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[edit] 192.154.91.225 (talk · contribs)

6 months is an incredibly long block for an IP. Can you be a bit more specific about the vandalism you blocked them for? - Mgm|(talk) 13:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Languages of the European Union: A prolonged discussion over new member states data.

As there is an ongoing and rather prolonged discussion over some data about the new member states in Languages_of_the_European_Union#Language_skills_of_European_Union_citizens, please see the discussion in Talk:Languages_of_the_European_Union#2007_update and, as you have recently contributed to the article, you may want to add some comment. --Michkalas 20:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taiwanese aborigines

Were you planning on discussing removing the sidebar? --Ling.Nut 17:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Further discussions on Template talk:TaiwaneseAboriginesSidebar please. – Kaihsu 17:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EU official languages: One member, one language

On 6 September 2005, you have written in the article Languages of the European Union (see here) that:

“

There has been a suggestion in an official briefing that the implicit principle for official languages of the European Union is that each member state can put forward at most one official language ('one member state, one language'). This has not been confirmed in documents.

 ”

Is there some source for this? --Michkalas 16:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I think I got that from the European Parliament post-briefing that day. I don't know whether this ever appeared in print. – Kaihsu 09:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:KingHiramOfTyre@3

Dunno what's going on here - contribs doesn't tell much of a story, so deleted edits may be involved - so I'm deferring this one to you. The 6 month block length also struck me as strange, further enhancing my confusion. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 00:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taiwan

Hello,

Regarding James Laidlaw Maxwell, Thomas Barclay, and George Leslie Mackay, why did you delete the reference to China? Just because Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese doesn't mean that the culture ceased to be Chinese. Only the Taiwanese nationalists of the modern era might wish it to be disassociated, but then as now it is widely recognized as part of China.Brian0324 18:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

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[edit] European Council - Membership seniority

Hi, Just to let you know that I have made the table of members of European Council sortable and so I have removed the seniority column which you added a year ago (following a request from me) because sorting by the Member Since col will now give the same info without the maintenance headache.--Rye1967 14:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! Many thanks! – Kaihsu 14:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prod warning: Love Oxford

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[edit] Image:GlastoneRoomOxfordUnion20040228CopyrightKaihsuTai.png listed for deletion

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[edit] WikiProject University of Oxford

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[edit] Umkhonto we Sizwe

Can you provide a link to the Truth and Reconciliation's report? BillMasen 21:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I did not add the citation.... Sorry. – Kaihsu 21:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Trafalgardetail_legoland_Copyright2003KTai.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Request permission to use picture

Hi, I am designing a poster Women in Modern Mathematics for the Mathematical Association of America and would like to use your picture of the Oxford Crest as a large thumbnail on the poster. The MAA requires written confirmation of permission. You can contact me at snbmailbox-wiki@yahoo.com Thanks, Stan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.140.125.155 (talk) 15:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

I do not hold copyright or trademark rights on the Oxford badge. You might want to contact the University of Oxford. – Kaihsu 15:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Cohn-Bendit

"Dany the Red" is not self-consistent. If you want the french spelling, Dany le rouge. If one part is in translation, the whole thing should be.

[edit] ISO 639-3

Hi Kaihsu,

just read your posting on wikitech-l for ISO 639:nan today. Want to give you my strong moral support. In my opinion all ISO 639-3 codes should be added, at first as redirect, but in the long run I would even prefer this for the real domain name. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. – Kaihsu 13:51, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] name change?

You moved the article "the salt pit" to the name "Salt Pit". But you didn't say why. I've asked you to return to Talk:Salt Pit, and explain the reasoning behind your change.

Cheers! Geo Swan 02:03, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gilchrist at FA

Thanks for your note at Talk:Adam Gilchrist - the article is indeed still a featured article so I have reinstated the bronze star. It probably went missing after the numerous edits to his article after featuring on the Main page yesterday. Thanks again, all the best The Rambling Man 16:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rectify the anomaly

Have commented on this on Talk: AUT page. Pam Davies 16:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with account retrieval

