User talk:Ezeu/Archive4

Archive: 5 April 2006 - 8 June 2006

Kate
Hi Ezeu, I was wondering why you undid my changes to the Kate page without any explanation. Most pages pertaining to a personal name have a section of famous people by that name. Neelix 16:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * See this Wikipedia listing of articles about people with Kate as a given name. It would be a bit much to start adding them all to the disambiguation page. She is listed on the disambiguation page for Booth, which is more proper. --Ezeu 16:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Irish- dark skinned
Irish people are in fact quite the opposite. They are fair skinned and generally tall. They are a distinct ethnic group within the Aryan group of peoples. They are most closely related to the modern day Scottish and French. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyuky (talk • contribs) 6 April 2006

A laugh a second
"Scottish and French" - I didn't know there were many blonde Irish people. Did you really flee the LRA? Should I laugh or cry? And what's up with the pronunciation of "Lurds resistance army?" Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 18:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello Zyxoas, yes I fled from them. I really should have stayed away from that "white Irish" argument. --Ezeu 18:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

!Kung
Hi! There's a suggested merge between !Kung and the Bushmen and I saw your comment there. As I understand, the !Kung are one group within the Bushmen but have their own language and society. I would be inclined then to give them a seperate article but give the Bushmen article an edit to have a section on the !Kung. Remember, Wikipedia is not paper, so we should feel free to keep it granular and have some overlapping data. Do you have any strong objection to this? You clearly know more aobut Africa than I do, so I will cede to your opinion. Avraham 20:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I do not hold a strong opinion on the issue, and my knowledge of the !kung is limited. My thought was that it is better with one good article that two sub-standard ones. --Ezeu 20:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Guidelines for Wikipedia lists of ethnic groups
Please may I draw your attention to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Guidelines_for_Wikipedia_lists_of_ethnic_groups

Your contributions would be very welcome. -- Brownlee 11:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Comments regarding Juba
Pls do not violate your right to edit pages. I see that you have altered vital and factual information on Juba, Sudan.

I know this history well, as this is my city.

Thanks,

GG


 * Give a reference to back your claims of Greek influence in Juba, and your edits will stay. Asserting your knowledge of the town is not enough. --Ezeu 16:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I will do this in due time. I have spent all my life there and I was not expecting someone from Uganda to come and question me. If you keep vandalising Juba I will have to do the same and question Uganda I am afraid... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghines (talk • contribs) 11 April 2006


 * When your edits are questioned, you reply by providing proof that you are right. Making silly threats merely stengthens my suspicion that you are a hoaxer. --Ezeu 17:26, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Things
Hi there. I bet you don't really know me, but you've been showing up on my watchlist and around for a bit now. First, let my say thank you for your wonderful contributions. A little appreciation is often sorely missing from the atmosphere here. I particularly think your Uganda and Africa related work is a great service for Wikipedia. Second, I'm wondering if you would let me nominate you for adminship. I think you would be a good candidate. If you haven't considered it, the info page is at Administrators and I'll gladly answer any questions you have about it. The only real requirement or qualification is good sense. Tell me what you think. :-) Dmcdevit·t 22:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the encouragement. Adminship is really tempting, but I am really enjoying being a regular editor. --Ezeu 23:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm, I'll respect your opinion, but let me just point out that many administrators do mostly article work. The tools are still helpful in moving over existing pages, rolling back the odd vandal or blocking the odd vandal or protecting the pages that you watch when they become the subject of vandalism or edit wars or what have you. It doesn't entail any real responsibilities. In any case, always be sure to contact me if you change your mind (perhaps by email if you want to be discreet about it). Keep up the good work. Dmcdevit·t 06:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

e ezeu
What languages do you speak (Luganda etc)? Fancy a bit of WP:NOR violating? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 18:50, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello! Anybody out there? "I speak the language of Silence very well" is not the answer I was looking for, or is this some Zen exercise?... Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 07:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC) May Fo bless you.
 * I speak a little Luganda. What WP:NOR violating? --Ezeu 13:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

