User talk:GregorB/Archive 2

Juraj Julije Klović
Hello. Go to the talk page of Juraj Julije Klović and help out with the discussion. A fanatical Italian user keeps on inserting his POV/nationalism into the article, and has now requested the page be moved to "Giorgio Giulio Clovio" - which is false as the man was a Croat and was born in Croatia. There is a vote on the rename happening on the talk page. Please help, as he is canvassing for votes from other Italian users.


 * Ignjat Đurđević/Ignazio Giorgi is a similar case (or worse, as there are actually two articles). I'll take a look, but these are very complex issues... GregorB 12:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, so I got carried away... I may be wrong, but I cannot support what I cannot provide an argument for. GregorB 20:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Receive Sensitivity Stub
I noticed that you changed my stub on the receiver sensitivity article.

I think the one you chose is inappropriate. It says it's about broadcasting, whereas receiver sensitivity is about radio reception, and is something of interest to a much wider field. Broadcasters are normally interested in transmission, and normally have no need to consider receiver sensitivity. WhaleWey 00:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC) * I've changed it to com-stub I hope that's OK with you. WhaleWey

AfD Nomination: American TESOL Institute
An article that you have been involved in editing, American TESOL Institute, has been listed by me at Articles for deletion/American TESOL Institute. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --A. B. (talk) 02:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC) --A. B. (talk) 02:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Quick on the trigger
Hi, GregorB!

Say, I don't really mind that you hit this article with a "stub" tag. I can easily remove the tag when I've finished writing the article (with citations, no less, in the next hour or so). It's just that you tagged the article 25 minutes after I started writing it! That created an edit conflict for me, breaking my train of thought. How did you spot this brand new article so fast? ;^> DavidCBryant 13:17, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again! Thanks for writing back. No, I didn't lose my edit. I just had to stop thinking about writing and think about something else for a little while, is all. Which is probably OK, since it was just about time to go feed my doggies their breakfast anyway. ;^> DavidCBryant 14:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No edit conflicts, no problem, no complaints, but you are fast on the trigger. You just edited a page three minutes after I created it. Wow! Vincent 13:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Pedro Morales is a stub
I've re-added the proper stub to it. The article is short, with very little actual information. A list of titles and so on, doesn't make the article: information on his actual career and life is the useful content here (which there is very little of). RobJ1981 23:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Barack Obama
(accidental delete of tail text)Thanks for catching that! --HailFire 00:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Atp
Since this template is used in Wikimedia and in Wikipedia, I would like to suggest you to use ATP instead. Electionworld Talk?  22:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Anisa Romero
Because she was the lead singer of Sky Cries Mary, a group signed to a major label (Capitol), I think this article asserts notability such that it should not be *speedily* deleted. Feel free to take to AFD if you want. Thanks, NawlinWiki 20:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello!
I noticed your edits on Danilo's article and was wondering if you would like to help out with the List of Yugoslavian films article. It's an attempt to gather the best of our cinema (notable, critically acclaimed, award-winning films) and leave out the nationalistic propaganda (except for Yugo nationalism, such as in The Battle of Neretva hehe). Anyway, if you can think of any movies to add to the list, or if you could expand on the articles of movies/actors/directors (as you are already doing w/ Danilo) that would be great! Thanks a lot! :) Maîtresse  20:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Robert Bierenbaum
Hi you where on that article and helped improving it. now another editor has put on a deletions notic on it. And if you think it should stay i would be greatfull if you pointed that out on the site. Its still a article i think can be improved and it is interesting and notable. thanks --Matrix17 15:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Robert Bierenbaum
Ok thanks for the help. ;)--Matrix17 15:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Now isotope23 says that he has reported the article to Ad and that it will be deleted. join the discussion on robert bierenbaum. htis is just sutch a joke from hes part.and its personal against me. --Matrix17 19:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Arthur begotti
The speedy tag (db-bio) you added to this article was removed inappropriately by the author, and I've restored it. Based on the fact that this article's author has already removed speedy tags twice (one was originally added by another user), I've decided not to add an nn-warn to the author's talk page, as this would likely encourage him/her to just remove the tag again. (I realise I'm violating normal procedure in neglecting to warn the author, but I think discretion and common sense are called for in this instance.) Wal  ton  Vivat Regina!  18:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Easy meat
Yes, however, the article does exert: 5. Contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable; note that it is often most appropriate to use redirects in place of articles on side projects, early bands and such. from WP:MUSIC, specifically the line from the article "George Parfitt went on to join the band Circulus." and hence the AFD. Therefore, it doesn't qualify under that speedy delete anyways... but yes, I know that you can speedy close AFDs but I don't feel this is the case here. Thanks for bringing it up though. Sasquatch t|c 00:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Matt McAllister Article

