User talk:Tariqabjotu/Archive Fifty-One

The Signpost: 21 February 2011
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ITN pic
Hi, thanks for the image and I've cropped it a bit more. I hope you won't mind. --BorgQueen (talk) 18:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I kind of liked the context, but it's okay. Also, why did you re-protect the image? Is the cascade protection on the fritz? --  tariq abjotu  18:18, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It is just a habit of mine :D I seem to recall I was told to manually protect the MP images a long time ago for some reason, probably it is now obsolete. Btw, is my "incarnation" of the image necessary? --BorgQueen (talk) 18:25, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. --BorgQueen (talk) 18:42, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikimania 2012 bid, DC chapter & next meetup!

 * 1) At WikiXDC in January, User:Harej proposed that DC submit a bid to host Wikimania 2012. A bid and organizing committee is being formed and seeks additional volunteers to help. Please look at our bid page and sign up if you want to help out.  You can also signup for the bid team's email list.
 * 2) To support the Wikimania bid, more events like WikiXDC, and outreach activities like collaborations with the Smithsonian (ongoing) and National Archives, there also has been discussion of forming Wikimedia DC, as an official Wikimedia chapter.  You can express interest and contribute to chapter discussions on the Wikimedia DC Meta-Wiki pages.
 * 3) To discuss all this and meet up with special guest, Dutch Wikipedian User:Kim Bruning, there will be a meetup, Meetup/DC 16 this Tuesday at 7pm, at Capitol City Brewery, Metro Center. There will be a pre-meetup Wikimania team meeting at 6pm at the same location.

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The Signpost: 28 February 2011
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Hello from fr.Wikipédia!
Hello!

I'm Morphypnos, a french user!

You are an administor who can help me. In fr.Wikipédia, we need some sketches to complete our collection of articles. Have you that?

Thank you!

To here! =D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morphypnos (talk • contribs) 19:29, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Help needed
We need your help @ INT section. please have a look Protests sticky link & Egyptian take over the SSI -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 7 March 2011
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I was the one the who reverted the climate section. Sorry.
I was the one the who reverted the climate section. Sorry.

But the annual precipitaiton of Istanbul is 843.9 according (and no longer 680 mm) to its source the Turkish State Meteorological Service which has been updated by them after a 39 year period. The previous precipitaiton of 680 mm from the WMO source is now obsolete as it has not been updated. You should use the new updated precipitation from the official site: http://www.dmi.gov.tr/veridegerlendirme/yillik-toplam-yagis-verileri.aspx?m=istanbul.

Another emphasis of foggy days is also not entirely correct, because the fog usually dissipates during the same day toward noon. Istanbul is not San Franciso where the fog stays for an entire day. You should mention this.

Summers though are not that dry, but indeed are moderatly dry as that season receives significant rainfall. This is due that Istanbul is a borderline case with the oceanic climate, so it does not have a real "dry season" without hardly any rain which is more typical of a "classic" mediterraenean climate. You should add that it is moderatly dry, because the summer precipitation is more than 30 mm, which in drier cities such as London or Paris would be considered wet.

