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[edit] Colour template questions

Hi; got your message on the Edit Summary on the colour templates table; I realize now I just should have copy-cut out the attempted table expansion I made; I gather it wouldn't work because the colour templates hadn't been created; I was trying to figure out how to do that when I had to leave (real-world engagements). What's the deal with colour templates; I tried looking "inside" one and there's no data concerning the colour choice; how do I create one?Skookum1 01:58, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] followup

I managed to create the colour templates; don't understand why some of them don't work, e.g. "Oppposition" (abbrev. "Opp"); its counterpart Government/Gov works just fine (even if it is a treacly shade of turquoise). Any idea why they won't work? Won't revise available colour table until I know why/wherefore - but my previous changes would work now; used Victoria City (provincial electoral district) as a test case.Skookum1 03:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Montgomery Keillor

You may be interested to know that an article which you (among many others) deleted was re-created and is now up as an afd. --maclean25 00:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ITN

Hello, The Tom. I can find no updated material regarding the extension of the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol to 2012 at the Conference on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change page, not on the United Nations Climate Change Conference page, not on the Kyoto Protocol page, and not on Current events. So I removed the blurb from ITN for violating Criteria #1 and #4 as detailed on Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page. It's rather frustrating and disappointing to see sth new and exciting on the MainPage, but can't find the relevant information after clicking the bolded links on ITN. Please re-post the headline on ITN after the relevant pages have been adequately updated. Thank you. -- PFHLai 22:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prime minister?

What the heck were you thinking moving Prime Minister to Prime minister? I presume it was simply a mistake and that you weren't trying to make Wikipedia look illiterate. When next? United states? pOPE? Queen elizabeth ii? President oF tHe UniTed STaTeS??? FearÉIREANN\(caint) 00:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

not accurate, Tom. It is both a common noun and a proper noun, depending on whether it is used generically or with a specific reference. Both upper casing or both lowercasing are standard, but usually the former except in American English. But as WP doesn't allow the first word in the article to be lower cased you simply cannot put an article at a semi-literate Prime minister. WP policy is not to do that. If a two or more word title is all upper cased or all lowercased, WP uses all upper cased since it can't do all lowercased for technical reasons and a mixture of both produces a ridiculous title. Please be more careful. :p FearÉIREANN\(caint) 01:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

That is not how titles have been used in thousands of historical and political science articles. If the article was entered as Prime minister Wikipedia would be an instant international laughing stock. It would be semi-literate garbage. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 21:44, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Do what you wish. It won't change what has been the form used for three years on those articles. The last time one user tried to move political and historical articles to illiterate semi-capitalised forms they were overwhelmingly blocked by the WP community. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 22:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chart

The Chart is allright, but it is to broad to fit good in page. Furthermore I would label Self Defense and Chr.Soc.P. Switzerland as left wing parties. Electionworld 18:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC) I meant: not label. It think the SCP is comparable with the Dutch ChristenUnie, which is in the eocnomic spectrum quite left-wing, but combinbes it with right wing positions on ethical isues. The Self Defense might have a populist left-wing economic programme, but is at the same time nationalist and as far as I know right-wing in cultural and ethical questions. Compare Axisglobe Electionworld 21:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:National Security Agency seal.png

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[edit] BC Liberals colour

Just to let you know I changed the colour you chose for the BC Liberals designation in the Electoral Districts pages/tables; red-hued is traditional for Liberal parties so I made a different shade of red. Dark colours don't work on the table; you used black, or near-black, for mourning or something? Too political in that case. Also, FYI the usefulness of that designation, to me, is for the post-1991 period; the old-guard BC Liberals before that I've still got as the old "Liberal" colour tag; same as with the distinction between old-Conservative, the MacDonald Conservatives (for which Progressive Conservatives is the colour-template) and the old BC Conservatives (who I've used the Conservative template for); or the distinction between Social Credit pre-1952 and post-1952 "BC Social Credit".Skookum1 02:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kerry Packer on WP:ITN

