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[edit] Ruff

Hi, I don't know from where you've read that but I must laugh at your nonsense and I will hahahahahahaha.I don't know where are you from but I know for my self I come from KUMANOVO and I have been in the house of Hristian Todorovski-Karposh and I really know much more about my city than you.I really must correct you about Karposh.He is not partisan and his uprising was in 1689 and there is no way that he was in WWII.(but if you think that 1689 is WWII you must read the history again!!!!!).

Pulvis_angelus


Hi, My problem with it was the really low level of english in it, making it nearly impossible to understand. Also, if you search Karposh on the Wikipedia search, you will see where I took the information from. Their have been several Karposh. I hope you will at the very least improve the english in the section you insist on having because it is not well written or grammatically correct.

[edit] Ruff

Hi Thomas, I don't think I have a problem with my english,but if you think so please do not change the whole section of Kaposh just correct me and I'll see where I make mistakes.I've realized that we talk about different Karposh.Please accept my apologies for beeing so rude I was irritated because you've changed my text.

Pulvis_angelus

[edit] Mališevo

Ridiculous! See my comments at Duja's talk page. Matchups 01:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo geography stubs

Please do not remove SerbiaMontenegro-geo-stub from pages relating to the geography of Kosovo. In order to maintain a neutral POV, Wikipedia follows international recognitions of countries and territories, and as such Kosovo is currently regarded as a subdivision of SM, and will do so until such time that there is a formal decision on its future status. Removing the stub template from these articles will simply make it impossible for editors to find them and therefore Kosovo will be under-represented by good articles in wikipedia. It also makes it less likely that WP:WSS will know if and when there are enough stubs for a separate Kosovo geography stub template (at the moment there are far too few for this). In other words, removing the template, or giving the articles some other form like a simple geo-stub will disadvantage the place that presumably you are aiming to promote. Maybe I am wrong - maybe you are doing this to deliberately belittle Kosovo (as this is the effect it is having). If so, then I'd ask you to stop as - as I said before - it is important for Wikpedia and its editors to maintain a neutral POV. Grutness...wha? 02:15, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sockpuppetry

Don't worry Thomas. It has probably nothing to do with you; I guess that someone (and I have a hunch who) has some kind of personal vendetta against me. I'll solve it. Just do nothing for the time being. (P.S. Please sign your comments with ~~~~ so that people can reach you easier.) Duja 14:14, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:The_hills_of_Bugamba_sub-county.jpg

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[edit] Kosovo towns

No articles relating to towns in kosovo have been deleted by me or by anyone else that I knw of. All that has been deleted is a stub template and category which were re-created in contravention of Wikipedia's policies. The articles are all still there, listed in Cat:Serbia and Montenegro geography stubs, as they should have been all along. Grutness...wha? 04:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to redirect

Just to let you know, if you want to create a redirect page, make sure that it starts with #REDIRECT [[target page]]. Or just click Image:Button redirect.png on the toolbar and enter the page name. Have fun editing! Stifle (talk) 21:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mališevo

Mališevo massacre you can redirect this to the Mališevo. You are going to get the same efect. For me you can let als souch but you are doin nothing, onl you are complicetin the situation on Kosovo articel the both articels are short. # (cur) (last) 17:10, 19 March 2006 PANONIAN (new) // # (cur) (last) 21:35, 29 March 2006 Thomas.macmillan--Ejte 04:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Le Kevin Smith

OK i made my delete vote clearer, and when you edit anothers talk page DO NOT DELETE CONTENT THAT OTHERS HAVE PLACED ON IT [1] Betacommand 02:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Freedom in the World 2006

Hi, I see you created this awesome article. Wonderful job! However there is one big trouble with that: it does not cite sources (i.e. where the information is from). There should be a separate section for References. See WP:CITE for details. Renata 03:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Categorization!

