User talk:Minoa

Nomination for deletion of multiple Athens Mass Transit System related templates
The templates listed above have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. REEDriler (talk) 20:50, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Template:OASA Metro stations
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro left/M1
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro left/M2
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro left/M3
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro left/M4
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro right/M1
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro right/M2
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro right/M3
 * Template:S-line/OASA Metro right/M4
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail left/P1
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail left/P2
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail left/P3
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail left/P4
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail left/P5
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail right/P1
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail right/P2
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail right/P3
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail right/P4
 * Template:S-line/OASA Rail right/P5

Nomination for deletion of Template:OASA color
Template:OASA color has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 00:26, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Zappio tram stop for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Zappio tram stop is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Pikrodafni tram stop


The article Pikrodafni tram stop has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "There appear to be no independent secondary sources with in depth coverage of this transport infrastructure."

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Proposed deletion of Agia Triada tram stop


The article Agia Triada tram stop has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Not enough in-depth coverage to show that it passes WP:GNG."

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Nomination of Agia Triada tram stop for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Agia Triada tram stop is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Agia Triada tram stop until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.  Onel 5969  TT me 18:01, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Trolleybuses in Athens moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Trolleybuses in Athens, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). Right now the only thing which is sourced is the preserved vehicle. The link for the source used for routes, does not give a list a of routes. I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:50, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Module speedy deletion
Hello, Minoa,

I wanted to alert you that an editor tagged Module:Adjacent stations/Proastiakos Athens for speedy deletion. I can see that you weren't notified of this. I've untagged the page but could you check out there deletion rationale and see if it has any merit? Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:16, 14 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello: the transition to Module:Adjacent stations/Athens Suburban Railway started on 10 November 2022, when Proastiakos Athens moved to Athens Suburban Railway, because the latter is the name that Hellenic Train uses. However, I moved the module without realising that the module system did not support leaving redirects behind. I temporarily recreated the Proastiakos Athens module as an emergency fix, while the transition was taking place.
 * REEDriler and I were the only contributors to the module, and since all articles now use the Athens Suburban Railway module, there is now a case for deleting the module, albeit as an incorrect name: the main reason for this is that I have recently looked up the term "Proastiakos Athens" on Google, and it returned only content directly or indirectly sourced from Wikipedia. Therefore, I have reason to believe that "Proastiakos Athens" was a spillover from the transliterated name.
 * The main reason that I forgot to correct the error was simply that I was busy in real life. I will correct the error in Athens Suburban Railway, and ask you and about how we should deal with the Proastiakos Athens and Proastiakos athens redirects (delete or recategorise as "R from incorrect name"). I apologise for any confusion that the situation may have caused. -- Minoa  (talk) 02:48, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

A Barn star for you
Please keep up the hard and useful work! Thank you


 * I think that with a few more edits, List of Athens Metro stations could become a Good Article … but we are going to need to fill in the missing photos. -- Minoa (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Minoa I agree, a few more references and photos as you say and then "jobs a goodin"  &maltese; Emperor of Byzantium &maltese;     (talk)   22:52, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Russian propaganda lessons help
Dear and  via WP:TRLA, I am posting a request for translation assistance in my user talk page because I am currently working on the following project in my user space. Your understanding is appreciated.

I am making a list of Russian propaganda lessons (currently at User:Minoa/Propaganda) and I want to make sure the translations do not drift too far from the original Russian text. I wonder if you can please help me on this. Afterwards, I think I could consider opening up the draft to further development by editors familiar with Russian propaganda stuff. This is mainly because I have been reducing my exposure to the news because of how depressing it is.

Best, -- Minoa (talk) 23:32, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * AFAICT, Minoa, they look good and accurate to me. They're not very complicated Russian phrases, thankfully. Daniel Case (talk) 18:36, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I now wish to ask what name should we use for the proposed article: "Conversations about the important" appears to be a literal name. Quite a few sources refer to them along the lines of "Russian patriotic classes", but there are a lot of variants. -- Minoa (talk) 01:12, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, funny you should have said that because I just looked at the page again and that struck me, so I was coming over to bring it up.
 * That English title is literal, alright ... literal to the point of sounding awkward in English, as I think you have recognized. My take would "Conversations about what is important", adding a word in English not present in Russian, but making it sound much more natural in English. (And Google renders it into Russian exactly as it was originally! Great!) Daniel Case (talk) 20:12, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I would actually render this as "Conversations about that which is important". In Russian, the adjective важном implies an object which is not there; this is correct in Russian grammar, but not in English. Using "things" seems okay at first blush, but it's more narrow than the Russian version suggests. When you use "that which is important", you most closely mimic the Russian version in English. Hope that helps! Alex Eng ( TALK ) 23:22, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Looking over the topics you've translated:


