User talk:Sadalmelik

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome!

Hello, Sadalmelik, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  - Darwinek 20:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Zoological information 2 he Tireless Contributor Barnstar 3 Good work 4 Cool !! 5 Appreciation 6 You deserve it 7 (Off Topic) Question for Map 8 Manhunt 2 9 Mali Topography Map 10 Barnstar 11 Merry Christmas 12 AfD nomination of Bere, Botswana 13 Patrol 14 RE: Your comment at ANI 15 Request for comment on main page deletion incident 16 Burkina Faso 17 Political map of Africa 18 I've been meaning to do this for a few days now... 19 Barnstar! 20 Canadian provincial maps 21 The Categorisation Barnstar 22 Madagascar 23 WikiCookie 24 GeoBot 25 Are blacks more intelligent? 26 Hi

[edit] Zoological information

I replied on my talk page. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 17:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] he Tireless Contributor Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		You deserve The Tireless Contributor Barnstar for your contributions to the WikiProject Sri Lanka articles over seven hours in one day. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ walkie-talkie 14:30, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! It was not seven hours straight, though, I did take long breaks... I just noticed, that the article count for WikiProject Sri Lanka appeared to be a bit neglected, and not even Murali is "officially" covered by the WP Sri Lanka. On paper, even WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants (of all things, good heavens!) is four times bigger than WP Sri Lanka. There are plenty of articles and plenty of activity, but it's not really connected to the project at the moment. I'm going to keep tagging articles, and I think the categories are not applied systematically and consistently to towns - I rather suspect there are relatively many articles still uncategorized (that's how I found myself messing around Sri Lanka, by following uncategorized articles). I'll have to poke around a bit! – Sadalmelik 19:43, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

on the SL cricketers. Happy editing. Please feel free to join WP:CRIC. There is also a QUIZ as well. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cool !!

Hey, this image Image:Java Locator Topography.png is cool. It really helps a lot. I see from your Commons contributions that you created a lot of topographic maps. We have a long-abandoned sub-project in Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia/Cartography to make locator maps for islands in Indonesia. And your topographic map is badly needed for such a large country. It is really helpful to have such a map to locate objects in more detail. Do you have already maps for other islands in Indonesia? We are planning to have locator maps of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Java (you have it now), Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku Islands and Papua. If you can make such a map, then we are really grateful to you. I'm going to include your Java locator map into the sub-project. Thanks & cheers. — Indon (reply) — 20:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes I agree with Indon, these maps are fantastic. I have an additional request: could you produce maps for the Mentawai Islands and Nias? (Caniago 04:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC))

Done :) As is Simeulue since I had the data uncompressed and ready. – Sadalmelik 08:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Appreciation

Hello. I must say big "thank you" as an appreciation of your work. I am a huge geography geek and like your topographic maps. Maybe some day you will create them for all countries in the world. Sooner or later I will give you a barnstar for your effort. I am looking forward for your next maps. I will probably kindly request creation of some maps when you will be less busy. - Darwinek 22:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Nice to know people like them. It doesn't actually take that long to make these maps, 10-40 min per map if I have everything ready and coastline data is reasonably accurate. SRTM data only covers between 60 S and 60 N, and I have most of the data now... I still need to download North America, a bit of Asia and Australia, and several isolated islands. – Sadalmelik 08:24, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You deserve it

		The Geography Barnstar
		Why should wait? You have done terrific jobs working on maps and not only just a map, but a very useful ones, see this article. It enhances visualization of the article. Keep up the good work! — Indon (reply) — 13:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I have been caught up with a bit of real-life lately... It's funny, though, I did try to use one of locators in a bit similar way than you in Adam Air Flight 574. Copied examples, modified and didn't get it to work. I just wanted to see whether a black cone would be more suitable for mountains than a red dot. Oh well, at least it works. Though it seems that {{Location map}} allows custom markers, so I really didn't have to use the more complex stuff... – Sadalmelik 20:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (Off Topic) Question for Map

Hello Sadalmelik, on your User page you write: “Need maps? I am also happy to help, if you need a map or two.” Well, for a little book about traditional art from Tanzania we could probably use a topographic map like the one you have contributed to Wikimedia Commons (file Tanzania_Topography.png).

