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[edit] African Union

Please stop adding the AU template to country articles it was decided that a category would be used instead. - SimonP 02:07, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on my talk page (and I have added a proper welcome message above). I presume you are talking about Mr. Jean Collins Musonda Kalusambo and Mrs. Julienne Mavoungou Makaya, both of which currently redirect to Economic, Social and Cultural Council. If you know enough about them, please write articles on them - unfortunately, I am not in a position to do that for you. If you write articles, they should probably be at Jean Collins Musonda Kalusambo and Julienne Mavoungou Makaya (or even Jean Kalusambo and Julienne Makaya, depending on how they are best known and the convention for first name and family name).
The redirects were created by User:24.148.76.248 and changed to redirects by User:Gamaliel, so it may be worth talking to them. I hope this helps. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:48, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You wrote: Can you explain the edit you made to African Union, i don't see it.

I added a link for kiSwahili, a quasi-official language in the African Union. Staatenloser 16:20, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Portals

Please don't add blank {{portal}} to countries, unless you intend to create these (which seems unlikely considering your systemic insertions). Thanks. El_C 6 July 2005 23:21 (UTC)

I reverted your blank portal insertions to Zimbabwe, Senegal, Mauritius, Ghana, Gabon, and Burundi. Please limit yourself to inserting existing portals such as the one you just added into Poland, for example. Thanks again. El_C 6 July 2005 23:27 (UTC)

[edit] Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Tanzania

Hello! If you're just going to write single sentence micro-stubs, may I suggest writing List of members of the Pan-African Parliament from Tanzania instead of individual entries for everybody? --Scimitar parley 22:31, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

  • I agree, but if there isn't enough information, why not just make a list and leave the articles redlinks? That way, when more info becomes available, a full article for each can be made.--Scimitar parley 22:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
  • When you decide these articles should be removed, list them for deletion in VfD instead of blanking them. Blank articles take up server power, and often, somebody like me will come around and revert. Usrnme h8er 08:18, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Don't bother trying get them deleted if they already exist, they are harmless. Kappa 22:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cologne Centurions

Why did you alter the Cologne Centurions' record from last season? Their record of 4-6 is easily verifiable. Please don't seed Wikipedia with false information. RADICALBENDER★ 04:17, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'm sorry if the European web site has the record wrong (I can't find a record of this anywhere), but this is all very easily verifiable. Go can go here and manually count up the wins and losses for the Centurions for the season (like I just did) and you'll see their record for 2004 was 4-6. RADICALBENDER★ 04:32, August 23, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Rugai Answer

Rugai is not an Irish name, it's italian, just because she represents an area with alot of Irish doesn't make her Irish

[edit] John Semer Farnsworth

I appreciate your effort to contribute to the article John Semer Farnsworth but I have not finished the article yet; the removal of the stub is premature. I hope to expand the last section and add another section by the end of next week. RashBold 21:28, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] African Union officials

Hey Briaboru--

I've just discovered this wealth of African Union bio stubs you've been putting up. Nice work, and thanks for putting in the hours! I hope you don't mind my tinkering with a few things here and there (it's the English teacher in me), but I wanted to drop a note and say what a great job I think you're doing by filling these in. Best wishes, and happy editing! --Dvyost 04:39, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

And by the way--I'm on and off Wikipedia right now as my schoolwork permits, but if there's a good way for me to help you out with any of this, let me know!
Well, no doubt some of these could use expansion, but my philosophy has always been that it's better to have a four-line stub up for people to expand than nothing! The most I'd suggest would be to make sure you add a stub tag to them (Africa-bio-stub is probably the best for this), and try to add them to country categories as well so that editors who work by country can notice and expand them. Most countries have a cat like "Malian politicans" that you can add on--and be sure to add the last name first there for alphabetization reasons. (I've just done this over at Sidibe Korian Sidibe if you want to see what I mean) I think the key is just to get it to where other folks can see it and build--after all, isn't the whole fun of wiki making someone else do your work? =)
Oh, and though I was technically once inducted into the Fulani ethnic group, I'm as white as white can be myself--don't let it hold you back from doing this good work! --Dvyost 05:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I just thought of something else that I forgot. You may want to start adding links to whatever databases you're using to create these stubs. Just a brief header "External links" and then the link to the database would be helpful; that way when the next editor comes along she knows where the information so far has come from. Have a good one, and keep on keepin' on, --Dvyost 02:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category tags

