User talk:Shoka

--RuthRuth 22:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)I'm working on a series of minor articles on the fortifications of Malta.

I'm not resident in Malta, though I spent a couple of years there as a child, and have been back a few of times in the last 50 years. I'm going again soon. My Maltese language skills are unfortunately limited to boy, girl and stop.

There are two very useful external sites on the fortifications or Malta, which are interesting, but are also incomplete, and seem to be moribund, I've seen no indication of recent updates.


 * http://www.educ.um.edu.mt/militarymalta/index.html is very fine work.

Also, these two pages from the other site. The homepage blows up rather horribly in my browser unfortunately.


 * http://alainlecomte.free.fr/27A0.htm
 * http://alainlecomte.free.fr/05D3.htm

This site on the terminology of fortification is also very informative:

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/madict.html

I wonder if the authors would allow wholesale import into Wikipedia  ;) ;)

Articles
My objective is to deal with each significant fortification on Malta with the aim of answering the following questions as far as I can find answers for them.


 * The name or names of the fortification, including the Maltese names in correct Maltese typography. Help Wanted :)


 * Where it is relative to other fortifications and villages.


 * GPS co-ordinates.


 * The style of fortification, watchtower, fort, battery, fortified town.


 * If it still exists.


 * Its state of repair.


 * Its original armament, eventual armament, and any remaining weaponary.


 * Its garrison


 * Which authority built it, be it private citizen, Roman, Arab, Aragonese, Knights, or British Empire.


 * Under whose direction it was built, Caeser, Grand Master, or Prime Minister.


 * Who designed it.


 * The context against which it was built, be it pre cannon, cannon or high explosives eras.


 * When it was built and how long it took to build.


 * What it cost to build, in the original coinage and modern equivalent. (possibly?)


 * What it's purpose was, what it defended, what it protected against.


 * Did it see action, and its success or failure.


 * When was it comissioned, when decomissiond.


 * Any notable events in its history.


 * Its present ownership and accessibility.

I'd like to back this with


 * Reasonable photographs of the fortification, including aerial photography to give an insight into the form to the fortification, and of any remaining armament.


 * Plans


 * Location map.

I've made a start. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fortifications_of_Malta for my present progress. Plenty of room for helpers ;)

Oh, and especially assistance with my notorious inability to spell.. :(

good articles
I've enjoyed your articles and edits and thought I'd drop a line.. Trying to do some cleanup in the Maltese Geography articles. My main focus is the Maltese wikipedia, please feel free to stop by and please let any other Wikipedians who might be interested in it know about it.. We'd really like some more help. Saħħa! Srl 06:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I moved your comment to User_talk:Srl. I'm going to see if I can find some more wikipedians.. Srl 17:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Help with "Defensive walls"
Hi !

I hope you can help me, or at least point me in the direction of help ! I am currently translating the german article Stadtmauer into English to add to the rather meager defensive walls article. However, the German article is riddled with specialised technical terms, and I'm not sure I always hit the mark in English. If you could have a look at it at some point (not necessarily immediately, the translation is far from finished) look at it, I would be very gratful indeed.

Regards

ACH 09:55, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, Shoka

(Do I best answer on your page or on mine ?? )

I just put up my first (draft !!) translation of the main sections of Stadtmauer into defensive walls - there are a number of issues still there, such as:
 * general copyedit, esp. caps as I get confused with German (lots of caps) and English (some caps) when translating.
 * separation of rather long list of walls at the end of the article - clutters it up in my opinion.
 * NPOV - though I tried to remove it, there was a rather strong POV in the German article so ....
 * technical terms: there were lots in the german article, and I often could not find a good translation to them quickly, so some of it is rather generic.

Thanks for the link (and indeed, the help). I'll have a look at it and see what I can do myself - however, if you think that a term ought to be put in, obviously do so (even if the term may not have been in the original !!).

ACH 21:53, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

How about on the talk page of the article?--212.159.71.40 22:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

^^^ Me just been logged out by wikipedia again sigh...--Shoka 23:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Good plan - it's on my watchlist, so feel free to leave me some messages there. ACH 10:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Counterscarp or Coupure
Please see Talk:Counterscarp --Philip Baird Shearer 14:06, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

more chat
testing, 123! Plumeria

--RuthRuth 22:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic
Hello!

I clarified everything on the talk page. But we could use even more sources!

I noticed a mention that Mehmed Pasa married the Sultan's wife. This is incomplete. Mehmed (as an Ottoman) had numerious wives. One of his wives you can see here mentioned: PeraAirNet --HolyRomanEmperor 21:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks !
Hi, It's me who have been editing the sea star article; thanks for the kind welcome :). Just quite recently I registered myself as a Wikipedia user. I really hope that I had never (accidentally, unknowingly) vandalized that article, as I've been editing that particular article for a long time.

