User talk:Olessi/Archive02

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This archive page covers 17 November 2005 to 8 February 2006.

Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary. Thank you. Olessi 20:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt

I think you would be interested in voting here, especially as there are voices that Halibutt is an anti-German (Russian, etc.) POV-pusher, dispute aggreviator and member of a Polish conspiracy to take over WIki :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your support. It's not a common thing among wikipedians to change their minds. Halibutt 06:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Olessi, you mentioned this to me on my talk page, but I don't think I've had much interaction with him, so I have little to judge on. Is there some area where you remember that he and I have both significantly worked, and that I am forgetting? Apologies, but I work in so many different areas and cross paths with so many Wikipedians, that sometimes I lose track. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I don't feel qualified to have an opinion over whether he might be such a POV pusher as to raise a trust issue, because I don't know his edits.

More generally, though, it is odd that some people seem to think that strongly held opinions are an issue in becoming an admin. I can understand someone saying "he/she seems to have violated WP:POINT so he/she shouldn't be an admin", but I don't get the argument "his/her politics are thus and such so he/she shouldn't be an admin" (which, in particular, seemed to be the main issue recently in opposition to User:Ramallite, a West Bank Palestinian who is an excellent contributor).

Maybe we need a fourth question for prospective admins: are there any subject matter areas in which you would consider recusing yourself from using administrative capabilities? -- Jmabel | Talk 17:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wie gehts?

Hi
Have you been to Gettysburg?--Berndd11222 14:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Update on Christburg

Hi
Thanks for the English version of the Christburg page. I found the towns name in the court house records at Willkes Berre, Pa. My grandfather applied to become a US citizen in 1905.
--Berndd11222 18:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accusations in Fairway Rock move

You and I and everyone else who's voted to move Fairway Rock Island to Fairway Rock are being accused by Paul Martin in the history of that article of being Wechselstrom's sockpuppets. —Tox 11:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] the right lingo

Hi
I hope I dont get in trouble because I call the town Christburg. It's is not PC in Poland.--Berndd11222 19:03, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] from User:Macedonian

Hello Macedonian! In case you are unaware, Halibutt is going through the administrator vote process. I believe that any input you could provide would be valued. Also, I have taken the liberty to correct Latino to Latina on your user page. Olessi 19:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Please see comment of your comment on my talk page. Hope to hear from you soon. Macedonian^(talk) 06:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

To be honest, I do not really remember that I had any experience with Halibutt. So, I can not judge. Any thing that you beleive I shoudl know about him? What is your personal oppinion about him?

Thanks for corecting to latina. I never check my mistakes on the edits. :))

Take care. Macedonian^(talk) 06:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I personally am not aware of any interactions between you and Halibutt (he primarily writes about the regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), but, as I have seen your User Name before, I figured it would be better to inform you just in case. He has strong views and has often been seen as stubborn, but at the same time he is one of the most polite and reasonable contributors to Wikipedia. I personally believe that he would not use admin powers in POV disputes, but other users disagree. Olessi 01:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

New comments added on my talk page. Please visit. Take care. Macedonian^(talk) 14:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for considering me, Olessi. I will try to look through the contributions of this user. If I build my personal oppinion about him, I would include in the process. But, I am aware that I have to be very careful. And I will be. I do not want to missinterptet or missjudge anyone's posts. Macedonian^(talk) 14:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

thanks for pointing that Halibutt to me, sorry if I am responding now I was on vacation :-) I put in my vote. Thanks alot for supporting the vote on Trentino-South Tyrol, it always irritates me when national(istic) users try to push some non-neutral agenda or fight out some conflicts on Wikipedia, this is really not the place to do this. cheers... ps: Greifenturm you say?-) well if you know Harry Potter, you know what it refers to .-) Gryffindor 19:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ronline for Admin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ronline and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#Ronline . I have nominated Ronline to be Administrator for English Wikipedia. Let's vote for him! Bonaparte  talk & contribs

[edit] Vote on moves

"I would like to remind you to vote on moves that you have proposed..." Thanks/Danke sehr. I'm just getting the hang of this. I had already moved Podolia because it was 75%-25% but I'll vote myself on others in the future.

