User talk:Chochopk

EU reverts
As a regular editor of the EU article I am sorry your edits were reverted twice (by the same editor). I told the editor in question that he should be more careful in the future. Arnoutf (talk) 19:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your speedy rescue! --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 19:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Vietnam paper money
Small denominations 100 Dong - 5000 Dong are no longer produced, but still in use in VN. Pyvanet (talk) 00:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

"Republic of China"
Hi there,

I was tidying up some s on the ROC page, and noticed the following:

"Feuerwerker, Albert. 1968. The Chinese Economy, 1912-1949. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press."

as a separate table at the end of the list.

It seems to have been inserted by you: here.

Do you remember what this refers to, as I hoped to include the in the article?

Regards, JohnI (talk) 22:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I am not a frequent editor of the article. So my edit may very well be questionable. I just wanted to include a lone reference in a commented out area right below the reference section. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 19:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I added a new sub-section called "Other references" and started the numbering from 1. This way we don't have to re-number the entry when footnotes are added or deleted. Let me know if you disagree or have a better idea. Regards, JohnI (talk) 01:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Estonian Kroon
Hi,

I've seen that you've added a lot of stuff to Estonian kroon and tried to make it like euro or USD. I just want to tell you that I partially revert your edit not because the information is false. I did so because of the guide line at WikiProject Numismatics/Style/Currency article. Euro and USD have more details that don't fit with the guide line. For example, the euro is a multinational currency where many languages are all considered official. That's why it has a funny way of showing different spelling at the top of the infobox. Greek is not an official language of Estonia, that's why I reverted your edit. In addition, I see that you plan to create "Estonian coins" and "Estonian banknotes". The naming convention would result in "Banknotes of the Estonian kroon" and "Coins of the Estonian kroon". Precedents include Banknotes of the Czech koruna, Banknotes of the pound sterling, and Banknotes of the Romanian leu. Thank you. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Estonia has had different banknotes and coins - they ahve had also different names - for excample marks and kroons, sents and pennies. I think that it is not wise to create one big "Banknotes of the Estonian kroon" and "Coins of the Estonian kroon" as they would not represent the hole evolution of the Estonian currency. The name of Banknotes of Estonia and Coins of Estonia would collect all the currency types and names under it on the other hand.
 * I suggest that we could add the redirection after words - but the main name would be banknotes of Estonia - then i do not have to create "Coins of the Estonian pennies, ...Marks"...


 * Karabinier 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Your point is completely valid. As long as the format is "Coins of somewhere" or "Coins of some currency", I'm fine with it. It's just the "Xyzian coins" format that bothers me. In the past, there were Canadian banknotes, Philippine peso bills, and all sorts of formats. The Estonian mark and the Estonian kroon are kind of like the Australian pound and the Australian dollar. There is a Coins of Australia article as a summary. There are also Coins of the Australian pound and Coins of the Australian dollar because the information is too much to fit in one article. This is just my humble suggestion.


 * Also, currency unit such as kroon or euro should be sentence case, not capitalized. So if you don't disagree, I will move individual denomination articles such as 500 Krooni. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Hm I didnt quite understood what you meant under the "I will move individual denomination articles such as 500 Krooni"? As long as you dont attend to delete the pages about kroons different banknotes.. :P Karabinier 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, I don't mean to delete these pages. Just want to rename with lower case "k". --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 16:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Micronation
Hi, I have edited the template above and now for some reason it has created five blank lines on every article with that template. I haven't really edited many templates, could you please have a look at the template and see what is wrong?

Thanks - Onecanadasquarebishopsgate  14:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Problem solved - Onecanadasquarebishopsgate  16:21, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I fixed the problem. If the conditional contents are in the format of

...
 * and if multiple consecutive conditions evaluate to false, then you get multiple blank lines. I changed them to

...
 * then the blank lines are effectively removed.
 * I also created a sandbox and test cases according to Template test cases. This way, real articles are shielded from any experimental change. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 16:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for solving the problem. - Onecanadasquarebishopsgate  16:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Brunei Currency
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently copied the contents of a page and pasted it into another with a different name. This is what we call a "cut and paste move", and it is very undesirable because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. The mechanism we use for renaming articles is to move it to a new name which both preserves the page's history and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. In most cases, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself by this process, follow the instructions at Requested moves to request the move by another. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut and paste move repair holding pen.

