User talk:Minoa/Archive 1

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Minoa, for the period 31 October 2007 to 31 December 2011. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Archive 1

Archive 2

Archive 3

Archive 4

References: revision 621,685,974 of this page. Minoa removed section collapsing on 7 December 2022, for accessibility reasons.

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Changes to the Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe: Notes for readers

Hello again, I am currently doing major revisions to the Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe article to include colour and hopefully images of banknotes themselves. Thanks for your paitience during the revamp. --Marianian (talk) 11:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Silchester Estate

I put a PROD on this article, on the grounds that this estate is not notable, i.e.of enough general interest to have an encyclopedia article about it, at about the same moment that you added an {{underconstruction}} tag. In view of that, I have removed the tag and will wait to see how the article develops; but I have serious doubts whether a housing estate of four tower blocks it can meet the requirements of notability. Have a look at WP:N and WP:NPT - you'll see that even "A neighborhood or sub-section of a city/town/village" doesn't qualify unless it has "exceptional notability of its own". Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I should press on with the deletion until I get more verifiable information about it. It appears a lot of background or events surrounding this estate has been either lost or stored in the archives. The version under development will be in my sandbox. --Marianian (talk) 16:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you're right; but there's no need to go through the PROD procedure - you, as the author, can get the article deleted more quickly by blanking it and putting {{db-author}} at the top - that asks for a speedy deletion "author requests deletion". Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thoughts Requested: (Wikipedia humour) new article on a fictional country of Athens

I am considering creating a new Humour article, which contains an alternative history of Athens, as if it was a country. Any thoughts? --Marianian (talk) 17:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

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Mistake

It was. I think I already reported the user.Xp54321 (Vandals Beware!!!,Contribs) 16:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the clarification. --Marianian (talk) 16:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

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Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Would you please stop abusing the Minor Edit checkbox. Many of your edits on the above article could not in a month of sundays be termed minor. There is a point to the minor edit system, and your misuse of it ... cannot stand. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:53, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

For your convenience I have turned off the "Mark all edits minor by default" option. --Marianian (talk) 13:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I've noticed your sterling work on the said page. I'm happy to continue uploading the images to the grids as and when I have time to do it - hope that's one less job for you to do. :D Mangwanani ^(talk) 19:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Exactly, it's going well since the article grading has gone up from Start class to B. --Marianian (talk) 18:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

As Zimbabwe has had 2 issuers issuing their own banknotes, it is a common practice to have each issuer's banknotes listed in separate articles. This convention should apply to every country that had more than one issuer, such as England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales.

You should merge the articles Banknotes of the Rhodesian pound and Banknotes of the Rhodesian dollar into a new article titled 'Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia' - (203.211.79.133 (talk) 07:11, 28 November 2008 (UTC))

Welcome to WikiProject Numismatics!

Hello, Minoa/Archive 1, and welcome to WikiPproject Numismatics! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a numismatic Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. There are quite a few knowledgeable people of both numismatics and Wikipedia, in this little project, so don't hesitate to ask and be bold with your edits. Again, welcome, and happy editing! -- Joe I 21:33, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Banknotes and Tax Discs

Hey, I'll work on the images as and when I have time - hopefully sooner than later. I am working my way through the Zim banknotes to get rid of the black borders and scale them down so they are fair-use images. Mangwanani ^(talk) 12:17, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. Just been thinking about it, would it be possible to start work on the Cargill Cotton section so we can get rid of the {{Cleanup}} tag at the top of the page? I think when that is done, and all the images are shot of their black lines and scaled down we can nominate the article for a GA assessment.... Mangwanani ^(talk) 14:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done: Sections in the article merged, but please refer to them as Standard Chartered issues because of the top title of the checks. --Marianian (talk) 15:05, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:Zimbabwe $5 2006 Obverse.jpg

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 Done: The article name change was the cause so I simply changed the name, but hey, a good time to upgrade the Fair-use rationale too: so I did. --Marianian (talk) 19:21, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Award

		Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit
		Awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions to the Banknotes of Zimbabwe page by Passportguy (talk) 11:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks: it has been a daunting task with dealing with the increasing number of zeroes but it's all in great shape at last. It's noted in my user page. --Marianian (talk) 18:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Keep up the good work. And - just to keep you busy - new 20 and 50 billion banknotes will be introduced on Monday. Another installment of the seemingly neverending stream of banknotes out of the RBZ printing presses.... Passportguy (talk) 15:13, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Images

You may want to join in this discussion: Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Zimbabwe Banknotes... Mangwanani ^(talk) 17:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I've also replied there. Thanks --Marianian (talk) 17:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, you said something on proposing a "RfC on the level of use of fair-use images of banknotes" - not quite sure what you mean, but I might well agree if I understood you correctly? Babakathy (talk) 19:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I think a settlement has been reach in regards to Zimbabwean notes which were demonetized on or before 31 December 2008. All notes of this nature are in public domain because of clause 50 of the Copyright Act of Zimbabwe, Chapter 26:1, and should now carry this message:

According to clause 50 of the Copyright Act of Zimbabwe, Chapter 26:1, this work is in the public domain because it is one of the following: An image of a banknote which has been demonetized in terms of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Act Chapter 22:10 or An image of a coin or the artistic work defining the design of a coin. A copy of the Act can be viewed here, on the WIPO website.

