User talk:Eugene van der Pijll

Deleted discussions up to September 2005: [1]; February 2006: [2], August 2006: [3]

Re: Demographics of Italian comuni

Hello Eugene, yes, I have a table with the data of the 8000+ Italian communes. Data come from the national statistical agency of Italy (ISTAT). Let me know the format you prefer and send me your e-mail address, I'll gladly send you the whole bunch of figures. Bye. --Paginazero 16:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

The file is on its way to you. It's about 2MB of size, I hope it's not too heavy for our mail servers. Let me know. Bye. --Paginazero 16:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

The The Guardian Dispute

User:JzG just blocked me for "violating" "WP:POINT." I'd appreciate it if you'd unblock me so I can start an RFC on this. -Tchadienne

Presumably Tchadienne believes an RfC will prevail where proof by assertion on Talk:The Guardian failed. As was made abundantly clear, all that's needed are some credible sources. The fact that the people hoping to insert the content will resort to anything other than actually citing credible sources may be thought significanct... ;-) The WP:POINT was removal of a warning not to remove warnings from a Talk page. I think that's pretty blatant, and it's only a 24h block. It's being discussed on WP:ANI. Just zis Guy you know? 19:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I know, I've commented there as well... Eugène van der Pijll 19:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Just zis Guy you know? 20:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Grande Boucle

I believe that the current Grande Boucle race is in fact organizationally continuous with the previous version. However, the current race is not a UCI category 1 race and the competition field is significantly lower. Thus, organizationally continuous or not, it is simply not the same race as before. The current race is also much shorter than the previous version. Obviously, this needs to be further checked out and the page needs to reflect this. JFPerry 21:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Geodata files

I've now dumped all the data into the database. See Special:Contributions/The_Anomebot2 -- The Anome 22:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Italian communes

Hi Eugene. I see that you have started to automatically generate the Italian communes. Good stuff! I would like to make a couple of suggestions, though. (...) —Ian Spackman 20:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment moved to User talk:Eubot/Moretta. I've responded there. Eugène van der Pijll 21:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Geocoding

Hi Eugene, yes, I do have the country data, as country name, decoded from the FIPS country codes. What format should the coord codes use? ISO 3166-1-alpha-2? Can you give me an example of an entry with both a type and a country encoded into it? -- The Anome 21:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. is it possible to complete all of the comunes in all the provinces in Italy automatically? Because I have been going through them manually and it takes ages. Italy comunes are an extremely important missing area of the english wiki. Can it be done easily? James Janderson

You are a genius my friend. Its just even 90 % of the comunes I have started in italy which is the majority of them!! don't even have the info boxes like yours. Your cleverness is great. James Janderson 13:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

You are doing brilliantly my friend!!!!!!James Janderson 15:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Communes in Italy - what to do with erroneous coordinates

I recently stumbled (when a similar Italian comunes project was launched on the fr Wikipedia) on a mistake in the ISTAT data used, that is an erroneous value for the latitude of Perrero. As I discovered on this discussion on the italian Wikipedia, this is a rare accident, but not absolutely unique.

As far as I can judge, there seems to be a misconception in the project, with the decision to use specific values "mapx" and "mapy" to position the dot on the map. It is not too difficult for a user to modify wrong latitudes or longitudes, but it is harder to modify also mapx and mapy.

Some Wikipedias have used a similar system, and I could not correct the map on them. As you can check, while I modified the latitude of Perrero following every interwiki link, the map is now correct on fr:Perrero and it:Perrero, but still inaccurate on eo:Perrero, nl:Perrero and now the English Perrero.

I think something should be done for this problem, but I don't know what ; as a Bot Keeper, I suppose you should have an idea of a reasonable procedure to remedy this problem. --French Tourist 18:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm back a few hours later. There is another problem : the values of mapy (I suppose "y" is for height) are wrong (or, hopefully, only the formula using them ; or only the map) ! Even with an accurate latitude, the dot is too high on the map. See an obviously flawed position at Exilles (compare with it:Exilles). --French Tourist 21:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I am back about Perrero (quite a minor issue !). I suppose the sites you checked also used the same flawed data bank than the WP ; just try to click from the Perrero page to a neighbouring commune, that is Angrogna or Perosa Argentina, the error appears obviously. Look for instance at this site for an accurate latitude... or simply check on a good paper map, as I did. --French Tourist 08:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for our friend French Tourist’s accuracy.

Nevertheless he simply forgot to split this issue to fr:Discussion Projet:Italie/Géographie/Commune italienne, our French environment dedicated to Italian municipalities since our WP:it=>WP:fr migration, last June.

Well, now, if you want to join us for some information or something else, you know where to do it.

Regards Jpm2112 05:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Touriste a détecté, avec acuité, certains dysfonctionnemments dans les coordonnées des communes italiennes.
Par exemple : fr:Perrero (où j'ai ajouté un commentaire dans discussion Perrero en italien.
Les échanges entre French Touriste et son interlocuteur WP:en se trouvent aux liens ci-dessous :

• User talk:French Tourist#Italian communi
• User talk:Eugene van der Pijll#Communes in Italy - what to do with erroneous coordinates

J'ai demandé, pour plus de rigueur, à Eugene van der Pijll de bien vouloir, dorénavant, dialoguer ici.
jpm2112 20 septembre 2006 à 07:45 (CEST)

From fr:Discussion Projet:Italie/Géographie/Commune italienne

Comme j'ai dit a User talk:French Tourist#Italian communi, le probleme avec Perrero etait une confusion avec un autre Perrero. Je n'ai pas trouve autres erreurs comme ca.

J'ai trouve une nombre des erreurs plus large: pour quelques communes, il y avait une erreur dans le longitude de trois ou quatres degres. Ces erreurs etait facile de reconnaitre; je ne sais pas si ils sont aussi en wikipedia francais. Si vous voulez, je essayerai faire une liste.

(Apologies for the language; my French has become a bit rusty...) Eugene van der Pijll 20 septembre 2006 à 09:37 (CEST)

Thank you for your answer and welcome in our project.

Your suggestion for a list is very interesting and will accept it readily.

Feel free to ask us, if you need.

