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[edit] Grandmaster...

I've started a special page here. It would help if you could join us there. Khosrow has raised some concerns about Britannica being used as a source and it really needs to be sorted out. Please only post in your section, be as concise as possible and stick to the facts only. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 16:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

GM please make a comment here: [1]Khosrow II 04:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting that crap off my userpage yesterday. Much appreciated. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 03:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thousands of fair use images at your disposal

Look what I found Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Thousands of 1970s images from the 3rd edition that can be uploaded under fair use for anything. Also right now I have the original 1950s 2nd edition of the encyclopedia in 50+ hardbacks with excellent PD images in them. Any requests?

Here is a taster Тбилиси. --Kuban Cossack 13:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Azeris

Sorry for the late reply, but I've been busy and still am with papers to write! I got your email when I recently checked it. The article looks ok now and I'm glad as it seems to have help up well despite the criticism and changes. I figured it was in capable hands and if I can help and when and if I have time I will check in. Til then take care. Tombseye 22:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need help for Casualties of World War I

Regarding the Muslim casualties of the Ottoman Empire during World War I article. After the end of World War I, the western sources do not cover the effects of the war on Muslim Casualties. I would like to integrate what happened during this period. Western sources are really weak on this issue. And there is a big bias against it. If you can find credible facts, numbers, or events to improve this concept. That would be so appreciated. Thanks. --OttomanReference 16:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nakhichevan

Have you been able to find any images of Nakhichevan? If so, please get back to me as soon as you can. -- Clevelander 17:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Azerbaijanis

Hey GM. Sorry for the late reply to your message. I think at this stage you should raise the matter on Talk:List of Azerbaijanis. The talk page has been pretty dead with only 3 edits between October 9 and now, but you really need to at least try and discuss it there. Then we might be able to unprotect the article. With regard to your questions about dealing with Khosrow, he hasn't edited since Nov 29 and I haven't heard anything from him since I last blocked him on November 19. If his edit warring continues when he returns, we may have to consider an RfC but I really do hope it won't come to that. Sarah Ewart 18:50, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Once again, Khosrow, it's not an ethnic list and the article says so. Thanks for your response, Sarah. I don’t mind posting on the talk of the article, but I think I said everything that could have been said here: User_talk:Sarah_Ewart/KII-GM2 It’s been quite a prolonged discussion that led to nothing. Grandmaster 06:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I understand, however, it's not for Khosrow's benefit; it's to show that you've discussed it with a wider audience and (perhaps) have other editors who agree with you. The discussion on my talk page was just the three of us. To move forward with the dispute resolution procedures, you need to be able to show that you've taken it to the talk page for other editors to comment. Sarah Ewart 17:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
You should ask for a checkuser before making accusations. I can say the same about ROOB323, who was not previously known as an editor of Armenia-Azerbaijan related articles and suddenly turned up to support Fadix. Grandmaster 06:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
If a user knows about checkuser, it is very easy for them to avoid getting caught by it. Also, I think Ulvi posts too infrequently to show any pattern (they only keep the IP logs for a fairly short period of time). FWIW, I believe the user is more likely a meatpuppet than a sockpuppet. Sarah Ewart 17:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that, GM. I will check out the other matter in about five minutes. Cheers, Sarah Ewart 12:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

That person's IP seems to belong to the Danish Network for Research and Education in Denmark. Sarah Ewart 14:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I've warned them about edit warring. Do you think they're a sockpuppet or a meatpuppet? If a sock, do you have any idea of who? Just wondering because they've voted in several AFDs and if they've voted using multiple accounts, that's grounds for a checkuser request. Sarah Ewart 15:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey man

I'll take a look at it, could you do me a favour in return. See if there are any computational linguistic resources for Azerbaijani (e.g. morphological dictionaries, POS taggers, lemmatisers, machine translation systems, etc.) Papers and URLs welcome. Thanks - Francis Tyers · 12:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll check to see what’s available. Grandmaster 12:56, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Btw, how is the intelligibility of Azerbaijani/Turkish in your opinion? - Francis Tyers · 13:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Very high. The difference is mainly related to modern terms and pronunciation of some words, which sound slightly different in the two languages. But if you speak one of those languages, you will have no problem undestanding the other. Grandmaster 13:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. I have the following two passages. Could you rewrite the Azerbaijani one so it most closely resembles the Turkish?

Turkish (Türkçe)

Bütün insanlar hür, haysiyet ve haklar bakımından eşit doğarlar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik zihniyeti ile hareket etmelidirler.

