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For your well-researched work on History of South Africa and other South African topics, I, User:Wikiwizzy, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit.
You get this barnstar from me for being an excellent collaborator with regard to articles you intend to submit for featured status. Denelson83 08:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
PZFUN is presented this Africa Award for his excellent contributions to Africa-related articles, particularly his thorough work on South Africa-related coverage. Presented by Jcw69 from the Africa-related regional notice board[edit] Press Corps?
Hi PZFUN,
One of these days we *will* manage to meet up in New York. I notice you don't go anywhere without your camera; please consider adding yourself to the list of photogs at m:Press Corps, and adding events (games, festivals, rallies?) you're thinking about attending to the list of events there. Lang.uidly, +sj + 12:38, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] FA candidate
Hi. Can you, please, look at this article again? Was it improved (some more complicated info on international tension, on her death, etc. added)? I said more on its lead section on that article's FA candidate page. BTW your questions also were dealt with. Cmapm 09:02, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The butterfly effect
A butterfly flitting in china can cause the hurricane that strikes San Francisco.
A complaint to a waitress can provide clues to solving the riddle of how to create a Simplified Ruleset. See if you can spot your contribution(s) :-)
Hmm, though mind you, come to think of it, its really subtle now. I could still do that a lot better.
Let me ponder on this.
Kim Bruning 11:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Canal images
I moved the image of the canal crossings to make room for the pre-canal painting, which fits more topically in the 'history' section. Actually, I think the intro could probably be expanded somewhat, which would deal with all the format issues.--Pharos 18:18, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thank you for you message. I'll be more careful :)
I agree that there should be spaces between pinyin syllables. However, according to 'Basic rules for Hanyu pinyin Orthography' (Chinese national standard no. GB/T 16159-1996), pinyin syllables of geographical names, biographical names and er-ized words should be written connected.
-Ysw1987 13:22, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Commons
Hi, I have left a message on your WikiCommons talk page. Your contributions there needs to be overlooked. Thuresson 21:40, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Ngong Ping cable car
The Ngong Ping cable car will actually be operated by the MTR. It is being constructed by the MTRCL. — Instantnood 02:38, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hey
Hi Paul interesting stuff.....but i want more pictures of you. Eric from Perth
[edit] Wikimedia Commons
Hello. Thanks a lot for the pictures of MTR stations. You can, alternatively, upload the pictures at Wikimedia Commons, so that other language versions of Wikipedia can also use it. There's actually a gallery for MTR-related images. — Instantnood 11:55, May 11, 2005 (UTC)[edit] Image source
Thank you for uploading Image:Swakopmund.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --BCKILLa 15:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] africa/ mediation cabal
Hello, haven't heard from you recently and wondering if you're still ok in deep dark south africa? :-)
In other news, I still needed to point you to Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal. :-)
Kim Bruning 00:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Johannesburg
The Johannesburg has several pictures uploaded by you with no source or license information. I'd like to feature this article on the main page - could you please add this information before that? →Raul654 21:16, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] France coat of arms
Hi PZFUN. Could you provide more information about Commons:Image:France coa.png? Specifically, did you make it, or did you download it from somewhere? Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 19:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Singapore
Hi Páll,
I did some touchup on the Singapore article, and would like to invite to you review it before I send it for FAC again. Please do let me know how is it, and if any further improvement is needed. Looking forward to hearing from you. :)
- Best regards, Mailer Diablo 11:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Disambig
PZFUN - your edit of the disambig template looks good, except there is a spelling error ("Ddisambiguation"). Please fix, but thanks for making it look nicer and have a little more info.Josquin 01:44, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Your revert
Hi Páll. It is part of the names of the stations as at the entrances/exits. Adding the word station also helps differentiating station and line articles which share the same name. Thanks. — Instantnood 08:03, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Page moves
Hello again. I understand you created most of the articles, but as I know the way of presentation has never been agreed upon. Some new articles on new lines or stations are created with another format. I agree we have to reach a consensus and standardised all the articles. Let's keep all articles as they are at the time being until a consensus is reached. There was actually already a discussion at the talk page of WP:HKWNB. — Instantnood 08:09, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- If I have not misunderstood you have agreed not to make further edit or change the titles during the discussion. Please keep the articles as they are, and please don't move [1] or revert them [2] [3] [4]. Many thanks. — Instantnood 08:40, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think the page moves and changes to the format of the bolded title in articles have anything to do with the previous ArbCom case that I was involved. And FYI, the case was closed without any decision or action taken. — Instantnood 10:22, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Notes
The notes have been on the pages for a really long time, and I'm just trying to keep them as they were while moving the lists to templates. I hope they did not scare you. :-D — Instantnood 23:28, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- The notes were not added by me, but I spent loads of efforts to keep them as they were while creating the templates. Would you mind discuss it before trashing them? Many thanks. — Instantnood 23:32, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- IMHO they provide useful and essential information that is not presented in the lists. Yes I made them more accurate and easier to read, and I helped rephrasing the notes, but I was not the one who started creating them. It'd better to discuss it at a common place with more people to participate, rather than a personal conversation between you and I. :-) — Instantnood 23:44, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] main page snapshot
Kim Bruning 20:41, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] SA-geo-stub
Hi - I'm sorry about this, but I've just reverted the change you made to SA-geo-stub. Stub templates are meant to be as unobtrusive as possible, which is why none of them (not even {{stub}}) have boxes around them. The less space they take up, the better everyone seems to like it (there are frequent discussions about the general look of stub templates at Template talk:Stub and at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting). Grutness...wha? 11:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Apartheid image
Hello, you uploaded an image of an apartheid-era sign, and I was wondering what the source of this image was as none is listed. The imagecan be found here Image:Aprt-YStar.JPG. Thanks! Páll 23:40, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, all I could find was: this and this, which once again proves that I suck at the internet. Image:Meh.gif El_C 00:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] ZA Wikiportal
Beautiful job on the South African Wikiportal! ℬastique▼talk 00:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] History of South Africa and Apartheid articles
Hi -- Your work on the History of South Africa article is very impressive! I did a little work on the images -- hope it was helpful. In the FA discussion, User:Maveric149 has volunteered to move some of the apartheid material out of the history article and into the Apartheid article. I think that's the right thing to do. It will probably improve the apartheid article immeasurably, and maybe get it out of the revert-war rut that's apparently been taking up all the energy that could have gone into improving the article. Do you agree with this whole course of action? I've left a message on Maveric149's talk page offering to help. If you'd like to make this a group effort, maybe you could post there too.--Bcrowell 23:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- "Hey there, thanks for getting back to me. Of course, moving some content off the HSA article and into the apartheid one is fine! Looking forward to seeing the results." (from Pall, quoted from my own talk page)
- Hi Pall -- I'd like to talk more about what we want to happen, before going ahead and doing a lot of extensive edits that might not have a consensus behind them. I'm posting on the HSA article's talk page to try to get a discussion going, and I'll also put a heads-up on the apartheid article's talk page.--Bcrowell 21:33, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Collaboration of the week
I'm dropping you a note to let you know that The Seventies, which you voted on, became a Collaboration of the Week! You are highly encouraged to contribute whatever you can to the topic! Mike H 01:27, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Concerning the "bloody image" in the article "Hong Kong"
I don't know what the article looks like on your computer screen, but on my screen (resolution: 800×600 or 1024×768), I see a huge empty space under the heading "History", which is why I moved the so-called "bloody image". Did my edit really make the history section turn into a column two words wide on your computer and looks horrible? Riddle | Talk 09:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This is what the article looks like on my computer after your edit at 0940 : Image: Screenshot of the article 'Hong Kong' (0940, 21 Jun 2005; 1024 by 768).png (1024×768). Do you think that the empty space under the heading "History" is not a problem?
This is what it looks like after my edit at 0742: Image:Screenshot of the article 'Hong Kong' (0742, 21 Jun 2005; 1024 by 768).png
By the way, what is your screen resolution? Riddle | Talk 10:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I see you have added more images to the article. If this is an attempt to solve the viewing problem, I can tell you it does not work. The article looks almost the same as before, with two more images below the "Old Hong Kong" image. If you insist that those images should be aligned to the right, maybe you can try moving them downward (on my computer, this solves the dead space problem). Riddle | Talk 01:50, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] South Africa flags
Hi Pall, These images of yours Image:SouthAfricaFlagTwoNations.jpg, Image:SouthAfricaFlagNonNational.jpg and Image:SouthAfricaFlagIndoors.jpg; did you make them or obtain them from somewhere? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:25, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
- You're quite an artist! Could you email me the source files if you have them? I'd like to try and do the same for the India flag. nichalp AT gmail . Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:18, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] You didn't sign your vote
here: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BrandonYusufToropov NoSeptember 00:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Hong Kong FAC
Hello Páll. I'd like to know if the article has gone through RFC and peer review. Would be nice if we can read the comments there. :-) — Instantnood June 30, 2005 08:31 (UTC)
- Hmm.. :-) — Instantnood June 30, 2005 08:41 (UTC)
- I see your endeavour...good job! ;-) --Jerry Crimson Mann 1 July 2005 15:21 (UTC)
- So I've drawn a map of 18 districts of Hong Kong, and later on will expand the artcle Districts of Hong Kong. Hope it would be of some avail somehow. I think summerization is urgently needed to improved the article's standard. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 1 July 2005 16:39 (UTC)
- Btw, does your self-nomination count as one vote? -- Jerry Crimson Mann 1 July 2005 19:47 (UTC)
You added two links to the following sentence: " Hong Kong has one of the world's least restricted economies, and is the world's 10th largest trading entity and 11th largest banking centre. "
I clicked the links, and those pages say Hong Kong is the 10th largest exporter of service, instead of tradiing entity, and 11th largest stock market, as oppose to banking. Is there any other information to justify trading is the 10th, and banking is 11th? — Instantnood July 4, 2005 20:51 (UTC)
- I found the information on trade from the WTO website [5]. :-D — Instantnood July 5, 2005 11:50 (UTC)
[edit] portals
I think the portal would make more sense at the top of the article because they are like cover pages. It doesn't make sense to read the portal after you have read the entire article. What do you think? PeregrineAY June 30, 2005 09:12 (UTC)
[edit] Image Copyright Violation
You posted Image:Greenlinehist.gif, apparently without permission from the copyright holder, so it has been listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. It is necessary to have explicit permission to post most copyrighted material. Citing your source is not enough. Superm401 | Talk July 1, 2005 00:21 (UTC)
[edit] Caulfield Grammar FAC
Pall, could you please have a quick look at my reply to your opposition and response on the page accordingly. I'm only trying to make this into a worthy FA article, and strongly encourage you to have your say in making the article better. Thanks. Harro5 July 3, 2005 07:39 (UTC)
- As yours is the remaining opposition vote on this FAC, I'd ask that you speak now if you have any specific POV issues. I would be only too happy to address your concerns, so please feel free to jot down quotes from the article that you feel are POV (either on my talk page, the FAC, or the article talk page) and I'll address them accordingly. Thanks. Harro5 July 6, 2005 10:50 (UTC)
[edit] FARC
I saw your comment on FARC on the History of Cape town asking for comments to be mentioned on the article's talk. You might be interested in this discussion: Wikipedia talk:Featured article removal candidates. User:Nichalp/sg July 5, 2005 06:05 (UTC)
[edit] South African dialling codes
- If you reply, please write here, not on my talk page. A thread split between talk pages is very difficult to follow.