(logo)

At the moment there are no information about reproducing current Zimbabwean banknotes but the inclusion of a gallery of recent notes have allowed the whole world to see the scale of the inflation, like the Paper money of the Hungarian pengo article. Seeing the significant improvement by the inclusion of the images, as that article has done. On the other hand I would accept low-res reproductions of Zimbabwean notes (and I have done for some). Yup, an RfC will be needed but I may need help as I am gonig through college exams this month. --Marianian (talk) 20:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

OK. Suggest then we "park" the issue for now unless deleting zim bank notes starts again. We can reassess next month - my programme is also rather tight, I am not managing to keep the Zim cholera article up to date, which is one of my main activities here. Babakathy (talk) 21:09, 13 January 2009 (UTC) On the other hand, if you have time to start something I will assist where I can. Babakathy (talk)

Had a minor panic, but the bot that removed the Reserve Bank logo from the above template did it only here - non-free logos do not go on talk pages... Babakathy (talk) 05:13, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

It was pasted "as is", but I am considering replacing it with a flag of Zimbabwe as it is more generic. --Marianian (talk) 09:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

My idea with the RBZ logo (which works on the file/image pages) was because the template is for currency only. The other Zim template Template:PD-ZW-other has the Zim coat of arms. Babakathy (talk) 12:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I have started a discussion on this issue at meta. Babakathy (talk) 08:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

$10 trillion

There is a scan reverse of the $10 trillion note currently available at http://i3.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/2c/9b/dda5_1.JPG. You might consider uploading the image here, unless you have a better one. Passportguy (talk) 12:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done I found a better one, but both sides are now online. --Marianian (talk) 19:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

4th dollar

There are images of the new banknotes at http://www.rbz.co.zw/pdfs/newnotes.jpg, although the quality isn't good enough to be used here.

Btw : Since it is being widely reported that the 100 trillion note will remain valid, it must have been issued. There is an image of a specimen at http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84380&sectionid=351020506. Do you have any idea when exactly the 100 trillion note was issued and if they ever got down to issuing the 20 & 50 trillion notes ? Passportguy (talk) 17:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Tax Disc (1995).jpg

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Resolved

 – Kind of reverted to previous version because some anonymous user deleted the tag without a reason. --Marianian (talk) 12:45, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

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No idea

Yes, it should be a free image but I have no idea what is going on with this Commons transfer business - completely lost track of it... Sorry! Mangwanani ^(talk) 18:23, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I can confirm it was indeed a false positive: what happened was the file was transferred as usual then it was confused for a copyrighted image when it was in fact PD-ZW. However, the person who deleted it has restored it. For your information, the log were as follows:

• 16:05, 29 September 2009 Abigor (Talk | contribs) restored "File:Zimbabwe $5 2006 Obverse.jpg" ‎ (2 revisions and 1 file restored: Fail)
• 04:27, 29 September 2009 Abigor (Talk | contribs) deleted "File:Zimbabwe $5 2006 Obverse.jpg" ‎ (In category Copyright violations; not edited for 0 days)
• 19:27, 28 September 2009 MGA73bot (Talk | contribs) uploaded "File:Zimbabwe $5 2006 Obverse.jpg" ‎ (''File details'')

Therefore, problem solved. --Marianian^(talk) 20:53, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Ups and Downs

You have just corrected a palsied finger's error, for which I thank you: a snag I find in the latest WP edit is that Google spell checker does not work. However you wrote "Might as well add Up and Downs", to which I have objections.

• 1) The scattering of coloured bits does not improve the quality of an article
• 2) However obvious it is to any rule, the meaning of the arrows is not explained
• 3) The ORR says that its figures are far from absolute truth and any seeming increase or decrease is just a difference in its published figures and may not show the change in px activity at a station. Talk:Office of Rail Regulation#Station usage figures says ORR said it excluded the least believable 250 stations, the worst six of which seemed to show increases ranging from 37 to 1273-fold (fold not percentage) and gives online ORR references.--SilasW (talk) 15:25, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I have been trying to improve the quality of the article to match that of Highbury & Islington station, which I believe is of better quality. Another smaller station, Anerley railway station also has those markers in use. --Marianian^(talk) 15:38, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Southall ry sta.

Thank you for the message.

• As for coloured arrows: I delete them, given the time, when I see them.
• I thought (before seeing anything on WP) that the blocked off platform north of #4 was once for goods with the space north of it (¿now a temple's car park?) a goods yard.
• I tried to reduce the article quite a bit, give it some order and make it easier to read (mainly it seemed by cutting out "normally"s) and left re-arranging the layout of the article to some other editor.
• Were the northside terminal platform to get to the Layout then the BS7s would have to go to 8s or 9s though I do wonder if the simple layout of Southall warrants such a diagram; where would it stop? Some editor has added fatuous "Layout"s to several stations, again which I delete if I feel like editing.--SilasW (talk) 10:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I have proceeded to remove the markers for now until there is demand for it. As for the layout, apparently the Japanese Wikipedia have inspired some editors to import the to the English equivalents. As Southall is near a junction, I would consider leaving it temporarily until I create a purpose built clickable SVG map like this one. What do you think? --Marianian^(talk) 21:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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Resolved

 – Another anonymous content deletion edit was the cause. General note has been issued on the IP address. --Marianian^(talk) 19:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Resolved

 – Reinstated at lower level due to significance of the item. Many associate Screen Gems with the S from Hell logo. By the way, I've also added background.--Marianian^(talk) 16:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: April Fools Main Page

Hi Marianian, I dthought that the recent natural disasters were a poor excuse for cancelling the April Fools Main Page. I generally agree with the conclusion reached in the other thread that you started about this subject. Graham87 03:42, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

At least I know that it is best to avoid upsetting anyone when times are tough... --Marianian^(talk) 17:24, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

hey

hey, im doug, and i live in new york, i like wikipedia its awesome. so whens dinner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.43.1.34 (talk) 10:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Unless you found me through Jennifer Government: NationStates this is not a place for random questions. --Marianian^(talk) 11:53, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Tax Disc (1952).jpg needs authorship information.

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 Done: it's in PD! --Marianian^(talk) 19:26, 2 June 2011 (UTC)