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[edit] Welcome

Welcome! (We can't say that loud/big enough!)

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We're so glad you're here! -- Essjay · Talk 14:23, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Too many Licenses?

Do i have to put information on the licenses I want on my work on my home page? And how many different licenses are there at Wikipedia?

NickC · Talk 15:32, July 13, 2005 (BST)

Nick: No, you don't have to; if you put nothing, it will automatically be released under the GFDL because all Wikipedia pages are released under the GFDL unless otherwise noted. You can look here for a list of licensing templates you can add to your page. In the lefthand column will be something that looks like this: {{licensename}}. Pick out the license you want, copy that text (with the {{}} part) and insert it on your page where you want it (you can click the "preview" button at the bottom of the edit box to see how it looks before you save.)
But, again, you don't have to put anything; some of us do just because 1) we like having things on our userpages, or 2) we want to be extra-clear. If you have any more questions, you can ask me at my talk page (I see comments on my talk page faster because I get an alert whenever an edit is made there). -- Essjay · Talk 14:37, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anon Edits

Nick, an anonymous editor just made a change to you user page; did you get logged out accidentally, or was this someone else. If it was you, you may be having the same problem as some other editors are, and you can go to "preferences" at the very top of the page and click "keep me logged in across sessions" to fix it. If it wasn't you, let me know and I'll warn the anon not to make changes to userpages without permission. -- Essjay · Talk 15:41, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

It was me, sorry about that. I am using Mozilla FireFox 1.0.4. -- NickC · Talk 16:48, July 13, 2005 (BST)

That's okay, it happens all the time. I just wanted to make sure before I went and warned the IP. You're doing good work, keep it up! -- Essjay · Talk 15:54, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Changing my Username

When I change my username, could u repost the first topic and the license topics again please? (They were really helpful!). Thanks.

No problem, just drop by my page and leave me a note telling me what your new username is. (By the way, why do you want a new username?) -- Essjay · Talk 09:03, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

It's too long :) - -- NickC · Talk 10:09, July 14, 2005 (BST)

I see. You might want to check out Wikipedia:Changing username too. -- Essjay · Talk 09:19, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
    • My new username is now Nick_C · Talk 11:56, July 14, 2005 (BST)
Glad you got it straightened out! -- Essjay · Talk 11:00, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The mop is mine!
The mop is mine!

Thanks for voting in my RfA; I promise I'll wield my sacred mop with care. If you ever need me for anything, you know where to find me. Thanks again! -- Essjay · Talk 15:20, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IDRIVE

[edit] You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

-—Preceding unsigned comment added by Maurreen (talk • contribs)

[edit] Latin America

You have voted for South America on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive a few weeks ago. Now Latin America is nominated. Hope you can help us again by voting for Latin America. --Fenice 08:01, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] wta season

Hello! I'm new here in W English before i belong to W France. I'd like create the hall of fame of all WTA tournments. I'd like to know if U have some advice for me. tks

I'm willing to help but I don't know quite what you mean by the 'hall of fame of all WTA tournments' Please explain. Thanks for contacting me. - Nick_C 16:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I mean create a page for each tournment and write -winner-, -runner up- -money prize- -score- and infomrations about the tournment such as Tier II, hard, clay ... ClaudiaZ 09.03 27 Aug 2005
But hasn't been done to an extend already at WTA-season 2005 or do you mean an individual page for each WTA tournament? - Nick_C 17:58, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes a page for each tournment Claudiaz

Then Yes, I can help. Where do we start? and what advice do you need? - Nick_C 18:02, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I don't know exactly the rules of W english and we can start N.Haven & Forest Hill. Claudiaz

Ok. There are some rules here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_official_policy - Nick_C 19:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Tks U for the link! I'll begin the hall of fame (or Honor) next week. Claudiaz

No problem. If u need any help, just ask. - Nick_C 18:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your WP:PAC assignment

Since you have not edited your WP:PAC assignment, Golem (Pokémon), within the last week, you have been un-assigned from the article. Unfortunately, we have to enforce this rule if we wish to finish the remaining articles within a reasonable amount of time.