Excellent work producing List of South African calling codes - well done. Re my changes to it:
- My knowledge of South Africa is not good enough to tell whether Giyani or Valezia (for example) is the larger. So some of the rows may need some reorganisation.
- I was glad to see how many blue links appeared but I have not checked all for ambiguity. Certainly George needs dealing with.
Regarding the separate "0xx (South Africa Calling Code)" articles and Template:South Africa Calling Code. Here I am much more dubious:
- The titles are bad, they should be: "South African area code zz" (without a leading zero)
- They are contrary to policy. See Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Area codes. Articles for the North American area codes are usually justified - each one covers a larger area and they have a complex histories of splits and overlays. None of these apply to South Africa.
We could start a new deletion policy debate for them but my recommendation is: stop now, don't create any more - just work on merging the list into South African Telephone Numbering Plan.
Incidentally, why is 5363 De Aar singled out for inclusion? There are many other four digit codes that could be included.
Once again, well done for starting the list. -- RHaworth 2005 July 5 13:51 (UTC)
Oh dear. I have now found out that your article was a fork. -- RHaworth 2005 July 5 14:33 (UTC)
[edit] Suburbs
Unless you intend to expand them, why not create those Johannesburg suburbs as a list (and redirecting the names to it) rather than separate pages? People would still be able to make a page if they want to add info. --IByte 7 July 2005 20:23 (UTC)
- OK, fine if you expand them. --IByte 7 July 2005 20:30 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hong Kong
Pàll, are you busy? It looks to me like the FAC vote could use some attention, it could roll off any time, presumably. Three people are still objecting it's too long, from before we shortened it. I've written to Harro5 and Phoenix2 to point out that it's shorter now. (I'd rather not write to Nichalp, the third voter, for reasons of my own.) And two voters, Piotrus and me, have left minor objections to the Lead section (too short, no history in it), and undertaken to support if that is addressed. That's two opposes that wouldn't cost much to turn into supports. I'm not familiar enough with the article to revise the Lead myself, I guess. Bishonen | talk 16:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] In The News
Hi. You recently edited the In The News section of the Main Page with an edit summary of "It launched at midnight in every timezone, not syncronous with the UK", speaking in relation to the latest Harry Potter book. This is incorrect. As far as I know, the book only launched at midnight local time in the regions where the book is a Scholastic edition. Elsewhere, including Australia (where I live), the book went on sale at the precise moment it did in the United Kingdom, which meant a brisk early release of 7am (Perth time). - Mark 11:37, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Suburbs of Johannesburg
Summarized and posted; now go hack apart the prose of the woefully-untravelled... Mindspillage (spill yours?) 07:46, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Countries edited from...
Hi PZFUN - for a while I've claimed credit for the title of "Most countried edited from", as I've managed nine so far. However Raul654 suggested you might be able to claim this title. It's stupid, it's pointless, but I'd hate to be claiming a title I don't deserve... :) Cheers Manning 03:40, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
- Bugger bugger bugger... Well at least I held the title for a few years :) Will amend my user page accordingly... Cheers Manning 03:52, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Champagne Castle
Hi. Can you explain why you moved Champagne Castle to Champagne Castle, KwaZulu-Natal? The naming conventions being used by WikiProject Mountains is not to use the convention in use for inhabited locations. Is there another Champagne Castle that you know about? The project convention for disambiguating mountains is to put the province/state (rarely the country) in parenthesis rather than use the comma notation which implies a location inhabited by people. Thanks. RedWolf 04:23, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Johannesburg regions template
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Hi
Please note the johannesburg regions have been amalgamated and "re-lettered" See this webpage for the new regions
http://www.joburg.org.za/unicity/index_regions.stm
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[edit] Template:Johannesburg regions infobox
I took a look at this template, and wanted to suggest you reduce its overall size. I went through and cleaned-up the table formatting as well to make use of the wikitable features better. Feel free to copy this into your template, I think it will make the main article more readable (and printable). Also, it's now small enough to where you could use it on each of the Region pages themselves. -- Netoholic @ 05:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
- P.S., it doesn't quite look right here on your page, try copying the code into the template page. -- Netoholic @ 05:26, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Frankfurt
Hi. I'm only organizing the prgogramme and I know very little about accommodation. I believe there is still accomodation in the Haus der Jugend where the conference is being held, but the best person to contact about that is Austin. Make sure you register as soon as possible since there aren't many places left. Angela. 19:31, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] fr-4 template
I reworded it slightly; do you concur? Lectonar 08:43, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism of History of South Africa in the apartheid era went undetected.
Hi -- I just noticed that some wholesale vandalism of the History of South Africa in the apartheid era a couple of days ago went undetected until today. An anon replaced the entire text of the article with the old text of the Apartheid article, including the bit about "diaspora Jews." Since this seems to have slipped under everyone's radar (including mine), and I don't know who has History of South Africa in the apartheid era on their watchlist, I thought I'd give you a heads up. --Bcrowell 18:27, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Montreal street names
You were a bit late on the Montreal street name style question, but only inasmuch as there's already been a policy written up by Montrealais that seems to have left everyone else involved satisfied so far. There's discussion of it at the very bottom of the discussion -- I've added a TOC there so it's clearer. I suspect the policy would satisfy you as well since your concerns sound similar to what mine were -- could you take a look and see if the policy mostly satisfies? — mendel ☎ 23:01, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Changes to Afrikaasn wiki frontpage
Hi PZFUN - please see comments regarding democratic process for changing frontpage featured article on your Afrikaans talk page. Laurens 09:42, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Flag of India pictures
Thx for uploading new version of the Indian Flag pictures! On the German wikipedia we've you searched for someone who could do it. --Louisana 11:42, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Miss Maca(u/o)
I moved this page back to Miss Macao. The available sources spell the name as "Miss Macao". I believe this is an older spelling. As it is a name we should use this spelling even if Macau is more correct for the city. Thanks for your concern. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 10:13, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Manhattan
Please do not revert tables without discussing it on the article talk page. Thanks. I reverted the deletion.--Revas 20:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Manhattan distance
Your home town even has a distance measured named after it! ;-)
Kim Bruning 22:50, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hey handsome fellow travelr
Hey Paul, I saw your profile on bear411. You have great profile. Would love to chat more with you. I love traveling as well. Email me sometime mikestar25@aol.com or michaelangelo25 on bear411 account thanks warm regards, mike
[edit] Template images
It's my pleasure to create some images for you...but at the same time I think I need some South Afric-related pictures. ;-) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 04:16, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cerebellum FAC
PZFUN--would you mind heading back over to the cerebellum FAC and seeing our changes? We failed the FAC nomination due two fairly minor oppositions. I've addressed all comments, so I'd like to see your opinion of the article now. Raul645 reinstate out FAC bid to give time for others to respond to our changes. Thank you so much for your feedback! Semiconscious (talk · home) 03:14, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Architects of apartheid.jpg
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[edit] Image deletion
Image deletion warning Image:Crowd1.jpg has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion. Listed under Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2005 September 17. Thunderbrand 23:49, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] User Categorization
You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Hong Kong page as living in or being associated with Hong Kong. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Hong Kong Wikipedians for instructions. Rmky87 19:05, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
- You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Denmark page as living in or being associated with Denmark. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Danish Wikipedians for instructions.--Rmky87 17:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Quebec page as living in or being associated with Quebec. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Quebec for instructions.--Rmky87 00:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Belgium
I have resubmitted Belgium for peer review. Do you think the objections you gave the last time it was FAC have been correctly addressed? If no, don't hesitate to let me know. Vb 16:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] South African articles
A huge amount of work around Johannesburg suburbs, and the Schabir Shaik Trial (which reads a little POV, but I guess the judge thought so too). Great job! Wizzy…☎ 11:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Support
Hi Páll, Banes is interested in nominating me as an admin tomorrow evening, I would kindly appreciate your support. Thank you --Jcw69 19:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Stop!
We do not put references to featured articles into the articles themselves. It is metadata that belongs on the talk page. →Raul654 01:24, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- There is however the slightly odd situation in that we are now showing little stars next to the interwiki language links for an article where that article is featured on another language wiki, yet we don't indicate the status for the language you are actually reading. See for example the comet article which has five stars for FeaturedArticle status in other languages and a page full of notices on the talk page.
