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Hey Pumpie, I hope you like the place and choose to stay. (I like your user name :)

Some links that may be of use:

And keep contributing! :) Dysprosia 13:18, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie. Did you take a second look at Prefecture of Elia yet? I made it look like several other country subdivision articles I wrote already. Do you like that design? I am still busy with german districts, thai provinces as well as brazilian states, so it'd be good if you would do more on the greek prefectures. I am only not sure about the english name of that prefecture - I found both spellings Ilia and Elia; do you have the greek spelling (you can add greek letters as well here).
Another note: your new List of Prefectures in Greece and Prefectures of Greece are duplicate article. However most of the links in the second one point to articles about cities or long outdated articles, so it needs quite a bit of work as well. andy 20:25, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hello pumpie, It is helpful to other users if you can write a quick summary for each edit you make. This way we can read your summary instead of search for your changes :) Kingturtle 18:09, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I'm just a starter, and I am a kid and a boy genius just like Jimmy Neutron, I am from the Free Universe.

Is there any article about highways in Greece, or dialing or area code listings in Greece, yet?

Do you have a complete listins of highways over there? is there a complete listings about area codes of the world, "geniuses" there?

How are going to update this first names article in order format?

Is there any information about a list of radio stations anywhere? Pumpie 22:45, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Double spacing in the display of articles

I don't like it to be double-the-line but single-the-line on every article, please, it made us dizzy? Pumpie 23:24, 5 Oct, 2003 (UTC)

If you edit http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Pumpie/monobook.css and copy the text from http://en.wikipedia.org/User:MrJones/monobook.css then save, you'll find all pages are single spaced. Play with the line height until you're happy with it (try 1.1em, 1.15em, etc) Mr. Jones 20:17, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)


When will the allwiki.org will be running? Pumpie, 21:20, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)

When is this notice abotu finding a word on wiktionary to becoma any easier, like school to an Italian wikipedia for scuola, in the form of which is simply scuola on written texts, when will this thing will happen? Pumpie 21:31, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

When will mapquest.com/kids run. Go put back the railroad systems of the state of Canada on, and the expressways of Brazil. Remove advertising, and mapquest.com/kids will run only children's advertising like "Sonic the Hedgehog". Second, all rivers and streams of Canada has to be named, and third All roads and local streets, trails, and rivers and streams has to be on for Oceania, and South Africa. When will this be happening?

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Here are my chatrooms That I will be doing incase there isn't any room left unless we have a super-cord connected from goodly little known planets from outer space to turn this page into one, so we can have more room in the future.

This is my chatroom for users born after 1985: Pumpie's chatrooms

I'm moving this to your user talk page. If you really want to be an admin (nothing but work, no benefits), re-apply after a month or so.

Pumpie

Pumpie would like to become an administrator for Misplaced Pages. I will protect pages from vandalism, and I will may or possibly add Phases IV and V if necessary, and I may have ability to write using Greek and Cyrillic fonts as well. I may even create Wikipediatlas too.

I oppose this as I don't believe Pumpie has obtained a good understanding of Misplaced Pages yet. He has created inappropriate pages such as List of baby names and has been impolite when such pages are listed are listed for deletion; Greek names of states for example. He has also created sock puppet accounts in order to vote at VfD . Here's quote from my talk page:

Our friend User:67.60.17.122 a.k.a. User:Pumpie appears to be obsessive about creating list while doing little or nothing to create content. We're also familiar with his efforts on Wiktionary where he is trying to list every imaginable given name. He's a young kid who doesn't seem to understand how much work he's generating for others. ☮ Eclecticology 01:30, 2003 Nov 5 (UTC)

