Sadalmelik

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Zoological information

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

You deserve it

File:Interlingual Barnstar.png		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)

(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)

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)

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)

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)

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Raions of Kyrgyzstan

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)

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)

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)

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)

The Categorisation Barnstar

		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)

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)

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)

WikiCookie

Just stopping by with cookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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

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)

Are blacks more intelligent?

Evidence:

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

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)

Mozambique

Hi. Missing your prolific editing at present, I am imagine you are busy in RL, but did you intend working on Mozambique soon, I vaguely recall you mentioning it. A user has just informed me he was born in the country and would be willing to work at it in the future. It should be possible to get a mini team working at it like Burkina, jus tthought you might be interested seems as it is so poorly covered ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I have been ill for a while, and won't be editing in the near future either. Perhaps at some point I could help with Mozambique, too, but now even Madagascar is still unfinished. Depending on the quality of census data Mozambique might be a job for a bot – I haven't checked whether the census agency has updated their database yet (though I have never been able to finish downloading the old database successfully, so I have no idea about the quality of the data). – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:40, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Hope you are feeling better, Must have been serious The Bald One ^{White cat} 20:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - I am feeling better. It's more debilitating than serious, but I feel pretty good at the moment. I have been active again for a couple of weeks, and I still have not done any real article work. Just adding some photos to bird articles, messing around in Commons and searching for suitable photos in Flicr... which is actually quite fun, I have to say. And how have you been? It seems you have moved to Vietnamese articles. – Sadalmelik ☎ 21:18, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Stubble Quail

Hi Sadalmelik, just noticed that you've re-posted an image into the Stubble Quail article, unfortunately it isn't actually a Stubble Quail but a Painted Button-Quail (both are Australian). We are trying to contact the photographer to let him know that he has wrongly identified it, but as we don't have a pic of a Painted Button-quail maybe he could insert this image into the correct page. All the best, hope you have a speedy recovery from your illness, Aviceda talk 07:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note - I have been adding photos from the available images at Commons and if there is nothing suitable, searching Flickr for free photos. I should have checked the identification... I have never been in Australia, so I'm not familiar with either bird. I added a brief comment on the Commons description about the probable misidentification. That banner on top of this page is too a bit misleading - I seem to be quite active again. Should reword it, really, I just left it there in case I disappear again for an extended period. Thanks again! – Sadalmelik ☎ 07:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

No worries, I see that you are keen on maps, I'm involved in Photogrammetry by profession, (mainly large-scale mapping for engineering though) but might be able to help if you require it. Aviceda talk 08:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:AN discussion

As a user who contributed to the discussion concerning Koavf (talk · contribs), you're invited to comment at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Specific_Sanctions_-_proposals also. Thanks - Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Article title mistake

article Giovanni Maria delle Piane is the correct title spelling. The duplicate article with the incorrect title spelling (dell) Piane, (dell) is the incorrect spelling, a mistake. Liguria (talk) 20:06, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Sadalmelik. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thank You!

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		For Frankenpuppy's assistance in keeping USS New Jersey (BB-62) vandal free while the article was up on the mainpage I herby award your sockpuppet The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! It is quite rare, that TFAs require semi-protection. – Sadalmelik ☎ 20:38, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your work at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. I very much appreciate it, and am sure that others do too. :-) --Iamunknown 05:31, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, the joys of never-ending backlog :) I think I wasn't even aware of the SCV before MER-C posted on ANI about that lengthy backlog a couple weeks ago. I have been trying to work there since. – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yay, a convert! :) When I'm around (which in the past two weeks has been frequently, but earlier this year not so much), I usually try to whittle away at SCV. I remember in times past when the regulars would completely clear SCV! Now only a dream... :P My (unsolicited) advice is to try not to get burned out! My absence earlier this year was partly because of that ... so I only work a little bit at a time now (of course, that may not work for everybody). --Iamunknown 15:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll probably head back to mainspace at some time, but at the moment weeding out copyvios is more fun than that! I have a rather big project in mind, but I'm lacking the energy to start (or even to finish some of the old projects). I do wonder whether the CSBot notices could encourage more rewriting by the authors, though. Most of the time, they are very new contributors, who probably do not know anything about the copyright. – Sadalmelik ☎ 16:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Maps

