User talk:Gyrofrog/2013Jan-Jun

This is the archive of comments added to User talk:Gyrofrog from January 2013 through June 2013. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:53, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Do you know how to make the list sortable by whatever the user desires (ie. 1994 population, 2007 population, or alphabetical). I think it would be much more useful. አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 22:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:Janweh64. -- Gyrofrog 02:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:ThisHeatDeceit1991booklet.jpg
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Aksum
Hello, it was me who was responsible for the last edit. There are conflicting dates and assumptions about the Sabaean presence in Northern Ethiopia. Modern archaeological studies date it back to the 8th century BCE. Nevertheless, the source provided in the article does not say that D'mt was an African development it clearly states that it was influenced by Sabaeans. Yes they had their own language before any sabaean presence but the use of iron,cooper and mud break houses and alphabet was not an African development. One thing i don't understand is how Afro centrists deny or downplay Sabaean influence while claiming Ethiopia and even some places in west africa to be the land of biblical Sheba!

I'm currently working on the Arabic wiki Article about Sheba and once i'm done we can discuss this thoroughly. Thank you --Kendite (talk) 19:23, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Dispute arbitration
Can you voice your opinion here. I know it is a long argument and a lot to read but we really need outside arbitration about this disagreement between myself and Middayexpress. &mdash; አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 03:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Pls stop pls stop ratings
Could you pls see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups before rating ever article high pls.--Moxy (talk) 22:12, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. -- Gyrofrog 22:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Hyman Roth‎‎
Good evening Gyrofrog, I am fascinated with your citation-needed template edit on Hyman Roth‎‎ as this is the first time I have come across this version. As I should like tobe able to employ it myself from now on can you point me in the direction of how I would format it: "At about this time, Roth manipulates Michael's brother Fredo into giving him information he uses to make an attempt on Michael's life ." ... for example, is the |1= variable? Also the full stop follows the template. Cheers! –&#32; –&#32; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard &#124; 20:11, 7 February 2013 (UTC) –&#32; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard &#124; 15:54, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, the  is for whatever text you want to highlight. The instructions are at Template:Citation_needed_span/doc; actually it's easier to use than it used to be (I think there used to be a bug). -- Gyrofrog 15:48, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That's great! Thank you! –&#32;

Left and Right wing
In politcal or economic structures there are no "wings", therefore it is a biased opinion it is gammar, and defintion. Only use real definitons, systems, and structures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pusalieth (talk • contribs) 20:07, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. -- Gyrofrog 14:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!
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Kingdom of Aksum
Would you take a look at Talk:Kingdom of Aksum. An IP, who may be a new editor editing logged out, has removed a fact tag from newly added unsourced material. I'm at 2RR. Dougweller (talk) 15:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at Talk:Kingdom of Aksum. -- Gyrofrog 21:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to a discussion: Wikipedia and legislative data
Hi Gyrofrog, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!


 * Please sign up here
 * Announcement on Cato's blog
 * Background from Cato sponsor Jim Harper's perspective
 * Background from Wikipedian Pete Forsyth's perspective

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 14:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Djibouti
Hello,

please excuse my English, I'm mostly intervening on the French Wikipédia. Please note that Djibouti is bordering Yemen on the Red Sea and Bab al Mandeb. It is in fact a common boundary, just a sea border instead of a land one. So, would you consider reverting your revert ?

Best, Sitanix (talk) 06:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:Sitanix. -- Gyrofrog 14:18, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Dear Gyrofrog,


 * my english is not so good, but for me, "bordering" means they share a common border line. Djibouti and Yemen are sharing a common border (what Michel Foucher, a French geographer calls a "dyade"). I don't see any difference because it is a water border. It is topologically defined line that can be mapped. What is interresting, more, is that it doesn't recover the naval channel along Bab el Mandeb.
 * Best, Sitanix (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Insufficient evidence
In the history I've never heard Mohamed Farrah Aidid President of Somalia necessary  you must have credibility.

He is one of the leaders of warlords therefore we would like to write the truth Fifth president was Abdiqasim Salad Hassan this is the List of Presidents of Somalia

--abshir (talk) 07:32, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Veronica Lueken
this is truthful pilgrim. I am new to wiki and have official documents to cite. They are letters, official copyrights and trademarks and court documents not on the internet. I can scan them for uploading but don't know how to upload it onto wiki.

Our Lady of the Roses is the official shrine and there are other groups exploiting it and using the material commercially and breaking copyright and trademark laws and St. Michael's World Apostolate is in contempt of court.