Angela. 20:16, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose. Daniel Quinlan 20:44, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • I really understand, and I will not vandalize. I will make links for language.wiktionary.org in the near future. Pumpie 22:20, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. silsor 22:49, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose Alexandros
  • Hang around for a while, Pumpie. Get the feel of things and get to know people. Ask again after a month or so.—Eloquence
  • Oppose for now. Sock puppet creators should not be sysops for a reasonable period after the offence. Erik's advice of putting it off for a month or so is worthwhile. Maybe we do need to develop a policy as to how long after being caught stacking up sock puppet votes it should be before that person can be nominated to become a sysop. FearÉIREANN 06:50, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will probably create Wikipediatlas, and I will like to write with other texts with a mini-button which allows to write texts (Greek, Cyrilic, Japanese, etc.) someday.
    • It is better to do the work first, then request. Not the other way around (aka "the politician's way"). --Menchi (Talk) ] 03:32, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will protect pages from vandalism, and whether I am starter or not, I will try to become an administrator, I will create pages for language.wiktionary.org and I have removed vandalism once from Wiktionary.
  • Support Lirath Q. Pynnor
  • Oppose Maximus Rex 23:09, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose Secretlondon 23:13, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly oppose Pakaran 23:15, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I will protect pages from vandalism, write texts in Greek, and create Wikipediatlas as well, and Wikigeniuses follows that. Pumpie 23:24 Dec 8, 2003
  • Oppose, and please sign in too. --Jiang | Talk
  • Oppose. Pumpie you don't need to be an admin to do most of the things you want to do. theresa knott 13:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I want to create www.en.wikipediatlas.org someday?, and write using Greek, Cyrillic, and Japanese characters which I don't have. Pumpie, 16:25, Dec. 10, 2003
  • I may have an idea on creating some bots when I become an administrator.
  • Sigh. Oppose for having failed to grasp the comments of other users relating to the actions and their relationship to administration. -- Lord Emsworth

Why don't you sign in? Please reply to my question at my talk page. --Ed Senft! 21:57, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pumpie, I've moved this from RFA. It might be best for you to wait for someone else to nominate you before applying again as nominating yourself evey week isn't likely to help. You might find it useful to read the pages linked to from the Administrators' reading list to get more of an idea of what being a sysop entails. Angela. 22:02, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)


  • I would like to become an administrator since I have done over a 100 edits when I am logged in.
    • Oppose. Your statement simply tells us how many edits you have. How do we know if you can be trusted as an admin with just that statement? As I've said countless times all over the 'pedia, # of edits != Trust. Furthermore, you didn't specify a reason for any edits, which makes it all the more difficult to understand what your intentions were with each edit you've made. Elaborate a bit and I may change my vote. Metasquares 19:41, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • How many times does Pumpie have to ask and get voted down? Opppose. RickK 06:03, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a vote: asking so frequently makes people want you NOT to be an administrator. silsor 08:04, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Oppose, if he gets it then I'd deserve it too! Walter Simons

Hi, Pumpie. I think a week is far too soon to ask again! I suspect a number of people feel like Silsor, that asking over and over will annoy people and not help your case. Is there some great reason to rush to be an admin? I'd suggest you just spend your time being a good contributor and editor here. Don't resubmit yourself for, say 6 months-- do a good job here and someone else may beat you to it and nominate you first. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 01:47, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pumpie: If you don't ask to become an admin for 6 months, I will support you. Perl 02:57, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi! It should be {{msg:stub}}, not ((msg:stub)). Thanks! -- user:Zanimum

Is there a user that can develop some bots over here? Pumpie 9:40 (EAST), 14:40 (UTC)