 * День учителя is more closely translated as "Teacher's Day" (or, less likely, "Day of the Teacher", since Russian doesn't have articles). If it were Teachers' Day, it would be День учителей. I know the English article title is Teachers' Day, but I noticed that you directly transcribed "Day of the Elderly" rather than "International Day of Older Persons", so I thought you might want to keep it consistent.
 * Similarly, you can choose whether to call День музыки "Music Day" or "Day of Music".
 * День народного единства directly translates to "Day of the People's Unity"
 * Волонтеры России – while this is technically correctly translated to "Volunteers of Russia", it's possible that the meaning was lost. Волонтеры in Russian can mean either "volunteers" or "people who voluntarily enlisted in the armed forces". Can you confirm that this is referring to civil volunteer activities and not patriotic military enlistment?
 * Новый год. Семейные праздники и мечты – "праздники" are "holidays". They can entail celebrations, but I think you meant to say New Year's Day: family holidays and dreams.
 * Светлый праздник Рождества – Again technically correct, but Светлый is also used to mean "happy" or "jolly", see Wiktionary.
 * Год педагога и наставника – Direct translation would be "Year of the pedagogue and mentor". "Pedagogue" seems pretty archaic, but they did specifically use that word rather than учитель, which means "teacher". Up to you how you want to do it.
 * Alex Eng ( TALK ) 23:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I have done my best to accommodate your advice. I am able to trace the official references for Senior Citizens' Day, National Unity Day, and Year of Teachers and Mentors, which permits me to use Teacher's Day and Music Day. In respect of Volunteers of Russia, I refer to civilian volunteer activities. Feel free to comment on my changes, although I am still thinking about the Article title because quite a few reliable sources call them "Patriotic lessons" or similar, e.g. by Washington Post and The Moscow Times. -- Minoa (talk) 08:46, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Transport for Athens
Καλησπέρα, προτείνω να αναμορφωθεί αυτό το άρθρο και να αφορά τον ΟΑΣΑ ΑΕ. Οι συνεισφορές σας στο αρθρο νομιζω είναι προς αυτην την κατεύθυνση παρολα αυτα το άρθρο σήμερα ουσιαστικά λέει περίπου τα ίδια με το public transport in Athens. Ποια είναι η άποψη σας; Red Arrow27 (talk) 22:44, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Yes, that article should be covering Transport for Athens (OASA) and their services. -- Minoa (talk) 01:19, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Suburban Railway
Hello, about the de numbering you made on the suburban railway articles, I inform you that according to the new map of the suburban and regional lines, they do have colours (yellow, purple, green, blue) and numbers (A1,A2,A3,A4) and they are official, and the maps using this scheme are present in the Hellenic Train's website as well as some of the network's stations. So you can just take the old pages, and switch Π1 for A1, П2 for A4, П3 for A3 and Π4 for A2, and the grey of Π4 (its new name is A2) for the purple colour it has on the maps. GoatGamer1 (talk) 18:55, 1 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Where can I find the map on the internet? I wish to review it first. -- Minoa (talk) 18:57, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think you can just upload files you found on the internet: they have to be licensed under a free Creative Commons licence. They may make a good reference, but as a file on the Commons? Not so much. -- Minoa (talk) 19:49, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * the file is not any random file on the internet, it's from the Hellenic Train website. I get what you mean GoatGamer1 (talk) 20:15, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * and this map/variants can be found in some actual stations, like Rouf. GoatGamer1 (talk) 20:16, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Suburban railway line logos
In the logos, you got the colours right, but you should switch A2 with A4, as A2 goes to Ano Liosia and the Airport, and A4 goes to Piraeus and Kiato. But otherwise good job! GoatGamer1 (talk) 12:49, 2 October 2023 (UTC)


 * This is because I am considering a new station list format similar to the ones that I did for the Athens Metro (see User:Minoa/Stations). I apologise for the slow pace, but not only I have to verify them with the network statement annexes, some of the stops from the Hellenic Train ticketing database are for bus replacement service use only. -- Minoa (talk) 22:23, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, however the stations west of Kiato it isn't clear if they are an Athens regional line or just a regional line, and is not numbered and not in the map of the suburban - regional railway. GoatGamer1 (talk) 07:08, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Independent Peloponnese regional line: uses "Proastiakos" train numbers but they are not in the Athenian regional network. -- Minoa (talk) 07:38, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Please fix Kiato railway station
Something you changed at Module:Adjacent stations/Athens Suburban Railway seems to have broken Kiato railway station. I reverted your changes, which had no edit summaries, on the assumption that they were disruptive, but that broke many other articles, so I reverted my change. Please fix Kiato railway station. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ - the line numbers recently changed to A1 to A4. I thought I got all the stations updated. -- Minoa  (talk) 05:30, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I figured you would know how to fix that one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:02, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Minoa. Thank you for your work on Conversations about Important Things. User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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North8000 (talk) 17:48, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * it's great to hear from you: I wonder what you think the article's importance scale should be in the three WikiProjects I have chosen? General assurance that the importance level does not have to be the same for all three. -- Minoa (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the post. Sorry that I'm not in a good position in answering that one.  I've not worked in that area and each project has different criteria. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 19:11, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

List of secret police organizations
Hello. I have read the message you placed on my talk page. If the list is being subjected to a level FRINGE pushing that satisfies the relevant criteria in WP:PROTECT, then the page protection should be increased, per WP:EASYTARGET and WP:ATD, and any obviously erroneous entries should simply be ripped out (which seems to be happening). James500 (talk) 07:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Template:Thessaloniki Metro

 * Part of this section was repositioned to clarify which sentence was written by who, according to .

Hi, they said that in Dimokratias just like in New Railway Station there will be an adjacent station. I have a video with the evidence. It was me that I was trying to fix it but I can't. So, fix it if you can because I don't know it. Also, delete Pylaia depot since the other depots are not on the template. 2A02:586:7931:FAC4:19E5:92B8:1586:D442 (talk) 06:41, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I think I got it now. And please do create an account so you can hide your IP address. -- Minoa (talk) 07:09, 23 May 2024 (UTC)