Since you seem to be hanging out in that part of the world, I'm writing a page on the Yedisan/Jedisan/Edisan region (between Budjak and Crimea) and wonder if you know if it and have a preference for the primary spelling. LuiKhuntek 20:56, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Powiat/County

Feel free to help with the County ->Powiat transition. Actually, all (or almost all) existing county articles are already renamed and their unicode is fixed, but many of them retain the old lead with the word county in it. It would be good to fix that, for consistency. The best starting list is: List of powiats in Poland which was throughly reworked by me and Halibutt. Balcer 15:37, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Your edit on Powiat of Czarnków-Trzcianka looks good to me. As to your question about the placement of articles, I am probably the last person to provide you with good advice :). Balcer 22:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yedisan

Regarding naming, I have a slight inclination toward Yedisan. I just added the article and went with Yedisan. Please edit and add. LuiKhuntek 19:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I tried to rephrase the mentioning of "Nogai Tartary" and "West Nogai"; please correct it if I misinterpreted your meaning. -- I was unclear to begin with. Tartary was not only a geographical location but was an ethnological (racial) notion, i.e. the area inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples. Thus, the Black Sea coast and Crimea that was to become New Russia was called "Little Tartary." Columbia Encyclopedia says "...Siberia long continued to be known as Tartary and the Crimean domains as Little Tartary." I should've put an entry for Little Tartary in first. Tartary/Tatary is a mess now with 2 articles needing a merge. I was planning a merge along with an entry for Little Tartary.

Check out this map: http://www.raremaps.com/maps/big/10331.jpg

[edit] Dubnica nad Váhom

Hello! Could you take a look at this edit? I had originally added "Dubnicz" as per its mention on the Hungarian wiki, but as I do not speak the language, it is possible I added it incorrectly. Olessi 23:01, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand why that anonymous user deleted it; it's indeed stated in the Hungarian Wikipedia. (By the way, the cz in the name is written today (since about 1920) as c, so the cz form is not a property of the name but of the contemporary Hungarian orthography.) Adam78 23:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for looking into that for me. Olessi 06:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale template

Since you've been proactive in images regarding porn stars, I thought I would share this template with you. Please take a look at it and chime in on any suggestions or other thoughts you may have on this. Thanks! :-) -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 01:39, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ochakov

Concerning your comment on Halibutt's talk, please read Wikipedia:Assume good faith. Unlike Andriy, it was me who contributed most of the article in question, so it was for me and not for NightOnEarth to decide what name it should sit at.--Ghirlandajo 09:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German noticeboard

Is there one? I cannot find anything at Wikipedia:Regional notice boards. A place to leave a message for many German editors would be quite useful - for example, to discuss stuff like this. At the moment the only thing I can do is ask several German native speakers I know from various edits, like you, Wiglaf or Chris - but it's not really very useful. Having one place for such notices would be much better. What do you think?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 21:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

If there was a German noticeboard, I'd ask involved editors to talk to this new user, who seem intent on (re)starting some revert wars. Could you talk to him, or ask somebody else? I have a feeling he is not going to take well to any comments coming from Polish editors :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:41, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Olessi

May I ask you what is your origin?--Bonaparte talk 18:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

How come that you're so found on Transylvania? Do you have relatives there? Interesting. I want to collaborate with you if you want to. It's interesting the military perspective of history.

[edit] Naming conventions

I've looked at the naming convention discussions, as you suggested. Sinnlos! And to think that all this has been raked over ad infinitum during the past two years! Nevertheless, I'll delve into in detail when I have time off during the holidays.

The city of Danzig once lay

In the north near the Vistula bay

But there was a war

That the Germans verlor

And the city's called Gdansk today

Sca 19:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rožmberk Castle

Very well written. I added stub for the village Rožmberk nad Vltavou and disambiguation Rožmberk. Pavel Vozenilek 21:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The [1] is about large fish pond (said largest in Central Europe) named after House of Rožmberk. Pavel Vozenilek 21:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EU2

Curse you for reminding me, now I just started playing it again... Byzantium will survive! --Goodoldpolonius2 02:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support on my RfA

Olessi, I just wish to thank you for your support on my successful RfA. Obviously, you have no problem in contacting me with any issues, and this will not change -- in fact, I hope to help out everyone I humanly can. :-) Happy Holidays! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kadaň

Yes, it uses map for Chomutov. The cities lie nearby and I reused the map.

I draw all the maps currently in ikipedia and it gets rather boring so I reuse quite often. I use template found on my user page and add red spot, by hand, looking on map in my autoatlas. While not perfect it gives clue.

If you add some maps it would be much welcomed.

