User talk:Jao/2005

Image:Gävleborg County.png
Thank you for uploading Image:Gävleborg County.png. Unfortunately, there are two problems. When I try to view the image I get this error:
 * 404 Can't find what you're looking for
 * This file doesn't exist. So sorry.

The second problem is that apparently the copyright permission is specific to Wikipedia and subject to withdrawal at any time, which is contrary to our goals as an open content encyclopedia. See Copyright problems. --Ellmist 03:57, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Replied at Ellmist's talk page

Republics
Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:08, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requested move
Could you vote on the proposed move at Talk:The Netherlands? Thanks. &mdash;Lowellian (talk) 21:55, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Punctuation

 * In response to a query at Bletch's talk page

I just Googled to find out the rules, and as it turns out, you are correct. All this time I've assumed that parentheses and quotation marks followed similar punctuation rules, and that does not appear to be the case. Thus in the edit that I've done, while the quotation mark change was correct (as it turns out also to my surprise, only for American English ), the parenthesis change was not. I'll fix my edit immediately. On a side note, its been my experience that fluent non-native English speakers know the rules better than native ones; us native speakers are more likely to mislearn things. :-) --Bletch 17:35, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Swedish Wikipedians' notice board
Hi, I've noticed that you are active on Swedish topics. I'm trying to breathe some life into the Swedish Wikipedians' notice board. My hope is that Wikipedians interested in Swedish topics will watch this page and use it to keep track of ongoing debates and votes relating to Swedish articles, and as a place to list "weak spots" they don't have the time or knowledge to fix, in order to attract the attention of someone knowledgeable in a specific area. Would you consider signing up? / Alarm 30 June 2005 18:53 (UTC)

"Merge" template voting
I've set up two separate votes on the "merge" templates' discussion page. One pertains to the templates' wording, and the other pertains to the templates' visual design. Users may vote on neither, either or both of these issues.

Please note that I've posted this invitation on the talk pages of everyone who has expressed a preference for either wording and/or visual design. &mdash;Lifeisunfair 3 July 2005 19:48 (UTC)

Empress Alexandra Fedorovna
Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is again having a vote: upon the heading, at Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse. At least I am against that "Alix" version, as she was not well known by it- however, there are certain people who are pushing it through. What is the most known version of her name in "neighboring" countries, how do Swedes call her? 217.140.193.123 18:22, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Your opinion would be welcome, Jao. Deb 22:21, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

American Old West at the US Collaboration
Some time ago, you supported the nomination of American Old West at the COTW. I have now renominated it at the new US Collaboration. If you are still interested, you can support the article with your vote there!--Fenice 08:55, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Postage A-Z

 * ''The full discussion is at BlackJack's talk archives

Hello, Jao. I'll consider it after I've uploaded the rest of the pages. It might be better to suffix each title with something like (Philately) to prevent confusion with other topics but I am keen to have a proper A-Z structure, otherwise everything will be under "P". Thanks anyway.--Jack 18:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello again, Jao. This has all been done now. I decided that your advice about pipelinking was the best solution and used the naming convention suggested by User:Alarm. (Sp-Sz) makes more sense than (Spain-Szeged) because there is always the possibility that an earlier Sp or a later Sz might need to be added. See category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers.

Thanks again for your advice and all the very best to you. --Jack 08:26, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Korean name order

 * A reply to a query at Punkmorten's talk archives

I am very happy that you address this issue. I hadn't really looked into it, you see. After reading the naming conventions I think we should probably change them to East Asian order (e.g. Ahn Jung-Hwan). I would be grateful if you could apply this to everyone in Category:North Korean sportspeople (as you seem to be knowledgeable when it comes to naming conventions). Punkmorten 08:48, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Sports

 * Part of a discussion at Darwinek's talk archives

I think it is a great idea. When some limit (for example those 6 m or 600 in shooting) is reached only by few athletes that it is certainly not a POV. And people must realize that this lists will be de facto lists of the best results in that sport events. Go ahead and create them. And please then let me know. :) - Darwinek 13:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Olympic-style shooting sports
Your input is requested, since you seem to have an interest in Olympic shooting. The article Olympic-style shooting sports has just been created by an anonymous user. I wikified the article, but it seems redundant to me compared with what's already available. Since I know nothing about these sports, I'll defer to your judgment. If you don't see anything here worth keeping as a separate article, I can merge the article elsewhere or nominate it for deletion. Thanks. Chick Bowen 23:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Reply at Chick Bowen's talk archives


 * Thanks for responding. Redirects are cheap, and it seems like a reasonable title (and deletions are a hassle), so I redirected the page to ISSF shooting events.  Chick Bowen 18:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Lendl's Image
I took it from sportail.free.fr where no Copyright statements are present (I seem). Sorry, but I'm new here and sometimes I forget to add infos to images.

Munkhbayar

 * In response to a query at Punkmorten's talk archives

Hi! I use this source for making Olympian-stubs, and she was called Dorzhsuren there. Those articles might not be fully up-to-date, so if you spot some errors please correct them! Also, as I wrote a lot of stubs yesterday I copied the format from article to article, such as Tsendying Damdin. I might have missed details, for which I'm sorry. Again, feel free to correct it. Punkmorten 16:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)