This page is an archive and its contents should be preserved in their current form;
any comments regarding this page should be directed to User talk:PFHLai. Thanks.
And real life is very much in the way these days.
I probably won't be able to log in as frequently and contribute as much as I would like. Messages left here probably won't get a quick response as before. Your patience would be very much appreciated.
Yes, ERcheck, suggestions can go to the talkpage of the Sel. Anniv. template. Please be reminded that the featured item (with the link in boldface) must be a decent wikipage (no stubs, no problem tags like {NPOV} or {cleanup}, etc.) with the date in the text, important historic events are strongly preferred, and hopefully the same wikipage don't get featured in another Sel. Anniv. templates.There is also the issue of diversity (in topic, era, geographical locations ....) and we are not supposed to steal TFA's thunder or re-use recent DYK or ITN items. I'm not trying to discourage you, but I thought I should let you know of the "rules" there. What would you like to post there ? I'm looking for a replacement for the 1680 item, anyway. -- PFHLai13:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The article is not a stub.The information is verified and cited in the article. It has not been in DYK or ITN.
Thank you for the suggestion, ERcheck. I've added a similar line to the template as a hidden backup item (in case one of the other items becoming a TFA, getting tagged for NPOV, etc.)I did not use it as a 'live' item because there have been complaints about having too many US-related items in the Sel.Anniv. section, e.g. Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries#USA bias in Selected Anniverary.If you feel strongly about featuring this item, please consider swapping this with the 1976 item. (I don't think Operation Paul Bunyan was that historic an event, but this year is the 30th anniversary. What the heck.) You are an admin, so you can edit it anytime. I'll be off-line that whole week, so help yourself. :-) Cheers. -- PFHLai06:42, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion on ITN
Hi there - see you added the content to "In the news" about the "Queen of the Maori"
I would suggest it would be better titled "Maori Queen" (as per first paragraph of the Te Atairangikaahu article.Most New Zealanders knew her as the Maori Queen not Queen of the Maori. Also the use of the flag on the main page seems strange - the flag is not really the flag of the Maori soveriegn his/herself but more a flag representing Maori (see Tino rangatiratanga) cheers
Goldfinger82004:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I typed in "Queen of the Maori" to avoid sticking "(flag pictured)" in between "Maori" and "Queen". I've fixed it now. Hope it's better.
Hmmm... away for a mere 30 minutes ? Come on. Does that count ?If that image were human, that's not even enough to get thru' the airport security, customs and immigration...... :-)-- PFHLai09:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your good wishes. (It's so hard to stay away...): Shostakovich is now on MainPage. Happy ? :-) Thanks for the suggestion. -- PFHLai12:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sunset-to-Sunset Holidays on Selected anniversaries
Hi PFHLai, thanks for completing the descriptions of those images I uploaded to commons. I was in a rush when I uploaded them and meant to complete them later, but you beat me to it :) Cheers, jaco♫plane19:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I can delete it, but I would prefer getting a note directly from the wikipedian who created it.It's a subpage of MarkS's userpage. Thanks for letting me know, anyway. --PFHLai00:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Chronological order at "In the news"
Hi there. I noticed that with this edit you changed the date for the chess entry from 13 October to 12 October. In fact, 13 October was the correct date, as the tie-break session was played that day. Something to be careful about and check in future, to avoid misunderstandings. Also, I'm not sure why you changed the picture. Thanks. Carcharoth09:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Carcharoth. Thanks for pointing that out.I must have misread the article yesterday.I've fixed the order on ITN. About the picture, well, I put Ban Ki-moon on top so I posted his pic there to go with the top line.Ban's pic is now a day old.If there is a better image available (e.g. the actual Currie Cup), we can use it instead. -- PFHLai13:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In an interview on Finnish TV, Martti Ahtisaari said that he thought this was his last chance to have a realistic hope of ever winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I took it to mean he isn't going to bother trying to win it any more. But I'm glad you reverted my addition anyway, it wasn't really important. JIP | Talk14:02, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm... I wonder why he would say that. He might get it next year or whenever he is done with Kosovo. I hope he is okay health-wise. Anyway, I'm happy that you approve of my edit at ITN. --PFHLai15:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks!
