User talk:Kintetsubuffalo/Archive 6

Kana and Romanaization
Dear Chris-san, could you please read User_talk:WhisperToMe? It is about Kana spelling reform. I hope it will throw some light on the recurrent questions of Romanization systems of the Japanese Language.--Kmns tsw (talk) 11:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Afd on Alonso R. del Portillo
Not sure if you remember me from Cuba Boy Scout article helpRogelio Pina Estrada, but could you look over this article and give your imput. Thanks Callelinea (talk) 23:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Translation request
Unfortunately not. The text on the bottom is سودان (Sudan) but for the text on the top, you might see someone else. Sorry :-( -- ANONYMOUS  PUSSY ''' 06:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Even if it was a dialect, I could tell you what is written, as they all use the same script - but it is written mediocrly (if this word even exists) -- ANONYMOUS  PUSSY ''' 06:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * By finding good sources for articles, and finding people who might be interested? -- ANONYMOUS  PUSSY ''' 06:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Berbers
Love to help But I'm completely ignorant. I appreciate the invitation - I'd like to see what you guys write. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to comment on article naming you
I have decided to write, in my own good time, an article about certain "recent experiences" related to Wikipedia, the nature of which are, or should be, well known to you. This article shall name you, under your moniker, "Kintetsubuffalo."

In the interest of fairness, I shall provide you with a copy of this article, prior to publication, for the purpose of feedback, provided: that you disclose, to me, your true name (I remind you that my true name is known to you). You might wish to do this through a "non-public" channel; if so, then e-mail me and I will send you my mailing address. You might also wish to request that I keep your true name confidential; if so, then I shall honor that request.

I shall consider the fact of your "non-response" to this invitation as subject for "fair comment" in the article. Ldemery (talk) 18:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Main page nomination for Manzanar
With the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage coming up on April 26, I have nominated Manzanar to be on Wikipedia's main page on that date. Please add your support for that at Today's featured article requests -- Gmatsuda (talk)


 * The nomination was removed intially because there can only be five nominations on that page, but it's back, so if you are so incllined, please offer your support. Thanks! -- Gmatsuda (talk) 21:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Arabic Request
Hey - I can't quite make out some of the letters so I'm afraid I can't type it out in Arabic for you. Sorry! Aelfthrytha (talk) 22:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Xinjiang protests
That'd be great. I have a ton of homework due, so I have to limit my wiki-time. Start off with looking at the sources I used for the Mutallip Hajim. Also take a look at the NY times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/world/asia/03china.html?scp=1&sq=hotan&st=nyt

There seems to be 3 issues involved: Mutallip Hajim's death, a ban on head scarfs, and perhaps sympathy with the Tibet protests, but it appears the primary motives are local. David Straub (talk) 12:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Good job. Thanks for doing it. David Straub (talk) 01:12, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Burma Girl Guides Badge
Hello Chris. It says asinthint, the same scout motto: "Ever Ready" or "Always Prepared". Wagaung (talk) 15:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Erm, sorry to write here - I do not know any other way to contact you. It is, if I am not wrong, "A-sin-thint" - which means Ready or prepared. I hope it helps. Uthantofburma (talk) 13:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I agree. It's not asin athint as I'd said about the scout motto before, so I stand corrected. This appears to be the motto since it's on the badge. Sorry, I can't render it into Burmese script here either. Ask Hintha - hope he's okay and available to help. Wagaung (talk) 16:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Chris, I just found out Evil Monkey had also uploaded the script in graphic svg files for many an article. Wagaung (talk) 16:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to add myself to this conversation. It has been a while since I made those little SVG images. Been a hard drive format since then but I should be able to work out how to do it again. Basically they are just created in Inkscape using the Padauk font. The only difficulty I have sometimes is working out what the correct character is. What would you like recreated as a SVG? Evil Monkey - Hello 20:49, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Took me a while to make out the text. It means "ready or prepared" as Wagaung and Uthantofburma said. Hybernator (talk) 04:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Cris, here is the JPG file link for Asinthint in Burmese:. Sorry I do not know how to make or convert to SVG though.--Kyaw 2003 (talk) 03:25, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry Cris, this is in Googlepage so hope there is no pop up or spams. . --Kyaw 2003 (talk) 14:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Brilliant Chris, well done! Wagaung (talk) 19:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow - its great! Sorry - I'm awfully busy so I cannot help much. Cheers n thanks very much for the effort! Uthantofburma (talk) 05:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

The finished badge looks great.Hybernator (talk) 23:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It's good Cris. Thank you indeed, you've been one great driving force in WikiprojectMyanmar. --Kyaw 2003 (talk) 22:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Harajuku
This is a light warning to your vandalism to this article. The article is filled with POV and unreliable references which will be reported. 220.253.28.41 (talk) 05:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * If you really believe this about the article, IP, explain yourself persuasively on its talk page and get agreement before making your deletions. And be sure not to make baseless allegations of "vandalism". -- Hoary (talk) 05:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

SICH
Hello I found this article, maybe it is interesting for you. http://www.day.kiev.ua/185445/ It contains interesting information on a camp called “Lysonia”. Take a look.-Phips (talk) 21:01, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Ss2 sized.jpg
Greetings Kintetsubuffalo, you added a licensing template to the above image. How do you know when the author died as no information on the author was submitted? Polly (Parrot) 22:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Requested articles section
We just use WPMILHIST Announcements/Full. ;-) Kirill 14:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Pertaining to 'April2008'
I don't think that wikipedia is an apprpoiate forum for people of ANY ethnicity to spew out hatred of my country.The Japanese American internment was racist and wrong but maybe you should study up on the barbarities of Imperial Japan to get a comparison.Try Rape of Nanking .Please do not threaten me anymore about banning or blocking.Perhaps a more appropriate forum for the statement that 'America should be ashamed' would be www.democraticunderground.comSaltforkgunman (talk) 04:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Pope Gelasius I
First off, I am not trying to underhandedly remove the status of a pope that has been identified previously as Kabyle. That is why I am asking for input and good documentation for his background. I have looked, and not found anything outside of blogs that have substantiated that he was ethnically Kabyle. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Stealthound (talk) 04:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Rhodesian Bush War to Second Chimurenga name change?
There's currently some discussion going on the talk page Talk:Rhodesian Bush War. One user has proposed changing the name of the article Rhodesian Bush War to second Chimurenga. There appears to be some support and some opposition. Sf46 (talk) 11:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan
Did you live there? I'm going this summer and I've got insane amounts of questions / would like any general advice. Hit me back on my talk page if you're free to help. Aelfthrytha (talk) 19:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * US State Dept / CDC have some hysterical pronouncements about malaria and everyone going to Kyrg needing to take anti-malarials. Sounds wacky to me. What do you think? Aelfthrytha (talk) 05:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

User:JacquesNguyen
Consistently disruptive user, likely sockpuppet, indefblocked. Regards, --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 22:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

WilliePhua.jpg
Hi kintetsbuffalo, I must thank you for "saving" Williephua image, by updating it with the right license format. I must admit i have alot to learn on this aspect, if i want to continue my passions putting up the right images for my articles. To end, i wonder how does one know, what is the right license to use with each image - other than my own photographs that is? Once again, I thank you for your help! -- Marcuslim (talk) 01:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. I am not sure there is a system to know the right license. What I do is find a similar image on a related topic, then I custom fit the text for the image in question. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Marcuslim"

Finding a similar image on a related topic?I'm not sure what that means. Can you elaborate a bit more, if it's convenient for you? -- Marcuslim (talk) 02:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

MASH
Glad I could help. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  04:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Onna bugeisha
I would appreciate your opinion over a matter I have raised at Talk:Onna bugeisha. Needless to say I have concerns over whether there should even be an article on this. John Smith&#39;s (talk) 11:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Cliff House
Living up here in Denver, I have never heard of it. But I'll take your word for it, and restore it to the article. Any idea about a Hot Springs Pool mentioned in the intro as being the largest outdoor hot sprongs pool? It sounds to me like the one at Glenwood Springs. Plazak (talk) 21:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Army Fortresses in Japan proper
Thank you for your interest in List of Army Fortresses in Japan. Please review Articles for deletion/List of Army Fortresses in Japan proper I have made an attempt to find references for the article and could find nothing to support the assertions made. Consensus is leading to keep and improve, but I am not seeing where improve is an option. If I am mistaken and there are references available please add them to the article. Jeepday (talk) 15:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

West Indies Flag
I just downloaded the new verion of InkScape and it's screwin with my cpu when I try to save things. I'll see if I can get someone to upload it for me. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  19:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, InkScape still isn't working, but I got the file there. Hope that works. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  17:34, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Federation of the West Indies
Hi, the coat of arms you were looking for can be found here: Rasadam (talk) 05:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Scouting logos
Finally started! I just uploaded Image:Wosm-guinea.jpg. Unfortunately there is no Logo of The Scout Association of Malawi on the new WOSM poster which was on sale during the WSJ; Score seems to have only the old version on stock, but I'm not sure about this. In the next time I'll organizations'check the entries if more uploads are necessary. --jergen (talk) 16:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Further remarks: The new poster is certainly not authorative: It contains a number of errors and was outdated even during the WSJ. --jergen (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Image:EthiopiaScouts.svg: Slightly different, simplified version.
 * Image:Boy Scouts of Liberia emblem.png: Slightly different version.
 * Image:LEMo membership logo.png: Without the text.
 * Image:Boy Scouts of Bahrain membership badge.svg: With scroll.
 * Image:-Mauritania.jpg: Without surrounding text.
 * Image:Palestinian Scout Association Badge.png: Different proportions and colors.
 * Image:Saudiarabiab3oe copy.jpg: Text includes English name.
 * Image:Les Scouts Tunisiens membership badge.png: With rope as in the Guides badge.
 * Image:Bangladesh.jpg: Circular badge.
 * Image:BruneiS.jpg: Different version with rope.
 * Image:Malaysia PPM.svg: Slightly different version.
 * Image:Mongolia MSK.svg: Featured is a total different logo
 * Image:Pakistan scouts.jpg: Different colors.
 * Image:Singapore SSA.svg: Without scroll.
 * Image:--Azerbaijanmembershiprankold.jpg: The logo includes a surrounding graphic and a sun.
 * Image:Organizaţia Naţională a Scouţilor din Moldova membership badge.png: Slightly different version.
 * Image:Tajikistantrim.png: Different colors.
 * Albania: Featured is a badge similar to Image:Beslidhja Skaut Albania membership badge.png
 * Image:FOS Open Scouting logo.svg: Different colors.
 * Image:Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique logo.png: Total different logo as in but with different colors.
 * Image:Scout Association of the Federation of Bosnia and Hezergovina emblem.png: Different colors without text.
 * Image:SiH badge.png: Only fleur de lis.
 * Image:Cyprus Scouts Association membership badge.png: Different proportions.
 * Image:Liechtenstein PPL.svg: Different, more static shape.
 * Image:Wosm-lithuania.gif: Different colors.
 * Poland: Featured is the Scout Cross (Image:Krzyz Odkrywca.jpg) instead of Image:LilijkaZHP.jpg.
 * Image:Bar.jpg: Without "Boy Scouts", different colors.
 * Image:Asociación de Scouts de Guatemala emblem.png: without scroll, but with rope.
 * Image:Asociación de Scouts de Guatemala emblem.png: Different colors.