Hey Briaboru,

Again, nice work on all these new stubs--I can tell you're working your butt off for them. One thing you'll want to be careful of, though, since you're making them in such numbers, is to make sure you get the category tags right. To make sure they get alphabetized properly in say, "Tunisian politicians," it's important to add the name to the tag in the form Last Name, First Name. For example, Joyce Nondwe Kanyago needs to go in as "Kanyago, Joyce Nondwe" (see my edit to her article if you're still not sure what I mean). And don't forget to use the most specific category only--for example, "Tunisian politicians" is a subcategory of "Tunisian people," so you don't want to use both.

Does all this make sense? Let me know if you have any questions. I wish I had time to help you out with more of these but I won't really have the free time for a while--still, I wish you the best of luck! Keep up the good work! --Dvyost 23:24, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Briaboru. Regarding your edit to Lawrence Wilkerson, please don't replace valid categories with other categories. Just add them to the pre-existing ones. Thanks, BanyanTree 04:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, remember that it's better to put up, say, eight properly labelled articles than ten improperly labelled ones--I realize the alphabetization is a few moments of extra work per article, but it's important to keep things sorted, too. Otherwise, other editors have to follow behind you doing it, and it gets a bit frustrating.
I'm not sure what you mean by increase the "number of articles in the Carribbean Community article," but I should warn you that the Carribean isn't really my area of expertise. Is there a particular task you need an admin for?
Thanks for your continued great work! Keep it up, --Dvyost 02:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caribbean Community organs and bodies

Why should Caribbean Community organs and bodies be speedily deleted? Leave a comment on Talk:Caribbean Community organs and bodies if you can please. Enochlau 06:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Similarly, why on earth nominate Basque diaspora for a speedy delete? -- Jmabel | Talk 08:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Basque diaspora

if you've read the article closely you'll know that this article talks about Basque people, for which there is an article beyond that the article Basque diaspora is so short it doesn't make sense to me, to keep it as an article in and of itself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Briaboru (talk • contribs) 13 Dec 2005.

Yes, and it has a merge tag on it. I see you've moved at least some of it. Have you merged the whole thing? If so, it should become a redirect, but it should certainly not be deleted. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] African Union Mission in Sudan

Hey Briaboru,

Nice work as always keeping African Union Mission in Sudan up to date! Have you thought about breaking all this good information into smaller chunks/subheards? Keep up the good work, --Dvyost 02:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anyone can edit

Or any registered user can edit Briaboru 00:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)BriaboruBriaboru 00:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

That's not true. Only a registered user can create a NEW article (under new rules), but non-registered users are still editing existing articles. Michael Hardy 00:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 0% for major edits and 63% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 16 minor edits in the article namespace.)

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[edit] Ill. Sup. Ct.

I wanted to thank you for raising the Justice McMorrow thing to my attention. (I suppose in the interest of protocol, it's still appropriate to refer to her as Chief Justice McMorrow, but that's for another day.) I wouldn't have gotten her listed as a previous Chief Justice for quite some time, as I haven't advanced past the D's yet in the court's big list of all past justices. It's weird that they haven't gotten Thomas's biography updated, but I couldn't imagine they'd have left the wrong person as C.J. for almost four years. Yay, press release archives!

Unfortunately, that's too much to fit into an edit summary.

If you're interested in other Illinois articles, you might want to check out Wikipedia:Wikiproject Illinois. Johndodd 04:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello from JFB; To Briaboru

Hey!

I have just started an article on Sundar Selveraj and was hoping you would take a look at it, and suggest to me how to make it look more professional.

Cheers!

-- JJ 02:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help...I ran into another problem though--and this time, it's with the category section...Wikipedia, for some odd reason, fails to recognize the "Eastern Christianity page" and always takes me to the "No results page"...it won't go directly to the page--it always makes me click on "Do a search for the 'Eastern Christianity' page" before it finally takes me there...

What's with that?