A little Luganda? I meant Luganda as an example. What languages do you speak fluently? I'm going to ask you to translate a few phrases to test the language, but you'll need to be fairly fluent to translate some of them 100% perfectly since they are meant to detect very subtle grammatical properties which most 2nd language speakers might neglect. Interested? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 19:23, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

A little Luganda and a little ....? Sorry about that! Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 19:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I can only translate to and from English and Swedish. I am astute in one Western Nilotic language, and streetwise, but not fluent in a Luganda and Kiswahili. Excuse me for being vague, but you are being rarther vague yourself. What do you want me to do exactly? --Ezeu 19:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Ezeu
You are now nominated. You'll need to go indicate acceptance and answer the questions. One you've done that, add the to WP:RFA. Good luck. Dmcdevit·t 02:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

.js simplification
I was looking through some of your old contribs, and I happened to notice you monobook.js had a section for "Force edit summary". I'm not quite sure what that does, but it reminds me greatly of the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" option (which was added a little while ago) in the "Editing" section of preferences. You might want to look into that; would simplify your .js and reduce unreliability. --maru  (talk)  contribs 03:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll check it out. --Ezeu 09:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Juba was established and built by Greeks in 1923
I would like to draw your attention on the vandalism which most probably came from you in this article. Juba is of high importance to me, as I have lived all my life there (compared to you) and pls do not alter the text with non-sense. If you have any queries, pls feel free to contact me BEFORE altering the text as it is annoying. Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ghines (talk • contribs) 24 April 2006.
 * We have been through this issue before. Please read "When to cite sources". --Ezeu 22:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit Count
Hi Ezeu,

I'm giving you your edit count, as I thought it might help you in your RfA. I used Flcelloguy's Tool (the others are out of whack), so the information is correct as of 08:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC).

And now (drum roll, please), your stats:

Statistics for: Ezeu (Permissions: N/A) - Total: 8186 - Main: 5607 Talk: 608 User: 514 User talk: 346 Wikipedia: 698 Wikipedia talk: 9 Image: 103 Template: 27 Template talk: 10 Help: 1 Category: 72 Category talk: 6 Portal: 185 --- Total edits: 8186 Minor edits: 972 Edits with edit summary: 5005 Edits with manual edit summary: 3208 Percent minor edits: 11.87% * Percent edit summary use: 61.14% * Percent manual edit summary use: 39.18% * --- ---
 * - percentages are rounded down to the nearest hundredth.

-- Primat e #101  08:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Ezeu 22:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Rather weird diff
Could you drop me a line about this diff of yours, which modified my signature's ♫ thing? I kind of like my sig as is... was this an AWB failure, or what? Anyways, take care next time around, alright? Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk? ) 04:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Was certainly not intentional, but some browser issue which I will look into. --Ezeu 04:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Request for Adminship
If you have questions, feel free to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations! Essjay ( Talk  • Connect  ) 19:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! I know you'll be a fine admin! &mdash; mark &#9998; 19:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats from me too. Wizzy&hellip; &#9742;   08:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * And from me also! I've always felt there were too few admins really dedicated to African topics, it's great to know that there's going to be another one now :-)--Aldux 13:53, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Also congrats. Feel free to come to me for any questions you ever have. :-) Dmcdevit·t 17:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you my friends. It was a close call. The RFA was successful only thanks to your positive comments, and one discounted vote. I will do my best as an admin. I will follow your examples and work to improve African related articles. I'll have to thank everyone else tomorrow, if recover (some evil person sneaked some hooch into my juice). --Ezeu 01:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats! You deserve this! -- S iva1979 Talk to me  02:01, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Somaliland
It is an independent country, which should be admitted to full membership of the British Commonwealth along with the Hutt River Province Principality. - (192.190.108.19 07:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Your comment, I suppose, is in reply to what I said at Talk:Coins of Somaliland. Somaliland has many (possibly all the) characteristics of an independent country. It may be so that it should be recognised internationally, but it is not. Whether this is unfortunate or not is a matter of opinion. Fact remains that Somaliland is not recognised as an independent state by any country. Yes, it covers the same area of territory as the British Somaliland Protectorate (as you noted at Talk:Coins of Somaliland), and Somaliland's government has released statements stating that Somaliland's borders are recognised by the African Union and the UN, but that is not equivalent to the region being recognised as a country. Comparing Somaliland with Hutt River Province Principality makes me believe you just intended your comment be to be humorous.--Ezeu 15:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Ezeu, Somaliland's declaration of independence in 1991 was based on the fact that it was briefly independent in 1960. Its union into Somalia was supposed to be voluntary, but things went downhill after Said Barre took over. Therefore, it qualifies for British Commonwealth membership. I am sure that [the website of the Government of Somaliland] has information outlining its case for recognition. As to the banknotes of Somaliland and the coins of Somaliland, they will eventually be listed at [The website of the British Commonwealth Numismatic Project].About the Hutt River Province Principality, I was not joking. - (192.190.108.19 06:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC))

