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Recent work on Skagen

I'm impressed with all your work on Skagen but despite your invitation, my last two major edits have failed because of edit conflicts. I note the points you would like me to cover and I will once again have a go at them when you are through with you present round of editing. I also note the need for an article on Drachmann's House. Just let me know when the ground is clear and I'll get back to it. In the meantime, I have been working on the Skagen Painters.--Ipigott (talk) 15:42, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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• I would support nuking the village stubs, but expect it would be hard to get agreement. Trouble is that if the stub has a name and coords, and whatever municipality or district it belongs to, maybe an infobox, in theory that is the start of something more. Of course it attracts rubbish like "Mir Khan is most widely respected and honorable headman and has made many beneficent works for the benefit of all and sundry, also his family.. Maybe if the criteria are set really low it might fly. Are there are non-notable villages? I don't know. I would support it, but am pessimistic about whether it would get consensus. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:15, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Trichy

Hi, hope you're doing good. Looks like Mughal-e-Azam is all set for an FA. Can you spend some time in c/e the article. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 13:09, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi. C/e Trichy rather than Mughal you mean LOL. I was going to say! Yes, I'll aim to work on it probably Monday. Excellent work!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Famous petrol pumps

Naya Lahore is poor quality in most ways: not referenced at all, poorly formatted, poorly written, not much information other than trivia. In a sense, it reflects the very early ideal of Misplaced Pages, the idea that if everyone contributes what they know an encyclopedia will emerge. There is no need for sources, no need to worry about initial quality, because over time well-meaning people will improve and correct the entries. I don't believe it, I think everything should have sources, and dislike trivial stubs. But an attempt to delete this one would almost certainly fail. Even if no sources could be found, the reasoning would be that all villages are inherently notable, and this one just needs improvement.

• Malyam cites one source that confirms existence and gives some minimal unsourced information
• Moguluru gives no sources but some information
• Munganda has produced talented individuals who have contributed significantly for the welfare of the society at large. There is also some information, some sources
• Nunna has no information apart from an infobox and coordinates. The coordinates are wrong, belonging to Pamarru
• Kakanur says next to nothing, but does say something.

I dunno. One solution, maybe, probably would not fly, would be to roll up the village articles into lists in the admin unit they belong to. Deleting the unsourced rubbish like the famous PSO Petrol Pump in Naya Lahore would probably not be challenged, but it would creep back in anyway. Maybe there should be a "Garbage" project quality rating, one level below Stub, defined as "nothing but poorly written, unsourced trivia." That could be worth pursuing. Aymatth2 (talk) 15:04, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

"Garbage" is obviously the wrong word, but I can't think of a polite euphemism. Very unlikely to get acceptance.

Many of these are worse than stubs in the sense that a stub can be well-written and well-sourced, but give only minimal information. If a village is located on a map, the district is named and the latest census count is given with a citation, that has some value. Based on quantity of information, Naya Lahore is more than a stub, but the quality is terrible. I see that template:Cleanup-rewrite has added this article to Category:Misplaced Pages articles needing rewrite from June 2013. Other templates would add it to other lists, e.g. Category:Articles lacking sources. My guess is this will not directly cause anyone to do anything. But the Misplaced Pages:CatScan tool could be used to help with clean-up drives for defined types of articles, like unreferenced villages in Punjab, with defined objectives...

Articles that are under Populated places in Attock District and under Articles lacking sources: Basia, Pakistan, Dowal, Gondal, Pakistan, Ikhlas, Pindigheb, Jalalia, Punjab, Kamra, Momanpur, Nakka Kalan, Painda, Pindsultani, Salem Khan, Shinka, Tarap, Attock

Do these articles cause damage? I think the Naya Lahore one does. It demonstrates that anyone can write anything they feel like without giving any sources and get away with it, so it makes people less likely to use Misplaced Pages. Also, it discourages someone who wants to do the job properly, perhaps a bright high school student from that town, from tackling the job. I can't see getting agreement on any kind of quarantine. On the other hand, I can't see any kick-back on a fairly ruthless clean-up, purging defined types of unsourced material. That would have value. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:44, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

