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Wagino 20100516 (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nominated for administrator

Hey, just to let you know that I've nominated you for sysop (here). I hope you accept :) Del_♉sion23 (talk) 16:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please!

USA have 3,143 counties... do we have to merge all of them?!? --Ricordi samoa 09:45, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They don't all need merging, but quite a few do! matt br 09:53, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I could set up my bot to do so (it's approved and successfully running). Are there some categories in which to look up for these duplicates? --Ricordi samoa 09:56, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You could check the county sub-categories of the sub-categories of sq:Kategoria:Shtetet Federale të Amerikës (e.g. sq:Kategoria:Qarqe në Montana) against the sub-categories of en:Category:Counties of the United States by state (e.g. en:Category:Montana counties) to locate them. Some of the sqwp titles are disambiguated and some are not, and the disambiguation is a different form to that used on enwp (e.g. 'County (State)' compared to 'County, State'), can these still be found? matt br 10:14, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Working! --Ricordi samoa 11:05, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It can perfectly merge items of counties, but only for disambiguated ones (as "Foobar County (Montana)", "Foobar County, Montana") --Ricordi samoa 11:19, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You don't have to struggle anymore... :-) --Ricordi samoa 11:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thank you. I'll run through and do the non-disambiguated ones and add the links of the ones without a Wikidata id. matt br 12:14, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our gift is better than the one at Commons or Meta)
You have your gun; now here's your badge: `{{User admin}}`/`{{#babel:admin}}` and `{{Admin topicon}}`. Enjoy!

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--Ymblanter (talk) 16:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations with the promotion.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Now you can seriously start deletions! :-P --Ricordi samoa 18:16, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! Glad to see you've been given admin rights :)
Admin corp anthem. Sing along if you like.
Del_♉sion23 (talk) 19:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you all. matt br 19:25, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merging of counties

Hi! I happended to see that you have merged some items for counties today. That inspired me to generate a list of likely merge candidates which may be a help. Regards, Byrial (talk) 11:39, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'll use alongside my current list. matt br 12:05, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]