User talk:Golbez/Archive 2

Archive 2 - January 2006 to December 2008.

Stalking

Stop stalking and blocking me. Your admin privileges and request to become a bureaucrat would seem to warrant a NPOV to editing, deletions and reverts. However, for reasons known only to yourself you prefer to stalk, harass, malign, and block many editors who bring your violations of Wikipedia policy to the fore for discussion. Again, stop stalking me. Do not send me email, and do not contact me for any reason. If you delete or revert this, or block me to punish me for having confronted your violations of Wikipedia policy, I have a copy to forward to support my contention that your admin privileges should be suspended indefinitely.

thanks

Still learning here. I just get frustrated when it seems that certain types of news are commonly "overlooked" in here. Kukini 23:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC) Let me give you a prime example: Kukini 23:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. pilots targeting a house outside of Baghdad where they believed insurgents had taken shelter killed a family of 12. (Washington Post)

I put it there, and found interesting resistance when I did. Perhaps it was all based on format issues? Kukini 23:54, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Zoe is the person that continually deletes the article reference, as if it never happened or is relatively inconseqential. Kukini 03:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clean slate

All of my past conversations are available in the above archives. --Golbez 01:33, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Answered question

Thanks for your prompt response. As you may have seen on my talk page, there was a recent ArbCom decision that I found particularly outrageous, and I am interested in electing a new ArbCom that would be more scrupulous, even-handed, and less inclined to abuse its authority. --HK 07:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bahamas map

Thank you for the comments! Even with the map that I used as a base to create the Bahamas district map, it wasn't entirely clear on locating some of the areas, so I had to approximate the location based on descriptions and tourism websites. --Rarelibra 10:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - I updated the Bahamas district map. I'm getting the hang of things using .png files and such. I basically included more detailed islands and cleaned up the labels, and included a label for New Providence. Hope you like it! Rarelibra 00:39 21JAN2006.

Single-border states

Hi there. Regarding the examples used to illustrate a single-border state, the UK is no less or more "ambiguous" that Haiti in this respetc. Both have one land border. On the other hand, Cuba is much less obvious as an example of this situation, because there is a short functional land border, but de jure the entire island of Cuba belongs to only one state. =] //Big Adamsky 20:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may have a valid point there. In any event, those three example that are currently cited to illustrate how a one-border state can also be thought of as an exclave of sorts are clear-cut and easy to grasp. //Big Adamsky 21:22, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

your latest articles

I see that you have put up articles on 3 central asian areas. Please note that most of them already have complete articles. Eg. Almaty Prashanthns 05:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. My oversight. Did not notice that Almaty is also a province! If you have already seen the central asia related articles, fine. Keep up the good work. Prashanthns 05:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help

I was surprised that someone would disregard the week of debate and just unilaterally delete. Glad that someone with the power to restore wsa able to do so. Tokyojoe2002 18:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Biography

Template:Infobox Biography has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Biography. Thank you. DreamGuy 07:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lighten up, dude.

It's just a talk page. Danny Lilithborne 09:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anarchism (but of course)

How's it going, Golbez? Long time, no heated argument. ;) I was re-reading my talk page when I saw that you had attempted to work on the anarcho-capitalism article, but gave up on it as a result of RJII. Was this because RJII was difficult, or because he did a good job, making your work unnecessary? I ask, because I am (probably rather foolishly) trying to resolve the age-old dispute on the anarchism article. I think that discussion anarcho-capitalism within the context of individualist anarchism is just fine (it has many individualist anarchist influences). But I think that, most likely as a reaction to the unfortunately dogmatic actions of a few "true anarchist" editors, the anarcho-capitalism proponents on that article (RJII, Hogeye, MrVoluntarist) have been a bit overzealous in their assertion of anarcho-capitalism as "the" anarchism of the 21st century and of anarchism as being strictly divided between socialism and capitalism, collectivism and individualism. Perhaps you agree with them, but that's not the point. At the moment, it seems like RJII is offering us a lot of original research. I trust his expertise (he seems very well-read and intelligent), but I try to shy from what seems to be original research. I was wondering what your experiences with him were like in the past. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Take it easy! --AaronS 01:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quick response. The only reason why I decided to get involved with the anarchism article is because I felt that the editing process was being more or less dominated by RJII and Hogeye (I keep it on my watch list, but rarely edit the article), and I saw a major dispute arising. I think that they are in the process of revising the history of anarchism, essentially creating a narrative for the emergence of anarcho-capitalism as a "school of thought" (I dislike that term) that challenges "anarcho-socialism" (a neologism). At the same time, some people who disagree with them have erred equally as much, attempting to erase anarcho-capitalism completely from the article. I've tried my best to find middle ground, but that requires compromise on the part of those two, which seems unlikely at the moment. I don't think that they understand that many editors feel that they are already making a compromise by having anarcho-capitalism discussed in the first place.

Please do take a look at the article, if you have the time. It really is a terrible article. No sources cited, unverifiable statements, original research, etc. Also, if you are familiar with individualist anarchism, I would take a look at the individualist anarchism and American individualist anarchism articles. I have an inkling that some of it might be RJII's original research. It may be good research, but until he gets it published, it's no good for Wikipedia. :) --AaronS 03:56, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2005 intro

You believe Epsilon and Zeta are more worthy of mention in the intro than Wilma and Rita??? Jdorje 03:31, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arbcom candidate userbox

Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.

{{User arbcom nom}}

If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Provinces of Algeria

Hi Golbez, all the best for 2006 and that we have less fights (with others, and least with each other). Just to hopefully prevent making you angry: I split some Algerian cities and wilaya (provinces) and used X Province. I agree that if only few use "province" it is better to use X (province). I think in the long run all will be split into city and province, seems as if cities gave the name to the wilayas. For cases where this is not true maybe nevertheless other "collisions" exist. I hope that considering the likely fact that all use "province" at some day you will not oppose too much to use X Province? best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

just some thoughts: Iowa City named after the state ... what was first city or state ... state joined 1846. I could not find when the city was founded, at least it existed in 1857 when it stopped being the capital. Well at the end they are maybe both named independently after the Iowa tribe. At the state page a naming comment is made. Nevertheless no fear ;-) that I move Iowa to Iowa State and Iowa City to Iowa, United States and - this would be the most interesting - the tribe to Iowa. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ah, now I know why the new message statement didnt disapear... you posted one more. yes, I think our proposals where not that far away from each other. If I refrain from using X Province if it is not used in the whole set, the differences decrease. My work in some sets was to find collisions and thus to justify the addition of (province)/Province. And you know what: I think William too had some interesting ideas. I was not opposed at all to his ideas. I just wanted to correct little parts of his statements. What currently is largely unsolved are municipalities. "X, Subdivision" is used sometimes to refer to a municipality even if a city of that name exists in this region. My standard would be "X Municipality" / "X Municipality, Subdivision". But I think this is not really nice. I posted it on Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(subnational_entities)#Municipalities Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U. S. politicians and succession boxes

Hi, I noticed you started all this great work with the lists of U.S. Congressional Delegations from each state; these look quite nice. I had some ideas about the following, and there doesn't seem to be any policy regarding these issues, and since you created the original lists, you seemed like the person to go to:

I was noticing that the succession boxes on the politicians' bio pages are pretty inconsistent: some have no box, others list only major posts (such as if the bio is a former speaker of the house, it lists only the Speaker succession box, whereas others list all roles, i.e. there is a box for speaker, and a box for other roles in government).

As examples, contrast Henry Clay with Langdon Cheves.

I think it is best to put more info than less, so I think Henry Clay's example is better. My guess is that the best policy would be that on every bio page corresponding to any U.S. Senator or Representative (and also perhaps corresponding Confederate offices as well), the full succession boxes should be there. The reason I mention it is that it does seem like a lot of work, and I figured I'd run it by your for some feedback, and also to make sure there's no collision if there is a group doing something similar. Also, it seems to me that this is something which could be accomplished by a bot of some sort, given that the lists already exist, a bot could roll through the chronological entries in the list and make the additions.

Anyway, I'd like to hear any thoughts you have on this when you get a chance. And if there has already been discussion of this somewhere that you know of, I'd like it if you could point we towards that. Thanks!! Deville 19:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles For Deletion

Hi, one or both of the following situations applies to you, and you may therefore be interested in related discussions.

You expressed an opinion about the proposed deletion of an article concerning one of the first 200 verses of the Gospel of Matthew. Would you therefore like to join a centralised discussion about the other 199 articles at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/200 verses of Matthew
You expressed an opinion about the proposed deletion of an article concerning one of the first 19 verses of the 20th Chapter of the Gospel of John. Would you therefore like to join a centralised discussion about the other 18 articles at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Verses of John 20

You may also be interested in a discussion of whether or not the entire text of a whole bible chapter should be contained in the 6 articles concerning those specific chapters, and whether or not they should only use the translations favoured by fundamentalists. This is being discussed at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text.

--Victim of signature fascism | Don't forget to vote in the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections 17:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Qatar Governorates

Hey, excellent job with laying down the maps of the governorates of Qatar. I'll make sure I'll add more information on the governorates soon. However Governorates of Kuwait is also in need of some help. It would be great if you can add the maps on those. Thanks --Ahmed 13:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Categories in sandbox

Hi, I'm finding articles from your user space in categories. You should know better! Please remove all offenders. Thanks. -- Samuel Wantman 07:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Britannicizing country leads

Hi. There has been a proposal to have every country lead follow the EB model of: [conventional shortform], officially, [conventional longform], though a few modification are being discussed. If you're interested, the discussion is here. Regards, El_C 21:19, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kuwait Governorates

The map you made looks pretty impressive. I'll have a look at the lines you made and change them as neccessary. Thanks --Ahmed 22:21, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Back again. I checked the map. Sure is accurate and very well updated. --Ahmed 02:37, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Where to start...

  1. No one really cares about the penis swath.
  2. You're constantly changing simple wikitable markup to more unwieldy stuff.
  3. You removed a link and changed the sourced number.
  4. You falsely accused someone of deleting material.

Based on the third one in particular, this is really starting to feel like vandalism. Please stop. --Golbez 22:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)"

Where to critique?

1. You falsely accused me of deleting a link 2. The swath is related to Hurricane Rita 3. Again, you falsely accuse me of deleting material. You're the one vandalizing information off the page.

Provinces of Cameroon

Everything seems okay the way you've moved things around. I'm just worried that the new names will lead to some wrongly directed links. If you change "South Province" to "Southern Province", you get quite a few disambiguation possibilities. Ditto for Western Province, Central Province, Eastern Province, Northern Province. Cameroon's province are referred to by such names from time to time, and I'd assume the opposite were true for other provinces named for the cardinal directions. — BrianSmithson 02:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unisys link

I've put the unisys link in the Image section but I've couldnot find anything about the copyright policies when I got on the Unisys website. Storm05 15:01, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Azerbaijan

Hi Golbez, I saw your nice work indeed on the map of the provinces of Azerbaijan. It is quite helpful that you preserved the old boundaries of Karabakh, so that people can see what is being discussed during the peace talks. I would like to also suggest that you add the dashed lines of the old Shahumian region, which is also discussed in the news and which people would probably find useful. It is directly north of Karabakh and many maps do show it (often incorrectly as a part of the officially designated Karabakh region). If you need an example, I can send you one. Anyway, some food for thought. Merci, --RaffiKojian 06:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kangarli

I found out that this rayon was created on 14 March 2004, and the administrative center of it is the settlement of Givrag. It borders with Armenia, and was made of 3 villages of Babek rayon and 6 villages of Sharur rayon. The territory 681,9 sq. km, population - 25 000. Grandmaster 09:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

North ....

I see you leave in North Carolina :-). I would prefer not to put all in one list. But let's start with linking all dab lists together and maybe mention the local. Ambigous translations maybe can be mentioned on two or more pages. E.g. if Iraq would have a North wilaya this could be N.Governorate or N.Province. Let's start with linking all Northes together? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 04:29, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. Is it really that much you have to go through? BTW i would like to use a template. for linking all together. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 04:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To easier let others get involved: Talk:Northern Region Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Storm05's images

Those images you listed on his talk page all appear to be copy vios. Image:Hugo4.jpg was taken from an excerpt of a copyrighted book, no mention of use for any purpose and I doubt this is the case. Image:ElenaHOUSE.jpg and Image:Frederic4.jpg are copyrighted storm-chaser photos, almost assuredly not for any purpose, the latter definately not. I say they are good candidates for speedy deletion. -- §Hurricane ERIC§ archive 18:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfB

Golbez, just to let you know that I have removed your request for bureaucratship from the RfA page. It was unsuccessful on this occasion. Keep up the good work as an admin, and I look forward to seeing your name on another nomination at some point in the future, if you still wish to stand. -- Francs 2000 00:07, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you keep removing Paul Kelly (ecologist)?

It's serious and I am not him, and its not vain.

Sorry

Hey, sorry about the 'attack' i was just mad. I will make it seriously this time.

Your vote on the RFR poll

Hi, Golbez, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.

Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 13:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Date canonicalization

See Wikipedia:Dates for the standards ~ Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 23:08 2006-02-02

TheDoctor10's copyright

Thanks for your concern, but yes, as you saw, it has been updated.--TheDoctor10 (talk|email) 08:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please

When you protect pages, please add them to the protected pages list. Thanks. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 09:50, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Azeri maps

Hi! I saw that you created maps for Azerbaijani rayons. I would like a map with the 6 South-Eastern districts in red, for the Talysh-Mughan Republic, and as I'm not experienced in graphics I thought I'd ask you. The districts which need colouring are Lankaran (rayon), Lankaran, Lerik, Astara (rayon), Masally and Yardymli. Thanks, Punkmorten 14:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful. Punkmorten 16:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Wysun

You said you recognized Wysun (talk · contribs) from a past vandal. Would that perhaps be Whitewalls (talk · contribs)? Aecis ^Mr.^Mojo ^risin' 21:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Ferry sinking map

Considering that it was the website and not myself who drew the map, I don't think I deserve much credit for it. Anyway, I cropped the image per your request but I don't seem to be able to upload the new version to Commons. Any ideas? -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, forget it. There's a 4-day filter in Commons before I'm allowed to upload a newer version of an image. If you have an account in Commons already I could email you the file. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fars Province

Please move Pars Province back to Fars Province. New user did this without any discussion and "Pars" is not the standard name. He is confusing the language naming issue (Persian/Farsi) with the provincial name, which are worlds apart. Thanks. SouthernComfort 01:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I didn't realize that he had done it that way. Much appreciated. SouthernComfort 02:37, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Thanks, didn't realize not using move was so deleterious. Apologies, I ought not to have moved the articles and you are right, discussion is necessary for controversies such as naming disputes. --Ampersand[[[1]]]

a few map requests

When you have a spare day or so, I'd like some maps: outline maps of the Galapagos Islands, as well as a political map of Oceania and outline maps of the various territories and island groups thereof. :-) I'm willing to try my hand at making them myself, with proper instruction... Tom e r ^talk 03:34, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um...the Oceania map I was proposing was something like this one. There was a deeper part of my request in there tho, asking for outline maps of the Marquesas Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotus, etc. There's a reason I figured that, as good as you clearly are with the cartography, I said "a spare day or so"... ;-) Tom e r ^talk 03:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another pretty map. :-) Tom e r ^talk 04:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What an amazing coincidence. :-p I just want the outline tho; islands, international boundaries, the equator and the international date line, black lines on a white background. :-p Tom e r ^talk 04:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More map requests

Hi Golbezz. Even if your major field of interest — mapwise — does appear to lie chiefly in the administrative divisions section, perhaps you would also consider creating maps as per this map request of mine that I just made to Astrokey. Thanks! =] //Big Adamsky 07:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin NEEDED NOW

I clicked on the featured article page and was offended by the substituted pornographic images. It's blocked or I would have fixed it. FIX IT NOW. You are the only administrator I've interacted with, that's why I came to you.

Thanks for resolving Hasty Pudding Theatricals

Great job :) Dr Debug (Talk) 06:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Washington Metro Silver Line stubs

Wow, didn't expect anyone to follow that close behind fixing up the Silver Line stubs. :) I'll try to add information in as I can. Living less than two miles from the Tysons East station location causes me to follow news and details fairly closely. --StuffOfInterest 23:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, hopefully I saved you a little bit of work. Great job on the other Metro content! --StuffOfInterest 23:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:24.186.222.194

Thanks for the reverts on Power tool, Shoe and Bedding. That user has been consistently spamming those three articles, and violating the 3RR rule. See: Special:Contributions/24.186.222.194. I believe it is time to block him as he has been warned. I have put up a ntice on AN/I, but I think you can just go ahead and block him. Thanks. Luigizanasi 19:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for dealing with it so quickly. Luigizanasi 19:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Commons

The issue, as I see it, is threefold: (a) technical, (b) community, (c) copyright. The technical issue is that en-Wikipedians who make casual contributions to commons don't see things relevant to them in RC or their watchlist, so there is the potential that an image may be subject to subtle vandalism, poor changes, or deletion due to misunderstanding simply because the contributor was unaware of it. The second issue is that commons sees itself as a wholly different community and does not give any weight to contributions made on en, consequently there are few en contributors who are admins on commons, and there is little en input to commons decisionmaking. En and commons are both large enough communities that there are considerable hurdles to be overcome in becoming a trusted contributor. I think the lack of shared trust is unfortunate. Finally, the degree of copyright paranoia on commons is extreme, and while we could probably do with rather more copyright sensitivity on en, commons goes overboard. This isn't about fair use but rather about such matters as governmental copyrights, copyright in noncreative works, moral rights, and the like -- all things that are generally not recognized in the U.S. I think this is all unfortunate and that it didn't have to be this way but at this point I am largely of the opinion that images hosted on commons probably ought to be migrated to en if they are used here. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 01:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nakhichevan

Hi Golbez. I responded on the article’s talk page. Take care. Grandmaster 10:49, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez. Don’t you want to try to mediate? Looks like another edit war is about to start on Nakhichevan page. Grandmaster 07:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx Golbez

Thank you very much for your message. Indeed I am making messes, but I promise to improve as I get more used to the procedures and points in Wikipedia. I will be looking forward to receiving more and more guidance from you guys as I would love to make more and more contributions.

The images are my own and I hold the copyright for them, but I did not know how to mention that so, I tried to put up the closest option. I try to provide the text for many of the contributions from myself but for some, which I do not have facts and figures about, I copied the text, which was indeed not correct. I will solve that problem asap and write out my own text using viable resources.

Thanx again,

Hadi

Blocking

Ace, thank you very much for your explanation, I figured it was something like that (though I was instructed that I'm not particularly owed an explanation). Next time I will understand, since it would doubtlessly happen again (people here boast about vandalising wikipedia). Thanks again! Jdcooper 16:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bots

Hello! You appear to be running a bot but are not registered under Wikipedia:Bots. Please advise immediately. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 04:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Maps

Hi Golbez - whether I'd have replaced maps depends on the circumstances, really. As it was, I made those maps at the same time as I made the articles on the different parishes (before I started, there were about five articles on Bermudian geography - by the time i'd finished there were about 50 :). In general, I probably wouldn't have bothered unless the maps were of a low enough quality that I thought that any I made would be a big improvement. Another possibility would be if I'd made a series of maps on a particular topic and found one related article that had a map, and it was of a different sort (for instance, if I'd added maps to five Bermudian parish articles, then discovered that the sixth article I came to had a different style of map). It takes a bit of work to make a map, though, so if there's one there that's not too bad I probably wouldn't touch it. Grutness...wha? 04:20, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Using the "revert" button.

I noticed that you have used your 'revert' button to revert edits on Channel 4 and List of Channel 4 television programmes which meant the link to Brookside was wrong.

Please do not do this unless it is vandalism (which it wasn't), otherwise we do not know your reasons for reverting. -- 9cds^(talk) 13:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tobias Conradi

Just to advise I have blocked this user for 3 hours due to violation of 3RR on Ian Hendry. 23skidoo 16:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Elaborate

Thank you for your warning, but I don't understand why reporting the truth is "vandalism".

Once again, I don't understand why inserting the truth is vandalism. Check out the 9/11 truth movement if you don't think there is any evidence.

Moved from user page

Yo, golbez: I just thought I'd send you a quick counter remark to your presumptuous remark on my comments you put down: as a matter of fact, contrary to your arrogant presumptions, my comments WERE deleted regarding my original posting regarding "going postal". They were promptly REMOVED from where I originally posted them (to the obscure area of "discussion"). Just thought you'd like to know you were full of sh*t on that one. (I'm sure you'll come back with some smart aleck retort though!). Unsigned by 216.99.205.192 (El_C 11:19, 25 February 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Listing 3 top western experts on Japanese history

"Please stop spamming links all over Wikipedia. I'm sure the links you added are very useful in some topics, but not in EVERY JAPANESE HISTORY topic. --Golbez 22:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)"

Golbez, I received this in response to my posting of the 3 top western historians websites on Japanese history on several wikipedia pages. I feel that education is preferrable to ignorance in this case. With regards to Japanese history, any visitor to a wikipedia page regarding Japanese history can now consult a true expert on the topic. Instead of relying on a definition written by a 15 year old whose only knowledge of Jpanese history comes from cartoons and Manga, you can consult a historians website. Japenese history in particular seems to have a problem becasue of all the lore and legend associated with it. Movies and video games are of no help and are not historically accurate.

When i first visited the wikipedia "seppuku" page it stated that it was "rare, shameful, caused the person to lose their estate, people had to be forced to do it kicking and screaming, etc.....) This is the opposite of reality. It was considered an honor, the person kept their estate and samurai status, passing it on to relatives. It was voluntary and an honor to do so, enhancing one's reputation in some cases. It was very common, in fact the shogunate had to ban it because so many people were killing themselves when their lords passed away (Buke sho hatto law 1663).

In Wikipedia "Ronin" was defined as "someone who had foresaken honor and failed to commit seppuku" Again, this is totally wrong.

Bushido was defined as "an invention of the Tokugawa Shogunate" Totally wrong.

Why would you delete the link to the western world's leading expert (Stephen Turnbull) on Japanese History from the Samurai page? I strongly recommend that you allow the posting of the leading experts of Japanese History on these pages, to do otherwise is disasterous. You are allowing 15 year old kids to write your wikipedia when you should strive for accuracy and excellence.

I took the time to look up the leading experts on Japanese History and link to them.

Copy of deleted material:

The website of Dr. Stephen Turnbull A leading authority on Japanese History and Samurai, Stephen Turnbull has written more than 30 books for Osprey Publishing

SengokuDaimyo.com The website of Samurai Author and Historian Anthony J. Bryant

The website of William Scott Wilson A 2005 recipient of the Japanese Government's Japan’s Foreign Minister’s Commendation, William Scott Wilson was honored for his research on Samurai and Bushido.

Response

Short and simple: These might be useful links on a single page, but elsewhere, please only use them if they are specific references. Putting those three links in every article you can find is spamming, no matter how useful they are. I thank you for your contributions, the seppuku thing you mention really is disgraceful, but again, these linkis should not be put everywhere. External links are only for links directly related to the subject matter, while references are to cite specific materials that back up what is said in the text. For example, on the seppuku article, link specifically to a page about seppuku - like if Stephen Turnbull has a specific article on the matter. Likewise, have a specific link to an article about samurai on the Samurai article. Not a link to a general page not specifically about the subject matter. Do you see what I mean? --Golbez 21:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC) [edit]

MY RESPONSE

Turnbull, Wilson and Bryant have material directly associated with the pages I posted on. Bryant is an expert on the battle of Sekigahara and general Japanese History and Turnbull is an expert on all aspects of Japanese History as well as the arms and armor used by the armies. His site would be appropriate on any matter related to Japanese history. You are weakening legitimate research ability of wikipedia readers by deleting these links and opening yourself to criticism like I see being writen in the newspapers about Wikipedia. Japanese history on Wikipedia is a disaster. I am trying to clean things up by pointing readers to the real experts, not relying on history i learned from movies and video games. If anyone uses wikipedia for academic research they are in real trouble.

There is a disclaimer label on the "Miyamoto Musashi" wikipage which states "The factual accuracy of this page is disputed" and refers readers to the "talk" page. You deleted my link to William scott Wilson, who is probably the worlds leading expert on Musashi. Wilson examined the real historical documents about the man before writing his book , "The Lone Samurai". Nice Going. This is a step backwards for everyone. Ironically, Wilson discusses some of the disputed material ... and dismisses it outright. I'd rather listen to an expert who read the real Japanese documents.

A simple example: You put these three links on Seppuku. The word "Seppuku" does not appear on any of the three links. Therefore, they are irrelevant to the subject at hand. Also, having finally looked at the links, the last one is nothing more than a bookstore. Please stop bringing up your argument about "15 year olds" and manga - it does not apply to me, I have a degree in Japanese language and literature. --Golbez 22:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Turnbull has entire chapters related to Seppuku and is very knowledgeable about it, as are Wilson and Bryant. They are perfectly relevant. A degree in literature and language does not make one an expert on samurai and history.

I am Japanese, have spent decades researching this material and I am a direct descendant of the one of top leaders of one of the largest Samurai Clans. My relatives sat on the boards of major museums in Japan. I am offended by the innaccurate depictions and I am trying to correct them. I expect your cooperation. By the way, the Samurai page is terrible and until recently, it had a warning/disclaimer as well.

THEY may be relevant; their websites, however, are demonstrably NOT. --Golbez 23:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MY RESPONSE

I am curious how you could find the websites of the leading samurai experts, NOT be relevant to the wikipedia page for samurai. William scott wilson wrote probably the BEST and most comprehensive, thoroughly researched book ever on Miyamoto Musashi, yet you delete links to his wikipage and site. If you knew anything about the authors, you would not be making statements such as this:

"A simple example: You put these three links on Seppuku. The word "Seppuku" does not appear on any of the three links. Therefore, they are irrelevant to the subject at hand."

Any knowledgeable person on Japanese history would realize that these men are the leading experts on this topic in english, and their books would shed some light on the subject. Turnbull has one of the BEST sections on Seppuku in his book. In fact, I posted excerpts of "Samurai way of Death" when I rewrote the seppuku page.

