User talk:Francisco Valverde/Archive 1

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Translation projects
Hola Fran. I thought you may be interested in Translation into English. Cheers -- Szvest 20:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

Krakebs
Hola Fran! Lo siento! I'll try to get a fancy pic for the subject once i am in Morocco. For the meantime, we can still use and explain where are the Krakebs. Cheers -- Szvest 03:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;


 * If you check the article Gnawa music, you'll see that I had already named all the 3 instruments in the picture. They are called Tbel and Guembri. You can also include them in the Category:Moroccan music.


 * Regarding the translation, the best place to participate is here Spanish Translation of the Week. Cheers -- Szvest 19:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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Re:Rais
Hola Francisco! A rais could mean many things according to the context:
 * In Standard Arabic, it means President.
 * In some middle eastern countries, it means a Chief.
 * In some idioms like Darija, it can mean a Captain.
 * Sometimes Caid and Rais would both mean the same. However, it can never mean a King. Cheers -- Szvest 15:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

Verifying information in an article
Hola! you placed a tag for verifying information in the article of Antonio Sanchez (Puerto Rican host) a while ago. What information you think needs to be verified? I might work with it today or tomorrow. Gracias, man... Thief12 23:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

use of {nonsense}
Hello - While it may be vanity, Shivram is not patent nonsense by any stretch of that term. It helps to use a better CSD tag so that if the author sees it, they know what they did wrong. Ian tattersall wasn't nonsense either, for that matter. Thanks. CDC (talk) 23:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

oprhaned footnote
re: History of United States overseas expansion

I am deleting the footnote that you changed from  to   because there was no accompanying footnote added. You can go back and add the footnote if you wish.

Nevermind, I see, my mistake, after looking at your later edits, I see that you simply added the footnote incorrectly please see my current edits for the correct way to do a footnote.Travb 03:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza
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An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

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Hello!
When you listed the articlePeoples Grocery for deletion, the link to the debate led to the debate for a different article up for deletion. Just to let you know, I relisted the article. cheers! --Banana04131 03:27, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Please post in discussion first.
Instead of adding the unencyclopedic tag to the article I wrote on vitality, why not give a reason or add what you think is lacking to it. Criticism is worthless when it consiststs solely of "you're wrong".

Esperanza & Your sig
There appears to be a fault in your signiature and as a result, a message about an AfD vote intended apparantly for you has ended up on the Esperanza talk page. You might like to fix your sig (if you haven't already) and check the message. smurray  inch   e  ster  ( User ), ( Talk ) 17:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Kushiel's Scion
FYI, looks like someone may have altered your "vote" on Articles for deletion/Kushiel's Scion. Just thought you'd want to know. (Whoever it was deleted my "vote" outright.) Crypticfirefly 17:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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Friendly Reminder
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Citing Sources
Thanks for all the input of dinosaurs' stub articles but could you cite sources...? --Francisco Valverde 18:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't worry, Francisco. They're coming. I just created the stub articles. They will get sources as I expand them later today.--Firsfron 19:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Bio-Barnstar
Hola Francisco, I saw your comment on the barnstar proposal page. I would also like to see the addition of a barnstar specific for the life science. Here's my suggestion:



You were talking with ClockworkSoul about whether to put into the biology wikiproject. Did you suggest a bio-barnstar there? If so where? Hope to hear from you. Jasu 14:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Just added my vote for flora. It's in a bad state. And I'm waiting for ClockworkSoul to comment on the star. Hasta wiki. Jasu 13:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Flora nomination change?
I have tagged Flora (plants) as a stub, as a first step to change it to a WP:COTW nomination. I personally believe there should be a complete re-write of the article. Do you all agree to make the change? --Francisco Valverde 08:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Any significant expansion will essentially amount to a rewrite, since there's so little content there currently. But I'm not sure what change you're proposing, exactly, beyond the obvious one of moving it to CotW, which I've already agreed to. You don't seem to be proposing any concrete or specific changes to the article at this point, just vaguely alluding to a "rewrite", which is such an obvious and generic suggestion that I don't at all comprehend your going around and asking other editors' permissions to work on such a rewrite. Your surprisingly long delay, however, in nominating the article on CotW, even after I repeatedly encouraged you to immediately nominate the article there, has resulted in the situation that it is now probably nearly impossible for there to be a dual-nomination because Fauna already has 10 votes and there's next to no chance of Flora getting that many in time. As such, I no longer expect the article to be successful on CotW (and I know it won't be successful on AID). But that's your problem. Next time, don't be so slow to act; be bold. -Silence 08:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not acceptable to delete an entry from AID or CotW, especially if you aren't the only one who's voted for it. If it's obsolete, it'll be auto-removed soon anyway when few people vote for it. As I said from the beginning, just nominate it at CotW too. There's absolutely no rule against something being nominated at both places simultaneously; indeed, this has happened numerous times in the past. Then simply direct voters on the AID page to the CotW page with a link so they'll know where to voice their support. -Silence 08:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Mi-3 and W-3 Sokół
Name Mi-3 was used few times by Soviets:
 * version of Mi-1, heavier version with 4 blade main rotor from 1956
 * version of Mi-2, but here are some doubious about designation (it was only one prototype 1964)
 * Soviet desgnation on Polish-Soviet co-operation on largr helicopter based on Mi-2 that could replace Mi-4 from 1971. Project never get out from stage of planning. Finaly,due to problems in this coopertaion, Poles decided to build completly new machine, designated as PZL W-3 Sokół