Your English is rusty??. No, really, you aren’t in need of oil. Regards. jpm2112 20 septembre 2006 à 12:35 (CEST)

User:Eubot

Does this have permission for a trial period? I am seeing upwards of 100 new articles created today. Thank you —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

If I am not mistaken that link you provided on the approval page shows your request for to run the bot; has it been actually been approved? - If not I strong suggest it ceases activity immediately, as according to this is has done over 1700 edits. - GIen 17:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi you are doung a brilliant job!!!! Genius idea. Keep up the good work James Janderson 10:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I am pretty sure that in Italy communes are listed by region rather than county. e.g. Cities and towns in Verona. James Janderson 12:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

HI no you are right Veneto is the Region. For some reason the category is labelled cities and towns in THE veneto which explains the red ink on the label. Your category is correct the latter will need to be changed. James Janderson 12:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi yes. there are already about 230 comunes in the cities and towns in the Veneto category. I don't know why THE Veneto- if anything this is inconsistent with all the other regions, but it is possibly best to move them into the The Veneto category though because it is quicker. James Janderson 12:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi ok cool. Then it should be Category:Cities and towns in Veneto as you rightly suggested. I wasn't aware of automatic cat. change. James Janderson 12:26, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

HI good to see you are still doing brilliantly. The article count of wikipedia is going sky high!! I am amazed thst Italy is so sparsely covered. I noticed that Biella and another province in Piedmont begining with V still need covering. I don't know whether you know or are going to get round to it. Anyway I won't interrupt you. ALl the best James Janderson 09:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi I think it is excellent you are keeping a record of the existing articles. That way Italy will be evenly covered. I am glad the bot is working again-extremel keep up the great work Ernst Stavro Blofeld 21:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Eubot blocked

I apologize for having to block your bot account; however, I believe it's editing quite in excess of its trial. I've been having some discussion with individuals on IRC about the bot, and there's a lot of uncertainty regarding the free use of both the statistical data from ISTAT and some general concerns about accreditation and how the article text is being generated. If you could provide your source code and/or the algorithms and templates being used to generate the articles this may help to clear some things up. In any case, a trial run of around 15-30 articles was expected, whereas your bot has created more than 500 articles, which will be quite a headache if it turns out that the articles are not GFDL-compliant. The block will expire in 24 hours; however, please do not run the bot following the block's expiration without gaining prior approval from the bot approvals group. Please also contact me before running the bot again. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 09:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi why the hell have they blocked your italy entries? 81.102.25.233 21:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm trying to find out. They will resume shortly! (I hope!) Eugène van der Pijll 21:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Certosa di Pavia does not have the data although it exists. This is James janderson with new user name. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hope you get the concerns worked out. Question: Why is the bot using ² instead of ² ? Rmhermen 21:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on completing in the Veneto!!! Now I know why you are a bot! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi just noticed your articles on Padua have the comune box at the bottom as Veneto and Padua . Isn't this Toscara (Tuscany) Padua? Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought Padua was a province in the Veneto not Tuscany? Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not really paying attention I have been doing the Slovenian municipalities but have been following your work and somebody elses on Romania. These three countries were amongst the most poorly developed on wiki so are very important. Glad to see three people are covering it. I won't interrupt your bot anyway Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Follow up on Eubot

Hi Eugene, I apologize for taking so long to respond--I've been quite busy lately. Anyway, I'm still waiting to here back from a few individuals on the Italian Wikipedia who are contacting the organization (I forget it's name) that provided your data about possible legal problems with releasing statistical and municipal data under the GFDL, as well as some possible problems with accreditation for where that data came from. But anyway, after further investigation of their licensing and policies, it seems there may well be no legal problems as was originally assumed; feel free to continue running your bot, and I will let you know the second we receive a response. I apologize about both blocking your bot and my ridiculously slow response. Thank you so much for your patience. AmiDaniel (talk) 18:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Getting Eubot a bot flag

Hello. I'm doing NP patrol right now, but it's mainly full of Eubot's entries right now, which makes finding other pages that should be deleted a little tricky. Would you look into getting Eubot a bot flag so that it doesn't show up in Recent Changes and New Pages? Thank you! —Scott5114↗ 17:51, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. I didn't know bot-made pages still show up on Newpages. Though, really, they should be hidden just like on RC. I'll ask around about it. —Scott5114↗ 18:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Serious thanks for sorting out the mess around List of Czech Jews. I'm not sure the resulting title is the right choice, but at least the history is sorted out, which allows a reasonable move later. - Jmabel | Talk 19:15, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Missed Italian municipality

Thanks to you and your bot on the great pages! I noticed Poli, Italy is missing, because the template was incorrect (it pointed to Poli, a disambiguation page). Could you add it? Rigadoun (talk) 15:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikifun

<nudge> --Spondoolicks 11:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi I don't know if you interested but many of the Departments have not yet been started in Argentina - spanish wiki has some data. I am partly going through Buenos Aires province at present where they are called partidos. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Local Councillor AfD

Hi, I've brought up this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abid Chohan, which you had previously brought up in a batch of Manchester councillors. Perhaps you feel like commenting? JASpencer 14:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Overmeer

Hi Eugene, I see you've made this into a separate article, while it's in reality more like a wijk/buurt of Nederhorst den Berg, it isn't considered to be a separate entity. I think that either you should stress this in the article on Overmeer or merge the articles on Nederhorst den Berg and Overmeer. The word town is especially out of place, I think, if you want to mention it separately call it a hamlet (buurtschap?) or something like that. Lemme know what you think. NielsF 01:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Tyre

Hi. If I understand you, you'd vote for a disambiguation page at 'tyre'. In which case you should support, or do I misunderstand? regards Widefox 22:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC) I have clarified my proposal to exclude a redirect page (some may even call it changed). If I understand you, you might or might not want to support this compromise/clarification of the proposal by me. Widefox 00:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Last mention (honest) I've clarified my support - only for no redirect. I've added evidence of size of ambiguity, so if you have time, please could you checkout the update. regards Widefox 13:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

History of the Netherlands

I see that you are interested in the History of the Netherlands - the article of that name is currently an FA but is listed at Wikipedia:Featured article review/History of the Netherlands and is likely to be delisted. I thought I'd let you know in case you would like to try and save it. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 02:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Southern Australia

