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[edit] Andranikpasha and RfAr enforcement

I wish I had been aware of this page before it got closed, but I've commented below Moreschi's close. If I still need to clarify my findings further please advise. ++Lar: t/c 15:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your question about discussing in talk on the Artaxiad checkuser

I refactored your question to the talk page and answer it there. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 18:25, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Azeri Cultural Concert Rotterdam.jpg

Hi Grandmaster. Can you please verify if these dancers are really from Azerbaijan? They are dressed in Georgian costumes. Perhaps they are Azeris performing a Georgian dance? Thanks, --KoberTalk 20:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I think you should contact User:Baku87, who took the picture. But to me Caucasian costumes are not so different from each other, so they most probably are Azerbaijanis. But in any case it is better to check with the unloader. Take care. --Grandmaster (talk) 05:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Ok, thank you, Grand. An anon has expressed some doubts on the image's page, claiming that the picture belongs to the Sukhishvili ensemble from Tbilisi; so I decided to make things clearer. Best, --KoberTalk 05:37, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome. Grandmaster (talk) 05:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
These are North Georgian costumes/ dances. The Lezgin of Azerbaijan dress similar but are different. Their women dress more colorful and their men in black or white. I might be wrong about that but I am sure I have seen this picture before, because I have movie of these dances, bought from Georgia.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 17:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Grandmaster, I found that the article about Qizilbash's contains some incorrect information and when I edited my edits were undone by some unknown users without any explanation. What would you recommend to do?.-Thanks Gulmammad (talk) 02:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

That IP is banned user User:Tajik. You can revert him as many times as you like, he is not allowed to edit Wikipedia. You can complain to admins if he continues to cause problems. Grandmaster (talk) 06:33, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiquote username

Dear Kalki. I hereby request a username change at the above wikimedia project. Thank you. Regards, Grandmaster (talk) 06:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ehud Lesar

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ehud Lesar/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ehud Lesar/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, — Rlevse • Talk • 02:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Topic ban at Shusha pogrom

Under the terms of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2, the following sanctions are enacted.

  1. For persistent edit-warring over the Waal source, Andranikpasha is banned from editing Shusha pogrom for two weeks. He may make suggestions on the talk page.
  2. For persistent edit-warring over the Waal source and for failing to actually read either their own edits or Meowy's talk page comments about the duplicated paragraphs, Atabek and Grandmaster are banned from editing Shusha pogrom for 3 weeks and banned from commenting on the talk page for one week. (Since they won't actually take the time to read and comprehend others' comments, their own privilege to comment is temporarily suspended.
  3. Andranikpasha, Grandmaster and Atabek are reminded that during their bans they are not to instruct other editors to edit on their behalf, called proxy editing. Evidence of proxy editing will result in blocking for both the editor directing the edits and the proxy making them.

For more information see [1]. Thatcher 02:47, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Ban extended to 4 weeks. [2] Thatcher 14:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 2 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dzhigit, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Archtransit (talk) 20:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:AkiKimura99

This guy has awarded themself a barnstar and signed your name to it. Corvus cornixtalk 05:26, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

That guy is up to no good. I awarded that barnstar to the admin User:Nlu. If you file a complaint, I will support you. Grandmaster (talk) 05:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I mentioned it at WP:ANI and the guy got blocked for 31 hours, but the barnstars are still there. Corvus cornixtalk 05:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I added my comment there. I hope admins will take care of it. Thanks for letting me know. Grandmaster (talk) 05:44, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo

I can understand your concerns regarding the independence of Kosovo, as it might function as a precedent for the independence of Qarabagh (btw. This is another illogical move by the Panturkists from the rep. Azerbaijan who put claims on Iranian territory;) )Deleting the article won't help, but it would be more helpful to make an article to show the legal aspects of territorial integrity. I can support you in that. --Babakexorramdin (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Aren't you tired of this "pan-Turkist" label? The article is POV because you cannot create articles about something that has not happened. However the topic can be covered in other articles about the region. Grandmaster (talk) 07:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I am tired of Panturkists but not about warning against them. Kosovo already DID declare already independece. Unilaterally declaration of independence will destabailze the the Caucasus, Iran and Iraq. So you will count on much support by rallying against it --Babakexorramdin (talk) 09:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Panturkists are people who want to create Great Turan. I never met one in real life, so I don't know who you are talking about. I have no personal issues with anyone here, and me and Atabek have quite a good record of cooperating with Iranian editors. We have our disagreements, but eventually settle on versions acceptable to both sides. I think cooperation is good for everyone and helps creating better articles. Grandmaster (talk) 10:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes this is the discourse in the 2000s but in the early 1990s was different! ;)--Babakexorramdin (talk) 10:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Talking about these stuff. Tell them these provocations are counterproductive http://81.169.138.199/tabriztv --Babakexorramdin (talk) 15:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Magomayev.jpg

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[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ehud Lesar

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The indefinite block on Ehud Lesar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is hereby reversed as it has not been demonstrated that he is a sockpuppet of AdilBaguirov (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). Necessary actions will be performed by an arbitrator. The sockpuppetry accusations are found to have been made in good faith. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, — Rlevse • Talk • 22:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ANS

Hi Grandmaster, I just got a problem with the logo of ANS Group of Companies. In wizard I forgot to provide license information. Later I tried to provide but couldn't find a way of doing that. I will appreciate your help on this matter. Thanks in advance. Gulmammad (talk) 20:13, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your attention. The image has been removed anyway, but I re-uploaded under logo license. Now it works pretty well. Gulmammad (talk) 01:15, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wikisource needs you