Better late than never
Fantastic, so now you are an administrator! I would have come earlier, but could not on account of my sickness from 3rd April to 24th April 2006 resulting into my wiki-absence. I convey my congratulations to you on your elevation as an administrator, and wish you all the best! Have you ever seen me around? I am just curious! --Bhadani 15:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Your name seems familair. I am ashamed to say so, but I do not remember where I've seen you. --Ezeu 22:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

AfD for Right- and Left- wing terrorism articles - have your say
Please take a look at Articles for deletion/Right-wing terrorism and also Articles for deletion/Left-wing terrorism and have your say, if possible.Xemoi 21:09, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info
Hello Ezeu, Thanks for the info about creating sections, that you put at the end of my article on liposuction. Unfortunately (for me), someone beat me to it. Before I could do it, someone else did. Never mind, it's done, which is the main thing.

You live in Sweden, born in Africa, and have lived in Wales and Australia!! I think that's the most exotic combination of countries I've ever heard of one person living in. I'm Australian, from Sydney, but I live in the US now. I remember going to Carmarthen when I was a child living in London. There was a castle.

Congratulations on your beautiful awards! Pinkgalah 04:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The people of Carmarthen were very hospitable. Wouldn't mind going back there sometime soon. --Ezeu 18:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Cricu
Hi -- I noticed you prod'ed this article. I marked it for speedy deletion (CSD A7). Speedy deletion is preferable to prod when it applies, at least, I think so. Mango juice talk 05:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

RfC
Hi, just FYI, User:Dr1819 (the Male unbifurcated garment guy) is apparently trying to bring an RfC against you for deleting his article. Rather incompetently, though. See Requests for comment/Ezeu, if you're interested. Looks like a case of WP:SNOW, if you ask me, but I just thought you'd like to know. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for informing me. --Ezeu 10:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

And this same guy is now commending Ezeu for attempting to bring back at least a form of this term, which is far more widely used than many other less controversal terms that have found their way into Wiki. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:About#Wiki_is_a_great_concept_but_._._. Dr1819 18:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Dee Patterson
Could you tell me why you redirected Dee Patterson to the Fear Street page? They are not related and by setting up this redirect you could be misleading people to a page.--Dleav 03:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The discussion that led to the redirect is at Articles for deletion/Dee Peterson. But you are right, it shouldnt redirect to Fear Street.--Ezeu 05:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Re spam
Yes, thanks for deleting the links. You're so powerful... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigbear590 (talk • contribs) 23 May 2006

Haha!
Thanks, that edit summary made me laugh out loud! :) dewet|✉ 23:53, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Me too. Amaas120 23:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad to please. Just so you know, Dewet, I wrote those good things about you before I read your comment above. :)--Ezeu 00:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for the support; you'd know, but I'm astonished by the amount of stress an RfA generates. Anyway, c'est la vie!  dewet|✉ 00:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Jamison Parker
Hello, Ezeu. AfD nominations are listed on subpages for each day, the current page is Articles for deletion/Log/2006 May 24 (scroll down to "current discussions" on Articles for deletion to find the current day in the future). The nomination of Jamison Parker has been removed from the main page. Thanks, Kjkolb 10:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I am aware of that. It was done in error. --Ezeu 11:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

from Blake10500
Well, according to the Prentice Hall World Geography Textbook it is. Oh yes, and according to my professor of world studies it is also. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blake10500 (talk • contribs) 25 May 2006.