 * Hello! An article that you contributed to, Matt McAllister, is being considered for deletion on grounds of non-notability.

We encourage you to weigh in your thoughts and vote in the deletion discussion page.--GoodAaron 16:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the redirection
Thankyou for redirecting Amulets Against the Dragon Forces!--Romulus 21:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Birds of Nepal
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ucfirst
Cool! Cleduc 15:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Khujand prison riot
Thanks for stub-sorting Khujand prison riot. KazakhPol 18:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Query re blocked URL
Hi there,

On the page for the album "Industry" by Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson you have flagged a URL that I included as a spam URL.

This is causing me problems. That URL is actually the address for downloading a document that is an analysis of Richard Thompson's song writing. I am working on the Richard Thompson page and discography at the moment and I would like to cite this document as a reference. There is a genuine need for this URL to be used for references.

Can it be "unspammed" please?

Regards

Bob Dubery 09:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

pardon me
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to revert your edit on Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, and I really didn't think it was vandalism. I was trying to revert some older edit, but forgot to check if it was already fixed, and it was. Again sorry! Leo44 (talk) 19:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada
Some time ago you made the opening edits to my very rough article on Canadian petroleum history. Thought you might like to see the latest incarnation. Thanks for your help. 05:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Kansas track and field
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Copyright violation in Kansas High School Track and Field All Time List
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Dates in the aircraft article infobox
Hi GregorB, I noted that you had altered a number of aircraft article infodates to reflect a simple date format. The changes which have involved a link to a date in aviation is the subject of an ongoing WikiAircraft Work Group deliberation. For the time being could you revert your changes, as per discussion. There are mixed views about the reasons for either date format and no consensus has been reached at present and that is why all aviation article editors are leaving Piotr's work as is. FWIW Bzuk 22:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC).

Aaron Andersen
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Height
Thanks for the compliments, but I did not put even a quarter of an effort I normally would into designing of this template (mainly because I just wanted to fix its major flaws so it could be usable until it's deprecated). Since you (and undoubtedly other editors) prefer to keep using it, I'd probably have to re-visit it again, unless someone else wants to do the re-design. I see someone already complained about default precision being one instead of zero (something I hastily fixed this morning, but unfortunately the fix broke the fractions support).

Anyway, I'll work on the template some more. If you have any ideas you'd like to see implemented, now would be a good time to let me know. By the way, is this template even used for anything but the conversion of human height? If not, all those fractions and other fancy stuff would be an overkill. Thanks for your comments! Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:12, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * So, what, no 1/128ths, eh? :)) On a more serious note, since the fractions handling code is borrowed from m to ft in anyway, height can either have one of the values hard-coded in (halves), or support whatever denominator people would want to use (in which case the frac parameter will be used to specify what is wanted; and it's possible to use 2 so halves are the default).  Limiting the selection to two choices (halves and quarters) would actually require quite a bit more work, so I'd rather leave the flexibility that's there for free already.
 * Anyway, I'll start working on this as soon as I find a chunk of uninterrupted time (hopefully some time this week). If you happen to think of anything useful to add along the way, don't hesitate to let me know.  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:38, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Why?
I fail to see how that helps. Leonig Mig 17:55, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Help with a croation source
Hello, can you read Croatian? If you can, we could use your help determining the suitability of a source at Talk:Mirko_Filipović. It would be greatly appreciated. Sancho 07:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to thank you for your help in interpreting that source. :-) Sancho 02:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