Do you even know who he is? - Ta bu shi da yu 03:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I must protest! You rolled me back, you have not responded to me, and you have not noted your objection on the talk page. What are you doing?!- Ta bu shi da yu 03:26, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
"A death should only be placed on ITN if it meets one of two criteria: (1) the funeral ceremony merits its own article or (2) the death has a major impact on current events. The modification or creation of multiple articles to take into account the ramifications of a death is a sign that it meets Criteria 2." It is having an impact on current events. But anyway, thank you for taking the time to reply. It would have been nicer had you added a note to the talk page: it might have stopped the revert war, and that is what this is there for. It's also common courtesy to do this. I have reverted out my change. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:32, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, just remember to use the talk page, that's all I ask! - Ta bu shi da yu 03:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
OK... look, I'm just annoyed that Packer can't be on the template. Trust me, the news is that big in Australia that almost every paper has half of its copy devoted to the man. His impact in Australia cannot be measured, he has been that signficant. Arguably, the man was more powerful that John Howard - he could manipulate things they way he wanted through his papers. The 2nd criteria in that guideline is an "or" proposition. IMO, the news is that significant to warrant inclusion into the template. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

Sorry for getting snotty at you yesterday. I was out of line! I didn't realise it at the time, but now I look at what I wrote it seems quite inappropriate. So sorry about that... - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Canadian_federal_election,_1984/on-o

Hi, I noticed you created the above template when I was working through the | wiki syntax fixing project and it doesn't, to me, look like it's supposed to be a template. Can you advise on the status of this page? Kcordina 14:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanation. Kcordina 09:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Elections template

Would you mind commenting at Template talk:Elections in Canada? I'm not sure if we are both on the same page or not and which format is better. - Jord 16:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, in most countries actually, I know it matches Germany, U.S. and Sweden as well. I was in the process of moving it to the bottom but only get 1867, 1872 & 74 before I threw in the towel. It was late at the time. - Jord 02:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Election result

I changed the template for the last Canadian election result. It was made conform the general layout of election results used in WIkipedia for countries around the world. I do not mind the Canadia layout, but would certainly like to have the full party names in. Electionworld 23:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liberal Democrats move

Hi, why did you move Liberal Democrats to Liberal Democrats (UK)? The (UK) at the end seems to have no purpose, unless you are considering turning Liberal Democrats into a disambiguation page. Talrias (t | e | c) 19:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. My main concern was consistency and link volume... far more pages (in the order of hundreds more) linked to the page via the ...(UK) redirect than the main namespace, and because Labour and the Tories already have the ...(UK), there exists a certain assumption on the part of editors to continue sticking it in on account of consistency. There's also the fact that while technically there's only one well-known organisation called the "Liberal Democrats" at present, there're no shortage of other valid uses of "Liberal Democrat/liberal Democrat/liberal democrat" out there at the moment. I'd see the preponderance of British links to an undisambiguated form of "liberal Democrat" as evident of systemic bias, to an extent, anyway. I'm actually also somewhat surprised there aren't more references out there to "Liberal Democrat" in the American sense, as it's fairly commonly used over there to refer to a distinct political movement. The Tom 21:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation

Could you please restore the romanic alphabet abbr. of the parties: the new abbr. cannot be read in either IE or Fireforx. Electionworld 23:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

They can, if you have the correct fonts installed. Which you should. —Nightstallion (?) 07:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Actually, to be fair to both of you, I managed to muck up the unicode after initially adding them when I dumped the contents into a text editor for a find-replace. They should work more broadly now. The Tom 09:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Thanks for fixing this. That's what I get for copying from one article to another. -- Netoholic @ 21:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bloc

According to the Bloc's English abstract, "Thankfully, here it's the Bloc", is the correct English translation of the pary's slogan. Ground Zero | t 21:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Canadian federal election, 2006

I have started a poll on using full party names or short forms on this template. Please vote at Talk:Canadian federal election, 2006. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 23:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lib convention 2006