Regarding Angola-related articles. I am an admin and a participant of the WikiProjext categorization. And I quote from the official Wikipedia guidelines "an article should not be in both a category and its subcategory", so please for future reference, please do not add articles to the simpliest categories. Not "Angola" but "Provinces of Angola" etc. Thank you. I have now nice evening puting that articles back, thanks to you. -- Darwinek 19:06, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Hi,

I noticed you´ve created wuite a few new stub types. I just wanted to inform that these need to be proposed first. There is a special page for that located here. For a new stub type to be created, there should be at least around 60 stubs that would go into this category. Unfortunately, I doubt that wil be the case with {{Comoros-stub}} or {{Mauritania-stub}}, e.g. {{STP-stub}} will probably be re-named, since there are certain naming guidelines which have to be respected so that it will be easier for people to find the stub type they are looking for (for the discussion about the re-naming see WP:SFD). Stub types, which were created but never proposed are discussed at WP:WSS/D.

Thanx,
--CarabinieriTTaallkk 13:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

You can add {{Mauritania-geo-stub}} to that. If these stubs do not reach viable level soon, there is every chance they may be nominated for deletion at WP:SFD. Please, do not create new stub types withough first proposing them through the proper channels, as explained at WP:STUB and on the notice at the top of stub categories. Grutness...wha? 15:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
We normally give stub templates a chance to get populated. Material is often not properly tagged / categorized so perhaps more material will turn up. The normal threshold is officially 65, but effectively 60 articles. In similar cases, we've normally given the template a month or so to see if there's any growth. 45 is not that bad, so let's wait and see. Btw, the procedure for merging templates is to list them at WP:SFD and present the case there. But I've seen far worse cases than this one, so let's give it a chance. Valentinian (talk) 20:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Never blank stub templates!

I spent some time yesterday correcting the code of a number of templates you'd created, but blanking templates is even worse. Duplicates are *never* allowed regarding stub templates, and the names follow a pretty strict system, allowing users to easily guess the names of similar stub templates. If you wish to see one or more new templates: feel free to make a proposal for them at WP:WSS/P. If your suggestion presents no serious problems and the proposed template lives up to the size requirements (i.e. 60 or more articles must use it) it will then be approved 7 days later.

If a template has been named incorrectly, or could be named better, please present the case to WP:SFD. The case is then debated for 7 days before a decision is taken. In both cases, this time period is used to allow more users to have their say on the matter, to avoid obvious errors / problems. Stub templates are often used by a very large number of articles, and frequent edits to them is absolute poison to the servers, which are already strained enough. That's why we have to stick to this procedure to cut down the number of edits to them, in order to minimize the load on the servers. For more information, see WP:STUB. The only reason so few African templates exist is because it is only recently that *some* African countries have begun to live up to the size requirements. User:Carabinieri and I are already monitoring this situation and any new national template that lives up to the size requirements will be proposed asap. But it is a bad idea to create templates which will simply be deleted because they're hardly used. That would only mean more work for everybody. If you wish to see a new template, the procedure is simple: just find 60 articles that will need it, make a proposal at WP:WSS/P and wait for 7 days. Regards. Valentinian (talk) 11:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Sounds great. It simply means less work for everybody if we get everything right the first time. But if you're interested in stubs, feel free to drop in at WP:WSS. Regards. Valentinian (talk) 13:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electoral calendar

Thanks for editing the electoral calendar. The CIA World Fact Book is not the most reliable source for election data. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 20:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SierraLeone-stub

Sure. The easiest way is simply to reuse the code from a similar stub / category, e.g. Togo. Once that's done, please add the template to WP:WSS/ST and Cat:Africa stubs. Regards. Valentinian (talk) 07:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1996 Sierra Leone election

Hi. Here's the link to the results [2]. If you have any other questions or requests, just let me know. Acntx 06:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New country stub templates

Hi Thomas. It is most polite to wait the required seven days. In this case, creating the templates will be pretty uncontroverisal, but I'll still recommend to wait the required number of days. As you can see, I've loaded up my page, just to be ready: User:Valentinian/Country_stub_templates#Current_proposals Regards. Valentinian (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I've created the new batch of templates, so there's enough to do if you fancy a little sorting :)
Regards. Valentinian (talk) 16:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Betheda Edmonds

I'd have to agree with the merge, as your article is much more comprehensive than mine. Good article! Deyyaz [ Talk | Contribs ] 17:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya stubs

I'm not sure if I'll have the time to help populate the stub right now. If you want to you can use my list of Libya-related stubs, which is located here.--CarabinieriTTaallkk 18:20, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category UAE stubs

