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Guess you must be interested to take a part to decide whether this template should stay. :-) — Insta ntnood 20:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Nightstallion.
I just noticed your post on Electionworld's talk page. I just wanted to let you know that I'm not going to start an edit war, but it is fairly obvious that common sense has little place on Wikipedia. The next logical step would naturally be to send out warnings to all the users welcoming others by saying "Use NPOV, Don't be a dick and Break all the rules" as saying this or similar must be a gross violation of whatever. But hey, if one's got to shoot oneself in the foot, why not do it properly? I now "really" regret that I spent wasted my time cleaning up that material some time ago, but I'll not make that mistake again. Regards.
Valentinian
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Sorry to bother you again Nightstallion, but I'm failing to get any answers about the closing of the poll on Talk:Wladyslaw II Jagiello. If you have some time, can you look into it? Pretty please? If not, who else closes polls? Regards, Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 11:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder (hrmmm...).
Right, as in all state-of-the-art research, where do I start but... Wikipedia of course! (What is the world coming to?)
sv:Republikanism does not say much at all, but here it is:
*[[Socialdemokraterna]] och [[Vänsterpartiet]] är republikanska enligt sina partiprogram, men socialdemokraterna har inte drivit frågan sedan första halvan av [[1900-talet]]. Vänsterpartiet motionerar varje år i [[riksdagen]] om att avskaffa monarkin, men motionen blir alltid nedröstad.
"The Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Left Party are republican according to their party programmes [can be translated either as manifestoes or platforms], but the Social Democrats have not pursued the question since the first half of the 20th century [uncited I note!]. The Left Party tables a Riksdag motion to abolish the monarchy every year, but the motion is always voted down."
*Några svenska politiker som uttalat sig för avskaffandet av monarkin är [[statsminister]] [[Göran Persson]] ([[Socialdemokraterna|s]]) och riksdagsledamot [[Birgitta Ohlsson]] ([[Folkpartiet liberalerna|fp]]), fd. ordförande i [[Republikanska föreningen]].
"Swedish politicians who have expressed support for the abolition of the monarchy are Prime Minister Göran Persson (Socialdemokraterna) and member of the Riksdag Birgitta Ohlsson ( Liberal People's Party (Sweden)), who is a former chairman of the Republican Union (Sweden)."
===Further reading===
"This is why I am a republican"
===External link=== Republikanska föreningen
Unfortunately that particular website is in Swedish only (many, if not most, larger organisations' websites are at least partly bi-lingual now).
I suppose that we could just start up a Republicanism in Sweden article, with that translation, link to it, eg here:
... and see who comes along with more info?
I remember an opinion poll about three years ago which measured support for abolition among members of the Riksdag. Off top of head, it was something like:
(Social Democrats run a minority govt with Left and Green ad-hoc support)
Love to source that, but don't know where to start to find it. -- Mais oui! 06:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm so sorry!!! I thought the Commons were where to-be-deleted files go..I guess I didn't read the description accurately. I apologize once again... -- Palffy 14:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Mind unprotecting that? I dont know if the macedonia nonsense settled but I want to make a few tweaks. To be more spesific, adding the nato flag to the template. :) -- Cat out 23:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
It's being stretched horizontally and breaking the layout. I'm using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 with a resolution of 1024x768. -- MC 23:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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Do we really need a bordered version of the flag? Wouldn't {{ border}} do as well? + Hexagon1 ( t) 07:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 16:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
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Severe Tropical Storm Bilis was a damaging tropical storm that caused significant damage to areas of southeastern China, the Philippines and Taiwan. The fourth named storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season formed to the east of the Philippines on July 8 and moved towards Taiwan, strengthening as it did so. It reached its peak strength of 110 km/h (70 mph) on July 13, shortly before it made its first landfall on northern Taiwan. Bilis then made a second landfall in Fujian, China on July 14 after officials evaucated over 1 million residents from the areas in the storm's path. The remnant lasted for several days after landfall and brought heavy rain to inland China. The most significant damage occurred in Hunan, where heavy flooding and mudslides destroyed over 31,000 homes and killed 345. Despite never reaching typhoon strength, the storm was responsible for $2.5 billion in damage and at least 625 fatalities in total.Other tropical cyclone activity
There were 10 other tropical cyclones worldwide in July, with activity in all 4 northern hemisphere basins.
