User talk:Asterion/Archive 7

Category:Wikipedians in Lincolnshire

Cheers for putting me in. I'm sort of against categories and userboxes on user pages, but this could be handy for finding others who moght be able to help on my obscure subjects. --Bedders 06:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this is exactly what I thought. E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 07:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Pier Picture

Thanks for the add! --Paul E. Ester 22:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Pity the weather was so miserable... Well, I live half an hour away. If I get the chance, I'll take a better one sometime. E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sock_puppet#Tagging_alternate_accounts

Is it a requirement? --Spanked 01:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Boiled patatas bravas

I have changed back your correction. Go to c/Navas in Granada and there is a bar that sells patatas bravas with boiled potatoes. I think I had it served similarly in Madrid once. Like I said, it is rare. But it does happen. [[User:|User:]] 22:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

They are not just boiled. Once boiled and drained, they are fried. Basically, the result is that these are crispy in the outside and tender in the inside. Feel free to enhance the Tapas article if you can. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (Traducción: No son solamente cocidas, sino cocidas, escurridas y luego fritas. De esta forma so crujientes por fuera pero tiernas por dentro. Si puedes añadir algo más al artículo de tapas te lo agradecería. En la mayoría de los bares de Sevilla las ponen ya sólo fritas pero la receta antigua era tal y como te la describo. Saludos, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)]]

Perdona señor, pero ¿has estado en todos los bares de España? Creo que no. La mayoria si son fritas, pero A VECES no. Yo sé como parece una patata frita y una patata cocida. Ya se que las cocinan al principio y luego las fritan, pero siempre salen fritan. Lo que he visto yo NO son fritos. He comido patatas bravas cincuenta veces y dos ó tres veces estaban cocidos (de patatas nuevas, y con el piel).

Lo importante es la salsa - y si, casi todos fritan las patatas, pero unas veces el cocinero quiere ser un poco más 'elegante' no las frita. Quizas tu no crees que son patatas bravas 'de verdad', pero si que el bar dice que son bravas. Hasta que hayas viajado por todo España y probado todas las bravas que ponen, no puedes decir que las patatas que he visto no son cocidas, y no puedes decir que sabes mejor que yo como son las patatas que he probado.[[User:|User:]] 09:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

A lo que me refería con "sometimes part-boiled, then fried" es precisamente lo que le comentaba más arriba, cocidas y luego fritas (en ese sentido el método de preparación es el mismo que para las Bombay Potatoes, se las hierve un poco y luego se las frie). En ningún momento le he negado que también las sirvan solamente cocidas (como también se hace con las papas aliñás, por ejemplo). Por citarle el ejemplo de la región que conozco mejor, no tenía la minima intención de generalizar en absoluto. Lo mejor será cambiar el texto para que se lea así: "sometimes part-boiled, then fried, or simply boiled". Saludos, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Estamos de acuerdo, entonces. Pero tu quitaste lo que habia puesto yo, cuando deberias añadir algo, nada mas. Otra cosa: tienes razon que se hacen Bombay Potatoes asi, pero vas a confundir a la gente si dices que son parecidos. Hay muchas cosas que son cocidas y luego fritas, no solo Bombay Potatoes y Patatas Bravas.[[User:|User:]] 23:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Lo siento mucho, malinterpreté el texto. He cambiado el artículo para recoger las tres posibilidades. Un cordial saludo, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 05:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

My suggestions for Photographs in Lincolnshire

<flattery>Since you are such a prolific photographer and so many of the Lincolnshire articles I've worked on have been improved by your work</flattery>, I thought I list a few articles that could do with photos.

• Lincolnshire Wolds Railway
• Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
• Thornton Abbey
• Wrawby Postmill
• Cadwell Park
• Market Rasen (Aston Arms, as it was the inspiration for Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting)
• Belmont Transmitter
• Blundell Park
• Wrawby Junction Signal Box

This has turned into a list of articles I need to work on :) --Bedders 10:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

He he. Thanks very much for your kind words. You really managed to put a smile on my face :) I will definitely try to get them done (eventually!). I can't believe there's no image for the Belmont Transmitter. I have some pictures for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby and the Appleby-Frodingham Railway but need to remember what did I do with the prints... I'll get back to you later on. Cheers, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 00:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Osama

Yeah, he just appears to be joking around. :P What do you think of it? —Khoikhoi 19:26, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I think he actually got his account to be moved, so it's still the same, just with a different name. —Khoikhoi 00:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Ferick

I cannot see that the RFC makes much difference, the block is only for 24 hours so he won't miss everything. Also RFC is about comments, about seeing how others perceive actions and what they belive is positive and negative, it isn't really a defend yourself on every negative comment thing, it is an appreciate other people point of view and modify your behaviour as necessary. --pgk^(talk) 09:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Trolling on Kosovo

