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Not sure if you saw this comment before the AfD closed. Good ol' Daniel Brandt once had a Wikipedia article, but through years of off-wiki badgering and harassment of editors and admins alike, it was eventually deleted. I was unfortunately gullible enough to vote to delete back in one of those old AfDs. At the time, his notability was arguably more sound than the case for Kohs today. Tarc (talk) 14:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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Following your fine work on Cleveland Hall and Harriet Law, you might be interested in Hill Street, London which has lots of interesting associations such as Mrs. Montagu's blues. Warden (talk) 14:10, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey, your help last year made this article possible. I'm going to make another one but it might include a source with no actual author (but with everything else: title, year, publisher and location.) How would I cite that? --Ismail (talk) 09:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Use the book title as a Harvard identifier (harvid) if you are citing multiple chapters, or the chapter title if you are citing just one chapter:

comes out like

The harvid is anything you choose. Some would also include the publication year. Hope this helps. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello, please do not remove project assessments as you did here for Bothnian Bay, but try to update the assessment to the best of your ability instead. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 13:46, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I created a DRV for Category:Men sociologists. The claim that closing this differently than Category:Women sociologists was too much an igoring of the April-May gender wars on Wikipedia's outcome to ignore. I am not sure I did everything with this right. I am also not sure how I should make a note at CfD and other places that there is a DRV. If I have made any mistakes could you please fix it.

Above from John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:21, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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	Swedish National Barnstar of Merit
	Please accept this and a bevy of Swedish blondes coming up your lake later on as a sign of gratitude for your excellent and important work on the Bay of Bothnia. I knew it was a gaping hole. but didn't quite realize how gaping and that there was quite that many islands up there! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

I wonder if List of islands of Sweden would be a good place to list all of the main ones with sub articles?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I agree, naturally you can't list 30,000 or whatever islands and rocks there are on one page! I see the point of making tmeplates with a lot of red links if they can be written beyond stubs but there's no point in red linking entirely tiny rocks and bloating templates, best to take it one at a time. The main island list though should be organized into regional group lists and main lists feeding off of them regionally into more detailed island lists as you say. I'm really not sure that a table is the way to go, I think it looks ugly, not to mention out of date population. A plain list with area in brackets and coordinates maybe should suffice.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps with a nice image, a decent summary at the end so the table covers the width of the page it would look better?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:33, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I wondered if you'd be interested in expanding Orientale Province, one of Africa's largest provinces I think. I'll be putting it on the WP:RBN page anyway.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:06, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Just disinfected Sangli. Perhaps you'd be interested in writing a decent article on it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:07, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

I apologize. And I withdraw my GA nomination. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

You might feel like starting one or two of these sometime:♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:48, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

• Eduard Oja (et)
• Alfred Karindi (de)
• Olav Roots (de)
• Karl Leichter (et)

Spotted a gaping hole in coverage for the List of rulers of Oman. We're missing articles on entire dynasties like Ya'ariba Dynasty [1].♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Looking on google maps yesterday at Ontario. List of lakes of Ontario probably isn't even 1/1000th as comprehensive as it could be...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:33, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

You'd think they'd learn to be a bit more inventive than "Bear Lake" LOL.There must be several hundred lakes in Canada with that name! Justin Bieber I've heard used to visit Lake Douchebag as a kid... Any idea how many lakes Canada has as a whole (including frozen ones)? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:30, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

So Canadian lakes and Indian and Bangladeshi villages combined roughly constitute the number of articles we currently have on wikipedia and people think we're running out of topics... Mmm.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:44, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. Strongly considering proposing something which would see us nuke most of our articles on Indian and Pakistani villages until somebody can create a half decent article on them and strictly control growth on Indian villages. They're hugely problematic and magnets for all sort of crap. There's way too many to cleanup and given that most of them are unsourced I don't think it would be a problem to delete most of them. Would you support a mass nuke job on them? They're one of the poorest areas of wikipedia IMO.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Have a browse through some of the articles in the sub cats of Category:Villages in Andhra Pradesh and articles like Naya Lahore in User:Legoktm/Pakistan/Famous and let me know what you think..♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:51, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

