User talk:Acad Ronin

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Here are some links I find useful


Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 03:27, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] No, your doing great

This is just my hello spam I send to new folks when I spot em. I read over some of your edits, and the only criticism I came up w is that you can wiki-link years, like 1956. Thasts no big deal tho, and your contributions look great. Let me know if there's anything you need. Cheers, Sam [Spade] 19:15, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Banks and categories

I'm afraid that wasn't me who added the banks category, you must have gotten me mixed up with someone else. I'm actually not that familiar with the category system, but I know you can get more information at Wikipedia:Categorization. Good luck!  – Jrdioko (Talk) 01:14, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I think the way to create the subcategories is to enter an article in the subcategory first and then edit the subcategory page to put in the broader category. (I'm only about 90% certain that this is correct, though). I don't know who created the banks category in the first place, but I put most of the articles in there now in there. --DMG413 17:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I know very little myself. I reccomend you keep looking about, or trying your own ideas. Be bold! :) Sam [Spade] 18:02, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Isandlwana

Nice job at Battle of Isandlwana. Wizzy 12:52, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] FYI: Article on AfD.

Hello,

From what I gather, you created the Jetha Lila article. I have nominated it for deletion because very little information is available on the subject [via the WWW]. More importantly, there are notability issues with the current content.

You are invited to participate in the discussion on the deletion; feel free to contact me for more information on this matter. Cheers. Folajimi 19:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

The issue of notability is a non-trivial one; someone has already come to your defense on the matter at the AfD discussion page for the entry. If you are able to make a convincing (and credible0 case for preserving the article in the encyclopaedia, now is the time to do it, and the discussion page would be the most appropriate venue. Folajimi 21:17, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for creating Jetha Lila. Wikipedia needs such articles. — mark ✎ 17:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ionian Bank

Hello, Acad Ronin. I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I either forgot or didn't notice your message because of more than one comment being added to my talk page when I was offline. I suppose that the list on the Ionian Bank article could be kept as it is. However, if it is kept, other text should be added. An introduction about the bank would be the minimum. It would be nice if there were more content, such as details about the most important events in the bank's history, like being taken over during World War II, as well.

Did you write the list in your own words or did you compile it from the sources listed? If it was compiled, there may be a copyright problem, as the publications don't seem like they would be public domain. However, I think there is an exemption for factual information in certain cases. You could try asking at Village Pump or Copyright Problems. Thanks, Kjkolb 08:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HSBC Malta/UK Call Centre

Good point, whether we should call it UK as it will deal with UK customers, or Malta because its in Malta. I would think the bank will call it "Valletta CSC" (Customer Service Centre - assuming its in Valletta of course). I only really put UK to start with to highlight the fact that it wasnt going to be doing Malta work, but I suppose from reading it thats clear. Hmm Ian3055 20:30, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks

An article that you have been involved in editing, Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks, has been listed by me at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miscellaneous defunct or merged Netherlands banks. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 18:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:El Alamein VC.JPG

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[edit] Commonwealth bank

Thanks for that - the more I looked at it - there were more and more items that needed fixing. cheers SatuSuro 15:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism by 203.27.235.5

I just undid some vandalism by 203.27.235.5 on the ICICI Bank page. Going to the talk page for the user shows that the user has vandalized in the past, including an article on Jammu that you fixed. Can we just ban the site?

Acad Ronin 13:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Argh, I didn't realise when I just warned the IP address that they already had a final warning. I just gave them a final warning then for their recent vandalism- if they vandalise again, then they can and most likely will be blocked.
If you see them vandalising again, just list them on WP:AIV- the request will be noticed quickly. Cheers- CattleGirl talk 22:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hi CattleGirl,

122.50.140.35 vandalized the Mauritius Commercial Bank page by deleting the entire History block.

220.244.190.214 vandalized the State Bank of India page by typing in gibberish in the references section.

Regards, Acad Ronin 16:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, how are you? :)
I've had a look at the contributions of the two IP addresses. The first one was just testing, so I've let that be for now, as it was their first and only edit. The second one made two edits, and I see you left a message on their talk page, which is good! Thanks.
In future, you'll get a faster response if you warn the user with one of the templates from WP:WARN (starting at the first level, and if vandalism continues, escalating up the next levels). If you do that, after a level 4 warning you can list them at WP:AIV where someone can deal with it in a matter of minutes.
Thanks for looking out for it, btw, we can never have enough users on vandalism patrol! Cheers, CattleGirl talk 09:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bank of British West Africa

see Bank of British West Africa --87.122.203.4 15:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a vandal block

Hi Cattle Girl,

We need to block user 217.91.43.41 again. They were blocked for two months in the past for repeated vandalism but are back to doing it again. They vandalized the page "dollar cost averaging" with some homophobic stuff.

Acad Ronin 12:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello again :)
I've given them a final warning- if they vandalise again in the near future, they should be blocked. They've been reverted, as well.
For a quicker block if I'm not online you may want to list them on WP:AIV- someone will look into it almost as soon as it comes up.
Thanks for letting me know- CattleGirl talk 09:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Malta?

Would you be interested in being a part of WikiProject Malta? I've appreciated your Malta-related contributions. 「ѕʀʟ·✎」 02:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


Hi re Wignacourt towers. I believe there were seven towers of this style, six built by wignacourt, one by Lascaris. Six still exist, the missing one is a wiggnacourt tower, was close to Xghajra, destroyed by the British to clear the field of fire of their new battery. The battery was named for the destroyed tower. Added articles for the original tower and the battery this evening. Uploading some images for the battery now. I do not know of any images for the original tower. --Shoka 21:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot that an article for St Mary's tower already existed, and search missed it because of the variations of St / St. We could do with fixing that. Anyway fixed Wignacourt towers to point to the St Mary's Tower article. Santa Maria delle Grazie Tower and Della Grazie Battery articles exist as well --Shoka 23:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Bank of Greece

No problem. Good luck with the discussion to get the edit warring resolved. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 02:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Just my 2c, my own preferred compromise, based on experience at the WP:MOSMAC discussion, is "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", on articles focussing on Greek topics. "RoM" is the proper name and the article location, so that alone gets the wikilink, "former Yugoslav" can arguably pass as a disambiguating qualifier (although I'm not really convinced that's necessary, there's a strong feeling among Greek editors that they don't like plain "RoM"). This is only by way of exception, for Greece-related articles; everywhere else simply RoM is preferred. Abbreviated "FYROM" should basically never be used. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Fut.Perf.: Although I prefer the ROP/FYROM formulation on aesthetic grounds, I can live with your suggestion. The problem will be getting others to go along. There appear to be a number of people, or 1+sock puppets, committed to FYROM. Acad Ronin (talk) 14:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


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