David Beck
I removed your deletion tag from this article. It has been vandalized before you saw it. I reverted it back to what I believe tis the correct version. --After Midnight 0001 20:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. Hopefully, if whoever tags the page doesn't catch it, the admin will before they press delete.  The admin is required to check the history, but some don't always remember or take the time.  I happened to catch it when I saw this. --After Midnight 0001 20:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

External link(s)
Not a huge concern, but why did you change the section header "External link" in The Times (Pawtucket) to "External links"? There's still only one link there. ``` W i k i W i s 't' a h ``` 02:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Dog diseases category
Thanks for creating and populating that category - it's been on my to-do list for a long time. --Joelmills 16:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

György Gábori
Thanks for 'stubbing' it. Squash Racket 16:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Scire quod sciendum
Thanks for your "copy editing" of the above.
 * I've just added another concluding sentence to the above article.
 * Would you please make aqnother visit to it for a check up?
 * Thanks. --Ludvikus 21:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Hidden hand
Would you be so kind as to re-visit the above and consider removing the merge tag?
 * I've worked on the stub some more and I think it would be inappropriate to merge it.
 * I anticipate about 46 titles/references which use Hidden hand in their title.
 * Best regards, --Ludvikus 13:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

St. Augustine Confessions Book 8
I didn't know what to do with this micro book report about a part of the Confessions. I edited it as a way of learning a little about St. Augustine. Could it be a fragment of a larger effort? Are there any usage statistics that could be looked at over time? It doesn't seem very useful as is and I have trouble imagining how a user would find it or where links to it would be useful. Any thoughts? DCDuring 13:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I threw a link to it into the Confessions book report. Maybe that will give someone the idea to expand and upgrade the comprehensive Confessions page and lead to a merge. Let's leave it at that. Is there some kind of tickler to get such a thing reviewed in a year or two? Will there be any usage statistics? DCDuring 14:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Curtis Willkie
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"Oscar Pistorius": Height template
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Femtochemistry - hope you can help!
Hi GregorB,

Firstly, I must explain that I am VERY new to Wikipedia, and am trying desperately to follow the rules even though I seem to be mussing something up. So I sincerely apologize if I've made extra work for all the editors out there!

I noticed that you deleted an external link to an .pdf of my Femtosecond Micromachining Handbook, which is uploaded to Wikipedia. For some reason everyone is banishing this information, and it is actually a very valuable piece of information on micromachining with femtosecond lasers. (Please be broad-minded with the term "micromachining" as chemicals can also be micromachined.)

At any rate, I long ago removed anything that would be "commercial" from this resource, and wanted to post it on wikipedia because it is so requested by the users of our corporate website. What do I need to do to keep this up? If you read the actual material in the link, you will find it fascinating. I don't want to break anyone's rules, I just want to offer a valuable resource to the community at large. Can you help me get this right?

Thanks!

Taune —Preceding unsigned comment added by Taune (talk • contribs) 13:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Dan lodge
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Requested move
I have moved P8 pistol to Heckler & Koch P8. Let me know if there are any additional problems. -- RG2 09:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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Tezija Zararić
Why are you editing that Tezija page? she is very well known and if you google her name you will find loads of information, in fact she is also the #1 artist in her genre in MySpace!

Re: Tezija Zararić
I'm pretty new to wikipedia, so where can i put all those articles, i know there is enough notable information about this girl

AfD nomination of Sony Ericsson Z530
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AfD nomination of Quackery
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Height
I respect what you applied on the Nonito Donaire article. It's okay but let me tell you something. When it comes to indicating the height of people, especially boxers, I wouldn't consider using the height template. Why is that? True, it mentions units for both English and Metric. But the thing I seem to find wrong is that the Metric part is in meters. Judging by what is commonly seen in media, I noticed that a person's height in Metric is mostly measured in centimeters. This is most definitely the norm and what probably should be followed. FoxLad (talk) 00:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Jayson Asher
Deprodded by creator. I sent it to afd. Dloh  cierekim  01:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/List of oral health and dental topics
The guideline WP:CLS covers the list vs. category thing.