I see no reason to make a Pumpiebot; whatever bot I'm using will be Robbot. As for developing a bot: The code of Robbot is open, and you are free to use it or develop your own bot from it. If you have a good idea, you are invited to bring it forward on the email list (see http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pywikipediabot-users ), and perhaps I or someone else is willing to write it for or with you. - Andre Engels 16:41, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Next question answered at my own talk page. - Andre Engels 21:14, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I have a unit to add and probably to add some Greek, Cyrilic texts on the right, including other alphabets ans syllabary if highlighted to add. (For example: A word like hgeinoj, and so on and if highlihgted, and I click the Greek alpha button, it translates into Greek alphabet, and becomes igeinos. - Pumpie - 14:42, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie, What's the deal with your last few contributions about the Bernese Oberland and railways? Did you copy&paste babelfish translations without checking? No sentence is grammatically correct and only half of them make sense. You did even translate place names literally (Engelberg is not angel mountain and Interlaken is not intersheets)! Please stick to languages and topics you know something about, you're only creating additional work for the other editors. --Zumbo 18:56, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Please read the changes I made to your page at Allmendingen before making new pages of the same type. Thue 20:51, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Pumpie, re Megara; I can't quite make sense of the following: "There is a bridge (to some residents) that will connect the island with the mainland, but is not yet planned." Is the bridge there now? Djnjwd 19:20, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • It is uncertain and the bridge is not there, distance from Pachi to the island of Salamis is about 200 to 250 m. - Pumpie, 13:34 (UTC)

Brazilian city articles

Pumpie, I've noticed that many of the articles on Brazilian cities that you've uploaded have many spelling and punctuation errors. Are you proofreading these? If not, you're creating a lot of work for others who have to clean up after you. Joyous 14:44, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Schloss Lenzburg

Your good intentions of translating the German article to include it into the english wikipedia are noted, but it seems like you don't speak any German, so your translation was not much better than Babelfish nonsense translations. Such translations don't help, they only create work for others, so I think you'd better don't continue those. There are still enough topics to be covered for which you can find english sources. andy 19:28, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I don't see the point in creating the articles on the villages which contain nothing more than just population and district data, that's IMHO not what belongs in a encyclopedia. But anyway, please translate Gemeinde as municipality, Stadt as town, and only Großstadt (i.e. a Stadt with more than 100,000 citizen) as city. andy 22:26, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Hey, a lot of these articles you're importing from other Wikipedias have broken interwiki links: because the English Misplaced Pages does not use Unicode for article titles, you can't just copy accented symbols into the text and have the Interwiki work. See for example the versions of Großbartloff or Küllstedt before my changes - the de: link is broken. —Stormie 04:43, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

It's a waste of time trying to convince Pumpie, he won't listen anyway. --Voyager ch 11:06, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I didn't know this, I thought it was also convertible on unicode so when a non-unicode link, I thought it would be changed to unicode when surfing into another language. - Pumpie, 13:26 Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
Well, it's not, and I see from e.g. São Paulo Railway that you are still creating new articles with broken interwiki links. Please have some consideration for other editors, and don't just dump stuff in and hope that somebody else will fix it up. —Stormie 01:59, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Machine translations

If you continue using machine translations, you will inevitably be put on RFC by someone. And I assure you that won't help you get adminship. Please stop it. — David Remahl 16:58, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I totally agree with David. Stop this nonsense! --Voyager ch 18:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
How come, I am trying to translate without making any mistakes, How much errors did I do? --Pumpie, 20:08, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In that sentence, at least four. It should be: 'How come? I am trying to translate without making any mistakes. How many errors did I make?' I don't wish to be mean, and none of us are perfect. But if there are at four errors in 17 words, how many are there likely to be in the many articles you've translated? Jongarrettuk 22:42, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You now what Jongarrettuk, I am trying to do my best on not making any mistakes on translation, Germany is difficult along with Portuguese but with French and probably Greek, I can translate. I will try to reduce it to zero from four per 17 words. --Pumpie, 22:52, Oct 6. 2004 (UTC)

