User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive10

... the third party's weapon is not a self loading rifle but his ability without force or threats to persuade both sides to avoid violence and settle their differences by peaceful means ... - The Peacekeeper's Handbook To be unpopular with both sides at the same time is probably the best pointer to the fact that one is performing one's duties correctly and with impartiality. - The Peacekeeper's Handbook

I archive my talk page when it gets longer than is preferable. You should too!


 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive1 (18:58, 25 December 2004 &mdash; 18:17, 22 December 2005)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive2 (18:17, 22 December 2005 &mdash; 01:40, 06 January 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive3 (01:40, 06 January 2006 &mdash; 11:14, 3 March 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive4 (11:14, 3 March 2006 &mdash; 01:59, 28 April 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive5 (01:59, 28 April 2006 &mdash; 19:00, 1 June 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive6 (19:00, 1 June 2006 &mdash; 17:25, 25 July 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive7 (17:25, 25 July 2006 &mdash; 17:20, 19 November 2006)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive8 (17:20, 19 November 2006 &mdash; 23:37, 21 May 2007)
 * User talk:Francis Tyers/Archive9 (23:37, 21 May 2007 &mdash; 18:04, 23 April 2008)

Stop! Engage brain! Are you looking for the Macedonian Wikipedians' notice board?

Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English
Just curious as to your reasoning for changing "native inhabitants" to "earlier inhabitants". Do you have the same view about "Native Americans", for instance? Would you prefer "indigenous"? Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Re "invasion" and "displacement" - not true, I think ... anyway, "earlier" is very weak and I'd rather change it to "existing" or "indigenous" inhabitants. I don't speak Welsh at all - although I have distant Welsh antecedents and live here now, I was born and lived most of my life in England, which is what makes me interested in the relationship.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

religious nationalism
As an editor of the article Nationalism, please note that the section Religious Nationalism has now been separated from the main article into its own article Religious nationalism. Please join in and help bring this newly formed article up to standard. Especially important is avoiding a Systemic Bias and adding Citations.

All the best, Witty Lama 04:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello there
How are you doing these days? Still listening to Scandinavian metal? Seen Opeth lately? Do you work on Tajik articles these days? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 18:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I saw some youtube clips of some Finnish metal bands a while ago and I was quite impressed I have to say. WHat is the Tajik connection with you. To the UK having a fluency of the language is quite unusual, do you have Tajik ancestry or something? I tried adding some of the towns and villages a few weeks back but there doesn't seme that much info available on them  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 20:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you recognize any articles in Category:Cities, towns and villages in Tajikistan which have more informative articles on Tajik wiki? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 21:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
hey! try to be WP:CIVIL and to not delete sourced info with 1-2 words that goes against the Wiki rules! read and participate in discussions at first! Andranikpasha (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Khojaly Monument.jpg
Hello Francis. Recently you removed the above image from article Khojaly Massacre. You indicated that it is not particularly appropriate at the top of the page. Well, I think the monument is the only available material at Wikipedia to illustrate the article, and is the only free available image of the monument that can be found on Commons. This being said, do you think we should include the image in the article at all or maybe wait until the settles? Thanks --Kimse (talk) 20:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The article is about the massacre, and not about the city. So, since we don't have the images from the massacre itself appropriately licensed for commons, it leaves us with only this image to use. Or do you have anything in mind to suggest that could be use from Armenian side? We also could use some images from other languages under Fair Use, but I think they'll get deleted anyway. About the mentioned deletion request, do you know how long they usually last? --Kimse (talk) 22:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think a city photo would rather be used in Khojali instead of in Khojaly Massacre. Have you seen the images on the subject from other languages? I think this monument image is as neutral addition as it can get, at least for now. In my search of other visual materials for this article, I stumbled upon one from Askeran. Take a look at the article's image, it's close but in my opinion it's not exactly related to the massacre.


