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Contents 1 Re: Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock 2 Award! 3 Instant deletion?? 4 Paralympic athletes of Ukraine 5 Proposed deletion of Roland Schwarzl 6 Bubble tea! 7 Brixen 8 Texas A&M Stub deletion. 9 Remove stub designation? 10 Sport stubs 11 Scott Emerson, Tracy Davis, et al 12 Léopold Marien 13 Charles Davis Tillman stub deletions 14 Removal of content during stub sorting 15 Peter Martin (athlete) name mis match 16 Peter Martin (athlete) => User:Waacstats/test1 17 Editing Barnstar 18 Paralympic taskforce/project 19 Oregon County Stubs 20 could i get you opinion 21 Talkback 22 Back log 23 The Bug Squashers' Award for Excellence 24 Moving templates 25 FYI 26 Time to put away old habits ;p... 27 Dermatology 28 Just helping you out on this 29 Motorsport people stub sorting 30 The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 September 2009 31 Stub sorting 32 The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 September 2009 33 The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 October 2009 34 The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 October 2009 35 The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 October 2009 36 The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 October 2009 37 The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 November 2009 38 The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 November 2009 39 RioGrandedoNorte-geo-stub 40 New stub templates 41 The Wikipedia Signpost: 16 November 2009 42 The Wikipedia Signpost: 23 November 2009 43 The Wikipedia Signpost: 30 November 2009 44 Stub type proposals 45 The Wikipedia Signpost: 7 December 2009 46 The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 December 2009 47 The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 December 2009 48 Sankhya

[edit] Re: Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock

I noticed that you removed {{Poland-struct-stub}} and {{Świętokrzyskie-geo-stub}} from Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock. Given your work on stub sorting, I am presuming that you are more familiar with stubs than am I. However, I am curious whether your implication here is that the article does not belong in those stub categories, or that it is long enough to be considered beyond the stub phase? Personally, I think it's still a stub, but again note that your judgment is perhaps more informed. --Geoff Capp (talk) 13:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Award!

[edit] Instant deletion??

Re: Harold Alfred Whistler

I was off-line a couple of hours, returned to find Whistler had been deleted, and never even had a chance to consider what to do about him. Heck, I am not even sure what disappeared. I read the deletion notice only after he was gone. If you are going to vanish 'em that quick, why bother with the message?

If given any kind of opportunity, I would have tried to work him up into a Start class article.

I think the lesson I have been taught is, don't bother creating stubs.

Georgejdorner (talk) 10:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.

I am taking up the matter with Wub, as he was the actual deleter. I conclude that you followed due course, and have nothing for which you should apologize. So I can't accept your apology, because you don't owe me one. Okay?

BTW, I am glad someone cleans out the deadwood. Keep up the good work.

Georgejdorner (talk) 12:27, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Paralympic athletes of Ukraine

I did my best to insert the Ukrainian versions of there name in there articles, not sure if there all right, but most of them should be! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 19:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Roland Schwarzl

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Roland Schwarzl, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

10th place finisher at one Olympics isn't notable.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Huadpe (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bubble tea!

[edit] Brixen

Y Done. There was a ]] missing on the province! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Texas A&M Stub deletion.

We have had a similar discussion on deletion of a university related template over here. Oldag07 (talk) 16:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Remove stub designation?

Hello Waacstats: Please take a look at the entry for John Wilde. It was categorized by you as a stub back when it was a stub, and I have now added a great deal more to the article. If you think that it is time to remove the stub designation, I hope that you will do so - Glassnote (talk) 14:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi - Glassnote here again. I broke down and read the instructions concerning removing stub designations and removed the designation myself. Another rung up the learning curve! Glassnote (talk) 15:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sport stubs

I think the best use of your time would be to create upmerged stubs like {{Somalia-basketball-bio-stub}} rather than having to go back and create them later on.--TM 21:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Emerson, Tracy Davis, et al

Hi there. I notice that you've stub-sorted some members of the Liberal National Party of Queensland with {{Australia-National-politician-stub}}. The LNP is not the National party (it is a merged entity consisting of former members of the Nationals and Liberals in Queensland), and in the face of people like Scott Emerson and Tracy Davis quite inaccurate, as they either previously stood as Liberal candidates, or have only been a part of the new merged entity (ie: neither National or Liberal). It's an understandable enough mistake to make, but please make sure what party the person is a member of before engaging in future stubsorting on these articles. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 07:58, 25 March 2009 (UTC).