Anyway, where are you from and how old are you? I can't work it out. Jongarrettuk 22:58, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I know other languages, but I will continue to study tomorrow, anyway, I will try to translate better, since you don't know that many languages, I only know some primary words of other languages, but some latin-based words are easier to translate to English in some language using this (easiest) method. --Pumpie, 23:05, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
D'accord, je vous comprends. Mais où habitez-vous et quel âge avez-vous? Jongarrettuk 23:41, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
No, I was saying that I really know any languages (langues), and since you're not an expert, other experts aren't here. The easiest is less than 100 to 300 kB. Anyways, errors will be fixed, I'll be back tomorrow to find some translational experts, if there's one, this problem will be fixed, if not, another expert, like the one who fixed Boswil will fix every article that is impertectly translated, see ya. --Pumpie, 23:52, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In most cases, it would be easier for a good translator to translate the original source to English than to try and interpret your machine translation, even if he was allowed to look at the original too. Thus, you're wasting everyone's time adding mangled machine translations. — David Remahl 00:26, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I will slow down and translate articles to English properly, I know a little German, so, a translator like Rhymeless will fix all this problem, I didn't mean to, I thought it was properly, so it became 50% acceptable, I will fix it to acceptable translations (longer than 1000kb) --Pumpie, 20:40, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Have you checked with Rhymeless that he wants to translate all these articles into English? I appreciate your intentions are good, but you're just creating bad articles until someone chooses to correct them. I'm also concerned at how good (or rather bad) your English is. Unfortunately, at the moment what you're doing is just annoying people and antagonising them. Jongarrettuk 21:12, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Rhymeless does NOT want to translate all these articles into proper English! I didn't mind translating a couple, but translation isn't even what I'm best at. I'm a kid, like you, so I get busy. I might be willing to help you with translation on an article-by-article case, but this isn't the best way to do it, please ask me if you would want help. Please try not to flood en.wiki with machine-translated articles in the future. ] 07:28, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My English is almost good, I am trying not to annoy anyone, but to fix this problem. --Pumpie, 21:54, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
I though you were a translator, I didn't know, but that's okay, you don't have to translate, there are other translators (not via the machine, humanly) but they are not in the wiki or their favorites, or first-comers --Pumpie, 17:24 8/10/2004 (Oct 10, 2004) (UTC)
Pumpie, please try to understand that a poor first translation is of no help at all to a translator. It is a lot better to start from the source material (i.e. the German wiki) than to try to interpret the mess created by a machine or a non-native translator. DO NOT (!!!) add poor translations to the English Misplaced Pages under the assumption that someone will clean them up. Find something else to do on the Wiki. — David Remahl 17:40, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
David is absolutely right that there is nothing more horrible, tedious, unrewarding, unpleasant, for a translator (I worked as one for 20+ years) than translation review, especially where the translation is bad. Even when the translation is good, it requires enormous patience, a very fine sense of not injecting one's own POV into the review (over and above the normal sense of NPOV that comes, or ought to come, with being a translator); presented with a horrid translation, I'd tell my clients it would be better — and far cheaper — to just start over again. || Also, a comment: translation is slow; an average figure frequently put forth by translator associations etc. is 3000 words of finished translation a day: that works out to 6 words a minute! At my very best, in a field I was completely used to, as part of a massive project involving repetitive vocabulary and forms, and armed with fast-expanding keystrokes etc., I once hit around 11,000 sustained for a day — which is 23 words a minute. || So now, ad rem. Precisely because there is no way a human translator (or even a team of translators of the size we'd be likely to get here) could churn out these PumperSeiten, I view your machine-translated dumps as valuable: they are for the most part fairly understandable, and there's no shortage of other articles onboard in curious varieties of English; but by many different authors, thus not attracting the attention yours do. The net effect of this deluge of poor English is (a) to improve coverage; (b) to decrease overall quality, at least of readability. That makes your stuff a very tough call, in terms of the value of the articles themselves; but in terms of administering Misplaced Pages, you've created a situation calling for a great deal of work: I were voting for an administrator, I'd vote for someone who does not create work, but reduces it. || Towards a solution: (1) I suggest we create a template that you'd incorporate in your articles, which would say something like "Hey we know this is not perfect English, but the info is good. If you want to be involved in fixing it, see --> (2) And the "see" would be a place where people could sign up for distributed copy-editing; I borrow the term from "distributed proofreading" at Gutenberg. Believe it or not, there are people out there — sheer masochism's what I call it — who like fixing things like this: on my own (large) website I get quite a few people who show up out of the blue and plow thru multi-volume books for me]. We could provide a place for people who enjoy this sort of stuff: an automatically-generated Category page of all the PumperSeiten. — Bill 17:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Interesting and constructive idea. I created the following:
Translation arrow iconThis article may be a rough translation from German. It may have been generated, in whole or in part, by a computer or by a translator without dual proficiency. Please help to enhance the translation. The original article is under "Deutsch" in the "languages" list.
For the above, I used {{CrudeTranslation|German}} {{RoughTranslation|German}}. What do you think? It places articles in Category:Crude translations Category:Rough translations, which is a subcat of Category:Cleanup. Perhaps we could have several Crude Rough translations categories for different languages. (By the way, Bill, I'm impressed by your attention to detail in your message above, I mean all the no-break-spaces. Very pedantic, cool and impressive ;-) — David Remahl 17:55, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
David — flatteries aside, thank you — your template has my vote, with one slight change, rough for the somewhat POV crude. — Bill 18:05, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Done. — David Remahl 18:12, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Alert