Hi Thomas - I realise there was a redlink on the UAE geography stubs category to the nonexistent UAE stubs category - but that wasn't an indication that there should be a UAE stubs category yet! It was simply there so that it would automatically go into a UAE stubs category if and when it was ever created. Certainly there aren't enough stubs for a separate category yet for UAE (though it may be getting close - there are a lot of struct-stubs relating to Dubai... perhaps I should do a count-up...). For now, though, I've deleted the UAE stubs category. Grutness...wha? 01:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cat:Sierra Leone bio stubs

Hi Thomas

I noticed you'd created this empty category. Rather than sending it through SFD, it is quicker if you (as the only editor of the page) add e.g. {{delete|Misspelled name}} to the category's page. This will allow any administrator to delete it on sight, but this trick only works if this message is added by the only editor to the page.

Btw, I just began wondering, is the best category name "Sierra Leone people stubs" or "Sierra Leonean people stubs" ? To me it seems like the longer name would be the name most in line with similar material and we also have Cat:Sierra Leonean people. Just my thoughts. Happy editing. Valentinian (talk) 16:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African politicians

Hi, great work filling in the gaps in African political biographies, just a little thing: when categorising biographical articles, please use Category:Year of birth missing for articles where the year of birth is just missing. Category:Year of birth unknown is used for articles where historians cannot agree, or the year is disputed, or obscured by bad records or changes of calendar etc. Cheers, and keep up the good work! Jdcooper 17:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] pak stub

hey sounds good as is..perhaps an outline of pakistan ..but we'll see after awhile if it needs changing to an outline. Btw I am desperately looking for help on an article I've worked on Khan Wali Khan. Any feedback would be reaaallllly appreciated. p.s: what were you doin in Pristina/ --Zak 14:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC) --Zak 14:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RCongo stub type(s)

OK, I've changed the -geo- stub template in the way I mooted on /P. Sorry if I was unclear about that: I should really add something to the stub guidelines, or in a separate essay/FAQ, about upmerged templates and other nuances. Note that this orphans Cat:Republic of the Congo geography stubs: if you're agreeable, I can speedily delete that. Alai 00:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

You're welcome, Thomas. I have been pretty frustrated with the African material so I'm delighted you are cleaning it up. And btw, if you wish to move the star to your user page, feel free to do so. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 21:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Eritrea-bio-stub

I'm redirecting it. It may be useful eventually, though as you say, not yet. Grutness...wha? 23:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, on second thoughts, I've left it for now. It's up to 36 stubs. it may scrape in to useful size yet. Grutness...wha? 23:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Bard

Just wanted to complement you on your edits to the Daniel Bard article. I was going to fix it up some more but you saved me the effort! --RevTenderBranson 22:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:VanessaVanArendonk.jpg

It was uploaded under a non comercial use only lisence which we can't use. images need to be GFDL or one of a limted number of creative commons lisences.Geni 00:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

reupload it this time under the GFDL.Geni 00:14, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] UTexas-stub

Hey, just doing some regular sorting/editing and came across the University of Texas at Austin stubs (UTexas-stub). I thought this seemed very strange and took a look at its history. I saw you SFD'd it back in March, but then withdrew it. Why was that? It seems far too broad to have its own stub (can anyone related to UTA use it? or perhaps just faculty? or buildings?) Did it go through the normal stub process?

Good questions all. I nominated it, but withdrew not because I thought it should be kept, but because there was a snowballing keep on SFD. Only one other regular stub sorter commented and he (like me) suggested that it should be renamed to cover all Texas Univesity stubs (both U of T and other universities). However, U of TA has its own Wikiproject, and there were about six or seven keep votes. The full gory details are here. I'd still like to see it rescoped, and would vote that way again if smeone brought it up for deletion again... Grutness...wha? 06:02, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Please don't make stubs for living people that contain no information, like this. They create problems with respect to biographies of living persons and don't really provide Wikipedia with anything. --Peta 04:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Correa

