User talk:Kotuku33

Ey Iran
I have numerous versions of Ey Iran, both the pre-revolution version and the now Iran National Anthem version as well as many other versions. As your request, send me an email and I will send you all the different versions including the one you heard on the radio. Kind regards, Sina ks2k@hotmail.co.uk  --87.194.3.182 19:09, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Music of Ecuador and such
Hey, thanks for the note. There hasn't really been much discussion... I just started writing the "Music of" articles awhile ago and have realized that many of them are developing very quickly, so I created the set of guidelines I'd been using. So, you haven't missed any discussion of note. The to-do box is just something to add to the talk page to help point people towards the Project page, as well as draw attention to some holes in the project's coverage -- to edit the to-do box, go to Template:WikiProject:World music. So, if you have any questions about how Music of Uruguay or other articles could/should be expanded, it's a place to ask and get more than just me answering. Tuf-Kat 14:31, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Wattlebird
I picked up on your contribution for this page, it's always handy to have more people writing bird pages. Anytime I can help, let me know. Incidentally, it's obviously up to you, but you could move the first two items on this page to your user page. At the moment it's just got a marker there to make it easier for me to access your talk page. jimfbleak 16:18, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Most people reply on the other person’s talk page, but practice varies. Otherwise, you don’t know there has been a response unless you watch the page. I personally also think it’s more polite to respond on the other page, rather than your own.


 * Australasia is a long way from home for me, although the species listings at the two relevant bird family articles are complete on a world basis.


 * I assume that the wattles are for display rather than any functional purpose, but that’s just a guess.


 * There is a picture of Red Wattlebird, and White-headed Plover also shows wattles well, but not, of course, a wattlebird. jimfbleak 05:45, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Project
Absolutely, the best way to keep articles organized and projects active is to keep things like to-do lists and discussion on one page. Go ahead and add your to-do list to WikiProject World music. I'll add some too, and if we need to, we can make a separate page with the items to be done. Though I think you and I are the only ones to do much editing on more than one "music of" article, we can also make a Collaboration of the week if you like. Tuf-Kat 22:26, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and started a section on status at WikiProject World music. The layout is probably confusing now, but I have some ideas on what to do. Tuf-Kat 02:55, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Carib
I see you also had problems with the 'Carib' article. Hope you think I improved it some. But it's not an area I know much about & only based what I wrote on other encyclopedias. Mark K. Jensen 06:12, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Mona-Lynn-- Good work on the Carib page -- which has developed further since you wrote.  I wish there were more sources listed for the assertions that were made more recently, but it's not an area I have any special knowledge about.  Perhaps you do?  Mark K. Jensen 08:39, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Promoting private companies
Hi Mona-Lynn - you wrote: ''Recently a change was made to the Lake Waikaremoana page whereby the name of a company was added that guides tours around the lake. What is the policy on this? My hunch is to remove the reference to a specific company, unless that company is the only one (doubtful) and there is no possibility of others starting up (like because of some kind of a government regulation). What do you think?
 * That's a bit of a tricky one. Given the area it could be the only company involved in tours of the track. You're probably right though, since it is advertising. I've made a change to the article by removing that link but putting in a couple of other external links about the lake, so that there's at least as much information available as there was before. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 11:15, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Categories
Only admins can delete categories. I'll log in and see if I can help. I think they need to be empty as well. 131.211.208.49 12:15, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You don't seem to have created any categories. Are you sure it's not just a red-link in an article to a category that doesn't exist. 131.211.208.49 12:17, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Please answer on User talk:MacGyverMagic, I'm not logged in :). 131.211.208.49 12:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * To find a category with a certain word in its name, type that word in the search box and click "Search" (in stead of "Go"). If Wikipedia search is disabled this should lead you to a page where you can do a Google search within Wikipedia, which should help you to find it if it's there. Mgm|(talk) 18:35, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Maori
Hey, no problem Mona-Lynn. You're not in Napier are you? —Christiaan 18:31, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nice work. —Christiaan 10:02, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kia ora; bonsoir
Hello, Mona-Lynn. How come you have been around for so many months without my noticing??

