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Hi Ernst you crazy mofo who wants to take over the world. You are no longer james Janderson. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Certosa di Pavia

Hi ~~James~~ Ernst, thanks for your comment. I'm only adding articles if they don't exist yet; the Certosa di Pavia article (and many others) already existed, so I did not add the data, because that is harder than just adding a whole new page. (I have to decide what old part of the text I should keep, and what part I can replace.) But I'm keeping a list of all the existing articles, and when I have finished the whole of Italy, I will revisit the articles that I'm skipping in this first run. -- Eugène van der Pijll 21:03, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

cheers- gingerdave

Ion Neculce

Agreed, but some assertion of notability must be made if it is to be kept, and I don't know Romanian. (|-- UlTiMuS 09:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks pal. I want to thank you. I'm working now to make it better.--Zhangshou 09:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

nice page you've got! --Zhangshou 09:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You love James Bond? --Zhangshou 10:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Jeff White Motors

I didn't find anything in my Google search that indicated it passed the standards of WP:CORP. Daniel Case 14:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

No, that's for sporting clubs themselves, not the companies that sponsor them. Daniel Case 17:07, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is not a business directory. Daniel Case 17:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, there really isn't an economy section there yet; I suppose you could find a way to sneak it in though. Daniel Case 00:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Padua confusion

It's great that you're paying so much attention! It was a mistake in the program: it thought "PI" meant Padua, but actually it means Pisa. I've changed that, and it's working correctly now. Thanks!! Eugène van der Pijll 20:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Slovakia

Thanks for the kind words, I will gladly help! Right now I am including interwiki links in the articles. Don't forget to put those in. Thanks, Punkmorten 20:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again... the reason why we don't need category is that e.g. Villages and municipalities in Zvolen District is a subcategory of Villages and municipalities in the Banská Bystrica Region. In other words, the article is in a way included in the Region category even if only the District category is shown. Punkmorten 16:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes. Because the Region category is so "crowded", and the subcategories start with the letter V, they will show up only if you click "next 200". By the way, yes it's true that the municipalities are called something else in Hungarian. This makes interwiki-ing somewhat difficult, but it is nonetheless necessary. Punkmorten 16:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No. The District subcategories in which they are contained are indeed listed in the Region category. We can't have a Region category comprised of all the several hundred municipalities in all the district. That simply doesn't work. Punkmorten 16:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Faroese ships

Many thanks for your work on the Strandfaraskip Landsins and Smyril Line pages. A small confusion seems to have arisen. The domestic ferries within the Faroe Islands are "Strandfaraskip Landsins" - their largest vessel is called the Smyril. This is separate from "Smyril Line", which operates the weekly international service from Tórshavn to Iceland, Shetland, Norway and Denmark. They only have one vessel - the Norröna. Perhaps you could rename your "Smyril Line" page as simply "Smyril" and start a new "Smyril Line (international ferry service)" site. See websites and for more info. Thanks. --Elsecar 14:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making the amendment. I have now started a page at Smyril Line (international ferry service). Best wishes, --Elsecar 15:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

LSJ (disambiguation) and a basename LSJ redirection is the usual approach to this type of disambiguation, where one meaning is more common than the others. Compare JFK and JFK (disambiguation), or TRW and TRW (disambiguation). Also, please do not blank pages when adding the {{db-reason}}. -- JHunterJ 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Olmec

Hi, I ask an arbitration about French School. Can you give me your opinion. Thanks again. Olmeque 22:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Slovak villages, etc.

Great stuff, but please don't place the charts showing the entire region and the whole of Slovakia in the articles - readers can access these by clicking on the links you provide, and they don't tell us anything about the topic of the article. It would be more appropriate to put in a map showing the location fo the village or town. Best regards - Smerus 18:12, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images on your userpage

I have removed the following images from your userpage as they were marked as fair use images, and so cannot be used in userspace.

_{talk to} JD 09:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

King Dracula Replies to You

Thank you for your excellent advise

King Dracula 10:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Edit Summaries

I noticed that you don't seem to use edit summaries at all. That's your choice but are you aware by not indicating what you are doing you create extra work for people who have articles you edit on their watchlists? Thanks --Spartaz 10:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

List of villages and municipalities in Slovakia

Good work. I am afraid I will not have enough time to help you with the stub creation. I have created some of the articles about towns and villages in Slovakia and I will be happy to expand and create some new ones. But I doubt I will be able to help you very much. So, just few advices: All municipalities in Slovakia are legally divided into two categories: towns and villages. I wonder if it is a good idea to have two overlapping lists (see List of towns in Slovakia). Statistical data can be found here and it is a very helpful (though not very well-designed) website. I think there is no need to include the maps of the given region and district in an article about a municipality. But you can find some maps with the precise location of a municipality in the commons, in the Category:Locator maps of cities in Slovakia. Good luck and if you have any more specific question, feel free to drop me a line. Tankred 19:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

