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[edit] Request

Hello. Could you do me one final favour before I retire from Wikipedia? I would truly appreciate it. Please respond on my talk page. Thank you. —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I've come and done what I wanted to accomplish on Wikipedia. Additionally, I am currently studying elsewhere in the world and will not have any free time on my hands from June 26 forward. I would appreciate it if you could expand the data at Image:Gwen Stefani Cool chart trajectories.png in the same format because I found another chart which I believe would be useful for cruftists (such as myself). If you agree, I will place the new chart trajectory here. —Eternal Equinox | talk 21:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey again. I've yet to receive a response but judging from your contributions, you've edited since I sent the last message. —Eternal Equinox | talk 22:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible if you could copy the graph at Image:Gwen Stefani Cool chart trajectories.png and include some additional information into it? Sorry if I was not clear enough. —Eternal Equinox | talk 15:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Improvement Drive (WP:AID)

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[edit] Your vote won the Math COTW

False discovery rate

The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Week is False discovery rate.
Please help improving this article to featured article standard.
Last week's collaboration was Cambridge Mathematical Tripos

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[edit] Music Samples

Hi, I see you've responded to the straw poll at Wikipedia_talk:Music_samples. Since your vote, there has been some further discussion here, and I've suggested a slight amendment to the proposed guideline. I'd really appreciate your feedback on the subject. Thanks! --Wine Guy Talk 19:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition lists

Please see Wp:lists#Definition lists for an example of that format, which is useful when entries in a list have brief paragraphs after them. -- Avi 19:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image deletion

Sorry about the confusion. The image was tagged with {{NowCommonsThis}}. However, I didn't realize that the Commons version was not up to date. I fully restored it, but it would be helpful if you could upload the latest version to Commons and move over all the image information, so that it can be deleted from Wikipedia. Thanks. Dmcdevit·t 19:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please help on Astronomy

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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Macedonia (terminology)

Thank you for your comment. Large scale modifications have taken place since you made it. For more details, please refer to the link above, and to the article itself. :NikoSilver: 12:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history of Australia during World War II

Hi. You voted for Military history of Australia during World War II which has now been selected as Australian collaboration of the fortnight. Please help to improve the article. --Scott Davis Talk 15:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Music samples

Hi, you answered a question I asked on Wikipedia Talk:Music samples about what to do if a copyrighted music sample exceded the agreed length. You said to list it for deletion etc. I need help please, because I don't know what to do. I've listed a few - including Image:07 Carmen la que contaba 16 años.ogg and Image:02 Brisas del Torbes.ogg. I notified the uploader who removed the ifd tag I placed. I reverted and the tag was again removed and replaced by a GNU tag, so I reverted and left a message on the user's talk page. (User talk:GJRFMorelligu) Once again he/she has removed the ifd tag and this time replaced it with "copyright holder allows this to be used for any purpose". There are other long samples added by the same user but I see no point in listing them if they're going to be reverted straight away. This user seems to be blindly and randomly selecting tags to put on these files but what can I do? As soon as I tag the page, it's being reverted, and a new, incorrect tag put in its place. Any suggestions or help would be welcome. Thanks Rossrs 13:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

user is also putting incorrect GNU tags on images such as Image:The young Morella Muñoz.jpg. Rossrs 14:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I'll keep an eye on how this develops and at least now I know there is another avenue. Rossrs 10:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tyrannosaurus

Although I can't be 100% sure, I feel I have addressed many of your concerns for the article. Please see my comments there & I sincerly hope you would be able to support the article....... Spawn Man 01:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Macedonia (terminology)

Hi. There have been significant improvements since your opposition. Please re-evaluate. :NikoSilver: 01:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Ashes series

Thanks for your comments about this featured list candidate. I've tried to address your concerns, so please re-evaluate. Thanks. DarthVader 02:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Human rights in Lebanon

Instead of adding tags upon tags, it would be better if you, as someone who seems to know a thing or two about Lebanon, could add substantial information about Human rights in Lebanon. --Gabi S. 10:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

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[edit] CCOTW

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[edit] Lebanese governorates maps

Hi Cedar-Guardian. I'm gonna upload these maps you made to Commons, so other wikipedias can use them too. And by the way, they're pretty good. --Cattus 03:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hydrogen is the science collaboration for August 2006

You voted for Gene and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month!
Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

Thanks for voting! It's a big article this month, but I'm confident that we can make it comprehensive, well-referenced and well-written.