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M Continuum
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Nuclear weapon design
Hi GregorB

Regarding your recent style edits to this article, I have consistently maintained an unconventional practice of bolding every decimal point because on my screen decimal points seem too small to be easily seen. I don't want the reader to mistake 2.4 for 24, say. If this is not permitted, than all the decimals in the article should be unbolded. Likewise with the math format of the three formulas I want to emphasize. You changed one of them. I like the bold font of the math format for all three of them, but all three should have the same format, whatever that is. Would it be ok to restore my consistent formatting? Thanks. HowardMorland (talk) 07:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Hans Thomsen
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Chris Britt
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 * That earlier version is better in NPOV terms, but a bit lacking in detail. Deb (talk) 21:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That explains a lot! Deb (talk) 22:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
I've been looking through your contributions and realised you don't have rollback. Would you like me to add it to your account? Rudget 14:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. If you ever need help, you know where I am. Rudget  19:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

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Lucky (Jackie Collins novel)
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The Tic Code
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RE: The Tic Code
Dear GregorB, I added a comment to The Tic Code talk page. Thanx again! AnnieTigerChucky (talk) 14:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Jewish chess players
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Andrija Fuderer
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 * Thank you very much for your answer. I have just improved the page. By the way, I think that Andrija Fuderer as well as Max Romih might have been Jewish. -- Shalom, Mibelz 9:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

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Imena tenisera
Hvala na podršci. Ti korisnici su na mala vrata uveli takozvano pravilo da se uklanjaju naša slova. Hajde da oragnizujemo glasanje po kom bi se to vratilo na svoje mesto, kao što je to slučaj sa svim ostalim ljudima na ovoj enciklopediji. Nisam vičan glasanjima na engleskoj Vikipediji, pa bih te zamolio da vidiš kako bi se to najbolje izvelo. Naravno, bilo bi dobro da ljudi sa hr. Vikipedije dođu ovde i glasaju. --Pockey (talk) 13:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: diacritics
I certainly will inform you if I should notice a discussion taking place somewhere. As things are at the moment, I expect that user:Ev (also supportive of these measures) will send me a note informing me of the debate, which I will gladly pass onto you. Indeed, if the matter should come to a vote then it will be in the interests of all three of us to support the diacritic usage. Obviously, you and I do not need to convince each other of the positive reasons for their appearance as that would be "preaching to the converted." Thanks for the note of encouragement, and remember that I too often roam the site like a headless chicken in search of inspiration, and not knowing where to go one minute to the next. So if you stumble across this debate before I do, or any other of similar nature, please drop a line on my talk page. Many thanks. Evlekis (talk) 20:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * One more quick note, I noticed your recent contributions on some Croatian football players, adding (now Croatia) to the country. That too is something which I wholly support. With me, it has always been the other way, I've always favoured the inclusion of the country of birth at the time of birth; but I definitely support the mention of the present-day land. The only concern with "(now Croatia)" regarding these active footballers is that their place of birth was Croatia then aswell, not the Republic of of course, because that was created in 1991, but the Socialist Republic of certainly. So one positive possibility is to say (eg. born March 19, 1984 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia); likewise, you could make the present republic more focal (born August 3, 1974 in Sinj, Croatia {formerly Yugoslavia}). You can indeed keep them as they are, it won't hurt, but it does make them look slightly as if Croatia was not in existence when it fact it was. Look back to the past century, the only time Croatia - as with the other republics - did not formally exist was between 1929 (when the constitution banished all political parties and created new administrative units) and 1939 when a Croatian banovina was reinstated. So if we are discussing anyone born, for instance, in 1933: we could say (born in Skoplje <to reflect name at the time; Kingdom of Yugoslavia {now Macedonia}) with some accuracy. But this is just my advice, nothing official; I was only thinking along your line of interest in wishing to see Croatia better highlighted. Evlekis (talk) 20:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * They (the Croatian editors) still form a necessary majority sometimes, but so do Serbs elsewhere. Across the field, you get similar scenarios involving the Middle East, Africa, South America, the Pacific Islands, and anywhere else there has been some form of conflict these past years: fresh in everyone's mind. The best thing is for all of us to keep away from it, but we can't resist the temptation to "follow the force of gravity" at times, such as when our issues make the Main Page on Wikipedia. About your suggestion - Croatian businessman etc. - I think that it is absolutely fine and would support it. After all, encyclopaedias are all about delivering information in the form of grammatical and intelligible text. If something takes a little longer to explain, then no problem, we go ahead and do it! As long as the outside reader is fully in the picture, you can use an entire paragraph to explain a circumstance.

