User talk:Rahlgd

Dies ist meine Diskussionsseite

Hahahaha...

I laughed when I saw your page. :P -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email 10:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possible identity issues

Hello, just in case we run into issues, I've edited your userpage a bit. I've realised that if I were to google for my name, it comes up with your userpage. I have replaced all text with sample texts, removed all references to my identity (such as contact details), without changing the layout. I don't mind you using the layout, just be sure to change the HTML colour codes around, just a bit, so that your page becomes more original (e.g. you can make it blue, or green...), and if you like, switch around with the section layouts. Kindest regards, -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email 01:18, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Rahlgd,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

Each casebook will have a subpage.

Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 05:39, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Largest cities of Brazil

Hi. I'm concerned about the current version of this template. It appears not to have links to any sources and mentions 2006 estimates, but replaced a version with a link to an apparently valid 2008 source. Also, the current version, and the original version you installed in August, have an obvious error for Duque de Caxias, which another editor corrected (or, at least, made more reasonable) and has reversed wikilinks, which another editor corrected. Your most recent change undid those apparent improvements. Can you explain this? As things stand now, it would be better to return to the 2008 sourced version and make whatever detailed improvements you want to make starting with that base. Celestra (talk) 22:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit summary today gave me hope that the problems I pointed out above had been addressed. I am sorry to see that is not the case. Merely changing the date to claim that the values are more current is not helpful since the 2008 estimates do not agree with the table. Please provide a source for your information or back out your changes. I'm copying these messages to the template talk page. Celestra (talk) 20:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. Now I understand where the values you used are supposed to come from. I don't think that we should use the values from the various pages in a single table, since that means the table may have 2009 data for one city and 2008 data for a different city. Also, a quick check shows that three of the first four values don't match the pages and the population on the Sao Paulo page, for instance, doesn't match the source. I think we should return to the 2008 estimates and drop the unsourced metropolitan numbers. Does that sound agreeable to you? Celestra (talk) 19:52, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Annual income chart

Hello, there are two requests in your chart's talkpage asking for some sources supporting the information shown, so you're welcome to provide the sources for that chart; otherwise it could be removed from Wikipedia, regards. Supaman89 (talk) 00:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

T-90

Please check the date and content of your sources. The deal was -finalized- on Sept 14, 2009 for T-72s -only-. All of your sources -predate- Sept 14, and are -speculation- on what Venezuela may buy, not confirmation of sales. This does not constitute a valid source. Please see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090914/wl_afp/venezuelarussiamilitaryweapons_20090914104449 the source I provided. Thanks. - Jonathon A H (talk) 17:57, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, please check your dates. Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia, thus based on fact. Listing Venezuela as an operator is disingenuous as it is not the case. They do not operate them, and until you have proof of an actual deal, it is not right to list them as an operator. A source dated Sept 14, the most recent source listed, states that Venezuela did not buy T-90s, and signed a deal for T-72s only. Please consider this before making changes again. -Jonathon A H (talk) 18:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply. First of all, I created a section on the T-90 talk page for discussion on the talk page. Second of all, you're still failing to address the point that until a deal is signed, this is speculation. Stating they wish to buy something is different from actually purchasing it. There is a deal for the T-72s, thus it's fair to list Venezuela as an operator of T-72s, there is not a deal for T-90s. One may be signed in the future, but it does not exist now, so listing Venezuela as an operator is not proper. Venezuela should be removed from the operators list until a deal is finalized.-Jonathon A H (talk) 18:44, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image of mestizos

Hello:

Native Mexicans (aka "Indigenous People") are not the second largest ethnic group in Mexico. Having a big picture depicting several Native Mexicans is just pure and plain Undue Weight. Unfortunately INEGI does not keep track of "race" in Mexico as it is seen politically incorrect and kinda racist. Also according to other sources, "whites" are the second largest group in Mexico and growing, meanwhile Native Mexicans are decreasing.

