User talk:Rigadoun/Archive 3

Interwiki Links - German Names
I would be glad to help you with research on German names. What sort of work do you need done? Thank you for approaching me with idea; I hope I can be of service to you and the project. Nomenphile 03:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Did you know
Hello, Rigadoun! I've replied your suggestion. How is the article now? Thanks again and happy editing,  S.D.  01:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

RE:Turkish Name?
Hallo Rigadoun, I can ensure you that the Mosque does exist, and has this name, also in the literature (i.e. in Krautheimer). The name is sometime spelled "Feneri Isa (Camii)", but the real name is "Fenari Isa". I visited it during the last Bayram (and, incidentally, someone stole there my shoes, but I did not write this in the Article ;-)) I think that our turkish fellows just forgot to add it in the list. Regards, Alex2006 08:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

War at the Warfield
I noticed your comment at the DYK nomination for this article. I added a little more info to the article and was hoping you could take a look at the article again and check whether your prior statement is still valid. Thanks for your time. LuciferMorgan 22:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Neaira article
Thanks for correcting the link on the Neaira article. It is still only about 80% complete and there are many errors, but it is looking better. Deatonjr 05:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Géraud Réveilhac
Hello,

I wrote the uppon mentionned article. On Template talk:Did you know, you mentionned the article "is being considered for deletion" on the french WP. I can tell you it has been kept, see fr:Wikipédia:Pages à supprimer/Réveilhac. In fact you can see the work that has been done since it has been requested for deletion on this dif. Originaly, even the firstname of the General was unknown, nor his birthdate, or death.

General Réveilhac was certainly not a great officer, he became famous with the Stanley Kubrick movie which is based as you mention on l'affaire des caporaux de Souain. He is the portrait of the generals of WWI who considered men as simple weapons. Near a century after, in France, Réveilhac is still honi. He is considered like a murderer, even if he was only one of a 100 look a like generals.

I'm actually doing researches to get some more information about this General. I hope these lines will make you feel better about the article.

Best regards. SalomonCeb 20:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Yogya sultans
What a mess at Hamengkubuwono! cleaned up eng and in SatuSuro 21:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Linking tool with disambiguation pages
I noticed your edits to Blanche. You must be careful when editing disambiguation pages to follow WP:MOSDAB, which suggests not adding secondary links, and instead only have links to pages that one may have been looking for by that link. I have reverted most of your changes to follow this guideline. Rigadoun (talk) 19:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank-you. I did not realize this applied to articles which do not contain "disambiguation" in their title.  But after reviewing WP:MOSDAB, I do see that you are correct.  Thanks.  Jerry 21:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Chinese characters
Hi Rigadoun! Just went on your article on Cheng Yi and noticed that you haven't inserted Chinese characters for any of the names. I'm wondering whether you could remember to do that for the Chinese edits in the future...I think it's a shame not to let people know how to spell things in Chinese, so I kind of try to insert characters when possible. Just a thought...Thanks!Buglio 21:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

DYK Balık sisters on March 17
Hi. Please check the length again since I expanded the article in order to meet the criteria of 1,000 characters minimum. CeeGee 15:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for copyediting. CeeGee 15:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I hope I could do what you have suggested. CeeGee 19:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Dutch Declension/Dutch Declension System
Hello there,

I wish you have time to go through the histories and part of the edits of both pages and Archaic Dutch Declension and realises it's all done by a user who keeps insisting Dutch have all the cases which is totally incorrect. Why merge with a page of erratic information?

Sorry for the rant, but hope you understand how sick it is to keep reverting back hoping the page would provide correct information and yet someone revert the other way and yet there's no one who can stop it.matt-(my page-leave me a message) 11:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Animated map of Mexico
Not only do I have one, it's currently on WP:FPC. :) Image:Mexico states evolution.gif. --Golbez 17:14, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Update DYK
Actually it was last udated at 13:08. The admin just forgot to refresh the timer.-- Carabinieri 15:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Admin
Would you like to be an admin - you have created many good new pages, and helped the maintenance of the website, so are ideal. --Montchav 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Here you are, I've kicked off discussion at Requests for adminship/Rigadoun