--JJ 21:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MySpace profiles

Absolutely, though I would limit it to people notable enough to have a Wikipedia article; otherwise the list would become huge and out-of-control. tregoweth 06:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] East African Legislative Assembly

This is just a note to let you know that the East African Legislative Assembly page you created has been given a PROD tag for proposed deletion. You may want to take a look at the reason listed and see whether you concur. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 16:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African Union

Hi there: do you realise that you have produced an excellent list of EUROPEAN Countries in the article entitled "Members of the African Union"? I have not touched it as yet, but it can't be left as it is.--Anthony.bradbury 19:05, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi; your political views are wholly your concern, but listing the countries of the European Union under an article heading of Countries of the African Union still makes no sense.--Anthony.bradbury 19:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
You are missing the point. An inaccurate page, which this is, will probably get deleted.--Anthony.bradbury 20:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya stubs

Saw your post on the stub-sorting proposal and agreed strongly. Since there has been no disagreement on it and it has been nearly a week since the intial proposal, I went ahead and created, along with the corresponding stub. It does need to be populated and I have started doing so, but more certainly can be done. Thanks--Thomas.macmillan 19:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Former

It isn't necessary to have a category for people that a Former aldermen, people are just put into the regular category. For instance, there is not a former United States Senator category, if someone was a United States Senator, they are in a United States Senator category. 75.3.60.23 19:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Violation

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Alexandre do Nascimento article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! --Darksun 20:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eritrea category

Hey, I noticed that you made some edits under an anonymous IP (24...) in which you added the Eritrea category to some articles. I have reverted your edits because they were actually unnecessary, as those articles were already in the Eritrea category. They were in more specific categories (e.g. Geography of Eritrea was in Category:Geography of Eritrea), which in turn were in the Eritrea Category (e.g. the Geography of Eritrea category is a subset of the Eritrea Category). Thanks for your help anyway. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 02:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African Union stubs

"Healthy enough" meaning what? Also, let's keep the discussion unfragmented, on WP:WSS/P. Alai 21:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposing stubs types

Hi - I notice you have added several headers at WP:WSS/P and simply signed them, with no explanation as to the rationale for having the stubs you suggest. It'd be really helpful if you'd give some indication of why you think the stubs are necessary and whether they will reach the threshold as listed at the top of the proposal page. Simply a signed header tells us very little. Grutness...wha? 06:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eritrean people

Hi, I noticed you have been editing several Eritrea related articles recently. This is great because, as someone who is constantly adding info on African people and places, I know how little their really is out there. However, it is not helpful to double categorize articles by placing them in both Eritrean people and another Eritra-category, such as singers. A wise administrator once told me this rule and I still applies today. Thanks and keep with adding Africa-based content--Thomas.macmillan 04:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My talk page

Hi, thanks for the message on my talk page. I did justify the Eritrea-stub and also the Myanmar-stub. However, next time you write on any talk page, please sign it and date it with the signature button on top of this page. Also, add a topic with the 3 =. Thanks --Thomas.macmillan 03:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Where is the duplicate page? Thanks! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 02:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

Please go ahead and create the article, but it has to have more in it than just an opening sentence. Otherwise, it's simply not terribly helpful and can be deleted immediately. Best way to avoid it being clobbered is to make it maybe three or four sentences long. Hope this helps. - Lucky 6.9 22:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Glad to do it. FYI, my grandfather was a member of the Knights of Columbus.  :) - Lucky 6.9 23:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne

Your recent edit to Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // MartinBot 20:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm

I added some references for this article and voila, it is no longer nominated for deletion! Now we need an article for the founder. Edison 22:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Franciscan Sisters of the Inmaculate

Why did you delete them from the list of roman catholic religious orders?Cjrs 79 02:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

They are not. Cjrs 79 02:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of African Union members by political system

You said this list already existed and suggested its speedy deletion. Based on Wikipedia:Naming policy]] such an article should be located at this title, but more importantly, if you say it already exists and is therefore a duplicate, an admin patrolling CAT:CSD needs a link to the article it supposedly duplicates. What already existing article are you referring to? Remember, we have lists of Union members, but they're sorted differently, making them distinctly different from each other. -- Mgm|(talk) 09:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism warning

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. DoomsDay349 20:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Question

You blanked a large section of an article without offering explanation. As such, I took it as vandalism. If I was wrong, feel free to correct me. DoomsDay349 20:51, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I was speaking about Pan-African Parliament. Feel free to correct me if I was wrong, as I said before. DoomsDay349 20:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I see. Alright then. DoomsDay349 20:57, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion...