But most importantly as I have said, there's already a picture showing ethnic diversity. You're free to add that picture in the corresponding article, but seems too much for a subsection. Alex Covarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 00:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gradiente

Where did you get the information that Gradiente which is bankrupt is manufacturing the PlayStation 3? :) --Rhe br (talk) 12:42, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you get the information that Gradiente with a $7.521 billion profit in 2009 was bankrupt? Rahlgd (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant content in Mexico

Fellow Wikipedian Rahlgd, please pay attention to the discussion going on the talk page of Mexico. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerealito (talk • contribs) 20:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

November 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Mexico – United States border‎. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit and is especially useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:02, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Latin America

Rahlgd, I'll take a closer look at your latest changes later. But I see that you're not reusing references properly.

Let's take this reference (ignore the "nowiki" tags in the code; don't use them): <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.examplewebsite.com/blahblahblah_this_and_the_other.htm |title=Home page of examplewebsite.com |accessdate=2010-04-08}}</ref>. If you want to use it to reference a second or more statements, all you have to do is give it a name in the first place:
<ref name=example>{{cite web |url=http://www.examplewebsite.com/blahblahblah_this_and_the_other.htm |title=Home page of examplewebsite.com |accessdate=2010-04-08}}</ref>. Then you only have to use the name after that:
Scientists have discovered that most people like food that tastes good.<ref name=example/>
You see? You won't have to use the whole text of the reference every time. The end product will look like any statement with a reference, of course:
Scientists have discovered that most people like food that tastes good.^[1]
SamEV (talk) 21:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC); 19:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also could you provide a ref for the statement that LatAm is more developed than China? That's interesting stuff, but without a source it would have to be removed. SamEV (talk) 21:20, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged it with a citation request. SamEV (talk) 19:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Make sure to provide titles for longer URLs. There was a bare URL which I can only characterize as monstrous. Look at this: before (go to the "References" section and look at ref #75) and after (look at ref #75 again). This is all I did to make that happen: [1]. Cheers. SamEV (talk) 19:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Good luck. SamEV (talk) 04:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Problem, actually. I saw a message at Talk:Latin America which alerted me to issues with the data. I made some attempts to verify and the results were not encouraging. So I'm going to restore the previous version until those issues are worked out. I'll continue trying to help if I'm able.

Have you seen List of cities by GDP? Maybe you could find some more sources there. SamEV (talk) 06:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on a new version of the ethnic dist. table, here (diff). Any suggestions? SamEV (talk) 03:56, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your help is requiered

Hello Rahlgd. I need your help in the article Trillion dollar club. Some anonymous user is deleting Mexico from the list. I used the source you added to the article Mexico, from the World Bank, to prove that Mexico is a trillion dollar economy as of 2009.

That user keep deleting the source. So I need your help to keep the source, which is valid and verifiable. Thank you. Alex Covarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 21:49, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Leopard 2a7.png

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An award

		The Mexican Barnstar of National Merit
		I award you this barnstar for your efforts to keep up to date any information related to Mexico, and for your patriotism. Alex Covarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 21:41, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
		_{this WikiAward was given to Rahlgd by AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} on 21:41, 19 July 2010 (UTC)}[reply]

GLEE!!!!!! Rahlgd (talk) 03:53, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Aztec restored architecture.jpg (Caption Needs to be Revised)

The image you placed on Mexico's Page is not Aztec architecture, it is actually "Talud-Tablero architecture" typical of Teotihuacano culture. The restored temple in the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City is a representation of the "Temple of Quetzalcoatl" found in Teotihuacan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.64.33.183 (talk) 05:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, i saw it there a long time ago and had this nagging feeling that it wasnt Aztec when i uploaded it but didnt remember what civilization had built it. Thanks for the heads up!Rahlgd (talk) 05:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

City Population

Hi, Rahlgd

I see you made some edits at List of metropolitan areas by population.

