User talk:Kelvinc

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[edit] HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events

Hi. Thanks for your contributions to some Hong Kong-related articles. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. — Instantnood 10:24, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2006

In the course of informal discussions at Wikimania in Frankfurt the possibility of having Wikimania 2006 in Vancouver was raised. What makes Canada desirable for such a meeting is the capacity to draw delegates from the United States. For many overseas delegates, however, U.S. visa requirements make that country less attractive. All else being equal, Europeans see Vancouver as a more interesting Canadian city to visit than Toronto, the only other Canadian city to receive significant consideration.

Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005. A short list will be drawn from those bids. Is there enough interest and energy to put together such a conference in Vancouver for August 2006? The people in Frankfurt put on a tremendous gathering, with a core organizational group of about a dozen people. Some 400 people attended from 52 different countries.

I expect that a North American Wikimania could be a little smaller, but we would still need a suitable facility. It would be good to know that such a facility is available for a conference; the type of youth hostel facility that was used in Frankfurt does not exist in North America. What would be the cost of hosting such a conference at UBC?

I'm looking for interest and commitment. To that end I am proposing a Vancouver meetup for Saturday, Sept. 24. If someone has a reasonably accesible place for such a meeting please let me know. (I live in Richmond, but something in the city of Vancouver would be more appropriate.)

I am spammiong this to all Vancouver area Wikipedians that I can find. Please reply to my talk page. Eclecticology 21:50:16, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

[edit] User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Hong Kong page as living in or being associated with Hong Kong. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Hong Kong Wikipedians for instructions. Rmky87 19:13, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Image:Zangjiesi-declare.jpg

re Image:Zangjiesi-declare.jpg, I kind of assumed things because the note I got on the pic was that he was declaring war, which did not officially occur until 1941. Of course, I am really assumming things, so if you think I am mistaken, please change it because I probably am mistaken. Thanks for pointing it out, --Jiang 03:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad manners

Imagine someone had a userbox like yours for the EU for Canada or for other unions like the US, the UK, or the United Arab Emirates. It is just bad manners. ROGNNTUDJUU! 20:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tks for heads up

Hi, thanks for the heads up on the tone marks debate! Dragonbones 07:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Italy

No, we don't need all this small parties. We could add them in a note, not in the table itself. Personally I would like to add up to votes of the Italian and the abroad votes for each party, since both are part of the electorate. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 20:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW: How can you be pro-life and prefer that the death penalty be used far more often. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 20:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Seating Plan

The reason for the two tories and the dipper begin separated from caucus is because they are deputy Speakers. I guess as speakers they need to be away from thier parties in order to appear more neutral. What's wierd is that when the libs were in power, thier dep speakers were joined with caucus. Anyway, I would keep the way it currently looks simply because it is the actual seating plan. With regard to older plans, I made them up based on the basic way they assign seats. MS123


[edit] Uh-oh

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock of 64.59.144.22 lifted or expired. Sorry for the trouble!

Request handled by: Luna Santin 12:16, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Haha my account got autoblocked on the same IP address again. Not going to appeal it for now since I don't need to edit right away (it's getting late) but hopefully my address will be renewed or the autoblock lifted by this time tomorrow. Thought I should record this event for posterity though. Kelvinc 09:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Our edits to Ella Koon

Thanks. The reason I replaced it with No was because of the whole Yale romanization. Sorry about that. It leaves me wondering though; why is her name romanized as Koon and not Gun. Also, when I browse through Wikipedia to look at the pages made for Canto/Mando artists, there's a different romanization almost everywhere. What happened to uniformity?

Thanks for clarifying that. It's too bad though that people don't resort to discussing this matter. I mean, it would make it all the more easier to start or edit a page on a Chinese artist. Oh well.

By the way, do you happen to know a website or any other source that has biographical information on Candy Lo 盧巧音? It's extremely hard to come by useful stuff about her. Thanks in advance. Narqalaq 10:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hahaha, I seem to be the only one to actually obsess over her. ;) Well, good luck with your future Wikipedics. :D Narqalaq 10:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Video game edit

No worries, easily enough sorted out. And thanks for suggesting the {{inuse}} tag. That is good to know about. Take care. BcRIPster 07:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Cathay Pacific logo.gif)

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[edit] Licencing of location maps for European countries

Hi. You are one of many editors having expressed a concern about the licence for David Liuzzo's maps — actually, I think you were the first to put attention to this problem, good catch! He already changed this for the European countries without EU-highlighting, see Commons - Template:Europe location. The creator promised to do so as well for their version with EU-highlighting, and nothing will go on as long as this may not have been taken care of. Meanwhile, in case you like to inspect the presently modified licence and wish to comment on it, please do so in the subsection Comments on the February 2007 new licence for David Liuzzo maps. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 3 Feb 2007 17:21 (UTC)

[edit] Location Maps

On the WikiProject Countries talk page, you had either explictly declared a general interest in the project, or had participated at a discussion that appears related to Location Maps for European countries.
New maps had been created by David Liuzzo, and are available for the countries of the European continent, and for countries of the European Union exist in two versions. From November 16, 2006 till January 31, 2007, a poll had tried to find a consensus for usage of 'old' or of which and where 'new' version maps. At its closing, 25 people had spoken in favor of either of the two presented usages of new versions but neither version had reached a consensus (12 and 13), and 18 had preferred old maps.
As this outcome cannot justify reverting of new maps that had become used for some countries, seconds before February 5, 2007 a survey started that will be closed at February 20, 2007 23:59:59. It should establish whether the new style maps may be applied as soon as some might become available for countries outside the European continent (or such to depend on future discussions), and also which new version should be applied for which countries.
Please note that since January 1, 2007 all new maps became updated by David Liuzzo (including a world locator, enlarged cut-out for small countries) and as of February 4, 2007 the restricted licence that had jeopardized their availability on Wikimedia Commons, became more free. The subsections on the talk page that had shown David Liuzzo's original maps, now show his most recent design.
Please read the discussion (also in other sections α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ) and in particular the arguments offered by the forementioned poll, while realizing some comments to have been made prior to updating the maps, and all prior to modifying the licences, before carefully reading the presentation of the currently open survey. You are invited to only then finally make up your mind and vote for only one option.
There mustnot be 'oppose' votes; if none of the options would be appreciated, you could vote for the option you might with some effort find least difficult to live with - rather like elections only allowing to vote for one of several candidates. Obviously, you are most welcome to leave a brief argumentation with your vote. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 7 Feb 2007 20:19 (UTC)

[edit] That RfC...

Hi, kudos for treating that RfC with that extra portion of patience. But I am sure it's going to be soon deleted, I might actually speedy it under WP:SNOW. If you want to keep that useful summary of yours around for documentation, you might want to copy it to the article talk page. Cheers, Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flag of Myanmar

Hi, If we have to include every single proposed and unadopted flags, we would have over 200 flags. Please let me know if you think we should start including all the proposed flags since 1948 independance? There have been over 200 flags which were never adopted. Okkar 09:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I am not in anyway disputing the fact, I just dont want to start a feeding frenzy to those politically motivated editors, who are itching to include flags of NLD and 1001 other flags of opposition groups. If we started including unofficial flags, granted that it has been proposed but not yet formally adopted, then we would open the flood gate to these vandals are who are rubbing their paws to include their party's flags. I hope you understand my point. Okkar 10:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Map caption

Hi Kelvinc. I answered your message on my talk page there. The error is solved but was not caused by the Map caption template, but by its caller that did not show the Map caption template. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 9 Apr 2007 11:50 (UTC)

[edit] Jean Shrimpton image

My God! I'd completely forgotten that I uploaded that photo of Jean Shrimpton. I don't think the NNDB own that photo either, but there is nothing distinctive about it to identify the copyright holder - Shrimpton was a model in the 1960s, so you can imagine that she had a few photos taken of her. How about this (number 15) as an alternative - considered one of the top magazine covers of the last 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. If we took the image as used here [1] but made it a lot smaller do you believe that it would qualify as It is a historically significant photo of a famous individual - Particularly if I edit the article to mention some of the photographers that took photos of her, including Richard Avedon, as well as the magazine's selection. kju 23:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll sort it out in the next few days. Job applications, birthdays and autumn cleaning to be done first! kju 15:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Giafront.jpg)

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[edit] Re: Thailand as part of Axis in WWII

Hi Kelvin, I've got no particular opinion on whether Thailand should be considered one of the Axis powers and understand that this is the subject of a lot of debate. However, as it did fight alongside Japan in Burma it belongs in that side of the infobox. Maybe the Allies and Axis headings in this box should be removed? - I'm not sure what they add. Regards, --Nick Dowling 00:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, for some reason I thought that your edit removed Thailand rather than re-added it. I've got no idea why I thought this and have reverted myself. --Nick Dowling 01:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not A Sock Puppet

Sorry about uploading those images i didnt know they were deleted but i am not a sock puppet whoever uploaded those images before me i didnt know him/her so i am not a sock puppet --Bothtones7 11:34 22 November 2007 (ETZ)

There's no doubt in my mind that Bothtones7 is a sock puppet of User:Roadcrusher. He has the identical editing interests. He uploads many images under the guise of fair use that do not survive a deletion review. He never uses edit summaries, even after being asked to do so. And he places photos on New York City Subway station articles, making the same template parameter error every time. I do not have the energy to build a sock puppet case, but if you do, feel free to go ahead. Marc Shepherd (talk) 16:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re User:Bothtones7

Yes, I'm pretty sure that it was Roadcrusher too. You'd have thought that he would have got the message by now. —Jeremy (talk) 03:53, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Australia