 * As a comparison, let's take a look at (1) Virginia Tech massacre. They don't have images of just the campus there, they have images of mourning students, a satellite photo, student's taking cover and an interim memorial photo besides many others. And (2), Auschwitz concentration camp doesn't just have images of the Polish city of Oświęcim, but also of the sight of the camp, satellite photo, maps, and several memorials. Therefore, I think the Image:Khojaly Monument.jpg is a good visual representation of the article for now. And when more free licensed images become available with time, more of them can be used in the article. I rest my case! :) --Kimse (talk) 23:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply
--Badgernet (talk) 13:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of famous people described as anglophiles
I have nominated List of famous people described as anglophiles, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/List of famous people described as anglophiles. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pascal.Tesson (talk) 15:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Ethnic political parties
Category:Ethnic political parties, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Cgingold (talk) 12:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Grammatical conjunction
S'okay. Really, I was a bit quick on the 'rollback' trigger - if I'd looked at your contribs history first I'd've realised it was a good faith edit. Philip Trueman (talk) 10:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Survey request
Hi,

I need your help. I am working on a research project at Boston College, studying creation of medical information on Wikipedia. You are being contacted, because you have been identified as an important contributor to one or more articles.

Would you will be willing to answer a few questions about your experience? We've done considerable background research, but we would also like to gather the insight of the actual editors. Details about the project can be found at the user page of the project leader, geraldckane. Survey questions can be found at geraldckane/medsurvey. Your privacy and confidentiality will be strictly protected!

The questions should only take a few minutes. I hope you will be willing to complete the survey, as we do value your insight. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Professor Kane if you have any questions.

Thank You, BCeagle0312 (talk) 16:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Need to talk asap re Farsi, Swahili, MT
Hi Francis,

Please give me a buzz as soon as you have some time to talk. Some interesting things have come up during recent meetings in Kigali and Nairobi regarding machine translation, etc., that I need to chat with you about.

Best,

Malangali (talk) 11:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

A new task force - ESA
Hello,

I've noticed that you are active in the area of space exploration. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks.U5K0 (talk) 11:25, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Tag removal
Please don't remove speedy deletion tags from articles, as you did here. It's considered vandalism. If you disagree with the tag, please add a tag and make your case on the article's talk page instead.

The article in question has been deleted three times before, so the tag was placed in good faith. I'm not going to speedy delete it this time because I think you've tried to assert notability in a reasonable way, but I still don't think it meets our criteria as it is so I'm going to send it to AfD instead. Kafziel Complaint Department 16:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, seeing as the article asserts notability, the tag was inappropriate so I removed it. - Francis Tyers · 17:00, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * As the author, that's not for you to decide. Kafziel Complaint Department 17:13, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If it had been added by a logged in user probably not, but by an IP sure. - Francis Tyers · 17:16, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's not correct. Anonymous users have the same rights as registered users in those cases. Look - there's nothing you can say that will make what you did okay. Just say "okay", don't do it again, and there's no problem. Kafziel Complaint Department 17:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi
pleasent meeting you on ##nlp linas (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Reward for African country editing
Hi, I was wondering as a part of the reward board offering if you could please copyedit Burundi. I am trying to get this article to GA status. Any extra advice will help. Thanks.  miranda  06:04, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Districts of Tajikistan
Hi, in February 2007 you created Districts of Tajikistan with a list of numbered districts. Do you remember where the numbers came from and in what order the districts were listed? I need this information to start the process of keying the district names to the map that was subsequently added by Rarelibra to this page. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 15:14, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot on TG
Dear Francis Tyers. You block my bot on TG but also mi ip address on it. I inform you by mail but i do it also here. I stopped my bot on TG and if you would i request a bot flag, please unblock my ip address. Sincerely --GdGourou - °o°  -  Talk to me  23:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, could you take at least a moment to respond me, on fr, here or by mail ? --GdGourou - °o°  -  Talk to me  08:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot --GdGourou - °o°  -  Talk to me  11:18, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Euh... the ip seems to be blocked until this evening (21:22), you reduce the period to 1 day... The bot has already been desactivated on tg until further notice, i couldn't do more... Should I wait until to make my request ? --GdGourou  - °o°  -  Talk to me  11:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Something wrong somewhere :