Could you create a special version of this map for us? We would need just the plain topography, i.e. without country borders (the thick red line) and without the legend of heights (bottom left) and without the km scale (bottom right). This would be really great! It would be even better if you could create the map with a higher size or resolution resp. (ca. 1.5 up to 2.0 times of the current size), if this is possible. As it is a small book project with nearly no profit, we can’t offer you to pay money, but we will mention you in the book at the appropriate places (below the card, in the impressum, on the Thanks page) and send you a book when it is finished.

The book will appear in German in a little German publishing house, Edition Phaistos; there is a web page about another book about African Art made by the same editior: Dolls from Africa. The new book about Tanzania will look similarly, but will be a bit more scientific, and will get printed in the next months.

If you could help, we would be very happy. Please contact me via e-mail to [1]. You can also see my user page at the German Wikipedia project: de:Benutzer:Aristeas. Best and thanks in advance, Roman Eisele. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.180.123.83 (talk) 16:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

That should be easy - I'll email you when I have something to show. – Sadalmelik 20:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much in advance! Best, —Roman Eisele 09:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Manhunt 2

I think actually the change you reverted was quite right. All that text is unsourced WP:OR based on someone playing a leaked copy of the game. John Hayes^talk 06:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me! There was no edit summary, and I don't know really anything about the subject... Oh well, I have removed the warning I gave to the IP and left something nicer instead. Cheers, – Sadalmelik 07:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC

No problem. It wasn't obvious. John Hayes^talk 23:51, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mali Topography Map

Hi, I'm researching Mali's climate and geography and I stumbled upon your topography map. Could you please provide me with a source for the information that was used in your image? Much appreciated. σмgнgσмg 12:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I downloaded the data from here, but there are other sources for the same data in different formats (GeoTiff etc). The choice of format depends on the program you use to display it, but transforming it to various formats should be relatively easy, and I suppose most programs should be able to import these. Feel free to ask if you have any questions! – Sadalmelik 20:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit
		For Sadalmelik, for providing Zimbabwe with a locator map. Awarded for contribution to WP:ZIM by Mangwanani (talk) 19:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I didn't apply it in any systematical way, though, just adding it here and there, as an advertisement. – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations to your barnstar. :) I would like to change map in {{Location map Czech Republic}} but the new one is a little different and current coordinates are not good with the new map. Do you know how to adapt coordinates for the new map? You can see my unsuccessful edits in edit history of that template. Thanks. - Darwinek (talk) 20:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look if I can figure it out... – Sadalmelik (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. It looks to me it is calibrated in a proper way. Should I go ahead and change that map and coordinates in the main template? - Darwinek (talk) 22:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I've changed it. Should I delete the Sandbox one you have created? - Darwinek (talk) 10:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it can as well go. I just wanted to display both versions together to confirm it's ok. – Sadalmelik (talk) 15:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas

Hello! I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year. - Darwinek (talk) 16:50, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Bere, Botswana

I have nominated Bere, Botswana, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bere, Botswana. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Phatom87 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

HI thanks for your Botswanan villages. Could you add an infobox like Modipane in future . I was going through the African settlements and ensuring they all have an infobox settlement which can include other data at a later date thanks. Also can you tag your articles as {{AfricaProject|class=stub|importance=low|Botswana=yes}} ♦ King of Baldness ♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes unfortunately there is little on most places in Africa on the web. What you are doing is essential even if they remain stubs for a while. I started an article on Akwidaa a few weeks ago and would love to see even all villages with an article of some sort. The major problem as you well know is the uneveness in available information but in time I hope this will change hence the infoboxes too ♦ King of Baldness ♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC).

You seem to be adding articles on all the hotlist of places I have for development!!!! If only there were more editors like us! Most of the existing Madagascan articles on towns are one liners and I aimed to gradually add infoboxes to them too ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

When you have time could you recolour the Angolan locator map too like Madagascar. Pink is a silly colour ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Oops I didn;t know you created the pink maps. I don;t think the yellow is perfect either I prefer the green and blue relief maps also but it isn;t always possible. It can be tricky knowing whether or not to include the municipalitiy and town as one or in seperate articles, if there was enough info there should be two seperate articles but this may not be possible. Either way I think you are doing a great job to date and look forward to your coming articles from the different provinces of Madagascar. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Patrol

You're good. I pressed the "mark as controlled" link, just as you deleted the page on three occasions. Wow! Basketball110 _{the pages I've messed up completely} 03:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Well not really... I was simply marking articles created by one person – there should probably be a bot to mark articles created by trusted individuals. – Sadalmelik (talk) 03:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Your comment at ANI