Automatic tracing
I use Inkscape, if you know the basics of using it I could tell you how to trace bitmaps, there is also a manual there by the way, cheers -- Cra del  21:25, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Illustrated London News
I have access to the archives of most issues of the ILN, tell me if you need anything from them and I can probably get a high-res scan. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 07:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * You were asking about one on the Graphics Lab. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 23:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Bleckende
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Hi there, I think you meant Bleckede. It was the village of the nazi subcamp and the maybe of the UNRA camp (I found no source) Sebastian scha. (talk) 05:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Law Enforcement Barnstar Proposal Poll
 Hello there ,

We here at Wikiproject Law Enforcement are currently in the process of deciding wither or not to make this WikiProject Law Enforcement's official Barnstar award. Being that you are a member of Wikiproject Law Enforcement, we are humbly asking you to voice your opinion here about our new Barnstar.

Thank You and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 20:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

--Mifter (talk) 20:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

New Project
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The Celts as Barbarians?
Your thoughts and/or comments are requested here. Thanks. —Aryaman (Enlist!) 14:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Join the new Moldovan Wines project !
Hello, I don't know if you are from Moldova or not, but maybe you will be interested in development of the Moldovan Wine articles. If yes, I am pleased to invite you to join it on the Project:MoldovanWines project page. Best regards,--serhio talk 09:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

You rock
Sorry to hear about your loss. Now where'd I put that "Badass Barnstar"? Love your take on this place, far too much seriousness and lawyering going on. This post will self destruct in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. or not. Dhatfield (talk) 22:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Saw you at the Graphics Lab. Dhatfield (talk) 16:09, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:OSMK membership badge.svg
New version is up; how is it?--HereToHelp (talk to me) 22:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought I had made the starts centered but I guess not. Should the colors be the same ones from the flag?--HereToHelp (talk to me) 13:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've made some small changes, but what do you mean by the "grey band"?--HereToHelp (talk to me) 14:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Assistance and a second set of eyes
I've probably got myself into another debate here that isn't worth my time, but please review my edits and my discussions at Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft. I am quite knowledgeable on this region and I tried to update the wikilinks while clarifying the historical context. The user Jergen reverted the edits, made nonsense claims in the talk section, and stated that since the article is about a German scouting group, that the terms should be in German (!?!). My understanding of Wikipedia policy is that we update wikilinks and always maintain English usage. Anyway, I don't want an edit war, I hope we can have some simple discussions on the talk page. If I'm wrong about something I'm happy to hear it and be corrected (hopefully with logic :). I personally thought I did a good job at updating the links and also clarifying a bit why the certain terms are used and also that the province of Bolzano/Bozen is part of the southern area of the historical count of Tyrol. Alto Adige and especially South Tyrol are more recent colloquial terms. cheers, Icsunonove (talk) 23:03, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I´m back
Hello Chris, I worked again on Boy Scouts of the United Nations and Scouting in displaced persons camps. Espacially on their involvement in the Jamborees of 1947 and 1951. There was a troop of the Boy Scouts of the United Nations in Bad Ischl from USA and Switzerland. Vienna 88 (International Scout group) still wears the badge and scarf shown in the article. I hope you are fine. Best wishes. Yours in Scouting-Phips (talk) 16:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Colour version of West Indies Coat of Arms
Hey there. Noticed you were the one to put in the coat of arms image for the West Indies Federation page. Just thought you might be interested in knowing that there's a colour version of those arms at www.westindiaregiment.org - just check the sidebar to the left. Perhaps it could be copied from the site with permission?

Oh and from the site where this black and white version was taken from it seems that the flag in the article is wrong - the sun symbol in the centre should be orange-red as it was originally, not yellow (although I'm not sure if you had anything to do with the flag).72.27.161.159 (talk) 01:29, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

'Stan bugs?
So...I'm there now, and I'm wondering about the weird biting nightbug you mentioned. What does it look like, where is it found, and how does it behave? I saw some crawlies in the bathroom this morning (superficial resemblance to roaches, but more elevated off the ground, smaller, lighter shade of brown, slower) and was worried that those might be night-biters. Please advise. Aelfthrytha (talk) 03:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

East Hampton (town), New York
I see you put a tone template on East Hampton. But you gave no rationale and there's nothing on the talk page. Could you please elabortate. Thanks. Americasroof (talk) 14:24, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Hello. In light of the fact that it is the first book the U.S. government ever went to court to censor before its publication(!), I was hoping you could help improve the The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence article as part of an effort to make it worthy of becoming a featured article candidate? --Loremaster (talk) 14:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

South African Scout Association GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed South African Scout Association and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left this message on your talk page since you have significantly edited the article (based on using this article history tool). Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix with the assistance of multiple editors. I have also left messages on the talk pages for other editors and a related WikiProject to spread the workload around some. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Coat of arms of Tibet
Hi Kintetsubuffalo. I was curious about two things concerning the Coat of arms of Tibet article. The first is that when you wrote the original version, you included the sentence, As a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement, it is banned in the People's Republic of China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region which corresponds to the former area of control of the Tibetan government at Lhasa, as well as other areas in greater Tibet. The word "banned" had a citation, but no link. It simply had a ref:. For that reason, it was removed last October and replaced with a citation needed tag. Can you please relocate the original source? The second request is when you have the time - can please check out my comment on the talk page? I have proposed a possible page move. Thanks. Khoikhoi 23:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for moving the page. What about the source though? Khoikhoi 07:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

scout images
you can see the advances here User:LadyofHats/Scout image requests. -LadyofHats (talk) 17:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC) -Er.. i belive you will have to link those images soon, otherwise they will get deleted, i already recived several warnings about them -LadyofHats (talk) 10:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Been awhile
Hey Chris, been really busy with college schoolwork, which is why I've been quite inactive on Wikipedia this past year. But I'm fine. My, things have changed on the Burma-related articles. How are you? --Hintha (talk) 00:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:Snowlion
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WP:ANI
For your information, there is a current discussion at the Incidents noticeboard here regarding your recent use of the rollback tool. The tool is intended to be used for obvious vandalism only, and several of your recent usages do not meet that criterion. We'd appreciate an explanation from you on these, if you wouldn't mind, as the tool may be removed if it is determined you haven't been using it in accordance with guidelines and policy. Thanks. Hers fold  non-admin (t/a/c) 03:25, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

hello
Hello! :) I thought you might be interested in this. Check it out and add your name under "Participants" if your interested. Have a nice day and happy editing! --Grrrlriot (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Graphics lab
-- p b r ok s 1 3 talk? 20:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Coat of arms
The coat of arms for the West Indies Federation that you requested is finished. -- p b r ok s 1 3 talk? 08:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Mrs._Leigh-White
Question for you here. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 17:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Project talk page tagging for WP:VIET
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Poke (cuisine)
Thanks for cleaning up after me. I knew I forgot something. Viriditas (talk) 14:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

WP AH
Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 13:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

DRV of an IfD
I'm advising all participants in the that a subsequent DRV. Your participation is welcome. Dreadstar †  01:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates) article
I work for [RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates)[]], and I noticed that you revised the agency's article. I'm hoping you can provide some guidance on how to best edit our profile in order to remove the "The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia" message. I'm keen to understand how to make the entry more encyclopedic and where to address inappropriate tone.

Thank you, Britt McColl--Bdainorpa (talk) 20:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Scope of WikiProject Stargate
You may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stargate. – sgeureka t•c 08:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Further Scout/Guide images
Images are sent. Below I#ll list some more images, taht ar still missing or need some reworking. --jergen (talk) 08:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Association of Belarusian Guides: Image:Association_of_Belarusian_Guides_emblem.png; reworked version on http://www.belguides.com/index.html
 * Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique: emblem displayed on http://www.scouts.be/images/background_1.jpg
 * Russian Association of Girl Scouts: Image:RussiaGGemblemcopy.jpg; website http://www.girlscout.ru/ shows different colours.

About Lithuanian scouts
The Scout Association of Lithuania is the Scout organization in the Lithuania Lietuvos skautu sajunga, but not is the Association for all scout from Lithuania. The Lietuvos skautija "Lithuanian Scouting" is other organization in Lithuanian. Lietuviu skautu sajunga is the organization for Scouts-in-Exile, they scouting in the USA and other country (not living in the Lithuania).

The Lietuvos skautu sajunga english tranliation is Scout Association of Lithuania, but this wiki is for english, i writen in the title the Scout Association of Lithuania.

In the Lithuania is oficial is a 12 scouts organizations, but not all organization members for WOSM, the members for WOSM is Lietuvos skautija.

In the Lithuania wikipedia is two organization, and not have problem. http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lietuvos_skautija

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lietuvos_skautų_sąjunga

Short history in the lithuanian for the scouting. http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skautai

Thank. Same write, about our Scout Association of Lithuania in the wikipedia for english. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auksiniz (talk • contribs) 11:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Kazakh Scout emblem
Hi Chris, you asked User:LadyofHats to rework Image:OSMK membership badge.png and proposed to change the eagle on the badge. The pdf at http://www.pfadfinden.de/fileadmin/BUND/ak/drushba/060412_flyer_kasachstan_de.pdf displays the emplem with correct colouring and correct eagle. Could you please change you request and link to this source. The German Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder is the official partner of ODSK and was instrumental in its admission to WOSM. --jergen (talk) 11:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Abkazian SSR and Soviet Union templates
Hi, can you look on User_talk:Alex_Bakharev. I know that Pianist.ru is not the most pleasant collaborator on en-wiki (partially because his English is not that good) but in the dispute regarding inclusion of Abkhazian SSR to templates he IMHO right: Abkhazian SSR was never a first range member of the Soviet Union. Thus, its inclusion in the list with the full members of the Soviet Union, even short lived as Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic is misleading. Do you have any source that includes Abkhazian SSR in the list of Union members? Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Carl Rungius
I've greatly expanded Carl Rungius and nominated it for DYK. Just a heads up. Cheers! - Oreo Priest  talk 21:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Kyrgyzstan photos are here!
I spent much of this summer traveling in Kyrgyzstan, and I've finally gotten a chance to upload my Kyrgyzstan photos to flickr. All of them are candidates for improving our project's articles on Kyrgyzstan. I would like your input on which ones are best because I'm not sure which articles to add them to or which photos are best. Please leave comments on the photos -- that way I will know to which ones you refer. Enjoy! Aelfthrytha (talk) 15:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about the delay at all -- deal with your real life stuff first; photos will not go bad like an apricot in the Bishkek sun. I'm a patient sort. Aelfthrytha (talk) 13:38, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

