User talk:Amire80/Archive 2008 - March

82.42.62.245
This user definetly needs to be blocked judging by these. How does this happen? ♥ Shapiros10 Wuz  Here ♥ 00:38, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No vandalism since the last warning. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:44, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

No, but some vandalism has gone unchecked! ♥ Shapiros10 Wuz  Here ♥ 11:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what's the big deal. His other vandalism was months ago and the recent vandalism was reverted.
 * We usually don't block an IP address permanently, unless something very exceptional happens, and i've never encountered such a situation myself. But then, i'm not much of a vandal hunter, but just a quiet janitor. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

need to be adopted
Hi,

I am a first year PhD student working on visualization of online social networks. Recently I've become interested in wikipedians community and the (who revises whom) relation among them.

I registered as a member and there are lot to learn here. I asked several other people for adoption abd except one havent received any response back from other.

Please let me know either way.

Highly appreciate if you could help me to adopt to that environments and new features.

Thanks

--Naz (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure!
 * Is there anything in particular that you are interested to learn? Editing articles, uploading images, using talk pages?
 * Feel free to ask me anything.
 * Welcome to Wikipedia! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

data dumps
Glad to get your response.

It's about a week that I am trying to find my way through datadumps. As a pilot exercise I am intending to download a sample dataset in xml format. To find out how wikimedia keeps the data. I might use that data for my final result of my research.

I did download one. I managed to open it in notepad and with an xml editor but couldn't understand what that document demonstrate. It is supposed to contain title, timestamp, editor and comment of a revision history of a page.

Am wodndering if you have ever worked with data dumps and have any idea about the format they can be read and stored. I sent a sample of what I get in the wiki help desk.

There are lots of features I'm gonna learn in that huge environment i.e. improving my homepage (Add my pic, links, etc.)but these are my second priority. My research goes frist.

I will be back to you soon and thanks for adopting me. --Naz (talk) 17:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, great :)
 * I am know the number one specialist, but i happen to know a couple of things about those dumps.
 * I wrote a pretty clever program in the Perl programming language to process such a dump. If you are doing a PhD related to social networks, then i suppose that you know some programming. I'll gladly provide you the source code. Check your email about this. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Notabilitay of Obaidullah Baig
Moved to Talk:Obaidullah Baig. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:53, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Adoption - Patsolutelyfabulous
Hi Amire80,

I've created a article on wikipedia for the first time tonight and I'm experiencing a few problems:

1/ Title: the says "users:Patsolutelyfabulous" instead of "Art in All of Us (AiA)"

2/ I can't find my article on wikipedia when I type in "Art in All of Us" (I guess it has to do with the title!?)

3/ links 2 and 3 (bottom of the page) do not show up.

Can you help me please?

Thank you Amire.

Patricia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patsolutelyfabulous (talk • contribs)


 * Replied at the talk page. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete my Girl Sense page?
I wasn't advertising Girl Sense. I don't even work for Girl Sense. I think if Webkinz deserves to be on here, Girl Sense should too! It wasn't very good, because I had just started it, and it was my first article. I'm not trying to be mad or anything, but I don't get why you deleted it! Please tell me why! --Writergirlrocks (talk) 23:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't delete the Girl Sense page that you wrote, but i did delete a page with the same name once.
 * Girl Sense is a website. Wikipedia has guidelines about notability of websites. Read them here: Notability (web). They basically say that a website is notable if it was described by someone else in independent sources.
 * Webkinz is notable, because it has many sources except www.webkinz.com itself. If you can find independent sources that describe Girl Sense, then Wikipedia can have an article about it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I get it. If you are just writing about it from the actual website itself, then it isn't a good wikipedia topic. Webkinz has many other sites, so it is a good topic. Thanks so much, I get it now! --Writergirlrocks (talk) 13:42, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Another Russian and an Israeli to boot
I cannot escape from you guys..:) Being Trolled by another Russian Israeli is an honor! Shalom and prevet. Igor Berger (talk) 05:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There are indeed quite a lot of prominent Russian-speaking editors on the English Wikipedia - Mikka, Ghirla, Ezhiki, Alex Bakharev and a few others. I am a pretty small fish in this pond :)
 * I wonder whether there's something in the Russian education that makes people respect dictionaries and encyclopedias... --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * For sure, it is in our blood. Being a Hebrew also helps! I am a strange one. Born in Leningrad, lived in Israel when I was young, for a few years, making me an Israeli. Grew up and educated in USA, although I left that place and moved to Japan with my Japanese wife. Totally screwed up, editing Wikipedia for God's sake only he knows why. I do not really know, but here I am part of the motley crew. Igor Berger (talk) 07:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
Please do not add content without citing reliable sources. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your reference to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. HrafnTalkStalk 15:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't template the regulars, please. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Villages in Niger
Ooops, my bad. I was thrashing around looking for the convention on this, afraid that if I put such a small settlement in the Cities cat it would mess something up! Of course I didn't look closely enough! I've moved it to Category:Cities, towns and villages in Niger and delinked Category:Villages in Niger. How should I delete this cat, or do I need to? T L Miles (talk) 16:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I deleted it. Thanks for the quick reply. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Template messages removel
Hi Amire80,

