User talk:Renata3/archive3

Closing AfDs
Hi Renata3. Regarding your closing of Articles for deletion/Anathemacious, as a non-admin, you should only close AfDs that do not result in a Delete. Consensus for delete should only be reached by an admin. I used to close VfDs (the precursor to AfDs) back when I was a non-admin, and I would never touch the delete results, not matter how overwhelming. Thanks, and keep up the good work! --Deathphoenix 16:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know. Thanks. Renata3 16:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problems. Seeing as how you do good work, including janitorial work, you might want to pursue adminship at some point in the near future. :-) --Deathphoenix 17:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Peer review/Cynna Neele/archive1
I'm really not sure what you want me to add. Would you be able to be a bit more specific? Ambi 00:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Kaunas
As a general rule, if I find a bunch of articles on a particular topic or linked by a very strong common theme, such as location, I tend to make a category for them. There certainly are quite a few article about Kaunas, so I don't see why a cateogory is inappropriate. Often, once a category is created, other articles start being put in, including ones that are hard or impossible to navigate to from the main article (in this case, Kaunas). Logically, you're right that Kaunas belongs in Kaunas County, not the other way round, but Lithuanian geography (unlike Poland) hasn't been categorised by county, so for the moment the best fit is to put the Kaunas County article into the Kaunas category. The best solution would be to make a Kaunas County category, then make the Kaunas category a subcat of that, but since that would involve (for consistency) categorising all of Lithuania by county, I haven't done it (at least not yet!). Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for the feedback. You may have noticed that I've made a start on categorising by County, but I am having trouble distinguishing cities/towns/villages, except that sometimes populations seem absurdly small for a "city" - I wonder if "city" has a particular meaning in Lithuania? This would seem to be suggested by the apparently comprehensive List of cities in Lithuania. A lot of the stub articles are pretty dire, often not stating the county/municipality of the settlement, which doesn't help matters! And there's a lot of towns and "cities" appearing in red, which is a bad sign. It is worth remembering that some East European states have stubs about many of their villages - Lithuania shows signs of having been neglected a bit! I'd appreciate any help that you could give me by putting down some decent stubs for the left-out towns/cities/villages and trying to sort out what the city vs town business is all about... Also, I note that various Lithuanian articles about buildings or institutions don't specify what city/town they are in, which is a bit annoying! Any blanks you could fill in would be welcome. Many thanks, --TheGrappler 02:09, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Science collaboration of the week
You voted for Human genome to be improved while it was listed on WP:IDRIVE. This article is now nominated on Science collaboration of the week. Please consider supporting it with your vote. --Fenice 13:18, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you, and thanks for the reminder about sources. I'll make a point of it. --RobthTalk 20:24, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Greek literature a candidate at the European Union collaboration
You have supported Greek literature at the WP:IDRIVE some time ago. I have now renominated it at the new European Union collaboration. Please consider supporting it there if you are still interested! --Fenice 13:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Paul Kane
Thanks a lot for your detailed comments. See Talk:Paul Kane about the image placement. You might be seeing white space if you're using a small font, but placing them differently separates the images from the text relating to them. Maybe we'll just have to write more text in that "works" section. Oh, and the article already is on FAC (with a clean record of six supports so far :-). Maybe User:Captmondo can find the book, he's located in Toronto... Lupo 14:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
My first barnstar.

Lotsofissues 18:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

There are many others with more edits who aren't admins. Editing is an anonymous task, especially in such a large community, so, I guess, those who are nominated faster formed friendship bonds here. Lotsofissues 19:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks I would be happy to accept your nomination. :-) Lotsofissues 19:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again, I have filled out the form. Lotsofissues 23:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Pavarai !
Geras, neblogai darbuojiesi Lietuvos vardan sioj Vikipedijoj... Triusas nenueis veltui. Aciu ! Veneto 16:51, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

User_talk:Tobias_Conradi#Dab_pages
User_talk:Tobias_Conradi Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

COA
Renata, I'm from Tbilisi, Georgia and i have a question - will you finally STOP adding parts of Georgia to a list of sovereign states? I'm sick and tired of correcting this marasmic blunder, which you are so stubbornly "reverting". Probably you want Klaipeda's coat of arms to appear in a sovereign states' coat of arms list?

As to the list of the sovereign states: you should read it CAREFULLY. I am sure you know about the difference between a sovereign state and an unrecognized (de facto independent) state. As you could notice, I don't touch the flag list of the unrecognized states. I will (or somebody else will) "touch" it, when the de facto situation changes, which possibly will take place quite soon. But there is a difference between an UNRECOGNIZED state and a sovereign state like Spain or South Africa. The flags and coat of arms of the unrecognized states should be in the unrecognized states' lists, not in the lists of the sovereign states' flags and coat of arms.