Let me know how to get cite. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.15.175.12 (talk) 05:35, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:76.15.175.12. -- Gyrofrog 16:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Cat. added
Thanx muchly for adding the Category to my List of Jazz Radio Stations. I keep forgetting to hang those on... GWFrog (talk) 19:39, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I also tend to overuse caps... GWFrog (talk) 19:44, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

RE: Rusch review
Thanks for adding the Cadence magazine review to Ten Freedom Summers, although I had to trim it. One paragraph emphasis to one review wouldnt make the section seem formal. I removed the generic appraisal of "recommended listening" and "large, cohesive work", which seemed to repeat what the previous quotes had said, and the comparison to other Civil Right-associated music didnt seem like criticism or praise. It would be interesting to add it to the "composition" section instead, if there is more analysis in the review. Does Rusch say more about the distinction between those singers' music and this album? Dan56 (talk) 01:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:Dan56. -- Gyrofrog 17:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:18, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!
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DC meetups on April 19 and 20
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Reducing size of image in a song article's (single) infobox
Hi Gyrofrog. I wonder if you can help. I'm trying to find out how to reduce the size of an image containing a 7" single's custom face label when it appears in a single infobox. I asked at the Help desk – here's the relevant item – and John of Reading gave me a link to a discussion you contributed to back in 2010. As that Help desk link will show, I'm simply interested in aesthetics: the reduced-size image that I was able to achieve in "Hari's on Tour (Express)" (which contains a song infobox) looks good, I think; whereas the full-size one in the likes of "World of Stone" is excessive, imo, for what is/was only a label in the centre of a 7". Do you have any advice on how an image might be reduced in a single infobox, given the changes implemented in 2010? I notice that user:IbLeo, who appears to have spearheaded that 2010 discussion, is no longer active on wikipedia, so any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, I'll drop user:thumperward a line too perhaps. Best, JG66 (talk) 07:47, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi again. I've just heard back from Chris Cunningham/user:thumperward so I now realise that size reduction is not a possibility, to save you needing to reply. And, in fact, I got a bit creative with scanning (by introducing space left and right of the face label) to artificially reduce that image on the page. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 15:03, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Boqolhore
Hi, re ; you might like to look at Sockpuppet investigations/Baastow1/Archive. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:16, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Gyrofrog 20:19, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, May 11!
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Phantom Navigator cover artist
Hi Gyrofrog, I was adding a credit line to the album cover Phantom Navigator By Wayne Shorter which I painted in 1982 for CBS records, the art director I who assign this to me was Tony Lane.

Best regards,

Jean-Francois Podevin

www.podevin.com www.jfpodevin.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.41.108.19 (talk) 19:22, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

DC WikiSalon on May 24
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The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 18:28, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

help
hellow dear wiki i woul like to add my Biography to wikipedia so plz may you help me am Abdulkadir and these bellow is my Biography' http://whoisabdulkadiryusufali.blogspot.com/2013/05/who-is-abdulkadir-yusuf-ali.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xooshdheere (talk • contribs) 16:11, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:Xooshdheere. -- Gyrofrog 16:40, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Mukhtar Alleby
Hi Gyrofrog. Mukhar Alleby appears to have a new sock. He's been blanking the Sanaag and Matthew Bryden pages, and also removing user comments (c.f. ). Can you please have a look? Best, Middayexpress (talk) 15:17, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Left response at User talk:Middayexpress. -- Gyrofrog 15:30, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * It's the Somaliland issue and the Sanaag page in particular. Cheers, Middayexpress (talk)

Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

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Ornette Coleman edit
Hello Gyrofrog,

My name is John Merlino, and I made the edit trying to explain Roy Eldridge's use of the word "jiving". You may be correct that the context supplies enough information. I was mostly concerned about younger people who may not be familiar with the word and wanted a clearer explanation.

No problem if this doesn't warrant the edit, though. :-)

Many thanks, jm

204.155.77.12 (talk) 19:24, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

DC WikiSalon on June 6
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Talkback
I'm not sure what I or the other reporting editor have done wrong with our SP/I reports on this suspected sock of Harlow1937, but could you maybe take a look at the page & post any pertinent thoughts on my user talkpage? I just noticed today that the request was declined on my particular report before I had a chance to answer the CU's "Diffs Request". I've already left a TB for the CU on their talkpage, telling them I answered their query and asking for clarification. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC) Shearonink (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC)