User talk:Aelfthrytha/Archive 3

re: Romania
Ah, don't worry, it's not you at all, and nothing so routine as a categorization issue. (What it was, was some unscrupulous Romanian editor was threatening and blackmailing me via e-mail.) I appreciate the concern, but you're fine. K. Lásztocska talk 01:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately I have not the slightest idea what would be best to do about that stub-sorting and categorization. That's really not my forte...sorry! K. Lásztocska talk 05:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Ookay. This is simply a gut reaction and should be taken with a big pinch of salt (I could probably only name two or three cities in the whole of Romania, so I'm hardly an expert). It seems that Romania's lack of distinction between villages and communes is similar to the one here in New Zealand between townships and settlements. If it is like that (basically just two names for virttually the same thing), then the best thin to do might be to rename all of the "by county" categories to "Communes and villages in X County" and merge any that have been split into a separate village or commune category into it. BTW, it seems that one of the county categories may need a speedy rename anyway - for some reason the Ilfov subcat has a small "c" in county (all the others have a capital "C"). Grutness...wha?  05:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Saudi Templates
Actully this Stubs recognizer help us in Assesment of the articles, the Template:Saudi inlcudes the following code which direct the Talk Page of the article to the right category according to the Class Rate. If they are found twice to the category then maybe someone Manually added the Category because the code seems ok.

.   A M M A R   13:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You welcome   A M M A R   09:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Casa Montessori
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Re: Mediation help
I can't think of any mediators who speak Russia, however three administrators come to mind: Might be worth asking one of them if they can help. WjBscribe 19:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry to butt in, but try: ru:Википедия:Администраторы
 * That should be a list of administrators on the right. Any of the ones with en-3 or en-4 would be a good place to start.  Hope that helps! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:48, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, that list on the right has each administrator and some of them have "en-3" or "en-2", which look like Babel ratings. Try leaving a message on one of their talk pages asking about mediators and/or translators - theoretically they'll be able to read it if you pick an en-3 or en-4 =D -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Assessment/Categories for WikiProject Central Asia
I am quite worried about screwing up the banner if I try to fix this myself, so I was wondering if you can help. On the WikiProject Central Asia banner on talk pages, the quality ratings (A,B, stub, etc.) don't link to their WPCentralAsia ratings pages, but the general rating pages (for example, clicking on the "NA" on NA articles won't take you to Category:Non-article Central Asia pages, but to Category:NA-Class articles). I have no idea how to fix this on the template. Could you give it a go?

Also, I'm confused about the Category rating vs. the NA rating. See Category talk:Kyrgyzstani football clubs and Category talk:Elections in Kazakhstan for examples. Should tags for categories have the former or the latter? The same can be asked for disambig pages and images. The template page says NA is for all of these kinds of articles, yet now separate categories already exist for each of them (John Carter created them - see the subpages of Category:Central Asia articles by quality). I don't believe those classes are included in the code for the template, however. Overall, I know it's not a major deal, but having standard one way or another would be helpful for organizational purposes. Thanks! Otebig (talk) 12:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Invite
Jccort (talk) 02:49, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

translation request
Can you type out the Arabic text on the top of this image? I have a graphics editor who will fix these if I can get him the text. I just need the top text on this, we already have the bottom. Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for trying, I do appreciate it. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