Hi Pumpie, sorry for my English: I'm Italian. You are editing many towns of Italy with a mistake: Regions of Germany is uncorrect. You mean Regions of Italy I suppose. By --[[User:Archenzo|Archenzo >>

Revenue passenger traffic, in millions of passenger-miles (scheduled flights only)
Year Pax-Miles
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]] 20:33, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Now they are OK! By --] 12:06, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Please stop

Pumpie, would you PLEASE stop translating my German articles with Babelfish? The junk you're producing is just horrible. In future, I will put EVERY article on "Votes for deletion". Maybe you will learn something. But I really doubt this. You just don't seem to understand. :-(
--Voyager ch 19:24, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will not translate any more articles into English with Babelfish, Voyager ch, I will translate new articles without Babelfish or grammatic errors. -Pumpie, 20:50, 10/11/2004 (UTC)
So that means you won't translate anything at all in future. I doubt that your knowledge of the German language is sufficient for translating my shopping list. Do us a favour and stop bothering us. --Voyager ch 21:14, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Brazilian municipalities

I see you've added a couple of the towns that I recategorised as Category:São Paulo state back to Category:Brazil. Are these towns of special importance, or is it your opinion that all towns in Brazil should be added to the top level category? Since there are so many of them, I think other articles in the category will get lost, and it's better to have them just in the state category. Alternatively, they could go into Category:Cities in Brazil, although I would prefer to see only the major cities (perhaps, those over 100,000 people) go into that category (as well as into the appropriate state category).-gadfium 22:37, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