Thanks for your suggestion regarding Gene's publicity shot. I appreciate your help. I think I'm just going to go ahead and contact his theatre and get specific permission for Wikipedia. That way they'll be no question what-so-ever. Thanks Again! KindSould19:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
hey, i was looking at an old talkpage archive of mine and clicked on your name randomly, then noticed ur cycling template and thought it was kind of ironic and coincidental that last wednesday I almost died in a cycling accident, it kinda of made me chuckle at the coincidence that ur template says you may crash, ha ha, and i did actually crash.Yeah, I ended up with just a severe concussion, recovering now, but still thought it interesting to bring up.Sorry to be random about it though, lol. -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs21:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to hear that you had a serious bike accident, Pedro. Unconscious for 14 hours ?Sounds scary.How are you doing now ?I hope you are doing better.
I'm glad that you find that 'joke userbox' of mine amusing. I've had my share of close calls. I take the subway every day now.
Have a speedy recovery, i.e. Let's put your concussion on WP:SPEEDY.
Hey, thanks for the message.I've mostly recovered already but I'm not allowed to drive or do anything strenous (like work or go to school) until October 30... this has been a really boring week is all i can say.When i started out last week i could hardly type coherently, had vertigo and terrible headaches, now I feel fine but am still not allowed to do anything, but hey it could've been a lot worse.It's all my fault for not wearing a helmet, lol. Thanks for the message again, and for using my first name cause no one ever calls me that on here, lol. -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs17:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You are welcome, Pedro. Good to know that you are indeed getting better. Here's a new userbox for you:
This user will wear a bicycle helmet(pictured left) from now on.
You enlarged the image size to 101px. But the problem is that earlier it was displaying properly on my browser, and now it doesn't. I'm not too sure if I should revert it, but if it works for you, I guess I'll wait. Cheers! --May the Force be with you!Shreshth9114:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This is odd. Earlier today, it wasn't working on my screen at 100px, but appeared fine at 105px or 101px. Now it's not working at any dimensions. I've reverted it back to your version. Hope it's showing alright on your screen. Thank you for letting me know, Shreshth91. Please go ahead and change things as you see fit. -- PFHLai14:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've refreshed DYK with new entries and the new pic seems to work fine on my screen. I hope this is the end of the problem. --PFHLai17:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, and thank you for your interest in my Baker article. You made an edit, saying a fact needed a citation (first edition prices). I know that first edition prices are in the hundreds of dollars, because I collect Baker's books. However, I can't find a stable online source that states this fact explicitly; only search engines at rare book websites, and they change depending on the available stock. Any suggestions?Jeffpw08:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have added as a source, the website alibris.com, which is an online resource for finding rare books. Using their search engine, titles of priced First editions of his books show up. Is this an acceptable source?Jeffpw09:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Jeff. Thank you for looking this up. Citing an everchanging webpage is not ideal, but I suppose anything is better than nothing to substantiate it. Thanks ! -- PFHLai13:40, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Whenever I receive something like the DYK, all I want to do is to be gracious when I accept the award. This include those who have helped on me getting this and to those who have have issued the award. I realize we are all in this together in improving Wikipedia, especially on items that are overdue. That is all. Chris13:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Chris, you've certainly done the harder and more important part in improving Wikipedia, compared to my simple copying-&-pasting job at the DYK section on MainPage.We need more contributers like you. Thank you. -- PFHLai14:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The observance is indeed sunset to sunset (sunset on November 11th to sunset on November 12th).After reading the discussion on the talk page, I'm not sure what the consensus was.My personal feeling is that since most of the holy day observance happens on the second day of the event, the holiday should be noted on the second day, but if the consensus is otherwise, then the holiday should be mentioned on the 11th for