Thanks!
Hey, thanks for helping out with the "YubNub Command" page, but I was wanting to keep all of the mentioned commands links. I may be putting some of them back if you don't mind. You did a nice job cleaning it up though, thanks.

Jake jjefferydesign.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magicjj (talk • contribs) 26 May 2006.

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Question
Ezeu,

Two quick things; firstly I wanted to thank you for helping to maintain the Wikipedia Site, and in particular, the Bob Marley section. You have done a very good job, and I hope to see, and assist in the growth of this area.

Secondly, I am the webmaster of Thirdfield.com, a fan site that a friend and I created in 1999, which has blossomed and taken on many functions, and a broad base of fans and associates.I recently attempted to add my site to the category, and found that it was no longer there when I returned. Whilst I am new to the Wikipedia editor functions, I am curious as to what might have gone wrong?

Hopefully you can assist me!

One love,

Thirdfield 18:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

simon@thirdfield.com
 * Links added by someone affiliated with the website, unless it is the official site of the subject of the article, is usually frowned upon. Proclaming the site as "The Largest Bob Marley Fansite" and putting it prominently, before all other links (except bobmarley.com) looked to me like the behaviour of someone attempting to promote a website, rather than improve the encyclopedia. I will not remove the link again to avoid edit warring, which could lead to one of us being blocked per the WP:3RR rule. We can use our time to improve the article instead. --Ezeu 20:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the explanation. It appears someone else has already deleted the link again :( . I can also appreciate the unknown, but this site has been in existence for 7 years, and promotes the same values that this area on Bob Marley does. We often refer to the immense value of wikipedia in our forums. As for having affiliations I can clearly see how that would interfere with any unbiased addition, so I will not re-add the link, and simply continue to add to the information on the site, and hope that at some point, someone will re-add the thirdfield.com link seeing it's value to wikipedia users.

Thank you for the assistance, and courteous manner in which you approached it.

Thirdfield 13:23, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Meadow (programming)
I'm don't want to second-guess you, but isn't two days a bit short before closing the Afd on the above article as a non-speedy keep ? -- Hirudo 02:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You are absolutely right, I happened to miss that it was relisted. It should have been removed from the May 22 log and put into the May 28 log. I am reopening it. --Ezeu 02:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks -- Hirudo 02:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Removed May 22 AfD link
Hi Ezeu,

Just wanted you to know that I removed the May 22 AfD log from Articles for deletion/Old. It's definitely very confusing, considering that we also have Articles for deletion/old. :-P --Deathphoenix ʕ 18:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is somewhat confusing. I'm still trying to get a hang of the AfD nitty-gritty.--Ezeu 18:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No problems, a lot of people do that. Oh, now that I think of it, I'm not sure which way is correct, but when relisting an article, I noticed that you remove it from the AfD log page. I don't know which way is correct, but I copied Johnleemk's method, which is to comment out the AfD and note the date to which it is relisted, so it looks something like this (assuming that you relisted the following AfD on May 30):


 * Like I said, it really doesn't matter, and the end effect is the same, but that's just the way I've seen one AfD veteran do it, so I've been doing it that way as well. :-) --Deathphoenix ʕ 21:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * So thats how the others do it. Thanks for the tip.--Ezeu 21:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

One minute please
I'll source the info in a second though... Working on archiving my talk page. Why not just put This article needs help citing sources etc. It is a real episode and the info is important. ForestH2
 * Because that article has gone through the AfD, and AfD decisions must be respected. --Ezeu 23:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Having trouble with my computer. It goes blank and then comes back up. Don't want to mess anything up. Now it's up. Check the note I added on the page. ForestH2
 * Its alright, take your time. --Ezeu 23:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Newbie
Hello, I am fairly new to Wikipedia, I am a newbie. I am still reading guidelines and starting to put together an article. You have marked it for deletion. Dramapod is the article and I am Daveb74. If it is not too much trouble, could you take the time to let me know why?? Daveb74 18:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Replied there. --Ezeu 22:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Apartheid AFD
Thanks for voting on the Israeli apartheid article. You may also be interested in the following AFDs:

fullsome prison 14:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Apartheid wall
 * Articles for deletion/Gender apartheid
 * Articles for deletion/Sexual apartheid
 * Articles for deletion/Global apartheid
 * Articles for deletion/Apartheid (disambiguation)