living in the 'stan
Yes, I lived there for two years, what can I help with? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Not unless they've moved the country from the Tien Shan to lowlying swampland. They do have this weird biting nightbug sometimes, but no malarial mosquitoes. That's like the embassy missive one August "don't go out after 4:30, a woman got beaten for her fur coat..." Wearing a fur coat in August is pretentious and likely to get one beaten. Bring a can of Off, if the crawlies are out, that's about it. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Stubsorting
Hi, when you are stubsorting could you mark the edits as minor please, you are filling my watchlist too much. If you mark them as minor I can filter your stubsort edits out, Cheers E  P  17:21, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers, much appreciated. E  P  14:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Categorizing Failures
In your attempts to "clean up" the categories in the language articles I have made you have made a serious error. You have removed the category labels of higher nodes so that there is no reference anymore. You have removed Category:Afro-Asiatic from Somali and left only Category:Cushitic, for example, but then under Cushitic you have REMOVED AFRO-ASIATIC!!!! That means that a subbranch of a family is left stranded without being included in the Category of its next higher node. Be more careful with your "cleaning" or you will remove the value of your "filing system" approach (which, in my humble opinion, masks more than it reveals). Fortunately, someone is cleaning up your "clean up". I didn't notice this at first, but now I will have to go through and rework all your "clean ups". (Taivo (talk) 03:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
 * Examples of overkill in the "cleanup":  in Cushitic, Semitic, Egyptian language, Chadic, Omotic and Berber languages you removed the next higher node in the family tree--Afro-Asiatic; in Algonquian, you removed the next higher node--Algic; in East Chadic, West Chadic, and Biu-Mandara you removed the next higher node--Chadic; in East Semitic, South Semitic, and Central Semitic you removed the next higher node--Semitic; in North Omotic and South Omotic you removed the next higher node--Omotic; in East Cushitic and South Cushitic you removed the next higher node--Cushitic; in Northwest Semitic you removed the next higher node--Central Semitic.  I haven't checked in other places yet.  (Taivo (talk) 05:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC))
 * The lower levels aren't affected. It's when you reach the level where the article is a member of BOTH its own category and the next higher category.  You cannot just reduce all category lists down to one--sometimes an article must belong to two categories in a hierarchy.  (Taivo (talk) 08:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC))

Hi, My concerns with your edits are the same as those of the editor above. Your edits remove all reference to the next highest branch on the language family tree. For example, on the Semitic language page, that means Afro-Asiatic. Ditto the Berber language page. I tried to put things back the way they were, so that Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, etc. are all categorized again under Afro-Asiatic like they should be. However, I didn't finish the job. Hopefully someone will have already done it, or I'll try and complete it later when I have more time. Causteau (talk) 08:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Just my two bits worth: To delete category Afro-Asiatic when the article starts (+/-) "Somali is an Afro-Asiatic language.." seems weird.--SilasW (talk) 08:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have checked several of the places where individual languages were subordinate to a categorized node. Most are OK.  The problem is that you were using a chain saw to cut every cat down to the lowest one without knowing what you were doing.  Since individual languages didn't have their own cat (in most cases), the last cat was the immediately superior node, so they were "protected".  Just goes to show how much damage can be done by the nonspecialist going to work to "fix" Wikipedia articles based on some automatic rule. (Taivo (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC))

To answer your question, I think the above principle should be applied to both the language family pages and to the individual language articles. For instance, the Egyptian Arabic language page ought to be filed under Afro-Asiatic languages->Semitic languages->Central Semitic languages->Arabic languages since that is where it fits in phylogenetically. Luckily, just about all the language pages on Wiki I've seen were already properly categorized by earlier editors, so all we have to do is revert the changes made. Causteau (talk) 00:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Greece geo-stubs
Hi Aelfthrytha (I still have to stop and check the spelling of that!) - you wrote:


 * I had some questions. First - how to structure the stub templates for these complex names? Second - what the heck is with the "worms" in this discussion? Third - is there any reason you know they haven't been created that they shouldn't be created (is there some political or other issue except from it just not being gotten to)?

Template names, I'd go with WestMacedonia-geo-stub, Ionian-geo-stub, WestGreece-, EastMacedoniaThrace-, but you're right, there are other combinations that would work just as well. The "worms", are the potential can of worms (i.e., problems) with stub types using the word Macedonia - does the Republic of Macedonia also have a region called West Macedonia? If so, we'd need to use something like WestMacedoniaGR-geo-stub (assuming GR is the right code for Greece...). The major problem, though, is that Greece seems to use both Regions and Peripheries, which seem similar to the ceremonial and administrative counties in England. We seem to be using the Peripheries for this split, but I don't think that's ever been formally discussed or decided. Grutness...wha?  00:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't really use that ongoing-split page any more (it was mainly only for when I was adding the country-specific geo-stubs) - in fact i'd just about forgotten it was there./ Feel free to use it yourself if it'll be any help, though! Grutness...wha?  03:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Location in Kyrgyzstan?
Which part(s) of Kyrgyzstan are you in, or will be in? That way I could have a better idea of which stubs you might take photos for. Otebig (talk) 19:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * For the north Issyk-Kul area, we actually have a fair deal of photos, expect pics from Cholpon-Ata and Choktal (the pics now are both from outside the town, not the town itself). Outside of Issyk-Kul, maybe Tokmok, the ruins of Suyab, Balasagun (besides the Burana Tower, we have photos of that), Sokuluk (including anything related to Iasyr Shivaza that might be there), and Kara-Balta. In and around Bishkek, the airport, the Russian Kant Air Base (if you can even go there), anything about Mikhail Frunze (including statues),  the Kyrgyz Technical University, and the national bank and national library (which I assume are in Bishkek). Beyond that, anything for the political parties (signs, ads, rallies) would be helpful, as well as anything related to religion/economy/agriculture/etc. There's still a lot left to be added about places in Bishkek, so take photos of anything you think there should be an article about. If I come across any more specific articles without photos, I'll let you know. Otebig (talk) 18:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * For Son-Kul (if you haven't already left, sorry for the late reply), we seem to have no pictures of the lake, and could definitely use some. I never went to that area myself, so I'm not sure what's there. On Wikipedia, though, we are woefully lacking articles about sights in Naryn Province, so if there's anything that deserves an article, get a photo, and we'll make a space for it. Otebig (talk) 07:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Uploading them to Flickr sounds like a great idea. Thanks for all the time you've put into it. Otebig (talk) 16:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The university's website says its address is 66 Prospect Mira. I don't know Bishkek that well, so I'm not sure where that is, but hopefully it helps. Otebig (talk) 07:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