It seems we have two trolls; I've identified one of them conclusively as User:Tonycdp. See User talk:ChrisO/Tonycdp. SlimVirgin has quite rightly told him to stop playing silly games... -- ChrisO 22:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

So called "independence" war

No, that was not independence war. The war was between HDZ-led government of Croatia and ethnic Serb citizens of Croatia. The independence of Croatia was not disputed in that war, but only Croatian control over territory of Krajina. How can somebody to fight for independence if nobody dispute that independence to him? PANONIAN (talk) 21:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

And yes, I am well, thank you for asking. :) PANONIAN (talk) 21:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

And one more thing: the poll was about what name should be used for the article about war, not what name should be used in other articles, thus I am not violating the poll results. :) PANONIAN (talk) 21:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I was in fact provoked to do this by recent edits of User:Kubura and User:Afrika paprika, so I decided to clean entire POV that they trying to impose here. There is nothing wrong to have NPOV name for the article that will be acceptable for all. I do not see why somebody would object to title "war in Croatia", which is correct and NPOV and do not imply the (disputed) character of this war. PANONIAN (talk) 21:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

And the first thing that I done was to start discussion on the "Talk:Croatian War of Independence" page, but nobody answered. :) PANONIAN (talk) 21:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I've been away from former Yugoslavia articles for a while. I was unaware of this. I simply noticed as I had this article on my watchlist as I wrote the original stub. I just realised you have brought the POV title issue up in the talk page. I think this makes sense. Thanks, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 21:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Ip

Hi Asterion, this ip address have offended me in my talkpage twice during to days. It is about time to block this vandal. He tries to destroy wikipedia. Please do something.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Noah30 (talk • contribs)

I will report it at the incidents noticeboard if he continues. I have already warned him on his/her talk page. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 21:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

About 10 minutes after that you removed his vandalism from my talkpage he did it again. What about the 3RR, he has edited the Kosovo article 4 within 24 hours:

• 1: 13:21, 10 August
• 2: 13:20, 10 August
• 3: 13:15, 10 August
• 4: 20:08, 9 August

best regards --Noah30 21:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Noah30, actually I am not an admin, so I have no real power to block him. The best thing I can do is to list this at the 3RR and/or email William Connelly (who already blocked the IP once before). E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 21:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Lincolnshire villages

Many thanks for the editions to my stubs. I spent half my life in Waddingham (now living in Bracknell, but I have no photos at all. Slowly trying to fill in all the red links, but it will take time.Dsergeant 08:52, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

POV Edits

No, I warned the anon because of POV edits on China-related articles - see [1], [2], and [3]. However, this appears to be the same disruptive anon as:

I recall them edit warring a few months back on Scottish people and other ethnic group articles. It appears they haven't changed a great deal... :p —Khoikhoi 21:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I think my JAJAH firefox plugin somehow removes the IP numbers off my edits...

It managed to strip off the IPs of some other comments on my page... William M. Connolley 07:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Same problem with my own talk page. I lost a good deal of IP numbers too. I just got rid of the plugin. Thanks, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 19:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Mysterious van

Hi! Thanks for the good news... I am currently up to my ears in Simca Vedette, trying to transfer all the precious knowledge Hektor supplied from the talk page to the article and from English to French, using my poor English and rudimentary French knowledge, not to mention vahue orientation in automotive technology, especially English and French terms :D I've been doing that for over an hour now and still am only halfway there....

Anyway, the search for the mysterious van was quite short, as I began with the, as it was revealed, right assumption that it is a TAUNUS Transit (probably a reference to the popular Ford Taunus made by Ford in Cologne). I am not going to be a smartass and boast about the knowledge I have just acquired from a website, but you just have to take a look at the German Ford Transit article to find out that the history of that nameplate started one generation earlier than the English (and apparently UK-oriented) article would lead us to believe. Apparently the British equivalent would be the forward-control Ford Thames 400E, but it isn't covered by the English WP either. So, if you'd have some spare time (I can help with my rudimentary German after I am finished with the Vedette, provided I will survive). Regards, Bravada, talk - 23:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Looks like a normal Fiat Dino Coupé to me. Check this page - the photo is almost identical (perhaps even the same car). The Coupé was built by Bertone, this is why it might not bear an obvious Fiat badge. If that's what you ask about. Have a good night, Bravada, talk - 02:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Bokpasa