- Perhaps the solution is to allow self interwikis so that the {{Link FA}} template can be used on a dummy English language link for an article on the English wiki.-- Solipsist 11:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- I'd be in favour of adding some sort of a template to the FA articles. Smaller then the talk one - perhaps just sth like the barnstart with the words FA (like a medal) - but sth should be there to indicate their status. You may want to comment on: Wikipedia_talk:Featured_articles#FA_template_on_main_article_page.3F. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 11:59, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- Well, talking to Raul would be a good first step. If he is dead opposed to it, then we can see if we can gather support from other users bring it up again, but I'd hate to do this. FAs are Raul's baby having him on our side would be much better. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:02, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Berlin U-Bahn
Hi PZFUN,
the translation is shaping up nicely on Berlin U-Bahn/temp - However, I have to say that I am not sure how this became a FA on de - some of the technical stuff is incomprehensible to a German native speaker :/. It's about 50% done now, so you might want to start the cleanup and copyedit that is sorely needed, since I just translated away without too many concerns for style. I'll do it myself if you don't want to, but I'll have to wait until after I have translated the rest of the article, which might still take a while, because now I'm in the middle of a heavily technical section - and I am not a railgeek in the slightest. -- grm_wnr Esc 19:37, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- I think you did a good job in cleaning up, and I see that the new version has gone live now. I've redirected the temp page there. Also, I resurrected the longer "trains" and "depots" section for the subarticles you linked to - no sense in letting them buried in the history of a temp page. I've slapped them with {{cleanup}}. Also, I'll pass on the translation of the U-Bahn linie articles for now - for a topic I'm not really interested in, the U-bahn article itself was hard work, so I'm a bit tired of that topic at the moment. That might change rapidly, however. I'm keeping it in mind, in any case. -- grm_wnr Esc 03:55, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Page moves
How come you moved pages of the form "U# (Berlin)" to "U# (Berlin U-Bahn)" but left "S# (Berlin)"?? 66.245.118.178 00:55, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop
You, or any Wikipedia user, can contribute your suggestions and comments to the /Workshop page of any active arbitration case. Comments on evidence or proposals can help in understanding the import of evidence and in refining proposals. Proposed principles, findings of fact, or remedies may be listed on /Proposed decision and form part of the final decision. Fred Bauder 14:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Vienna
dear friend of Wikipedia:WikiProject Vienna. I have created a template that you can from now on "schmücken" yourself with if you want. It can be found here Template:User Vienna-member. mit freundlichen Grüßen.. Gryffindor 20:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt
As a person who recommended me for adminship, I think you may be interested in this nomination - my first nomination, and apparently causing a significant stirr. I'd appreciate your comment - and vote - there. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:10, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hong Kong at night
You got rid of my Hong Kong at night shot. I disagree with this. I think it's the first image that comes to mind when a lot of people think of Hong Kong, and so it's worth including in the article. Isewell 16:11, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
- I understand and somewhat agree, but only a certain number of images fit on a page. The night shot was displacing all the other images in the article, and since the whole is greater than its parts, the image had to be cut. My apologies. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Arbitration case Instantnood 2 closed
The Arbitration case on which you commented, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 2, has closed. The Committee's decision is as follows:
Instantnood, Huaiwei, and SchmuckyTheCat are all placed on Probation for topics relating to China for a year. This means that any sysop, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban them from any article which relates to China which they disrupt by inappropriate editing. In doing so, the sysop must notify the banned user on their talk page, and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. They may post suggestions on the talk page of any article from which they are banned from editing. This remedy is crafted to permit them to continue to edit articles in these areas which are not sources of controversy. In addition to this, Instantnood is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) per week, and reminded to make useful edit summaries.
Yours,
James F. (talk) 19:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Which Lismore?
In Template:Iraq war protests, do you know which Lismore is supposed to be linked? BD2412 T 01:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Window closed
You closed the window with the discussion I was supposed to look at, Good habit, normally, but... ooops. Could you direct me to the correct location?
Kim Bruning 02:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cape Town meetup.
Re [6], trying to organize something at Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape Town would probably work best. — Jeandré, 2005-12-06t17:00z
- When is a good date? We will just use you as an excuse to get all the Capetonians together :-) Regarding wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town, I like Mexican Kitchen. Wizzy…☎ 19:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I'm around the whole time as well; whether its in the city or out in Stellenbosch is irrelevant to me. I like Wizzy's Mexican Kitchen idea, although it'd probably be a pain for you to get in? There's a Mexican Kitchen in Stellenbosch too; we could consider that as well. Its nicely centrally located, so should be easy for the others to find as well. dewet|[[User_talk:Dewet|™]] 11:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
- What about Johannesburg? --Jcw69 20:35, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm gonna be in both Joburg and Cape Town, so it would be great to meet people in both places. 128.122.128.25 22:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
- A meetup sounds great ... I'm sure that I could get to a meetup in Jo'burg in the new year. :-) Elf-friend 08:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hugo Chavez image locations
I appreciate your efforts to make the article look better. However, I can say that most people working on the article like it the way User:Silence has positioned them (i.e., alternating between left and right). In addition, you are deleting image attributions in the image captions. You can understand how this can be contrued as vandalism, since we need to display such attributions in order to use the images. I used to prefer having images in one long column, by I was won over by Silence's method. If you really want the locations in one column, please raise the issue first on the talk page, where we can vote on it. Please don't make such changes without discussion. Thanks. Saravask 15:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- It is not construed as vandalism because the images are available for use as long as the copyright information is displayed on the image page. Also, I am following the standard set by every other featured article which is to have the images on the right and at a standard 250px. What ever happened to being bold? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 01:57, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] State admits USG denied Red Cross/Crescent access to detainees?
I feel very strongly that your edits to the main page's 'in the news' section were not appropriate. I can't find any headline story on the major news network websites or press releases/transcripts from state.gov that support your statement. Although I am sure that it was unintentional, some people could view that page and get the impression that wikipedia and its editors have an ideological axe to grind with the way that the USG has handled detainee rights and options for their legal recourse.
[edit] Image Tagging Image:Polamstationoutside.jpg
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[edit] Your name on TV
John Seigenthaler Sr. mentioned your username on CSPAN about an hour ago. He was using it as an example of the unprofessional-sounding names of Wikipedia's administrators, trying to imply that Wikipedia is run by kids. :) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-9 16:09
- Which is in part literally true of course. But boy are they precocious. It's actually certain adults that are acting like babies here. <knowing look> Kim Bruning 17:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] WP:ITN
Can I please have you add the stuff on the Australian race riots to WP:ITN? My suggestion is on the candidates page. This is a massive news event. - Ta bu shi da yu 05:38, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- Added it a little bit ago! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 10:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Congratulations
It is good to have you on board, I should have known that you were up for administator. --Jcw69 18:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I've been an admin since before you were on Wikipedia :) Páll (Die pienk olifant) 08:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Boston meetups!
Heya PZ, What are you doing this coming Wednesday? We're having another small meetup in Boston... +sj + 08:03, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
- Or do you mean that you and Kim were around Beantown this past week? And how is everything in NYC? +sj +
- No, we weren't in Beantown. I could drive up for Wednesday, who will be there? Things are keen here in NYC, although preparing for the strike! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 08:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Hola, PZ! I park near a green elephant. There's another Boston meetup Monday, possibly followed by contradancing. info j 18:07, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
Hi Páll,
This is regarding your objection made at the above FAC. Care to explain on your reasons further, as well as which photos that need cleanup, so that we can fix it? We've got an entire collection of MRT photos at the commons as well for you to choose from. ;)
Regards, Mailer Diablo 11:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Template:HKCrownCopyright
The above template is prposed for deletion by a synop of the Chinese Wikipedia. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 14:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sorry!
Hey man, I'm sorry I didn't show up before you left. I found myself without an internet connection for a few days. I'll talk to you when you get back. Later, and have a great vacation! Inter\Echo 19:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image:KCRC map.jpg has been listed for deletion
--WonYong 06:25, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:KCRC map.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. [edit] Arbcom candidate userbox
Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.
- {{User arbcom nom}}
If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 02:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cape Town
Don't have a car, I am afraid .. will keep an eye out, and if you still don't have a ride I will see what I can do. Wizzy…☎ 16:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] how do you translate Gemeinderat?
Hi PZFUN, I have a question maybe you could help out thanks alot.. [7]. Gryffindor 11:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] N1 route map copyright?
Hi PZFUN! I was looking at Image:N1 South Africa.gif which you listed as GFDL, but it looks to me as if it comes from here, and their copyright doesn't seem to be Wikipedia-friendly, unfortunately. Would you like me to trace an SVG image to replace it? Please leave a reply on my talk page. Thanks very much! - htonl 23:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Washington Democratic Lawyers Hug.jpg listed for deletion
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Hi Páll, it was very nice meeting you yesterday. Good luck with your journey as well as with your studies this year. And if I understood you correctly, I do believe birthday congratulations are in order was well today! :-)
Kindest Regards, Elf-friend 07:13, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
I'm not sure what you mean by "wild horses couldn't bring me away" but if by the goodbye part you mean you are leaving I advise against it. From the little I know about you you seem a good enough contributor, and I even voted for you... :) Hope you stay, Chooserr 06:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ?
Hi, Pàll, how's it going? --Bishonen | talk 10:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Usenet
I just thought you might be interested in what Usenet is, so here are the first two paragraphs from the article :-)
Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Users, sometimes called Usenetters, read and post email-like messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups, categories that resemble bulletin board systems in most respects. The medium is sustained among a large number of servers, which store and forward messages to one another. Usenet is of significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ" and "spam".
Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use. It was established in 1980 following experiments the previous year, over a decade before the World Wide Web was introduced and the general public was admitted to the Internet. It was originally conceived as a "poor man's ARPANET," employing UUCP to offer mail and file transfers, as well as announcements through the newly developed news software. This system, developed at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, was called USENET to emphasize its creators' hope that the USENIX organization would take an active role in its operation (Daniel et al, 1980).
--Cyde Weys 18:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Solidarity with Denmark
I noticed your Denmark support, and thought, "let's add a Category for Wikipedians" So I did. It is called "Category:Wikipedians who Support Denmark" and is under Politics. Feel free to improve upon it and join or invite others to list it.CJJDay 17:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I had misquoted it is "Category:Supporters of Denmark" and is under Wikipedians interrested in politics. Sorry ;-) CJJDay 19:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[edit] Happy Valentines Day!
♥ Happy Valentines Day! ♥ May your days be filled with Wikilove!
- Quadell[edit] Vandalizing?
Greetings,
I changed a post a few weeks ago, but it had been vandalized by someone else. I use wikipedia a lot, and surely wouldnt do anything to mess it up. Please remove my warning.
[edit] Thank you!
Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.
Kind Regards, Elf-friend 06:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Johannesburg region pages (Copyright?)
Hi,
I'd tried to fact check the info in the articles mentioned below with the data on [8] and the texts are strikingly similar. The text on the website is copyrighted [9] and as far as I can tell it's not GFDL'ed. Since you're the original author of the articles, can you explain the origins of the texts?