Arabic
Hi. Just dropping by to give you some good advice: before tagging an article to request the addition of Arabic script, you can check if there is an Arabic Wikipedia interwiki, and when there is, you can use it to add the Arabic yourself. The Arabic script is almost always correct. All the best. An as talk? 15:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Missa Papae Marcelli
Sorry to steal your thunder, there...I actually found out there was no article for it while I was looking over the curriculum at St. John's College, U.S., hyperlinked it and found out it was red. Strangely, I checked the German and Italian wikis, and they don't have articles about the piece, either. It could still use some expansion, so by all means, go to town! Chubbles 20:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Gamelan
Seems a high level vandal target and the reverters i dont think look very carefully :( SatuSuro 23:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Fashion — interested?
I was reviewing 2000s in fashion for the newly created WikiProject Fashion and saw your comments on the talk page from last summer about the miserable quality of most of our fashion articles. If you'd still like to do something about it, I'm inviting you to join the new project ... we have so much work to do.

Congratulations on your adminship, BTW. Daniel Case 17:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn RFA
Hey, best of luck sorting out and working through the admin info - never let the turkeys get to you! SatuSuro 15:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC) Oh and email me sometime ok? SatuSuro 15:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Just stopping by to say that I found your withdrawl statement very thoughtful and classy, and I look forward to supporting your RfA nomination in the future. Also, just in case you're not a regular RfA watcher, it is a unspoken community standard that one should wait 2-3 months before submitting a new RfA. In your case, since you exited so gracefully, I think your chances are excellent if you edit steadily during that time. I'd even be happy to nominate you myself at that time, if you'd like. :) Best wishes, Xoloz 15:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Milton Balkany
You get a notice for this one since you wrote a good hook to save it. --  howcheng  {chat} 06:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK Pectinaria australis
I expanded it. Thanks for the tip. GrahamBould 10:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Eagle Grange
Thanks for the heads up on Eagle Grange I will fix it. Dincher 19:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Vietnamese diacritics
Hello. I notice that you are contributing a lot of articles about Vietnamese people, without using the diacritics used in Vietnamese (for tone, etc.), and sometimes these are changed by other people. Is there a standard naming convention/manual of style on the English Wikipedia regarding Vietnamese? I can't find a statement about it. I would think the original version (with diacritics) should at least be mentioned, if it is not used in the page name. Are you able to add them? Your articles are nice, by the way. Rigadoun (talk) 18:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, I am not particularly confident in that some people have names with the same characters but the diacritics are different - two of my relatives for instance. As a result, I would generally not add diacritics unless I know from a Vietnamese source what the diacritics are, or unless the name is so common that it is highly likely that it is a given diacritic. The other thing is that I have no Vietnamese keyboard, so I can't do anything, unless I go trawling through other articles and look for the exact character and diacritic combination and cut and paste, which is somewhat difficult. In any case, as far as the location of the articles, it is often put without diacritics. I have to say I do this when I create new pages because it is more keyboard convenient, although I will not move an article if it is located where there is a diacritic. As for the lead, the full diacritic is used, even if it is not used in the rest of the text. I think User:DHN would be most qualified to help you in supplying the correct diacritics. I am willing to provide to audio pronunciations if it is desired, as I have done in the past. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Citing Wikipedia
I just wanted to thank you for your help about that. I was getting worried about the problem, but you have cleared it up well. I will just fix up Ruine Wulp now, because I am going to be offline for the rest of the day. I will fix the others tomorrow. Hopefully I can get Ruine Wulp fixed so that it can be elligible for DYK in time. Thank you once again, ---   ÅñôñÿMôús   Dîššíd3nt  22:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Indonesia collaboration
Hello everybody. I’ve updated the current Indonesia collaboration to > > > Central Java < < <
 * New collaboration...

This article’s not in a very good condition but such a significant part of Indonesia, the cultural heart of the Javanese. Please contribute! Thanks to all those contributed to the previous collaboration Sidoarjo mud flow particularly Indon. For the next collaboration in a fortnight, I’d like to try something different. Let’s chose a stub rather than an already well-developed article. Here is a list of Indonesian stubs to choose (there’s two pages). Please check the article's importance rating – let's chose an important and significant article that will appeal to a broad range of people. Please do not choose an obscure and/or esoteric topic that is not very important. Please place your nomination here.
 * The next collaboration...

