Wikipedia:Thailand-related topics notice board/Archive 2

Articles needing work

 * Bang Rajan - i wrote this article quite a while ago but never got round to asking for some help from Thai users. Im not sure if there is a corresponding article on the Thai language wikipedia but if so could somebody interwiki-link the two? Also if anyone has some decent photos which might be added id be delighted as the one there now leaves a lot to be desired. siarach 10:03, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * List of ethnic groups in Thailand - I was able to find 28 ethnic groups but wonder if anyone can come up with more. (There are probably at least a dozen other very small ethnic groups up north, some of which are listed in Ethnologue.)  Badagnani 09:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Requesting peer review

 * Phetchabun mountains - which mountains (sub-) chains actually belong to it (-> Talk:Phetchabun Mountains) (discussion since 2004)


 * Sang Phathanothai - I wrote this article but I think some additional people should check on it and correct any errors. Anagnorisis  23:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Bangkok should be reviewd to see how this article can be brought up to good or featured article status. Felixboy 16:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Environmental issues in Thailand - I have created kind of a lot, but please review & expand as appropriate. Thanks! Grease Bandit 23:34, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Currently under discussion

 * Manual of Style for Thailand-related articles - which romanization to be used and other style questions


 * Talk:Amphoe Mueang Samut Prakan - Naming policy for articles on Amphoe; relationship Amphoe Mueang and city of ... For the default style of Amphoe articles see Template:Infobox Amphoe.


 * Article names for Thai royals/Thai with honorary titles - include the title in the article name or not, if yes which ones. andy 11:48, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * User:Gryffindor would like to revive the discussion on naming of articles about Thai royalty. Would it be possible to find something to agree on this time? Paul_012 (talk) 05:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Geography

 * Talk:Catholic Church in Thailand - what is the geographical extent of the (roman-catholic) dioceses of Thailand. andy 12:03, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thai provinces - does anyone have information about the provincial flags, both description of the meaning of the colors and a higher resolution image than those accessible on the web. Especially a book source would be great. andy 19:32, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * While preparing the Amphoe maps for Krabi Province I can across two different location of boundaries between Amphoe Lam Thap and Amphoe Khlong Thom. It seems like Lam Thap was enlarged a bit in its northwestern part. Can anyone confirm it, and maybe even give a date for this boundary change? andy 12:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Birthdates needed

 * Petchtai Wongkamlao
 * Pongsak Pongsuwan
 * Suthep Po-ngam
 * Somlek Sakdikul
 * Winai Kraibutr
 * Aranya Namwong

General information

 * The Impossibles (Thai band) - looking for more general information, particularly about full roster of musicians during the band's heyday. Images (preferably not album covers) would be nice as well. --Wisekwai 18:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hem Vejakorn - Looking for information about his later life, exact date and location of death and generally more about his influence on Thai contemporary art and pop art. --Wisekwai 15:32, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Caravan (Thai band)' - Article has been started, but needs expansion. – WiseKwai  |  Talk  |  Contribs  12:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Eua Sunthornsanan - Need his date of death and Thai script name . Any other information about this big band leader would be helpful.
 * Por Intharapalit - Looking for more information about this Thai writer, including birthdate, place of birth and Thai-script . — WiseKwai 20:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Seri Wangnaitham - New biography and a recent death. Needs Thai name. — WiseKwai 14:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Suwat Woradilok - New biography, recent death. Needs Thai name and whatever other information can be provided. — WiseKwai 20:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Pensri Poomchoosri - New biography, recent death. Needs Thai name and whatever other information can be provided. — WiseKwai 20:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sakorn Yang-keawsot - New biography and a recent death. Need help with Thai name, expansion. — WiseKwai 12:03, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Euthana Mukdasanit - New biography; need help with Thai name, birthdate and possible expansion. — WiseKwai 07:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Pongpat Wachirabunjong - New biography; could use more info about his music career and lakorn roles. — WiseKwai 03:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Translation

