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User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive8
I archive my talk page when it gets longer than is preferable. You should too!
Stop! Engage brain! Are you looking for the Macedonian Wikipedians' notice board? I confuzzled :DI don't know where to write to yah posts. :) --PaxEquilibrium 18:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Hey manHi Francis. But weren't you an admin? -- Szvest Ω Wiki Me Up ® 14:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Help with AtaturkHello, there's some debate going on at the Ataturk page about a criticism section - currently there is none. I've seen you edit some articles before and saw you were on the mediation cabal, interested in checking it out? Currently the page is blocked for all editors after lots of reverts and such. Thanks. --AW 17:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Cat:Tajikistani_people_stubsSee [1]. Jahangard 07:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Also, look at an old related discussion [3]. Jahangard 07:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
There is no such category, as you would know if you had been following the debates on both Tajik-bio-stub and this, its successor, at WP:SFD and WP:WSS/P. But you haven't been following those debates - only seeing those partys of them that Jahangard has pointed you to - so you won't know the decision reached at the first of them, which was to have it at the perfectly sensible Cat:Asian people stubs until such time as it grows to the threshold required for its own stub category, at which point it will logically be moved to the currently non-existent Cat:Tajikistani people stubs. Jahangard seems to think that the template points at Category:Asian people, which has thousands of articles. it doesn't - it points to Category:Asian people stubs, which has 131 articles, already towards the lower end of the optimim size for a stub category, as explained at WP:STUB. Currently, there are far too few stubs for such a separate category to be considered for either central asian people stubs or for Tajikistani people stubs; creating the former would leave Asian people stubs with well below the optimum number of stubs, creating the latter would lead to a category with only some 25 stubs (60 is regarded as the minimum requirement for stub categories). This would all have been clear to you if you had taken time to follow the discussions and check the guiding principles used for stub categories, rather than simply reverting my attempts to make this template conform to the decisions reached at WP:SFD in October. Please, in future, check out all the facts relating to an issue before leaping to the defence of someone who is trying to unilaterally overturn a decision taken less than a month ago. Grutness...wha? 09:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Not silly at all. Standard stub-sorting practice, in fact. If there are not enough stubs for a separate category, then the template is upmerged into whatever is the most appropriate higher category. Since tajikistan is undoubtedly in Asia, then stubs on Tajikistan people are categorised both as Tajikistan stubs and as Asian people stubs. It's a system which works very well with very very few complaints (in fact, in the two years I've been stub-sorting, this is to my knowledge the first complaint about upmerged categories I've come across. Grutness...wha? 10:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
If you note my response on WP:WSS/P, you'll see this is pretty much what i suggested too: If you can find another 30-35 stubs which can be marked with this template, then there will be no problem creating such a category - but until there are that many, directing it to the larger categories is a more sensible thing to do. Grutness...wha? 10:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Already done. I've updated the information at WP:WSS/P. With that many stubs, a separate category is now both viable and appropriate. The debate should still be allowed to run for a while before creation - officially it's supposed to run a week, but under the circumstances, that will probably be reduced. Expect to see a category sometime very soon. Grutness...wha? 11:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Any time. Sorry to have been so grumpy! And now, since it's about half past midnight here, I think I'll call it quits for the night... Grutness...wha? 11:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Please go back and correct your articles. Category:Tajikistani politicians and only wikify Communist party of Tajikista Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC) They should look like Dzhabar Rasulovich Rasulov. the first secretary if not capitalized is misleading and makes it look like they were the first leader of the party. It should be First Secretary as it is a title . Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Hola como estas mi amigo? Mi nombre es Ernst Stavro Blofeld, James Bond?. Vivo en un volcano en Japan!. Actualmente Gales. yes we should have an article named First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan linked to and from the main Communist Party of Tajikistan. You could state that it is a title of the party stae what it involves etc. Then you can list all of the politicans you have started to link it together. I think it is great you are going through Tajik politicians -it makes wikipedia less English centred and more global. I suggest you set up that article now Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Good luck GuitarU iz looking cool man! DO you play guitar like myself? I play stuff like Hendrix and Joe Satriani and [Aerosmith]]. I play along with the dvds note for note! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:46, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Mm. I don't know have had so many great songs. I dont know if you have seen Rock Star (film) . The band on it steel dragon was modelled on Def Leppard and Judas Priest. The film also starring jennifer Aniston had a few leppard songs on it. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 12:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah I absolutely agree with you. Just because it is english wikipedia doesn't mean it has too revolve around England and the United States. Wikipedia is alreasdy pretty impressive in places but if you think of everything that exist or has existed your looking at 1,000,000,000 articles plus. Recently I have been doing work on Finnish film. Finland has a major film industry of its own and many of the films are released in countries like ours and America in English but it is extremely poorly covered and in we of course know nothing about them. e.g Paha maaWikipedia needs to look at the planet as a whole from the perspective of different people -there are always diffrent ways at looking at the world. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 13:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks mate that means a lot to me. I don't know about the Potala but I know I can make Seven years into a good articles even a feature. I ought to concentrate on it really. I am about half way though the film itself but I need to complete it all ,I have a book on it so I could have a paragraph comparing the book and the film and I also plan a detailed parapraph on the filming of it by Jean Jacques Annaud. At present the section from Film synopsis to Controversy cover every part of the film so far!Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC) THe end result should be three or four times longer than at present. Do you reckon I should go for it. and add citations but most of it is from my mind! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC) I had proposed moving this titles long time ago and there is no objection (see their talk pages). Could you please move them to Khorugh and Qizilbash. Jahangard 21:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Congratulations!I see you have finished your MA. Now, take a deep breath and move on to the next step. -- Donald Albury 00:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC) RequestHI there is also an [[5]] (Armeniapedia). I know you worked on moderation of some issues. I am wondering if you can change your opinion on [6]. Since you are reasonable person. I support Armeniapedia and WikIran as well. Thanks for your help. --alidoostzadeh 03:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Politics of Transnistria againThanks Francis, for your thoughts about Politics of Transnistria article. The reason I asked you to mediate the dispute between me and Mauco was that previously he wrote about you [7] "Francis Tyers is a better wikipedian than most of us". I considered that he will accept your thoughts as a neutral person, however it seems he is accepting your opinions only when it fits with his agenda. He again removed from the article the information about the closure of Communist Party office in Transnistria and he obtained article's protection. In talk page you can see that he was the only one against this inclusion, and 4 wikipedians considered the inclusion relevant (me, you, Dpotop and TSO1D). I don't know what to do in this situation, maybe you can advise me, as having more experience in Wikipedia. Did Mauco have veto rights in Wikipedia about Transnistria-related articles? The community is considering relevant the inclusion of the information about the closure of Communist party office, only Mauco oppose, should the community accept Mauco's demand? I am requesting your help for unprotecting the article and including the information about Communist Party office closure.--MariusM 13:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC) ReplyDear Francis, i always read before i revert. a line above is written Slavic speakers were encouraged to change their Slavic surnames to Greek sounding surnames. in the line i reverted it says other names simply reverted into Greek... returning to.... why isn't there any note that those 'Zografos' were previously slavicised (even as a possibility)? in that way it seems as if all of them had to (?) change their surnames. btw, since Zografos is a popular surname in Greece, north, west, south, everywhere..., i would like to see a clear reference for that-i wouldn't like the readers to believe that a greek by that surname was previously a so-called "Macedonian" or whatever... Regards (see my comment in respective talk). Hectorian 18:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The earth was round etc
