User talk:Riharcc

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Riharcc! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Tanvir Ahmmed (talk) 09:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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Latvian municipalities
Sveicināti un ņemiet par labu. Allow me to continue in English, it works faster for me and with less grammatical errors. You may reply in Latvian, I understand it fluently. I have translated novads to municipality since pagasts and historically apriņķis are referring to very small administrative units that initiates from times of feudalism. The word pagasts is going to fade from daily use in Latvia since all parishes are going to vanish in the future. To keep a clear distinction between historical parishes (pagasti and apriņķi) and modern Latvian local administrative entities, I think it is best to call the new novadi for municipalities - also, because that is a commonly used term throughout the EU for administrative entities of the same size. By the way, it would be interesting to know why Latvia is going to perform this administrative reform? My guess would be, that it has something to do with the EU, funding from the EU and a leaner budget on the lowest level of administration. Denmark had a similar reform 2007, the reasons being the EU and economy. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 21:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe You`re right and municipality is the best name in english for latvian novads, but it`s not the most correct translation as I told You before in Your talk page - novads is only one kind of municipality. But, of curse its not a big mistake and municipality can stay. Actually there is no big difference between novads and pagasts (parish) - just novads are about 4 times bigger (with some exceptions) than pagasts, but basicly - it`s the same thing. I already added redirections in latvian to all municipalities (novads) (for example, Ozolnieku novads to Ozolnieki municipality), because in my opinion its very propably that some english-speaking person will try to find more information in wikipedia about Latvias minicipalities from the maps, and in maps, I guess there will be latvian names of these municipalities.
 * You asked about pagasts, apriņķis and territorial reform. Apriņķis was the name of administrative divisions of modern Latvias territory from the middle of 16.th till middle of 20.th century. In 1949. soviets changed their name to more Russian - rajons (district). The pagasts (parishes) was smaller divisions of apriņķis and later rajons. About reform - You`re right - it`s because administrative territorial divisions of Latvia was a relict from few centuries past and there was need to modernize it. But, if we are speaking about realisation then its secret for nobody in Latvia, that likvidation of districts and merging few parishes in one novads very often are not in interest of local people, but in interest of leading political party (Tautas partija) to make more advantageous election regions for them, and that o fcourse is sad.--Riharcc (talk) 06:29, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Latvian Presidents
I apologise about the Vīķe-Freiberga edits. I should have been more careful. However, Zatler was born in the Soviet Union. Therequiembellishere (talk) 15:55, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, damn! You're completely right. I wasn't reading carefully and was looking at that as "Birth place". Reverting myself right away. Therequiembellishere (talk) 17:30, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Category talk:Patriots of Latvia

 * Original thread at User talk:Black Falcon

Hello. I don't think it can be fixed without deleting the category. I do not know the rules on the Latvian Wikipedia, but the problem is that the English Wikipedia's user category guideline does not allow this type of category. User categories must have the purpose of improving the encyclopedia, and not just describing users. There is Category:Wikipedians in Latvia, but that is not the same as "patriots of Latvia"... –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 17:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The existence of one problematic category is not justified by the existence of other categories that are problematic. Again, I can't comment on the equivalent category in the Latvian Wikipedia since I don't know the rules about user categorization on that project; however, on the English Wikipedia, having the potential to facilitate improvement of the encyclopedia is the main criterion for user categories. Yes, the rule rule is imperfectly-applied, but it should not be ignored altogther.
 * Renaming the category takes care of only one issue and is not really a solution, because it does not change the fact that a grouping of users "who are patriots of Latvia" does not have the potential to benefit the encyclopedia. The function of user categories is to create useful groupings of users, and users do not need a category in order to self-identify or give information about themselves. –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 18:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I am not saying that all other categories which start with "Wikipedians..." are inappropriate; in fact, many of them are useful and have the potential to help in improving the encyclopedia. For example, someone who wants to improve an article about astronomy could benefit from knowing which users are interested in astronomy (see Category:Wikipedians interested in astronomy), and someone who wants to translate information from French could benefit from knowing which users speak French (see Category:User fr, "fr" is the code for French). However, there is no reason related to the encyclopedia that someone would need to know which users are patriots of Latvia.
 * It would not be a problem if the user template did not have a category, since userboxes should not automatically include categories. I hope this helps to clarify what I said before. –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 19:49, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * You are most welcome, and I thank you for your willingness to discuss the issue. Cheers, –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 22:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for dealing with this, Black Falcon. You seem to have explained the issue very well. I actually came over here, however, to notify you of another category you created that I have nominated for deletion or merging, see here. Generally we don't have "Wikipedians by location" categories for areas with such a small population, or else we would have thousands of categories with only 1 or 2 users each in them. VegaDark (talk) 01:28, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

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The 1000 Challenge (Baltic)
Hi. I see you are listed as a member of a WikiProject of a Baltic state. I was wondering if anybody who actively works on Estonian, Lithuanian or Latvian articles, would be interested in launching your own The 1000 Challenge (Baltic), based on the The 1000 Challenge (Nordic) and The 10,000 Challenge. The idea would be to try to bring about 1000 article improvements and creations on this region as an enjoyable challenge and potentially things like National Contests with prizes. If you'd be interested and think it's something you might regularly contribute to, comment and sign up at Talk:Baltic states. If there is interest we can move this to a project somewhere and set something up, thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:26, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
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Category:Lavtia navigational boxes has been nominated for deletion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Tributary of Misa river (Latvia)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Tributary of Iecava river
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