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I want to know more about Copyrights
February 21

Hi, I wanted to contribute a lot more to wikipedia. My only porblem is I can't get the right information about copyrights. For example, if your library or other institution has a subscribtion to a database, is it considered violating copyright law to paraphrase and write the information on wikipedia?

If so, can you lead me to some sources on the web, where the content isn't copyrighted. Thanks for any help. Elfalem 03:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Your always best starting by writing about what you know. (And I would suggest actually starting with some copy-editing before adding content, then adding content to existing articles before starting new articles and always checking the "My contributions" to see how your changes have been accepted and if not why?) Remember that facts canonot be copyrighted (although some may be patented) but phrasing can. Paraphasing a single source will often be legal but will not necessarily NPOV or comprehensive enough to form good encyclopedic material. So use facts from multiple sources and use your own words, then you have no copyright worries. Rmhermen 03:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Dr. Rabb
Hello Elfalem, unfortunately Dr Rabb doesn't appear to meet the notability criteria necessary to warrant a Wikipedia article. Representing his region at the Boy Scout World Jamboree in Paris is not really notable enough. Please see Notability (people) for information on what is considered suitable notability for inclusion. Hopefully that will help. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  20:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. If his contributions to the field of ophthalmology are very important as you say, and this can be verified independantly citing sources, then he may warrant an article. Unfortunately the article you created made no assertion of why the subject was notable, which is why another user marked for speedy deletion under criteria A7 of the speedy deletion policy. I reviewed the content of the article as it was at that time and agreed, so deleted it. If you think his contributions are notable enough I would suggest working on a draft in your user space before posting it as an article. If you recreate the article as it was previously, it will be deleted again fairly swiftly as a recreation of deleted content and / or as being not notable enough. Let me know if you need any further help. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  20:26, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice work so far. There should be a template for saying "I'm working on tihs; it's not a repost :)"  Try to find a second source...  +sj + 01:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Second that, good work Elfalem! If you find articles that you are working on tagged for speedy deletion you can always add hangon and leave an explanation on the talk page. Admins will take note of this and not delete if there are valid reasons given. The best solution though is to get the article into reasonable shape before posting. There's also the inuse template which does half of what Sj mentions above. Keep up the good work. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  08:54, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Ethiopia
I've never actually seen you edit Ethiopia-related articles, but I saw that you speak Amharic fluently, so I thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject Ethiopia, a project designed to ameliiorate and create articles related to Ethiopia. Hope to see you involved!

ዮም  (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  04:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that new template Cities of Ethiopia! I put it above in a different section, though, as it's different from an infobox, which is a box located to the (usually) right side of the page, up near the top with standardized information. For example, all countries have a country infobox for population figures, flags, GDP, etc. For an example, see  . Thanks anyway, as the template will be useful for putting at the bottom of pages about Ethiopian Cities. &mdash;  ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  05:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * We'll definitely need to talk about standardization, but feel free to make a start. It's not a controversial subject at all, so any objections would probably be minor. I'm planning on making a couple sub-groupings tomorrow to better focus the project (to discuss standards specifically for history, linguistic, and other articles &mdash; e.g. cities, regions, and provinces, cultural, etc.). It's fine if you misunderstood me, though, as your work was still useful. Glad to see you helping out! You might also want to check out the transliterations being proposed, which will probably be decided relatively soon. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  06:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Cool. It's getting late where I am, so I'm off to bed. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  06:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Good start so far. Perhaps we should have two templates. One for large cities, and one for smaller cities, with more information in the former. Regarding population, I can get some estimates for cities with 20,000+ inhabitants, I just have to remember the site name (it's this great site with data for cities of all countries). Images will be hard to come by, but if we find one, I'm sure that we could claim fair use. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  20:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Check out Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethiopia/Geography. We have population data and probably land area for almost every city in Ethiopia for free. We probably have a little more info than that, too, but to get in depth information, it's gonna cost us a lot of money. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  01:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