 * Stella Malucchi - English page started; สเตลล่า มาลูกี้ may contain meaningful information. — WiseKwai 18:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorapong Chatree - สรพงศ์ ชาตรี likely contains some notable facts that would improve his English Wikipedia entry. — WiseKwai 18:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Mae Nak - Thai Wikipedia has quite a bit of information; perhaps it could be used to expand the article here? — WiseKwai 05:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Mai Charoenpura - Perhaps สิริวิมล เจริญปุระ has some notable facts that could be gleaned? — WiseKwai 05:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Silpathorn Award - Needs Thai script and possible interwikis. — WiseKwai 21:51, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. --Manop - TH 22:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Lee Chatametikool - Needs Thai script and possible interwiki link. Birthdate, too, if possible. — WiseKwai 05:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. -- aIqCuEa •16:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested articles

 * I'd like someone to write an article about the Law on Succession. I can provide/translate the related article if needed. For example,
 * The current Thai Constitution
 * http://www.parliament.go.th/files/library/b05-b.htm
 * Section 20 to 22 in Chapter 2 (The King) provide some guideline on the heir to the throne.
 * Law on Succession B.E. 2647 (in Thai)
 * http://www.kodmhai.com/m4/m4-1/H117/H-117.html
 * This law forbids a princess to inherit the throne.
 * According to the above Thai Constitution, if the King names his successor (which he MUST follow the Law on Succession B.E. 2647 which forbids a princess to inherit the throne) then the named prince will inherit the throne. However, if the King does not name his successor, the privy council will submit the name of the successor to the National Assembly and ask for approval. In this case (when the King does not name his successor) the privy council may submit a name of a princess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhanakorn (talk • contribs) 23:29, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hinduism in Thailand - Doesn't even have it's own article. Needs more info. --Dangerous-Boy 21:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Requested images

 * Free-use photos of living Thai royalty, artists, celebrities, sportspeople, politicians, etc. are needed to illustrate articles about them. There is a new policy regarding the use of copyrighted photos, such as promophotos, on articles about living people. The policy is that such photos are not fair use. Eventually, they will likely be tagged with Replaceable fair use disputed. Free-use replacements must be found immediately or most articles about living people will have no images. More about this new policy can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fair use. -Wisekwai 06:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Musical artists and groups
Free-use images are needed for the following:
 * Modern Dog
 * Added --Sry85 (talk) 15:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

"Projet Thaïlande" on French Wikipedia
Hi. You might be interested to know that I have just launched a 'Thailand' project on the French Wikipedia. Feel free to visit and snoop around &mdash; even if you don't speak French. Any idea and suggestion will be more than welcome. Take care. Oxag (discuss) 08:52, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

