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Hi, Thomas Hübener. Stefan Kießling etc, are from football teams. I am currently updating some of the football teams where some players do not have a profile. I will add a sentence or two. Thanks. Squadoosh

NPOV and OR
Hi there. Your edit to Koyaanisqatsi doesn't seem to present a Neutral point of view. And your edit to Powaqqatsi would seem to be either POV or original research. So I've removed them for now. Feel free to add them back if you can present them in a more neutral way or find somewhere else that someone brought up the same issue that you did on Powaqqatsi so you can cite it on the page. Qutezuce 08:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Mike Keith
Do not change the links to Mike Keith until you have created the new disambiguation page.--Zpb52 14:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Tikaram
I have responded to your comment. It changes nothing so long as the article doesn't include verifiable information. 23skidoo 01:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Your sig
is broken. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 00:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Debate Discussions

 * I've replied to your comments/votes on the various AfD's for state debate organisations... I said something different at each one, so you may want to take a look at all of them. - pm_shef 03:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Inter lingua talk 03:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Destriarch
Sorry, I'm still feeling my way around the way Wiki handles "chat" so I hope this message actually works. You noted me regarding my possibly writing further articles about Zoroastrianism, Ancient Persia and Iran etc. Really, my subject is more demonology, mythology and the ilk but I might be able to provide a little information on specific subjects from time to time.

Ash

Thanks for the shout out
I got your comment just as I was editing the last station for TransMilenio. Thanks for the encouragement. A fellow Iowa City-raise wikipedian, I see. Little Hawk, I presume? Hwonder talk  23:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, raised 1 hour outside of Iowa City in a tiny town. But I lived there two summers for college classes while I was in high school. Inter lingua talk

Your question about lists and AfDs
You asked why list of Los Angeles television stations has received less hostility than other lists. Besides that it does not obviously violate any policies, I think this is because: --Ezeu 01:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) it is manageable. Lists that could potentially get too large, like a list of cemeteries, list of schools in China or list of websites are not manageable because they would simply get too large. Categories are better suited
 * 2) the criteria for inclusion is clear, and it is easy for others to check it's accuracy
 * 3) bias. It is considered useful. The more people think a list is useful, or if the subject of the list is of interest to many people, it will probably be kept

I also saw your question and as a generally anti-list user felt that it deserved ansnwer. Ezeu's points one and two are the main reasons. Lists with a small (<100) size and a more or less defined membership have some use, especially if the idividual entries don't or shouldn't have articles of their own. Lists with large sizes and amorphous membership are more likely to generate hostility. Eluchil404 00:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Limonese Authentic Party
Do you have any data on the Limonese Authentic Party? I can barely verify it exists. RJFJR 02:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Not much.

"Suspenden inscripción del Partido Auténtico Limonense" 2-11-1986. Partido Auténtico Limonense - Deudas. Wright, Marvin. Walker, Alfredo. http://www.metabase.net/docs/bn-cr-p/003161.html

Auténtico Limonense 	¢ 483.873.82 (monto asignado)  	¢ 483.873.82 (monto liquado) This was an amount 1/100 that of the 2nd place party in 1982. In 86, 90 and 94, it's funds ranged from 1/100 to 1/200 of the 2nd richest party. There's no data for 98 for this party http://www.tse.go.cr/contribestado.htm

Listed on http://www.broadleft.org/cr.htm as one of (many) leftist parties in Costa Rica

http://cariari.ucr.ac.cr/~oscarf/diagno.html Figs on public financing of the party.

In 98, it got 2,000 out of 2,000,000+ votes. 0.1% of total vote. It was a tiny party

Do you have more than this? Inter lingua talk 02:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Saryn Hooks
You participated in the Finola Hackett AfD. Please also join the discussion here: Articles for deletion/Saryn Hooks (second nomination). Thank you. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Language envy
I am glad we voted alike on the AfD's and that I gave you something to think about. Even though I am against using all those user boxes WP has for us, I am impressed by your set -- the language array that you know is another reason to redouble our efforts to learn more (I am trying to learn Greek, Russian, and Armenian -- simultaneously, I am afraid). I may even add the user boxes based on their usefulness demonstrated by you.