Regards,

Samsara (talk • contribs) 08:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

I have not seen you for a while. I hope all is well. --HappyCamper 19:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

That sounds great! :-) Myself, I have found uranocene quite interesting. I might try and improve it. --HappyCamper 19:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Hello, I know you're involved in lebanon-related articles, what do you think about wikipedia's israel-lebanon war article. It seems not enough at all is being said about whats actually happening in Lebanon, the pain, suffering, israeli war crimes...Or what life is like under the bombs. It seems the article dosent reallly say anything, and more jews are editing it than us lebanese. What do u think?--Doge120 03:41, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Northwest Territories general elections

Hi there, since your displeased with List of Northwest Territories general elections, your feedback is required. I have created a new table, to list the elections please review and tell me if it's close to meeting your complaints in FAR. I am currently about to modernize the references to the new reference system. --Cloveious 04:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UN resolutions

Hi Cedar-Guardian! Great name for the protector of a great nation! I noticed that you have been working on the UN resolutions regarding Lebanon in Lebanon and the United Nations, just dawned on me that the resolution texts could be in Wikisource. And yes, it turns out that some diligent people are adding the full text to every UN resolution since 1946 to Wikisource. You can find them at Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolutions, and they have so far put in everything between 1946 and 1960. This means that that those currently red resolution numbers in Lebanon and the United Nations should of course link there, and if you want to run ahead of them because you have access to resolution texts regarding Lebanon for later years, they have already created a page as well as a format for the text, so you would only have to pop it in there and then link it to Lebanon and the United Nations.

When I find the time, I'll be happy to lend a hand to your Lebanon project. I started to re-write the then dreadful history article remotely (i.e. in Word) some time ago, but left it for more urgent stuff (such as the current disaster). I just had a look and noticed that it has already been much improved in a month's time. Best regards Thomas Blomberg 04:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of people with epilepsy

I've taken your advice and moved this article over to a table format. I've also made a substantial number of changes, making the article considerably larger and more comprehensive than when you last reviewed it. I'd appreciate if you could spare some time to review and add your opinion. Thanks very much. Colin Harkness°Talk 21:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I think I've addressed your latest concerns: the lead is now much longer. I've commented on the FLC page re: the title. I hope that isn't a sticking-point. Cheers, Colin Harkness°Talk 09:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


Many thanks for taking the time to review this list, and for your support. Cheers, Colin Harkness°Talk 13:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feedback requested

At Wikipedia_talk:List_guideline#Criteria Thanks! --Anthony Krupp 00:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal templates

Where, if anywhere, does it explicitly say portal templates should go at the end of an article?Rlevse 11:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your move request

Hi. Regarding your move request at Talk:List of notable brain tumor patients, there are a few steps to the WP:RM process which you missed. Check out the steps for requesting a page move. Another option is to just be bold and move the page since it's not an obstructed move. —Wknight94 (talk) 10:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User Visit Lebanon

I liked the new userbox that you created so I used it right away. But how did you get this idea? :-) CG 17:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I first heard the comparison on NPR. Then, Syriana and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict conflict got me more curious. Let me know if you want me to make more! --Travisthurston 22:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arabic MoS vs NC

May I refer to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Arabic)#A possible error in the guideline?:

are all presented as "correct" ways of writing Abdul Aziz.

Note that Abdul Aziz is a disambig page, while Abd al-Aziz and `Abdu'l-`Aziz both redirect to Abdülaziz - not mentioned in the list of "correct" spellings invented by the four people discussing on the MoS talk page... but apparently Abdülaziz is the correct way of writing this person's name. And it has a few other redirects, not mentioned by those summing up the so-called "correct" ways of writing the name, Abd-ul-Aziz, ‘Abdu’l-‘Aziz, Abdül Aziz, etc.

Hence my conclusion that Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic) is:

  1. Messy, even those experienced with the guideline seem unable to unambiguously derive from it what way to write a name;
  2. Useless when it comes to article naming.

How to solve these problems? I don't know: I'm not experienced in Arabic. But it needs no experience to see that even those that *are* experienced can't work with it. That may be OK for a MoS guideline (I'm not that much of an expert in MoS guidelines), but for a naming conventions guideline (where I have a bit more experience) I can only say that this won't do: the minimum standards for such guidelines are not near to be met.