I added two book references concerning a certain South Australian Bay and Harbor (35°33′S 138°37′E), I hope you don't mind. — MFH:Talk 16:53, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

genera articles

I see you've made a bunch of genera stubs, but your creation list does not seem to have any coherent pattern. There's nothing wrong with this, but I'm curious to know if you have any particular criteria or order for these creations that I have not been able to see. (watching for reply) - UtherSRG (talk) 19:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Well that makes sense! Good for you! - UtherSRG (talk) 00:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I came here with the same question. Now that I've read the answer I'll second Uther's good for you comment. --Aranae 04:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the many genus articles you started! Could you - instead of "..." at the end - rather add some remark like "e.g." or "Including" at the start of the species list in the taxoboxes? Otherwise, it is too easy to overlook for people not familiar with the taxon in question. Thanks in advance and keep up the good work! Dysmorodrepanis 23:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

species images

Yay!!!!! :) - UtherSRG (talk) 14:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Life
		For your creation of much needed structural stubs, and for the new slew of images for species, I award you with this barnstar. UtherSRG (talk) 14:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikifun

I take it this round of wikifun is over (with one question left unanswered). Could you take a few minutes to make it official - or give a deadline for the last question - so we can get onto the next round please. --Spondoolicks 13:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Hungarian stubs

Hey old buddy remember me and the Eubot from the old Italian comune days? Thanks for stub dividing Hungary. I was going through them adding them to wikipedia but have been postphined for a few weeks to comile the entire list of missing films from wikipedia!! - a mammoth task. How is life in the Netherlands? Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit^talk on behalf of Kaldari 01:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Municipalities in the Netherlands

Hi!

I can see you're doing great work on those articles currently, but just a minor issue -- I was under the impression that location articles should be dabbed with the format "Somewhere, Region" and not "Somewhere (Region)"? Correct me if I'm wrong...

Anyway, great work. Just to let you know someone's there who appreciates it right now. :) —Nightstallion (?) 19:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Berghem

Hi Eugene. I noticed your work and some renaming of XXX (Limburg) to XXX (Netherlands); also your edits to another Dutch municipality, 'Berghem'. The latter also mentions the disambiguation page 'Berghem (disambiguation)' that (still) mentions 'Berghem (Limburg)' but its link does not go anywhere: no article, no redirect. The forementioned 'Berghem' is in North Brabant and I assume it best to create 'Berghem (Limburg)' or put a link under it on the disambiguation page, towards the municipality in Limburg of which Berghem is a hamlet. I'll leave it up to you to solve this, as you are more aware of these topics than I am. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 12 Jan2007 07:41 (UTC)

Thorn, Netherlands

Those deletions I made were inadvertent, as you suspected. Thanks for restoring them. --Coemgenus 01:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Emmeloord

Ik was in Nederland med motorfiels vierteen dagen, twee jaren. Ik woonde in het hotel 't Voorhuys in De Deel in Emmeloord in de Noordoostpolder. Anthony Appleyard 15:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Location Maps

On the WikiProject Countries talk page, you had either explictly declared a general interest in the project, or had participated at a discussion that appears related to Location Maps for European countries.
New maps had been created by David Liuzzo, and are available for the countries of the European continent, and for countries of the European Union exist in two versions. From November 16, 2006 till January 31, 2007, a poll had tried to find a consensus for usage of 'old' or of which and where 'new' version maps. At its closing, 25 people had spoken in favor of either of the two presented usages of new versions but neither version had reached a consensus (12 and 13), and 18 had preferred old maps.
As this outcome cannot justify reverting of new maps that had become used for some countries, seconds before February 5, 2007 a survey started that will be closed at February 20, 2007 23:59:59. It should establish whether the new style maps may be applied as soon as some might become available for countries outside the European continent (or such to depend on future discussions), and also which new version should be applied for which countries.
Please note that since January 1, 2007 all new maps became updated by David Liuzzo (including a world locator, enlarged cut-out for small countries) and as of February 4, 2007 the restricted licence that had jeopardized their availability on Wikimedia Commons, became more free. The subsections on the talk page that had shown David Liuzzo's original maps, now show his most recent design.
Please read the discussion (also in other sections α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ) and in particular the arguments offered by the forementioned poll, while realizing some comments to have been made prior to updating the maps, and all prior to modifying the licences, before carefully reading the presentation of the currently open survey. You are invited to only then finally make up your mind and vote for only one option.
There mustnot be 'oppose' votes; if none of the options would be appreciated, you could vote for the option you might with some effort find least difficult to live with - rather like elections only allowing to vote for one of several candidates. Obviously, you are most welcome to leave a brief argumentation with your vote. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 7 Feb2007 20:10 (UTC)

Dutch villages

Hi Eugene,

Thanks for the work on the template. I have been using this index as a main source for the articles. I must have mistaken places like Angelsloor Delftlanden for villages since they have their own entries. Also, what is the name of the list of about 7000 places? Tim Q. Wells 00:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Den Ham (disambiguation)

Do you intend to create articles at the red links at this article? I was under the impression that disambiguation pages had to point to at least two articles of the same name. J Milburn 16:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand your reasoning, but I do know of cases where such dabs have been deleted. It would certainly be best if you could create those articles. J Milburn 16:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Eubot and Austria

If I were to make a suggestion, I would suggest trying the Eubot on Austrian towns, if that's okay. ''[[User:Kitia|Kitia'']] 17:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Mechelen

While I was improving Mechelen (disambiguation), mainly adding Machelen as not to be confounded with Mechelen: Driving from Brussels (area Laken) by highway, the exit marked 'Machelen' is only a few hundred metres before the turn otherwise identically marked 'Mechelen' towards another highway that leads to the latter — while driving, people not clearly aware of Machelen's existance hardly spot the one different character... I meanwhile found another Machelen (Zulte), so your argument about a too lengthy lead for the 'Mechelen' article wins strenght. Though I find it rather useful to show the similar placenames, their origin is not always clearly documented as related to Mechelen; in particular Machelen might have an origin with identical meaning independent from Mechelen, though the distance (only 13 km) and Mechelen being mentioned 2 centuries earlier do not make that very likely. The lead offered an elegant way to show these placenames without directly needing a referenced connection, as I'm afraid your suggestion in the edit comment would require.
The disambiguation page is now modified: it is not like most disambiguation pages saying 'Mechelen may refer to: a gray cat, a miner's tool, an oriental religion', but that Mechelen is always a placename in Dutch-language. — SomeHuman 18 Feb2007 19:53 (UTC)