Firstly,I apologize if ive missed a point on the admin.request page, but I went through it several times and found nothing fiting.I have a problem:I dont know if you read One Piece and watch the asociated articles,but you ve may comme across my account as User:New Babylon also on many historical articles,mostly conected with the move of the Lists of "monarch who lost their thrones in the xth century" . Recently, I found myself loged out from that acount.Thereafter I tried to log in again,but found none of the possible passwords I use on other sites, working (and I have only 2) and I never got to inserting an e-mail into my account.I would like to ask you,if you could help me?On the Wikipedia Help pages it says ":"If you did not enter an e-mail address, or the address was out of date, but you are determined to regain access to the account, you might be able to persuade someone with direct access to the database that it is your account, and ask them to retrieve it for you."It would realy be nice if you could asist me,because ive been using the old acount for 9 months and now all my contributions are........gone.I would like to point out a few details that could support my claim that the old site IS truly mine. First the new account was created shirtly after the last contribution of the NB account.Second,I moved the entiere talk and user information to User:New Babylon 2 and no one objected on the NB account.And lastly,there have been no new edits by the NB account since the creation of the NB 2 account. I apologize if the preceeding would seem to commanding,I just dont know how else to write it.I would REALY apreciate it if you would help me or redirect me to someone who can.Thank you (in advance) David aka:New Babylon and (involuntarily) New Babylon 2 19:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Yoshinoya_gyuudon_1.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Dear Kaihsu, I see that you have moved the ROCOR page from "Outside Russia" to "Outside of Russia". I am unsure whether such change is necessary, since there is no consensus on the official name of the organisation, but apart from that, the talk page has not been moved. Can I please ask you to transfer the contents of the talk page as well, as I do not have enough knowledge/confidence to perform the move. Thanks! --Gimlei (talk to me) 20:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:SocialistWorkerStallSOAS20041016_CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] World Refugee Day

Why did you get rid of my [citations needed]? Briaboru

Now resolved using {{Unreferenced}}. – Kaihsu 13:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Supreme Scientist

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[edit] Image:PolicingAnimalRightsDemonstrationOxford20050129 CopyrightKaihsuTai.JPG

I was there! That's just weird, I was chatting to the officers as the animal rights people gathered outside a vodaphone shop. It was shortly before I became an officer myself, weird! SGGH speak! 08:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. Are you a special constable now? – Kaihsu 09:15, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Not yet, September :( SGGH speak! 11:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Good for you. Thames Valley Police I suppose. All the best! – Kaihsu 12:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of The Nature and Purpose of the Church

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[edit] Churches in Amsterdam

Hello from Amsterdam, thanks a lot for renaming West Church to Westerkerk and for fixing the translation of the name! Could I ask you to please do the same for the Noorderkerk, Zuiderkerk, Oosterkerk, Nieuwe Kerk and Oudekerk? Thanks a lot in advance. Take care, Jvhertum.

Done. It was silly to insist on moving them to the "English names". – Kaihsu 08:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Much obliged. Yes, it was just plain silly! Jvhertum 13:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I spent much of my Saturday during my weekend in Amsterdam walking about looking for a church that still had a service on Sunday. Westerkerk was the only one I could find – perhaps I should have also tried Oude Kerk, but my impression was that it was not used for services regularly. I am glad that the Protestant Church in the Netherlands achieved its unity, but perhaps it was forced to do so in a numerically-declining climate.... – Kaihsu 14:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, we're not a church-going folk here ;) My mom goes to Sunday services at the English Church, which is very active (but mostly expats, he he). Anyway please take a look at Talk:Noorderkerk for continued discussion on this issue.... Thanks, Jvhertum 09:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

By the way, once you are registered and logged-in, you should be able to move pages yourself. – Kaihsu 11:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

On Wikipedia.nl (where I am an admin) you cannot switch a page and a redirect to that page. An admin has to do that for you. Anyone can move a page to a new name if that name is not in use, of course. Regards, Jvhertum 14:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to my userpage

Erm... shouldn't I be the one who chooses how to present my own userpage? :S regards, SGGH speak! 19:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. – Kaihsu 14:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Otto Loewi's Nobel prize diploma

Did you take this picture of Otto Loewi's Nobel prize diploma at the Royal Society in London on 2004-04-20?

Yes.