• maps are added into Commons
• they are put into Commons Category:Maps of Czech Republic
• I use Microsoft Paint to take an existing map and move the red spot
• adding one map takes cca 5 minutes (Commons is quite slow)

Pavel Vozenilek 22:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. Image:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! Image:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I saw you signed on my RFC. I have to tell that out of the most users signed you seemed one of the most reasnoble and I never felt you posses any bias or prejudice to a topic. Actually I wish more contributors would take discussions in neutral way just as you did. --Molobo 16:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding box covers

Just letting you know that box covers are not fair usable unless they are used in an article providing critical commentary on the DVD in question. (Take a look at WP:FAIR... :-( ) Therefore, I'm going through and tagging any non-fair used box covers for deletion. If you have any questions, let me know! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that I've nominated Image:200px-5 Blondes (DVD cover).jpg, Image:200px-Resident Sex (DVD cover).jpg, and Image:200px-Wife Swappers (DVD cover).jpg for deletion. If you want to nominate more of your own, you are more than welcome to. Let me know of any concerns you have! Happy New Year! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] X-Men 3

You said SHH on x men 3 talk page .What is SHH Batzarro 16:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

See response at Talk:X-Men 3 (film). Olessi 18:42, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Years of partition

Discussion involving User:Molobo, User:Sca, and User:Lysy moved to Talk:Frombork#Years of partition. Olessi

[edit] Vote on Polesia?

Will you vote on Polesia? LuiKhuntek 08:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:29, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War

Sorry about the historical innacuracy. Rshu 16:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tuchel heath

I see you've voted to keep Tuchel heath. Have you ever heard of "Tuchel heath" before ? Maybe it's just my ignorance .... --_Lysy^talk 17:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seats of Saxondom

Hi,

I've added some comments on the Sălişte talk page about the seats of saxondom. I think you could be aof great help as a german language speaker because most of the infos you could find on the Internet are in German and there are quite a lot of websites about the Transylvanian Saxons and they seem to be well documented. Just run a search on google with Siebenburgen and you'll fing them.

Thx -- Mihai -^talk 20:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diamabiguation request fullfilled

I have dealt with the 4 dab pages you requested attention for. My talk page was probably the best place in Wikipedia to ask, you must have known I was working on Malplaced disambiguation pages. Have a nice day!--Commander Keane 03:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of German concentration camps

I've noticed that you're on wikibreak and only that's why I'm writing here in hope to attract your attention in case you peek in in the meantime. Take a look at voting at Talk:List of German concentration camps. Another option was added and maybe you'd want to reconsider your voice. --_Lysy^talk 09:24, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polski slownik biograficzny

I share your view favoring use of the authentic Polish title for this Polish publication. May I suggest you consider moving your remark, on the article's talk page, from "Page move proposal" to "RfC (Request for comment)," where it will be more visible? logologist|Talk 01:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

I notice you have recently edited Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. One problem mentioned in the article is that "such a large empire inevitably sees many changes over several centuries, any listing is either a freeze in time or, as below (still incomplete), a compromise concerning overlaps and other alterations." In an attempt to systematize the listing, I made a chart based mainly on Donald Edgar Pitcher’s An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1972) that is a list of provinces in 1609 (near the height of the Empire’s power). The chart includes Turkish names, dates of foundation, current location, and other notes. I followed this with a list of provinces that disappeared before 1609 and provinces that appeared after 1609. Finally, to reflect the administrative reforms of 1864 and the decline of the Empire, I have a list of provinces in 1877.

This information would remove little of the information currently in the article but would be a reorganization of the article that would change its appearance (e.g., end the Christian/Muslim division of provinces). Because information on this topic is scarce and sometimes contradictory, I wanted to run this by you before posting the changes. Please give comment or objection at User talk:LuiKhuntek or the article's talkpage. Thanks.

LuiKhuntek 21:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your input on Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire at User talk:LuiKhuntek. I will post something there in a few days.

LuiKhuntek 04:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Changes made and I requested these Ottoman province renames if you're interested:

Talk:Rüm Province Talk:Özi Province Talk:Kossovo Vilayet Talk:Eyalet of Temeşvar Talk:Anadolu Province Talk:Egypt Province

LuiKhuntek 23:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flamarande

Hmmm, eventually I will do that, but I am not a expert in userboxes, specialy about adding images. In the meantime, I simply have too much to do and too little time (I sometimes forget that I have a life besides wikipedia :) ). Why don´t you have a ASoIaF userbox? I have all the main houses now. Flamarande 13:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frombork

I really must have overlooked there was discussion on the page, in which Molobo engaged. Despite this Molobo should have waited to revert and waited for a reply. Sca seems to be very knowledgable of that time and place but doesn't have all too much time. Again thanks for making me aware. Sciurinæ 12:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simon Dach

Your comments on the article talk page are most welcome. --Ghirla | talk 14:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)