I saw your note on my user talk page. For future reference please post notes concerning article content on article talk pages, where the issues discussed can be seen by everyone watching the article. You said that I removed content about Correa's 'alliance' with Chavez because 'it did not fit my political point of view.' I have no idea what your political orientation is; nor do I care. Based on my edits, I don't see how you would have any clue about my own POV either. My only concern is that you clairfy your thoughts if you are going to be editing the article, giving the reader some sort of clue about what you mean specifically when you use the term 'alliance.' 172 | Talk 21:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cuban baseball players

I have have been busy creating stub pages for each player on Cuba's national baseball team. I thought you might like to know, since you'd created a few of the only extant pages of current Cuban players (e.g. Pedro Luis Lazo and Osmani Urrutia, IIRC). Rolando (talk) 18:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Districts of Sierra Leone

Hi. I would be glad to make the maps, but can you tell me which specific districts need them? Thanks.
--Acntx 06:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Here are the links to the maps you requested. --Acntx 21:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TRNC

Can you tell my why you changed the link to {{TRNC}} in the article Freedom in the World 2006 to point to {{N CYPRUS}}? -- The Anome 20:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jordan Palmer

I have moved the original Jordan Palmer article to Jordan Palmer (social activist), and created a disambig page at Jordan Palmer, and amended all the wikilinks which led to the original article. DuncanHill 16:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arjan Beqaj

Please stop removing the Albania tags from this page! You are right that he is a Kosovar, but he is an Albanian too, how also do you explain he plays for the Albania national football team? It's not because you recognise the independence that you have to force it upon others! If you check Category:Albanian footballers, you'll also find numerous other Kosovars who are also listed as Albanians, Besnik Hasi and Valon Behrami to start with. When (if) Kosovo becomes fully independent and this is recognised by the international organisations that govern these things, feel free to change it. Greetings, --Pelotastalk 18:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albania-bio-stub

Tricky, but I'd be inclined to apply the same principle, and not scope them as "Albanian" for the purposes of the -bio-stub. (What stub to apply to them I'm not at all sure of.) Whether it's worth the hassle of taking existing stub tags of debatable applicability is, well, also debatable... Alai 21:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shpend Xani Actor

A certain new user has created an article about an article that should be speedily deleted, Shpend Xani Actor. However, when I tag it (and someone else did too), the user deletes the tag.

Looks like it's been dealt with before I got online today :) Grutness...wha? 05:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Levi Conant

Sorry about that. I wasn't/am not sure if attending a school, but not necessarily graduating qualifies a figure as an "alumnus" of the school in question, but I don't think it is a big deal. HOT L Baltimore 20:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I noticed how you consider the Kosovo conflict a past conflict. I would disagree - the civil war continued to last through most of the UN protectorate, especially in 2004. This year was a conflict as well. I think that there will (almost for sure, and sadly) be new conflicts in the future (especially regarding the status - if its independence, we can expect opposition of the non-Albanian populace; if its autonomy, we can expect heavy albanian resistance).