I understand you are quite good with maps. I need a high resolution 2D version of a map with all the continents marked with country names and their capitals only. I have a few maps but smaller countries are not so visible on them. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 15:16, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I can probably do something, but only in png... if you would like to show even the smallest countries, then svg really is much better, but I cannot manage svg-maps, despite many tries (I'll have to figure it out at some point). In any case it will have to wait for a couple week, as I have a work deadline to meet, and my time for Wikipedia will be limited. One possibility would be modifying Image:World map pol 2005 v02.svg by hand... – Sadalmelik ☎ 1‐6:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

That will do. I have to use it in a project. Though this one is pefectly fine, if you have any better version I can do with that. And I can wait. Thanks. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 09:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Nepal district maps

Hello Sadalmelik. I've just found that UN maps are public domain with Template:PD-UN. Any idea how I could upload district maps of Nepal as at Sindhuli District to wikipedia. I;m not familiar with how to save PDF files and uploaded them to wiki. Could you upload them all to the commons if you know how. See the one at Sarlahi District Image:NepalSarlahiDistrictmap.png. I only uploaded it once Fritzpoll had saved it elsewhere to rid of uploading the adobe logo. Unfortunately Fritz is not responding so could you help? We need 75 UN maps; one for each district of Nepal. Count Blofeld 12:46, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

They wouldn't accept a straight renaming. I believe you have to save them at some medium like here (it expires after sometime) to switch from pdf to jpg or svg. I originally tried to upload directly from pdf to jpg and of cours eit didn't work or only revealed the adobe logo rather than the image. The maps will prove very useful and in the future deririative maps could probably made for all the VDCs I've been starting in Nepal. However the forst step is the get the 75 maps onto here and place them in the district articles. If you could save them with the naming type Image:NepalSarlahiDistrictmap.png this would be awesome as I've set up the categories in the commonshere. Just needs another 74 maps to go in it. Cheers, hope you are well Count Blofeld 13:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC).

Note the maps can be accessed by changing the naming at the top. E,g see Sindhuli. If you wanted to access a map from a different region you'd change it to western for example and then the relevant district. Count Blofeld 13:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

That looks great. If you can if you are uploading portrait shape ones like Sarlahi District, see if you can boost the standard size to 800px. At present Image:NepalSarlahiDistrictmap.png is around 400px normal default. The Sindhuli map size wise is perfect Count Blofeld 19:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. We could do with Latin Americanizing and Asianizing the wiki too!! But without a doubt Africa is by far the worst in terms of content and we want to see an encyclopedia covering the world as fully and completely as possible. Count Blofeld 09:06, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Any progress on uploading the Nepal maps? Count Blofeld 11:49, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Excellent. Lookin good. Are you still working on Madagascar BTW? Count Blofeld 13:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC) Wanna see something scary: See progress so far with Village Development Committee (Nepal) Count Blofeld 20:35, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. Hopefully there will all eventually be expanded like Sundarijal . There isn't too many left to start but I'm feeling pretty tired of the wiki at present. I'll take it easy for a while. Yes I know what you mean about Madagascar. It feels quite disappointing when you know they haven't had much traffic and haven't been expanded. Most people who use wikipedia don't seem to care about anywhere in Africa, let alone a specific country. For me however, the whole point of wikipedia is to gain access to information and knowledge of subjects, particularly places/cultures that I am unfamiliar with and why covering such countries in Africa is vitally important to the value of wikipedia. Count Blofeld 20:06, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

A Wiki Atlas sister project

Your thoughts would be much appreciated at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#A Wiki Atlas project. Thanks Count Blofeld 12:02, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Karis Jagger

Thanks for the note. I think the content of this article is sufficiently similar to the previously deleted version that it falls under the speedy deletion criterion. Rather than deleting it outright, I've tagged it for speedy deletion to get one more set of eyes on it.--Kubigula (talk) 03:37, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm happy to see you're working on the backlog at WP:SCV. So am I. I just thought I would say hi! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I have started to think the best way of making real progress with SCV would be tweaking the messages used by CorenSearchBot — they should encourage authors for rewriting the articles. They are all new contributors, and copyright is not something most people are familiar, so it's rather understandable they are pasting content from web. – Sadalmelik ☎ 22:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Good idea!! Moonriddengirl has a good way of saying it: something like that we can use web pages as sources of facts, but not as sources of sentences or phrases. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 03:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I made some suggestions on the template talk page. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 22:54, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Blackpool Seagulls

Thank you for adding the logo!--♦Tangerines♦·Talk 20:08, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome! It's a bit small, but that's the only file I could find with googling. – Sadalmelik ☎ 08:57, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Libya

Whats the likelihood that Sabratha and Sabratah are the same place? Count Blofeld 10:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi thanks for your response. Yes it just seemed that they were very close together and shared a very similar name. Yes I also prefer the green but I also realise the svg is a better format and the border does look slightly clearer. If we could convert the svg maps with green (#d0f0c0) instead of grey I'd be perfectly happy. Personally I preferred the appearance of your maps for some countries. Count Blofeld 09:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much!

