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Your comments about the Linda Kasabian article

thank you for your comments. Question: let's assume all your comments are addressed and the article is edited to better fit wikipedia standards. Who makes the determination and HOW do the tags at the top of the article get removed? (the ones claiming the article lacks in-text citations and that the tone needs improvement). Who makes those go away? Unscathed310 (talk) 02:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)Unscathed310

12 Olympians

You should know that Hades is part of the 12 and not Demeter. She is a lesser god and not an Olympian. Read your Mythology book, is it so hard to do that?

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Can you do a favor?

The Signpost is going to be running a Tutorial series. One of the topics is going to about making an article featured. After reading your 10 steps to a Featured Article, I believe you would be a good person for this job. Do you think you can do it? The Placebo Effect (talk) 15:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

THanks, I'll add your name to the list. The Placebo Effect (talk) 15:34, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
The date of your article has been delayed and moved to February 26. This is to allow two other articles to go before your that form a logical chain (Creating an article, citing an article). Just keeping you up to date and imforming you of things that might change your article/influence how you write it. The Placebo Effect (talk) 02:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "S"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "T"s through "Z"s (and beyond, apparently)! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

FYROM and other so-called acronyms

Well you cite no references, no sources, nothing and you still use FYROM, f.YROM and similar. Regarding the White Tower on the bank note, it is also not verified. Is it a problem to cite sources? If you do not have any sources, abusing the number of your fellows to block my edits is counter productive...

--Kirev (talk) 13:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

3RR accusations

You have accused another user of breaking WP:3RR. I kindly invite you to read the rules, as the user you warned isn't even close to violating the rules. WP:3RR prohibits making the same change four times in 24 hours. Kirev has edited completely different topics at the page and only removed your claim once, the warning is thus void. Cheers JdeJ (talk) 13:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Question about a peer review

Hi, I recently submitted Charles Faulkner for peer review. I can't find it anywhere... not even in the archives. Do you know where it went? I was using it as a guideline improving the biography. Help is appreciated. Brinabina (talk) 09:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

Speedy deletion of Template:Elections in Greece

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Speedy deletion of Template:HOGOpenTasks/Top

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Second Punic War

Hi Yannismarou

I'm working on the Second Punic War. I have been struggling with this mass of 14 years of war and many campaigns until I found a new structure to it dividing the whole affair into 3 stages in 3 different regions. I know no other author but me doing so, making it original, I hope not OR. For this reason I ask you take a look and state your opinion. Thanks Wandalstouring (talk) 12:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Template:Greek electoral laws

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Second Punic War

I'm still writing the article but I wasn't sure how long it would take and what pauses I would make, so there is no under construction template. The whole section about what lead to this war has to written. I wasn't sure where to discuss briefly the primary sources about the conflict the lead or the end are two possible choices. As you can see there are some notes of dates and battles that not yet have been integrated into the article. Wandalstouring (talk) 17:32, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

What I wanted to know was whether you think the division into stages and regions a good idea. It seems to me the only way to reasonably present the whole complicated affair. So far the first section about the war in the western Mediterranean is quite finished, but that's only 10% of the whole. I think it will take me still half a year until the article is completely finished since it involves lots of work and I have to reread some books. Wandalstouring (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm cutting the prose as short as possible otherwise it will be unreadable. This morning I summarized the Fabian strategy(I know, still needing cites) to include briefly all major points since it is more complex than usually presented. The overall length could be seen as a trouble, but this war lasted longer than both world wars together, involved powers from three continents and has almost as many battles in the list of most costly engagements as the Napoleonic Wars. Wandalstouring (talk) 14:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Signpost suggestions

... who review the articles at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style ...

  • ... who review articles at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for prose quality, accuracy, neutrality, completeness, stability and style ...

... A small bronze star () on the top right corner of an article's page indicates that the article is featured.

  • Not really, anyone could stick that star on an article. Being listed at WP:FA by Raul or his delegates is what indicates an article is featured.

... At present, there are 1,895 featured articles,

  • As of February 15, there are ...