New Thailand-bio-stub
After the mandatory seven-day waiting period on the WikiProject stub sorting, I am happy to report that I have created Thailand-bio-stub, which I'm in the process of adding to and changing any Thailand-stub that's about a Thai person. I think I'm up to around the letter "K". In doing so, I've found many stubs, particularly about Thai sportspeople (especially Thai Olympic athletes), that weren't designated as stubs at all, nor were they listed on the List of Thailand-related topics, so I'm in the process of adding those names as well. Wisekwai 09:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Thailand
I have started the portal, and filled it with some preliminary content. Please all join to help there, for example suggesting articles and pictures to be featured there. andy 18:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Are Thai government photos in the public domain?
US Government photos are in the public domain and can be used on Wikipedia. Are Royal Thai Government photos also in the public domain? I'd like to use some official portraits in several autobiographical articles in Wikipedia, e.g., Jaruvan Maintaka, Somkid Jatusripitak. Patiwat 21:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * On the legal status of government photos, I can't answer the question. I'm hoping somebody can. If the images were provided for general publicity, like for a press release, they could fall under the Publicity license, which you could use until the legality of Thai government photos can be answered. When you load the photos, offer as much information as you can give about where the photos came from and what article or articles they are intended for. Hopefully, that will keep the copyright watchers from deleting your images. Wisekwai 03:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Government works are copyrighted. See มาตรา ๑๔ พระราชบัญญัติลิขสิทธิ์ พ.ศ. ๒๕๓๗ -- Lerdsuwa 04:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * There's also promophoto, but it's pretty restrictive, like Publicity, in that it only allows use of the images on English-language Wikipedia. Maybe someone else could suggest another license? Wisekwai 07:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Several photos have been added to the article on the King which are extremely questionable. I believe the photos are from the Sarit-era, where propaganda photos of the King going on rural inspection tours were widely distributed among the public. But just because the photos were widely distributed doesn't mean they were freely licensed and can be used on Wikipedia. It would make me horribly unpopular to delete these photos from that article, so could somebody make any suggestions? Patiwat 05:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Could anybody take a look at Article 7 and Article 14 of the Copyright Law of 2537 (พระราชบัญญัติลิขสิทธิ์ พ.ศ. ๒๕๓๗)? Article 7 seems to state that state publications are not covered by copyright, i.e., they are public domain. But Article 14 seems to state that any state agency has a copyright over any work that it has created. I aint a lawyer and the two articles seem to be contradictory. Patiwat 21:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * As mentioned in the Article 7, things that are not copyrighted includes current news, government announcment, and something like those. --Manop - TH 10:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Would photographs and other creative works on government websites be considered public domain as well? Patiwat 20:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I am seeking a definitive answer about the use of images from the Bureau of the Royal Household: Can they be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons license? Right now I'm looking at the Crown prince now King of Bhutan and a whole gallery of images from the 60th anniversary of accession. If these images could be made available on the Commons, they would be a great resource. — WiseKwai 19:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind about those images from the 60th anniversary. I see now that they are licensed for non-commercial use and are thus ineligible for migration to the Commons. Still, there was some confusion above about about whether works from state publications are public domain. I'm wondering if this can be cleared up? — WiseKwai 04:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Cat sorting Thai names
Quite often I'll come across categories on articles about Thai people in which the sorting workaround has been applied (most recently on Cherd Songsri as Songsri, Cherd). Usually I just quietly change it back, but it's a pretty common minor problem. Having lived and worked in Thailand now for five years, I understand that's they way it is, that no sorting workaround is needed and that people are referred to by their given name (not their family name) and should probably be sorted as such. But I'm at a loss to explain why or point other Wikipedians to a written policy. Can anyone help clarify? Maybe I'm wrong? Maybe the sorting workaround is needed on the English-language Wikipedia? - Wisekwai 22:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not needed, for exactly the reasons you give. HenryFlower 22:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The only problem is that most people don't know it, thus they think that workaround was forgotten and add it again. I usually add a HTML comment after the category saying something like "yes, no sorting tweak". andy 07:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * In de: we add a reminder template into the article so that people who are unaware of this custom have a chance to know. --media_lib 02:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Piping Thai names
What follows is a response from an editor whom I ran into while doing some edits on Thai categories, and I had to explain that there's no need for the sorting tweek in Thai bio categories (I pointed him to ):-Wisekwai 05:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