A new task force under wikiproject Europe
Hello,

I've noticed that you are active in the area of Europe. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks.U5K0 (talk) 19:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

 * Way to go! — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 10:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

scout images
i havent forgot you, just trying to advance in my other open projects. i will come back to the list as soon as i can so keep adding anything you need there -LadyofHats (talk) 19:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Tess/Hag Struan
Sorry for the unclear comment on the Tess Struan link. I didn't have enough space in the textbox for "it's not clear if you haven't read all the books." Thanks for re-reading what I put. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkendr (talk • contribs) 08:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Andorra
Excuse me for not translating the whole of the Catalan text; the rest is not on Andorra but on the development of the association. --jergen (talk) 17:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The first source (, dated July 1, 2007) reads:
 * S’estudia la creació d’un agrupament escolta a Andorra
 * La possible obertura d’un agrupament escolta a Andorra ha estat debatut en els darrers dies pels comissaris, el consiliari, el responsable internacional dels Escoltes i el bisbe Mons. Joan-Enric i el vicari general Mn. Joan Pujol. Ha estat en el marc de la trobada que es va fer per avaluar el curs i per fer una reflexió sobre el camí futur dels Minyons Escoltes i Guies Sant Jordi al nostre bisbat que es va fer el 13 de juny a la Residència del Sant Crist de Balaguer.
 * Aquest ha estat un any molt significatiu per a l’escoltisme, ja que es compleixen els 100 anys de la seva fundació per Sir Baden Powell. El bisbe els va encoratjar i va valorar la tasca educativa que fan i que han de fer en el futur els agrupaments escoltes, sense descuidar la recerca de sentit a la vida i l’anunci de la fe als joves i a les seves famílies.
 * Study on the creation of a Scout group in Andorra''
 * The possible opening of a Scout group in Adorra was discussed during the last days between the commissioners, the counselors and the intenational responsable of the Scouts and Bishop Joan-Enric as well as vicar general Joan Pujol. (...)''
 * The second (, Minutes of the European Scout Committee, 13-15 June 2008) says:
 * Paolo Fiora reported on work being done in Andorra with those that have expressed an interest in trying to establish Scouting there.

Vietnamese Scout Association
Hi Chris, working my way through the associatons'articles, I just reached Vietnamese Scout Association. In my eyes this article is a terrible mess mixing historic organizations, Scouts in exile and the actual situation. I think we should split it in three articles: Unfortunately, there are very little English or French source on the actual situation. But even newer sources like are not included.
 * historic association inside Vietnam
 * Vietnamese Scouts-in-exile
 * actual situation/development since 1975

What do you think about splitting the article? --jergen (talk) 11:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

John Rawlings
There is no need to delete this page. If you want to create a disambiguation, you just overwrite the redirect with the text you want to be there and save as usual. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:25, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:OSMK membership badge.png
Sorry for bringing this up again, but the emblem needs some serious rework again. Please have a look at http://www.scouts.kz/index.php?l=1&act=3&id=1 --jergen (talk) 17:30, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Graphics lab
Will the image at the Graphics lab for homeland security work? -- p b r ok s 1 3 talk? 19:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award
Excellent idea here! Nominate it for DYK at Template_talk:Did_you_know. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 10:38, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége,Magyar Cserkészet Tanácsa, Magyar Cserkészszövetség
founded January 28th 1989 translation: Hungarian Scout Groups Association formed in 1990 together with the Magyar Cserkészszövetség (refounded in 1988) the Magyar Cserkészet Tanácsa (Council of Hungarian Scouting), which became a WOSM member in 1990. In 1992 the registration of Hungary with the World Scout Bureau was changed from the Magyar Cserkészet Tanácsa to Magyar Cserkészszövetség. In 1993 Magyar Cserkészövetség had 25.000 members, Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége 300. Further more important causes for the change of registration were that the Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége blocked the work of the Federation and didn´t answer letters sent by WOSM. Further more there were problems within Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége.In 1992 15 groups of Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége joined Magyar Cserkészövetség.Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége doesn´t exist anymore.

The Magyar Cserkészszövetség (coed) was always the traditional Scouts. They said in 1988 we want return to real Scouting (i.e. with a promise that includes the Duty to God). They revived the Hungarian Scouting traditions. Magyar Cserkészlány Szövetség (Hungarian Girl Scouts Association) was also a traditional Girl Guides organization. They revived Hungarian Guiding traditions.

Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége (also coed) said you can not revive traditional Scouting and Guiding in Hungary and the two other associations are linked too close to the Churches. Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége let their groups big independence. In 1989 the had close ties to the Patriotic People´s Front.

Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szovetsége used Fleur-de-lis with the Hungarian National Colours. Magyar Cserkészszövetség used the traditional Hungarian Scout badge with the Crown of Saint Stephen.

Jó munkát -Phips (talk) 13:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

English Scout Counties
Hi Chris, please do not edit the remaining English Scout Counties. The last merged region article, Scouting in South West England will be put in place in the next hour or so. Edits now are just confusing me. Please wait until the last region is done. Thanks. --Bduke (talk) 07:13, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries. Thanks. The merge is done. The old County articles are redirects, but I still have to fix some redirects. The images have been altered to reflect the new article. Could you please check images as you go through these new region article? Does Talk:Scouting in England need Project tags? It is a redirect. I was just using the talk page as the most convenient place to discuss all these merges. --Bduke (talk) 07:50, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Berber Scouting
Long time ago, you asked how "Be prepared" in the berber language. I would that it depends on the spoken dialect that can varry completely in many words. I speak the Riffian dialect, and i would translate as "ssawjadv ixf nec" but it is hard to be writen in English. Best redards! Read3r (talk) 16:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Edit to Scouting in New York
Thanks for your edit! That sort of clean up is exactly what that pages needs. Nick Garvey (talk) 18:57, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Emblem of Tibet
Hi. Some on the "french wiki" proposed to change the name "Embleme du Tibet" into "Embleme du gouvernement tibetain en exil" (emblem of Tibetan Governement in exile). Do you have any reference showing that the Emblem of Tibet was used (and therefore created) in Tibet ? With thanks --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 11:24, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://n2zgu.50megs.com/KAZ.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:33, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * If you are familiar with the host of that site, as you indicate here, it should be a simple matter to verify that the material is free for use by having him make a notice of that at the external site by the process set forth in the template note above. Once he does so, or otherwise provides permission, the article can be restored as is. Otherwise, remaining material that duplicates that source will need to be removed, as it demonstrably predates Wikipedia's article here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:42, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have also tagged Organizatsia na Bulgarskite Skauty. As with the article above, we need external verification to publish this material on Wikipedia. Once that is provided, the current contents can be restored. Otherwise, remaining material that mirrors the external, earlier source will need to be removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Kintetsubuffalo sent me an email saying he found the information saying he had permission to use certain info pertaining to this. There are notes on how to do this on my tools page here (it's written with images in mind though): User:Rlevse/Tools, use the en permissions link, see the "requesting copyright permisssions link". I'm sure this can be worked out. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 09:58, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Your note
Thank you for discussing this with me civilly. :) It truly has not been my desire to assume bad faith with you, although it was difficult to make any assumption when you chose not to discuss the matter at Magyar Cserkészszövetség. Before revising that article, I did verify that you had received my note at your talk page and continued editing. But the reason I blanked the last two articles rather than revising or removing material of concern was because when you did choose to participate, you asserted that you had a relationship with the webmasters. I have no reason to doubt you. You're obviously passionate about this project and have a long involvement in it. I wanted you to have the opportunity to follow through with the permissions process. As I explained at the scouting project's talk page, this blanking is standard procedure in these cases. It is a staying measure while the matter is processed and isn't mean to indicate a presumption of guilt. This verification would be required of anyone at any level at Wikipedia, just for the legal protection of the project.

Wikipedia has chosen to proactively attend to copyright concerns, rather than waiting for copyright holders to complain, as required by the DMCA. This is probably a good move, since Wikipedia's right to protection under that act has been challenged in the past, and there's always the possibility that we could be found guilty of retroactive malfeasance if it is determined we do not qualify. Our best defense is to be able to demonstrate that we exercise due diligence in house to guard against problems. I think the system Wikipedia has in place is a pretty good one, although it can be a pain in the neck to jump through the hoops. Until we require identity verification on account creation, though, it's the only legally sound way for Wikipedia to protect itself.

