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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Uzbekistan GDPgrowth1992-2008.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Uzbekistan GDPgrowth1992-2008.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 02:24, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes was changed by Zlerman (u) (t) blanking the page on 2008-04-01T05:40:24+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 09:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Economy of Uzbekistan

Hello - thanks for the message. Uzbek Ikat was deleted because it was a copyright violation. A new article can be created with free content. You're welcome to create a new Uzbek Ikat article, to remove the brackets ( -->[[ Ikat ]]<-- ) around the redlink to make it plain text, or to leave it alone. If it's left alone and the redlink remains, it's a little more likely that a new article will be created by someone who knows about Ikat and doesn't need to copy/paste content from a store to create the article. Unfortunately, I'm not that person. :-) Thanks again for the message. - KrakatoaKatie 01:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate moves

  1. Avoid edits wars.
  2. Find and cite reliable published authority for the "correct" or "most useful" name. Place your argument (as in logical argument) on the Talk page of the article.
  3. Place a requested move template on the article and list it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. As you know that another editor objects to restoring the original title, this would be listed under Incomplete and contested proposals section.
  4. Use the RFC process. See Talk:Shindand District for an example. See Nov. 26, 2007 edit for original placement of RFC. I recommend writing out your argument, identifying separate key points, and making each point succinct before placing the RFC. Be sure to state the reason as neutrally as possible. In the Shindand District example I used: "Whether the district in Afghanistan should go by the official name "Shindand" or the old Persian name "Sabzwar"?" That statement was not entirely neutral. Normally geographical question get placed at RFChist. I see right now (22 April 2008) that you will need to add it manually as the bot isn't working. Although in the Shindand District example I used RFCpol, as I had not been getting much response at the time on RFChist.
I hope this helps. --Bejnar (talk) 01:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tajikistan: Kohistan-Badakhshan vs. Gorno-Badakhshan

On the merits of Kohistan-Badakhshan vs. Gorno-Badakhshan, it is clear that between the two the world-wide preference is for Gorno-Badakhshan. However the GEOnet Names Server (GNS), developed and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency uses Kŭhistoni Badakhshon, Viloyati Mukhtori or Kŭhistoni Badakhshon for short. "Viloyati Mukhtori" means "oblast (province) autonomous". The GNS indicates that Kŭhistoni Badakhshon is the official local name for the province. Nonetheless, these recently published articles all used Gorno-Badakhshan:

  • Belkin, V. Sh. (February 1992) "Biomedical Aspects of the Development of Mountain Regions: A Case-Study for the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan" Mountain Research and Development 12(1): pp. 63-70
  • Kanji, Nazneen (May 2002) "Trading and Trade-Offs: Women's Livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan" Development in Practice 12(2): pp. 138-152
  • Fowkes, Ben (2004) "Review: Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Edward W. Walker" Slavic Review 63(3): pp. 671-672 where the reviewer mentions that Walker repeatedly misspells "Gorno-Badakhshan".
  • Kreutzmann, Hermann (May 2001) "Development Indicators for Mountain Regions" Mountain Research and Development 21(2): pp. 132-139, where on page 135 the author compares the attitudes and standard of living in Gorno-Badakhshan with that of the rest of Tajikstan.

I found no similar citations for Kohistan-Badakhshan. Both Gorno-Badakhshan and Kŭhistoni Badakhshon have around 28,000 Google hits, while Kohistan-Badakhshan has around thirty, mostly from the Wikipedia entry and mirrors. It would be hard to pick between Gorno-Badakhshan and Kŭhistoni Badakhshon, except that Gorno-Badakhshan does appear, primarily for historical reasons, to be the currently preferred English language version of the name in academia. I note in passing that varient "Badakhshoni Kŭhy" appears to be little used. --Bejnar (talk) 01:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Protection of Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan

I've only protected those pages against moves, not against editing. We have a serial vandal who's been moving all the country pages to nonsense titles. We're trying to prevent that. Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 03:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request to move article Zarafshon river incomplete

You recently filed a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves to move the page Zarafshon river to a different title - however your proposal is either incomplete or has been contested as being controversial. As a result, it has been moved to the incomplete and contested proposals section. Requests that remain incomplete after five days will be removed.

Please make sure you have completed all three of the following:

  1. Added {{move|NewName}} at the top of the talk page of the page you want moved, replacing "NewName" with the new name for the article. This creates the required template for you there.
  2. Added {{subst:RMtalk|NewName|reason for move}} to the bottom of the talk page of the page you want to be moved, to automatically create a discussion section there.
  3. Added {{subst:RMlink|PageName|NewName|reason for move}} to the top of today's section here.