- Region 4 (Johannesburg) vs [10]
- Region 5 (Johannesburg) vs [11]
- Region 6 (Johannesburg) vs [12]
- Region 7 (Johannesburg) vs [13]
- Region 8 (Johannesburg) vs [14]
- Region 9 (Johannesburg) vs [15]
- Region 10 (Johannesburg) vs [16]
- Region 11 (Johannesburg) vs [17]
and also (although the latest version isn't yours):
- Image:Johannesburg_region_map_with_names.jpg vs the map on [18]
-- Koffieyahoo 09:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- You say you provided the appropriate acknowledgements, but shouldn't I be able to see those somewhere? If so, where are they? -- Koffieyahoo 11:12, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Hi
Please note the johannesburg regions have been amalgamated and "re-lettered" See this webpage for the new regions
http://www.joburg.org.za/unicity/index_regions.stm
________________________________________________________________________________________________
[edit] N1 map copyvio notice
Hi PZFUN, this is the obligatory notice regarding the deletion of Image:N1 South Africa.gif as a copyvio; I have replaced it on N1 (South Africa) with Image:N1 South Africa.svg which I have released under GFDL. - htonl 22:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright problems with Image:N1 South Africa.gif
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Dear PZFUN, As a Washingtonian I would like to thank you very much for the extreme effort you put into making the Washington gubernotorial election a featured article. It's nice seeing our state get some recognization for what we went through last year. Again thank you. --kralahome 03:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Washington
I knew it was you because I was browsing through the featured article nomination page and saw that you were the one nominating it and that you were the one responding to all the critiques. --kralahome 23:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:GregoirePicture.jpg
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[edit] ITN
Hello, PZFUN. Since you insist on posting inadequately updated wikipages on ITN, may I ask you to please at least follow guideline # 1 on Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page and post relevant headlines on Current events, please ? And, please don't forget the external newslinks. I also want to say that I disagree that inadequately updated wikipages "being on the main page is the best way to encourage growth". The place to encourage growth of news-related articles is 'Current events', not the MainPage. MainPage is where we feature good contents of Wikipedia. Headlines can move from Current events to ITN after some decent growth, IMO. Substubs and articles merely updated with one or two sentences, IMO, aren't good enough to get featured on the MainPage. On the other hand, topic-wise, both your recent additions to ITN are good choices. I just think it's too early. As a reader, I get interested and excited when sth new appears on ITN, and gets very annoyed and disappointed when I click and can't find much updated materials to read. Hence my revert. -- PFHLai 23:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bolding in CPU
Hello, I saw that you were the one who added the bolding to the CPU article. I have removed it, as I felt that it made the article very difficult to read and was unncessary. No other article uses bolding in such a way, and it gives a bad feel to the article to have someone "shouting at you." While the Manual of Stype does not specifically state when not to bold, I also feel that it states when one should bold, and this is not one of them. What do you think? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 00:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think what I said in Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Central_processing_unit - that in an article with so many acronyms and terms outside normal english usage, limited use of bolding is needed just to make the article parsable to the lay. Note though, that I was not the person to add it originally, that was the main editor of the article, User:Uberpenguin. And er... article content/formatting debates are best held on the talk page in question, generally. --zippedmartin 00:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- I've largely reverted your bolding and image spacing changes on CPU. See the talk page for my justifications. -- uberpenguin 14:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Christine Gregoire being sworn in as governor.jpg)
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[edit] Cape Town map
Dear Pall: I'm currently working on the map, it seems to be taking me longer than I anticipated but I'll get it finished shortly; sorry for the delay. I have a question to ask you, though: Should the Peninsula Expressway roads be shown on the map (they aren't listed on any of the other three maps) and if so, how do you want me to show them on the map? Peninsula Expressway, Cape Town suggests that the Peninsula Expressway is only proposed, and as a consequence I'm not sure whether I'm meant to draw it on the map or not. Thank you. :) Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 04:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reverted Edits on Dupont Circle
PZFUN: Just curious why you reverted an edit I did on Dupont Circle in DC. I was a parishioner of the Founding Church of Scientology in DC until I moved away, and feel it's a significant part of Dupont Circle as the Church has been there for the past 50+ years. Is there a article etiquite point you were looking to have followed, or was there some other reason this was taken off?
[edit] Cape Town vs. City of Cape Town
Hi, would you mind motivating why you changed the intro back to City of Cape Town rather than just Cape Town? This breaks the distinction between the municipality and the city itself. See Talk:Cape Town#City_of_Cape_Town_vs_Cape_Town. Thanks. Zaian 09:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] City of Cape Town vs. Cape Town
Hi PZFUN, I'd appreciate it if you could explain your position on the naming of the Cape Town article (and its infobox) at Talk:Cape Town#City of Cape Town vs Cape Town. At least Zaian and myself think it should be just "Cape Town", so there is clearly no consensus on the "City of Cape Town" name which you want. - htonl 09:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oops, sorry. I just saw Zaian already left a message about this. ;-/ - htonl 09:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] infoboxes
Hey, how did you do the Cape Town infobox? I'd love to put one up for Durban. Thanks! Al, Joziboy 14 March 2006, 22:11 (UTC)
[edit] Literary quotations on your user page
Hi--Sorry to bother you. I'm just curious, where do the quotations on your user page come from?--Zaorish 02:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hej fra en Nederlænder i Danmark
Hej Paul! Jeg skriver på dansk fordi det angiveligt er dit modersmål. Jeg er en nederlænder der bruger meget tid på den nederlandske og danske wikipedia. Jeg vil bare lige sig hej. Hvad synes du om at man på danske ofte siger 'Holland' når man egentlig mener 'Nederlandene'? Fedor 08:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] moving stuff around
Hi, sorry about all the redirects. Is there any way of moving articles without creating loads of redirects? There had been a discussion on Talk:Provinces of South Africa before I started moving all the provinces' pages - everyone agreed with the move. But sorry if it's created problems Joziboy 27 March 2006, 09:27 (UTC)
- Oh, I see you've been moving them back. You might want to comment on the proposed moves on Talk:Gauteng Province and Talk:KwaZulu-Natal Province Joziboy 27 March 2006, 09:31 (UTC)
- Because every single instance where the provinces' names are mentioned would have to be re-written. I don't mind changing Western Cape Province to, say, Western Cape — but I think the idea of having parenthesies in a province's name is incredibly cumbersome everytime they are to be mentioned. Basically, I favour keeping them where they are until there's some kind of strategy to deal with all the re-directs such moves make. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 16:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- Erhm, the only one which needed a dab term in brackets was Free State, anyway... And it doesn't really need them, if you add a dab notice at the top of what's now the Free State article. I've thus reverted your actions. Hope that's okay. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 08:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Beckjord page
Beckjord is in Mensa and is member number 1110399. Care to bet $10,000 this is not true?
207.200.116.13 06:40, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[edit] Could use your advise
About Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Molobo_..._again.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 04:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] UK FARC nom
I've removed this as the United Kingdom article doesn't have FA status. The star on the article was an error and i've removed that as well.
[edit] Cape Town history section
Hi Páll, just wondering if you will be back on the Cape Town history section. You said something about continuing tomorrow, but it's been a while! Cheers, Zaian 20:10, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WP:FARC
Hi, I removed three of your listings there, but realized I had neglected to let you know personally. There's been a lot of discussions lately about improving the FARC process and one that has come out is that it is important to detail the deficiencies of an article on it's talk page to give the authors there a chance to fix them up and wait a reasonable amount of time for that, depending on the level of fixing requested. Better yet is after detailing the deficiencies, try to fix them the best you can and reference your talk page remarks to draw other editors in. So please leave detailed messages on the article's talk pages first. It is in the guidelines, but I know those can get a little tedious and easy to miss, hence this message. Otherwise, keep up the good work. - Taxman Talk 22:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] South African Corruption Levels
Please tell me why you removed the political corruption levels from the South African main page. There is nothing incorrect in those values and they come from a credible source. If you moved those facts to a more appropriate location you would find me in agreement.
However, I get the impression that you have removed them simply because you don't like the hard truth they reveal. I was about to correct many things on that South African page (with known and provable facts) but if unsubstantiated political bias is allowed to overpower researched facts then what's the point? - Eltharian Talk 23 April 2006
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Thank you for answering me at my Eltharian Talk. Okay, I understand what you are saying that it belongs on a political page, but I don't agree. Corruption levels speak of how well the country is run as a matter of fact. It does not delve into the differences of opinion between parties (which I think is indeed appropriate for a political page).
Of course, corruption levels imply things about certain ruling parties which I imagine is why you want to remove it. BUT this is only an implication - readers should be able to judge for themselves what those figures mean.
If one uses such arguments (i.e. that anything slightly or vaguely reflective of a political party should be removed to a seperate political page) then much of the entire South Africa page needs to be removed or re-written. Crime is a typical example - I can't see how you can see to keep the crime paragraphs (which vaguely implies a mismanagement of the police and/or judicial system) but not see to keep corruption. After all, it is political corruption that may well give rise to the mismanagements of those departments and high crime. Of course, political corruption also gives tacit validation to much crime in the country - one only needs to watch TV reality shows which interview gangs or criminals to understand the excuses they use to convince themselves of their behaviour. Corruption and crime are the same disease! Social circumstances can not be divorced from political ones.
If you will allow me I would like to quote from Junius' first public letter to the people of Britain, in 21 Jan 1769, who were going through their own socio-political upheaval at the time.
The ruin or prosperity of a state depends so much upon the administration of its government, that, to be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. If we see them obedient to the laws, prosperous in their industry, united at home, and respected abroad, we may reasonably presume that their affairs are conducted by men of experience, abilities and virtue. If, on the contrary, we see a universal spirit of distrust and dissatisfaction, a rapid decay of trade, dissensions in all parts of the empire, and a total loss of respect in the eyes of foreign powers, we may pronounce, without hesitation, that the government of that country is weak, distracted, and corrupt.I hope I am beginning to convince you. After all, looking at your profile, you should easily be able to testify to the low crime in Hong Kong and draw the same correlation with its clean corruption levels - 8.3.
(BTW, I am copying this discussion to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:South_Africa to invite others' views.)
[edit] 修正、加筆、新規作成の依頼
はじめまして、日本在住のHattoです。俺はPZFUNさんのユーザーページを見ました。色んな言語に堪能なようなので凄いですね。"Bunkyo Ward"の文字があったので、東京文京区に住んでたみたいですけど、そんな語学堪能なPZFUNさんに強くお願いしたいことがあります。現在、多言語で記事を作ることを目指している記事があります。その記事の文章の自然な言葉への修正、加筆、そしてまだ作られていない言語版での新規作成を大胆ですが、行って頂きたいのですがよろしいですか？日本の芸能人の記事ですが、PZFUNさんは恐らく知らなかったり、興味がなかったりするかもしれませんが、もしそうなら本当に申し訳ありません。しかし、その人のことを国際的に広め、知ってもらいたいと考えている俺はどうしても様々な言語を解するPZFUNさんの力が必要です。その人の記事がフランス語、中国語、ポルトガル語などでも作成されたのですが、ぜひそれらの言語を理解するPZFUNさんに自然な文章への修正と大幅かつ詳細な加筆を行ってもらいたいと思っています。（特にフランス語と中国語）また、PZFUNさんが他に理解しているデンマーク語、ノルウェー語などでは、まだ作られていないので、それらの言語では英語版と日本語版の両方からの情報を中心に記事を新規作成して欲しいです。こんな大げさなお願いですが、引き受けてくれますか？お返事下さい。--Hatto 15:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Singapore FAC
As per your objection at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Singapore, I have done something to try and address the issue. Please have a second look now, and reconsider your opinon. If you are still not satisified with the change, let me know on my talkpage so that we can further discuss about it. Thanks! - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 16:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Drakensburgmountains
Hi, Couldn't help noticing that the image under the article Drakensberg does not seem to be from the Natal Drakensberg, which as you may know is composed of basalt sitting on a sandstone base. Nice photo though.....!! Please let me know where the shot was taken.