I can't help wondering if somebody other than BC had tagged these articles, would we be here discussing this episode? A little WP:AGF goes a long way of solving problems between editors, who are doing their best to improve the project. –

—Sadalmelik (talk) 11:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. I filled a similar request for John, a short while back, with, similar results. What happened? The relevant Wikiproject contacted me, I put the bot on hold, until they could verify the remaining cats, and, John cleaned up after the bot, as promised. No ANI, no calls for bans, no big deal. It's all blown out of proportion, due to the bot being BCBot. Just thought you'd find it amusing. SQL^{Query me!} 02:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

People really are hypersensitive with Betacommand. I suppose things will calm down a bit now, that the last big NFCC 10c run is done, at least one can hope so. This must be very frustrating for him. – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment on main page deletion incident

As you made an edit to the incident listed in the Administrators notice board, it is requested that you confirm the details of the incident here (section 1.1.2)

This is as the incident is used as the basis of an argument and needs to be confirm by persons familar with the event

Regards --User:Mitrebox talk 2008-02-22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.11.244.78 (talk) 07:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Note, this user contacted me too, and, has been blocked by another admin, for a month for canvassing, and block evasion. SQL^{Query me!} 11:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Without doubt he means well, but using a bot for revert warring... not the best of ideas, and neither is the rather blatant block evasion. Especially as he only needed to promise not to run the edit-warring bot again. – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burkina Faso

Hi. Thanks for altering those Angolan and Zambian maps -they look much better. Is there any way you could create a more attractive map for Burkina Faso? Image:Burkina.PNG is not the best ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Your're a gem brilliant thanks!!! I;ve just been adding some Burkinabe image incidentally -I found one of a cinema for Cinema of Burkina Faso, Quite a novelty that. I;ve been going through cities in Guinea Bissau , Sierra Leone and Liberia today and adding infoboxes Cheers!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi sorry to bother you again but can you make a note to make identically constructed maps for Senegal and Gambia. The Senegal one is a horrid yellow, and the Gambia one is in grey scale and too small. I think the style you have chosen now looks excellent. Thanks, let me know if you can do this, ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:06, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks fine thanks. Incidentally my parents didn't like Gambia as a country either -they said it was rather laden with crime and quite unsafe. I'm currently filling out stubs on the district of the republic of the congo -hopefully details and references can be added later. Keep up the great work with Madagascar ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi when you have some time could you create one to replace the existing one for Tanzania, and also see if you can create the maps for the smaller countries of Lesotho, Sao Tome and Principe and Cape Verde -those four at present don't have a pin. Thats about it then I think. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I've got one now for Swaziland its just the others. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:51, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Top man thanks! I've just been adding some pictures to the main Ghana article ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Check out Agua-Coco and Assomada. Looks cool doesn;t it!! One favor. This isn't for Africa but could you create one for French Guiana? We have Image:French Guiana CIA.gif but no pin or locator template and I want to cover the towns rather than just the municipalities. I think it would be better to have a map which shows the relief as rivers as so important to that area. You see I have one for everywhere in South and Central America except French Guiana. This would just about cover it I think.

Ahh. Actually Chad doesn't have a decent map yet -it looks like the Senegal one did. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes I'm aware that falling rain shouldn't be taken as a primary source as I and a few others have found the population figures to be very inaccurate. However I believe the situation and coordinates are generally correct. I took for granted elevation was too, as I thought it was generated by satellite observation. Its just i don't want to spend the next 80 years!!! manually adding them when we could get them up and running automatically and hopefully reliably. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:26, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

As you know I;ve done a lot of work on places in many countries and the biggest problem is finding statistics on population etc from reliable sources. I know you said about reliable data exisitngon the web for most countries its just for many places there doesn't seem to be anything available. I really think its about time something was organized where wikipedia could obtain statistics on any settlement in any country and begin to build a completely unviersal guide to the world geographically. I am very surprised you are able to write as much as you have done for starter on places in Madagascar. I thought that country was like so many of the others where online sources are seriously lacking ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 23:34, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I fully agree with on everything you said. But wikipedia needs to sort out something. That's all I'm saying. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Political map of Africa

