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[edit] Thanks!

Thank you for the wonderful welcome on my user page. I love Wikipedia! Aphrodite7717 03:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 原語表記（česky）の訂正について

こんにちは、ja:user:Diagraph01です。ご指摘をいただいた際はありがとうございました。私の英語が下手なせいで、うまく真意がつたわらなかったことを恥じ入ります。私は6月1日から新しい集計スクリプトを走らせ始めましたが、これは言語対照ファイルを分離していますので、（エンバグさえしていなければ）今後あなたのお手を煩わせることはないものと確信しております。一連のご親切に、深く感謝を申し上げます。--Diagraph01 19:35, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wdefcon

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[edit] Template:Illegalparty

Hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions here as I seem to have written loads on the template page! I wrote most of the Free party#Law and Police section and have done research into this and I am confused as to the problem with the label 'illegal'. I agree that what is illegal in the UK is not illegal in Czech so maybe that adds a POV but there is no doubt that in many countries these parties are illegal, not just slightly but there are whole laws [1] [2] [3] against them so. I could find no law against them in Canada but there seems to be enough legal basis (I don't have any training in law but from what I can understand) in calling them illegal. Hope you don't mind me asking but nobody else seemed willing to defened their delete vote so if I can understand why then I'll try to make the template less POV. Rex the first talk | contribs 18:15, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

This is an international Wikipedia, so the title "illegal party" would be incorrect to some visitors. If a CzechTek is illegal in the UK, well that's completely irrelevant, as it's held on the territory of the Czech Republic, where it's (now) legal. Holding the parties in countries where they're illegal would obviously cause them to be an "illegal party", but as they're mostly held in nations where it's legal, they are not illegal parties, if that makes sense. +Hexagon1 (t) 03:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I think that makes sense. I would argue that most CzechTek's have been illigeal but then in Italy they aren't so it puts a UK/US bias. I have changed the name from Illegalparty to DIY Parties, hope this means it won't be deleted! Rex the first talk | contribs 09:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I've added a mini notice to the top of the vote, an admin passing by will probably close it soon. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Cheers! Rex the first talk | contribs 09:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] EU map

A small addition to the map: please add a circle for the French islands "St Pierre" and "Miquelon", off the east coast of Canada. They are also (very much) a part of the EU.

Thanks Cheers JJN

I can't, I'm not a cartographer. The islands are probably not there just because they aren't judged large/important enough to be included. That map is based on one of these maps, which already lack those isles. +Hexagon1 (t) 02:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Hexagon1! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Computerjoe's talk 15:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your signature

Hello there, I was wondering if you would please modify your signature to conform to the guidelines laid out at Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. The general guidelines are that signatures shouldn't contain images, they shouldn't contain unnecessary internal links or any external links, and they shouldn't be unnecessarily long in Wiki source. The reasoning for this final bit is that overly long signatures tend to overwhelm the actual comments in edit mode, making it hard to track down and respond to specific comments. You can fix your signature by removing any images and external links, any unnecessary links (like links to Wikipedian organizations, articles, or subpages in userspace), and removing excessive color, font, and formatting code. Thank you. --Cyde↔Weys 20:15, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, in response to your comments on my talk about my sig, I think you may be refering to my older one which streched out for over 5 lines, as it had borders around the images. I like to keep in the images, they're tiny both in the layout and the Wikisource (even though the name of the Australian one is rather long, but that's for clarity's sake, not my fault). They're easily identifiable and distinguishable from my actual comments, even in wikisource. I went through several sigs in the last fortnight, so if you could just enlighten me as to the one you're refering to. +Hexagon1 (t) 11:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
No, I'm referring to your current signature. It has two images. Images aren't allowed in sigs. Please remove them. --Cyde↔Weys 12:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
:No, images are depreciated, not banned. I have stopped using images for the reason of unnecessary server load (due to me welcoming new users a lot, which caused the pix to be included in quite of lot of user talks), using ASCII characters instead. But you claim that my sig owerwhelms code, which isn't true in my case, it does not overwhelm any code, it's blatantly distinguashable from my comments. But if it will make you happier I'll stop signing my posts all-together, perhaps that will stop overwhelming them. +Hexagon1 (t) |*̥̲̅ ̲̅†̲̅| |>̲̅-̲̅| 13:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editted Image

