User talk:QuartierLatin1968/Archive1

Middle East
I read your message and I understand, the discussions are polarised. You mentioned Haiti, there seems to have been a de facto American coup there recently. Kingal86 15:47, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Oh, my god, it's a disaster. Aristide, who's no angel, but was still the only credible political leader that Haiti's have-not majority has ever had, was escorted to the door by US Marines. For weeks and weeks there had been an undeclared civil war, Aristide's government had said we need help, we're the democratically elected leadership, and the US and France just sat back and said, "So sorry, there's nothing we can do for you guys right now". The fascists topple Aristide, and suddenly France, the US, Canada, Brazil find it in their hearts to ship peacekeepers in, quicker than you can say coup d'etat. Meanwhile, the folks they put back into power are a mix of two components: the thug wing of Aristide's political movement, and the old Tonton Macoute-style Duvalierists. With a top layer of Western-educated rich people to give a veneer of respectability. It's just a horror.

QuartierLatin1968 03:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) Quartier Latin  1968  QuartierLatin1968 16:13, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Ainsi dit-il. Quartier Latin1968

Kurdistan Map
Hi!

You asked for the Kurdistan map. I (probably) took it from here, but I do not know who made it. It obviously contains of several, at least two layers. The words "Mediterranean sea" and the word "Turkey" for instance are very different. It might have been published by one of the Kurdish Institutes, maybe Paris. I have no idea. It shows the mainly Kurdish inhabited areas and is smaller than what some nationalist see as "Kurdistan".

Please contact me here or by mail.

Good luck for the Cornish Wikipedia, you seem to be a little supported fighter for your cause. --Erdal Ronahi 23:00, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I just found an article on the map: http://tzaddik.us/lilpoh/archives/000411.html Interesting, isn't it? --Erdal Ronahi 23:18, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fulub le Breton
Salut, non je suis desolé, je ne parle pas Cornique à ce momont. Maintenant j'habite à Paris et il faut que j'apprenne le Francais et pour les Britaniques la langue étrangère est un vrai boulot. Mais apres j'ai envie d'apprendre les langues Bretonne et Cornique a Paris. Cependant il y a beaucoup de cornouphones qui peut etre vous aide.


 * Agan Tavas&mdash;The Society for the Promotion of the Cornish language
 * Cornish Language Fellowship

Merci pour votre encouragment

I have also asked on a Cornish news website, Cornwall 24, if anybody can help you edit the Cornish language site.
 * []

Samajwadi Party and caste?
In a recent edit on the Bahujan Samaj Party article you claim that Samajwadi Party's caste base is Kshatriyas. I would like to know from were that assumption is taken? In my understanding the SP base is mainly Yadavs (OBCs) and Muslims. --Soman 09:36, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm by no means an expert on this, but generally (in political context) Yadavs are mainly refered to as OBCs. http://www.mjakbar.com/default.asp?headline=50395&rm=archive refers to them as 'neo-kshatriyas'. Anyway, I thin you're doing great work on the India-articles. www.nd.edu/~kellogg/pdfs/Jaffrelot.pdf refers to them as a shudra caste trying to claim kshatriya status. --Soman 00:32, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

re using 'cardinal' in names
Cardinal is included in the titles of cardinals for two practical reasons.


 * Many mediaeval cardinals have had their first names long forgotten in history and so they can only be entered as Cardinal X while people try to find the original first name.


 * Many mediaeval cardinals used different cardinalate names than their original birth names. Not including the word cardinal produces a name that never existed. But their own personal names are either universally not recognised or long forgotten.

The inclusion of cardinal is not meant to give cardinals any particular special treatment. It is simply the only way many historic cardinals can be entered on wikipedia. It was discussed and agreed that in the case of cardinals, the word's inclusion was a practical necessity. Ancient office-holders, where their personal name may not be as widely known and they are only known by title and surname, cause particular problems that don't arise with holders of more modern offices. Mediaeval cardinals will invariably be searched through google through 'cardinal x', just as popes will be searched for using 'pope x'. Other clergymen in other lower offices are either not remembered in history or are usually known by full name. But the higher one got in the Roman Catholic Church, the greater the likelihood that one's personal names were replaced by a clerical name, and it is just the latter that people remember.