consistency.Thanks again. -- Jeff300022:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You are welcome. I don't think there is consensus. I can move links around as needed, but let's leave things as is for now. Thanks. --PFHLai22:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Ludde23. I wish I had known about this earlier. Thanks for letting me know. I posted this event on [Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10] because I thought, after reading the article (and "http://members.tripod.com/Strv102r/stockholm_bloodbath.htm" in the external link section at the end), that the executions began after midnight of Nov. 9th (or, after 0:00 hours on Nov. 10th) and most of the executions took place during the following day (or, during daytime on Nov. 10th). I counted the days from Nov.7th (the evening when Christian called in the elders for a "meeting") onwards myself, but I do not have access to better references. (Googling was no help.) Did I mis-counted the days ?Please be encouraged to fix the dates in the Stockholm Bloodbath article. I would very much appreciate if you can help out with that. For 2007, I (or any admin) can move this anniversary to another day's template to go with the content of the article. Many thanks. --PFHLai22:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Nishkid64, cropping would be a good idea, but I don't think a fairuse image such as [Image:Augusto Pinochet official portrait.jpg] would be good for ITN. Anyway, Centrx has removed the line on Pinochet from ITN. Sorry for the delayed response. I'm not around that much these days. --PFHLai16:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, Simply south, if you want. Calm down ? I'm indeed calm.... I'm just trying to "direct traffic" and point people to the page with the related information. Hope this helps. -- PFHLai14:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Lar. Thank you for selecting my Christmas tree article for DYK on Christmas day. You've made this Christmas a special holiday for me. Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy 2007 ! Take care. -- PFHLai20:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, PFHLai, just a heads-up that Shadow1 has changed his bot to email users with an alert whenever a template is unprotected on the Main Page. The page is here, if you wish to add yourself. (And I hope you have time to rejoin us soon!) Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 17:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Tariq. Please be encouraged to add the first day of Hajj to MainPage, if it's not too late. I can't confirm the date from info in the article, so I ain't sure when the 5 days of Hajj is supposed to begin.Is it today ?Thanks in advance. --PFHLai14:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
So it was yesterday. Ooops... I've just added this to the SA template for Dec.29th anyway, as a reminder for whoever updating the templates in 2007. Oh, well....Thanks for letting me know.Hope you had fun in the snow. :-) Cheers. -- PFHLai00:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Having noticed the above exchange, I performed the requested deletions.CSD R1 covers redirects to nonexistent pages.There's no valid reason to keep such redirects, so there was no point in contacting the protecting admin.—David Levy04:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, procedure-wise, it's right to delete them. I'd prefer to defer to Zzyzx11 simply as a courtesy. If the protection was done by an inactive admin, I would've deleted them myself. No problem. Glad that it's done. -- PFHLai14:54, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I was just thinking about doing the same thing tomorrow. Oh, well... You beat me by about 12 hours. :-) Good night. -- PFHLai04:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is this in the article yet ? If so, please revert my edit on ITN. I'm working on shortening DYK at the moment. Thanks. --PFHLai06:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The only admission of anything I could find in the article was about his signing a cooperation statement with the secret police in 1978. It's not clear to me if he has admitted to anything else the newspapers have reported. If that's good enough for you as the same as "admitting he worked with Poland's Służba Bezpieczeństwa ...", okay, I trust your judgement. --PFHLai07:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Odd, I didn't see the local copy when I went to unprotect it after I updated DYK (which is why was still there just now). Sorry about that. Yomanganitalk16:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Today is the 300th anniversary of the ratification of the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England.It is being "celebrated" as per the following AP/MSNBC.com article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16638392/
If the problem is only allowing 5 articles, as a 300th anniversary, I think it outweighs Ivan the Terrible.