If you wish, you are welcome to request a new assignment. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 14:01, 9 September 2005 (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 17:35, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I have added myself to the Hong Kong Category now, thanks for informing me. - Nick_C 17:51, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. Rmky87 19:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nihao

Hi~ I'm a new wikipedian in Shanghai. Can you speak some Chinese? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony aragorn (talk • contribs)

I can speak and understand a little bit of Cantonese; I'm not fluent at speaking it. - Nick_C 17:04, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events

Hello fellow Hong Kong wikipedian. 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. Happy editing! — Instantnood 10:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll check the links out. - Nick_C 17:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 USA-Race

DNS stands for when a car does not take a a race start. Makes sense. By having Ret listed that mean the driver has actually started in that race and will count a race starts towards the driver race start tally.. The formation lap does not count as a lap at all as it is not added towards the race classification. For when does a driver 'start' a Grand Prix? To my mind he does so only if he is on the grid when the flag drops or light goes green at the final start. Should a driver have failed to compete the formation lap, for instance (as was the case with Prost at Imola in 1991), he cannot truly be said to have started the race. In the case of restarted events such as the British GP in 1986, poor Jacques Laffite certainly did start the race, but this was declared null and void and he was not presented to take the restart, which is the only one that counts. For true official race results is best to get them off www.forix.com as they receive their race results from the officials. Yes I know formula1.com is official but not 100% official in statistics. If you decide to leave it as Ret then you must give all the drivers a race start count!

I have spend hours in researching and asking many F1 statistician who are famous and know more on Grand Prix. All the statisian I have contacted and got back told me it is actually DNS not Ret, they also have mention the formula1.com is not very accurate with their race results. The formula1.com is incorrect as listing as ret instead of DNS for 2005-USA. This were the responses from the following people. Renowned F1 statistians, like David Hayhoe or Autosport's Peter Higham agree that all Michelin drivers were DNS in 2005-USA, but consider a RET if a driver didn't made a re-start, for example. That was the common view in the past - no contemporary source listed Lauda as a DNS in 1976-Germany - and they simply ignore the current "null and void" FIA rule. I totally agree to change it as DNS not Ret as they didn't take part on the first lap.

Here is a intersting fact. Button will start his 100th race start in the 2005-China race. But according to wikipedia when doing the math by adding all Button race starts it would be his 101st race start in China as Button has been listed as Ret instead of DNS for this year 2005-USA race. Does this make sense to you. That means wikipedia will have an extra race start for all the drivers who have no started in the 2005 USA race have an extra race start which wouldn't be official to the drivers stats.

I am trying to help you all to have accurate data on Formula 1 on wikipedia. I DO beleive the formula1.com site doesn't not give out accurate race classifications. As I have been involved with FORIX and autosport.com for many years as my job is to look for incorrect data on their server. Andreas 04 October 09:36


[edit] Featured article for December 25th

I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-28 08:28

[edit] Image:MarionBartoli.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:MarionBartoli.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

-—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nv8200p (talk • contribs)

  • I forgot where I got the image from, so you can delete it. - Nick_C 14:51, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive

Hi Nick C,

The Football AID is restarting. The next project article is to be selected on January 1, 2006. Please look at the nominations and take part actively. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 10:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

Football World Cup has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aabha R (talk • contribs)

[edit] Asian Cup

Thanks for adding in group D and F. It was late at night here in asia so i cant finish it. Hope that we can work together in other Asian football tournaments. Not many other people are paying much attention to them.

