User talk:Andrew Yong

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[edit] Could You Help Us With A Matter?

Hello Andrew. You seemed to be a fairly on-the-level fellow, and your indication of yourself as a lawyer suggests that as well. While I know that generally administrators needn't be consulted on the verge of edit-wars -- my understanding is that the resolution process will usually do the trick -- I have a strong feeling you could sort things out for us rather quickly.

There's an edit war regarding the Kevin James article. Though there's consensus that the article should be included, there's some pretty stern disagreement as to what ought be included. For what it's worth, I think this is the best version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_James_%28broadcaster%29&direction=prev&oldid=212799700

But... that's just my personal opinion.

At any rate, if you could briefly visit this article and decide if there's anything you might be able to do to sort out things, it'd be most appreciated. --AlphaFactor (talk) 09:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Admin user, please help

Hi, I put in so much time and research to develop an article about Sophie Koh (just type her name in the search box) and now it's up for deletion because apparently a user accused me of breaching Wikipedia's deletion policy, and never intended or even did that. "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy." Please help save the article from being deleted. Cheers! ~AMscissorsister

Hi. I am not an administrator, but I would like to know where or if there is a page that contains a list of all of the markers or tags you can put on a person's page to let them and other users know that it needs to be fixed (i.e. Neutrality, Wikify, Cleanup, etc.) Thank you in advance! -- Jared 18:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ndewo!

This is the greetings of the Ibos of Nigeria, we are having an explosion of internet activities in nigeria and I believe that the wiki project will be good in nigeria, how can i contribute or have a site that is fully on information on nigeria. olunkwaik@yahoo.com

Greetings!

I was hoping I might be able to recruit you to the Malay wikipedia. Judging from your contributions, you seem to know a bit about Malaysia and (here's hoping) the Malay language. It sure would be nice if ms:Pengguna:Yosri wasn't the only Malayophone around :-)

Cheers, -- Kowey 15:54, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well... too bad about the lack of Malay, but thanks for your response and feel free to spread the word if you know any Malay readers. Best. -- Kowey 13:03, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Counties

After both sides put their case forward, the policy at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) met to general approval (dissent only coming from partisans of the other side). Please respect this. Morwen 20:07, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. My apologies for being hasty. I saw the change you made to Peterborough (putting the traditional county first), and saw red. I hope you can understand my relation in context, where I have spent several weeks trying to clean up all traces of things like 'Brixton is a place in Surrey, England within the former metropolitan "county" of Greater London and in the London Borough of Lambeth. '. This person even moved the article about Herefordshire to English unitary district of county of Herefordshire! Morwen 14:33, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Christ Church

You might be an insider, but the following extract is from the college's site:

Christ Church, known as ‘The House’, was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey as Cardinal College, with funds from the suppression of the Priory of St. Frideswide. [1]

Best regards, and thanks for your additions, BTW. Kokiri 00:15, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your (extensive) clarifications on my talk page. Seems the university got it wrong then... --Kokiri 09:31, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Administrators

S4 of the Constitution does not use the word Administator, let alone give the full title. The GG's website says: "The Constitution (Section 4) and the Letters Patent (relating to the Office of the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia) provide for The Queen to appoint an Administrator of the Commonwealth. By convention, the longest serving State Governor is appointed as Administrator when the Governor-General is out of the country, ill or when the position of Governor-General is vacant." The link to the Letters Patent, however, shows that the full title is not used there either.

"administrator of the commonwealth" gets 355 Google hits, while "administrator of the government of the commonwealth" gets 111. Among these there are examples of the "formal" use of both variants.

For example: "I, GUY STEPHEN MONTAGUE GREEN, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the A New Tax System (Commonwealth-State Financial Arrangements) Act 1999."

And: "(f) any evidence received by, and any matters submitted to, the Honourable James Henry Muirhead under the Commission of inquiry issued to him on 16 October 1987 by Our Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Letters Patent (as subsequently varied)"

It therefore seems that the title does not have formal status in either variant. Given this, I would suggest that the shorter version be used, while noting that the longer one is used, sometimes, in official documents. Neither the GG nor the Administrator "administer the government," the PM does that, and it seems unlikely that such a misleading title would have been deliberately chosen.

Adam 01:44, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have tried to resolve this issue by creating a new article. Administrator (Australia) which explains the use of both variants of the title. Adam 05:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Andrew Following your edit we now have these two paras

Most of the British Governors-General were peers: of the two who were not, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson was a knight and Field Marshal Sir William Slim, was both a knight and a serving Field-Marshal. Of the Australian Governors-General, Casey was a peer and all the others were knights until the appointment of Hayden in 1988. All Governors-General down to Stephen were members of the British Privy Council and thus had the additional title "Right Honourable." Australian appointments to the Privy ceased in 1983.