List of populated places in Adilabad district looks excellent to me. And yes, doing it for the whole subcontinent would be a huge and very tedious job. But it would greatly reduce the addition of well-meaning garbage that makes WP look bad. There must be some way to get editors that like straightforward and useful tasks to take this on. I assume that a decent job can be done using just the census list and Google maps. Anything else is gravy. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:19, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

I am quite uncertain about what to do with the unsourced articles. Check Kamanpalle. Someone has put a fair amount of effort into it, and there is no reason to doubt the accuracy. But it is completely unsourced, and much of the information trivial - no way it belongs. Nuke it? Part of me says yes, part says no. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:54, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Alatskivi Castle

On 2 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alatskivi Castle, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Alatskivi Castle in Alatskivi, Estonia was designed to be a smaller version of Balmoral Castle? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alatskivi Castle. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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General Auditor

	General Auditor Award
	Dr. Blofeld, for your fine work at auditing articles, I award you the "General Auditor" epaulette. Rosiestep (talk) 17:12, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

William Burges TFA (maybe)

Oops, Dr B., my fault. I should have let you know when I was notified. Sorry. But it'll still be a great day if it comes off. Although it's been listed before so I'm rather more cautious. But as and when it is, I will know it never would have got there without you, for which I remain truly grateful. I hope you're well. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 22:52, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Malören

Hi there. I just noticed that you've moved Malören to Wikispace. Seems an odd thing to do, so perhaps it was a mistake? If not, are you planning to delete the redirect? Cheers, violet/riga  00:06, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi. We're auditing articles checking for errors, shouldn't take longer than 24 hours. That particular article though had already bene checked and is fine to go back if Rosie hasn't done so already.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:41, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Ahh, I see. It just seems strange to have cross-namespace redirects, especially when the destination contains some meta-content. Such audits are certainly worthwhile though. violet/riga  11:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

We add a table with pointers to address, so can't really do it in the mainspace and want the editing history to appear in it in the audits which we make. Feel free to move it back to the mainspace.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:29, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I think it would be OK to move this one back to the main space. I've provided a Swedish reference for the history of the pilot station. In future, I think it might help leave something in the form of a stub on the main space before moving the whole thing into a sandbox. I'm not sure whether a redirect from the mainspace to a sandbox is "kosher" for Misplaced Pages. I spent quite a bit of time researching this one at the beginning of October and am a bit surprised to see it moved but understand the need for double checking. (BTW, it all reminds me of the French translation of MacBeth, Act 2, Scene 3, when MacDuff says "Oh, horror, horror, horror!" sometimes translated into French as "O malheur! malheur! malheur!" - poor island.)--Ipigott (talk) 15:26, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I started checking it yesterday and soon realized you'd already checked it. Rosie's clearly been busy as I approved it for returning over 24 hours ago now. There you go, she's restored, no problem... if there's any more listed in Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Rosblofnari/Audit which you've already checked feel free to remove it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:04, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't notice it yesterday. I moved it this morning. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for InterContinental Geneva

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William Burges (1827–81) was an English architect and designer, and one of the greatest of the Victorian art-architects. He sought in his work to escape from 19th-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and to re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. He stands within the Gothic Revival tradition, his works echoing the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding the Arts and Crafts Movement. His first major commission was Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, in 1863. Burges's most notable works are Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch, both for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. Other buildings include Gayhurst House, Knightshayes Court, and St Mary's, Studley Royal. Many of his designs were never executed or were subsequently demolished, and his plans for the redecoration of the interior of St Paul's Cathedral were abandoned. He also designed metalwork, sculpture, jewellery, furniture and stained glass. Art Applied to Industry, a series of lectures he gave to the Society of Arts in 1864, illustrates the breadth of his interests. The revival of interest in Victorian art has led to a renewed appreciation of Burges and his work. (Full article...)

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Thanks for the thanks!