Anyway, I'll be delighted to have a serious student of Maori language contributing to Wikipedia Maori, even if only a sentence every few days. Your knowledge of the language is probably better than mine in so many ways! Please fix my grammar wherever possible, and use my "models" as much as you like to write new articles. Don't be afraid to start with stubs. Two or three sentences is an excellent start, while we have such a small Wikipedia.

The "recent changes" page (Rerekētanga) will look much more balanced if it has two "regular" contributors instead of one. Maybe you can interest your tutors?? But "softly, softly" - I guess they are all a bit anxious about employment prospects right now.

I have a train to catch. Au revoir, Madame.

Robin Patterson 05:33, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tho\se "stub thingies"
I call them "stub templates" implementing the process of "stub sorting" which produces "categories of stubs" or "stub categories". I don't know how universal that vocabulary is. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:54, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Kula
Hi Mona-Lynn - you wrote: Do you think kula belongs in the Wikipedia dictionary rather than the encyclopedia? Well, I'm no expert, but it does look like a Wiktionary article - it's even been formatted like a dictionary article. I'd definitely consider adding it to the Things to be moved to Wiktionary page. I suppose it's possible for the third part of it to be extended, but I don't really think it's likely. Grutness|hello? 09:35, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Harp
Hi! Your changes to Harp are really good -- thanks. I've been working on the article for a long time and you just made it much better (corrected a lot of my younger self's weird ideas). Dreamyshade 05:35, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Music of Uruguay
Thanks for the corrections. This was my source for the Grammy Award, but I see now that it doesn't say what I thought it said. Can't find the site that called llamadas a rhythm, but IIRC it was in broken English, so that may have been a translation error. Anyway, thanks again Tuf-Kat 00:10, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Tlaquepaque
Thanks for the note. I hadn't seen the original Spanish (I have now, though -- quite an idiosyncratic writing style he's got there...) I suspect the castillo (¿torre?) is a metres-high (10? 15? more?) scaffolding structure, which is an amazing sight when it goes off; and, at least in my neck of the woods, a toro (or torito) is a smaller version thereof, which one of the local lads balances on his shoulder prior to running through the crowd, terrorising bystanders. Loads of fun. Cheers, –Hajor 17:14, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Inca Empire
Hello Mona-Lynn. Holas! Si he estado trabajando en algunos articulos peruanos ultimamente. Le falta bastante al articulo del Inca Empire. Quiero agregar un articulo sobre las momias, particularmente la Momia Juanita que se encontro en los volcanes de Arequipa. Ojala y podamos seguir trabajando para expander articulos sobre Peru. Nos vemos. --dynamax 23:50, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I based the information about the domestication of the vicuñas from the following sites: http://www.kentuckyalpacaassociation.org/aboutalpacas.asp ("The other three are the llama, which is also domesticated, the vicuna and the guanaco, which exist only in the wild"), and: http://www.humminghill.com/quechua.htm ("The Quechua Indians, who domesticated the vicuna more than five thousand years ago, are the source of the alpaca which now reside in the outside world"). To be honest, I can't be 100% sure about those facts more than someone who actually lives in Peru and has seen firsthand the behavior of the Vicuñas. If you have a more reliable source then you can surely consider changing the text below the image. Remember that the Incas might have spent great effort trying to domesticate these animals, unlike people from today who might treat them differently. Who knows? http://www.bozedown.dircon.co.uk/NewFiles/DNA%20article4.html <-- this other site says that the vicuña was never "assumed to have been domesticated", but that rather the Alpaca "is either a 'domestic' form of the vicuña, or a hybrid between the vicuña and the llama." What do you think? :) --Dynamax 17:20, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

qawaali to qawwali
Thanks, Mona-Lynn, for changing the title. A shame, though, to lose the past revision history. Is there any way to change the name but keep the revision history?