Hi! You've noted on your user page that you're willing to consider map creation/editing requests, so if you have some time, I was wondering whether you could help me with a certain map. Could you modify either Image:BlankMap-Africa.png or Image:Blank Map-Africa.svg (or create a new map based on those) to include Cape Verde, the Comoros, and the Canary Islands? There may be other minor issues with the map(s), but the omission of those three relatively large island groups stands out. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it seems this is the best I can do. I simply cannot handle svg... BTW, the time stamp on your message is quite interesting! Cheers, – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the new map - it should do just fine for the purpose I had in mind: creating a map for Afrobarometer. I would have tried to edit it myself, but my success in editing graphics is, to put it mildly, rather depressing. :) As for the time stamp ... oops! I had previously made the same request to another editor (who was unable to do it) and copy-pasted part of the message including (apparently) the signature and time stamp. Sorry about that... Thanks again, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 18:54, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I've been meaning to do this for a few days now...

ever since I noticed your name popping up a lot at User:AlexNewArtBot/AfricaSearchResult.

		The Africa Award
		To Sadalmelik for substantially expanding Wikipedia's coverage of Malagasy settlements, while maintaining standards of sourcing. Thank you, Black Falcon (Talk) 18:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - much appreciated! It's slow work... I think I might have done about a third of the communes so far. – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi could you create a map for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. I'm not too keen on the existing ones and it would be nice to see how they would look in "African mode" lol! Could you create them? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I take it thats a no then? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:07, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah thats cool as I was thinking the Kyrgyzstan one I made was good enough anyway (but I'd ike to see what it looks like to keep options open). but if you could create a better one for Kazakhstan this would be great. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

It looks fine thanks, you're making good progress on Madagascar -good to see you have finally got further south!! i take it you intend to do the districts when it is done? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry about Kyrg though it was the Kazakhstan one that was needed. Thanks for your help. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello friend. I was wondering if it would be possible to create district locators using this as a source and highlighting the relevant raion (district) on the right. Would it be possible to make raion locators this way? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC) I'm going to set up the raion pages ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I've started them. If you think it is possible that it can be done -you know the raion highlighted in red on the map for each one let me know. As I say, there's no rush to creating them -all in good time. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

v • d • e  Districts (Raions) of Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek (also a raion) Batken Province Batken · Kadamjay · Leilek Chuy Province Alamudun · Chuy · Jaiyl · Kemin · Moskovsky · Panfilov · Sokuluk · Ysyk-Ata · City of Tokmok Issyk Kul Province Ak-Suu · Jeti-Oguz · Tong · Tup · Issyk Kul Jalal-Abad Province Aksy · Ala-Buka · Bazar-Korgon  · Chatkal · Nooken · Suzak · Toguz-Toro · Toktogul Naryn Province Ak-Talaa · At-Bashi · Jumgal · Kochkor · Tyran'-Shan' Osh Province Alay · Aravan · Chong-Alay · Kara-Kulja  · Kara-Suu · Nookat · Uzgen Talas Province Bakay-Ata · Kara-Buura  · Manas · Talas

Thats great if you could -there should be enough on that page I showed you to figure out which is which. By the weekend should be perfect. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to keep intruding but can you make a note to replace the grey map for Sudan and to create one for Western Sahara some time. (I'm never certain if this is independent or what but we have Category:Cities in Western Sahara. Thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Much obliged for your considerable efforts thankyou very much mate. Yes its a bit of a tread carefully territory that one isn;t it. If I use the western sahara pin and state the coutnry as Morocco in the infobox it should balance it out I think. ALl the best and thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

HI i was wondering what you used as a basis for the divisions of Sudan. The map looks like it has abou 14 divisions but apparently there is 26 states. Could you explain what the divisions are cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:30, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I hereby award you with this barnstar for all your tireless work creating articles about cities and towns in Madagascar. I often patrol new pages and I noticed your good work. Keep it up! αѕєηιηє t/c 06:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I think I'm finally approaching half-way stage with this little stubbing project... Cheers, – Sadalmelik (talk) 06:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian provincial maps