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your contributions with copyright issues at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. Thank you for your valuable time. :) Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks! It's actually quite interesting place - all kinds of things end up at SCV. Like Wu Gorge for example: it took me half an hour of searching before I finally believed there really was nowhere the article could be redirected to. Considering the global interest on Three Gorges Dam, it's surprising that one of the gorges was a redlink. – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
  • I know the feeling. :) A pretty wide variety wanders through WP:CP. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:44, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hello Sadalmelik! I just wanted to wish you and your family a merry Christmas! May this Christmas be full of great cheer and holiday spirit. Have a great day and a wonderful New Year, from The Bald One ^{White cat} 11:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Template:Location map Bali Topography

Great maps you've been doing; it looks like you've done hundreds. Thanks.

I took a poke at creating another dynamic locator map and ran into two issues.

• I messed up the math somewhere re e/w and re-calculating didn't work
• The convention is to use a map without lat/long lines and the coords in the margins, so I need a variant of the map, namely;

  File:Bali Locator Topography.png

I'll revisit the math with the current image when I'm fresh. If this gets working, I'll put it to good use.

Here is where I tried it and reverted it due to being off a bit to the east. If you use the regular coord link to get an off-site map, It'll show a point a bit further west.

Cheers, Jack Merridew 15:14, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

• Answered on User talk:Jack Merridew. – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

  this is great; terima kasih (thank you). I'll add coords and more usages over time. Cheers, Jack Merridew 06:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Dhamma Jagoda

Could you please add more details about this Dramatist. Jets (talk) 15:05, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

• Sorry, I cannot help you with this. I'm not from Sri Lanka and know actually quite little about the island or its culture. – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank You

so much for correcting 'Napkin (disambiguation)' that I created. Now the page looks better. I appreciate it. -- I am Me true (talk) 07:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

• You are welcome! When doing page splits it's a good to give the link to the original article in edit summary – see WP:SPLIT for more info. And feel free to ask me if you have any questions about something :) Cheers, – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! and a question

Thanks so much for joining the mollusk CopyVio clean-up crew. Do you have access to a copy of the Powell book? So far only one of us (User:gadfium) has access to a copy of that book and it does appear to have been the main source for most of the mollusk copyvio. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 19:28, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have the book... I also know very little of the subject, unless eating some mussels makes me an expert. But I tend to spend I fair amount of my wikitime these days at WP:SCV, so I'm glad to help. – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:46, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Indonesian locator maps

Hi old buddy. How are you these days? Great work on those Indonesian maps which I just found, and have been hoping ages we could get hold of some and they already existed! I've moved your "Topography" location templates to standard locator maps located in Category:Indonesia location map templates so they can be used in the infoboxes.

I have a request though. Can you add the 4 coordinates to the following maps so I can make location maps for them:

• File:Bacan Topography.png ‎
• File:Banggai Islands Topography.png
• File:Sula Islands Topography.png ‎
• File:Sumba Topography.png ‎
• File:Buton Topography.png ‎
• File:Sumbawa Topography.png‎
• File:Lombok Topography.png ‎
• File:Madura Topography.png
• File:Simeulue Topography.png ‎
• File:Mentawai Islands Topography.png ‎
• File:Bangka Topography.png ‎
• File:Belitung Topography.png

• Template:Location map Indonesia Bacan ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Banggai
• Template:Location map Indonesia Sula ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Sumba ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Buton ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Sumbawa‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Lombok ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Madura
• Template:Location map Indonesia Simeulue ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Mentawai ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Bangka ‎
• Template:Location map Indonesia Belitung

Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:39, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes I noticed some have the coordinates and some don't. If you could take care of that this would be great, and takes care of one less problem I had in trying to find locator maps for the Indonesian islands! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:31, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

More peer approval :)

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For your invaluable contributions to the cleanup project here. Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Of course, I know you give a lot to copyright concerns anyway, but this one is truly heroic. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) I think I only did 150 or so, but it all adds up. What I'm really impressed is how much the gastropod members have done. Hopefully there is not much to clean up in fish articles, but we shall see... – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! That could have created quite a mess. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:39, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Sadalmelik. You have new messages at Talk:Blue mackerel.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Responded there. – Sadalmelik ☎ 15:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Fish copyvios