Hayden is thus the only Governor-General to have had no title at all. A strong feeling persists that the Governor-General ought to have a title of some sort. However, when Bishop Hollingworth (as he was then known) obtained a Lambeth doctorate (by which he was subsequently known) from the Archbishop of Canterbury shortly before assuming office, there was some discussion in the press about whether the doctorate was a substantive degree or merely honorary, and whether the reason for its granting was to downplay Hollingworth's continuing episcopal status.

The problem is that the text as you have written it is a non sequitur. The section is supposed to be about the evolution of GGs' titles, from aristocratic titles to plain Bill Hayden. The section you have added does not develop this point but veers off to discuss the nature and purpose of the Lambeth degree, which ought to be discussed at the Hollingworth article. I am going to restore some of the original wording to re-establish the continuity of the paragraph. Adam 00:56, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] British Empire

Thanks for retaining the photo. I think your caption is well done: explicit is often better.

I have enjoyed looking at some of the topics to which you have contributed.

Best wishes,
--Wighson 05:30, 2004 Apr 5 (UTC)

[edit] Penang Hokkien

Fabulous work at Penang Hokkien. I will nominate you to be an administrator. Are you an Oxonian? (I am one of the founders of Holopedia.) -- Kaihsu 20:47, 2004 May 8 (UTC)

Please could you respond at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to say whether or not you accept the nomincation for adminship. Thanks. Angela. 03:35, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] adminship

A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle 23:01, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Queen of Australia

You say: "when the Queen visits the United States she sometimes does so as Queen of Canada." I have never heard of this, and it strikes me as unlikely. Can you cite some evidence? Adam 09:39, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

Umm, do you have a really, really good reason for moving Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis? In particular, can you show me something to suggest that there is a body called the Police of the Metropolis in the UNited Kingdom? If not, can you move it back, please? Penfold 09:44, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Listings of Historical Privy Counsellors

Moved to Wikipedia:Request_for_immediate_removal_of_copyright_violation

Need support on an undelete. Talk:Nazism/Seperate-National Socialism I would like your support to undelete this and restore as a proper standing article. Some content was moved to the Nazism article and has been made a redirect. The Nazi article is too long. *National Socialism* was not created by either Mussolini nor Hitler and the history of its development needs to have a seperate article upon it. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion.WHEELER 18:32, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:16, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

• Image:Christ church oxford.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 07:17, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Yongle Encyclopedia

Hi, You mentioned in this edit that the Encyclopedia was destroyed "in a fire started by imperial Chinese forces attacking the neighbouring British legation" and was subsequently "rescued" by Western forces. I'd like to check your sources for this as backup? Thanks. Mandel 23:29, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

ALSO:

• Image:Christ-church.jpg

[edit] Request page protection for article

Would you page protect the pages below please as Violetriga's unilateral reverting of my adding a balanced view is against policy. It is not allowed to revert such an edit, rather adding the balanced opposing view to an article is good policy. Also Violetriga has abused the 3 revert rule here and also broken the policy of starting an edit war rather than discussion.Kreen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_of_the_year

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[edit] Report Vandalism by --Mel Etitis and --Ragib

Dear Admin,

User --Ragib and --Mel Etitis are contionusly vandal the article rohingya. please see it in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rohingya&action=history. Such Violaton shall be stop . please keep wiki standard updated .violations would not be accepted by any reader of wikipedia . go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism. please advice. Thanks,--Bobjack 14:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belated birthday

Happy Birthday! Here's a tasty Birthday cake. Best wishes to you! Hope you enjoy your day. Now, get on out there and have some fun! ;)

--Jen Moakler 00:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Gb-bluen.gif has been listed for deletion

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Judge.jpg

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[edit] Academic dress/Academic regalia

Hello. I see that you have reverted my edit to the Academic dress page. I had redirected it to " Academic regalia " since this term is more explicit. It is also the more commonly used term to describe the subject, at least here in the United States. We should attempt to clarify this together since, as it now stands, there are two identical articles with differing titles. Please feel free to comment on my talk page. --Droitet 16:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

In the United States, "dress" usually refers to the feminine garment. "Attire" or "costume" is usually used in its stead in such a context. Hence "Evening attire" is used to describe formalwear (another Americanism) for either gender, while "Evening dress" would refer only to a woman's outfit. What you might term a "fancy dress party" is called a "costume party" in the US, since "fancy dress" would again imply elegant gowns or dresses. Similarly, "Academic dress" could be confused for the academic gown itself as opposed to the entire ensemble. It is with this logic that I made the initial change to "Academic regalia." Is this term obsolete in British English? Perhaps we should bring in more perspectives. I will leave your edit as it is for the moment, though I do not find it entirely satisfactory. --Droitet 16:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Discussion copied to the talk page of academic dress. Andrew Yong 11:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British and Commonwealth orders and decorations

In response to your comment on Talk:British and Commonwealth orders and decorations (this was over two years back!) about a combined Commonwealth list of just whole Orders, I suggest you see British and Commonwealth orders and decorations#Summary of Orders. 202.0.40.55 03:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Midshipman

Concerning the image of the gorget patch for midshipmen: What would make the image suitable in your opinion?