You say that the term has been updated. By who? There are probably more people who disagree with the update. What happened to them? An updated term is a suitable transition so long as it does not re-write the past. For instance, vacuum cleaner became Hoover, portable music gadget became a walkman. That is fine. But we need to take stock of the consequences and of historiagraphy when we suggest updating terms such as Bulgarian, Macedonian (meaning Greek or the ethnic ‘salad’ of the region of Macedonia), South Slavic dialects, etc… into an ethnically purified ‘Macedonian’. In fact, it would have been fine to do so, if the descriptive term was instantly recognizable and contextualized by its users/consumers. But it is not; it usurps and even sends off the Slav Macedonians of Fyrom/Rom into incoherent directions. That is why we need to add qualitatives next to it: Greek Macedonia, Republic of Nova Makedonija, Slav Macedonian, Bulgarian Macedonian, etc… Finally, it is churlish to "piss off” people on any grounds and hardly :-). Politis 15:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC) Tajik alphabetHi, Why did you delete the new samples [8]? Jahangard 19:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Moldovan upset :)You said some things about me on Talk:Politics of Transnistria#Ok, I'll bite. I left you a message there asking you to clarify what it is about, or retract. I'm only talking about your statements concerning me. Dpotop 21:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
MKAPlease take a look Talk:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Regards. MustTC 18:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC) ...has now been created :) Thanks for all the help with getting it up to a reasonable size! Grutness...wha? 22:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC) Don't erase the historical points, please!Please, Francis, I am a Macedonian trying to say something relevant to the language I'm speaking at home. Why on earth deleting the relevant facts and leaving only the irrelevant ones from the Macedonian and Serbian PoV's? They have thier right to be there, it's bloody POINT OF VIEW, it does not have to be neither accurate nor impartial! I mean, when we made this article, we put all the disputed facts into this area, just to say to the readers: Hmmm, look what all the different people and propagandas think about one official and lining language. It should be the same with Galician language or so. Let them all say what they sincerely feel. That's why the title stands: Political Views of Macedonian language. Probably there's a bit of truth in every one of them, but they cannot all be trusted. For Christ's sake, I at least am not a nationalist, haha, I tried to create this page to let everybody say what they feel, although there's not many places where you can read so many facts from different historical books from different nations. Even in Wikipedia. Zikica this is the copy of my letter to VMRO: look, man, it's not a BS. Source? Krste Misirkov: Za Makedonckite raboti, how more Macedonian should it be? Well, as a person of mixed Shop-Macedonian ancestry, I have my relatives in 3 countries, and they switch nationalities easily, according to the current propaganda. It always amazed me how my grandfather had several last names during his life, without even noticing it. So, I can see you consider yourself a Bulgarian, it's OK. I don't want to precise, although in my birthlist it's written: Serb. I am in a process of obtaining the Bulgarian citizenship, because I also feel Bulgaria as my country. This is a trick of Shop and Macedonian identity: it could be very "multiplied". But to tell you the truth, I would only accept the Bulgarian nationality, for example, I would decline from the Slovenian or some other passport, no matter they are in the EU. It is not a matter of free travel, more like a matter of national feeling. My cousin in Skopje is a fierce VMRO Macedonian nationalist, and he is also in the process. How very strange. He spends days and night in fighting Bulgarians on the Web, but applied for the citizenship. So, I would like to say the following: Tell me which passage from the Macedonian View bothers you, and I will quote it. If anything is wrong, I will be glad to improve it. Greetings! Zhix 17:59, 17:59, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMRO" Your opinionHi Francis. Please let me know your opinion on this. No explanation for revert in talk page. Don't understand what consensus to seek, I asked your intervention exactly for consensus, as I know that previously you were a mediator agreed by Mauco. 4 wikipedians want to put information about Communist Party office closure, I've put the paragraph in your compromise proposal form, but it seems somebody want veto rights on Transnistria related articles on Wikipedia.--MariusM 23:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Zeb-un-NissaI just wanted to know a little bit about the photo of Zeb-un-Nissa that you added. Would you please tell me about the book from which you scanned it? It's author, date and place of publication. Thank you Ariana310 12:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC) Turkish Revenge BrigadeAs per the MoS, please don't wikilink random years, as you did in Turkish Revenge Brigade. Thanks! ShakingSpirittalk 14:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC) You'll like itSee User:NikoSilver/Nationality quiz. It was partly inspired by your deleted 'Nationalist test' and the Genographic Project. Enjoy! NikoSilver 13:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Re: Tajik lexicon etc.Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll forward this to a guy I know who speaks English, Russian, Arabic, and is learning Tajik. Any plans on using this lexicon for computational purposes? –jonsafari 22:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC) Re: TajikSorry, my skills in Tajik are very limited at best. :-( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tajik24 (talk • contribs) 01:14, 30 November 2006 From EvlekisHi. I admit that even now has been a quite a while as I write to you. There is one in Sheppard's Bush called Skaradlija. Until some time ago there was a Spanish theme place where old diasporans would meet and that was La Baraca (Notting Hill). A Greek themed restaurant was open Sunday evenings for Yugoslav functions, that was in Bayswater (El Greko) and in Fulham there is a restaurant behind Sveti Sava church run by Serbs (but that tends to attract only Orthodox people, so very few Slovenes/Croats/Bosniaks etc). Evlekis 17:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
MediationHi Francis. I wonder if you could mediate between me and Tigran in the articles Shusha and History of Nagorno-Karabakh. As usual, we kind of cannot reach a consensus, and I would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance. Regards, Grandmaster 12:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Your reply about feb. 2006...see reply on Talk:Standardization. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.43.54.214 (talk) 10:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC). Stub BlahblahblahHey - I just noticed the to do about Tajikistan bio stubs a while back - let me know if you have any questions about stub related issues in the future; I worked a lot on those project so I know a bunch of the procedures and most of the wikiproject participants. I would be glad to help on those matters. Aelfthrytha 16:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you signed up for WikiProject Anthropology and thought that you might be interested in participating in the Collaboration of the Month. This month's article is Marvin Harris. Thanks. Stilgar135 19:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Hi, there is a little Macedonian-related conflict there and I'd like to invite you to join in. I have just intervened, but the persistence with which the edit war has been waged previously suggests that it will continue in the future as well. I don't think I can handle a long revert war there (I can't afford to spend that much time on Wikipedia), so I hope you can weigh in. Regards, --Anonymous44 22:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
