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[edit] Empty Articles

Hi, Thomas Hübener. Stefan Kießling etc, are from football teams. I am currently updating some of the football teams where some players do not have a profile. I will add a sentence or two. Thanks. Squadoosh

[edit] NPOV and OR

Hi there. Your edit to Koyaanisqatsi doesn't seem to present a Neutral point of view. And your edit to Powaqqatsi would seem to be either POV or original research. So I've removed them for now. Feel free to add them back if you can present them in a more neutral way or find somewhere else that someone brought up the same issue that you did on Powaqqatsi so you can cite it on the page. Qutezuce 08:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Keith

Do not change the links to Mike Keith until you have created the new disambiguation page.--Zpb52 14:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tikaram

I have responded to your comment. It changes nothing so long as the article doesn't include verifiable information. 23skidoo 01:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your sig

is broken. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 00:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Debate Discussions

  • I've replied to your comments/votes on the various AfD's for state debate organisations... I said something different at each one, so you may want to take a look at all of them. - pm_shef 03:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Interlingua talk 03:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Destriarch

Sorry, I'm still feeling my way around the way Wiki handles "chat" so I hope this message actually works. You noted me regarding my possibly writing further articles about Zoroastrianism, Ancient Persia and Iran etc. Really, my subject is more demonology, mythology and the ilk but I might be able to provide a little information on specific subjects from time to time.

Ash

[edit] Thanks for the shout out

I got your comment just as I was editing the last station for TransMilenio. Thanks for the encouragement. A fellow Iowa City-raise wikipedian, I see. Little Hawk, I presume? Hwonder talk 23:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, raised 1 hour outside of Iowa City in a tiny town. But I lived there two summers for college classes while I was in high school. Interlingua talk

[edit] Your question about lists and AfDs

You asked why list of Los Angeles television stations has received less hostility than other lists. Besides that it does not obviously violate any policies, I think this is because:

  1. it is manageable. Lists that could potentially get too large, like a list of cemeteries, list of schools in China or list of websites are not manageable because they would simply get too large. Categories are better suited
  2. the criteria for inclusion is clear, and it is easy for others to check it's accuracy
  3. bias. It is considered useful. The more people think a list is useful, or if the subject of the list is of interest to many people, it will probably be kept

--Ezeu 01:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I also saw your question and as a generally anti-list user felt that it deserved ansnwer. Ezeu's points one and two are the main reasons. Lists with a small (<100) size and a more or less defined membership have some use, especially if the idividual entries don't or shouldn't have articles of their own. Lists with large sizes and amorphous membership are more likely to generate hostility. Eluchil404 00:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Limonese Authentic Party

Do you have any data on the Limonese Authentic Party? I can barely verify it exists. RJFJR 02:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Not much.
"Suspenden inscripción del Partido Auténtico Limonense"
2-11-1986.
Partido Auténtico Limonense - Deudas. Wright, Marvin. Walker, Alfredo.
http://www.metabase.net/docs/bn-cr-p/003161.html

Auténtico Limonense        ¢ 483.873.82 (monto asignado)   ¢ 483.873.82 (monto liquado)
This was an amount 1/100 that of the 2nd place party in 1982. In 86, 90 and 94, it's funds ranged from 1/100 to 1/200 of the 2nd richest party. There's no data for 98 for this party
http://www.tse.go.cr/contribestado.htm

Listed on http://www.broadleft.org/cr.htm as one of (many) leftist parties in Costa Rica

http://cariari.ucr.ac.cr/~oscarf/diagno.html Figs on public financing of the party.

In 98, it got 2,000 out of 2,000,000+ votes. 0.1% of total vote. It was a tiny party

Do you have more than this? Interlingua talk 02:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saryn Hooks

You participated in the Finola Hackett AfD. Please also join the discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saryn Hooks (second nomination). Thank you. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Language envy

I am glad we voted alike on the AfD's and that I gave you something to think about. Even though I am against using all those user boxes WP has for us, I am impressed by your set -- the language array that you know is another reason to redouble our efforts to learn more (I am trying to learn Greek, Russian, and Armenian -- simultaneously, I am afraid). I may even add the user boxes based on their usefulness demonstrated by you.

Thanks, Carlos Carlossuarez46 00:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aleem Pahalwan

Aleem pahalwan was one of the earlier opponents of the former Pakistani wrestling champion Bholu Pahalwan during his early career in the 1930's. There is nothing mentioned about Aleem being a champion except that he was the nephew of famous Buta Pahalwan of Baroda who was a former Rustam-i-Hind. The name and brief profile of Aleem pahalwan has been mentioned in the following old manuscript of Bholu Pahalwan which can be observed by visiting the following site: http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_page1/, http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_page2/,

Thanks, Farid. Faridzenger, 21 June 2006.

