it. Am I missing something? Cheers J04n(talk page) 13:23, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Howdy. I suspect that Quiero was a single or something from the El Amor album and was released separately. Thanks for pointing that out. Grateful for any help expanding the stubs, they're some of the best selling albums of all time yet strangely not covered. Track listings and covers to start with.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks Martin, Marry Christmas!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:39, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dr. Blofeld. I have been cleaning up articles in the User:Legoktm/Pakistan/Famous list. Considering your experience, I feel it may be useful if you could look into my edits in those articles and see if it looks OK to you. You can look into my way of cleaning them up in my recent contributions. Almost all of my edits (starting from Ahmed Ali Butt) in the past few days are related to that list. Special:Contributions/OrangesRyellow. If you have the time and the inclination of course... Regards.OrangesRyellow (talk) 16:23, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Ahmed Ali Butt looks a bit extreme. Seeing the previous version it wasn't complete gibberish. In such cases you'd probably be better off cutting a bit and trying to source them rather than nuke to whole thing and leave it unsourced and tagged. It looks almost as bad leaving an empty article/infobox/bare urls and a tag. The nuke thing is best for villages in which the text is just dreadful and unsourceable. If you can try to source them.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:29, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Try to remove the tag if you can, it makes the articles look even uglier. If needs be nuke and find one source.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Is this image a true identification to the song In Your Own Sweet Way? This image is of the 2007 CD compilation of songs and instrumentals by Dave Brubeck. Even when the vinyl is not found, I wouldn't use the compilation as a primary visual aid. --George Ho (talk) 19:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Issues about In Your Own Sweet Way article are addressed in the nompage. --George Ho (talk) 19:14, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Nice work on Hendrik van Oort - I didn't even know about this painter until you made the article. Keep up the good work and Happy Holidays! Jane (talk) 20:23, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Jane, and nice new image! Have a great Christmas!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:24, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Agreed that it made sense to move it to Wrinstone; done. Regarding this, does it refer to one of the Michaelston villages? (figured it out) --Rosiestep (talk) 02:13, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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See this and this. :P :P --smarojit (buzz me) 09:01, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes, but why are they in sandboxes?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas! Also, merry Christmas to Mr. Bigglesworth and your piranhas. :) Thine Antique Pen (talk) 10:23, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas TAP and Jivesh!! Thankyou for your work to date!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:57, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
FYI: One of the Julio Iglesias album stubs that you created, America (Julio Iglesias album) was redirected to Julio Iglesias discography. I did a quick serach to see if it charted or received sales certification to establish notability but came up short. I suspect that it is notable but the name is so common searching is more than I'm able to presently do...
Merry Christmas, J04n(talk page) 11:44, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, he did it to some others too. Happy Christmas!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:51, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Dr. B, hope you have a fantastic Christmas on the moonbase. Make sure to give the sharks both red and green laser beams for their heads. Keep safe over the holidays, don't monologue, and work towards DYK #2000. Merry Christmas for you and yours! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:26, 21 December 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks amigo!! Yes, red and green lasers naturally!! LOL. Merry Christmas!!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:11, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I do believe that this card explains a lot of the hitherto misunderstood and even ignored origins of a variety of Christmas stories. I am considering writing an article about the theology involved but am having a difficult time with sources. Of well, have a good one, it does appear that we have made it through the worst of 2012, which is a great start to 2013 Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:59, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas Carp!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
I have a question. A new user asked me this over at the Teahouse and I had absolutely no idea, and figured that you might know because of all your article-space experience. Can you link to a category within an article (e.g., There are bird observatories? Thanks, and have fun in your moonbase. Merry Christmas! Go Phightins! 21:33, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes, but it usually isn't advisable, most links should point to an article. It should only be done really on a "see also" Category: . Oh and Merry Moonmas! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:38, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, and Merry Moonmas to you too! Go Phightins! 21:41, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Moonmas? AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 21:47, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas Ruhr! Merry Christmas everybody!!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 07:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Why not - one from me, too. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:27, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas both!!! Having fun watching the Back to the Future trilogy and stuffing Jelly babies, salted peanuts, stilton, and drinking wine!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
On26 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Juan Gómez "Chicuelo", which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Catalan flamenco guitarist "Chicuelo" has been the music directorofShōji Kojima's dance company in Japan since 1992? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Juan Gómez "Chicuelo". You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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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On26 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kharkhorin Rock, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Erdene Zuu MonasteryinMongolia has a 24-inch penis? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kharkhorin Rock. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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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I am sure you would like to add to this Mount Jackson (Antarctica) to make it 5x for DYK.--Nvvchar. 07:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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Good to hear from you, Doctor. I'm afraid life has rather taken precedence over Wikipedia for a while. But heartening to see you, Martin and even Tim back on board. Perhaps I'll join you in 2013. Just filling in a few gaps in the Monmouthsire/Borders sections of the List of Country Houses in the United Kingdom. May be useful for your project. What I really want are photos of 2 villas near Chepstow, Mounton House and Wyelands. Can't find anything of Commons. Both should have their own articles. Any thoughts? Ask Ghmrytle? All the best. KJP1 (talk) 12:39, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Aww soo cute! I have "like playing with My Little Pony in my lol categories on my user page, not the same as the real thing hehe!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:13, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Sure thing - I'll look tonight, or tomorrow, not sure which. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 22:28, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
On29 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Riin Tamm, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 2011, geneticist Riin Tamm (pictured) was chosen as one of 26 scientists to travel around Estonia and take part in events at schools and academic institutions? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Riin Tamm. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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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On30 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora (pictured)inGreece was featured in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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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Wishing you the Peace of the season and prosperity in the New Year. Here's to the next thousand. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:33, 30 December 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks, let's hope its a good "13" eh?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:52, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
You don't know me but I know you. So first off, Greetings and Happy New Year Mein Doctor Evil. But what really puzzles me is: what's with Belgium? You know there's a test in Evil Psychiatry called the Belgian test. You say "Belgium" and if the patient starts foaming at the mouth it means something, although I don't know exactly what. It's true. I've met several people like that. Signed: Basemetal (write to me here) 16:39, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
...if you're wondering why I just rollbacked a comment to your talkpage, I accidentally hit the rollback button on my watchlist when trying to click the link below it. Many apologies! Andrew Gray (talk) 17:01, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Hadn't noticed as I wasn't here, but no worries! If I'd noticed I'd probably have thought you worked for the Belgian government, or were Van Damme's publicist.... ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:11, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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