For the categories, Misplaced Pages just got started! As we input the thousands of places — I'm a firm believer in what Pumpie is doing, if not keen on the machine translation — there's going to be categories for the individual states of Brazil; the towns should be inserted into cats by state (Minas Gerais, etc.). Other parts of Misplaced Pages have found it useful to distinguish between Cities and Towns, the cut-off being 100,000; when I found that, it seemed quite good to me, so in my Categorization of Category:Italy and elsewhere I've been using that, if that helps. — Bill 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Uh, Pumpie...I hate to be a pickle, but your Moji das Cruzes article is utterly incomprehensible. I know you mean well, but these Babelfish translations just don't make any sense. Please consider contributing in other ways, perhaps to your native language Misplaced Pages. Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 18:30, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Also, I have to agree with Gadfium. Misplaced Pages really isn't the world's geographic text dumping site. OK? Feel free to add articles, but please do more than just copy the geographic positions and paste them here. Tell the reader more about these towns. - Lucky 6.9 18:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pumpie, please stop with the text dumps. - Lucky 6.9 19:08, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
For the machine translation, see the discussion above; there is now a template: {{RoughTranslation|insert language here}}; I just inserted one in Moji das Cruzes. The template categorizes these articles to suitable stub categories, I'm told (although I didn't check). Pumpie, you should consider inserting them yourself as part of your standard procedure: it would save others a lot of trouble! — Bill 19:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Look, lots of us have asked you not to use this site as a text dump for geographical information about Brazilian municipalities that are readily available on other websites. - Lucky 6.9 20:02, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • OK, you've left me no choice. I've posted your user name on the "requests for comment" page.  :^( Apparently, several others have left comments dating back to last February on your behavior as well. You've refused to answer and when you do, it's usually some bizarre statement and not a straight answer. You continue to post information that belongs in much larger articles...and then you post them as stubs in need of expansion! None of us are trying to be mean. Heaven knows we need good, dedicated and prolific writers but what you're doing is just wrong. PLEASE contribute in other ways. No one's chasing you off. OK? - Lucky 6.9 20:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pumpie, let's try this once more. You are creating a TON of work for others to clean up. - Lucky 6.9 03:42, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Regretfully, I'm adding my voice to Lucky's. While I still think these geographical dumps are useful, you're showing no sign of wanting to spare other people extra work. — Bill 08:45, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm a genius, I am an expert, I will fix this solution. Pumpie 01:15, 10/28/2004 (UTC)
What exactly are you going to fix? You never listened when people complained about your behavior. Plop 08:09, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • My behavior isn't bad at all to about 90% of the articles. I am trying to improve my behavior. I am intelligent, I am brilliant, I have a great IQ level and I will try to continue without any interruptions someday and actually, I have listened. Pumpie, 17:25 10/28/2004 (UTC)

Quality, not quantity

  • Let me add my two cents. Pumpie, while I understand what you're trying to do, I believe that Misplaced Pages is more about quality than quantity (help me guys, if I'm wrong). Look at most people's contributions. Most of the editing done is minor and simply reorganizing or cleaning up. Don't try just adding stuff because anybody can do that (it's quite amazing how much there is out there really). Take what you've added and clean it up. It's the organization that's the most important. If you're simply copying machine translations over, I suggest working in the sandbox. You should probably copy and paste text in there, and then try to convert the non-readable characters. You seem like a bright guy, as you're apt to telling us =), so maybe you can make a bot or something that will convert these characters if there's some sort of pattern to them. If you can do that, that's quite impressive and lots of people will be very happy with you. Also, telling people that you will fix it later (or get someone else to fix it later) IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER. When people go to these site NOW, it's a mess and that's all that matters at this point. If you really want to become an administrator eventually, you should focus on creating a few pages that are detailed and clean. Personally, do you really think it looks good to see that all your contributions require MASSIVE editing? Look, it's better to add a few bit of very good work than to add tons of poor work. I've probably rambled a bit too much, so I'll wait to hear back from you, or from others. Ricky81682 21:31, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

misleading links

Why are you piping commune to Communes of the Calvados département in articles like Puteaux and Courbevoie? The correct link would be Commune in France, even if the area is in the Calvados department, which those two are not. —No-One Jones  02:09, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Why do you persist? Please stop linking commune to Communes of the Calvados département: it is a misleading and erroneous link. —No-One Jones  01:20, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oops, I was a little nervous, I will correct them to their correct places. Pumpie, 16:25 (UTC)

Hi, Pumpie! I really appreciate the fact that you are working on a lot of articles, and especially on many communes articles. But really, you sometimes make me nervous: most of your contributions need serious cleanup, and sometimes, I am wondering if it would not be better to start an article from scratch rather than cleaning up what you have written. In any case, I think you can do a good job, but please, please, pay more attention to what you are doing. Thanks and cheers! olivier 02:16, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

