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Hey there. I noted in this edit to the Elektronika page that it was suggested that the term/brand is in use in Belarus. Could you provide more detail on this or add citations? Thanks! ZICO talk 01:46, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thank you for this edit. This page was about the company. Please help me to restore the article. --TarzanASG (talk) 09:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@TarzanASG: thank you for pointing this out. Merging the articles was absolutely a bad idea - and it was carried out without any regard for consensus.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:54, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you are interested in topics related to Russia and Russian language. If you don't speak Russian language please remember that Russian language is not official in Russia. This status is called the state language of Russia. And Kazakhstan has only one state language (Kazakh language). State language means higher level than official language. Official language (lower level than state language) of Kazakhstan is Russian language. "The state language of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be the Kazak language. In state institutions and local self-administrative bodies the Russian language shall be officially used on equal grounds along with the Kazak language." (Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan). --TarzanASG (talk) 15:30, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It would be helpful to add an adequately sourced explanation of the difference to the article, as otherwise it will confuse most readers.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 15:35, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The same sources (constitutions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) that you removed. It was explained very clearly at [1] and [2]. And please specify whether you speak Russian using {{Babel}}. --TarzanASG (talk) 15:44, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The interpretation is unsourced, that's why it was removed. A proper source for the interpretation should be included, otherwise it's OR.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:07, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not challenging you. I just converted your all the revenue info in the infobox into rubles and that is all. But however, I am curious on where you get the "operating income" and "net income" in the packet because if it does not show in the file, that could mean for some that you might have put made up that info on operating income and net income. Just saying. - Josephua (talk) 16:40, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Josephua: page 8, 'profit (loss) from operations' and 'loss for the period', respectively. The values are stored in rubles on Wikidata, they are converted through a template.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 21:58, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... and six --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your help!--eh bien mon prince (talk) 12:38, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The article History of computing in the Soviet Union you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:History of computing in the Soviet Union for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rosguill -- Rosguill (talk) 01:02, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ! It was I who once began this article. There are some very strange inline refs - looking like this
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Are you aware of what this is ? I can't find any further information. I don't say you have made them, but someone has. If possible, could you explain something about them ? Thanks. Boeing720 (talk) 14:00, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Revision history is your friend. Here's the diff where it was added.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 17:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, good work on the Orania article! A few days ago you created and added the Orania land map to the article. Unfortunately the map you used as source does not use the actual borders of the different private properties Orania is made up. The map originates from the VKN-website and is probably created to show the site of the VKN-property in relation to the relative site of the other properties. Only the VKN-borders are right.--I90Christian (talk) 12:33, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Christian! That's really unfortunate, I tried to find a more official map of the landholdings but I came up empty handed. The municipal demarcation maps for 2011 seem to show the borders of Vluytjeskraal 149 and 272, but they don't resemble anything described in sources. Do you know of any better map resource that we could use?--eh bien mon prince (talk) 12:49, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is an Eskom map for the Bo-Karoo region on the internet, showing all main farms and property subsections of these farms. Problem of that map is that it does not show any reference points, nor owners. Maybe you do not need it. You can combine the map of the the VKN-borders and the demarcation map.

• The demarcation map tells you the exact borders of the 272 farm bought in 1993, some of the smaller farmsteads of 272 are now owned by Kambro (see VKN-map) but this ownership is irrelevant.
• The demarcation map gives you also the south and west borders of the VAB area.
• Your border between VKN and VAB is right. Note: The border between VKN and VAB is not really straight as you can see in the background geography. This gives you the borders of the VAB area.
• You already have the right borders of VKN, except for the point where VKN/VAB/272 points meet, because the (west) border between VKN and 272 is a straight line.
• The 380 ha of Kambro is the unnamed square (of farm 151) in the demarcation map, right on top of farm 272.
• Note: The demarcation map also shows the north/south runway as a reference point. You can also use Google Maps as reference, were the borders are relatively clear. Then you have four farms on the map, around 3.300 hectares in total.

The Masada farm is missing in this overview. According to its size I think it is the property (like a box) right under 272 on the demarcation map. (There are no other options, unless the Masada farm lies opposite the river in the Free State, but I think that's not the matter).

