User talk:Acad Ronin/Archive 1

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Cheers, Sam [Spade] 03:27, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

No, you're doing great
This is just my hello spam I send to new folks when I spot em. I read over some of your edits, and the only criticism I came up w is that you can wiki-link years, like 1956. Thasts no big deal tho, and your contributions look great. Let me know if there's anything you need. Cheers, Sam [Spade] 19:15, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Banks and categories
I'm afraid that wasn't me who added the banks category, you must have gotten me mixed up with someone else. I'm actually not that familiar with the category system, but I know you can get more information at Categorization. Good luck! – Jrdioko (Talk)  01:14, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I think the way to create the subcategories is to enter an article in the subcategory first and then edit the subcategory page to put in the broader category. (I'm only about 90% certain that this is correct, though). I don't know who created the banks category in the first place, but I put most of the articles in there now in there. --DMG413 17:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I know very little myself. I reccomend you keep looking about, or trying your own ideas. Be bold! :) Sam [Spade] 18:02, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Battle of Isandlwana
Nice job at Battle of Isandlwana. Wizzy 12:52, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

FYI: Article on AfD.
Hello,

From what I gather, you created the Jetha Lila article. I have nominated it for deletion because very little information is available on the subject [via the WWW]. More importantly, there are notability issues with the current content.

You are invited to participate in the discussion on the deletion; feel free to contact me for more information on this matter. Cheers. Folajimi 19:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The issue of notability is a non-trivial one; someone has already come to your defense on the matter at the AfD discussion page for the entry. If you are able to make a convincing (and credible0 case for preserving the article in the encyclopaedia, now is the time to do it, and the discussion page would be the most appropriate venue. Folajimi 21:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for creating Jetha Lila. Wikipedia needs such articles. &mdash; mark &#9998; 17:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Ionian Bank
Hello, Acad Ronin. I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I either forgot or didn't notice your message because of more than one comment being added to my talk page when I was offline. I suppose that the list on the Ionian Bank article could be kept as it is. However, if it is kept, other text should be added. An introduction about the bank would be the minimum. It would be nice if there were more content, such as details about the most important events in the bank's history, like being taken over during World War II, as well.

Did you write the list in your own words or did you compile it from the sources listed? If it was compiled, there may be a copyright problem, as the publications don't seem like they would be public domain. However, I think there is an exemption for factual information in certain cases. You could try asking at Village Pump or Copyright Problems. Thanks, Kjkolb 08:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

HSBC Malta/UK Call Centre
Good point, whether we should call it UK as it will deal with UK customers, or Malta because its in Malta. I would think the bank will call it "Valletta CSC" (Customer Service Centre - assuming its in Valletta of course). I only really put UK to start with to highlight the fact that it wasnt going to be doing Malta work, but I suppose from reading it thats clear. Hmm Ian3055 20:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks
An article that you have been involved in editing, Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks, has been listed by me at Articles for deletion/Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 18:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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Commonwealth bank
Thanks for that - the more I looked at it - there were more and more items that needed fixing. cheers SatuSuro 15:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism by 203.27.235.5
I just undid some vandalism by 203.27.235.5 on the ICICI Bank page. Going to the talk page for the user shows that the user has vandalized in the past, including an article on Jammu that you fixed. Can we just ban the site?

Acad Ronin 13:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Argh, I didn't realise when I just warned the IP address that they already had a final warning. I just gave them a final warning then for their recent vandalism- if they vandalise again, then they can and most likely will be blocked.
 * If you see them vandalising again, just list them on WP:AIV- the request will be noticed quickly. Cheers-  Cat tleG irl  talk 22:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi CattleGirl,

122.50.140.35 vandalized the Mauritius Commercial Bank page by deleting the entire History block.

220.244.190.214 vandalized the State Bank of India page by typing in gibberish in the references section.

Regards, Acad Ronin 16:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello again, how are you? :)
 * I've had a look at the contributions of the two IP addresses. The first one was just testing, so I've let that be for now, as it was their first and only edit. The second one made two edits, and I see you left a message on their talk page, which is good! Thanks.
 * In future, you'll get a faster response if you warn the user with one of the templates from WP:WARN (starting at the first level, and if vandalism continues, escalating up the next levels). If you do that, after a level 4 warning you can list them at WP:AIV where someone can deal with it in a matter of minutes.
 * Thanks for looking out for it, btw, we can never have enough users on vandalism patrol! Cheers,  Cat tleG irl  talk 09:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Bank of British West Africa
see Bank of British West Africa --87.122.203.4 15:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for a vandal block
Hi Cattle Girl,

We need to block user 217.91.43.41 again. They were blocked for two months in the past for repeated vandalism but are back to doing it again. They vandalized the page "dollar cost averaging" with some homophobic stuff.