User:SuperDengHe's emailing every admin btw. And I mean every admin. Anyway. Here is the CheckUser log. This is Deng's very extensive block log. This is the latest AN discussion on Deng. This is my page which lists the socks that Deng has used. And all but one (BigBobcool, which was very obvious) were confirmed by CU. You can also look at Deng's talk page to see some of is behaviors. He's violated every major policy that we have and he's totally unrepetent. I mean. He's still claiming that he doesn't use sockpuppets despite the incredible amount of evidence to the contrary. --Woohookitty(meow) 09:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Don't you love it Francis :-)User:Woman+man is really not me... (it's most likely Kamikazi2) //Dirak 15:12, 14 December 2006 (UTC) I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Labadism, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Labadism. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Pastordavid 16:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
And actuallyI'd really appreciate it if you could help out in containing Deng. Just got informed today that he has a new account called User:Rocketlauncherman. And he's right up your alley. :) Pretty much defines nationalist. User:Pinkgreenvelvet might be Deng as well. He's not even hiding it well at this point. --Woohookitty(meow) 00:58, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Denial of Armenian GenocideThis is most probably an ad on the Times given by the Armenian community. Why is it not mentioned under the photo? Instead it just says "published by Times".--Doktor Gonzo 21:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
TranslationSorry for the late reply.. Hmm, there is no substantial difference between the two actually, they are both present tense singular first person. I suppose "sikerim" is a bit stronger, just because there is a small conceptual difference between the two present tenses :) I don't know if I would be able to explain the exact diff, and most Turks wouldn't be able to do so either. It is just one of those things! Cheers! Baristarim 20:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Voting about sibwikiCould you please confirm your vote as it is described in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Siberian_Wikipedia? Thank you! Voyevoda 20:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
HeySpeaking about examples the other day, I thought you might be interested in this resurrection... NikoSilver 00:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC) Please do not vandalize my user page by removing content. There is nothing inappropriate about a picture of Alexander or the Vergina sun. I will report you to administators if it happens again. Macedonia 21:15, 19 December 2006 (UTC) No concensusFrancis, could you close this on the basis of no concensus. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere (most of the votes in favor of deleting it are from Turkish users while most in favor of keeping it are Armenian users). The easiest solution, in my opinion would be to rename the template to "Former Armenian capitals." Best, Clevelander 12:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC) TemplateHello, the reason why I have deleted the use of the term Macedonia in this template is because Macedonia is a region, not a state. If you wish to describe the Slavomacedonian national awakening, please do so using a different, less provocative manner for Greek Macedonians. By using the geographical term to describe only a section of the region's population, you monopolise it only for them, without considering Greek Macedonian perspectives. I think that we must find something else. Have a nice day Kapnisma 09:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks, I have seen it and I beleive that this article is an example of cooperation and good faith. Kapnisma 09:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Well it does not. Kapnisma 12:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I think it's OK. Have a nice day, I am happy to have discussed with you Kapnisma 12:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
National awakening of the Macedonia?When reverting by BS, at least fix my grammar. //Dirak 20:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks for heads up. I added it to my watchlist. I know why people are touchy about this stuff, but I have little patience for the nationalists of any side. What does the disinterested reader need? what reflects the situation at the border/airport/train station? and what reflects the reality of the ordinary people living in those places? For what it's worth, I teach students from Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Greece (and Poland, and Russia, and Ukraine, and Iran, and Jordan, and...) (in New York City) Jd2718 01:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Edit conflictI think we edited at the sametime sorry for that.--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 14:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC) Veil fetishismYou can also express your support at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Veil fetishism.--Patchouli 14:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC) Halt!Could you please give me a couple of minutes to add a few sources before reverting again. //Dirak 14:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Help needed on racismwe need to see if racism lives in Israel, i would appreciate if more voices could be heard. I believe under the wiki policy i can request voices on these touchy well protected topics.--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 21:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC) New sigHaving finally found this, I now know why editors keep confusing me with someone else, so I've changed my sig file to hopefully regain my identity. Sheesh - just thought I'd put the word out. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC) Racovschi and adminshipHi, and thank you. On the adminship issue, I'm afraid I'm a little too jumpy and opinionated for the behavior required of an admin. I would also dislike the discipline it requires (such as performing certain tasks I would not bother with myself). But thank you for considering it. Dahn 13:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC) RfAr, Armenian GenocideCheck the bottom of the talkpage and follow the link. I don't want this to pass now, but if it does, I am prepared. I though you may be interested to give your comment. Fad (ix) 17:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks and new TemplatesDear Francis, first I should thank you for your comment about User lnag templates I hope a nice and happy holiday for you in Spain for you. I made the other User templates for Tajik Language. They are:{{User tg-1}},{{User tg-2}},{{User tg-3}} --Soroush83 14:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC) Nationalist rhetoric aka. Your user pageWHAAAAA!!!?? Your extreme POV on Your user page is POV (hehe) aka. just saw the change in Your userpage, nice. Also Happy new year, I guess, etc. etc. Best, feydey 23:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC) Happy New YearIf You haven't heard already (but yah probably did), Macedonia's also become an EU candidate (and it's waiting acceptance into Europe along with Croatia & Turkey). --PaxEquilibrium 17:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Actually, I disagree. It's good that they can't enter. They will only bring more problems to the fragile EU and frankly speaking "You" are better off without... well, "us". :) For as neither have those countries fulfilled the standards of European civilization, nor do they deserve to be in Europe (plus, they'll bring a lot of problems). P. S. I'm not trying to ruin the holidays to myself, I'm just presenting You the reality. :D Cheers. --PaxEquilibrium 00:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Bulgarian and Romanian nounsHi Francis, as you have an interest in Balkan languages and know significantly more about linguistics than me, could you explain something for me please. Who decides whether a language uses noun cases and how many? The Romanian language article says that Romanian nouns use three cases (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative and vocative), and Bulgarian language says that Bulgarian nouns only distinguish between vocative and everything else. While I have no problem with the Romanian example, I have some trouble accepting what it said about Bulgarian. Greek sources do attribute more cases to Bulgarian nouns. See this example (the masculine singular definite noun "the man" bărbatul/човекът):