Hi Hexagon1! I editted an image you'd been maintaining: Image:Anglospeak.png. In South America, French Guiana was highlighted instead of Guyana. Just wanted to give you a heads up. --Chris Quackenbush 15:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, cool. I didn't choose the countries to be coloured though, I only updated the map with info from a now deleted en:Wiki map, rm'd Québec, and separated the countries that actualy speak English from those that have it as an official language. But I'm glad you took the incentive to change it, rather then bombarding me with email requests or worse, writing corrections on the page itself. +Hexagon1 (t) |*̥̲̅ ̲̅†̲̅| |>̲̅-̲̅| 02:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Conversion

Hi, I saw your message in my talk page in zh:User_talk:Zhengzhu. I have been inactive for a while so sorry for my late reply. The sr wiki is running a conversion system similar to the Chinese one, and should be more easily adapted for use for the gothic wiki (they have two sets of alphabet as well). Please try contacting people there for support. -Zhengzhu 02:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regions of Czechia at Commons

Hi! Please note that GFDL requires keeping a list of authors. I am really happy to see images which creation took a lot of my time, at Commons. However, an important mention af the authors and origin of data was not copied! It is absolutely necessary, otherwise they will be deleted. Please, add all needed information to all images you have uploaded as soon as possible. Thank you. Miraceti 09:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll see if I can do it with AWB. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Nope, apparently I can't. But I did it manually. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
If you write: "Source: CS.wikipedia.org", it is useless. The original image at cs will be deleted as soon as possible because it is at Commons. This is a common procedure. Link to a nonexisting image means that the image at Commons will be deleted because its licence cannot be checked.
And, GFDL does not say that a copylefted work should be accompanied with a link to the original work. It says that a list of major authors must be distributed with it. If you add only the link, it is a violation of GFDL!
Please, answer only at that place where discussion was initiated. That means here. Thanks. Miraceti 10:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Images have got corrected summaries now. Miraceti 11:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Adminship

It is my regretful task to inform you that I have closed your request for adminship early as unlikely to achieve consensus. Please do not be discouraged; a number of users have had their first RfA end without consensus, but have been promoted overwhelmingly in a later request. Please continue to make outstanding contributions to Wikipedia, and consider requesting adminship again in the future. You may find Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship helpful in deciding when to consider running again. If I can be of any help to you, please do not hesitate to ask. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

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This week Louvre was selected to be improved to featured article status.
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[edit] you hexagon are a funny man

like i said im not going anywhere....and it may be a massive waste of your time to try banning me as i know of 4 p[roxies that wikipedia still accepts and plus every time i connect i switch ip's anyhow so figure your self in efficient in the war against vandalism

Armking15 15:17, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Foolish little man. We can block IP ranges too, and the only reason you got away with the previous vandalism is because the CVU isn't very active at the moment. But as America hits dawn, it will all be over. +Hexagon1 (t) 15:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archive Three

Page has been archived. +Hexagon1 (t) 13:14, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the Birthday Committee!

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[edit] Reguarding your email image.