I have absolutely no desire to see you driven away from Wikipedia or to revise this material. I'll be very happy to see the permissions process go through and to move on with the run-of-the-mill matters at Copyright problems. Even if the permissions process doesn't work out for some reason, I hope you won't feel it is an indication that you'd need to leave the project. (And please remember that even if the information referenced above doesn't come through, a note releasing the material under GFDL at any websites involved is all it takes.) I agree with what you say in your note; you seem to me to be doing good things for Wikipedia, too. I hope you'll continue doing them. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I wanted to request an update on Organizatsia na Bulgarskite Skauty and Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan. I know you showed me an e-mail you had received from one of the webmasters. Have you sent verification to the Communications Committee? Traditionally, matters are listed for seven days before problematic material is removed, but sometimes the Communications Committee takes a little longer. If you've sent the letters for oversight to log, I'll make a note at the copyright problems board what's going on and put them into the consolidated listing for additional time. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:39, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the update, and sorry for your illness. I will make a note that permission on Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan has been sent to the Communications Committee. I am revising the material at Organizatsia na Bulgarskite Skauty since your letter did not address the matter of pinetreeweb and since that website still asserts "Copyright © Lewis P. Orans, 2002" Should you have more free time in the future and wish to secure permission for that material, it can be restored. Please let me know if you get word back from the Communications Committee. This process can be slow-going. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * And speaking of slow-going, I see that the letter has still not been processed. I'm guessing that you have not heard anything back from the communications committee yet. Sometimes I have to contact them several times. At this point, I see two options. We can either keep the page blanked (and maybe resend your letter) or can revise the material until the OTRS ticket is logged at the article's talk page. I'm content to go either way, but am not sure which would be preferable to you and your project. If you'd like me to go ahead and revise the article so that it can be published in some form while we wait, please let me know. Of course, in that case, you're welcome to make edits to my revision to bring it in line with your project's standards. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Scouting in Colorado page
Hi there. Please do not reverse the changes that I've made to the Scouting in Colorado page. I'm working to add in more references, etc to make it more encyclopedic in nature. But, all of the changes I've made do add to the accuracy of the article as well as the usefullness. I'm new to Wikipedia, and trying to make my way through understanding the process. Please work with me rather than against me to make this page the best it can be. Thank you! Joan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jharrold (talk • contribs) 17:20, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Tiger Cubs
We don't have a separate article on Tiger Cubs. They started as a pack associated program in 1982, but were fully integrated into Cub Scouting in 2001. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  20:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Konbanwa
Hi~ You posted a thank you/hello on my talk page and I just wanted to say hello back. I don't know if that was an automated message or not but whatever, pleased to meet you ^-^. I don't really have a profile page so don't bother checking it out, perhaps I'll work on it in the future... or perhaps not. Anyway, thanks for dropping by. Fallenangei (talk) 02:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, although, I can't imagine you got all too great of a picture with the abysmally small ammount of edits I've done :P (and I've been a member with Wikipedia for a good 2 and a half years if you could believe that (just putting it in perspective)).
 * Not really confident enough to do much more than grammar and minor discussions lol. Fallenangei (talk) 03:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Nkwenkwe Nkomo
A pleasure. I've met him many times over the years, and I have more recent photos taken by other people, but that is the only one I have rights to release. Have you nominated the article for WP:DYK? His background is fascinating. For instance, Steve Biko played a major part in defending him in court. (Biko, if you're not familiar with SA history, was a very influential black consciousness leader who was murdered by the police in 1977). Zaian (talk) 11:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it needs a hook like "Did you know that before he became Chief Scout of South Africa, Nkwenkwe Nkomo was an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela?" I will have a look at the article.  I think you've done a great job on his Scouting roles - I will see what I can add on the political history side, and on his position in business. Zaian (talk) 12:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Colorado Springs Police Department
I had removed the reference to the jail (too quickly, it seems) and I was hoping you could tell me more about this subject. I am not aware of too many police departments with a jail function. I know LAPD does haave a jail, but was unaware that Colorado Springs PD did. Normally, once remanded to custody, the Sheriff provides the jail service. Thanks for any information you can provide. SGT141 (talk) 15:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Hiragana
i thought you may like to see the first sketches i have been doing on the hiragana subject. maybe seeing them it will help you know what kind of words i am looking for :) -LadyofHats (talk) 18:50, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

a- Ami a- Akuma i- ie i- inu

List of schools in South Australia
In November 2007, you suggested merging List of Largest South Australian Schools into List of schools in South Australia, and invited discussion. As far as I can determine, there hasn't been any. May I remove the templates? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * May as well, since nobody cares any more than that. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Japanese fashion
Hi, クリス! Thank you for the message. The article Japanese fashion? I first thought that is not bad. But checking Category:Japanese fashion, the article may be too big. How about to create two articles like Traditional Japanese fashion and Modern Japanese fashion? I'm not a fashion expert, but willing to help as far as possible. Regards. Oda Mari (talk) 15:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Ramba
Hi, Chris! If the lead character of Ramba (comics) is bi, shouldn't the article say something? I read through the whole article and not one shred of her bisexuality - not that I doubt it, just that the article is devoid of info. And are there any (not in-world) references to her being bi? Thanks for your help! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 00:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

World Scout Committee members
Hi KB. Regarding members of the World Scout Committee, would you contend that membership makes individuals automatically notable, without the need for multiple reliable independent sources - specifically, independent of the scouting movement - establishing their notability?  Dei z  talk 08:13, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Scouting in Lebanon
-Phips (talk) 16:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Homenetmen Lebanon: http://www.homenetmenlebanon.org/Index/

Smoking in Japan
Thank you for your suggestions-what angle would you DYK, and will you help me with footnotes? Thanks, Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:07, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, Chris. I've posted two DYK hooks at Template talk:Did you know.  Please feel free to propose new hooks there as you see fit.  Just make sure the corresponding footnotes are present in the Smoking in Japan article.  I've added some {cn} tags and some footnotes with refs in the article.  Hope this helps.  Please add more footnotes to the article (and replace those {cn} tags) if you can. Thanks. Happy editing. :-) --PFHLai (talk) 05:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Those pretty cites are easy to make if you have this tool. Give it a try!  Happy editing. :-) --PFHLai (talk) 01:10, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Syriac text
I've given you an answer at User_talk:Assyria_90. Sorry I couldn't be to more help. The TriZ (talk) 19:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

At the moment, I am unable to read or write Aramaic. Sorry.  Gabr-  el  23:49, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Russian Scouting in exile
Yesterday and today I worked on the articels of N.O.R.S., N.O.R.R. and ORUR. My Russian contact and my sources told me that ORUR is one organization in exile and in Russia. Can we grade up the quality rating of the articles? -Phips (talk) 16:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Your image
See  — Rlevse •  Talk  • 21:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:--ScoutsChris3.jpg
Hi, I see two problems with this image.
 * 1) It has a poor filename
 * 2) It's copyright information is inadequate

I thought you'd like to fix this. Images w/o proper copyright information can be deleted on sight. -- Cat chi? 21:43, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Burden of proof is on you as you are the one claiming it is unfree. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Zimbabwe
http://www.zimscouts.co.zw/ is back up. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  14:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding reversions made on November 19 2008 to General William J. Palmer High School
You have been blocked from editing for in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule. Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text below. The duration of the block is 8 hours. William M. Connolley (talk) 19:30, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, the problem is that the content under discussion wasn't vandalism or a BLP violation, so repeatedly removing it was edit warring. 3RR is the tripwire that allows an admin to step in and stop that action immediately (thought edit warring need not be >3 reverts).  Disputing content of an article needs to be done at the talk page--it is better in the long run to let the "wrong" version of an article stand rather than revert over a preferred version. Protonk (talk) 02:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree that repeatedly removing the content was edit warring, but I was not doing the removing, the disruptive editor was repeatedly removing it. I was replacing the sourced material. I brought it to the talk page and there was no answer. Again, this is a longterm editor versus an SPA that does not cite sources for their removal. This is not just two regular editors going at it. I've had that happen and that can be solved, usually. The other user in question has now created another account to pick up where he left off, and continues to remove the material from the Palmer article. I submit that this shows I was not dealing with an equitable editor, but an SPA. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not being clear. Since the change in content wasn't vandalism or an otherwise acceptable excemption from WP:EW, continually reverting the content changes was edit warring.  Blocking both parties was one way to end the disruption on the article.  I mean, I don't want to be a jerk and say "you broke rule XYZ" over and over again, but 3rr is a line in the sand that can't be crossed.  Remember that this isn't a black mark or a sign of your underlying moral character.  It doesn't make you a vandal or a vindictive person.  It just means that you were blocked.  Plenty of admins, bureaucrats and other long-term users have been blocked for edit warring (either early in their time here or not).  It was clear from William's block that he knows that you aren't the one starting the disruption or forcing the issue--just that you should have stopped reverting and tried dispute resolution. Protonk (talk) 05:11, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have now put in a request at WP:3O, and the other user and his socks are now being looked at. Thanks for the clarify. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:21, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

pssst. over here...
sniff. --Jayron32. talk . contribs 04:51, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

RE: Scout Graphic
You're welcome! My main skill with images is just conversion of formats. If that is what you have in mind, or maybe some other kind of minor image maintenance, then yes is the answer to your question! Oh yes and thanks for sorting out the source information on my .PNG version.

(Sorry about the lateness of my reply- been realy busy in rl) WazzaMan (talk) 21:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Latviaindep.png
Do you have any information on this emblem? I fear that "one of the independent regional organizations" is to little to keep this image. --jergen (talk) 11:36, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I do not think that "regional Scouting emblem from Zemgale" is sufficient to keep it. We have very little information on Scouting in Latvia and I am not even sure if and how many independent organizations exist. I could not find anything searching the web, except the LSGCO and the UIGSE-member.
 * I just checked the history, and - astonishingly - it was me writing about the existence of independent organizations... Can't remember what source I did use. I will search harder. --jergen (talk) 08:51, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The only organization I found was the Zemgales skautu organizācija, last mentioned in 1997/98. --jergen (talk) 13:25, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Azerbeijan
I would wait for the website; it's far better to have even a primary source (with all the problems we discussed recently on Girl Scouts of Jamaica) than to quote from a letter or e-mail. But why not putting the quote on the article's talk page? --jergen (talk) 08:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Image on Graphics Lab
Hi there, I've done some work to your image on the Graphic_Lab. Check it out when you get a chance. Talk to you soon! Mononomic (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there, I've done some more work to your image on the Graphic_Lab. Check it out when you get a chance. Talk to you soon! Mononomic (talk) 00:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

requests?
Your CrusadeBot is turned off. Will it come back? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Not likely. I think another bot was made to replace it. —Remember the dot (talk) 00:07, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Armenian piroshki
Thank you for your interesting contribution to the Armenian angle in Pirozhki. Do you by any chance have a photograph of piroshki being sold/eaten in Armenia? Can you provide a source for your interesting description of piroshki as an Armenian street food? If you are knowledgeable about Armenian food in general, perhaps you would be willing to take a look at the page Armenian cuisine and see if you can contribute anything there also (especially to the resolution of red links). Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 10:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Tags
Since you put the project tag on all these image, why can't you add "|class=Image" at the same time? It'd save a lot of work. See and I add the image parameter on that to show you how. 10:35, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my mind has been elsewhere as my job sucks here... Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Too bad, I know you were looking forward to that. <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 01:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, brother. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Scouting in Malawi Edits
Hi Chris, I'm not a Scout in Malawi, I'm a Scout in Scotland :) I was on the Sunrise Malawi expedition, and when reading the article I thought I would clarify that no Swedish or Norwegian Scouts actually joined the expedition. I've been reading around your various articles and they are very interesting :) Hiccup42 (talk) 11:35, 16 December 2008 (UTC) Hey brother, I'm actually a sister :) I did get an SAM badge and I did take some pictures so I'll put them up in due course. 20:50, 18 December 2008 (UTC) Hi Chris, not been on for ages. Got photos of the badges over Christmas and will upload them when I'm next on the right computer. Did you have good holidays? Hiccup42 (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Japanese garden
Wow you live in Shikoku. I like Japanese garden and I want to visit Ritsurin Park. If you have a time, please improve the page.--Bukubku (talk) 15:12, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

L&L Photo
I saw that you added a photo request tag to Talk:L&L Hawaiian Barbecue today. What kind of photo specifically do you think the article needs? The article already has an exterior photo of an L&L location. -- Hawaiian717 (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Merges
Chris: when you propose a merge, please start a discussion on the target talk page and list it at WP:SCOUT. You need to give a reason for each merge, even if it is a boilerplate copy. For camps, I suggest:

The article does not meet standards per Notability (organizations and companies); specifically: "Individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not notable enough to warrant a separate article unless sufficient notability is established through reliable sources that extend beyond the organization's local area."
 * There are no Wikipedia:reliable sources that establish notability outside of the local area.
 * There is no evidence that the camp has a separate existence outside of the council.
 * There is no evidence that the camp offers any significant services outside of the council.