Help Resolving a conflict

I have read the pages about this on wikipedia and I have came to you because you seem to be a person who knows how wikipedia is supposed to work and are most likely 100% neutral on this matter. I am involved in a rather intense edit war with two other editors of the article Miriam Rivera. In the last days the user User:Jokestress has quite reasonably asked for the article to be backed up with more reliable sources. Well I found them and that seems to have placated her. She has acted in 100% reasonable way in all of this. The problem arises in that she has asked in the spirt of resolving the conflict we were having other people who are not 100% neutral it seems to comment on the matter. These being the user User:Longhair and the userUser:Alison in particular who have not bothered to justify anything that they have done. Longhiar being an admin seems to feel no need to discuss anything and I feel is abusing her powers. Is there anything you can do? --Hfarmer 03:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Missing encyclopedic articles

Can you generate the page like this for Minnesota? We have 50 members over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Minnesota and I think this would be an excellent project for us. Thanks!! -Ravedave 02:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge Graphium antiphates

Thanks for spotting that. Shyamal 12:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, [4] It may have to move to Graphium aristeus rather than merge into Graphium antiphates. Shyamal 12:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikifun

Hi - There has been some recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikifun about possible Round 14, but there appear to be two unanswered questions for Round 13 over at Wikifun. I think there is a correct answer for Q.8, although Q.18 does not look quite there. When you have a chance, could you possibly put us out of our misery and declare a winner? Thanks. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Ellis Island

Did you download the ellis island record and load it to the article? I was the one that added the census. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 01:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikifun

Round 14 has now started. --Spondoolicks 17:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Eubot in Antarctica

I think Eubot is ready to load all of the articles from the US Geological survey into the articles tasked by the Antarctica missing articles wikiproject. Unleash the power!

Creationlaw 21:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm serious. It sure as heck would be more efficient than having a human do it.

Creationlaw 23:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Witt (onomastics)

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Housekeeping - cleanup per WP:SU

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Italian comunes

Hi Eugene i have a request. Remember about a year ago you botted the Itlaian communes? I have found a district that needs doing it is the province of salerno noe of them have any info at all

Hope you are well , in the Netherlands ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 16:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Nueva Segovia

Nueva Segovia: Nueva Segovia (city) -> Nueva Segovia, Phillipines

I think this is the common way for settlemt dab. This also avoids conflicts with the historic city in Nicaragua. Can you start a mini article on the city? IP editors are not allowed to do this.

The standard depends on which country it is in; but Nueva Segovia, Phillipines would be fine with me. Feel free to change this. I don't know anything about the city; if you write two or three sentences about the city here, I will copy them to a new article. Eugène van der Pijll 16:57, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Chinese Engineering Students' Association (CESA)

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French communes

Hi Eugene. I wonder if you still have plans to have Eubot run create the pages on the many missing French municipalities, like you did for Italy. The existence of a large number of municipalities that aren't covered makes it hard to make pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr since one has to wade through the large number of bot-appropriate articles. There has been a request for a Polish version, for instance. Rigadoun (talk) 19:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

White-breasted Guineafowl

Hi Eugene, thanks very much for adding the image of the white-breasted guineafowl. I have been looking for quite some time for a picture of this animal, but without success. I have come across this picture, but I didn't know it could be used because of the expired copyright. Do you perhaps know if there is also an image of the black guineafowl?

eboy 19:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

PS It would be even better to have a photograph of white-breasted and the black guineafowl, but I'm afraid someone has to go to Africa for that...

Hi!

How can I help the Missing articles wikiproject? Regards --Damifb 19:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar!

The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Barnstar

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Awarded to Eugene van der Pijll for figuring out a way to remove that annoying scrolling donation ad. Many thanks! NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 23:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Eubot task 3

Hello. Eubot (task 3) has been approved. Happy redirecting! — Coren ^(talk) 23:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Hoek and bots

I have changed from "nobots" to "bots|deny=SieBot,A4Bot,AlleborgoBot,Thijs!bot,YurikBot,Tsca.bot,Eskimbot". this is a bit of an experiment, with a small number of articles, but I hope that it will improve the rare use of the template. I have made a master list of interwiki bots at {{bots}}. Rich Farmbrough, 15:10 31 October 2007 (GMT).

Can you update Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/es?

Hello, I wonder if you would be able to update the missing encyclopedic articles list for Spanish, which recently finished its first list (from two years ago)? Please answer or leave comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/es. I'm asking a few different people I've seen who seem to be able to do this, so if you think you're too busy, don't worry about it. Rigadoun (talk) 20:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Moses de Tordesillas

A tag has been placed on Moses de Tordesillas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Your bot request

Hi Eugene van der Pijll I wanted to let you know that Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Eubot 4 has been approved. Please visit the above link for more information. Thanks! BAGBot (talk) 06:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

RFC: Does style guideline mean that all PD-sourced content is best placed in quotes?

The RFC is here. I linked to a PD-source template that you created in my most recent edit. --Paleorthid (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Dutch municipality

Template:Infobox Dutch municipality has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. —MJCdetroit ^(yak) 04:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Midlum

Hi, just a note to let you know that Midlum is now a disambig page. It led to the page that is now Midlum, Lower Saxony. Midlum in the Netherlands will need it's own article at Midlum, Friesland. Your /Dutch places page is the only page that links to Midlum now. Mjroots (talk) 08:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Pieter van Anraedt

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1000 missing Italy infoboxes

Hi. I've compiled a list of Italian comuni without an infobox - I was wondering if you could add them? There's about 1000 on that page, which are just the ones within WikiProject Italy, I know there's others that haven't been tagged by the Project yet (most of those in the Marche for instance) but that would be a big help, I've got an experimental bot that does importance assessments based on the population found in the infobox. Not everything in that list is necessarily a commune (it was based on the Cities and towns... categories) but I guess you should be able to check the it.wiki article to see if there's a Comune infobox there. FlagSteward (talk) 15:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Eubot

Eubot may run into trouble whenever other templates in the taxobox differ from the normal templates, such as when Plantae is rendered in italics Plantae. In this case, the color is lost. I've encountered this a few times while removing the template "color = lightgreen" and had to remove the italics. JoJan (talk) 18:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Arctic Grayling