   If that's the case, then cite it as a reference - do not link to a site from which to purchase it. We can find that ourselves if we so desire. --Golbez 00:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

there should be some references to who the experts are some where on the pages. I get email and requests on talk pages for the sources of info. I would like to provide this information. Several pages have been changed back to the INCORRECT and i mean blatantly incorrect form. Maybe if people read a little bit, we wouldnt have this problem. Turnbull's site includes entire chapters from his book. especially about seppuku as does Bryant's site. There are one of a kind items availible online.

Then link specifically to those chapters. I've said this three or four times now, what part of that do you disagree with? --Golbez 01:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Not all of the chapters are available online. The publishers provide some parts of the books online, for others, I post bibliography. I disgaree with the removal of links when the page is marked with disclaimers about material being in dispute and simply reading the authors book would clear much of it up. The best research we have available to us on Miyamoto musashi is William scott Wilsons latest book and you removed the link. You call the links not relevant. Turnbaull also wrote an excellent book on Musashi called "The lone samurai" you also removed that link. we are going backwards here.

The samurai page had Turnbull's and wilson's links removed. The page is sorely in need of this information. what part are YOU not agreeing with?

Either you're not understanding me, or you're deliberately not understanding me. This will be my last word on the subject: LINK ONLY TO PAGES SPECIFICALLY REGARDING THE SUBJECT MATTER. Not to a page to buy a BOOK ABOUT JAPANESE HISTORY. I removed a link to Turnbull's website; supply a link to a copy (not a purchase) of his book and it's fine. Otherwise, it's reference. Good day, sir. --Golbez 01:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When a person goes to to any site, they are intelligent enough to scroll down and look for "The battle of sekigahara" or "Musashi" or whatever the subject matter may be that they are searching for. Those are the official websites of the authors. Like it or not. Unless you suggest linking to the local library catalog, that is one of the best places to find a list of the books, the official site of the author.

I would like to appeal the decision to remove the above links from Japanese History related wikipages. To whom do I address this appeal and who is next in the wikipedia "chain of command"? I have 3 or 4 college level instructors in both the USA and Japan who are interested in the outcome of this dialog. We are increasingly finding the citation of wikipedia in academic works in the area of Japanese history. Of course some of these entries were of less than acceptable quality.

Example: http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~reames/Papers/EALC175/history_heike_monogatari.pdf

The Historical Basis of the Heike Monogatari ("The Tale of the Heike") An Analysis of the:

Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike)

By Philip Reames University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Completed: April 28th, 2004

(excerpt from the biblio)

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

   * "Taira no Kiyomori" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_no_Kiyomori
   * "Tokugawa Shogunate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate
   * "Samurai" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
   * "History of Japan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan
   * "Kamakura period" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakura_period
   * "Emperor Antoku of Japan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Antoku_of_Japan
   * "Heian Period" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heian_Period
   * "Bushido" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
   * "Emperor Takakura of Japan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Takakura_of_Japan
   * "Emperor Rokujo of Japan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Rokujo_of_Japan

You want to take this to a higher authority? Just ask people on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) or maybe WP:AN or WP:AN/I. That will take it to a wider audience of administrators. --Golbez 01:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance.

list

okay did you have to delete my list(that i posted on the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season talk page) that i worked so hard on? Storm05 19:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTW

Hey there Golbez, I noticed that you had expressed interest in the article on the Potomac River on its talk page. Another contributor nominated the river for the US Collaboration of the Week and I would appreciate it if you would give the nomination your support. I feel with minimal effort, the article will reach featured status with the assistance of a team of editors. --Caponer 18:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HMS Press Deletion

WayneRay 16:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)WayneRay Why did you delete my publishing page HMS Press ? I read the suggestions and cleaned it up and updated it about 2 weeks ago and now it is gone. I have published many notable American and Canadian Poets and authors. Explain Please on my discussion page[reply]

Thank you.

I appreciate your stepping in, but even if you think that I am a total fucktard for merely contesting the close of the poll and seperating out the solicited votes, I must insist that you refrain from personal attacks, especially in edit summaries. Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that I only struck votes once (and then reverted my own strikes to the seperation after striking was disputed - the second striking edit being only to retain the 20 minutes of work I had already done), and with each vote provided a reason and a signature. If this was a mistake, it was obviously a good-faith one. I am substantially over the age of consent in every jurisdiction I care to think of, and do not appreciate being called a "child." Nor, I suspect, will god of war. At this point, however, I will let it drop. Please note that I did not vote in the poll in question, and was about to state that I believed the result was no-consensus. At this point, I am content to walk away. Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warning

I don't know why you warned me. Yes I have been arguing with Hipocrite but as you will see I only reverted him once. A revert that he did not actually revert back but simply modified. There is no revert warring here.--God Ω War 21:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Range blocking of USNewsLink

If you want to block the IPs that are posting legal threats on the Village Pump, a block of "151.213.0.0/16" for 24 hours or so should do the job -- but be prepared to take a lot of flack for blocking such a large range. A block of "151.213.224.0/19" might be sufficient, and it's a significantly smaller range. --Carnildo 06:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah

So that's were it went. I knew it went awry but then I couldn't find it. Thanks, -Will Beback 10:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

landmine blast

Hi Golbez. Regarding Wikipedia:In_the_news_section_on_the_Main_Page/Candidates#.5B.5BMarch_10.5D.5D.2C_.5B.5B2006.5D.5D, I've reworded the title and linked it to another article, Balochistan (Pakistan), which already had some related background. I've added a fair bit of text about the blast there too. Is it OK? Veej 11:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:OWL-FELLS

You stepped in and took action while I was humming and hawing — do I block or do I wait? I'm not very familiar with Enviroknot, though of course I've seen some of his contributions, but I am familiar with ROHA — someone in Germany who edits anonymously from lots of different IPs (and so can't be banned), but who always puts ROHA in his edit summaries. His favourite article is Adolf Hitler, which has been semi-protected an many occasions because of him, but I think he has also, to a lesser extent, made a nuisance of himself at Bob Dylan. I don't personally think User:OWL-FELLS is ROHA: the style is quite different, and ROHA never blanked pages. That said, he certainly was not here for the good of Wikipedia, so I'm sure if you hadn't blocked, I would have done so at his next edit. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 23:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin help needed

Hello, I was wondering if you could help. In the midst of a discussion about an article, a user has come in and accused me of "having an agenda" and making generally derogatory remarks and speculations about my personal beliefs. I erased it, but one of his friends keeps reverting it. It is at Talk:Intelligent design/Townes RFC under "Benapgar's advocacy" at the bottom of the page. What do I do when someone says I have an agenda but I don't? Or they make false claims about me? I remember saying one of the editors on that article had an agenda before and I got blocked for it. I told this to the person who is reverting now, but they don't seem to notice the double-standard, let alone notice that it is a personal attack, or that it's "discussing the contributor and not the article."--Ben 05:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for Haiti

Hi Golbez,

You made a map for departments of Haiti in French : Haiti map with named departments.

Can you make it in Haitian, pls? Thx.

In the ht wiki, we are using the numbered map : article in wiki ht for haitian departments. The alphabetic order is not respected anymore. The named map would be better. The name of the image could be something like AyitiDepatmanNonYo.png.

If you cannot make it, can you explain to me how to change an image or indicate me a wiki article giving info on that task, pls? Thx.

--205.228.12.193 14:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC) No wiki login on wiki en => my ht page[reply]

Hi Golbez, thx you so much.

I am not 100% sure. I think that that map is the first one in whole Internet to be written in Haitian. Not in English, nor in French. That is amazing!

You did it very professional. I saw that you also change the order of the departments in the article and you put the name I asked you. Really cool ! I appreciate this kind of details. :)

I will tell you (one day I hope) when I will have all info for other maps (on Haiti of course) about:

islands, bays and gulfs
komin (kind of American county) and sèksyon kominal (kind of American districts)

About cities, I think using a blank map image and place a cross with the map html tag, or something like that. I will use the positions on UN maps.

If you are overbusy those days, just let us know how to do it. :)

--205.228.12.193 14:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thx for the proposals. Next map, I am sure, will be politic map of Haiti, which was taken on CIA site. As you can see, half French, half English! I need first to prepare the list of all haitian names.
About the size, it fits right for me. If people want smaller, they can put a size in the article code. I just noticed that some wikipedians from commons changed the png images on wiki ht to svg images (flags and coats of arms). Maybe this is to be done for all maps ? I also heard that images less than 10Ko are downloaded really quicker by the browsers. Anyway, for me, that's good!

--70.82.187.175 01:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:DickClarkMises

I appreciate your comments regarding my user page's content. What would you recommend that I do in this situation? I have every intention of abiding by Wikipedia policies and guidelines. No one has yet pointed me to any official Wikipedia policy that forbids the link in question. My current plan is to wait until more voices chime in. Regards, Dick Clark 21:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Dear Golbez, I just wished to make the point that when you corrected an article you signed off with 'byebye vandal'

I would just like to say i agree completely with you and your attitude against vandals, and although i often use the nice warnings provided I like your style better!

Are you an administrator? If not, consider it! I would be happy to nominate and support you.

Cheers, Anthony

ITN Main Page candidate

Hi golbez. I posted a candidate "Three charged with 'racial hatred' for protest at Danish Embassy London." at 6am utc. please will you look at it and consider it for the main page. it's a fairly new story (the details of arrests/charged), so i'm keen for it to be seen whilst it's still fresh. ie. before people read it in today's papers. sorry if i seem impatient. this is all very exciting for me.Veej 07:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cheers mate! i know it's juvenile, but i was ecstatic when it appeared on the main page! Veej 22:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I see you have something to do with ITN. Yes, my proposal for World Intellectual Property Day was like Early Edition, Cheers, Gregorydavid 08:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External article/Aoi Sora

Hi Golbez.

Sorry to bother you, but this is with regards to the article I added and you subsequently deleted in the "external links" section to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_Aoi - the blog discussion itself serves to support the idea of whether the lady's bust is natural or not. Someone changed the definition of "Natural Bust" to "Yes", when it's highly disputed in internet circles; and therefore I thought it might be useful to add this discussion as a source to support the idea that, yes, it is disputed. Not that it matters, it's just a bust after all. I just thought I'd back up my decision to add the article.

EDIT: I just figured I could easily debate this in the "Discussion"-section. I'm sorry, I'm still new to all this.

Old Man Murray Talk page

Was the talk page really so inflammatory that it had to reverted and locked?

The answer is "no", by the way.

Fix needed at United States Congressional Delegations from South Carolina

Greetings. You made the original chart on United States Congressional Delegations from South Carolina back in 2004 -- great work by the way -- but there's a minor factual error. I wrote about it here. The table code is rather complex, so if you could help me out, I'd appreciate it. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 18:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Old Man Murray

I've unprotected Talk:Old Man Murray (Old Man Murray is still semi-protected for now). See WP:AN#Old Man Murray Discussion Page. Also, please try to be civil even when frustrated. Superm401 - Talk 06:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Adolf Hitler

Thanks for the revert here. Editing seems very popular amongst the otherwise silent, thanks again!PhilipPage 01:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

you're welcome

...that was a fun one. Amazing that some people don't know how easy it is to rollback all their vandalisms. Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 04:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anarcho-capitalism

Hey, User:RJII is currently banned from wikipedia. You may want to try working on anarcho-capitalism again? Thanks :) -- infinity0 17:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TC intro

Saw your edit summary comment [2]. I thought the long parenthetical clause in the first sentence (before I rewrote on March 16) was a problem for readability. Are you thinking there's now too much emphasis on structure in the first graf, or what are the problems that make you favor reverting? Is it that you think all the terms must go in the first sentence? -- DavidH 18:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Break up the first sentence maybe? I tried to create one elegant clause to describe the warm ocean, moist air, condensation, heat energy-driven development, but maybe it got away. -- DavidH 19:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NK map

Hi Golbez. Thanks for your work on improvement of the maps of Azerbaijan. I just would like to ask you why on the map of Nagorno-Karabakh the name of Shusha is given in Armenian spelling as Shushi? This town had an Azeri population, and now is mostly on ruins and uninhabited. According to the practice adopted by the international organizations they use the names officially established by the government of Azerbaijan, as this territory is internationally recognized as part of that country, or use the names that existed before the conflict. I think that the name of Shusha should be corrected. Regards, Grandmaster 19:52, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If it shows the things from an Armenian perspective, I think it should have an explanation underneath the picture. Grandmaster 10:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for page protection

Hey Golbez,

Would you be able to please protect the Iranian peoples page? There's a full-scale revert war going on right now, I already added a request at WP:RPP. Thanks. --Khoikhoi 06:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zacarias Moussaoui

I've updated Zacarias Moussaoui with a statement about his testimony today. Sorry about nominating it for a news candidate without checking first; frankly, I'm baffled why no one else has edited it so far. I figured it would be updated if not in the middle of a revert war! --Saforrest 00:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Page protection of Privatization

Hi, I filed a complaint on the notice board about User Rd232 who has violated the page Privatization protection of that page by editing out a section. Could you look into this? Thanks. --Northmeister 00:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you read my comment on Talk:Privatization before reverting me. And see my remark on WP:ANI re Northmeister's request. Rd232 ^talk 04:24, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:IAR. It doesn't - in anything like its present form - belong in the article, period. Rd232 ^talk 04:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another request

Hi Golbez,

Would you please be able to semi-protect the Armenian Genocide page? Some anon continues to remove images and information - he/she was blocked for breaking the 3RR but simply changed their IP and continued. On the talk page, all they have really been making is personal attacks by calling everyone "Turk-haters". I'd really appreciate it if you semi-protect the page for now. Thanks. --Khoikhoi 06:33, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

khojali map

hi, the map you offered is really good but I don't know how to edit it and show the region mentioned in the article. --Hattusili 23:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for adding the story I requested to the 'in the news' template. Chuck 03:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

revert on Mario

This is just a little note to say that I reverted your deletion of the Mario day section in Mario; a Google search on "mario day march 10" turned 15.1 million results, so I figured it was notable. Cheers, Nihiltres 03:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your Revert on History section of United States article

Hi Golbez,

Wow, that was a fast revert of my edit. Look, I understand the point of there being two articles, one on the United States and one on the History of the United States.

I have just finished an extensive restructuring of the following articles: Mexico, History of Mexico and Spanish Conquest of Mexico. It took me several hours of moving text around from one article to another and merging text where the same idea was said in different ways.

It would be fine if the United States article had a complete and good summary of U.S. history up to the present. However, it doesn't. It stops roughly at the Civil War and does a pretty poor job with the last half of the 19th century. There's nothing on the 20th century at all.

I propose to fix this by brining stuff over from the History of the United States article and doing the same restructure and merge exercise that I did with Mexico.

I understand that we don't need all of the text of the History of the United States article in the United States article. However, the easiest way to do that is to copy it all over and then delete parts during the cleanup process.

I know that temporary work should be done in a sandbox page. However, being a newbie, I don't know how to set one up.

Any suggestions or advice will be welcomed. (except for the one about the long walk off a short pier).

Richard 08:37, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Deletion review#List of songs in triple meter (1990-1999)

Hello Golbez, I've taken the liberty of delisting the above nomination well before the customary 10 or so days. I trust Splash's reply clarifies matters considerably. Regards —Encephalon 04:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez, I have emailed you about this, about Ankaram

But out of transpency, I thought that I should write it here and clarify a little more about this. The user Ankaram, is most certainly, and even certainly Sedat Laciner the professional Armenian genocide denier and very close to the Turkish government who has written a good deal of materials specifically aimed at linking the Armenians with anti-semitisn. The evidences are clear. First, the anonymous user who added on the anti-semitism article the links to the articles published by Laciner, and all the links from the Journal of Turkish Weekly, who Laciner is the chairman of. This was done in March 10, this anonymous user also added materials relating to Laciner organizations and affiliations, as well as edited the Armenian Genocide article with materials that Laciner has written himself. Not to forget also the fact that this same anonymous user has added a link in the Armenia article to his article and his journal. Here all this anonymous users contributions. [3]

While this anonymous user appeared in March 10, on March 11, the login Slaciner was created and he started contributing [4], on his user page, he rightly say who he is etc. He also created the page about himself. On 13:30 of April 1, 2006, he stop contributing with this acount, another account appear the same day, which is Ankaram and continue the work started with the alias Slaciner and his attempt to place his works links and his journal everywhere he can find. Right now of course after that anonymous edit of his on the Armenian Genocide article he has not edited there, but this is due to the fact that the article is now locked for new users.

I think it would be wise to have checkuser checked about the three, but since my last request about Tommiks, Karabeir and OttomanReference was refused, checkuser rules to checkuse seems to be either strict or either there seem to be selection on what members request will be accepted. If you think there are sufficiant misdowing, feel free to request a checkuser..., I think given this man works mission, his articles mission and the fact that he has contributed to Turkish government institutions such as the Institute of Armenian studies founded specifically to deny the Armenian genocide, it is a matter of time that under this new alias he has created(Ankaram), he will start disrupting Armenian related articles. It is like Zundel login an account in Wikipedia contributing in the article about himself and then, creating another account specifically to edit Jewish related articles. Also, while the links he has added under anonymouty to his newspaper have been left there, I think neither his newspaper is notable, neither it has the credibility to be used as a source for anything. This man consider Armenians to control the world public opinion and has written works with titles such as : "Armenian propaganda" etc. I wait your comments about this issue. Regards. Fad (ix) 21:48, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:199.217.32.2

Hello, Golbez, I posted this reply to your remarks at the talk page of the IP address (199.217.32.2) of the Academy School District 20:

"I attend Eagleview Middle School, a school within Academy District 20, and I wanted to inform you that I will be making active efforts to reduce Wikipedia vandalism from my school (specifically from the Computer Lab and Library Media Center, where most school computers are located). The district website contains contact addresses of all staff members and administration of the district. You may want to e-mail the superintendent or another administrator regarding this issue. A possible suggestion would be to filter all edit pages of Wikipedia."

Thanks for being concerned about this issue—I agree with your point of view on students editing. — Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 02:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another map assignment

Hi Golbez! I have an assignment for you, if you wish. It's quite easy. Could you "combine" the municipalities Tolga and Os (maps Image:Tolga kart.png and Image:Os i Hedmark kart.png) to create a locator map for Tolga-Os? And if you like, please combine Image:Nord-Fron kart.png and Image:Sør-Fron kart.png to create a map for Fron. Thanks in advance, Punkmorten 20:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC) It has been dealt with. Punkmorten 20:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hhah sorry boss, saw it on your talk page and seemed like a simple request (10 seconds in photoshop) so i just did it for him. I hope my work was half ok to you. Mike _{(T C)}

04:17, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POV

How is it POV is that's what the judges ruling the case decided? The artist used the same exact words that male artists used in singing their songs, only turned them around so they would have the opposite meaning. My understanding of the ruing was that the FCC acted rashly and in a manner discrimatory toward the artist simply because she was female and she used tha language in a feminist context--how moire blatant can you be? If you don't believe me, how would you suggest we include the "important facts" i.e. "free speech wins" into the article?? Sorry if I'm a little emotional,--Rockero 01:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My bad ese..no hard feelings...--Rockero 02:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bangladesh map

Hey, thanks for adding the map to bn:বাংলাদেশের বিভাগ. Looks fine. --Ragib 06:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oui

Yes I'm trying to make some point. Yes I repeat my address cause its hard, & I don't like checking the pages for replys. & if you can find the Perrinal Proposal relating to my comment you last replyed to, Requiring All Changes To Be Made With An Account, then please let me know, you kno my email [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNUL hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].

24.70.95.203 20:19, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requiring All Changes To Be Made With An Account

It seems like there's a LOT of Vandalism GOing Onn. Well, we could require all changes made to be made from a logged on Useraccount. Depending on the vandalism though, I acually don't know what the vandalism is like,[since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNUL hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up], but it must be made clear User Accounts have the option to be deleted, & after a certain period of time, they should be deleted; somepoeples personalities are like that they like to have things open ((open ended/no closure)).

Please reply.

Please leave one if you'd like more clarification on this issue. You could also contact me iooiioioo@hotmail.com [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNUL hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].

thanks

24.70.95.203 20:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Village pump (perennial proposals). You should have looked at it the last time I mentioned it to you. Also, why do you constantly repeat "your" email address and that screed about why you won't sign up? We saw it the first few times, we don't need to be reminded of it every time you make a comment, unless you're just trying to make some point. --Golbez 20:11, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we should require 24.70.95.203 to register before making any more edits. ;) -Will Beback 22:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I checked Perennial Proposals, but the thing thats' not there is the ability for the user accounts to be come deleted after a period of time, & the option to delete an account. 1 reason people do not sign up for an account is because a name they want has been taken. Another reason is because they want closure; if the person decides they no longer want to be associated with Wikimedia, they have no way to achieve that.

Please reply

24.70.95.203 15:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My Sympathies—You had done so well!

re: (Talk: United States) That's what I get for not confirming myself. *sigh* Four paragraphs. :P --Golbez 22:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

It could be worse. Good Try, and the right attitude. However, I've recently stumbled over the guideline: WP:BTW, which to me means adding an extra category or two that aren't strictly in the heirarchy on an article page, even when a sub-category is present is a good idea as it allows the user, not us editors to use wikiP more effectively. I think I would have just gone to add it with a note to that effect.

Best regards, FrankB 05:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hi Golbez, would you be able to do me an admin-favor? --Khoikhoi 01:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course! I was just trying to get you curious - I'd appreciate it if you could fully protect the Persian people page. It's already listed it on WP:RPP. Thanks. --Khoikhoi 01:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :) --Khoikhoi 01:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding 'Search Queries'

How not?

Please reply.

Thanks.

24.70.95.203 08:25, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for image

You say on your talk page that you do images of countries. Would you be willing to do the track circuit for Road American? It should be simple for you compared to a county. You can google to find an image of the track course. I tried and either I'm incapable, or I don't have the right software. Royalbroil 04:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's an example of the level of detail that I was thinking about:[5]. I don't know if the corner names should be included or not. I think that other racetracks don't include the names. Royalbroil 04:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Thanx for your reply. But the map is too small. I've made basic map using Corel Draw, and export it to PNG (to be maniputaled by Paint). But the map's line is not smooth. Could you give me advice, please? Wic2020^Talk 05:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not yours, but mine :=) Look at this maps i've made [6] and[7], it's not a pretty map, right (and it's not smooth)?! Could you upload the larger (more detailed) map, please? Beside map of regency division, I also want to make a locator map for Indonesian provinces. wic2020^talk 06:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Country subdivisions

Talk:Administrative division has a voting Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2005 AHS storm articles

Hey, it seems like the latest vote on this issue on 2005AHS is coming up in approval of the idea with a high proportion of support. As you are against this, I thought I would just tell you this (I am from the pro-article side) and ask how you feel about taking this dispute to mediation. At this time I prefer the informal option , primarily because this dispute covers a range of issues. Do you like this idea? Nilfanion 15:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates submission

No, I wasn't kidding. I guess you don't watch the news. -- llywrch 05:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wait a second -- do you mean that someone does not need to submit an article to Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates in order for it to appear in Current events? I added the incident this morning -- with sources (I would hope an article in Editor & Publisher supports a claim for inclusion) -- & found that my contribution was immediately removed & without comment. This is why I am upset at the moment. -- llywrch 05:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. Sorry I lost my temper. -- llywrch 19:23, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your cats

OK I am agree

Excuses Me

The actors with a well-known origin with the corresponding sub-category.

But in the category Category:Hispanic American actors has a actors without a origin category assigned.

Answer me:

New Orleans

What else you expect from me after udnoing my work twice? In wikipedia we are in a business of adding info, not deleting it. Before deleting something you have to make a good faith attempt to see if something is worth preserving. Google is your best friend. Wikipedia too. `'mikka (t) 19:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gaijin

There is no edit war going on on this page, but please continue to watch edits by User:Saintjust. While the rest of us are struggling to reach consensus (via a lengthy, minutely detailed, and ongoing debate on the talk page), this user is intermittently reverting to a long-ago version. What agreements we've come to on the talk page have been hard-fought for, and represent the consensus of those involved in the discussion. Saintjusts reverts ignore this. Meanwhile, the debate rages on. Exploding Boy 07:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

Hi Golbez. As you recommended, I started an RfC with regard to naming dispute over Nakhichevan here [8] I hope I did everything right, as I don’t have any experience in starting an RfC. You may wish to check it out. Any assistance will be appreciated. Regards, Grandmaster 07:08, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez. Could you please have a look at Nakhichevan talk page? Fadix and Co accuse me of pushing my POV just because I started an RfC to ask community’s opinion. In fact, it was you who recommended me to do so to prevent edit wars, I did not come up with idea. Thanks in advance. Grandmaster 07:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, read my answer over Nakhichevan, and read from that context again his 'Co' remark. Thanks. Fad (ix) 20:10, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My edit on User talk:Danny

I've taken the liberty of removing a section of Danny's talk page where you and two other editors seemed to be telling Danny how he is to do his job. This seemed inappropriate to me, given Danny's responsibilities, line of command, and the fact that he's in direct communication with Jimbo and (in the case of an action that needs to be taken) the complaining party. I hope you'll realise I'm not denying your right to express disquiet at something that worries you, but in this case the tone adopted seemed to be somewhat dictatorial and overbearing, and after a long day in the office talking on the phone to attorneys and whatnot to keep Wikipedia from being sued into the ground, this is not the kind of treatment that Danny deserves. --Tony Sidaway 20:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza alerts

Saw your edit. Anything specifically we can do to help? Just let us know. Cheer up. Don't let those vandals get to you. :-) --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 15:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hope your stress calms down. In the meantime, imagine yourself at this calming place. -- Nataly a 15:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Green rivers always tend to inspire questions of where the color came from, speaking for myself.

I noticed you mentioned too much vandalism fighting and not enough content editing. Tell me more, if you've got a minute. I'd offer to take off your hands any specific users or articles you'd been monitoring, but it looks like you've just been watching changes in general. I did see that you sometimes focus on hurricane season articles; if the frustration of trying to fix and clean up the larger ones gets to you, can I suggest taking some time off to work on one of the neglected, more focused articles, i.e. Hurricane Katrina effects by region? They don't tend to get as much attention from editors and vandals alike, so it's kind of a nice place to spend some time doing much-needed research, wikifying, cleanup, or whatever else. Anyway, just some ideas, drop me a line if I can help with anything. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa!-E@ 23:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hitler

Three is a huge discussion about the 12-year Reich on the talk page. See the end of it for the reason for the edit. As for the other changes, see the talk page on Over-linking. Drogo Underburrow 02:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

where are you?