Can anyone remove a Template messages such as refimprove if she thinks that it's irrelevent or does it have to be an admin.? ThanksColdSnow (talk) 06:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * You may simply call me Amir.
 * Everyone can remove this template, you don't have to be an admin. If someone thinks that it must be put back, then it should be discussed on the talk page, and should not be removed until there's an agreement to do that.
 * (Note: I changed your message, so there's only a link to the template. The good way to do link to a template when you don't actually need to show it is to write TEMPLATE_NAME ). --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Category to transcluded template
Please remove that category from T:DYK that you just added - or else I think it will get transcluded everywhere along with the template. Cirt (talk) 13:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops, maybe I am wrong and it doesn't add the category to transclusions, I'll let someone else field this one. Cirt (talk) 13:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's in noinclude, so it's not supposed to propagate to transclusions.
 * If there's any other problem, please let me know. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If that's the case then I'm pretty sure it should be fine. Cirt (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you please?
Can you please merge Abundant Life Ministries with Abundant Life Church. We're both Jewish and don't know anything about it, but on Articles for deletion/Abundant Life Ministries, everybody says merge. Thanks. Mm40 (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ehh ... already done. But thanks for trusting me to do the job. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Logistics dept
Shalom Amir:

You may not be aware that we've set up a logistics dept at Milhist. We desperately need linguists to help with translations of snippets, not full articles, snippets. Can you help with Russian and Hebrew? It will help globalize our sources and add non-Anglophone perspective. If so, the details are here. If you find yourself overwhelmed you can always drop out. Your participation would ever so much appreciated ... All the best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 02:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I added my name, so feel free to contact me about anything. I'm not a military history expert, but i'll try to help.
 * I'm curious - why did you ask me of all the people? :) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:18, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for signing up :)
 * To be honest, I followed a link here last night and when I saw your page I realised you had the same approach to language  and communication as I do. Simple really :) -- R OGER D AVIES   talk 18:24, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Question
Hi Amire, long time no see, I was wondering how to move a page to an archive, like the one on your talk page.--Yenaldooshi (talk) 21:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You just create a new page, as you would create an article and copy whatever you want to it.
 * If you want to archive your talk page, create a subpage in your userspace, something like User talk:Yenaldooshi/Archive 1. Feel free to edit this link to any other name that you want, just keep the User talk:Yenaldooshi/ part in the beginning. You'll get a red link, which you can click and edit.
 * For more information, see Help:Archiving a talk page.
 * If you don't understand something, feel free to ask me again. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it applies to vandalism, I check the pages that you gave me about vandalism, but I still don't know. Ok, so, I made a post on a talk page and then, some IP Address added random stuff after my post like "cherry......etc." making it look like that I wrote it. What kind of vandalism would that be..if it is...???--Yenaldooshi (talk) 23:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Gorki
Hi, Amir! I was cleaning up the Gorki page, splitting stuff between "Gorki", "Gorky", and "Górki". I'm pretty much done, but I was wondering if you would be able to help me with the he-interwiki link&mdash;should it stay on Gorki, be moved to Gorky, or be present at both locations? As you've probably guessed, I don't speak Hebrew, so the target page is literally Hebrew to me :) Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Disambigs with different spellings are such a drag.
 * Горький and Горки are spelled the same way in Hebrew, as you may have guessed, and they appear at the same page. However putting the interwiki link to Hebrew on both pages would be wrong, according to Help:Interlanguage links. It's confusing to both people and bots.
 * In some cases we mark such disambigs in Hebrew with an invisible template saying "Disambig for Hebrew only" and then we stop worrying about interwiki'ing them. But in this case, if you ask me, i'd merge the English disambigs Górki, Gorky and Gorki into one page, even though the Russian words are different. I would do it even without the problem with Hebrew, because i think that the different spelling in English is more about literary tradition and less about precise transcription from Russian. So i would put them all on one page, and group them by the foreign word or something.
 * According to WP:DAB, pages with different diacritics should be listed on the same disambig page, so Górki shouldn't be separate. Górki is currently defined as a "set index" and it is the first time that i see this concept on Wikipedia. Anyway, i don't think that this particular page should be separate from the Gorki disambig page, because i don't see how it is "entertaining and informative by itself". But maybe i misunderstand something.
 * (As a matter of curiosity, in Lithuanian I, Į and Y are one and the same letter, appearing at the same place in the alphabet, and Į and Y are like I with a diacritic.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Amir! You might want to check (a rather lengthy) discussion on talk:Gorki, which lead to a decision to split the three in the first place.  You'll see that the situation is even more convoluted than you think!  The bottom line is that while "Gorky" is indeed a disambiguation page, "Gorki" and "Górki" are not (they are set index articles, which are exempt from the MOSDAB provisions&mdash;see more on that here&mdash;it must be Wikipedia's best hidden guideline!).  In addition, the merge would not solve the interwiki problem; it will just shift it to other interwikies (many of which have separate entries for "Gorki" and "Gorky").  If you have some other ideas, I'm all ears :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, should have look at the talk page.
 * OK, don't worry about it. The Hebrew dab page has more problems in addition to the interwiki. I'll take care of it. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)