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The July member of the month is Hurricanehink. The WikiProject awards this to him for the superb quality of his work on articles. Hurricanehink joined the project in November and has significantly contributed to many of the project's Featured Articles including Tropical Storm Allison and Hurricane Mitch. In addition to his contributions Hurricanehink also works on the assessment and improvement of most articles within the project.
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Hello, I see that you changed the map that I uploaded recently. You reverted Macedonia from candidate/SAp to SAp only and Croatia from candidate/SAp to candidate only. I agree that there is some logic behind this, but my original idea was to show that these countries are both SAp and candidates (as opposed to BiH/S/M/A that are SAp only or Turkey/B/R that are candidates only - also I don't wanted to bring too much colors, so that B/R progress in accession process is irrelevant in the image - they are colored just as candidates). I agree, that my bi-coloring skills are not perfect and someone may better fill Croatia and Macedonia, but anyway I think that they should be colored both as SAp and canidate. Agreed? Alinor 09:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Wikipe-tan is not a self reference in the article fan service. She's a character called Wikipe-tan that is drawn showing some types of cosplay fan service. That is a far cry from saying "this Wikipedia article is...". Just because something is named after Wikipedia does not make it a self reference issue. You're totally missing the point of WP:SELF. -- Ned Scott 09:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Probably best discussed on Talk:Fan service as opposed to ANI. Thanks -- Samir धर्म 09:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
It appears that naming convention of currency unit is very important to you. So I'm writing this to inform you that I am going to start capitalizing them within a day. I will also notify Dove1950 and update the style guide as well. -- Chochopk 09:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Nightstallion. I've noticed you have a particularly persistent vandal these days, that it seems several of us have been reverting on your pages. I was wondering if you might like to see if Tawkerbot2 can look over the page for you. It looks like all you have to do is request it at User:Tawkerbot2/protection requests. I wouldn't want to list it there without your OK. If you are not interested, I apologize for bothering you in advance. -- Brian G 18:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey, if you get a chance soon, would you mind making a move for me? From List of world's expositions to List of world expositions. This was discussed on the talk page. If you can, thnx, if not lemme know. :) Jo e I 19:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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Maybe the Wikiversity community should quickly select a simple temporary logo and then have a serious "competition" for creating the final logo. -- JWSchmidt 01:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Mcbride needs to be automatically deleted. Kyros 03:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your Andean Community edits. I think that Chile should still be listed under observer countries for now, they are officially not yet an associate, even though it is pretty clear that they will become one, following the official invitation and the public response by its government. Also, they should be kept under former full members, because they are not going to re-join as full members, and their early participation as such should be clear. As for Venezuela, it makes sense that it would become an associate member, but it is not really certain or clear from what can be gathered from the Andean Community (see the talk page), partly because the Venezuelan government would have to want to have that status, and Chávez might not be too interested. So, if you can't find a source for that, it would be better to add a sentence explaining the ambiguity. I would imagine that things will get clearer soon, there is a CSN meeting later this year, so one would expect some clarity. Thanks, -- Gabbec 13:40, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for improving the template and article. Your work is highly appreciated. Tchadienne 16:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
We definitely need you, along with 3 other admins—I am going to nominate you as a judging admin, if you don't mind. ςפקι Д Иτς ☺ ☻ 17:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I've reverted your use of rollback on this article. As far as I am aware, rollback should be used in cases of clear vandalism, which the edits by "The professor" were not. Part of his edits actually improved the article, giving it a less prescriptivist tone ;) Just a heads up :) - FrancisTyers · 11:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
.. for your endorsement of my Board candidacy. I really appreciate it!-- Eloquence * 03:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Rat! someone has already begun tagging currencies with "Category:Fixed Exchange Rate". And I have found many errors already: Danish krone, Hong Kong dollar, Iraqi dinar, Kuwaiti dinar, and Zimbabwean dollar (not by that guy tho). -- Chochopk 06:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Dear Nightstallion, 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.
