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Tanzania Region Images
Hi. I think that the best format for region articles should be for example: "Arusha Region” instead of "Arusha Region, Tanzania" as it seems that this is the most popular type used. Redirects should be created for each region using the following formats - "Arusha Region, Tanzania", "Arusha (Region)", and "Arusha (Region), Tanzania".

I would be glad to assist in improving these articles. Thanks.

Acntx 09:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Date Palm Edits
Thanks for the edits on the Judean date palm article. I appreciate your help.

Yes, Kibbitz is a misspelling of Kibbutz. I'll correct it now. Thanks again! Marcus Finch 04:28:06, 2005-09-08 (UTC)

Federal Ministries in Germany
Hi, in response to your message on my talk page: - I agree every ministry needs an article; the same goes for each minister. I think you've summarised what both sets of articles need. However, I don't think the table in Cabinet of Germany needs a direct link to the ministries (if I understand what you're suggesting) as it's a table of cabinet ministers.

I've only got a passing interest/knowledge in this area. The stub I added for Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Germany) was to fill-in a red-link in an article I was cleaning up on the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien. I noticed that some of the ministries had been miscategorised in Category:German Cabinet so I moved them to Category:German Ministries and did a little other tidying up.

If you've got plans - go ahead. They seem to be on the right lines IMO. Valiantis 18:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Marking alleged criminals and alleged terrorists with the {crime-bio-stub}?
You wrote:
 * * The crime-bio-stub category is clearly not just for criminals (whatever that means) but for all biographies relating to crime.
 * * Further, it says in the crime-bio-stub category page, that alleged terrorists and alleged criminals also belong there.


 * I am sorry about this confrontation, but I guess that's the problem with the tag--that many people assume that adding this tag is the same as calling the person a criminal, and find this biased.

It took me some time to find the category. Frankly, I was shocked to learn you You created this category.'

You wrote about it as if someone else had created it. Forgive me, but, since you created it, I would question whether you are the right person to interpret what it is clear it means. You say (created as proposed on WSS/P).

That is not very transparent. Where is this discussion you hint at?

Yes, I did find it biased. I still do. Some of the people you stubbed not only haven't been convicted of any crime, they haven't been charged with any crimes. -- Geo Swan 09:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Okay, I found by searching through your contributions list.  I see Alynna said:
 * but it needs to be carefully and narrowly defined to avoid abuse. Needs to be limited to people who are notable primarly/only for their [alleged] criminal activity, not just anyone who ever [allegedly] committed a crime.
 * Can you really justify the inclusion of detainees the USA rounds up in their "war on terror", when they haven't been charged with any crimes? --  Geo Swan 09:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * You wrote:
 * As to the bias: I hope you agree with me when I say that the fact that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri was arrested as an unlawful combatant (which I guess anyone of Middle Eastern origin or with a dissenting opinion can be, since the USA Patriot Act was passed) implies that he was somehow involved in criminal acts. He really may or may not have been, hence the word allegedly. 


 * Actually, he was arrested as a material witness. He wasn't classified as an unlawful combatant until June 2003, when he had been incarcerated for eighteen months.  Some time after his arrest he was charged with bank fraud -- not stealing money, but with trying to open bank accounts under assumed identities.  Those charges were dropped when he was classified as an unlawful combatant.