Hello, Ahseaton.I am aware of this 300th Anniversary of the Acts of Union 1707. I have already put this on the selected anniversary template for May 1st a few days ago. It was a merge that involved two parties. I find it inappropriate to put this on MainPage on the anniversary of the Scottish vote and ignore the anniversary of the English vote. (The reverse would also be bad. BTW, I can't find the date of the English vote.) So, I chose to feature this on the anniversary of the merge to avoid the appearance of a bias towards one of the two groups. Moreover, I think May 1st, 1707 is the more significant date. And there are some even less historic events than Ivan the terrible to displace from the May 1st template. --PFHLai15:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
East Kowloon Corridor
Thanks for putting the picture of East Kowloon Corridor onto the main page! I'm surprised to see that too. ^^ BTW are you from Hong Kong? that "Lai", if anything, looks like a Chinese surname under the Hong Kong transliteration scheme. --Deryck C.13:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are welcome, Deryck. I needed a replacement pic. Image:East Kowloon Corridor.jpg happened to be already protected. Easy choice for me. :-)
Yes, I grew up in HongKong. I left many years ago. Kowloon Peninsula was much "thinner" back then. :-) Thank you for your articles about HK. They bring back some good old memories.
Thanks really much for greeting me good luck in HKCEE. I hope my pictures of Hong Kong can continue giving you sweet memories about Hong Kong ^^ --Deryck C.07:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
From the little encounter between you and me, do you think I qualify to run for adminship? Just asking, don't feel any emotions if you find I'm not good enough. --Deryck C.13:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Deryck, based on your contribution history, you appear to be an experienced Wikipedian with no recent conflicts with other users. I see no problems with an RfA. However, RfAs are often popularity contests. I suggest that you show up at popular discussion forums such as the Village Pump or Talk:Main Page (or even at IRC) to make more friends (potential voters) and be *visibly* helpful to others (potential voters). It would also be helpful if you have a few consecutive months of consistent output (100+ edits/month), rather than disappearing for long stretches every now and then, just to show some dedication. Hope this helps. Good Luck. --PFHLai06:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, Deryck, shouldn't you be preparing for HKCEE now ?You are not my son, nor are you my student. So I ain't telling you what to do, what not to do. Just some friendly advice from someone who flunked out (No Form 6 for me ! Hence my reluctant departure from HK.): Don't underestimate the opponents. Good Luck. May the A's be with you. -- PFHLai07:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, WikiTony. This is a mistake of mine. It's not accurate. The results are not official yet. Please do not restore my mistake as you did here and here. Thanks. --PFHLai17:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi PFHLai,
The article that YOU cite claims the incumbent as the winner. If this info is not accurate perhaps YOU should find another source that agrees with what you are trying to say. I am not biased towards the current administration in Senegal. In fact, I cannot remember his name even as I write this. All I am saying is that YOUR source claims him as the winner. I also do not see the need for you to remove the Senegal General Election 2007 heading. Perhaps you can explain (not that you need to explain to me). Current events blurbs should be clear and consice. The way it looks now practically looks like an encyclopedia entry. This topic may be of significance to you personally and i understand you may wish to let the world know about Senegal's first elections in a long time but i do not think this is the appropriate way to do it. By the way, it is the "3RR" rule not "2RR" as you wrote in your summaries. Still, I only "reverted" once so i dont think i have to tell you what you can do with your "warnings." I will continue to edit the blurb in a way that i feel best portrays the situation. There is no room for bias or hearsay on the current events. I hope you understand. Please feel free to reply if you have any other concerns or questions. peace and love, WikiTony21:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, WikiTony, that's not what the CNN article claims. It reports that unofficial results have been used by government sources to declare the incumbent the winner. Let's make the line on Portal: Current events concise, but we shouldn't overdo it and lose accuracy. Thanks. --PFHLai00:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I still dont understand why you keep removing the header. Look at every election of any country on the current events page. example: United States Presidential Election, 2008. I know there is no set rule but this is the consensus that WP contributors have come to and i do not appreciate you changing it. I do not claim to own the Current events portal but i do contribute to it very frequently and i think i have some knowledge of how to format it. I will now put the header back but keep what you have written. peace, WikiTony03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why ? 'Coz it's taking up too much space. The link was not removed, but incorporated into the sentence. I am not aware of the consensus regarding the "header". The style changes depending on who's running the portal that month or so. It's good that you are maintaining a consistent style and format there. Please edit the line as you see fit. I am more interested in accuracy of the information. I like your passion and enthusiasm, but please bear in mind that this is a wiki afterall. Happy editing. -- PFHLai14:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Ghirla. Thank you for your suggestions. Honestly, I am not that big on birthdays. For me to post a birthday on MainPage, the birthday boy or girl must be really, really notable and it should be a centenary or some nice, big, round number like 250, 750, ... etc. I'm afraid Tereshkova's 70th and Márquez's 80th birthday fall short on both fronts. If I am putting any birthdays on MainPage this year, it would be Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday on April 15. BTW, Tereshkova will be on MainPage on June 16, the anniversary of her historic flight. --PFHLai16:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. I put it back after I deleted your M-cropped picture. We'll find a better one for next year. Thanks, David. --PFHLai16:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for your help on Public holidays in Poland. I am not aware of so many 'non-public' holidays in Poland. It's fine as is, but I wonder if we should move the page to Holidays in Poland (currently a redirect).