[edit] new america

I suggest you merge New America Founcation into New America Foundation sharpish. -- RHaworth 07:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Last night I couldn't believe they didn't have an article on this Founcation and checked multiple times with and without The, or using America/American. Of course, if I'd just spelled foundation properly. BTW, where is the proper place for me to respond to this note you've sent me: here on my Talk page or on your Talk page, or somewhere else entirely? I'm never sure if simply putting a : at the start of my reply will send a Message notice to the person to whom I'm responding. Interlingua talk 15:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

My view is that the reply should be on the same page as the question to keep the thread together. I do try to watch all user_talk pages I have left notes at but I do sometimes miss. (I have to use "my contributions" - my watchlist became unmanageably large long time ago!). Sometimes when a newbie has left a comment on my talk page, I transfer it to their talk page and reply there. Putting a colon in front does nothing except the (very useful) function of clarifying who is saying what. -- RHaworth 21:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT Indians

Thank you. I was looking for some more names. I will take your suggestion. Maybe we can make an entire list of South Asian lGBT's, as I know of plenty of famous Pakistani and Bangladeshi gays too. Or should we keep them separate? I'll do more work tommorow, though, as I must finish dinner and go to bed. Afghan Historian 04:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Thanks for the Redirect

Not at all! If you want to move a page, you should click on the 'move' at the top of the site. You can read more about it here. Regards, Jacek Kendysz 14:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] xequere

hi,Interlingua About plastic balls, i get it from Afoxé article on brazilian wikipedia. And yes i am always contribuing to the brazilian music, and afro brazilian articles when i can. As im doing right now on Afro-Brazilian.

See you later.

Mateus Zica 14:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

i just made the Afoxé article

[edit] Brazil

Wow you lived in all this places? how old are you^?

where have you benn here in brasil?

[edit] LGBT

Sounds good. Your idea was somewhat like what I had in mind and better too. We'll go along with it. I did add one diasporic South Asian, Freddie Mercury. I dont know if you've heard of him but he was the lead singer of a famous British rock group called Queen. He was a Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) who was born in Zanziber east africa but grew up in Mumbai before emigrating to England. He kept his ethnic background a secret, though, for fear of discrmination. I will also add yours plus the baron Waheed Ali, a Pakistani-Brit politician and lord of gay background. However, I can only do work for you today, as I have to be gone for 7 weeks tommorow for a debate camp ( i'm an RA, actually, who monitors the dorm rooms, keeps the campers in check and judges at camp tournament, I was a debater in high school and that's why they called me back). I get paid for it too. Post me help messages on my inbox user for when i'm gone User: Darth Pakhta. I'll respond when I get back August 12 and will resume work then. Thank you very much. Afghan Historian 18:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I redirected the list to List of LGBT South Asians. See if that works. Also, I added some of the names you gave. I'll add the others when I get more time tonight. Afghan Historian 21:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lists

Hello, Interlingua. I saw your question about creating lists that won't be deleted and I have some suggestions. First, people dislike lists that don't have a reasonable chance of being completed and/or would be huge if completed. They also don't like lists that need to be continuously updated, although very notable lists, like members of congress, can get away with this. In both of these situations, a category is usually preferred. Another big complaint is a list of things that many people find trivial, like a list of songs that have the word "black" in them (some song lists have been very similar to this).

The last big problem that I can think of is lists that encourage the creation of articles on non-notable topics. For example, there might be a list of all of the people who appeared in a TV show. Some of the actors probably already have articles and some of the others may be notable enough for articles when they are created. However, there is likely to be some non-notable people who only appeared briefly in the show and have never had significant roles in anything else, either. Linking the names of all of the actors may encourage people to create articles on the non-notable ones. In fact, they can be attractive because they are shorter to write. Some solutions would be to only link notable people or people that already have an article, leaving the rest unlinked, or to limit the list to major characters, those who already have an article or those probably notable enough for an article. Another possibility is to make a category, like "this actor appeared in (name of the show)". Since only actors with articles would appear in the category, there is no danger of encourage the creation of bad articles. Categories about non-notable topics may also be deleted, but they tend to get more leeway and less attention than lists. However, if there is a glut of trivial categories on a topic, they may get purged on Categories for Deletion in a mass or combined nomination.

Certain list topics have enough die hard fans that it is difficult to get a consensus for deletion about them. These include schools, highways, anything railroad related and lists related to a popular series, like Star Wars. It's probably best to nominate only the worst examples of such lists. If there are a bunch of similar lists and it is unclear if they will be kept or deleted on AfD, try nominating one or two instead of all of them at once. I hope this is helpful. Talk to you later, Kjkolb 09:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your suggestions to improve Ganeshbot. I will implement the changes later tonight and start it again. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] confirmation

Would you be able to find evidence for Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis? I only get a few google hits. I'd like to see one from a major newspaper to confirm this actually happened. Thank you. RJFJR 15:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] D'oh

I just listened to the "d'oh" sound again. The vowel is definitely the long "o" (English "o" with macron), with glottal stop and in high, constricted tone. Thus, it doesn't resemble the Vietnamese vowel other than in its use of the letter "o." Badagnani 22:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] of interest