Bulgarian grammatarians seem to think that the actual noun "man" (човек/čovek) remains unchanged throughout but only the definite article is changing the noun in itself differs only in the vocative case (also, the Bulgarian Wikipedians in my opinion are overly emphasizing the lack of any case other than the vocative and non-vocative in the relevant articles - what's wrong with cases?). But isn't the same happening in Romanian? What is the difference that makes Romanian have three cases, but Bulgarian only two (vocative and non-vocative)? Telex/.../Dirak/Sockul 18:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Re...Re this, I had an itch re! Your abusive anonymity could do better things than vandalize its own page! :-) NikoSilver 00:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC) Translations between other nordic languagesI made a short summary of our discussion and posted it at our Signpost, Maskinoversettelser fra andre nordiske språk. Jeblad 22:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC) Your unexplained removal of sourced informationOn the Cuban healthcare article, you first removed a critical view without any explanations and then removed this again claiming that Zleitzsen has made comments, which he has not regarding the material. Please explain. Also, in the future, please read the talk page before editing and provide explanations for your edits.Ultramarine 17:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC) QuestionHi. It's not. It says "To hell with borders". Grandmaster 19:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
RCP USA (again)I think I've mentioned this before since it keeps flaring up, but there is a debate going on at Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and the associated talk page regarding an external link to an infoshop page critical of the RCP. This is getting really old. I don't really care as much what the outcome is, but I do want this person or someone else to give a good reason to remove it, instead of repeating their same cliche without addressing the criticism of their "justification." Thanks. Ungovernable ForceGot something to say? 07:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC) hiHi! just popping by to see how you, and things, are. :) If you're wondering where I've been, well, I can't be bothered with wikipedia lately. The system's getting too big, and inefficient (like governments ;p), and I don't have the time to be a part of it. Anyway, I got an offer from Queens' College, Cambridge (Maths w/ CompSci)!! :D I have to do the STEP so it's gonna be a busy next few months for me, ah well. Hope you're OK and unstressed. :) -- infinity0 18:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Tagik Metawiki PageHey Francis, I made that page by transliterating the Farsi mainpage on meta into Cyrillic, and replacing the word "forsi" with "tojiki". I was pleased to find out (from this diff) that I wasn't too far off. That's also how I created the page "Wikipedia" and "Encyclopedia" on tg.wp, iirc. --Node 00:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Francis. I know you might be busy with other issues, but can I ask you to have a look at the dispute we have on the article about Azerbaijan? The article contains some strong claims, which in my opinion receive an undue weight and most importantly are based solely on Iranian and Armenian nationalistic sources, which I believe is not acceptable in accordance with Wikipedia policies. I would appreciate if you could help with resolution of the dispute. Regards, Grandmaster 07:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Here you go: Here is one Grandmaster, now you have no excuse: The name Azerbaijan for the Republic of Azerbaijan (Soviet Azerbaijan) was selected on the assumption that the stationing of such as republic would lead to that entity Iranian to become one, this is the reason why the name Azerbaijan was selected (for Arran anytime when it is necessary to select a name that refers to the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, we should/can select the name Arran Source: Bartold, Soviet academic, politician and foreign office official. See Bartold, V.V., Sochineniia, Tom II, Chast I, Izdatelstvo Vostochnoi Literary, p.217, 1963. Lets see what you come up with this time.Azerbaijani 19:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC) Francis Tyers, you nominated Heaven of Transnistria for deletion, and it was then deleted by User:Mailer diablo who appears to be on wikibreak right now. It was successfully deleted[12] after it passed a deletion review[13]. The author of the page then created it again on Wikipedia, this time in what he claims is "his" userspace. He now claims that it is a sandbox (falsely, since it does not fit sandbox criteria) and refuses to delete it. He links to it from his main page. When it gets deleted, he immediately restores it.[14] Your intervention is required here, please. He has been warned of the WP:USER infraction but refuses to budge. Delete this article (again) as per the results of the article's deletion review. It has no place in Wikipedia. This is a blatant breach of WP:USER. - Mauco 13:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Hi Francis, there's a newcomer who's attempting to put together a new page on Macedonian grammar. Could do with some expert assistance. Got some time to help out? Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Hi! Today I've nominated the article Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria for a featured article, believing it meets all criteria. This is the article's third nomination (see the previous ones), and because the previous ones received relatively little attention, I'd like to invite you to voice your opinion about it, be it as a vote or a comment, on the article's nomination page. Thanks! :) Todor→Bozhinov 16:44, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Wally and Osborne is on Funbrain
images at wikinewsDid you take wikinews:Image:Russell square police road.JPG, or did you get it from somewhere on the internet. The image currently doesn't have a source, and may be deleted (Which would really suck, as its a very good quality and valuable image). Bawolff 05:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (please respond at wikinews:user talk:bawolff, the image description page, or find me on irc at #wikinews-en )
Re:tg.transliteration/fa.dictionaryWell, no, it's not free software, but it's available online. I think the concensus re:dictionary copyrights is that the copyright applies to the particular compilation of words and translations, not to the individual translations themselves, because the translations aren't really any sort of creative work and are information of the sort that is, well, uncopyrightable. Of course, that has no bearing if you don't want to use anything at all that isn't free. You can access it here. --Node 09:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC) HiHi Francis, havent seen you around any Turkish related articles for a while :) Can you take a look at Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) please. Dispute over the wording of the Greek scorched earth policy section. Imo, kekrops and hectorian are trying to downplay the signficance of the Greek army setting Anatolia ablaze. I've sourced the statements, but they want to insert "alleged" or "claims" and portray it is a minority view. Please have a look at the discussion when you can, thanks, --A.Garnet 14:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Some sources:
I could probably find more if required. --A.Garnet 15:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
One more here from Bruce Clark:
Your views pleaseHello again. Can you give me your view on these two articles: List of eyewitness accounts related to the Pontic Greek Genocide and List of press headlines relevant to the Pontic Greek Genocide. I find them inherently pov, a way of affirming the genocide pov without any context or explanation. Thanks, --A.Garnet 15:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
GLBT Israel Palestinian AuthorityDo you have any information or Cites on this issue? If so, please come to the article and edit. The article needs imput on that topic. Elizmr 17:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Persian AlphabetِDear Francis, I changed the {{Persian alphabet}} and Kaph and Yodh articles to show the difference of these letters in Persian and Arabic. --Soroush83 12:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC) copyrights and fair useRe: Brenda Shaffer Article; I can rephrase the sentences but my understanding is that what was quoted from those websites fall under fair use, am I wrong? If you still believe some text may breach the copyright then please remove those texts not the whole article; so people can work on it and contribute to it and develop it! Kiumars Ok, open the article and let me put them as quotes! Kiumars I changed it, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brenda_Shaffer/Temp ,this version is in quotations and must be ok now! Kiumars Francis, are you there? did you hear me? Did you check the article? Kiumars WordingHi Francis. As we were both working on Toyota War a few minutes ago, I change "lost" to "gone," and you changed "gone" to "destroyed." Unless I'm confusing this conflict with Eritrea's succession from Ethiopia and its seizure of the Ethiopian navy, not all of the equipment was destroyed - instead, a lot of it was taken by Chadian forces. Can you think of a better word to convey this? Picaroon 23:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Please stop removing sourced information from the article. It's a long-established precedent to consider Usenet FAQs are reliable for purposes related to their respective newsgroups, and a FAQ is neither a personal homepage, a personal Usenet post, nor a blog. If you would like to change this precedent, that's fine, but address it in the correct place, and not by assertion. Thanks. Shimeru 20:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Your Mediation Cabal case
