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[edit] Need your kindness, from Siam Commercial Bank

Dear Sir, I'm Junphen from Thailand. I'm working at Siam Commercial Bank and I've assigned to edit or add content of the Bank in wikipedia. I've add more content base on your orginal version. So, please....need your kindness, please don't revert my content since it will effect my job. Besides, the content that I've added was agreed by our management. However, we'll try to update the new version soon . Hope you understand my intention & situation. Million thanks in advance for your kindness.

Last but not least, glad to hear that you're a german who provided lots of useful content for Thailand, you're so nice. :-)

Any questions or suggestion, please feel free to contact me any time at junphen.juntana@scb.co.th or khunpen@yahoo.com

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Junphen (talk • contribs) 15:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] question

Andy, How do I report Plagarism? Found some content on Hamstring that seems to be copy pasted of a copyrighted website. Thanks shampoo (talk) 15:33, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] help

Will you please revert the article Vince Vaughn? I couldn't do rvv because of my security reason. Thank you. Oda Mari 17:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Other editor helped me. Thanks anyway.Oda Mari 17:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lamphun

Hallo Andy. Du hast vorgestern in Lamphun Province dat GeoTag ergänzt. Kannst Du's bitte noch mal überprüfen? IMHO liegt es etwas zu weit in Kamphaeng Phet? ;-) --hdamm 13:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Stimmt auffällig, hatte mich wohl vertippt - es hätte 18° Nord heissen müssen, nicht 15. andy 13:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thai provincial seals.

Thai governmental offices may own copyright to works they have commissioned, and there doesn't seem to be information regarding when these seals began usage. I've learned from a contributor on the commons that they appeared in the Royal Government Gazette on 18 November 2004 [1], but given the quality of the scans compared to the first page of the announcement, it's probably more of a re-announcement. Still, unless we can determine the dates they were first used, they probably should be removed from the commons and uploaded at each individual Wikipedia instead. Your thoughts? Paul_012 (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Sadly I don't know exactly the copyright status of these seals either, I just think there should something similar to the rules for the German coat of arms (and there was a lot of discussion until this issue was finally solved). I would love to have more information on these seals, as well as the flags of the province, as well as the seals of the other entities - at least the Khet and the Thesaban have similar symbols, also many TAO, so probably also the Amphoe... But there is nearly nothing in english so far - so I wish someone would translate th:ตราประจำจังหวัดของไทย. But if these seals are not possible on commons until we have a 100% waterproof status, moving them to each WP again for the time being would be the only way. Hopefully this will be done by a bot. andy 19:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
According to that page on the Thai Wikipedia, most provincial seals have been in use since 1941, during the Pibulsonggram era, and were designed by the Fine Arts Department, so they should be Public Domain. Some others aren't that old, though, so I've put a deletion request at Commons, see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Thai provincial seals. Paul_012 (talk) 07:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

You just reverted the page on Pokemon, I was trying to do the same, but I got confused, so decided to leave it to someone else, but then I got a mesage saying that I was a vandal, did you send the message, because I would like to say that I'm not one. If you didn't, thanks for reverting the page :-) Graham1991 20:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

No, that was WikiPediaAid (talk · contribs), and he already noticed his mistake and removed that message from your talk already. andy 20:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the antivandalism at the article Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Commator 12:56, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please warn vandals when reverting

I was on anti-vandalism patrol today and noticed you had reverted User Talk:74.94.175.190 but not posted any warnings. It makes it much easier to track, and escalate warning levels in case a block is necessary, therefore helping Admins, if you posted one of the standard vandalism warnings like {{Uw-vandalism2}}. Would you please? Thanks and happy wiking! Alexf(Talk/Contribs) 22:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I do like that normally, but when I reverted that one it was a quite active time for the vandals, and IIRC after I noticed the first vandalism from that IP I had to check some previous revisions as well, and also some new ones, soit might have slipped through to send a note to the talk page. andy 07:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I'm confused