If you were to move Brunei ringgit, please also move Coins of the Brunei ringgit. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing out my mistakes. I can't seem to move the page in question though, because the page already exists.  Do I go to Requested moves or ??? --Novelty (talk) 07:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess that's the only way now. Unfortunately, a lengthy discussion will take place. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Can you have a look at the talk pages of Talk:Brunei ringgit and Talk:Coins of the Brunei ringgit to see if everything is in order? Also, do I need to record this move request anywhere else? --Novelty (talk) 08:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's pretty much in place. I did some minor modifications. Please add
 * Brunei ringgit
 * to Requested moves. I can't really speak for you. And I haven't decided what to vote yet. Thanks. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the help! Now what happens, and who decides when it will get moved? --Novelty (talk) 01:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Every participating editor. After five days of discussion (ideally, if not backlogged), an admin will act according to the consensus. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

A suspected sock puppet
Can you point me in the right direction? I've been having trouble with Mexican peso and Spanish dollar (mostly the former) due to the actions of Jolliette and three IP addresses that clearly belong to this user. After I pointed out the multiple identities, Jolliette and 74.136.211.15 engaged in a bizarre sequence of edits to make it look like they were distinct people. Unfortunately, this person has given the game away on User talk:Hammersoft by contributing to the same (unconnected) discussion using two of his/her IDs. As there's only one registered user, I'm not sure how to go about registering this as sock puppetry and I wondered if you could point me in the right direction. There's no great rush as I'm now quite content to revert anything this user does and I know how busy you are. Thanks, Dove1950 (talk) 20:33, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help in improving the Mexican Peso article. I think we are really getting somewhere. -- Jolliette   Alice   Bessette,  -- 19:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Numismatics guidelines change proposal
You have previously contributed to the discussion at WT:WikiProject Numismatics. Please review a new proposal here and comment if you care. —  AjaxSmack   01:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Help needed: Brunei pitis
I've moved the Bruneian pitis to Brunei pitis to be in line with WP:N. However, that article is rather short. How do I request for a merger for that article to be included in the Brunei dollar article? --Novelty (talk) 06:15, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The instruction is at WP:MERGE. But I'm personally against the merge. A unwritten convention is that if the currency unit is different, it would have its own article. It just happens that pitis was a short-lived currency. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 16:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, I won't request for the merge. However, it might be good if it gets written into the WP:N guidelines.  Perhaps you can initiate that? --Novelty (talk) 02:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Currency naming guidelines change proposal survey
You have previously participated in a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics/Style. If you care, please go here to register your opinion on two proposals for currency naming guidelines. Thanks. —  AjaxSmack    03:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Mozilla Digital Memory Bank
Dear Chochopk,

I am a graduate research assistant at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. In recent years we have produced a number of online archives such as The September 11 Digital Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org/) and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://www.hurricanearchive.org/). Our team is currently gathering digital documents related to Mozilla products for the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank (http://mozillamemory.org), and we are in the process of interviewing some of the lead members, former and present, of the Mozilla community.

I recently found your Mozilla/Firefox-related contributions located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Firefox. Given your involvement with Mozilla, we think your voice would be an excellent addition to the archive. If you are interested in having your perspectives added to the record, we can conduct the interview via Skype, instant messenger, or email—whichever method might fit your schedule and preferences best.

I have included below the first three questions of the interview in order to give you a sense of the process. For examples of completed interviews, please feel free to examine the interviews section (http://mozillamemory.org/browse.php?cat=interview) of our archive.

If you are interested in contributing your perspectives on the Mozilla community and its products, you can reach me by e-mail at gcheong@gmu.edu. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions regarding the interview process or the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Best regards,

Giny Cheong

Gcheong (talk) 23:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Graduate Research Assistant

Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu)

Department of History and Art History

George Mason University

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Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Interview Questions

When did you begin using computers? How did you get interested in computers?

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Article split of Chinese cash
If you care, weigh in here on a draft of split articles and see if they address your concerns. —  AjaxSmack   00:21, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Yo
Hi, I've read that you want to visit mah country, so let me know please if you get there :) Abdullais4u (talk) 21:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:2008 ROC Presidential Election Result.png
Thanks for telling me my mistake! I corrected it! Stephenchou0722 (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding my cabal
Please read this, and tell me if you can help me out. Thanks. I've tried to fix it like a million times and now I'm just stressed out.  Lighthead  þ 06:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Image map coordinates are according to the full-size image, not the visible image. So I updated the template. I'm not sure if the index is 0-based or 1-based. I assume it's 0-based. See Extension:ImageMap. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 14:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks man! You the man, man!  Lighthead  þ 16:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh okay, now I get it. Thanks.  Lighthead  þ 16:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Macau Fisherman's Wharf
Do you think the confusing tag is needed in the article.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * What tag do you speak of? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Err, the article has a tag above saying "Part of this article may be confusing".  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * LOL! I can't believe I missed that. I guess I automatically ignore tags on articles I rarely edit. No, I don't find the article confusing. Instead, I think it needs expansion, if possible at all. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 17:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Then I will remove the tag from the article since both of us are agree that the tag is not needed.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Taipei or Seattle?
Meetup/Seattle5. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)