Category:Wikipedians by number of edits Toby / Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pyramid Head

Sorry about the botched move - I didn't realize I was logged out, and I forgot about the move-button functionality that you get when logged in. Thanks for the tip though. :)

Your opinion on fair use

Recently, I have been making substantial improvements to the article on Hurricane Joan-Miriam. One place where it is lacking is pictures. Now, the NHC has a picture of a page from a newspaper available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_wallets/epacific/ep1988/miriam/news/mh1025p1.gif. Since it is from a newspaper I am of the opinion that it is copyrighted. What I am asking is would it qualify as fair use to upload that picture and use it in the article on Joan-Miriam, in either its current form or with the text (outside of the headlines) somehow blurred out or erased. I have not uploaded that image yet. I would like your opinion as to whether doing so would qualify as fair use. Thank you for answering my question and providing assistance to me. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 22:09, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have been considering adding that picture as it illustrates the publicity that the hurricane got. At least one other article, Hurricane Agnes, also has a newspaper photo in it. Thanks again. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 22:59, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Something Awful

Seems like there is a user that registered just to AfD everything SA he can. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:RabinicLawyer and Something Awful related articles --waffle iron ^talk 23:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ante Starcevic

Thank you for protecting the Ante Starcevic article. Sadly, you protected it at the moment it was vandalized by a user into a heavily POV version. If you could just revert it back, not to the Purger version, that one's POV too, but rather to the friendly edit of Mostssa. Thank you :-) --serbiana - talk 04:56, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Qatar map

The exact borderline that I have drawn is copied from the World Gazetteer's map, as I indicated at commons:Image:Baladiyat Qatar.png before it got deleted.

The baladiyah status of Mesaieed (aka Umm Sa'id) is indicated by such sources as CIA World Factbook and some Qatari government report of 2004, the latter picked semi-randomly using Google.

Regarding mentioning the GDFL license: I've been planning to replace your image with mine, instead of uploading it under a new name, but the system did not let me do this.

If you update your pictures (there are 10 of them, as far as I can tell) and delete mine, that's fine. --tyomitch 09:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tobias Conradi (arbitration)

I have written an extensive Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Tobias Conradi. Originally, I'd thought the panel would be more interested in content issues, but early indications are they prefer inter-personnal conflict, and I've recast the request in that form. Note, I just discovered Conradi has been banned at de. Had my RfC been taken more seriously 4 months ago, this problem could have been nipped in the bud.

--William Allen Simpson 16:06, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheap brains

Do you really think I do give a @ss damn!? If I am banned!?

>x<ino 07:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Xino + RfC

Based on Xino's conduct here, and in previous disputes, I've placed a request for comment on this argument. I'd appreciate it if you would provide a statement for it, or better yet, endorse it so the request can proceed. I believe his conduct has been poor enough to warrant this kind of action, particularly in earlier (and ongoing) disputes - I'd really appreciate your help with this. RandyWang 12:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help - it's really appreciated. :) RandyWang 13:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yokosuka

Did you read the link I provided!? Yokosuka is a bank, and Yokosuka is a place in the game.

>x<ino 17:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why shouldn't the link be gone, when someone removed it (rolls eyes). Might be Wanka:P

>x<ino 18:03, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of (again) insulting another editor, maybe you could give me the link? Trust me...you are really wanting a flaming from me, believe me! Do you even know what an insult is? Most of you wiki's are hot headed, just like that other idiot kid RandyWang. Saying me using the word "owned, is an isult":/ maybe you could give me the link?Why should I give you the damn link!? You got hands & legs! Do it yourself! Research it, go to the History page! You go on, acting as if, the Timex thing is wrong, I am wrong! If I am, why don't you just revert me:/

You fools stll don't know what I am trying to prove...don't worry, it will come to you, when the time comes!

>x<ino 18:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I an't interested in those words! I am only interested in "ass/@ss">:-]

>x<ino 18:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brophy

Someone has requested (rather, er, abrasively) that this article be unprotected. I wanted to give you a chance to respond to the request, or just let me know whether you think it should be unprotected or not. The tenor of the person who requested it be unprotected was not encouraging, but you never know. · Ka t efan0 ^(scribble)/poll 00:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Gaston

A long time ago I uploaded a bunch of images to the Hurricane Gaston article from this website and thought it was the work of a US Government agency. But then checking the site again I realized that the photos are supposed be used with an attribution, but which attribution licence should I choose? 1.0, 2.0 or 2.5. Please respond if you see this message. Storm05 16:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, their policy states that anything on their website is public domain. So is this fair use? Storm05 16:25, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your insight

Thank you for your thoughts and insight regarding yesterday's issue. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

*&^%#***^%$#F@

Golbez. I have no idea what your problem is, but I'd suggest you get a life. I will revert the Southeastern United States to the version I had. If I have to report you I will. --Bookofsecrets 11:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted it to the work I did on it. I did not leave any states out. --Bookofsecrets 11:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I posted a reply on my talkpage about my willing to leave the archiving of this articles talkpage alone. Now I expect you to leave the update version of the article alone. Neither of us own the article. It needed drastically to be updating to modern standards. I've left the Southern States article alone etc. You are being an editing Nazi, sir. --Bookofsecrets 11:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of us own the articleIf either of you own it...then I OWN IT >8-]

>x<ino 13:08, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

US demographics

The summary article is inaccurate and misleading. To say that the white population is 81 percent without saying what groups they count is EXTREMELY misleading. Not all people are going to read into the main US demographics article and they are going to go and think that the US is 81 percent European. Even the US census bureau says that most Americans do not think hispanics are European and should not be counted. The edits I made are 100 percent necessary and the demographics is still a summary and remains small.

Jerry Jones 19:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bush family

Actually, I'm working on an article for the Walker family, as I don't want to discuss all the Walker connections on the Bush family page. I've been researching and correcting articles in prep for that. But it prompted me to fix the omission of important spouses (that family tree was just copied and haphazardly expanded from a list page). What was even weirder was that this made me notice that Dorothy Walker Bush wasn't explicitly included in the George Herbert Walker article! --Dhartung | Talk 07:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Religion of Peace

Since the article Religion of Peace has been recreated, I've created another AfD. Is it warranted, that User:Andjam called it a "second nomination"? Raphael1 18:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please do the Wikipedia:Deletion_review#History_only_undeletion I've requested. It would be great to have it before the current AfD gets closed. Raphael1 12:10, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Car accident

Jeez! I can't believe I missed that. Thanks for restoring the vandalised bit. Cheers, Asterion ^{talk to me} 20:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United States semi-protection

It looks like you semi-protected United States a little over a week ago. Would you mind if I removed the protection? — Knowledge Seeker দ 22:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will defer to your judgment in this matter. — Knowledge Seeker দ 21:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

homophobes

my bad sorry, i mustve just assumed and not read the tag Qrc2006 19:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is your problem?

Metal Gear was ported to Dreamcast. Do some research and you'll know that only three playstation games were ported to dreamcast by Bleem!. Okay? Next time, do some research, think twice, and review your brain's contents before doing something like that. The fact that you gave a description for your revert saying things you don't know makes me angry. Please don't do that.

Is that so, yeah, is that so?

Talk about unofficial. Look at all the cameos included in the article. If those go in, this would, too. Besides, the Bleem port can't be too unofficial. You don't see Konami blaming Bleem for making Bleem! Metal Gear Solid, do you? Oh, and Mario Brothers on playstation is just what you think. Don't compare a car with a fruit. Mario Brothers was CLEARLY meant for Nintendo and the like. Where does it say that Metal Gear Solid is Dreamcast-restricted?

Alright, alright, no more

I see what ya sayin. But you see, I only added Bleem! Metal Gear Solid, because it is official enough. It appeared on some cheat sites and was considered an official released game in some other sites. Don't ask for these sites, as I don't remember. Doing research will be big help.

Toto, we're not in Kansas (Territory) anymore!

Loved the nature of your question. I'm glad I'm not the only one who would be driven batty by a discrepancy like that! --Myke Cuthbert 04:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Geolinks-US-cityscale

Thought I'd come and annoy you with this as you appear to have been one of the last two people editing the template. Why does it give the location as "E" and not "W" in the headers such as Big Flats Airport, New York? A look at the history of the template seems to indicate that it's always been like that so I didn't want to change it but Canada is west of the Prime Meridian and I thought the US was too. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to mention that its only the viewing of it that is wrong. The actual maps that it links to are correct. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Glad I didn't change it. A comment on the talk page might be a good idea in case someone else is tempted. I did see the "-" but that's standard for W of Greenwich. It makes for odd looking articles such as Washington, D.C. which has E at the top and W in the box. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit confused, is there an simple explanation as to why it didn't work. I notice that if you use the {[Coor title d}} by itself in an article then you can put "W" and get the correct map. Sorry about this but it's bugging me now that I've seen it. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is frustrating when I tried it earlier using the preview I got the link to come out here and now when I put it in I get this instead which is not the same. Sorry, I can't think what I did before. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article formatting

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,

As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.

Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexible, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 3. Storm histories can be longer than three paragraphs, though they should be less than five. Anything more becomes excessive. Remember, all storm impacts, preparations, and records can go elsewhere. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}} formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.

Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Hurricanehink (talk) 19:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

central australia

wow id never heard of it before, the things you learn on wikipedia! I could update the image but since you said you are working on one, maybe ill leave it without then there can be 2 versions that can be compared? --Astrokey44 06:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"New Zealand rugby union side"

New Zealand rugby union side means: A rugby union team based in New Zealand. --Hamedog_Talk|^@ 09:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Andrew...

After reading your user page and realizing how much we have in common I thought I might stop by and say a few words of hello. Actually we have so much in common going by the info on your user page that i should probably save most of this for an email. Anyway I am currently looking for an offline PHP editor that will allow me to do edits on a laptop while traveling on the train, bus and you got it subway. DC is a nice place and that is all I will say for now hope you don't take anything personally about my suggestions for more fairness to innocent users. I'm coming in this regard from my extensive knowledgeable of actions resulting from rules derived from natural (or artificial) neural networks. Nothing personal. ...IMHO (Talk) 20:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yo!

Yo! Hey, I'm new here. Golbez jr. 22:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I see that you agree with User:Bwithh in your objection for the United States article nomination, but now that some of his objections regarding the mentioning of some topics are solved, I would like to see you change your objection.--Ryz05 _t 13:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald. Sorry if the newsletter breaks your talk page formatting.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity

Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.

New and improved articles

New storm articles include: Typhoon Joan (1970), Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Tropical Storm Matthew (2004), Storm of October 1804, Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.

New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.

New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)

Articles which became A/GA class: Hurricane Katrina (A), Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans (A), Hurricane Felix (1995) (GA), Cyclone Percy (A), Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (A), List of New Jersey hurricanes (A), Hurricane John (1994) (A), Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003) (GA)

New articles and improvements wanted

An article is requested on subtropical ridge
The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
The WikiProject is likely to submit Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina to Featured Article Candidates in the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.

Member of the month

This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

2005 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 1.
Hurricane Floyd will appear on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
Entries from Dvorak technique, Typhoon Joan (1970), Typhoon Chanchu (2006), and Storm of October 1804 appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
Entries from 5 other articles relating to tropical cyclones had appeared in the Did you know column earlier in 2006.

Storm article statistics

Grade	April	May	June
FA	7	7	10
A	4	5	7
GA	0	3	5
B	62	66	82
Start	154	177	168
Stub	13	12	10
Total	240	263	282
percentage ≥Less than B	69.6	71.6	63.1

The assessment scale

The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
- FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
- A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
- GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
- B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
- Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
- Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

Tiffany Holiday

She had about 100 films, pls restore it. see: Wikipedia:Notability (pornographic actors). --Haham hanuka 14:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article DOES MENTION IT. (In the infobox films). Please restore it. --Haham hanuka 20:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to delete it you can use AfD, this is not for speedy deletion --Haham hanuka 20:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

You reverted my changes to the article on Adolf Hitler! My history professor told me those little facts! Please don't do that again! User:Icarus999

Serial spammer?

You accuse me of being a spammer but you have your own referral link for Meatholes on your page, I wonder what Wiki will say about that?

Not expessing correct POV? Is it possible?

Everybody has a point of view. If I see an error, I am trying to correct it. This is my point of view (POV). There is nothing wrong with this, is it? For example, it is well known fact that Albanian Church was founded by Gregory the Illuminator who was also the founder and patron saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Do you disagree with this well-known historical fact? 68.183.5.165 09:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. In the article it was wrongly stated that "Under the Arabs, the Albanian church was subordinated to the Armenian Church...". which is simply not true. 68.183.5.165 09:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About "ignoring reality"

This is another example of nonsense. It's true that Azerbaijan was recognised within the territory, which it does not control. In my opinion, this is contradiction. (Nobody is perfect, including UN... If international law ould becontradicts with its own statements, it should be noted accordingly.) 68.183.5.165 09:39, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another false statement

The Azerbaijani community is led by Nizami Bakhmanov, the head of the executive power of Shusha region.

Nizami Bakhmanov cannot be considered as a leader simply because he was never elected by Azeri community, but was simple appointed by the soviet authorities as executive power of Shusha region, representing 20% of the population of Karabakh at that time. Azeri population of Karabakh was a really small community and it was never orginized and represented. Currently this community does not even exist as a community. 68.183.5.165 09:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United States article nomination

Your recent change of vote to objection because of the readdition of the table and then accusing the article of being unstable is unfounded, because there was never a majority concensus to remove it in the first place. I recommend you change it back to support or offer a different explanation. Thank you.--Ryz05 _t 04:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. Thank you for the response but I hope you will change it back to support.--Ryz05 _t 04:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Largest cities table had been taken out with note marks, so I like to ask you to change your vote back to support. Thank you.--Ryz05 _t 17:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter if the switchings would look "mercenary," as long as you made a good choice.--Ryz05 _t 17:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tiffany Holiday

restore it and i'll cite it. --Haham hanuka 14:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for your message. I definitely did not, at any time go to that page. I have no idea who did but it was not from my comupter. 81.131.77.243 20:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So you're not the one that reverted back to an edit of the Charlotte page that had a major deletion in the introductory paragragh, thereby supporting the vandalism of the previous editor? I read that you saw my revertion back to the full and factual intro paragraph as a 'less than cordial edit'. But then your revertion back to the edition that deleted all of the facts about Charlotte and its fortune 500 companies and booming development and growth was a proper one? And you claim to have spend time in the Charlotte area?

I am indeed a Charlottean, have been in the University City area for the past 6 years. I apologize if I did falsely accuse you, I'm not trying to make enemies. I was just upset when I made the edit with all of that info and someone just deleted everything that I typed. And sorry for the language I used, that was inappropriate.

United States

There was discussion to why the the American Civil War wasn't mentioned in the intro becasue of it's major impact on the US. It caused one editor to oppose the article for FA. Also there is mention of the Revolutionary War and World War I and II in the intro. The Civil War is just as important as all three of these wars and deserves to be mentioned in the intro. RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 03:50, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Put in two sentences. If you find problems with it don't delete it but reduce it. That is as little as I could write. RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 04:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

You are still an admin? They haven't de-admined you yet? Interesting.--User:Lord_Chess

Vaucous

No problem. Wallie 18:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

list of articles you created

Hi - I assume you're OK with the list being public. You were simply the last one who asked for one. I guess it might have been good to ask you first, but it is in a sense public knowledge. In any event, sorry if this irked you in any way. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pit

I see you've moved the Pit (Kid Icarus) article to Pit (Nintendo). Was there any specific reason? It seems to be the conventional way to name articles about video game characters - such as Link (Legend of Zelda) rather than Link (Nintendo) - and is more precise.

Also, I find it strange that this move was not discussed on the talk page and marked as minor, as Wikipedia:Requested moves clearly stresses that requested moves should be proposed and discussed as part of Wikipedia's procedure. Guermantes 21:00, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, cool. You didn't have to just move it back; I just wanted to know why one was preferred over the other. (And it did seem kinda shady, hehehe. Sorry for sounding so accusatory!) Guermantes 21:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Touth

look golbez i am just trying to improve the mario article i repeat I AM JUST TRYING TO IMPROVE THE MARIO ARTICLE OK?

Touth

i was not calling you lot vandals. a user named bugeater vandalized the mario article that is why i reverted it! and by the way i have talked about that stupid mario image at the discussion page but they are just ignoring me.Touth 05:59, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zarqawi on ITN

We (and the real media) had this in headlines like 5 times. Shouldn't we wait until they're sure this time?--Pharos 07:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall this "like 5 times". I don't recall it ever being confirmed by the PM of Iraq til this time. --Golbez 07:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it has been on ITN "like 5 times" before. It may be true this time, but I still think we should wait for full confirmation.--Pharos 07:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I actually looked through the edit summaries since last year, and counted one false death notice in November 2005, and a rather dubious caught-and-released notice just the next month, so you'll excuse me if got a little annoyed by the frequency then. I'm pretty sure I remember other similar notices too, that might not have had "Zarqawi" in the edit summary. Anyway, this is now looking more credible, so please excuse me while I turn on CNN.--Pharos 07:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For noticing that a new comprehensive lead at Mario (that lived for only 8 minutes before it was dubbed vandalism by another Wikipedian, and reverted) was not actually vandalism, and subsequently reverting the reversion. Bugmuncher 03:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Japanese female porn stars nominated for deletion

Hi, Golbez. You've edited at a related article, so I thought you might want to know, List of Japanese female porn stars has been nominated for deletion. Maybe you'd like to contribute to the discussion? -- Dekkappai 03:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your honest reply, Golbez.

Probably what you saw when you came to the article was the cut-down blue-link list, which, yes, was nothing more than a category, and then deleted. So, I can see your point now, and I apologize if I seemed abrupt in replying to your reasoning. Yes, a list that does nothing more than a category is useless.

However, as the list had existed for (I am guessing) over a year, it was an extensive red-link list with a few blue. The many red-links were being used as justification for deleting the list. But they were easily removed, as I did, by simply taking out the link, but leaving the name for informational purposes. They could then later be linked if an article was created. In editing the list last night, I noticed several of the red-links actually did have pre-existing articles, but they were mis-linked. This could have been fixed rather than deleting the article. Also, the demand for verifiability could easily be taken care of without deleting the article. And, certainly, I believe some of the names on this unwieldly list will prove unverifiable, and should be removed. However, the sources used for claiming the names were "non-notable" are American. Reminder: This is a list of Japanese actresses.

I really don't see a problem with putting the name on a list, if that name is verifiable. Whether the name deserves a stand-alone article is subject to more demanding criteria, of course.

The user who deleted this list is now picking off individual articles (Kyoko Aizome is his current project) and she's, apparently, even appeared in American videos. God help those who stay in Japan! Dekkappai 16:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naming convention for Algerian wilayas

We are having a debate about the naming convention we shall use for Algerian wilayas. Thanks for gibing you opinion.--Revas 08:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pjbmp2Avi

I disagree with your decision to delete this article. The title may express what the program does, but the stub told what the program's purpose was regardless of the title. In other words, I didn't just rephrase the title but started a genuine stub over a significant computer program. Your thoughts? Ben Tibbetts 02:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I completely understand; I should have made more of an effort to establish such notability in the stub. Thank you for your work. Ben Tibbetts 22:40, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disputes about Image:Nagorno-Karabakh regions named english.png

Hi Golbez,

You might want to have a look at this and this. There appears to be some sort of dispute out of the map that you made. —Khoikhoi 05:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. You might want to check out these edits as well. Perhaps you could explain to this guy what NPOV means? I tried, but to no avail. —Khoikhoi 17:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, so what happened? The map is still the same. I realize you are swamped with administrative duties, but any idea on when you can implement changes to the map? --AdilBaguirov 06:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a bigger version of Image:Azerbaijan districts numbered.png?

Hey Golbez,

Just asking if you have a bigger version of this map: Image:Azerbaijan districts numbered.png.

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Clevelander 12:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That'll work! Thanks! -- Clevelander 18:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Atlantic hurricane season

About the 2006 season, when I typed that Tropical Depression One may become a tropical storm, and could receive the name Alberto, but when you stated that another system might pop up and receive the name before One can, do you have any evidence another system could get Alberto before one. And also can you back it up so there is no confusion. Thank you. Alastor Moody 23:42, June 10 2006 (UTC)

No, no, no! I am saying that if you have evidence that another system is going to form. Right now, we are discussing about Tropical Depression One turning into a tropical storm, not about any other system. Alastor Moody 00:05, June 11 2006 (UTC)

Okay, but as so far as the hurricane season is on progress, there is no other systems yet to form in the Atlantic season. I understand what you mean that another season could form, but currently, this scenario is unlikely to happen. And also, other uses also think that Tropical Depression One can be named Alberto, even the latest NHC forecasts say that. Alastor Moody 00:21, June 11 2006 (UTC)

Re: 2004 EPAC

Yea sure, it was bugging me too :) Hurricanehink (talk) 12:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical Storm Alberto

Just thought you should know that Alberto is pretty close to becoming a hurricane, so I reverted it to its own article. Blueboy96 16:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hello, Golbez/Archive 2, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! - Kukini 05:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez

you both were too fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Biruaca&oldid=58602638
I think I made a good friend from Sweden now. :-) We have settled it.
best regards to you Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Obnoxious editors, one an admin

User:LGagnon and User:Alienus (who is an admin) are engaged in an extreme campaign to discredit objectivism, violating wikipedia policies. LGagnon has deleted others' comments on the talk page [9], and labeled everyone who disagrees with him a "Randroid" or "Randist", even though most people on the talk page aren't "Randists". They want to strip any reference to Rand being a philosopher, despite numerous sources saying so (and the low threshold for stating this, given that someone being a "philosopher" doesn't bias anyone much in favor of their views). They also want objectivism listed as a cult, despite no reputable cult references claiming so; all they have is that people who oppose her call her movement a cult. When it's explained that objectivists aren't cohesive, LGagnon changes the subject and claims that because of their ideas, they're a cult [10]. Please review the Talk:Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand) page's last few topics. MrVoluntarist 03:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Ohura circumference

If her circumference were in fact larger than her height, that would be astounding, no citation required to anyone who can do a basic ratio comparison to any busty model. My conclusion may be based on ignorance of Japanese metric body measurements. In her measurements of T157cm B100(I) W58 H88, the B, W, & H seem the same as American measurements. What's T? Ghosts&empties 13:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

arab subdivisions

I am working a little on arab subdivisons. Some moved things in Lebanon, now they got comma from me. If you want to do it to brackets, go for it. I could not since there where allready redirects. Also found new collisions when translating some of the "al mintaqah XY" to "XY Region". I dabbed with brackets. Additional collisions occured when changing Northern etc. to Ash Shamaliyah etc. The treating of compass direction is not consistent. Not sure what is better, to translate into english or not to translate. I think I prefer not to translate and stick to arab names. Could you move Al Bahr al Ahmar (Egypt) to Al Bahr al Ahmar Governorate? A lot of them are now at X Governorate. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:00, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Introduction to Wikipedia

People just kind of figured it out due to my early additions from the HPC tropical cyclone rainfall climatology. There aren't many meteorologists in this project (that I'm aware of), so I purposely didn't make a big splash when I initially started making edits on here back in January. I think it might be worthwhile if more mets took on some of these pages; I think you'll find they'll take a while to warm up on here as well. Thegreatdr 20:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In looking for information regarding tropical cyclones for an international version of the rainfall climatology using google, I started running across the wikipedia pages which showed up highly due to the hit count. Curious, I checked out if anyone had used any of the information from our rainfall pages, which they had not. I started adding the rainfall graphics to relevant wikipedia pages, which started my contributions to this project. When I have a little free time at home, I add things here and there. Thegreatdr 20:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moldavia

Thank you for moving the page. TSO1D 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citation tags

You remove things from articles if you think they are false/wrong. You add a citation tag if you think it needs a citation. re: Dark Ages. -- Stbalbach 20:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congressional Articles for Improvement

Hi. I noticed that you were a memeber of ProjectCongress and I was wondering if you had an interest in being an active member in the improvement drive. It's been dead for a few weeks, but I'm attempting to gather around ten people to help on it. It seems kind of hard to improve an article single handedly but with that many people working on it it should be doable. If it returns there would probably be some structural changes (time period, only one article during it), are you interested? I know that you're busy in other parts of the project but with your support and nominations we can also direct our interests toward the articles you're interested in. TonyJoe 22:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a blank version of Image:Nagorno-Karabakh regions named english.png?

Just wondering if you have a blank version of this with the Shahumian border. Thanks! -- Clevelander 23:08, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grounds for mediation?

Before I had asked you what to do about User:Alienus for his abusive comments. You suggested mediation, but the description for the purpose of mediation doesn't seem appropriate. I'm not trying to "reach consensus" on anything; he's antagonizing users, and any admin can see this at a glance. Just look at his comments on this one page: [11]. He basically says everyone who doesn't agree with him must be an Objectivist, and if they deny it, he'll pry and ask if they're Libertarians, then make smug remarks about how they must be fellow travelers. I thought we were supposed to go straight to admins about this abuse. MrVoluntarist 19:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for informing me about wp:ani. If you had done that the first time, rather than just telling me about mediation, I wouldn't have asked you for help again, you wouldn't have falsely accused me of fishing for a sympathetic admin (you're the only uninvolved one I know), and then you wouldn't have to lecture me about proper procedure after having failed to answer my question the first time around. Better late than never I guess. MrVoluntarist 19:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia

Hey! I noticed you've contributed to Ethiopia-related articles in the past and figured you'd be interested in this. It's about two weeks old now, but we still need more contributors. Hope to see you help out! — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 03:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding maps, you should see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia/Geography and its talk page. It's a big task but someone needs to a make a map with all the Zones and/or Woredas (I'm still not sure what the map Llywrch is referring to, though). — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 03:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brian_G._Wilson

I thought I'd seen it all... that is one special talk-page. ---J.S (t|c) 20:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nakhichevan

Hey Golbez, Clevelander here,

I'm having trouble with Adil over the Nakhichevan article, specfically a section he wants to submit that he believes proves that the Armenians destroyed their own khachkars in Nakhichevan. See here and for our more recent discussion here. A little background; due to an ongoing dispute, chiefly between Grandmaster and Fadix over how many Armenians Shah Abbas deported from Nakhichevan in 1604, the Nakhichevan article was closed, at my recommendation. Before that, the dispute seemed as though it would never end. Because of this, as I became involved in the khachkars dispute with Adil, I conceded basically because I didn't want to start another lengthy Armenian-Azeri dispute. Since the article has been closed, I've been able to work out the Shah Abbas issue with Grandmaster. However, the khachkars dispute with Adil resurfaced. If you can help that'd be great. -- Clevelander 20:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Nakhichevan Map

Golbez, I completely forgot about crediting you, and I'm really, really sorry. If I make a similar map, I'll remember to give you proper credit next time. Again, I sincerely apologize. Regards, Clevelander 11:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warning: POV statement, You are an awful administrator

Why don't you get a life and stop appeasing Mengele and Hitler?