Hi hope things are good. I have a little request. Could you create a set of attractive maps in the African style for each of the Canadian provinces? The ones we have a tpresent are really awful and look like silver blocks. Let me know if you could do this cheers as it will change the appearance of several thousand articles. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Man where are you?? We need a map of Uruguay, Jordan and Egypt too!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Its wonderful to hear from you. I feared the worst that you had left or something. Yes we need provincial maps of Canada to replace the horrid silver ones. But for Uruguay, Jordan, Afghanistan and Egypt just the country maps. All the best ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Remember though with Botswana I'm half way through putting them in Category:Cities, towns and villages in Botswana ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:48, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi I would recommend reorganizing the Madagascan towns and villages by province. E.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Antananarivo Province etc. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah no Category:Antanararivo Province would remain; that category would be for general articles from that province e.g landmarks, people etc. Its such the settlements that would become one category Category:Cities, towns and villages in Antananarivo Province which would be a sister category to both "towns in madagascar" and Antananarivo Province. Generally I have been recategorizing manually but as you have done so much on Madagascar with 700 odd articles and counting a bot would be best to sort that. Could you arrange something and propose the change as I suggested. I'll comment once you have posted something -just let me know when. Its probably best it is done sooner than later ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thats great but you;ll need to move Cities in Madagascar as the main category to Category:Cities, towns and villages in Madagascar and completely empty the individual cities, towns and villages categories and create redirects the the main cities, towns and villages in Madagascar. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Its OK I've moved it but Darwinek is concerned about the 48 "official cities and townns" ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely. Also a district/provincial capital category and some form of navigation box connecting them would be good. I don't have a problem if Darwinek wants to put the 48 cities back in the city category as long as it doesn't affect the new provincial category structure which is very good I think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC) OK cool, but it is only Canada we need the provincial maps for. Like Jordan , Afghan etc for Uruguay we just need a national map too ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 08:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC) Eeeesh. That doesn't sound too healthy. Lets hope it starts behaving. Thanks for that, ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Earlier I created Category:Departments of Niger which User:TL miles is going to reference later and develop. Would you have the ability to create some maps for them? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC) Ah I see. DOn't worry then ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking more like a district map like you did for Kyrygzstan ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

OK but apparently the arrondissements are now Departments and the Departments are now called Regions. Sounds confusing but the government changed the naming in 2006 according to Miles. Any idea what country you want to work on next after Madagascar? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

No the borders I believe are still exactly the same just different naming system I think. Its not highly important though as we have those brightly colored ones already. Yes Mozambqiue is one of the poorest developed countries on here. If you could create and develop existing pages like you have done to Malagasy settlements this would be awesome. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC) Oh more importantly is maps of the districts of Burma. It is such a huge country and its districts comprise very large areas. Do you have knowledge of its districts? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:35, 2 May 2008 (UTC) Category:Districts of Burma -there are 46 districts but I believe there are about 55 in total ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Categorisation Barnstar

{{subst:The Categorisation Barnstar|I stumbled across your edit at Maria, Maevatanana while conducting RC Patrol and thought it worthy of recognition. Keep up the good work!}}

Thanks! AWB does make it much faster work than I could do manually. Cheers, – Sadalmelik (talk) 19:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Madagascar

Hello and thanks for your comment. Have we agreed on categorizing "urban communes" as Cities in Madagascar? - Darwinek (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think -- I'll add them back tomorrow. I have to rush away now :) – Sadalmelik (talk) 18:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Great, thank you very much. I am busy myself, I screwed up several exams, so it is no funny time for me now. - Darwinek (talk) 19:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi- I completed your excellent work on Andrianampoinimerina (thank you for starting it!) and added some information in the discussion page. Hope it will interest you. pleased to collaborate with you on other subject about Madagascar. sincerely--Mounblow 16:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for checking the work on Nampoina! And thank you in advance for your future critics and contributions. Concerning the form, as I'm a novice, this article will surely need a lot of "cleanup" (style, too long sentences, grammar, useless red links). Conserning the backgrounds, I think also it will need a big cleanup: Perhaps the chapter on the Historical context is too long and should be included in another article about the Zafimamy/Alahamadintany kingdom of the North (the Nampoina's father clan). May be the chapter about his Reign will need more developpement also (there's some ideas i the same article in French). Finally I'd like to add some pictures for each sub-chapter, what do you think about that? (for example: a picture on Nampoina's hut at Ambohimanga, on Ambohimanga hill, on Merina ricefields, etc.). I let you check, correct, comments all of that... Thank you again.