Имкони сохтани ҳисоби корбарӣ аз ин нишонаи IP (89.80.219.74) аз тарафи Francis Tyers баста шудааст. Далели Francis Tyers чунин аст Ба таври худкор нишонаи IP-и шумо баста шуда чун аз тарафи "Ptbotgourou" истифод шуда буд, ки нишонааш бо шумо як аст. Далели бастан Ptbotgour Бозгашт ба Корбар:Francis Tyers. --GdGourou - °o°  -  Talk to me  12:50, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

I try to connect with my bot user account and i have this message: You do not have permission to вироиши саҳифаҳо, for the following reason: Дастрасии нишонаи IP шумо қатъ шудааст, сабаб он аст, ки ин нишонаи IP аз тарафи корбаре истифода мешуд, ки дастрасии ӯ аз тарафи Francis Tyers қатъ гардонида шудааст.

Иллати зикршуда чунин аст:

Ба таври худкор нишонаи IP-и шумо баста шуда чун аз тарафи "Ptbotgourou" истифод шуда буд, ки нишонааш бо шумо як аст. Далели бастан Ptbotgour
 * Hello.
 * Actually, when you block an account with "IP autoblock" mode, there's a 2nd block on the IP that appears like
 *  Ба таври худкор нишонаи IP-и шумо баста шуда чун аз тарафи "(user name)" истифод шуда буд, ки нишонааш бо шумо як аст. Далели бастан StigBot чуни�  and that appears with an associated #(number)
 * In order for the person to be really unblocked, you also have to remove that IP block when it exists.
 * I took the liberty of doing it for this one, but you'll also encounter that problem for StigBot ( #1264 )
 * Please contact me (on frwiki) if you have any question regarding that or regarding blocks in general
 * DarkoNeko x 20:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

* Шурӯъи қатъи дастрасӣ: 21:22، 26 сентябри 2008 * Поёни қатъи дастрасӣ: 21:22، 27 сентябри 2008

Шумо метавонед бо Francis Tyers ё яке аз дигаре мудирон тамос бигиред, то дар мавриди ин қатъи дастрасӣ сӯҳбат кунед.

Таваҷҷӯҳ кунед, ки барои ирсоли почтаи электронӣ дар вики бояд почтаи электронии худро дар саҳифаи тарҷиҳоти корбарӣ фаъол карда бошед ва низ, имкони истифода аз ин вижагӣ барои шумо қатъ набошад. Шумораи қатъи дастрасии шумо 1262 аст. Лутфан ин шумораро дар ҳар дархосте, ки дар ин матраҳ мекунед, қайд кунед.

Шумо метавонед матни викии ин саҳифаро назар кунед ё нусха бардоред: With my human account I couldn't log myself (previous message)... I don't understood what it could be. Sincerely --GdGourou - °o°  -  Talk to me  14:51, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello.
 * Actually, when you block an account with "IP autoblock" mode, there's a 2nd block on the IP that appears like
 *  Ба таври худкор нишонаи IP-и шумо баста шуда чун аз тарафи "(user name)" истифод шуда буд, ки нишонааш бо шумо як аст. Далели бастан StigBot чуни�  and that appears with an associated #(number)
 * In order for the person to be really unblocked, you also have to remove that IP block when it exists.
 * I took the liberty of doing it for this one, but you'll also encounter that problem for StigBot ( #1264 )
 * Please contact me (on frwiki) if you have any question regarding that or regarding blocks in general
 * DarkoNeko x 20:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Macedonia (terminology) FAR
Macedonia (terminology) has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. - (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 23:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