The use of google's Gmail logo in it may make it a derivitave image of google's gmail image, which means its copyright goes to google. It then means its not a free image, which THEN means it can't be on your userpage. Could you consider replacing it with an image that uses components which are from free images? Sorry to be a bother. Kevin_b_er 03:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caron vote

I don't see what you are trying to accomplish other than annoying everyone, by replying to every single vote against the caron move with the same opinion. Your comments should be in the comments section, not clutter up the oppose votes. -- Jordi·✆ 13:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Jordi. It seems to me that there is no consensus to move the article from Caron to Háček but if you will look at the article you will see that I have tried to satisfy people by making the typographic use and the linguistic preferences more clear. Evertype 13:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] abbreviations

You wrote (bold emphasis added):

Hmm, didn't know it's abbreviated like that, but I still doubt anyone will type "CR" in an encyclopedia in an attempt to look at the county road article. But then again, we don't use the word county at all here in Australia, so I'm not certain. And while CR may usually stand for couty road in the US, this isn't the US Wikipedia, it is the English Wikipedia and it has to cater to acronyms used by English speakers everywhere. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree wholeheartedly with your last statement, but it directly contradicts your actions. If this represents your actual philosophy with regards to disambiguation pages, why have you attempted (several times) to remove entries CR and/or redirect it to Czech Republic, rather than expanding it to include other possible meanings? — Jul. 20, '06 [14:49] <freak|talk>

I reverted because your edits deprived "English speakers everywhere" of easy access to several topics for which the abbreviation "CR" is commonly used, based on your inappropriate assumption that nobody would find such links useful. For me, when I think of "CR" I think of "county road", "carriage return", and "chromium", in that order, but that would not make it okay for me to remove entries I had no interest in, and I would never consider doing so, as removing entries reduces the usefulness of the page as a whole. If you want to put the countries Czech Republic and Costa Rica up at the top of the list, and change the order of the others, that's fine with me, but please don't remove items you don't like. — Jul. 21, '06 [13:27] <freak|talk>

[edit] Cactions bug

Thanks for your bug report. Despite being on holiday in sunny SoCal, I've managed to find time to make the following bugfixes:

  • Hash/URL anchor symbol (#) bug replaced. No longer parsed through to history pages, etc.
  • Caction links on redirected pages now point to the correct page (not the redirect page)

If you find any more, let me know, although I make no promises of fixing them while soaking up the sun! haz (user talk) 00:25, 23 July 2006

Australia? Visited Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Geelong, Ballarat and Adelaide in the summer (winter!) of 2004. Ha. haz (user talk) 03:12, 29 July 2006

[edit] Image tagging for Image:ESA-members-map.png

Thanks for uploading Image:ESA-members-map.png. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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Bot bug. +Hexagon1 (t) 02:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Polish/German border at the time of RČS

Do you know where I can get a reasonably high quality map showing the southern Polish-German border around the time of the first Czechoslovakia (RČS)? One showing rivers and cities as well.

Scanning it from an old atlas, I guess. I do not own any such atlas and do not have easy access to public libraries to scan it. Perhaps you may ask on Czech Wiki [4] or on Polish equivalent. Online I found only one map on [5] (the second one) but it is not public.
An article how the border has been changed after 1945 is on [6], it mentions year 1919 and literature. Pavel Vozenilek 22:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

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Hope you have a great day!! -- Underneath-it-All 00:26, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, Hexagon1/archive2!
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Wikipedia wishes you a Happy Birthday!!
Wikipedia wishes you a Happy Birthday!!
- Happy Birthday Hexagon1!!! Jam01 06:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Happy Birthday! -- tariqabjotu 11:51, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Happy Birthday! -- tariqabjotu 11:51, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No moose horns

As far as JPG, I'll do it. As far as prohibitory road signs you're wrong.

Example:

means "hand carts entry pohibited". A crossed one means that the previous sign is no longer valid. OK? Thanks. Space Cadet 15:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] ChDV - Russian man from Australia

I'm translate your masage on your Russian User page. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Hexagon1

Best wishes with your Russian :-))))

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[edit] Indigenous Australians vs. Australian Aborigines

If you've never seen the word "Indigenous Australians", then how come it's so widely used on Wikipedia? Are you suggesting Indigenous Australians should be moved to Australian Aborigines? Please explain. Thanks, Zarbat 07:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay I've opened a new poll here. Zarbat 02:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Czech koruna

