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Welcome!! -- Gurubrahma 08:48, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Ta for stuff about the conurbations. Wondering if you had more on the controversy about Liverpool/Wirral? Morwen - Talk 11:27, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Artan Jemiri
Hello!!!
The article in Albanian has no value. I urge somebody deletes it.--Epirus 02:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] A few useful links
Howdy! I noticed you've been editing some Cameroon articles this evening. As you may have noticed, Wikipedia is always in need of more Africa editors. I don't know if this is a continued area of interest for you, but if it is, here's some other links that you may want to check out:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias open tasks
- Portal:Africa
- Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
- Wikipedia:African Collaboration of the Fortnight
Good luck, and happy editing! If you ever have any questions, feel free to leave a note on my talk page; lots of folks helped me when I first got here and I'm always glad to pay it forward! --Dvyost 02:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cameroon population estimates
Hi, James! Thanks for your recent edits to various Cameroon-related articles. Can you tell me where you got the population estimates you quoted? Thanks! — BrianSmithson 02:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
From CityPopulation - its a labour of love by a German chap - very reliable. Jameswilson 02:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Hmm. Very interesting. I wonder what his sources are. But the numbers look believable enough. Thanks for the response. — BrianSmithson 02:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
PS - according to his list the biggest towns without an article seem to be Dschang and Loum
[edit] India related links
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Hi, it has been just a tad over a month since I welcomed you and it has been great to see you working very actively. I am also adding some links for Wikipedians interested in Indian content, just in case. --Gurubrahma 13:28, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Türkistan, Kazakhstan
Hi, James, Hazrat-e Turkestan already exists on the same place. Tearlach 04:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Gaza City
Hi James
thanks for the note. Israel's withdrawal this year was from the Israeli colonies in the Gaza Strip and from other areas it still occupied in the Strip. However, the article you were editing was about Gaza City, which was evacuated by the Israeli army when Palestinian autonomy was first implemented under the Oslo Accords. Regards, Palmiro | Talk 01:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Kukawa
Hi James :-) As for the exact date, I found it in the Columbia Encyclopedia: the year given for the foundation by by Muhammad al-Kanemi is 1814, when it became the third capital of Kanem-Bornu'history. As for your 1900 book, it's curious that it states Bornu still existing, as the library of congress material I read declares the city was conquered and destroyed in 1893 by Rabih Fadlallah from Sudan. As for the title read the last passages of Kanem-Bornu Empire:
- Although the dynasty ended, the kingdom of Kanem-Bornu survived. But Umar, who eschewed the title mai for the simpler designation shehu (from the Arabic "shaykh").
So it would appear the rulers called themselves, shehu, and not mai as before; but as for the titles sultan and emir, the LOC does not appear to consider them. Hope this is informative. And thanks for the stub! Aldux 15:19, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mecca section reinstated
I have reinstated the section on the "Importance of Mecca". If you feel the wording of the section is incorrect, POV, etc, please edit it (of course) but if you want to remove it altogether please explain to the rest of us why! I personally think it shoul;d be kept because Mecca is a word known to all, whereas Hajj isnt. (Maybe should be, but isnt) so a brief description of the rituals on the Mecca page is useful. Those that want to delve deeper can the go to the Hajj page for greater detail.Jameswilson 23:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- I was not the person who took out the "Importance of Mecca" section. The previous editor, 62.6.139.10, stated in his edit summary that he was restoring an unvandalized version. Clearly, looking at the difference between revisions, he was not reverting vandalism. I was simply reverting to the version that had been accepted for days (which curiously enough did not include the "Importance of Mecca" section). I have no problem with the section at all and believe restoring it was a good decision. joturner 00:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Treasure Island
I'm reverting your edit claiming "Norman Island, in the British Virgin Islands, claims to be the inspiration for Stevenson's island" — if you add this back can you also add in a reference to back it up, see WP:CITE. I don't know if you know, but that claim is also made of the small islands in Queen Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite from where RLS was brought up. Thanks/wangi 01:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- Cool, put it back in, but remember WP:CITE and at least put in a link to back it up into a "References" section. Here's one link, among many, i've come across for the Edinburgh inspiration: http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=2118042005 Thanks/wangi 01:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Doefler's Comet Study
Hi, I was just wondering if you could send me a link referencing Doefler's comet study, which you added to the comet article today. I did a google search and did not find anything. Possibly his name is misspelled? -- Xerxes 17:55, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed it is. I believe you mean Dörfel or Dörffel, as in Doerfel (crater). -- Xerxes 18:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] doerfel
Hi:} Yes sorry my mistake. Googling him under his proper name the first result is [1]. (paragraph 4). Seems to be a bit of a forgotten figure though I suppose not everybody gets a crater named after them. This is not my field but I came across him in an old English almanac which surprisingly (to me) credited him not Newton. Jameswilson 23:55, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Somali clan map
Hi James, i noticed my contribution to the Somali People section caught your eye.