FAR AN/I

 * Administrators%27 noticeboard/Incidents. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 22:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Hey, Francis ... I wonder if you're aware that  semi-retired after an unfortunate incident? I'm unsure if you are close with him, but an encouraging word may help. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 01:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Please, you could translate in Tajik the articles Martin Weinek and Kaspar Capparoni? Thank you so much!
Good evening to you and regards from Campora San Giovanni. I write you regarding the articles of a note police television series: Kommissar Rex. For better saying some principal actors of the international series. Martin Weinek (pronunced Vaynek) and Kaspar Capparoni. Weinek is the veteran of the Austrian series, now real member of the series international, as well as excellent agricultural and theatrical entrepreneur and an experienced wine-grower. Capparoni is the new entry of the series, but he has already worked and he works for international productions and with famous directors, I quote among everybody: Dario Argento. I think that the series will arrive within the winter 2008 thanks also to Rai International, that will be transmitted in 150 countries and in more than 70/80 languages, among which the Tajik. Naturally if you will help me in this, me rechangend really the favor translating a biography or a geographical article in Italian and Sicilian. In fact on the Italian edition they are biographer and geographer. In attends him of one certain answer of yours I thank you in advance and I greet you from Campora San Giovanni, my village native. Thanks still for the patience and the understanding.--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 08:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Macedonian language naming dispute
I have nominated Macedonian language naming dispute, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Macedonian language naming dispute. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Alex Makedon (talk) 00:23, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

TV3 (Catalonia) - "Banned" in Comunitat Valenciana
Should the fact that TV3 is no longer able to be broadcast in the Comunitat Valenciana be mentioned? - Francis Tyers · 00:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Saw the above note on TV3 (Catalonia). If you have details about this, Please do add them. Thanks. --Lendorien (talk) 18:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Lola Pagnani
Hi Francis! some a long time ago you told me that you were able me auitare to translate from Spanish into English. Dear I submit you this delicate assignment to save the article from the catastrophe. You are able because better of me you are practical with the languages. In particolar way between the English and the Spanish. In change I will help you with the Italian dialects that I know: Sicilian, Neapolitan, Calabrian of Cosenza, Venetian, Piedmontese. The main point is that I have a base in Italian. In attends him of one certain answer of yours, I thank you in advance and I send you the regards from my village native.--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 21:24, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I make sense of better me, correct you take it as example the Spanish edition. Thanks still!--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 12:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Nagorno-Karabakh
Hi, thanks for your intervention in the NK article. I understand that some of my edits need more discussion, however I dont understand why all my edits were removed whithout the mention what exactly is dubious or something. For example, you removed some new images and some text were was said that in the 9th c. NK was ruled by the House of Aranshahik, that Sahl Smbatean established the House of Khachen in 821, that the principalities of Karabakh were officially recognised by the Russian Empire, etc. etc. All of this information was based on the works of the western scholar R. Hewsen.

If you think that A and B are dubious, I think you should remove only A and B mantion that in the talkpage. In this case my edits are removed from A to Z. I respectfully ask you to replace my edits and images which are not disputed by anyone and mention the ones which need further discussion in the talkpage. --Vacio (talk) 08:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I appreaciate the work of mediators. However, often facilitators assume a posture that promotes artificial impartiality also known as wrongful balance. Consensus-building is a good thing but for someone who is not well-familiar with the subject matter, it might be difficult to tell between a well-argued-out and backed-up opinion and a frivolous POV edit. As a result, facilitators end up mechanically endorsing or reversing edits they do not understand - just to preserve a mantle of "balance." Please be aware of this nuance. Capasitor (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your reaction on my talk page. However I must note, that the current intro of Nagorno-Karabakh seems not to be a result of very long discussion and concensus, but rather a massive edits by user with not even a single word in the talk page. I think the current intro is very muddy and contains some POVs. I hope we will work together to make it better. With kind regards --Vacio (talk) 12:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

In your last edit of Nagorno-Karabakh you also reverted my last edit, by which I had removed the mention that Artsakh was been a province of Caucasian Albania. I have quoted the western scholar Robert Hewsen in the talk page to show that this is a misconception. No one jet argued against this argumemt, however this is the third time that excerpt is placed back after I have removed it. --Vacio (talk) 11:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you a source which supports the claim that it has been a province of Albania?--Vacio (talk) 11:14, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Article collaboration proposal at WikiProject Space Colonization
Hi, I've put together a proposal for an article collaboration of the week at WikiProject Space Colonization. I would appreciate if you could take a look and let me know if you're interested in participating. Wronkiew (talk) 17:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