LoewiNobel20040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg

Someone has written on Otto Loewi's page that the diploma is in Graz, Austria. So I was wondering if the diploma was in London (at the time you took the picture) and has since then been moved to Austria, if it was in Austria the entire time, or if its still in London and the text about it being in Austria is nonsense. (Please reply here.) panda 21:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea where it is now, but I can say that I took the photograph in London. I had (and still have) no means of confirming the authenticity of the diploma. – Kaihsu 05:55, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! panda 17:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sun Yat Sen Memorial House

Hi, I'm the original creator for the above article & wld like to know why the name change & later revert of "Sun Ke" to "Sun Fo" (even with wiki-link to "Sun Fo" page) without prior edit comments or discussion on the article talkpage? I attended the "Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Macau – A Photographic Commemoration on the Occasion of the 140th Anniversary of his Birth" & visited the Memorial House in Macau early this year to gather source information in writing this article. His name, "Sun Ke" was commonly referred in Macau as recorded by Macau History Association which i use its material as my reference. That's why I used "Sun Ke" & reverted it to its nomenclature in the context of my article. -- Aldwinteo 09:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of Gare du Luxembourg

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Resolved now. – Kaihsu 13:27, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Calvinism invitation

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[edit] WP Zimbabwe

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[edit] Taiwanese military history

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Her Majesty's Government.gif

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I hope this issue is resolved now. – Kaihsu 13:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moving photographs using CommonsHelper

I need to move most of these using CommonsHelper, and then delete them here. – Kaihsu 13:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Now down to my contributions for these three days: 2004-01-24, 2004-02-28, and 2004-03-03. – Kaihsu 15:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Nearly done: just the ones from 2004-02-28. – Kaihsu 16:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

All done! – Kaihsu 16:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cần Thơ Bridge

I have moved Cần Thơ Bridge back to Can Tho Bridge. Naming conventions prefer that English, Latin characters are in the title of articles (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)). — Moe ε 17:41, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

No, that is not a latin character and that is not the naming conventions of the these cities and providences unless you get consensus to change them. — Moe ε 19:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

The statement ‘that is not a latin character’ is not correct. But I can do without a revert war in my life, so I will let this one pass. – Kaihsu 19:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, most of them were Latin except "ầ" and "ơ", which are vietnamese language vowels. — Moe ε 20:06, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

In the Latin alphabet article: "With the age of colonialism and Christian proselytism, the [Latin] alphabet was spread overseas, and applied to Amerindian, Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian languages." "Vietnam, under French rule, adapted the Latin alphabet for use with the Vietnamese language, which had previously used Chinese characters." In the article Vietnamese: "Writing system: Nôm, Latin alphabet (quốc ngữ)" "The Vietnamese writing system in use today is an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, with additional diacritics for tones and certain letters." "Presently, the written language uses the Vietnamese alphabet (quốc ngữ or "national script", literally "national language"), based on the Latin alphabet." In the page Category:Alphabetic writing systems, there is no such entry as "Vietnamese alphabet" or "vietnamese language vowels". – Kaihsu 22:36, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Exactly, you just said it. The Vietnamese writing system in use today is an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, with additional diacritics for tones and certain letters. Emphasis mine. An adapted version of the Latin alphabet isn't the Latin alphabet, which is what the naming convention is speaking of. ầ and ơ (with the diacritics) are not part of the Latin alphabet. — Moe ε 23:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and have you not heard of the Vietnamese alphabet? — Moe ε 00:04, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I don’t think I can convince you, but see Latin characters in Unicode, alphabets derived from the Latin, and Category:Latin-derived alphabets (a subcategory of Category:Alphabetic writing systems via Category:Latin alphabet which includes English alphabet, Italian alphabet, Romanian alphabet, and Vietnamese alphabet). By your logic, the two major modern languages most closely related to Latin (Italian and Romanian) do not use the Latin alphabet (since they also use diacritics such as à and ș), but only English does. And in that English, words like ‘blessèd’, ‘Brontë’, ‘naïve’, and ‘encyclopædia’ don’t exist. This edit of yours has been referred to the Supreme Bean Council. – Kaihsu 07:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

You misinterpret what I said. I didn't say that they don't exist, I didn't say they weren't Latin alphabets or Latin letters, I said they weren't the Latin alphabet the naming convention mentions of. I believe the Latin alphabet the naming convention is speaking of is here. And I think the correct page your looking for is WP:POINT, not WP:BEANS, which reverting an edit which adds it to a correct category, is. Did you honestly assert that the Vietnamese alphabet isn't a Alphabetic writing system? Anyways, if you want naming conventions for an entire country to change, I would suggest going to the Vietnamese WikiProject and getting the consensus you need, because your not getting it here arguing with one individual, who disagrees with you. — Moe ε 16:04, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Map_taiwan.jpg

