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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIII (November 2008)

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New Bulgarian municipality templates

Hi there! I've recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Bulgaria/Municipal templates in a drive to build a detailed guide to Bulgaria by municipality by adding villages, notable landmarks, people and culture from each municipality. Please follow Template:Smolyan as a guideline and help get Bulgaria covered in detail in this way. I am creating the bones of the templates first but I will need help placing the notable articles into each new municipality template and then of course starting the missing articles we have for each of them in abundance. Feel free to start adding links to all of the others like Template:Smolyan. Thankyou and I hope people will see their potential for building a more detailed guide to Bulgaria! Count Blofeld 14:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks! My thoughts exactly. I would categorise them as Category:Cities, towns and villages in Plovdin Province or Category:Villages in Plovdin Province though by world convention. Don't worry when I come to stub them I'll sort out that. I've done most countries this way.

Anyway infrastructually these templates will have great importance to build and connect content on here in the future. Notable churches, rivers, mountains etc can be added to each one where relevant and help build a detailed guide to Bulgaria by given municipal area. It will take a while to do but it will be massively better off afterwards I promise. Count Blofeld 20:00, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Well most of them are villages of course so that would make sense. Part of the reaosn I've shown an interest in Bulgaria is 1. There is population and basic data available on reliable websites as a start 2. I've noticed a lot of good content which can be transwikied from Bulgarian wikipedia even on smaller villages which gives me faith they will be expanded 3.Bulgaria is a stunning looking country and I want to see it covered in more detail with images of all these beautiful villages and churches! Count Blofeld 20:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes the Balkan countryside is stunning, I love countries like Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria all across to Turkey and Greece. I saw some of it on By Any Means which showed parts of Bulgaria from the train you'd normally never see elsewhere and I was astounded how lush the countryside was. Charlie Boorman compared it to the countryside in parts of the Lake District and rural Scotland. Anyway the 259 templates have been created. I missed the quarters of Sofia as yet until a later date as I gathered they are smaller neighborhoods of the city rather than municipalities but I'd imagine have potential content but we can come to that later. I've been looking for a bot for some time, there are people who have the abililty to run them but won't unfortunately. Man power required! Yes I will be using Guide Bulgaria which is exactly the source I was talking about. Now lets get cracking! Count Blofeld 20:36, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S I'll also create the new categories by province tomorrow as we agreed upon. Count Blofeld 20:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh one more thing. Article you know of which you know have resourceful content on Bulgarian wikipedia but are poor stubs on here please add a {{Expand Bulgarian}} to the top of the lacking article or section to go on record for getting it into english. It is part of a drive from all the main wikipedias to get good content into english to fill out our stubs and undeveloped english language articles on the same subject. E.g here. Thanks and good luck for your studies! Count Blofeld 20:54, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi me again. You know that you can add a pin map to mountain boxes now too? It displays a mountain. See my alteration to Dzhengal. Happy editing! Count Blofeld 22:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Your;re making good progress, I'll be working on Bulgaria more starting from this coming week The Bald One ^{White cat} 20:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)