NK
Happy holidays. You are welcome to comment here. Brandспойт 12:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Abdul Raheem Glaiati
Hi there, An article you started back in 2006, Abdul Raheem Glaiati, was prodded for deletion. I removed the prod because I think it is worth saving if we can find a source. Please add the source you used to create the article in order to save it.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 01:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Abdul Raheem Glaiati, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Abdul Raheem Glaiati. Thank you. Cheers, CP 17:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've got access to JSTOR, I will check them out either tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for research.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 00:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Csangos
Hello. Not "insufficiently"? 2 RELIABLE recognised organizations are not good enough? Please stop removing referenced sources. Thank you.Baxter9 (talk) 22:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Create a separate article for the anthem FIRST if you want, and then remove referenced reliable material from articles.Baxter9 (talk) 23:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Baxter9
Would you please check this user. He strated 2 edit wars tonight and he removed the 2 3RR warnings from his discussion page. Thanks--Bluehunt (talk) 23:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Culture
Hi, until a few days ago this article was a total trainwreck. I just did a major overhaul, although I believe I was pretty conservative: I cut all the redundancies, any material that was fringe or unrelated, and then tried to reorganize what was left so that distinct points of view or approaches were explicit. It still needs a lot of work (I explain all this in more detail on the article talk page, bottom). I created a section on "American Anthropology" but I am thinking perhaps that should be renamed "cultural anthropology." Because one thing I did not do - but which I believe is important - was to create a new section on "culture and language." But I am not qualified to write such a section. I am hoping you can, or at least make a start of it. I was thinking of a section that says something about how in human evolution culture and language coevolved; in what ways culture and language are related, and in what ways they are not, how linguists think of culture, maybe some basic stuff on ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics with links to the real articles. Well, I hope you will consider it. Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 21:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of BLEU
Just wanted to make certain that you, as a major contributor to this article, were aware that BLEU has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 22:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm concerned that I've perhaps started to make some significant changes to this article, not just minor copyedits, and I think a few more are needed before I'd be happy to close this reassessment as a "keep". Would you prefer if this became a community review so that others can get involved, or are you happy to continue on our present track? --Malleus Fatuorum 00:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi, Francis. I would like to bother you for a while :-) Someone has created a category which I've labelled it for speedy deletion, but another admin deleted it. It is a blatant POV pushing, and not to mention WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:DIS and WP:Hoax. It is funny though, that in the history section, the author is not marked. Could this be some sort of a hack? Can this be fixed? Thank you. Bomac (talk) 21:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Bomac. Deleting the category page is no problem – because it was you who created the category page in the first place. It didn't previously exist. What did exist was some vandal edit to some template that made articles appear in this category . Somebody fixed it, but it apparently takes a bit of time to actually show up in the pages. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems this has been solved without me. :) - Francis Tyers · 22:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Animal treatment in rodeo
You don't know me but I'm 16 years old and writing the Animal treatment in rodeo article. One contributor who has given me something of a difficult time (yes, sometimes deserved) has suggested the article be deleted. It was the final blow, and I sent the article to AfD. I'm crying now. I spent so much time and love on the article. I notice you are a member of the animal rights project. Could you take some time and glance at the article? What have I done wrong? Make your recommendation to keep, delete, or merge. The article will be swamped with the rodeo crowd who have opposed the article from day one. I had great trouble finding high grade reliable secondary source material for the Pro-Rodeo stand and the article is top heavy with the animal rights/animal welfare stand. Of course, it should be deleted -- it's unblanaced. I'm so confused. Thank you! Buttermilk1950 (talk) 06:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Subhon Yodgori
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Subhon Yodgori, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Nothing notable

