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[edit] POTY advert

Please do not remove these ADs as they are there to get more voters for the WikiMedia picture of the year contest, they are allowed as it is withen WikiMedia. Thanks!--Kushan I.A.K.J (talk) 05:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:SEA-ME-WE-4-Route.png Reply...

Sorry, I don't have a vectorised image available. I did the map before I had the facility to.

And as to why I did it from backwards... I don't know why, but perhaps at that time they hadn't specified the segments on the website, I can't remember. -- J.P.Lon (talk) 20:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I may create a new vectorised version when I have the time, with the segments. -- J.P.Lon (talk) 20:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

OldakQuill - regarding your move of the SEA-ME-WE 4 article to a long name form, your actions were incorrect. Wiki supports the use of the most popular usage of the name. In this case, almost ALL submarine cable systems (both international and domestic) utilize some kind of acronym in their naming convention. The SEA-ME-WE series (2, 3, and 4) have always used the acronym. I have restored your edits so the article is under the acronym, as is proper. Please refrain from making such edits in the future until you find out more about the naming convention - as many of the submarine cable articles follow this same convention. Thank you. Rarelibra (talk) 08:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I have replied on the article talk page. --Oldak Quill 10:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SEA-ME-WE 4

hello. i changed your edits referencing the cable length because per wp:foot, reference tag placement should follow punctuation. since that particular reference is already being used for that sentence, its placement mid-sentence is incorrect and redundant. also, just matter of style, xxx kilometres long is also redundant as both terms denote distance. cheers! --emerson7 14:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Basketball categories

Please stop! Please look at the parent Category:Summer Olympic events and you'll see that every sport uses "...at the Olympics" for the category name. Please do not make basketball different from this scheme. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

An editor has nominated Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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[edit] Passed away

Gosh it's amazing how may of these have re-appeared since the last sweep! Rich Farmbrough, 03:14 10 February 2008 (GMT).

Indeed. At least noone seems to have carked it or kicked the bucket this time. Orderinchaos 03:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan

I have seen your edit for the article, “Mathews Mar Athanasius Metropolitan,” and noted that you have changed the “passed away” to “died.”

Bishops of the Malankara Church (in Kerala , India) were given a Royal title somtime in the fourteenth century. From that time onward they were called “Metropolitan Thirumeni.” So when a Malankara bishop dies, it is announced as “Kaalem Cheythu”, the literal meaning is “passed away.” So in the case of a bishop of the Malanakara Church, the correct and polite word is “Passed away” and not “died”. It is not euphemism.

I am a member of this church and know the customs and traditions of the church. I am sure you will get this word in other articles on Malankar Churches. So please revert your changes in the above article and in any other article that concerns the Thirumenis (bishops) of the Malanakara Church. Thanks. Neduvelilmathew (talk) 06:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Kindly undo you changes to Marthoma Church and revert from 'died' to 'passed away'. As said above, The Bishops of India are referred to as 'passed away' instead of died.
- Tinucherian (talk) 14:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windfall Elimination Provision POV

I don't object to it being changed to "die" instead of "passed away", but how is that POV?

KV(Talk) 13:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of Marg Osburne

I Created the article on Marg Osburne and I will use "Passed Away" instead of "Died" if I want to. Please do not vandalize my article again. Garr1984 (talk) 03:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

FYI, I've commented on the user's talk page regarding this concern. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Objection to the consideration of a question

You posted your comment before I had a chance to add other articles to the page - I'm nominating a group of articles that I feel are very similar. If that affects your opinion, please change your posting. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] For he is a jolly good fellow...

..., and so say all of us!

Happy Birthday!

-- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 18:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New policy proposal that may be of interest

I'm tapping this message out to you because you were involved at the AfDs of Eve Carson or Lauren Burk. Following both of these heated debates, a new proposal has been made for a guideline to aid these contentious debates, which can be found at WP:N/CA. There is a page for comments at Wikipedia talk:Notability (criminal acts)/Opinions should you wish to make a comment. Thanks for your time, and apologies if this was not of interest! Fritzpoll (talk) 15:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:LOTD

List of Presidents of Venezuela has been selected as a list of the Day for the month of April. Let me know if you have any strong date preferences before March 26th. Since it placed in the top 5 it will be recognized on two days during the month.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] View AfD - Articles for deletion/Sacinandana Swami (2nd nomination))

Please note that the discussion you were taking part in is being reopened with a veiw for deletion of article Sacinandana Swami as a possible result of the 2nd Nomination. Wikidās ॐ 20:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill

I've deleted the :cy user - hopefully that will have the desired effect. Deb (talk) 11:55, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay - try it now! Deb (talk) 21:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:World War II politics

Category:World War II politics, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 12:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)