PS: 1)It's a pity that the books in Malagasy have not ISBN (I've not found it for instant), I hope it'll not depreciate the quality... 2)I cited the books citation by memory, is it necessary to give the page on each citation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mounblow (talk • contribs) 19:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I've filled in the re dlinks for the national parks. If you have any knowledge of them please help expand them when you have a moment cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

At least I can add infoboxes and couple of references to each of them, which should be enough to keep article taggers at bay. I think the older articles were all written by a single editor, who is no longer active and never finished his/her project. – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

v • d • e National Parks and Reserves of Madagascar Strict Nature Reserves Bemaraha • Betampona • Lokobe • Tsaratanana • Zahamena National parks Montagne d'Ambre • Andohahela • Andringitra • Ankarafantsika • Baie de Baly • Bemaraha • Isalo • Kirindy Mitea • Mantadia • Marojejy • Masoala • Midongy du sud • Namoroka • Ranomafana • Tsimanampetsotse • Zahamena • Zombitse-Vohibasia Wildlife Reserves Analamazoatra • Analamerana • Andranomena • Ambatovaky • Forêt d'Ambre • Ambohijanahary • Ambohitantely • Anjanaharibe-Sud • Ankarana • Bemarivo • Beza Mahafaly • Bora • Kalambatritra • Kasijy • Manombo • Mangerivola • Maningoza • Manongarivo • Marotandrano • Nosy Mangabe • Pic d'Ivohibe • Tampoketsa Analamaitso

Groan groan. SO annoying isn't it. I'm just drawing up Template:Districts of Laos. I imagine your maps are probably out of date now? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed LOL. Perhaps he is hired by MI6 or Bond to attack Bald evil villains! Yes with Laos the vast majority of the old districts seem to have remained completely intact. However one district dissolved a few years back and was merged into Vientiane Province which could affect one or two province shapes. See Districts of Laos, it is the last one on the list. However the vast majority seem as before. Now its stub time again! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiCookie

Thanks! – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GeoBot

Hi there. We've requested the creation and programming of a new GeoBot. You are invited to join in the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Some type of GeoBot ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

well yes but how do you suggest we get them onto here more efficiently then??? I don't see how using coordinates from the website is copying. If anything it is google maps not maplandia. I'm pretty certain they mean copying their maps. PLaces names and coordinates are naturally public domain. This could seriously disrupt my work on here. Approaching governments is all well and good in principal but I don't see any evidence of this happening

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I know you always have very good intentions in regards to the prgression of wikipedia and towards myself as an editor and a person I know this. Ideally I would also stick to using official goverment sources if possible but the idea that the Burmese goverment is going to give an online website like wikipedia statistics and info on their 40,000 towns and villages is a highly improbable one. I'm just trying to find a way that we can receive complete world coverage on here but also have reliable and adequate information for each place (which such goverment contacts would allow). The first stage is to get them started geographically. Obviously I wasn't aware of maplandia's "robot" policy but given that settlements are organized by district and region by country on their I find it a very useful tool as a start, clearly I would wish to obtain full government details which would be used later as the main references. I am certain maplandia in regards to copywright means its maps, the idea that a site as large as wikipedia uses their names and coordinates illegally doesn't seem right. I'm certain it is their maps which they don'y want copied. Given the traffic on wikipedia I seriously doubt the owner of maplandia would object to wikipedia having many external links to the site and any links are likely to benefit that site considerably. I'll try to contact him and see what I can do. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes China isn't exactly the most cooperative either is it. I won't stop adding articles manually given that the names/coordinates can be obtained from severla others sites (how they can claim copywright over maps which are labelled as google anyway I don't know) but I can drop the reference to maplandia and just have an external link to the site so it doesn't imply they were used as a source. There is far too much missing to completely stop adding more articles to underdeveloped countries on here. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 08:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I have some map requests.

The follwoing Pacific Island countries are missing:

• Template:Location map Guam (U.S territory)
• Template:Location map Kiribati
• Template:Location map Nauru
• Template:Location map Samoa
• Template:Location map Solomon Islands
• Template:Location map Tonga
• Template:Location map Tuvalu
• Template:Location map Vanuatu

There is also still the Canadian provincial maps and the Laos district ones. Did you have any luck on this? Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that – I haven't had much time for Wikipedia lately. The location maps should be easy (Solomon Islands is unlikely to show anything apart from water, though). Canadian maps require a bit of tweaking still (my first try on Alberta included an arctic island...). The data I had for Laos is complete rubbish, but I stumbled on an interesting Laotian website (http://www.nra.gov.la/Data.php), which has much better looking data. It does show 142 districts, while 139 should be the current count, but here has been at least two mergers of districts... I will have to see if I can work out how they should go. – Sadalmelik ☎ 15:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are blacks more intelligent?

Evidence:

http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/528/236/

[edit] Hi

I just wanted to say thank you for your efforts in adding the muncipalities of Botswana. Caribbean1 (talk) 15:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

--70.68.179.142 (talk) 00:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)