You seem to slapping copyright violation notices on a lot of fish related articles. Unfortunately, the URL link leads to a lengthy discussion page about what to do. Surely, each article that you flag, should have a link to the actual page that has been allegedly copied. As it stands, I cannot check the truth (or otherwise) of the allegation. Astronaut (talk) 18:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

• The short story is that it's a long story :) Basically the creator of those fish articles has added some 2,500 articles to Wikipedia, and virtually every one of those articles are copyvios (except some genus articles, which are basically just lists of species and therefore not copyrightable). The only violations that I can handle directly are those articles where the sources are on-line. However, many of the fish articles are copied from printed sources, either from Ayling's Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand or from Compagno's Sharks of the World. In these cases we have decided to tag them as copyvios and investigate them later. An editor with access to Ayling has been working on the fish articles from the start, and it seems we have finally found a copy of Compagno, too. Oh, and no articles will be deleted. – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

DumbBot

Just wanted to let you know that I've written Tizio. I hope we can reach a plan for dealing with these soon. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Sea Rabbit?

Thanks so much for the heads-up on that. I contacted the new editor, managed to ID his nudibranch image, and let him know that I wrote a new stub for it at Chromodoris annulata. Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 13:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Salute

		The WikiChevrons
		For your assistance in identifying infringements of interest to the WikiProject, I salute you and take the liberty of bestowing on their behalf the Military History WikiChevrons. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:34, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Indonesia and Iran

Did you get around to making those Indonesian island locators afterwards as requested? Also do you have any maps of counties (second level divisions) of Iran? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:25, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Great maps!

Your topopolitical (or poli-topographical) maps are great. I was trying to dig up information on some Eurasian countries and was grumbling that I needed exactly that kind of thing and BOOM! there they were. I wish Wikipedia had more cartographers to go with all of the sat imagery of less utility.

My only request is more of them!

Good job.

Jwdoom (talk) 01:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Atsinanana Region

Template:Atsinanana Region has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:53, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Layering vietnam_topography.png with place names

Hi Sadalmelik,

I would like to create a map using vietnam_topography.png file from ur file list, with place names highlighting the trail of various Vietnam war battles. For this is it essential to get the exact place coordinates? Please contact me if ou have any ideas<jagrulez247@gmail.com> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagrulez247 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Please Help

I am working on a school project and I could really use us a topological map that covers most of Near East in some detail. Could you please give me advice on how to create such map or would you have time to help me?

Thanks, Adam (aam641@yahoo.ca) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.50.38 (talk) 23:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Higher Resolution map of Zambia

Greetings

My name is John. I am a researcher who is doing work in Zambia. Is there any chance I could get a higher-resolution topographic map of Zambia than what is listed on the web? I would like to use it in a publication (and cite you as the source of course).

Thanks John (john_mischler@yahoo.com)

Topographic maps of Indonesia

Hi Sadalmelik! I am working on National parks of Indonesia articles and I find your maps add great value! I wonder if it would be possible to make a locator map for the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tengarra) region as well, at as similar scale as the File:Java Locator Topography.png. Would be very usefull for illustrating several articles. Would be very thankful. Elekhh (talk) 03:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Kobe Bryant

Sadalmelik: I read a lot of high profile articles and am really impressed with the comparative quality of the Kobe article that you protected. Nice job! Bull Market 21:26, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Radama II with crown.jpg

This file does not have any information about its source or author. —innotata 19:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Lombok International Airport

Hi Sadalmelik, I have used your lombok map to create an image to use in the provisional stat pane of an article on Lombok International Airport. File:Lombok_BIL_airport_icon.png Thanks for the good work with that map Felix505 (talk) 16:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

geographical map of North Africa

Hi Sadalmelik !! Congratulations for the excellent geographical maps you produce. I was looking for a geographical map of North Africa and then found yours in Wikipedia.

One question. I am working on an article on Saharan dust and it would be nice to make some references on geographical features and to paint some atmospheric airflows on one your maps. More specifically, I would be nice if these two maps (of North Africa including the Canary Islands) would be available. Map-1: from 20ºW to 15ºE and from 15ºN to 40ºN. Map-2: from 20ºW to 40ºE and from 0ºN to 40ºN. It would be one similar to that you did for Algeria, but littler wider (the first with higher resolution). I read that you are open for collaborations doing just 1 or 2 maps. Do you think it would be possible ? We may have contact by email if you prefer (guanarame1@gmail.com).