 * Look, I have told this before: all complaints go to List of sovereign states. As long as the state/territory/whatever is in the list, its COA is in the gallery. Simple. The only thing I can do is to add a note. Renata 19:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

General picture ideas
Hi! I have an idea for more NYC pictures. Why not take pictures of NYC schools, e.g. Forest Hills High School of Forest Hills, Queens. WhisperToMe 02:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

EDIT: Yes, it's a lot of schools. If you want, you can only do the ones in your (or one) borough and let the others in your Wikiproject do the rest.

EDIT: A few other pictures: WhisperToMe 02:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Manhattan
 * Bard High School Early College
 * Hunter College High School
 * Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
 * High School of Art and Design
 * High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College
 * Brooklyn
 * Benjamin Banneker Academy
 * Brooklyn Technical High School
 * Edward R. Murrow High School
 * William Howard Taft High School (New York City)
 * Midwood High School
 * Queens
 * Cardozo High School (New York City)
 * Thomas A. Edison High School (New York City)
 * Hillcrest High School (New York City)
 * Jamaica High School (New York City)
 * Van Buren High School
 * Queens High School for the Sciences
 * Bronx
 * Walton High School (New York City)

Transportation in NYC
Hello Renata - I notice you're a member of WikiProject New York City. Check out the Transportation in New York City sub article. It tells a fascinating story and it's been nominated to be a US Collaboration of the Week after lots of work over the last few weeks. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USCOTW We need all the votes we can get! Wv235 04:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Maura
Why should Maura be redirected to Maura Tierney? Would you like someone looking for information on your name to be redirected to Renata Daninsky? Maura Tierney is only one of 225 entries to come up in a search for Maura. 165.123.137.141 18:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA review
I received your message requesting an RfA review. I'd be glad to conduct the review. However, please understand I am currently badly back logged on significant requests. It took me more than two weeks to get around to completing Chairboy's RfA, and I have another one in the queue before your review.

I'd like to ask that you don't consider Wikipedia to be ungrateful if nobody nominates you. As you note, you work in more obscure areas to a significant extent. This means you're not going to get as readily noticed. It has nothing to do with gratefulness, and everything to do with happening to cross in front of someone's eyes who has an eye towards nominating people. There are lots and lots of great editors who never catch an RfA nominator's eye. I've nominated one or two myself, but only after I dug around looking for editors such as them.

I'd also like to make request; as you're well aware I'm sure, WTC 7 collapsed on September 11, 2001. There's a new building nearing completion on the property, but Wikipedia does not have a photograph of it. You live in NYC. Would you please go down there and take a few photos and upload the best one of the bunch and place it at 7 World Trade Center? The image currently there is an artist's rendition of what it looks like, not an actual photograph. --Durin 14:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Municipalities in Lithuania.png
I suspected that this might have a problem so I asked a colorblind Wikipedian. He said that he "can't really tell "Marijampole" and "Kaunas" apart". Designing a color palate usable for all forms of colorblindness seems very hard but would it be possible to make heavier (thicker) lines for the borders of the counties? Changing intensities of colors which border each other could also help. Rmhermen 23:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, it's much better now. Klaipeda became pretty dark though and it's not easy to read the black text on a dark background. Maybe it's only my crappy laptop screen, though. I appreciate the effort you put into this. Great job! -- nyenyec &#9742; 03:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

'Proto'
Wow, I didn't know it meant something in Lithuanian. It means 'first' or 'early' in Greek (like in prototype, protoplasm, and so on.) That's cool, thanks! :D Proto t c 16:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Nationality
Good afternoon. With my utmost respect I want to notify you of an important fact that there are mistakes in the particular articles relating to the municipalities of the Republic of Lithuania, such as Vilnius city municipality, Varėna district municipality and, most probably, some others as well (thus do check all the respective articles please)- namely, the word "nationality" is used incorrectly in the demography section of the mentioned articles when it reffers to "nationality makeup" as in the English language the word "nationality" generally tends to mean the citizenship that a person holds rather than the ethnicity and the ethnicity clearly is the thing that is meant to be mentioned there in those articles; hence I do believe that you should change these words in the mentioned articles from "nationality makeup" to "ethnic makeup" as such words would be better. Regehani tara bahera! Dara Fryram hani tahreha! 09:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I did manage to do the beforementioned changes to the (some of the) articles in question myself now, but I edited out the mistake which I have mentioned previously only of Vilnius city municipality and Varena district municipality articles and while I don't know for sure if they appear anywhere else, it seems this form of the statistics table, with its titles and style, is some kind of standart for the "Demography" sections of the articles about the municipalities of the Republic of Lithuania, therefore I urge you to check the other articles(you probably know what municipalities there are in the Republic of Lithuania and how are those articles called, as you seem to have edited them relatively much yourself - which is the reason why I have decided to contact you regarding this matter on the first place) if there is this mistake repeated in any of them, and if there is, then edit the mistake out so that the users of Wikipedia would not be misled into believing that it is typed about nationality there, rather than ethnicity - I would like to confirm once again that those two are different things. Regehani tara bahera! Dara Fryram hani tahreha! 10:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks for the input. I'll definitely check. And welcome to Wikipedia! Renata 15:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