 * Taipei... --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 03:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Chinese yuan
Hello. I know that you are an expert on currency matters, so I would like to ask your opinion on my proposal in Talk:Yuan (currency)/Archives/2011. I am pretty sure that this is not the first time similar ideas were proposed. The proposals are to (1) form a thorough history of the Chinese yuan from its birth in the late 19th century to now - including the yuan in use during imperial period -1911, yuan issued by the Nationalists KMT until 1949, and finally the contemporary RMB section, and (2) merge the RMB article into the Chinese yuan article (not the other way round). So, it will become somewhat like the Chinese currency article without the pre-19th century sections such as copper coins or cowry shells. Thank you for the reply. Heilme (talk) 22:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Chinese cash
You have previously participated in discussions on use of English in currency names at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Numismatics/Style. If you care, please discuss a resolution of related titleing issue at Talk:Chinese wén. —  AjaxSmack   01:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Numismatics template discussion
Hi, I've started a discussion here regarding a template you created here. Please feel free to chime in. user:j   (aka justen)   00:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I've commented on that page, and also at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam My main concern is about the template Exchange rate, which includes spam for the firm Oanda. Smallbones (talk) 15:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Template help
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Request for comments
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Is a bit long, but can you comment at Template_talk:Euro_adoption_future? It will be very much appreciated.

Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 15:40, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Help for template
Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:34, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Euro
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Recent bold edits to $1
Would you care to chime in on this discussion? YBG (talk) 06:28, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Regarding you comment posted on zh:Talk:臺南市 (直轄市)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Numismatic Galleries
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MSU Interview
Dear Chochopk,

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Adding a page of guidelines . ..
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Merge discussion for Ghanaian pound
An article that you have been involved in editing, Ghanaian pound, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Jack Bornholm (talk) 18:09, 20 December 2014 (UTC)


 * We needa solve that thing up there. I mistakenly moved the page to Ghanaian (P)ound. It should be Ghanaian (p)ound, like all the other examples such as Malawian kwacha, Malawian pound, Rhodesian pound, Rhodesian dollar, Zambian pound, Zambian kwacha etc... That needs to be undone and moved to Ghanaian (c)edi, which was someday the title of the article. Sorry for this burden, but accidents happen.


 * You opposed to that merge. On second thoughts, if Bornholm were to write about the whole story of the currency of Ghana, the article should be re-titled. The way it is now, it would be considered "This article has multiple issues". Nonetheless, Bornholm should be guided to create the article History of the currency of Ghana or any other similar title, with part of the content he put there. Thanks for your time, Krenakarore  TK 21:36, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Quixotic plea
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed&#32;if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated&#32;should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, Administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 00:01, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, Administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux  Talk 00:09, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Numismatics newsletter
 WikiProject Numismatics news and updates from the past month (March 2019)

Featured articles
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Norfolk, Virginia, Bicentennial half dollar

Collaboration of the Month
 * The Numismatic Collaboration of the Month will be making a return in May. Feel free to make nominations.

Project news
 * As you can see, the project now has a newsletter. This first issue was sent to all members, but future issues will only be sent to users who subscribe.
 * A new task force focusing on American currency has been started.
 * A barnstar was created for the project last month, was the first to be awarded.

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Miscellaneous
 * On 22 Apr, 2019 the Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar will be featured on the main page.

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2019 US Banknote Contest
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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Dz icon


A tag has been placed on Template:Dz icon requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is an unused duplicate of another template, or a hard-coded instance of another template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is not actually the same as the other template noted, please consider putting a note on the template's page explaining how this one is different so as to avoid any future mistakes.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. – MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:01, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Numismatic banknote gallery caption
Template:Numismatic banknote gallery caption has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:34, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Numismatic coin gallery caption
Template:Numismatic coin gallery caption has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:40, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Template sandboxes has been nominated for splitting
Category:Template sandboxes has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Eyesnore talk&#128172; 00:00, 19 October 2023 (UTC)