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Recent question on banking at Reference Desk...
I strongly agree that many contributors have over-complicated the issue. Regrettably you may have done so yourself by mentioning all these extra balance-sheet elements! I'd also note that there have certainly been cases where inter-bank lending other than short-term deposit placing/taking has been relatively common. The obvious examples include cases where "money centre" banks have taken long-dated deposits from regional institutions (such as in some states of the USA with highly restrictive banking laws subsequent to the 1929 crash, and the regional banking network in Japan between the Second World War and the mid-1980s); from time to time from 1984 onwards the issuance of long-dated FRCDs by leading UK banks; the more-or-less continual issuance of long-dated eurobonds by American (and other) banks from the 1970s to the present day, a substantial fraction of which were routinely bought by trust banks from Japan and their equivalents in other Asian economies; the inter-bank provision of revolving underwriting facilities to each other more or less continuously from the 1960s to the 1990s; and the issuance of perpetual floating rate preferred debt by banks following the acceptance of such debt as primary capital, which was sold to other banks for several years in the 1980s as if it were a perpetually revolving money market debt! Banks lending to other banks for longer-than-money-market terms is, I think, more common than you seemed to imply. RomanSpa (talk) 17:48, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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Your contributed article, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2012. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2012 – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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December 2015
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Government of Lithuania
Cabinet is not exactly the same thing as the Government. That is why I made that arrangement. If you have any questions, say me. --B.Lameira (talk) 15:08, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello B.Lameira. Thank you for your comment, I added the name for the section. However, I feel that you are not fully appreciating that "government" can mean different things in different contexts and different countries. It can mean the total system of governing a country (i.e., including all the branches of the government), or it can refer to what is called "council of ministers" (or "administration") in other countries. In Lithuanian context, "government" means the cabinet of ministers. For example, go to the webpage of the government . Also, take care to actually read the wiki page you link to. As such, equating Government and Executive, as you did with your edit, is not acceptable: Government is part of the executive branch, but it is only one part (head of state, President, being the other one). I will give some time for discussion before reverting. No longer a penguin (talk) 17:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * We could do a compromise, "Executive" and below it, "Cabinet" or even "Council of Ministers". What do you think about it? --B.Lameira (talk) 17:54, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * For example, Government of Portugal and Council of Ministers (Portugal), but I could give another ones. --B.Lameira (talk) 18:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Your compromise does not address at all the issue I raised. In Lithuania, Cabinet of Ministers = Government, Government never includes the President (and you're proposing to list the President under the heading "Executive", and link that to Government.No longer a penguin (talk) 18:34, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, in that case we could remove the linking on the "Executive", in that case. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:10, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * In my understanding, government has more broad definition than just the cabinet, but is not exclusively the executive branch. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * There are some countries (e.g. Romania) where the President, while not the head of government, presides to the Council of Ministers. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:21, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * What I want to mean is while the President is not part of the Government, he or she can be influential in the making decision process, as possesses powers like those of veto and dissolution of parliament. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:29, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Vytautas Astrauskas
Hello No longer a penguin,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Vytautas Astrauskas for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Prof TPMS (talk) 12:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't know what the problem was exactly with the former article on Vytautas Astrauskas. I have created a new article that hopefully adequately states the importance of Vytautas Astrauskas.  You may wish to add content to the rather bare stub. --Bejnar (talk) 21:54, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello Bejnar, thank you for the effort. I don't understand why the former article was deleted, but I appreciate your effort in creating a new one. Funny thing is, however, that the article is now about a different Vytautas Astrauskas (Lithuanian soviet-era politician, as opposed to the member of the first post-independence Seimas). I believe that they both have a place on Wikipedia, though.No longer a penguin (talk) 10:10, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, so the former article was about Vytautas Astrauskas (1927-2004) the pathologist and rheumatologist who also served in the Seimas from 1992 to 1996. I suspect that the deleters were unaware that the Seimas is the Lithuaian parliment. I agree that both men are appropriate for articles in the Wikipedia, but I do propose the soviet era politician as the primary topic. Not a lot has been written about the physician; although I see that he had an article in the soviet era encyclopedia prior to independence as well as one in the new encyclopedia. Maybe all that needs to be said in the lead of his article, in addition to his prominance as a physician, is "Astrauskas was elected in 1992 and served a four year term in the Seimas, the parliament of independent Lithuania. ." --Bejnar (talk) 19:19, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with the soviet-era politician as the primary topic - I only created the other one as primary since there was no article under the name. I agree with your suggestion regarding the lead, although I feel a bit strange having to dumb down the text for people who delete articles without bothering to click on a link to see what Seimas is.No longer a penguin (talk) 19:42, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The physician's entry in the four-volume Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija is in volume 1 (1985) on page 112. It reads in full: ASTRAUSKAS Vytautas |g. 1927. 111.23 Maceniuose (Plungės rj.)], taryb. gydytojas patologas fiziologas ir reumatologas. Med. mokslų daktaras (1968), LTSR nusipelnęs mokslo veikėjas (1977). TSKP narys (1955). 1952 baigęs Vilniaus un-tą, dirba Eksperimentinės ir klinikines medicinos in-te; 1952 — 1961 in-to moksl. sekretorius, nuo 1964 eksperimentinės patologijos laboratorijos vedėjas; profesorius (1972). Nuo 1962 LTSR endokrino- logų moksl. d-jos pirmininkas. Nuo 1982 dar ir LTSR sveikatos apsaugos m-jos med. mokslų koordinavimo tarybos pirmininko pavaduotojas. Daktaro disertacijoje nagrinėjo hipotaliamo, hipofizės ir antinksčių žievės sistemą bei organizmo reaktyvumą. Vienas pirmųjų TSRS pradėjo kompleksiškai tirti tos sistemos vaidmenį reumato patogenezėje. Sukūrė reumatinių ligų ir širdies veiklos nepakankamumo eksperimentinių modelių, su kitais — naujų anti- reumatinių vaistų. „Medicinos terminų žodyno" (1980) vienas autorių. Paskelbė moksl. straipsnių iš imunologijos, biochemijos, filosofijos. Pav.
 * I hope that this will help you in redoing the article. I note by way of notability, that he was one of the first doctors in the Soviet Union to systematically study the pathology of rheumatic fever which led to new therapies and new anti-rheumatic drugs. --Bejnar (talk) 10:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Vytautas Astrauskas
At User:Bejnar's request I have copied the deleted text of the article Vytautas Astrauskas to your user space at User:No longer a penguin/Vytautas Astrauskas (physician). You may move it into article space at your convenience. You were the only contributor so simply moving it should be enough to maintain your attribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. I am sorry that your work was inappropriately deleted. Eluchil404 (talk) 01:55, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Aaron Enrico dos Santos
Hello I have had my page deleted and am wondering why as i have provided some references. Also if need be to prove more substantiality I have physical evidences of players existence such as newspaper prints, being registered in the official CBF (brazilian football federation) website. Moreover, i have seen and have access to his transfer papers which are from FIFA (the official world footballing governing body) Please reinstate this page and i can add in more links which i have found.