My dear NS, in these months of friendship we've shared, you've gifted me some of the most beautiful moments a friend can give to another. This whole RfA thing is meaningless when I feel how much I value all we've gone through, and all the kindness and warmth you've selflessly given me; and as long as we remain part of this place, I know I'll enjoy my trip if a great person and friend as you is at my side. Btw, I can't help but to notice the beautiful header you've placed at this talk page... kinda reminds me of your own RfA thanking template, it's great! :) Tho I miss coming to visit you and seeing your pic... :( Anyway, for everything you are and everything you've gifted me, dear NS, thank you! :) With a great, big hug, your friend,
Re: "whoever did this doesn't speak [F]rench" (your edit summary at Preposition stranding): Actually, I do speak French, but simply messed up and bolded the wrong thing. Thanks for fixing it for me. :-) Ruakh 16:27, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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The article has been put forward as an FAC. I hope that you'll be happy to support the nomination. Thanks for your interest in the article, from the beginning. Bastin 09:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Can I ask you to delete the useless history of this redirect so that the article on this city can be moved back (it currently resides at Meissen). That way any editor who wants to move the page away from Meißen, where it has been for almost all of its time, can take the suggestion up at WP:RM. Stefán Ingi 10:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Wikiversity is now live (in beta mode)! They're using an OK, but not very logo-ish logo. Perhaps you would like to organise yet another logo discussion over at Meta once you're back. Maybe this one can finally be done properly! Thanks, — D a niel (‽) 11:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
User:Centrx had moved the Welsh self-government page, and I had moved it back again, before he had closed the Requested move discussion! I find this totally inexplicable. Firstly, why is he moving a page when the proposal has received zero support (except for a sockpuppet IP); and secondly, why is he moving a page without first closing the discussion? The whole thing is very unsatisfactory, and the Admin is refusing top engage in dialogue, see User talk:Centrx. I request your input. Thanks. -- Mais oui! 16:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I do not understand why you have moved Welsh nationalism to Welsh self-government after Centrx verified the original title (Welsh nationalism) was more applicable to the article and more common using academic and general sources. Moreover, he has closed the discussion. I'd be grateful if you could let me know your thinking and give some advice on the best way to resolve this, given that Mais oui! will not respond to me directly. Normalmouth 14:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to know, how did you get the European flag to always be in the bottom-left corner?-- Mac Lover Talk 18:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
The official name of Andres Bonifacio in the Philippines in English does not use diacritics. Please leave it this way.---- Jondel 13:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Several months ago there was a debate about the name of this page, and it was decided that it should move to Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (form Anne-Marie of Greece. Today User:ZIGBRYWG unilaterally moved it. Could you please use your admin. powers to move it back. Thanks. Noel S McFerran 13:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I've recently learnt SVG, and decided to practise map making (which is why I took up SVG) by making SVG versions of your maps from List of European Union member states by political system (so far only Image:EU Member states by head of state.svg and Image:EU Member states by head of state.svg have been uploaded; stupid slow Commons!). I was wondering what you, as original creator of the maps, thought of this, and whether I should change the images in the article (it is featured after all). smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 21:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Are these contributions [3] [4] [5] ANI post detrimental to the process? For some reason I don't think this is right. Vote stacking or something? It seems to be against Wikipedia:Survey notification.-- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 04:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you for your dilligence. Why do you want diacritics on the name? Is this to enforce the unsubstantiated opinion of the majority of voters who were asked but didn't explain the rationale for diacritics? We don't have diacritics on his name in the Philippines. This is not official. If you have a source or link using his name, at least place then in the links at the bottom of the page. We can put diacritics on the pronounciation guide but not as part of the official name. A lot of Filipinos are upset by anything which represents colonialism. Would you want to have a vote on this again? Thank you for your time fellow administrator.-- Jondel 13:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Nightstallion,
Just to let you know I've withdrawn my proposals re the above as, to quote my withdrawal, "I was unaware I was wandering into an area with consensus favo/uring non-English terms. Apologies!" I've sent the below to
Ezhiki to request information/conformation as to the correct plural forms for "krai" and "oblast" (and "subjekt"); can you concur? :
Thanks in advance to you too! David 14:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Ëzhiki has since sent, with my reply following in italics:
Okay, perfect! Thanks for keeping me up to date, and great work with your table of political divisions... Good luck with completing it! — Nightst a llion (?) 06:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to the Countries WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of counties.
