User talk:Lamato

Good job

		The Original Barnstar
		For your great work on the Għonnella article. Marcus1234 18:51, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Malta Summit, was selected for DYK!

On January 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Malta Summit, 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.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 03:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MALTA, Black Monday (Malta)

Hello. Please feel free to visit WP:MALTA to facilitate participation in Malta-related topics. Looks like you are doing some great work. Sorry for the rushed introduction, but I'm mainly wondering if you can take a look at revisions to your edits on Black Monday (Malta) - User:134.146.0.12 made it along with some definite POV elsewhere that I already cleaned up. Grazzi 「ѕʀʟ·✎」 21:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Malta Summit.jpg)

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Malta WikiProject

Dear Lamato, Because of your activity and/or contributions to articles/pages related to the island nation of Malta, I, founder of WikiProject Malta am here to ask you if you would be interested in becoming a member of the project. It is a relatively new wikiproject, and we need as many members as we can get; you would be a valued addition to the list of members. If you are interested in getting involved, then please do sign, because your contributions to the effort would be infinitely appreciated. Anonymous Dissident ^Utter 03:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i have nominated Culture of Malta for GA status. Again, you would be a great addition to WP:MAL. Anonymous Dissident ^Utter 09:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for Joining the Maltese WikiProject

Dear Lamato,

I would like to thank you for joining WikiProject Malta, a collaborative effort that aims to improve, write, expand and organise material related to the island nation of Malta. We currently need as many members as we can get, and you are a valued addition to the list of members. Please see our To-Do list if you would like to further contribute to the project, or help construct our project page.

Thank you,

The WikiProject Malta Team

Malta related article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St John's Square

Dear member of WikiProject Malta, I'd like to invite you to participate in an ongoing Article for Deletion debate about St John's Square in the capital of Malta. We'd like your input about whether the article should stay and go (and if you want to expand the stub, that would be great too!) All the best, Eliz81 ^(talk)^(contribs) 21:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD: Ġnejna Bay, Malta

Hi, there's an ongoing discussion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ġnejna Bay. I tried to improve the admittedly crappy original article like you improved St John's Square when it was nominated for deletion. I'd be grateful for any input from you as a native Maltese. Thanks :-) --Targeman 16:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, great additions! There's no way the article will get shot down now. Grazzi! :-) --Targeman 15:39, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have withdrawn this AFD, because of your great additions to it: it is now sourced, and has substantial content proving notability. Thanks, -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 15:57, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support, folks! lamato 16:14, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for stepping up to protect Ġnejna Bay. lamato 16:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure! I was supposed to visit Malta this year but it didn't work out, so I'm venting my frustration by trying to learn more about the place :-) --Targeman 16:28, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maltese people

Coincidentally, I was taking a look at your revisions just minutes prior to receiving your message, and I must say I'm impressed. The section is well sourced and most importantly, as you said, it's neutral and presents all sides of the debate. Good job, keep up the great work, lamato. Marcus1234 12:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for suggesting that we wikify History of Malta. I have proceeded to make it the projects current collaboration. I might have a look at it tomorrow to see what I can do to make some improvements. Thanks -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 07:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Malta in lists of State leaders

I notice you have been adding Malta into a number of List of State Leaders in xxxx articles. I am very dubious about Malta being in the articles you have entered it into as according to our own Malta article it became a British Dominion in 1800 not an independent state. These article are for states, while I would have thought Malta would have been better in the List of Colonial governors in 1800, etc. articles as it was a dominion at the time. Davewild 17:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply, the wikiproject generally settled on putting all states that have a de facto independence into the Lists of state leaders articles. (e.g List of colonial governors in 2007 and List of state leaders in 2007. This would certainly mean that Malta between 1530 and 1798 should be on the list as the Knight Hospitallers (as I note it is on a couple of the articles already such as List of state leaders in 1747. However between 1798 and independence it would be better put on the colonies lists. Putting a short note in the 1798 article explaining what happened and pointing to the colonies list seems sensible. I have already begun removing some of the New South Wales entries as they quite clearly were not states at the time. (the amount of work cleaning up these lists is huge as the project has not been very active recently!) Davewild 19:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have got rid of all the New South Wales entries now, let me know if you see any! Davewild 19:13, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the names of the Maltese village articles

There is currently an ongoing debate about whether the articles on Maltese villages should be given their English names. Kyarichy has already gone and renamed a bunch of articles such as as Kalkara citing these changes from an old obsolete paper and http://www.geody.com, even though these names are no longer in use.

The naming conventions clearly state that foreign location names commonly used in English should be used as the article names.

It would be appreciated if you could assist us in this discussion. ~ ► Wykebjs ◄ (userpage | talk) 10:59, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Malta Summit.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Malta Summit.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Damiens.rf 15:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedija bil-Malti

As a native Maltese speaker we encourage you to write in the Maltese version of the Wikipedia: mt.wikipedia.org
Leli Forte (talk) 13:05, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Maltese cheeses

Category:Maltese cheeses, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:06, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:27, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]