Were you going through todays DYK's? Do you go through them everyday? If you see the edit summary it is an honest one cause really after 2 hours on-the-trot I actually fogot what I added! Sohambanerjee1998 10:52, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't read the hooks nope, but if the article name looks interesting I'll click it. If considerable effort has been put into an article I hit the thank button, a shame more editors don't do so.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:57, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Neither do I but as they a change starts with you. , I recieved a thanks and going by your If considerable effort has been put into an article I hit the thank button... I think you have appreciated my effort and heres an earnest and grateful Thank you... ! for appreciating a fellow editors work. Thanks again. Best regards, Sohambanerjee1998 12:21, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Often easier to start over than to try to patch up a mess

If the whole article is unsourced and the village does not have even a tea stall, it is probably simpler just to delete all the content, search for sources that discuss the subject and put in what they say. Or simpler still, delete all the content and make it a redirect to the parent article. In late 1970s, Dumalla, Kattherapaka, Modempelli families were moved out to Kodishelapalle which lies between Kamanpalle and Thommidigudiselapalle. Right. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:45, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Chaplin GAN

Hiya - I see you've started making edits to the Chaplin page re Cassianto's comments. I appreciate the good will here, but I'm actually working through the requests right now (I prefer to do it all in one) and would quite like to do it myself (or Susie can, since she's a co-nom) if that's okay. :) Thanks! --Loeba (talk) 20:45, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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A strange one

Hey Dr B, I hope you're well. I've got a real strange one here … Once you're back in the evil lair, would you be able to look in at User talk:Quadell#mirror images? It's regarding a new Harrison biography, which – well, it basically rips off Misplaced Pages's Harrison album and song articles. Mighty weird, but mighty true.

What I'm hoping is, you might want to follow the link from Quadell's page and hit "helpful" on my Amazon review for the book – which I've signed as "HariG". In the interests of drawing attention to this issue – which, the more I think about it, is really concerning and far-reaching – I'd simply like to ensure that the review is helpful=popular enough to register in the listing's main space. Quite understand if you'd rather not of course (but I sure hope you do!). Many thanks. Best, JG66 (talk) 20:05, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, sorry to see. This sort of thing is becoming increasingly common in book writers and journalists. It's shoddy journalism. You could potentially sue him if he didn't credit wikipedia in his book for copyright as the text is not free if wikipedia is not attributed. Must be even more annoying for you that you've put money in this cheat's pocket for work you yourself wrote in good faith for public viewing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:11, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes indeed, and thank you. As I've said elsewhere, with almost all of the articles from Rock's Backpages, they've not appeared in any Harrison or Beatles book in the past – it's so blatant. PS, did you vote on Amazon? (Sorry, I'm getting obsessed with "useful" ratings there! All very negative of me – karmic wheel 'n all. Ridiculous.) Best, JG66 (talk) 11:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I did yes.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:13, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Skagen

Review all sorted: a few comments and pointers and the article is on hold for a week. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 23:49, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I've worked on some of the points mentioned. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:22, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks both!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:16, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

The Coveted American Wiki-Gnoming Award --truly I'm jazzed-- thanks Dr. B! --Rosiestep (talk) 15:13, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Falling rain

I'm no fan of their site. But why did you remove that cite without replacement? Is there no canonical source for small-town elevation data? – SJ + 03:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Sj, it isn't a reliable source, not even close to resembling one. Ask User:Fram or User:Aymatth2 or anybody. Not only is the website over 15 years out of date but the data especially population and altitude has been shown to be grossly inaccurate. I tried to get it blacklisted a long time ago. but for some reason it wasn't. One coastal town in Madagascar with an elevation barely above 0 once had a 360 metres figure for it! Ignore it like the plague... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:15, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Situation