 * There is no way I can agree that classifaction as an unlawful combatant implies the detainee "was somehow involved in criminal acts." Further, "somehow involved" is not enough involvement to label someone a criminal, or even an alleged criminal.  Friendly Nick Berg let a stranger, who turned out to be an al Qaeda operative, use his computer to send some email.  If Mousai used Berg's computer to send email that discussed committing terrorist acts that would mean Berg "was involved" in a criminal act.  But Berg's involvement would have been completely innocent.
 * He really may or may not have been, hence the word allegedly.
 * Some law enforcement officials abuse their authority to punish people merely through hints and allegations.
 * My first suggestion? No biographical article should be put in this category unless there is a formal charge.  No one should be included simply because of an allegation.  --  Geo Swan 10:41, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Joseph Ivor Linton
Hello Carabinieri. Please see my answer on my talk page. Best regards, gidonb  00:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Henry H. Spalding
It is just one citation -- a unique and valuable letter about the early Western expansion -- no other citations. Did you bother to read it? So -- you want it out altogether? Don't tag it -- like some authority from above -- unless you have some constructive statements to make. Comments and discussion are important in creating the encyclopedia. I will wait for your comments on the discussion page. WBardwin 21:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Stub sorting
Just wanted to thank you for doing the thankless job of sorting stubs, I'm the type of person who creates or fixes articles, but relies on somebody else like you to actually then sort them beyond a simple bio-stub :) Sherurcij 22:03, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Bagha Jatin
I can see why you [placed the templates, but if you'd checked the Talk page you'd have seen what was going on. I created a stub until I could work out from the old article (and on-line sources) who this person was and why he was notable. --Phronima 17:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry not to have replied to your message sooner; I don't get a chance to edit very often. I'm also sorry if I gave the wrong impression; I wasn't complaining, just explaining the situation.  Re-reading what I wrote above, the tone was wrong... but that was unintentional. --Phronima 21:31, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits on Paul Kirchhof
I will now try to add that the Paul Kirchhof resigned from his candidacy for minister of finance after the election result showed no majority for CDU/CSU+FDP. Thanks again. Andries 16:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Johnny Barnes
Hello, can you explain to me why you have identified the Johnny Barnes article as a ? Given that Bermuda is not in the Carribean anymore than the Azores, why should that article be identified as such? Is there some preexisting arrangement to identify it as such for the purpose of stub sorting? --Bletch 02:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Fascio Siciliano
''Why did you speedy delete this article? I think it really had some merit. I was just wikifying it a bit and then I found out you had deleted it. Aren't admins supposed to explain a speedy deletion in the edit summary, i.e. write more than the first sentence of the original content? (that's not a rhetoric question, I really don't know)--Carabinieri 19:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)''
 * Well, actually by the time I got to the article, the author had blanked it. I was on new page patrol, and unfortunately didn't check the history (although I should have).  Admins don't need to explain the reason for the deletion if it is obvious from the contents of the article (which would automatically be in the delete summary).  However, the article's content was a blatant copyright violation anyway (from the Encyclopedia Britanica), which would have merited it's deletion nonetheless.  Thanks for pointing this out.  -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 19:23, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Georg Forster
I think this article is strongly out of balance and needs a good deal of work to reach the proper state. I suggest to leave the stub template there. Maybe you could help in extending it by translating from the German version. This could improve the balance considerably. Alx-pl  D  17:25, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Jonathan Wolff
Don't you think that's a lot of stubs? --Ryan Delaney talk 06:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Emergency department
I wonder if you would consider supporting Emergency department atArticle Improvement Drive. This department is where we all go if we are very ill, and I feel it needs a boost if it is ever to get featured article status. I would greatly appreciate if you were able to offer support on this.--File Éireann 15:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting WP:AID
Hi Carabinieri,

thank you for supporting Religious Pluralism on WP:AID - with your support, we've really made it into next week. I gather from your contributions that you're one of the cleanup guys that organize all the information that is already there in Wikipedia an put it into the right place. Any contribution of yours to Religious Pluralism would be most welcome, even if you're not an expert in the matter; there is a lot of work to be done for non-experts as well, such as: Nur so ein paar Vorschläge, wenn du dich berufen fühlst (das klingt auf Deutsch viel schöner und pathetischer als ich das auf Englisch sagen könnte...) Gruß, --Robin.rueth 07:48, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleaning up the page (We've got a proposal for a new outline, and it has to be implemented)
 * Building up a Wikiproject on RelPlur so we can organize our work better (and I'm quite a newbie and haven't got a clue how to do that).
 * Looking for related pages, establishing the links and checking for consistency.

Dumarsais Simeus
Carabinieri, could you please take look at the article now and leave in the discussion section what all else needs to be done for the article clean-up. I have listed a few items that I feel are still open. Kgrr 16:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Article Improvement Drive
I'll be willing to support your nominee for AID, the Green Party, if you will be willing to support mine, Stairway to Heaven. Please reply on my talk page. 02:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi, I just wanted to let you know. I saw that you have asked several users why they have removed Template:Foreignchar. The answer is that they all were vandals, sockpuppets. See the whole list on User_talk:Who. Renata3 07:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Bc radio history
Hi Carabinieri. Could I get you to take a quick look back at Bc radio history? You listed it for speedy, but I think it was just someone putting things up bit by bit. No doubt the page needs work, but I think it's an honest article. Cheers.--Bookandcoffee 17:49, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :) --Bookandcoffee 17:54, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Message
Hi Carabinieri, message for you on Talk:Reema. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