You changed example.com to example.org here. What exactly do you mean "keep example.com short". If you can, reply on my talk page. Thanks —— Eagle101Need help? 19:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

on this page on can find all pages which contain a weblink to example.com. As this weblink is one of the things which can be added with the editing toolbar, just like the example.jpg or example.ogg, checking that list helps to find accidental or real editing experiments with the editing toolbar, or by wrongly adding a weblink. Thus it IMHO makes sense to avoid that link, and if really needing an example weblink use the example.org instead. Otherwise it will be difficult to find the pages which need to be checked for editing experiments. andy 19:31, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, that makes sense, I was more or less just curious ;) —— Eagle101Need help? 19:33, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Gazette Referenzen

Hallo. Eigentlich wollte ich ja gerade fragen: "Sag mal, woher hast Du denn eigentlich die ganzen URLs der Referenzen zur Royal Gazette her? Bist Du da zufällig drüber gestolpert?" Aber ich glaube, ich habe die Antwort schon oben auf User:Ahoerstemeier/Amphoe references gefunden? Find ich ja toll. Ich habe mich schon immer gefragt, woher die ganzen Geschichts-Informationen der Amphoe-Seiten stammen. Bin dabei, die Links auch in die deutschen Seiten einzubauen. Hast Du ne Ahnung, ob es dort etwas ähnliches wie {{cite journal|...}} gibt? --hdamm 13:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Tja, da war mal wieder ein Troll der meinte bei einem Amphoe-Artikel den Stempel "Unreferenziert" draufzubappen, nur weil nicht explizit drinstand daß die wenigen nicht-trivialen Infos von amphoe.com aus übersetzt wurden. Aber da viel mir ein daß die Thais ja sehr Internet-freudig sind, und hab' mal gesucht ob es die Royal Gazette nicht vielleicht auch im Internet gibt - und Volltreffer. Auf User:Ahoerstemeier/Amphoe references sammle ich allerdings nur die Upgrades von King Amphoe nach Amphoe, die (King) Amphoe selbst werden jeweils einzeln eingerichtet, so daß es sich ich die Referenz dafür dann direkt nur in dem Amphoe-Artikel unterbringe. Und dabei habe ich auch schon so einige Ungenauigkeiten (es gibt drei Datums - das der Veröffentlichung, das wann es gültig wird, und das zu dem die Veröffentlichung eingereicht wurde, und IMHO ist das Gültigkeitsdatum das wichtigste) oder gar Fehler auf amphoe.com gefunden, und natürlich auch einige viele wo amphoe.com keine Geschichtsinfos rausrückt. Damit bin ich aber nun wohl wieder ein paar Monate beschäftigt... Übrigens - de:Vorlage:Cite journal existiert - hättest Du ohne Nachdenken alles im <ref>...</ref> kopiert hättest Du nicht fragen brauchen. Aber wer rechnet schon damit daß die Vorlage genauso heißt wie in en: :-) andy 13:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Danke für den Hinweis mit der Vorlage, der scheint tatsächlich zu funktionieren. Allerdings wird der Titel in Kursiv-Schrift angezeigt. Zusammen mit den Winz-Buchstaben läßt sich Thai-Schrift für mich kaum entziffern. Bleibe ich also lieber bei meiner Methode, die Parameter der Vorlage einzeln anzugeben, wie ich es hier z.B. bereits angefangen habe. --hdamm 15:15, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Max Labovitch

Thanks for your help on the Max Labovitch hockey player page I did not know how to get the links correct A question - I have some photos of this hockey player - they came directly from the gentleman Mr. Labovitch They are his personal photos with no copyright stamps on them These photos have been given over time by Mr. Labovitch and they have worked themselves on other websites I tried to post one of the photos and it was rejected by the system as appearing on another website. The photos are directly from Mr. Labovitch with his permission How can these photos be posted ? Would a letter directly from Mr. Labovitch be of help in any manner ?

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normanbubis (talk • contribs) 22:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:216.20.110.217

I've finished faffing, so if you want to add a tag now, you won't get an edit conflict. The school is lucky you beat me to it - I'd just about decided on 6 months, but I'm happy you applied a milder block. --Dweller 14:34, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:129.240.37.66

Earlier today, you told me not to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. I have not added any such links. On the contrary, I have DELETED one such link today. --129.240.37.66 13:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC) (Geir Overskeid, Oslo, Norway.)

