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Revision as of 23:33, 16 August 2008

Welcome to the Misplaced Pages

Welcome, Eklipse!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Misplaced Pages experience:

• First, take a look at the Misplaced Pages Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
• When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
• Learn about some of the Misplaced Pages landmarks by trying our Misplaced Pages scavenger hunt!
• If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
• Misplaced Pages has a vibrant community of editors. The village pump is a great place to see the goings on.
• Remember to use a neutral point of view!
• Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

• Misplaced Pages:Five pillars
• Misplaced Pages:Brilliant prose
• Misplaced Pages:Be bold in updating pages

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun! ClockworkSoul 21:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: List of space telescopes

Hello. Thanks for your comments on Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of space telescopes. I'm replying here as that page seems to have been archived now...

I agree that adding some history to the page would be good, but I'm not a historian, and plain don't know it...

As for numbers: I could probably find the number of satellites currently in orbit, but it would take a while - I'd have to try to find out whether each of the satellites is still up there or not. Active is easier, but I'm not 100% confident that it would be the correct number - some satellites have possibly ended, but haven't said, and I occasionally find ones I missed (e.g. PAMELA which I added yesterday). It would also have to be updated fairly often (~ once a month).

What happens to terminated satellites is easier: they stay up there until their orbit decays and they fall back to Earth, when they burn up; or for those at Lagrange 2, they'll just stay there for a few million years until their orbit gets disturbed. I guess that could be added, so long as I can find a reference for it, but I'm not sure that it would fit in...

Having said all of that, I'll keep your comments in mind, and will try to modify the list in the future to accommodate some of your suggestions.

Thanks again. Mike Peel (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Lists of basic topics

I noticed you joined this WikiProject. Welcome.

As far as I can tell, the rest of the members are in it in name only. I've tried to stir them to action, but nothing has worked so far.

I hope you are an exception, and that you've added your name to the list because you want to make an impact.

This project is a very big undertaking. Only a few of the lists are complete. Which means there are hundreds of lists that still need work.

I've been picking away at them for over 2 years (I started out as User:Go for it!), and have done the majority of the work on them. The set is a lot more useful than it was, but there is still a looong way to go.

Even if the two of us worked on them full time, it would take years to complete the set.

We need help.

Lots of help.

Therefore, I believe we should take a strategic approach here.

The best thing we could do for this project is to recruit help.

Aggressively.

Are you in?

The Transhumanist    05:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Featured articles on Arabic Misplaced Pages

Hello Eklipse,

Thanks for noting that Japan is a featured article on the Arabic Misplaced Pages. Unfortunately, I don't read Arabic, so I can't tell what method the Arabic Misplaced Pages uses to indicate featured articles. I notice that Japan does not have the star in the corner that the English Misplaced Pages uses to mark featured articles. In contrast, History of Kuwait, which is featured and is presently on the main page of the Arabic Misplaced Pages, has that star in the top left corner. Can you tell me how to look at an article and determine whether it is featured?

Thank you, Fg2 (talk) 22:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that's a nice method. Fg2 (talk) 08:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Award

Oh many thanks for the award much appreciated!!!! I only just saw it!! As you can see my talk page gets a fair bit of traffic. Yes I'll try to help develop few. I've drawn up the bones for all the other templates at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lebanon/District templates . If you and WP:Lebanon and User:George etc could develop them and add links to each one I think the condition of Lebanese articles would really improve. I;m sure the template could be filled out a bit with notable articles related to each district. I'll try to add what I can. At present I have Mexican towns on the go and trying to sort them out. Best regards and thanks! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 20:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Lists of basic topics

Hi. Here's an update of what we've been up to in this WikiProject...

We've created a page for every country of the world! They're not complete, and most of them aren't even in the main namespace yet, but...

A team of editors has been working on them, and they've come a long way.

We're about to run a competition, called "Around the World", in which participants will compete in the completion of specific data items across all of these country lists. For example, one task would be adding the population figure on each page.

The awards images are almost done, and the pages themselves need a couple sections completed before they can be moved to the article namespace and the competition can begin.

We could sure use your help...

Track down the administrative divisions types for each country

The first task is on the "Administrative divisions of" sections.

In each of these sections, there's an initial hierarchical list of the division types in that country, followed by subheadings for each of the types. Unfortunately, the types listed are those from the template I used to create these pages, and they aren't accurate for many countries.

The defaults that I used were:

• Provinces of x
  • Districts of x
    • Municipalities of x

For each country, change the links to the names of the administrative divisions for that country, adding more links if there are more than 3 division types. Those that are subdivisions of another type are indented under the parent type. In most cases, you would leave municipalities in place, because that's a generic name for "city". We'll blue-link those later. (Blue-linking is creating a redirect so that a link turns blue - that way, the link remains standardized on all the pages in the set).

Also change the subheadings in the same section to match the initial list, including the "main article" links presented just below each subheading.

To find out what the administrative divisions are for a country so you can add them, try looking on the government of x or politics of x pages for that country, and on the country's main article as well.

Add the administrative divisions to their respective subsections

For each country, find the list of administrative division for each type, and add them under that type's subheading.

For example, copy and paste the provinces listed at Provinces of Angola under the "Provinces of Angola" subheading on that country's list page.

See the countries listed at Lists of basic topics for examples of how this has been done for those. If there's a map showing the administrative divisions, grab it too.

Generally do not add towns and cities to the municipalities section, as there are usually way too many of them (and will unnecessarily bloat the page). Instead, provide links to the various pages (Cities of x, ], Villages of x, etc.

Complete the "Government of x" section

This section also has temporary data, and needs to be corrected/completed.

The name of the position of the head of state and head of government of each country needs to be corrected, and the specific office holders added.

The branches of government subheadings need to be corrected/filled in.

Etc.

The above tasks are fun, because it's interesting to see how other countries operate. I've completed about 25 of the country pages so far, and I've been intrigued and even amazed at some of the approaches different countries follow. The U.S. is definitely behind in many respects.

Please help out as much as you can, and help us get Around the World started!

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist    17:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

My FLC

I've adressed the comments raised at the FLC for Featured list candidates/List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. I would appreciate it if you could take another look at the nomination. Thanks for the review! Malinaccier (talk) 01:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Lebanon

Although no-one in Lebanon refers to the currency as Lira (when speaking English) it should be noted that in some regions the common English usage (usually outside Lebanon) is Lira not pound. The two terms are interchangable. I just wanted to give that opinion to the edit someone made on Lebanon --AreaControl (talk) 21:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

See Lira. It mentions Cyprus as an area where Lira/Pound is the exact same term. I only wanted to mention this as it could have been a misunderstanding from a user outside Lebanon who simply believed the terms to be equally usable --AreaControl (talk) 21:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)