User talk:Miraceti

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Please don't change "Czech Republic" to "Czechia". The latter is not used in English. Gzornenplatz 19:57, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Vyborg pictures

Hi!

I'm happy to see your (I guess!) pictures from Vyborg. My grandparents (well, at least three out of four) originate from the Vyborg–Priozersk area. Vyborg being the greater city, I've always heard a lot about its beauty. To me, recent photographs are a lot more telling than pre-war black-and-white pictures. Regards! /Tuomas 19:18, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Finland reaction on Prague Spring

This information would be perhaps better for an article about Finish history.

For that matter, reaction of Finnish government to supression of Solidarnosc was not exactly principal, I know about one Finnish historian who studies this period and was quite suprised his govenment still tries to classify documents from this period. I can find his email, perhaps he may wrote about this topic too and Prague Spring could be kept more on topic. Pavel Vozenilek 22:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It touches Prague Spring, so it should be a part of the Prague Spring article. I feel it is quite important to mention something about reactions in the world. Finland is quite a good example. Moreover, the text was kept as short as possible. Miraceti 12:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] see

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[edit] Pix

OK, I'll see if I can do it with AWB. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Nope, apparently I can't. But I did it manually. +Hexagon1 (t) 09:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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

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[edit] mikontalo pictures

Hi, I commented you in Finnish wikipedia about Mikontalo-pictures. - Mcpolo —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.156.139.249 (talk) 06:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Lithuanian flag

Hi Miraceti, Regarding similarities between the Lithuanian flag and african ones. I'm not a fanatic about removing this statement, but it did seem out of place for me. My thoughts were along the lines of: "African flags? huh? bizarre! how could they have anything at all to do with each other if Lithuania became independent after WWI, while the african countries only became independent in the 50s to 70s. And most African flags don't look like that anyway, theyve usually got all sorts of little designs and diagonal lines (have a look at Flags of Africa). Why not Caribbean or Polynesian flags, while we're at it. It looks like a piece of random trivia, so to avoid giving undue prominence, I'll delete it."

Then again, it is possible these things are not as obvious as I thought. Have you had people note a resemblance between the Lithuanian and African flags?

Anyway, the undue prominence issue is to me the only problem (Check out WP:Undue weight). If we could phrase it in some way that doesn't make it stand out like a weird piece of trivia, I'd see no problem. Deuar 13:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Right, I get you. How about a little section at the end entitled "trivia", where one could say something like:
The choice of colours in the Lithuanian flag is unusual for a European country, but locals have been heard to say that the colours on some african flags are coincidentally similar.
and see if it survives the other editors —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deuar (talk • contribs) 11:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

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[edit] Pre-Meiji Period: Use of Japanese era name in identifying disastrous events

The newly-created 1703 Genroku earthquake article pushed just the right buttons for me. Obviously, as will become clear, there were some questions that I'd been pondering for some time; and your Historic tsunami work suggested a convenient opportunity to move forward in a process of building a new kind of evolving consensus.

Would you consider making a contribution to an exchange of views at either of the following:

I think you will be pleased with the first sentence of a proposal which has been posted for Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan to consider:
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ooperhoofd (talk • contribs) 17:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

PROPOSED MODIFICATION
It seems to me that User:Miraceti (see cs:Wikipedista:Miraceti) got it just about right when Historic tsunami was initially crafted in August 2007. In that context, I would propose adopting something like this:

  • 1. MOS:JA should be modified to incorporate the guidelines suggested by Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management, but with a modest exception-to-the-general-rule variation -- that disasters in Japan during the years 645 through 1945 are more fully described in this format: <<year>><<nengō>><<place>><<event>>.
  • 2. MOS:JA suggests that an explanation and internal link to Japanese era name should be incorporated into any article with a nengō in its title.

EXAMPLES OF PROPOSED CHANGE
Sanriku region

Nankai region

  • Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 887 Ninna-Nakai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 1361 Shōhei-Nankai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 1498 Meiō-Nankai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 1605 Keichō-Nankai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 1854 Ansei-Nankai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region
    • 1946 Showa-Nankai earthquake ---> REDIRECT> Seismology of the Nankai region

Kantō region

  • Seismology of the Kantō region
  • 1703 Genroku-Edo earthquake
  • 1855 Ansei-Edo earthquake
  • Great Kantō earthquake ---> REDIRECT> 1923 Taisho-Kantō earthquake

If this proposed modification gains general consensus, I will volunteer in mid-January to begin addressing the task of moving current articles to conform with this reasonable guideline.

As you may not know, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management came up with entirely reasonable guidelines for naming articles about earthquakes, fires, typhoons, etc. However, the <<year>><<place> <<event>> format leaves no opportunity for conventional nengō which have been used in Japan since the eighth century (701-1945) -- as in "the Great Fire of Meireki" (1657) or for "the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji" (1707).

In a purely intellectual sense, I do look forward to discovering how this exchange of views will develop; but I also have an ulterior motive. I hope to learn something about how better to argue in favor of a non-standard exception to conventional, consensus-driven, and ordinarily helpful wiki-standards such as this one. In my view, there does need to be some modest variation in the conventional paradigms for historical terms which have evolved in non-Western cultures -- no less in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I'm persuaded that, at least in the context of Japanese history before the reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), some non-standard variations seem essential; but I'm not sure how best to present my reasoning to those who don't already agree with me.

I know these first steps are inevitably awkward; but there you have it. Your good work produced good consequences. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 16:55, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fort Boyard

About two years ago you said that Fort Boyard (TV series) aired in The Czech Republic. Was it a remake of the show, or just the orginal french version dubbed into Czech? Please respond on my talk page--Fantastic fred (talk) 01:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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