Thanks for finding the citation!--UhOhFeeling (talk) 20:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Nobots on articles

I'm sorry, no offense intended, but I don't care what the page history says. Using {{nobots}} on an article is tantamount to saying "I own this article and I am deciding who gets to edit it and who does not." That is not how Wikipedia works. If there is a bot that is making inappropriate edits, you can and should report the error to the bot operator, and if he/she is not responsive, escalate it to the Bot Approvals Group or administrators. Blocking all bots from editing because of some individual bot's problem is overkill. --Russ (talk) 13:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Eubot double-redirects

Eugene, Eubot has been creating literally thousands of double-redirects. For example, it made a redirect from 30-years'-War to 30-years’-War, but that target is already a redirect to Thirty Years' War. [5] Please fix the bot so that it only creates redirects to targets that are articles, not to other redirects. Thank you. --Russ (talk) 10:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Animal Taxobox color

Thanks for editing the Animal article, however taxobox colors are automatically decided based on the kingdom (see Wikipedia:Taxobox_usage for more information), and need to remain consistant across the encyclopedia. Justin ^chat 16:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't even notice that :P. Sounds great, especially since I like the new color better :). Justin ^chat 17:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Smiling Time

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 18:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Eubot/Removing colours from taxoboxen

I am guessing that even though it does not say it here User:Eubot/Removing colours from taxoboxen the bot is now working on fungi and the color should be a light blue? Looks like a it's working if that is the case. Diff Jeepday (talk) 02:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Kruispolderhaven

Hello Eugene. I noticed your modification to Kruispolderhaven and I believe the hamlet Baalhoek is extinct. I don't think the people of the area would even recognize the name. I believe they would consider themselves from Kruispolderhaven. I will leave it to you to decide if you want to change it or not.

Bye, Mary Pelk (talk) 03:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks

Many thanks to you for adding that lovely image of the Cortelyou map to that page. Regards,MarmadukePercy (talk) 15:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Scientific classification

Hoi, twee weken terug hier verzocht je om Scientific classification nog een paar dagen aan te houden als redirect naar Biological classification, zodat alle taxoboxen aangepast kunnen worden. Nou vraag is mijn eerste vraag in hoeverre dit is gerealiseerd?

Het is mijn wens is dat het huidige doorverwijspagina Scientific classification (disambiguation) doorschijft naar Scientific classification, maar ik zie nog niet zo goed hoe dit kan gaan gebeuren. Kun je mij vertellen of dit toch binnenkort mogelijk is? Alvast bedankt. -- Mdd (talk) 12:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Nee je hoeft het nog niet te verplaatsen. -- Mdd (talk) 12:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Ik heb helemaal geen haast. Ik vind het veel belangrijker dat het goed opgelost wordt en daarover gaat ook mijn tweede vraag? Ik heb drie weken terug gezien dat er 90.000 pagina's naar scientific classification verwezen, en ik heb nog geen idee hoeveel dit er nog zijn. Ik heb bv ook nog geen idee hoeveel verschillende taxo boxen er nu zijn. Het zou wel prettig zijn al dit probleem toch eerst geinventariseerd zou worden. Kan jij dit wel overzien? -- Mdd (talk) 12:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

{{Taxobox colour}}

See this comment you can probably fix it unless it is already fixed when you see this. --Stefan ^talk 09:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, was wrong useage of taxobox template in the article. --Stefan ^talk 10:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot

Hi remember our connection during the Italian comune days? How are you? Well we can take out some of the unused paramters certainly. Perhaps you could join in at the Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot creating millions of new articles‎ (despite the bot already selaed for approval) ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Surnames list

Thanks for the surnames list. See Wikipedia talk:Suggestions for name disambiguation#Restarting this project?. I think that is the most practical place to get people interested in this. Would you have time to look at how things were done there, and how to include the {{otherpersons}} templates and its derivatives? For example, see here. Carcharoth (talk) 10:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if you found all the discussions I started on this (really, really shouldn't have done that, but it does seem to touch a lot of areas - never got round to asking the Categorisation people in the end, either), but the discussions are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I think your bot could be a great way to do this if done properly. My last attempt failed because I thought the people at WP:WPBIO would be interested in this, but in fact it is more naturally a disambiguation type of thing. Anyway, some of those long posts I made, I would be interested in your opinions, if you have time, especially the idea of a supercategory for all people articles. I think the stages required are fairly simply: (1) Think up a good name and location for the supercategory and then consider whether it should be a hidden category or not; (2) generate a clean list; (3) split out the non-DEFAULTSORTed articles and start a project to add DEFAULTSORT; (4) populate the supercategory; (5) arrange for articles from stage 3 to be added to the supercategory and for new people articles to be either tagged for addition of DEFAULTSORT, or to have DEFAULTSORT added and put in the supercategory. That way, the supercategory would be an index of all people articles. Whether there are technical restrictions on a category with 500,000+ articles, and how long it would take a bot to take 500,000+ articles, is something I think also needs to be considered. I think I need to write this all up on its own page. Would you be interested in reading the previous discussions if I can remember where they are? Carcharoth (talk) 23:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I can't remember how long you said it would take to come up with the list you were thinking of doing, but I thought I'd ask you if anything came of this or not? Carcharoth (talk) 16:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hadn't seen that new list. Thanks for pointing it out. I noticed that some items on that list had already been created. One was a redirect. The other two I looked at had been created by User:JLaTondre. Would it be an idea to drop him a note? Carcharoth (talk) 17:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hiya. I noticed Aalbers. Shouldn't that have {{surname}} instead of {{dab}}? If you are still experimenting, just say so and I'll try and be patient! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 01:10, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

About the location of lists of people, did you see the deletion discussions for List of people by name? See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/List of people by name and then Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 May 23. I guess we want to avoid recreating that, though I note that the comment by Ceyockey "A better way would be to request that some back-end gap analysis be done via direct queries against the database in order to scope out the problem" seems to describe what you have done to generate your list. I'll drop him a note, shall I? Or better, still, let's decide on what the central place should be, and who to notify and where to announce it in case we miss anyone or others want to help. In particular, I'd like to see this bit noted somewhere more permanent: "I've found 477579 articles on individuals; they have about 175,000 distinct surnames. Of these surnames, 116,000 are redlinks (so they would be inlcuded on User:Eugene van der Pijll/surnames); 95,000 of those redlinked surnames are carried by only one person in the database." That sort of data is gold dust for people who don't have the time or resources to run queries. Carcharoth (talk) 13:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