Azerbaijani (North) in the Latin alphabet

Bütün insanlar ləyaqət və hüquqlarına görə azad və bərabər doğulurlar. Onarın şüuralrı və vicdanları var və bir-birlərinə mübasibətdə qardaşlıq runhunda davranmalıdırlar.

Azerbaijani (most like Turkish)

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And on a related note, do you know if those dictionaries you showed me are available for download... and also if there are spelling/grammar checkers for Azerbaijani? - Francis Tyers · 10:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I don’t think it gets much better than that. I made some slight rewording and corrected the typos in the Azerbaijani line, but if you use Turkish words instead of Azeri ones, it won’t be Azerbaijani.
Bütün insanlar azadlıq, ləyaqət və hüquqlarına görə bərabər doğulurlar. Onların şüurları və vicdanları var və onlar bir-birlərinə mübasibətdə qardaşlıq ruhunda davranmalıdırlar.
Btw, very good Turkish dictionary that I use sometimes: [2]
As far as I know no Azerbaijani spelling checkers are available, as I need them myself, and the polyqlot dictionary is available for download here (20 mb): [3] Grandmaster 10:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Maybe like this:
Bütün insanlar azadlıq, ləyaqət və haqlarına görə bərabər doğulurlar. Onların ağılları və vicdanları var və onlar bir-birlərinə mübasibətdə qardaşlıq ruhunda davranmalıdırlar.
I replaced two words with the ones that exist in Azerbaijani language as well. Grandmaster 10:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! :) I searched, and I found that hunspell can do Azerbaijani [4]. Don't know if you use Linux though -- might work with Windows I don't know. - Francis Tyers · 12:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I should try to see if it works on Windows. Thanks, I've been looking for something like that. Grandmaster 12:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How the hell is this vandalism?!

Explain now. 24.34.77.145 07:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Your IP has previuosly been blocked for vandalism. Why don't you get registered? Also, you cannot say that duduk is an Armenian instrument based on UNESCO declaration. Do you have reliable scholarly sources? Grandmaster 07:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR block

Hello again. Unrelated to your recent comment, you have been blocked for 24 hours due to a 3RR violation. Please be more careful in the future. The block duration of the next violation will almost certainly exceed 24 hours. Thanks. Regards, El_C 14:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I don't think I actually broke the 3RR, I made only 1 rv on 6 December, and there was no edit war going on the History of Nagorno-Karabakh by the time of the block anyway, as Francis Tyers was so kind as to mediate between me and Tigran and we hopefully are about to reach a compromise. Please reconsider the block. Regards, Grandmaster 10:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the positive feedback on my Editor Review. Now that I've had a chance to take in some input I will probably make a move for RfA in several months. --Bobak 17:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Yerevan

At the very least, Grandmaster, I am opposed to your removal of the word "liberated" when used to describe the capture of Yerevan by Russia as it's clearly referenced. The other information is debatable, but I think the fact that we have a reference for that statement should automatically make it a non-issue. Kindest regards, Clevelander 12:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

If the words "liberation" and "occupation" are POV, then does that make them prohibited when referring to the actions of Nazi Germany during World War II? Is it POV to say that Nazi Germany occupied Czechslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, or France? Can we not say that these countries were eventually were "liberated" by the Allies after World War II?
Although maybe Iran didn't view the Russian invasion as a liberation, the Armenians did, which is important to remember as it is the capital of Armenia. Certainly the Nazis probably didn't see Poland as being liberated when the Soviets invaded, nor did the Nazis and the Vichy French government see France as being liberated when the Western allies invaded. -- Clevelander 21:27, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I think you completely missed the point of my message. The Soviet Union was a foreign country that "liberated" Prague. Would that be offensive to Germans? Should we ask German users for their opinion? -- Clevelander 11:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
The Armenians had sympathies with the Russians, so to them, the capture of Yerevan was a liberation. This was probably not so for the local Muslims who lived there, let alone the Iranian political elite in Tehran. -- Clevelander 11:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
There is no such thing as "local Muslim population", the Muslim population was not local according to Grandmaster's own logic. He calls Armenians in Paytakaran as "occupants" when it was a 100% Armenian porvince for 700 years! There are two sources, one of them not Armenian that call it liberation. That's the end of it.--Eupator 18:15, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilogos

I've noticed you're very involved here, you might be interested in my proposal for Wikipedia use logo variations created by members of the wiki community to mark national and international awareness days, Remembrance Days, notable anniversaries, and observance days. Please comment on Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Logo Variations and on my talk page. Thanks! FrummerThanThou 05:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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