"Garbage" quality, below stub quality would be a good idea and make them priority to clean up. But you see what I mean though. The sheer number of articles like that which nobody is watching and they degrade year by year. They're of no use to the average fluent reader and we'd be better off only have a handful of decent articles on Indian and Pakistani cities and somebody can start an article on an Indian settlement if they can provide sources/well-written content. I'm not disputing they're all notable but I'd rather not have them at all if nobody is controlling them. The cleanup job is too big and there aren't enough people to watch them. Incubating them all is an idea until they can be written with some sourced information and cleaned up?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:09, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that's why I'm suggesting drastic measures because the Naya Lahore type of articles are far worse than any stub on here. They do actual damage to the project. Given that we lack the numbers to not only clean them up, write them and monitoring them I'd blast them. I'm not disputing that any of them are notable or could be cleaned up and added to, but the reality is that they're not and won't be for a long long time, during which it makes us look like a joke welcoming that sort of editing. I think I'm going to begin going through districts and redirecting unsourced/poorly written villages to districts. That at least should help curb the problem for now. Somebody could still create problems and override the redirects, but I think a lot of newbies wouldn't realize how to stop the redirects. It at least reduce the ground for the "good faith" vandalism of them. I'm going to start with Andhra Pradesh I think, but I'd better leave a notice at the Indian noticeboard otherwise I might encounter edit wars and people wasting my time.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:52, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

I've opened something at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Started List of populated places in Adilabad district. Very time consuming but so far I've already redirected some villages. If you actually see most of the major towns even those could largely be summarized in a table. I'm taking a break from it for now, haven't done the coordinates from M onwards though if you want to continue. See the template I created at the bottom for other districts. Ideally we should have this sort of thing for every district and state of India. But it's too much for me to take on. It would take over two years to do it all, all day, every day!! I'm going to add a lot of missing villages and try to make this a model list for others to follow. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:22, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

It's frustrating though not being able to organize something larger scale. The task is too big. I mean I could go through the categories and simply redirect every unsourced article, empty, and garbage containing article I could to the district but I don't think it would be productive to do so. Somewhere somebody has to add sourced info and write a proper article. Probably the best thing would be to regularly browse through the categories and nuke the garbage and try a least to source and clean up some of the major towns in each district. I soon tend to get sidetracked though. What we need on here is an organized cleanup programme involving mainly fluent Indians who know how to source/what is appropriate. Oh well, it's worth a try at least to produce a model example, you never know it might spur somebody on to start working on it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, just saw your last message. Kamanpalle, I'd condense the info which seems accurate into a sourced summary and redirect to the list.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:33, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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The DYK project (nominate) 08:47, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I came across this article by the link from DYK on the main page - just wanted to say I found it a really good, well-written and interesting article. I follow horse racing in Europe a fair bit but don't really known anything about it India, and I enjoyed reading this article a great deal. --Bcp67 (talk) 11:19, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

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I...um, what?

I was just going by the article Yaruba dynasty, which was categorized under Category:Sultans of Oman - I've removed it from there and recategorized it in line with the category. For the rest, I realy know very little about pre-20th-century Middle Eastern history, so I was pretty well flying blind in creating the category in the first place. Thanks for the clarification and edification - I suppose I've always known that there had to be something going on in Oman, but never stopped to ask what. 'S why I love this place, the stuff you pick up. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:34, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

HotCat, quick fingers, and a dearth of anything else to do at the moment. :-) (It's one of the reasons my edit count's so high - I tend to edit as I see things that need editing, rather than do a bunch of stuff at once. Some form of ADD, I shouldn't wonder.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:03, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Those 4 Estonian composers now all have articles. Thanks for your addition and the Oman work. Still pondering on what to do on the India front..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:31, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

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Seriously - I never realized how fascinating that part of the world could be. I've learned a lot following your edits these past couple of days. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:53, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Harmless...perhaps. But I prefer to think of it as doing the opposite of harm - great good, in fact. Making a lot of things accesible to the public at large that otherwise might not be. It's what we can do so well here, I find.

Keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:16, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I alerted Aymatth to the missing content Ser but I agree he's finding a surprising amount of detail on some of the older ones, I doubt he'll find much on the really ancient ones though but he might surprise me! Andy on Sultan bin Murshid lead says he died 1742 the infobox and article 1743. Also the "Saif bin Sultan was tricked into delivering the last forts in Muscat" not sure what you meant by him delivering the last forts. Can you tweak? Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:35, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