--Paul venter 22:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image on SA page
I noticed you've twice replaced 'my' image of farm workers in 1989 with 'yours' of a fish farm. Rather than revert again (as obviously I think mine is better!) I've asked for comment on the talk page, and thought we could maybe discuss it ourselves too. Guinnog 14:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit summaries
Hi, I just noticed you removed some changes I had made to the South Africa article, after discussion with other editors on the talk page with the edit summary:
- Reverting strange introparagraph changes and formatting of the History section.
Can I request that you check articles' talk pages before calling changes 'strange'? I have reverted to my version; if you felt like changing it back, I very much hope you would discuss it with me first, either here or on the article's talk page. Thanks. Guinnog 10:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- I see you have once again reverted without discussion, in spite of my request above. Can you please reply this time, as this is really not the way things are done here. I am not reverting this time, as that would also (like your repeated reversions) contravene wikipedia policy, and I want to give you a chance to explain your actions first. Thanks Guinnog 06:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- As you have not replied to my messages left here, starting almost a week ago, can I ask that you respond to my concerns on Talk:South Africa. Thanks Guinnog 07:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Howzit
Just joined Wikipedia - great site! Have added a stub around Cape Argus Cycle Race, being the largest time cycle event in the world. Have also done some work on Comrades Marathon and Ironman SA. Will also add 94.7 in time. Both need quite a bit of help if you've got some time and are interested.
Also question, under Johannesburg, there are thousands of Suburbs listed - is that really necessary? Can't ever imagine them having any detail of any worth at such level of detail...maybe the bigger areas alone like Sandton, Bryanston etc. PappaG 10:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the message! I have responded on my talk page...please help me out...what is the right way to respond to a message, on your own page beneath the original (which I guess I think is preferable) or on the other user page like this entry? Thanks for the help - good to meet you. Bedtime in SA... PappaG 22:29, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] South African Timelines
Help Pall, they want to vote off the Timeline of South African history from wikipedia. Please vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of South African history. Thank you --Jcw69 20:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your vote, the nomination for deletion has been withdrawn. --Jcw69 12:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Habyarimana.jpg
Hi PZFUN, I noticed that Image:Habyarimana.jpg has a GFDL license but no source info. Could you add it sometime in the next week? I have placed a {{nsd}} template on it. Thanks, BanyanTree 13:15, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3
The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service.
- This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!
- Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel.
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- Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop.
- Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon.
[edit] Berel Wein vandalism
Why did you vandalize the page of Rabbi Berel Wein, a famous Orthodox rabbi, with a "VfD" ? What do you know about this subject anyway? You will be reported. IZAK 11:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Berel Wein
May I suggest you withdraw the nomination to placate the Jews? It would be very appropriate at this point. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quebec French lexicon --> clean-up
Hey! Too bad we didn't get to meet while you were in Mtl; in fact, I think I remember speaking to you on gay.com eons ago. Anyway, you'll notice that I've been re-working the Quebec French article and took out some of its old content and inserted that info into the Quebec French lexicon article. The latter needs tons of work, if not just because it constantly makes comparisons to Metropolitan French. Let me know what you think and maybe we could get a bunch of folks together on this. CJ Withers 15:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please vote
Hi, if you have not yet done so, we could sure use your input on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dewet. Thanks! Elf-friend 10:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Summer Camps
Summer camp season is coming up. AfD's gonna go crazynutsbonkers with these things. Thanks for getting an early start. -- saberwyn 02:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, is that what's going on... well, yes, thanks, PZFUN, for doing the dirty work! Melchoir 07:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- *blushing* You, and the entire Wikipedia community, is most welcome! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 07:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent deletion nominations
For example Yisroel Avrohom Portugal and Kiddush Club: you don't appear to have actioned the AfDs correctly, as none of them have AfD notices on the articles themselves. --BillC 09:47, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] notability of hasidic persons
I have noticed that you have placed for AFD many Jewish topics and personalities. While some may not be highly notable, conventional tests of notability that you may be used to may not apply.
Particularly, Googling is not valid for multiple reasons:
- These names often have alternative spellings as they are of Hebrew/Yiddish origin.
- As stated at Wikipedia:Google, search engine testing is only really valid for modern subjects, while many of those who you nominated are not
- Many of these personalities come from and particularly relate to communities where use of the internet is not prominent, as opposed to those of, say, American pop stars.
But this doesn't mean the character is not notable. It may be advisable in the future to query WikiProject Judaism before assuming the non-notability of a topic you are unfamiliar with and where the search engine test cannot be applied.
jnothman talk 10:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I just made a keep recommendation on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dovber of Mezeritch, where you have nominated what appears to be one of the absolutely most important rabbis in Chassidic Judaism. I looked at some of your other nominations, and don't know whether I will even bother to vote, as most of these are sure to be shot down by users more familiar with this topic than I am. Several of these rabbis have a number of tales about them in Buber's Tales of the Hasidim. At least a couple could be found in the Jewish Encyclopedia, and as those I found were located under very different forms of their names, this is likely to be the case with some of the rest as well. I am not involved in WikiProject Judaism, but agree with what jnothman writes above about consulting people who know more about a topic before starting a debate on AfD. Just as with Arabic, Indian and other topics which come up on AFD quite often, there is the problem with Jewish topics of transliteration. I think you should have done a bit more research before nominating these articles. Sure, some of these should have more references, but for that, unless you have serious reasons to believe that something is a hoax or libel, use {{unreferenced}} to begin with, wait a little while, then nominate.
- It is not too late for you to withdraw these nominations. In fact, it would clearly demonstrate your good faith if you did so as soon as some good keep arguments or references appear. up+land 11:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Your lack of research before nominating Jewish community organisations for AFD is also astounding. Young Judaea for instance has many online references to its membership of 7000, which clearly makes it "utterly non-notable". Don't nominate articles for deletion on the basis of their quality; for that, see Wikipedia:Cleanup resources, etc. jnothman talk 11:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent AFD nominations
When I saw how Izak treated you after the last afd I thought he was out of line, but now after seeing all of the other articles you have nominated for deletion I am beginning to think his attacks were warranted. If you had done any research into the subject you would understand Hasidic rebbes are indeed notable. While I disagree with certain people that suggest one should have an understanding of a subject before editing an article about it, I do agree that one should have at least a vague awareness of the wider topic before nominating an article for deletion. Please reconsider you recent nominations. Thank you.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 12:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Pzfun, can you explain what's going on, please? Most or all of these are clearly legitimate articles. SlimVirgin (talk) 13:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've removed the tags from the articles you tagged today, which is not to say there are no legitimate deletion possibilities among them, because I didn't read them all, but a brief glance suggested they were okay. I'm sorry to have to do that. SlimVirgin (talk) 13:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
My own random sample saw several articles that actually might even meet CSD criteria. I might have looked at a different set of articles than the set Slimvirgin looked at, though. In any case, to prevent fighting, please hang on there and let me do some investigating, if that's ok with you. DO Talk with me before taking initiatives. I understand you're angry, but you did ask me to come in and look (which is very wise of you!), so let me do my job and I'll see what I can do! :-) Kim Bruning 16:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I didn't look through them all carefully, so there may indeed be some that were worth nominating. It was the number of them, and it coming so soon after the row with IZAK, that concerned me, so I just automatically closed them with speedy keep, though I did have to draw the line at Eurojews and left that one open. If others feel they should be renominated, I have no problem with it. My concern was more the circumstances than the articles as such (though many were clearly notable, it has to be said). SlimVirgin (talk) 16:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your note
Sorry, PZFUN, I just saw your note. I'm sorry this disturbed you; that wasn't my intention. I was bewildered, as were several others (as you can see from the notes on your talk page) about these articles being nominated, because many were clearly notable, well-known figures or organizations within the Jewish community. That, combined with the nominations following so closely on the heels of your dispute with IZAK, made the noms seem inappropriate, and to be honest, they looked like a WP:POINT. Perhaps you can say why you wanted to delete an article about, for example, one of the most important rabbis in Hasidic Judaism. You can see how that would look a little odd. However, once again, I apologize if the way I closed the nominations upset you. I've left a note on AN/I if you want to comment there. SlimVirgin (talk) 16:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- It wasn't a point, and if these people are genuinely so important, I am surprised that not a single one of them have any references. Perhaps, though, you could explain why you speedy kept them without discussion, when there were even copyvios that have been speedy kept. I am exceedingly worried that there seems to be a group of Jewish-POV pushers that band together to thwart any attempt to clean out their articles. Many of these important rabbi articles were either copyvios, horribly POV, or advertisements for books. There is no question that some of these people deserve articles, but not these articles, they are almost upsettingly poor quality to be found on Wikipedia and been edited so many times, while many of them have absolutely no place on Wikipedia. We do not need an article about every 10 Jewish people who get together and call themselves a group. There has to be some limit. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I agree with the issue of sources and quality of writing, and I'm very sorry I upset you. I was trying to keep the peace by making the issue go away, at least until the heat goes out of this situation. I've already started the process of tidying the writing and requesting sources. I've also left a note on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism asking others to do the same. I think the problem may be that some of these figures are noted mostly in books, and if they're on the Web, there may be several ways to transliterate the names. But it may also be the case that the sources just don't exist, and if that turns out to be the case, I'll renominate them for deletion myself if that will help. SlimVirgin (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Not a problem, now that you've explained, I just thought it might have been a personal attack. No hard feelings :) However, there are some that you kept that need to be deleted as some are very unnotable (a book published in the 1800's with no hits, a Jewish student union with no Google hits, a Jewish summer camp). How do you recommend we re-list those that are not controversial? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Páll, sorry for the delay in responding; I just saw this. The others have been relisted, it seems, by Dr. Zak. I'm not sure which one was the book, but I'll take another look. I tried to e-mail you when I heard your user page had been deleted, but you don't have an e-mail address specified. I hope you'll come back soon and won't let this business affect you; it was a misunderstanding and it'll blow over, as these things always do. In the meantime, I'll be working slowly on the rabbi pages, and I'll relist any that I can't find sources for, so that side of things will be dealt with. Please do come back. SlimVirgin (talk) 11:00, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- A grouped nomination of the summer camps and a second nomination of the NFTY regional pages seems like an adequate move. Really what it should be for those camps is a merge into something like North American Jewish summer camps. Remember that there is no cabal here. There are, however, interested and knowledgable editors who do know a lot about these topics. This whole situation needs a big dose of good faith and civility from any involved party. You say we do not need an article about every 10 Jewish people who get together and call themselves a group. You fail to realise that these groups, while created by a small number of people have expanded to, as shown in the AfDs, tens of thousands of members, clearly showing notability. Wes! Tc 21:01, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- None of them do have any references except for their own websites, which does not qualify them as being referenced on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Reference. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 02:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PZFUN and Jewish Summer camps