I recognise the button needs dressing up with a crown and anchor, but I don't think there is anything else wrong with the diagram. Its SVG after all and scales to any size.

Greentubing 20:56, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Malaysian citizenship

it wasn't me that added that originally. I merely transfered it from Malaysia to that page. __earth ^(Talk) 14:36, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Midshipman.jpg

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[edit] Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar

Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

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[edit] Question?

hi, i have a specific question to ask you. could you please contact me by email? thanks Paul Dehaye

[edit] Andrew73

ANDREW 73 Andrew 73 has broken the 3RR on my user page by vandalising it. Please take appropriate action. --Zamalek 21:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

This user is a potential sock puppet of the banned user GeneralTojo (see Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/General_Tojo), based on his contributions. I'm surprised that this individual has not stated to the contrary. Other users have expressed similar concern: [2] and [3]. Finally, I've reverted three times, not more than three in the past 24 hours, of what is likely vandalism on this user's part in removing the tag! Andrew73 21:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sommerset's Case

Good clean-up on Sommerset's Case. I had been meaning to do a proper clean-up (instead of piecemeal changes) for some time now, but you save me the trouble (and did a much better job). I am guessing from your choice of articles that you and I pretty much constitute the fraternity of Wikipedian Oxonian lawyers. Plenty of work ahead for us to do in the legal articles on Wikipedia... Legis 11:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I reverted your talk page

Just leaving you a note to explain why I reverted your talk page: the text I removed was a spurious/vexatious request from User:HotHotSoup, the latest sockpuppet of User:PoolGuy, spamming the talk pages of admins (and a few non-admins), and apparently working alphabetically. Contributions of a banned user may be reverted by anyone, but if you would still like the message to be included here, feel free to revert back. Stifle (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Andrew Yong, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Jrcog@^{Insert something here} 00:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee wishes you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day.

Many happy returns and enjoy the day! Thistheman 05:24, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:British look-alike passport.jpg

[edit] WikiProject University of Oxford

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Oxford, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Oxford. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Casper Gutman 15:32, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Hi, can you take a look here, and answer if you can? Thanx --80.117.119.40 22:40, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Ps:my talk is here

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Commissionscroll.jpg)

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[edit] Urgent deletion for Albert Digaev article

Hello! I have come to ask you something important. The Albert Digaev article has been repeatedly vandalized yesterday, and Albert himself has asked that it be removed entirely due to security reasons, and he is considering notifying the FBI to find the person who has vandalized the article. I was hoping to see if you could get this page removed. Thanks --Samian 12:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of British and United States military ranks compared

An article that you have been involved in editing, British and United States military ranks compared, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British and United States military ranks compared. Thank you. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:10, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malaysian?

Hi, nice to meet you, are you a Malaysian? If so, you're the 2nd M'sian admin I've met here... --Edmund the King of the Woods! 17:48, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of admins

Hi Andrew Yong. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 22:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SEA Games 2007

Dear Andrew Yong, please make the correction of the article about football in 2007 SEA Games. It's write all about the 2005 SEA Games. Please help me to make the good of this article. Thank you. Albert@Indonesia To make relation ship with me, you can click this link. —Preceding comment was added at 11:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A new Oxbridge user box

Andrew Yong...I am currently in the process of writing a user box for all of the colleges that are part of Oxbridge. This template is meant to replace your current college template. Please take a look at the work in progress and comment on it. My main concerns are college abbreviations and color choice. I am using scarf colors for the colleges. Thank you. - LA @ 17:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for pinyin user template

Hi,

Is there a user template on english wikipedia for members who can read & write hanyu pinyin? If not, is it posible to creat one?

Sanket ar (talk) 21:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Beijing

Hey Andrew Yong! I'm currently planning the launch of the WikiProject Beijing, depending on if enough other editors would be interested in such a project. I saw you have edited the main Beijing page recently or in several times in the past and therefor might be interested. If you are, please sign: User:Poeloq/WikiProject_Beijing. As I am posting this to quite a few editors, I am not watching your page and would ask you to reply with any comment or questions on my talk page. Cheers, Poeloq (talk) 21:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)