I also support Manchester United and China since i'm a Chinese. -Zhudyzhu 06:36, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I'm happy to help with any other Asian football tournaments. - Nick C 16:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Hi Nick again. I was just wondering where did you find the venues for some matches in the asian cup. I couldnt see them on the web -Zhudyzhu 09:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Try Futbol Planet. - Nick C 16:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thanks -Zhudyzhu 12:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
No problem, and thanks for continuing the summary table for the AFC Youth Championship - Nick C 18:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFC Youth Championship

Hi Nick,

Could you help me to write an articel about the AFC Youth Championship, for more details, look at http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/as-u19.html. - Al1976 Θ 17:00, 10 January 2006 (CET)

I can help you, but I'm a bit busy at the moment. What kind of help do you need? - Nick C 16:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Only the table of the summaries [[1]]. - Al1976 Θ 19:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
When do you want it done by (any particular time)? and is the tournament for Under 19's or 20's (as I have to put a wiki link to the team) - Nick C 18:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
you can do it tomorrow. Age group changed from U-19 to U-20 for 2002. - Al1976 Θ 19:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
So should I put, for example, South Korea Under-19s or South Korea Under-20s? - Nick C 18:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
YES!Al1976 Θ 19:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Which one should I use? (As the tournamant is for U-19 and U-20) or should I just link to the main national team page? - Nick C 18:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Just link to the main national team page! - Al1976 Θ 19:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Ok, sorry for being such a bother to you. - Nick C 18:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
NO Problem, and thank you very much for your help - Al1976 Θ 19:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
U could start the article, as it might take a while for me to do the table. - Nick C 20:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Status boxes

Check this out. It's a pretty useful box, I say. Leave a message if you need anything else, JHMM13 (T | C) 20:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup task force.

The cleanup taskforce has been asked to look at Afro-Asian Club Competition. It lacks context but it seems to be football/soccer. With the available context it isn't even possible to tell if it is significant. It has been placed on your desk. Can you take a look at it? RJFJR 03:38, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll have a look at it, should be done in two days. - Nick C 17:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! You did such a good job that I added another soccer related article to your desk. (This one is a Russian soccer club. I didn't really look at it). RJFJR 05:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 41% for major edits and 59% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 17 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 18:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent!

Nick, please go to this page ASAP, as the Olympic conventions pages have been nominated for deletion! I trust that you like them a lot and from your edits, you are not willing to lose all of the work you put in. I urge you to vote "Keep", as 3 weeks of work are about to go down the drain! Thanks. (and tell other active contributors.) --Jared [T]/[+] 20:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Round8-waiting

Sorry, I don't come to wiki.en very often so I didn't read your message earlier. I put the template you want on my task list. Khardan 22:34, 19 March 2006 (UTC).

Thanks. - Nick C 14:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

You know that you're a lucky man, because this is 2 templates for the price of one for you:

(see examples quickly done on the talks of these templates). The one you must use for old championships is the second one. Khardan 22:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope I didn't waste much of your time. Is it also possible for you to add a Third Place playyoff box to the templates, as out of the 6 major tournaments that have at least 12-16 participants, 4 have a third place playoff, and with the European Championship and OFC Nations Cup, I can leave the box blank. - Nick C 18:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
For you, you can use these templates ones:

and use it like this:

Quarter finals Semi finals Final
                   
24 June - Place        
 Flag of Portugal Portugal (pen)  1 (2) [6]
30 June – Place
 Flag of England England  1 (2) [5]  
 Flag of Portugal Portugal  2
25 June - Place
   Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands  1  
 Flag of Sweden Sweden  0 [4]
8 July – Lisbon
 Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands (pen)  0 [5]  
 Flag of Portugal Portugal  0
26 June - Place
   Flag of Greece Greece  1
 Flag of France France  0
1 July - Place
 Flag of Greece Greece  1  
 Flag of Greece Greece (aet)  1 Third place
27 June - Place
   Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic  0  
 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic  3  Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic  0
 Flag of Denmark Denmark  0    Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands  1
7 July – Porto

(false data)
Khardan 20:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC) I had some holidays in the south of my country so i didn't answer earlier

Thanks for your time in making these templates! - Nick C 17:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] AFC

Hi Nick, Ive done this map Image:Asean Football Federation countries.PNG, hope thats what you were after. tell me if theres any problems -- Astrokey44|talk 15:23, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I a great map!, although the file name should be called Asian Football Federation countries.PNG. How long did it take you? - Nick C 16:29, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Snooker pages