ListOf course, it's all free game here and from what I've seen you "get it". Cheers. NeoFreak 19:48, 6 February 2007 (UTC) Can you guide me as to how to deal with this article? Where should I begin reading to find out the best way bring about the curtailing of folks from the university re-adding that non-encyclopedic section? Also, is there a quick way to undo multiple revisions at once? I've used the "undo" link to undo just one most recent revision, but not more than one, and I can't see how to undo multiple revisions at once (with an autogenerated undo edit summary and without performing the reversion manually (simple in the case of deleting a block of text, but could be difficult with more complex revisions)). Thank you. Thanks for reaching out to me when I first started editing a year ago. Christian Campbell 04:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC) Francis, please come and mediateHi Francis, please come and mediate this situation. You were invited by this user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Emir_Arven . We strongly believe he was blocked unfairly. Bosniak 20:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC) Cuban health systemStill wanting pictures about cuban health system? I can help you...KatKiller 08:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC) User:MacedoniaHi Francis, you might like to comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Macedonia (as you were once involved in the userpage issue) Thanks, --Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC) So that you'll know what to answer when this comes up again [16]. Miskin 11:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC) KiarostamiHi Francis! I am working on Abbas Kiarostami to make it GA. Would you please take a look at the article in terms of language and grammer? It would be a great help for me. Cheers Sangak 20:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
"The Arabic alphabet is supported by Islamists, and those who wish to bring the country closer to Iran and their Persian heritage." I felt insulted by reading this. Puting Islamists next to those who support persian culture is a bit insulting. Interestingly Islamists in Iran are doing their best to destroy persian culture and heritage. Sangak 20:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC) I am way off finishing the article but I beleive I have done a very good job on it. I still need to copy edit it but can you beleive another user thought I had actually made the article worse!!!! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 14:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) How are you anyway? What did you say the name of the group from Scandanavia you like was? I'll have a look on youtube Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) I listened to When - super stuff it was the band I was thinking of -the singer looks like my cousin!!!. ALthough I prefer it when he sings rather than growls!! Check out Satriani here but turn it up full volume : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNAeELQ_Z8 Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
The problem in Tajikistan is much worse than this. There are many who do not tolerate Persian language at all no matter it is written in which alphabet. In 1989 a law passed in Tajikistan called "The law of Language" which forces the government and schools to use Persian language. Also it forces the government to use Persian alphabet next to Cyrillic one in the schools. However Russian lobbies do not want this law to be put into practice.[19]. Sangak 19:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
About the word "Muslim": the word for me is a neutral word and may refer to secular, moderates and extremists all together. As a nonreligious person I do not think a good and moderate Muslim is necessrily secular in its western meaning. Giving priority to perso-arabic alphabet over russian one is very natural for all Muslims Tajiks: Islam (Arabic) + Tajik (persian) = perso-arabic! Any Muslim, secular, moderate , extrimist, devout or nondevout etc is Muslim! It means he/she will read Koran and prey at least once in his/her life ! and the book is written in Arabic alphabet. I don't think a good muslim is the one who does not have anything to do with Islam and I do think a secular muslim Tajik would prefer naturally perso-arabic alphabet over Cyrillic. For me devout Muslim means some one who prey seven times a day and go for fasting during Ramedan. Such a person can be secular as well. A non devout Muslim is the one who preys irregularly. But some one who never preys or never observes any religious issue, is not muslim at all. Personally I don't care what language they use or what alphabet they prefer. Neither perso-arabic nor Cyrillic were the original Iranian alphabets. Also Tajikistan is far behind Iran from almost anypoint of view that I can think of (music, art, literature, science, technology, economy, cinema and ofcourse democracy). So getting close to Iran is neither illogical nor unethical. That's just my understanding of the story. I think the article is more or less ok. I just saw the article accidentally. There are for sure wikipedians from Tajikistan who are more qualified than me to comment on this issue. Thanks any ways. Sangak 10:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Secret BallotSoon as I looked up the plot, I got interested. Basically I'm into the WP Films infobox fever lately, but I made a nice break to build it up a bit. If I find the DVD I'll get it. Cheers! Hoverfish Talk 08:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC) Star Peronsonal life/KiarostamiHi Francis and thanks for the info. As you may know Kiarostami is under peer review now. Some people are not happy with the wording of Early life. I want to combine "personal life" and "Early life" too. It will look like the following:
Kiarostami was interested in the arts from an early age. As a boy he showed a keen interest in painting, and at age eighteen won a painting competition.[5] Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at Tehran University, and paid for his studies with his job as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising throughout the 1960s, making commercials and designing posters. Towards the late sixties, he began creating credit titles for films (including Gheysar by Masoud Kimiai) and illustrating children's books.[5][6] Between 1962 and 1966 he shot some 150 adverts for Iranian television. Abbas was married to Parvin Amir-Gholi between 1969 and 1982 when they filed for divorce. Their marriage bore two sons; son Ahmad was born in 1971 and son Bahman was born in 1978. Bahman Kiarostami has become a director and cinematographer in his own right and directed Journey to the Land of the Traveller in 1993 at the age of fifteen. In 2000 San Francisco Film Festival award ceremony, Kiarostami surprised everyone by giving away his "Akira Kurosawa prize" to veteran Iranian actor Behrooz Vossoughi for his many years of contribution to Iranian Cinema. What do you think about the title? Also about the Behrooz Vosoughi? One reviewer said: " the Early life section is quite awkard to read". Can you make comment on this? Is it good to talk about marriage and his son at the beginning of the article? Thanks. Sangak 10:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