Evlekis (talk) 08:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the new information, I shall see what is going on and then make a contribution. About the listing of Croatia & Yugoslavia, I guess you are right that there are many ways to do this and they all meet with some disapproval, if not by one person then another. No we cannot please everyone. It is impossible isn't it? Bruno represented Yugoslavia and he is a Croat. That was the nature of Yugoslavia, six primary nations and a multitude of smaller groups; not the same as Italy where-by you're seen to be Italian if you are from Piedmont and if you are from Sicily. Their most remote population is perhaps the Sardinian people who largely identify as Sardinian. Big problem. Many people actually struggle to grasp the difference between nationality (ethnicity) and nationality (relationship to state). So how about stating that Bruno is a Croatian former athlete who represented (past tense) Yugoslavia when Croatia formed a part of it. The 1991 aspect is very tricky. For one, we don't know in which month he retired, and for another, when do we begin to regard Croatia as independent? My birthday (June 25)? Three months later following an agreement with Western Europe? Or early 1992 when it entered the UN and was formally recognised by the "bulk" of governments? Football is a bit easier as Croatia formed its national side in 1990: it existed one way or another, even if it did not immediately join FIFA and UEFA. I suggest we try to experiment with Bruno Orešar until we can present it in a way that it explains evertyhting, and you ofcourse are satisfied with it. As for the very listing of "Yugoslavia", yes it pains me to see people constantly removing it and I am grateful that many non-local Wikipedians are assertive in restoring the deleted information. We call it historical accuracy. What they need to realise is that this applies to the world over, be it defunct lands such as the USSR or countries whose status has changed, such as the one time Kingdoms of Albania or Italy. For most opponents of this policy, the reasons are often personal: read the edit summary and you find comments such as "country doesn't exist any more", or "don't insult my man by adding that shit country to it." You see Gregor, history is history and you and I can no more change it than we can predict the future. Our dissidents here will have to grow up. I see no reason to be bitter: Croatia prospered very well in the 1960's and the "dark years" involved the break-up itself and the aftermath. Quite literally, the "troubles" as people know them were for the 1991-1995 period. It marred early independence; now if a full scale conflict occured at a different time, such as 1976-1981 (like Zimbabwe's Gukarahunda, 1982-87), with Croatia still destined to split in 1991, then fair enough, people are justified in their reasons for dislike, but even then, it is silly to disclude the mention of "Yugoslavia". But then again, one thing I have noticed over the past two or three years is that no reputable Wikipedian has advocated the disclusion of Yugosolavia, it is normally the members of the "Anonymity Liberation Army" (IP numbers) who play this game, normally without ever adding comments. Even some of the Croatian, Bosnian & Macedonian heavyweights tend to leave that side of things alone. There have been a few Albanians who have objected to the inclusions of Cyrillic spellings on name of Kosovans born before independence, and those who altogether reject the mention of Yugoslavia. In most cases, they have been persuaded to accept the status quo. But going back to those heavyweights, I only wish that they could present their cases more objectively rather than give the articles one-sided angles: this is where conflict is the subject. I hate having to remove "POV" usages and it worries me that some smart swine will revert it back to say "Group A was innocent, never did anything wrong, woke up on the wrong side of bed one morning, and was subsequently slaughtered by Group B", or similar scenarios. I'm curious also to know just how many editors out there know that I am 100% non-allined to any party. I hope you believe that my edits are not aimed at promoting a specific view!! :) Evlekis (talk) 18:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Near Duplicate Algorithms
The page Near Duplicate Algorithms is, I think, a pretty clear copyright violation. I've given the link on the talk page for that article. I'm not a very experienced editor so I don't want to delete the page myself. Could you do it? best, Sam nead (talk) 16:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Lion-Man Dating
You're right, I double-checked the museum and it was a mis-understanding of whoever originally categorized Lion Man. It was in fact 32,000 years old, which would put him at approximately 30,000 BC. I have updated the links accordingly. Thanks. Keithh (talk) 22:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the lead, I see you just left a comment on the diacritics page. Mine (which I started writing before you posted yours) has just been saved. So obviously, it is not a "response" to you (see we are agreed) but an addition. Thanks. Evlekis (talk) 13:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Diacritics continued
