User talk:Jaw101ie

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[edit] Illegal A300 pic (COPYRIGHT VIOLATION)

I refer to image:Libyan_Arab_Airlines.jpg
Why did you waste your time uploading an illegal picture! I've just noticed the pic uploaded by you onto the Airbus A300 article (but now removed) of a Libyan Arab Airlines A300.
You have told a lie about that pic because you say it is Public Domain. No, it was taken by Magnus Trippler, is copyright and most definitely not PD. Also you have dishonestly clipped off the very clear copyright notice that all a.net pics have. (I only had to put the registration of TS-IAX into airliners.net and there it is!) The pic has been removed.
Would someone else (who knows how) delete it off WP, please - Adrian Pingstone 23:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libyan deletions

Don't worry, we all make mistakes sometimes. Not everyone realises that pics off the net are usually copyright. I'm off to work now so can't reply at length just now but I will later in the day. I haven't had any e-mail from you. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 08:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hall Monitor

I have recently been blocked from using wikipedia by the user 'Hall Monitor'. If there are any administrators who can unblock me I ask them to do so, as I have recently broken NONE of the Wiki guidelines. I have also rid Wikipedia of all illegal images I uploaded unaware of copyright laws. Whether or not you've noticed there are very few Libyan wikipedia users and I think it vital to keep the community vibrant and diverse, thus ensuring a wide selection of material related to international articles. I thouroughly enjoy using wikipedia and editing articles so please unblock me. This insane, so called "Hall Monitor" has also taken it upon himself/herself to block my entire university from editing articles. Thank you Jaw101ie 15:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar question

Your reply is at User talk:Arpingstone - Adrian Pingstone 22:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya pic licenses

Please have a look at my talk page for further comment on your pic question - Adrian Pingstone 19:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo 988158 (A320)

Thanks for your request for help, concerning deletion. However I notice a difference between what you say Thierry released it under (GFDL) and what the Pic Description Page on Commons says (Public Domain).

This is what you tell me on my talk page:
The image of the Libyan A320 uploaded by the photographer Thierry Deutsch, Image:TsinjHLLT020106.jpg, is going to be deleted. I asked permission for him to upload the image and he agreed. He uploadedit himself with his user account and released it under GFDL. Why is it being deleted. I assure you it is LEGAL! Please help, Jaw101ie 19:19, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

and this is what Commons says:
Libyan Arab Airlines A320-200 in Tripoli International Airport (TIP/HLLT). Photographed by Thierry Deutsch in January 2006 and released to the public domain. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0988158/L/

I will need to understand which is correct (GDFL or Public Domain) if I am to help you - Adrian Pingstone 20:01, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Public Scout and Girl Guide Movement

Thank you for your contributions! Chris 02:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:King Senzangakhona Stadium.jpg

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[edit] Libya national football team

Hi, check the image of this link. If it is correct, I will upload it to Wikipedia. Regards, Carioca 02:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I updated Libya's kits. Is it correct? Regards, Carioca 19:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I tried to fix. I need your opinion. Carioca 00:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
This color difference seems to be caused by an Internet Explorer bug. In Mozilla this kind of bug doesn't occur. The bug is actually in the arms and short, and not in the shirt. For some unknown reason, the Internet Explorer doesn't render correctly Wikipedia's use of image transparency (this was also the reason why the previous version of Libya's home shirt I uploaded looked blue in your computer). See this image, of the Libya national football team article in Mozila. Regards, Carioca 21:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Afriaqua.jpg

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Hi from Adrian. I've added a Public Domain tag to the Afriaqua pic, as you requested. I decided this was the correct tag by going to the Image Description Page on the German Wiki where I could just about read that it says the pic is Public Domain. The correct tag for a PD pic is {{PD-user|Lucien Scranz}} so that's what I've added. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 08:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya

Thanks for your message. I've had a preliminary look and made a few small changes. I'll continue to think about it. --Guinnog 13:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Using some of your references as examples:

  • 4. The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London. Scenes from Libya. Accessed July 15, 2006.

There are various different bibliography styles you can choose from, but your reference info should show all the components, such as author, date, etc.