In reference to this photo, I'm told that it's the "Friendship between nations" monument. Памятник «дружба народов», «Эл достугу» эстелиги. —Firespeaker (talk) 08:26, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Bubusara
I added the statue location to the article about Bubusara Beyshenalieva, but the "fence fight" seems too minor to mentioned (IMHO). I'm also starting to look through the photos now. Otebig (talk) 16:03, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Salamatsyzby!
Sorry I've not gotten back with you, things have been hactic here. Will respond in detail soon. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Endangered language categories
Thank you Aelfthrytha, I will do it.--Raayen (talk) 08:52, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Afghanistan districts
Thank you.I really did a lot, but now others are doing it. You might have noticed, that I am a Bulgarian. The reason I started this topic is that it was very undeveloped. When I saw other wikipedians to do it, I continued my work in other projects. About the capitalisation of the world directions - I was not sure about it, neither about the complex directions-with one word, with dash and so on. I am sorry that I have become an "employer" and there are corrections to be made.Drjmarkov (talk) 17:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Re-categorization of cities, towns and villages in Azerbaijan
Yes, I think the idea is good. It will make it easier to search, if they are included in categories by districts. Regards, Grand  master  06:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou very much for having the sense to do this. Great job with Kyrgystan too my friend. Happy New Year! The Bald One      White cat 17:35, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Good job; thanks! Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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Ghazni-geo-stub
Hi Aelfthrytha - just wondering if this test has finished yet? There's about 30 stubs sitting in a nonexistent category... Grutness...wha?  23:45, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Translation request
Hi. Sorry to bother you, but I've come here because you're listed as someone who can translate Arabic, and we need someone who knows the language. Basically, we've got this article listed at WP:PNT, Hosseinfsf, and we don't know what it means. I've run it through a couple of machine translators but it just gives meaningless words, and I don't know ifs accurate or a bad translation. If you have a free minute could you please take a look and give us the gist of it. Thank you-- Jac 16888 Talk 18:50, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Survey vote request
Please vote in survey over whether to include text in History of the the Islamic Republic of Iran

Text and dispute is at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran&diff=274961453&oldid=274952179

Arguements
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Thank you --BoogaLouie (talk) 19:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Azerbaijan
Awesome job!!! Can you give me an example of what you asking about? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 05:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I think that all the villages, etc. in Baku are in Category:Baku. Some of the Nakhchivan villages are broken into rayons, but alas, for some that data just isn't available. If you'd like a challenge, there are lots of Category:Villages in foo that are large. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:29, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * You did a fantastic job, thanks a lot for your contribution. Nakhchivan is divided into 7 districts (see the article about the region), and all the settlements there are a part of some rayon, except the capital of NAR. Grand  master  07:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan photos
There are two of your Flickr photos which would be good to upload in high quality and add to articles (yes, I'm finally picking some photos almost a year later :) - going back to school sucked up almost all my time). The photo of the Jogorku Kenesh here and one of the National Library here. Thanks! Otebig (talk) 19:34, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Făleşti