I'll be putting "Day of Rememberance of the Poznań June of 1956" on the Selected Anniversary template soon. Thanks, again. --PFHLai18:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please tell me how http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/site.php is a "spam ad". Did you even read the page? Have you even read WP:0.5? Please read up on these pages before you revert. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.104.16.217 (talk) 21:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
I don't think I was biting, just removing an out-of-place external link. And it indeed looks like spam to me. Maybe "internal" spam. Happy editing. --PFHLai22:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the edit conflict! :-) My line was intended for whoever posted the pic of a real dog without consideration of the subject matter. I'm on your side, 1ne. --PFHLai07:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Crusaders captured part of the defenses and obtained a lodgement in the city on Monday the 12th, and fighting continued until dusk. They held their positions that night; in the meantime, Alexios V fled as did many of the citizens, and a fire set by some of the Crusaders to protect their position from attack burned out of control all night and all of the next day. That day (Tuesday the 13th), the Crusaders assembled and prepared to renew the fight, but found no organized resistance remained in the city. My copy of Villehardouin, the M.R.B. Shaw translation, says, "Thus the whole of the army was stationed in and around Constantinople, which our troops had taken on the Monday before Palm Sunday", so he seems to feel that the events of the 12th were sufficient to represent the capture of the city. Yours, Choess04:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WikiThanksA cookie for Choess
Hello, Choess. Thank you very much for your explanation. It looks like both days may be considered the day of the fall of Constantinople at the end of the Fourth Crusade. Here's cookie for you. Your unexpected help is very much appreciated. Thank you. Happy editing. --PFHLai10:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I saw that you edited the Space Shuttle section on the April 12th page because I have it on my watchlist. On the 12th, I noticed that it said that the Columbia was the first shuttle. On it's talk page, I mentioned that it was not, but no one has fixed it, and I am not an admin. Perhaps you could. —ScouterSig15:46, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You know, Parker007, I want to. I usually keep ITN and various things on MainPage updated. I just cleaned up the backlog at Category:Protected main page images and partially at WP:ERRORS. I can only stay online for a few more minutes (dinnertime). Another admin will have to take care of this for now. I'll see what I can do later this evening. Sorry. :( --PFHLai21:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, i could've helped you if you had contacted me an hour ago. I must read up before posting anything on MainPage. Now I really have to log off. The car is waiting. Sorry. --PFHLai22:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Last night, another admin at WP:ITN/C commented that the Dissenters March article had too little content about the latest events. Such information is still lacking there now. If you still want this on ITN, please update the article accordingly. ITN is a place to feature well updated wikiarticles. If the article is not updated enough, a headline can only be placed on Portal: Current events. When it's ready to "graduate" from 'Current events' onto ITN, please let us know on WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --PFHLai13:23, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are very welcome, Parker007. If you have more suggestions for ITN, please feel free to leave a note at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. Happy editing. :-) --PFHLai23:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I noticed that and striked out my message on the board. The talk page is still a bit of a mess but I've informed angr Nil Einne19:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