WTC 7 pics
Thanks so much Renata! The pics will do nicely. --Durin 18:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin nomination
 Thistheman would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Thistheman to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Requests for adminship/. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Gediminas move
About the move you decided to complain about on my page. This was a page was moved by Szopen as a cut and paste, and no-one realised. I moved it back. Maybe it might have been better for you to complain there. Thanks - Calgacus 23:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Calgacus is involved in quite a few moving wars, and I was forced to protect from move the Władysław II Jagiełło page (you may want to comment on it's talk, btw). He also messed up the talk page there, but I restored it. It's a pain, though.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:30, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I.e. two. The first, Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania, was wrong title which I corrected. Do you want to restore it or something? You're going around slandering me in behaviour unbefitting someone with admin privileges, and it isn't appreciated.
 * I messed up the talk page on Władysław II Jagiełło? You never pointed that out to me. I don't believe you, so would you mind proving it? - Calgacus 16:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I am not Calgacus nanny :) Now about Jogaila/Jagiello you deal with it. I have decided that naming wars are the most counter-productive activity in WP. I want to write some real articles, not to argue about two words... Renata 17:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If you want no more move wars, please cast your vote on Talk:Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. I can't agree that Gediminas' title was inferior to that of the Polish king. --Ghirla | talk 19:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Kurów
Hi. Could you please write a stub http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2 -5 sentences enough. Please.

PS Sorry, but I'm nervous because User:Koavf doing accounts on all wikis and he is lying. Pietras1988 08:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi/User Page Award :-D

 * Huh? Renata 01:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello I apologise for my mis-message of "hi" I was reaching for backspace and hit enter by mistake:-|... I would like to let you know that I had to remove your nomination of Bratsche from here. The process has already started and nominations can no longer be accepted until the next contest. For future note only 15 nominations and 5 judges at a time may be listed on that page. I hope you understand, nominate him again next week if you like..I'll let you know when the next contest is going to happen if you want me to just leave a note. Thanks Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  01:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure this section gives more details on the project. To become a judge you have to wait until the contest ends, i'll let you know when that happens, or you can just follow it :-D. After a winner is announced either Banes, Rune.welsh, or myself will clear the judges names from that section. Just be one of the first 5 users to sign your name and you are a judge! Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is very important you must be a member of Esperanza, if you're not you may sign up here. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:23, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:Audio
Hi, you in edit summary said that there is a new speaker icon, but the template renders like this:. Is this what you intended? Renata 06:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, it works correctly for me and others who have tried it. What browser are you using?  Have you refreshed your cache?  (Shift+Reload, Ctrl+F5, or something similar) — Omegatron 13:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Maps
Labas, pagaminau fizinį žemėlapį Image:LithuaniaPhysicalMap-lt.svg ir pagalvojau kad žinosi atsakymus į porą su tuo susijusių klausimų - gal toks žemėlapis yra reikalingas EN Wikipedijoje ir jei taip, gal žinai kur rasti visdokių aukštumų/žemumų/plynaukščių/lygumų/kalvagūbrių angliškus pavadinimus, kad galėčiau padaryt anglišką versiją? Ačiū. Beje, žemėlapis gan detalus, tai jei reiks - visada prašom naudoti upių, ežerų ar dar ko nors paryškinimui. Knutux 16:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Apology
Hi, I am that anonymus user, you had problems with.

Now, as the matter is ended, I have a "cold head" already and see that during some bitter discussions I overreacted one or two times towards you and as a result was somehow rough. So, I would like to apologize.