good stuff amigo. I am thinking for Kiarostami that some of thre traits of his films e.g the use of child protagonists lanscapes etc that are listed in the talk page should go in the intro? Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Francis! User:Ernst added the info that I wrote in the talk page to the article. Would you please check it? Does it need any copyedit? Also Kiarostami did not shoot always in Villages. There are also many films where he used only professional actors. So that "signature" is more or less true but not always. I would say it is better to have a statement like "some critics believe that" or some thing like that to show that this is the understanding of some critics. Sangak 14:26, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Kiarostami Persian latinPlease see my talk page. Sangak 13:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes please go ahead but please refer to my name in the publication. I will be updating the article in a future publication I hope for payvand with new additions for instance Darius Khondji who is also half French. I am very happy that you came across my article. warm Regards and stay in touch. Darius KADIVAR Film Historian and Journalist Sangak 09:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC) Your opinion on a GA review for Persian languageI was wondering what your opinion was on a good article review for Persian language. Do you see any shortcomings of the article that could be addressed so that it could be nominated? Thanks. –jonsafari 22:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Chad imagesHi Fran, I wanted to hear if you could give me some suggestions regarding how to find an acceptable images, and indicate me somebody willing in making historical maps. I've found tons of photos with no indication at this Chadian website [20], and also some useful maps [21], that hopefully some wikipedian expert could work on to make indipendent and as such fully usable. What do you think?--Aldux 20:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Peter ZheltukhinHi. Look at ru:Желтухин, Пётр Фёдорович - if U have someone, who can read Russian, U may do Your article better.--Arachn0 12:25, 21 February 2007 (UTC) AfD nomination of Idi Amin in popular cultureAn editor has nominated Idi Amin in popular culture, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Idi Amin in popular culture and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 14:16, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Tajik and PersianWe don't have Iranian Persian, Tajik or dari are not an independent language. The change of the name were just for political reasons by Russians or Pashtuns. Regarding Tajik, the only major difference is alphabet. Please cite your edits with academical references. another example is Azerbaijani Language north and south of Aras. They don't have even two different wikipedia! article in Arabic alphabet is written is subpage of the main article and by the way if you can read arabic alphabet, I encourage you to read this. [22] take care, --Pejman47 21:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Final revision of Abbas KiarostamiHi Francis! Based on the feedbacks I got from peer reviewers and also during GA assessment, I think the article is pretty much ready to become FA. However it may be better to have a final round of copyeditting preferably by English native speakers. Would that be possible for you to help me in this final stage? Sangak 11:51, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
You disappoint me and surprise me with your comment about "Welsh is their language". If you do your research you'll find that english is more spoken, I happen to live in a part where I don't know anybody who knows more than two words in welsh. I don't really consider myself welsh but British. My family are from London. I think the whole welsh, english scottish nationalism and racism thing is just silly. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC) Ah. I misinterpreted what you said. Duh!!!!!! I jumped to a conclusion that it was about my editing and my english. Forgive me for my haste. Hey do you think the paragraph on Kiarstami's digital micro cinema now in the Style article is very important? Even if condensed I feel it should be part of the main article Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC) Yes for some reason I thought it was about the Abbas article - and as I live across the border in wales-I fugured it was about my englishness in the writing or something. You can see why I might have jumped to that conclusion. I don't even have hardly a trace of a welsh accent in fact many people who I have spoken to in the past thought I was english - even up in London. But there are welsh people in the media who portray welsh people as complete idiots and airheads -e.g Maureen from Driving school, Glyn from Big Brother, Imogen from Big Brother -slapper!, Helen from Big Brother and others like orange skinned Gavin Henson and Charlotte Church. Not exactly the greatest of people to represent the welsh!! Welsh is taught in the schools though to ensure that the welsh language doesn't die out but I can only remember one or twon words and don't even known what 'addysg Gymraeg nawr means - I know cymraeg or gymraeg is welsh! Loos as if the Kiarostami nomination is going well! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 13:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Persian transliterationPlease see [23]. We need to change the WP:MoS for Persian transliteration. MoS forces us to use Arabic transliteration for Persian words. It makes no sense. Please see the problem I have now on transliteration of Kiarostami. [24]. I suggest we make a new guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Persian) / WP:MOS-Pe. Any idea? Sangak 12:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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This is the project's first newsletter. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas about it, feel free to post it on WT:WPW. Thanks. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 23:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC) Kiarostami: FACHi I would like to invite all those who reviewed "Abbas Kiarostami" during last two months to comment on the article at this "final" stage. The article is now featured article candidate. In case you have any comment, please let me know on the Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Abbas Kiarostami page. Thanks.Sangak 16:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Workshop. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 18:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Good evening (GMT time); the above Mediation Cabal case regarding Category:Kurdistan is currently ongoing. I urge you to participate, so that we will - in the end - receive a fair outcome, rather than one that does not reflect a whole side of the argument (i.e. your side). The current situation is that tomorrow a CfD will be listed to delete all of the remaining subcategories of Category:Kurdistan; if you wish to oppose or endorse this decision, I once again urge you to make yourself heard - I assure you that if you object, the CfD will not go ahead unless it is a compromise that suits consensus, and has been identified as such. Kind regards, Mazandaran/GilanHi Francis, just a point about Mazandarani people (as I lived there for 20 years). Our main and first language is persian not Mazandarani. Also a lot of Mazandarani people are bilingual. I never liked the map of persian speakers in persian language. I assume similar situation for Gilaki people. Take care.Sangak 16:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC) Bulgarian EmpireThe case with the Bulgarian Empire is the same with France, Japan, Iran and others. Ancient Persia under Darius I for instance is not a former country but contemporary Persia, France under Philip Augustus is contemporary France, Japan under its ancient emperors is contemporary Japan and Bulgarian under Ivan Asen II is contemporary Bulgaria. All these are not former countries. --Gligan 11:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you are right, our country was under foreign domination for 482 years BUT the contemporary country is a successor of the former Empire, because we shared approximately one and the same territory and population; and after the liberation in 1878 Tarnovo, the old capital was naturally proposed for capital but then rejected due to strategic and econimic reasons. In the memory of the Bulgarian people the old Empires and the contemporary country is one and the same. After all, the country was liberated in 1878, not established. The same case is with Poland, Persia and other countries. In Bulgarian a Romanian is румънец (rumânets) and a Roman is римлянин (rimlyanin). --Gligan 18:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Afzalsho ShodievIs nominating for SD is acceptable for the second time? The SD tag had been removed by another editor before. Jahangard 21:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Kiarostami was promoted!Dear Francis I need to thank you (a "special thanks") for your kind assistance and support. The article would not come to FA status without your helps. Thanks and All the best. Sangak Talk 11:13, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