Is important that this is only the private property that is linked to Orania. It is not said that these properties are also part of the area of the Orania Representative Council, because the boundary of the OVR/ORC (or the boundary between Thembelihle LM and the OVR) is not demarcated.--I90Christian (talk) 15:23, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll try to come up with an accurate map based on the info you supplied. If you have the time, would you consider checking the rest of the article for accuracy? I resorted to some old or primary sources in some cases, so I feel it would benefit from another pair of eyes.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 15:29, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the new map based on your suggestions. Hope it's an improvement!--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:41, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That map has the right borders. Off course I can check the article. When I translated it in Afrikaans and Dutch, I did not saw any inaccuracies. But I can check again. Is it okay that I drop some parts (I added a few parts when I translated the article) in Afrikaans or Dutch here on your talk page?--I90Christian (talk) 17:19, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, maybe you can name the map on Commons something like Orania private property map? Then it is clear that it is not a map about the OVR area.--I90Christian (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I did use some sources from the af\nl versions to update the article, if you feel that something is missing feel free to point it out. I added back the map, I think the caption is clear enough.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 21:56, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I hope you can re-edit History section in this entry and save it. Thanks! 隐世高人 (talk) 04:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Orania, Northern Cape has been completed.

A couple of things. I have placed quotation marks around every instance of the word volkstaat since it is not a word that has been adopted into the English language. I am uncertain whether this word should be capitalised every time it is used as I found it was in the Wikipedia article Volkstaat. I'll leave that to you to decide. I removed italics around any formal name where I found them. There is now consistency throughout the article.

I also used single quotes (') rather than double quotes (") around every quotation in the article as both had been used. Single quotes are standard British (and I assume South African) usage.

Before you submit this for a Good Article Review I would suggest that the sections on Demographics, Religion, Private company (budget figures), Politics and administration, Economy, Construction, and Education be updated. Each contains out-of-date information. The rest of the article should be checked as well.

Good luck with the GAR when you get to it.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

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Great work, thanks!--eh bien mon prince (talk) 12:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Underlying lk, this is 218.200.181.29, I hope you can create five articles about Russian shipbuilding companies on English Wikipedia: Pella Shipyard (ru), Vympel Shipyard (ru), Zvezdochka Shipyard (ru), Khabarovskiy shipbuilding plant (ru), Vostochnaya Verf (ru). Thanks ! 218.200.181.29 (talk) 15:30, 15 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by UBQITOSW (talk • contribs) [reply]

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Hello there, I notice you moved Transworld Group page to Transworld Group (Emirati company). May I know the reason behind this? Figwood (talk) 07:10, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation, as there are other entities known as TransWorld.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 07:13, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