If you need any further guidance, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves or contact me on my talk page. - JPG-GR (talk) 01:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tajikistan

LOL thanks. Thank God for nice editors like you, it really is a welcome relief from some of the rather lesser friendly Norwegians we have on here. Maplandia has all of the places and coordinates of most places in the world. Just scroll down. Tajikistan isn't divided into the districts as it should be on there, in fact the regions now seme out of date but the coordinates should still be right. I've been trying to ge thold of photos for places in the country and Uzbekistan too along with several of the other Central Asian countries. I love Central Asia! Happy editing!! Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 15:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

If you have any photos of any of these places, please please upload them!!!! Regards! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Awesome we need as many as possible of... well everywhere in Central Asia!!!! We've tried for a very long time to find free images of these countries in central asia. Best place is to upload them to the Wiki commons the image bank. Be sure to license them under {{GFDL}} so they can be used by everybody and all the other differen language wikipedias too. 800px is a good resolution but many of the images are 1600px. Whatever you feel is appropriate. If you like let me know when you want to upload some and I will help supervise you in the commons. Then once you get the hang of it you'll be able to upload them all!!!

P.S I think I noticed your name a few weeks back adding some Tajik mountain range which I'd noticed were missing before. Excellent work my friend!!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:38, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Perfect!!!! What valuable photos!!! Upload as many as you can, particularly on towns. Then they can be added to the articles. Anything from georgia, tajikistan, turkmenistan, armenia, azerbaijan, kazakhstan and kyrgzstan is much needed! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Anything between 300px and 1600px. If you believe a certain px size affects quality do whatever you think necessary to make them of the highest possible standard. The ones I looked at the looked fine ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll have a look now. Basically if you upload photos from a city they should go in e.g Category:Dushanbe which it turn goes in the category Category:Cities in Tajikistan. Now if there are hundreds of photos it may be more reasonable to create sub categories like Category:Buildings and structures in Dushanbe etc but its best at first to organize them by city or place within the country ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:21, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice! I've added the images to Tursunzoda. If you have any images overlooking cities -panorama images from further away etc (like the main one in the Dushanbe article) by sure to upload!! I have recategorized your images -rmemeber to use city categories rather than the generic Category:Tajikistan in future. Keep them coming! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:01, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

A note from an observer who stumbled upon this conversation: When you're uploading pictures, you should upload the largest resolution you have. (Some people scale their photos down, which we discourage but accept because some are pro photographers who want to be able to sell higher-resolution photos but give away low-res ones.) Thanks for your offer of photos of Central Asia--it's always hard to get photos of more remote, less developed locations. Mangostar (talk) 17:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes they should be moved to Category:Cities in Tajikistan too ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 09:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where coordinates from

I've made dms for all locations in Mongolia using GoogleEarth where is possible get coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds and elevations of any location you pointing with mouse. Bogomolov.PL (talk) 06:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Lets go! Bogomolov.PL (talk) 06:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help with GeoGroupTemplate in categories

{{helpme}} The map that I get after inserting {{GeoGroupTemplate}} into Category:Mountains of Tajikistan (following the example of Category:Lakes of Tajikistan) does not show all the mountains listed in this category and one of the mountains -- Avicenna -- is shown in an incorrect position. How can I update the content underlying this otherwise great map (and possibly create similar maps for other categories)? I sent an e-mail with this question to ts-admins@wikimedia.org a few days back, but no reply. --Zlerman (talk) 05:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The way this template works is by collecting the coordinates from each individual article inside the category. If an article doesn't have a coordinate template already in the article, it will not show up when you use that template. Also, if the coordinates are wrong in the resulting map, that means they are incorrect in the article. Further, any articles whose names are in italics in the category won't show up either, since these are redirects (doesn't look like a problem here, since they appear to be alternate names of Lenin Peak). To add coordinates to an article, use the {{coord}} template in that article. If you have any more questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Cheers! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 06:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Ask for any help you need, I'll do all I can. Just remember to carefully read the instructions on each Template page...they usually explain themselves quite well. Also look how the template is used on other articles...that's the best place, since you see it in action. Good luck! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 08:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Aha, I misspoke after too briefly looking at the template code. Turns out that, at least when it comes to Categories, the template pulls information not from Wikipedia itself, but from the Wikimedia toolserver en.wiki database dump. Since these dumps only occur ever so often (and seemingly at a rate that slows down as the number of articles grows larger), any information that has been added or changed since the last dump won't show up when this template is used. This explains why some map points are missing, and why that one redirected article still shows up. In any case, there is absolutely nothing we can do about this (and apparently there have been some problems with the dumps lately...last update to the toolserver appears to be August 31, 2007). Still, looks like a useful template, especially if you are dealing with actual lists of geographic coordinates. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 03:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Har Adar

Hi! I'm not sure I understand what you meant by 'malign Arad in front of strangers'. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 13:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)