YIS --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  <sup style="color:darkblue;">talk  -  12:25, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Request?
Absoulutely. What do you need done?  --Pbroks13 talk? 18:04, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ricardo Montalbán
Sorry about reverting you on Ricardo Montalbán. The Forbes.com source did not open from Huggle, and I suspected that this was a hoax by another IP. Gail (talk) 02:20, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) I just figured out what "Khaaaaaan!" was (credit to YouTube). Gail (talk) 11:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Russian Scout images
Hey, I finished all of the Russian Scout images that you requested. Let me know if there are any problems.
 * File:Traditional Russian Scouting membership badge.svg
 * File:Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders.svg
 * File:National Organization of Russian Scouts.svg
 * File:All-Russian National Scouting Organization.svg
 * File:Scouts of Karelia.svg
 * File:National Organization of Russian Scouts old.svg
 * File:Scouting in Kyrgyzstan membership badge.svg

As for the others, I'll get on them soon.  --Pbroks13 talk? 08:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about the files getting deleted. I have them already saved to my computer. Now, about the Slavonic Fonts, I'm looking to download a type of font that would work with the image. Would any of these work?  --Pbroks13 talk? 07:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Assyrian Christian Stele
I said on his talk page that given the clear lack of sources (as well as the resulting WP:OR) for the name Assyrian Christian Stele, I would nominate the article for deletion if he didn't just leave it as a redirect. I suppose I'll get that process going. Otebig (talk) 21:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The AFD was closed by MBisanz. He decided the outcome was a redirect. I have no idea how he got this conclusion, and in a discussion on his talk page he keeps claiming there was a community consensus for this (even those the two votes for redirect were in the opposite direction was what MBisanz did). The WP:OR and WP:RS violations were never addressed. I get the impression he, as well as some people commenting on the AFD, did not read things too closely. I asked him to repoen it. Any thoughts on how to proceed? Usually I'd let matters like this drop, but the apathy towards such a blatant case of WP:OR is really bugging me. Otebig (talk) 04:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I created a deletion review here. Otebig (talk) 16:53, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Here we go again... Otebig (talk) 21:34, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I know I may be beating this dead horse to a pulp, but I'm trying to remove the redirect here, and the OR apathy is still strong. If you want to chime in, it'd be quite helpful. Otebig (talk) 03:56, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Scout Badge
I've got InkScape working again, but I can't get the bottom part of File:GenScoutbadge.svg to look right. Do you think it would be possible to have someone else try it? Sorry, §hep   •  <sup style="color:green; font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Talk  19:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

C☺mprehended
I'll be aware next time; what about the article, do you agree that I correct that arabic noun (whit a ref.)?

--Discjjockey (talk) 20:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Classical Elements
I did some editing to Classical Elements. Could you please check my editing whether it is proper or not? If it is not please point it out. Thank you! ^_^ 百家姓之四 Matthew   討論 Discussion  04:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I get it. Thank you very much! 百家姓之四 Matthew   討論 Discussion  05:39, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, It doesn't matter and, you're welcome! Matthew 百家姓之四   Discussion 討論  15:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sich riflemen/Urainian Sich Riflemen/Ukranian scouts
Hi Chris

I am responding to ensure clarification in this matter


 * "Ukrainian Sich riflemen" (1914-1920)refers to a unit of the Hungarian army
 * "Sich riflemen" (1917-1919)refers to events when some of the the unit went to Kyiv and started a different group by absorbing local fighters and the youth organisation

As you can see these are military units, or at least para military, and so are not really related to the scouting movement, more related to the military term scout - someone who knows a lot about the local area and is used for forwards observation. These scout units established in Europe during the first part of the 20th century were not really akin to the modern day scout units. They were paramilitary units designed for living off the land and defending the homeland during times of war or invasion.

It may be that you are wishing to start a "Ukranian Scouts page" to support the modern day scouting movement since the fall of the USSR, there is not one so if that was your wish I am sure that would be OK see below↓

I am intending to remove the "suggested merge" tags, and may I suggest that the scout project discuss removing their tags from the pages to avoid confusion for now ?

There are however several pages reffering to scout movements in Ukraine, Ukrainian_Plast,National_Organization_of_Scouts_of_Ukraine and Scouting_in_Ukraine

sorry if this makes it more complicated--Chaosdruid (talk) 17:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry - lost connection
Sorry Chris, I was trying to save the edit and kept getting "your browser has lost the session" messages, so complete edit above!

Any further questions by all means get in touch--Chaosdruid (talk) 17:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Reply to resolved
Hi Chris

I am a little upset that you have removed the resolved tag, please can you explain exactly why you did this. You asked "can these two Sich pages be merged" and that clearly has been resolved.

As for your other question, I think it might be best if you tried to ask the Plast themselves, or members of your Project Scouting

It seems to me that you have removed the resolved tag as we have not answered your question on the Sich scouting movement. Clearly the Sich articles that you showed interest in are not to do with the scouting movement. You also have the three articles on scouting in Ukraine so I am a little confused as to exactly it is that you require help with.

The reference in the article "a national camp in their training and camping centre Plastova Sich in Canada.[12] Oleksander Tysovsky took part in this camp." - simply put this means they called their camp "the Plast fortress"

The only mention I can find on SIch is the mention in the letter introducing the PLast merge in 1996, where it says "Many groups, such as scouts of Dnipropetrowsk (Skif), Perekop (in Crimea), "Chysta Krynytsia", "Sich", etc have now formally or informally joined the Plast organization."

Chysta Krynytsia means Crystal well, Perekop is an area of the Crimea, Dnipropetrowsk is an area of Ukraine, and it seems to me that these titles are only for the individual groups of scouts of the PLast, like naming them "the Tiger troop" or "the Founding Fathers troop" or "the Minutemen troop".

I am sure that if anyone here can help you, they will.

thanks--Chaosdruid (talk) 05:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * What issues remain ?--Chaosdruid (talk) 05:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * also - it might help if you gave me links to the International info that has led you to needing the question answered :¬)
 * --Chaosdruid (talk) 05:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It's from here, I believe, but my computer does not read pdf http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11029/90938/file/C0811Ukraine_e.pdf Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * PS - Here are some more links !

Have I been heavy handed ? If so please tell me how. I have spent over two hours trying to help you and I have simply put the reply I gave to you into the Project Ukraine page. Is it really necessary to include a new page, why cannot you simply put a SICH section into one of the other articles ? If SICH information is needed why do you not ask NOSU, or Plast for a contact email ?. --Chaosdruid (talk) 05:51, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * By being "upset" publicly, when I make an edit that you disagree with, just as I explained, instead of just asking me why. It smacked of bad faith, and I don't think you meant it that way, especially as you have helped me, which I am most appreciative of. You might have asked why I did it here without posting your displeasure with me at the Ukrainian project.
 * I can't put a Sich section into the articles until I have some info, and before last night, all I had was a name. I have asked both organizations for help, no answer was forthcoming. You seem really resistant that I simply just ask here at the Wikipedia. For me, any way to get an answer provides the answer.
 * I do thank you for your help, I really don't want there to be any off feeling between us. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sich scouts
Hi again !

In answer to your comment on good faith, which I did not notice till a little while ago as I was editing, I did not assume that it was malice or not in good faith. As I said to you, "It seems to me that you have removed the resolved tag as we have not answered your question on the Sich scouting movement." and then I tried to answer it for you !! No malice was, is or will be assumed and I certainly took it as in good faith.

Anyway I have started a new topic on the Project Ukraine discussion page, which is why I did not notice the other thing, and hope it meets your needs

cheers--Chaosdruid (talk) 06:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * PS - I would try to contact my cousin in Kiev, hes from Lviv which is probably the exact area that the sich troop/organisation is but my emails are down and it may take a few days to get them back up and running as the pc that does that has blown its power supply--Chaosdruid (talk) 06:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, that's great! Why do you suspect Lviv is likely the nexus? Western Ukraine does seem to be where things happen... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 06:34, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I think that the references to the Sich rifles and riflemen are all based around Kiev and Lviv (the Dnieper river area) and so it is probable that it will be a group from that area. As the start of the Sich Rifles was Glaicia (this same region) and they defended Kiev (Kyiv), and also the Ukranian Sich riflemen were from Galicia also, and the centre of Cossack Zaporozhian Sich, which the youth organisations were based on, was also mainly in Galicia and specifically "In 1911 a Lviv philosophy student Ivan Chmola organized a secretive paramilitary organization Plast"
 * I know this is all very confusing as they mention youth group etc, but remember these were paramilitary in basis and reflected the earlier Sich culture, going back to the 1800's, all based around gaining independence for Galicia from Polish, Austro Hungarian and then Russian empires, going back to the 1600's - try this link for more clarity Sich links


 * Anyway, I don't know where in the world you are, but here it is UTC and it's 07:00 so I'm off to bed ! - Sorry to see about your wife btw, I knwo how that feels. Hope all is well for you and your family - the pain does not go away, it simply comes less often.


 * --Chaosdruid (talk) 07:04, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Baruto no Gakuen
The film is related Tokushima prefecture. Please improve the article.--Bukubku (talk) 14:31, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--Bukubku (talk) 11:46, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

in the sunny mexico
hi, long time not seen :P oh well i am in mexico with a lot of sun god times and few computer time, will be back end of march and we can then start working again. i havent forgot you i am just unable to work on it right now -LadyofHats (talk) 06:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

template removals
Sorry that I deleted a couple of these repeatedly. I've been converting all the old Translation templates to a new, more useful set of templates so I've been going through them rapidfire. Many of these templates were placed even back in 2005 and 2006 so they are no longer useful, so some of them I have been removing. If you see any other removals you disagree with, I would encourage you to readd one of the new templates, from the category Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates (e.g. ). Sorry for the misunderstanding. Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Need Japanese Lab
In short, East Asia is the only higly wiki-active area without Graphic labs. Japanese manga admirative japanese users may provide an helpful new view :] Can you help, or find help for this task. (by example by copy/paste this message in a more suitable place) Yug (talk)  11:05, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed new policy
As a recent contributor to Deaths in 2009, you may be able to help decide on a proposed new policy. It is proposed that:
 * A month should be deleted from the "Deaths in [CURRENT YEAR]" page ONE WEEK after the month ends.
 * A month should be deleted from the "Deaths in [CURRENT YEAR]" page ONE WEEK after the month ends.

Please opine at Talk:Deaths_in_2009. Don't just say or Also state your reasons and participate in the discussion. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support.
 * Oppose.