Any questions, please let me know. Kind regards --Merbabu 05:02, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Help! please
Hey, a new editor is doing something really weird at Prabowo. I've got to sleep soon. Could you keep an eye on this? Many thanks. Merbabu 16:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * thanks :) --Merbabu 17:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

MC
Thanks for that - there are about 10 - 15 others (historians - australian, american, dutch and indonesian)that need adding -and I would beg to differ re their position re the indonesia project - but thats the equivalent of a long coffee or a couple of beers worth, so thanks for your cleanup. I hope to sometime later this year try to do an article about the 1950s or was it 60s - the controversy that Berg, and others got into that claimed that Sultan Agung 'invented' his ancestors, and the push to discredit javanese sources as not havng anything reliable in them as historical documents (something florida was doing for solo kraton manuscripts up to 10 years ago)- a complex argument and controversy and will not touch for ages until all the bits are in place.And MC is an integral part of all that. cheers SatuSuro 23:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

John Heyer fix
Thanks for the Heading style fix ... this was my first article and I rather did it by feel. I was a bit unsure about the heading style. I'll remember in future. I plan to do a bit more work on it - content and format - and will then let some old colleagues know and ask their opinion on the content. Is this how I respond? Sterry2607 00:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion at Beechy, Saskatchewan DYK nom
Thanks for the suggestion at my Beechy, Saskatchewan DYK nom. I wasn't too sure what the threshold was for stub or not, so I put it in to be on the safe side when I created the article (the created article was pretty much the same as it stands now). Removed the stub, hoping it will make the article more likely to pass. --Canuckguy 13:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the Review
Dear , thankyou for the comments you made at my editor review. I found that they provided very specific advice that I can immediately build upon, such as changing my signature and adding the babel template to my userpage. Thank you once again.  Anonymous Dissident  Utter 21:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Like the new sig? Anonymous Dissident  Utter 11:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I prefer it to the old one actually. It is also much easier to read. Regards, Anonymous Dissident  Utter 22:12, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * For the simple reason that your advice was so specific, and that you yourself are an admin, I was wondering - is there anything else you could see that I might want to do/continue doing/improve etc.? Anonymous Dissident  Utter 22:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I just realised - I havent got back to you! Thankyou for your reply. It gave me lots of valuable information, especially about the importance of learning policies. I think that sometime soon you should nom yourself, or get someone else to nom you for adminship again. You that you are pretty much ready when someone else mistakes you for an administrator. Thanks again, Anonymous Dissident  Utter 22:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Gaius Pontius
Thank you for cleaning up the sources. I'm terrible at sourcing, but I did the best I could. Now, please define a "relevant" source, as I had some problems with a certain user who shall remain anonymous about the relevance of several of my sources.

Also, I'm hoping to have Gaius Pontius featured on the main page in the DYK section. I have already had one article featured, and if you could please review my submission (which is under the May 19th heading), t'would be much appreciated. Thanks much again - Ben. Bmrbarre 23:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Language categories renaming
Thank you for your consistency idea, that was my next CfD nom! Do I need to make a separate CfD for these below, or can I add them onto this nom? Chris 03:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * merge Category:Lacking Arabic text and Category:Articles needing Arabic script into Category:Articles needing Arabic script or text
 * merge Category:Lacking Armenian text and Category:Articles needing Armenian script into Category:Articles needing Armenian script or text
 * rename Category:Lacking Belarusian text to Category:Articles needing Belarusian script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Bengali text and Category:Articles needing Bengali script into Category:Articles needing Bengali script or text
 * rename Category:Articles needing Berber script to Category:Articles needing Berber script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Lacking Bulgarian text to Category:Articles needing Bulgarian script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Articles needing Burmese script to Category:Articles needing Burmese script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Articles needing Cherokee script to Category:Articles needing Cherokee script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Chinese text and Category:Articles needing Chinese script into Category:Articles needing Chinese script or text
 * rename Category:Articles needing Cyrillic script to Category:Articles needing Cyrillic script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Articles needing Ge'ez script to Category:Articles needing Ge'ez script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Georgian text and Category:Articles needing Georgian script into Category:Articles needing Georgian script or text
 * merge Category:Lacking Greek text and Category:Articles needing Greek script into Category:Articles needing Greek script or text
 * merge Category:Lacking Hindi text and Category:Articles needing Indic script into Category:Articles needing Indic script or text
 * merge Category:Lacking Japanese text and Category:Articles needing Japanese script into Category:Articles needing Japanese script or text
 * rename Category:Lacking Kazakh text to Category:Articles needing Kazakh script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Articles needing Khmer script to Category:Articles needing Khmer script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Korean text and Category:Articles needing Hangul into Category:Articles needing Korean script or text
 * rename Category:Lacking Maltese text to Category:Articles needing Maltese script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Persian text and Category:Articles needing Persian script into Category:Articles needing Persian script or text
 * rename Category:Lacking Swedish text to Category:Articles needing Swedish script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Articles needing Syriac script to Category:Articles needing Syriac script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Lacking Tajik text to Category:Articles needing Tajik script or text for consistency
 * merge Category:Lacking Thai text and Category:Articles needing Thai script into Category:Articles needing Thai script or text
 * rename Category:Articles needing Tibetan script to Category:Articles needing Tibetan script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Lacking Turkmen text to Category:Articles needing Turkmen script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Lacking Ukrainian text to Category:Articles needing Ukrainian script or text for consistency
 * rename Category:Lacking Uzbek text to Category:Articles needing Uzbek script or text for consistency
 * three-way merge Category:Lacking Hebrew text, Category:Lacking Yiddish text and Category:Articles needing Hebrew script into Category:Articles needing modern Hebrew script or text

