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Contents 1 Roman military - peer review 2 Cretan War 3 Proper goodbye 4 El Greco 5 Thingy thing 6 Niko, Francis and the dinosaurs 7 FAC Finnish Civil War 8 El Greco 9 Cooperation board launched 10 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue IX - November 2006 11 Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight 12 My sympathies... 13 Congrats! 14 Did you know? 15 Website inline cits 16 WP:MINOR 17 Arthur Sullivan 18 Greetings 19 Thank you for your support 20 Tagtrolling 21 El Greco 22 Caspian expeditions of the Rus 23 Announcement

[edit] Roman military - peer review

Hi, this article is currently pending peer review and I see that you have an interest in military history and have peer-reviewed articles before - if you have time I would greatly appreciate any advice or comments you can give within the peer review structure for improving this article. Many Thanks - PocklingtonDan 16:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cretan War

Thanks again. Your help has been great. Kyriakos 20:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Yanni, just popping by to tell you that the Cretan War is up for FA. Kyriakos 02:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Το μόνο πρόβλημα είναι ότι διάβασα ένα από τα βιβλία όταν είμουνα σε διακοπές και δε μπορώ να το βρω πουθενά. Και το άλλα το πήρα από την βιβλιοθήκη και άλλοι το διαβάζουν. Kyriakos 09:59, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar Yanni. And I also want to thank you for all the help you have given me with the Cretan War. Kyriakos 20:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

My pleasure!--Yannismarou 20:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Would it be OK if I used your user page design becuase my is getting messy? Kyriakos 06:14, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper goodbye

Hi Yannismarou, this is Konstable. I just want to say thank you for all the wonderful work that you've been doing around here and goodbye.

I should have listened to you and never become an administrator. Now I got increasingly frustrated with the bureaucracy, decided to leave, but when I popped back in for a quick message to someone I was dragged into WP:AN/I and then arbitration where huge exagerations, misinterpretations and false statements have been brought up, which I don't even have the energy to try to defend. I have been accused of many things including "trolling", "disruption" and I have been wrongly blocked for a total of 3 times now. Nothing more than a spit in the face for the time that I have put in to help out Wikipedia. I am more than unwelcome here and any return even in several months' time is quite impossible. Who knows, maybe they will even ban me.

You are one of the best editors of Wikipedia. Your work is more valuable than 1,000 admins put together, keep the FAs coming! And good luck! --203.109.209.49 03:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC) (This IP is shared and not quite static, changes every few weeks, so please don't respond on the IP talk page)

[edit] El Greco

Read the diff carefully - I'm removing the 'poopy' text that you seem to be inserting with your reverts. I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but I don't want to break 3RR. --ElizabethFong 09:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Your first edit; my revert; your re-revert --ElizabethFong 09:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thingy thing

Hi mate, how's it been.

Just bringing this non-football thing to your attention, since you're all clever and stuff.

MTS Driver Recruiters is an advertising spam article created by User:Mtsdrivers and he's put a few links to the article here and there, for example on Truck driver. Not quite sure what to do, but I thought I'd let you know since you're an admin and everything. He originally put a link to the MTS Drivers website on the Truck driver page but I deleted it. It seems he's back and is determined to advertise his site on Wikipedia :-)

Thanks for your help, maybe you could just pass this on for some body else to deal with. -GilbertoSilvaFan 19:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you for catching this one. I'll normally be sufficient to just stick the {db-advert} tag on; the speedy-deletion category is then usually patrolled quite regularly by several admins. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:59, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Niko, Francis and the dinosaurs

Hi, don't worry about Niko and Francis! :-) They were just having a nice little dispute among friends, about how to treat alternate names of the Macedonian language ("Slavomacedonian", "Macedonian Slavic" etc.) Francis' contention was that these alternates are so marginal in the (non-Greek) scholarly literature that it would be "undue weight" to give them a prominent mention in the lead, so now they've been in a competition who can bring most sources. Francis was claiming he could counter every instance of "Slav-..." with a hundred others. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha! I can't believe how much attention we've attracted with this! NikoSilver 20:30, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FAC Finnish Civil War

Hello, the article's lead has been shortened and some page numbers added. You may want to reconsider your opinion about the article, as it seems to be quite quiet in the FAC. More page numbers will be added all the time, as much can be. It takes some time, of course. Per RelHistBuff's comments I don't think it would affect the verifialibility of FAC that much, if all notes didn't have page numbers all on all authors? --Pudeo (Talk) 18:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] El Greco

Nice article - I've done some very minor copyediting, and left some comments on the talk page. I didn't check any of the images, but I assume they are all PD anyway. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 02:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I've nominated the article on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates Tom 18:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC).

Tom's response to your questions/comments:

• Why didn't you discuss your intentions with me?

Anyone can nominate an article without having to discuss with anyone else. The nomination page provides a forum for discussion. No one has to discuss with you before nominating a page that you have worked on.

• Didn't you see in the talk page that an independent review initiated by me and executed by Yongamani was in its way?

