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Kind Request for Assistance

Hi Admiral Norton, would you be so kind as to let me know how I can add articles to Wikiproject:Croatia so that I can inform other members that articles exist and that they can contribute to them? Thanks in advance. Turqoise127 (talk) 22:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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Rollback Request

I would like to ask for rollback permissions? DylanIloveYou (Talk) 23:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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Could I get the deleted copy of ...

... David Benowitz, please. The article was deleted due to copyright infringement. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_benowitz. Feel free to paste it into my userpage, if you like. Thanks. 34pin6 (talk) 19:45, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

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„Crime“ and punishment

Dear Admiral Norton,

When you sent a welcome message to me on February 19th, I thought I might not need to ask you for any suggestion. Now it seems a bit different. I'm not quite sure what am I supposed to do.

At the beginning of this year, I was very happy to have an opportunity to contribute to Wikipedia in English. However, I've been very sad and disappointed lately, because of my article about Nikola VII Zrinski. Some administrators have been violating this article for some time and finally deleted it, although it had a support of competent work groups (military biography and arts and entertainment). Furthermore, a merger with Hungarian-oriented article „Miklos Zrinyi“ was suggested, which means the both articles put together, and not one left, the other completely deleted.

Besides, some users or administrators (for instance „Toroko“) wrote that I „continually vandalised the articles about Hungarian kings“ (when I said that they were Croatian kings as well), although everybody competent knows that Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, Matthias etc. were first of all Austrian rulers, and then, at the same time, Bohemian, Hungarian, Croatian etc. kings or archdukes. It is well known that Croatia (sometimes Slavonia and Dalmatia too) was always a kingdom (at least formally) during the last millennium (until 1918).

Furthermore, I was blamed for „disruption“, for „Balkan nationalist point of view“ (as wrote „Toddst1“), for „entirely unsourced, pirate and unencyclopedic“ writing, as wrote „Korossyl“, although the latter recognized that „the fact of matter is, Zrinskis were all ethnically Croatian“, etc. Let me say, that personally I've got nothing to do with the Balkan nationalist POV.

I am aware that my English is far from being perfect, but I hoped that somebody could help, rather than delete, to improve my article about Zrinski, merging it with the existing „Miklos Zrinyi“, as it was proposed. Unfortunately, this did not happen. All my efforts, my free time, hours and days of work to contribute to Wikipedia were blown away. With a single mouse click! And with the spiteful words of „Korossyl“: Wow!…This was a lot simpler than I thought it would be.

All my life I have lived in Čakovec, well known as „The town of Zrinskis“, where Nikola Zrinski used to live too. As a member of a historian family, I know almost everything about the Zrinski noble family, so I created several new articles about the most distinguished members of that family, as well as contributed to some others (like You created the articles about Zagreb and surroundings). But now, some inexperienced young people, without recognizing the opinion (support) of competent work groups of Wikipedians, or without asking other notable experts for history, ignore, abuse and violate the facts, talking about something they don't know good enough. As if I wrote about the history of Moose Jaw or Saskatchewan in Canada, of which I know very few.

Dear Admiral, my question to you would be, whether there is anybody in WikiProject Croatia, or elsewhere, who is authorised, competent or concerned with such disputable matters, and who is in charge to contact the senior Wiki executives (e.g. bureaucrats, stewards or so), who could discuss my displeasure and complaint, and find a reasonable solution.

A couple of days ago I read in a London newspapers that it was announced that 49.000 volunteer editors left Wikipedia in the first three months of this year. That is so sad.

I wonder, should I quit Wikipedia in English?

Best Regards,

--Silverije (talk) 17:53, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

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Another gentle ping from WP:VG

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Rollback question

Hello. I have found your user-page because you are an administrator who grants rollback privileges. I am performing academic research and I am particularly focused on usage of the rollback feature. I have imported en-wiki dumps into MySQL for analysis, and flag RBs by parsing revision comments for the "automatic comment" left by RB edits.

My question: In February 2009 and the months preceding it, about 200k RBs were being performed a month. Beyond that, usage of the RB feature seems to decline sharply; in September 2009 I show only 1k RBs. Can you help me understand this? Did the automatic revision string change? Did the use of anti-vandalism bots (with their slightly altered RB strings (which I don't try to parse)) become so prevalent that no one does it 'manually' any more?

My current research has found no reason for this 200x change, and I hope you can help. Of course, your help will aid my research -- which in turn will help the Wikipedia community in combating vandalism. West.andrew.g (talk) 16:35, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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Copy edit request

I'm from the Guild of Copy Editors. I was going through the backlog of copyedit requests, and I wanted to check with you – does Milan Bandić still need our attention?
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„Crime“ and punishment (2)

Dear Admiral Norton,

I sent a message to you on December 20th. Could I kindly ask you to answer to it?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,

--Silverije (talk) 17:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

This person hasnt edited since June 2009; you might have better luck contacting him through other means if you have access to any. Have you tried email? -- Soap Talk/Contributions 17:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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A question about rules of userboxes in Wiki

Hi dear adminstrator, I am a user in Persian Wiki and I have an on going discussion with a Persian adminstrator about the userboxes we can create or not in Wiki. The question is: Is making userboxes like: "This user supports independence of Tibet from China" or "This user supports independence of Azerbaijan from Iran" or "This user is against Hizbullah terorist group." illegal according to Wiki userbox rules or not? R these rules same in all Wikis or different from one Wiki to another? I'm waiting 4 ur answer a.s.a.p. Regards, Pournick (talk) 04:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

I, -The Iceman (talk) 22:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC), would like to apply for the Rollbacker permission here, as I see you are an Administrator willing to grant rollback requests. I use tools like Twinkle extensively to counter recent changes vandalism and would really, really appreciate the ability to use this tool. Thanks; -The Iceman (talk) 22:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

This user has not edited for months; I would recommend going to another administrator, or to WP:PERM. —Soap— 22:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

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Re: brza cesta

Please see Talk:Highways in Croatia#official list of all brza cesta. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 17:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

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