All but two members of the Australian House of Representatives are affiliated with a party, no reasonable person in Australia would call party affiliation an oddity. In Australia party affiliation is extremly common, you may not see party affiliation in other nation's infoboxs because party affiliation there is not as prolific as it is here; however the fact of the matter remains that in Australia party affiliation is the norm and as such qualifies to be present in the infobox. I hope that I have cleared up your confusion on this matter.--Theworld2 12:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The goings on of the article Politics in the United States is irrelevant to the one on Australia, please be aware that the issue is not the membership of the public at large to political parties but rather the affiliation of the elected official, in this case the Prime Minister of Australia. Also, rather off the point but to address some misconceptions you may have; most Australians regularly vote for one political party despite not being a member of it and for your information, the Liberal Party of Australia has a membership of over 80'000.--Theworld2 04:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extrahence100‎

Wow, even when you explain exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, Roadcrusher still can't set aside his copyvio ways. If you think he's educatable and that progress can be made, I can reduce his block there, but I'm out of patience for what feels to me like wasting everyone's time and typing. DMacks (talk) 20:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] why are you working as and administrator if you are braking wp rules?

I saw that you removed many of relevant links to foto archive that you should not done, why are you doing this? Mirko11 (talk) 17:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:w-shout

I'm not sure. Something was wrong with the template and that fixed it. You are welcome to revert it if you like. Domthedude001 03:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translink template

Thanks for catching that - mistake on my part last week when I was trying to categorize templates during an editing blitz. Cheers! Plasma east (talk) 12:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

Hi, I think that applies to editors who are "behaving". Cartoonbook uploaded yet another image completely ignoring what we had already said to them so I don't think we should AGF here. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel (talk) 20:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NAU vs. NACU

You bring up a very valid point. I went ahead and re-wrote the lead. Let me know what you think. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HELP

If there is a liberal party user please come to Nicola Roxon. We need an unbiased opinion as the labour members are constantly reverting her Jewish religion. They are stacking the discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GaryGazza (talk • contribs) 11:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge them 3 : [[Talk:Small_Seal_Script#I also support the merge [Great Seal + Small seal] into Seal script]]

Hello, I seen that you are interested by Seal script. I inform you that it is a talk encouraging to merge the 3 articles. Your opinion is welcome.

210.203.61.15 (talk) 06:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Precision Bombing

Thanks for hunting down and accepting the 'PD Source'. I did the 'cut and paste' and it nearly sprained my wrist! Glad to see that the article (as enhanced by later editors) survives.Bo (talk) 02:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Losing face

Kelvinc,

I am wondering if our dispute may be caused by a cultural misunderstanding. Are you opposing the Brain Drain article because you worry that it might make Europeans lose face? If this is the case, then you needn't worry, because Europeans have a different understanding.


Perhaps a Chinese example might help:

Deng Xiaoping is my favourite Chinese leader. I have been influenced by a Chinese friend (Yinqu Wu) who told me about his life growing up in China. When Yinqu was young, he was told that Chinese people were lucky because they all had enough food to eat. He was told that in America, only the rich people have enough food while the poor people starve to death.

When Deng Xiaoping became leader he told the Chinese people the truth, that American's were prosperous and the Chinese were poor. Deng began to reform China, to bring economic freedom and prosperity.

The big question is, why did it take China so long to realize their situation? Why didn't they tell the truth from the outset? I believe Chinese culture may have contributed to their delayed development. Chinese are polite, quiet people that avoid openly discussing real problems. Losing face is an important issue for them.

Europeans are not so concerned about losing face. European politicians frequently make comparisons to the United States to motivate the public, but this does not cause offence. Rather it inspires Europeans to compete with Americans (hence the bluecard). Europeans see themselves as being equal to Americans. A realistic admission of a problem is the first step towards reform.

Badenoch (talk) 04:31, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Membership application for Wikimedia Hong Kong is now open


09:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear wikipedian:

I am glad to tell you that, out local chapter, Wikimedia Hong Kong is now open for membership applications. The Chapter will hold several Recruitment days in different locations in the territory.


Please check out the time, date and location of the recruitment days here, and please hand in your application in person in the one that is convenient to you. Please follow the instruction on that page, and better prepare all the documents needed before the recruitment day.


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[edit] Meetup

Wikimedia Vancouver Meetup

Please come to an informal gathering of Vancouver Wikipedians, Monday, May 5 at 6:30 pm. It will be at Benny's Bagels, 2505 West Broadway. We'd love to see you there, and please invite others! Watch the Vancouver Meetup page for details.

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Not sure if this applies to you after seeing that Hong Kong notice above, –thedemonhog talk • edits 06:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guangzhou Twin Towers

Since They are Talking about both towers shouldnt the article mention both towers. --Trulystand700 (talk) 19:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)