Thanks, Carlos Carlossuarez46 00:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Aleem Pahalwan
Aleem pahalwan was one of the earlier opponents of the former Pakistani wrestling champion Bholu Pahalwan during his early career in the 1930's. There is nothing mentioned about Aleem being a champion except that he was the nephew of famous Buta Pahalwan of Baroda who was a former Rustam-i-Hind. The name and brief profile of Aleem pahalwan has been mentioned in the following old manuscript of Bholu Pahalwan which can be observed by visiting the following site: http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_page1/, http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_page2/,

Thanks, Farid. Faridzenger, 21 June 2006.

new america
I suggest you merge New America Founcation into New America Foundation sharpish. -- RHaworth 07:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Last night I couldn't believe they didn't have an article on this Founcation and checked multiple times with and without The, or using America/American. Of course, if I'd just spelled foundation properly. BTW, where is the proper place for me to respond to this note you've sent me: here on my Talk page or on your Talk page, or somewhere else entirely? I'm never sure if simply putting a : at the start of my reply will send a Message notice to the person to whom I'm responding. Inter lingua talk 15:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

My view is that the reply should be on the same page as the question to keep the thread together. I do try to watch all user_talk pages I have left notes at but I do sometimes miss. (I have to use "my contributions" - my watchlist became unmanageably large long time ago!). Sometimes when a newbie has left a comment on my talk page, I transfer it to their talk page and reply there. Putting a colon in front does nothing except the (very useful) function of clarifying who is saying what. -- RHaworth 21:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

LGBT Indians
Thank you. I was looking for some more names. I will take your suggestion. Maybe we can make an entire list of South Asian lGBT's, as I know of plenty of famous Pakistani and Bangladeshi gays too. Or should we keep them separate? I'll do more work tommorow, though, as I must finish dinner and go to bed. Afghan Historian 04:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for the Redirect
Not at all! If you want to move a page, you should click on the 'move' at the top of the site. You can read more about it here. Regards, Jacek Kendysz 14:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

xequere
hi,Interlingua About plastic balls, i get it from Afoxé article on brazilian wikipedia. And yes i am always contribuing to the brazilian music, and afro brazilian articles when i can. As im doing right now on Afro-Brazilian.

See you later.

Mateus Zica 14:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * i just made the Afox%C3%A9 article

Brazil
Wow you lived in all this places? how old are you^?

where have you benn here in brasil?

LGBT
Sounds good. Your idea was somewhat like what I had in mind and better too. We'll go along with it. I did add one diasporic South Asian, Freddie Mercury. I dont know if you've heard of him but he was the lead singer of a famous British rock group called Queen. He was a Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) who was born in Zanziber east africa but grew up in Mumbai before emigrating to England. He kept his ethnic background a secret, though, for fear of discrmination. I will also add yours plus the baron Waheed Ali, a Pakistani-Brit politician and lord of gay background. However, I can only do work for you today, as I have to be gone for 7 weeks tommorow for a debate camp ( i'm an RA, actually, who monitors the dorm rooms, keeps the campers in check and judges at camp tournament, I was a debater in high school and that's why they called me back). I get paid for it too. Post me help messages on my inbox user for when i'm gone User: Darth Pakhta. I'll respond when I get back August 12 and will resume work then. Thank you very much. Afghan Historian 18:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I redirected the list to List of LGBT South Asians. See if that works. Also, I added some of the names you gave. I'll add the others when I get more time tonight. Afghan Historian 21:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Lists
Hello, Interlingua. I saw your question about creating lists that won't be deleted and I have some suggestions. First, people dislike lists that don't have a reasonable chance of being completed and/or would be huge if completed. They also don't like lists that need to be continuously updated, although very notable lists, like members of congress, can get away with this. In both of these situations, a category is usually preferred. Another big complaint is a list of things that many people find trivial, like a list of songs that have the word "black" in them (some song lists have been very similar to this).