Anyway, what's your opinion as the best solution for the Kosovo issue? (I ask because you evidently know a lot and you're introduced into the problem). --PaxEquilibrium 14:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, independence or no, that's (one of) the least (important) thing(s). I asked you for a full-scale solution. But we could say that the tensions are still high... and that practically, war still lasts. I'm not sure that there are 2,000,000 Albanians, I've heard that (and the 2.2) overestimate strictly from Albanian sources. And, if we return all the refugees, we would get a figure of almost 500,000 non-albanians (among whome 200,000-300,000 would be Serbs). There is also a fair amount of Albanians (Serbian sources claim even 100,000) that have nothing with Kosovo, but have migrated across the non-existent border division between Albania & Kosovo; the UN predicted a return of those people in 1999.
You are right about the anti-UN feeling. In 2004 during the mass riot tens of UN peacekeeping units were killed and even more hurt. As a note to stop the negotiations, there were mass deminstrations this year. Search around wikipedia for "Self-determination! movement", if memory serves me well, it has an article. They are drawing the limits, and seeing the UN as European colonists of the Americans, whereas the rest of the population (read: all peoples) openly consider the protectorate an occupation. It has nothing to do with the will of some people, but with the fact that the UN & NATO have done such a poor job on Kosovo in the last 6 years.
Financial help from Serbia for Serbs is out of the question; the Kosovar transitional government demands that the investments should go to Pristina, and then elsewhere; they see Kosovo centralist & unified (no division - they won't do the same mistake like the Serbs).
My thoughts are that when talking realistic, the best possible solution for Kosovo is sadly, some form of independence. I say sadly, because that will be the end of BiH one way or another (peaceful or a new war). 90% of the population of the Serb Republic don't want to have anything to do with the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and since the Bosniak leadership has learned to like the fact that it almost won the recent war, it's expectable that they will under no circumstance allow the Serbs' separation... And since the World is unlikely to support the Serbs, it seems as if war will be the last option (then again, we return to the very circle that almost no Bosnian wants war and that the world will stop it this time - so it's an endless loop of political intrigue).
As for my personal opinions - well, they could be wrong. I'm generally for disintegration of states and always for unification. I think that we have to simply undo all the things that happened before, make it seem like they never happened, to further undermine their evildoers. This is why I support bringing a firm Constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and abolishing all the entities; making it unified again. This is why I think that what the serbian side in the negotiations for Kosovo is almost right: high-level autonomy within Serbia. This is why I am satisfied with the new Constitution of Serbia giving higher autonomy to Vojvodina; and this is why I support the transitional Croatia-Bosnia-Serbia-Kosovo-Macedonia-Albania-Montenegro union. Hopefully, one day, Europe (and the whole world) will finally be clear of borders. This is the main reason why I never support creating any sort of new international political entities. Cheers, mate.
P.S. as its smaller cousin to the west did recently. What does this mean? Albania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. And it became free of Axis forces membership by 1943/4. --PaxEquilibrium 09:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Julia Sinédia-Cazour

Please note that deletion policy clearly states that deprodded articles should not be reprodded. -- Necrothesp 16:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Necrothesp's right. In these circumstances the usual thing to do if something is deprodded is to take it to AFD and nominate it for deletion in the old-fashioned way. This particular article is a borderline case - I'd be reasonably happy with a keep or a delete for it, and you'll probably find people on both sides of the fence when it comes to a vote discussion. Grutness...wha? 04:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Pretty straightforward - you add {{subst:afd}} to the top of the article, then follow the redlink it makes to create a subpage of AFD. Once you've done that, you transcribe the new subpage to the bottom of the current day's AFD page. It's all explained step-by-step at the top of WP:AFD. Grutness...wha? 05:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

You claim to be a supporter of the 'third world,' yet you chose to launch an attack on the Julia Sinedia-Cazour article? This smacks of Anglo-centric hypocrisy, as the French-African woman was well-covered in the French press. Your continuing this attack after support for the article emerged smacks of personal attack and lack of respect for those who know about this case.→ R Young {yakłtalk} 04:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Montenegro

Well, there's difference; there was no question about Montenegro's secession - it was fully legal and almost legitimate (and bygone predicted and established). Plus, that's braking ties (a Union) with Serbia, not trying to secede from Serbia. By "brother" you mean "neighbor"? --PaxEquilibrium 20:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sierra Leone

Hi. I have created it for you ;). Look at Template:Districts of Sierra Leone and feel free to add it to subsequent articles. - Darwinek 09:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nursultan Nazarbayev

Thanks for reverting that Borat vandal on Nursultan Nazarbayev. Keep up the good work! Regards. KazakhPol 19:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Daniel Hesidence Copyright Violation

Hi Thomas,

Thanks so much for your feedback on the Daniel Hesidence page -- is really helpful. Was a bit concerned about your posting re: copyright violation. At present, the text is also posted/published in other places -- but I am the author and legal copyright holder. Just thought it would be nice to contribute to Wiki as I use it all the time for my research and noticed it's a bit thin on articles concerning contemporary art. I've asked the primary publisher to email Wiki to clarify the copyright position. If you could advise on any further action I could take to maintain this page, please let me know. Thanks again for all your kind assistance. Best, --Infoart 18:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your comments re: style. Will bear it in mind. Was wondering if there is a Wiki email to which verification of copyright might be sent? Could you please let me know.