(It's my first day on Wikipedia, and I've only just figured out that this is how one apparently contacts other contributors. Right after I gave up and posted the same question on Qawwali - Talk.)

sarabseth


 * Hello. Short answer: How to rename (move) a page.
 * Long answer: in the easiest case scenario one simply clicks "Move this page" and types in a new title. This transfers the edit history to the new title, so that the record of all the work by past editors is not lost. If there is an existing article at the new title that must be deleted for the move to happen. Unfortunately, right now, when I try to delete the Qawwali page (so as to move qawaali and it's edit history to that title), I get the message:
 * "Can't delete this article because it contains new block-compressed revisions, which are not supported by the new selective undelete feature and could result in data loss if deletion and undeletion happened. This is a temporary situation which the developers are well aware of, and should be fixed within a month or two. Please mark the page for deletion, protect the page and wait for a software update to allow normal deletion. If there is an actual complaint from a copyright holder or other suitable legal complaint and they are unwilling to accept page blanking and protection as a temporary measure, please ask a developer for assistance."
 * Hyacinth 04:34, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Rumiñahui
I attempted to fix it, but appears to be worse. I deleted Rumiñahui, then went to Ruminahui and attempted to move an old version to Rumiñahui. Apparently there was a glitch or I moved the redirect to Rumiñahui to Rumiñahui. This still should not have lost the edit history, but when I check the history of Rumiñahui it shows the old edits, and when I check the history of Ruminahui it shows only my move. Hyacinth 09:44, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Possibly I was a victim of my browser not refreshing? Hyacinth 10:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Samba
I have no problem looking into the articles you've pointed me to, I learn a lot in the process.

The disambiguation scheme for "samba" articles was changed from "Equal" to "Primary topic", and the redirects and such where not fixed, see: Disambiguation. So first "samba" the music was at Samba (music), but then it was decided this was the primary use of "samba" and it was moved to Samba. I deleted Talk:Samba and then moved Talk:Samba (music) to Talk:Samba. I then replaced the redirects (or one and one double redirect) from Talk:Samba (music) and Talk:Samba (disambiguation) to Talk:Samba. How do you find these articles? Hyacinth 04:31, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hei Matau
Mona- thanks for the copy edits of my Maori Revival entry. I was a tad tired when I wrote it so I wasn't too concerned about usage and punctuation.

If you have the time, you also might want to check my Hei Matau entry itself, and see what you think.

V.B.

Indigenous peoples
Mona-Lynn, many thanks for your proofreading efforts on the new content in this article. I hope to do some further work towards expanding the article shortly, and if you are so inclined would welcome your review/comments...cheers --cjllw | TALK  07:12, 2005 May 24 (UTC)

Ritual violence
If you know a bit about the subject, you can write a little blurb about ritual violence on the violence page, that'd help ! :) I've been reworkikng the Violence page a bit since I saw it on the "stubs in need of attention" page, but it's still missing a lot of material. A contribution from soneone more knowledgeable than me on the subject would be greatly appreciated ! :) Flammifer 03:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Latin America
You have voted for South America on This week's improvement drive a few weeks ago. Now Latin America is nominated. Hope you can help us again by voting for Latin America. --Fenice 08:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Titicaca
More power to you! I almost plucked up the courage to remove those sections myself, but I'd pretty much used up my supply of boldness removing the reference to "Robomadan" (that's "Robot Ramadan" for the benefit of those who don't watch Futurama) from Ramadan last week. (And you don't want to know about the capybara...) Cheers, –Hajor 00:39, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

"Anglo-American" Popular Culture
Hi Mona-Lynn &mdash;