I think that it is a bit POV to break the list up the way you have as some of the names could easily fit into either column. I know the list was long but it will soon filter out as it is highly unlikely that all will run for leader. - Jord 21:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Upon further examination of the list, the only contencious one is Maurizio Bevilacqua -- though he certainly ought not be listed under the Martin column, I don't think that the Chretien column is appropriate either. He was a strong Martin supporter (was the first MP to endorse Martin for the 1990 race) and was never closely associated with Chretien and only played a junior role in the Chretien Ministry. - Jord 21:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I see you went in to add some references but did not add complete ones - you may want to go back and check that ;) - Jord 21:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't see that - when you see those references one usually expects end notes. - Jord 21:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammad Drawings

Woohookitty unprotected the page based on a misunderstanding of policy. He said that "we do NOT protect pages linked from main page", but in fact he is incorrect. The policy on page protection says we should only do so when necessary, and many of us believe that it is now necessary. I have informed Woohookitty that he has misunderstood the applicable policy here. Please restore the semiprotection. Thanks. Babajobu 07:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I've done 400 protections and unprotections. I wish people would look up my history before saying things like I misunderstand the policy. Splash unprotected the page. I unprotected the page. RexNL unprotected the page. All with the same reason. Do we all misunderstand the policy? I think not. Anyway, make your arguments on RfPP. We seem to have a protection war going on here. I have 2 problems with protection. #1 we do not protect pages linked from the main page. And #2 this is an edit war as much as it's a case of vandalism. If you want to protect it, full protect it. I don't think either protection is good, but full is much more justifiable here than semi. Many of the IP edits I've seen have been perfectly valid. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 10:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

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[edit] Your edit to the UK Scouting template

I see you edited User:Bduke/workshop/Template:TSAUKbydiv to replace {{NIR}} by Northern Ireland. Could you explain why? Currently they give the same result, but I think that if a flag is put somewhere for Northern Ireland, {{NIR}} will show it as it does for the other parts of the UK. BTW, I will soon put this in the Template space along with the one for Canada. A UK editor is working on it and will add the English counties soon. An editor who just quit WP left it with me for safe keeping. --Bduke 22:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

OK. Let's leave it as is. I thought {{NIR}} was not showing any flag, but it might show the "Prot" one sometime. I am about to move this template to Template:Scouts UK Counties and the Canada one to Template:Scouts Canada Provinces. --Bduke 23:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European United Left - Nordic Green Left table

Hi. You added a table for the parties to the European United Left - Nordic Green Left article a year ago. I (and someone else on the discussion page of the article) don't understand what the diferent colours of the background mean. Could you explain it, please? Thank you. Cattus 21:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian election maps

Sure, it would be reasonably easy for me to carve up the national election map into the suggested regions. I'll work on it sometime in the next few weeks. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 02:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft

Chief Seattle is a user who previously removed the article count. He/she noted that non-native English readers might not understand the phrase "1,536,429 articles and counting" (which doesn't apply to your version), and that including this information in the header "implies that Wikipedia emphasizes quantity, not quality." I tend to agree.

You've repeatedly mentioned that the phrase "the free encyclopedia" is in the upper left-hand corner, but that's true only in four of the skins. Here's what the page looks like in the other three skins:

—David Levy 17:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Would you care to respond to the above? —David Levy 20:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re Non-Inscrits

Hi, I saw that you reverted my changes. Why? Intangible 17:30, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I've added a reply to my talk page. Intangible 15:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] colours of Austrian parties

Thanks alot for adding the colours to the infoboxes on Austrian parties, I was trying to figure it out the whole time but just couldn't. good work. with kind regards Gryffindor 20:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liberal Party

Much better. Thanks. HistoryBA 19:35, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work on the Liberal leadership article. I had assumed that better sources existed for most and that's why I only complained about Cotler. I just hadn't bothered to put in as much effort as you have. Thanks again. --JGGardiner 00:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArtSci

I tried for a little better NPOV on that article. If we disagree, lets talk it over next week in MUSC 201. Joey FullSmash26 03:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hi and hic

i am one of the supporters at Template:User Alcohol-4 you created as i am addict to ethanol contain product as well. i notice that you change back *hic* to hi, i personally think that *hic* is a world that describe the wording of someone is drunk... but anyway this is just my PoV and you are the creator of the template.. so it is up to your view... GSPbeetle complains Vandalisms 12:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Faroese

Why did you think it was particularly necessary to notify the reader that you can't speak it? Unless you're living in the Faroe Islands these days. Wareq

  • HA! Kinda funny. Wareq 07:15, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electoral calendar 2005 (templates)

Hi. I was curious what was going on with Electoral calendar 2005. I found it on the short pages list and saw it was just only a template and a category. Is there some advantage to doing things like that? Just wondering!  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationals

You have reverted my change and some-one elses without any reason stated. Why? Softgrow 06:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Lennart Meri

Why did you remove Lennart Meri's death from Template:In the news? Did I format it badly? Or is Meri's death a too minor news item (which I seriously doubt)? There's a mention of it in Current Events, with not one, but two links to news stories. JIP | Talk 16:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

Hello. I have seen you, several times, use the rollback tool in an innapropriate manner. This is especially troubling, with the relevant portion copied below:

This is rather troubling to me, personally. The rollback tool is intended for vandalism, with a few exceptions (reverting the edits by a banned user, spam, etc.). It is especially hostile and rude to revert the edits of another user in good standing, and that is especially true of a fellow administrator. The edit summary produced by the rollback too, with a link to the user's contributions page, gives the impression that the user being reverted is one who's edits should be checked carefully for vandalism, which is rude and hostile to the one being reverted. Additionally, the edit summary is inheiritly uniformative- It doesn't say why the edits are being reverted, which is the most important function of an edit summary. Thank you, and I hope that you will consider your use of this tool more carefully in the future. Best regards, Sean Black (talk) 23:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interim leader of the opposition

I took the "interim" designation as informal. In any case, if we're going to be consistent, List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition needs to be reworked as several of those listed are marked as "interim". Homey 16:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leadership convention infobox

Great work! I was thinking that you might want to add a field for the "Winner" as I assume the infobox will be added to historical convetions and remain on the current Liberal one after there is a winner. - Jord 00:00, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

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[edit] Template talk:Infobox Canada Political Party

Hi, I added some functionality based on our discussion last year to the Infobox Canada Political Party template, I added support for territorial parties, made the seats function work and made the Presidents HQ and Leader go away for defunct parties --Cloveious 14:54, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Dominionism

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[edit] Re your CfD proposal

Hi The Tom,
Just wanted to say that though I'm all but voting to oppose your proposal, I haven't voted because I think you're onto something in your brief essay there, but am not sure your concluding that renames to "...by nationality" will work. I have the feeling that consensus over some general system of "X of Y", "Yish X", "X by Y", etc usage is possible, I'm just not sure what it might be, where to begin or even whether I'd be able or happy to take the deep breath required before beginning... Thanks, though, for your essay; it expresses something of what has been skulking around in the back of my mind. Regards, David Kernow 18:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Parties in the Council of the European Union

How about including a column for the next expected elections or for when the mandate of the current government will expire? Just an idea. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 12:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Excellent idea. I've made a dent in it. -The Tom 16:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I've just gone ahead and done the rest. Will you be going through the other PitCotEU pages for 2005, 2004 and 2003 and include information about QMV standings back then? That would be great. =] Take care, —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 13:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
      • It's honestly near the bottom of my to-do list. A day even rainier than today, perhaps. ;) If anyone else wanted to tackle it I'd have few objections. The Tom 05:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Another issue: User:The Tom states that "[the party] has made several attempts to sever the party's links to the European right, most recently an aborted 2004 agreement to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, with whom it already sits at the Council of Europe." Does this mean we need to introduce a footnote for Ireland explaining that the party is officially a member of the AEN, but that its leader sits with the ELDR at the Council? I'm slightly confused... This would also mean, of course, that we have to update all the maps from 2003 until 2006. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 13:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