Pistolpierre 11:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFPP

I'm responsible for the confusion on WP:RFPP. I got rid of the Gang Star request because it wasn't serious, and the vandal's blog had "Wikipedia sucks" in the url. Sorry for confusion. -- Steel 22:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Spam

I was just inviting you to a website I made! Tcatron565 01:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jabrayil

Hey Golbez, is there an Armenian name for Jabrayil? -- Clevelander 22:47, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Karabakh for current events

I've nominated a news note from today on Karabakh for the current events section. Tell me what you think. -- Clevelander 00:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Moon

Just a note that I'll have to politely disagree with your revert of my restoration of the deleted comments on Talk:Moon, but given the overall insignificance of the comments, I won't press the issue and have left the page as is. I just feel it is generally best to encourage people not to delete anything from talk pages, because it can provide a very useful record for other editors who might be confused just by looking at the edit history in determining what happened. (Granted, the record is still there in the talk page edit history, but very obscured). I just wouldn't want regret to become a valid reason for removing one's own statements from a talk page. Peyna 01:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Second Warning

Please let me know what specifically earned your "second warning."--Vaquero100 02:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Pistolpierre and The Treaty of Guarantee more copyvio?

I notice that you have had a run-in with User:Pistolpierre over his extensive quoting from Shirer. Could you please check the The Treaty of Guarantee page for copyvio as it is mostly attributed quotes from Shirer with a short heading and some interspersed statements. Thanks Dabbler 03:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map making

Hi Golbez,

The uploading of a picture over it doesn't work anymore. It did work a few weeks ago. A solution could be to delete the picture and to create a completely new one afterwards.

I don't know how to change the colour of a text. I have searched throughout Wikipedia, but i was not able to find it.

Thanks for your help!--Daanschr 15:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It worked, but it took a while. The replacement of pictures has gone really slow.--Daanschr 20:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

		An Award
		Thank you for helping me write my Wikinews article on Eon8! —THIS IS MESSEDOCKER (TALK) 05:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great work

		An Award
		I would like to thank you and present you with this barnstar for your great job on the Nagorno-Karabakh article as a thorough, patient, and fair moderator and contributor. Please continue your good work.--TigranTheGreat 08:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2

The July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Armenian "Revolution"

Check out this entry. -- Clevelander 19:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that maybe you could voice your opinion on it. Anyway, I think, looking back, that I might have acted too hastily. -- Clevelander 19:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I was beginning to think myself. I really overdid and I apologize. I reverted all of my comments on the other user pages. Is there any possibility that you can completely delete my entry? -- Clevelander 20:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please. Thanks for understanding. I've just been really stressed out lately. Maybe I need a break from Wikiing. I don't know. --Clevelander 20:20, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, your attention is required

I will not start again accusing Grandmaster of POV pushing, even if I strongly believe he is doing this. But please pay attention to this discussion [12]. I will not waste my time on this, since discussing with Grandmaster from the beggining has been fruitless in my cases. When a position is contrary to his, it will not change a thing that dozens of materials published in peer reviewed publications are provided, he will strongly oppose to its inclusion, even as a position. See for instance what happened in the Nakhichevan article, in which I refrained doing anything, as it has become a total waste of my time. Grandmaster is comparing Bournoutian, who is a US accademician, with a Historian of the republic of Azerbaijan. Bournoutian is even used by such scholars as Justin McCarthy who is qualified as a revisionist, his attempt at the credibility of scholars by using their ethnicity has to be put to an end. He is now suggesting that Bournoutian may have fabricated official records and by doing this he is defaming the scholar in question, which is a crime.

I have provided materials about the 1823 official surveys, those of 1832 and those of 1836. The only materials about the resettlement of Armenians in Karabakh refers to 279 families, and not in Nagorno Karabakh but elsewhere in Karabakh(excluding the mountainous region), two specific area. He claims that I have done nothing other than citing Bournoutian, when Bournoutian research is the one mostly used in the literature of the last 20 years or so. Quoting other works would be simply using Bournoutian by proxy.

Saying I am tired, will be viewed as repetition, I am just reporting this to you insteed of starting to call him a POV pusher. I seriously believe that it is time that someone deal with the situation and explain him really what NPOV means. Regards. Fad (ix) 22:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your Message n the Discussion for NKOA

I am sorry, but I found your message to be very un helpful[[13]]. Firstly, please sign after you leave a comment. You should not be told about this and it is expected as a part of proper behaviour. As for any fight; I am not fighting with anyone nor have I ever attacked any other editor or editoes. Let me clarify that I have never engaged in any uncivil behaviour nor while I. Categorically I am not fighting with anyone; maybe I am being attacked by another user, but I am not engaging in any non-academic or uncivil arguments. Unfortunately you made a wrong judgment call, which was uncalled for. Can you tell me how you know are can assume that I dislike another user?

"GM, don't take his bait?" What are you trying to say. That does not seem like a neutral statement. Can you clarify on it, please!? What is the bait? Am I doing something wrong? There is surely something wrong and unbefitting in that type of conduct. Please reframe from such assumtions and ungrounded statments. Thank you. 69.196.164.190

I have responded, and I don't need to be warned TWICE now about an accident on my part. --Golbez 23:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, but I must tell you. It is my duty to warn you. Your response was also uncivil and it further deepened tha accusation against me. Promoting fighting is not a proper assesment of another users discussions nor is it civil. I will not discuss this further with you as I have reported this. Thank you. Regards. 69.196.164.190

I'm doing quite the opposite - I'm ending the fight. --Golbez 00:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What fight??? Who is fighting? Can you please tell me. Becuase if you are claiming I was fighting, then you are clearly making wrong accusations or assertions. Who was fighting? 69.196.164.190

The budding fight between you and GM. It ends. Period. If you want to accuse him of being uncivil, do it on his talk page, not on the N-K article talk page. --Golbez 01:11, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Budding fight!" That is speculation. There was no fight and I make it clear, becuase a fight takes aggresive action by both sides. I suggest you keep your comments to yourself and take your own advice. Your uncivil was not acceptable and I am glad you stopped after I warned you. I see no reason to continue this conversation as you are beginning to make absurd speculations. I hope you do not make the same mistake(s) again. Regards. 69.196.164.190

One more thing, I have noticed you helped act get the editing moving on that page. I am pleased with that. I did not want to give you a hard time, but uncivil behjaviour is not justified nor can it be with assumtions of budding fights. I am assuming it was unintentional, actually I am sure it was unintentional and I am overloooking it in good faith. No hard fellings from my side. Take care. 69.196.164.190

Golbez: see this thread on AN/I if you haven't already. --james _{// bornhj (talk)} 02:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

South Yemen map

Did you base this off my map? I looks very much like you did, but since it's shrunken a bit I cannot be 100% sure. If so, be advised you cannot release it into the public domain, I only licensed it GFDL/CC-BY, and you must give me credit. Please respond. --Golbez 04:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I assume you are talking about Image:Image-South Yemen governorates.png, but i went ahead and changed both that and Image:YAR-PDRY.PNG to GFDL/CC-BY. If there is any problem, go ahead and edit them respectively. --ThrashedParanoid ★ 04:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

US state/world map

Hi Golbez! just wondering if you could help with a small problem with Image:BlankMap-World-USA.png. There seems something not quite right about it, especially the northwest/midwest. Minnesota looks a little too wide, and Washington too squashed. I tried several times to get it but just couldnt get it to work. Perhaps you would be able to fix this? Regards, --Astrokey44 22:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It would help if there was a world map at the same projection with US states on it, most world maps i was looking at dont show the states. do you happen to know of one? --Astrokey44 02:50, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should say something; [14]

I think you should take a good long look at the editing history and the comments made next to the edits. I kept my distance, becuase of the nature of the edits, but I think you should say something on the notice board, because these edits/edit wars are systematic, calculated, and part of a grander scale of behaviour. 69.196.164.190

Armenian Revolution

Hey Golbez, sorry to bring this article up again, but the redirect for the Van Resistance page, Armenian Revolution is causing quite a stir amongst Armenian Wikipedians. Indeed, as I told you earlier the article needs work and this is one of the main obtacles that we need to overcome in order to clean things up. I was just wondering if you could possibly remove this redirect completely from Wikipedia. I also would like the redirect Van Uprising removed as well. Thank you. Regards, Clevelander 23:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I never did hear back from you on this. What do you think? -- Clevelander 01:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez? Are you there? -- Clevelander 18:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to thank you

You know as an anon; I don't always get respect or fair treatment, which is understandable but that does not make it right. Maybe that it why I really appreciated your statments on the NK talk page. I could be wrong, but the term "Mister IP" was very positve. I also am sorry, if for whatever reason you think I might have given you a hard time. Thank you for your moderation and most of all thank you for your morals, principle, and values. Honour is the source of good faith. 69.196.164.190

ITN

Hey there, Golbez. Thought I'd give you and a few other regulars a heads up about this straw poll which concerns a possible name change for "In the news." Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. The Tom 00:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Metro and your questions

Well, let's see...

Regarding your question about the choice between center platform and side platform stations, I don't know. Every theory I've heard about how what became what gets broken somewhere. The number-of-entrances theory you suggested is broken by a LOT of stations, as I can think of quite a few center-platform stations with two entrances, and quite a few side-platform stations with one entrance. I've also been told at one point that center platform stations are deep-bored while side platform ones are cut/cover. I know a few center platform stations (Union Station comes to mind) that break this rule.

The only stations that I know the reasoning about the platform configuration for certain are Rosslyn and Pentagon, where they were designed as bi-level stations due to the junctions at those locations to avoid an at-grade crossing.

As for the Maryland stations, particularly along the A Route, I think it had to do with the way the rock was at those locations, since those stations are deep-bored.

Also, as a side-note, the only station name that I outright reject is "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport", due to the way Metro was arm-twisted into renaming it at their own expense. The other name changes, I don't mind so much. One look at my site, where all the names are current except for National Airport, confirms that. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Shallow stations, I think Anacostia is even shallower than Union Station and Farragut West. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moderation for Nagorno-Karabakh

Golbez, if you leave, you will essentially let the POV-pushers win. Please do not let them get what they want. You have done a fine job as a mediator so far, you can make a major difference. I earnestly urge you not to leave.--TigranTheGreat 04:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I second. Fad (ix) 22:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I third that opinion. 69.196.164.190

I want to report this Behaviour

I merely point something out on the discussion page and user:AdilBaguirov attacks me and my nationality. He then insults my country men as shown here [[15]]. His behaviour is totally uncalled for and he has been warned in the past. 69.196.164.190

You can see his comments here [[16]]

What does this statment have to do with anything and why does he bring up Iran? He writes to me on the talk page, "International NGOs protest far more against Iran and its treatment of minorities of Iran, should I provide a few links about that?" It is obviously an attack, because he is biased to the point of blindness, where he beleives just because I cited a relavent source about the treatment of Prisoners in the Republic of Azarbaijan that refered to the TMR as a Republic and not an Autonomous Republic. I am not upset about him bring up the fact that NGOs cite Iran as breaching human rights, I am upset at him deliberately using this as an insult in a totally unrelated conversation. It was simply spiteful. And also not everyone is a blind nationalist to the point where the fabricate information like him.

He goes on to say, "Anyways, as I said, it is unclear what you tried to say or oppose with your above post, and how it dispoves even 1% of what I wrote."

And the most ironic part for someone who misrepresents the facts in a systematic manner, "Let's speak with facts and knowledge, not emotions and biases."

It is all on Talk:Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic. He has also been disruptive on other pages with myself and other users. I am really getting tired of his behaviour, along with user:Baku87, and GM. I don't think I can assume good faith with any of them and to be honest I don't think GM is on vacation, I think he is sockpoppeting and I have very good reasons to think so. 69.196.164.190

Careful. Golbez will probably respond by accusing you of fishing for a sympathetic admin like he did with me. Also, it will take a little back and forth with him before he gives you a useful answer. MrVoluntarist 13:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Long Island Sound Plane Crash

Help!, other useres are trying to delete my article but I objected saying that the plane crash is notable. Please vote keep on the vote page in order to save this article. Storm05 16:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unwanted canned meat products

Thanks for looking out for my talk page when I wasn't. /probell (Talk) 21:24, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My gratitude, apologies, and promises for the future

Golbez- I thank you sincerely for your (limited) trust in me. I would like to personally apologize for my attacks on you, and for the time and effort my past vandalism has caused you to have to extend.I will be didicated my time on wikipedia first and foremost to fighting determined vandals and trying to reach-out and convert ones open to a change of ways, and secondly to those articles of which I am of knowledge. I thank you once again and look forward to working possitively with you and others in the future.Betty Yves 03:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the news again

Hi Golbez,

I liked your version of the match fixing scandal snippet as use of the past tense for a previous event is correct, and avoids the issue we've been 'debating' so much of late! However, someone's changed it back to the present since then so if, by the time you read this, no one else has done so, please could you revert that part back to your own version? Cheers — SteveRwanda 10:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and just for the record "Italy win the World Cup" is completely correct in the UK while "Italy wins the World Cup" is wrong. It all comes down to the same issue dicussed before, namely that teams are always plural. And since the debate is only about what seems normal, rather than what's 'right' or 'wrong', I'm not sure that convention in itself was justification for the American Revolution, though I dare say you had other reasons as well :-) SteveRwanda 10:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NK Joy

I'd like your input on the current process. Read below Trial run. Particularly your input on the "incorporated" vs. "established"/"created" would be appreciated. The timeline is an interesting read :) - FrancisTyers · 12:58, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My information

Golbez,

The information I have compiled for Wikipedia has come from, believe it or not, the Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition PC Game. All of the information may sound strange, but I assure you it is completely legitimate information. But thank you for your concern. This is simply a friendly message assuring you of the info legitimacy. --Mr. Brain 23:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NK

Dear Golbez,

Both me and Francis strongly believe that your continued involvement on the NK page will greatly contribute to its quality, as it has before. Please do not let uncivil remarks by an editor keep you away from it--allowing that would undermine the very concept of integrity on Wikipedia. No single editor has the right to decide who enforces the Wikipedia policies on a page and who does not. Please continue your valuable participation on the page.--TigranTheGreat 21:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question about locator dots on maps

Hi - Have you noticed the question I posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Locator dots? I'd really like to hear from some of the map "regulars" about this. And if you have any ideas for other ways I might solicit responses, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:59, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking of 64.12.116.9.

Golbez, you blocked me in error. I am using AOL and am not in the process of vandalizing any article. In fact, i was cleaning up an article tagged for cleanup, Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Please take out this block on me.

Thanks, ToddC4176 16:00, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh

At tne incident board, you wrote "Your edits to that article are the first it has seen in *three weeks*; I see no reason this should be posted anywhere, let alone here, as it has nothing to do with admins. Maybe if there were an edit war going on, but by definition there isn't. I see, at best, a delayed content dispute."

Right now there is an edit war with someone tryign to add a conspiracy theory to Brett Kavanaugh with sources that are either debunked or an obscure biased FBI-COVERUP.COM. C56C 23:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NK Page.

Hi, Golbez. Sorry for bothering you regarding the NK page again. But remember the part about "NK needing two moderators to prevent POV pushing"? Given the renewed influx of POV pushers on the Talk page, I think it needs your involvement as well. Francis can't be left isolated, especially not while he is getting reverted right on the talk page. And especially not when he is getting threatened (such as here [17]). This is the second attempt to push out a moderator from the talk page, and that can't be tolerated. Thank you. --TigranTheGreat 06:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps??

The two maps you mention on your user page are now gone. What happened? I like your maps. :) Arx Fortis 03:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Van Uprising

That's fine. I just wanted to have the redirects Armenian Revolution and Van Uprising removed, that's all. -- Clevelander 22:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Clevelander 22:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could you remove Talk:Armenian Revolution and Talk:Van Uprising? Thanks! -- Clevelander 22:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On 2 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of the United States, 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.

--Peta 00:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Golbez. Congrats on Territorial evolution of the United States; it's an excellent article. —Cleared as filed. 01:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

I, EWS23, hereby award **Golbez** the *Epic Barnstar* for his exceptional work in researching, writing, and illustrating the Territorial evolution of the United States. Keep up the good work! 02:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Golbez! As I said to you on IRC, the Territorial evolution of the United States is an amazing article, and one you should be proud of. Because of this, it is my honor to award you the Epic Barnstar, which is awarded to editors who make particularly fine History-related contributions. (If you have a place where you keep these, feel free to change the title should the page-name change in the long run.) Congratulations! EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 02:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greatest articel ever! 68.39.174.238 03:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Territorial evolution of the United States

O! Nice, very nice :) gren グレン 15:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Thanks for correcting my error. It even states on the incorporated territory article the point which confused me:

The term "incorporated" in this sense does not refer to the act of creating a civil government entity (e.g. a city or a town).

As far as I can tell, the term insular area includes all incorporated territories anyway, maybe including Palmyra Atoll as well. Sorry to jump the gun there. —Twigboy 21:48, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And a thank you for the Canada article too. I created Category:Territorial evolution... for this type of article... tell me if you think that's a good categorization scheme for territorial evolution articles.. or if you'd change it. Thanks again. gren グレン 02:13, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Links

Your arguments and rationalizations are very weak. The rule where a person cannot add a link to his own site is totally unenforceable. Anyone can login as anonymous and add a link to his/her site. What are you doing about those links? How do you know if the person is or is not the owner of the external link's Web site? I have never tried to deny nor hide that it is my site.

If making money from my site means having a few Google ads which yield only a few dollars per month, then what about all those links to much more commercial sites? Corporate sites, official local government sites which include ads for local businesses, etc., etc. Are you gonna delete those links too? They are all making money from their sites. And much more than I do.

As for having my links on 50 pages, it goes to show how much content my site has for Japan. The vast majority of Japan-related articles are stubs, and viewers will never get much info out of them. My links lead to more pictures and information which Wikipedia will never be able to achieve for those stubs. Photojpn.org 06:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FYI - I see both sides of this and urge you to consider some sort of compromise. I've responded on Phil's talk page. Phil is a professional photographer, living in Japan. The 30 or so photographs he's previously uploaded (which he considers his "seconds") are some of the best images Wikipedia has of Japan. The Wikipedia:External links guidelines are only guidelines, and (as I argue on his talk page) I don't think what Phil is doing violates the spirit of these guidelines. I don't know, but I imagine he doesn't derive a significant amount of income from his website. Please add your comments on his talk page. -- Rick Block (talk) 19:01, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I noticed that you just deleted The Rio Carnival 2007 - Hold your heart on!. What was the criteria for the deletion? (I was a little confused by your delete log summary.) Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 04:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the nice response. Here's my problem (hope you excuse my strict read of CSD). Do we actually have a url for the copyvio? I do think it should be deleted, but I'm having my doubts about whether it meets CSD. alphaChimp ^laudare 04:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure it's a G4, though. G4 is only for articles deleted through the XfD process that are "substantially identical" to the original. (I actually got really messed up on this once.) If the previous versions were speedily deleted, it doesn't meet G4, only the previous CSD criteria (A7, I guess). alphaChimp ^laudare 05:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arkansas

Hi, with the territory article you undertook quite an undertaking and it looks awesome! For the Arkansas Territory map I based it on this website: [18] Fay2 06:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You've got a Thank you card!

Open your card!

Dear Andrew, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Dear Andy, this is the perfect opportunity to finally speak to one another after reading your words for months and months. I am sure that we'll be able to talk often, and trust me, it'd be my pleasure. Both your contributions and, most important your warm way to deal with others made me notice you long, long ago; and being supported by a person I look up to, like you, meant the world to me. I sincerely hope this is but the beginning of a friendship, and such thought fills me with joy. And btw, thank you so much for sharing your selection at the Wiki Soundtrack - we have much in common, we should get together and talk about music pretty soon! :) With a big hug, your friend,

Phaedriel ♥ tell me

DYK

On 6 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of Canada, 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.

		Barnstar
		Nice job on Territorial evolution of Canada. This is for putting Canada on the map, so to speak! Outriggr 00:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That Spammer

Sorry, when I saw your message about the month-old spam, I thought you were the spammer's sp. Obviously you're way more experienced than I here, was using the blatant vandalism template inappropriate there? The guy knew what he was doing. Bustter 11:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Hey, the last couple days I've been going to the countries and making sure that the country's image is present in the administrative division section (the one on the main page of the article). Today I wondered to myself, "I wonder who is responsible for all these great images." Well, it's pretty obvious I found out. Thanks for all the great images! =) b_cubed 14:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Dates

It does? how?

--PEAR 15:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thank you!

-) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Betty Yves

this is user betty yves- but i'm not signed-in- i do highly regret this, but i must beg you to please delete my account, because i am having a serious internet security issue because of it- you may leave a message about this on my (Betty yves) talk page if you must, but immediate deletion would be preferable- i am 100% serious about this and the fact that i stupidly l;eft my name and age on the account in the past has caused me to be seriously susceptable on google- so please please delete my account or at least the page for it if that is possible- thank you

Locator dots, encore

Hey Golpez. I was reading your talk page and saw that someone else asked you about locator dots and you seem pretty adept at mapping so... A few nights ago, I created French language pages for Fundy National Park ([[19]] ici) and Kouchibouguac National Park ([[20]] ici) using French language templates of the IUCN (UICN) protected areas. On both of the English pages, the dots look like they are in the correct spot, but for the French language articles, the longitude is way off. I wrote a question on the French bistro ([[21]] ici) to get help, but so far have had no response. Can you help me out or point me in the direction of help/someone who can help? Merci in advance. DDD DDD 09:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for having a look. Yeah, maybe it is my browser only. I'm using another computer right now, and, you are right, the dots looks right. Hmmm... Well, anyway, thanks for taking the time.DDD DDD 15:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Xino

Good catch on DA MAN, I didn't realise it was Xino (although it now seems to be, looking at his contribs). After this message on my talk page, I assumed it was one of the younger guys I coach at school, but apparently not.

Don't forget to drop me a line if you notice him being trouble, and need someone to help. Cheers, RandyWang (^chat/_patch) 09:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forget the above: the owner of the DA MAN account talked to me in person today, and it's not Xino (despite the apparent similarities between them). RandyWang (^chat/_patch) 09:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Hey, are you on IRC now? – Ch acor 14:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Ernesto

A new user copy-paste moved it as it was downgraded to a Tropical Storm, again. Now, everything's fucked up. Ryūlóng 09:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes sir, I'll have an Apple Martini, how does that soundStormChaser666 22:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your block of User:Frogsprog

Hi. I just wanted to say I feel bad about this, as I had to some extent mentored this guy since I gave him a vandal warning a few weeks ago, which was as thoroughly well-merited as your block is. Although I did recently warn him about his conduct on User:Tom Harrison's talk page, I should maybe have been even more forceful. I did have concerns about his POV, and should have warned him about that. I hope he will learn from this experience and I thank you for doing what you did. 48 hours seems like reasonable reflection time for him. Best wishes --Guinnog 13:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mind if I unblock him now as he has served his block? It would be my first ever administrative action, as I got promoted earlier today! I'll try to continue to keep an eye on him in future. --Guinnog 15:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, he seems to be editing again. I thought a block had to be manually undone. Sorry for my ignorance. --Guinnog 16:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tv-Screenshot images

Heres some tv screenshot images that me and another user had listed for fair use review.

I put these here because a while back there was a dispute becuase of the images ahering to the licence policy and there are simlar tv-screenshot images on wikipedia. [22] [23]

If you have any questions or concerns what i stated above, reply to me on my talk page.

Storm05 13:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PTS timeline

You'll notice it's deliberately left out of PTS timelines for a reason. Unless an official landfall is announced by an NMHS, we usually ignore it due to the many small Pacific islands. A 300-mile diametre storm like Ioke will "brush" (to take a term from 2004 AHS) small islands, and perhaps even at the same time. Does this mean you want to include all of that? – Ch acor 11:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And FYI the source you're looking for is the most recent NWS WFO Guam advisory. – Ch acor 11:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Supermodels

Hey!! There are alot of supermodel stubs here at wikipedia. The only non stubs seem to be the VS Angels. I was wondering if you could please help add more/edit articles of supermodels such as Doutzen Kroes, Jessica Stam, Gemma Ward, and Bianca Balti. Thanks. Lil Flip246 16:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your kind words, Golbez. Don't worry, I've never taken Wikipedia seriously enough to quit in a pouty huff of frustration or disappointment. It's just that articles like those have prompted me to realize that a lot needs to be done before Wikipedia is worth any more of the small amount of time that I put into it while procrastinating at work or at school. I also think that the RfA process and the anonymity of the individual members lead to unrivaled pettiness. The RfA process tends to attract the most process-oriented and mediocre populists, whereas anonymity allows for a lot of gaming of the system and rudeness. Focusing on process is not a bad thing, but it creeps me out to hear some admins speak of "The Project," and act like the worst of trolls as they wikilawyer around various policies and guidelines so as to boost their own egoes, or whatever. Disagreement is met with platitudes and condescension. Let's be honest: some of the most involved people, here, are quite anti-social. This is an escape for them; they're just avatars. It's a substitute for actual human interaction (which, I wager, they have failed to grasp the basics of). I'm not taking cheap pot-shots at the Internet geek stereotype, either -- that's really how it seems. It's not exactly my cup of tea.