[edit] How to revert

Thanks for fixing the vandalism on the Judo page (someone deleted the USA belt system section). I just undid vandalism by the same user who also deleted the Brazilian belt system section.) Sometimes I see multiple vandalism - how do you revert back to an earlier version? So far I have just been using "undo" and then I see more vandalism and end up doing multiple "undo"s and sometimes get stuck with a situation where it is no longer possible to "undo". Thanks. --David Broadfoot 09:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please Block...

Please Block 71.36.150.133 and for much longer than just a week (indefinitely if possible). I am not very familiar with the wikipedia blocking protocol but I know he has been warned several times and some of his recent vandalism went unreverted. Thank you! --Stux 15:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Increased to one month, hope this is not a shared IP and someone complains. andy 16:13, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! Though I highly doubt it's a shared IP. I went through the IP's entire history and pretty much all of it sine May was vandalism. I'm afraid 1 month may not be enough, as he has soon come back to vandalize after the blocking period was over. Oh well. I'll try to keep an eye on him if I don't forget. We shall see. Again, thanks for the block! I'm looking into installing Twinkle for its autoreporting tools and stuff. --Stux 23:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for help and advice on the Nakhon Pa Mak pages

I just read your message, and I admit I don't have very much experience with Wikipedia, so I welcome all advice, suggestions and corrections. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia Commons, though. I will look into it right away. I'm actually a falang. I live in Arlington, Virginia and I'm from Jersey City, New Jersey. However, I have travelled to Nakhon Pa Mak about 6 times, spending a total of about 6 months living there on a farm. It was a wonderful experience. I learned to speak and read Thai while I was there, and I tried my hand at being a lunch lady in Sam Ruen, working on a rice farm in Ban Dongphayom, helped dig drainage ditches and taught a local cook some English. As far as your discussion of content, I agree and disagree a little. I think you're absolutely right, that the purpose of Wikipedia in general is to provide hard factual information. I'm hoping people like you will add more of that to my articles, because I really only have information about the cultural and linguistical matters related to these Thai villages. I hope other people eventually add historical data, anthropological data, more data about the wildlife, etc. On the other hand, I think that one main reason that a person might look at a wikipedia entry on a village in a far-away country is to learn as much as possible about the people and culture in that village. I think pictures have a way of giving people very quickly a taste of what the places are really like. If there's a better way to provide access to pictures, etc., from the article, then I guess that's the way to go. Is that how Wikipedia commons works? My e-mail is kborland@alum.mit.edu. Thanks, Kevin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kborland (talk • contribs) 07:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kleine Bitte

Hallo Ahoerstemeier, ich hoffe du kannst dich noch an mich erinnern, oder? ;-) Kleine Bitte: Könntest du meine Benutzerdiskussionsseite halbsperren, da die Anfragen einerseits eh auf wikipedia-de gehören, andererseits ich dort von einer IP aus dem Innenministerium beschimpft werde, die ich in der deutschen WP für Vandalismus gesperrt habe. Viele Grüße, --S[1] 09:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Oder sperr halt diese IP, ist ein statischer Neonazi. --S[1] 20:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Naja, sonderlich hochwertige Beitraege kamen von dieser IP wirklich nicht, aber um diese auf laengere Zeit zu sperren reicht das aber wohl nicht, bei regelmaessigem Vandalismus oder POV-Edits im Artikel-Namensraum wuerd mir das viel leichter fallen. Und selbst ob die zwei Male mit den kindischen Beleidigungen auf deiner Talk-Seite ausreichen fuer eine Halbsperrung der Seite - ich wuerd das lieber noch etwas abwarten bevor ich da was unternehme. Aber ich pack' mal deine Seite in meine Beobachtungsliste, dann ist der ganz schnell wieder revertiert falls er nochmal seine intellektuelle Ueberlegenheit zeigen will ;-) andy 20:49, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Danke für deine Mühe --S[1] 08:01, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks again for your help