The last big problem that I can think of is lists that encourage the creation of articles on non-notable topics. For example, there might be a list of all of the people who appeared in a TV show. Some of the actors probably already have articles and some of the others may be notable enough for articles when they are created. However, there is likely to be some non-notable people who only appeared briefly in the show and have never had significant roles in anything else, either. Linking the names of all of the actors may encourage people to create articles on the non-notable ones. In fact, they can be attractive because they are shorter to write. Some solutions would be to only link notable people or people that already have an article, leaving the rest unlinked, or to limit the list to major characters, those who already have an article or those probably notable enough for an article. Another possibility is to make a category, like "this actor appeared in (name of the show)". Since only actors with articles would appear in the category, there is no danger of encourage the creation of bad articles. Categories about non-notable topics may also be deleted, but they tend to get more leeway and less attention than lists. However, if there is a glut of trivial categories on a topic, they may get purged on Categories for Deletion in a mass or combined nomination.

Certain list topics have enough die hard fans that it is difficult to get a consensus for deletion about them. These include schools, highways, anything railroad related and lists related to a popular series, like Star Wars. It's probably best to nominate only the worst examples of such lists. If there are a bunch of similar lists and it is unclear if they will be kept or deleted on AfD, try nominating one or two instead of all of them at once. I hope this is helpful. Talk to you later, Kjkolb 09:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your suggestions to improve Ganeshbot. I will implement the changes later tonight and start it again. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 17:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

confirmation
Would you be able to find evidence for Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis? I only get a few google hits. I'd like to see one from a major newspaper to confirm this actually happened. Thank you. RJFJR 15:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

D'oh
I just listened to the "d'oh" sound again. The vowel is definitely the long "o" (English "o" with macron), with glottal stop and in high, constricted tone. Thus, it doesn't resemble the Vietnamese vowel other than in its use of the letter "o." Badagnani 22:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

of interest
Thought you mind find this MfD of interest. PT (s-s-s-s ) 22:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Dissappointed
Hello, I'm a bit dissappointed that you stated on the Raul Castro talk page that I had "violated Wikipedia's policies" in my discussion with another user. The user I was addressing was user:Demfourlife who is using ranging IP addresses to bypass policy and any blocks - This user was - Meanwhile I've put forward almost 2000 edits on Cuban articles for a long time - created many detailed pages etc concerning Cuban history and mediated some of the worst disputes surrounding this issue attempting good faith and civility at all times. There can be no further discussion with users who insist repeatedly that an internet blog is a reliable source and are utilising ranging IP's to enforce these rumours on the page. To read that I had been violating policy is not encouraging. Thank you. --Zleitzen 14:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Banned under a different IP address for violating the 3rr rule. The same user broke the rule again yesterday on the Fidel Castro page - but as a ranging IP there is nothing that can be done. This page is now blocked to IP addresses.
 * Had repeatedly inserted dubious personal claims on a biography article that he was sourcing to an internet blog. These can be removed on site as per policy without discussion. That I entered the debate at all was out of courtesy.
 * Led to the Raul Castro page being protected by the VOA bot
 * Had been engaging in personal attacks on that and other pages against many users. Many of these have been removed by admins and other editors.(still occuring)
 * Had been making claims about other editors in edit summaries (still occuring).
 * Calls good faith female users "Castro loving bitches" and intimidates others off the pages.
 * Repeatedly attacks a longstanding Cuban editor (user:BruceHallman)
 * Has vandalised my talk page with false claims.

International Solidarity Fast for Darfur
I noted your comment on the suggested deletion page for this article which I have since completely re-written. If it is not too much trouble, please could you take a look at the reviewed version. I would welcome any suggestions as to how to further improve this article so that you would be happy to give it a Keep. LukeSurl 22:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Did I Make a Mistake on My Redirect Page
See Talk:Roe_v._Wade_for_Men for my discussion of how and why I made a redirect. My issue here is that the History page didn't redirect along with the main article. Did I do something wrong? Should I have done something different? Thanks. Inter lingua talk email 18:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * What are you looking for help with? --pgk 18:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't put the help me tag in the right place. I'm looking for help with the item above, my question about whether I messed up when I made the Redirect Roe vs. Wade for Men to Roe v. Wade for Men.