[edit] Léopold Marien

Hi, I noticed that you linked dates at Léopold Marien. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Ohconfucius (talk) 15:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Davis Tillman stub deletions

Why did you delete the stubs from the article on Charles Davis Tillman? Rammer (talk) 01:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

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I did remove the stub templates. Stub articles are generally only a few sentences long and this article is far from a few sentences. Hope that explains the reasons. Waacstats (talk) 21:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I caught on later. The article is one of the big boys now. Rammer (talk) 22:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of content during stub sorting

Waacstats, in some of your edits where you are doing stub sorting, I noticed you are also accidentally removing content. For example, in this edit, you removed a non-stub category. In this edit, you removed a non-stub category and a reference list, causing a cite error. I have fixed these two articles, but please be careful of this in the future. Thanks and keep up the good work! --Mysdaao ^talk 17:41, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Martin (athlete) name mis match

[edit] Peter Martin (athlete) => User:Waacstats/test1

Y Done What confused me was the mismatch between article name and the name of the subject in the article. And I apologize for not realizing I was templating a regular. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 13:39, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Barnstar

		100,000 Edits
		I, Bugboy52.4, award you for reaching 100,000 edits according to the List of Wikipedians by number of edits generated 11:45 pm, 24 February 2009. Keep up the good work!________________________________________________________________

[edit] Paralympic taskforce/project

As this proposal has recieved some support from you, I wondered if you thought there was enough support to start the project? al.is.ta.ir.jh ta.lk co.nt 15:45, 25 June 2009 (UTC) _*This user will be away for about two weeks, so don't expect a quick response to any comments that you leave.

[edit] Oregon County Stubs

I have created Malheur to Yamhill following your pattern in Linn County. Thanks for your work! YBG (talk) 09:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] could i get you opinion

Just wondering if I could get you opinion on something Talk:Manchester mayoral election, 2009 (New Hampshire) is where the discussion is. So there is an disagreement between me and another editor on what the page should be I believe it should be the one posted above and he thinks it should be Manchester, New Hampshire mayoral election, 2009 just wondering if you could contribute thanks Gang14 (talk) 05:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Talkback

GW… 10:19, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Back log

We have a huge back log to get through. Its hard to cope without Alaibot. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I feel a bit guilty I can't spend more time helping out with the stub sorting but my workload is horrendous at the moment especially with the new intertranswiki I've in the middle of setting up. It is giving me a headache when I think of how many months logs we have to get through. Somebody at least needs to go through and close the proposals from months gone by, I'll do so shortly. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

If there's something I can do to help out using AWB, let me know - AWB is great for simple replacement tasks. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

That I can't help with, sorry - but I can put in a good word for you if need be. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:23, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure about Opera, but it works fine with IE. It might allow you to switch back and forth, actually; my AWB runs on IE, but I use Firefox for my other regular tasks, and AWB doesn't conflict with it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:27, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

It means "What do they say in Signa?" and "That's what they say in Signa." Ser Amantio is a minor character in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and the lines about Signa are something of a running joke in the opera. "They say", basically, that Buoso Donati rewrote his will to leave everything to the monks in Signa, which is the cataylst for the whole rest of the story. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I speak French - but if it's any consolation I barely understand a word of Italian. Or much of anything else, for that matter... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, my mother is Russian, and there was a girl in my high school graduating class who was Russian. And we took French together, and one day the other students were pestering us to speak to each other in Russian. We started, but mine was rusty, and I found myself thinking in French when I was searching for a word. Not that I ever actually spoke Russian well, but still. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

My father's a polyglot - he studied French, Russian, and Spanish in school, and taught himself German and Italian. Me, I've picked up lashings of one and another language, but can only really understand French well. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:59, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Bug Squashers' Award for Excellence

		The Bug Squashers' Award for Excellence
		For your recent timely report of an error made by xenobot during task 6.1, I award you the Bug Squashers' Award for Excellence in bug squashing efforts. Thank you for catching this error so quickly! –xenotalk 14:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Moving templates

I think you'd have to do that manually. I'm willing to help, if you give me a list - I can do some of them around my lunch break.

