User talk:Istanbuljohnm

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[edit] Award

The Working Man's Barnstar
For your valuable contributions, knowledge, and excellent work on İstanbul-related articles, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Tebrikler! —Khoikhoi 03:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mersin

I have re-written some sections, but some statements need to be verified. I do not understand why "we need" that forum thread there. They are not considered as "sources" (let alone reliable ones). This aside, from a very brief inspection, it looks like a nationalist board (e.g. use of wolves and other politically charged avatars) but I can not tell for sure, since I do not speak Turkish. I am not implying anything about you, your political ideas and/or character but, if I were you, I would stay away from those places. Kind regards --Zippocar 10:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cebeci Asri cemetery

hello, I know it is not in Istanbul, but I saw your work on Cankaya article, so, please, can you create(or do you know someone who can create) article about Cebeci Asri cemetery? i am not familiar with turkish wikipedians, and you were the first i met in my search. thanks. Elsanaturk 23:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks.Elsanaturk 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar time

Mecidi Order
I, Makalp award you the Mecidi Order for your efforts to improve Turkey related articles --Must.T C 15:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear Istanbuljohnm, congrats for your positive contributions/developments in Turkey related articles. let me state my 2cents; please use [[:]] for potentially new articles instead of italik marks. Kolay gelsin.Must.T C 15:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] koordinatlar

kordinat bilgilerini bu linkten bulabilirsin.Must.T C 21:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merhaba from Bosnia

Merhaba Istanbuljohnm. I saw your user page, your interests and decided to introduce myself. I come from Bosnia and I would like to write articles about military past of the Balkans, war crimes commited there etc, because I realized that current articles about the subject are not even 1% of the whole perspective. And there are so many edit wars between Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians and other people from the Balkans which destroyed the point of encyclopedia. Many of them are just here because of their nationalistic sentiment. There are not many Bosnian useres here who surrvived the genocide in 1995, so I will try to fill that gap writing relaible articles well sourced and documented, but unfortunately English is not my mother tongue. I saw you speak English fluently. And I have to admit that I am afraid to make mistakes when I write (alhough I perfectly understand English, I learned it at school). So I came here to ask for help. When I finish some of those articles, could you read some of them to correct grammar mistakes? If you have time of course for that. Feel free to correct me, anytime not just in the articles, but here in talk pages. Best regards. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, thank you very much. I will try to provide all sources in English (ICTY judgements about crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes against Bosniaks that are not presented here - there are hundreds of massacres confirmed by International Courte, which means they are not propaganda, so I will try to write something). The Dragon of Bosnia 16:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ordu - name

you say they got the name from Kotyora..here it says it's from the word "Ordu" meaning army.

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/kotyora.html (from a greek book, i'd imagine greeks would take credit for the name it was from a greek word)

why did you think it's from "kotyora"? --152.216.7.5 13:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. the town was called Kotyora, before it was called Ordu, and Ordu sounds like a simplified pronunciation and spelling of the earlier word. Of course it could be that there was an Ottoman army camp here too giving additional relevance to the new variation also. Istanbuljohnm 00:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar check

Hi Istanbuljohnm. I wrote an article: Foča massacres, so if you have some time, just take a look there, to check if there are some grammar mistakes. Merhaba. The Dragon of Bosnia 23:46, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:

I have a right he is a banned user. --Vonones 15:13, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Banned users are not aloud to edit anywhere on wikipedia even if it is your talkpage. --Vonones 15:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sax

Hi, I just saw your edits at Pharoah Sanders and saw that you're from Turkey; I wonder if you happen to know Robert Reigle? He's a jazz tenor sax player and has been living and teaching in Turkey (maybe Ankara?) for the past few years. Badagnani 13:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Please read WP:VANDAL. Reverting an article back to the version that was passed on Wikipedia:Featured Article Candidates, as I did with Cameroon, is hardly vandalism. As for your proposed changes, I would be happy to discuss them at Talk:Cameroon. But please don't go about throwing accusations of vandalism willy-nilly. That's a serious charge, and one I am in no way guilty of. Thanks, — Amcaja (talk) 01:46, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unecyclopedic wording

since ur a native speaker of english, i'll keep this short. i already left a notice to user 88.241.242.61 about his/her use of the word "you". both of u used that word (and its other forms) in the "Didim" article. ur grammer/style is okay, but if u'r familiar with encylopedias, u should know that they're not written in the second person. they're third-person and objective. i made appropriate changes to that article. i just wanted to make sure u dont use "you" in further articles, as is indicated in wiki's "Manual of Style". (i recognize the pseudo-irony of me repeating "u" in this comment). Ivansevil (talk) 00:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

without checking I guess it must nearly a year ago that I wrote the Didim article so you certainly take your time in editing!!! but then if you're analysing every pronoun it's perhaps not surprising. Bravo for your diligence. Keep up the good work Istanbuljohnm (talk) 18:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of people accused by Mohammed Fayed of being involved in the death of Princess Diana

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[edit] Turkish Armed Forces

Dear Istanbuljohnm, I'm a member of WP:MILHIST trying to do some research on the structure of the Turkish Armed Forces. I've looked through the English webpages but I know the Turkish webpages have much more information available. Would you be able to translate each of the headings on the page http://www.tsk.mil.tr/ so I know where to look further? Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 02:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)