So I see two possibilities:

  • Keep the NC part out of the MoS, so the MoS can be guideline (and the NC part of course not more than "proposed") - that's the course I followed up till now.
  • Keep NC included in the MoS, in which case there's no way the MoS can be promoted to guideline: in that case it will have to stay "proposed" until the problems are solved - that's what I'll do when it's insisted that they be kept together.

FYI, these are the requirements for promoting a NC proposal to NC guideline (copied from the intro of the wikipedia:naming conventions policy page):

If you wish to propose a new naming convention, do so on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions, whilst also publicising the proposal at Requests for comment and the Village Pump, as well as at any related pages. Once a strong consensus has formed, it can be adopted as a naming convention and listed below.

Please fulfill these conditions (including the patience needed for a strong consensus to form) once you think there's enough coherence in the proposal, for it to be made one of the naming conventions guidelines. --Francis Schonken 13:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV and anti-Semitism

Greetings, I saw your comment on Wikipedia_talk:Neutral point of view and thought that I'd just comment to you about that. The problem that you will encounter is the undue weight portion of NPOV. Is the alternative definition you're referring to significant (ie: known by a large population)? (→Netscott) 11:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fuck the Millennium

In case you haven't watchlisted my talk page, I can't think of a suitable section heading at the moment. I'll keep thinking, likewise if you have any other ideas please let me know :) Cheers! --kingboyk 19:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About my question about the water dispute between Israel and Lebanon

Hello, I asked questions about Hezbollah and the 2002 water conflict in "Humanities". I thought it would we wiser to ask you this here.. Have you any idea about how the dispute in 2002 ended. On a Lebanon forum elsewhere, they told me that eventually a compromise was created : Lebanon pumps water for human consumption, not for agricultural. Is that correct? Thank you.Evilbu 23:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ya Libnan AfD

Hello, I just thought I'd let you know that I've renominated this entry for deletion. Since you nominated it the first time, I thought you might be interested in weighing in again. Thanks! f(x)=ax2+bx+c 18:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SCOTM

You contributed to the Science Collaboration of the Month that has just ended its run:

Antioxidant - See improvements

Thanks, and let's keep improving it so it may become a Featured Article!

NCurse work 06:04, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bhumibol Adulyadej

I changed the image size on this FAC per your suggestion. Wish I'd thought of it myself as it's a good idea. Do you have other input? Please consider voting on it. Thank you.Rlevse 19:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. I understand your viewpoint. Just thought I'd ask. But after watching FACs all this time, it seems to me Raul654 waits until there've been 4 or more people who participated. I'm not saying it hasn't happened that an article made FA with less participation, but that's what it looks like to me. For example, last week an article made FA with some objects and lots of supports after just 5 days and others were left on the list that'd been there for two weeks already that had 3 supports and no objects. I've never totally figured out how he decides this FAC stuff-;). Thanks for the input again! Rlevse 20:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Smuts templates

Yes, the Template:JanSmutsFooter is now favoured for the article series (you will have noted, I'm sure, it is the only template used in the Early life article). Template:JanSmutsSegments is largely vestigial. Most of the articles of the series require referencing, pictures, etc - as I get on to them this latter template will go (it has also been removed from the presently under revision Jan Smuts in the South African Republic article).

I note that you have made some alterations to the lead section of the Early life article, reducing it in size. Your contributions are, of course, more than welcome - I just wonder at your reasoning for the change. Can you point me in the direction of any policy or guideline which mandates against being 'off-topic'? You'll possibly have noticed my justification for including an overview of the entirity of his life on the FAC page:

As for including biographical details beyond the immediate scope of the article, I've always thought it important to set some kind of context. If articles are to be 'stand alone' then it's important to give an outline of exactly who the man was, before considering the particluar aspect of his life that the page covers (all IMHO).

In the absence of policy, what you have is a stylistic objection - which I'm more than happy to discuss.