Thanks for putting the redirect in for the Tha Luang River. As you see, I've figured out how to add references now, but I'm still quite the novice. I've also figured out how to put in geographical coordinates and some other gadgets now too. Bear with me and I'll try to get all of my geographical stubs up to par with the rest of the Wikipedia as quickly as possible. I've already ordered additional materials from Thailand for sources (books, maps, park & temple brochures, etc.). If I am correct, the Tha Luang was the last of the missing Nan tributaries for Phitsanulok. I think there still might be a few sub-tributaries we're missing, but they are mostly confined to the national parks once you get into the mountains (i.e. not relevant to agriculture or industry in Phitsanulok). I'll work on them after I get to the parks and mountains. I'm not aware of any tributaries of the Yom that run through Phitsanulok but I'll be working on that in the days to come as well. Thanks again for your help. P.S. sorry about the park deletion. It appears you are correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kborland (talk • contribs) 10:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Commons

I'm converting the images to Wikipedia Commons as you suggested. I've also found an infobox that works pretty well for the muban, as not to abuse the amphoe box. Check out Ban Grong Greng and let me know if you think it's appropriate (and if it's an appropriate link to Wikipedia Commons). I also found a waterfall infobox template and updated all the waterfalls in Thailand (there are only 4 so far) and a river template. Filen dank (I speak some German but I have no clue when it comes to spelling, trying to say thanks much) for the suggestions and help. We'll have Thailand well documented on Wikipedia in no time, albiet one village/temple/river/waterfall at a time.Kevin Borland, Esq. 22:58, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chubs and Disambiguation

Greetings. Recently, on Tue 16 Oct, I constructed a disambiguation page for the various fish known as chubs. After having done so, I began to contemplate whether that page and the current Chub page might be better named. I posted a discussion on the Chub page but it's not yet received any comment. I noticed from the article's revision history that you had made one or more contributions to the page. Consequently, I thought I might profit from your advice at Talk:Chub#Page title if you have a moment or two to spare. Thanks. — Dave (Talk | contribs) 03:39, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protection for User talk:Pak21

Hiya. As you just protected User:Pak21, could I ask you to do the same to User talk:Pak21 as it looks like the vandals are starting there as well. Thanks --Pak21 16:21, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

It's been done. Thanks anyway --Pak21 17:34, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Americium - missing Periodic Table picture

Hello. as I understand, you are the one who created the pictures of the elements headers, so... the element Americium lacks its Periodic Table picture. I don't know if it is due to some bug or other problem or if that picture exist at all. have you already created a picture for Americium and still have it or shall I create one based on the same design? --Yar2 11:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually that periodic table image is existing, see Image:Am-TableImage.png, it's just the scaled down picture for the infobox which does not load. Apparently the image server has problems, and it will show up again sometime - I don't know if there is any magic thing to do to force the server to recreate that thumbnail. andy 12:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Its very weird, since it is the only element that lacks the image. maybe someone ought to reboot\boot that server (where ever it is). --Yar2 18:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Found it on the MediaWiki documentation - I had to open the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Am-TableImage.png&action=purge, which forces the server to recreate the thumbnails. Now it shows the thumbnail again... andy 21:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't think I fully understand what you did, but it doesn't really matter because you've fixed the problem. Hurrah, greetings & salutations to you. --Yar2 22:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Helfen - Karte

Hallo. Hilf mir bitte. Lies bitte Link: [[2]]

Sehr wichtig. Danke. User:Szajci aus ungarische Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.82.33.74 (talk) 19:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Übersetzungswunsch

Könntest du bitte User:Srbauer in die engl. Sprache übersetzen? Danke --ST ○ 23:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page and for the countless other acts of anti-vandal edits. Rgoodermote  18:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Same here, thanks! †Bloodpack† 06:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] vandalism question

if someone deletes their warnings on their talk page, am i suppose to keep reverting it, and is that in it self vandalism? Ctjf83 17:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

never mind, i got help, thanks though! Ctjf83 18:13, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of admins

Hi Ahoerstemeier. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 22:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Korphai

Please help with references for a classical Thai music-related article listed for deletion. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korphai. `'Míkka>t 16:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Templates