Also, re: notability -- the links to the galleries verify his exhibitions -- galleries don't list artists they're not exhibiting/representing. Links in the article include Paula Cooper, Paulo Curti, and The Saatchi Collection -- doesn't get much more high profile than that for living contemporary artists. If there's any further concerns, please follow the links -- all the galleries have his bio and CV listed for confirmation.

Hope that helps.

Very best, --Infoart 18:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Independence War in Cabinda

Thanks for finishing that clean up, I only took time to compare the current edit to the previous version so that's all I removed. I'll try to be more thorough in the future. The same guy who vandalized that page has been messing with Jose Eduardo dos Santos as Well. --Nathan Holland 15:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Haitian people stubs

Thanks for the heads up and for creating the template and cat. And keep up the good work on African topics, the whole continent tends to get overlooked, I think. - Jwillbur 07:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nazarbayev, Borat and semiprotection

I'm inclined to agree. If IP contributions were not accepted anymore it would hugely cut down on the amount of drive-by nonsense that we have to deal with every day. Requiring people to log in wouldn't be a big deal as it's super-easy to create an account, and I'm sure it would really cut down on vandalism. But....ahh, rant over. I'm not going to change Wikipedia policy by myself! We'll just have to be extra vigilant as regards Mr. Nazarbayev and Mr. Borat. :) K. Lastochka 19:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Concerning Sekou Toure

If you don't like the way I added my statement that is fine but it is not my personal opinion and can in fact be found in the third reference article: "Certes, les horreurs du camp Boiro, où souffrirent et périrent au nom de la révolution des milliers de prisonniers politiques, ne sont pas oubliées." "L'ambivalence est partout chez cet homme aux deux visages : dictateur sanguinaire qui a poussé la délation, la torture et la répression jusqu'à en faire un système de gouvernement." If you feel better equipped to reference this text and make this addition be my guest but I would like to see a reference to the humanitarian pitfalls of this man's nationalist campaign other than a brief mention of voter fraud.

[edit] Stub templates and main articles

It's not uncommon to not have a main article in the parent category, to link to as a 'single unit' in the scoping text; I generally just link to whichever components are (or seem likely to be) defined. BTW, shouldn't it be Cat:South African sport stubs? Alai 22:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Renamed, and I've added the usual "boilerplate" stuff too. Alai 22:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Columbus Communication

Fewer is better than more when it comes to stub templates - using two stub templates is useful when one is insufficient, but there's no point in using several stub templates when one conveys the information of several. Four stub templates is clearly excessive, so why not just use one?

BTW - I missed the discussion on these new stub templates - can you point me towards the discussion? Guettarda 20:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Four stub tags is excessive. Stub tags are to be used because they are useful, not because they exist. Including an article in multiple unrelated stub cats is useful, because it will draw eyes from several points. Including it in Caribbean + Trinidad + Jamaica doesn't draw extra eyes - it's the same set of people who edit Jamaican, Bajan and Trini articles, by and large. Guettarda 21:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mauritania map

Thomas ... no problem on the map. I'll put something together when I return from vacation next week. Rarelibra 00:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] stubs

FYI - Leaving two line breaks above a stub template produces far less crowded (and thus, more readable) text. Guettarda 17:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Huh? Guettarda 18:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Patriots

That game was incredible!!! Thanks for the good job. I'm trying to keep his thing as up-to-date as I can. He needs all the support he can get. What "Drew" acquisition? Bledsoe or J.D.???? I'm in Alaska so i don't get a lot of the New England gossip going around

  • I've heard rumbles that they want to get him. I hope that they do. The Sox need as much of an improvement in the outfield as they can get especially if Trot is leavingPharos04

[edit] Freedom in the World

If you want to create a separate article for each year's ranking, I have no problem with that. But, please, let the main page be non-year specific. Thanks. —☆ CieloEstrellado 04:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Because there was no main page! —☆ CieloEstrellado 05:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Bangweulu Block

I un-geo'd it mainly because all the other similar articles are listed primarily as geology-stubs rather than geo-stubs. In a way you're right, it is about a geographical area, but I don't really think it would attract the same sort of editors as normally work on geographical articles. Just a personal opinion, though - if you think it works better as a geology/geo double-stubbing, then fair enough. Grutness...wha? 22:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Your replies

Weeks and weeks have passed. ;) --PaxEquilibrium 11:29, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