I'm sure we'll bump into each other again online. Until then, best of luck! --AaronS 18:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Common languages

Apparently, i am the editor who editted the common languages in Turkey [24], though not the one who inserted 'Common languages' in the template. It was added on many counties' articles and i found it pretty interesting to list which these languages are. I'd also done it in Greece's article [25], in case u think i had "other" intentions... However, if all agreed to include these languages in the template, i doubt if the languages i added wouldn't be mentioned. Regards --Hectorian 01:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, no problem;). I just wanted to explain myself... I agree with u that including common languages in the tables represents a major change, which should come after a discussion ...And, honestly, i am sure it will cause many revert- and edit-wars. It would be interesting though... Cheers --Hectorian 03:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Somaliland Map

Hi Can you upload a map of Somaliland and then put points on where the cities/provinces?

Abdullah Geelah 16:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[[Image:800px-Kaiserpinguine mit Jungen.jpg]]

Hi, I was wondering if you can help me, I've accidentally uploaded an image with an wrong/misplacing name, so I was wondering if you can help me by deleting the image because of the name. --§ Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody _{(talk + contribs + userboxes)} 20:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I guess I should be somewhat more careful when uploading images. --§ Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody _{(talk + contribs + userboxes)} 21:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Query at WikiProject Country subdivisions

Hi,
I'd be grateful for your input as a participant in this WikiProject to the above linked; thanks!
Best wishes, David Kernow 23:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So basically, you're asking if "subdivisions" is a poor term? OK, I'll agree.

Wow, that was fast! So, to confirm, you'd go with "division" and "divisions"...? David 23:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Divisions" is too generic. There needs to be a qualifier. So yes, "administrative divisions" is the next best thing. However, if they have names, then use those - states of, provinces of, with 'administrative divisions of' being kind of an umbrella article, if needed. (Also, for things like Azerbaijan which has two types of top-level divisions, 'administrative divisions of azerbaijan' would be the best option, with perhaps a later article about the structure, powers, etc. of rayons, sahars, etc).

This is also my thinking as a result of looking over this area. If/when you have a moment, you might like to scan this and this; both nearly ready to debut in the encyclopedia – with, I think, amended titles! Yours, David 23:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
PS I have copied this to the WikiProject page linked above and will continue responding there. Hope that's okay.

Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic

Hi Golbez. Could you please move the article Talysh-Mughan Republic back to the correct title Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic? Clevelander moved the article without citing any sources, while according to BBC it was actually called Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic (TMAR). Thanks in advance. Grandmaster 06:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not wheel-warring!

...but... I've permablocked Fix Bayonets! (talk · contribs · count) for his/her legal threats to another user. You gave the user ample opportunity to withdraw the threats or to suggest a change in editing patterns for the future. But they responded with louder demands that suggested strongly that they had no intention of backing down from the threats and no intention of resuming/beginning normal editing. So I have permablocked them for it. See block log. If you don't agree, please unblock/reshape block/etc. This was just my 2c worth on the matter after they asked for an {{unblock}}. Would you like to talk to User:Jersyko about not continuing to fight a blocked user?. Cheers! ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh heh :o) Yeah, I agree... making things "worse" doesn't count. I can see you're a rouge admin like me (ie, an entirely normal human being) but there was a chance you weren't and could, at this moment, be whooping my arse on ANI. So I did have to ask. After I'd blocked the guy/gal, of course. Worked out well for all of us, I think :o) ➨ ЯEDVERS 20:54, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll stop my discussion with him/her. My hope was, as yours was initially, that the user would calm down and actually want to have a rational discussion. It kinda worked that way, but not really. Anyway, I'll take my leave from making comments to the user completely. · j e r s y k o talk · 20:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez can you block users for 3RR? --Peter IBM 21:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(suspected sock of Bonaprte) —Khoikhoi 21:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Civil and WP:3RR --Peter IBM 21:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Both of you, off my talk page. I saw this on ANI and decided to recuse myself. --Golbez 21:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Autonomous "entity", Subnational "entity"...

Hi again Golbez,
Thought I'd sound you out before going any further: Are you a fan of either of the above descriptions (as in the former Autonomous entity or Category:Lists of subnational entities, etc)...? Per my rationale for moving Autonomous entity to Autonomous area, it seems to me that neither imply that it is a region or area that is being addressed; a human being might be described as an "autonomous entity", a local company as a "subnational entity", etc. If "autonomous area" an improvement for the former, how about "subnational division" (or, perhaps more accurately, "national/subnational administrative division") for the latter...?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, David Kernow 06:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...PS Have just remembered that "subnational entity" used for disambiguation, so perhaps "subnational division" instead...

"Autonomous area" does seem much better than "autonomous entity". And I'm not in love with "subnational entity", division probably works better. --Golbez 06:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your super-speedy response! I won't move on anything now – I'll find some more opinions – but at least I know the idea is not a total non-starter. Best wishes, David 06:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: your reversion of my edit

Hi there, you have a good point regarding the many embassies in that area.

At least I didn't put CVS! :)--Tachikom a 03:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

THanks for correcting my mistake [26]--Doc 15:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sumqayit

Are you sure about Sumgait's Armenian history? There was a sizeable Armenian community there, once. Perhaps you should check out the Lake Sevan article, where both the Turkish and Azeri names of the lake are included... Hakob 08:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So would you mind if I removed the Azeri name from the Lake Sevan article?

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CNN pipeline

Hi,

I guess we are not the only two people watching this horror. -- 141.2.139.7

Request

Could you delete the March Massacre redirect to the March Days article? It's a POV name that hasn't been used by any mainstream authors. Thanks! -- Clevelander 20:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect request

Hey Golbez-chan, can you create a redirect for your favorite rodent? Since Uncharted Waters Online may also be called Great Voyage Online it would be nice to have the latter redirect to the former for the english wiki (mainly by Asians). Thanks.

My RFA

Hi there Golbez! Thank you for supporting my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. I like the humor in your support message; kind of gave the tone that the idea of me not being an admin is... somewhat enraging. Anyways, now that I am an admin, I won't have to ask you to do admin things on IRC anymore. I hope I can live up to the standards of being an admin! —this is messedrocker (talk) 08:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Nakhichevan

Thanks for the compliment, Golbez! :) BTW, did you see my earlier request above? -- Clevelander 23:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Territorial evolution maps

A minor nitpick on the territorial evolution of the U.S. maps - North Carolina didn't cede what is now Tennessee until 1790, so on the 1789 maps it should still be part of NC. Kmusser 14:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank. Also check State cessions, the gap between when NC agreed to the cession and when it actually took effect may be part of the confusion.Kmusser 18:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the state cessions map I was having a hard time figuring out a good way to show the NY and VA cessions, they overlap with each other and the cessions of other states - I may experiment a bit more with it. Also planning on tackling the individual colony maps soon.

On the territorial evolution maps - on northern MN, I was under the impression that the border between Lake of the Woods and Lake Superior wasn't disputed, folks just weren't sure where it was until that region actually got explored - I haven't done any research on it though so I may be wrong - at any rate though that border was resolved by the 1818 treaty, not the 1842 one, so you are showing it as disputed for too long. Oregon is probably fine as it is, if you wanted to be more exact you could say claimed by Britain, Spain, and Russia adding a U.S. claim with the LA purchase. Spain and Russia never really pursued their claims to the area though and formally gave up their claims in 1821 and 1825 respectively. Kmusser 04:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did a bit of searching and couldn't find anything about the MN-Canada boundary east of Lake of the Woods ever being disputed so that should probably come off the maps, I'm planning on taking the "Boundary uncertain" off of mine as well. Kmusser 23:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to Wikistalk (I have Kmusser's talk page on my watchlist). The reason for the uncertain border in northern Minnesota is explained in the Northwest Angle article. Basically, the border was originally set to be on a line between the northern point of Lake of the Woods running west to the Mississippi River, which was thought to have a source north of there. After someone discovered that Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi, is actually south of Lake of the Woods, the boundary was later fixed at the 49th parallel, leaving a small section north of the 49th parallel (hence the Northwest Angle). Hope this helps. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 04:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at follow up on my talk page, looks like your maps are good as they are :-) Kmusser 23:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jenny Wiley

{helpme}--Beachbumz 18:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Beachbumz[reply]

Hello, you used the {{helpme}} tag. How may I help you? When you've asked your question, please put the tag back so we know to check back. Alternatively, you can join the Wikipedia Bootcamp IRC channel to get real-time help. (Use the web-based client to get instant access.) - Tangot a ngo 18:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I posted the information because the site stated it was a "stub" and needed more contributions. Do I need to post the full story elsewhere linked to and from WP with a shorter version on WP?--Beachbumz 18:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Beachbumz[reply]

Yes I submitted a story relating to Jenny Wiley it was deleted stating it was to long when the page stated it was a "stub" and too short in which needed contribution, what is the max length a story should be?--Beachbumz 18:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Beachbumz[reply]

HRE's RFA

You recently unprotected Holy Roman Emperor's RFA a week back, but office actions are to not be unprotected unless given permission by WP:OFFICE, so I have reprotected the article and reverted to Danny's revision. I agree that the page probably is past its time deserving a protection, but it's best to ask Danny before doing so. I will leave a note requesting for it to be delisted now, in fact. Cowman109^Talk 21:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Yes I apologise, I was just jumping to conclusions. I think that 'Llywrch' fellow or whatever his name was snapping at me and calling me names as soon as I signed up just had me on the defence. Thanks. --Pewlosels 15:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

You reverted my changes to the article on 9/11 with no justification. You don't own this page -please explain your reasons. User:djg2006

Request for Assistance

A few weeks ago you blocked editor Fix Bayonets! for repeated vandalism, legal threats, and other offenses. He's back at the vandalism again on Neo-confederate. It involved repeated RVs to his claim that the prefix "neo" implies a connection with Naziism. And various other off-the-wall POV edits. Requests from several editors on the Talk page for him to substantiate or desist have gone unheeded.Verklempt 02:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have asked Jerseyko to help informally mediate the Neo-confederate article, as I think he tries to listen to both sides. I initially did post some of my objections on the talk page. But, I didn't do a good job in "following through." And yes, I did get frustrated with Verklempt's continuing reverts. By the way, many of the so-called "off-the-wall" edits Verklempt references, including the "neo-Nazi" comparison, were actually made by prior Wikipedian editors (as is noted and documented on the article's Talk page).

In any event, I am sorry... I should have asked for help sooner. Thanks again,--Fix Bayonets! 07:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Innapropriate Change

You deleted information I had put down that I knew for fact about Annie Cruz. I talked to her this weekend and indeed confirmed the "www.thedilly.com" unbringing, and her actual question to fans about whether she should be a porn star or not.

I was one of the people who replied, as well as talked to her afterwards and before the incident. Please replace what I have added, not many people know about this.

fbi

Hi, I've continued the discussion on: Talk:September_11,_2001_attacks/FBI_poster_controversy#Continued_discussion_from_talk_page. Would you please take a look? — Xiutwel (talk) 10:29, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete my page before researching term?

Pacific Dove is not a neologism. Zenaida asiatica is called a White-winged Dove in North America, and Z. meloda is called Pacific Dove in South America. Treating both as one, as the article on White Winged Doves does, is downright wrong (see Wikispecies, http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zenaida_meloda). In fact, information on cooing in the White-winged Dove article is especially wrong -- one of the differences cited as grounds for the split is the radical difference in cooing melody between Z. meloda and Z. asiatica. Also, there is a corresponding Spanish article on Z. meloda.

At most, you should have questioned my use of Pacific Dove as opposed to Peruvian Dove or whatever ohter nomenclature you prefer; but deleting it off the bat is very disrespectful. --Rcgy 18:53, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Katrina

I made the comments you are referring to before Katrina. We can all be wise with 20/20 hindsight. Naturally i quickly changed my tune once Katrina actually hit. Wallie 14:20, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps for Chad

Hi Golbez. I've noted that the awesome work on maps of even small or neglected countries you've done; can I implore you to do a similar work with Chad? I'm trying to expand the coverage of the country through Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad, but I feel myself frustrated by my utter incapacity to deal with images, and in particular I feel the need of maps of the administrative divisions. Can you do something with this, or advice me where to ask? Thanks in advance for any hint. Ciao,--Aldux 14:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I didn't dare to hope so much!! As you said there's a lack of information about the regions; but after searching a lot I found this map [27], unfortunately a bit small, but uptodate, with the new regions and departments (maybe consulting the article Regions of Chad can make it a bit easier to vision). Hope it helps. Ciao, and thanks again!--Aldux 00:12, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was afraid this would emerge, what a pity. :-( Unfortunately, to the moment we have only the wiki maps of the pre-1999 prefefectures Image:Chad Prefectures numbered 300px.png, and, as usual, the web is not very generous with Chad. Thanks for your efforts; I really appreciated them. Ciao,--Aldux 12:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great Work

|10}}! After controlling the map, I'd say I feel absolutely certain for 16 of the 18 regions; what I'm a bit uncertain of (but it's probably simply that department that is small) is the Mandoul Occidental, the one with Koumra (on the map) as capital. Thanks again! Ciao, Aldux 10:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've more or less located where the 3rd Moyen-Chari department is, Grande Sido, or better its capital Maro; and its seems weirdly to be in exactly the same area of Mandoul Occidental, with the capital Koumra. I suspect the external map for sloppiness didn't separate Grande Sido and Mandoul Occidental. As for the rivers, don't worry: confronting with other maps, I'm pretty sure that you didn't follow the rivers in drawing the borders.--Aldux 01:10, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it's great.

}}--Aldux 19:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely fantastic, especially considering the mediocre quality of the map you had to use for reference

|10}}! Now, al last, also Chad has its maps, and all thanks too you!--Aldux 22:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Legal Threat.

I was obviously just kidding! How would I even know where these guys are from? In any case, many countries have started monitoring the online activities of their citizens, and to support terrorists would be pretty incriminating, even if these people aren't really connected with Jihadist outfits. I just meant to warn them and stop them from needlessly hurting American sentiments by trying to justify terrorist attacks. Sorry if I did something wrong. Cerebral Warrior 08:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Italy

Sorry about all that. I have learned and will apply the wisdom next time! The edits are now correcting to the proper and official naming convention as per the Italian government and many sources listed in the talk pages. The referencing also includes the alternate names as per wiki rules (i.e. Bolzano (Bozen)). Sorry about all that!!!! Rarelibra 20:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Italy part II

I seriously need your help and any other admin that will see through this nonsense. We are making edits to correct a situation regarding incorrect naming convention. The article used to be named correctly and a year ago, it was changed to a biased POV name that doesn't even exist in any proper or official lists as per the Italian government, United Nations, etc. There are countless references we have posted as to the proper name ("Trentino-Alto Adige") and alternate name ("Sudtirol") - whereas NOWHERE does the name "South Tyrol" exist. These pages were being changed back to the correct name, now I am being targeted by admins and they are reverting such changes. Can you help intervene? Thank you. Rarelibra 02:04, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Std format for countries

In the United States article edit, you mentioned a standard format for countries. Where might I find that? Civil Engineer III 19:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Could you offer up a non-biased, neutral opinion to a few surveys for naming convention changes? The pages are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:South_Tyrol, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trentino-South_Tyrol, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bozen-Bolzano. Thanks! Rarelibra 20:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DaffyDuck619 (talk • contribs)

I think he's waiting on a response from you on his talk page (just FYI - I'm not in much of a hurry to talk to him, myself). --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 03:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now that you've unblocked him, I hope you plan on monitoring his edits. CovenantD 22:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

US art.

As I understand the 9/11 subcat. of the art. on the US to likely be a controversial one, let me first say that any preconceived notion of yours as to who I am, and what my incentive was for editing the section, might be reasonably based on past experiences with ulterior motives. That being said, I genuinely wanted to insert two bits of, IMHO, significant info: the mention of The Pentagon(<|===CAPITALIZED) having been attacked on 9/11(since the subcat. is dedicated to the events and reprocussions of that day), and the mention of the fact that the war in Afghanistan is still an ongoing event. If any of this is POV, please let me know (based upon your edit summary on the page, I will be anticipating some mild condescension). Thank you. --Jackbirdsong 20:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Civility

Hello, Mr.Golbez, you have sent me a message on civility and morality, and i hope you have read the very racist and uncited accusation on Arabs. Nagorno-Karabakh article contained a very non-civil ideas, and you have reverted them as like you might was happy with them!, anyway it is none of my ethics to slander people but i do strongly criticise their bad ideas, and that what i did. MARVEL 20:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Req picture

Hi again! I saw Template:Montenegro-stub and wondered whether a similar image could be made for Template:Lesotho-stub. I'm not good with images, but perhaps you or someone you know could combine the flag of Lesotho with one of the maps of Lesotho. Regards, Punkmorten 22:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ITN comments

I'd like to commend your dealings with ITN on the main page. I've noticed more than a few instances where you seem to be the only person dealing with queries, and handling them well. I think you are really holding to what ITN is; a place to show off where we have Wikipedia articles that have been updated with current events - not a news ticker. To be honest, it would probably avoid confusion if the section were renamed altogether. People seem to assume it should be just today's news or the absolute top 5 most important stories in the world. They don't seem to appreciate why the mix there seems haphazard sometimes. That said, I'm all for positive discrimination when the mix of articles is determined by an Anglo-centric editing base.

Sorry to say I am not likely to get more involved myself; I just don't have the time (or rather, when I do my interests are elsewhere). I suspect this is the reason there aren't more admins updating the template.

zoney ♣ talk 12:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps req.

Please do two maps about participating nations in 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup and 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup. Thank you. --Aleen f1 08:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cerebral's user page

If a userpage contains a highly offensive remark, should it be kept? --Nielswik_(talk) 13:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adolf Hitler

Hi, hope you won't be too offended, but I took the liberty of reverting your recent change to the key topic of Hitler's role in genocide. I wondered as you hadn't contributed to Talk:Adolf_Hitler#January_30_selected_anniversary if you had read it? Please read and discuss if you want to. In the meantime there has been a considerable effort to make that paragraph work. Thanks. MarkThomas 20:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you an expert on Hitler? That would explain why you don't read discussions presumably. MarkThomas 20:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You just posted a quite aggressive-sounding threat on my talk page in a non-relevant section, can you say why please? Did you think for some reason that I was talking about you in my jokey remark? Sarah Williams 20:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Desperately Need help on content blanking and POV editing of Tamilnet

I have been making some edits to Tamilnet which have been repeteadly reverted with POV and propaganda from the ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka without any qualifications of the text by user User:Snowolfd4. I have added a huge list of justifications for my changes. But this user has never bothered to answer them and gone ahead given very terse statements for his reverts. I have in turn added citations from a reputable source, namely a journal article on Tamilnet.com by Whitaker, Mark P. "Tamilnet.com: Some Reflections on Popular Anthropology, Nationalism, and the Internet" Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 77, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 469-498 George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research. He has just reverted my citations claiming in effect that this peer-reviewed journal article is the following:

According to Official WP policy Personal websites, blogs, and other self-published or vanity publications should not be used as secondary sources. That is, they should not be used as sources of information about a person or topic other than the owner of the website, or author of the book. The reason personal websites are not used as secondary sources — and as primary sources only with great caution and not as a sole source if the subject is controversial — is that they are usually created by unknown individuals who have no one checking their work. They may be uninformed, misled, pushing an agenda, sloppy, relying on rumor and suspicion, or even insane; or they may be intelligent, careful people sharing their knowledge with the world. Only with independent verification by other sources not holding the same POV is it possible to determine the difference.

I desperately need administrator intervention on this. This is getting to be very frustrating when a user claims that a peer-reviewed journal article is an unreliable source and then goes ahead and blanks legitimate cited contents.

This user has been doing a whole lot of blanking of my edits both on Tamilnet and a whole lot of other pages. Elalan 03:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Muslims

Today's featured article should inform you that 0.999999 is equal to 1. So, in a strictly mathematical sense, my comments were directed at all Muslims. Thus, there is, again in a strictly mathetmatical sense, not one Muslim out there who would not lynch or behead me if given the chance. Cerebral Warrior 18:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AN User:Cerebral Warrior

Hello a notice been submitted in the Administrators Noticeboard concerning the behavior of user User:Cerebral Warrior as I lack direct involvement in the affair the involvement of a user that has been involved in the incident would be valued. Thank youFreepsbane 21:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you give your opinion at [28]? Thanks. By the way, archiving some of your talk page might be a good idea... yandman 07:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits to Adolph Hitler

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Justin Eiler 16:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware that you've only done two reverts, friend. However, I must ask--if this issue is truly relevant, why will you not discuss the edit on the relevant talk page. Edit summaries are not the best place to give a reason for the edit if it requires an in-depth discussion--that's what the talk pages are for.

I am honestly not interested in an edit war, and I assume you are not either. But our differences can be more conveniently discussed on the talk page. Justin Eiler 16:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your service and dedication to helping Wikipedia, mainly with the Hitler article. Keep up the good work! Sharkface217 01:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(Unofficial) User:Kiand Tribute page!

I made the totally (unofficial) User:Kiand Tribute page: http://homepage.mac.com/zizban/kian.html

Please Delete My Account

I can't use this account anymore, and there's a personal reason why, so please just delete my account and any contribuions/uploads I've done. I give guarantee this is the true owner of this account, so I really hope you delete this... Thanks for your time. TheFightingBadger 00:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Hi Goblez,

I am new to this. I am looking for a Map of the Departments of Haiti. There is a map here in Wiki that is created by you. The one here is in a png format. Do you have it in any other format? Can I have access to it?

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Prognathism

I appreciate your revert on the above-referenced article and your edit note. Unfortunately, despite weeks of requesting some constructive discussion on the talk page, edit warriors continue to revert the text to the incorrect (obvious errors pointed out on the talk page), eurocentric version without bothering to visit the talk page and make even a cursory defense of their edits. I'm thinking this thing needs to be protected in order to force them to engage in some sort of give and take. What do you suggest? deeceevoice 22:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saugeen Stripper & Allergic Asthma

I would like to know what became of your objection to Saugeen Stripper being redirected. Allergic Asthma has recently been redirected to a relatively long article entitled Asthma. Alec - U.K. 13:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prepping for New Congress

Nice job preparing these articles for the 110th Congress. While you're there, can you delete the bit at the beginning of most of the articles stating that the delegations is, for example, "solidly red" or "solidly blue"? I just changed it here, for example. —Markles 14:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the info on 3RR. In this case it is clear cut, daylight robbery, cut and paste of a whole section and the perpetrator is so far uncommunicative. Cheers. Bubba hot ep 10:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hitler

Hi, saw your recent change to the Hitler page. I've worked on a number of the segments in Nazi-era-related pages that contain information about the genocide figures. I just wonder though if we're not ending up with pages that are "over-neutralised" - to my mind, the AH page intro now reads almost as if the Fuhrer just did some economic fixing, murdered a few million jews and other people - and that's it. Do you not think a little more detail on his crimes there would be a good idea? MarkThomas 10:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Persistent and unending dispute with Mr Conradi

I am, apparently, a newbie at this kind of dispute resolution. I have no idea what to do, but ask you, since you have dealt with Mr Conradi before, to please see [29] and advise me what the correct procedure is. I have endeavoured to correct material errors in his edits, as well as to remove inappropriate references to myself, and he simply reverts every time. He is well over the three-reverts rule. I am probably also over the rule, but my reverts have in every case attempted to correct and improve the article, while his have simply been gainsaying. Please help. Thank you. -- Evertype·✆ 13:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Your block of User:King Mario made me unable to edit...my own user page! On my 1-year anniversary of being a Wikipedia editor...I can't edit my user page because you blocked him! Would you please just delete him instead of block him? TTV (MyTV|PolygonZ|Green Valley) 17:36, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and please get Werdnabot to archive this regularly. -.- TTV (MyTV|PolygonZ|Green Valley) 03:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about any rudeness implied, but your page is 107 KB with 156 sections. Even the boilerplate wants you to archive this monstrosity. TTV (MyTV|PolygonZ|Green Valley) 03:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry

This has nothing to do with me - the Wikipedia:No original research guideline specifically rules out "I was there" testimony. No original research or testimony - you can only put in information that has been researched/reported by others. Sorry. --Golbez 01:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dm2ortiz"

after reading everything i could find about Wikipedia guidelins it look like "I was there" testimony is okay and is not original research.

"Primary sources are documents or people very close to the situation being written about. An eyewitness account is a primary source" this was on the link you sent me some time a go. Or am I still not getting it?Dm2ortiz 16:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Poconut

By definition Darlinton and Indianapolis are not superspeedways because darlington is less than 2 miles and Indy has less than 30 degrees of banking. Although both are often referred to as superspeedway, Darlington and Indy in addition to all other race tracks in the world other than Talledega and Daytona are only speedways —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Poconut (talk • contribs) 02:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Roidweiser

Hi, sorry I'm new, can I ask why the 'Daxflame' page was deleted and not just edited. I gather from the delete message, there was a lot wrong with it, but I'm not sure what the abbreviations mean db-bio, db-ad, db-nn. I'm guessing the bio was wrong.. and that's about all I can gather from it. Thanks

Yes could you send me a copy of it to work on, thanks.

Sora Aoi

Hi.. can I know why you deleted the external links I inserted for Sora Aoi's page?

Emerson Prep

Hi, Golbez. This is insomniacsloth from various articles, including the Emerson Prep one. I'm a happy student there, as was Yum299. When did you graduate? Where you under Humphrey or Walsh? Remember any teachers?

Shock images

What policy did they break? I don't understand how you can have an article about shock images without pictures of the images. A picture is worth 1000 words. Anyway the Goatse article had 2 pictures of the "temple of goatse" from some stupid computer game, surely a picture of the actual Goatse is more relevant.