I don't know if you've seen this page: Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace/Multi-level templates. If you haven't, I recommend you check it out. Adding these warnings is a useful way of starting off assuming good faith, and then working your way up to final warnings, and then notifying the administrators of persistant vandalism at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. StephenBuxton (talk) 17:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] my school!

actually i was being rather serious on what i posted about my teachers,and feel insulted that you think i am not serious about it! and! i did not add any famous alumni thanks very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.234.73 (talk) 18:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Rama II bookcover.jpg)

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot (talk) 20:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Robotdreamzs

Hey. It looks like this guy needs a ban. We've both caught him on a couple of offenses. (mastrchf91) 15:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Blocked already... andy (talk) 15:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thai constituencies

Dear Ahoerstemeier, can you direct me to a map of the new electoral districts for Thailand? (I mean the individual-election districts, not the eight proportional districts). Alternatively, can you direct me to a list showing which amphoe within each changwat constitute each electoral district? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 04:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

OK I have now found the list, and I have used your excellent amphoe maps to locate which amphoe are in which constituencies, so thanks for your work on those maps. I have noted two apparent errors, at Ubon Ratchatani and - somewhere else I forget. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 05:51, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

The list of constutuencies broken down by amphoe is here: http://www.ect.go.th/thai/mp50/mp50_19.pdf

The other error is at Chonburi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chonburi_Province

Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 07:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

You could do one thing for me. In Nonthaburi, the amphoe Meuang Nonthaburi is divided between the two constituencies. Could you locate a map of the province showing the constituencies boundaries at the ECT website (ect.go.th)? The website is impossible for non-Thai-readers to navigate. The map is probably at the Nonthaburi provincial election commission, which links from the ECT website somewhere. Alternatively, if you have a map of the amphoe showing the tambon boundaries, could you tell me how the amphoe is divided between the two constituencies? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 09:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

There were four or five provinces in which amphoe were split between constituencies, but Nonthaburi is the only one I haven't been able to find a map for. Were you unable to find a map at ect.go.th? Possibly with the information you have given me I can find one. Thanks. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 07:52, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I have now located a map of Nonthaburi showing the amphoe divided into tambons: http://nonthaburi.police.go.th/mapnon.html. Thank you Nonthaburi Police. Using the information you provided, my understanding is that the two tambons in the north-west of the amphoe Meuang (the one labelled "10" and the one to the right of it, on the west bank of the river), are in Constituency 2, and the rest of the amphoe is in Constituency 1. If you can confirm this understanding, then I can proceed. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 10:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. And here we go: http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/t/thailand/thailandmapindex2007.shtml Many happy hours of cartography ahead. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 12:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] umm...hello?

why did you change what i did on MY user talk page changing it from .Com to .Org? i wasent sending anyone to a website i was showing an example of something if i wanted whoever to go to a website i would link it properly. ~ Yuki 09:35 Jan.02.08 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Thailand

Hi. I'm thinking about setting up a Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand for more specific coordination of Thai articles. As you've done a tremendous amount of work on Thailand would you be interested? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 13:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Count me in. I haven't set it up myself due to the experiences with the two project on Thai provinces and districts, which did not attract much coordination - with just one or two Wikipedians active in those projects the coordination was done via direct talk instead. But maybe those projects were already too special, and a country-wide project would get more participants. At least we should get some more participation in the Portal:Thailand, like suggestions for featured articles. andy (talk) 17:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Its located here Wikipedia:WikiProject Southeast Asia/Thailand work group. Hopefully it will develop into a seperate group if it gains enough support. Also are you still interested in helping develop Cambodian districts and maps - as we have all these wonderful amphoe articles for Thailand and only one or two maps for Cambodian ones!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 14:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I've begun working on the cambodian districts again. You don't have to contribute, but I would be deeply grateful if you could create the district maps. Only Bantay Meanchey has been done so far. I've also begun creating pages for the communes but it is the district maps I think are of prime importance ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 18:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Creating these maps take quite some time, and I have the problem of finding reliable sources - as you can see at User talk:Paxse#Oddar Meanchey map I ran into problems trying to create the map for the second province, which is almost finished. And I am still quite busy with the Thai districts, as Thailand is my main topic of interest. Since I found an online source with all the official announcements on creation or modifications of the districts (and the other administrative entities) I can at least give the Amphoe articles a decent history section. They are still quite incomplete, but I really don't like stub articles which have nothing but the evident things. IMHO it's better to do quality then quantity... andy (talk) 20:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you do that?