May I moved Transworld Group (Emirati company) page to Transworld Group (Shipping and Logistic company). I think that name will be more suitable.Figwood (talk) 12:39, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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User_talk:Pigsonthewing#Infobox_settlement_-_Departments_of_Argentina 85.179.26.146 (talk) 01:17, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some usages of Template:Infobox Chaco fixed now: Special:Contributions/77.180.179.125 77.180.179.125 (talk) 02:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Chaco can now be deleted. Province-specific wrappers unwanted. Standard for departments is to use Infobox settlement directly. 77.13.34.199 (talk) 18:02, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, note that you have a duplicate field in the wrapper you crated at Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality/testcases for "Administratively subordinated to". Not sure if this is intended or a something was was missed in your latest changes. If this was intended, there really is not a need for any field to be duplicated, if it is, then something in the layout design is broken. Anyways, good job on it and I hope it passes. --Gonnym (talk) 17:08, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now, thanks for catching the issue.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 17:59, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can now replace it with the sandbox version, not? [3] 77.13.34.199 (talk) 17:30, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, if you edit {{Infobox Italian comune}} again, can you remove "| short_description" from the whitelist at the very end? Through an embarrassing series of miscommunications it was left there even after I had the parameter itself removed (it was a short-lived but inappropriate part of the fix to the missing text in the automatic SD). Thanks. David Brooks (talk) 14:13, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits on the SA towns infobox are causing some problems. Take a look at articles such as Atlantis, Western Cape and Drie Ziek. The new mapping logic adds maps of Greater Johannesburg and Cape Town maps to every SA location that has those cities listed, even though in some cases the location is very far off those maps, for example in the middle of the picture for Atlantis.Tobyc75 (talk) 21:48, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Durban city articles as well, see Umgababa, etc Tobyc75 (talk) 21:50, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've deployed your wrapper version of {{Infobox Russian district}}. Please check. Thanks for your work on this. Onwards..! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:58, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I see you made several major changes to this template to pull data from Wikidata without any discussion. I think this changes are ill-advised and should have been discussed. First, one of the fundamental problems with Wikidata is that it allows vandals to make changes that are invisible on watchlists here and doesn't require the same sourcing as is required here. Subtle vandalism is much more likely to remain in place when it is spread out through a number of different entries on two different sites. Additionally it appears that the changed template will only accept local values if the wikidata field is empty, instead of using local values first. This will make it frustrating and confusing for any user who changes a field in the infobox, only to discover that nothing changes. The connection to a completely separate database is not easy to figure out. Secondly, who will be keeping up the data? Currently I maintain the population and area data which is pulled into the template. This data gets updated once a year into templates for all 26 Cantons in Switzerland. It looks like now it will have to be individually updated for all 2,600 municipalities. So, will you be making all these updates each year? Tied to this problem is the fact that some of the data is out of date even now (see Basel, Bettingen, Riehen) were there is more recent data, which is no longer shown due to this template change.Tobyc75 (talk) 15:51, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A few points: Wikidata changes should now appear on the WP watchlist; the wikidata statements are all sourced back to the BfS, so refs should not be an issue; the previous version of the infobox also privileges template data compared to locally entered figures, that part won't be news to editors. About updates: QuickStatemets allows users to import csv/tsv data in a process that is probably faster than updating the subtemplates on here (not to mention the other Wikipedias). Having said all that, I recognise that the changes were unilateral, so if the consensus is to keep using the old local data templates I will, of course, abide by that consensus.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:36, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A preference allows Wikidata changes to appear in the watchlist but that makes the watchlist useless (last time I checked). That's because there is a large amount of churning at Wikidata and there is no easy way to tell if a change there is correct, or whether/how a change affects an article. Johnuniq (talk) 04:34, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So, in order to watch for vandalism on Wikidata I either have to add 3000+ articles to my watchlist over there, or use some preference change (what change, where??) that might clog my watchlist with so much noise that I'll be hard pressed to see the vandalism? As for using the batch tool, that looks like I'll have to map all 3000+ Qid's for each municipality to the local numbers used by the Swiss government. I can't see any way to do that outside of manually looking up EVERY SINGLE ONE! This looks like a lot of extra work and a lot of extra chances for mistakes for a change that doesn't bring me any benefit, especially to now have the data in a store that allows, but does not require references on the data!Tobyc75 (talk) 16:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

