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Sam [Spade] 01:57, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] border of Europe and Asia

Can you extend Image:TransAsia.PNG southward a bit more so that it can display Cyprus, which is also inbetween? Thanks in advance. --Joy [shallot] 15:28, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello. How did you come up with the Europe/Asia border pictured in this map you made? Thanks. —Cantus…☎ 01:45, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)

Where are you getting your maps from? Please reply. Thanks. —Cantus…☎ 01:57, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Breaking the syntax of an external link

As seen in this diff of the Europe article, you broke the syntax of an external link with the explanation "geography, edit-action reported spam about scandinavia-pictures link???". What do you mean by that? Shouldn't we fix it? On the other hand, the link is about Scandinavia, not Europe, so perhaps it should not be there at all. Jonas Olson 18:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I changed something in the geography section, but (maybe becouse it is the first section) in my edit-window the whole article was opened. When I select "save" an error appears that says that the link in question is spam. I tried multiple times. In the end I changed the link to plain text (so that not to delete it) and saved. I don't know what is the issue here - technical, real spam link, etc. Also maybe the place for the link is realy not there... Alinor 06:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NTSC-PAL-SECAM.png

Hi. I don't know if you created the NTSC-PAL-SECAM map, but there's a little mistake. If Brazil uses a mix of NTSC and PAL systems, its territory should be marked with another color, don't you think? Cheers. Julián Ortega 16:52, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I just don't know for sure witch system is used where. The information on SECAM, PAL and NTSC pages is contradicting. If you have better info - please correct it...Alinor 17:28, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TransAfrica.PNG

Can you change the color scheme of Image:TransAfrica.PNG? It is hard to distinguish between Sinai Peninsula from the rest of asia. How about to color it using pink? In TransOceania.PNG, I think that it is also better to color oceanian Indonesia as pink. And the last request is... could you upload your work in commons.wikipedia.org? -- ChongDae 11:04, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

  • I think that the colors are corrected now, but I haven't worked with the commonsAlinor 06:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

I hereby award you the Society Barnstar for your great additions to trade bloc. Keep up the good work! ナイトスタリオン ✉ 16:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! I am pleased!Alinor 06:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Gladly. Say, how about founding Wikipedia:WikiProject Trade Blocs together? ナイトスタリオン ✉ 12:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Generally agree, but I don't have any experience with WikiProjects so far. Maybe it would be better to call it Regional Blocs (not Trade Blocs), becouse at least in the current table there is also political integration and defense pacts. Nice rework of the map, by the way :). Alinor 23:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Mh, yeah. Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional Blocs it is, then. I don't have much more experience, either; basically, we can just declare it to exist, and then it does, I think. ;) And thanks! Your map on which I based my changes was really good, as well. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 23:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Alinor

Where do you come from? Bonaparte talk 20:45, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trade bloc

... has been up for peer review since 21 December 2005, and there hasn't been a single comment yet. Should we simply go for featured list status and nominate it now? —Nightstallion (?) 13:20, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, let's do it! Alinor 21:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Great! —Nightstallion (?) 23:54, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Done. Maybe you'd like to leave a comment (and support? ;)) here? What we definitely need, though, are references, and I'm stumped as to where to find 'em. —Nightstallion (?) 00:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hmm. This is more like a compilation article, so I think that the references are mainly the wikipedia pages of the blocs, the official pages of the blocs, maybe some links that circulated on discussion pages and in descriptions when doing some particular changes... Maybe also some other articles from the web... Alinor 17:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it enough to add the links that are in the discussion/history pages? Alinor 17:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Just add what you've got, yeah. —Nightstallion (?) 18:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
It appears that the links were not so much :( . If we have to add links for every single bit of info - there is much searching to be done AGAIN :(. Alinor 12:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Could you do that? I can help with those that are difficult to find. —Nightstallion (?) 12:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
It is possible, but maybe we will lose the nomination before I am ready... Alinor 12:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

If necessary, we can always re-nominate. If you can do it, good; if not, we'll do it again later. —Nightstallion (?) 19:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

i removed the comparison chart from Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. since the CCASG isn't on the chart, i don't see how it adds to the article. what is the benefit of having the chart on the article? Kingturtle 18:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