P.S. I live in Istanbul where we can observe the weather live, and where it is now heavily snowing now, which is not all unusual.
 * I have no objection to changing/updating the information. My primary objection was your reversion of the section to a series of one-sentence paragraphs. Regarding the specific points...
 * I don't care about the rainfall amount; I'll probably look at the table again, but we just need to be consistent between the two.
 * Regardless of where you go, fog is generally a morning phenomenon, dissipating during the day. The Climate sentence also indicates quite clearly that fog dissipates after the morning.
 * Thirty millimeters in a month is not wet. It's not arid, of course, but it's not wet. The driest months in Paris and London are wetter then the driest months in Istanbul.
 * --  tariq abjotu  21:30, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Nuclear ITN update
Good work rewording the nuclear meltdown blurb. I struggled to find the right formulation, and ended by giving up. Thue | talk 21:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, although I think most of the credit goes to Kslotte. --  tariq abjotu  22:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Fukashima move war
There have been quite a number of discussions about moves against consensus, at which the community opinion was generally that they should be reverted as soon as possible. That is the only reason I released it. Your view may vary, and in any case, your action in move protecting the page was undoubtedly the right one at the time. At your suggestion I have reprotected now they have done the move, as I share your concerns that it will just start up again otherwise. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That action has little effect. They're debating whether to keep the article at its current location or change it to a redirect, which doesn't require the move function to carry out. With the article in the accidents location, edit-protecting the article would be crippling an article where information is constantly changing. Hence, why I didn't do it. But edit-protecting the redirect, as I did, halts the redirect-war. So, I see two acceptable options at this juncture: fully-protecting the article at the redirect or blocking editors who continue to restore a redirect. But, move-protecting the article -- while I agree with it to prevent move vandalism and move-warring -- won't do anything for the redirect-war. --  tariq abjotu  18:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 March 2011
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The Signpost: 21 March 2011
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FYI
.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Right, okay. Obviously, if you really wanted to know why I removed only your comment, the best person to ask would have been me. But, I know you know that, and I know that's not what you were looking for. --  tariq abjotu  23:40, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Question #1 What do you know about me?
 * Question #2 Are you able to assume good faith?
 * OK I am asking you now. Why did you remove my comment only? Nobody, but you could explain this better.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You were obviously looking for a confirmation of your position from an admin who you assumed would be more sympathetic toward you. But you did not get that because the difference between your comment and the two preceding it is obvious to any outside observer. The first two are very relevant, doing what many people do on ITN/C -- considering the scale of the event in context. Doing so is a double-edged though, as you see Passionless argue that because so much Israeli violence occurs and we don't post that, we shouldn't post this instance of Palestinian violence, while BabbaQ uses a similar point to conclude the opposite -- that the rarity of this event warrants an ITN posting. Your comment starts as a relevant reply, but quickly degenerates into a commentary about who's responsible for the violence in Israel and Palestine and their motives. It's irrelevant to the item's inclusion on ITN and it's inciting. --  tariq abjotu  00:03, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I was looking for a third opinion, and Elen did find both comments to be soapboxing.
 * I was looking for a third opinion because the last time I communicated with you a few months ago you did not provide an answer to my question.
 * Thanks for explaining to me where I got it wring. I have never contributed to ITN before, and I believed my comment was OK. I simply tried to explain why none of the violence going on in this region cannot be taken out of content. I still believe this comment to be inflammatory.
 * In any case I will try to avoid making the comments I did in the feature, and I still would recommend you to try to assume good faith.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:14, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Service award level
 There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable. Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

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The Signpost: 28 March 2011
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Thank you
for the update and blurb. Motivates me to contribute to ITN (and I'll be an apter contributor in the future). Best of regards Missionary (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

An apology
I was thinking about my behaviour over the Paul Baran posting and I apologise for my behaviour, I expressed myself too strongly, and regardless of my feelings towards posting it it wasn't reasonable or necessary - it wasn't as obvious a choice as I was making out. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 20:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Cricket
I went out of my way to emphasise the word some when describing Americans. You seem well informed. It's obvious many aren't, especially about things outside your country. This applies particularly to anyone who describes cricket as a minor sport. Please don't take personal offence. I was simply trying to discuss a broader issue HiLo48 (talk) 21:04, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 April 2011
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ITN
Thanks for catching that. In my eagerness to trim the wall of text, I didn't think to check. —David Levy 07:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Women's NCAA tourney
Sorry to step on the ITN toes, but this should be ITN with the men's tournament. We want balance, we want to bridge a gender gap, we want people to expand articles. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball page is in horrible shape. I hardly see how we can diminish the encyclopedia by including this wreck of a stub and make it noticeable for expansion or just ignore it because it isn't pretty. The links should be ITN; to leave them out is to choose to ignore an equal achievement because we don't have a polished product of links. This is Wikipedia. Cross posting to the talk page. Keegan (talk) 07:15, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Need Yor help with User XLR8TION
User XLR8TION is not behaving. Please would you review history on our two talk pages and take action you deem appropriate in this case. Thanks... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:XLR8TION#Request_for_Clarification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Worldedixor Worldedixor (talk) 13:54, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 April 2011
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The Signpost: 18 April 2011
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DC Meetup: May 7 @ Tenleytown Library
The next DC Wikimedia meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Tenleytown Library (adjacent to the Tenleytown Metro Station, Red Line), followed by dinner & socializing at some nearby place.

This is the first official meeting of our proposed Wikimedia DC chapter, with discussion of bylaws and next steps. Other agenda items include, update everyone on our successful Wikimania bid and next steps in the planning process, discuss upcoming activities that we want to do over the summer and fall, and more.

Please RSVP here and see a list of additional tentatively planned meetups & activities for late May & June on the Meetup/DC page.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2011
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New Haiti election thread on ITNC
Any comment here?--Chaser (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

bin Laden ITN
Obama said it was a CIA operation, so the word "military" needs to be removed from the blurb. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 03:57, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Our article suggests the military actually killed him. I wasn't paying attention to his speech, so I'm not sure if that's actually what Obama said. But, that's what our article says. --  tariq abjotu  03:58, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * While you're there, Zscout has left a note at WT:ITN saying the OBL image was deleted from commons as unfree, so it needs to go from here too. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 04:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 May 2011
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Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth
Hello. Back in 2006, you nominated this article for deletion at Articles for deletion/Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth. I believe he is still non-notable and have renominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 00:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)