G'day! I've noticed you removed the coin table from the article. As one of the aims of Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics, we are creating these tables to make it a good information source for numismatists. You can find them in several articles. Naturally, you might have objections to the style of tables, you can share your ideas at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style/Currency article. You can also help with uploading images of Czech (or any) coins and banknotes to improve the tables. Ta, Timur lenk 09:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user page

How do you accidently stumble onto someone's user page and if you realised that you accidently stumbled onto my user page why read it (it's just a question). Also I did fix my user page, thanks for poining it out to me, but I don't think other people have accidently stumbled onto my user page like you did though. Another thing, did you read all of my user page, because I have a question at the bottom of it, please read again if you haven't done so yet. Lastly how do you get Firefox 2.0 (please explain in detail I'm not so good with downloading things) and I'm no kid, in my religion I'm a man.Sam ov the blue sand 21:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

First off I found out I have a similar thing to FireFox 2.0 so I don't need it, also my Norton Internet Security system won't allow me to download it anyways. Yep that's right I'm Jewish (on my dad's side anyway). I was being sarcastic by saying I was a man (apparently you didn't read my whole article or you would have known I like using sarcasim alot) and who cares if I'm not legaly a man and how do you know that I'm not mentaly a man and my homeboys in Israel would take offense to that. Where was I on Tawker's user page anyways. How do you make user boxes I think they would help my user page.Sam ov the blue sand 21:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
1. Again I was being sarcastic by saying Homeboys.2. who cares what research says, doctors don't know the difference between their bung hole (I'm not being immature by saying that I just don't want to say @$$ on the computer) and there mouth.3.How do you make user boxes I think they would help my user page.4.Der Man bat einen grossen Geist Und ist so klein von Taten!'The spirit of the man is great, how puny are his deeds!Sam ov the blue sand 21:59, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thank you so much for the barnstar! Just a note that I made a new version of the map (fixed a few errors, and made a few changes to the discussion page as a result), can you upload the new version to commons too? (My commons account is too new for me to do so).--Canuckguy 03:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shaggy9872004

Sorry mate, I'm a little new here so I don't rreally know how to sign stuff. Can you please give me some info on that? Thanks! —preceding unsigned comment by Shaggy9872004 (talk • contribs) 09:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tournesol.png

Ahhaha! You're still around! I remember when you showed up and I throught you were a sock-puppet! 68.39.174.238 01:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move of First Republic of Czechoslovakia

After proposing a move on Talk:First Republic of Czechoslovakia, I noticed you suggested something along the same lines on User talk:Domino theory. Please voice your opinion at Talk:First Republic of Czechoslovakia. Thanks. -TheMightyQuill 02:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger of Czechoslovakia: 48-68 & 68-89

Not that I necessarily think it was a bad idea, but shouldn't you have waited for discussion?

Or maybe there was discussion, but I can't tell, because the discussions were wiped out during the move. Any way they can be restored? -TheMightyQuill 01:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I take that back, I do think it was a bad idea to merge the country page Czechoslovak Socialist Republic into the history page. I'm undoing it, until it's been discussed, at Talk:Czechoslovakia. TheMightyQuill 02:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] world subdivision map

Nice work! It looks much better with the subdivision lines lighter. By the way if you want to delete the older files you have to add them to deletion requests on commons, or perhaps {{superseded}} would do? There is also one with the mexican states shown, perhaps you could add them too --Astrokey44 04:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fr wiki

Ahoj, jsem ti nechal vzkaz na fr.wikipédia :-) --Diligent 14:32, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your page

In English:
The sentence "Já jsem rodilý mluvčí Češtiny" has two grammar errors (not major, though). The first is, no Czech will say "Já jsem " + verb, instead he says "Jsem " + verb. If someone says "Já jsem...", he want to emphasize the fact, that it is HE and not somebody else (this is the same as "I and only I..."). The second thing is more obvious: The word "čeština" should be written with small "č". So, the correct sentence should be "Jsem rodilý mluvčí češtiny". Or maybe something like "Čeština je mým rodným jazykem", or "Můj rodný jazyk je čeština" should be more suitable here.
Česky:
Čech nikdy neřekne "Já jsem rodilý mluvčí Češtiny" - řekl by to pouze, pokud chce zdůraznit fakt, že je to on sám. Použití by tedy bylo třeba ve větě "On je Slovák, já jsem Čech". Další chyba spočívá va faktu, že čeština se píše s malým "č". Možná nejlepší by bylo použití něčeho jako "Můj rodný jazyk je čeština".