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Scott Mac (Doc) 23:48, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Featured article review
nominated Macedonia (terminology) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Could you please take a look at the Tajiks in Xinjiang page?
Hi, I was wondering if you could take a look at the the Tajiks of Xinjiang page. There was a lengthy discussion about what to call the people in Xinjiang who speak the the Sariqoli and Wakhi languages and are called Tajiks in China and in virtually all Chinese languages references, including those written by Chinese Tajiks. There was an agreement to call the page "Tajiks in Xinjiang", but some individuals have repeatedly reverted all references to Tajiks to "Pamiris", a term that applies to Tajikistan but is not in use in Chinese literature. I'm open to a debate about this, but the page has been reverted several times by an unregistered user (116.58.100.78). This includes the deletion of references, in particular Chinese language references and any reference that refers to these people as Tajiks. Thanks. David Straub (talk) 17:11, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Mythical origins of language
I have done a GA Reassessment of the Mythical origins of language article as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found it does not meet the GA Criteria. As such I have put the article on hold pending work that needs to be done. My review is here. I am notifying you as the primary editor that this article may be delisted if it is not brought up to GA standards. If you have questions please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 16:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Leprechaun
Hello. As a major contributor to this article, I thought you would want to know that it has been placed on hold as a result of its GA Sweeps Review, which can be found here. –Whitehorse1 18:59, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

New Doctor Steel Page AfD
Hi. You weighed in on the Doctor Steel AfD debate back in February 2007. Thought you might like to know that there is a new one up for review, in case you wish to comment again. I have contacted as many as I could who weighed in on the last one, both for and against, in an effort to be fair. --Jonnybgoode44 (talk) 06:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

GAR: Mythical origins of language
Hi. I have concerns about the above article, and intend to start another GAR. I saw you got some improvment done in the sourcing for the GAR in June. I think other areas now need a significant amount of work - if you have any comments, agreeing, or thinking i am being too strict, or see more areas needing work, your input would be welcome. Thanks!
 * GAR started here:Talk:Mythical origins of language/GA2 Yob Mod  14:16, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Input
As a qualified linguist interested in Slavic languages, could you please give your input to this discussion. Many thanks. --124.169.205.21 (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Resistance is futile
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Dimitrije Tucović
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimitrije_Tucovi%C4%87&action=history