_ _ I think it's important for me to distinguish between the facts of Thai practice with names (your account of which i didn't mean to question) and the question of what WP should do with Thai names in (at least) these situations, which are potentially all different: Let me clarify & discuss for a moment the subsequent-reference case (tho IMO it's not controversial in this case, it illustrates some principles):
 * piping Cats
 * titling bio articles
 * LoPbN entries (where, in my incessantly expressed and acted-upon opinion, it's a good thing to have multiple entries to assist people who are following conventions that are not the most common -- because either the most common convention is wrong, or it's correct but ignorance of it is widespread)
 * subsequent references (in articles of all kinds).
 * _ _ With names of Americans, Britons, Canadians, and Anzacs, of European ethnic background, who are known predominantly by the given and sur-names they were born with, we have a clear policy (probably without exceptions other than where there's no issue of confusing them with someone who's also mentioned in the article and shares the surname) for what happens after using, once, a "full" form of their name (e.g., John Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, or John Fitzgerald Kennedy): we then refer to them using "he", "she", or just their surname. (I'm vague abt the New York Times' current standard; i can recall the time when they went from using titles in all subsequent refs -- Mr. Wales, Dr. Kissinger, Pres. Lincoln -- to denying organized crime figures any title, e.g. (hypothetically) "...but District Attorney Morgenthau said that Gotti's claims were a bluff...". Or maybe those who were testifying against the mob started getting "Mr." when their deal was announced.)
 * _ _ Thus many fan-written articles, that imitate press releases and fan behavior by calling the subject by first name or even nickname, need correction. (When i'm in the right mood, i've summarized "not your buddy" when fixing them.) Your answers satisfy me that that error is not involved (as i speculated in the back of my mind; it's not usually a high priority for me) in the subsequent references to "Petchara" in Petchara Chaowarat: IMO that is probably correct -- tho on that assumption, i'd rather have the second reference read something like
 * Petchara (referring to her by that given name is Thai custom, since a Thai second name -- "Chaowarat", in her case -- is not, in contrast to European and East-Asian surnames, used without the corresponding given name)
 * probably with a lk to our best treatment of Thai naming (perhaps a section of a reorganized Family name, or of an article (to be lk'd from that one) about alternatives to family names?)

My point is that different situations deserve different answers to the question "which name or names, in which order?". A crucial factor for titles is that Rdrs can supplement the title, and within articles, that there's room for nuancing language such as i suggest just above; IMO the LoPbN answer is "the full name, and in all orders likely to be tried by users". A Sandbox experiment suggests that all but the last tag for a given Cat are ignored, so (for now, and there are arguments against changing that) the  answer for Cats has to include "only one order", and IMO that one has to be the one most often used by our (English-speaking, including ESL) users. IMO the main question is whether the answer is the same for, e.g., Thai actors whose films are released
 * only in Thai,
 * also with English subtitles, and
 * also dubbed into English.

It's quite plausible to argue that bios for at least the first group will be very seldom sought by users who won't anticipate using Thai naming conventions for alphabetizing. --Jerzy•t 02:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Historical context of articles after the coup
Several articles will go through a contextual crisis in the aftermath of the 2006 Thailand coup. The junta has promised a new Constitution, which implies a different form of government with different institutions. If you take the junta's word for it, the deficiencies of the 1997 People's Constitution (No. XVI) were so significant that major changes will need to occur in Constitution XVII.

With that being said, after Constitution XVII comes out, should general articles like Thailand, Politics of Thailand, etc. still retain any information about the forms and institutions of the government based on the 1997 Constitution? If not, should the content just be deleted? Or should it be moved to a different article? Or should information about the Constitution XVI, XV, XIV, ... governments be mentioned as well?


 * p.s., These questions also apply for the the List of political parties in Thailand article, the National Assembly of Thailand article, and a couple of others as well. Patiwat 06:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Panyathai, another Thai web-based encyclopedia
FYI, there is another Thai-based encyclopedia just announced today, Panyathai. I still don't know how the thing works, but it's on the press this morning. Anyway, I'm still a big fan of Wikipedia. Wikipedia rocks. --Manop - TH 08:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The English content is all public relation material for the Royal Projects. It'll be interesting to see if it really will operate like Wikipedia. Do users have to register with their real names and give their national ID number, or can folks contribute under aliases? — WiseKwai 09:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Help with translations
I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help, then please help by filling in the blanks. For example I need help with Thai. Thanks, --Soman 12:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK
The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 02:11, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Southeast Asian cinema task force
The Southeast Asian cinema task force was recently started as a joint project of WikiProject Films and WikiProject Southeast Asia. Editors who are writing about Thai films are welcome to join the project, where they will find support for collaboration on new articles and the expansion and promotion of existing articles. — WiseKwai 11:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Korphai
Please help with references for an article listed for deletion. Articles for deletion/Korphai. `'Míkka>t 16:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)