Why did you redirect User:Carnildo/sandbox4 to Wikipedia:Sandbox? --Carnildo (talk) 22:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I was cleaning up the pages using Example.jpg, so new pages containing that image due to editing experiments, accidental click on the toolbar button or vandalism can still be found. I thought that sandbox is just one of the many orphan unused sandboxes, because it did not contain anything which could not be done for a quick test on the "official" sandbox. You can of course continue to edit it, but it'd be nice not to use example.jpg (or any other things done by the editing toolbar). andy (talk) 22:23, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I use it for testing my bots, because I can't trust anything in the official sandbox to stick around long enough for me to run tests. --Carnildo (talk) 02:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you ...

for clearing up the vandalism on my talk page. Spartaz Humbug! 19:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User 204.14.14.179

Have you blocked this user for vandalism, as it is not showing on their talk page? Previous ban was for a lot longer than one day. Mjroots (talk) 16:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, there was one for one month in November, but that of course expired now. I usually don't bother to add the block notification on the user talks, there's too much vandalism to fix to have time to notify the blocked vandals, they will notice it anyway. andy (talk) 16:55, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Ahoerstemeier! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 12:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Example.jpg cleanup

Hello, Ahoerstemeier. About your recent edits to User:Hersfold/Adopt - Please use a little more discretion when editing other people's user pages. I understand what you are trying to do by removing the links to those files, however in this case, they were placed there deliberately and for a reason. I use those pages to coordinate work with my adoptees, and anything I put on that page is there for demonstrative purposes. By changing those to something that doesn't exist or doesn't make sense with what I'm telling them (Image:Example.mp3, for example), the link becomes confusing or misleading. I may not have contacted you, except that the lesson page you edited (User:Hersfold/Adopt/Wikimarkup) has a banner specifically asking anyone who wants to make a change to that page to contact me about it to avoid this sort of confusion. Now it has two, to avoid a recurrence of this. I noticed above that other people have contacted you for similar problems - I would suggest that in the future you talk to user about this on their talk pages rather than making the changes yourself. Thanks for your time, and happy editing as always. Hersfold (t/a/c) 17:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I always try not to break anything when I exchange those links, but there should be as few pages using the links added by the editing toolbar as possible. If there are more than let's say ten, it will get impossible to find the real editing experiments, so PLEASE exchange the example.ogg with a different file, or it will get impossible to find those editing experiments. There is really no need to use exactly that file, for example example.png works 100% the same as example.jpg, only that it makes the cleanup possible if every legitimate use of an example image uses the PNG instead of the JPG. andy (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Amphoe Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya

Hi Andy. Over a year ago, you added a potentially useful tambon list to Amphoe Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, but you left it commented out. Did you intend to leave it that way, or did you just not get around to making it visible? I would like to see that list in the article so, if it's OK with you, I would like to make it visible. I could format it as a table if you like. --Heron (talk) 21:22, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

It'd be a waste of time if you that manually. In the time since I added the commented table I have written a small program which get the population numbers from DOPA and put it into the table format like you can see for example in Amphoe Mueang Surat Thani - except the village numbers. I just haven't yet systematically added it to all the Amphoe articles where it is missing, or which have a table with only the names. andy (talk) 22:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

What you're doing sounds great. If you need any help, give me a shout. --Heron (talk) 16:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Space missions WikiProject

Hi, I noticed that you are a member of the Space missions WikiProject. A couple of weeks ago, I proposed that the Space missions and Space travellers projects, which both appear to be inactive be merged into the Human Spaceflight project. Whilst this is being done, the capitalisation of the Human spaceflight project's title would also be corrected (ie. Human Spaceflight → Human spaceflight). The projects are all doing the same/very similar things, and in my opinion, a single, larger, project would be more effective than three smaller, and somewhat inactive projects.. In light of very little response to messages on the project talk pages, I am now sending this message to all members of all three projects, inviting them to discuss the proposal on the Human Spaceflight project's talk page. I would appreciate your opinion on this. Thanks. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 21:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Changwat Phra Nakhon Nuea, Klang and Tai?