Acad Ronin 12:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello again :)
 * I've given them a final warning- if they vandalise again in the near future, they should be blocked. They've been reverted, as well.
 * For a quicker block if I'm not online you may want to list them on WP:AIV- someone will look into it almost as soon as it comes up.
 * Thanks for letting me know-  Cat tleG irl  talk 09:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Malta?
Would you be interested in being a part of WikiProject Malta? I've appreciated your Malta-related contributions. 「ѕʀʟ·✎」 02:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi re Wignacourt towers. I believe there were seven towers of this style, six built by wignacourt, one by Lascaris. Six still exist, the missing one is a wiggnacourt tower, was close to Xghajra, destroyed by the British to clear the field of fire of their new battery. The battery was named for the destroyed tower. Added articles for the original tower and the battery this evening. Uploading some images for the battery now. I do not know of any images for the original tower. --Shoka 21:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot that an article for St Mary's tower already existed, and search missed it because of the variations of St / St. We could do with fixing that. Anyway fixed Wignacourt towers to point to the St Mary's Tower article. Santa Maria delle Grazie Tower and Della Grazie Battery articles exist as well --Shoka 23:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

National Bank of Greece
No problem. Good luck with the discussion to get the edit warring resolved. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 02:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Just my 2c, my own preferred compromise, based on experience at the WP:MOSMAC discussion, is "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", on articles focussing on Greek topics. "RoM" is the proper name and the article location, so that alone gets the wikilink, "former Yugoslav" can arguably pass as a disambiguating qualifier (although I'm not really convinced that's necessary, there's a strong feeling among Greek editors that they don't like plain "RoM"). This is only by way of exception, for Greece-related articles; everywhere else simply RoM is preferred. Abbreviated "FYROM" should basically never be used. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Fut.Perf.: Although I prefer the ROP/FYROM formulation on aesthetic grounds, I can live with your suggestion. The problem will be getting others to go along. There appear to be a number of people, or 1+sock puppets, committed to FYROM. Acad Ronin (talk) 14:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

National Bank of Greece
I didn't want that edit! I corrected it.

Ħaġar Qim
Hi,

Regarding point (1), as to the deletion of the material. Indeed, I found the 'Interpretations' section on that page highly amusing - I'm afraid talks on shamans and other neo-spiritual are a very sad must when speaking of any megalithic temple... I believe that the issue of the transfer/move being reverted to the Ħaġar Qim page was rather because the other user believed there was no contextual link with the Megalithic Temples page; on the other hand I completely removed the offending section...we'll see what happens next on that issue.

As to point (2), I agree with your approach, especially considering the stubby Skorba page you mentioned,and the Ta' Ħaġrat page, which does not seem to exist.

I agree making the section The UNESCO Sites into a list pointing to their respective articles - however I suggest we use the Infobox World Heritage Site for each of those articles, since the listing is shared between them. I have in mind something similar to the way the UNESCO listing of the Jesuit Missions in Argentina/Brazil was tackled here, here and here. (This is also a shared listing vaguely similar to the Maltese temple listing/s)

Thanks for your interest in my contributions...!

Reuv (talk) 19:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Jetha Lila
Hi Acad Ronin - you wrote: ''Some things are destined to always remain a stub. There just isn't that much more to say.''
 * Probably true, but there's still some more that can be said on some of them. This one, for instance, doesn't indicate where in Zanzibar it was based, or say who its Governor was, what sort of banking it was involved with, whether it had branches, and if so whether they were all in Zanzibar, whether it simply closed down or closed because of high debts, other important events in its history, etc etc etc... It may be destined to be stubby, but it can still be bigger than it currently is, surely. Grutness...wha?  05:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Signal Hill Battery
Hi, I just got back from the above mentioned battery. I managed to find my way in as well. I will be uploading some photos soon. I even managed to get into the underground bunker there as well. I will show you the photos as I upload them Inside the gun emplacement. Cheers .        Adam (talk) 09:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I do have pictures outside the fortification but because it was getting dark some of the photos came out over or under exposed. I might be able to put a HDR together. I might return to the sight soon to take some exterior shots but I don't want to go back inside that bunker. You don't know how creepy it was down there, and hot as well. There arey two or three bunkers within that vicinity. The last couple of times I went to look at the fort the doors were welded shut so on this occasion when I went out there I was only expecting to take photos of the exterior only, but to my surprise the door was open. At first it seems as though there is only one level and I almost left without find the underground bunker. If you do visit the site look out for the tiny hatch with the ladder going below ground level. Also check out the coords I added, you can see the fort in street view. I will upload more pics later on. Cheers.        Adam (talk) 04:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