You can use ‎Template:Infobox Slovak town as an infobox. We usually use it in articles about municipalities in Slovakia. Coordinates may be found here and some of the location maps here. Coats of arms (few of them) are here. Have fun. Tankred 15:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

King Dracula Replies to You Again

Thank you for your wonderful advise, my friend

King Dracula 11:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Vale of Glamorgan stub category

Hi, I created it before but it was voted for deletion as there weren't enough articles to make it worthwhile and the stub was not appropriately named. If you think that Vale of Glamorgan will have more than 50 geographical stubs (which is the rule of thumb) then it may be worth creating again, submit your proposal to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals otherwise just use the Wales-geo-stub. (Sloman 11:27, 2 September 2006 (UTC))

I've put forward a proposal for creating the stub on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2006/September. Can you also add a few notes to help make the case for creating the stub, i.e. saying that you intend to create many more and that it will be well over 50 articles. (Sloman 11:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC))

Ingrid Lehmann and Hermann Schulz

Ingrids article is expanded and Hermanns established. Please check the English. To transfer this scientific stuff into English is difficult. I am very curious, why you are so interested in them...? There i also an article about Ingrids husband in the german Misplaced Pages. Uwe Langer 20:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Wales

Hello. Thanks for welcoming me back. :) I have spent my vacation in Beskids. It was wonderful. I wanted to ask you if people in Wales speak with each other in English or in Cymraeg ? Is Welsh language taught at schools ? Btw yesterday's match was close. I think Wales can win in home match with Czech Rep. - Darwinek 11:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Dracula this time talks to you nicely

Thank you for your wonderful advise my good friend.

Villages in the Czech Republic

There are officially 6248 cities, towns and villages in the Czech Republic, about 95% of them are villages. The sub-categorizing may be useful but AFAIK neither Czech nor German Wikipedias (which have better coverage than here) do not use it.

I use district categories because it is the most natural (for the Czechs) and these categories also cover castles, lakes and such. The same categorisation was (later) adopted in Czech Wiki. Regions, as they exist now, are quite novel in the CR and most people are still thinking in older geographical structures.

I am not sure how this is solved for countries with similar or larger # of villages or whether there are some semi-standards or recomendations. The current huge category is automatically splitted and there's navigation bar to quickly find what one needs. Pavel Vozenilek 14:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

My opinion is following: technically it doesn'n make problem and I am very lazy for changes. However if the others think otherwise I'll accomodate. Perhaps you can get opinion from User:Bilboq (the most active one in creating geo-stubs on Czech Wiki) or other people or those who structure such categories. Pavel Vozenilek 14:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd asked Bilboq for opinion. Other user active in this area is User:Ioannes Pragensis who created list All Czech municipalities A - I, .... Pavel Vozenilek 15:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Districts have advantage that they have usually managable size - each have from about 30 (few smallest ones) to 200 (few largest ones) municipalities. Usually around 100. Many of them consits of smaller villages. If you count every village in each of the 6248 municipalities, you get about 20500 villages (some of them are in fact towns or town/city districts). Add some castles, some notable landmarks, etc ... and you can end up with 30000 articles about some geographic locations in czech republic. If you split them into 78 districts, you have on average 380 per districts ... which mean two pages in category listing. If you use regions, you'll end up with average of 2140 pages in each of 14 regions, which is badly managable (there is that stupid limitation of showing at most 200 items on each page). --Bilboq 20:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

To make it clear about the terminology: municipality (obec - village, town) is an official administrative structure and which may and often does consist from parts (část obce - villages, hamlets, districts). So far en: has only articles about the municipalities - to cover all the villages on en: is practically impossible within next years. Czech Wiki tries to create complete coverage. Pavel Vozenilek 22:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Once they are all in czech wiki (now about 800 from 6200 municipalities is missing), copying them into en might not be so hard, as you have good source tot star with .... --Bilboq 12:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Zborov

I am not doing the villages, I try to fill in all the meanings of Zborov that is treated very differently in different Wikis. Pavel Vozenilek 21:51, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

American

I noticed that you recently added a link to American here. American is a disambiguation page as the phrase has many uses including a person from the Americas or the United States. In the future, could you link the term to one of the articles listed on the American disambiguation term, that would be great. As an example, if you're linking to something related to the United States, you would input ]. Thanks! --Bobblehead 08:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Previews

I would like to thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. However, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. --Geniac 15:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Your short and tall articles

Your short and tall lists violate WP:NOT. Thank you. Moland Spring 21:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Olympic athletics

Per your request, I have completed Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Note that I had to remove the images that you had added to these and other Athletics at the Olympics pages. The rings image violates fair-use policy, so is being removed from many Olympic pages lately, and the other image often interferes with the proper rendering of the tables of medal winners (overlays them sometimes). Andrwsc 22:02, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Nancy Drew

Sure but Im concentrating on doing book infobox. Just give me time. OK? 14:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)