Hi Grandmaster, we have two candidates for CU on Wikisource, and we need to accumulate 25 votes in favour in order to be approved. While I am one of the candidates, I dont mind whether you vote for or against me; this note is just to ensure that you know that as you are a serious contributor to Wikisource, and we dont have many, your input is desirable at this stage. John Vandenberg (talk) 05:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Thank you for that information, I was not aware of this usage. The image is actually a copyvio, taken from here, and listed for deletion at Wikimedia Commons. Under the US rules, the copyright term has not yet expired (1946 + 70 > 2008). Therefore it appears to me that here is no point in restoring the image, unless you have an argument that under Georgian copyright law the image is free, and that the copyright claim by the Georgian Association for the History of Photography in the Caucasus is unfounded.  --Lambiam 09:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

If the image "fits the PD description", that implies that there is no copyvio. I've restored the image. Do you have concrete citable evidence that the image is from before 1923? That could be used to save the image from deletion at the Commons.  --Lambiam 09:46, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
even if it was taken before 1923 the image belongs to someone, an owner who scanned the image, making it his intellectual property, and it was clearly stated the individual has copyrighted the image. It is like sotheby's - they own the image they took of whatever they sell. Dear Lambiam, please see this fairly from point of owner of image, and unfair theft of it by illegal uploading.70.21.139.214 (talk) 18:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
If the image is in the public domain, it is not owned by anyone. Uploading an image that is no one's property is not theft; the material is available for anyone to use for any purpose. When Sotheby's or Christie's sells a Van Gogh painting, it is the physical object forming is the painting that changes ownership; what is sold in the tranaction is not the image. By the way, I am not an administrator.  --Lambiam 19:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree with what you are saying, but the artefact/photo is property of the georgian mesuem site, I do not know if they are a public organization and their copyright laws, and the actual act of photographing something means intellect property - ie mont rushmore.69.125.221.82 (talk) 01:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Verjakette

Sorry I forgot you! It seems the archival got lost in the way, thanks for pointing it! I will block the confirmed sock right away. When that happens (a confirmed sock), don't hesitate to ping a clerk or any administrator familiar to the case (in fact non clerks are often the ones who can act the most correctly, since they now the full history). Thanks again! -- lucasbfr talk 10:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Kalbajar

Hi Grandmaster, I am looking for a map in which Kalbajar is shown correctly. One that was put by Golbez does not show the region correctly. Thanks. --Gulmammad (talk) 15:24, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

I have invented something very strange: almost all maps of administrative regions of Azerbaijan have been uploaded by Golbez, who is Armenian and in all of them map of Kalbajar is modified. Do you know some way to clean up this garbage from wikipedia or stop this editor? --Gulmammad (talk) 16:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Golbez is not Armenian. He is a third party admin and you can point him any mistakes that you found. I'm sure he will be glad to fix them. Try contacting him on his talk page or via email. Grandmaster (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Meta RfC

There's a dispute at Meta:Requests for comments/User:Vusal1981 that needs someone that can speak Azerbaijani. If you wouldn't mind peeking at what the two parties are saying and verify the veracity of the claims, or possibly even give an opinion on the matter, it'd be helpful. Thanks! ~Kylu (u|t) 17:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. <3 ~Kylu (u|t) 05:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] KurtCobain27

I would like to bring to your attention that KurtCobain27 (contribs) (or 89.242.93.126 (contribs)) has been created for vandalizing an article about Azerbaijani passport. Although I have reverted his/her edits and warned many times, this user keeps vandalizing the article by adding inappropriate material. In my talk page you can see his/her reaction. -Thanks --Gulmammad (talk) 20:18, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, seems like a vandal to me. He's been dealt with by Golbez. Let me know if the problem persists. Grandmaster (talk) 06:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Artsakh WP

You're editwarring over removing this. If you want it gone, file an RFC and consult the wider community - if it goes, it will have to be done by a neutral editor. Doing a constant revert cycle isn't going to cut it. --Golbez (talk) 18:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Terribly sorry. I went back to re-read the WPNK page, and was wondering why I didn't remember actually reading a WP on NK. And then realized it redirected to.. WP Armenia. So. In that case, yes, you are completely in the right, and I apologize profusely for my above statements. --Golbez (talk) 18:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep an eye out. --Golbez (talk) 18:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please consider taking the AGF Challenge

I would like to invite you to consider taking part in the AGF Challenge which has been proposed for use in the RfA process [3] by User: Kim Bruning. You can answer in multiple choice format, or using essay answers, or anonymously. You can of course skip any parts of the Challenge you find objectionable or inadvisable.--Filll (talk) 20:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] proofreading

Hi, could you please proofread s:ru:Страница:Zwei-Plus-Vier-Vertrag.djvu/25 , that page should be the Russian title of Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ; once I have the title, I should be able to find the Russian text online. John Vandenberg (chat) 05:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. It is the correct Russian title, the full text in Russian is available here: [4] I hope this helps. Grandmaster (talk) 06:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you; I have copied the text from the page you suggested, and have created ru:ДΟГΟΒΟΡ ΟБ ΟКΟНЧАТЕПЬНΟМ УРЕГУЛИРΟВАНИИ В ΟТНΟШЕНИИ ГЕΡМАНИИ. I think that title is in "all caps", which is probably incorrect naming convention, but I dont speak Russian so I hope they will forgive me if I have broken some rules. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lachin

I never said the NKR renamed it, they don't have that authority, even granted by themselves. The citizens there, however, appear to have taken to calling it Kashatagh, regardless again of whether or not the Azeri depopulation was legitimate or not - the fact is, the local people call it something other than the government, and it's sourceable. I think that warrants mentioning. --Golbez (talk) 06:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)