Ireland naming question
You are receiving this message because you have previously posted at a Ireland naming related discussion. Per Requests for arbitration/Ireland article names, a procedure has been developed at WikiProject Ireland Collaboration, and the project is now taking statements. Before creating or replying to a statement please consider the statement process, the problems and current statements. GnevinAWB (talk) 18:04, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Bad girl art
Thanks for the heads-up. I've added my two cents (three cents?) to the article's talk page. --GentlemanGhost (talk) 23:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Patricia De Martelaere page edit
Hi mate. I'd just like to ask if your edit is definitely correct. I added the cause of death here recently. I'm not a native speaker of English, but having studied the English language, I'm aware of the differences between "to die of" and "to die from". (Finally, regarding the article "the" - if you do the 'rude' test and type into Google the phrases "died of the consequences of" and "died from the c.s of", you get more than 10 pages of results in each case, but if you type in "died from c.s of" - your phrase -, you only get 7 pages). Perhaps you're right - then I'd be happy to have learnt something :) Greets Alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.51.42.128 (talk) 05:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

invitation
It looks like there is a consensus already, but you are invited to sign up as a founding member, at WikiProject Council/Proposals, to cover other officially designated historic sites, world-wide. :) doncram (talk) 03:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like an advertisement
Hi. You recently tagged the Heritage Christian Academy article as sounding like an advertisement. I read the help pages on NPOV and have made a number of changes. I admit that when I created the page in the beginning, I used content from the HCA webpage, which, of course, is meant to have some marketing impact on the reader. I tried to rewrite it so that it focusses on facts. Also, I am working with one of the administrators at the school to put together the history going back to 1970. When I get that pulled together, I will have more newspaper articles as reference, more notable accomplishments, and a more interesting article from a history perspective. Again, I will focus on a NPOV. Thanks, Dreeser (talk) 20:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Kiribati Scout Association
Hi Chris, what do you think about Jergen's comment on Talk:Kiribati Scout Association? I agree with him. It does seem too long to be fair use. In any event it seems to be giving undue weight to WWII. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  04:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

PD review
See commons:Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard. Thought you'd be interested since you do lots of image work.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> •  Talk  • 01:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

HI
hi Chris, thanks for the welcome. i was in mexico the last 3 months and couldnt really do much from there, now that i a back i plan in retaking the whole thing again, so sure make all request needed, i will try to look at them during this week

i dont know i got y email answer kicked back constantly by windows vista. did you changed recently of mail acount? i didnt have any probles before -LadyofHats (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:MOS - Baronets
The guidance applicable here is at Naming conventions (names and titles), item #4. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  18:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Coat of arms of Christmas Island
I have nominated Coat of arms of Christmas Island, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Coat of arms of Christmas Island. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. roux <span style="border:1px solid #36454F;-moz-border-radius-topright:10px;-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px;padding:0px 7px;font-size:30%;">  01:30, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the templatey goodness, Twinkle does that automatically. // roux <span style="border:1px solid #6D351A;-moz-border-radius-topright:10px;-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px;padding:0px 7px;font-size:30%;">  01:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Rhianna Pratchett - question about position on list.
You say, 'keep per no. 2 in the article "Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women"'. If this comment refers to this list - Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women - there has been some mistake. The list is arranged in alphabetical order and she appears at no. 2 on p. 9, between Powers and Ray.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 01:11, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Request on Kagawa prefecture SVG
--Goldsztajn (talk) 04:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Scouting in Cambodia
Hi Chris, my pleasure in helping out with Khmer script. I already add Khmer script to the Boy Scout page. Cheers, --Vantharith (talk) 15:25, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Geisha
Hi, Chris. I saw you edited the article. Could you please see the article, if you have some time? A newbie made major edits. I've just removed an irrelevant image. It would be grateful that you could check the newly added contents. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 05:51, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf
Hello, you asked several times ago for an article on Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf. Now I found some sources and wrote an article. Yours in Scouting-Phips (talk) 14:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

EAMUS
EAMUS (Latin for "Let's go" or perhaps better "Let's walk together") is one of at several Roman Catholic prayer groups within French Scouting. Based in Lyon, it claims participation from all major Catholic Scouting organizations. The group meets monthly for an hour of prayer (20 min doxology, 20 min sermon, 20 adoration); uniform is requested. Website: http://eamus.over-blog.com/

The group is below notablity on its own but signifies the recent efforts for an unification of Catholic Scouting in France which is divided in three major and several smaller organizations. Nearly all of these efforts are grass root movements and not supported by the officials of the organizations.

A similar group exists in Paris (http://www.fraternite.net/montmartre/). --jergen (talk) 10:42, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

WOSM Eurasian and European meeting
I don't have any relevant informations on this event but will make an educated guess: WOSM requests interregional cooperations between neighbouring regions. The North-South Network between member organisations in the European and the Africa Region is the oldest of these cooperations but I heard also of recent Arab-African and Arab-European consultations. --jergen (talk) 11:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

PS: This is one of several implemantations of WOSM's Marrakech Charter. --jergen (talk) 11:17, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

PPS: A short report of the meeting was published via Europak (http://www.europak-online.net/images/Europak/europak09/may09/letter%20to%20ics%20090427.pdf]; the full report will follow. --jergen (talk) 11:25, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * A full report is now available at http://www.europak-online.net/images/Europak/europak09/june09/20090525_report%20eurasia%20meeting_e.pdf . --jergen (talk) 11:08, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

FAR of Sikkim
nominated Sikkim for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Satori
Thanks for the call out on my edit summary of Satori. Didn't mean to be disrespectful, and I could have used more neutral language. Did you happen to read what I removed? It was truly irrelevant (added a couple weeks ago), and not worthy of wiki. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.142.88.193 (talk) 14:58, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Ninja Museum
Hey, I notice you added a request for an article about the ninja museum in Iga Ueno a while back. It looks like there's already an article (Iga-ryu Ninja Museum), so I've removed it from the requested articles page. Was there anything in particular you wanted to see in that article? I visited the museum a few years ago; it seemed pretty small and mostly notable for the throwing star demonstrations it puts on for the little kids who are the main visitors. Franzeska (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Scouting in Somalia.png
What organization does File:Scouting in Somalia.png belong to? Scouting in Somalia lists no NSOs, and using the image in an infobox asserts that it is the logo of Scouting for the entire country. We don't have infoboxes for other Scouting and Guiding in... article for the same reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gadget850 (talk • contribs)
 * What then should I do about the tag you placed on the image? I know normally we're on the same side, right now (my view) you're overzealous on image-tagging and removal. Better you than that one guy, but still, point me in the direction you're asking for, because we're of different minds on these images. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:34, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The question remains— if this is a logo, then who is the organization it represents? Looking at the rationale again, I now see some discussion about stamps that I don't understand. Did the image come from a stamp? Are you trying to state that the existence of a stamp proves the existence of an organization?


 * Sorry, I cut and pasted the rationale from the stamp image as same country. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * And the reason I jumped on Somalia this morning— someone on Scouts-L in the Chicago Area Council is working with the children of Somalian refugees in the area. He wanted information on Scouting in Somalia to try to use some of there traditions.


 * That's wonderful, wish we had more to say. Most African countries don't have much if any published info, Wikipedia is as close as some get. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Please note that I have not deleted or put up for deletion any images, except for those that I have replaced. I am removing images that are used inappropriately, where such removal would not result in deletion. I am tagging non-free images that would become orphaned and deleted if I removed them. My hope is that we can fix these and keep the images.


 * Thanks and I am sorry, I totally respect you and did not mean to sound bitey if I did. Truly Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * We still have galleries of emblems in the Scouting and Guiding in... articles; the guideline is Non-free content. Yes, I know it mentions exceptions, but I don't see any need for exceptional use in any of the articles.


 * I get that you're taking them out where you can, and again, better you than that guy.


 * I don't see that the uses of logos in the Scouting and Guiding in... articles is really justified. If we have enough information to find a logo, then we should have enough to create even a stub article with enough references to show notability.


 * Ah, that one is a logical fallacy. Sometimes it's the chicken, sometimes it's the egg. I am always on the lookout for information on the little orgs, it's my bread and butter, there's enough of you guys taking care of BSA, Jergen and Zaian and I seem to pick up the third world, but it's sketchy and piecemeal at best. I have a French buddy doing some research, just many times the badge is known where nothing else is. I know it sounds weird. WOSM only covers WOSM countries, and their research is lazy (better than WAGGGS, but...) so some of these little orgs get nothing. Ever seen the World Scouting poster put out by WOSM? It's half round purple World Crests because nobody bothered to look further when they didn't get an answer due to poor mail or internal strife or... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * If we don't clean up after ourselves, someone else is going to do it for us and will cause a lot of anguish and disruption. We need to give the persistent perception that we are doing police call here.


 * ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 15:00, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I am totally with you on that, thank you for the clarification. And again, never give up, even when it seems I am hardheaded. I'll come around once I understand. :) Always your friend, Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * We will figure it out. If you are relying on stamps to prove the existence of an organization, then I think you may be on shaky ground. eBay has a bunch of Scouting-related stamps from Somalia, but these are either fake of a fantasy. Why would they have stamps of a polar bear or wolves in snow? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 15:36, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * In some cases you're right, like ones for individual Russian republics, they're called Cinderella issues, and they are only sold outside the country as a moneymaker. The stamps I chose and use are postmark-cancelled to show actual use, and I use ones that appear to show actual knowledge of Scouting (I know the ones you're talking about), except in the case of Turkmenistan, which show BP and Diana of Wales (no sense), and Scouting and cats, again no sense except that someone on the ground there is thinking. Notice I removed three stamp issues because we have the real emblems now, working on the rest. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations
Chris

Congratulations on all you have done for disseminating information about the many topics that you are so passionately interested in. I am only now catching up on past correspondences, so this is a very belated note of thanks. I owe to you the page on MACA and due to your initial notes, I have tried to keep it going. Thanks again.