Atom cz 14:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox {{User UN}}

Hi Hexagon1, I noticed by chance that someone edited the userbox

This user supports the United Nations.



today to say "This user DOES NOT support the United Nations." It appeared to be an inappropriate edit, so I reverted it (Page History). This is to just let you know of the change.

-A.Ou 18:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map formats

From the edit summary of Wikipedia:Blank_maps by you:

"if i see any more maps in jpg i'm going to kill someone"

Need an accomplice?  :)

Seriously, yes I am in full agreement here. Personally, I'd go a bit farther and call for the violent overthrow replacement of the ubiquitous Image:BlankMap-World.png as well, used in almost all maps now. Not that I don't like PNG (I do prefer it on one note as I have little experience in SVG), but one of the first things I see on the map is the very sub-standard quality of the Canadian Arctic islands and Greenland, while Image:BlankMap-World6.svg being SVG shows a much more "true" world outline (which was the main thing that drew me to improve it in the first place, it was the best map I had seen and, since I wanted to use it, I had the idea to invoke the "grouping" feature on it to make it usuable for representing national datum.)

Speaking of maps, I find your legend on Image:Hexagon1travel.png confusing, what exactly is the difference between light and dark green (or orange for that matter)? --Canuckguy 23:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your legend, it's just really confusing (bordering on misleading, imo) to use separate colours for subdivisions and areas. A quick glance might say that you've been to Western Australia, but after some thinking (after reading your explanation on my talk page) it seems that you've only been to Queensland, NSW, ACT, Victoria, and Tasmania, the rest of the country coloured to show that you've "spent more than one day in Australia", where actually your colours on those five states/territories state that just as well. (The UK is even stranger, England is coloured as visited for less than a day, Scotland and Wales are coloured lighter to (confusingly) show that you've been to the UK for less than a day, but N. Ireland is left completely grey! Probably a colouring oversight (due to not having a map that colours all territory the same colour with one click ;) ) And the final confusing thing, Spain, Czech Rep. Thailand, etc, are coloured in the colour for subnational areas, if you've been to those countries, shouldn't the lighter hues be used?
My solution: ditch the dark/light and use just one colour for more than a day, and one colour for less than a day. You are also more than welcome to keep it on the subnational level by just colouring those subnational areas you've visited, but leave the rest of the country grey (after all, those areas *do* fall under "want to go", don't they?)
As to the matter of the map, when you mentioned you actually use MS Paint for your maps, my innocence and beliefs haven't been crushed this much since I found out that Santa Claus isn't real! I'm very surprised considering the high praise I've recieved from you, and seeing your work, I was sure you had much better graphics program for that! My hat is off to you! This may be useful, before I came across the Image:BlankMap-World3.svg map (or even Wikipedia), I had a map in Paint Shop format which involved a complex level of layers, etc to get the same effect that Image:BlankMap-World6.svg has, but it did the job exceptionally well, and I usually put out finished products to .gif form (though I could easily have done PNG). I *could* try to resurrect the file (if I didn't delete it because I love Image:BlankMap-World6.svg so much) and have it available, what are your thoughts? --Canuckguy 03:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice to see the fix of the map - minor nit, N. Ireland still has been neglected in colour. --Canuckguy 02:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World's Smallest Political Quiz userbox

You may be interested in User:Audacity/Userboxes/WSPQ, which is a replacement for the old Political Chart userbox. The new userbox takes the two variables (economic and personal freedom), calculates which political alignment they place you into (Statist, Libertarian, Liberal, Centrist, or Conservative), and links your userpage to the appropriate category.