Thanks for the compliments! I was just watching the snooker and thought that the progression of the championships deserved a bit of preservation on WP! I then went and had a dabble with the tree code that was already kicking about and eventually produced the template. SFC9394 19:36, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Nice work adding in the qualification results for 2006 and full results for 2003! Once they are all finished it should be a useful handy resource for finding out who's where's and when's on past world championships. SFC9394 15:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments on the snooker results I added. I will try a lot more information on Snooker on Wikipedia! - Nick C 18:15, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Cheers for that, I didn't know there was a wikiproject running for snooker. SFC9394 13:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Snooker project

Good call on starting this up again. I found it myself the other day, and was just about to suggest reviving it, but you've beaten me to it. A lot of snooker articles look like they could use some attention. Hmm, I know I'm going to lose interest when it's not on tv any more, but let's see. Flowerparty☀ 00:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong

Nick C ：

The planning of the establishment of Wikipedia Hong Kong as a society has entered the final stage.

From 27th April 2006, every Hong Kong Wikimedians is welcomed to participate in the discussion on the vote on the official name of the chapter. Then a one-week nomination period and a three-week voting period will be held. At the same time, you are also welcomed to join in the discussion on the draft constitution of the chapter.

After an official name is decided, the recruitment of member will be started and the first general meeting will be held (Please refer to the schedule). If you're interested to join, please sign your name on this page so that an estimation on the number of member could be done.

WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTION AND SUPPORT NOW.

I am the Wikipedian who invites you:encyclopedist 19:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User not censored

Hi Nick, I'd like to ask you to come and give your reasons for reverting this template at Template talk:User not censored. mgekelly 17:05, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I just think the picture you used is inappropriate than the one before, even though Wikipedia is not censored. You can revert it back if you want. - Nick C 17:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Started

We have start the badminton project,so go ahead and do it!!! Aleenf1 10:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll start contributing to it in a few weeks! - Nick C 18:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ESC

Thank you ;) F. Antares 12:37, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


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Added more soure information, but could not find the exact source, as the website has been updated to show the ESC 2006, not the previous years contest. - Nick C 15:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F1 portal featured article

The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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I have added a description to the image. - Nick C (Review Me!) 20:23, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TFD of Kerala user templates

Hiya. Please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_May_31#Template:User_Kerala_and_Template:User_KERALA_wiki where you had voted, where the nomination has been changed, and reconsider your vote.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my recently unsuccessful RfA. I plan on working harder in the coming months so that I have a better chance of becoming an admin in the future. I hope that you will consider supporting me if I have another RfA. Thank you for your support. --digital_me(t/c) 15:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles on Portal:F1

Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins and others before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 18:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

I added Doping at the Tour de France to your desk because you have expressed an interest in sports related articles. Please look at it and if you are not itnerested leave a note on my talk page and I'll reassign it. Thank you. RJFJR 21:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 16TeamBracket-Compact

These bracket templates are computer generated, so it's easy enough to make new ones. See Template:16TeamBracket-Compact. --Dantheox 17:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll get on that. May I ask which tennis tournaments you're going to be using these templates for? I think {{8TeamBracket}} and {{16TeamBracket}} work fine for the grand slams. If you're interested in tennis brackets, see my proposal on Portal talk:Tennis to create brackets for historical grand slams. I'm working on a new, tennis-centric bracket template for that purpose. --Dantheox 17:32, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Done and done. --Dantheox 17:50, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

I added North Queensland Cowboys to your desk. It's an Australian rugby team (not exactly your specialty, I know, but you probably know more than most and there aren't that many taskforce members with interest in sports who are active). As always, after you take a look accept or let me know and I'll reassign it. Thank you. RJFJR 04:12, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup taskforce

I added the tennis player Sabine Appelmans to your desk. Please look at it and either accept or let me know and I'll reassign it. Thank you. RJFJR 03:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eurovision Song Contest

Hi. I have submitted the main Eurovision article for Peer Review, hoping to get it up to Featured standard. If you have any comments and contributions, please let me know. Thanks. EuroSong talk 15:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Taskforce

Does North Queensland Cowboys look cleaned up enough to close or should hte project be kept open for more work? RJFJR 19:00, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo national football team

Any reference for Kosovo national football team kit colours?--Kwame Nkrumah 15:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!
Image:World map.gif

Hi, and welcome to the Countries WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of counties.