Alternatively, please advise me on what i need to do to establish this page. or have it deleted so that i can redesign a newer more updated version of it.

Pictures with the athlete in his uniform and in lineups are also in hand. i look forward to your response in this.

Thanks ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masha.Ukraina (talk • contribs) 15:50, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Voting to adopt new infobox
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Abkhazia infobox RfC set up
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DYK for David Carritt
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The European 10,000 Challenge
Hello! Perhaps you would be interested in contributing to the WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge; there is also a Baltic states themed subsection of this project. It's a nice way to keep track of one's contributions and read those of others. We need good editors on Baltic subjects. Cheers, Yakikaki (talk) 21:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Rape in India
You were incorrect in reverting my edit. I was already looking into it, and was in the middle of fixing the page content when you rolled back my edit. That editor removed more content than what was duplicated. Hannibal Smith  ❯❯❯  09:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, but I do not see it that way - you were incorrect in putting that content back. By reverting that edit, you put 3 paragraphs of duplicate content back in the article, whereas the difference between what was there and what was removed were, if I see correctly, 6 words. You should have added those 6 words back, if they were important, instead of putting the whole mess back into the article. No longer a penguin (talk) 09:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No, that's not accurate. You should not jump in on another editor right after they revert something. You should go to the talk page and find out why first. In my post, I just said, I was in the middle of fixing it. Those are stock templates from Huggle, and then as I saw the issue, I switched to a browser to help fix the article up. The content was not exactly duplicated, there were subtle differences. It is fixed now. Duplicate content is removed, and I made some slight improvements to the grammar. Feel free to make edits based on the fixed version. Hannibal Smith   ❯❯❯  09:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I would not have reverted if it said "I'm in the middle of fixing it" in the edit summary. I realize the limitations of stock edit summaries in Huggle, but they are still meant to convey what it is you're doing and your edit summary failed to do that. However, I do agree in the end that the changes you made are an improvement to a problematic section, so thank you for that. No longer a penguin (talk) 10:12, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately that wasn't an option with Huggle. Thanks...I'm glad I could help. I think it's an important article, but it does need some grammar cleanup. Just as a matter of courtesy for the future, I think it's better not revert another experienced editor's edit so quickly after they make it, unless it's clear vandalism. Perhaps give it a few minutes...look at their their track record, and go to their talk page to ask what their thinking was with the revert. That's how you prevent edit wars. Notice, I came to you before reverting again. Anyway, no worries. It's water under the bridge. :) Hannibal Smith   ❯❯❯  10:23, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Baltic states
WP:BRD Prove Your point in talk, before You make any changes! Baltic states were occupied. Articles about someone born in France 1940 don't use Deutsches Reich as birthplace. Take a minute and read this: Occupation of the Baltic states. Especially this part: "The Baltic states, the United States and its courts of law, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Council have all stated that these three countries were invaded, occupied and illegally incorporated into the Soviet Union under provisions of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, first by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944, and again by the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1991. This policy of non-recognition has given rise to the principle of legal continuity, which holds that de jure, or as a matter of law, the Baltic states had remained independent states under illegal occupation throughout the period from 1940 to 1991." There are miles of discussions about this, ,. etc. --Klõps (talk) 13:01, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Per Template:Infobox person Place of birth: city, administrative region, sovereign state. Soviet union never had sovereignty over Baltic states. Occupation of the Baltic states. People born in France 1940–1944 are not listed as born in German Reich – Claude Miller, Christian Boltanski, Catherine Deneuve, Bérangère Vattier, Frank Alamo, Jean-Claude Dassier... --Klõps (talk) 13:02, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Jesus, you missed my point completely. I'm not arguing one way or another and I don't need to be introduced to the whole argument on the legal continuity of Baltic States. All I said was that this is a discussion that should take place in a large forum, with as many editors involved as possible (I suggest Talk:Lithuania), consensus should be established and then a consistent approach should be used in all relevant BIO articles, not used piecemeal on a few selected articles, as it is now. No longer a penguin (talk) 13:47, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Economy of Lithuania
Hi there. With this edit, I used Google Translate to check the source cited. It didn't seem correct. One of the numbers added to the article, "616", was only found in a section of the source which translated to "Q86_TO_Q88 Human health and social work". Magnolia677 (talk) 13:38, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, the numbers in the article are actually rounded to the nearest unit which I didn't think was a problem. The numbers in question are actually 793,3 and 615,9 in the source table for gross and net respectively. I will change the source to the English version for easier verification. No longer a penguin (talk) 13:55, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I reverted a few of this editor's recent edits and it was very difficult working through the sources cited to confirm each edit.  I appreciate that. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:01, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