 * Well the redirect itself is fine, you left the content of the original article in place which is not particularly normal, but doesn't stop the redirect working. I'm not sure what you mean by the history page didn't redirect, the history page is quite separate to the article. --pgk 18:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I am glad that you fixed the naming of the page, but, yes, it would be nice if the history of the original page could be copied over as I spent some time on creating that page, and I would sorta like the credit for making it in the history. It looks like from WP:MOVE, that you probably should have done a "rename" to preserve the history.  Now that the new page is already created with the new title, it is apparently more difficult to do a rename and we would (I think) need an administrator to do so.  I honestly don't have much time at the moment to deal with this, although maybe I will some time soon, but if you might be able fix it, it would be very much appreciated.
 * Thanks, HalfDome 16:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Here's an idea, HalfDome. You could do two edits to the page: first, copy all the info, then delete it, then save. Next, edit, copy back all the deleted info, then save. This might be a little odd, but since you're (so far, I think) the sole author, this isn't vandalilsm. Inter lingua talk email 00:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I contacted an administrator who fixed it. Woo-hoo.  Cheers, HalfDome 16:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion on kastoori Nivasa
Dear Sir/Madam,

Thanks to your suggestion on Kastoori Nivasa movie's Wiki page. I'll use it to edit this and any new pages I create.

The Onion Cellar
Good work. I've removed the notability warning from the article. -- Longhair\talk 04:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Spanish Black Belt
I have just set up an AfD process. Ncanales was operating against policy in deleting the prod with no explanation. I found it on the type of inappropriate category that you mention when I was looking up Ecuadorian languages. Kevin McE 20:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Caroline Kaufer
I just added categories. It was VBD that took off the tag! :) Postcard Cathy 20:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Aspiration
Hi, I saw your comment in the Malayalam language talk page. I've always wondered about aspirated stops - could you explain to me in simple terms, what exactly they are? :) Thanks! -- vi5in [talk] 07:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Aspirated Stops
Thanks for the explanation! :) -- vi5in [talk] 16:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Help with "Expression error" message
There are a number of pages with Expression error: Unexpected div operator or other such errors on them. I've tried to locate the problem of this message but have failed. Two examples: Guam and Nuclear_power_in_Taiwan
 * Both fixed, after some effort from me and others. Are there any places you're still seeing problems? Algebraist 15:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. I did a Google search and found some more: Aalen, Template:Include_timeline/horizontal_template, a page on Italian Wikipedia, Template:Location_map, Divehi Wikipedia, Template:Year_in_other_calendars, another from Divehi. Sinhalese page, Uzbek Wikipedia <font style="background: #08E8DE " face="Ariel" color="#000000">Inter <font style="background: #000000" face="Ariel" color="#08E8DE ">lingua 16:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Repost of Dickipedia
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Court cases
I'm trying to find a source for this, but most seem to say that the entire case name is italicized. And WP's on manuial of style calls for that formatting. WP:ITALICS. Is there an authoritative source that says only the names of parties should be in italics? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 17:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * In court cases, the "v." should not be in italics.

Language Freedom Movement
Supposedly they did that to accuse them of being West Brits. I've seen footage from some years back of Irish language activists protesting outside Radio Telefís Éireann wielding a modified Union flag - I can't remember what words were on the flags - possibly just "RTE". Autarch (talk) 13:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays!
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re: 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
The date in the article intro was originally 23 Jan but an anonymous user changed it to 14 Feb (without any supporting refs) sometime last year, so I assume it was vandalism as i've not found any other refs pointing to that date. The date in the infobox has always remained as Jan 23 and the refs already on the page point to the 23 Jan, but I could add a citation just for that section if you want. Thanks. RapidR (talk) 14:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Deepak Ananthapadmanabha
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Finnish verb conjugation
Hi, thanks for your message. Sorry for the late reply, but I haven't had so much time (or inclination, for that matter) to edit Wikipedia lately.