--PEAR 07:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Road map

Hi Golbez and many tanks for the compliments. Its nice to know that my work has inspired someone. I used Illustrator for the map. I tried my hand at inkscape and found it a little cumbersome, but its prolly developed now. But i do recommend using illustrator or corel draw, if you want to work really fast, especially for huge networks like that for the US. You do have the advantage that maps are readily available for tracing, unlike for India where i had to use a little close to a gazillion sources and put it all together like a giant hair-tearing jigsaw. Its not the perfect way to spend your free time, but the end result is well worth it. All the best to ya and drop me a line if you get into a tight spot. cheers --^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 18:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Use the pencil tool to draw the lines. for the double stroke, just select your line, and in the appearance dock, choose add new stroke. Do this two times with the first stroke broader than the second and use different colors and youll see what i mean --^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 01:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic Job Golbez!! Regarding your query, its really simple. Just follow these steps:

Make sure all the roads are within a single layer.
Click on the target icon for this layer (looks like a circle). This will select the entire network.
In the appearance dock, do the same thing as before for the double stroke (the target icon will turn solid)

What this does is treat all the roads as a single object and apply the stroke, not individually as is the case now, where one highway overlaps another. And any line you draw in this layer automatically inherits the stroke, no need to select it seperately.
If this doesnt work, the individual styles may be conflicting with the layer style, to fix this click to the right of the layer target icon, which selects the contents of the layer, and then clear the stroke. Happy insane mapping--^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 15:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy

I wandered into the discussion debate on Afghanistan through a strange, circuitous route. It started with Luna Santins talk page (posting a response) to KB Botany's talk page, and then the Afghanistan talk page itself. Botany just really sounded hapless and beleagured, which is why I followed the trail in the first place.

I've spent the last two hours reading the Afghanistan talk page (well, most of it). It gets EXTREMELY technical, but based on what I read, I urge you to reconsider your indefinite block on NiserKand. He has some mistaken beliefs, but and he has made more than a few inflammatory remarks, but he has also contributed positively to other articles (if his user talk page is any indication), and it appears that the net effect of his efforts has been to actually make the Afghanistan article more neutral. At least that is the opinion of a few of the editors on the Afghanistan talk page.

I would also like to point out that Tajik made the first accusation of racism against NiserKand. I don't know how to copy a diff, nor do I believe I could find it in the history, but I could point out the general area on the talk page if you asked me.

I think if he were strongly disabused of the notion that his self-stated "expert" knowledge made him more qualified to edit than other people who are willing to read, discuss, and collaborate, he could be a very helpful editor.

Up until tonight, I had little interest in Afghanistan and knew next to nothing of the subject. In other words, I have no dog in this race. I just felt it necessary to bring this up in the interest of fairness

If you would like to respond me, please use my user talk page.

Thanks for your time,NinaEliza 10:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Holy frak!

This: Image:United States 1789-03-1789-08.png series of images is amazing. I heart you, bless you and thank you. jengod 22:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response

I understand your position. I don't believe NisarKand has an email address attached to his account, but I also hadn't confirmed my own email at that point so I will try again.

One thing that is important to point out (as I learned from the talk on Afghanistan) is that "Aryan", doesn't mean the same thing in Afghanistan as it does, say, to the Aryan Nation. Arya or Aria was an ancient name for that entire region. The "rats" comment was way out of line, but it came after a lengthy, bitter debate and in my opinion was designed to specifically piss Tajik off. In the mean time, Tajik constantly called NisarKand racist in response to nearly everything NisarKand said. It's all over the talk page.

From what I understand, there are some serious human rights violations currently going on against the Pashtuns (that's what NisarKand is). While it's been alluded on the talk page, I don't know anything further. I think this makes the whole thing particularly sensitive to NisarKand, as well as Tajik.

Ironically, on the very same talk (one would need to scroll WAY up) is a fantastic, easy-to-understand, and compassionate summary of the dilemma. I'll edit it down to the most salient points, but it's still a bit long. Forgive me, and I appreciate your patience in advance (italics are mine for emphasis):

"Afghanistan has hardly ever been a single country. It does not even completely represent a people as such, since the Pashtuns are almost evenly split between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Tajiks between Tajikistan and Afghanistan and Uzbeks with Uzbekistan. A census has never been taken, and various pieces of land has belonged to different people. In addition, almost no one can be considered indigenous of the land, due to non-stop invasions throughout the history...

Afghanistan for most of its history has been a collection of loosely-connected tribes, most of which lived quite autonomously...Afghanistan could never be seen simply as a 'nation' or country of a 'people'. The name 'Afghanistan' was coined by a Pashtun at a time when many other ethnic groups lived autonomously within the region...

...The demographics and history of Afghanistan are therefore highly disputed. Percentages of population are very frequently overstated, each ethnic group claiming 80% of the population is not uncommon. The population also fluctuates with the movements of the large number of refugees...

While the history of smaller ethnic and religious groups are lost, historians in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan etc constantly view Afghanistan as a part of greater 'Turkistan', 'greater Persia' and so on. This makes the history of the country highly biased and unreliable, and it should be viewed as such...

On the other hand, the various peoples secured their own history better, the history of Pashtuns are best read from a Pashtun perspective, Hazaras from Hazara perspective, Tajiks from Tajik perspective, and always with a grain of salt.

This makes the history very interesting, but very difficult to dig up."

So what's to be done? KP Botany often criticized both parties (in an amazingly neutral, constructive way), but was ultimately of the opinion (along with a couple of other people) that the article as it stood was too biased towards the Tajik POV, and that NisarKand's contributions were welcome and important (though his "welcome" contributions usually had to be sifted through loads of overwhelmingly contested stuff).

I realize this is WAY more information than you ever wanted on the situation, and I promise this will be by far my lengthiest post to you. I just felt a little bit more background was necessary (and we all learned a little!).

In any event, I realize your very busy actually being productive here, so... NinaEliza 05:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Youz a brave man, Golbez, for jumping into this fracas.

Actually, no. The probability is mighty close to 1 that both Nisar and Tajik have relatives from the other ethnic side through intermarriage, a very common practice in Afghanistan--probably even aunties who'd slap them both right across their faces for the way they've represented Afghanistan on Wikipedia. And make them apologize to you for having the decency to take at least one of them to task for completely unacceptable rudeness. They've both contributed usefully to Wikipedia, and both greatly tarnished the sense of community necessary for an endeavour of this nature.

I'm studying, on and off, the ethnography of census taking in Central Asia and will correct population reports from Afghanistan to include opposing viewpoints and explanations of the reality of census-taking in Central Asia, eventually. It's an interesting topic and will enhance Wikipedia's usability to include information of this nature. Until then, when things cool down a bit, I will tag articles, as necessary to reflect their lack of neutrality with an appropriate explanation.

I know you know you did the right thing in this situation. KP Botany 17:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever claims that NisarKand has done "good contribution to the Afghanistan article" has NO idea what he is talking about. Despire the fact that he NEVER provides ANY reliable sources for his claims (it seems like User:KP Botany is not interested in sources), he actively deletes authoritative scholarly sources (Britannica, Iranica, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Cambr. History of Iran, etc), and he actually humiliates himself by claiming that Pashtuns were the first people in space, the Pashtuns invented nuclear technology, and that Pashtuns are gifted with intelligence and power, while others are "rats".

Instead of supporting such a nonsense, people should try to educate themselvs by reading actualy scholarly articles about Afghanistan.

The names "Persian" and "Persia" ARE mentioned very often, because until not so long ago, the region of today's Afghanistan was part of "Persia". Even now, the Persian language as well as the Persian language are dominant in Afghanistan (all scholarly sources, as well as CIA's factbook, agree on this!)

This may be hard for NisarKand or KP Botany to understand or to be accepted, but this is the truth and - most important of all - it is supported with scholarly sources (see the article).

I really do not know what KP Botany is up to, but he is very certainly not an expert on Afghanistan. I rather trust scholarly articles, and Wikipedians who are actually specialized on Central Asian history, such as User:Sikandarji.

Tājik 03:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Again Tajik embarks upon personal attacks, "Whoever claims that NisarKand has done 'good contribution to the Afghanistan article' has NO idea what he is talking about." Now Tajik claims I "have no idea what [I] am talking about."

As I also claimed in the same sentence that Tajik has "contributed usefully to Wikipedia," and Tajik gives me no credit for this (not a partial idea of what I am talking about, but "no idea") it appears that Tajik is essentially asserting that Tajik, too, has made no useful contributions to Wikipedia.

This is a personal attack and has nothing whatsoever to do with Wikipedia--Tajik has been warned about personal attacks and has recently been blocked for being uncivil.[30] And he continues to be uncivil, here is calling calling another editor's claims "stupid."[31] This is simply no way to come to an agreement on an issue, calling other claims stupid. What one does is discuss and debate the other claims.

There is no requirement on Wikipedia that only experts in their areas contribute, and, in fact, Tajik has not established his credentials as an expert, or as an editor able to distinguish between varying sources. Tajik quotes no Wikipedia policy about limiting Wikipedia to experts or scholars, as there is none. He is welcome to propose this policy, though. There are, however, many Wikipedia policies and guidelines against edit wars, personal attacks, being uncivil, and harassing other editors.

This continued lack of civility on Tajik's part, even after being blocked for 24 hours for his lack of civility, his continued personal attacks, and his inability to engage in discussions on issues of content are tedious.

KP Botany 19:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think...

THAT comment I never saw. I will say however, that when NisarKand first came on the the Afghanistan talk page he was civil and apologetic for making a crapload of undiscussed edits (which as you know a lot of new users do). I actually don't think he'll be back, but you never know. Anyway, thank you - that was a generous thing to do. I was more concerned about KP botany anyway. He is an active and prolific editor that got caught in the middle of a bitter and contentious battle, and he has gotten nothing but crap for it. I honestly think he's on the verge of splitting, which would be tragic. Hopefully, this gesture will cheer him up. Best Wishes and thanks again,NinaEliza 07:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Sd31415/Thumb

Did you know?

You are the second biggest contributor to the United States article, the third most revised article! s d 3 1 4 1 5 talk • contribs 02:13, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

I blocked you and SalvNaut for violating 3rr in the 9-11 attacks article, you should have known better. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:17, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Burn the land and boil the sea

I just noticed your reply under mine at ANI: "Finally, sir, we can give up this life of crime." all I can say is:

Sometime we've got to visit the crappy planet where I'm a hero! --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 18:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Territorial evolution maps

thats a fantastic series of maps you have made of the US evolution! i thought you might like a template to link them: Template:USA territorial evolution Would it be alright if I added this to the images on commons? --Astrokey44 04:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... on commons, sure, I guess. I don't see much use for it here, but there it could be useful. Thanks :) --Golbez 06:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Posssible troll on September 11 2001 talk page

I understand why you might delete those remarks. However, I think it's better to respond to someone in a stern bu non-accusatory way to indicate what they may be doing wrong. Especially someone who is posting from an IP address who may not know the rules of Wikipedia. In that way they will begin to understand whay they've done wrong. --Cplot 07:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Henry

Thanks for catching that blanking. For the record -- I wasn't vandalizing. Something must have went buggy when I made an unrelated different edit, and I hadn't noticed. ~CS 01:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tennis expert RFC

I have opened a user conduct RFC against Tennis expert. Since you had trouble with him on Talk:Tropical cyclone, could you please certify it accordingly? Thanks. --Core desat 02:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I withdrew it. --Core desat 03:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Previous ArbCom election

I notice you said "as I recall, got over 60% positive vote" in the ArbCom elections for January 2006, in your statement. I found the results at User:Mathbot/Results - looks like 65% is the figure. Hope that helps. I've also started your questions page and left some questions. Carcharoth 12:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't tell people what to do

In the future don't tell me what to look up or not to look up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ROOB323 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

ArbCom questions

Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're doing a series on ArbCom candidates, and your response is requested.

What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.)?
Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?

Please respond on my talk page. Your responses would be added immediately, and you and other late-entering users would be noted in Monday's issue as well. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) (my votes) 00:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Israel districts named.png

Some guy at the Districts of Israel page is saying your map is "innacurate and POV in favor of Arabs". Would you mind leaving a comment at User talk:Kahanechai? Thanks, Khoi khoi 01:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De nada. ;-) Khoi khoi 02:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portfolio for ArbCom

On Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Summary table, I added a column "Examples" with links that exhibit a candidate's arbitration skills. My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well.

So far I have entered examples for the candidates who registered first (from their questions page), and I'm not sure if and when I will get to yours, so you may want to enter an example or two yourself. — Sebastian (talk) 05:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC) (I may not be watching this page anymore. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do so here and let me know.)[reply]

Judgment

I'll be honest -- there was nothing particularly striking in your history, but you support Kelly Martin for ArbCom. In my view, this is an automatic disqualifier for any candidate, because either 1) you haven't been paying attention to the wiki much; 2) your ability to judge other people's interactions is gravely flawed and/or 3) you must support some truly horrendous wiki-policy positions.

It may not normally be considered ethical to oppose someone based on whom he supports; but, as Geogre rightly points out, Ms. Martin is an extraordinary case. It was Jimbo who recommended open voting, and I have the right to act on the basis of information attained therefrom, especially in a case where I do feel the evidence indicates a severe problem. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I should add that I also took note of your recent 3RR. Xoloz 16:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your "witnesses" are not at all impressive, as I made no effort whatsoever to hide the reason for my opposition. That you wear your support for Ms. Martin as "a badge of honor" confirms my impression that your judgment is severely flawed. This is not a military campaign, you know. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Israel

In an effort to head off WP:3RR action, I am inviting discussion about the Map of the Districts of Israel over here. As the original creator of the image, your input is valuable. Thanks in advance. --Eliyahu S ^Talk 16:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FairHair

Actually, I reported it to admins days ago, and no action was taken. Since then Georgewilliamherbert has issued the necessary vandalism warnings, and I've reported it as vandalism in progress. Can you block it now? --Gene_poole 00:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Thanks for taking the time to look at the matter. --Gene_poole 01:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hey, sorry to bother you, but a user named "Baristarim", keeps vandalizing the article Nochiya Tribe. He most likely does this because he is a Turk who denies the Genocide that was done by his people to the Christians of his empire. He keeps marking the article Nochiya Tribe, and all sites linked to it as "No Refrences", even though there are refrences. Thanks --A2raya07 16:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong.. Please watch for civility, don't assume and keep the accusations to a minimum. The only reason I am marking that article is there are not enough references. I have dropped the ref tag, and put an OR tag instead. If you would like, please take a look at the article. This user has also created many articles that have absolutely no sources or about towns that do not exist. I have pointed this out to him with a post to his talk page. If you wish, you can contact other admins that know me to ask them if I am a "filthy genocide-denying vandal".

I will ask you (A2raya07) again to watch for civility. The article doesn't have neccessary sources and is not written with a formal encyclopedic tone. Simple. I just launched the Wikipedia:Greek and Turkish wikipedians cooperation board, so spare me the nationalist accusations. There won't be any articles about non-existent towns, or without sources. Baristarim 16:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance with article

I was hoping you might be able to assist. A user keeps adding a "spamlink" back to the Asheville page. I removed a large number of external links as per to make the list more in line with WP:EL. This user is insistant upon adding a link that, in my opinion, has an excessive number of advertisements (17+). The user has tried to add the link back by using Sock Puppets. It would seem like there's something "in it" for this user (i.e. is he affiliated with the site or one of the advertisers?). He also feigned adminship in a post on my talk page, "warning" me against removing the link. So far he/she has used Rlph wiggins, Conspireagainst and Clarke187. ++ Arx Fortis 23:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother, but he's being fairly persistent and using additional sockpuppets. Arx Fortis 05:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Violating the 3rr

You have now violated the three revert rule. Kindly stop your vandalism. --YouHadTime 04:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How? He only reverted your edits twice – Gurch 04:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet or meatpuppet, it's all the same. It's still a 3rr violation. --TruthinessIsBest 04:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

? – Gurch 05:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilogos

I've noticed you're very involved here, you might be interested in my proposal for Wikipedia use logo variations created by members of the wiki community to mark national and international awareness days, Remembrance Days, notable anniversaries, and observance days. Please comment on Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Logo Variations and on my talk page. Thanks! FrummerThanThou 05:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map Credit

"The source is me, and I would very much prefer if you gave me credit in your description. Thank you.". Which, the template or the final one? Kindly provide a link please, I would gladly give credit. I just grabbed the image off ar.wikipedia.org, are you the one who made it there? --Djihed 02:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I found your original version. It's available at [32]. I'll attribute both this image and the one at ar.wikipedia.org. Please have a look and see if I attributed it correctly (not sure about format). Thanks for the polite notice. --Djihed 03:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, after checking the license, I see it's GPL. I will attribute credit to mine, but I really can't do that to the one at ar.wikipedia as I didn't upload it. --Djihed 03:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, please go ahead and update it, please license it under both license as yours. Just for reference, the guys at ar.wikipedia are not really bound to attribute as choosing GFDL is an option from the original. Although I fully understand that you merit the credit. --Djihed 04:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

done --Djihed 04:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lightspeed Media Corporation

Can you point me to the AFD that said the articles for the three actresses should be merged with the corporation's? The link to it didn't jump out on the discussion page. Tabercil 22:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cape verde maps

I left you a message on your common's talk page, sorry i only read the note saying you'd be reached quicker here after sending it. please take a look. -- Waldir 21:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Adolf Hitler article

Are you interested in participating in an informal mediation here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-12-18_Hitler ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.135.64.6 (talk) 03:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

title change kthx

Hey Golbie, Can you change the article to Bladestorm: Hundred Years War instead of the two-word version based off this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blade_Storm:_Hundred_Years_War.

Thanks -- gerb —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.60.187.165 (talk) 03:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Talk:WBT (AM)

Saying you have "ceased to care" has just encouraged this person to keep edit warring over the link. —Centrx→talk • 10:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Algeria_provinces_arabic.png

I just wanted to let you know that this image contains many errors... --Escondites talk 12:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the correct names:

 أدرار
 الشلف
 الأغواط
 أم البواقي
 باتنة
 بجاية
 بسكرة
 بشار
 البليدة
 البويرة
 تمنراست
 تبسة
 تلمسان
 تيارت
 تيزي  وزو
الجزائر
 الجلفة
 جيجل
سطيف
 سعيدة
 سكيكدة
  سيدي بلعباس
 عنابة
 قالمة
 قسنطينة
 المدية
 مستغانم
 المسيلة
 معسكر
 ورقلة
 وهران
 البيض
 اليزي
 برج بوعريريج
 بومرداس
 الطارف
 تندوف
 تسمسيلت
 الوادي
 خنشلة
 سوق أهراس
تيبازة
 ميلة
 عين الدفلى
النعامة
 عين تموشنت
 غرداية
 غليزان

(Using this order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Algeria_wilayas.png)

Map of Israel ... Again

Hi! In Districts of Israel, you offered to modify your Map of the districts of Israel over two weeks ago (on the 12th) to help reach consensus. People over there are getting antsy about the whole issue.

If you're busy, but do intend to do this “real soon now”, could you please post an update about your intentions at Talk:Districts of Israel#Map Edit War, so people will know that they should wait for you?

If, OTOH, you don't intend to deal with this, we'd also appreciate being told about that.

TIA --Eliyahu S ^Talk 05:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ITN Update

Regarding this, see WP:ITN/C#Adam Air Flight 574. I presumed Pharos was talking about the flight page itself, considering at this version, and in some ways the current version as well, there really was not much updated. -- tariqabjotu 05:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh.....

So YOU'RE the guy that keeps sticking those pics back on Saaya's article! Ah, god.... Okay, I give up. T_T I'll stop trying to remove the pictures. I guess I just didn't feel comfortable with the pics because the girl's only 13. I was afraid that someone might come and drool over her pics or something...... o_O God, I just hate pedophiles. But I'll stop. T_T Sorry for acting so dumb.... Lady Rosala 02:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah...

Right, and I didn't call you a pedophile. =/ I just said I hated them, I didn't say you were one. --Lady Rosala 03:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thank You

Hi Golbez! thanks for your map on Urdu wikipedia. We will put it on a proper position. Thanks again.

FROM URDU WIKIPEDIA

Adolf Hitler

How will you get it protected? I didn't call anyone a vandal, and you just reverted the page to the same POV as Hanum. Seems to me completely clear that is your POV, also we already know this from previous talk page entries of yours. MarkThomas 23:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You and Hanum are the ones edit-warring. Why do you both insist on removing perfectly good information? Also, why the extremely incivil and rude remarks on my talk page? I think you are in breach of WP:CIVIL. MarkThomas 01:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dmcdevit

He had indefinite blocked me because of my edits on Adolf Hitler although I did not violated the 3RR. See my talk page: User talk:Haham hanuka.

your explanations are stupid?

Who are you to decide what links are appropriate and not? Large businesses only deserve a listing? That is crazy! There were a lot of appropriate links that were removed by somebody else. Why you choose to support them is beyond me. I know how to change my IP address btw.. it's real easy to do with RR. I can get behind a proxy if need be. These are all appropriate links to things in Charlotte. I.E> the charlotte nightlife site. There really isn't a huge entry on the nightlife scene, therefore an external link is appropriate. Why you think that is inappropriate and a link ot The Charlotte Observer is apporpriate shows you don't know anything about Charlotte. I live here... so leave me alone. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.53.185.56 (talk) 16:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Chilean edits

Hello, Golbez/Archive 2, since you have made several edits to articles about Chile, you may be interested in looking at the Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board to pick up on other topics that need attention, or to express needs which you perceive pertaining to Chile. JAXHERE | ^Talk 02:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NK

Golbez, the page is about NK, not about just NKAO, and even as it is, before my edits, it cites a lot of pre-NKAO and post-NKAO events. Thus, statistics on population before 1923 must be there, and should not be removed. Thank you for upholding this. --AdilBaguirov 20:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NK

Hi Golbez, regarding your revert on the population, this was long discussed previously and Adil know he is manipulating the sources. The materials showing Armenians as minority relate to Karabakh, which is not NK, Armenians have always been concentrated on its mountainous region(which is NK), the rest is already part of Azerbaijan and undisputed. Adil and Grandmaster are aware of this. Fad (ix) 17:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Curiouscdngeorge Comments

Hello, Golbez ! Thanks for the direction to your user talk page. I hope this (through editing) is the means to communicate with you. If not, please advise accordingly. Thanks

Poland map

The territories shown in yellow were annexed by Poland in 1945, as shown. Adam 08:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.um

Hello Golbez, I think that its important to show that .um was once used (of course with a retired commet) -calcprgmer10011

United States

Sorry about that, but it does mention on the talk page in the "To-Do list" that all sentences saying "United States is" to "United States are". Perhaps remove that? Hojimachong^talk _con 03:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barrens Chat

Could you take another look at the Barrens Chat article? Jeian and I tried to clean it up a bit. Thanks, Hojimachong^talk _con 04:11, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NK

Hi Golbez, the page was protected until today, it was on authomatic block for a week. The edit warring won't happen again, check the talkpage, I have quoted from Adil presented sources for the demographic informations, showing he distorted them, and Adil hasn't answered back since then. Fad (ix) 20:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All I know is that the one protecting it placed a date and time on it, and when that date came(Àwhich was today), the "edit this page" reappeared, but the tag claiming it was protected was still there. Fad (ix) 05:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. leaders

Care to join the conversation? [33]? Featuresaltlakecity 00:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

I really hate it when people talk crap behind me in their talk pages and if you want to be fair and asked me not to insult you should also consider ArmenianNY insults on me. If you deleted my comments than you should also do the same with his comments "First of all Narek you do not have to come and edit some typo mistakes done by KHoikhoi. I understand what he meant,please keep out of my user's page. Erkrord, et apush yngerd mtom nor ban arets ha? Etqan discussionits heto avelatsrets vor 2 or heto democratic republic of armenia was established. Arajiny voch te established ail declared kam proclaimed. Hayastan arden kar, voch meky established chi arel. Na eghel a transcaucasian federationi mi mas,, ,ayisi 28 in hayots azgain khorhurdy tiflisum hrchakel a ankakhutiun. proclaimed or declared. Anasyn ynkerojd hertakan katvi mlavotsy. Heto el, ete lav tenas inch a katarvum ejerum apa kimanas vor khoikhoi himnakan npataky im gratsnery jnjeln a. EN vor erkini anvan tak a eghel, en vor rasjabovin uzum en jhud sarqen zorov. Nra miak npataky vot qez nman anasuny qez nman mi apushi het himar editner aneq. Es shat apsosatsi vor ereg qo emailin anyhow patasxanetsi, eres arar sksetsir qfurner ugharkel. Minchev hima es qez chei qrfel, el qrvel ei qo ayloandak online ynkerojy.DU tevavorvetsir lav ira koghmits. Hima zgushatsnum em ov inch kgri indz user pageum da qo gortsy chi, editner chanes. Namanavand es arden tqats unem wikipediai vra ete ndegh amen geghtsi anmakardak kara inch uzum a gri.Hazarits mek em es stugum changery. OK? Now I am more in youtube. Nents vor messegnerd pahir qez." which he satrted insulting me in his page in which I responded. ROOB323 21:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I posted here just so you know which comment it was so you can go ahead and delete it just like you deleted my comments. ROOB323 21:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just archive his page, the guy is rude, and roob didn't make any personal attacks. Nareklm 21:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see that as an personal attack i don't blame roob the guy ArmeniaNY was attacking all of us in an rude manner. Nareklm 21:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Saxon genitive citation

Here, you cite a Wikipedia article, Saxon genitive, in support of your reversion of my alteration to complex's. I think there's ample evidence in meta, that wikipedians should not cite unreferenced assertions in one WP article as an authoritative "source" for assertions in other WP articles. So, instead of making uncited arguments about the incorrect assertion made in the Saxon genitive article (to wit, it states there that "[m]any English writers have adopted the nonstandard usage (even in formal writing) of adding only an apostrophe for the singular possessive of a noun ending in "s"."), I found a source. Warriner's English Grammar and Composition, 5th Course. Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. © 1953 ff. (I'm looking at the 1977 edition) ISBN: 0-15-311904-7. p. 455, THE APOSTROPHE, section 25q., I'll just quote the introduction to the section, since that's the only part that deals with the subject at hand:

25q. To form the possessive case of a singular noun, add an apostrophe and an s.

EXAMPLES boy's hat Helen's dress the boss's office for heaven's sake

When a word of more than one syllable ends in an s sound, the singular possessive may be formed by adding the apostrophe alone. This omission avoids the awkward hiss of the repeated s sounds.