This is an area where the books are full of contradictions, aka mistakes. Existing WP articles are very poor, full of errors. There are some fine old anecdotes, tales of trickery, that are almost certainly rubbish. I am circling around to try to get a more coherent and plausible view. Aymatth2 (talk) 23:35, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, you're doing as good a job as anybody on it I think. Cascade Centar notable?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:43, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Super stuff! I've edited Fort Al Jalali a bit and have nominated for GA, which it clearly meets. It could probably use something more on the 19th century but if the info doesn't exist then obviously it can't be!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:08, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I guess you're using a small screen with small text, on my 28 inch screen with fair sized text I didn't see a break problem. Right alignment though as you say is easier for mobile users. The lead should adequately summarize the article. If you felt that undue weight was placed on the museum you could have fleshed out the history a bit. Never mind, it still covers the stark basics.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:57, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Agreed that short and sweet as possible is good for the lead, but I thought the special function bit was worthy of adding at least... IMO it has one or two too many images which looks a bit cluttered. SOme of the gallery images are redundant I think. It would be different if we had images of the interior but do we really need that many same position images?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I've taken one out and mixed it in the gallery so it doesn't look like 4 images of the same view, looks OK now I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:06, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Spotted a missing fort in Khasab. You may wish to expand that article or/and create the fort/castle.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Rena Koh notable?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:41, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Or is it too feminine for you?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:33, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I think I've added enough to pass GNG.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:22, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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The DYK project (nominate) 08:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Can you answer on Talk:Fort Al Jalali/GA1? I doubt we'd find much else on it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:14, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

There you go, congratulations! Offhand can you think of any others which might reach GA with minimal work?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:47, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Givors canal looks just about GA level.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:13, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Infobox says 20km long, construction says 15km., can you clear that up? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:45, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Just looked in google books. Two things are remarkable; you managed to stumble across a rather obscure obsolete canal in the middle of France and you managed to write a GA quality article using old French sources which just by looking in google books surprises me you were able to compile something that decent, even by your standards! We're lacking in French GA articles so I'll nom. I might find a French speaking reviewer can't promise anything.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:04, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

On the Venetian front any chance of translating this, it's linked in the Corfu (city) article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:15, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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Nice page on Theodore the Martyr Neonchameleon (talk) 17:22, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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Recently cleaned this up and added a bit and discussed with Huldra on the talk page. Given your skill at writing fort articles I wondering if you'd be interested in creating an article on Lamu Fort or/and an article on the Old Town of Lamu about the actual UNESCO site.. One thing though is the article says that Sultan started it yet the sources seem to indicate the fort was built 1813-1821 and he died in 1809. Might need correcting in the main article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Good job on the fort. Just spotted Oyo, Nigeria, what a shambles! Sokoto should probably be blasted and rewritten from scratch too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:58, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Agree with Blofeld here; very nice job you did. I have just added a link to the original Boteler source, but I am unfamiliar with your way of referencing. Feel free to change my ref into your standard form. (PS:.... but I do not agree that the new fort looks better! It is just a very bad picture of the old one at the moment...) Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:20, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Notable?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed a few years ago you added numerous links [2], have you considered incorporating them into the article? thanks. LibStar (talk) 23:07, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

hi, no I'm not considering working on the article except minor edits. LibStar (talk) 23:42, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

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Seasons greetings! In light of the new photos available for Penitentiary of New Mexico on the talk page, your previous interest in New Mexico and strongholds, I wondered if you'd be interested in doing the preliminary expansion of this article. I can't expect to expand it to Alcatraz level but I'm sure it could be greatly improved.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:51, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas! I was wondering if you could start an article on Benny Thau (de)?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:22, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

It was Thau who reportedly sacked Elizabeth Taylor after she demanded an exorbitant pay rise and called her "nothing but a whore" or something of that element.. It comes from the Darwin Porter sensationalist biography on here though so whether it is reliable or not remains to be seen but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true.. Second page down ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:36, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Thau should probably be mentioned in the articles of a few of those stars linked in the article and the MGM article itself. I was wondering if you could find a list of Presidents of MGM, a nav box or category might help, I've already created Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:27, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back!! During your holiday I nuked Abuja as it was in a state. I wondered if you could expand it again and properly source it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Harrias ^talk 12:03, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Antonio Albanese (chef) notable?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

• I can't find much. A couple of paragraphs here. The search is confused because there is a well-known comedian by the same name who has acted as a chef and lately became partner in a restaurant. The trouble is, chefs are rarely famous. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Can you address Talk:Givors canal/GA1?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Passed GA, well done and congratulations. Soham 16:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Any chance you could rid of the red links on the species in Lågskär?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:49, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

You have a point I guess. And Internet access in Nigeria will only increase in coming years. But that sort of thinking renders most countries in the developing world unworthy of editing because of the worry at some point it'll be trodden over by POV pushers and poor English speakers..Care to expand Kista then? It's the most important area economically in Sweden and there's plenty of sources available and it's unlikely to get hijacked :-]♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:39, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Found something which might interest you. I stubbed San Esteban (ship), but in googling I seem to see a lot about a 1554 wreck of a ship of the same name in Texas and three other vessels. Can you expand/distinguish and cover them and also expand the Armada ship? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for your article Victuallers (talk) 07:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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The short answer: I went with Category:French Ministers of Commerce and Industry because it is also used on the article for Jean-Baptiste Dumas, who is listed in the template as having held the same position in the same ministry. So I figured that's how it would work.