Best Regards, Pentapod 06:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Teheh :D. No problem, and I do realize that vandalism is a growing problem in all wikia (yeah, it disturbs me as well. Some of them are just plain offensive and obnoxious x . Good luck for the noble job of eliminating vandalism !

Pentapod 03:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Chaturanga
Thank you for pointing out about the history of Chaturanga and Xiangqi. Now I have another doubt. If Xiangqi and Chaturanga are unrelated, then Janggi (Korean Chess) is probably unrelated either, since Janggi is probably a direct descendent of Xiangqi, there are too much similarities between them. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 03:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh sorry, I overlooked this sentence "and related to the xiangqi and janggi". Forget the previous message, and sorry for it. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 07:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Mehmed
Hello, could you please explain why you changed here this? If there is something disputable, it has been LONG resolved at the talk page. Could you please revert those edits? (Plus, when he was born, it was the Serbian Orthodox Church - and not "unindentified orthodox church" as it seems). I'm not being harsh or all, but most people who have been arguing about this article were supported by biased sources and essentially heavy POV warriors and internet trolls. HRE 20:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Malta_Tas-Silg_five.jpg
In 2005, you uploaded Image:Malta_Tas-Silg_five.jpg with the description "Copyright H.J.Moyes (harry@shoka.net) All Rights Reserved", yet gave it a GFDL tag. GFDL implies that not all rights are reserved. The license status of the image is ambiguous. Please fix this. Thanks. Kevin_b_er 06:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ahh. Thanks.  The issue, to be more clear, is that the phrase is used in copyright notices to indicate that the author really gives no permission for anyone to copy the work.  Its use, however, is depriciated  as berne makes everything copyrighted by default, with a defacto 'all rights reserved' and the references I've found say the term may be meanless in berne covention countries (which includes the UK where you are, and the US where wikimedia is).  But! People take the phrase as meaning the holder has most certainly not granted any sort of copyleft license (like the GFDL) to their work.  But in fact, you have granted a fairly signifigant permission to copy through the GFDL.  Perhaps, "All other rights reserved" would be more appropreate?  I could also tell you various senarios of people who mistag the image or don't realise they're licensing their image to be edited and redistributed.  Finding a phrase that seems counter-intitutive to the nature of the GFDL is usually a red flag that the uploader may not have truely ment for it to be GFDL.  --Kevin_b_er 21:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you're right Shoka, but at the moment the more people in the world who become familiar with the changes taking place in Marsaskala the better. Anyway if I need to find information about some place in this world, I would like to know as much as possible about the place. Hope you understand me.

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Guthrie rolling bridge details
I am considering a merge of Guthrie rolling bridge into retractable bridge, but I want to make sure that I understand the concept. As the creator of the article, could you explain a bit more clearly how this works and if the merge would be appropriate? Please see WikiProject Bridges talk. -- INTRIGUE B LUE (talk|contribs) 05:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

My Vandalism
I'm very sorry about my recent vandalism. I had multiple editing windows open and changed the link in the wrong one Yeti man5 15:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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Answer
Nope, Milesheva isn't far from Bajica Sokolovic's birthplace. --PaxEquilibrium 20:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Wignacourt towers
Thanks for adding them. However, we now have two listings for St. Mary's Tower, one with and one without an article. I checked the first website you listed at the top, and he only has six Wignacourt towers, though he mentions that seven exist. So either there are six, or we are missing one. Any ideas? Regards, Acad Ronin 20:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Posted reply to your talk page. Score is Wignacourt 6 Lascaris 1 in the building stakes, 5 and 1 in the survival stakes. (One Wignacourt tower was completely destroyed by the British in the late 19th centuary).--Shoka 21:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Seastars
I requested a move back to seastars and then realized that that fight has been fought and lost. It's rather like using 'data' as a singular for me. We loose credibility as an encyclopedia when we stoop to the level of a popularity contest. I suppose that's the disadvantage of consensus; sometimes the popular is also simply wrong. O well, thanks for fighting your piece of it Dmccabe (talk) 01:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Babbitt page
Is there anything that can be done to clarify the step by step instructions on your Babbitt page? I didn't quite follow it.

BTW, I added a reference to a brochure I saw (brother-in-law has it) from In-Place Machining on the "Rebabbitting" that they do. LP-mn (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Malta fortification pics
Hello Shoka, I started a small set of articles about fortifications in Malta yesterday. You can find them here:[]. I used different sources and references, and so also your English wikipedia articles. Well done! I would like to use also your photographies, but unfortunately you loaded them up to the English wikipedia only. Could you please move them to wiki commons? Regards 84.175.182.111 (talk) 21:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

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