Please reply to User talk:Audacity, as I will not be watching your talk page. Λυδαcιτγ 07:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re first world

You may not have realized it, but you actually did take a side in the edit war. The "Cali" user wanted exactly what you did. I have already spoken with both sides, demanding reliable sources for any inclusion of any country. As far as I'm concerned, US, UK, and NL are not in the first world until some citations start showing up. If you want to avoid taking sides, consider simply deleting all specific country examples for now. — coelacan talk — 07:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree and I'll be posting at the talk page pretty soon with a reply to most of what has been said since I was last there. The effect of your edits has been to favor one pov in the dispute, and if it was your intention to avoid taking sides, you have not. I do not think that any examples are needed at this time, no matter how representative those examples might be. The limit of any particular number of examples is arbitrary, a synthesis of research, and thus a violation of wp:nor. More importantly, I do not think that any side should get their pov chosen by default, and since wp:there is no deadline, it is probably best to go without examples for the moment. They are not needed but they are bringing further unnecessary contention to the discussion, since from a npov standpoint, what we leave out is as important as what we leave in. I believe that the benefit of avoiding examples for the moment will be to encourage decreased hostility, and this will outweigh any temporary loss of information (a very small loss anyway if the examples are "obvious"). — coelacan talk — 07:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Not what I meant. =) I want your unsolicited input on the talk page. The more sources of input, the better. I'm merely suggesting that you remove the uncited specfic examples, even US, UK and NL, from the article. Please continue to say whatever you think needs said on Talk:First World. Also, sorry about my talk page. I'll get to archiving it soon. You can respond to me on your talk page and I'll check here. — coelacan talk — 07:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I think that will help in keeping the tone in check. If I'm wrong about that, I'll have to come up with some other hairbrained scheme. =P — coelacan talk — 08:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
And yeah, the geographically and racially-based accusations are inexcusable. I'm totally serious on my ultimatum; the next one is going straight to WP:ANI. Again, you can reply here if my page is killing your dialup. If you reply it will take the (top) off my contributions so I'll see it. — coelacan talk — 08:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to archive right now so don't touch my talk page for a few minutes. — coelacan talk — 08:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, done. Ready for that sterile environment to be breached again. Hope you didn't actually read any of my old talk page. =P About a third (maybe more) is unfit for human consumption. — coelacan talk — 08:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiatlas

You might be interested in joining the WikiProject Atlas. Electionworld 20:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Race and intelligence

I noticed that you were vocal in debates about the race and intelligence articles earlier. We need your help right now. We're coming very close to revising this article to be something like neutral and only one user is standing in the way! What we need now is an overwhelming show of support from all of the people over the past few years who have complained and criticized this article. We're going to put everything in historical context, so that research some regard as "scientific racism" can't be presented as pure, unquestioned, unbiased science. This will give readers the chance to make up their mind with the appropriate context. Please stop by the talk page and read the section on "moving forward" I hope that you choose to be a part of this.

I know it may bee intimidating and time consuming to sift through all of the warning and banter on this talk page, but I think it is worth the effort. Hope to hear from you! --futurebird 03:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] New Europe

What is to discuss ? This [7] looked like a vandalism, so I reverted it an block. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 09:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IPA and Unicode

A couple of days ago you gave me an advice on the Czech alphabet talk page about replacing Arial Unicode MS fonts with Unicode fonts by Gentium. I downloaded the fonts by Gentium and after unzipping the file I found font sets called GenAR102, GenR102, GenAI102 and GenI102, but I do not know which of them should replace the Arial fonts. And when I looked into my fonts folder (C:\WINDOWS\Fonts), I did not find any set called Arial Unicode MS. Could you please give me some more detailed advise? Thanks very much. Jan.Kamenicek 23:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Brno You might be interested [8]. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 22:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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