Sanj Altan —Preceding unsigned comment added by SanjAltan (talk • contribs) 18:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Re Arabic text
I am not a native speaker but I can give it my best shot. Let me know what you need id'd --Muhammad (talk) 06:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Table Hiragana
Please discuss with us at Hiragana and ask people who could be interested as well. Thanks whatever your view is 79.192.239.79 (talk) 00:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Shoro
I added a picture to Shoro (company), and then noticed you'd earlier asked for a picture on the discussion page. I'll leave it up to you whether or not to remove the tag. —Firespeaker (talk) 15:52, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Madame Nhu
Did you read these anecdotes anywhere? In one book it was written that Nhu got his bodyguard to slap Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho, so if he or his wife decided to shoot some hapless person it wouldn't surprise me. Especially as Nhu was planning to assassinate Amabssador Lodge  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 01:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, well as Nhu was never shy of declaring that he was going to knock over Xa Loi Pagoda, your anecdote is plausible.... YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 07:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Burmachintheforrequest.jpg
Hi, you requested to delete File:Burmachintheforrequest.jpg, but it is used in a user box on many pages. Have you got a reason to delete it, or something to replace it with? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Bad Girrls Studios
Hey - I didnt actually mean to 1rr you, it was more of a "hey, I thought I just removed that". I left a note on the talk page, but it wasnt a museum, so does not belong in the defunct museums cat. Feel free to put it in a better art galleries cat if you'd like. dm (talk) 06:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. About the edit summaries - if you mean the ones where I removed the cats, that's using Hotcat which puts in the edit summary of what got removed automatically.  If it's the edit summaries for your talk page or the article talk page, I thought I put one in.  I have the option turned on to complain if I dont enter one.   Anyway, cheers! :) dm (talk) 06:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Hermandad Scout del Desierto
The organization was founded in 2006 with a single group which was - as far as I understood - formerly a member of the Agrupación Nacional de Boy Scouts de Chile; there was seemingly some kind of personal conflict with the latters local staff. Actually the organization has about 300 members, mainly in Antofagasta, but also in Arica which is about 500km/300mi away.

HSD is supported by the local chapters of the Lions Clubs International and seemingly enjoys also strong support by Antofagasta's mayor. HSD claims to put more emphasis on civic engagement than ANBSCH, but I could not check this. There are some hints that HSD maintains a traditional style of Scouting but that's only a guess (and the interpretation of "traditional" depends of the individual background).

At least one local group put up a website: (spam link rm'd); the former website of the organization is accessible via the internet archive: http://usuarios.lycos.es/scoutsdesierto

I do not think that HSD meets the notability criteria of Wikipedia: There are very little independent sources and the organization is still quite small. I think we should check again when HSD claims more than 500 members. --jergen (talk) 09:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Siberia
You may be interested in this:

Uncle Monty
Hi Chris. My Uncle Monty was a different man - born 1900, died 1994. He was a Chief Justice and held various high diplomatic postings. When I knew him he was already very old and I guess feeble, but he certainly seemed sprightly to me. He used to get up at 4 in the morning to begin the day with meditation, and kept on going to around midnight. It's a real shame that the lives of these grand old men of Burma's past haven't been recorded. Burma faced a fork in the road in 1962/64, and of course we know what turned out, but the evidence of the possible alternative was still around in 1988 in the persons of Monty and others like him - Sein Win the journalist, many more, all dead now. See (When I was looking up Monty on the internet I came across this interesting blog - you might like it: .PiCo (talk) 23:33, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 00:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Boyscouts Picture
Hi Chris, I saw that you'd asked for it to be written over, but don't really follow why. What is the harm of having two versions? Anyway, feel free to overwrite it if you feel that strongly about it, but I don't really think it's necessary. TastyCakes (talk) 21:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'd be happy to try and help. About the bandwidth though, Wikipedia keeps old versions of files (you can see them underneath the active version) on its servers, so overwriting it wouldn't really save any space.  And I figure someone spent some time making the old one (it looks pretty nice to me) and it might be useful to base another map off of one day.  TastyCakes (talk) 16:32, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Waking ned devine dvd.jpg
While the image is better quality than the poster I uploaded, it is not an "original" poster. Rather it is the DVD cover for the American release. I see you're a regular editor of the Waking Ned article, so I'll put a compromise to you: How would you feel about having the Region 2 DVD cover with the original title in the infobox until a better image of the poster comes along? Bradley0110 (talk) 20:02, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure what this is all about, but, if it will help: HERE is a poster image. Dekkappai (talk) 20:26, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

scout images
Hi, i am going to try to make a come back into wikipedia. i am still really busy but i have the feeling that if i dont start doing something here i wont find the time later either ( since i am so bad at organizing myself) anyway.. is the list still in order?-LadyofHats (talk)

Zarma
You asked how to say "Be prepared" in Zarma on the Zarma page. You might say "Soola" (singular) or "Wa soola" (plural), which simply means "Get ready". The expression could be literally translated something like "(Wa) bara soolante", but this sounds very awkward in Zarma -- "translationese". Are you in Niger? Ask a Nigérien how he or she would say it.

Lion and Sun
Thanks for your contribution on lion and sun article. I have finished the article yesterday. However, somebody who speaks English as the native language should fix grammar and do some copy editing. Could you please do me a favor and help me on the "lion and sun" article? I am going to nominate the article for GA or FA. But, before these shortcomings should be solved.--WIMYV? (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

be prepared translate
be prepared = sauniuni (samoan) Teine Savaii (talk) 13:12, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

The Malta Girl Guides Association
... has seemingly a new logo. See in the upper left. Unfortunately, I don't know how to extract ist. --jergen (talk) 10:32, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * PS: There's a .jpg on MGGA's facebook entry: . --jergen (talk) 10:35, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Cosplay_restaurant
Hi,Thanks to Reverted by that Articles.--基 建吉(MOTOI Kenkichi) (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
for watching Mongol invasion of Europe article. --Kebeta (talk) 21:38, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

File:Scouting in Equatorial Guinea.jpg listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Scouting in Equatorial Guinea.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. ww2censor (talk) 18:12, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * As your stamp image was tagged as being unacceptable, you might like to offer an opinion about changing their guidelines for stamps such as yours which would be considered commemorative stamps. Any opinions on this issue could be very helpful: It's discussed here.]--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 04:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

RussiaGGemblemcopy.jpg
You tagged File:RussiaGGemblemcopy.jpg for rename to File:Russian Association of Girl Scouts.jpg. That name exists as a redirect to File:Russian Association of Girl Scouts button.jpg. Both images are variants— you should pick the one that really represents the organization. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 12:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Moved to File:Russian Association of Girl Scouts 2.jpg. Requested name is a redirect to an existing file. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 09:57, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Kōki Hirota and others
Hi Chris. Are you serious? They are only Class A.--Bukubku (talk) 10:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I have stuff that reads otherwise, maybe I am misreading it. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 10:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I made some mistakes, sorry. I recovered.--Bukubku (talk) 16:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

file move request
Hi, you requested the file File:Ukrainian Plast membership badge.png be moved to File:Plast.png. I find that a rather non-descriptive name and I think the original name is better (makes it easier to find). Is there a real need to move the file ? —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I suggest using the full name of the organization: Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 20:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

File:Betty Rubble.png
Please do not remove the tag until the orphanage is solved. Thank you,  Zoo Fari  04:29, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, just noticed the error. Stupid redirects. Sorry about that, I'll run an AWB tomorrow and fix the tags. Cheers,  Zoo Fari  04:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

My apologies
The [redacted] edits before yours on (redacted) were by a known IP vandal, and I was trying to revert them. Your edit should not have been marked as such. Again, my apologies. --NellieBly (talk) 07:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Make that [redacted] edits, and now I have to figure out how to remove them without removing your addition again. --NellieBly (talk) 07:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've given up and asked a friend to look them over. Looking at them again, although the IP is known for vandalism, I don't know if these specific edits are vandalism, and I'm not comfortable reverting them. Don't worry about the reply, I can see where you're coming from. --NellieBly (talk) 08:17, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The IP has asked me to delete my message. I don't think I can under Wikipedia policy, but I've removed the article to which I referred so it can't be found. Sorry to leave you a message, especially since this has nothing to do with you. --NellieBly (talk) 17:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Re
I have made an SVG file as you requested: File:World Scout Emblem 1920-1939.svg. The font was closest I got. How's that?  Zoo Fari  03:13, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Scout images
These images are tagged as non-free logos, but have been released under CCA. Please verify the licensing:


 * File:World Scout Emblem 1920-1939.png
 * File:Scouts du Mali-self.png

---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 15:31, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

File:Girl Guides of Canada logo.svg
File:Girl Guides of Canada logo.svg was not moved per your request, as the target File:Girl Guides of Canada.svg exists. These images are redundant— they are the same except for the text. We need to decide which to use and let the other be deleted. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 15:39, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I vote keep the ones without the text, in line with most other countries. Going home now, thanks again. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:45, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Image for new article
I'd like to add some images to an article I'm readying for publication about Pico Blanco Scout Reservation. I'm unsure whether a Council's camp patch is copyright protected or eligible for use on WP under a non-free media rationale. There are two images I'm considering adding: the camp patch and the White Stag 50th Anniversary Patch. What license is appropriate? Would appreciate any guidance you can offer. Thanks. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 07:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, Rlevse and Gadget850 will tell you, I am the =worst= guy to ask about licensing, I mess it up a lot, but they are both good to ask. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes and yes. ---—  Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 16:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Edit war in the Argentine Dirty War page in the making
Like on 11 August 2009 your unbiased position in the matter is greatly appreciated. It seems user Justin A Kluntz doesn't like me one little bit and seems determined to shut me out. I find this unfair for I have greatly contributed to this page and although I am anti-military I do not take any communist propaganda excusing the crimes committed by leftist guerrilla groups and painting them as Robin Hood type heroes--91.121.139.161 (talk) 22:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC).

J. S. Wilson Michiharu Mishima December 1952.jpg
Hi Chris,

I work in London for a Mr John Wilson descendent of Mr JS Wilson! I apologise if this is the wrong way to go about contacting you but I'd like to be able to get a higer res copy of the photo you have posted on the JS Wilson page. Would that be possible?

Thank you very much.

JMEMarch (talk) 10:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your swift reply - that's a shame about the photo you wouldn't believe how similar they look! Best JMEMarch (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi
I'm just wondering if you live in Buffalo too? Had to ask. Tom, A8  UDI  14:59, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Image toolbox
I left you a toolbox at User:Kintetsubuffalo/Image toolbox. Let me know if you have trouble implementing the tips. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 19:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

History of Scouting in Hungary
I discovered your article about Scouting in Hungary and am very interested and excited as I am the daughter of Istvan Kanitz and would like to fill in some information about my father. I would be very happy to communicate with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vadasutca (talk • contribs) 20:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Koshares
List Koshare Indian Dancers for DYK, at Template talk:Did you know <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 12:56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Try something like "...that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a BSA Explorer Post (or whatever) that travels the world promoting the study and appreciation American Indian culture through Indian dances."<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 17:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Just keep an eye on it. Someone will come by soon and QA it, saying it's okay or needs fixed. <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 17:42, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Scouting elections
You are receiving this notice as an gactive member of WikiProject Scouting. To change your status as a member, please edit WikiProject Scouting/Members.

Rlevse is retiring as our lead coordinator; see Stepping down as ScoutingWikiProject Lead Coordinator. Election for a new coordinator will be held after the new year. If you are interested in nominating yourself or another editor, please add the name to Project coordinator election.