I, as a somali person, know very well about the Somali People. Many of the most important and even ancient clans have been left out, specially Leelkase, who make up a large population from central to northern Somalia. Again, whoever made that page abviously was not a Leelkase, but someone who has something against Leelkase people. As you know the somali people are very clanist, the person who made that map is Majertain, a rival clan, and that is why it is very biased.
If you can tell me how i can change this map, and where the source is, it would be helpful.
As a Leelkase i'm very disturbed and angered about the lack of represenation of the Leelkase people in the Somali distribution map. The Leelkase are very ancient, and were the original Kings and rulers of much of Northern Somalia, before their kingdom was sacked by rival clans. Still the Leelkase are major power brokers in Central-North Somalia.
Thanx........
- The source for the original map is the CIA. Please see my comments at Talk:Somali people#Map image. Thanks. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article moved
Pursuant to the discussion, the former "Sports franchising" article has been moved to Relocation of professional sports teams. For now, I've turned Sports franchising into a redirect to franchising, as most of the links had little to do with relocation. -- Mwalcoff 03:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- See my comment at Talk:Relocation of professional sports teams. Thanks -- Mwalcoff 04:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welsh rugby
Its definitely is worth covering - but seeing as the name of that page has changed, I dont know where! Jameswilson 04:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think something should be written on rugby franchising, but maybe not sports franchising in general. Rugby franchising can be defined by recent events and it's effects are evident because of the change in structures. What happened in Welsh and SANZAR rugby could also happen in other countries and sports, but I'm not sure if too much speculation is wise.
- The Oxford English Dictionary gives one definition of franchising as "An authorization or licence granted to a sports club, formally establishing its existence and ownership. N. Amer. (orig. U.S.)". I think this definition could be applied to any ownership structure, not just clubs. Perhaps one characteristic of a franchise is that it can't exist independently of the franchisor (league or union); the franchisees (owners) can set up the same structure somewhere else, but it's not the same entity. Also, I think that a separate issue is the ownership of the club and how much say the fans have. In a club, the fans (traditionally) can be members and have a large influence, but a club could also be a franchise. --ThirdEdition 05:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: your comment on RCC
James, I responded to your comment at Talk:Roman Catholic Church. But I also want to say another thing. If we were going by what was "offensive" to people, I would just say that Roman Catholic Church, Church of Christ, and Orthodox Church are offensive to me. I guess we'd move them, under your criteria.
Do you know how long Catholics have been trying to move Roman Catholic Church to Catholic Church now? It has always been an issue, long before I was around. And it will continue to be an issue long after I've moved on from this silly article. That's because it's simply incorrect: "Roman Catholic" refers only to the Latin Rite of the Church.
In any event, your complaint about how Protestants have been complaining about the term "Catholic Church" for, as you say, "generations" is silly. The Catholic Church was called "the Catholic Church" long before there ever were any Protestants. --Hyphen5 10:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response. You say that both of our positions are POV. But why, then, is yours winning by leaving the article at Roman Catholic Church? If anything, it should be at Catholic Church simply because that is how most people refer to it in common usage. That fact has nothing to do with POV; it's an objective standard that the naming conventions and other guidelines specifically instruct us to take into account.
