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 Re: < symbol after # pages 

I plan to convert all of these to <#### with the big numbers in bold. The less than symbol is needed to tell my bot where the end of the string is.(so that it can put a new number in) If it is not there my bot will pull in all lines untll it finds <.(this can be changed to another symbol, but I don't see why)
To sum up what I said, There will be no more # of pages instead there will be <####. This is not prejuduce on my part, as much as it is just easier to program. Respond on my page.Eagle (talk) (desk) 

[(Category:Political scientists stubs]]
Can I delete this. Else my bot is not going to work. (here are the hoops I am talking about)Eagle (talk) (desk) 
Hi its me!! where is this ? st=u type talk page. and how do I word my message so that people will actully listin?? Esp. Admins (I not one), will they listen to me??Eagle (talk) (desk) 
How do I word the statement that the bot is running and get the admins to listen to me??? Some help here please???Eagle (talk) (desk) 

 Preferred use of Virginia-geo-stub? 

Grutness, please help a clueless newbie...  I've got questions about your recent edits to the stub templates that I added to several stub articles I wrote (part of a personal effort to add all historic districts in Arlington County, Virginia, USA to Wikipedia).  See, e.g., your edit to Prospect Hill (Arlington, Virginia).

I understand why you replaced my use of struct-sub with the more specific U.S.-struct-sub (thanks!).  

However, you also eliminated the Virginia-geo-stub I used.  Is this because the geo-stub and its subcategories are only for geographic features, and sites of historic houses (even when those houses no longer stand on site) don't qualify?  If that's the reason, how are geographic features defined?  Clearly they must include natural features (e.g. rivers, mountains).  Do they include political geography (e.g. towns, counties)?  What about properties that may include structures but are also comprised of natural or man-made geography (e.g. ranches, canals)?

I'm happy to conform with preferred usage.  (Indeed, I've got some similar uses of the Virginia-geo-stub on Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia) and Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia) that I'm prepared to remove if necessary.)  I only added the Virginia-geo-stub because I thought my stub articles were more likely to attract the help of Wikipedians who cared about Virginia than from Wikipedians who care about U.S. structures.

Thanks in advance for filling me in.

 

Thanks for the help, Grutness (at User_talk:JohnPomeranz)

 

 Politician-stubs monitoring 

Hi Grutness. As you know, I've been trying to create some kind of order in the politician-stub categories, so I've created a new subpage tracking them for potential splits. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any really good lists carving up Africa into smaller segments, so my list is basically a ripoff from one of your old lists regarding the geo-stubs (I've modified the text and the European and Caucasus categories). I really hope that you don't mind, but I figured that my time was better spent counting stubs than designing something clever. I haven't done the counts for all the subcategories yet, but I have done most of them. Besides, I figured that if we one day start splitting up Africa into smaller fragments, it would be nice with consistency between the politician-stubs and the geo-stubs. I still don't know if it will be necessary, but it's always nice to have the option. Again, I hope you don't mind the ripoff, if you do, I'll redesign the page or kill it asap. Best regards.  (talk) 

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure it is a good idea at all to split the African continent into segments (yet) but I'd like to keep the possibility open. It is a lot easier doing counts of 200 stubs from 6 countries than 700 from 40 nations. My main motivation is to see a consistent system for both the geo-stubs, the politician-stubs, and any other type of stub. So if the ge