Iraq war blog
I was following the three steps for deletion; the reason I listed on the page is the subst:afd2, after which the afd3 puts in my reason for deletion. I'm going to recopy my afd2. T e  k  e  03:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Er wait, no, ha! Sorry, I haven't done an AfD in a month or so.  Thanks!  T  e  k  e  03:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Just curious about the function of Wikipedia
Hello Ezue, Yesterday I made an edit to this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ugandan_writers

giving your readers a link to the page on our site where we interview Ugandan writers at the Literature Channel on UGPulse.com. http://www.ugpulse.com/channels/literature_index.asp?channel=Literature

According to your edit, this was regarded as spam. Our literature channel is the only place on the web interviewing Ugandan Authors on a weekly basis... So how can this be regarded as spam? I am slightly confused. How are we supposed to contribute to Wikipedia?

Please take a look at our site and you sill see that we are probably the best source, if not becoming the best up-to-date source on a variety of topics on Uganda and East Africa.

Peter

UGPulse.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.236.128.14 (talk • contribs) 7 June 2006

Ezue why do you have no love for UGPulse.com
We have a section on our site where we interview Ugandan Musicians... one or two musicians everyweek. I tried to link the section of our site to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ugandan_musicians

Talk about relevancy... Our sites interviews these musicians and we currently have a long line waiting to be interviewed:

http://www.ugpulse.com/channels/ent_index.asp?channel=Entertainment

We interview Ugandan Musicians weekly(1 or 2 a week).... I don't see how you can brush us off as spam when I try to edit your pages yesterday. How can the two or three links i added be considered as spam?

There is more to Uganda than New Vision and Monitor. :)


 * ) Ezeu... please tell me its a script error...lol... i will understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.236.128.14 (talk • contribs) 7 June 2006


 * It is unstandard to add external links to category pages. Add your link where it is relevant, eg. at Music of Uganda and it may stay. --Ezeu 22:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Cool... :) ... Thanks for the response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.236.128.14 (talk • contribs) 7 June 2006

Articles for deletion/CineMasters Studios
I seriously ask you to reconsider your closure of this AFD as a no consensus. Not only was the piece a Vanity article by User:TheVortex, but looking through the contributions to the very few keep votes it attained, I don't think there was a single valid Keep vote. How it could be classed as a no-consensus, I'm not sure. - Hahnch e n 04:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * If it were up to me I'd delete it pronto, but it aint up to me. I didn't see a clear consensus to keep or delete. Praxis is to keep rather than delete where consensus unclear – hence my decision. But having revisited the AfD, and having reckoned with the suspect socks, I suppose "delete" should have been the right decision. So I will change the closing thereafter. --Ezeu 05:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, it saves me the trouble of sending the article through AfD again in a few weeks when its author and sockpuppets would have forgotten all about it. Equendil Talk 05:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Heinen's Delete
I was just wondering what your final reason for deleting the Heinen's stub was and if you could please comment on the numerous posts in defense of the stub about how it actually passes WP:CORP. Thank you. Laximus 05:24, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The "delete" arguments were plenty and well argued. The posts in defense of the article were neither numerous nor convincing. Closing AfDs is not an exact science, so if you disagree with my decision, then you can take the case to Deletion review. --Ezeu 05:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Appreciation
hallo Ezeu, thanks for promoting the Ugandan spirits thats Waragi. my email is princepaulw@fsmail.net and I have found this information on the wiki page which is really very interesting please keep it up.

regards

prince paul c/o User:Charles Matthews
 * Cheers :) --Ezeu 14:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)