More generally (specific to France): I tend to follow the listings on the article for the ministry in question. To wit: List of Finance Ministers of France shows that the position has been renamed numerous times over its history. Even so, all of its holders are categorized under Category:Finance Ministers of France. So I suppose the best thing to do would be to figure out what position the ministry in question morphed into, and go from there. Alternatively (and maybe the better solution): just create the new category and populate it accordingly.

It's all very confusing, and gives me a new appreciation for the fact that us Americans have renamed something like two cabinet departments in our history. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 22:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I say, be bold. (I'd do something similar myself, but I'm never sure of the category trees, honestly.) I think that's the only real way to sort out some of the listing mess - categories for each iteration of some of the more tangled departments. Otherwise, something risks getting misapplied.

The US has been remarkably stable; we've had two departments combined into one (War and Navy, to become Defense), and a couple have been renamed, but that's about it. Though we do keep adding them on... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:17, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Excellent. I'll try to help out a bit as I can, but I'm juggling a few things at the moment. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:21, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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I added that. Perhaps I should state "proposed".♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:28, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Vacation again?? Who do you think you are, Gary Lineker?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:11, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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Dingle Bay is one which could really be expanded. I added a bit and sourced it a while back after seeing the Jimmy Stewart film.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:58, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

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Where did you get the often referred to as the Second Founder of the Church of Salzburg from? It's not in the body. I've nommed Lamu Fort and Conrad for GA. It know it upsets you to have anything other than two lines for a lead but they need to be for GA. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

• Last sentence of the article. Man nennt ihn deshalb auch den "zweiten Gründer der Kirche von Salzburg". I don't like lead paragraphs more than 10% of the article length. Longer than that and they tend to be selections of text from the article rather than a summary. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Oh I know you're outlook on leads and I agree in part but for GA the lead as to be informative and effectively summarize the article. I think it's worth it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:33, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Intrigued at (part). What is that? Is it any different from a civil parish or was it one which merged or something?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds confusing. Perhaps was a parish would be better then, unless there is a source which documents it's division and that can be mentioned.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:01, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Ah I see, sorry I mistook what you said about barony as county.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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I've added to Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania, nothing too much to the lead though. It's at GAN, you might find some more scraps but it's decent enough on a small village. I doubt an economy or education section would be really be necessary.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:46, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I actually remember you editing the Calcutta golf club! Yeah it's amazing how working on one thing can generate the inspiration for other topics. As I say arguably the most important thing on wikipedia is starting articles and finding red links and rooting out what is missing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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I think there may be a problem. I tried to rename the page but couldn't as a page called Dysert already existed. It turned out to be just a re-direct. So I overwrote it with the parish details and amended the disambig to reflect it. However, this means that you page is now an anomaly. It should probably be deleted. Sorry 'bout this. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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I know you tend to avoid "feminine" topics, but I wondered if you could have a go at improving Veloz and Yolanda. They were quite notable in films of that period and might even warrant separate biographies. I just removed the unsourced content which was there previously but some of it might be decent if restored and sourced. There should be tons of hits and might prove interesting. Life magazine cover here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Can you format the couple of web sources in Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania into your system?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:34, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Passed GA now. If you want a break from something I was wondering if you'd be interested in tackling the forts in the Humen (town). They're quite notable and seem to be missing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Why do you wish I hadn't asked? Those sources have helped, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:30, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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Can you clean this up with sub headers?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:23, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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Notable? I find it hard to believe a 25 storey skyscraper in Hong Kong doesn't meet GNG.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Wow Earth structure looks great! Well done! Should pass GA pretty easily. Do you think it's pretty comprehensive? For once the lead looks long enough too :-)! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Aren't you going to document that then? It doesn't need to be comprehensive to pass GA, just have a good basic grasp of the topic.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Any chance you could start Archie Selwyn, a notable theatre producer.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:37, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Yikes! The article almost looks like it's been here for several years! 17:53, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Hehe, well, on wiki I suppose that could be as much as insult as a compliment saying it looks as good as an articles which has been around for years lol.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:35, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