EXAMPLES the witness' testimony for conscience' sake

tia. Tom e r ^talk 22:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Archive.org Website on Washington Metro

In light of the continued reversions occurring on the Washington Metro, I recommend that further discussion before additional reverts occur: Talk:Washington_Metro#Archive.org_Website. Thank you for your time. --Thisisbossi 12:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit: Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette, especially if the change involves the deletion of some text. Hgrosser 03:13, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I called you and that other guy morons because rather than simply edit the railfan link to remove the perhaps objectionable word “paranoia” you chose to delete a clearly relevant external link in its entirety. This is reminiscent of the “not invented here” attitude prevalent at some companies. You are undoubtedly of normal intellegence and not a moron. Hgrosser 03:37, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Regarding this. I was going to promote you from Little Weasel to International Hosebag for that, but thought better of it. : ) Thanks for not holding a grudge. (BTW, you should probably delete that International Hosebag redirect to Judith Miller, which I found by accident) MortonDevonshire Yo · 03:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here we go again: (→External links - it could be that I'll need to take some more time out of here…) Lovelight 02:47 17 February 2007. MortonDevonshire Yo · 10:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take my own leave in the future, and I'll leave you boys a notice about it… Lovelight 19:01, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NK

Golbez, perhaps the abolishion of the NK status is not too important in the intro paragraph, but the page otherwise does mix it up in the DIVISION part: "Following the declaration of NKR's independence, the Azerbaijani government passed a decision to abolish NKAO and create Azerbaijani rayons in its place." The thing is, the NKAO was abolished BEFORE the declaration of independence by "NKR". --AdilBaguirov 21:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez, this was the concensus wording. [34]. Fad (ix) 02:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration

You might be interested in this: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Armenia-Azerbaijan. Khoi khoi 04:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unincorporated/incorporated

Hey Golbez, sorry about the confusion. I thought the phrase "this list" referred to the list of territories that immeidately ensued; I realize now that you meant it to refer to the article as a whole. However, the article isn't really a list. Maybe "list" should be changed to "article"?

If I haven't said so lately, I am in awe of the work you've put into Territorial evolution of the United States!

--Jfruh (talk) 18:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Space race

Dear,

Start the space race, bring the concern, was the result of the sputnick launch. Please refer to space race This in not meant to be some kind of demerit or aggression to the US. It's just a fact. Nasa came from the concern the lauch created ! As it is a fact that the soviets just did this because their atomic warheads where worse, and therefore, they used more powerful rockets. Or that the US got far more tech from the space race than the USSR.

As far as the spelling is concerned, I am sure you could have been more kind. Please, if you could use some more politeness in subsequent posts, I am sure the discussion will be more productive

best regards

Cold Light 00:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did not mean to be POV (so-called refered to the "space race", what POV do you reckon it was promoting ?) anyways, I thought it could be a good way to underline the fact that the cold war stimulated technology in the US. More as an example.

however:

"achieved successes in space science and technology, leading to a space race"

does mean that the US gave the first steps in the space race, right ?

If it does, well, as I said before, that is not a fact.

We could omit who started it, or state it was the USSR. I think the second one brings more clarity to the dinamics of the cold war. It can even be underlined that the US got much more tech from it that the soviets. Please, if you could sugest an non-POV way to include that information on the article, I'd be glad to contribute as I can

Cold Light 14:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nun

Sorry about the revision to Nun. I thought I was removing vandalism, instead I seem to have restored it. Thanks for fixing my mistake.

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 18:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment

I am just bothered a little bit that this has become somehow an ethnic war and that Grandmaster hit on every Armenian users he could, I had decided at first to concentrate on Adil and the two peatpuppets of his, but Grandmaster doesn't understand that by defending Adil he is harming himself, there is no question now, unfortunitly that I have to defende myself and include Grandmaster cooperating with a member who will possibly be blocked indefinitly from English Wikipedia unless you could convince him to concentrate on those who have done things which he hasn't done and drop all those insignificancies by some not so actif members and I'll try to do the same with some Armenian members who are thinking like Grandmaster there. There is no point in trying to get "sentenced" every Armenian and Azeri users when without Adil and his two meatpuppets action and reaction this cases would have never been submitted to the Arbitration committee and that had any of us (Armenian or Azeri) submitted it, it would have been rejected. Tel me what you think, because believe me I have incriminating materials against Grandmaster, but after all this cases is done, we need an Azeri member who is active in those topics, to debate with. I am waiting your reply, regards. Fad (ix) 15:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cooling things down

Thanks for reverting this edit on my talk page. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with Essene? I'd rather not aggravate him if possible and would in fact rather turn this into something as positive as possible - difficult as that may be. Should I refer him somewhere else for his questions to be answered? (Not that he's likely to be satisfied, but I'd like to be sure I'm acting appropriately.)

I would RFC it (or self-RFC) but it doesn't meet the criteria of two users commenting on his userpage or mine. --Chriswaterguy talk 23:30, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NKAO page

Golbez, what do you think? [35] --AdilBaguirov 07:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, if you don't like my wording, then present yours. Since recognition of such important organizations as PACE, OIC and UN GA, as well as nations such as USA, is a fact, it should be reflected alongside with UN SC. We can shorten the wording by cutting down on the number of nations listed, and using abbreviations for the abovementioned organizations. --AdilBaguirov 20:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move of baronets

Hi, the correct format of titles of articles about baronets is either John Smith or, if the simple name is occupied, Sir John Smith, 1st Baronet, however in no case John Case, 1st Baronet (see also Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(names_and_titles)#Other_non-royal_names, paragraph four). Greetings ~~ Phoe _talk 18:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC) ~~ [reply]

Help

Golbez, Grandmaster is trying to get me blocked, look here, [36] and on Newyork brad's page, You never reverted me you reverted the other guy he is trying to make it look like I reverted twice but I did not I would never violate my parole and If I did he would report me right away instead he's taking a stab at it please do something because I'm sure you were not referring to me. Artaxiad 14:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

dootdoot

"Stop that"?

Why should I stop? What's wrong with the metric system? It's a superior form of measurement and, as a matter of fact, is the US's official form of measurement ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order ). Plus, I am not even deleting the Imperial measurements, I am merely adding the metric measurements. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Devz0r (talk • contribs) 13:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Oh I'm sorry I didn't know; I'm kind of new. I can understand for the US (official) things, but for measurements that do not include metric measurements I thought it would be nice for those who don't measure using the (US) Imperial system to be able to understand what the article is talking about as well. - Devz0r 00:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Adolf Hitler

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Adolf Hitler, you will be blocked from editing. Dee Mac Con Uladh 18:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for nominating it! KFP (talk | contribs) 20:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Golbez,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 1, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-07-01. howcheng {chat} 23:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Suppose I take a screen shot from Google Earth, add text to it, tweak it, etc. and then upload it here as my own creation...not allowed? Marskell 09:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's what I was thinking. It was just that you'd said "Find a map of Peru and shade in the appropriate area." Given that the area is so tiny, I'll have a hard time doing that with anything but Google Earth. Marskell 09:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:CSA states evolution.gif

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Image: Mexico states evolution

I congratulate you for making this extraordinary contribution. However, I would like to note a couple of things regarding the map and history:

Central America (or, more accurately, the Provinces of Central America which comprised the territories of what was considered the "Captaincy General of Guatemala") was part of Mexico from 1821 to 1823. Even on the Archivo General de la Nación maps of the evolution of the Mexican territory include Central America, which seceded before the 1824 constitution was drafted. Chiapas was one of these provinces. When Central America decided to secede, Chiapas chose to remain in the Union by referendum.
The Republic of Rio Grande was not constitutionally independent, but only in a de facto manner and for a matter of a couple of months. It didn't "rejoin" Mexico. The "insurrection" was fought by (and defeated) by the centralist troops of Santa Anna. It didn't rejoin: it was forced not to secede. If the Republic of Rio Grande is considered an fully independent nation that rejoined Mexico, then so was Zacatecas, which also declared its independence when centralism was established, but whose troops were also defeated by Santa Anna. On the other hand, Santa Anna's forces could not defeat the forces of either Texas or Yucatán, and both became full independent nations. The territorial acquisition/evolution map of the US, for example does not exclude the Confederate States because they did not secede successfully, but were brought back to the Union by war. So is the case with Zacatecas and the Republic of Rio Grande. (BTW, some historians even deny the existence of the Republic other than by a written proposal).
The Republic of Yucatán was de jure independent on two occasions, and not one: from 1841-1843 and from 1846-1848. On both occasions the "insurrection" defeated Santa Anna, a new constitution of the independent nation was drafted (ergo they became a de jure independent nation), and on both occasions it was through negotiations that Yucatán rejoined Mexico. The first time Yucatán rejoined Mexico under the condition that it was not going to be treated as a "province" or "department" but as a "state" which allowed them to keep their constitution and trade tariffs. The second time it was negotiated that Yucatán would rejoin Mexico if Mexico would send the army to fight back the indigenous insurrection which had destabilized the country [Yucatán] (in what was called "La Guerra de Castas", which lasted for several decades).

--theDúnadan 17:20, 17 March 2007 (UTC)-[reply]

US Land area ranking

There is no dispute in the ranking with China in land area. Both the US and China recognize China as having the larger land area. The dispute is only over total area, which includes bodies of water, because the US has many more lakes than China. I have included a reference as well. What's your justification for reverting? Penser 09:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Penser[reply]

Thanks, Golbez. I appreciate your conscientiousness. Penser 09:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Penser[reply]

re: USA, PRC, and areas

(from your post on User talk:Penser) Actually, from the lengthy discussions on List of countries by area, the discrepancy is because of two issues: 1. the USA has changed its method of calculating water areas in recent years, thereby increasing its size, which some international organisations/sources have not caught onto/recognised, and 2. the inclusion in the PRC figure of territories administered by China but claimed by India.

Even using new figures for the USA ("overseas territories" excluded), and even excluding Taiwan and associated islands, including the Indian-claimed areas puts China at 3rd, while excluding them puts China at 4th. See, for example, the figures currently listed at List of countries by area, both of which exclude Taiwan and other ROC-administered islands.

In its official stats, the PRC is usually ambiguous (preferring figures like "9.6 million square km" rather than an exact figure), probably because it knows including Taiwan is contrary to reality, yet excluding Taiwan is contrary to its own state policies. --Sumple (Talk) 10:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VTO:

If you could be as so kind as to tell me why did you remove my days of research & typeing? I wont lie it is not from another site! So please explain!--Mr.Taka 17:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

you got the wrong idea! I ment to say that i typed that after reading several 911 reports on that day!--Mr.Taka 17:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy wiki editing!

Mr.Taka has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

GW Democrats

in a recent edit summary, you stated that you "agree, that is a far disproportionate amount of text for that group." Yet in the edit, you restored the text. This seems to conflict with the comments made in the summary, since the general consensus on the talk page is that the article is disproportionately long. I just wanted to make sure this wasn't some mistake on your part (no offense intended). If you do feel that the expanded text is more appropriate, it would be greatly appreciated if you could go into more detail at Talk:George_Washington_University#GW_Democrats. Thank you. --Ybbor ^T 23:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If I didn't know better I'd think you were using malicious edit summaries. ;) Get some sleep man. --Ybbor ^T 01:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

George Vithoulkas

Ok, i've got one question if you could answer it please. Is it not preferable first to notify and warn editors about complications due to their biased views, than to directly and immediately call WP ? I'm not sure the WikiPedia Foundation would prefer the second...Homeopathic 16:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying. Since the 'well has been soured', we'll give some time, respecting the WP rules (regarding disputes) to see how this will end (ie what information will stay in Vithoulkas' WP page). After that, if we still find the information is misleading, the WikiPedia Foundation will be contacted ofcourse.Homeopathic 17:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IRC

Actually, I really did overreact when I kicked that person from the channel. I also was being overly pissy when the situation didn't warrant it. I accept your apology, in any case. No biggie. Bumm13 17:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: US map

I changed the color of the map for the reason I mentionned on the history page itself. I have no more comment to add at this point. You suggest to "revert the map and not the article" itself. I don't know what that means and how it could matter. So, I let you do the change yourself. Best, SSZ 21:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Saaya Irie

Hi, I have a question. When two sources conflict in information, what determines what goes in the wikiarticle? Or in the case of Saaya Irie, the same source have conflicting information. I don't know whether you read the talk page, but I think I summed up the idea pretty well there. Hanfresco 22:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

source for Pentagon strike

Thanks for the comment, instead of simply cutting it away, I always suggest improving. I have changed the reference to the English version. If you have a better (more detailed etc.) source for the statement, please feel free to replace the one I used. But please don't just take it away. Even if it might contradict your political views (which I suppose).--Kjell.kuehne 05:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you let me know in what criteria you base your evaluation of "inadequate", maybe I will be able to agree with you! Why is this source inadequate and what is an adequate source for you? --Kjell.kuehne 02:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

"Did You Know" has been updated

On 22 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Territorial evolution of Mexico, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Mgm|^(talk) 08:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to all those neat maps, and the fact you've done similar things for Canada and the United States and gotten Featured Pictures, are you working on an animated evolution of Mexico? Rigadoun (talk) 15:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, now I see. Perhaps it should be added to the evolution page at the top, as a synopsis of contents? Rigadoun (talk) 18:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Armenian-Azeri ArbCom

In response to your continuous and therefore aggressive attempts at involving me in the ongoing ArbCom [1], and despite my clearly-versed pleas for being removed and your failure to address my concerns, your name has been added based on the following proposal: "Anyone aggressively editing these articles should assume they are a party. Add their names and give them notice. No motion is necessary. Fred Bauder 13:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)" [2] You are now a party and subject to all the applicable rules and regulations and injunctions. HyeProfile 19:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That should deserve special attention. Please look at a threat [37] --Dacy69 23:17, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Hello, can you please create and protect 25px because it will be on the main page tomorrow. (It's from commons at the moment.)--User:Rock2e ^{Talk - Contribs} 21:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, actually, sometime it was changed, it was a different picture yesterday. Is there any way to automatically protect commons images if they are on the wikipedia main page because yesterday, Walter Clark could be edited on commons because it wan't protected and it wasn't local on Wikipedia.--User:Rock2e ^{Talk - Contribs} 13:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, (For next time) what copyright do you need to put it as and do I just save the Commons pic on my Hard Drive then upload it (I'm new)?--User:Rock2e ^{Talk - Contribs} 13:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nagorno-Karabakh

By the way regarding this line on the article, "officially part of the Republic of Azerbaijan", that sounds like POV pushing since the status of Karabakh is not yet determined, since its under Armenian control, backed by historical claims, if we add that than there should be a sentence right after it saying currently under Armenian control in the intro or else its misleading into thinking Azerbaijan owns it when it does not, it is where Armenians live, it is where they pay millions to restore schools, churches, houses etc, where they would never do they have nothing to it, only poor historians like Mamedova claiming Armenians came from Mars or somewhere, its a good time to start propaganda in there country since there still shaking from the 92 war. Artaxiad 23:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah but you deal with the conflicts there, I was just blabbering. Artaxiad 00:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its okay I'll be out of here soon anyway *sigh* Artaxiad 00:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:)

I see we were both a victim of the strange activities of User 59.128.70.110. People are very odd, sometimes, if indeed, they are people. (re the "reproduction" link thing)

Image:Mexico states evolution.gif

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mexico states evolution.gif, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for nominating it! KFP (talk | contribs) 16:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hey

is it ok if ppl do stuff in your sandbox?

user:Jimmy butt

Nagorno-Karabakh

Please consider unprotecting Nagorno-Karabakh. If you look through Dmcdevit's recent log, he has unprotected a number of articles in the Armenia-Azeri dispute saying that editors under 1RR parole should be blocked rather than protecting the article. Thatcher131 17:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If we write "Dağlıq Qarabağ Respublikası" (Azerbaijani form) instead of "Lernayin Gharabaghi Hanrapetutyun" (Armenian form) that could imply that Azerbaijan recognizes that state in the Upper-Karabakh. Euratlas 19:07, 8 May 2007 (GMT +1)

United States

Why did you revert my editing about Latin Americans preferring the term "estadounidense" to describe someone from the United States?

"Peace y'all"

Hi Golbez, I would love to say "peace y'all", but I said that last week, and ChrisO has shown no sign of taking that controversy to heart. Admins are allowed to make mistakes, but I don't feel comfortable with one that keeps making the same one without even acknowledging it as such. I added the relevant links on my comments. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 20:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Atlas

Could you please add a translation in commons:Atlas#Other languages of the text into Japanese you can write. Electionworld Talk? 21:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Washington DC

Hello, Golbez! Thank you for reverting vandalism to Wikipedia. After you revert, I would recommend also warning the users whose edits you revert on their talk pages with an appropriate template or custom message. This will serve to direct new users towards the sandbox, educate them about Wikipedia, and a stern warning to a vandal may prevent him or her from vandalizing again. Thanks! --AW 15:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for admin help

User:Tarbra has been adding unsource violations of WP:BLP to Dick Francis, on their user page and has created Linda Corby where they posted the same info. I reverted on Dick Francis and Linda Corby but didn't want to touch the user page. Maybe they just need to understand the rules better. --PTR 15:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thx

thx, i love you man & I don't mean that as a woos… not at all… ;) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lovelight (talk • contribs) 22:48, 3 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

NK Intro, let's stop this nonsense

Golbez,let's both stop acting like children fighting over candy, and let's just try to discuss this in a civil way... From my arguments against your proposed changes, which ones do you agree with, and which ones don't you agree with? Now although your change strengthens the Azeri POV in my opinion (read that second sentence by itself, and you'll see what I mean), I do have to admit that you probably didn't intend any harm in it since you were clearly trying to "fix" the logic of the intro... The only thing I'm asking is for you to understand how your changes weakens NPOV of that second sentence, and we can build it from there... I really don't want those months of discussions over the intro to go to waste, so let's be constructive instead of destructive... Handshake??? HyeProfile 15:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A question for you

Here. Tom e r ^talk 04:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To quote from Louisiana Purchase,

Napoleon Bonaparte returned Louisiana to French control from Spain in 1800, under the Treaty of San Ildefonso (Louisiana had been a Spanish colony since 1762). However, the treaty was kept secret, and Louisiana remained under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France. The transfer finally took place on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the cession to the United States..

I bolded the last part there, because I think it's of particular relevance, as well as the fact that the negotiations took place between the gov't of France and US diplomats, not between them and the gov't of Spain... TIA, Tom e r ^talk 05:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Animated Gun Turret

I notice that you voted against the promotion of the Animated Gun Turret on the Featured Picture Candidates pages; however, User:Emscopes, the creator of the image, has retooled it to reflect the suggestions of those who voted oppose. I was wondering if you would take another look at the photo and see if the new version warrented a change in your vote. Thank You TomStar81 (Talk) 21:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Territorial acquisition in US series

I came across the Image:United States 1789-03-1789-08.png series at the end of last year an was impressed by it. I tried to find it again today and for about 30 minutes was unable to. I basically searched around the theme "Historical maps of the United States". There I found many maps and many categories, but none that were the series I was seeking. Since one of the maps listed in there had the same blank, I followed it to "User:Golbez" and found a reference to the series on the page by jengod. Is it me, or is this series separated off somehow from all the other US maps? Can it be made more prominent in the category listings? -- SGBailey 23:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:The Bad Tax Man

Remember him?? Well, he's the guy who got me into Wikipedia. He recruited me as a meatpuppet to vote in the "Votes for Deletion" (as it was back then), and taught me everything I needed to know about Wikipedia (in the days before semi-protection and cascading protection, remember them??). However, instead of trying to vandalise, I just reported his "Cornchips" sockpuppets that he used to edit the Wayne Rooney page when I created a user account - my original account was User:Bourne End (dammit, I lost the password to that one!).

I was accused of being a sockpuppet in my RFA, if you wish to admin coach me that would be helpful. I'm technically not a sockpuppet, but not a new user either.... confusing eh?? But now I've explained my history!

Anyhow, The Bad Tax Man hasn't come back to Wikipedia, and won't be... but he has apologised for his behaviour! --SunStar Net ^talk 12:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

jamdonut

Why did you unblock jamdonut? This person does a lot of blatant vandalism page moves (switching Evil and Religion, switching Jesus and Muhammed), and has been doing it for a while, despite several warnings. This user was previously blocked but unblocked for unknown reasons by Yamla. Yamla also helped jamdonut delete his user page talk history (also for reasons unknown), probably hiding a long history of warnings, and maybe even more previous blocks and unblocks. Fredwerner 19:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going to ask what is going on over at User talk:Jamdonut... dude seems to think you are unblocking him but he still has an indef (and I'd suggest he not be unblocked right now, it looks like he got caught by an earlier autoblock of another vandal account; a user "he never heard of").--Isotope23 19:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No reason to salt the kid's wounds though... revert and ignore. All you are doing is creating another pissed off ex-editor who might just start vandalizing more then they already have...--Isotope23 20:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yamla UNblocked jamdonut on March 27. Someone else had to block him earlier for him to need Yamla to unblock him.Fredwerner 04:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

conspiratorial template

Congressman Paul said: "Well, that would be nice to have. Unfortunately, we don't have that in place. It will be a little bit better now with the Democrats now in charge of oversight. But you know, for top level policy there's not a whole lot of difference between the two policies so a real investigation isn't going to happen. But I think we have to keep pushing for it. And like you and others, we see the investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on."; so you see, he does acknowledge cover-up (conspiracy if you wish)… imo that template should be named properly, feel free to join the discussion. Regards. Lovelight 00:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Governors of Alaska

Hey, I just wanted to say, great work on List of Governors of Alaska. Much cleaner, much better. --Yksin 18:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Have you even looked at the talk page: [38]??? --Ali'i 18:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you should have a closer look. "remotely contradicts my actions"? How about a growing consensus to NOT move the page. You don't think that contradicts your actions? --Ali'i 18:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Virginia Tech massacre

Hi, I would have really appreciated it if you had checked the talk page before moving this article. There was some disagreement about whether it should be moved. The article was protected to encourage users to discuss before moving the article. Thanks, alphachimp 18:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further, whether or or not you agree with the arguments presented (see [39]) shouldn't be relevant. alphachimp 18:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever. Are you going to wheel war with me if I revert your actions per WP:BRD? alphachimp 18:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, can you please take a break? Please? You're trying to use force when already warned about a wheel war, and you're resorting to insults - it looks to an outsider that you're getting far too worked up about this. --Kizor 18:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably right, I'll take a break. --Golbez 18:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiThanks

Thank you for being reasonable yesterday. Thank you today for your continuing efforts, and in particular for fighting the good fight against vandalism. --Kizor 15:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please block Eudora (KS) school's IP: 75.19.155.147

Hi Golbez, can you block 75.19.155.147? That IP address is apparently a school in Eudora, Kansas, and they've done nothing but vandalism for months. Not that kids would check their IP address's talk page, but multiple warnings were posted including 3 "last warnings", but were never blocked, and someone from there just did it again, vandalizing Paul Rusesabagina.Fredwerner 02:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of interest

Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Tobias_Conradi. ShivaIdol 07:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Centreville

4000 other articles correctly say Centreville. Please self-revert and stop edit-warring with inaccurate information. Centreville is in Fairfax County. THF 14:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You live in D.C. and you're insisting on spelling the name of a D.C. suburb incorrectly? I don't get it, man. Check out the Post headline and story. Crikey! Of all the work that needs to be done, you do this. Moncrief 15:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Straw poll

You expressed opinions on the reordering of Cho Seung-hui's name. Please vote in the straw poll on renaming him in Wikipedia here. --Dynaflow 07:02, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No More Basescu

Thx for adding the news about Traian Basescu's impeachment to the main page! Copycat989 14:01, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tobias Conradi

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tobias Conradi. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tobias Conradi/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tobias Conradi/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Srikeit 18:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ganja

Hi Golbez. I don’t think that you should have reverted Ganja. First of all, the section that you restored was created by User:Pulu-Pughi, a sock of banned user, [40] and banned users are not entitled to edit Wikipedia articles. Their edits should be reverted regardless of their quality, see WP:BAN#Enforcement_by_reverting_edits. Second, the info that the sock added is inaccurate, please see talk of the article for more details. The sources make perfectly clear that the city was founded by Arabs, while the text that you restored tries to create a different impression. If an edit cites some sources, it does not mean that they are used accurately and not distorted, and it is not a reason to restore them. I’ve been asking for quotes from the sources used for quite some time, and finally had to search for them myself. As I expected, they say something different to what is ascribed to them. Regards, Grandmaster 11:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I never said they were unsourced, I said that the info was added by a sock account and the sources were not quoted on talk despite my numerous requests. Examination of sources shows that they were misquoted. Please see talk and my comment. Grandmaster 11:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the edit summaries should provide accurate info. But as you correctly noted I'm not responsible for that summary. Thanks for rolling it back, I don't mind adding any info as long as it is properly sourced and accurate. Grandmaster 11:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USA

My apologies, it's just that it looked odd when I was looking at countless other pages of countries that had declared independence from the UK and thought it was a mix up, Sorry! Speedboy Salesman 15:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

Regarding the RfC you just opened, you still have some typos (or grammar issues) in your first sentence. :) --StuffOfInterest 15:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I was talking about "times attempted to change to established". :) --StuffOfInterest 15:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I had already known about the bot, but thank you anyway. Regards, Julian 22:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

For unblocking me. Orbicle 15:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Charlotte: City or Suburb

Charlotte: city or suburb

I was born and raised in a large city and I moved to Charlotte due in large part based on what the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce described Charlotte to be: "world class city". I have been here for 3 years and it has been a disappointment. I RESPECT people who do love Charlotte; I came to Charlotte with certain expectations based on cities I have lived in my life (all of them in the North). In the North, all cities share many similar traits such as ethnic neighborhoods, professional baseball, public train systems, world class museums, etc. The only difference among these cities are size. So when I came to Charlotte, I thought Charlotte would be a smaller city but have all of these things. I understand it is a perspective thing: if someone came from a smaller town then Charlotte is a world class city; but if someone came from a larger city then Charlotte is almost like a suburb. Again, I RESPECT people who do like Charlotte and believe it is a world-class city BUT I do want people to acknowledge and respect that the feelings of others may be different especially if others came from a larger city and are expecting certain traits of those cities to be in Charlotte. Thank you.

Don't mind for now

I HAVE WORKING MY BABALOOO NAME AGAIN! I AM SO HAPPY AGAIN! I THANK YOU TO TAKE AWAY MY BABALOOOBABALOOO NAME FOR NOW. Babalooo 21:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear it. I apologize for all of the inconvenience this has caused. --Golbez 22:02, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the Andorra Map You've Created in Japanese

Recently I've been working with several articles related to Andorra and I found your message on the note page of アンドラ. I'd like to use the map you have created, Image:Andorra parishes japanese.png, but it needs a small modification from ヴェ to ベ in order to adjust it to the articles. Because we write not アンドラ・ラ・ヴェリャ but アンドラ・ラ・ベリャ at Japanese Wikipedia in order to write Andorra la Vella in Japanese.

