User talk:Smart30

My Contributions

Politics | History | Economics
 * Osama bin Laden
 * Avigdor Lieberman
 * Ancient Carthage
 * Carthage
 * Hannibal
 * List of ancient Greek cities
 * Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
 * Commonwealth of Britain Bill
 * Europe
 * War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
 * United States military casualties of war
 * Disputation of Barcelona
 * Pyrrhus of Epirus

Movies | TV | Games
 * Game of Thrones
 * Major houses in A Song of Ice and Fire
 * Timon (character of Rome)
 * Max Pirkis
 * List of characters in Assassin's Creed
 * Jurassic Park (film)

Other
 * Eradication of infectious diseases
 * Planetary boundaries
 * List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
 * In vitro meat
 * Kardashev scale
 * Requested moves
 * Shih Tzu
 * Epistle of James
 * Blueprint Negev
 * List of cities by time of continuous habitation
 * Multiregional origin of modern humans
 * Yiddish language
 * Elymians
 * List of emerging technologies
 * Timeline of the future in forecasts
 * Yemenite Jews
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 * Daniel Lambert
 * Emperor Norton
 * A More Perfect Constitution
 * Ida Rubinstein
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 * Kuzari
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 * Instruction of Amenemope
 * Nabonidus
 * Baruch ben Neriah
 * Natural and legal rights
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 * Reserve currency
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 * Immanuel Velikovsky
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 * The Lost Tomb of Jesus
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 * Legal status of Western Sahara
 * Mars trilogy
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 * Louisiana Purchase
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 * Book of Joshua (Samaritan)
 * United States of Africa
 * Holy city
 * Zabibah and the King
 * Elephantine papyri
 * Septuagint
 * Symmachus (translator)
 * Tyche (hypothetical planet)
 * List of amendments to the United States Constitution
 * Tank Man
 * Babel
 * James Webb Space Telescope
 * Western canon
 * Historicity of the Iliad
 * Sacred Band of Thebes
 * Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Medieval: Total War
 * Urbanization in the People's Republic of China
 * European Union and the United Nations
 * Greater Morocco
 * Armenian Genocide reparations
 * Atyrau Province
 * Pokémon (anime)
 * Shinto
 * Day of Conception
 * Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
 * Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)

Pages I have created

 * Treaty_with_Algeria_(1815)
 * Treaty_with_Tunis_(1824)
 * Treaty_with_Morocco_(1836)
 * European Stability Mechanism
 * Catalan Unity
 * Timeline of the 2011 Yemeni uprising
 * Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, 2012

ITN
I need your help here -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 14:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Done as requested --Smart30 (talk) 03:31, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Re:
While I appreciate the template welcoming, but I've had an account before and I'd prefer to help from the shadows. Thanks though, people like you who welcome others do a fantastic service to the community and is much better off because of it.

68.58.76.65 (talk) 04:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Friendly answers :)
Hi! Well, I am open to any questions as long as I have some time to answer them (I do have some time now :)) I have actually finished a Bachelor's in European Studies and have some interest in the field. I consider myself to be a follower of Europeanism and a Euro optimist, so to speak. That is why I, naturally, support my country's deeper integration into the Union. The same goes for the much needed Schengen accession. I do, however, fear that Bulgaria is hardly ready for the former (for sure) and probably for the latter, as well. I also consider my country's EU accession a bit premature, given its economic and political development at the time. It certainly was a good move from a macro-political perspective, but I just don't think things should be rushed like that. I am really happy with the accession and everything, though. Also I feel pretty optimistic about Schengen and not so for the Eurozone. Thank God, we have to wait 3 years at least prior to accession. This might as well be enough time for one or two necessary reforms and help us avoid any economic downfall. Well, that's about it on this topic. Feel free to ask anything you wish :) Cheers, -- L a v e o l  T 11:06, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Umm, where should I start, then? From last to first. The so-called Demographic crisis is irreversible, in my opinion. Social policies in the country are not helping. Nor is economic development, for the matter. It is pretty much the same in most European countries, even such where there are actual conditions for reversing the tendency. The recent census just showed what everybody already knew - the population is declining rapidly and this is especially so for Bulgarians (less so for ethnic Turks within the country and probably the contrary for Roma people). The only thing that could turn it is immigration. And I do not expect any influx of people willing to live here (apart from retired Brits and Germans), while Bulgarian youths will be more and more attracted to study and subsequently work and live in the States or Western Europe. And this is not because of the situation here, but because of the easier access to the West. Min you, I'm not saying things here are bad. They are getting better with time, but there is only some level of "betterness" they could get to. And I do quite enjoy it here. Most of the time :)

As for the Cyrillic. There have been voices that we should change to Latin, but to be fair, those voices were weak and did not last for long. I do not think we will give up on it in the near future, however. Yes, kids do tend to use the Latin when writing (especially on the net), but at a certain age most of them suddenly start defending Cyrillic by all means. You will hardly stumble on a Bulgarian forum on the net which lacks a rule like "Writing in any other script than Cyrillic is strictly forbidden". Moreover, we do bolster as the inventors of the script. Giving up on it you might as well throw your identity out of the window, they say. There is also a lot of nationalism into this, but it, too, seems to be on the decline. My feeling is that most people simply like Cyrillic. We have a certain nostalgic feeling for it, me included. I enjoy writing it and that's pretty much it. We do need a better Romanization system, though. The current one is somewhat sucky :D -- L a v e o l  T 12:03, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi smart30, and thank you for your warm and welcoming note. And especially thank you for your offer of help. I'm sure I will take advantage of that. I am very enthusiastic about Wikipedia, and want to help however I can. With best wishesBeecher70 (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I too would like to thank you for the welcome. But Iam not new here. I just don't often log in as the college computers i use fire wall wont allow it. nice gesture though 82.40.4.248 (talk) 04:36, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Arab Spring map
Your map of the Arab Spring still includes the Island of Rhodes as part of Turkey. --Smart (talk) 03:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I was unaware the map is still being used. I will update it at my soonest convenience. Technically as Greece and Spain are listed under "impact", Rhodes will be represented in dark grey anyway after my revision. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. -Kudzu1 (talk) 04:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, but Rhodes had no protests. I'm a Rhodian independence supporter. Ha :) --Smart (talk) 04:55, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

The lion of Egyptian revolution (Qasr al-Nil Bridge).jpg
I was wondering if you could give you opinion on the picture nomination to be a featured picture. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 10:07, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, 2012


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Republican presidential debate
Hi Smart30, I can't seem to find a source for the November 12th CBS debate you added, where did you find it? Thanks, NYyankees51 (talk) 14:16, 24 October 2011 (UTC) Never mind, I see the talk page. But I don't think that's a reliable enough source so I'm going to go ahead and remove it until we get better sources. NYyankees51 (talk) 14:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm moving the discussion to the article talk. NYyankees51 (talk) 17:25, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Republic of China article
Since you mentioned the Republic of China in your user page, I guess you are interested to share your insights at Talk:Republic of China#Requested Move (February 2012). Thanks for your attention. 61.18.170.66 (talk) 17:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Flags and Same-sex marriage legislation around the world
Could you give your opinion here? Ron 1987 (talk) 00:38, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you give your opinion about this edit here? Ron 1987 (talk) 20:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Credits
Thank you for mentioning me on the credits of your userpage. Debresser (talk) 20:21, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup
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This Thursday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
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7th Annual Los Angeles Wiknic
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