Help!?!
I see that you did most of the coding on the Cyrillic language template. I am really butchering Template:Cyrillic as I am missing something, please would you help me? Thanks, Chris 21:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I really like your idea of creating a separate Russian subgroup, to differentiate from unsorted. The individual letters I used next to the languages were unique to those scripts, but as Russian is kind of the base script, should we instead use small flag icons? Chris 21:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Arabic
Concerning your comment in the CfD, I am willing to make similar modifications to Arabic template as soon as the CfD is closed and the merging is done. I think I will have to delete some templates and create some categories. Leave me a message after the CfD to sort this out. Regards,  An as  talk? 15:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words and the reminder. I will modify the template as soon as I have some free time. Basically the following languages, other than the original Arabic language, use the Arabic alphabet:


 * Persian language
 * Urdu
 * Kurdish language (Iraq and Iran)
 * Malay language
 * Azerbaijani language
 * Pashto language
 * Tajik language
 * Uyghur language
 * Kazakh language (Pakistan, Iran, China, and Afghanistan)
 * Are there any which you think don't need to be there? Are there any I might have missed? — An as  talk? 18:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes there are other languages in these areas but I don't think it is necessary to include them because they are rarely needed in articles and they are usually languages very similar to their parent language. Regards,  An as  talk? 19:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Just letting you know, some users have opposed the substitution of Persian with the modified template and prefer keeping the separate template. So, unless you are willing to take this to TfD, you'll have to use the old template for Persian script requests. Regards,  An as  talk? 11:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree. As I have said in my talk page, I now realize it wasn't an appropriate thing to do, more like a hasty mistake. Anyway, I have reverted all changes related to the Persian template and clarified everything in the Arabic template's page. Hopefully, things in their current conditions will gratify all sides. Thanks for your help. — An as  talk? 16:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Rookery
Moving the rookery to May 22nd on the T:TDYK page made no sense. Were you confused on what article you were looking at? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 21:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK
What text counts? Does template text (navigational, infobox and/or stub) text count? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Since it was 1000 before we put the tag on, could you give us WP:CHICOTW a DYK? We keep a record of our successful research.  TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * If it was not interesting enough that is fine. If thee is some confusion on whether the text count grew enough I think you should post it.  If you have to mark it as eligible from another date then that is fine.  Are you telling me if I put it under May 24 it would be eligible for the main page? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I think I was a bit of a knucklehead. There were probably other DYK topics in the article I could have chosen.  I will try to replace rather than reword next time they don't like my nomination. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Articles needing original script
Hi! User:Conscious did most of the merging and renaming, but missed some, and I can't get him to respond or to fix them. There are still four old categories that need attended to-
 * Category:Lacking Belarusian text has not yet been merged into the new category
 * Category:Lacking Bulgarian text has not been deleted and is duplicate
 * Category:Lacking Korean text has not yet been merged into the new category
 * Category:Lacking Ukrainian text has not been deleted and is duplicate

I would make these last remaining changes if I knew how, but I don't, please help. Chris 05:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind, it looks like he's gotten it. :) Chris 05:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah
I dont really have a problem with grutness - hes a great guy (previous encounters) - its just that it was obvious it was the country that had a project someone could have thought about passing it by the project - thanks for your 200 rupes (about the same as 2 cents - not) - not many seem to read the noticeboard these days - cheers SatuSuro 15:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)