... closing of your nomination by the FA Director.

... Assertions and assessments should be definitely cited.

  • And direct quotes and hard data.

... Concerning citations, try to adopt a consistent and cohesive style of citing

  • Not "try"; it's a requirement (2c).

... The whole article must not be too lengthy.

... Find or create pictures and maps with OK copyright status.

  • Link to the appropriate pages.

... Submit for more than one peer review.

  • This might be where you can point out that a GA does not an FA make, and appearing at FAC the moment some GA reviwer passed your article rarely bodes well.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, reliable (I chose the New York Times version.)

Circumcision may decrease a man's risk of getting HIV but it may also INCREASE a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia. (and some doctors even say other STD's too but I won't get into that and I wouldn't put caps on INCREASE.)

The article on circumcision mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once. Click on the article. You tell me if it's an article on the procedure or a pro-circumcision propaganda pamphlet.

Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my one sentence I want to add? Or possibly get new Admins to take over this article, which has fallen way below Wikipedia standards.

here's the New York Times piece... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y

I used to love Wikipedia until I went to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 (talk) 07:02, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Tutorial

Sorry about that; the advice got moved to a subpage of WP:MILESSAY, but we didn't check for backlinks. ;-) Kirill 18:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Yannismarou!

I have given some support to your cause at the talk page for Manuel I Komnenos. I think it is completely wrong for Adam and str1977 to act in such a way, and I have said so. Know that I respect your contributions far more than theirs. Best wishes, Bigdaddy1204 (talk) 19:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Your tutorial

I've taken the liberty of doing some copyediting of your tutorial. I've also marked it as "Done" at User:Enochlau/Signpost tutorial series, which means that it could be picked up and inserted into a Signpost issue as soon as the coming week. If it in fact is not ready for publication, then I strongly recommend removing the "done" template until you're comfortable with it being published. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the links at the end of the tutorial, it's not so much a question of what the Signpost style is (as far as I know, there isn't one) as whether you assist or confuse readers by hiding the full name of the page (via a pipe). In a narrative (sentence), piping often makes sense. But in "See also" sections in policies and guidelines, for example, you'll never see piped links, because editors can't quickly tell if the link is to something that they're familiar with or not. Nor can they quickly tell if the link is to an essay or something in userspace or something in projectspace (more official).
So, while it doesn't make that much difference, I think that it would be better to show non-piped wikilinks, and to add a note to them if necessary, as such:
Regardless, congratulations on a nicely done tutorial.
And finally, I strongly suggest that you annotate the link User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (note also that the page name the title at the top of the page aren't the same) - say, something like "slightly expanded version of this tutorial", so that readers don't think they're going to find something completely new when they follow the link. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

good luck and need help

Good luck for your exams. If you have time, please take I look at Greco-Persian Wars. An IP editor has heavily edited it without sources and I think he is pushing POV, but I'm not quite sure. Thanks Wandalstouring (talk) 12:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Someone else already did it. But still good luck. Wandalstouring (talk) 16:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Good luck

Good luck per wikipedia too, yannismarou! Humanity is awaiting your comeback for new contributions;) Pel thal (talk) 23:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello Yanni. Thanks for your support at the Military history elections. With your aid I was able to commision this ship to help plunder the coast of Military history for the third time. Na, just kidding. If you ever require any astance all you have to do is ask and you will see my ship on the horizon. Kyriakos (talk) 13:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Your tutorial is a biased view, since you yourself have been in the reviews you've seen. Thank you for convincing me that what FA should be is definitely out of its reach; would you mind if I expressed this as a parody of your article? I have given some reasons on its talk page. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 04:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Septentrionalis in many issues concerning Wikipedia we have different views! But this is not a problem, and personally I always take seriously into account your opinions whether I agree or not. Now, if you want to write a parody of the tutorial it is up to you to decide if such an essay would be helpful or not. But have in mind one thing! Parody is an art! So, if you decide to go on with your plan, try to to make it at least as successful as Yongaman's parody of FAC procedures!--Yannismarou (talk) 14:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Link, please! I did not know that existed; and may content myself with republishing it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:13, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Chortle; but I think it is time to take on reviewers, not nominators. I don't really care if M*** C****** gets tons of stars for writing articles on obscure kings and even more obscure magazines; that he is moved to write them is one of the few reasons not to delete the system. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