I can see you're having fun with the US theatre bios. I'd actually heard of Selwyn a long time ago and amazed it was missing! Just been preparing Martin Miller for GA. It mentions the Viennese Theatre Club or Das Laterndl, a notable theatrical group for Austrian exiles in London at the beginning of WWII. Plenty of hits if you're interested. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:28, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Makes you wonder how many other very notable articles were deleted by a pack of idiots...♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:54, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I really think Earth structure is GA quality, regardless of whether you think it's comprehensive or not. I'm going to nom it, you can always add more content if you feel it is inadequate!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dutch brick now a GA, only a while after it being at AFD! Are you still interested in expanding Veloz and Yolanda? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:05, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

That's OK, you're identifying a lot of very notable (but lesser known) Ziegfeld types!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:03, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour and sort out the alignment of the gallery in the first floor section of Althorp? Make it into the nice fixed larger and neater looking galleries I've seen you add to numerous articles with a central title, perhaps with a border around it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:23, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Bee-oot-iful. The article still needs a fair bit of research from things like newspapers and I haven't copyedited it or trimmed the lead much yet but it's on the right track for GA by the end of the month. Compare it to a few months ago anyway!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

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While we're on the subject of Huffman, what do you think is the difference between "directed by" and "staged by"? The IBDb site does not explain, as far as I can see, and they seem to have inherited the distinction from "Playbill", whose site also does not explain. I think they are essentially synonymous for our purposes, even if there is a technical distinction, and so I think we should just say that he directed, and take out the indications in the list of productions. Note this: "The director of the show – the person who is credited with staging the revue – was J.C. Huffman ... this probably meant that Huffman both directed the overall musical (blocking, etc.) and, also, designed a portion of the set, or at least chose some of the basic elements for the stage [including lighting]." Also, all those hyphens in the dates should be n-dashes. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Can you add a source where Rosie has asked for one in notes?♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:44, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

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I need your assistance on something. I've started the 1st Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. This states the winners (the film year is given rather than award year). It states the years they didn't have the ceremony. Based on that I make the 2013 one 63rd ceremony. However, imdb excludes 1954 and 1956 and a photograph of the 2013 ceremony here has a big 61 in the background which likely refers to the 61st awards which would make imdb correct at 61 ceremonies. I think it'll be valuable to cover all years and highlight what needs the most work for films and actors. I'd be inclined to believe there are indeed 61 to date and there weren't any in 1954 or 1956 as claimed. The problem is there are sources here which claim the 1954 winner for 1953 and here the 1956 winner for 1955. I don't want to get to the 38th etc and find I'm referring to the wrong ceremony for the wrong year. I could of course simply call it the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. Can you look into it? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:43, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

This is pretty tricky. I've started 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. Then I found this, scroll along. I thought there were some errors in it but after a while I realized that they were probably different awards from the association ones and from the Academy of Arts and Sciences. What do you think? It would be good to find a solid source on the association awards but the official website seems to no longer exist. The imdb lists seem to be reliable as they have the old "events" list to the dead website so likely copied them from there.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:04, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

As I thought, thanks. I'll try to get around to doing the other awards at a later date.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:29, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Any chance you could transwiki this and create a credible initial article? You'd be doing me a massive favour and I can concentrate on the Condor awards then.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:46, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

That's excellent, thanks. The thing is though that rules out 90% of Argentine films as most oldies are not well known outside Latin America and are only recognizable by the Spanish name. I think the lower casing in Spanish looks scruffy and doesn't do much to inform our English readers about the nature of the film. A lot already moved to English on imdb aren't really well known by the English title either. I can see the argument for only using the original title though, but lugnuts created a lot of ones which appeared at festivals using English.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:14, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Don't want to sidetrack you from US theatre but there's two really notable major Argentine film studios of the classic period also worth starting Lumiton and Estudios San Miguel. Argentina Sono Film should also be expanded from [3] and probably moved to that title.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:19, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Agreed with your suggestion and would avoid the confusion!#♦ Dr. Blofeld

Not bad! I'll be out of a job soon :-). It's quite enjoyable working on Argentine cinema I find and cross cutting between things like the awards and the lists by year and by director. I've seen a few Argentine films, some of the older films are now available online and are quite enjoyable. It was pretty glamorous the Golden Age of Argentinian film, some of the stars like Roberto Escalada, Libertad Lamarque and Amelia Bence are certainly comparable to the old Hollywood stars of that period in terms of glamour and status in the country they were in. Lamarque's article in particular badly needs work and nuking and writing from scratch!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Don't know if you'd be interested in expanding Haji Mastan. A very colorful figure I'm led to believe.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 5 June 2014 (UTC)