Best wishes, Xdamrtalk 21:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Macedonia (terminology)#Poll

...you know the drill! :-) •NikoSilver• 10:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fac review

Hi, you recently commented on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Wrath of God. The article has changed quite a bit since then so I'd really appreciate any further comments of yours if you get the chance. Thanks--Joshdboz 12:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again, I appreciate it. Joshdboz 11:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early life of Jan Smuts (was Jan Smuts's youth) - FAC

Earlier this month you commented on the FAC nomination for the above article - voting against its promotion to FA status. I've just taken a look through both the FAC page and the article and it seems that your substansive objections have been acted upon. If there are any futher objections which prevent you voting in favour of the article's promotion to FA status then we would be very glad to hear them, so that they may be acted upon before the FA nomination period ends.

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Early life of Jan Smuts

Best wishes, Xdamrtalk 01:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Cedar Guardian and proud to be an Arab? How could that be? Jaber90 02:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You may have forgetten this already...

At Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Vice Presidents of the Philippines, you said that the rows must have a unified color, bu unfortunately, it can be applied, since some cells are merged together, especially on the "Term" and "Era" columns. --Howard the Duck 15:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of temples...

I am curious as to why you feel that the links you removed are disruptive instead of helpful. Refering to the article that describes the list is frequently used, and the jump to list allows one to skip over all the intro text. TIA --Trödel 19:46, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the Barnstar! I've got to admit that I often overlook the particular issue of finding sources from both sides of a controversy, so thanks for your reminder in the FA review. Joshdboz 00:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This user thinks Lebanon can still be the "Switzerland of the Middle East".

Since some admin deleted my old Visit:Lebanon ubx I have wanted to make a new one... Well here it is! I put it in your interests column on you user page. Cheers! --Travisthurston 06:14, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Old Dan Tucker"

Just thought I'd let you know that I succeeded in getting two clips added to "Old Dan Tucker". I hope they help illustrate the article better. — BrianSmithson 14:43, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

Hi there! It's so good to hear from you again. Yes, I'm still around, though I haven't been quite so busy on Wikipedia in recent times because of time constraints with my work, etc. I'm glad to know you're still around, too:-) David Cannon 21:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ya hala

Yeah, nice to hear from you again. I have become increasingly convinced that Wikipedia is never going to be in any way a fair or reliable source for contentious political issues, and that my time could be much better spent in other more productive and more enjoyable ways, so I have only been dropping in from time to time, basically whenever bored and at a computer. Still, if there is anything that needs attention you can always stick a note on my talk page. Hope you got through the summer all right. I haven't been in Lebanon since the beginning of May myself. Feel free to drop me an email any time you feel like it, by the way. Palmiro | Talk 00:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Pluto as this week's WP:AID winner

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[edit]  :)

Hey man! I noticed your contributions in Arab-related articles. I also thought you might have difficulties in English, well I want you to know I am available to help you and to work together on Arabic stubs and articles. If you ever need anything, you know where to find me. I, by the way, am also Arabic and Christian and proud, I hope you don't mind me borrowing the userbox or idea. :) Take care my friend. --Anas Salloum 18:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Dude, it's OK, I understand. Thanks, I appreciate what you said, but hold on only one barnstar all this time, something is definitely wrong. ;) I'm available whenever you need me, if you really do. :-/ All the best my friend, hope everything goes well. ↔ ANAS - Talk 11:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Syria and Lebanon

Hi, if you're around you might note another severe outbreak on Talk:Syrian occupation of Lebanon (yes, it's been moved there again) and Talk:May 17 Agreement, where we are informed that Robert Fisk is a very pro-Arab author and - I infer - therefore it counts more when he describes the Syrian domination of Lebanon as an occupation. Obviously all Arabs can be taken to automatically like Syria, whether they're Syrian, Lebanese or Saudi Arabs, once they start pronouncing those ض´s they go weak at the knees at the sight of Dr. Bashar. Palmiro | Talk 02:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Please look into Carabinieri's contributions and think about preventing these people from sabotaging pages about Hezbollah and Lebanese-related issues, articles that should be neutral. Jaber90 13:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pierre Gemayel

Why deleted? If the name was wrong, a correction and a simple move did it as well. I guess Pierre Gemayel, Jr. might be the correct article name. --213.155.224.232 17:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flag of Lebanon

For some reason, the computer I am on cannot handle .svg files properly. Would you be able to download the svg file of the flag of Lebanon, upload it in place of the flag on the main page, and then protect the image page? Right now it's vulnerable to vandalism. -- tariqabjotu 19:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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