As for "Sokół known also as Anakonda", W-3 has many versions. Based one for civil, land rescue and transport purposes is call Sokół (also one of armed versions is called like that). Anakonda is name for two SAR verions, other, less popular (projects, prototypes, small number, specialistic versions for army) are Huzar, Salamandra, Aligator, Gipsówka and Procjon.
 * Radomil talk 09:19, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I transformed it into disambig. Check it now. Is it OK in Your opinion? Radomil talk 12:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project
You voted for Fauna (animals), this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -Scottwiki 09:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Re moving flora. On WP:CSD the criteria for speedy deletion are given various numbers. CSD:G6 is
 * Housekeeping. Non-controversial maintenance tasks such as temporarily deleting a page in order to merge page histories, performing a non-controversial page move like reversing a redirect, or removing a disambig page that only points to a single article.
 * I though adding the tag may help the admin decide whether to delete the page or not. --Salix alba (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sintir
As the sintir is played by Moroccans of West African origin (perhaps originally from Mali), it makes sense that the skin-covered lute (called xalam, hoddu, ngoni, etc.) came to Morocco with them. But I'm not sure that's proven/provable. The earliest skin-covered lutes were probably from western Asia, spreading into Ancient Egypt by the Middle Kingdom, then probably spreading west to the Mali Empire, then north with the Gnawa to Morocco. But that's just extrapolation from the available evidence. Badagnani 21:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Francisco
Gracias, for introducing me to collaboration of the week and for giving me a first taste of wiki-community. It's great to work with you. Jasu 08:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

El misterio de CSD-G6
Aha, had the same idea as you to request help with Flora/Fauna from the Salix alba who helped us out with a little comment on the discussion pages. I was surprised to see you had already been there although with a different comment ;-)

I did manage to unearth this in the endless realms of the wikipedia: CSD = category for speedy deletion - GX (G1: Nonsense — G2: Test pages — G3: Vandalism — G4: Previously deleted — G5: Banned user — G6: Housekeeping — G7: Author's request — G8: Talk pages) more |here. Nos vemos en COTW, Jasu 08:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Bio-barnstar proposal
Given the vast scope of the biology articles, there is certainly a need for a dedicated bio-barnstar. Several proposals have been made, with a few proposed by me. In my opinion, this discussion should be brought to the talk page of the Tree of Life : Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. There will be enough interested ToL participants to express their opinion and preferences. This should in the end lead to the definite bio-barnstar. Agreed ? JoJan 18:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You need to build consensus on the image and the scope of the award. --evrik 22:17, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Have a look at the proposal discussion. I have added a to-do list. It's also new to me, but we got some good adivce from ClockworkSoul and evrik who did a lot of barnstarrring. And now let's just be bold. ;-) --Jasu 15:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


 * What's happening with the barnstar? I saw that it was removed from the proposal, but it isn't (yet?) in the barnstar list. What's happening with it? Thanks. Iron C hris |  (talk) 04:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * It is now in Other awards. As far as I understand, that is where it belongs? --liquidGhoul 23:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Language Icons
The consensus on the Language icon talk page puts them on the end of the links, and I've been working on implementing that consensus. --Evan S e eds (talk) 19:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Please help on Ancient Egypt
Posted by Pruneau 18:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

Medicine CotW
Hi! I noticed you were adding to user talk pages. I think you'll find it's better to add instead. With the first method, the template will always have the name of the then CotW, so in a week, the user talk pages might read "the Medicine CotW is Huntingtons Disease". With the second method, the talk pages will always read "the Medicine CotW is Medicine in Ancient Greece", so the user will always know what you meant. The link will remain to the article they voted for.

I hope what I wrote makes some sort of sense... If you knew all this already and were using the first version on purpose, then I'm sorry, just ignore this message. Pruneau 21:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * subst stands for substitution. You can use with the syntax I described in my previous message: add to a page. For example, compare User_talk:Osbus with User_talk:Osbus. In both cases, the template appears on the talk page. But in the MCotW case, the template is still linked to Template:CurrentMCOTW, so when the template is changed, the message will change. On the contrary, when I used  instead of , the complete code for the template was substituted, so the message will never change. Pruneau 15:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA Notification
Hello! I noticed that you have interacted with User:Osbus who is currently undergoing an RfA and thought that you might be interested in participating at Requests_for_adminship/Osbus. You have received this message without the endorsement of the candidate involved, and this is not a solicitation of support, it is only an effort to make RfA discussions better (for more information see user:ShortJason/Publicity). Thank you in advance for your participation. ShortJason 22:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

4 humours
Hola Francisco, this concept is a bit dusty, but then so are some encyclopedias ;-) I was surprised by the modern additions to this concept - the table in the four humour article. I sketched a quick diagram during incubations. Let me know whether you find it useful. All the best. **Jasu 18:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)