For this subject, could you please take all disputes to the talk page instead of having a wheel war? Please see 3RR, because each user has 3 reverts per day, if the dispute is over content. If appropriate, you might want to open an WP:RfC on the article if you are having further disputes. Cheers! Real96 23:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I added some more to your stub Raye makhfi and some images. The traffic light scene looks amusing. Check out my work on The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) I wrote much of it earlier -I need to reference it but it is on the way to becoming good. If you could give a hand some time with copy editing and referencing that would be much appreciated Hope you are well ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 16:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC) Some stuffHi, Francis. Concerning your comment on the Romanian noticeboard, I'm afraid I have to answer that antisemitic propaganda is having a field day on rowiki - besides the "Rebeliunea" article, compiled from overtly fascist and other dubious sources, I see a tight group of users if ready to deny the Bucharest pogrom even happened, based on "data" from Paul Goma and other fringe material. It simply is a matter of scandal, too complicated and potentially too violent to consider exposing it and facing the backlash (especially since an admin there seems to have actually involved himself/herself in authoring part of the text). The one user who objected to the version was told off and mocked in the process, and the talk pages include praises for fascist movements and Holocaust denial from several contributors to the article. It is not something I would casually want to get involved in, especially since I seem to be in a minority of people concerned. Anyway, sticking to business o'er here: I recently expanded the Christian Rakovsky article, and I remember you mentioning something about a picture. I really see this going FA in the near future, so that would really be a great addition. Also, I look forward to any input, intervention, comment, question or copyedit you may have. Keep in touch, Dahn 21:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for everything. I'll get back to you with an e-mail later today or tomorrow (when I'll also explain the delay); by then, feel free to send me whatever text you need me to look into. Dahn 11:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Did you happen to look through the links I pointed out on your sandbox talk page? They add very interesting detail - I'll review that as well soon (I'm currently trying to get off the ground with Socialist Party of Romania, and have promised Biruitorul that I'd sandbox something about the Labor movement in Romania, for us both to work on). Dahn 11:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC) We seem to be editing it at the same time. I'll look at it tomorrow, or later tonight. Cheers! --Ling.Nut 16:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC) KhojalyHi Francis. I think statement of Serge Sarkissian, the minister of defense of Armenia, is important and not undue weight. What do you think? Grandmaster 14:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
greater moroccohi, i was just wondering - there's a never-ending battle going on over at greater morocco (i think you can guess the outlines of it), and it would be good if you wanted to take a look at it. you've been there before, and your mediation the previous times was excellent. there's a longer presentation of this on the talk page, but in short, the dispute concerns two competing versions of the page, one of which is a drastically shortened version of the other. i want the original back, since it's frankly so much better, and i'm perfectly willing to have it edited further afterwards to make everyone happy. but i'm reverted every time i try to restore it. have tried an RfC, but to no use. i've also asked FayssalF to have a look at it, since he's been involved in these issues too, and i've found him to be very balanced in mediation too. Arre 02:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC) WikiProject KurdistanDon't you think D.Kurdistani's comments are too personal to be put on a Wikipedia project page? He/she mentions Baristarim's name in an accusing manner numerous times. I may be wrong still.--Doktor Gonzo 16:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Chad imagesHi Fran thanks for your work. I see the lines, but could you make them pointed, so their direction is clearer? As for the cities, the problem is that some of the maps are a bit crushed; for the positions of the towns, the best thing is to use Image:Chad Map.jpg, which is accurate and contains most of the towns present in the other maps. But you do what seems best in your vision; I really don't understand enough of this stuff. And thanks for editing Toyota War! Ciao,--Aldux 17:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Category:Kurdistan mediationA request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Category:Kurdistan, and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. -- Cat chi? 22:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Vulgarian Statal Entity instead of EmpireSee my edit there --Riversongsmajorcopy 22:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Icelandic filmHi there Francis. Hey I see you were the one who started 101 Reykavik. I have expanded it but check out this image. Does this look like Victoria Beckham and Liz McDonald from Coronation Street or what? See Image:101reykjavik2.jpg!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 08:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC) I didn't but I hoped it would be a B soon enough. There appears to be plenty of info to make it a GA. God that guy in the film looks like a geek!!!! What did you think of the Liz McDonald/ Posh Spice lesbo picture? I have just been speaking to an Icelandic user incidentally. It does need a bit of copy editing, referencing but I hate stubs this is why I expanded it!! DO you think with a bit of development it would be good enough? THe film I intend to get to a GA, FA eventually is The Maltese Falcon (1941 film). Now that has potential! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 09:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Ah ha. Ya kinky devil!!!! THats why you started it! I haven't seen the film but it looks pretty damn interesting particularly with those lesbos!! It looks a laugh - the Blur guy did the music to it -he is obsessed with Iceland!!! and Victoria Abril looks very nice. Particularly at http://www.publispain.com/revista/biografia-de-victoria-abril.htm. I may translate this to her article later. All the best! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 09:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC) See the front page 4 articles in five days!! Torrent (1926 film).!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 12:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC) THanks. I have just started one of the weirdest films I have ever added on wikipedia. Uttara (film). I looked through the notable Bengali director list and just felt like adding it. Its really weird and quite brutal!! I never realized Bengali films were allowed to have such brutality!!! I'm only half done I'll finish it later ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 14:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC) nagorno-karabakhSince you have already been involved in this issue I would like to ask your opinion about recent edit (removal of census table) by user:HyeProfile [25] As you see he is removing tables and data based on scholarly works. I made my comments on talkpage about his OR [26] and his questioning of scholarly sources [27]. In return he called my opinion "vandalism" [28]. Since he is not a party of Arbcom desicion, and I am, I don't want to touch the article now (as per 1rr) but that user already threatened to do whatever he thinks right according to his view [29] and I suppose that aggressive editing will continue.--Dacy69 22:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC) here is more evidence [30]--Dacy69 01:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Soviet occupationThanks. It was so frustrating to see so much work constantly reverted without discussion. Maybe my text is not ideal, but the article glaringly lacked context and looked like Soviets just invaded and occupied Romania in 1944 and the Romanian being allied with the Nazis in 1941 attack was irrelevant. So, Soviets just, you know, "came in and occupied" on the whim. Soviets were no angels to be sure but no one was at the time (and even now). Cheers, --Irpen 08:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Double redirectsHi, just a quick reminder to check any redirects when you move a page, I've fixed quite a number for Emomali Rahmonov and other articles you've moved about recently. -- Nick t 22:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC) You have until 22:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC) to comment at that page before it fails. -- Cat chi? 17:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Please look at the talk page. Jahangard 17:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Request for Mediation
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Casino Royale FACTo let you know that Casino Royale (2006 film) has undergone improvement in the last week and I have now nominated it for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. I would very much appreciate you taking the time to review the article and state your opinion. Thankyou. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" "S.P.E.C.T.R.E" 09:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC) An arbitration case involving you has been filed. Feel free to comment there. -- Cat chi? 13:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC) Hello. I just noticed you put in a reference to Deletant saying or implying it was not an occupation. A page number and/or quotation would be helpful. Biruitorul 16:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
new category/userboxHi, i thought you might like add the following category to your user page.