Sorry I didn't bother to login in recent weeks (but still monitor the Thailand related changes from time to time) so I missed your message. For the Royal Gazette this it mentioned splitting area of responsibility for the police department. This is not related to administration by Ministry of Interior. The changwat mentioned in [3] is for education district, again unrelate to administration. The vcharkarn people there just quoted the history of Ministry of Education to show the old spelling of amphoe names, and had nothing to do with the amphoe and changwat discussion there. -- Lerdsuwa (talk) 10:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images on Commons

Hello! Would you be so kind to check this problem on Commons? Thank you! PatríciaR msg 15:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elections in progress

Hello Ahoerstemeier, how are you? I'm Sarvaturi, I work on the Sicilian Wikipedia (scn.wikipedia, where I'm a bureaucrat and an administrator) and I work on the Sicilian Wiktionary (scn.wiktionary, where I'm a bureaucrat and an administrator and where you helped me to install the Spambot) and please I would need your help: on the Corsican wiktionary (where you contributed various times) there are some elections in progress to elect a second administrator (me), and please I would like you to vote (for or against):

http://co.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikizziunariu:Amministratori

As information: The Italian administrator Ale Mister who works in the Corsican wikipedia has voted "yes" for me. Other information: I have more than 112 edits in this little Corsican wiktionary.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

--Sarvaturi (talk) 23:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC) :-)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Lordjeff06 (talk) 17:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] All seals deleted

I just noticed that all seals were deleted. Why o why is Wikipedia destroying itself? Do you still have copies of the seals? Waerth (talk) 11:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Seems like the copyright paranoia strikes again. I had been to busy to take care it before, but it seems it's not sure whether these seals are copyright-free as government symbols, or covered by the Thai copyright act because they are government works. That'd not only apply to the province seals, also the towns and TAO have similar symbols, so we really need a final word on how to treat these. I recall on the German wikipedia it was an open issue for more than a year how to treat the coat of arms of towns, and I really don't enjoy such legal mumble-jumble. Of course I still have them all on my harddisc, but this could also be a good time to create them as decent vectorized SVGs in better resolution, I tried but didn't yet finish to create a single such SVG. andy (talk) 12:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Good to hear you still have the copies. Yes commons is an overly paranoid place trying to be the bravest in the class. Unfortunately. Waerth (talk) 06:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for jutting in, but I just happened to stumble across this discussion. Actually, it seems that those seals which were deleted were so because the PD tag they were tagged with was deprecated. All the seal images still on commons at the time were older than 50 years and public domain by law, though. Ironically, those which are under fair use are still here on Wikipedia. --Paul_012 (talk) 19:48, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for your contributions in districts of Bangkok in vi.wiki. Could you help me correct copyedits in Phong Nha-Ke Bang (in de.wikipedia.org) ? Thank you. Genghiskhanviet (talk) 09:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Argentine locator map

Hi "Amphoe" "maestro". I see you created the map on the right which I believe is very useful. We'd like to use it for Template:Location map Argentina to see where the towns ar elocated in the provinces but unfortunately your map doesn't seem to work -it places most towns out in the sea. Could you try to find the pin points of your map and try to sort out the template so it works? This is important as it will affect several thousands articles eventually. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 13:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Comparing it with the map currently used in the template, it seems the problem is that both maps use different projections. IIRC I had it set to the good old Mercator, the one in the template looks like it has the plain mapping of x=longitude, y=latitude (don't know what is the name of this trivial projection). As Argentina is so long and goes into extreme south, the projection becomes an important issue. I don't know how much mathematics can be done with templates, maybe it is possible to convert the coordinates into Mercator within the template, so it is enough to put the latitude and longitude into the template. andy (talk) 13:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message on Commons

Hello! I left you a message on Commons. Thanks, PatríciaR msg 17:19, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I've noticed you've been quite a busy fellow reverting vandalism. I appreciate the work you've done. Peter Deer (talk) 17:50, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vielen Dank