Yours in Scouting

---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 16:47, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Image improvements
You tagged images such as File:Solomon Islands branch of The Scout Association.png for removal of the border. I am starting to think that you want the patch background removed on these. Sometimes I can do that, but most of the time it is beyond my abilities. If this is what you want, tag them as "Redraw to remove background". If they just need to be cropped for whitespace, then tag them as "Crop". ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Months ago, I converted many of these to PNG, uploaded as a new file and deleted the old file. Where I see that the original would be better to work with, I am going to restore the old and move it over the new so the original version can be retrieved. It is much easier now that we can just rename file. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:47, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I am going to start working though Scout logos not using the logo fur template. I am going to convert the JPGs to PNG, so you do not need to tag them. It would help if you could go through some of the obviously cryptic names and tag them for rename. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 18:53, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * File:Qatar.jpg was lost in a database crash a year ago. Any idea on a replacement? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 17:07, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It shouldn't be marked as such, I saw it up about a month ago. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 18:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Can you verify that File:Les Eclaireurs Unionistes de Côte d'Ivoire logo.png is the correct image? It has had two different uploads- the incorrect one should be deleted as the rationale does not apply to it. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:33, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The first one 10 minutes older was a mistake by the uploader, it belongs to the Association des Scouts Catholiques de Côte d'Ivoire, which already has an emblem here. Old one should be deleted. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:36, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * OK- current is good. File:Asociación Xuvenil Grupo Scout-Guía Vasco da Ponte.png and File:Asociación Guías de Madrid.png are orphaned— can these be used? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:43, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * They are both former members of Federación Española de Guidismo and are mentioned in passing in that article. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:55, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

These are redundant: File:The Scout Association of Malawi.png and File:Scout Association of Malawi.png. Which is the right color? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 16:12, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Good catch. I forgot that happened. File:The Scout Association of Malawi.png is the right one, I couldn't get my computer to render the deeper red. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 16:15, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * You have comments on File:Scouting in Somalia.png about stamps that do not seem to have any relation to tine image? Can these be removed? ---—  Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 18:17, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Predated recent badge. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 18:20, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Can File:Scouts du Mali-self.png be deleted since File:Scouts du Mali.png was made from it? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 23:18, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Taking this one offline, check your e-mail. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:50, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

File:National Organization of Russian Scouts old.svg is in the infobox for National Organization of Russian Scouts (Scouts-in-Exile), implying that it is the current logo. Is File:National Organization of Russian Scouts.svg the old logo? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 18:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * old.svg is both more senior and the current badge for the exile group. The badge -R is for inside Russia but the same group. Jergen insisted on splitting them, though we don't do the same for Poland and Ukraine and Armenia, dunno why. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 19:09, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia Frank Cooper Sands.jpg— is this a commemorative patch, stamp, award or what? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 00:23, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Umm, probably. ;) Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:48, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Jergen Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau text.JPG- A fast and easy translation of the text of the image:

"scouts national corp (CNE-GB) (catholic Guinean-Bissau scouts) After fifteen months of preparation of a 15 people group, ten masculine and five feminine, of which seven were scouts back in the Colonial war times. with one intensive orientation course given by six hight leaders of the national scouts of Portugal, from 23rd to the 27th of February, on internal regime, that will take place at the Parochial center, after twenty seven years, we will have the joy of restore the world's biggest youth movement, at Bissau cathedral in Guinea-Bissau, proportioning one alternative to our youth formation."--213.138.224.65 (talk) 04:15, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:48, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Found File:Qatar.jpg on a mirrored site; now at File:Scout and Guide Association of Qatar boy.png. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 19:51, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I have orphaned File:Lietuvos Skautija.png and File:Lietuvos Skautija color.png, replacing them with File:Lietuvos Skautija.svg. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 23:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Please ensure that I got the right colors for File:Mongolyn Skautyn Kholboo.svg. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 23:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Perfect! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 00:12, 19 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I had to force a reload on those last two images to make the PNG version show properly. If you click on them, the SVG will show and you can refresh those readily, but sometimes the PNG takes a bit. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 01:04, 19 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Do we need File:De Nederlandsche Padvinders emblem.png? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:39, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I would say no, I do not know why Egel replaced a larger one with a smaller grainy one. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:52, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Scouting Nederland.svg
Regarding your request, is the white circle part of the image?  Zoo Fari  01:39, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * How about this image, should the green be removed?  Zoo Fari  21:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Arabic script
Unfortunately, no I don't know of anyone off-hand who can give Arabic transliteration/translation and I don't know enough of the language to be of any assistance. If someone comes to mind, I'll let you know. Otherwise, you can always put Arabic on the talk. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

The Texas - China Comparison
The statement I made was a general one. The particular edit I made, Texas was identified as the largest state in the United States by area, with larger and bolder font to stand out. Texas, as you know is not the largest state. It is the second largest state and is quite smaller than the actual largest state - Alaska. Texans are fairly self -conscious and defiant about this fact because it is one of the things that makes Texas, Texas (being very large).

Their identity is wrapped up in being the best at X (whatever we define as X). It's not the largest state by population - that would be California. It isn't the fastest growing state, that was Nevada, Arizona, and so forth. It isn't the most business friendly state. The list goes one that Texas is actually second rate or worse in everything that makes it special.

The same goes for China. China is proud of being a very ancient culture - to the point that China fudges the numbers and rewrites history about how humans were actually originally from China and how they invented everything we know today. One account has the Chinese as the first discoverers of the New World, when we know that there is no proof for that assertion and that the Polynesians were the earliest known explorers to reach the New World (that was of course already inhabited by other humans).

Moreover, like Texas, China disputes it's size in comparison to other nations. China claims to be the third largest nation, which is disputable. The U.S. also has an argument for the third largest country in the world. The debate derives from what is included in a nation's area. If you include Taiwan and measure the U.S. in a certain way, then yes China is the third largest nation by area. However, China doesn't own Taiwan in any objective sense - it's claim being about as legitimate as the now defunct province of Outer Mongolia (Mongolia).

The claim for the U.S. as the third largest nation is based upon territories waters, both coastal and the Great Lakes, of which the United States has one of the largest coast lines in the world. China does not. The dispute could be marked as footnote, with neither having a solid claim, but China insists on teaching without a doubt that they are larger and by the transitive property the best - which itself is faulty logic sense that would make Canada and Russia even better.

Texas, like China, has a collective inferiority complex because although they have a lot to be proud of, it doesn't make them the best by any measure. In economics, California/India are larger or have more potential than Texas/China. In size, Alaska/Russia are larger than Texas/China. In nation/world standing, Texas was once independent, but with the help of the U.S. and asked to be annexed by the U.S. for protection. China, although it has existed for several years, has been ransacked for centuries and has only come back to prominence on the world stage in the last few decades.

This is what I meant by my Texas/China comment and it is a dynamic that many other states and nations don't take part of because it is childish. You don't have to be the best to be great. Texas and Chin don't collectivity understand that.

Wiki Mateo (talk) 20:43, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Koshare Indian Dancers DYK
Please see T:TDYK. Thanks, Ucucha 22:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See WikiProject_Scouting/Article_showcase<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 17:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Homenmen Beirut
Would you consider Homenmen Beirut within our purview? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Homenmen is, the branch is more the soccer club. But all Armenian Scout associations are that way-because they were in diaspora so soon after Scouting's creation, they had to do all-inclusive Scout-and-sport-and-teach-your-kids-Armenian-all-at-once-away-from-home clubs. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * So that is a no? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:49, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a sucking-in-my-breath and tilting-my-head-to-the-side-just-barely. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I see you tagged the article, so I will tag the image. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:27, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Which image to keep: File:Badge of Homenmen Armenian Scouting.png or File:Homenmen Beirut.png? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 21:48, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * You marked these as redundant— which are we keeping? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:33, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Check your e-mail. It says I have put the request to merge the better parts of both in with a fast editor friend. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


 * OK. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Image source
Don't know if you have ever checked Brands of the World, but they have a number of Scout logos. They are in EPS format and can readily be converted to SVG. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 06:10, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks-several of them actually came from us here. ;) Two I can use, thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:21, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Tuvalu Scout Association.png
Hi, I'm unclear on your cleanup tag ("redraw rope.") for the image, as it's a photo and the rope – assuming you mean the blue/green border around the badge – wasn't modified when the background was removed. — Bility (talk) 19:57, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You did a wonderful job, and thank you for finishing the batch! Tuvalu's problem wasn't something you did, the patch was made lopsided, hence the request. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 02:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

image improvements-splitting as it was getting too long

 * What do think of File:Bronze Wolf Award.png? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 01:33, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's actually really good, but, because of detail, can you make this the full 300, and is there any way you can tweak the dangle so the wolf is walking straight instead of at an angle? If you can pull that off, that would be the ideal image! :) Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 01:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Other than what we already have, I can only find http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/bsy87/Y87/08_BRZ/Y87_2008_brz_01.html and http://www.pattayamail.com/674/features.shtml. The first is even smaller, the second is the source I used— after cropping it, it is the original size. I don't have the skill to straighten it without pushing it up into the ribbon. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 02:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like one for either the Graphics Lab or one of our graphic friends. Which appeals to you? Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 07:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's been straighted, but the wolf needs to be bright bronze, can you go back and snag it from the original photo at File:Bronze Wolf Award photo.jpg? Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:04, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

House Rules
Hi there, I am rather fond of your House Rules box. :) I wondered if you would mind if I stole it off you and personalised it for my own talk page? Thanks, - m - i - k - e - y - Talk / C 17:03, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
I see that you have reverted some unconstructive changes to this article. I recently took a sabbatical from Wikipedia and I missed this vandalism. I just wanted to thank you, as I have put a lot of effort into referencing material properly to ensure a truthful and verifiable NPOV. The fact that someone has decided to blank an entire section tells me we must be doing a good job at a point of view that is balanced, verifiable, and also reflects viewpoints other than the party line of the CPC. Thank you for helping. Dragonnas (talk) 11:52, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

SKIF logo
Hi Chris, please check out File:Skif_Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast_Organization_of_Scouts.svg. --Slashme (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

FAR - BSA membership controversies
Boy Scouts of America membership controversies has been nom'd for FAR at: Featured article review/Boy Scouts of America membership controversies/archive2<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 15:12, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

ANI
You might be interested in this.  Zoo Fari  07:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

E-mail addresses
Posting non-public e-mail addresses is a violation against WP:OUTING. Please do not do that again. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 07:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Scouts y Guías Adultos de Argentina.jpg
The trefoil is not closed. How would you like me to do it?  Zoo Fari  08:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year!
Thank you Chris for your guidance and support here on Wikipedia; and for your help in setting up workspaces for article incubation and for your edits & contributions.

I appreciate your assistance!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

--Action grrl (talk) 13:23, 31 December 2009 (UTC)