QIDs and SFOS codes can be mapped by downloading the CSV file from this query and using Excel's VLOOKUP function, it won't take more than a couple of minutes.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:57, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's handy, now how about mapping district and canton SFOS numbers to QIDs? Second, I made a change to Basel population since they publish figures more often than the Federal office does. However, it looks like the changes you made to the template force it to look at 2017 numbers first and ignore anything else. Finally, none of this addresses monitoring vandalism and the noise of wikidata swamping any attempts to watch for it...Tobyc75 (talk) 12:35, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Importing the SFOS codes for districts and cantons is pretty straightforward. Having the template fetch the most recent population figures, admittedly, is more troublesome. {{wikidata}} fetches the claim with the highest rank, regardless of how recent it is, and neither can QuickStatements be used to update ranks, at least for now. I'll try to find a workaround, if that can't be done within a reasonable time frame, we can go back to the old system.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 21:43, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tobyc75 - if the data is in Wikidata all Wikipedia editions can directly use it. Additionally there are people that only work on Wikidata data sets (use it for something else, e.g. analyse data for all of Europe), so it would be great of the data in WD is correct. What is better, maintain it in WD and Wikipedias or only maintain it in WD? Regarding vandalism: You can create a page maintained by ListeriaBot that lists all the data. That page should only change if data changes. 78.55.38.54 (talk) 15:05, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Quickstatements is not a friendly program and the documentation for adding sources is totally lacking. I can't add the title of the source because Wikidata needs a language for the title, but I can't find anywhere where it explains how to add a language tag to a source title. Also, you can only add a publisher if they already have a Wikidata entry, which I'm not interested in slogging through all the counter-intuitive numbers and codes to figure out. So, I can create a source without any important details like the title or the publisher, instead of the non-Wikidata way with those details. Also, there's still no way for 2018 data to show up for those locations that have 2018 data. It looks like it still defaults to 2017 without checking whether there is newer data. Tobyc75 (talk) 14:44, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tobyc75: I expanded a bit on the guide Wikipedia:Uploading metadata to Wikidata which is hopefully now more clear. I'm also uploading the new pop figures which will be displayed as soon as the import is complete.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 06:45, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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	Y do you do dis? I just want to make the world a better place :( Jesus123christmas (talk) 16:25, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry ;_; the memory of 1ronyman shall live on, but on another wiki page.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:50, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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There is only Template:Infobox person, no Template:Infobox former person. Only a few parameters regarding dissolution/death are the difference. Why an extra template in case of subdivisions? 78.55.20.3 (talk) 18:04, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Underlying lk, I wasn't sure whether you'd noticed that Aircorn had begun the review of this GA nomination. While it isn't yet complete, there are a number of issues to address, so you might want to get started. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just finished it. Feel free to respond to any queries. AIRcorn (talk) 20:08, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Metadata South Africa has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I completed Talk:Orania, Northern Cape/GA1. I see you haven't edited for a while though so will drop a note at the South African wikiproject. If you come back please join in the review. If no one responds in another week or so I will have to fail it. AIRcorn (talk) 18:14, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you. But I nominated the article over a year ago now, and I haven't edited it much since. I barely remember what it is about, which would make any work on it twice as hard.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:56, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you have no intentions of doing any work on the article, please let us know now; the review period has been extended, but if you won't be doing any work or posting to the review, it makes sense to close it immediately. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:56, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueMoonset: I don't know if anyone from WP:ZA is interested, but I won't work on it.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 16:08, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox South African municipality has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:51, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article Orania, Northern Cape you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Orania, Northern Cape for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Carabinieri -- Carabinieri (talk) 06:42, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_settlement#Only_articles_from_four_countries_-_AU-NZ-UK-US_-_have_an_infobox_that_does_not_use_this_template 78.54.186.65 (talk) 01:34, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_2#Template:Infobox_U.S._state - can you convert it into a wrapper? 77.13.154.57 (talk) 18:37, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

eh bien mon prince, the template is deployed (Example). There were 8,148 target articles and 6,933 additions. The discrepancy is some pages do not have an infobox (list on request). Thanks for making this available and updating Wikidata! If there are any more countries you want to add, the bot has approval to run without going through BRFA in the future. -- GreenC 20:29, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please see this discussion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:22, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox U.S. state/sandbox - wrapper started. 78.55.2.220 (talk) 13:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Underlying lk: I started loading {{France metadata Wikidata}} and have 1,000 done. Looking at the URLs they are all the same: INSEE. This is verifiable, but not ideal. URLs to individual communes take the form:

• https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3681328?geo=COM-27486
• https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3681328?geo=COM-10063

The URLs are uniform except for the municipality key. Thus it would be easy for the template to retrieve the key (27486 & 10063) from Wikidata and render the URL that way, so we have a direct URL to the commune page. This would also make it trivial to change the URL in a single place in the future instead of updating 40k records on Wikidata. The only question is if all URLs take this form. I'll wait to hear back before proceeding. -- GreenC 15:26, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Created Template:France metadata Wikidata/sandbox to demonstrate. But for some reason it's not retrieving P374 from Wikidata .. example municipality https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732495 for Brienne-la-Vieille with test edit. -- GreenC 15:56, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, sandbox is working. Loaded in Brienne-la-Vieille to demonstrate. Let me know what you think of changing over to this method. -- GreenC 16:06, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Have not heard back from you so I went ahead and changed the template to point to the more specific URL. It can always be changed back easily enough. I'll re-start deploying the template. -- GreenC 15:19, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]<