Why is it very hard to assume that you are acting in Good Faith when you basically nominated the entire contents (save one) of Category: Jewish summer camps for afd, but left the non-Jewish ones in Category:Summer camps alone? How can you claim WP:POINT? It's very hard to assume GF, this was a non-deniable, sustained, and discriminatory attack on a specifc population. If you were so worried about article quality, you would have cleaned up the whole summer camp cat. But you didn't. You can continue the discussion here on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. --Shuki 23:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Because I was cleaning out articles in [[Category:Jewish stubs]], not summer camp articles. You are welcome to list articles in the summer camp category for deletion as well if you think they merit it. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 00:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- If I may comment, before hitting such a large group, I would check to see the context it's in. If the entire category is similar, then I think it makes more sense to raise the issue elsewhere instead of summarily dumping them all as AfD. Or at least put a notice in all of them first. At the very least, while checking the context, you'd discover the entire category is in the same shape and deal with them all equally, instead of singling out one sub-group. Otherwise it looks like POV, even if it isn't. Crum375 00:12, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- That's entirely true, but where else would I raise it? It seems the Judaism Wikiproject does not enforce much quality control. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 00:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- I agree that most articles you nominated need serious cleaning and have virtually no sourcing. But if it's such a large group as a minimum I would check the larger context (i.e. if it's Jewish summer camps look at general summer camps etc.) to get a feel. And again for such a large group, esp. since we AGF, a warning notice would have made more sense IMO. But overall I hope this would be a good wakeup call for the respective contributors/authors to shape up or ship out. Crum375 00:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- I would agree, but I did check the articles with other members on IRC, which of course I can't prove. I don't even remember who I asked anymore, but we had a discussion about campcruft. I'll see if I can find who it was, but it wasn't taken unilaterally. Thanks for the heads up, though! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 00:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
- It is probably worth noting that the Judaism Wikiproject does not claim any relation to Jewish community topics. That wikiproject is focussed on Jewish religious topics, and hence may have bearing on the Hasidic articles, but not on the summer camps. jnothman talk 02:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Archive
Of course, you already know this, and likely have plenty of good reasons for not having archived in a good while, but I'll leave the template in any case, on the off chance that you've simply overlooked the page length and size (105kb!)... :)
Joe 04:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Important: This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving. [edit] The South African Bush Telegraph
Oh no Páll, I consider you South African even though you don't live here any more. I believe once a person has lived in Africa for a while, he or she can never get Africa out of their system. Consider yourself one of us. About the Africa Award, it was getting late and I only managed to beat out about 3 or 4 messages on the drum and I am planning to get back to it today. You are near the top of my list along with Elf-Friend (still have to send message), Impi, Banes and Wizzy (still have to send message). We have come a long way together and I respect you. The Africa Award has been recogised by the Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board but not by the general wiki community. The award has been put up for nomination as an ‘’Other Award’’ along side barnstars. So without further ado …
Hi Páll, the Africa Award has been proposed as an official award, we could sure use your input at the proposal page - Thank you! :-) --Jcw69 07:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
The South African Bush Telegraph has been launched. If you interested please go to ... Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Bush Telegraph. Regards, --Jcw69 14:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your vote
No hard feelings — my only complaint was that I couldn't answer you in time to reconsider! ;) I was busy composing a reply yesterday, but gave up after it was closed. However, I will reply to your concern now:
Firstly, I'm also of the school of thought that adminship isn't a "big thing". I take a very pragmatic view of all of this, but as I said in my nom, this would be incredibly useful to have from time to time. I do RC checking, but it is a pain currently because popups aren't consistent; you might've noticed complaints on my nom from others about page truncation, and I've been unable to localise the problem. Having rollback will be a great help in that regard. Furthermore, at the moment its quite pointless for me to participate in AfD et. al., since I tend to stay away from the actual voting process (mostly having no opinion or knowledge to support a vote), but if I had admin tools, I would be an uninterested third party with the ability to close such discussions. I'm sure I will become more involved with various administrative functions once I have the ability, since I'm a sucker for the "meta" side of things.
I hope that answers you completely :) Best, dewet|✉ 06:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- I only now read the small part of your message concerning "good editors shouldn't be admins"; while I agree in principle — certain people like the "organising" part better than the "writing" part, and vice versa — there is still an argument to be made for having a part of those tools for regular, long-time editors. As I mentioned in my Q1 (IIRC), its for the odd times that I do need it to try and sort out redirects/dab pages, or when I want to block an obvious vandal for a short time — by the time I've managed to report it to WP:AIV through our dodgy internet here, and somebody actually responds to it, the problem's gone and we need a big mop-up. I still want to focus on editing (hence my non-interest in the politics of deletion debates, etc.) dewet|✉ 22:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Cape Town photos
Certainly, I live in Cape Town now, and just a few blocks from the train station. Tomorrow's a bit busy (and the weather's predicted to by sucky :( ), but I'll take a day out to go find some nice spots to photograph. Why do you want the station, specifically? I can think of a number of better candidates ;) dewet|✉ 17:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- Right, your wish is my command ;) If Sunday's weather holds up, I'll make an effort to find all those spots. There are some nice stations at the back of the mountain — Vishoek or Simon's Town. I'll keep you posted... dewet|✉ 17:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- Naturally. I'm still waiting for the Department of Home Affairs to finish my citizenship registration. I've been waiting for over two years, then seriously thinking of moving back full-time. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 07:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- I take that back! I literally called the person I have been dealing with for the past two years and she asked if I could tell that she was smiling by her voice. She was calling to tell me that my application had been approved and that I was issued with a new ID number this morning. As of nine am this morning, I'm a full citizen of the post-1994 Republic of South Africa! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 08:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Not yet; the weather today is fine though, so I'll be taking off soon on a trip around the city. dewet|✉ 07:11, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- I drove around a bit today; its just a pain in the ass to upload to the commons, but I'll sort through it and let you know. dewet|✉ 16:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Sure, or if you wanted, you can e-mail them to me and I'll do the grunt work, since I did ask! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words. I'm still uploading, though, but I'll let you know once I'm done. I think I've sorted out my technique now ;) dewet|✉ 06:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Congratulations!
Well then, let me be the first to congratulate your on your shiny new S.A. citizenship! Those of us that were born with it are probably a bit blazé about it, but things like this remind you what a privilege it is to be living in such a great country. Veels geluk! dewet|✉ 08:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Dankie, dankie! I should have been born with it, too. My father's South African, and I lived in CT for seven years or so. I just was a child and it was never registered, just assumed. So when I went to go for a passport, they said I had never formally become a South African citizen: Oops! I've been spending all this time trying to prove my father's identity and the time I spent in South Africa. But hey, this is so exciting :) Páll (Die pienk olifant) 08:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well done, that must have been a mine field of bureaucracy that you had to crawl through. You are now offically one of us and I can't ignore you any more ;-) --Jcw69 09:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Border War
What? Your a citizen? Yay! ***fireworks and cheers*** Congrats!
Now, to business ... I can't recall all the sources I trawled through, but I'm pretty sure I got most of it (and the info for the border war military operations articles) from articles I found in The South African Military History Society Journal, which I have found to be a very good source for those writing about South African military history.
One other thing ... were trying to start an SA newsletter/bulletin board thingie at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Bush Telegraph ... your participation and input will certainly be appreciated!
Kind Regards, Elf-friend 09:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you! I've been slogging away at getting all that paperwork done since January of last year. I saw the thing about the Bush Telegraph. On the whole it looks great, but what are you hoping for it to contain? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 12:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Well, news about items such as votes concerning SA articles (e.g. deletion), articles achieving good article status or featured status, votes about other things (such as the Africa award), news concerning SA editors (SA based or by inclination/main activity), such as adminship votes or adminship being granted, and probably important personal news (if the person concerned would like to make it public), such as births, deaths (hopefully not!), marriages, graduations, etc. What do you think? Elf-friend 12:54, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cape Town
I see you deleted a gallery of pictures - and I agree with that. However, is it maybe not appropriate to restore 1 or 2 of those photos as regular pictures within the article? I see your comment was "not free" etc. : yet the author claimed it was his own work (or at least some of it was). Is this the matter? We could do with some of his photos - what are your thoughts? I know there are plans to get this article to featured status - what can be done? -- Chris Lester talk 10:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- For featured status, all of the images must be explicitly free for use on WIkipedia. Until the original uploader chooses a licence to upload them under, they're pretty unusuable. I am never opposed to more images, but there is very little space left for more images in the article. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 12:02, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] user comes from
Your Userpage says you are from five countries but only states how you are from the United States and Denmark. So how are you from Canada, Hong Kong, and South Africa? Just wondering eh. - Rudykog 23:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding your nominations at WP:IFD
On pretty much every nomination, you wrote: "Per Canadian law, there must be clearly stated permission by a child's parents for their image to be used in a public forum. There is no such statement from any parent on this image, and thus can be considered illegal in the country it was originally uploaded from and taken in. Same law exists in the United States, where the image is housed." Which laws are we referring to here? If you could provide links, that would be appreciated.
By the way, please notify the uploaders that their images are on WP:IFD. Without following this procedure, neither I nor any other administrator can delete the image; they will have to be relisted instead, which means they will be on Wikipedia for an additional 7 days. Thanks. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 16:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] comment on your style
you proposed the deletion of the article on the Bread From Heaven Christian Fellowship. No harm done, it's your right. I scanned your contributed articles and they all looked fine and well done. However, your comments on "Bread" seem to be an apt description of your comments, more than anything else. No offense intended.
[edit] Johannesburg
Why did you change back to the old twinning section? Raker 06:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Because that is how the article has always been, and there is no need to have a section with only two items in a list. It's poor form. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 14:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cape Town Photos
Hey Páll,
I'd love to help with the photos (not to mention getting the article up to FA), but unfortunately I'm a bit "transport-limited" (i.e., dependent on the goodwill of others or the limited public transport system here) so getting around can be a problem. I can certainly take a nice picture of UCT and one of the M3. Weather (and my sometimes faulty memory) permitting, I'll take those on Monday or Tuesday. As to the other photos, have you considered asking some of the other people in Category:Wikipedians in Cape Town?