There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 11:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I found you through that Association of Wikipedians With The Really Long Name :P. Anyway, first - cool! You speak a little Romanian! I've been interested in Romania for some time now, including an interest in learning the language (sooo... daaaamn... pretty! Like the lovechild of Italian and Russian and Latin and goodness knows what else! So cool. *weeps for the fact that her community college does not offer Romanian*). :) Though last I checked, a lot of the articles relating to Romania, including the bit on culture, needed some considerable editing. Have you been through them recently? The wording alone needed a LOT of work, I spent a lot of time on one just cleaning up the grammar not too awfully long ago.
Anyway. Ahem. Ostensibly, I figured that with the huge number of interests you have (heh, I'm the same way, especially when it comes to music. Except I'll tolerate some techno. Just not the annoyingly redundant techno. But then, I guess that's more like dance music than actual techno then... or maybe I'm thinking of trance music. Um, anyway), and the ginormous number of edits, there's (hopefully) bound to be something you might not mind doing over at fan fiction, fan fiction terminology, Mary Sue or legal issues with fan fiction. I'm trying to improve the quality of the fan fiction article (off which fan fiction terminology and legal issues with fan fiction ended up being spun due the ginormousness of it) hopefully to where it's at GA and really hopefully to where it's up to FA quality. I'm also really wanting to get Mary Sue up to GA status or better, though it's sort of hard lately to do so. Anyway, I've been basically keeping an eye out for people to ask to come over and edit and I figured you might be one of the ones that would be really good to ask, since you've clearly got about a bajillion tons of experience editing and all to have gotten a couple of articles onto the FA list!
Even if you aren't at all interested in editing any of them, then do you suppose you could tell me any of the things I'm doing wrong with them that I could fix to make them more palatable to the general reader and whatnot? :) I really want to improve them. Their subjects are interesting if only because of what their existence (and nature) says about people and literature.
Anyway, thank you very much for your time! Runa27 21:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Nightstallion,
Apologies not to imagine that either of these flags' templates had a significant edit history. If what you assert is correct, I guess the flags shown at French Southern Territories and Wallis and Futuna need updating or at least further explanation. Perhaps also you might add the source/s for your information re these flags on these templates' talk pages (or, perhaps better, as <noinclude>s on their pages); I can imagine other folk like myself who know no better going to try to update the templates only to find them protected and be left wondering why. Thanks and best wishes, David Kernow 16:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hey, do you know why the edit history for Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was cleared? It looks like there was an attempt to rename the article, but it has since gone back to its original name, and lost its edit history. Any way to bring it back? - SpuriousQ 08:58, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Some while ago, you closed a poll saying "The result of the debate was don't move, because there's a well-written policy which goes against this move, sorry." This action was unusual in itself - an admin taking it on themselves to interpret wiki guidelines against the will of the community. And in fact, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) states "Roman Emperors do not need the "of the Roman Empire", nor would Pericles be "of Athens" nor Algirdas "of Lithuania" – their names already indicate where they were from." I don't know if this has since been added; but 6:2 supported the move from the superfluous Gediminas of Lithuania to Gediminas. Tell me if you are unable or unwilling to put the move through so I can open another version of the poll. All the best, Calgacus ( ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 15:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
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Your vote is requested at the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. As one of the admins, you have until 23:59 UTC on September 4, 2006 to cast your vote for one of the naming conventions for state highways. Thanks for your participation.--Willy No1lakersfan ( Talk - Contribs) 02:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Despite how the poll was set up, the ArbCom clearly encouraged consensus on the matter. There is a clear lack of consensus on the poll. -- SPUI ( T - C) 05:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I saw you message on my talk page, and i corrected the info in above mentioned article, but neither the press release nor the original ruling state exactly what is nonconforming in the Law on Coat of Arms and Flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and what should be changed/corrected, only what should be changed in the law of Republika Srpska. Do you know of any interpretation of the ruling on the Net, that is from a reputable source? -- Branislav Jovanovic 11:16, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
You recently protected [7] this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on WP:PP. VoABot will automatically list such protected pages only if there is a summary. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. VoABot 12:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about dropping off the face of the world there. I've been taking semi-Wikibreak of sorts--new job and nice weather and all. Anyway, the main reason why I've gotten no further with that reorganisation of the chart is that ADIE has completely ignored my requests for a member list. I'd personally be reluctant to just amend the chart with a two-member column for MER unless we could nail down ADIE as well. The Tom 23:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
If you want to change your vote you can still do so but I'm switching the layout of the poll around to prepare for part 2. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 23:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
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Storm of the month
Typhoon Saomai (known as Typhoon Juan to PAGASA) claimed at least 441 lives and caused over $1.5 billion in damage. After forming on August 4 near Chuuk, the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan and southeastern China. It started to intensify, and reached its official peak with winds of 95 knots (175 km/h, 110 mph) on August 9. The JTWC reported that it peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon the same day, a strength Chinese forecasters described as the most powerful to hit China in 50 years. Saomai maintained that strength until landfall on August 10 and dissipated inland the next day.