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[edit] Copyright on userpage

We have been discussing your user page on the administrator noticeboard, see this. It seems that you cannot retroactively copyright your user page, because when you click "save page" you agreed to license your contribution under the GFDL, so the copyright notice isn't technically accurate. Would it be a big issue if you removed it? Thanks for your consideration, and I welcome you to comment further at the discussion thread on WP:AN.-Andrew c [talk] 00:57, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, please note that asserting "moral rights" is not consistent with the GFDL, which requires that modification without limitation or permission be allowed. "Moral rights" generally forbid this and are incompatible with this requirement.Seraphimblade Talk to me 07:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

A couple of notes: First, the GFDL does not affect copyright. Indeed, it's only the fact that Kaishu holds copyright that allows the GFDL to be enforced. If there were no copyright, then anyone could take Kaishu's stuff and sell it as part of a document that could not be copied.

The "moral rights" question is less clear -- I generally oppose such claims, GFDL or no -- but I'd point out that all Kaishu is saying is that he asserts moral rights. That's a true statement. Whether he can enforce them or not is quite another matter; I would hope he couldn't. --Trovatore 07:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

You are quite correct on that note. However, the copyright notice is still redundant and not required—one holds the copyright to something the moment it is fixed in a tangible form, just as I hold the copyright to this particular comment the moment I press save, fixing it to a tangible form (a database entry). Of course, by choosing to make the entry here, I agree that this copyrighted material will be released under the terms of the GFDL. Since this is my original work, I can make that licensing agreement, and do so the moment I press save. That means, however, that among other things, I agree to allow without limit copying and modification of this work, provided that those who copy and/or modify it comply with the GFDL's terms. I cannot claim rights incompatible with that, as I cannot simultaneously claim to release my work under a certain license and not to do so. The condition of saving one's edit here is that one allows everything permitted under the GFDL. If one is unwilling to allow this, one should never save the edit. Seraphimblade Talk to me 08:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I have had this kind of discussion around Wikimedia projects several times, and each time the conclusion was that I cannot license under GFDL (or cc-by-sa) without asserting my copyright on the work in the first place (either implicitly, as many other contributors do; or explicitly, as I do on my user page). The first sentence of section 1 of GFDL speaks of ‘the copyright holder’, which refers to me when the work is my original contribution (not Wikimedia or Free Software Foundation). (In fact, by including the copyright notice, I am simply following the instructions included with GFDL.)

Licensing under GFDL is not the same as donating into the public domain, which I also do from time to time with specific works on Wikimedia projects.

I assert my moral rights on the work only to make the defence of GFDL (by the ‘community’, whatever that means) stronger. (For example, in the case that someone contravenes the GFDL terms by copying Wikipedia content without crediting the contributors.)

The notice I put on my user page, therefore, is done in good faith and with a correct understanding of the licences (GFDL and cc-by-sa). Objections to that notice, I am sad to say, is based on an unclear understanding of the licences. – Kaihsu 10:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing it up, I think that would work fine. Perhaps to avoid future misunderstandings, you could add something explicit to the copyright notice, such as "I license my work under the GNU Free Documentation License and assert these rights within the context of such licensing?" Seraphimblade Talk to me 22:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your consideration. I already added a note yesterday. (I might add that I aim to assert my rights unlimitedly, then license generously. Remember that I am free to re-license my original works under other licensing terms to other parties – which I have also done.) – Kaihsu 10:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Europäisches Parlament in Brüssel.jpg

Hi. do you remember me? we worked together on that image you made. We had little problems because i did the upload and i would really like it if you could upload the image under new name so that i am not longer the uploader, but it is the author (the way it should be). I would do the rest. It would really be nice :) Forrester (talk) 11:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello? Forrester (talk) 17:36, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

See Image:EuropeanParliamentEntrance Copyright200406KaihsuTai.jpg. Thanks for your patience, and cheers. – Kaihsu (talk) 18:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Forrester (talk) 19:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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