Cheers, htonl 13:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've taken a photo of the M3, which is at Image:Cape Town M3 passing UCT.jpg. I've also taken several pictures of the UCT campus, which are at commons:Category:University of Cape Town. Unfortunately the "canonical" picture of the Upper Campus which shows the full width of the campus (like they use on the adverts) needs a really wide-angle lens (or panorama stitching, I guess). - htonl 21:52, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Univerisities in Cape Town
Just a point of curiosity: I was always under the impression that a university and university of technology were two different things, in that a university has the aim of awarding degrees, whereas a university of technology awards diplomas. Due to this difference, are they still not classified seperately and use the broad term of "Tertiary Education" together? -- Chris Lester talk 18:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photos of South Africa
Hi there, most of the photos are taken by myself... I'm crazy about South African scenery, some of them are from my mates, but most are me. Took a lot of pics of the Cape before I left to come work in the USA. Andresdewet 16:28, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
- That's fine, but please, please state a copyright status, otherwise your great images will be deleted! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 17:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Design contest submission
On the project page for the design contest, it states that submissions may be coordinated through you. How, exactly do you prefer to handle the requests?
- Requests, in what way? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Infobox Country
Hello. I truly believe that using dashes looks unprofessional and unbalanced. I'm open to changing the bullets to anything that makes the design looks more professional. If that's a little icon or some Unicode symbol, I'm open to that. But I think the dashes are just a very poor design choice. Are you willing to change the dashes? If so, what would you propose? Cheers. ☆ CieloEstrellado 05:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- I'm willing to talk about it, too, but I'd like to know why you think the dashes look unprofessional? I'm a trained graphic designer, and I would never come to that conclusion. It would be interesting to know each other's take before we can make any other proposals. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 15:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I didn't see your response until now. (It would be a good idea to post at my Talk page, so I know!) Anyway, I would really like to see a screenshot of how you see the box with bullets. I've posted mine at the template's talk page. Do you think the bullets in my screenshot look worse in comparison to the dashes in my other screenshot? ☆ CieloEstrellado 06:43, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alive, sort of :)
Hey man. Yeah, I am alive and actually editing a bit nowadays. How have you been my friend? Inter\Echo 15:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Soweto article
Thanks for the welcome and the note about my stupid mistake on the correct names for indigenous languages. Phew!
I look forward to snooping around the South African sites, some of which I had added to anonymously in the past.
DocDee 09:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] KZN/eThekwini map
I've done the map you asked for - it's at Image:KwaZulu-Natal Municipalities showing eThekwini.png. Cheers, htonl 11:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Capte Town etc.
The Featured Article Medal So you have the SA NM BS and African BS... here is something to complement them :) Ekhm. For your contributions to raising many articles to FA-class I, Piotrus, hearby award you The Featured Article Medal. Keep up the good job!Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] Long talk page
Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] School
New School tentatively. I missed the deadlines for the other schools, such as NYU etc. otherwise I would have applied. Maybe after my master's I will end up there or where ever. No problem, the article was very well organized and looked great. good job. Cheers. Tombseye 16:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- Will let you know this fall. I just got in following my extremely late application (they were the only school that I knew of that takes late applications). Someone special I imagine? ;) Tombseye 22:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- She's at new school for political science — she used to be my room mate :) Páll (Die pienk olifant) 02:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] == trust on Wikipedia ==
Hi I got your contact from meta's embassy. :) This is Cathy from Hong Kong working on a research about trust on Wikipedia. I wonder if you would kindly contact me at researchingmedia@gmail.com? I'd like to chat with you about Wikipedia of your language. Would you kindly drop me your email or IM (Skype, MSN, AIM or ICQ)? It wouldn't take more than ten minutes, but it would help enormous for us to understand the overall trust-based social landscape of Wikipedia. Thank you!
[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/True Torah Jews
So I want to understand clearly, did I advance the case on verifiability, and I now have to make the case for notability?
Bloger 20:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] South Africa
Your comment about the South African expat community not been fully honest in their reasons for disliking SA makes alot of sense. Many of the expats in New Zealand are middle class Afrikaner families which seem to have a very negative attitude towards Blacks and the crime rate and they seem to be especially negative about Jo'burg. I do have a few questions for you that i hope you can answer for me.
- Am i in danger of been mugged etc for been white?
- No, South Africa pretty much is beyond race — it's about money. If anything, you're at risk for being mugged because either you;'re A) doing something stupid or B) wealthy. Wealthy black people are just as much at risk for being mugged as wealthy white people — it all depends upon your attitude and how street smart you are.
- Well i guess i'm reasonably street smart, especially since i come from Rotorua.
- Is Cape Town safe? (safe in comparison to NZ)
- No, but then again, almost no place is safe compared to NZ. Cape Town is a wonderful and safe place as long as you're willing to be somewhat street smart. Don't piss off parking attendants.
- Are schools multiracial or dominated by one ethnic group?
- That depends upon the school, but in general, no.
- What are English South Africans like? (in terms of culture, attitudes etc...)
- A bit like Australians.
- If am placed in a mainly Black school should i be worried?
- No, why would you be?
- It's pretty common in NZ to be pushed around if your white and going to a Maori school.
- What do i call Black Africans without offending them?
- Black people?
Páll (Die pienk olifant) 02:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I see that we're both of Danish ancestry too LOL. (i'm Danish, German and Russian)
Cheers Arguss 10:42 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't know about NZ, even though I'm an NZ citizen (don't ask). But basically, don't be stupid, and stupid things won't happen to you. But I definitely recommend going to SA, you'll have a great time! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 02:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Crash space during Wikimania
Hello,
You have put an information on Wikimania webpage, that you are offering crash space.
I'd like to attend Wikimania, and I am wondering if you can accomodate me. I have no big demands. Just a place on your floor is absolutely OK.
Polimerek 22:02, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Some info about me:
I am the treasurer of the Wikimedia Poland Society and its board member for the first year, elected on August 2005.
I am a chemist from Centre of Molecular Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, involved in editing Polish Wikipedia, sometimes English and recently uploading chemical pictures to Commons.
My story with Wikimedia projects begun one month after launching polish edition of Wikipedia (at 2001), as a 7th registered user. Several weeks later I have also joined English Wikipedia, but I have registered there one year later, and have never been very active there.
In Polish Wikipedia I was mainly involved in editing chemical articles, translating basic meta articles from English Wikipedia, and also many articles for various other areas of knowledge. I don’t know exactly how many articles I have written from 2001 but my estimation it is in between of 1000 serious content additions and much more minor editions. Currently, I am responsible for maintaining Chemistry Wikiportal and category chemistry on Polish Wikipedia.
I am also admin of Polish Wikipedia almost from its beginning. I am administering articles for deletion, featured articles and Questions of newbies. I am also a member of informal "cleaning department" on Polish Wikipedia.
- My page on Polish wikipedia: pl:Wikipedysta:Polimerek
- My page on meta: meta:User:Polimerek
- My page on Commons: commons:User:Polimerek
- My personal, private web page: [19] (in Polish only)
- My "offical" web page on Polish Chemical Society portal: [20] (in English)
Sorry, I cannot send you an e-mail, because your Wikipedia e-mail is not confirmed :-) Go to your preferences and confirm it. I am not quite sure if I come to Wikipedia. Actually I am applying for "Wikimedia scholarship", therefore I am looking for methods to lower the cost of my stay in Boston. If I came I would fly from Warsaw to NY (JFK) and then I'll travel by bus to Boston. Direct flights from Poland to Boston are for some reasons much more expensive than to NY. My e-mail address polimerk at gmail com Polimerek 08:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Help
Done. I'm not really surprised by his perception; a lot of the expats are those who are afraid of change, and afraid of adaptation. Anyway, we can only try and make that better.
PS: I see you're offering crash space for Wikimania; I'd love to go (I'm going to apply for a scholarship), and if I can save on the accommodation, that'd surely help... dewet|✉ 06:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, of course, for you I can surely manage something. You'd also be welcome to come and stay with me in New York for a few days — I'm going to be driving up to Boston and back — so you can get some time in New York as well, If you need help with the visa section, I have a very good relationship with the US embassy in Pretoria, I'm sure they can help you out, or I can ask my friend who's the editor of Beeld to talk to their political-support staff. But that would be great if you could come! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 07:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- Added my bit as well. BTW, if anybody wonders why I'm a bit scarce lately - work pressures. Hope to be back at full strength one of these days ... Kind Regards, Elf-friend 07:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- I look forward to seeing you back at full Elf-friend-strength :) Páll (Die pienk olifant) 07:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Azeris vote change
Hello. Tigran has removed his objection so are you back on-board? Could use it as we near the end. Thanks. Tombseye 08:28, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.
As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.
Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Crash space available
Sorry, I cannot send you an e-mail, because your Wikipedia e-mail is not confirmed :-) Go to your preferences and confirm it. I am not quite sure if I come to Wikipedia. Actually I am applying for "Wikimedia scholarship", therefore I am looking for methods to lower the cost of my stay in Boston. If I came I would fly from Warsaw to NY (JFK) and then I'll travel by bus to Boston. Direct flights from Poland to Boston are for some reasons much more expensive than to NY. My e-mail address: polimerk at gmail com Polimerek 20:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- My e-mail has been fixed — I'd tell you what it is, but i prefer for it not to be sitting out there in "space", as it were. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 21:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ustasha -> Ustaše
Please don't change all references to Ustasha to Ustaše because we don't actually have a real decision on what to call that article, Ustaše is merely the form currently used, despite the fact that the Anglicized form is not at all uncommon. --Joy [shallot] 15:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Standardized look for geographical infoboxes
Hi - I created a proposed guideline for geographical infoboxes I expect you might be interested in, please see Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unfair deletion
Hi Paul,
The matter concerns this link, which is marked for deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Abbotts which concerns the Bromley & Chislehurst by-election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley_and_Chislehurst_by-election,_2006 .
Ben Abbotts came a very close 2nd. As it stands, the result may actually be disputed by the UKIP party, because the winner, Bob Neill, actually was technically invalidated and ineligible to stand as a member of Parliament at the time, because he held a job that was considered a conflict of interest. He knowingly incorrectly filled in this form.
The consequence of this is a repeat by-election would be forced because of the invalidated candidate, Bob Neill, or, depending on how things turn out legally, Ben Abbotts would automatically win as all votes for the invalid candidate would be thrown away.
The information written, is not what I have written, in fact, Timrollpickering is a political opponent. The information he has added is somewhat inaccurate. I would change it now, but it has been marked for deletion, therefore I don't know whether to consult you.
The grounds for deletion are not legitimate in my opinion. I made the site for Sue Doughty. She, like Ben, is a PPC - prospective parliamentary candidate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Doughty .
So, I would make a proper full page for Ben Abbotts, clearly, maintaining an impartial line as required, very much like Sue's. If you could please find a way to prevent the deletion, I would be grateful, or if you could inform me of what I need to do.