GCC = CCASG. Re-added. —Nightstallion (?) 19:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
ok, that makes sense. i clarified the article by adding (GCC) after Gulf Cooperation Council. but i now have another question. the CCASG article says that Gulf Cooperation Council is the former name. if CCASG is the newer name, why isn't that abbreviation reflected in the comparision chart? or is GCC still the more commonly known abbreviation? Kingturtle 20:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
GCC is widely used, while I've never seen CCASG used. Might be wrong, of course. —Nightstallion (?) 21:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table update

Could you update the comparison table? Uzbekistan just joined EurAsEC. —Nightstallion (?) 13:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

OK! Alinor 21:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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It is written in the upload description - the copyrigh information is inside the image (a line with "(c) ..." in the lower right corner) - I don't know any more details... Alinor 09:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

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It is written in the upload description - the source information is inside the image (a line with "(c) ..." below the legend) - I don't know any more details... Alinor 09:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to list of European Union member states

Is it okay like this? ;) —Nightstallion (?) 10:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to be a spoiler :), but are you sure that in the Treaty of E.Constitution there is such Annex II? I have found Annex II for the ECommunity Treay (link on your discussion page) - not ? Also, you know that I would prefer to have BAT and FSAT listed in the EU list as they are in the OCT Annex II, but that is not so important... Alinor 10:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Erm... Yes, there is? [1] I'd prefer it this way. If you think it's horribly wrong this way, we can change it, but I believe it's more neutral this way, isn't it? —Nightstallion (?) 11:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, Just wanted to be sure and no, I don't think that it's horrible :) Let's leave it thisway. Alinor 11:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Purr-fect! =] Always a pleasure to work with you. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 11:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding info about San Marino! —Nightstallion (?) 22:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

And again, thanks for your good contribution! :) —Nightstallion (?) 15:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Territorial divisions in Oceania

Please stop revert warring at Oceania. Your dispute with 142.* is disrupting an ongoing discussion and creating a three-way edit war. There was a long-standing consensus to use "Australasia" as a heading, with our anon friend wants to read "Australia and New Zealand" per the UN. Now you're introducing yet another variant--why are you insisting on "Australia"? Referring people to a discussion on another talk page isn't helpful--that discussion isn't any too clear anyway, and from the perspective of the people who edit Oceania it seems like a dispute from another article is spilling over onto an unrelated page.· rodii · 13:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I slightly misread what you were doing--confused by reading the wikisource instead of the page. So... why take out the heading entirely? · rodii · 16:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't insist on removing the heading - my removal was a try to find a compromise solution - because "Australia and New Zealand" doesn't look as good title, but also "Australasia" also includes Papua and other Melanesian islands (according to the Australasia page) already listed under Melanesia...Alinor 10:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request

Hi! If you've currently got some time, how about adding a negotiation progress and ratification table for the SAA between the EU and Albania/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Montenegro/Serbia(/Kosovo)? The ratification process for the SAA with Albania will start soon, I expect... —Nightstallion (?) 11:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, yes, maybe on the Stabilization and Association Agreement section? Also, we can do such ratification info for the ECAA and the Energy Community... Source is here [2]. I will see what I can do... Alinor 12:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I done a bit of this, but maybe the formatting should be improved. Alinor 18:46, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:SADR relations.png

Thanks This adds a lot to the article. As you added it, I was (and still am) in the middle of using cite.php to clean it up a little myself. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 16:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transcontinental nation move request...

...at Talk:Transcontinental nation -  AjaxSmack  08:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Vatican relations.png

Hi Alinor, I just wanted to point out, that, contrary to what Image:Vatican relations.png shows, the Holy See does have diplomatic Relations with Nigeria (see [3]). Gugganij 22:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, maybe I missed it; I will correct the image soon. Any other mistakes there? Alinor 06:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
To my knowledge there is no other mistake. Thanks for correcting the map so swiftly. Gugganij 10:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISO codes for Montenegro and Serbia...

Have you seen any official confirmation of ISO on which codes they've proposed? [4] [5] [6] [7] I'd prefer to wait until they're official... —Nightstallion (?) 08:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they are still only 'proposed by ISO', not official. Here are two news articles - for Montenegro [8] and for Serbia [9].
For Serbia it looks like the government wanted RS, but ISO said that this is not possible and proposed SP. Why so? Alinor 09:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, since they're only proposed, I'd have preferred to keep them out of articles for now, but now the damage is done, so to say. They rejected RS because they generally want to keep things like "republic", "kingdom", ... out of the codes -- though there are exceptions, like FSM (Federated States of Micronesia) or COD (Democratic Republic of the Congo). —Nightstallion (?) 09:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Full map list?

