User talk:Orland

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[edit] Female bishops

Thank you for adding to the "Female bishops" category which I created earlier this year. I appreciate your assistance in making this category more useful. Ringbark 12:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I note that someone has proposed this category for deletion. Please go to Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_26#Category:Female_bishops and vote. Ringbark 11:22, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OIC Map

Sorry, but I'm not really a fan of Wikicommons. I'm not that active there and I don't have an ID. Maybe you could ask Astrokey. He's active there and is more an expert in doing maps--maybe he can even make a higher standard OIC map. Now that I'm looking at the map, I think it is of poor quality (i.e. very poor resolution, not good color scheme, etc.). Joey80 13:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mehmet murat ildan

Hi I read your comment on huwiki about this turkish writer. well, I looked at the article in enwiki and checked the refs, the fact he has several published works (not one but at least 10) has to mean some form of notability... Self-promotion? don't think so, since he pronounced on his website that his biography is released into the public domain along with every piece of information on his website.... So the bio on enwiki was copied from there legally. Some of his works were published by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Turism. That must mean something :) (sorry for not writing to your NO page but it requires registration and I don't speak norwegian. :) --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 07:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The article is not relevant to readers in languages that he has not been translated into. And the article is obviously lying about his reputation, as it foresees how his reputation will be in the future. Please note the intro statement "Following his epistolary novel, The First Sorrows of Young Werther, he is regarded as a romantic writer", when the book in question is due to be published in february this year. When the article also states that this unpublished The First Sorrows of Young Werther is his magnum opus, we an easily assume that this author is not notable, yet. --Orland 07:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for your message. This article is already nominated for deletion on id:. So we shall wait and see. Meursault2004 13:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
whatever mistakes the writer of the aricle made, you fail to recognise the works already published! as I said, he has been publsihed by the turkish ministry of culture, jeez, they don't publish anyone. I don't see why these articles should be deleted. Corrected, yes, but definitely not deleted. There are a lot more less notable people in wikipedia, I sense that you just partcularly dislike this person or the Turks and that blinds you from the facts. And this is not just my opinion, in huwiki there are some more editors who think the same, and they are not turkophile. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 20:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
It is a strange misconcetion that I should have taken this steps to delete the article because I dislike the turks. I do not dislike turks. I like turks as well as any other people. This has nothing to do with the country, the people or the possible qualities of Ildans litterary works. My action is because his biography has spammed wikipedia way beyond reason. Even though an anonymous newbee Special:Contributions/Melanicool has corrected the most obvious errors in the biography, this is still selfbiograhy, vanity and spamming. --Orland 08:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
This guy is becoming an expert in sock-puppets: 3 votes (including the IP). I think you should really consider requesting a Check-User. Clem23 15:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Please refrain from pasting speedy delete notices that have been removed. It creates confusion and can be disruptive for Wikipedia. Thank you. Baristarim 22:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Baristarim. Please relate to the real matter in question: Someone has made a large number of articles on upublished manuscripts by Mehmet Murat İldan. These articles will only harme his case in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehmet Murat İldan-debate. --Orland 22:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Stop DO NOT keep on replacing speedy deletion notices that have been removed by many editors. You should read Wikipedia:Speedy deletions - self-promotion is not a criterion for speedy deletion. Baristarim 22:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Is this better, then? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Admirer of Machiavelli --Orland 09:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Much better :) In fact, I will qualify my vote there. It is just that speedy deletion process exists to get rid of articles that are complete non-sense in an effort to keep Wikipedia respectable, and if it were ever used for these sorts of disputes, the process would become much less efficient. Cheers! Baristarim 11:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello again, Baristarim. Thank you for your support. As one user said on my norweigan talk page: "this guy launched one of the most incredible spam event that I've ever seen on WP". As a sign of my respect for the the people of Turkey, and the literature of Turkey (and to prove that my actions only were intended to prevent spam, and had no intended bias), I am considering to write an article on Yasar Kemal in the norwegian wp. Would you approve that? Could you also suggest one or two other writers, artists or other turkish people that currently is missing in wp:no; check no:Kategori:Tyrkere for existing biographies. --Orland 11:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A statement in the Ildan case

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehmet Murat İldan.I got aware of this spamming incident when Ildan anonymously tries to publish himself to the norwegian wp, where I'm an admin and "cleaner". I discovered that he had published himself to 31 different wp-editions. I started the process to delete the article in norwegian, and to alarm other language editions. (Note: Most Wikis have only two turkish author articles: Nobel price winner Orhan Pamuk; and Ildan. Turkish national author Yasar Kemal is only described in 10 laguages yet, so this is clearly unproportional).

A french editor wrote on my norwegian talk page that "this guy launched one of the most incredible spam event that I've ever seen on WP. On WP in french we are now shifting towards deletion, and all of his plays and books have already been speedily deleted. Thanks to you. fr:Clem23".

As of now it is clear that he is not listed in major turkish lists of authors [1]; that most of the articles (in all languages) are written by himself (probably using a translation programme); that he (or some other person) has used at least four suck puppets in the english deletion debate; and that turkishs contributors admit that " i've never heard of him in my life before his Wikiactivity. He is definitely not famous in Turkey, that i can assure you".

Articles about 10 of his unpublished and unstaged (!) plays have also been listed for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Admirer of Machiavelli

That's for now. --Orland 14:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Anonymous suggestions that my actions should have anything to do with racism is totally without reason. I've already propsed to write 1-3 articles on other turkish authors og artists in the norwegian wikipedia in order to strenghten our representation of turkish art. And furthermore: As a literary critic, I've previously written an short essay on libanese author Amin Maalouf and a general essay on middle east literature in norwegian translation (link to essay, and even if you dont read norwegian, you might recognize some names: like Pamuk, Kemal, Khayyam, Mahfouz). --Orland 18:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi! About the message you left me here: http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discu%C5%A3ie_Utilizator%3AVlad&diff=794465&oldid=787703 the only problem we have back there at the Romanian wiki is that until now we only had speedy deletion, not voting for deletion (we're still a relatively small community, and we prefer to expand rather than to delete :) But like I've already said, I've opened a discussion about it, but I would also like to see the outcome of the vote here at the en.wiki. --Vlad|-> 20:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi again! As no one objected to the deletion of the article during 10 days, I've just deleted it from Romanian wiki. --Vlad|-> 10:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Warning

Stop vandalizing the List_of_University_of_Essex_people page.

You obviously confuse me with the person who edited to the article after me. Please read edit history again. --Orland 23:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lumb

Nice job!! Thanks. --20-dude (talk) 22:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)