Dear Dr Blofeld, I am sorry to disturb you but maybe you can give me a piece of advice. I’ve found myself in the awkward situation. Being myself a “Dr”, journalist and editor, I am not a WP man at all - my activity is very limited. Mostly it’s concerned with the article about young multi-awarded British actor Tom Holland that was almost incidentally created by me more than 3 years ago and included, I believe, a lot (maybe too much) of properly referenced material. You can understand what’s happening with this article at the moment if you look at here where the situation is represented in great detail. Basically, one very experienced and decorated editor has removed most of the content claiming that the article (this is how it looked before his/her intervention) is an extraordinary example of promotion and puffery. He/she considers as such actually every mention of most awards, all the citations by leading critics or prominent names and even the mentions in the media (he removed all the citations from and references to the leading papers – be it Guardian, NY Times or Hollywood Reporter). E.g., info that 15 y.o. actor was longlisted for an Academy award in the Best Actor category he considers as puffery, etc. All these can easily be found in many, many WP articles about other actors but he/she is unrepentant despite his edits and views in general, in my opinion, are at odds with the established WP practice. As a result, the article now looks as a stub stripped of any significant “encyclopedic” info beyond a limited number of pure facts – not like a lot of other well-maintained articles about actors. Somehow the info that is legitimate in other articles cannot be present in this particular one, and I don’t think it does justice to the young actor.

I acknowledge that the article’d had issues, needed toning down, some reformulations, etc. – no doubt. I also know that it’s not easy and pleasant to argue with me as I like to deal with issues in clinical detail, without general words – which is tiresome and irritating for many. I don’t ask you to intervene or confront that seemingly powerful and self-important editor who (being in my opinion incompetent in the subject of actors and showbiz in general) thinks he knows better to make significant decisions in a whim without any discussions at all. Of course I don’t ask you to be “on my side” (although I was already foolish enough to cite your text about WP problems which seems enraged my opponent even more). But being very busy in real life and in addition non-native speaker I cannot win that case in principle, and not sure what can be done. What I do know now is that I’m not going to contribute to WP (at least, beyond my speciality which is technical) anymore. What I actually want to ask you: Is it at all possible to draw attention to the Holland article of some experienced editors specialised in the area of “actors and filmmakers”? Maybe they can contribute and keep an eye on that unfortunate article. I don’t think that one editor, even so decorated, should impose his doubtful vision there without any challenge. I understand, of course, that they can disagree with me and agree with him, that’s fine. Hopefully, new contributors can use some info (that was just removed) which otherwise will be lost.

P.S. To outline the context - a few words how the situation developed (although that’s not that important). An editor Lady Lotus had removed info about a number of awards (including Hollywood Spotlight Award, London Film Critics Circle Award, National Board of Review Award, etc.) from Holland article. I reverted her edit and politely ask her to discuss the matter on the article Talk page, and only then make a decision. You would think that was a routine situation. Not so. Instead engaging with a discussion, Lady Lotus wrote on Talk page of the editor Tenebrae asking for help (interestingly, her message started from "Hello dear :)" ). And she got what she wanted: Tenebrae` wrote a very personal message to me (on the Talk page of the Holland article), in particular: “certainly seems to be a partisan editor… That is not helpful to this beautiful, altruistic project to help bring free, egalitarian knowledge and reference materials to the world”, and Lady Lotus helpfully added: “I completely agree with Tenebrae regarding AdVal as a user and what kind of editor they are appearing to be.” (After that she also wrote on Tenebrae’s Talk page: "Thanks so much love! :)"). Having dealt with me they draw their attention to the Holland article and in five minutes did a lot of radical edits. I posted a very detailed reply about those edits asking some principal questions. No avail: without answering concrete questions, Tenebrae continued his axing of the content accompanying it with only personal remarks directed at me. I know how I’d deal wih such a textbook situation in a real world but no sure about here. Never mind. Sorry again for overlong message (alas, it's always the case with me). Best, AdVal (talk) 18:14, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Looking at this I'd agree with the remover that it is excessive for the lead, but I think the London Film Critics Circle Award is probably worthy of mentioning in the lead if it is supported by a source in the body of the article later on. I'd guess that User:Tenebrae saw a COI and puffery issue and decided to take action.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

One to watch

Please can you keep an eye on the efforts of this user? They've done nothing wrong and hopefully never will ... but I'd love to see a Blofeld summary at some point ;) - Sitush (talk) 21:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Hehe should I direct something towards him like "I've been expecting you, now bugger off?"♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:02, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

