User talk:Michkalas

A-class review
The A-class review department for biographies is not yet active. I've made a start by copying the MILHIST pages and adjusting some things, but I haven't finished yet. But it seems Leonard Orban is as good an article as any to start with, so I'll contact some other users to start reviewing. Er rab ee 15:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * BTW, thanks for the nice template, which I shamelessly reused as . Er rab ee 09:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * All points seem to have been addressed, thanks for a nice article! Er rab ee 12:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * My pleasure! Er rab ee 13:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Volcano tags
Hi Michkalas, I'm the founder of and one of the main contributors to WikiProject Volcanoes. I noticed that you've added Volcano tags to numerous images recently, while also adding WikiProject Iceland tags. I don't know whether WikiProject Iceland wants all those images to be tagged, but I do know that WikiProject Volcanoes would prefer that images NOT be tagged, especially not tagged as articles (which they are not). We do have a separate Volcano image tag, but would prefer that tag to be used only on selected photos, maps, and graphics which are important to the WikiProject, and not placed indiscriminately on thousands of volcano images. If you would like to place tags for WikiProject Volcanoes, please read the project page for more info before doing so, especially the section WikiProject Volcanoes.

Thanks for your attention to this matter. I am in the process of removing the Volcano tags from those images. --Seattle Skier (See talk tierS) 04:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Icelandic phonology
May I ask why this article has been merged with Icelandic alphabet? I intend to demerge the article pretty soon. Sorry if your intentions were good, but could you discuss it first in future? It’s only that it’s not in line with other language article series. Plus the Icelandic alphabet kinda deserves special mention because it includes two runes that are not used in other Latin-based alphabets. Thanks. Max Naylor 15:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Re. the message you left on my page: OK, understood, I’ll sort the articles out now. Max Naylor 15:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
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WikiProject Iceland
I'm not really interested, but thanks anyway John Hayes 16:00, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I would be interested, time permitting, but right now I'm swamped with work. I'll read the article. If it requires one to register as a special contributor or something like that, I'm inclined to decline. :-) But the subject is one of my interests, and my own contributions, meagre as they may be, have revolved around Icelandic culture, history and language. Let's say I'll give it a thought and in any case, I'm very pleased that there is a project now. There are a few very qualified contributers, but they (like me) also have other things going on. But Wikipedia is there for the long haul, and one day we'll have a fairly complete Icelandic grammar and history of the language on-line. All the best Io 20:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for inviting me, but I don’t really know that much about Iceland, at least not enough to write articles. Good luck! Felix ahlner 22:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Re. WikiProject Iceland
Why yes, I'm actually interested in this WikiProject! :-) I've been a bit busy lately, but when I get back to full swing I might just create a few Iceland stubs and get back to work on Portal:Iceland. Best regards, Hús  ö  nd  23:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Re. WikiProject Iceland
I appreciate the invite. I will look to join and help once I have free time. Kal 04:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

re WikiProject Iceland
A late thank-you for the pointer; I've signed up. The userbox sent me to Ancestry and ethnicity where I found nothing, so I made these:

in my sandbox before I found this: I like mine better.

Oreb 02:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Template:Icelandic language
Please see the discussion Template_talk:Icelandic_language. Max Naylor 15:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
You spoke about merging Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies with Árni Magnússon Institute. I’m thinking of going ahead with this under the new name of Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. What do you think? Max Naylor 14:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot for WP:ICELAND
I know you said that you don’t have any time to add a feed to this bot, but you seem to be on Wikipedia as much as I am :P. I’ve tried going through the instructions for adding a new feed to the bot, but they are really unclear, can you help me with this, or at least give it a read over? BTW, I’m updating the Icelandic language template as we speak. Thanks for the smile BTW! Max Naylor 19:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Godfather15.jpg
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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
 WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive! WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive! The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

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Project European Union
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Philately WikiProject
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File:Leonard Orban signing Treaty of Accession to EU for Romania.jpg and File:Leonard Orban oath.jpg and File:Kuneva Orban first meeting of the European Commission.jpg listed for deletion
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WikiProject Dacia
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Language-population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

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