Hi again! An article can't consist only of an external link; that's why I deleted it. You should add some text before it gets clobbered again. If it does get deleted again, just recreate it with a reasonable amount of text. See ya! - Lucky 6.9 01:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Short articles

Your contributions are really welcomed, but they need to be much longer than just an introductory sentence or declarative statement. They can't ever be solely an external link. Hope this helps; I'd hate to see your contributions keep getting deleted for lack of content or context. - Lucky 6.9 17:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Right. Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mary and Joseph will keep getting deleted unless you are willing to put in the effort to explain who this group is and why they are notable, instead of just cutting and pasting from their website. NawlinWiki 17:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catholic cathedrals

Why should the list be limited to Roman Catholic cathedrals? The article is at List of the Catholic cathedrals of the United States, the title says nothing of the Latin rite, ergo it is not a complete list if it does not include the Eastern Catholic cathedrals. Gentgeen 01:50, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

If you are going to simply delete my work from an article, I'd appriciate it if you would discuss the issue first. Simply renaming the article to suit your purposes and then deleting the content with out discussing it first is rude and unprofessional. I brought the issue up on the article's talk page several days ago, without comment. I added the (in my opinion) perfectly valid and verifiable content to the article. You disagree with it's inclusion. Fine. That does not give you the right to act unilaterally. Gentgeen 03:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regions of the NAIA articles

Please stop creating Region I of the NAIA (and any Region * of the NAIA articles as well) unless you can explain in the article just what the NAIA is. Right now there is absolutely no context to the lists of universities you have created, and they are liable to be deleted unless you expand them immediately. You may also consider making a single list article Regions of the NAIA and making Region I, Region II, etc redirect to the master list. Regards, Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 02:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Catholic bishops

I'd like to ask you to alter how you are editing the List of the Catholic bishops of the United States page.

For example, in one edit you replaced this:

*[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque|Archbishop of Dubuque]]

with this:

*[[Jerome Hanus]]

I think it would be more useful if you were to, instead, replace it with this:

*[[Jerome Hanus]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque|Archbishop of Dubuque]]

That way, no information is lost. Also, the page is easier to maintain, because if Bishop retires, his line on the list just becomes false, but if his diocese is mentioned then people can still follow the link there.

Thanks! - Lawrence King 06:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


Since you haven't responded here, I have started a thread on this at Talk:List of the Catholic bishops of the United States#But don't delete their sees!. - Lawrence King 22:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Knights of the Southern Cross

You placed this contribution at KSC: "In 1922 it merged with the Knights of St. Francis Xavier." You have not placed a reference. What do you know about this. --WikiCats 11:21, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

If your are a good catholic man over 18 you would be eligible to be nominated.[1] If you have any interest in this organisation please email me. --WikiCats 22:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ‎Catholic Bishops Conference of India

Please stop creating ‎Catholic Bishops Conference of India without any content the way you have been. If you continue, you will be blocked. See WP:CSD for more info. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

If yoyu would give me a damn minute i would provide content Briaboru
The Preview button may be the functonality you're looking for. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 04:01, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bindi

A pointer to Tilaka is fine, but I rephrased the sentence that it didn't assert that the bindi had a spiritual meaning. It has a spiritual meaning only within the Hindu tradition, not by itself, in isolation. Zora 04:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mathew Makki

A tag has been placed on Mathew Makki, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable. If you can indicate why Mathew Makki is really notable, you can contest the tagging. To do this, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and leave a note on Talk:Mathew Makki, explaining how Mathew Makki is notable. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, article #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

[edit] Kuriakose Kunnacherry

A tag has been placed on Kuriakose Kunnacherry, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:Kuriakose Kunnacherry. An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and then immediately add such material.Diez2 04:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trial of Saddam Hussein

Are you really still working on Trial of Saddam Hussein#First hearing? You tagged it with {{major edit}} over 9 hours ago [2] so I'm guessing you've probably either forgot or got distracted. Either way, I'm planning to remove it in an hour or so unless you say you're still working on it. Given that this is a high visibility article with a lot of visitors, I think we need to encourage editing as much as possible. Cheers Nil Einne 03:15, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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