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Great article! Thanks for sharing! ++Lar: t/c 00:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Town Template

I noticed you just added a template to Lytton, British Columbia. I've been using the {{British_Columbia_municipality_infobox}} template for B.C. cities and towns. Is one more appropriate than the other, or does it not really matter at this point? — Usgnus 02:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

oops! wrong user. Please disregard — Usgnus 02:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trade unions of ***

Hey there. Well, I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks "in" would be a more suitable wording in many of these categories. I'm certainly willing to go with "of", as it does seem to be the standard usage, but I'm not convinced that it is as accurate. :)--Bookandcoffee 03:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi The Tom. You commented on the cat change proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized Labour#Category:Trade unions by country and as you seem to be quite active in naming conventions, I'm looking for a little procedural advice. I started the discussion at the project page, rather than the CfD page, to try and engage the project editors. However, now I have a small dilemma because, of course, outside the standard CfD arena I think people are hesitant to close the discussion. Would it be appropriate if I now moved the content into the CfD cycle and let things continue? Or would it be better to put a note on the CfD talk page looking for someone to close it where it sits right now? Or is there another solution? Thanks. Chris.--Bookandcoffee 20:18, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Law cats

Hey, thanks for showing me that Law CFRU. I agree with your points and have opposed. To pass a CFRU to use "in" I think in addition to your nationality adjectives/state-centric topics point we'll have to distinguish clearly the difference in scopes between "Law in x" categories and "Laws of x" categories. Kurieeto 15:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YayyY!

Thanx for the pagemove! 68.39.174.238 03:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commons images on the mainpage

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[edit] Media by country

Hey, regarding Category:Media by country and others - If the naming convention is by nationality, are they technically meritted for speedy renaming? For example, if Category:Media of Canada could be speedy renamed to Category:Canadian media, why can't Category:Media by country be renamed on the same grounds to Category:Media by nationality? I see them as violating the same naming convention, which is always grounds for speedy renaming. If this is objected to by other Wikipedians, then I think there's enough reason to move the Media-related cats into the Undecided naming convention section. Kurieeto 02:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

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[edit] Albanian Influence in Montenegro's Referendum

Do you care to explain why you are removing the fact that Albanian’s played a crucial role in the Referendum?Ferick 01:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Ok, my bad.Ferick 06:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo

  • 1 This has nothing to do with happy or somthing like this. The UN officel status of Kosovo is War burnied province in Yugoslavia. Beacose of that, we have three versions UN see up in this text, Serbians: Kosovo ist a district in Serbia and the Albanians Repubik of Kosovo. The UN version is the offical version. Only beacose the albanians dont wount to put there propaganda that is not meaning that the UN version is the albanian propaganda. Kosovo-Metohia and Republik of Kosovo dont exist for the UN or better to say they are history.--Hipi Zhdripi 13:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ITN

Can you consider reverting your picture change, considering that the picture on reservations was added hardly an hour back? Pls. check the history in future. Also, it is preferable to have a non-flag image. It is not necessary that the image corresponds to the first entry in either ITN or "on this day." --Gurubrahma 14:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, when you change pics, pls. ensure that the images are uploaded to WP and are protected. The flag of East Timor has not been {{C-uploaded}} and protected. --Gurubrahma 14:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I realised that these messages should go to User talk:Cyberjunkie as he was the one who changed the picture. I've already informed him. --Gurubrahma 16:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What the hell is this crap?

You removed facts from the site:
This is not right at all. -- GZLFB

The facts I added were not spam, if they were I would have only bothered with my own self serving referencing. Double check what I did first, you did it so quickly you had no time to have even seen what I have done; I linked to all candidates I could added some relevant resources and in fact even links relating to candidate(s) or party(s) I do not like or support, such as the Nude Garden Party. Regards,

Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday

PS What do you know? I was a Candidate, I was involved. I was a voter, I get e-mails and so on from resources I have yet to have the time to add.

[edit] Bull! re: what is this crap?