This is getting tricky. I see it as having to go down to a vote for the tennis and the other places. We don't seem to be able to convince the anti-diacritic mob of the reasons to keep them, and I doubt they will change your position any more than mine. All I seem to read is this pathetic thesis that "it is common not to use diacritics", yet so far, nobody has proven that the plain form (without diacritics) really is standard English. It is only the standard of certain media. I don't think the fight is lost, there are as yet other corners which we havn't explored: in the fullness of time, I will introduce them into the debates. First of all, the correctness of any language has a number of approaches. Most scholars categorise these as being one of prescriptivism, where-by there is one correct form as is "prescribed" by intellects, and its opposite descriptivism, where-by its adherents "describe" usage but are viewed as subversive by the prescriptive party, as their attitude is "anything goes". In reality, people are drawn into some tug-of-war between these schools of thought even though one is 100% incompatible with the other. These discrepancies are further hampered by the fact that English, unlike French, does not have an academy or federation which imposes "correct" language, not that it would prevent change had it existed. The diacritic debate initially appears as though it needs to consult an authority. That "authority" is not there for anyone, and so when it comes to linguistic elements which are more fixed than others (such as spellings), one consults the dictionary. English, as you know, contains words, names and even phrases from hundreds of languages, and all in everyday use. As it happens, the nation's favourites (in the UK), Oxford, Longmans, Collins and Chambers all give both variations of a word or name, with and without the diacritics. The primary spot is with the diacritics, the dictionaries are littered with these foreign marks and the introductions even explain what they are, their name and how they function, and all for English. Modern dictionaries are themselves "articles of confusion", for although they insist that certain things are "incorrect", they move with the times and allow other aspects to be "flexible among variations". That's another story though. The fact is that this will prove conclusively that diacritics are very much a part of English, and may even set a precendent for Brittanica and National Geograhic as you have mentioned. Of course, one can argue the opposite and cite that English is a "free" language with no dictates (hence the discriptive approach), but that too still permits diacritics. So, foreign names enter the language; some writers use the name as in the local written language; no attempt is made elsewhere by anyone to transcribe the name so as to Anglicise it; the remaining media continue to use the names, without the diacritics. Were the diacritics removed? Or did the editor simply type /s/ (situated between /a/ and /d/ on his keyboard as opposed to first selecting HR on the language menu, followed by hitting a key on the far right of the keyboard) instead of /š/? If a writer is not using his editing influence to introduce a new spelling form which is Anglo-friendly, it is plain that he doesn't honestly care. Do we, with better knowledge, look to these people for inspiration on "how to stylise names in English"? It is crazy. Evlekis (talk) 12:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hang fire Gregor, don't give in. They havn't heard the last of me yet. Evlekis (talk) 20:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Scott Vickaryous
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Broad claim on Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wasn't from 2006
That broad claim you removed was recently added by Cryptonsageand not added in 2006. Good thing you caught it though. :) --Edward Sandstig (talk) 08:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Muphry's law
Thanks for the formatting improvement - I had a feeling there would be some way to make it look smarter, and I'll now know for another time! Hope you found the article interesting: I fell over it randomly while stubsorting and got interested. PamD (talk) 17:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
I just noticed that your comment on PamD's talk page about Baader-Meinhof phenomenon comes directly below me remarking on another instance of the phenomenon - both about Muphry's Law. Since I didn't know or had forgotten then name of the phenomenon, it seems we have a case of second-order Baader-Meinhof! Olaf Davis | Talk 17:12, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Rock music WikiProject
I'd like to invite you to join the newly-formed Rock music WikiProject. There's alot of Rock-related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help us get this project off the ground and a few Rock music pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks! --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 08:57, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Krajan
Oh sorry Gregor. I stumbled across the article some time back and only wanted to put his birth details closer to his name. If his place of birth cannot be acertained, then by all means revert it to where he is a resident, or based. I took a liberty there with no real knowledge. Evlekis (talk) 07:54, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Time between edits
Thank you for updating it! A few times I had started to do that myself but never quite finished... Interesting... up to 49 days now, still a ton of edits but it seems to have slowed a bit, as you say. Thanks again for updating it!  κaτaʟ aveno TC 03:01, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Modern Firearms?
I believe that category is too vaguely defined and would involve too many unrelated designs. I don't think it serves any purpose. Koalorka (talk) 16:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Zagreb task force
If you're interested in being a member of the Zagreb task force of WikiProject Croatia, please support it :-) Admiral Norton (talk) 21:26, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Admiral Norton (talk) 21:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