Let me look at my AWB when I get home and see if there's a function which allows you to move masses of things at once...if there is, I'd quite like to know about it, actually. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:36, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

AWB. Great, you should be able to plough through those back logs quicker eh? Himalayan Explorer 17:07, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

You participated in a discussion, on which I have now made a proposal. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Stub#Lines_before_stub_template if you like. Debresser (talk) 16:56, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Time to put away old habits ;p...

...else I'll have to run Xenobot until the end of time! Can you start using {{asbox}} when creating new stub types? Thanks! =) –xeno^talk 18:29, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Waacstats, if you have any free time could you possibly help out with some of the stub templates in Category:Stub message boxes needing attention? With your experience you can probably work out how to fix them much quicker than me. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

FYI most of those under "no Category" are already listed at discoveries or sfd. –xeno^talk 15:27, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dermatology

I am working on a new project to improve the coverage of dermatologic content on wikipedia, and wanted to know if you might consider helping me? I will sent you an e-mail with some additional details. Regardless, thank you for your work on wikipedia! ---kilbad (talk) 12:15, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

• UPDATE: We are making a lot of great progress with the Bolognia Push 2009. If you are not currently involved, perhaps consider contributing as we are always looking for more help at the dermatology task force. Feel free to e-mail me for all the details. ---kilbad (talk) 22:47, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Just helping you out on this

I had meant to e-mail you on this earlier, but you don't have to worry about anything related to Canoeing at the Summer Olympics. I already have the Olympic events, Olympic medalists, and canoe slalom and sprint world championship medalists done. I am in the process of doing the competitors for each of the canoeing events, having finished 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics, and being halfway through the 1952 events. Chris (talk) 01:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Motorsport people stub sorting

Hi Waacstats. Just wanted to say thanks/congratulations for the great work you are doing sorting motorsport people stub articles. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 09:37, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Stub sorting

Hey there. I got interested in taxonomy stub sorting lately and I was working in stub creation here. Just wondering, I assume you remove the ones that are done without archiving? And if you object to a split, is there a discussion page for it or can you be bold and remove it? This is my first time working on the WikiProject and would like to do more. Thanks, ZooFari 06:29, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] RioGrandedoNorte-geo-stub

Hello! I noticed you are the creator of {{RioGrandedoNorte-geo-stub}} and other Brazilian geography stubs templates...however, this one has no specific category like "Category:Rio Grande do Norte geography stubs". Is there a special reason for that or we can create it just like the others? Thank you, Victão Lopes ^{I hear you...} 22:35, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I understand, thank you. I've just added the template to some articles, and according to its "What links here" page, the criation of the category is to happen soon. Victão Lopes ^{I hear you...} 23:17, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New stub templates

Hi WS - you might want to go back and check a few of the new stub templates you've made and move them... some of them seem to have crept through with the suffix "-stubs" rather than "-stub". More coffee needed? :) Grutness...wha? 01:00, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

• Mmmm - didn['t notice that you'd redirected them (I was just going by the newpages log). Do you want the incorrect names deleted, or are you happy just to leave them as unused redirects? Grutness...wha? 22:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Done. Thanks for the congrats (we're starting to call it football here, finally) - though NZ's got as much chance of winning the FIFA World Cup as Brazil has of winning the rugby equivalent! Grutness...wha? 22:17, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Stub type proposals

Please note that the stub type proposals page is highly backlogged, going all the way back to June. This situation means that:

1. Users are less likely to propose stub types before creating them - loading the proposal page requires heavy download (just adding up the pages from June to October comes out to 325K). Additionally, users who see this backlog are likely to consider the proposals just an unnecessary peace of bureaucracy, and ignore it.
2. Users who do object to some proposal are less likely to comment - the download issues are the same as above, and users will get the impression that the proposed types will never actually be created.

It would be nice if you could close the older proposals (I don't feel confident that I can handle this). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:49, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Sankhya

I could not find a place to report abuse. You seem to know this place. Pleease, react or ask other people to react. Thank you. --93.73.27.16 (talk) 10:23, 25 December 2009 (UTC)