Hallo, nochmal vielen herzlichen Dank fuer die Arbeit und Muehe in den vandalierten km.Projekten! LG. --birdy (:> )=| 15:48, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of User talk:Alopi

Sorry about the automatic spam warning, I didn't realise Twinkle would do that. The spam was added by Alopi, replacing your warning. — FIRE!in a crowded theatre... 21:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

And now it has been replaced with the spam3 warning, though I doubt that account will ever get used again anyway. andy (talk) 21:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] de:Wikipedia:Aachen#6._Wikipedianer-Treffen_in_Aachen

Hallo. Da alles nun recht kurzfristig zu Stande kam, schreibe ich dich hier an. Würde mich freuen wenn du beim Treffen an kommendem Donnerstag (27.3) reinschaust. Gruß --Euku 10:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC) (ex Spongo)

[edit] Image:Fürth_in_Germany.png listed for deletion

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[edit] Please warn

Please warn user: 70.234.166.41 to stop vandalzing talk pages.Mooncrest (talk) 20:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thai WP Forum

Hello Andy, I just started a forum for Thai Wikipedia users at http://www.wikithaiforum.com/ Although it was all in Thai language, you're always welcome. Regards. --Manop - TH (talk) 22:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images listed for deletion

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[edit] WikiProject Christianity

Hello Ahoerstemeier!

You are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Christianity

The goal of WikiProject Christianity is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity available on Wikipedia. WP:X as a group does not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but prefers that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented.

You are receiving this invitation because you are a member of one of the related Christianity Projects and I thought that you might be interested in this project also - Tinucherian (talk) 06:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 06:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interview

I am trying to find a wikipedia administrator who would readily do an interview for a research project I am conducting from the perspective of a wikipedia insider. If you'd like to do this, please email me at goat77 (AT) gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goat77 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ko Tao Page

Hi

May i ask why you call the official Koh Tao community website suspicious?

And may i ask why you insist to delete the link to this very informative charity website with an unbelievable consistence while you have a link running to KohTaoDoc, an organization which hasn't left many good feelings here on the island when it went down TWO YEARS AGO!!!

The Koh Tao Community Website is updated on regularly bases, is growing by the day and is very much alive. Please read at least some of the content and you might want to add the link back in yourself. Me, and many readers would appreciate this very much.

Talking about content:

I would also like to ask for permission to edit this VERY OLD and UNREAL text about our beautiful and meanwhile DEVELOPED island. Our roads are NOT 95% dirt roads! and the touristic development has reached the state of Samui and Phangan a long time ago. We do NOT need 4 hours from Samui to Tao, since 2004, 1 and 1/2 will do just fine. Same goes from Chumphon, while i must say, that coming from Suratthani in 4 hours to Koh Tao... is not very realistic! That would be more like ten to twelve hours. (You should have a look at the KTc website: Ferry Boat Time Table)

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards George (samiotis) KTc Admin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samiotis (talk • contribs) 05:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I removed it because it looks to me just like the many websites containing mostly advertisements for hotels and other stuff on touristic areas. Wikipedia is not a web directory, so only high quality websites with additional infos or official websites are legitimate to be added. However, you are of course free to correct mistakes or outdated information in the article, but be aware that the article is not intended to become a travel guide, that one would belong at e.g. Wikitravel. andy (talk) 11:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Michael H. Nelson

Halle Andy, ich hoffe, alles ist bestens... Schau mal bitte auf der deutschen Löschdiskussion vorbei und sag deine Meinung. Nelson arbeitet ja über dein Thema subnationale Entitäten. Bis denne. --media_lib (talk) 15:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Duplicate Image:Mh grindelwald im winter pre.jpg

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[edit] Thai Wikipedia usurpation request

As the section header suggests, what is the procedure for requesting an SUL usurp on the Thai wikipedia? I am currently trying to go through the accounts with the username Woody for SUL purposes. The th:User:Woody has no edits since registration at "07:02, 11 April 2007." Is it possible to get it usurped? Thanks and regards. Woody (talk) 16:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)