&#123;{foreignchar}} vandalism
I've added sockpuppet templates to the user pages of all the foreignchar vandal accounts I know of, to make it easier to keep track of them. They currently link to User:Diacrit and Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Diacrit, but that can be changed if and when someone finds out who the real user behind all these sockpuppets is. I'd suggest centralizing discussion of these vandal accounts to User talk:Diacrit. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:37, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Stauffenberg
I noticed your questions on the talk page of the article-indeed he was a strong nationalist and had racist views towards Jews and Poles. I will add this to the article in time.I did give a small responce to your question on talk. --Molobo 12:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Comma before LoPbN dates?
Hi, and thanks for your contribs on List of people by name-tree pages!

You may be interested something that's been diffidently discussed for over a year, but hasn't gotten any attention since i asked for opinions on resolving it about 6 months ago. I've put a lot of commas between the link to the subject's bio and their parenthesized dates of birth &/or death, since that has been the predominant approach for a long time, but my cautiousness about a change has been the strongest opinion for it that i've heard for a while before, and since then.

Earlier this week, i announced my intention to eliminate the comma before (but not the one after) the dates, come the new year; that too has brought no response.

Your interest in the pages suggests you're among those whose continued silence should justify my confidence in that move, so i hope you'll speak up at Talk:List of people by name if you've got enough of an opinion to bother commenting on it. --Jerzy•t 01:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Delaware stubs
I understand your point about stub categories, but it is also wikipolicy to only have stub categories where there are a substantial number of stubs, 50 or so, I think. Surely one stub covering all articles concerning Delaware is enough. I could see double stubing if it crossed two areas, or dividing California up, but subdividing little old Delaware seems too much to me. I'll solve the problem shortly by writing a basic article for the guy. Frankly, most of the Delaware stubs are politicians, and have been set by me as I develop my work list. Being in one place makes my life easier, as I am actually working to eliminate all of them. stilltim 02:42, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

speedy deletion
Why did you delete "Southport Spit, Queensland" while I was in the process of creating it? --WikiCats 11:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks --WikiCats 11:31, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Continental bio templates
I have created Asia-bio-stub and Oceania-bio-stub, I hope you'll find them useful. Conscious 19:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Stub Templates
With regard to Guðbrandur Þorláksson, why did you change it back to 4 stub templates? As generally agreed at Stub, "using more than two is strongly discouraged", and undoing changes without an edit summary like that is rather rude. -- Jake 21:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, the reason, why I put the templates back in the article is because it is generally easier for stub sorters this way, although the rules do disencourage it. I guess the way I did it was rather, I apologize.--Carabinieri 21:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Meir Vilner
Sorry I was slow to get your message; haven't checked Wikipedia for a while. My Hebrew's actually not good for much besides basic reading, but I /did/ find the Meir Vilner article in Hebrew and added the cross-wiki link. There's a pretty good infobox with a photo on him there -- if you don't get to it first I'll add something similar to the English article eventually. If you do, for reference: his birthdate is October 23, 1918; he died on June 6, 2003; and his parties as listed on the he-wiki are Hadash, Rakah, and Maki (the latter two of which should both redirect to the Communist Party of Israel page). Good work so far! -- AdamantlyMike 23:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Heil Hitler
And the reason I keep removing it is that that flag is an insult to these people's memory and all that they stood and died for. Find another stub tag for them, please. Kelisi 21:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * "Why is it an insult to this man's memory to have him in a stub category about the time he lived in? BTW, I personally don't think that headers like "Heil Hitler" are very appropriate.--Carabinieri 21:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)"

Oh, you don't, do you? In that case, I cannot imagine why you find it so hard to understand that it is an insult to post a Nazi German flag on an article about someone who was murdered by Hitler's régime. Think about it. You obviously found my header insulting, and I chose it to impress on you the offensive potential of a Nazi reference, but I don't think you quite made the inference that I'd aimed for.

In case you still don't understand, let me put it another way: It's not the stub itself. It's the flag that appears in the stub tag. If you can find another, more fitting stub tag, or if you can change the Nazi tag's template, that's fine, but a Nazi flag on an article about a Nazi murder victim is a hell of a lot more offensive than a message headed "Heil Hitler". Kelisi 21:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * You just don't get it, do you? Read it again: It's not the stub itself. It's the flag that appears in the stub tag.