Ya xochu ubrat etu glupuiu nadpis pro klevetu. Ti bila neskolko nespravedliva, poetomu ya silno razozlilsia i napisal to chto napisal. Izvini eshe raz. Esli ti ne protiv ya sotru ee sam. Pirveli

Thanks
Hi, many thanks for the barnstar. I hope you don't mind that a Polish person is messing with Lithuanian articles. --Lysytalk 08:57, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Shortpages
Hi, I noticed you were involved with the creation of the subpages of Shortpages, so I wanted to ask you a question. Are we supposed to remove redirects and disambig pages from thoses lists? Also, how many bytes is a good threshold for removing from the list due to expansion? &#123;&#123;User:Vacuum/sig}} 14:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. &#123;&#123;User:Vacuum/sig}} 01:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: My RfA
I certainly appreciate the encouragement. Thank you! -- Run e Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; 21:20, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Nest step for UPA
In a few day's you'll get a message explaining a few things that you'll be expected to do as a judge, it will also have your 3 user pages to look over so you can choose your finalist. Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  00:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza User Page Award
Hi ! You've signed up to be a judge for the Esperanza User Page Award! You'll be assigned three user pages to examine. Pick your favorite one and award it 1-10 points in four categories:


 * Attractiveness: general layout, considering colour scheme and/or use of tables if applicable
 * Usefulness: links to subpages or editing aids, helpful information
 * Interesting-ness: quirky, unique, captivating, or funny content
 * General niceness: at the judges' discretion

Please see the Scores section on this page for additional information on your job as a judge.

Keep in mind that your scores are a secret! Email KnowledgeOfSelf with your scores and final picks. Please contact him for information on how to email him. As soon as all the scores have been tallied, a winner will be announced! Thanks.

You'll have to choose your favorite amongst the following three user pages:
 * 1) Sango123
 * 2) Mailer diablo
 * 3) FireFox

Thank you and good luck! -- Run e Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; 21:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

User Page Award
Hey Renata, this is just a courtesy message letting you know that all 5 judges have selected a finalist and you may now email your scores for all 5 finalists to this week's "overseer". For convenience sake UPA Thanks Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  15:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Lenta
Lenta perkelta kur sakei DeirYassin 18:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for the Random Act of Kindness Barnstar! Warm fuzzies ahoy! :) --Ashenai 06:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Comm portal
I am happy to see that it drew your attention. I hope you are going to organize some nice redesign (with all that experience gained during the main page overhaul). All the best, Renata 13:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Putting together the Main Page alternates page was more fun than working on the Main Page, but the help page overhaul was even more fun still. ;-) Thanks for the encouragement.  --Go for it! 13:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Nėr už ką :)
Nėr už ką man dėkoti, tikiuosi, kad ilgainiui atsiras daugiau žmonių, kurie tos žvaigždės bus verti :) . Galėsi ją įteikinėti savo nuožiūra vėliau, kai atsiras daugiau labai aktyvių lietuvių. Na, o dabar linkiu tau greitai pasveikti. Sėkmės!

Mission accomplished
I'm done with the Community Portal merge/upgrade. I've implemented the Community Bulletin Board as you suggested, and have endeavored to jump-start it with as much news and as many announcements as I could find. If you spot any Wikipedia events that deserve posting, by all means please do so. I've also tied it into all the relevant instruction sets, though I may have missed some. The cheat sheet concept I didn't implement, because that would really crowd this page, which seems busy enough already. Also, I'm not familiar enough with the Wikipedia namespace yet to be able to compile such a list - it would take me days. --Go for it! 14:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Request for PROD
That's quite a brilliant idea, tracking the number of times that a prod link has been clicked on. I'll try to get that implemented ASAP. :) --Interiot 17:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Labas
Noreijau pasveikinti Jums anskčiau. Dirbsu ant gramatika. Dr. Dan 02:07, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Spoken template
commons:User:Renata3/samples: I've been making some changes, nothing major, "FYI" ;D! 68.39.174.238 03:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Note: I'm also mostly on the English WikipediA with the IP addr. 68.39.174.238 06:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I can't, remember? All I get is this crap saying "We don't have an article with this title, but you can create it if you log in or create an account. As an unregistered user, you may also submit the content that you wish to have created. Please read our introduction for more information about Wikipedia." Anyway, all of the usrpages that IPs had have been crap. 68.39.174.238 06:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * All I can create on the English WikipediA are Talk: pages. On other Wikimediawiki's I can create anything. O and don't bother with the Usr: page. 68.39.174.238 06:21, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:CBB
Well, users have started putting their announcments there already! Looks like we put it in the right place. The name you chose for it is perfect. --Go for it! 04:38, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)