I love your maps! Is there any way to see a list of all of the maps you have made/uploaded? Or perhaps all maps made with the same template? I see you have a short list on your user/maps page, but I'd really love to see them all. Thanks a bunch! CL8 12:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Sorry, but I have no other similar lists besides the User\maps ... Alinor 13:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] [10]

Have you got a source for this? I haven't been able to find anything... —Nightstallion (?) 16:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, on the official EU page about agreements ratification. There is a link to this site on the Treaty of Accession 2005 or TCE page - "completed procedures" link. Click, then go to Albania, then to SAA. Alinor 20:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Great, thanks! I knew that link was somewhere, but I couldn't find it. :) —Nightstallion (?) 09:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update to EU visa lists map: Bahamas and some other Caribbean countries no longer need visas

I see you created a nice map showing countries that do and do not require Schengen visas. I don't know if you are aware though, but it seems that recently the EU came to a decision to remove the visa requirements for citizens of the Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda and Barbados [11]. The link says their citizens will soon be able to travel without the visas, but it doesn't give any indication of a specific date.I've left a similar notice in the discussion page of the image itself.72.27.2.68 06:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] ENP map

You might like to compare your Image:European_Neighbourhood_Policy.png with http://www.ceps.be/files/images/ENP210307.jpg being used at [12] with the label ©CEPS --Henrygb 23:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I noticed this also - see the Talk:European_Neighbourhood_Policy page... Alinor 17:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't Wikipedia take some action about this?? Alinor 17:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
You could complain to CEPS drawing from the examples at Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter --Henrygb 22:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I done this now. I will place a copy of my email on the ENP discussion page. Alinor 12:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Source data

Could you provide a link the source data in Flat personal income tax.png? Thanks Morphh (talk) 14:31, 09 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the articles: flat tax, Tax rates around the world and Income tax#Countries with no personal income tax. Also check if you can help about these contradictions Talk:Tax rates around the world#Contradictions in the list with other articles. Alinor 14:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map

I run across your Image:European political map (chopped).png which has been permanently removed from Eastern Europe article on 25 January 2007 by User 3 Löwi with the edit summary that reads: (rv - please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POL#Key_policies). I read the policies and found nothing specific about this or any other case. For my understanding, it is not an easy task to produce a map. I'd like to know what source was your map based on. I think, if source is reliable, your map should be featured in the article alongside similar map with different divisions, with the source of data linked like in the case of the other map. --Poeticbent  talk  17:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I uploaded these maps a long time ago. I used as "background" another wikipedia maps and drawed the lines according to the Wikipedia articles about Europe, Asia, etc. I have explained this multiple times, but people that don't agree with the division lines are apperantly very upset with the maps and instead of providing additional lines/maps/descriptions - they just delete the maps. That's it. Alinor 19:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flat tax

[Image:Flat-tax-in-Europe-map.png]

The flat tax map for Europe is out of date [13], but I cannot figure out how to access it because it is on Commons rather than Wikipedia, and they have some weird javascript system. Is there any chance you could update it based on Flat tax adoption around the world?Sjeng 06:55, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

There are some contradictions in the lists between the multiple articles about taxes... Alinor 18:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transcontinental country images

You forgot to provide the license data for a couple of images in the article on transcontinental countries, so the OrphanBot got them. I could go fake the license data for you, but it would be best if you did it. Kww 01:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

They are GFDL, I don't see what else does OrphanBot wants. Same for the WorldMonarchies map (above in this discussion). If you can - fix them please; if not - tell me what is needed. Alinor 20:42, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I fixed the ones for transcontinental countries. I believe that you are creating these images from public domain images. That needs the GFDL-self template, not the one you are using. Kww 13:00, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
OK, I will use that one in the future... Alinor 12:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

What is the source of your map showing the Aegean islands, with Europe in green, Asia in pink, and the Greek islands on Asia's continental shelf in yellow? We need this in order to return Greece as a transcontinental country. Heff01 01:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Every map of the area that has sea depths - these islands are on the eastern/northern side of the deepest line of the Mediterranean. Alinor 16:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, I see that you made some maps of Kosovo that would be realy usefull in other wikipedia as the french one such as Image:KK19.png. Unfortunatly We can't use them directly cause they are not downloaded in commons. I hope that next time you will do it, therefore all wikipedia will benefit of your work. Kind regards--Kimdime69 (talk) 17:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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