Sandy 15:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The refs aren't completely correct yet (see examples above), and I'd still like to see a thorough copy edit, and a more neutral tone. Good luck, Sandy 00:37, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't recommend looking at older FAs, or even FAs from a month ago: standards have changed, articles deteriorate, and references are more important now than they used to be. Sandy 01:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Try not to worry too much, and get some sleep :-) If it doesn't make FA this time, you can still fix things, and come back another day. It's not a judgement -- try not to stress over a star :-) Sandy 01:16, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

MUCH better on the references: yes, the first 10 look good. You asked me look at history: I still see some prose issues:

  • It was tThe Greeks that conquered Eastern Libya when, according to tradition, ...

What is the source for the entire Romans as conquerers paragraph? What is the source for the Arabs as conquerers paragraph?

More work to do, but you're headed in the right direction! Sandy 03:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not entirely certain on the answers to your question. No, not everyone has to support, but you have to have mostly support. I'm not sure if there is a threshhold you have to meet (60%, 80% support?). But, if you have MOSTLY support, and no major problems it gets promoted even if there are some objects. HTH, Sandy 00:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya FAC

I changed to support for Libya. While you have lots of refs and Culture/Demographics/Geography have main articles, I can see where the one guy is coming from on refs in those sections as they have only one each. You may want to add 1-2 more in each of those sections. Rlevse 22:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note: I have a very busy afternoon, but I'll look at the article again later tonight. Regards, Sandy 19:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I can see you're working very hard. You can get there ! I'm not sure the article is quite ready for Tony's finesse, though. He gets a LOT of requests for help with copy edits, so it will help if you have things really tightened up before you ask him to comb through it. Get the refs really tightened up, ask some others to go through it thoroughly, and approach Tony when you're really sure it's closer to ready. Remember, you can always come back for another FAC anytime, if you don't make it this time! Sandy 00:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Libya

Do not edit the other users' comments again. This is a warning. If you continue to strike out the comments of other users then you will be blocked. Tchadienne 00:20, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JoeBot

looks to me like GurchBot got most of the spelling mistakes. keep in mind: stick it in MS Word and do a spellcheck gets stuff even our lists miss. cheers. JoeBot 16:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya FAC

Thanks for the nudge; the article now looks great and I have changed my vote to support. Warofdreams talk 10:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amazigh

Who is ‘the majority of people’? I think that anyone who can actually read Tifinagh and has Internet access is likely to have the right font (direct link, in case you can’t read French). Plain text is almost always better than an image—it’s easy to copy and paste, it won’t look ugly if the user has a background different from the default and it won’t look too small/too large if the user’s font size is not the same as yours. If it’s still a problem, though, how about an SVG image? That way, it will at least not have compression artifacts. —xyzzyn 18:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Behold the elegance of SVG:
(I just copied the text into Inkscape and converted it to a path.) —xyzzyn 18:53, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya issue

A little explanation goes a long way. ;) I'll give the article a look-see. No hard feelings. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 17:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC) (P.S. I'm from the U.S., but I'm half Italian by ancestry)

[edit] Libya

Done :)

You probably need to do a cache-refresh to see the new image (Ctrl-F5 in Internet Explorer, Shift-Reload in Firefox).

Cheers, -- Jeff3000 02:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, Jaw101ie. (Now, get that copy edit and stay on top of the content so I won't see you WP:FAR in 3 months :-) Sandy 02:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The article looks really great now, thanks for all your work.--Peta 06:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

That was terribly kind and thoughtful :-) I really appreciate the acknowledgement of the work. Congratulations, and thanks again, Sandy 00:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] a page i can never find

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests

[edit] Response to Libya

Sorry I didn't get this back to you in time, and congratulations on having the article reach feature status. However, I did reread the article and comment page and noticed that the majority of the complaints seemed to address grammatical issues. Taking that into account, I reread and attempted to identify anything that I might think anyone might be able to object to. I want to make it clear that I myself do not necessarily consider these points all valid, simply that they could be made. And, clearly, as the article has achieved feature article status, you are free to ignore them all.

1) paragraph 2 of "History" starts with the phrase "The land now known as modern Libya..." It might be possible to drop the "now" here.

2) In line 2 of the next paragraph, it might be possible to substitue "when" for "where" in "where the merchants of Tyre..."

3) Five lines later you specify Phoenicia was the "greatest of the overseas Phoenician colonies." All the Phoenician colonies were overseas; the word might be considered redundant.

4) Line 2 of the next paragraph contains the statement that the people of Thera were commanded by the Oracle to do something. This seems to me contrary to the fact that the Oracle is historically known to have spoken in rather vague phrases which were interpreted by the Oracle's interpreter more specifically. A minor point, but clarification might be called for.