More quantity versus quality

Pumpie, what in heaven's name are you doing now? You're now making taxoboxes that take up a HUGE amount of server space and the "articles" that accompany them are no more than a single sentence. You're already the talk of the RfC page. Let's try this once more, my friend: This is not your personal site. Anything you add is the property of the community and the site's owners. These are the nice people who pay for server space. As such, these nice folks expect a return on their investment. The fact you're contributing is wonderful. The fact that your contributions are only semi-formed and server-intensive is not. Please. If you're going to continue to add these geographic stubs, the least you can do is say a bit more about them. Deal? Friends? Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 21:43, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

To be fair: Surely the server space used is very much negligible....But it may be true that he is not crediting the original authors of the information that he translates to English. — David Remahl 00:24, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'll buy that. He's got to be getting this info from somewhere. True, the server space is negligible but he's really taking up a lot in comparison to what he was originally doing. - Lucky 6.9 01:26, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Incidentally

Although you do assure us that you are not using babelfish, a lot of the articles you're producing aren't in readable English. Are you a native English speaker? Do you understand German or Itialian? If not, I think you should stop moving over these stubs. Most of them aren't linked by other articles (except for postal codes) and have small populations. We can delay creating them until an article references them, I think. Cool Hand Luke 00:21, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It is linked also to the province of Brescia where there are a list of communes and Category:Towns of Lombardy which goes to Category:Italy. I am not a native English but I speak English and a little of French and Spanish. I am a genius. Pumpie - 9/10/2004, 21:17 (UTC)

Pumpie - where are you from and how old are you? It would be useful to understand where you're from and what motivates you to pump out all these articles despite all the comments raised above. jguk 21:40, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

By whoising the ip addresses he posts from when not logged in, it would appear that he's from Canada. Plop 13:44, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

It doesn't matter where I am from but I am very brilliant. Pumpie, 10:43, 10/9/2004 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what part of the world where I am from, I am a genius. Pumpie, 16:14, 10/11/2004 (UTC)

Maintenant, je comprends. Il est québécois. jguk 17:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No I am not, I am a genius. Pumpie 18:43 11/11/2004 (UTC)

Inuit or some other French-speaking area? jguk 19:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am not from these speaking-areas, where I live has many different languages, but I know French along with other languages and I am still learning those languages. Pumpie, 19:24, 11/11/2004 (UTC)

So where are you from - or more importantly, what is your first language? I'm only asking to see if I can suggest areas where your input into Misplaced Pages may be more appreciated than what it currently is. You certainly have a lot of enthusiasm - carefully applied you could be an asset to the project. jguk 20:06, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

adminship

Hey pumpie, per your request on irc I nominated you again for adminship at http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship

Looking better!

Yo, Pumpster...the article at Herdecke is looking good! Suggestion: Add a bit more about the points of interest, history and such. Kind of dry without it. Otherwise, great! Nice work. - Lucky 6.9 01:28, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


Here we go again...

You're doing it again. Just when I thought you were finally growing up and contributing something of note to this project along you come and start pasting those geographic substubs.

I don't know what to do short of motioning to have you banned as a vandal. To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement. - Lucky 6.9 00:03, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I will stop this, I promise and I will not break it. Pumpie, 00:09, 11/18/2004 (UTC)

  • OK, I hope so. Mind you, I'm not looking to have you banned outright even though I've listed you on the vandalism page since I honestly don't know where else to post this concern. I want to help and so do others. By the way, you can save yourself some time by signing your name with four tildes like this: ~~~~ . The system will automatically sign your name and date stamp. Thanks for answering. Really. You're obviously interested in the project but you need to look at other ways to contribute. Please do the right thing. - Lucky 6.9 00:15, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I was not a vandalist, I was that it became a stubber, articles that have information on its coat of arms from Brescian communes are not stubs. - Pumpie 22:43 (UTC)

geo-stubs

I am contributing to wikipedia since october 2004, but couldn't help noticing that you do seem to create especially geo-stubs with an amazing (also alarming) frequency.... as i don't want to repeat the comments of the others, just one word: STOP!

Do the project honor by honoring ist intentions.

Lectonar 12:41, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)