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A.E.K

Ela megale...could you delete the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A.E.K&redirect=no ...and can you rename the page Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos to A.E.K ..as Athilitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos means nothing to non-Greek-speaking Wikipedians who go to the article.as Athilitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos means nothing to non-Greek-speaking Wikipedians who go to the article and A.E.K was agreed in the articles discussion page..???The-Real-ZEUS (talk) 20:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Favour

Hey again Yannismarou, I need to ask you a favour. The FAC Rokeby Venus has been edited over 200 times in 3 days, and expanded greatly, but I see there are problems with logic, flow and coherance. Remembering the outstanding PR help I recieved from you with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, I thought I'd push my look and ask for suggestions, again. Any tips on orginasation etc would be very much appreciated. Take care. Ceoil (talk) 14:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey. Just wanted to say thanks for your comments an insights. We had a lot of very helpful feed back during the process, yours not least. Best. Ceoil (talk) 19:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Byzantine Empire

Can you explain me why you changed so much the article? Dimboukas (talk) 23:00, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


Byzantine Empire

It's me Dimboukas. I am ready to discuss about the map. First of all I want to tell you that my last edit was really exaggerated but the co-existance of the two maps is obligatory for the quality of the article—after all I love it. The Byzantine Empire under Justinian is not exactly the same with the Basil's empire and the Encyclopedia Papyrus-Larousse-Britannica in its article about the Byzantine Empire marks correctly that the Byzantine Empire until the reign of Heraclius cintinued to be exactly as the ancient Roman Empire. But then major changes happened and the whole form of the state changed in such a way that many historians mark the beginning of the Empire then, when the ancient roman influence had gone. I have read many books which have as a map of the greatest extent of the empire the map under Basil. 85.73.63.242 (talk) 13:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Diamante Move

Thank You - Shoteh (talk) 16:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Romaine Brooks

Hey Yannis, this a very fine article indeed. I think the difficulty might be overcome by placing Celithemis as nominator; as you say she did all the heavy lifting and really there are only cosmetic changes needed at this stage. I can call in Outriggr and JNW to help, but first need to get the Secrest & Chadwick texts, at least. Thanks for the tip, there are a lot of articles like this 'out in the wild', needing only an inch to bring them over the line, and into view. Thanks, and take care. Ceoil (talk) 07:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Lead

Hey, I have added in my own suggestion for the Byzantine Empire's lead, please take a look at the talk page. I know you haven't participated much in discussion for this, but I think it would be a good idea to alert all notable editors, and I know ur busy so u dont have to explain urself if your absent. Tourskin (talk) 21:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


Τονυ

Καλημέρα. Έκανα ενοποίηση στους λογαριασμούς μου , ρίξε σε παρακαλώ μια φραγή αορίστου στον παλιό User:Tony esopi patra --Tony Esopi (talk) 08:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar adelphe. Happy Greek Independence Day! Deucalionite (talk) 13:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Pontic Greeks

Hey in the article we shall post real photos from us like Kazatzidis,Christodoulos,Diamantidis,Vissarion,Ioannidis etc etc.Take a look at how Armenians put their photos of Armenian people.It's a good blueprint.Unfortunately i don't know how to upload photos so please maybe experienced users here can help.NikoSilver,Future,Chalpkides etc etc.Any help appreciated.

Επισης φιλε μπορεις να αξιολογήσεις το άρθρο του Ηρακλή Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.;Δεν νομιζω να ειναι start class απλως.

Επισης το άρθρο της Ελλαδος δεν ειναι άσχημο.Δεν ειναι επιπεδου GA; --Eagle of Pontus (talk) 17:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)