User talk:Bastin/Archive 7

This page is an archive of my talk page up to the 18th January 2009. If you wish to trawl something up from these discussions, please copy the relevant part and post it in the current talk page. Bastin

Speedy deletion of Template:Hong Kong at the Commonwealth Games

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Luxembourg European election, 2004

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Malaya at the Commonwealth Games

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth Games

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Libertarian micronations

Category:Libertarian micronations, 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) 14:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Clarke (politician)

Another editor has added the {{prod}} template to the article Mark Clarke (politician), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 17:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am fully aware of what a PROD is for. I looked at the references that you added, none establish notability, and so I have sent it to AfD. Darrenhusted (talk) 11:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Mark Clarke (politician)

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WP:LOTD

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CfD nomination of Category:Libertarian science fiction writers

Category:Libertarian science fiction writers, 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. – Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tuvalu

The Economy section of this article states "Subsistence farming and fishing remain the primary economic activities, particularly off the capital island of Funafuti". This needs a little more explanation. Do you know what kind of farming is practiced in the island? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 08:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Three Rivers Council election, 2008

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Libertarian Party (UK)

Looks to me like the article Libertarian Party (UK) will lose the AfD debate so I have copied much of the text to your other article Libertarianism in the United Kingdom. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 20:45, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UKIP as "libertarian" - I dont think UKIP can credibly be called libertarian. They do of course have members who are libertarian (as do many parties) and those members may say the party is libertarian (as do many parties, in the hope of gaining extra votes) or wish that it was, but the party's policy platform is no more libertarian than the Greens, Lib Dems, or Liberal Party. The reference is just a blog post and not serious evidence. However, I have no desire or time for an edit war so will leave your edit. Fig (talk) 21:53, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Constituent country

There has been a long centralized discussion at Talk:United Kingdom, in which it was decided with 83.33% consensus that constituent country would be used to describe England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However, users at Scotland are saying that they will not accept a consensus made on another page, so I would like to inform you that there is now a similar vote on the Scotland talk page. Cheers --fone4 me 20:41, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Luxembourgish/Lauxembourgian again

Hello Bastin,

I just wanted to let you know that the question of Luxembourgian/Louxembourgish seems to have come up again at Talk:Luxembourg#Adjectival form?. I haven't answered yes as I never recall myself and I no longer consider this an issue as long as we retain a standard. Maybe you could explain why Wikipedia:WikiProject Luxembourg chose one form over the other.--Caranorn (talk) 10:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree a standard is needed, but as someone who lived in the English speaking community in Luxembourg for a long time, noone ever used the word 'Luxembourgian' I don't know why this controversy has lasted this long. I and others have expressed similar views here Please can we change the style conventions? Teutanic (talk) 15:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the Commonwealth Games

Template:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the Commonwealth Games has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Buc (talk) 20:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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DYK nomination of Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth of Nations

Hello! Your submission of Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth of Nations at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Dravecky (talk) 07:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

definition of North/South

I was going by what was on the talk page. Furthermore, I agree Turkey ought to be there, I didn't know it wasn't blue on the map. Zazaban (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Libertarianism by genre at cfd

I nominated this category, which you created, for renaming. Please see the discussion. --Eliyak T·C 03:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Smith

Thank you for your changes to Herbert Smith. Recently I have been working with several other editors to produce a new version of the profile on that page. Our work is currently available at User:BunnyDust/Herbert_Smith and will be copied to Herbert Smith shortly. If you wish to make any comments on our draft, on that user page, this would be greatly appreciated. BunnyDust (talk) 23:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]