By the way. You should add   to the talk pages of new articles you create so that anyone seeing the talk page can easily find us and join and help out. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  00:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin question on Am:
User:Tatari on am: has asked to be made a መጋቢ and if it is okay with you I will proceed. We can then put any future candidacies up to a vote on the Admin project page. I haven't seen you around there much in a while, hope you will come back and be active! Tatari has contributed and even developed a js etc. for the site so I do think he can be admin. Regards, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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 * Hi! Thanks for your input at the Graphics Lab! We still need to determine what the lower rounded scroll says in this badge [[Image:EthiopiaScoutbadge.jpg]] and what characters are used, so we know whether to add it to the revised emblem. Thank you so much! Chris 20:18, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, that's great! One more thing, and sorry for bugging you. Can you render the words "Ethiopia Scout Association" into Amharic, and put them in the namespace at the article Ethiopia Scout Association? I really appreciate your help! Chris 20:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help! That's just what was needed! Chris 04:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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Can you please translate this paragraph into Amharic for my organization. We are a university organization in the United States and are trying to have our purpose statement translated into many languages of the world.

The purpose of the Global Student Organization shall be to promote interest in issues of global significance, to create better inter-cultural relations, to foster international friendship and understanding, and to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative ideas for the benefit of the University community.

The name of the organization means the Organization of Global Students.

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 * Thank you very much for your translation! --Getoar TX (talk) 21:50, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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 * 340px is the minimum that works for me. &mdash; አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 23:15, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * For me, 300px still had everything on a single line and lots of space after the ethnic group name. I guess there is some browser and/or resolution issue here. How about living the width parameter blank? Elfalem (talk) 04:36, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Seems the problem only exists in Chrome. Tried it on Mozilla and IE with no problems like you said with 300px and blank. &mdash; አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 07:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * It has been translated. Elfalem (talk) 23:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hello! I just saw that you have relaunched the WikiProject Ethiopia. I am a fan of that country. And I wanted to take a look at that. It is great what you have done, but I have suggestion: Why not to change the yellow and red coloura to a darkest shade (not so bright). What do you think?? i can help if you want. Cheers!! PS: leave a comment on my talk please. Miss Bono   (zootalk)  16:26, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks you. I will work on it right away! :)  Miss Bono   (zootalk)  17:43, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

It needs a lot of work. I will create some kind of sandbox to work on it but it will take time. In the meantime people can collaborate on it. Reply at my talk page. Thanks! Miss Bono   (zootalk)  18:21, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * I think that kit histories should be an exception to WP:NOTGALLERY, since the sequence of kits chronicles the evolution of a team and they aren't pictures you can find on Commons. However, I do understand that it didn't have references. Elfalem (talk) 14:42, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway, and as a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 23 September. For the Coordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:01, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Voting for the Military history WikiProject Historian and Newcomer of the Year is ending soon!
Time is running out to voting for the Military Historian and Newcomer of the year! If you have not yet cast a vote, please consider doing so soon. The voting will end on 31 December at 23:59 UTC, with the presentation of the awards to the winners and runners up to occur on 1 January 2017. For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:02, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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March Madness 2017
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Zerai Deres
Hello from italian wikipedia! May I ask you if you could translate into english a letter written in amaric? Topic of that letter is the case of Zerai Deres. Thank you very much in advance. --Holapaco77 (talk) 10:44, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello Holapaco77, I can try translating it. Where can I find the letter? Elfalem (talk) 18:24, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you again. Here it's the letter: page 1, page 2, page 3. --Holapaco77 (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the document is really hard to read. Is there a more legible copy? Elfalem (talk) 01:24, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election
Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
Hi, I’ve tagged an article you created, Ethiopian Legal Information Website, for deletion. The External web link is dead, so there’s no way of developing the article. All the best, Mccapra (talk) 08:40, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:54, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Have your say!
Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai
In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:37, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:20, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hu is the nechur krietar
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