- By the way, this has nothing to do with what we should name the article, but I want to pursue it anyway: there has been a clearly identifiable Pope, with bishops and councils and a hierarchy, since the early centuries of the Church. Which Christian 'denomination' still has that visible structure? It has not changed. Other sects have broken away from it. In my opinion, what they referred to as the "Catholic Church" back then is still very much recognizable as the Catholic Church today. In your opinion, I suppose, the Catholic Church slowly relinquished its identity? How does that work? Didn't Christ promise that "the gates of Hell shall not prevail" against His Church? --Hyphen5 01:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] top ten russian baby names?
They highly depends on time. In the early soviet years, there are such names as Dazdraperma which is an acronym from Vivat 1-st of May!. Alexanders, Vladimirs, and Konstantins were popular in soviet era. Plus, take a note, that most of "russian" names are from Greek and Latin (like Alexander, Peter, Victor, etc). Do you need real slavonic names (like Yaroslav)? Or "believed to be russian" names like Ivan? --jno 15:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
hm-hm. I'm a russian... But I've never even heared of such an official lists here. On the other hand, there is a tradition to give names based on religious rules (for orthodoxal christians at least) which is based on date of christening (with obvious dispersion). Plus, there are lots of peoples of different cultures (russians, tatarians, mongols, georgians, armenians, turkish, baltics, mordvins, ukrainians, belorussians, etc) and religions (different christians, muslims, iudaists, buddists, and so on). Many of them are keeping their native identity, including human naming conventions. Sometimes one may have a "native" name (as printed in passport) and "common" one suitable for russian-speaker pronounce.
Well, there is a stats for names here. This is a list of baby names given by "internet-enabled" parents. Here we are (Name (Cyrillics, count)):
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Here is another list of popular names (no point on frequency, order or whatever):
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Governmental regulation: Federal Law On Acts of Civil Status of 15 November 1997, Chapter II, Article 18, §2: The name of the child is written on decision of parents.
--jno 12:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
The domain MATERINSTVO.RU was registered on 2001.09.06. This is the only date available. They give the explanation of their stats:
- Stats was collected and systemized based upon the materials of user registration at 7ya.ru
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- /7YA.RU was registered on 1999.09.10/
- Analizing the results, take into account that internet users are forming a specific layer of the society. Due to this reason this stats may not match the official one, which is built on the data from ZAGS detps (civil status registries). The official stats is the most accurate, but unavailable for the public access.
- Nevertheless, we hope the data provided may be of some interest. --jno 07:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Here is the article from 7ya.ru with two page shots (of 17.9.2004) with published stats: (male) and (female). Let me know, if it is of interest. --jno 07:59, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
are the 7ya.ru figures for internet registrations, ie people of all ages, not babies?
- Well, yes and no. The numbers for internet registrations. Babies only. The 7ya portal ("7ya" is phonetically close to russian word "semya" for "family") has collected baby names from registered parents.
- The pages (male) and (female) may be official numbers. --jno 08:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Carlos Pérez Rial
Thanks for the other redirect ... I must have overlooked it -- Jon Talk | Message.
[edit] Central Asia
WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created. Would you care to join us? Aelfthrytha 21:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WP:NC(GN)
I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --Lysytalk 22:58, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Referance Desk
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- Thanks for helping me at the referance Desk. I was close thinking the Ottoman capital was Borsa, but not good enough I guess. Thanks again. | AndonicO 10:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GDP per capita data in the 1930s
I'm very interested in that historical data. I wonder if you could upload that information and give the source, please :). Moreover, have you got any other book like that? For example, one about the 1950s or one even about the nineteenth century. --GTubio 06:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the data :) --GTubio 08:37, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yerzhan Ashykbayev
Hi, if you have the time I would like your input on whether to delete the article on Yerzhan Ashykbayev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman of the Government of Kazakhstan. Thanks, KazakhPol 18:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