I can modify it by myself, but I wanted to know whether it is all right or not, and wanted to say thank you for creating the map as well.--HannaLi 17:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AHS

One quite simple way to look at it: no {{ongoing weather}} or {{current}} tag on the main page means it's not a current event, hence not current-class. Current-class is really meant for current events, which the AHS is not until June 1. – Chacor 12:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or the TWOs. TWOs are only issued during hurricane season. Out-of-season storms doesn't force TWO issuances. Anyhow, talk page section created. Please discuss before further reverts. Cheers. – Chacor 12:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Could you move Lori (province) to Lori? Thanks! -- Aivazovsky 15:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you also unlock the Armenians article? It's been locked since March 22. -- Aivazovsky 15:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eurovision_Song_Contest

See Eurovision_Song_Contest#Participation - especially para 3 in italics. Is there any chnace that you could make a map that shows the area covered by this? -- SGBailey 19:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another move

Could you please move Nakhichevan to "Nakhchivan" per talk page? -- Aivazovsky 21:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

Lately, I've been working to bring the WTC article, and its subarticles to featured status. Right now, one is at peer review - Wikipedia:Peer review/Design and construction of the World Trade Center. It covers historical/planning aspects, as well as structural design and construction. Before going to WP:FAC, this article can use some folks to look it over and make suggestions, make sure it's not missing any important details, etc. There's no obligation at all, but any help with reviewing the article would be most appreciated, should you be interested and willing. --Aude (talk) 16:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

Golbz, those comments were directed against Atabek. You have been nothing but tireless and sincere in your commendable efforts here and it would ridiculous for me to accuse of "poisoning the atmosphere" in the face of all the work you have put in. Frustration with working with two near-uncompromising sides is a natural given :). You may have not read this but it's worth here repeating from the Nakhichevan page:

You cannot persuade a party of frenzied nationalists that two blacks do not make a white; consequently, no day went by without a catalogue of complaints from both sides, Armenians and Tartars [Azeris], of unprovoked attacks, murders, village burnings and the like. Specifically, the situation was a series of vicious cycles.

-C.E. Bechhofer

--MarshallBagramyan 17:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:AN3RR

Hi, Golbez, could you have another look at the 3RR report you recently processed? Dmcdevit's had a look at the Checkuser evidence and made a comment that may change the result of this report. Thanks. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 04:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As it appears that you are not around to review your block in light of the checkuser evidence, I have taken the following steps:

Given Dmcdevit's checkuser based conclusions I have unblocked Drastamat on the basis that he not a sockpuppet of a banned user
The 3RR report against MarshallBagramyan is therefore valid and I have accordingly blocked him for 24 hours
Given the evidence that Drastamat revert warred using sockpuppets, I have blocked him for 48 hours

Yours, WjBscribe 10:10, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In light of the continued use of sockpuppets to make the same edits to the article in question, I have now restored the indefblock of Drastamat. WjBscribe 19:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry accusation against myself

Golbez, first I would like to thank [41] DmcDevit for running the checkuser and clearing my name of this groundless charge. I discuss all my edits and make them on all pages. So very likely that Drastamat was established by one of those accusing me. What's appaling though is your accusation of myself. Don't you think your position as a perceived mediator on Nagorno-Karabakh page becomes seriously questionnable provided your presumptive assumptions with regards to myself? I mean a mediator by definition must be impartial after all. If you think otherwise, why don't you initiate a little checkuser to ever check that it could be Artaxiad, Fadix or one of the banned or existing users of the "other side", which is trying to blackmail and get me banned. Atabek 16:11, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note :) I remember you have earlier chosen to nail down only User:AdilBaguirov during ArbCom, although User:Artaxiad was clearly the worst violator of all Wiki rules as evidenced in ArbCom. But no hard feelings in any case and thank you for your mediation efforts in this very fierce and very sad conflict. I don't defend Drastamat, I don't know who this user is, and he is at the mercy of administrators in any case. And if sockpuppetry is found let him carry the punishment. What's concerning is User:Vartanm, User:Augustgrahl, and User:MarshallBagramyan, who are engaging in an edit war on the pages I even briefly touch, and then accuse me of sockpuppetry. How do I know they're not the ones establishing Drastamat, following my edits to accuse me. It's even more concerning that although initially included in ArbCom and not at all acting differently than those restricted by ArbCom, these three users have pretty much walked free due to miscalculation and enjoy unrestricted edit warring. Atabek 16:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Just dropping a note to let you know that my ISP was blocked because other users on it were vandalising pages. Seeing as I have never vandalized Wikipedia, I have filed an unblock request. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Actions • Words)))} 21:34, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P. S. For some reason, I only get the block notice when editing Livonia Mall, and even then, I only get the message sometimes. What the heck? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Actions • Words)))} 21:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same happenned here. Thegreatdr 21:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. I'm logged in under my own user name, have never vandalized, but have been blocked because some other user under another username apparently comes from the same IP. Since I'm at a major university, there's quite a number of us using this IP, I would imagine. --Yksin 21:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. I'm logged in under my own user name, have never vandalized, but have been blocked because some other user under another username apparently comes from the same IP. Paul venter 21:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fielding about a dozen unblock requests concerning this very issue right now. Please don't be so reckless when blocking people, and remember to enable the autoblock only when appropriate in order to avoid piling on unnecessary work for the rest of us. // Pilotguy hold short 21:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well I am clear now, SqueakBox 21:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What the heck happened yesterday What did you do to accidentally block all of wikipedia?--Dr who1975 00:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for (not) answering my question... how administrator-like of you.--Dr who1975 19:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read your response. Trolls post on a board for no other reason than to mess with people... I had a specific question. How you ever got to be an administrator is beyond me. If you don't like people asking you questions about your mistake... try not screwing up all of wikipedia... then you won't have to deal with it. Calling me a troll simply for asking you a question and expressing frustration is not administrator like behavior. You are supposed to be held to a higher standard. You really owe me a BIG apology and you still owe me that explanation.--Dr who1975 19:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read your further response... let's take a few steps back... how exactly do the senetnces.. "What the heck happened yesterday What did you do to accidentally block all of wikipedia?" insult your work? You msut be very sensetive if you thought this was sufficient troll like behavior to ignore me.--Dr who1975 14:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you owe Golbez an apology and not the other way around. He made a mistake, nuff said, SqueakBox 19:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you do need to chillax. I'll admit I was pissed off myself (above) when this happened as CAT:RFU was bigger than the Charlotte landfill at the time, but Golbez had no idea which IP that user was using. A mistake was made, if even that, and now we know what not to block. You really should lay off. -Pilotguy hold short 21:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn;t even know what kind of mistake he made because he ignored me and called me a troll. Simply becaue I had the "audacity" to ask him what went wrong. I had to be mildly sarcastic just to get the guy to talk to me and then I'm a troll. What kind of catch 22 is that? --Dr who1975 14:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps being called a troll was mild sarcasm too. --Golbez 18:16, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

you're still illustrating my point... catch 22.--Dr who1975 23:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well he obviously did it deliberately just to annoy everybody, SqueakBox 19:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes... I thought he did it on purpose... that's why I used the word "accidentally". I had to move your response to the bottom because it changes/colors the sequence of my discours with Golbez if you put it in the middle.--Dr who1975 15:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I share your sense of hilarity, SqueakBox 03:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW... Technically, I didn't try to get you de-admined... I was just asking around about it.--Dr who1975 17:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ping

Please read your commons talk page. Bawolff 19:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ron Paul

I am not alleging Racism, and neither is "common sense." If you read the sourced 1996 article, you would see that one of his political opponents along with the author of the article/editorial alleged it. I have been editing wikipedia long enough that I know simple rules like no original research, adding sources to my additions, importance, verifying my sources (especially for a biography of a living person), etc. I followed all these rules in adding the racism section, but a long line of Ron Paul supporters have been removing it to the point that I feel like I have to police the section to ensure the article remains NPOV. The general consensus of regular editors on the talk page seems to be that there is nothing wrong with the section as a whole. Please, before removing it again, read the entire 1996 article and discuss what you think is wrong with it on the talk page. Rm999 14:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

governorates of Egypt

Hello Golbez. Can you please explain to me your reason for reverting the many changes I made on Governorates of Egypt? Thanks! --Lanternix 20:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your reversion to a vandalised revision of my userpage. Don't do this again

(Doc aberdeen 14:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

proposed edits

Hi Golbez. Quick question about your response: "Since you say you now understand, I'm unblocking you; please do not see this as an endorsement of your proposed edits."

Are you telling me not to make the proposed edits lest I get blocked again? Pistolpierre 03:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

please stop stalking

please stop stalking. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Islands (department)

Hello Golbez! Recently Cmm 394 has moved around some articles. This moves are all undone with the exception of the article mentioned above as only admins are able to undo this move. The article was moved to Islas De La Bahia (Deparment) and I've moved it to Islas de la Bahía (department) as a temporary solution. As you are the last one who moved it correctly in January 2006 before this moving around and an admin, maybe you could undo the move by Cmm 394? Thanks! VirtualDelight 19:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks perfect, thank you very much for your quick help. VirtualDelight 10:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:CNN911scrn.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:CNN911scrn.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. Ilse @ 10:07, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't know you are not the uploader of this image. I tagged the image as having no fair use rationale. – Ilse @ 10:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Governorates of Egypt

Hi Golbez. Regarding the picture you asked about, a friend of mine created the image and I put the numbers. I believe she traced the lines herself, but it could be that she used an older map or template. Why do you ask? Thanks. --Lanternix 18:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re:The USA state map

Thanks for the heads up. I'm really ashamed about that because I'm a Virginian. ;) In my defense, I was not the one who created the map. Anyway, take a look at it. I think I've addressed your concerns. I also added DC, in addition to giving the Eastern Shore back to VA. Thanks again.-Andrew c 16:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NYC intro

Hi Golbez - I've been a longtime editor of the New York City article and am pleased to see it's received FA status. Nevertheless it's accumulated a lot of bloat along the way. You mention in your edit that the "FAC page" seems to prefer the longer version. I can't find this page and would much appreciate if you could direct me to it. The main talk page doesn't include such a discussion. Below are examples of the bloat excised by my editing. All the material is covered elsewhere in the article and in language that is not so informal and subjective.

"The city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the former twin towers of the World Trade Center." [This shouldn't be in the intro]

"From its beginnings on Manhattan Island, the city spread onto nearby Staten Island, western Long Island, and mainland North America. The mainland and many islands of New York are linked by a network of bridges and tunnels, including the Brooklyn Bridge and Holland Tunnel." [The details of bridges and tunnels are covered in the transport section]

"The city was founded as the colony of New Amsterdam by Dutch colonists in the early 17th century, being ceded as part of the Province of New York to the English in 1664. The five boroughs were consolidated into one city in 1898. It has been central to the development of the United States, serving as the nation's first capital city in 1789, and has had a large influence in American media, finance, and politics. It is the site of some of the country's largest celebrations in size, including ticker-tape parades for returning astronauts and the celebrations in Times Square of the end of World War II, but has also seen tragic times, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks." [This is all covered in the history section, which immediately follows the intro. The final sentence is stylistically inelegant.]

V Foundation

Hi,

I saw that you deleted the article on the V Foundation. I didn't see a reason for its deletion, so I wanted to inquire if you remembered the circumstances. I was going to create the article as a redirect to Jim Valvano's article, but thought I should check and see first. Thanks matt91486 17:30, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

who is "EBES" and why do i have to pay a partisan think tank for what you claim is a USAF report?

EBES is an abbreviation of the title, and the second, I don't know.  Xiutwel (talk) 08:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for contacting The John Birch Society. We do have available the document you requested. It is available in PDF format for $25.00. If you make your request at csummers@jbs.org our customer service representative can take your order.

 Xiutwel (talk) 17:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jocker City

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Jocker City. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review.--W.marsh 13:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know the original creator of this article in real-life - it was him and his meatpuppets that kept re-creating it. I even reported one of their sock/meatpuppets. I'd be surprised if the person listing it at DRV was a meatpuppet of theirs, as they haven't edited Wikipedia for two years! --SunStar Net ^talk 09:57, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Work

Keep up the good work. --Jay(Talk) 04:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Governors of Kentucky

Thank you for your recent work on List of Governors of Kentucky. As a member of WikiProject Kentucky, I am interested in bringing this list to featured list status, and would very much like to collaborate with you in your efforts. What suggestions do you have for further improving the list? I thought about adding a "Higher offices held" column. Acdixon 14:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks better in my opinion. I think good next steps might be to add years of birth and death (eliminating the Living Governors section), a column for higher offices held, and splitting the term start and term end, using full date format as has been done to the last few entries. All of this info can be found at the National Governors Association web site. What do you think? Acdixon 03:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've not found the NGA to be inaccurate, but it's entirely possible. Still, if we fill in the info from there, I can go back to the library and grab the book on Kentucky Governors that I've been using. I could probably verify all the info in an hour or so, making corrections as needed. What do you think? Acdixon 13:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting changes. I like the separate table for higher offices held better than I thought I would. The notes section also looks pretty good to me. We've definitely got a good start going here. I say we finish off the expansion of term dates, and then I really would like to add birth and death years to see what it looks like. That was one of the suggestions I got when I tried to get List of people from Kentucky promoted to featured list. Let's keep rolling; I think this is a featured list in the making! Acdixon 11:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I get the blame for missing Fletcher. I didn't know he'd ever been a Rep, and didn't bother to look at his page on NGA. Thanks for the catch, and I think the other additions are appropriate as well. Thanks again for your continuing help! Acdixon 14:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have my Kentucky Governors reference at hand (I'll have to get it from the library,) but I do have The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Here's what it says:

James Clark's death date: August 27, 1839
Charles A. Wickliffe took office: September 27, 1839 (Strange! Were we without a governor for a month, I wonder?) Both men's entries are authored by Dr. Lowell H. Harrison.
Exact date for John Adair's term isn't given, but KYE confirms Gabriel Slaughter's term ended September 7, 1820.
KYE also confirms date of June 4, 1792 for Isaac Shelby's term start.

Maybe I can get to the library this weekend. I know there is a book there that has term dates for every governor through Julian Carroll, (although it's been known to be wrong as well.) I've got a few other sources I'll try to lay hands on soon as well. Thanks for your diligence. Acdixon 12:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right about the date issue; no one will notice. I got List of counties in Kentucky promoted to FL, then realized I'd completely left out a county! I might at some point go back and add the birth and death years, but if you're hearing good things from other Wikipedians, I'm willing to give it a shot as is. I hope you'll be able to help me respond to comments, though. I've really got my hands full with an FA nom of Confederate government of Kentucky at the moment. Acdixon 14:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's nominated. Add this page to your watchlist. And to the defense of FLC, Kentucky has 120 counties (third most in the country) so missing one is pretty easy. LOL Thanks again for your awesome help. Acdixon 14:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Darn, I knew there was something else I meant to do to this list. I was the one who added that column, and I did so based on KDLA. I've been unable to find any corroborating evidence, and all four you mention are omitted from a list in Powell's Kentucky Governors. I hadn't made the connection that all were presidents of the state senate at that time, so I suspect your hunch is correct. Removing them is the right idea. Thanks. BTW, now that you've gone to the trouble of tracking down which four these were again, I might contact KDLA for clarification. Also BTW, I have a book due at the library tomorrow, so I'll grab the governors book while I'm there. Acdixon 13:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure the "as of" date on "Living former governors" is encyclopedic. Most encyclopedias are understood to contain information current as of the date of their publication. I know Wikipedia is different since it doesn't have a publication date, but something about it still doesn't seem right. Could we just remove it with the understanding that someone in WikiProject Kentucky will update the list when one of them dies? Acdixon 14:57, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming no suitable text for the living former governors section is proposed, I still believe we can address this by including birth and death years for each governor and eliminating the section itself. Here's an example of how it would look.

#	Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Lieutenant Governor^[e]	Notes
1	Isaac Shelby (1750 – 1826)	Democratic-Republican	June 4 1792	June 7 1796	None^[1]
60	Ernie Fletcher (1952 – )	Republican	December 9 2003	Incumbent	Steve Pence	^[2]

Hope you don't think I'm just pushing the issue on this; if we can address it another way, that's fine with me. This is just one suggestion. Acdixon 15:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Solution in place works for me. Whatever gets it promoted. Thanks. Acdixon 17:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder

Just a reminder that you should upload a local version of any Commons image you add to the Main Page (or protect it on Commons). -- tariqabjotu 21:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: (ok you're outtahere)

concerns: September 11, 2001 attacks

I am assuming good faith on everyone's part. Q: are you? Would you please indicate more clearly what you mean, since I am not a native speaker. I am going to revert your deletion in a few minutes, unless you convince me not to.  Xiutwel (talk) 12:44, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. You might be right on the vandalism part, ofcourse, but then you might not, so (a) please check this with the editor and (b) we are not into punishing; there are two seperate edits. I am going to respond to this editor's unspoken needs; I beg you not to delete it again. Cheers,  Xiutwel (talk) 12:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks !

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Don Murphy

Thank you for fixing that. The fact that there might be a sane Editor like yourself never really entered my thoughts. Appreciated!ThisNeverEnds 07:07, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious as to your involvement with this article. Can you explain the reason for this edit? -- Zanimum 15:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My involvement is purely my distaste for the previous edit summary. --Golbez 15:34, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So it was entirely that very odd edit summary that made you revert the edit, nothing to do with the actual content? You have never been contacted about this article by Murphy or any of his fans? -- Zanimum 15:58, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, I'm not entirely sure why it matters. Second of all, I was alerted to his ranting, and decided to see what he was ranting about, and saw that edit summary. I wasn't contacted by him until after I made the edit, on my talk page as you can see. As for the content, I saw the editor had reverted many editors worth of work on the pure derision of "committee", which I disliked. --Golbez 16:18, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have to concur with Golbez, there was no reason for the original edit adding that text back into the article. If it was done "by committee", that would denote some level of consensus and furthermore the text just isn't terribly relevant. I say this, by the way, as someone who blocked the above sockpuppet who thanked Golbez.--Isotope23 16:36, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the content about this fight, whether addressing a real fight or a persistent rumour about one, should only be very minimal in the article. It was one night of his life, not a major element to his personal existence. However, this incident is unfortunately what he received the most press for from major publications, before Transformers.

What committee had removed the content? Unless Arbcom was involved, the only group attention his article received was through the Administrator's noticeboard. For all I know, the person who readded the content was full of themselves, and I don't support them at all. However is it not factual? Is it not citable? -- Zanimum 16:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted links to IBISEYE.COM

That was not intended to be spam at all.

We've spent two years developing a web site that shows historic storms (back to 1851) in a completely unique way - including the observed or estimated windfield by quadrant. In addition, we we've generated statistsics on the relative severity of storms based on the number or towns exposed to hurricane force winds along with pop and households (using the 2000 census); in addition, for storms that hit Florida, we calculated the number, type and location and value of properties theoretically exposed to hurricane force winds winds (using the 2006 statewide property rolls as a benchmark.) All this data is updated on the fly when there is an active storms forecast to hit the US.

And there is much more to the web site, including a live news feed, near real-time weather data and NWS alerts and a damage reporting system that is utterly unique.

Of course, we are a commercial site, but we're part of the NY Times newspaper chain and we developed this application on the news side. Our intention all along was to create a hurricane resource that is live, dynamic and well informed.

There are are other links on hurricane pages that are repeated and clearly don't offer the depth and context of IBISEYE.

Please reconsider removing our link.

Cheers, Mo user: motamman

Three-revert rule warning

Please note that you have reverted the same material in United States three times in a span of less than twenty-one hours: [42], [43], and [44]. You are in danger of violating WP:3RR and are clearly engaged in a single-issue edit war for obscure reasons. As you must know, your advocacy in Talk has fallen far short of achieving a consensus for removal of this material; you have failed to address the specific responses made to your arguments--that there are "extensive articles" on the war (though there are also extensive articles on dozens of other topics covered in the article) and that the costs of other wars aren't mentioned (though, unlike this war, those others are not current); and, while you accuse others of dishonesty in their edit summaries, you wrote an explicitly false edit summary when you claimed that a "daily toll" was being made, rather than a periodical weekly, biweekly, or monthly update, as is done with all of the data in the article of a current nature per our sources. You are clearly a responsible and highly productive editor on other articles; your behavior in this matter is inexplicable and unworthy of your overall contribution to the encyclopedia.—DCGeist 05:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC) Resolved.—DCGeist 07:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note. I've looked over my initial edit summaries on this matter, and you're right. They were unnecessarily snarky in tone. I apologize. I've gotten in the habit of cracking wise in edit summaries on the heavy-workload anti-vandalism beats of punk rock and heavy metal, just to keep the spirits up of myself and the other couple of involved editors. I brought that habit over to this exchange, where it wasn't appropriate. Best, Dan.—DCGeist 07:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to?

Since you have closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Companies in Bangladesh, I can only turn to you to find out. How do put that discussion for a DRV? The discussion page there seems to be for undeletion of articles, not renewed discussion for a huge list of bundled articles. Besides, I'd like have a review of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Greek companies and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese companies, too. Please, help. And, if possible, leave note to my talk page. Cheers. Aditya Kabir 12:44, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that didn't answer anything

Let me clear one thing very clearly - I am not disputing your decision. I am looking for help, not justification of you decision. Since I have never been to a DRV, and you suggested that it should be taken to a DRV, I thought I should turn to you for help. You see, I really believe that process is important.

I guess I didn't formed the questions right for you to understand. Therefore, I am asking again:

Steps to list a new deletion review clearly describe the process to put a deleted article for review. No such process exists for articles that are not deleted. My question: What is the process for nominating an article that was not deleted, but supposedly can be deleted?
So far what I have seen on the DRV, single articles are being discussed, as well as single deletion discussions (especially single discussions). My question: How do I nominate a host of articles bundled in, especially when I am proposing a review of at least three previous discussions?

I hope I have asked the right questions this time. Please, leave a note to my talk page. Aditya Kabir 04:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assume good faith, please. I beg you.

I know there was error on my side. I know you are perfect in following the process, and did exactly what needed to be done. I am not challenging anyone here. I am rather following your suggestion - "The result was Speedy close; take it to DRV." I am trying to take it to DRV, and in a meaningful way, following the process as much possible. And, that is why I am asking you this questions. If you don't have an answer, please, tell me if you know someone who has. Wikipedia for me isn't a game of challenges, but rather is place where we should help out each other and reaching consensus. I am asking for "help". And, if I can't seek help from an admin, I don't know who I can turn to. Please, respond. Aditya Kabir 07:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, dear. I guess I needed to be bold in this.

Aditya Kabir has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

No problem.

We all get stressed at times, and you didn't know me at all. I was a bit lost myself. Now that you've shown me the way I have decided to take the long route towards a consensus, and posted to the Lists Wikiproject (see here). May be I needed to invent process from earlier on, as I have found out that many of the policies actually began as wild attempts at being bold. Aditya Kabir 09:43, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oklahoma City bombing

Hi, you reverted my change to the introduction of the article. I'm not that great at summarizing information in articles, so how would you recommend summarizing the information in the response and relief section for the intro? I didn't know how else to explain it, so if you could give me a better example to include or if you changed it yourself, I'd appreciate it. Thanks for watching out for the article. --Nehrams2020 18:37, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But according to WP:LEAD#Provide_an_accessible_overview, the lead should include some summary of one of the important sections in the article. I think it would be important to make some mention of the information, and that's why I included a summary of some of the facts there. If it was rewritten better, its addition to the lead would be beneficial for the article. --Nehrams2020 20:34, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pong Kombat

As long as you can find some reliable references, I won't send it to AfD. Whispe ring 19:28, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Governors of Colorado

Please look at changes before just reverting. My changes were very specific, limited, and I believe quite justified. Thanks. --Buaidh 01:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Heart

Whoa, you need to stop these "stalking" accusations. Actors, including porn stars, are ROUTINELY identified by their real name on Wikipedia-where available. John Celona.

My unblock of Jamiepgs

Hi, Golbez. I see you've been commenting here about the case of Jamiepgs (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Although you haven't complained about my unblocking, I just want to apologise for not notifying you personally. I rushed out shortly after the unblock, and didn't return home for several hours. Sophia, whom I've encountered before, and whom I consider a responsible user, had done a Google search for some of Jamiepgs's strange facts, and thought that this was not a clear case of vandalism. If you had blocked for sockpuppetry or harassment, I wouldn't have undone your block without discussing it with you first, as I'd know that you might be aware of facts that I didn't know about. In the case of a user adding "strange" facts to some articles, I thought the risk was minimal, and I felt that others would be watching out for his contributions. I hope everything will work out. If it doesn't, I shan't object to a reblock. Just want to say that I hope you didn't mind. Cheers. ElinorD (talk) 20:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of cities in Israel FLC

I've made some arguments that this list does not need neither "by population" in its title, nor a basic population sort because its primary purpose is to be an exhaustive list, like the B.C. municipalities one. Could you reconsider your position? Circeus 16:51, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All-Star Final Vote

I am not sure if you are aware, but All-Star Final Vote is a featured list candidate. You can participate in the discussions here.

You may want to visit Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links). It is not necessary to repeat links to the same term in an article expecially within the same subsection.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have revised for section by section linking duplication considerations.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 21:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your linking additions are fine. I am considering returning to side-by-side formatting that I had in an earlier version. At Talk:All-Star_Final_Vote#formatting_.28return_to_side-by-side.29 you can see the current version followed by the old side-by-side version that was considered to wide for most user displays and a newly proposed side-by-side version. I am thinking of going with the new version for two reasons: 1. it makes the page shorter, 2. it makes possible discussion of one continuous chart. What do you think of the new side-by-side format?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 14:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

^ The office of lieutenant governor was created by the second Kentucky Constitution, ratified in 1799.
^ Governor Fletcher's first term expires in 2007; he is seeking re-election.

[ltgov-1] The office of lieutenant governor was created by the second Kentucky Constitution, ratified in 1799.

[2] Governor Fletcher's first term expires in 2007; he is seeking re-election.

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