North Head Bunkers
Hi, I was wondering, do know the location of any bunkers or forts around north head. I know about the one with the two gun emplacements, but there is supposed to be a bunker of some sort with a large tunnel leading down into the cliff face with a gun emplacement at the end of it. Similar to this instillation, possibly better.        Adam (talk) 00:43, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Malta
I agree that stating Malta's official languages is about as much information as is appropriate to the intro; it's great to see all the work you've put in across a variety of Malta related articles! proset^^ the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 02:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Malta
Hey Acad, reading your style cleanup on Malta I saw one paragraph you'd moved (that I hadn't noticed before...) to prominence in the intro. I have a few reservations about the information, specifically the claims about being a city-state. Your opinion on Talk:Malta would be appreciated. ja fiswa imċappas bil-hara! (talk) 12:20, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Brazil and World War I
Thanks for your contribution in the article Brazil and World War I. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfadelta1525 (talk • contribs) 03:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Chronologies
Ciao! you know what I thought? Exaclty that such chonorlogies often provide uselessly detailed infos. I also noticed that when one tries to transorm them into paragraphical section the prose obtained is mediocre... what to do? anyway if the official Manual of Style discourages such things, we should follow what it says. Ciao and good work. --&#39;&#39;&#39;Attilios&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 14:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

World War I and II - Brazil
Still appreciate your work and interest with Brazil's participation in both wars. Thanks for your work. Alfadelta1525 (talk) 18:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

That seems to be a very good idea. Generally it is not a known fact - even among younger Brazilians. Historical facts are important and people have a tendency to dismiss such an interesting thing. I really think that it would be a good contribution. Alfadelta1525 (talk) 14:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Gibraltar
You might like to look at the links you're adding, Deutschland directs to Germany not German pocket battleship Deutschland as I presume you intended. Justin talk 14:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No need to be so prickly, it was just a friendly comment in case you hadn't noticed. Justin talk 17:34, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Your copyedits
Hi, I've noticed that you have been conducting copyedits of a number of articles I have worked with, most recently Battle of San Domingo. I appreciate your interest and efforts and your grammatical changes are welcome, but I have a problem with your habit of breaking paragraphs up to form a number of much smaller sections. I find that any benefits these changes bring are greatly outweighed both by making the article appear less attractive and professional and reducing the ease of reading and understanding by reducing its coherence (when I wrote it I chose the paragraph breaks deliberately to develop seperate themes). I'm not going to conduct wholesale reverts of your work because your grammar changes are helpful, but I will be assessing the broken paragraphs and remerging if I think its appropriate, pending further discussion here or on the article's talk page. Can I ask in future that you make these edits one by one so I can see more clearly what changes you have made? It will make it easier to assess which of your changes I agree with. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 19:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Will do. However, I would argue that breaking up text makes it easier to read, and makes the article look less ponderous. Note that newspapers, bloggers, and others trying to entice busy readers tend to break up their text. That said, I certainly won't take offense at your merging paragraphs. We are both striving to create readable, interesting articles. Acad Ronin (talk) 20:30, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply - I would counter that this is neither a newspaper nor a blog but an enecylopedia, and that while breaking up text can make something easier to read it doesn't always. However I would be happy to discuss this further and work on this with you on a case by case basis in future. Thanks--Jackyd101 (talk) 20:45, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Roger that. I tend to split paras where I read them as representing different thoughts or issues, even if the two parts are related. Again, for me that enhances readability. Clearly, your mileage differs. :-) Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 21:14, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * In any in reading or writing an article, I try to think about how a reader interacts with paragraphs and have developed the following rules (they are far from exclusive or omnipotent, but I've always found them a good guideline): 1) Paragraphs should contain one solid theme that links the sentences - this can be a running theme that links several ideas, but the connections should be obvious and the ideas related 2) The lead should bever be less than two or more than four paragraphs - three is usually preferable - this is enought to simulate and inform a passing reader or novice in the subject without seeming to bombard them with too many ideas 3) Length is key - too short and the idea seems underdeveloped or tacked on, too long and it becomes boring - I use a wide browser at home and as a rule of thumb I keep my paragraphs to more than five and less than ten lines on my screen. I find this the easiest size to read at and absorb ideas. 4) The number of paragraphs in a section is important, again it is about find the right balance between too long and too short. I usually use the same principle as with the lead - more than one and less than five. If there are too many then employ appropriate subheadings. 5) The placement of images - always tricky, should be considered partly on the basis of the paragraphs around them, causing as little disruption as possible to the text. I'm not telling you this to try to force you to ahere to this personal guideline, just to explain my position based on my experience.--Jackyd101 (talk) 21:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Good guidelines, and I have no quarrel with them at all. I think where we differ in practice, if not in theory, is in our personal sense of what constitutes a solid theme for a paragraph. In the dichotomy (in the sense of "there are two kinds of people, those that think there are two kinds of people, and those that do not) between splitters and lumpers, I tend to be a splitter. Paragraphing aside, in my stylistic edits, I try to make things faster to read. That means: active voice rather than passive; shorter, less complex sentences; and repetition of names to avoid referential terms, i.e., "Admiral So-and-So", rather than "he", etc. Acad Ronin (talk) 14:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Battant
Hey', thanks for your contribution about Battant Toufik-de-planoise (talk) 22:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Okey', thank very much, because i want improve the pages about Besançon, but my english is often bad^^ so good evening :) Toufik-de-planoise (talk) 02:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)