(unindenting) It is also interesting to compare your number (477,579) with the number at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality statistics (currently 521,632). I presume the difference (some 50,000) is due to how you found your list (some combination of birth and death categories and DEFAULTSORT or category pipe sort keys?), and articles with the WPBiography template that are not people (eg. music bands and so on). Carcharoth (talk) 13:43, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

The new version looks OK, though there are a few points. Pedro Abad Santos seems to have been missed, even though the "lifetime" template on the page uses "Abad Santos" as the sort key. Note that {{lifetime}} includes DEFAULTSORT, though there was a big debate here about whether hiding this use of DEFAULTSORT inside a template was OK or not. I tried to explain how it wasn't, and how it was misleading, but I came to the debate too late. Your new version of the page also has some Unicode(?) problems, unless the "..." bits under "Aas" and "Aaberg" were deliberate? It is also hard to assess how clean your list and database is unless the whole list is there. For example, the Mc and Mac bits. Carcharoth (talk) 22:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

There is an old discussion here. But undoubtedly part of the central discussion will be on issues like that, and on getting people who know about these sort of issues to turn up and help out. The issue of Asian names and other non-Western standards are also something that needs to be looked at when considering what a "surname" is. See Wikipedia:Categorization of people#Ordering names in a category for the main issues with regard to diacritics and internal capitalisation, and why sort keys appear differently to the actual name (apologies if you know this already). For your purposes, capitalisation matters because (unlike with sort keys) you are generating something that people will see. I suggest comparing the sort key text string with the title and seeing how it varies, if your program can do that. There are bound to be inconsistencies in any automatically generated list, related to almost all the examples given at that categorisation guide, but then that is what we have humans for - to correct such inconsistencies and work out what should be going on! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 06:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

• This confused the hell out of me! I was looking at the page thinking "I'm sure those "what links here" bits weren't there before...". :-) Carcharoth (talk) 14:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Did three more. Abbad was interesting. I think we need more people. Who were you thinking of advertising this to? Also, do you agree with the use of {{distinguish2}} for Abbadi and Abbadie? Similar looking and sounding names (if you mispronounce them), but different origins. Carcharoth (talk) 21:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Eugene, Sorry about the pile-on over your disambiguation page idea. I wasn't trying to set you up for a beating, honestly! I hope you didn't take offence. And, importantly, if you find pages where both first and last are the same then that would be very interesting - I don't know if your bot/code has the capability to do that. Cheers, --AndrewHowse (talk) 17:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I hope you're feeling better.--AndrewHowse (talk) 14:11, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

SurnameList Template

Eugene, thank you very much for posting the SurnameLinks template. I hate to ask this, as it seems to punish you for your competency, but could you provide any explanation regarding its expected use (including perhaps what is in and out of scope) and how exactly to use it? I am looking for a template that adds a box to the bottom of an entry for an individual that points the user to an entry for the applicable surname. The surname and surname stub templates do not appear to perform this function.--Rpclod (talk) 13:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I've jumped in and added documentation. Seemed a shame to show up red links for non-existant target pages, so I've amended[6] the template to pre-test pages existance - hope you approve David Ruben ^Talk 01:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Oath of Abjuration

I noticed that you changed the name of "Act of Abjuration" to "Oath of Abjuration" in March 2008. A few weeks later I rewrote the article. I am unhappy with the name change (see the discussion page of the article) and so are others. Could you please explain your reasons for the name change on that discussion page? My main objection is that "Act of Abjuration" is the established English regular expression for the Plakkaat. Also, there is a legitimate English "Oath of Abjuration", that has its own page as Abjuration, probably because "Oath of Abjuration" was already taken. If you don't object, I'd like to reverse the change, though that will mean a lot of work.--Ereunetes (talk) 20:00, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I have moved the article to Act of Abjuration today and made all the appropriate adjustments (It turned out that there was a redirect page "Oath of abjuration" with an undercase "a" that redirected two links inappropriately; the kind of thing a robot would not catch). Thanks for your advice in the matter, and again sorry for th initial misunderstanding.--Ereunetes (talk) 20:57, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Eubot

Hi, I found out that User:Eubot created the Anailson redirect to Atlético Clube Goianiense. I don't know how your bot is supposed to work, but, is that correct? --PeterCantropus (talk) 06:14, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Chart of en:Wikipedia by subject

I've just found the chart which you & Nikola Smolenski did, as well as her grep tool: very nice! Nikola says you were mostly responsible for the chart. I'd be interested in having another go at generating this sort of chart, and seeing how that grey space can be minimised. I take it that proportions involved are number of articles: over what namespace? What regexes did you use? Dsp13 (talk) 11:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Dioceses in Vietnam

Can I get Eubot to reverse the articles? The consensus wants to move the articles with the diacritics to redirect to the articles without the diacritics, which is the opposite of what Eubot did. Benkenobi18 (talk) 20:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd do it by hand, but Eubot's redirects are preventing me from doing so. I've already tried, and I fixed the ones I could, the rest need admin assistance. Could you help me with these please? Benkenobi18 (talk) 20:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. The help is much appreciated. Benkenobi18 (talk) 21:31, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Animal species described in 2006

I just made a little change to your Animal species described in 2006‎ list. Dakosaurus andiniensis was described in 1996, not 2006. Hope that's okay! Cheers, Mark t young (talk) 13:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Dabs with hatnotes

Hi, Eugene. If I clean up a dab page with hatnotes from User:Eugene van der Pijll/Dab pages with hatnotes, should I remove it from the list? -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Little context in Tripterygium

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NowCommons: Image:LocatieWijk bij Duurstede.png

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Cleaning up images

I reverted your 'clean up' of Image:Lechenaultia linarioides - Lemaire.jpg. While I'm sure you merely wanted the make the image more presentable, your action significantly degraded it. Are there other botanical illustrations that have had the same clean up? cygnis insignis 15:18, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