There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

  • Starting some new articles? See some model pages such as Cambodia!
  • Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every country article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 10:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tennis WikiProject

Would you be interested in this? If so, please add your name here: Wikipedia:WikiProject/List_of_proposed_projects#Tennis. Thanks! —MC 17:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tennis Wikiproject

I've gone ahead and created a WikiProject page: Wikipedia:WikiProject tennis --Dantheox 22:48, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caribbean Nations Cup 2007 tie breaker

Hello!

Are you sure the tie breaker is head-to-head results? Do you have an official source for this? In group D, the last two results were: Jamaica - Haiti 2 - 0 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Saint Lucia 8 - 0. Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Vincent are tied with 6 points each. If head-to-head is used between the 3 teams, you have:

1. Haiti 3p (4 - 2) 2. Jamaica 3p (3 - 2) 3. Saint Vincet 3p (2 - 5)

Haiti and Jamaica advance.

If goal difference is used:

1. Haiti 6p (11-3) 2. Saint Vincent 6p (10-5) 3. Jamaica 6p (7-2) 4. Saint Lucia 0 (1-19)

Haiti and Saint Vincent go through.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.22.173.10 (talk) 08:10, October 2, 2006 (UTC).


  • I think you are right, I got the tie break rules from the CONCACAF website, here. - Nick C 17:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need help with keeping the Wikipedia article that compiles all the Grand Slam performance timelines

Hello Nick C: If you're interested in keeping the performance timeline comparison tables as a Wikipedia article, then please make your opinion known in at the articles for deletion discussion here. Thanks! Tennis expert 22:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:LUL

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[edit] Image:Ding Junhui.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Elena119.jpg

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Added copyright tag. - Nick C 16:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese user categories cleanup

Hi. While proposing a cleanup of Chinese user cats, I came across your user page. You put yourself in Category:Wikipedians in Hong Kong and Category:Wikipedians in China, but perhaps Chinese Wikipedians overseas is more suitable? Xiner (talk, email) 15:25, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your "invincible" "friend"

I've given your "invincible" "friend" an indefblock, and dropped a nice month-long cooling off period on his IP. Should he give you any further trouble, please let me know. Essjay (Talk) 20:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! - Nick C 13:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sky News

You may have added references, but all these references still say they are Sky's plans, and not that this will definitely happen, as it is subject to OfCom approval [1]. - Lee Stanley 18:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Template:Infobox UK map

I have reverted again as your changes caused problems Pit-yacker 18:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I have reverted your later addition as this was discussed extensively, and consensus was reached on three occasions that the field should not be included. One user, however, refuses to accept this consensus. I think it better for you to add this information to the main body of the article rather than get embroiled in an issue that was resolved a few times. Sorry to sound so unhelpful, but I think it would be best.  DDStretch  (talk) 19:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I read the straw poll and was about to revert my edits before you did it. - Nick C 19:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome! Happy editing!  DDStretch  (talk) 19:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

Hi, seeing you are interested in football this is an invitation to contribute to this discussion to clarify certain issues about football player notability. I think clearer guidelines are needed to avoid repeated inappropriate nominations for deletion and time consuming discussions. Cheers! StephP 19:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Done. - Nick C 17:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you also add back in (not replace) the original image? The "action shot" was pretty keen, even if the new one gives us a better look at him in general. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 11:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've added the old one back, but it doesn't seem to be licensed properly. - Nick C 16:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh. I put in a fair use tag and rationale. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 23:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
PS: Didn't mean in the infobox itself; if you think the smiley pic would work better there than the steely-tiger pic, cool by me. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:19, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ninja throwing star comin' atcha!