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Unreferenced BLPs
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A Request for Help
Hi there Aelfthrytha :), I noticed your username on Translators Available Arabic to English. I was wondering if you could help with updating Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi on the Arabic Wikipedia? Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi on the English Wikipedia has been majorly revamped- particularly, its being treated as a BLP now, since no ones been able to find evidence of his death. I'd do it myself, but I'm not very good with Arabic. I'd really appreciate your help in this :). Thanks in advance!Omirocksthisworld( Drop a line ) 00:14, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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Ottoman script
Hi, I saw that you can understand the Ottoman language. I was wondering whether you can read the document shown in the top image of the article Hatt-i humayun (government document). I want to make sure that the figure legend is correct. Can you tell whether the writing in red ink is all written by the Sultan or is the part written in diagonal written by another official, like the Grand Vizier? --İnfoCan (talk) 22:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Moldova
Hello,

I noticed that you are a fellow active member of WikiProject Moldova. Some time ago I created a new userbox for the project and proposed that it become official. Since no responses have been made as of yet, I am hoping to spark a discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Moldova User on the matter.

Mulțumesc,

Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 16:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Consistency
The best way to deal with such situations is to use a widely accepted English title if one is available (and apparent from the sources) or, when there is none, to simply romanize the title as per WP:RUS (which is what I have done with that page). It is now fixed; thanks for letting know! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 12, 2011; 18:33 (UTC)

Alberta stubs (thanks)
Thank you for stub sorting all the Alberta designated place articles I created – much appreciated! Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 02:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It is an article cross-referencing exercise as 117Avenue has suggested on my talk page (before I had a chance to reply). Most if not all Alberta unincorporated communinity articles now have a wikilink to its administrating municipality within its prose (i.e., "Woodland Park is an unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada within Parkland County") or within its infobox if one exists. By drilling down to that administrating municipality's article, its infobox will indicate the region of Alberta in which the administrating municipality is located. I've never verified the region in each administrating municipality's infobox, but if you drill down to the region articles, each have a list of the administrating municipalities that are located within each. If I recall correctly, no municipality in Alberta is split by a region boundary. Hwy43 (talk) 06:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Heeeeeeeeeeeeelp!
Sorry - just got back from the opera. A cursory glance indicates that it looks fine; just give it a little time to get caught up. I've noticed that happening a lot lately; it takes something like a day for the categories to catch up to where they're supposed to be. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:17, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems fine - check Myjava District. The category is showing properly there. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It's in the "name" parameter of the template - that should match the title of the page. As in this dif.


 * Two things - one, I always have time for a silly question (not that such things exist, generally speaking.) And two, I'm actually a tenor, not a baritone - but thanks for the compliment. :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Any time. I quite sympathize; my own edit history is littered with goofs of similar and more serious nature.  And welcome (back?  Sorry...I'm fairly new around the stub-sorting crowd.)  Great to have an extra pair of eyes/hands for the sorting. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:15, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Nerdy excitement? You and I shall get along well, I have a feeling. :-)


 * I want to tackle Category:Sculptor stubs at some point. There's been no attempt to break them down by nationality, which I think would be most useful.  I've made a few suggestions at WP:SS/P, without response, which I think means I should be good to go ahead and start working on them.  Not sure when that will be, but sometime soon I hope. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:24, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, dagnabbit - I've forgotten my coding. Category:Sculptor stubs is what I was after...but I wrote it up wrong, sorry. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:41, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Congrats!
Well done! :) Grutness...wha?  05:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Re:Afghan stubs
Oh all right - but don't do it again! Consider yourself slapped with a trout :) Grutness...wha?  03:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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Madagascar stubs
I'll leave madagascar for you, I'll move on to somewhere else. Waacstats (talk) 16:57, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It's fine by me because I know Madagascar will be off the oversized list soon. Waacstats (talk) 17:00, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll have a look but I think I gave up on finding anything myself a while a go. Waacstats (talk) 17:04, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

translation?
Hi- Any idea what the name Al-Sinnabra or Sinn en-Nabra mean? Thanks--Sreifa (talk) 06:08, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

st david
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Translation request: List of characters of A Weaver on the Horizon
Hi, can you help translate List of characters of A Weaver on the Horizon? Thank you very much.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 23:32, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Babel code kg
Hello, Babel code kg is for kikongo, for kyrgyz please use ky (change your Babel code accordingly). Best regards, --— J. F. B. (me´n parlar) 20:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Request for translation
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 * User talk:FayssalF
 * User talk:Hakeem.gadi
 * User talk:Haytham abulela
 * User talk:JohnChrysostom


 * Dear User, I have finished the translation.
 * -- Haytham Abulela  07:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)