The onus is on you to upload a new image, especially in this situation. You removed the details of the flowers at right, and significantly reduced the clarity of what you left. It is a botanical illustration, it contains information that should not be removed. Please answer the question: have you done much more of this 'cleaning up'? cygnis insignis 20:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Use of Eubot in other Wikipedias

I understand that eubot (among other things) creates redirects for the titles of articles with diacritics by eliminating the diacritics. This could be useful not only for en:wiki but also for other versions of wikipedia. Is there any way the use could be extented to other versions?Afil (talk) 00:40, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

French commune infoboxes

Hi. We have a large back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

By subject

You uploaded Image:Size of English Wikipedia August 2007 by subject.png. Where do the numbers come from? Has that investigation been continued? In the German Wikipedia, 28% of articles are biographies (living and dead people). Actually, 4% are women and 24% are men. --LA2 (talk) 01:51, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Taxoboxes without images

Hi, it looks as if SVG images in taxoboxes are not counted when producing the list of tree of life articles without images. Is that intended ? Shyamal (talk) 15:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

That is strange because I have added SVG images to some bird boxes like the one on Crab Plover (June 2007) but the script that has analyzed the Jan/March 2008 dump has listed the bird article as lacking an image. Several others (Rufous-crowned Sparrow) too but I presume some are due to the date of the dump. Shyamal (talk) 01:48, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Waldo Frank

I think you suggested a merge for Waldo Frank's page. I think we could delete Waldo David Frank as it is not referenced and looks messy, and possibly redirect Waldo David Frank to Waldo Frank. I don't know how to do all that. What do you think?Zigzig20s (talk) 20:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Images from Video-Clips

Hi Eugene, have just seen the Caspian Plover image extracted from my video-clip, what did you use to do this....I'm impressed with the quality. Currently some Bird Project members don't like the quality of the 'thumbs' that I'm using to display my video-clips It would be great if we could improve this display using grabs from these. Aviceda talk 01:14, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Misidentification on Taxbox Image

Just wanted to let you know I removed the image added to the Loxosceles rufescens page as the spider pictured is actually a gnaphosid. I dont know if you would mind contacting the owner of the photo(or just editing it). I personally am not sure of the proceedure for fixing image names/descriptions. Arachnowhat (talk) 05:21, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of William Bond

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 19:51, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

star names

What's up with all the highly incorrect star name redirects, that are highly inappropriate, that your Eubot created last year? Since Bayer designation says that Latin lettered stars are different from Greek lettered stars, melding the two is not a good idea. And the stars themselves exist as the English Word for the Greek letter, and not the Greek letter itself. 76.66.201.179 (talk) 14:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Plaatjes van nederlandse plaatsen

Hoi, Ik ben afgelopen tijd wat aan het zoeken naar plaatjes van nederlandse provincies / gebieden / gemeenten / plaatsen. Nu zag ik dat het plaatje van mijn gemeente door jou was gemaakt, en las op je nederlandse profiel wat over dat je hulp zoh met het maken enzo. heb je alle plaatsen van NL inmiddels al gemaakt? zo nee: hoeveel wel? en heb je enig idee hoe het zit met de gemeenten, hoe die plaatjes gemaakt zijn? ik heb wel de bestanden voor ESRI van het cbs gedownload, maar heb geen idee wat ik hiermee kan doen. Het punt is dat we voor een school project een site aan het maken zijn waarbij de bij iedere provindie, gebied, en gemeente een kaartje willen weergeven. misschien zelfs per plaats indien dit aanwezig is. Ik heb wel een complete database met alle provincies, regios, gemeenten en plaatsen, allen aan elkaar gekoppeld, echter, de plaatjes hiervan zouden we dan stuk voor stuk moeten maken. Ik hoop dat je me zou kunnen mailen, om even te overleggen om te kijken of je ons kunt helpen, want ik snap soms niet helemaal goed hoe dit hier op wikipedia werkt. mijn gebruikersnaam is ook mijn .nl site, even info apestaartje er voor en je hebt mijn mail adres ;) Groeten, Bart Huisman ps: als je msn makkelijker vind ipv mailen, mijn msn is het gmail adres barthuisman ;)

ENGLISH: for english people reading this: sorry, my english is not so good. the text above is about some help i need with images of the map of the netherlands with all city's and vilages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VolgensBartjes (talk • contribs) 22:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Soest

Soest insteasd of just Soest, which is a disambiguation page. Peter Horn 03:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

mischien ken je de volgende templates verbeteren:

1. Template:Table row Dutch municipality (simple)
2. Template:Table row Dutch municipality (simple)/doc
3. Table of municipalities of the Netherlands

Less of a mess.

Peter Horn 03:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC) Peter Horn 15:30, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Already done, see User talk:Patrick#Soest. Peter Horn 15:38, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Kamiel Maase

Hello, Kamiel Maase & Talk:Kamiel Maase#Which Soest The cross country race was in which Soest, Soest, Netherlands or Soest, Germany? I'm inclined to think it is the first of the two. Peter Horn 15:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Biographical disambiguation

A discussion you might be interested in is here. I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile to pool lots of biographical bot-stuff at WT:Biographical metadata? Or maybe at a disambiguation or biography WikiProject? Carcharoth (talk) 00:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Eubot

See Quoi?400$!!etes-vous malade?!. What happened? MBisanz ^talk 00:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Missing de articles

Hi Eugene, long ago you made a dump of missing articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de. Are you able to produce a new dump like this, as it needs a refresh, otherwise can you point me to how it is done? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:29, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Newer T:Taxobox_colour

To User:Rich Farmbrough & User:Eugene_van_der_Pijll: If you are still interested in fixing it, see:

• Template_talk:Taxobox_colour#Replacing as next-generation template

I have created a newer tested-version to fix all problems, tested. -Wikid77 (talk) 07:51, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Eugene van der Pijll! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 139 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Gerald Lee Warren - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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Mark Mason/Septimus Winner

Hi. Just wondering if you could help me with a small query. I notice in 2007 you created a redirect from Mark Mason to Septimus Winner. I've just converted it to a disambiguation page as there are other Mark Mason articles and am adding some detail on each one to the new page, but I can't seem to find a link between Mark Mason and Septimus Winner. Can you help? Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:12, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Carlson Inlet