5) A sentence break after the word "command" starting line three of the second following paragraph might be considered.

6) In line 2 of the next paragraph, it might help if it were specified how the new provinces related to the previous areas of these names. You might also wish to specificy whether Idris were the Emir of the existing government or maybe "hereditary."

7) same paragraph: might change the final sentence to indicate who made the proclamation.

8) 2 paragraphs later: The sentence started "The reason for this was" could be rewritten to stress that Sayyid had even less power as King earlier in the sentence, maybe something like "Sayyid quickly found that he had substantially less power as the new King than he had earlier had as a mere Prince".

9) later same paragraph: Maybe indicate stated reason for Sayyid being placed under house arrest.

10) The names of some of the cities in the list do not of municipalities are not the same spellings as those on the map in "Geography" section. This might confuse people.

11) in paragraph beginning "In 1991...": some sort of phrasing to indicate in the article the relevance of UTA 772 might be appreciated. Something like "Pan Am 103 and the similar UTA 772..."

12) the paragraph on the Gebir Kebir plateau could be dropped and put in some other article, as it is entirely in Egypt.

13) The word "somewhat" is used twice in the second paragraph of "religion." Substitution of a synonym in one place might help.

That's about it, really.

Again, congratulations on having your article promoted to feature article status and thanks for all the effort you have individually given to get it to reach that point. Badbilltucker 13:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya

Well, I neglected to comment on that FAC, and perused it yesterday. I was wondering how soon it could be nominated for the dreaded page! (Sorry.) I'll have a look some time and see what I can do. Meanwhile, it would be good to identify one or more good copy-editors who are interested in African topics, so that they might be pressed into service when needed. Tony 03:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya

Sure, it's not bad, really, but could be improved. I'll go through it. Tony 13:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Eritrea

Hi, I was just noticing that you recently were made into an FA article. I was trying to do the same for the Eritrea article and I was told that your wikiproject would be of help. I was wondering if you would be interesting in helpwing with the Eritrea project as well...thank you!

[edit] Libya municipalities maps

Hi, I noticed you removed the maps from the articles on various Municipalities of Libya a while back, but gave no reason why you removed them in the edit history...? Just wondering because I noticed they weren't used in any article. --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 10:09, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

No, no problem at all. I was just wondering why they weren't being used. Seeing that they are outdated, I'll list them for deletion now... --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 18:45, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] inuse template

You may want to use the {{inuse}} template at top of the page, when doing major work in an article. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 20:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maraba Coffee

Hello! As you're a Wikipedian interested in African topics, I'm writing to notify you that the Maraba Coffee article is now a 'Featured Article Candidate'. Please feel free to evaluate the article and write your support or opposition at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Thanks — SteveRwanda 15:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Evening Jaw101ie - just interested to know your current take on the Maraba Coffee article. Quite a lot of work has been done by various editors (including yourself) to try to address the prose issues you felt were necessary. The 'promotional tone' problem has been looked at too. It seems there is still an issue over the length of the lead, but in my opinion (and this has undergone some work too) it sums up the contents of the article quite well, and any further shortening will remove potentially interesting info for people who only read the lead. For what it's worth I've had a chat with BanyanTree (who is an experienced Wikipedian, and something of a mentor for me) about this and he is generally in agreement that it's OK as it stands (see User talk:BanyanTree#Maraba (lead)).
Anyway, please have another look if you have a spare moment and let me know / fix any other points you think are not up to scratch. Cheers — SteveRwanda 16:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Libya

For whatever reason, there is not currently a membership list on the Project page in question. This is not good, as one of the criteria for deletion of a project is no listed members. Please add a place where people can indicate they are members of the project, and, if you see fit, add your own name to it. Thank you. Badbilltucker 20:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Preview

I would like to thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. --Geniac 23:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Info needed on Yusuf Karamanli

Thanks for your message I received it and signed as a member in the Libya Wikiproject. Anyhow I just would like to tell you and all other members in the project that the articles on Yusuf Karamanli and Barbary Wars do not seem to be really neutral. They are diffeerent from any thing I've ever heard about the subject. Especially the claim that Karamanlis supported piracy (on US ships). I couldn't find enough info on the subject to start making changes, my main source is online info which is doesn't give much details apart from the contested articles themselves. May be someone else is in a better position to make the necessary changes. Best regards. Ahmed Elnagar 21:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Tripoli weatherbox

i updated the colors for the weatherbox...enjoy Randywilliams1975 10:07, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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