I have not experience in Wikipedia (this is my first time), so maybe this is not the proper way to ask for collaborations. Just let me know how to proceed please, Thanks in advance

Guanarame; 29-sept-2010 16:49 GMT Thanks in advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guanarame (talk • contribs) 16:51, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Notification

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how to generate maps from GLOBE

Hi Sadalmelik,

Could you show me where/how to generate maps from GLOBE data? I'd like a hi-res map of the Tanzanian Rift Valley with specific altitudes marked.

Thanks, — kwami (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Madagascar Geography Stubs

Also posted on WikiProject Madagascar's discussion page -- looking for comments or thoughts from the Madagascar editors before going ahead. Madagascar's geography stubs still use the old 6 province system. WikiProject Stub sorting approved creating 22 new stub types for the new regions. The discussion and proposed stub types are here for your review. I'll be creating the stubs and starting the sort this weekend if all looks good. Aelfthrytha (talk) 00:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Badimo page

I think you created the page for "Badimo"? If not, my apologies. I would like to query the use of the word as a name for the relevant traditional religion. Although I see it is given thus in the CIA World Factbook, I have to say that as a resident of Botswana, I cannot remember hearing this usage. The "Badimo" are the ancestors. There is a considerable literature about the meaning of the word and related words (medimo, Modimo etc.) See e.g. James Amanze's _African Traditional Religions and Culture in Botswana_. If you asked a traditionalist his religion he might say "badimo", but this would mean "the ancestors" rather as if someone might answer "the Lord". (There are no articles in Setswana.) In English the normal expression is "African Traditional Religion" or "traditional religion".

Could I suggest something like "Badimo is the Setswana term for the ancestors, considered as mediators, objects of veneration, etc. It has occasionally been used as a shorthand for Tswana traditional religion though this is not normal usage for the people concerned."???

By the way you're quite right about people who are e.g. Christians often also practising some aspects of tradition, but they wouldn't consider it exactly as following another religion. Aardwolf (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Nice maps!

Impresivo

Hello, I was wondering if you had a map of the entire middle east? I'm trying to create a statistic for percent natural borders, ie Iraq has 37% natural borders (mountains, impassable rivers, etc). And I need a sample set of at least 30 countries and it would be nice to have them in one big map! Your maps are very clear and the political borders are nicely compared to geography. If you have the whole map of the middle east, I'd greatly appreciate a link. Or better yet, if your software can automatically compare the times that political borders parallel natural boundaries.....as in percent circumference? Anything would be of help. Thanks, AP Arrowjahafrica (talk) 00:20, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

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Israel topographic map without red borders?

Hello Sadalmelik. Can you assist me with such a map? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amit Arad (talk • contribs) 08:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion

Thank you very much for your maps They’re very very very interesting I'm geologist; I work for the environment project I need a "Maghreb Countries" map with those countries to gather: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. About the altitudes, I hope that you make them with your habituel scale and add two others maps with the grey and brown scale, for using it as a background to other maps. Friendly — Preceding unsigned comment added by GEOyoucef (talk • contribs) 12:17, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Scale meters

I left a comment on the South Korea map talk page regarding scale meters and I noticed you have the same problem on some of the other maps you've made. I like your work but I would prefer the scale meters to be such that you can use them for measurement, etc. For example, the Madagaskar map has a scale meter length of 250 km. While that is a nice round number, it's not very useful, because it uses quarter subdivision and nobody measures in 62.5 km increments (or 125 km increments for that matter). I'd correct them so that the smallest subdivision is 25, 50 or 100 km, depending on scale. Of course, on a larger scale map, you can use multiple or nested subdivisions. --88.192.19.110 (talk) 18:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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June, 2019: File:Nicaragua Topography.png

In the above-mentioned map you created, what do the jagged red lines signify? Thanks for your help--Quisqualis (talk) 01:48, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

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The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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Wrong Borders in Many topo Maps

first of all thank you for effort and work, I realized that you have many border mistakes in UAE topo map where you show the western borders within UAE all the way to Qatar borders. this section belongs to KSA since 1971, also, south eastern part of Egypt ( Halaieb and Shalateen) belongs to sudan not Egypt. i hope you edit those. thank you Roy Shrejmänn (talk) 22:26, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

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