The page on the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris belongs with all the other hundreds of cardinal articles under the format agreed and used all over wikipedia. Either the naming conventions are changed (which will mean we cannot put on some mediaval cardinals and will have inaccurate names for others) or this article needs to be moved to follow the agreed format. Abandoning that format would necessitate the renaming of hundreds of pages of articles and at this stage tens of thousands of links in articles. Fear ÉIREANN 23:45, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

About the Geraint who fought at Gododdin
You named him "Geraint rac Deheu", but I'm a little puzzled about the "rac" part: is that Cornish or Breton for "son of"? If it's a typo for "mac", may I suggest you use "ap" instead, since the latter is Welsh & the former Irish? (Geraint's native tongue is more likely to have been closer to Welsh than Irish.) -- llywrch 18:16, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * That makes sense: now I'm embarassed for not recognizing the word "Deheu". Oh well, at least I've helped you write the first sentence to this article. ;-) -- llywrch 20:17, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

BiblioVault

Hi
Hey, your name wouldn't happen to be Juan Tomas, would it? Adam Bishop 22:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah...you have the same birthday and are also from U of T. It was a pretty slim chance, but nice to meet you anyway! Adam Bishop 22:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cities of the Republic of Ireland
The cities of the Republic of Ireland are "county boroughs" and not "city boroughs"! Djegan 18:00, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 09:52, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Prachanda
As near as I can tell, his pseudonym appears completely out of context from his real name which is as opposed to, say, Lenin and Stalin where there have been many variations from the point of them being "revolutionaries" throughout their ascension to power and thereafter. Thus those articles utilize the real names in conjunction solely with the false surname. "Prachanda" doesn't even have the benefit of a term being so recognized that it replaces all other references, as opposed to Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh, so there is no real need. "Prachanda" should stay as a redirect to the real name as of now. --TJive 19:55, July 20, 2005 (UTC)


 * We refer to things such as "Lenin" and "Stalin" offhand only because they are a surname (as well, I would argue, that they are much easier for many non-Russian speakers to pronounce than "Ulyanov" and "Dzhugashvili"), just as we would to real names like "Bush". However, just as in introducing an academic or encyclopedic subject of the person we would refer to "George Bush" (or "George W. Bush" or so forth) it is most common to see "Vladimir Lenin" and "Joseph Stalin" introducing the subject.  It seems that we are in agreement, at least, that he appears to not utilize any portion of his real name in reference to himself and discourages it.  This alone makes him different from many other examples.


 * With respect to notability, upwards of 30,000 hits is rather meager when compared to the millions that you get for Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, and so on. I am not interested in a fight over this, of course, but I believe it would be more appropriate as of now for the article to be based on "Pushpa", with attention quickly accorded his pseudonym.  --TJive 11:18, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

expand on the articles with Hinduism in southeast asia?
Can you expand on the articles with Hinduism in southeast countries such as malaysia and indonesia. I just find cool that Hinduism exsisted somewhere else other than India. --Dangerous-Boy


 * It is definitely cool how Indic culture spread into Southeast Asia. Although you know, Hinduism exists and thrives in lots of places other than India – Great Britain, Canada, the US, and other exotic lands you might have heard of! ;-) Quartier Latin   1968  18:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your correction on my spellings of belief! --Profvk 16:33, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * No worries, the pleaure was mine! Quartier Latin   1968  18:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

In reference to the Rajput Article
I am very concerned about the artical on Rajputs since I was recently debating with an individual named wisesabre. Now, this article hits me personally since it is my identity and I feel that because I cannot take part in this debate any longer, as well I find his arguements and the arguements of the other chap completely ridiculous, since I am preparing to write my licensing exams soon, I feel really frustrated.

Does Wikipedia simply allow anyone to put stuff up even if its not backed by authentic academic knowledge or research? Is this something I should just forget about since it seems that the article is going to be hijacked and the entire concept of the Rajputs will be distorted.

It seems that anything held sacred can simply be distorted in this encyclopedia. If anyone wanted to know how legitimate my sources or claims are, at least I can say "Just show this to Dr. Joseph T. O'Connell, Professor Emeritus, South Asian Studies Department, University of Toronto" and he'll easily recognise my writings and even tell you my name and lineage on the spot.

I am really not sure what to do, but I would hate that my history become distorted, especially by a couple of guys making all sorts of erroneous claims.

Sincerely Gorkhali 05:19, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your prompt reply. I guess that is one of the dangers of Wikipedia, and also one of its strengths. Thanks again for the qucik reply.