February 16, 2018
Sveiki! So I realized that there is just a bit more than a year left to the 100th anniversary of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. It would be nice to mark the occasion by having a Lithuania-related article in the spotlight as Today's featured article. I am thinking the topic could be Lithuania, History of Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) (does not exist), or Antanas Smetona. But getting one of these big articles through FA process requires more than one person. What do you think? Renata (talk) 12:16, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I love the idea, and Antanas Smetona or Council of Lithuania would be my two preferred articles. However, I've never done any work with FAs or even GAs, so I'm not sure what it would take to get either of those article up to the required standard. No longer a penguin (talk) 19:55, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, it takes writing a comprehensive article, citing references profusely, and going thru numerous copyedits since English is not our native language. And then putting up with some nit-picky reviews :) It is a long process. I would vote for Smetona as it needs more attention (as it currently stands). You can see some featured political bios here: Featured articles. I might even splurge and buy Eidintas' new bio of Smetona in English... but my time is going to be unpredictable for the next couple of months as my work is extra hectic this year. So you in? Renata (talk) 01:35, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'm in. I'll have some time over the next few months, so I'll try to start. No longer a penguin (talk) 08:31, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Sabbatino
As I'm sure your aware, you were right on the money about my grudge against Sabbatino. As should be evident to anyone with half a brain, he has proven himself to be rigid, tyrannical, vicious, thoroughly immature, and anything else I have forgotten. (I hope he is young.) I really think we should complain to the management about him. How do we go about this? Kostaki mou (talk) 20:47, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. Yes, Sabbatino has on occasion been rigid and maybe impolite, but he did actually engage in a discussion and accept a different point of view (I understand that our experiences may differ). As such, I don't think my experience with Sabbatino has been nearly bad enough to warrant administrative action. Which I don't think would likely be coming anyway, since I have not seen admins take action against otherwise valuable contributors just for being impolite (although I have seen admins lose their status for that). He has also sometimes been the only person to enter a discussion at all on some articles, which I would hate to see gone. No longer a penguin (talk) 09:00, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Non-citizen (Latvia)
Hello. Regarding my edit of the non-citizen article. A law of one country may in real life be overruled by a law of another country, especially when the two countries in general do not cooperate on friendly terms. This article (Citizenship_of_Russia) describes past possibilities of a Latvian non-citizen to obtain Russian citizenship without any risk of Latvian authorities being notified. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 08:25, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I understand your argument. It's technically entirely possible that some of those "non-citizens" are actually citizens of another country that are claiming "non-citizen" status based on a false premise. However, making such a distinction is WP:OR, unless there are reliable sources that discuss and give due weight to the "non-citizens" that are actually citizens. If there are such sources (and they are of good quality), then this distinction should be elaborated upon in the non-citizen article and then the Latvia article should be changed accordingly. No longer a penguin (talk) 08:47, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree, and I do not have any reliable sources ready. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 18:15, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

FYI
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