User talk:Sdrawkcab

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Hello there Sdrawkcab, welcome to Wikipedia! I see you've been doing some good work on List of country name etymologies. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help, add a question to the Help desk or leave a note on my talk page. Happy editing! moink 18:48, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Similar articles

Hi, your recent article on Similarities between the Bible and the Qur'an seems the same as the (intent of the) article The Bible in Islam. Could you please explain. Thanks. IZAK 21:52, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Fugue

You can add something about the 'Lost Highway' as long as you don't spoil the movie like in your original entry. -- Gyan 20:39, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)-

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Dropping you a line

and thanking you on polishing the Bugojno article. Regards from Bosnia, Muhamedmesic 02:38, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Map of Mauritania

Thanks for liking my work :) If you really like it, you should check our Morwen's maps, she was the very major major inspiration for my work. I was planning on working alphabetically, having done only A (and tiny countries like Djibouti) but I'll see what I can do and push Mauritania up to the top of the list. :) --Golbez 21:03, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

However, I could use some help. How familiar are you with Mauritania? I have conflicting maps on the shape of Dakhlet Nouadhibou. Compare this map from the CIA (which I usually consider by far the best source) with this map from Magellan. All non-CIA maps I find use the same shape as in the Magellan one, that shows Dakhlet Nouadhibou as having a "panhandle" that goes east above Inchiri. Do you know which of these is more accurate? --Golbez 21:36, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
Never mind; mauritania.fr (As best an authoritative source as I can find) has the Magellan map. So I whipped it up, went faster than most maps due to all the straight lines. :) How does it look? --Golbez 05:23, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

I'm glad you like it. :) As I said, I'm working on all the nations, more or less in order, and I'm making stubs for the regions as I get to them, so don't worry about that. I just figured, it was about time we had subdivision maps of every country, and then work from there. Have any other particular requests you'd like me to do next? :) (Oh, and by the way, if you sign your posts with ~~~~, it links your name, making it easier to get to your page) --Golbez 20:50, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Faroe islands stubs

Hi Sdrawkcab, could you please explain why you split Hestur, Hestur off from Hestur? I really can't see why that tiny island and its tiny village should not be covered together. Also, the comma notation for municipalities ("New York, New York") is appropriate only for places where it is in common usage (which is, to my knowledge, in the United States only). Best regards, Kosebamse 10:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Djibouti districts, Mongolia aymags, uppercase

hi Sdrawkcab, do you think we can make them uppercase to harmonize the titles of subnational entities? thanks for a comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Subnational entities Tobias Conradi 13:07, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:TECH-YellowPapuaMan.bmp

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[edit] Maps

No problem, always like to be appreciated. :) What in particular do you want maps of? --Golbez 03:24, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

LOL, good choices, Suriname and Guyana. Guess what?
Image:Guyana_regions_numbered.png
Image:Suriname_districts_numbered.png
I already made them :D I uploaded them to Commons back in early July, I just hadn't gotten around to adding them to articles yet, got sidetracked with other issues. I'll do that now. ;) As for French Guiana, I had been avoiding "second level divisions" (which the arrondisements are) and especially third level ones (districts), but I'll look into it. :) --Golbez 18:37, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
I put the Suriname maps up, I put the main Guyana map up but since there are only three articles, and one is a bit.. weird, I decided to wait until some stubs had been made. You can insert them easily if you want :) --Golbez 18:45, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
There's still a few countries without maps, I keep a list of them at home. --Golbez 18:46, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian flag vandalism

I don't like it either, but I would have thought a respectable contributor such as yourself would know better than to pointlessly deface an article that's being featured on the main page. Slac speak up! 05:15, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures removed from "History of Suriname"

I have just noticed that you seem to have removed three interesting photographs I had posted on this page on 15 August 2005. Please tell me why you removed them and what has happened to them? Were they, perhaps, moved somewhere else? I look forward to hearing from you. John Hill John Hill 07:03, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed pictures from "History of Suriname" and "History of French Guyana"

Thank you for replying to my query above so promptly. I take your point about the clutter on the page. I will perhaps move one or two of them to the page on "Maroons." Now, I have also noticed that you removed a photo of the Condemned Mens' block in the History of French Guyana page. I am thinking of posting this photo once again but adding to the caption the fact that the guillotine used to be positioned directly in front of this building (just about where the photographer was standing when he took the photo). I think this should increase the interest of the photo and, as photos of the prisons there seem to be very rare, I think it would be justified to have two on the same page (or perhaps I should move one to another page?). Would you agree to this? If you think they are too large I could easily shrink them. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on how best to do it.

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[edit] Cinema of Ireland

None of the films were Irish productions. American or British films partly shot in Ireland with some Irish actors wouldn't really be included as Irish films. The Quiet Man, Barry Lyndon, The Devil's Own, Far and Away, etc are not considered to be Irish films, but foreign films partly shot in Ireland. Waking Ned (Devine) was not even filmed in Ireland, but on the Isle of Man. In the same way, films like V for Vendetta, The Avengers or 101 Dalmations wouldn't be considered British films, despite being set and filmed in Britain with British actors, they are still American films. Hope this clears it up. JW 11:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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