Wikipedia talk:WikiProject East Timor/Archive 1

Assessment
I manually adjusted the table at Recognized content. But isn't that supposed to be adjusted automatically? I worry that maybe I was too bold. – Scartol  •  Tok  15:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Article banners
Currently articles involved with East Timor are tagged with the WikiProject Melanesia talk-page banner, with a line about an East Timor work group. Should we create a banner of our own, to use instead? (I'll be happy to make such a banner.) – Scartol  •  Tok  16:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * There would be the problem of banner proliferation if that were to be done. I can and will adjust the banner in such a way that it looks like the Africa banner at User talk:John Carter/Sandbox12. The fact that much of this country's history also deals with other nations might lead to the presence of too many banners. John Carter (talk) 16:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Understood. Cheers for that. – Scartol  •  Tok  16:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Name change?
There is discussion at Talk:Military of East Timor to change the name from Military of East Timor to Timor Leste Defence Force. Please contribute on the talk page. For me, the issue is the use of the word Timor Leste - it's the requested official name, not the most known English name as required by WP:NAME. --Merbabu (talk) 10:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting this here: I was unaware of this Wikiproject. I am suggesting the move of this article as neither 'Military of East Timor' or 'East Timor Defence Force' are what the force is commonly known. It is normally called 'F-FDTL' in English-language publications (as demonstrated by the references in the article), which is the abbreviation for Falintil-Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste, which best translates as 'Timor Leste Defence Force'. As such, 'Timor Leste Defence Force' is both the most common English-language name and the official name, so I think that this is in line with WP:NAME. I do not think that this move should have implications for the name of the article on the country, as this is a seperate issue. --Nick Dowling (talk) 10:38, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

German Wikipedia
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I've found that the German Wikipedia has excellent articles on East Timor. Usually I only use the German Wikipedia for German-related topics and usually prefer the English one, but I was amazed about how some German language articles on East Timor appeared to be of better quality than their English counterparts. A case in point is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_East_Timor_coup_attempt and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentat_vom_11._Februar_2008_in_Dili. Crix (talk) 20:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, my ears are burning. Thank you for the flowers. ;-) But if you want to use the informations from German Wikipedia: Most sources are mentioned and in English language. But if you have some new informations or added some new images at Commons, please contact me at German Wikiproject, de:Portal:Osttimor or my own German user discussion. Greetings, --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 15:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC) (main editor for East Timor at German Wikipedia)


 * Oh, by the way: at the Portal you can find links to press news about East Timor (mostly in English) --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 15:58, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

East Timor (infoboxes at the bottom of the country article)
I created 4 infoboxes for the main article:
 * Template:Districts of the Republic of East Timor
 * Template:Subdistricts of the Republic of East Timor
 * Template:Sucos of the Republic of East Timor
 * Template:Cities of the Republic of East Timor

I hope that somebody would bother to add cities to the cioty template as its not complete yet; also villages and hamlets of East Timor should be created to complete local geography sector.
 * Karabinier (talk) 20:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice work. Thanks. (although there are lots of red links to fill in!!). Cheers --Merbabu (talk) 07:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Help with East Timor cities/towns/villages and their disambiguation.
Greetings! There is a proposal to organize a bot in order to create thousands upon thousands (if not eventually -- a million) articles related to villages/towns/cities from around the world. East Timor is also a part of this and there is a list of places from East Timor found here: WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/east_timor. Currently however, before the project can begin, the list of places need to be checked for disambiguation. That is, there are some blue links already created and they need to be checked to ensure that they are in fact already the created cityand not a disambiguation page. This is needed as the bot will not be able to create the place if there is already a blue link and if its a disambiguation page, then that place (be it a city, village or town) will miss out. That is why I ask anyone here from this project who has some time or knowledge of East Timor to have a look and help if they want in any way they can. As a side note, there is also a discussion going on here at the village pump: Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot and you are more than welcome to state your views on it. There is also a FAQ that you may have a look at User:FritzpollBot/FAQ but if you have any question do get in contact with Fritzpoll here User talk:Fritzpoll or with Biofield here User talk:Blofeld of SPECTRE. Kind regards. Calaka (talk) 05:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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East Timor articles needing geographical coordinates
There are now only five East Timor location articles left which lack geographical coordinates.

The articles in question are listed in Category:East Timor articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, they were:
 * Ciere River
 * Comoro River
 * Northern Laclo River
 * Sahen River
 * Tono River

The convention for rivers is generally to mark the location of the mouth of the river, or, for tributaries, a point just upstream from where it joins the main river.

The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful. -- The Anome (talk) 01:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:East Timor will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in East Timor's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Timor–Alor–Pantar languages listed at Requested moves
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Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor listed at Requested moves
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

East Timor listed at Requested moves
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Timor-Leste national football team listed at Requested moves
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Cyclone Lili (2019) listed at Requested moves
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