The facts I added were not spam, if they were I would have only bothered with my own self serving referencing. Double check what I did first, you did it so quickly you had no time to have even seen what I have done; I linked to all candidates I could added some relevant resources and in fact even links relating to candidate(s) or party(s) I do not like or support, such as the Nude Garden Party. Regards,

Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday

PS What do you know? I was a Candidate, I was involved. I was a voter, I get e-mails and so on from resources I have yet to have the time to add.

[edit] Writing about myself....

Had no choice, I could't ignore myself, I was one of them; am one of them. I picked out articles, links, and so on that were relevant to all of them, and at the time I had only the time for Mayoral. Did you notice anyone but me? Normally I'd be flattered by this is like cyber stalking.

The research aslo sucked come to think of it, my first hand knowlledge and resourse should have been deemed helpfull. Why remove Howell's amuzing article or even Only Mag? You could have even edited to the main directory of Only Mag.

Gölök Zoltán Buday

[edit] Montenegro referendum map

Hey - thanks for your comments. I honestly had no idea regarding which colours to use, therefore just picked the two most recognisable ones in a fairly arbitary way. I'll post an updated version of the map soonish. -Neo 22:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Form of government.png

Hello, nice map! Could you share the source of info? i.e. how did you get that this country is parliamentarism and that one is monarchy? Thanks! Renata 15:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo

I noticed you edited this article while still being under full-protection to change the wording Serbia and Montenegro to Serbia. Please note that though I morally support this, I think it is not the right thing to do, given the fact that the article was protected because ongoing edit-warring by Albanian users who oppose to it. If you had referred to the talk page, you would have realised about this.

Just want to that add that I second this opinion by Asterion. It looks like we are finally making some progress in solving the dispute, and this edit, although fully understandable, is therefore unwanted because it will only encourage some users to take a harder stand in the discussions. If I might a allow a temporary compromise to prohibit this, it would be the following wording: "...the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro, which now dissolved in Serbia and Montenegro)". It is not pretty, but will make it easier to reach a compromise in the dispute, which I am trying to negotiate.Cpt. Morgan 20:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

On a completely different subject, please make sure than replacing {{SerbiaMontenegro-stub}} to {{Yugoslavia-stub}} is the best thing to do. This is because {{Yugoslavia-stub}} does refer only to Pre-1992 Yugoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia). I noticed you used it here where it is not the right option as this entity was formed after the SFRY had dissolved. Therefore, I suggest in future you use {{Serbia-stub}} or both {{Serbia-stub}} and {{Montenegro-stub}} to replace the deprecrated stub.

Thanks for reading! :o) E Asterion u talking to me? 06:44, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your note on the Kovoso talk page. I hope you will not mind to express your opinion at a later stage too. I personally agree with what you said but this is very hard to accept by some wikipedians, unfortunately. Best wishes, E Asterion u talking to me? 23:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear Tom, thank you for your comments on the Kosovo talk page. I hope you can bring some additional views or possibilites into this heated debate. I would really appreciate it if you could try to help us out here a bit. I've been trying to negotiate a compromise for some time now, but it has been rather difficult (and thats an understatement), so we could use some 'fresh', neutral editors in the discussion. Cpt. Morgan 10:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear Tom, Asterion and I have proposed a version for the Kosovo text. See the Kosovo talk page. Are you in charge of coordinating the alternative version (together with Ilir)? Regards, Osli73 15:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo talk page

Hi The Tom, I just replied to your comments in the talk page. Indeed you chose a wrong time to "correct" the article, which had started a heated debate, but I guess you understand now. Regards, ilir_pz 23:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Angela Merkel.jpg

Please do not protect the image in the version it is right now. As I have pointed out on it's talk page, the copyright for the current image - peach suit and "busy background" - is not licensed correctly (you should have read that on the discussion page!). Please unlock and revert yourself or let me know once it is unlocked so I can do so. -- Boereck 18:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject!

Hi!