Sincerely 67.71.90.188 16:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Wow what an awesome thought provoking commnent in Ray Nagin.Kyle Andrew Brown 16:52, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Llongborth
I took a look at this article, & it reads like a good, solid article. Hope you don't mind that made a copy edit or two (mostly because as someone on the other side of the world, I can't picture where Langport is off the top of my head).

I also noticed that there is no article for Llywarch Hen; I guess I should be the one to fix that because I took my user name from this ancient Celt. -- llywrch 22:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

The article looks good. I made a few very minor edits, and I added some of your information to the Geraint of Dumnonia article.--Cuchullain 00:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Many thanks to both of you! :-) Quartier Latin   1968  19:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Cornish people
Durdatha whye QL, could i interest you in a debate on the discussion page of the Cornish people page, i am currently trying to debate with a group of what appear to be English nationalists who insist on making modifications when they reach agreement among themselves which as you can imagin tends to take an anti Cornish direction. The new Cornish people page is a great development for wikipedia and it would be a shame if it became run by people unfriendly to the Cornish movement. Bretagne 44 aka Fulub le Breton 13:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Irish Newfoundlanders
Hi saw the map you added to the page, nice job. One small comment, the area of the Irish shore is larger than you have marked. See http://www.irishloop.nf.ca/about_zone_location.asp for the additional area. The Irish shore extends from Carbonear south to Renews and to both sides of St. Mary's Bay. The Irish shore is larger than the Irish Loop. Jcmurphy 01:22, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Thats excellent, but the Irish Shore also extends around to the west side of St. Mary's Bay to the communities of Branch and St. Bride's. See http://www.naturetreks.ca/MapAV.htm St. Bride's is commonly accepted as the last community on the Irish Shore. I mentioned Renews, because along with Ferryland it is one of the main Irish communites on the coast. Jcmurphy 02:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Anatolia
Thanks for making this neat table, on the figures I had given. It's a great job! --Astavrou 23:11, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Iraq map
If you have a moment, could you do one with the provinces numbered as on IraqNumbered.png? They correspond to the numbers on the results table. I'd have a go myself, but I'm far from an expert with graphics. –Hajor 19:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

From Catalonia

 * Are there any facts, figures, opinion polls etc on Catalan nationalism in the Balearic Isles, Valencia, etc? What has made Catalan nationalism so weak in Valencia? Is there any active agitation for adjusting the border with Aragon so that La Franja forms part of Catalonia? What role does Catalanism play in Andorra? And what is the current situation of Catalan nationalism in Roussillon and Alghero? If anybody's got answers to these questions, I'd love to see them! Best, Quartier Latin   1968  01:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Tu peux chercher ici: Catalan government site: ; and also     and this personal one:. Au revoir!. --Joan sense nick 02:21, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Also here:   with some polls and statistics.--Joan sense nick 18:55, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

SACP MPs in SA parliament
You asked a question at South African Communist Party about SACP members of parliament. As far as I know, all members come from the ANC list, which is decided on by vote at the ANC National Conference preceding the election. Thus, for any SACP member to become an MP, they must also be an ANC member and be elected by the ANC. This isn't a problem, however, since most prominent SACP members are also (prominent) ANC members. --Taejo | Talk 14:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Sinn Fein

 * I'm not sure if the number of votes defines the size of a party. A party's size is defined by its membership which in the UK and Republic of Ireland is a separate thing to number of votes.  It might be more accurate to discuss number of seats in the Dail or House of Commons (and their respective upper chambers), but even this does not determine size.  Do we have some figures for membership?  Alternatively the article should be reoworded Dainamo 23:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

User categorisation
You were listed on the Wikipedians by alma mater page. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians by alma mater for instructions. --Cooksey 22:07, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox,
Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Bonjour
Je vous ai trouvé.... disons un peu par un détour (World citizen).

Puis-je vous intéresser à ce projet; ...et j'ai fait la soustraction: la réponse est 42, n'est-ce pas? Lectonar 13:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Sig image
Hey- your signature is using Image:Blkred flag.png. I don't have anything against it or your signture, but it has been replaced in all the articles by Image:Flag of Anarcho syndicalism.svg since that's a better format and is also in the public domain, which is a lot better. Long story short, blkred is going to be deleted very soon, and it'll break your sigs. --maru (talk) Contribs 22:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)