Other tropical cyclone activity
There were 16 other tropical cyclones during August, in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The August member of the month is Nilfanion. The WikiProject awards this to him for his contributions in many diverse sections of the project. Nilfanion joined the Wikiproject in April and provides track maps for the project and has produced a featured picture. He has developed the tropical cyclone Commons Category scheme in the process. In addition he has produced a number of quality articles and is active in assessment.
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A | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
GA | 5 | 18 | 24 | 28 |
B | 82 | 79 | 77 | 79 |
Start | 168 | 180 | 191 | 200 |
Stub | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Total | 282 | 303 | 322 | 337 |
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Hello. I've been working on some of the Eurovision Song Contest articles. Another user and I are trying to find a map for the Eurovision Song Contest article. The problem at the moment is that the existing map needs to display more countries. After noticing your modification to the map on the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 article, I thought that you might be able to point me in the right direction for finding a map which includes all of these countries: [8], and is a "a large .png". If you have such a map, or if you can tell me where I could find one, I would be very grateful. Red v Blue 17:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Nightstallion,
Completely by chance I came across this page : User:Nightstallion/International Criminal Court when doing a google search. I have started a new page called State Parties of the International Criminal Court where I am hoping to track to progress towards ratification of various countries. If you have any info I could use that would be most gratefully received! AndrewRT - Talk 20:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello Nightstallion, Image:Flag of UNESCO.svg is again marked for deletion, may you have a look? -- 84.153.64.35 06:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you for your comment. However, I did not add that note, but merely reverted someone else's removal of it. You can see the revert diff here:
I am generally very meticulous in my own writing, but do not always take the time to copyedit the contributions of other users, so I did not correct that. I am not quite sure how to change this in all articles, although I think it's already part of a template. I am not quite familiar enough with the system yet, but I'd be happy if you could help me make the correction in all the applicable articles. laddiebuck 19:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. This note is a heads up that you might be called to help adjudicate/decide how to apply PI to part 1 of the Highways naming poll. As you know all of us judging admins selected P1, but it turns out that there is a question of applicability. You should read the threads yourself, but my summarization is as follows. Some states are not currently in conformance with P1, and do not want to change if they don't have to. They are saying that P1 only applies in cases where there was controversy, and if the state's road project/key users are with staying put, and if they set up redirects for all the articles so that P1 style searches find the articles, that ought to be enough. (in some cases maybe they'll switch later if they want to)
There seems to be agreement that if a state is in contention about conventions, P1 will be imposed, but disagreement about what "in contention" is. In particular, NJ participants are split about whether they are or are not in contention. I gave them all (arbitrarily, unfairly, etc, etc, because I'm being a bit of a hardass to keep things moving) until about an hour from now to come to consensus voluntarily or else... the or else is that we would canvass, decide, and impose our choice. Right now my read is that it may be less contentious overall to allow modified P1, that is, allow states that don't want to switch, the option not to do so (as long as redirects exist) either "right away" or "ever"... So please get ready to participate, I think we do it as another poll perhaps. I'll seek those of you on IRC out later, but probably we need to do the actual voting on wiki.