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Ouderkerk/Ouwerkerk

Hello, Eugene! I'm curious about the Ouderkerk/Ouwerkerk confusion (well, confusing to me, anyway). That the lords of "Ouwerkerk" were buried in "Ouderkerk" had always seemed odd, so learning that Ouderkerk is an older spelling of Ouwerkerk clears that up. It would be nice if there were an online reference to place in the article, if you know of one (I couldn't find one after a brief search). I also have a question about the transliteration: I see that "ouder" means "older", so the literal translation (not transliteration) into English for Ouderkerk would be "Olderchurch" or just "Oldchurch". Does "Ouwer" mean anything in Nederlands? And if not, then would it be true to say that "Ouderkerk aan den IJssel" had its spelling modernized, while "Ouwerkerk" in Zeeland didn't, but both names mean the same thing? And, if you know, why did General Ouwerkerk transliterate his name to Overkirk (which at least sounds like it's Scots), rather than translate it to Oldkirk or Oldchurch, which would be closer to what the word means in Nederlands? (I can understand why he just transliterated the name into French: Vieille-Église is nowhere close to Ouderkerk.) Thanks for your knowledge! Pilch62 (talk) 20:07, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Dutch town locator maps

Hi. I've left a message at Template talk:Dutch town locator maps. I wonder if you could shed some light on my question. Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 19:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Dutch town locator maps

Template:Dutch town locator maps 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) 18:12, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I believe you approve of the deletion per your comments on the talk page, but I thought I would check first and post it to TFD just in case. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 18:15, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Locator maps

Hi, I don't know if you are still making maps, but now that Medemblik, Noorder-Koggenland and Wognum have merged, the locator maps need to be updated. For example, File:Map NL - Wognum - Zwaagdijk-West.png is now somewhat out of date, and it would be great if there were a File:Map NL - Medemblik - Zwaagdijk-West.png. If you don't have any time, I could try to do it myself, but I am afraid it would take me a while. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 18:21, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Size of English Wikipedia in August 2007.svg

I see you made the last update to that picture, can you read this, please? I think that Nikola is a bit busy to update it, can you? Thanks. emijrp (talk) 08:43, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Vlodrop-station

You created Vlodrop-station. I am now drafting a closely related article, that'll probably be called "MERU, Holland" and which is mostly about the Maharishi's ownership. It'll also have a short overview of the Kolleg St. Ludwig history. It's currently in User:Will Beback/Scratchpad (for a limited time only - who knows what'll be there in the future). I may end up copying or moving some of the text you wrote in Vlodrop-station to that new article. If you have any concerns or contributions, let me know or just edit freely. I'm trying to find more Dutch sources, though I'm limited to Google's gibberish translations. If I understand correctly, there are active issues with the property and the local government. Anyway, you appear to be mostly dormant so this may just be for your information. Thanks for your contributions to the project.   Will Beback  talk  10:24, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Sam Vaknin

For your information Sam Vaknin has been recreated.--Penbat (talk) 17:37, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for Interview Regarding Wikipedia Bots

Greetings Eugene van der Pijll-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of the bot community and bot operator, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.

My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.

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UOJComm (talk) 23:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Old work on surname disambiguation

Not sure if you are around at the moment, but I made this edit about that surname disambiguation effort made in 2008 from a database dump you generated. Would you be able to comment on the feasibility of the proposals I've suggested and what the current state of name disambiguation pages are like, or suggest the best place to ask? Carcharoth (talk) 08:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Eugene van der Pijll,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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Distances in Miles?

In the article Colijnsplaat I saw the distance to Middelburg given as 20 km. When I look at different navigators I see the distance 30/31 km. I noticed the same error at 's-Gravenpolder, 's-Heer Abtskerke and some others. With a difference of about 1,5 it looks like the number is in miles, not km! As your bot wrote the article Colijnsplaat and the others, maybe more, I ask you to look at this. Salix2 (talk) 12:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

The distance along the road from Middelburg to Colijnsplaat is 28 km according to Google Maps, but that includes a large detour. The distance in a straight line is much shorter; in my atlas, I measure it to be exactly 20km.

The bot based its distance on the RD coordinates, which are in km, not miles. Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 22:06, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for misunderstanding. It seems rather useless to me to give distances by air, other then distances like going from Amsterdam to New York, or things like that. Salix2 (talk) 22:57, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

I reverted to of my actions. Salix2 (talk) 23:04, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Odd question

Sorry for an odd question, however - how do you pronounce your first name in Dutch? I couldn't find any sources for a Dutch pronunciation - only French, German and English. Thanks in advance :) TheDarkSavant (talk) 14:23, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

In Dutch, my name is pronounced (more or less) the same as in French. When I speak English, I use the English pronunciation, so you can say it however you like, I don't mind. --Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 21:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

So really like this then - øʒɛn. I always thought it might be something like Eugeen (also spelled like that), because of the Dutch way of pronouncing "g". I have the same name, and was having discussions with my Dutch colleagues :) Thanks for the insight. TheDarkSavant (talk) 18:01, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Johann Albrecht Adelgrief

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Eubot 2008 - oriental expansions

Howdy - an old one for you. I've discovered a few dozen odd redirects created in a Match 2008 Eubot run. Looks like a missing check for oriental characters that expand into a term already in the title:

• Ai (Ai ) (from Ai (愛))
• Xiong (Xiong ) (from Xiōng (匈))
• Wu (Wu ) (from Wu (無))

Can I double check this wasn't by design before I tidy them up please? Cheers. - TB (talk) 16:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Ho again - looks like you're on wikibreak. As I'm fairly sure these redirects aren't as you intended, I've gone ahead and RfD'd them; see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 October 25#Multiple: Possibly faulty bot-generated redirects from romanised chinese characters. - TB (talk) 07:14, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject

I noticed you are listed as a member in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dutch_municipalities. This project is listed as inactive now, I might perform some of the steps adviced in Wikipedia:INACTIVEWP, including tagging it as semi-active. I will not have a lot of time to spend on this, so please join me on the project talk page if you have any interest in reactivating the project. CRwikiCA (talk) 21:29, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

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Missing

Hi. You have been listed as missing. Should you ever return or choose not to be listed, feel free to remove your name from the list. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:12, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Could you please explain...

Why did you redirect Sam Brewer to Mollie Monroe? Geo Swan (talk) 18:56, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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