One user continually deleting Tucović's qoute that you have been contributed to Dimitrije Tucović article. I thought it'll be good to let you know, if you are still active. Best regards! --Mladifilozof (talk) 22:45, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Image request
Hi Francis, I saw your name on the list of photographers in Wales. I'm currently writing an article about Sally Amis, sister of the writer, Martin Amis, both of whom were born in Uplands, Swansea. I'm hoping that someone who lives in the area would be willing to take a photograph of the house Sally was born in. It is 24 The Grove, Uplands, Swansea. I realize you may not be near there, but in case you are ever there for other reasons (shopping or whatever), I was wondering if you could bear this request in mind. SlimVirgin TALK  contribs 21:49, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Request
Hi, could you have a look at Shusha, as the edit war has resumed? Thanks in advance Brand[t] 11:40, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Feria del Sol (Mérida)
Hola a ti, te escribo en español porque mi ingles es un poco piadoso...te escribo si por favor puede mejorar ese articulo en ingles sobre la base española, esta todo perfecto, falta solo que me sacas el template si tu lo puede sacar y si por favor me puede corregir los errores gramaticales, por el cambio te puedo ayudar con una traduccion en italiano y muchos de sus dialectos, en un articulo de tu interes...gracias en adelante para la ayuda que me daras^____^ saludos desde Campora San Giovanni y tambien moralmente desde Mérida, Venezuela--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 05:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC) .....gracias...naturalmente lo traduco...pero dime si se puede sacar el template y  del articulo...en la noche traduco en siciliano el articulo♥ gracias pa todo--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 12:29, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Apertium
✅....perdoname si no lo hice en tiempo pero soy sido ocupado con la Feria del Sol....cuando puedes, me puedes arreglar lo de Our Lady of Coromoto?...gracias de corazon--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 06:32, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, would you be so kind as to give us support!
Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. My name is Claudi Balaguer (User Capsot from the Catalan Wikipedia and the Occitan Wikiccionari), I saw you worked on the Icelandic Wiktionary and then looked for you here and saw your profile. It seems that you show a keen interest in diverse cultures and languages, so you understand very well what are a minorized language and culture and maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment because Catalan has not a/one state. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this template on your first page Wikimedia CAT and/or sign following the link on the template. Supporting us will be like giving equal opportunity to minorized languages and cultures in the future! You can have more information on my userpage. Thanks again, I wish you a nice, pleasant and warm summer, take care! If you ever need something about Occitan or Catalan just let me know I'll be real glad to help! Capsot (talk) 08:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Moltes gràcies, si necessites alguna ajuda respecte al català o només parlar de llengües o lingüística i practicar català, ja ho saps pots escriure'm quan vols (ratapenada@yahoo.com). Si no et suposa cap problema, també pots signar seguint el vincle de la plantilla, cosa que ens permet de visualitzar millor el suport (de fet és culpa meua, potser hauré de modificar la traducció anglesa...). Que et vaja tot bé i fins aviat! Capsot (talk) 22:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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I just nominated Articles for deletion/Grecomans. -Jaque Hammer (talk) 02:10, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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Google Translation
Hi there Francis. I am trying to make best use of Google translation. But its failings - dramatic or hilarious - are often quite radial. I tried simplifying the source language; working with 3 languages to locate glitches, etc. Obviously, if the source language is foreign to me, then I am stuck, but even so, the same source text often provides the gobbledygook across several target languages. When I make contributions to better translations, they seem futile as the same mistakes simply come back. Do you have any suggestion or even any more reliable free translation sites you can direct me to? Thanks. Politis (talk) 13:05, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, that makes sense. I usually go Macedonian (occasionally German) into English. For Macedonian I have such little knowledge that I need to guess. Of course, if I do English into Macedonian I am liable to get some belly laughs from my correspondents. I also do English into Greek or French where I can usually tell if anything is amiss. I assume that Macedonian into Greek or French goes through English. Politis (talk) 23:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Good luck with your research. The challenge is that so many words shift meaning according to context. Also the tenses from English->other languages go all over the place. I think the market might be opening up for Chinese. I also found that google translate is better than Babel Fish. Politis (talk) 16:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Western Sahara (Revisited) on Talk page of 2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests
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Loved this. I corrected the Czech and Slovak for you (not sure about the second one in Slovak, but I'm pretty sure the others are all right) - file lake shoe 23:29, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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translation bots
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Outreach to developers in Russia & nearby
Hi, Francis! We met at the Google Summer of Code mentors' summit. Hope you're doing well. I would love help with some translation & outreach to improve awareness of the Wikimedia & MediaWiki development community -- would it be possible for us to chat and follow up from our discussion in October? If it's convenient for you to stop by #mediawiki on Freenode sometime (I'm sumanah on Freenode) then that would work.

best, Sumanah (talk) 14:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Comments requested at Flag of Western Sahara
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re this comment
Hey,

Just wanted to make a couple points regarding your comment.

1)No one doubts there is an Iroquois passport (IP), but proposal 2 would essentially argue that we should move IP to United States passport to suggest that an IP is just another kind of passport which Americans carry.

2)re "Wales" - Wales isn't a disputed territory in the same sense as Western Sahara (WS). Northern Ireland is! Check out Flag of Northern Ireland. The union jack appears there.

3) re "Kurdistan" - Kurdistan isn't a distinct/real geographic entity. Anyone looking for the "flag of Kurdistan" would probably be aware that Kurdistan is only a theoretical place, and hence the Kurd flag doesn't really represent the region. If someone looks for Flag of Western Sahara and sees the SADR flag, they might presume that flag is actually used to represent the region, which of course is incorrect...... NickCT (talk) 13:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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Please comment on Georgia (country) to Georgia move suggestion
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Congratulations on the PhD!
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es:Wikiproyecto:Wikimedia en langues régionales de España
I invite to participate. And create table for wikipedia of Hispanoamérica.--Kaiyr (talk) 12:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

es:Wikiproyecto:Wikimedia en langues régionales de España
I invite to participate. And create table for wikipedia of Hispanoamérica.--Kaiyr (talk) 12:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Language-population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:44, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Featured article review of Abbas Kiarostami
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Good to meet you again in Seagrave. I mentioned Maialen Lujanbio this lady. Victuallers (talk) 19:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination of Fermat's Last Theorem in fiction for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Euskaltegi


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