As a reminder here's the poll for part 1: Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Part1 and sure enough it says nothing about what states it applies to (only that two states get an exemption) ++ Lar: t/ c 20:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India is on FAC. Please give your comments on the article. This is not soliciting your vote, but considering the fact that you had voted in the previous FAC. Thanks. --May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 04:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Thany you in advance for allowing me to use your user page to figure out a bit of code on my user page. I was having trouble getting my headings to look right, so I imitated a bit of yours and used that code to get the desired result, my apologies if this offends you. Daniel_123 ► ► 15:05, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
At "Language skills of European citizens" Languages of the European Union there seems to be a mistake in the first table: it mentions Russian, not an official language of the EU. What is more, it mentions only 12 out of the 20 official languages of the EU, without explaining why.-- Michkalas 14:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Would you be able to move Legion of Doom (disambiguation) to Legion of Doom. Thank you Kyros 05:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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I saw in the news that the UN Security Council has approved a new peacekeeping mission, the Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), (which I guess will be the successor of Operation Astute). Here’s its Website [9]. No troops have been assigned to it yet. I wanted to let you know since you are the “Commissar-General” of UN peacekeeping articles. Also, I’ll probably forget to add to any lists it once the troops are on the ground. :-) – Zntrip 04:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
My apologies. I checked up, and you were right. Gamesmaster G-9 22:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
This is a note to my fellow admin "judges" at Wikipedia:State_route_naming_conventions_poll/Part2 (barring those who have already commented). The voting for this section of the poll has completed for non admin editors, and we need to endorse the discussions regarding what forms the individual states will take. Technically the deadline for this voting has passed (23:59 September 14 UTC), but since I didn't see any notifications go out I assume they will provide us with some latitude. Cheers. Syrthiss 02:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
It's that special, special time! No, grandma's not coming over. No, not time to clean out the fridge. It's sidebar redesign voting time! Yes, the community has narrowed it down to 3 different options, and a vote for the same old original sidebar is a choice one could vote for as well. Voting for multiple options is allowed, and discussion on the whole shebang is right there on the vote page itself.
You're probably getting this message because the sidebar fairy ( JoeSmack for now) noticed you commented on the project at some time over on at Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign. Lovely. JoeSmack Talk 06:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hello. I know I haven't asked you anything for a while, but I see you as an expert on naming, so here I am, back again. For names with ordinals (who aren't regents) am I correct that there should not be a comma before the ordinal? Specifically, am I correct that an article should be located at A. J. Foyt IV rather than at A. J. Foyt, IV? Also, if I am correct, could you please do the move for me, since both are occupied and edited? (I can clean up any double redirects.) If I am wrong, I'm sorry to have bothered you. Thanks in advance -- After Midnight 0001 20:38, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm unsure if you are still keeping up with the demise of the Neth. Antilles, but here is some new stuff. Bonaire (and I guess Saba and Statia/Sint Eustatius) are still confused on what it wants with the new 'Kingdom Islands' status. Folks in Bonaire are suggesting anything from a province, a city, to a 'public body'. UPR status is also mentioned. See [10]. There two short articles on how Curacao and Sint Maarten are preparing for status aparte. See this article as Curacao signs a tax treaty with Barbados and this article on how Sint Maarten hopes to gain full control of the cops when status aparte takes effect. Hope this is interesting. - Thanks, Hos hie 14:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to spam if you are already aware. But I had to resort to personal message. Someone is trying to delete Antarctican dollar, I tried really hard to make a point at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antarctican dollar. Now I need people to support the "keep" side. Thanks. -- ChoChoPK (球球PK) ( talk | contrib) 05:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Calling it a gerrymander is inaccurate. Joh instituted a system of electoral malapportionment directly favouring rural areas through a 2:1 ratio (which indirectly benefited his party). What he was doing was mal apportionment. It was a common Australian trait of the time to call electoral systems that deviated from ' one vote one value' -manders (such as the Playmander) simply because it sounded good. michael talk 12:16, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. -- Lysy talk 22:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
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I saw your post in WP:AN and you seem to have misunderstood the Greek position in the issue of RoM/FYROM. It is definitely not "FYROM". The Greek position is that the country should use some disambiguating element in its title to differentiate itself from the wider region. Proposals by Greece on the issue, among others, were "Slavomacedonia", "New Macedonia", "Vardar Macedonia", "Macedonoslavia" etc. FYROM is not the Greek POV. It is a temporary stop-gap appellation, reached by diplomatic compromise between both the two states. Greece is keeping her part of the deal, and calls the country FYROM for now, but that must not be seen as the 'Greek POV'.