I wanted to invite you to join the new WikiProject Politicial parties and politicians in Canada. The goal is simple. To create a project, to create and maintain high quality articles on Wikipedia related to Canadian politicians, and Canadian political parties. Come on over and check us out at WP:PPAP. Ardenn 04:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ITN straw hat

Cheers for the reminder. Maybe we can get some momentum behind this. The last couple of times I've brought it up the responce has been "there is no problem". --Monotonehell 04:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European politics

Hi!

I'm looking very much forward to see what changes you have in mind for the table. :) Also, I've just created European Parliament election, 2009 -- be sure to add whatever information you have to it! —Nightstallion (?) 20:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

One final issue, though: Are you certain it's a good idea to have the Movement for European Reform in the table, when it has not even been formed yet and its membership is speculative? I'd advocate keeping the European Democrats for now. The other changes should be implemented ASAP, though. :) —Nightstallion (?) 00:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Say, what happened to your plans for re-formatting the table? —Nightstallion (?) 22:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I hope I'm not getting on your nerves here, but I'd truly be interested in hearing your current plans... —Nightstallion (?) 08:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 208.3.69.196

I just reported that 208.3.69.196 for 3RR violation, he/she started immediatly again after the 1 hour block you applied was expired. [8]. Perhaps you can take appropriate action? Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 21:49, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Image:2006-16-d-print.jpg to ITN/Main page

Thank you for adding Image:2006-16-d-print.jpg to WP:ITN. However, please remember next time to protect any image that will appear on the main page. As per WP:PPOL#Uses protection should be used for "high visibility pages such as the Main Page from vandalism."

The {{Mprotected}} template should be applied to images in English Wikipedia.

For images from Wikimedia Commons, there are two options:

  1. Copy the image, upload it locally, and add {{C-uploaded}}. Or,
  2. If you are an admin at the Commons, protect the version at the Commons, and add Commons:Template:En main page. Then put {{Mprotected}} in the image description page here and protect the image to keep a local image from being uploaded here.

Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Service awards

Hi The Tom! In recognition of your long and extensive editing career, you are entitled to these WP:SERVICE awards. Herostratus 19:09, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star
This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star
This editor is a Grand Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain
This editor is a Grand Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain

[edit] John Thompson

Please revert John Thompson (politician) to John Sparrow David Thompson.Souris2005 00:47, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh Yeah, then change the name of the article John A. Macdonald to John Macdonald and George W. Bush to George Bush... stupid

Souris2005 15:12, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European Council standings

I thought you were the one who usually updated these? As you didn't for Topolanek (I just now noticed), I've done it now, hope I haven't introduced any mistakes into the tables... Could you cross-check, just to be sure? Thanks! Hope to see you be more active in European politics articles again, soon (though I also greatly appreciate your work on astronomical articles :)). —Nightstallion (?) 08:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd prefer to leave it to you to update the template and the two articles this time around for Fredrik Reinfeldt, to prevent me from making mistakes yet again. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 19:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pres of Executive Council (NB)

I reverted your edit to Shawn Graham, as it is not necessarily coterminal. Frank McKenna rarely served as president of the executive council when he was premier. - Jord 20:24, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Same boss eh? Do tell! - Jord 20:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I am ever so confused - Jord 20:50, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please edit color of thailand in map

form of government of thailand has been changed to military dictatorship, so the color of thailand in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Form_of_Government.png should be changed to olive, thanks --221.128.99.102 05:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The table

should be updated for the Dutch elections... —Nightstallion (?) 00:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, did it myself. —Nightstallion (?) 17:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition

Hey, I'm trying to get List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition to be a featured list. I noticed that you've done some work on that page, so I was wondering if you wanted to help out or give it a vote so it can meet the required 4 supports. --Arctic Gnome 21:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peasants

Hi, Tom,

"Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union" seems to be the best English translation of "Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga". "Valstietis liaudininkas" (singular nominative) means, roughly, "a peasant and supporter of common people". "Liaudis" is "people" in the socialist meaning, as in "People's Republic of China". Juozas Rimas 22:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yay!

Glad to see you so active again. :) —Nightstallion (?) 12:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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