 * Geography has very little to do with these people and who they were. Yes, they lived in Germany when Hitler led it, but the Nazis were a régime, one based on a central figure whom all "good" Nazis worshipped. The tag is appropriate for any personality who was stricken with Hitler worship, but we need another one. I don't know whether is a Widerstand stub tag. If there isn't, I'll see what can be done about that. Kelisi 00:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project
You voted for Male and Female, this week's Collaborations of the week. Please come and help them become featured-standard articles. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 23:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Fausto_Pocar.jpg
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.sfs
I've just done some work on this. Can you look and see if you think the tag should be removed. I need a second opinion. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:17, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

European Robin
I noticed your language skills. I am interested to know what is says on the French or German wiki about the European Robin. It it well known to French or European gardeners? The English Wiki says that it is known to English and Irish gardeners, because it comes close when someone is digging the garden to collect food, but there is no mention of European gardeners. (unsigned comment by Snowmanradio)

German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board
I saw you were editing some Germany-related topics (and you are a de-N) so I thought I'd invite to our little board, where we can share to-do lists, check our new articles and have some fun. Hope to see you there, Kusma (討論) 14:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de
Hi. Thanks for helping with the missing encyclopedic articles project. You've been taking care of quite a few of them recently. :) I'd like to ask you a favor though:  Could you please indicate in the comment section on the modify page which missing article you took care of?  That would be really helpful.  Thanks so much for taking part in the project.  --Mmounties 01:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

County or district
Hi, I saw that you changed the word County to the generic word district in the Renchen article I translated. Perhaps you don't realize that the word county is a 100% match for the word "Kreis" in American English and a lot better than the generic. Therefore, please don't make that "correction" going forward. Thank you. --Mmounties ( Talk )   19:13, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I see your point regarding consistency and I'm usually all for it. But I don't think that a generic word should be picked over a perfect match (at least in part of the hemisphere) just because the person who set up the "district" pages was not familiar with American English. There are too many other types of regional concoctions in Germany that we really don't have good matches for that need the word district.  To use it for counties as well is heavily and unnecessarily overusing it (IMHO).


 * Regarding your other question, I don't think we want to list stubs as new articles. But it would be great if you could really translate the German articles.  That would simply be wonderful.  Stubs usually don't give much information and creating them just so we can say the page exists in the en-wiki doesn't help much.  It would be better to leave the links red.  Don't forget that stubs also take away the chance for our articles to be picked for DYKs on the main page when they are finally completed because they no longer qualify as "new" articles.  But we'd love to have your contributions of full translations advertised on the Portal and perhaps picked for DYKs both on the Portal and the Main Page.  That would be great. --Mmounties ( Talk )  [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px]] [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|25px]] 20:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've moved it there. I also included your last note to my page.  We should continue the conversation there.  Please check to make sure I quoted you correctly.  (See?  And here you thought you just made a small correction....[[Image:Smiley.png|20px]])  --Mmounties ( Talk )  [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px]] [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|25px]] 21:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

German article transalations
Hi, Carabinieri. Just wanted to stop by to say nice work! Also wanted to let you know that there is a template that we include in all articles that are based on a German article whether in part all completely doesn't matter. And please all all your translatios to the bottom of the Proofreading section on the German-English translation requests. That's where we keep a complete list, no matter whether they were new or not. I'm not sure whether you knew that. Happy Wiki-ing! --Mmounties ( Talk )   14:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Berberis vulgaris
Hi Carabinieri - having this at its scientific name actually fits in better with the WP:TOL naming proceedures "or when common names are well-known and reasonably unique, they should be used for article titles. Scientific names should be used otherwise": the "common" name is not very well-known, and the species (like all Berberis species) is almost always referred to by its scientific name by gardeners and scientists alike. Compare the google hit counts, 400,000 for "Berberis vulgaris", and only 11,000 for "European Barberry" (and marginally more, 17,000, for "Common Barberry"). There's also a strong move among many WP:TOL participants to have almost all plants at their scientific names, because plant names are so often confusing and used differently in different areas - MPF 19:16, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Agile Frog
Hi, thanks for doing this one and removing it from the French missing article list. But don't forget that the French article needs an interwiki link back to the English language article before being removed, otherwise it will just reappear in the French list the next time a database dump is done. (I've done it now). Thanks, and best regards, BillC 12:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)