If you are not tired, I would appreciate if we continued this discussion where we started it ( here), so that we clear out this once and for all. I won't be happy with 'unilateral' solutions, as I think they are very temporary. •NikoSilver• 12:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Night,
Thanks for sticking with that. I tired of following the week by week over there in the Czech Republic, and I totally missed that Klaus finally got him in. One thing, though--ODS has never been a part of the EPP proper (EPP-ED, yes, but never the party). As MER theoretically exists as of this moment as a party on paper but not as a group, I think we should file him as that. The Tom 14:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello! As you're a Wikipedian interested in African topics, I'm writing to notify you that the Maraba Coffee article is now a 'Featured Article Candidate'. Please feel free to evaluate the article and write your support or opposition at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Thanks — SteveRwanda 15:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Please don't revert the edits standardizing the font for track list. Imitating the disc cover's font is pointless and comsetic at best. If you disagree please discuss it here or in the article's talk page before reverting. Tani unit 23:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
The # lets you make numbered lists on Wikipedia. Is there a way to make numbered lists which use, say, Roman numerals? -- HappyCamper 03:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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I believe that this is a crystal clear abuse of WP:TPG, WP:SPAM and, indirectly WP:NPA. The fact that it is being made by a blatant and exposed sockpuppet just makes the situation even worse. It is my belief that that sockpuppet account should have been banned after exposure, under Wikipedia policies. Why wasn't it?
Please look at the contributions of Orkadian ( talk · contribs). Mallimak ( talk · contribs) has used that account to post the identical spam at Talk:Shetland Islands and Category talk:Orcadian Wikipedians.
I raised this at Talk page abuse|WP:ANI#Talk_page_abuse, but was just subjected to totally unfounded snidey remarks. I demand that Administrators take a far more adult, and informed, approach to this situation. Please look into this case, because I feel that this idiot is making a fool out of the whole project. -- Mais oui! 02:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Nightstallion,
Thanks! Someday soon, I hope, all will be ready for it to plug into the encyclopedia; I'm currently "harmoniz/sing" the many links it makes... Best wishes, David Kernow ( talk) 07:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
It should make sense in most cultures. Just say the word and I'll do my best to fill in the blanks. I wouldn't want to get too explicit on your page without your OK. -- After Midnight 0001 02:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Hallo. I think that logo #A 7 and #C 1-4 shouldn't be considered because they are too similar to Walt Disney Pictures logo. It seems that letter "W" is used from some Walt Disney font or taken from a picture of that logo. It's only little rotated to the left and a small part of the right side is cutted. Regards Lošmi 12:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
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Please comment, if possible, on some suggestions I made at Talk:Languages_of_the_European_Union#Further_languages_of_the_European_Union. -- Michkalas 21:47, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Please see here for the final stage of the state road name poll. -- CBD 17:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
hi Nightstallion, how are you?
I noticed that for the tables of the Austrian parties Template:Austrian legislative election, 2006, logos are unfortunately not allowed anymore. We should at least have the colours in in that case, like Template:United Kingdom parliamentary election, 2005 for example, however I still don't understand how to do it, could you help out or do you know anyone? thanks alot. Gryffindor 22:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light.
Other tropical cyclone activity
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Storm article statistics
Grade | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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FA | 13 | 16 | 15 | 15 |
A | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
GA | 18 | 24 | 28 | 33 |
B | 79 | 77 | 79 | 84 |
Start | 180 | 191 | 200 | 201 |
Stub | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 |
Total | 303 | 322 | 337 | 352 |
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62.0 | 61.8 | 61.7 | 60.8 |
Member of the month
The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the wpc, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season.
Thank you for your offering your opinion on the merger of articles regarding the Thai coup. Patiwat 00:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)