SF piers

Hi there. I noticed Pier 35 (San Francisco). I wonder if you'd be up to creating a template for the SF piers? At a glance, and in addition to #35, we have articles on Pier 70, San Francisco; Pier 26 (San Francisco, California); Pier 41; Pier 39. This way we could standardize them and work on them systematically. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

We have Template:SFBay Ferry Terminals, but I guess that all the piers wouldn't be ferry terminals.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:04, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

For your phallic architecture article

It is a new church in Dixon, Illinois. https://www.google.com/maps?ll=41.842023,-89.485885&spn=0.000647,0.001215&sll=41.841684,-89.485292&t=h&z=20 Bgwhite (talk) 05:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Good grief. Yes I think I saw that a week or two ago on something.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Nice addition

at Phallic architecture. We need to keep it up. PS I too miss the Orange Bar of Death. Ah for the good old days. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, sadly we have to put up with that silly number thing now..♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:09, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Gabon

Yeah - it's one of the few that I remember having to pass on, way back when. Guyana, too (I wonder if they ever sorted that out? I seem to recall some major discrepancies between their government websites regarding the names of various districts.) Good to see they've finally come online...just like just about everyone else these days.

Nice work on those Estonian composers, by the way - and quite timely, too. Guess what I'm going to hear tomorrow night... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:40, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

I might look into it when I have the time. I've been playing around a lot with Flickr2Commons lately, too - found a wonderful collection of images from Virginia State Parks, for starters. (We had 4 on Commons before - we now have some 10-15,000.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:46, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Not really...they're released by the state parks department, actually. But it's nice to have something to fill the gap. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Mmm - might be some fodder for further exploration there. Mauritius, for instance. *sigh* I wish I had the time and the patience to do something with it all again. Maybe in a few days, or a week... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:01, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, the problem is that we need more people with real-world experience of the places in question. Obvious, perhaps, but that's what we're up against. I've seen a lot of improvement in some quarters over the past few years, but there are some places where we really need to think about outreach.

I've suggested before looking into working with certain expatriate communities in places like the US, because I think there's a lot of good that could come from it. Nothing's been done, though. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:16, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, that's part of it - part of it is considering what kinds of sources are going to be available. For a lot of cultures, African and otherwise, sourcing is going to come from oral traditions instead. I know there's been some discussion of how to handle oral sources instead of written, but for right now I suspect that's a big barrier we have to deal with. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:47, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Scholars are doing more research, and more of that research is appearing online in more easily-accessible formats. The amount of what's available now, versus what was available even three or four years ago, is staggering. The same goes for image-gathering for Commons - it's phenomenal, the wealth of things now available. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:57, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Indian villages

Some are obviously very old. Most are just recent clusters of shacks with no history, no sources ... The top down approach is to make sure there are at least articles for the higher-level administrative divisions, down to the level of Mandal / Revenue Circle / Taluka / C.D. Block. These should exist, but I suspect they do not. I wish demographics were available since I cannot see using 2001 figures when the 2011 figures are due any week now, sometime soon, maybe after the next election ... As for the bottom-up approach, the villages, my guess is that a lot of them, most of them, are not and never will be notable. I do not see redirecting them to sub-districts unless they are at least mentioning in the sub-district article, but Ausgram II (community development block)#Villages does not work for me at all. On the other hand, trying to get the unsourced villages deleted through AfD would be a hopeless job. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Finnish films

Thanks for the thanks! Another under-represented area in the film department. Time to FINNISH the job.... Chortle. Lugnuts 07:31, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Larabanga Mosque

On 13 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Larabanga Mosque, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Larabanga Mosque (pictured) is one of the eight ancient mosques in Ghana, and is considered the "Mecca of West Africa"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Larabanga Mosque. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Festival Theatre, Malvern for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Festival Theatre, Malvern is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Festival Theatre, Malvern until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Deor (talk) 15:27, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

You win. I hope you're happy with your wonderful expansion of the article. Please stop expanding it further, before you add even more nonnotable crap. Deor (talk) 19:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Elephant hunting in Chad

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The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 13 November 2013 (UTC)