User talk:VodkaJazz/Archive 1

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VodkaJazz is suffering from physical health issues. This may affect his ability to work on Wikipedia. Consequently, he may not be able to respond to talk-page messages or e-mails in a timely manner. Your patience is greatly appreciated.

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Meelar (talk) 04:56, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

mt.wiki

Trid tagħmel daqqa t' id f' mt.wikipedia.org? .. we could use more editors over at mt. please reply over on mt: if you want.. Also if you know any other good Wikipedjani that might help, spread the word. Saħħa Srl 18:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also please consider visiting Wikipedia:Malta-related topics notice board. Srl 09:56, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Inadvertant block

I received your message, and I'm sorry about the block. If remain blocked then please supply me with your IP, and I'll be happy to unblock it. --Doc ^ask? 21:55, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NPA intervention

Greetings, I removed the personal attack note you added to the intervention page. I noticed that there weren't any NPA warnings given. Generally at least a couple need to have been given for an admin to do anything. I'll leave a note on his talk page and see if he responds, let me (or any admin) know if it continues. Also feel free to use the NPA warning templates that are listed on the personal attack intervention page. Later! Rx StrangeLove 11:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting short translation

I'm working on translating a biography from Italian to English, in order to write a featured article. If possible, can you please translate this paragraph:

Codesto, eccellente ingegno, del quale fu egualmente da ammirarsi il saper vario e la moltiforme operosità, che da compiangere la sventura perpetua terminata da una fine infelicissima, nacque non già in Anghiera sul lago Maggiore, siccome dal De Thou e da altri fu asserito, stimando essere una cosa sola Anglarium ed Angleria, meno ancora in Brescia od in Milano od in Bologna, come si ha da scrittori male informati, bensì in Anghiari, borgo di Toscana, tra Città S. Sepolcro ed Arezzo, della qual cosa egli stesso rende apertissima testimonianza in tutti i titoli ed in moltissimi luoghi, delle opere sue.

Thanks for your help :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 04:40

Thanks for the translation. I am only asking for a rough translation (something much better than babelfish but not necessarily perfect) in order to extract important facts. I've asked a couple dozen people to translate small parts of it, since it's a large document, and is the only biography I could find on Girolamo Maggi. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 20:53

Maltese holidays

Thanks for the creation of the article and linking to it on the Malta page. This is a step forward towards an eventual 2nd peer review in the future (most probably after a serious overhaul in summer when most editors can dedicate more time to Wiki). Since you are the original author and since you are administrator, I thought I would make this a bit short by telling you directly: Those holidays are National holidays. I am going to edit the article and divide in two sections, National and Public (Religious/Catholic), since it does not make much sense two have two seperate articles (at least IMO). I thought maybe you could rename the article from Public holidays in Malta to Holidays in Malta, since it is a bit strange to do such change with that title! In any case, that article needs to be renamed, if not to Holidays... to National Holidays....

Again, thanks for your interest in Malta :).

_└^VodkaJazz/_talk^┐ 20:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VodkaJazz. I like your ideas. Go ahead and edit Public holidays in Malta as you think best. To avoid edit conflicts with you, I'll let you move it to Holidays in Malta yourself. You don't need to be an administrator to do this. Happy editing. Cheers ! -- PFHLai 20:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I had a sudden memory loss... how stupid of me. Anyway, I did some stuff. As usual with new articles, it took a bit more than expected heh. _└^VodkaJazz/_talk^┐ 22:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nicely done. I like what you did there. Good work, VodkaJazz. --PFHLai 15:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Karatloz

Hi, I would appreciate it if you didn't try to erase my poems from other users' talk pages. Thanks. Karatloz 18:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tawkerbot2

The only thing is the IRC commands are restricted to people with operator stauts on the channels the bot is in, so i'm not sure how much help it would publically be. On the plus side, the bugs appear to be fixed which is a Good Thing :) -- Tawker 00:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

The Society Barnstar

for you article on Flags and symbols of Malta Maltesedog 16:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feminismm

Hey mate. Don't know where you got the idea for the feminism tag on your userpage, but it's brilliant, and I've copied it off you (shameless, I know). Only problem is that it's spelt Feminism, not Femminism. The latter is a broken link! Just one M. I'd change it for you myself, but that would just be rude! Thanks for the idea though! Kilbosh 19:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

St. Julian's

Hello, VodkaJazz. It looks like you, thankfully, caught a large blunder on my part. I check every article that I wikify or do major work on for copyright violations. When there is a large section of unwikified text, there is a good chance that an article is a copyright violation (a third to a half of the articles marked for wikification are copyright violations). I was going through the history looking for when a large amount of text was added in a single edit. I found such an edit, but I mistakenly thought all of the text came from that edit. I don't know how I pulled that one off, since the article is so long. I do check afterwards, but I guess I failed to do so this time or went temporarily blind or something. I mark few articles as copyright violations when I cannot find the source and only do so when I am almost positive that it is a copyright violation. I usually do 15 to 20 searches before giving up (I tried again and finally did find the source for that edit, but of course there was a lot of text that wasn't copied, at least from that source, that was added later). Fortunately, there are listed on copyright problems for seven days for anyone to catch a mistake and an admin has to agree that the article is a copyright violation before deleting it, though that should not be depended upon, of course. However, it is permissible to mark articles as copyright violations when the source cannot be found (unfortunately, they changed the procedure without my noticing, they are now marked on the talk page and put in a category). Anyway, you have my thanks for catching my mistake. -- Kjkolb 12:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints.

You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 17:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]