I am the groundskeeper at World's largest municipalities by population. We are always interested in the latest official data for the population within the strict administrative boundaries of a city, along with proper references. No agglomeration, no metropolises. Strict city population within defined city limits. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you! -- BsBsBs (talk) 05:29, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mesoamerican languages

Thanks for taking an interest in wikipedias articles about Mesoamerica. Your edits changing the phonological descriptions in articles about Mesoamerican languages such as those you made to Nahuatl, Classical Nahuatl language, Otomí language and Zapotecan languages are not helpful and have been reverted by several different editors. Your transcription scheme is not one that is currently recognized by any groups of linguists or by the indigenous groups themselves and it is confusing rather than informative. If you have any arguments based on wikipedia policies in favour of including those transcriptions you should present them on the talk page before making the edits to see if other editors agree, failure to discuss such changes before implementing them will simply result in your edits being reverted. Thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 13:47, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re. "Didxažon Mǎsěvalätǒli" You have been repeatedly told by several editors with professional level knowledge of Mesoamerican indigenous languages that your spelling reforms are not commonly used in authoritative sources either in Mexico or outside (in fact I have not been able to find even non-authoritative sources using them). Please stop trying to include these spellings in wikipedia, or if you insist make a discussion in the right forum e.g. the talk page of the articles about the language in question or in a general forum such as Wikiproject Mesoamerica and try to get consensus to include the spellings by providing authoritative sources that use those spellings. ·Maunus·ƛ· 21:23, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I see you actually have a source for Dižaxon which means Zoogocho Zapotec in Zoogocho Zapotec (you were spelling it wrong as Didxažon). However this is the English wikipedia and we of course use the prevalent English names for languages - in this case the English name is Zoogocho Zapotec.·Maunus·ƛ· 12:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, about Mexican army

Wow is it true that stuff about the Mexican hidden military budget? I was shocked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlakuache (talk • contribs) 09:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I see I was fascinated with the stats Tlakuache (talk) 14:54, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hola Rah I see that the article Mexico is under a major picture improvement effort so I wanted to ask you if you have better pictures for the Mexican Congress? The current picture is very ugly and does not show the front of the chamber of deputies with the two big flags which is the most promiment feature of the chamber. Tlakuache (talk) 05:19, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I just learnt how to upload pictures. Is it ok if I modify some in the article Mexico? I'm glad I can edit it now. Tlakuache (talk) 05:50, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and I forgot to tell you that they created a new project about North America I want to join and I thought that you would also want to join. I've seen that you are a very dedicated editor. They left an invitation in the Mexico talk article. Tlakuache (talk) 05:53, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's San Pedro, not Monterrey

Hi! Thank you for uploading pics and information on the Monterrey, Mexico page. Just a heads up: I edited some info on one of your pic files: it stated that what was shown was the "city Center", when it is actually part of the municipality of San Pedro. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Valdezlopez (talk • contribs) 16:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RPG-29 If you're the person that is adding that the RPG-29 is being built under license by the SDN please refrain yourself of doing that until you have a proper source to back that claim up, at the moment there is none. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.151.50.61 (talk) 17:46, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject North America

Another editor has noticed your contributions to articles related to North America, and would like to invite you to join WikiProject North America, a collaborative effort to improve coverage of North America on Wikipedia.

Alex Covarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 08:26, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Axav script

What's this about? I see no source for this. Dougweller (talk) 08:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rahlgd please stop your nonsensical additions to articles about indigenous languages. It is becoming very difficult to keep assuming good faith when half of your additions are copyright violations or something very similar to hoaxes.·Maunus·ƛ· 14:03, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mexico and weapons of mass destruction

Rahgld, I think the information you found is very interesting. It definitely belongs in the article Mexico and I was wondering if you could help me to create the article Mexico and weapons of mass destruction (which currently hasn't been created).

We should make it look like this exampled Argentina and weapons of mass destruction or Brazil and weapons of mass destruction, two Latin American examples. Alex Covarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 05:29, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it think thats a great idea, i'm not very knowledgeable about Mexico's chemical or biological weapons, although they probably do have at least some chemical weapons if they went as far as developing nuclear weapon. Have you started an article? Rahlgd (talk) 05:21, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

I have started a thread at Ani about our recent dispute at Template talk:Ethnicity in Mexico and Talk:Nahua people.·Maunus·ƛ· 17:56, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Mexican Paratroopers with the RPG-29.jpg

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blocked

Until we have sorted out what was up with this edit, I have blocked both you and your other account User:Mapudunganpanzer for sockpuppetry. Gwen Gale (talk) 18:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

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--Kumioko (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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