Thought you mind find this MfD of interest. PT (s-s-s-s) 22:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dissappointed

Hello, I'm a bit dissappointed that you stated on the Raul Castro talk page that I had "violated Wikipedia's policies" in my discussion with another user. The user I was addressing was user:Demfourlife who is using ranging IP addresses to bypass policy and any blocks - This user was -

  • Banned under a different IP address for violating the 3rr rule. The same user broke the rule again yesterday on the Fidel Castro page - but as a ranging IP there is nothing that can be done. This page is now blocked to IP addresses.
  • Had repeatedly inserted dubious personal claims on a biography article that he was sourcing to an internet blog. These can be removed on site as per policy without discussion. That I entered the debate at all was out of courtesy.
  • Led to the Raul Castro page being protected by the VOA bot
  • Had been engaging in personal attacks on that and other pages against many users. Many of these have been removed by admins and other editors.(still occuring)
  • Had been making claims about other editors in edit summaries (still occuring).
  • Calls good faith female users "Castro loving bitches" and intimidates others off the pages.
  • Repeatedly attacks a longstanding Cuban editor (user:BruceHallman)
  • Has vandalised my talk page with false claims.

Meanwhile I've put forward almost 2000 edits on Cuban articles for a long time - created many detailed pages etc concerning Cuban history and mediated some of the worst disputes surrounding this issue attempting good faith and civility at all times. There can be no further discussion with users who insist repeatedly that an internet blog is a reliable source and are utilising ranging IP's to enforce these rumours on the page. To read that I had been violating policy is not encouraging. Thank you. --Zleitzen 14:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Solidarity Fast for Darfur

I noted your comment on the suggested deletion page for this article which I have since completely re-written. If it is not too much trouble, please could you take a look at the reviewed version. I would welcome any suggestions as to how to further improve this article so that you would be happy to give it a Keep. LukeSurl 22:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Did I Make a Mistake on My Redirect Page

See Talk:Roe_v._Wade_for_Men for my discussion of how and why I made a redirect. My issue here is that the History page didn't redirect along with the main article. Did I do something wrong? Should I have done something different? Thanks. Interlingua talk email 18:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

What are you looking for help with? --pgk 18:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't put the help me tag in the right place. I'm looking for help with the item above, my question about whether I messed up when I made the Redirect Roe vs. Wade for Men to Roe v. Wade for Men.
Well the redirect itself is fine, you left the content of the original article in place which is not particularly normal, but doesn't stop the redirect working. I'm not sure what you mean by the history page didn't redirect, the history page is quite separate to the article. --pgk 18:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I am glad that you fixed the naming of the page, but, yes, it would be nice if the history of the original page could be copied over as I spent some time on creating that page, and I would sorta like the credit for making it in the history. It looks like from WP:MOVE, that you probably should have done a "rename" to preserve the history. Now that the new page is already created with the new title, it is apparently more difficult to do a rename and we would (I think) need an administrator to do so. I honestly don't have much time at the moment to deal with this, although maybe I will some time soon, but if you might be able fix it, it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, HalfDome 16:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Here's an idea, HalfDome. You could do two edits to the page: first, copy all the info, then delete it, then save. Next, edit, copy back all the deleted info, then save. This might be a little odd, but since you're (so far, I think) the sole author, this isn't vandalilsm. Interlingua talk email 00:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I contacted an administrator who fixed it. Woo-hoo. Cheers, HalfDome 16:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your suggestion on kastoori Nivasa

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thanks to your suggestion on Kastoori Nivasa movie's Wiki page. I'll use it to edit this and any new pages I create.


[edit] The Onion Cellar

Good work. I've removed the {{notability}} warning from the article. -- Longhair\talk 04:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish Black Belt

I have just set up an AfD process. Ncanales was operating against policy in deleting the prod with no explanation. I found it on the type of inappropriate category that you mention when I was looking up Ecuadorian languages. Kevin McE 20:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caroline Kaufer

I just added categories. It was VBD that took off the tag!  :) Postcard Cathy 20:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aspiration

Hi, I saw your comment in the Malayalam language talk page. I've always wondered about aspirated stops - could you explain to me in simple terms, what exactly they are? :) Thanks! --vi5in[talk] 07:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Aspirated Stops

Thanks for the explanation! :) --vi5in[talk] 16:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with "Expression error" message

{{helpme}} There are a number of pages with Expression error: Unexpected div operator or other such errors on them. I've tried to locate the problem of this message but have failed. Two examples: Guam and Nuclear_power_in_Taiwan

Both fixed, after some effort from me and others. Are there any places you're still seeing problems? Algebraist 15:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I did a Google search and found some more: Aalen, Template:Include_timeline/horizontal_template, a page on Italian Wikipedia, Template:Location_map, Divehi Wikipedia, Template:Year_in_other_calendars, another from Divehi. Sinhalese page, Uzbek Wikipedia Interlingua 16:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Repost of Dickipedia

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