Hi Asterion. Can you have a look at this user contributions to all articles about the history of Morocco? He's been trying to push his POV stance arguing with no source or reference at all that Morocco has only become Morocco (a country) in 1667. I've been dealing w/ that since a long time now and i've been described as a racist and Hitler today. All that was mixed with some nonsense. I know he's into more POV in the Spanish version of wikipedia but this guy is disturbing these articles here and i'm feeling so tired of this. -- Szvest 16:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Asterion. Much appreciated. -- Szvest 10:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On 18 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Glanford Power Station, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Moving Spanish Foreign Legion

You forgot to complete the procedure, by creating a comment space in Talk:Spanish Foreign Legion. --Kwame Nkrumah 16:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

The rationale had already been added to the move request page. Please note that the article was moved to the wrong title back in July without any discussion whatsoever (the person who did this seems to have copied and pasted the text to bypass proper procedure). Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes

Yes, of course. The Constitutional Frame of Kosovo can be found at www.assembly-kosova.org and it tells that Albanian and Serbian are co-offical at the highest level. English is also offical in a way as it prevails in case of conflicts between Albanian and Serbian (the English copy of the Cons. Frame prevails). In the meantime other languages like Turkish, Bosnian or what ever it could be are official only at local level (Regulation on the Usage of Official Languages, not published on the website yet).

So please put English, Albanian and Serbian as the only official language at Kosovo infobox.--Pjetër Bogdani III 02:45, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Gracias

Gracias por la estrella, es la primera que obtengo. No te preocupes por el malentendido, la verdad es que ni me había dado cuenta. Te quería comentar otra cosa, he visto que has participado en el artículo San Lucar. No sé si te habrás dado cuenta que hay otro artículo sobre el mismo municipio gaditano (Sanlúcar de Barrameda). ¿No habría que fusionarlos? Yo no tengo mucha idea de como va el procedimiento para pedir la fusión de artículos porque mi inglés es bastante pobre, además de que no sé si San Lucar es el exónimo inglés de Sanlúcar, aunque no me extrañaría que fuera un simple error porque ya me he encontrado alguna aberración del estilo Villanueva y Geliru. Bye. Manu bcn 17:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Si, a eso me referia cuando le hable a Siva. Son problemas que pasan por copiar de la enciclopedia britanica de 1911, que como esta en el dominio publico, alguien se dedico en su dia a escanearlo y pasarle un programa de reconocimiento de caracteres. Da problemas, como tu viste con Villanueva y Geliru. Manana me intentare encargar de solicitar el delete and merge para ambos. Saludos, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 00:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Barreiros

Hi Asterion! As you might have noticed, I have inexcusably abandoned the poor Polski Fiat 125p and got sucked in into the world of Chrysler Europe (which I had little idea existed just two months ago). I am currently contemplating coming back to the interesting and utterly forgotten Chrysler 180 (or whatever you wish to call it, it had more names than some members of the Royal Family). Inseparably connected with it is the history of the Spanish automaker Barreiros (no wikilink here, as it would lead to the article on the community, even though the Espagnol interwiki link would lead to the automaker!), which became part of Chrysler Europe too and is even less known to humanity at large.

I guess because of its domestic-only focus, there is little info on Barreiros itself and the models produced there available for non-Spanish speakers. I have found two sites - one for the 180 itself, http://www.chrysler-180.es.vg/ and one for another interesting, Spain-only model, the majestic Dodge 3700 (Dart in disguise, but with a really nice wheel pattern) http://www.comunidadodge.es.vg/ (though I believe some better ones can be found). I was wondering whether you would be interested in helping share the history of Barreiros and the oddball Chryslers with the English-speaking Wikipedia community after you come back from the Wikibreak. Cheers! Bravada, talk - 21:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I remember to have played with a Dodge Barreiros toy car when I was little. I'm in Spain till next Monday. Funnily enough, I thought about the Barreiros a while back. I will take care of this once I get back home. Cheers, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 00:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Have a great time, and look out for Simcas, Dodges and Chryslers when carrying a camera :D God, do I envy you. The toy car I remember the most from my childhood was the blue Skoda Estelle :D :D :D It even had a mock-up of the engine in the rear! I actually wonder whether it would be somewhere around the home now... Bravada, talk - 00:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Damn EU-financed Plan Prever killed off so many classic cars that makes me go mental (basically, the government would contribute up to 1500 euros towards a new car as long as you scrap one older than 8 years). I saw a SEAT 124 this morning and could not help but smiling like a child. I will keep an eye open for Simcas and Chryslers/Talbots. Dodges are a no-go for sure :( E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 00:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I guessed so :( Though there seem to be enthusiast clubs that keep survivors going for sure - I guess we would have to mail them for some good photos (where "we" stands for "the one of us who speaks Spanish :p). Anyway, enjoy your holiday at home and we'll come back to that whenever you'll have time :D Bravada, talk - 01:03, 26 August 2006 (UTC)