A proposal for the project page is available at User:Admiral Norton/Zagreb. You can add your name in the participants list. Admiral Norton (talk) 21:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The task force has been launched! --Admiral Norton (talk) 21:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Moving shouting match
I understand that the article is more suitable for a dictionary instead of an encyclopedia. But I expected it to just start that way and then be expanded with more information. -- IRP (talk) 01:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Please check User_talk:IRP —Preceding unsigned comment added by IRP (talk • contribs) 23:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Date autoformatting
Thanks for your comments. The reason I changed the format to day/month is because that is the international format, and I thought the Windows series of articles to have an international flavour rather than American. US-centric articles retain their month/day format, of course. If I have got this wrong, I apologise. -TonyW (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand the criteria you laid out in your reply, and have been trying to follow that format. It would seem, therefore, the Windows articles may come under the mdy format because of their ties to Microsoft, which is US based. I never thought of it like that as I was looking at the articles as a whole, and since Windows is used internationally, I thought they should be in the dmy format. -TonyW (talk) 19:48, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Request
Hey! I am sorry i just edited the wiki page on Normal Forms unsigned comment added by Fathergod (talk • contribs) 18:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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Dozen
"dirty dozen" as you can see has numerous meanings. Anything you have to say about "your" dirty dozen is probably best added to Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants which is quite a short article. If you really feel a separate article is needed, then try dirty dozen (Stockholm Convention) as a title. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 16:35, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. Just noticed that you did not start it. Now moved to dirty dozen (Stockholm Convention). &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 16:39, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Heya, I've noticed you've been contributing to articles similar to mine, i.e. related to activist/anarchist people. My article on Bruno Masse is threatened of deletion, could you please vote to keep it? You can vote [| here]. In solidarity! Lkeryl (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Voting
Hi. You've participated in the debate about deleting of category:Former Towns of RSK 1991-95. Now, there's a similar voting on deletion on the article (created, although the results of discussion was delete, not listify). The links to the voting is here merger suggestion?. Since you've participated previously in the discussion, you're invited to participate again. Please, give your opinion. Kubura (talk) 14:33, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

fractions
I reversed your change to the 1 1/16 fraction at Princess Elizabeth Stakes (Canada). That format could be a great help but you need to check this out as it comes up as a glaring font several times larger than that used by Wikipedia. Thanx. Handicapper (talk) 13:14, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Windows Explorer Handicapper (talk) 14:55, 2 November 2008 (UTC). My Explorer is the latest version and as I said, the fraction is HUGE. Handicapper (talk) 13:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Richter Scale
I think the table with corresponding joules is incorrect —Preceding unsigned comment added byUTS cob (talk • contribs) 03:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Lene Schneider-Kainer
The "in use" tag is designed to reduce editing conflicts. Please respect it. ciao Rotational (talk) 17:57, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Secure Digital
I note you deleted my reference to ebay. Can you clarify why? A list of the active listings of flash memory, showing that SD has approximately 10 times the listings of any other technology seems to agree with my assertion that SD has become the dominant form of flash media. Thanks. --Speedevil (talk) 01:27, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Machine guns by caliber
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