This appears to be a pet-peeve of yours, but it certainly isn't appropriate. You've changed "X in popular culture" to "X in Anglo-American popular culture" on at least four articles &mdash; I haven't bothered to go through all your edits to see how many. I don't know whether you're saying that all information on wikipedia is Anglo-American, or whether you're saying that it all should be Anglo-American, but either way you're mistaken. This project sets out to present global information from a neutral point of view. Whether or not it always succeeds in doing so is besides the point. If someone were to add information on, say, references to Napster in non-US culture, there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that &mdash; in fact, it would be welcomed. Your time would be better spent finding non-US cultural references to the subjects, if their absence really annoys you, instead of implying that there is an exclusionary slant in all our articles. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  18:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Mona-Lynn,
 * First of all, I apologize: people often come to wikipedia with a bone to pick or a personal crusade &mdash; such as trying to highlight wikipedia's implicit biases &mdash; and so instead of assuming good faith I immediately assumed that this was such a crusade. Second, I certainly agree with you that "X in popular culture" is often not important in articles, regardless of whether it's American culture or not. I expect your Lake Titicaca example is a good one, though I don't know enough about it to contribute to the discussion there. Obviously such decisions should be made on an individual basis, and even then it can become a matter of degrees &mdash; the popular culture section in the Capoeira article is way to long, for instance. However, on to the meat of the question, I still believe that keeping the sections as "X in popular culture" is the most neutral and welcoming option. While it's true that these sections are almost always US-centric, naming the sections such seems to transform this from a descriptive observation to a prescriptive one, and I don't think that that's a good idea. This, of course, is just my own opinion as a contributor, not in any "official" capacity as an administrator. If you'd like to talk with people who are actually involved in this issue, take a look at the wikiproject WP:Bias, which appears to be reasonably active. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  18:15, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Merging two accounts
Hi Mona-Lynn,

I'm not sure if this is possible to do. First of all, it would need to be done by a bureaucrat, as admins can't change the database like that. Second, there are/used to be two services: Changing attribution for an edit might have helped, but it was mainly for IPs, and anyway seems to have now been suspended. Changing username likewise might work, but I think it is only for moving one username to another, unused one. However, you should feel free to ask one of the bureaucrats from that first link for more information.

In my personal opinion, though, it isn't really worth it. You have less than 10 edits with that old name, so it won't affect any edit-counting. If you'd like people to be able to find you when they see those edits, the best thing to do (and probably would be worth it anyway, to catch misspellings) would be to create a redirect from User:Mona-lynn to User:Mona-Lynn, and from User talk:Mona-lynn to here. However, like I said, feel free to contact a bureaucrat for more information on whether it is possible to merge two existing accounts. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  17:10, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Inca Mummy
Hey! I just thought I let you know I translated the Mummy Juanita article a while back ago, and I recalled you told me it would a great idea to include it in the Inca Empire article but we lost contact so I just placed a link there. I just thought I let you know in case you hadn't read the mummy article already :), take care! Bye --Dynamax 21:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Kula
Hi Mona-Lynn &mdash; The general policy can be found at Disambiguation &mdash; look at the first section to answer your question. In general, dabs should only list things that are likely to have articles written on them. Since for the time being, no one is likely to write an article on the Czech surname "Kula", I think it and the rest could go until someone proves you wrong and writes the article. You could also put a link to the wiktionary article on the dab, using the {{{{tl|wiktionarypar}} template.

In general, I think Be bold and make changes as you see fit until someone disagrees with you. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk   (RFC)  14:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hawaiki
Re your edits on the Hawaiki page, can you remember who it was that came up with that hypothesis? It would be good to include the reference. I can't quite rememeber at the mo. Kahuroa 20:21, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheers for your reply. If you wouldn't mind asking him for the full reference. I've read the article, a few years back. Kahuroa 20:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Try email now. Kahuroa 21:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Auckland meetup
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Hello
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WikiProject France
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Pine nut articles
Thanks very much for the copy edit and reorganization. I always appreciate seeing somebody take be bold! to heart, and just go for it. Waitak 23:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Can't find where to send you a message!
Hey Mona!

I'm Sean, and I'm learning about Murgas and I got to your Wikipedia entry on it.

I'd like to ask you somethings and suggest some other stuff to, so I'm checking this contact.

My email is amaluf at yahoo dot com.

Sean

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

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Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)