The Running Man Barnstar
For your continual stream of high-end snooker topic edits. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the barnstar, very much appreciated :) - Nick C 12:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Hi Nick, just explaining my position. I felt the templates were unnecessary, as the main page lists it all in the statistics section and there is also a category with every page in it. It will also encourage pages for other countries to spring up, which may consist of only one or two sentences. Hope this clarifies where I was coming from. L. Fields 17:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from, but we can just create a template without red links, so just linking the existing articles together. - Nick C 17:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
That's a possibility, though perhaps a separate template could be created for each continent. I still feel, however, that it's best that they link to the OS article and not each other, as often the groups have little in common. Also, the template may imply that the groups are identified as Chinese before, say, British. Obviously that wasn't the intent, but it may be interpreted that way, especially for the stubs where the template is half the article. A template for SE Asia makes sense, though. L. Fields 18:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
That's true, although {{PHOverseassmall}} exists which links articles relating to Overseas Filipino together. Also we should imply in the articles that the groups are collectivelly known as Overseas Chinese, but they may have citizenship of a different country. - Nick C 18:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] intertoto cup

The bbc article you have used as a source is from last year (2006). Im quite sure that reading will be in this years (2007) intertoto cup. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 91.84.108.169 (talk) 21:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

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  • Added fair use rationale. - Nick C 19:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Nick, please note that this was merely a procedural nomination. Thanks. -- S up? 13:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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  • Added fair use rationale. - Nick C 19:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:POKE is doing some housecleaning

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[edit] WikiProject Snooker request

As a member of WikiProject Snooker, it is requested that you watchlist at least the following pages:

  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker - if the project members do not pay attention to changes at the project page, especially its talk page, effective collaboration will be nearly impossible and the project would eventually fail.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker/Wanted snooker bios - this is an important part of the project's to-do list.
  • Snooker - our main article, frequently subject to vandalism and nonsense edits that (historically) have sometimes taken hours or even an entire day to be fixed
  • Snooker season 2006/2007 - another important article
  • Snooker world rankings 2006/2007 - another important article
  • One or more player articles of your choice that you'd like to "adopt" as a guardian against vandalism, PoV-pushing, etc.

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[edit] Venue suggestion needed for a meet-up in Yuen Long

Dear: Nick C ：

In the past meet-ups, we always had our meeting in the centre of Kowloon, either Kowloon Tong or Mong Kok. However, apart from these places, I am sure that alternative venues in other region would be suitable.


This is the time for your suggestion! According to some discussion on Chinese Wikipedia, from August of 2007, the Hong Kong Wikimedians’ meet-up would be held in all districts of Hong Kong in a circulation basis.


Here is the tentative information of the first meet-up：

Date：11, August, 2007 (Saturday)
Time：After 5:00pm
Proposed region：Yuen Long


The community would request for ideas of where we should hold the meet-up , in order to have a better decision. If you have any good ideas, don’t hesitate to give your opinions, million thanks!


Regards,

Hong Kong Wikimedian
16:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Feminnem_at_ESC_2005.jpg

Replaceable fair use

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:Mohini_Sule.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Street Law.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Road Wars.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:CG gymlogo 06.gif

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Ltrack.jpg

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[edit] Commonwealth Games WikiProject

Hi there! I see that you have an interest in editing sports articles, and I was wondering if you're interested in a new WikiProject Commonwealth Games? IF you are, would you like to register your interest to such a project by posting you name onto the proposal here. Thanks heaps! Allied45 (talk) 10:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:CAF logo.GIF

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Cross country skiing 2006.gif

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Feminnem Show Album.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:GuernseyCGA.gif

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:EAFF logo.gif)

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon

The list of participants of the Pokémon WikiProject is quite sizable, however, there is no way to determine which of whom are active contributors to that project. All participants in the list have been moved to Inactive. If you consider yourself to be an active member of the Pokémon WikiProject, please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Participants and move your username to the Active section. Thank you. Useight (talk) 22:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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


09:21, 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.


Please feel free to contact us via this email, whether you can or cannot attend recruitment days, for further details or special assistances.


Regards,
Sith lord darth vader (talk)