Yes, as I have written, I have referenced the peer-review twice, please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/El Greco. You've said the peer review is complete.

• Didn't you see in the talk page again that I am one of the main editors (honestly? the only main editor!) of this article?

Yes, I've said this several times as you have acknowledged.

• Don't I have the right to be informed about your initiatives before they take place and not afterwards?

In this context, you definitely don't have the right, no.

• Didn't you think to ask me whether I had the intention or not to nominate myself this article?

No. It's FA quality, no one else had nominated it, so I nominated it.

• Don't you recognize that the main editor of an article should have the right to nominate himself an article he is working on (self-nomination)?

I do and have always recognised that you do have the right to nominate the article.

• If the main editor does not have such an intention [to nominate an article], then OK; do as you wish. But did you ask me if and when I had the intention to nominate the article?

I'm guessing a lot of these questions are rhetorical? I did not ask you if you had the intention to nominate the article, we do not have to get permission from any of the editors in order to nominate an article. If someone thinks an article is FA quality, they can nominate it, even if someone else has done a lot of editing on the article and doesn't think it's ready yet.

[edit] Cooperation board launched

A new (and overdue) Greek and Turkish cooperation and notification board has been launched here. Stop by, have a look and sound off! Cheers! Baristarim 07:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue IX - November 2006

The November 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 23:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight

You supported Battle of Crete, which has been selected as the Military history WikiProject's new Collaboration of the Fortnight. Please help improve this article to featured article standards. Kirill Lokshin 00:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My sympathies...

for the frustrating situation that has arisen due to the El Greco FAC. :( But don't worry, we'll get a star on this article very soon! Let me know if/when you need me to look over the article again! Regards, Gzkn 01:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Per Gzkn, I hope this incident won't discourage you from continuing to improve the article. :) - Tutmosis 02:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, guys! But I'm not discouraged!--Yannismarou 12:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats!

I just saw Demosthenes is scheduled for the Main Page on December 3! Congratulations! Ruhrfisch 01:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

On 29 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Disrobing of Christ, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 00:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Website inline cits

Is it possible to turn certain information you get from web sites into inline cits like the ones ones where you get the info from books. Kyriakos 08:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MINOR

Yannis, I notice that you mark most of your edits as minor. This is quite misleading. The minor edits are when you add a comma or an interwiki link. When you add a comment on a talk page of another editor, this is not a minor edit. Best, Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Not all of them! But you are right. Sometimes the hand goes there without even realizing it! I don't know why, but I'll try to be more cautious. Thanks!--Yannismarou 09:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

If you plan to apply for adminship, this is one of crucial details that RfA regulars are prone to decry. Best, Ghirla ^-трёп- 09:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, again! But not yet! I'll wait a few months more until I think about applying for adm.--Yannismarou 09:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur Sullivan

Hi! HJust wanted to apologise for taking so long to deal with your (excellent) suggestions: Slight problem of being too ill to get at the needed materials. It will be done. Adam Cuerden ^talk 10:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cyprus

There is MUCH to do but the road ahead will be a blessed road in the end. Cheers.(UNFanatic 15:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Thank you for your support

The article Joseph W. Tkach was promoted to FA on 3 December with a 4-0 result. Many thanks for your comments and support! I hope to bring more articles to FAC soon. --RelHistBuff 10:26, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagtrolling

I was surprised to see you engage in this. Such moves have been previously condemned by ArbCom as abuse of citation tags. If you feel some assertion is dubitable and dispute it, please find an adequate citation, rather than hastening to litter the text with ugly tags. Best, Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

But what if the author of the article has left Wikipedia a year ago? In this case, your tags are addressed to noone in particular and will disfigure the article for eternity. I don't think they are particularly helpful for our readers. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 09:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I provided inline citations for the loci communes that appeared dubitable to you. I believe you may have done as much (and more) yourself, without bothering other editors. The article now has forty three inline citations. Is it enough for you or should we rise they number to hundreds? --Ghirla ^-трёп- 10:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] El Greco

Keep up the great work...I showed the article to the folks on IRC and they were amazed. :) Gzkn 06:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!--Yannismarou 07:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Sure thing! Will do in a few minutes...as far as IRC, check out IRC and WP:IRC :). Gzkn 07:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again!--Yannismarou 07:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Done! Here's the diff: [1]. I left some comments in there. Feel free to ask any questions or revert back to the previous wording. Gzkn 08:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caspian expeditions of the Rus

I respectfully stroke out your comments as inflammatory. Of course you are free to revert and I will not do it again. But please consider rephrasing to avoid bad blood. It is up to you of course. Sorry, --Irpen 07:48, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thinking more of it, I self-reverted. It is not up to me to remove this. Just was too much afraid for the discussion of the good article becoming personal. But I would still appreciate your refactoring of your edit to make it less patronizing. --Irpen 07:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Announcement

Announcement The "Help name my baby" Poll has closed :). Greta Annette was born 12/12/06. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19inches long. Mother and baby are both doing fine. Thanks for all the suggestions! To keep this slightly Wikipedia related I have started Adopt a State, so adopt your state article today! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)