You could've at least informed me that You're no longer interested in answering me. Anyway, sorry if I bored yah!!! --PaxEquilibrium 01:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just FYI

References can't be listed under external links. They have to be listed in the References section or cited as footnotes, etc. The external links section is for additional internet resources which were not used for references. You might want to seperate your references from your links. :-) Jefferson Anderson 22:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endiama

Thanks for your comment. Growing up and now living in Southeastern New England, I enjoy working with Portuguese Africa. Many internationally-minded people who live in Portugal and Portuguese Africa come here to retire; it's an important part of the Portuguese-speaking world. -- And for some reason, the Miami Dolphins have a lot of fans here. No matter, go Patriots. --McTrixie/Mr Accountable 16:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rocheforte L Weeks

Hi Thomas,

I added a life sketch of my father which I see you have edited out. May I ask why...as the life sketch was complete and taken from the program which commemorated his passing.

Kind Regards Ronauld

ronauld@averyconsultants.demon.co.uk —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.49.60.141 (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Thomas wrote: Hello there, I deleted the entry because their is no way to cite it, even though i do not doubt the authenticity of it. See Wikipedia:Verifiability for more information.--Thomas.macmillan 21:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Well Thomas the birth date is wrong so where did you cite that from...where was the text include cited from as I can't see it on the Contemporary African Database....sounds like the ethos of Wikipedia is just marketing.

Raweeks 22:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

If you want a scan copy of the document to justify verifiability I can send to you.

Raweeks 22:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Thomas wrote: You are right, the birthday and death day which you added should also of been deleted and have. Everything written on it is from the Contemporary Africa Database. If you want to add facts, you need to use reliable sources like books, news paper articles or sites online. Besides, you cannot just completely copy ANYTHING with a copyright onto Wikipedia, that would be plagarism. Also consider Wikipedia:Autobiography--Thomas.macmillan 23:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Raweeks: I agree that if you are going to remove it, all should be removed...however if you look at the history you will see that the original birthday I put in the 15th was changed to the 25th. In addition technically 'reliable sources' are a misconception as an on-line source is not always reliable...if that was the case someone could create a site which is on-line and overnight it becomes a reliable source base on your definition above...In terms of the document used it was a family document and permission is given and source cited....I will reinterate that on the Contemporary African Database I have seen no mention of the text which is put under my father's name in Wikipedia...I'm not saying its wrong only that if we speak of facts then there should be no text just dates, positions and thats it as stated in the Contemporary African Database. Raweeks 09:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Otterbein page

Okay, then. Instead of telling me that my formatting is terrible, please tell me how I can work with you, considering the information provided on the page as it is now is completely incorrect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jennyhill (talk • contribs) 14:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

I will have our webmaster handle the wikilinks, then. But I stand firm that there is no plagiarism on this page and the page that is already provided has innacurate information on it.

The Executive Director of Communications (my superior) would like to speak with you personally on the phone. If that is possible, please call us at (614) 823-1284

Thank you for the information. Where can we find information on how to remove our listing from Wikipedia altogether? If the college cannot maintain its content, we would prefer not to be listed at all. In addition, can you tell us who posted our logo without our permission, as it is the Office of Marketing and Communications that grants logo usage permission, and we were not contacted.

[edit] re: oddity

I don't see that at the moment. My first thought was possible template vandalism, but I don't see anything in the history of either {{tunisia-stub}} or {{listen}}. So I'm confused too... Perhaps image vandalism? Alai 22:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My mistake

I think I should have made my statement clearer. In my mind, when I said "Middle East", I was thinking of the Arab states KSA, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. I lived in Oman for 17 years - and I know it is true that it is one of the most tolerant Arab nations. You can go ahead and edit it, but also note that I didn't blindly put it there as POV. I did provide references illustrating Oman's openness when it comes to other religions. Thanks --Vivin Paliath (വിവി൯ പാലിയത്) 22:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Downwards

I've blocked him (not banned, BTW - that's something much more serious) for 24 hours for vandalism. Let me know if he continues this editing pattern after the block expires. I'm most disappointed to see that he vandalized after ignoring my query on his talk page. | Mr. Darcy talk 23:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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