also i have created a user box for uea students/alumni. You may like to add it to your user page.
And this is what it looks like..
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesmh2006 (talk • contribs) Sorry guys, but no fair-use images in userboxes please... :-( --Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
copied from your old talkpage...Orphaned fair use image (Image:Huitzilopochtli.jpg) Thanks for uploading Image:Huitzilopochtli.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy). Thank you. Fritz S. (Talk) 16:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC) sorrySorry! I wasn't here. you sent in 27 february 2007. I was in Turkish wikipedia. I can help.--F.Mehmet 17:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Thoth conductI have started an RfAr against Thoth conduct. [31] You may want to comment. Since I'll be living and that I won't be watching that article, I hope the Arbcom will settle the problem of the uses of that articles talkpage as a soapbox once for all, this at least will bring people to discuss the article and how to improve it rather than worthless debates. Fad (ix) 03:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Free ImmigrationHi Francis - It's been awhile; I hope you are well. I noticed you have edited the Free migration page. There is an anonymous user with a history of contentious edits. She have been called out as a troll by several editors, been blocked three times by three admins, continues to refuse to sign Talk comments, etc. The User recently removed 2/3rds of the Free Immigration article for unreferenced material. This is par for the course for the user. She likes to game the system to hurt Wikipedia by removing content or inserting material of dubious quality. I've grown tired of the troll, so I am alerting you of her actions on that page. I agree with removing material that appears blatantly false or questionable, but material that was written in good faith but without references is far harder to improve than material that doesn't exist at all. --David Shankbone 13:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC) sorry for accidentally removing the message above, what i attempted to say is please don't re-insert uncited material. it's ok to leave things for a month or two but when things are over six months its time to go. the text is still available in the page history if it needs to be restored. if the article were about noncontroversial/nonpolitical topics this can be relaxed somewhat. MFDWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Anarcho-capitalism. Comments requested. Since you used to be a sysop, I was also wondering if you knew any other sysops who would be interested - send them the link to comment too. :) -- infinity0 01:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC) FYII have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article List of places blurred out on Google Maps, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the Casualties etc.I am sorry, but I do not find your stance very honest, you moved the template without any discussion when you knew that it would not be a straightforward move, then you are accusing me of being disruptive? Can you please contact an admin to fix the move, move it back to its original position and request a RM as is the normal wiki procedure? If we are going to discuss and not impose, that's the only way to go. cheers Baristarim 11:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Please revert at Casualties of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict - you are way past 3RR. Baristarim 12:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Casualties...I have proposed the template for deletion, guess you'll probably agree with that. I don't know what to do with the article itself, but now that it has also been talkpage-spammed there's probably little hope of a constructive debate there. Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Sorry Francis, I thought this was your nomination, so I put your name on edit summaries, maybe b/c I was replying your comments and you were replying mine here, or b/c of your nomination on the talk page. I should check the name of the nominators more carefully I guess. denizTC 04:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC) History of the Eastern Orthodox ChurchCould you please provide sources for were the Orthodox church was involved in russification and pogroms? Considering the comments are unsourced until you can source were the church as a whole was involved, the comments need to be removed. LoveMonkey 21:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Reward BoardAs this was my first time trying to obtain a reward, I'm not quite familiar with the process of claiming it, an I'm not sure if this is the right way. I worked on the article for Daşoguz for about an hour (give or take 5 minutes). I'm assuming that by the statement "I'll do the same", you meant that you'll work on an article about Central Asia for an hour. --queso man 17:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
No city in particular, just choose any one you like. --queso man 23:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Hi. Fair use rationale for Image:Macedonians protest against forced assimilation.jpgThanks for uploading Image:Macedonians protest against forced assimilation.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read carefully the instructions at Wikipedia:Fair use and then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies. If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our Criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Additional comment: Please don't take this personally, but I disagree with the reasons you cited as to why this meets the fair use criteria -- I'm not sure they apply here from my reading of Wikipedia:Non-free content, especially the section "Examples of unacceptable use". One of the examples of unacceptable uses pretty much matches this photo's situation (see the fifth bullet point):
--A. B. (talk) 03:41, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
WPTL todo pageI recently constructed an attempt at a more organized WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics open tasks template, but I haven't received any responses on the project talk page. If you could take a look at the test: User:Mitchoyoshitaka/WPTL todo and comment on it, I'd greatly appreciate any feedback or criticism! mitcho/芳貴 02:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC) Plagiarism problemHi Francis, I came across a problem with the Persian language and related articles that might be somehow related to your interests. It turns out that this online article [32] has been variously plagiarised on the web, and parts of it have found their way into Wikipedia (e.g. the paragraph here [33] - note that I'm not implying Jonsafari was responsible for copying it, he was only merging something that had been around for long and I can't quickly reconstruct who was ultimately responsible for introducing it.) Could you check what cleanup might be necessary in these articles? Thanks, --Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC) ImagesAsk User:Ldingley about those. He gave them to me citing Michael McCormick. He would have any sort of note of permission. -- Aivazovsky 13:38, 19 May 2007 (UTC) GDFL licenseHi, I really can't understand why do you put possibly unfree images tag on the images which have been published clearly under GDFL. --Sa.vakilian(t-c) 14:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC) Who is "disputing" the copyright status of these images, and under what reason? Almost all images from the Iran-Iraq war era belong to paramilitary Baseeji organizations and/or Iranian govt agencies. And they are not protected under US copyright laws, as stipulated in the United States Copyright office Circuilar 38. I can provide email addresses for you to verify that the images are currently circulated by IRNA, IRIB, and other govt agencies.--Zereshk 18:36, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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