Anyways, it seems Finnish native speaker Vuo has already done most of the work for us. I just added the present indefinite, which he accidentally left out.

Best regards, --the Wild Falcon (talk | log) 12:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, and to better understand Vuo's comments on your misuse of the indefinite, please check out the appropriate section of the Finnish grammar article. --the Wild Falcon (talk | log) 13:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

birth and death-date and age
Actually, the template is fine. I corrected the error on death date you introduced and used the new template to do it for reasons that will be obvious in my response. -J JMesserly (talk) 17:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
Radiant chains (talk) 18:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciatiation of Night Shyamalan in Tamil
I recently added Tamil Pronunciation od Night Shyamalan in Tamil based on the reference provided that his mother is Tamil, some one with the IP address 59.92.152.43 keep removing it.Moulee (talk) 04:56, 8 May 2009 (UTC) : I would appriciate if you involve in the discussion |here, thx:) Moulee (talk) 16:05, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Please help to translate this pali-language sentence into English
Hello, Interlingua. Sorry for interrupting you! I am a Chinese-wiki editor, today I uploaded a file on wiki-common:, which is an important Pili-language sentence that results in the early divide of Buddhism (Theravada and mahasamghika). One of my friend insisted that this words shouldn't be said into Mahaparinibbana Sutta; however, I found this word from Pali's maha-parinibbana-suttanta. Since both of us don't know pali-language, I may need your help on translate this sentence. ( I consider it is: "Do not lay down that which has not been laid down; Do not eliminate that which has been laid down." ) Thanks for any response! I really appreciate your help!-- Walter Grassroot  | talk~talk~talk~  06:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * My reading knowledge of Pali is weak, but this is what I found from http://www.tipitaka.org for that verse. "I have heard, Lord, that the Vajjis neither enact new decrees nor abolish existing ones, but proceed in accordance with their ancient constitutions" 3. Mahāparinibbānasuttaṃ, Part One: In Magadha, 134. I hope this helps. <font style="background: #08E8DE " face="Ariel" color="#000000">Inter <font style="background: #000000" face="Ariel" color="#08E8DE ">lingua  17:44, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Angela Correa
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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. I've just read your profile and you seemed a very learned person interested in languages to me so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm part of an 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. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot (talk) 16:23, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sunil Gupta


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Research survey invitation
Greetings Interlingua-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, studying digital media and online community. I am posting to invite you to participate in my research study exploring the work of Wikipedia editors who are members of WikiProject: Countering Systemic Bias. The online survey should take 20 to 25 minutes to complete and can be found here:

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Please note 2 things:
 * 1) Your account isn't blocked; only the IP address is. You are still able to edit from any non-blocked IP address.
 * 2) Even well-established users aren't allowed to edit using open proxies.

Please note that I have forwarded your request to WikiProject on open proxies/Requests, where they will heck if the IP address is still a proxy. If it isn't, theyt'll probably unblock it; if it is, you're still welcome to edit from other IPs. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The IP has a massive history of spamming (by email). If Interlingua really has no other way of editing, xe should ask for WP:IPBE. Tijfo098 (talk) 10:29, 24 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the prompt reply. Although I wrote "my account has been blocked" I actually meant "this IP has been blocked". Thanks for clarifying that. I am not now running an open proxy but still find that the IP address I'm using is being blocked. I'm not sure why this has only happened recently. I'm getting access to the Internet via a connection here at the University. Although I'm the only person in my flat with access to the Internet cable, perhaps the IP address is shared by me and the entire student computer lab. If so, that could explain the problem. I have a USB-modem that I sometimes use for Internet access, and I'll try that to see if it works. <font style="background: #08E8DE " face="Ariel" color="#000000">Inter <font style="background: #000000" face="Ariel" color="#08E8DE ">lingua 12:32, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

You should now be able to edit, provided only that you log in. If not, please let me know. --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 13:21, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

If you know who administers that IP, you could point them to http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_202.168.253.162 Tijfo098 (talk) 14:48, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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