Please reply, thank you very much for calling.
Yours sincerely,
Alan.
[edit] Regarding crashspace
Greetings! My name is Friðrik Bragi Dýrfjörð, I and my friend User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason are going to Wikimania (and Hacking Days) and are looking for a crashspace. I will arrive at 27 July but Ævar will arrive a day later (we will leave together though, 8 August). We are both from Iceland and are bureaucrats at the Icelandic Wikipedia. If you need any more information or just want to chat, please just send me a message on my talk page or if you want you can use IM: dyrfjord{at]gmail (both Jabber and Hotmail). If you can only offer us a crashspace for a limited time, that might do ;) --Friðrik Bragi Dýrfjörð 20:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Redesign Dates
PZFUN, Are you still accepting entries for the WikiPedia redesign?
Justino
[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Johannesburg Apartheid Museum.jpg
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[edit] Talk:South Africa
Haha, now what's this about trolls? :) And how can someone have three home languages and five home countries?! Your folks diplomats? Joziboy 18:05, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Volksgeist and Adriaan1 are pretty much trolls. And it's a bit complicated, I guess :) Páll (Die pienk olifant) 18:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Crash space available / Wikimania
I have noticed you are listed under 'Crash space available' for Wikimania, and as we know each other somewhat (you nominating me for admin and such :D) and me needing a place to stay for one day after the conference (the night of Monday 7th - my dorm reservartions ends on Monday and I have a flight on Tuesday) I thought I drop you a line and see if this can work out? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus talk 18:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
- OK - at least we will finally met f2f on Wikimania :) I am looking forward to that! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 20:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Crash Space
Dear PZFUN,
I am Nicky, 21 years old male from Thailand. I am goin to attend the Wikimania conference in Boston on this Aug4-6, 06. I saw in the page that you an avaliable space for some more person. I haven't have a place to stay yet. Is it possible for me to stay with you? I will arrive at Boston Airport on Aug3, 06 around 8pm. I hope I would hear from you soon. Please email me at djnicky@gmail.com
Regards, Nicky www.myspace.com/dj_nicky95
[edit] Schabir Shaik trial
I see this hit the Main Page - congrats again on a fine article. Wizzy…☎ 09:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] JzG
This user will not quit. He has vandalized my talkpage numerous times over the past three days
- Today he deleted comments of other users with no explanation[21], protecting my talkpage[22] without any justification, deleting my response to his harassment on my talkpage with the bizarre edit summary "Since you are saying goodbye, let's assume you mean it, eh?", and then leaving this threatening message to intimidate me into leaving[23].
Before that he vandalized my talkpage[24]. Then when I reverted another user assumed he was right and reverted to JzG's version, but realized he was wrong and apologized. I was cordially and said it was alright. JzG has left numerous uncivil comments on my talkpage that can be viewed if one goes through the history of the page. He has also repeatedly been warned. I want him blocked immediately. Tchadienne 22:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter
The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas.
- In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
- The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
- Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
- Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
- Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
- There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
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[edit] TfD nomination of Template:East Rail infobox
Template:East Rail infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Slambo (Speak) 15:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter
Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it.
- The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
- The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
- The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
- TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. [edit] Your vote please
Hi PZFUN - Please vote on the proposed move of the 'South African farmer murders' page. The straw poll is here. Please also pass this message on to others you think would be interested. Thank you! Cheers, Jason Lionchow - Talk 08:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Design overhaul, 2006
Hi PZFUN,
what will happen to this overhaul? maybe someone should make some advertising for this competition?
Christoph Knoth 19:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter
Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
- The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
- The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
- In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
- A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted!
- Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
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Hi, PZFUN ! I´ve seen you are a city expert. You are very welcome to comment on this city-article at Wikipedia:Peer review/Berlin/archive1. Is it already mature enough to promote it towards FA-candidate-procedure? Thanks for the assessment! Lear 21 15:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Source information
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[edit] Image:Apartheid Beach.jpg listed for deletion
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[edit] Stubby articles
I ran across an article you created, Aeroton, Gauteng, apparently one of a series, and left comments on the talk page. Apparently someone created a stub for every town in the U.S. from Census Bureau data, so at least there is some info about the population. These seem to be a bit less than stubs. I will defer from plastering each with tags for lacking references. You must have obtained the basic info from a source, so please at least add a link to it. Believe it or not, pranksters have created numerous hoax articles about nonexistent towns in the U.S., so every article needs a verifiable and reliable source. Thanks. Edison 19:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Suburbs of Johannesburg
Just wanted to drop by and say what a great article! I ran into it while cleaning speedy tags off some of your articles and learned a lot. This is such an example of what Wikipedia should be. Perel 03:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] R369 (Northern Cape)
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[edit] Photo
Image:Roméodallaire.jpg, this is your own photo? There's no source listed. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 22:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Untagged image
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[edit] R385 (Northern Cape)
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[edit] New York Transportation
Currently, it is legal for the homeless to consume alcoholic beverages while riding the subway. This measure was lobbied for by President George W. Bush, as an alternative to allowing the homeless to vote in presidential elections.[51]
Please update!
[edit] WikiProject France
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 22:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Flag of South Africa
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[edit] A stupid question
Having read your Userpage, it is unclear if you've ever actually been to South Africa (or Namibia for that matter) - but it is clear that you've made significant contributions. So first off, thanks a lot for all your apparent great work, and if I may ask, how much time have you spent in South Africa -- purely out of interest? Rfwoolf 19:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oh lord. It's this kind of churlishness that encouraged me to leave Wikipedia back in August. Yes, I've been to South Africa. I've lived there. I've met almost every South African Wikipedia editor. I have an ugly green passport that says Republic of South Africa / République de l'Afrique du Sud on it. Any other questions? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 04:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- There's no need for incongruity, PZFUN, 'twas simply a bid of thanks for your work on South African articles, and an attempt to familiarise myself with some of the stronger editors on South African articles. For this reason I hardly see how I can be accused of churlishness? Such a statement was unbecoming coming from a prominent editor such as yourself who should by now be more than familiar with the fact that we are slightly lacking in South African contributors. You may be surprised if I tell you that I am South African myself, and my query was not an attack on your authority to contribute to South African articles but rather an interest in your link to South Africa as my question mentions I was asking simply out of interest. As my question further stated, your userpage doesn't mention if you've ever actually been to South Africa, and you claim to be various nationalities aside from South African, I'm sure you'd agree that my question has some merit? Rfwoolf 11:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Your question fit into a patern of the other South African editors on here giving me a hard time because I do not live there at the moment. It was nothing personal directed against you. I actually have lived in Cape Town for a long time and hold a South African passport. Just like to keep things as simple as possible on the user page. Sorry for barking. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 17:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hakanana
Could you please check wether "Hakanana" is the correct spelling of this constituency? These sources: [25], [26], [27], [28] and many more have Hakahana so I think the article should be moved to Hakahana. All google hits seem to be clones of your Wp article. --Proofreader 19:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome back!! You're editing again!!
Dear Paul: You're back here on the wiki! I'm thrilled. :-) I only just noticed that you've started editing again merely by chance. I did send you a rather strange e-mail to your (old?) address yesterday asking about your disappearance, but I should have checked your contribs first. Silly me! *slaps forehead* In which case, ignore it. How are you doing? It's absolutely ages since we last spoke - far, far too long ago. I myself have been away from WP for a while, owing to a lack of Internet access, and I think it probably did me good. I trust all has been going well for you? --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 04:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just got your e-mail and was about to call you but remembered that it is probably a bad idea to call you at all hours of the night now! I was so thrilled to hear from you. I will call you tomorrow afternoon. And no, not editing again. I have to for an assignment for university, but once it over, I plan to go right back into retirement. How the hell are you? Páll (Die pienk olifant) 05:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Paul!!! It is really, really wonderful to hear from you again. I must say, I have missed you greatly.
- I would certainly call you myself, but alas I don't have your telephone number any more, I think, unfortunately. Regarding times to call, though, don't worry, you can call me at any time at all - I do sleep these days, but I still don't sleep very much, and at highly variable times of the night. And besides, talking to you again would take precedence over sleep, certainly. :-)
- I must confess, I'm not sorry to hear you've kicked your Wikipedia habit in this regard, as my extended hiatus has in fact granted me time to be involved in this intriguing thing called "real life" instead. Regarding how I am, probably the most succinct way of answering that would be a hell of a lot better than I was the last time you spoke to me. On reflection, I think in fact you played a crucial role in planting the seeds of change in my mental outlook back then when we talked on IRC - so, in part, it is you I should thank for this. But certainly, a great success to report. I hope that your university course is going well, as mine has been - and incidentally, how the hell are you doing, too?
- (Sorry for the rambling nature of this reply. I think I'm just excited that I've got to talk to you again. Really this probably should have gone in an e-mail instead of here on Wikipedia; but what the hell, I'm clicking "Save page" anyway.) --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 01:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I missed you. Welcome back, brother. Your tickets were your dream out. Please help yourself to the keylime pie. How do you like your coffee? —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 03:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair-use images on ITN
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[edit] Quebec election on headlines
Hello, please read the discussion on Charest :). It is unsure if he really lost his riding in Sherbrooke. He nearly did. Please update accordingly. -- Jo9100 03:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- I didn't mean to touch of an edit-war on the Main Page; please stop and bring this to WP:ITNT. It does not look good to have this occur on Wikipedia's most visible page. -- tariqabjotu 03:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Please do not lecture me. The usual response is to leave things as is and then discuss them. I am trying to do so on the template talk page. Please see appropriately. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 03:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Role of the international community in the Rwandan Genocide
Hi there PZFUN.
This will take you back: some translating you did back in 1995 from a French text to English. What was the text you translated for this article? There are no citations, and it is pretty POV in some areas. Do you remember where it is from?
Many thanks
Chrisfow 23:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Iraq war protests
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[edit] Image:Nelson Mandela Being Sworn In.jpg
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[edit] Image:Soweto Riots.jpg
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[edit] Johannesburg-stub idea
Hey there,
I saw that you have contributed so greatly to South Africa-related articles, specifically creating {{Johannesburg-stub}}. I am currently going through the Cat:South Africa geography stubs and I feel that it would be most effective to merge Johannesburg-stub to Cat:Gauteng geography stubs. I think we could also create a {{SouthAfrica-struct-stub}} for the non-geo Johannesburg stubs. Do you have any objections or thoughts on it?--Thomas.macmillan 17:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Currency Image:1000kroner.jpg
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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Nielsbohrdenmark.jpg
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[edit] Image on af.wp requires a source
Hi, PZFUN
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[edit] Old Montreal Pic
Would you add copyright info to your pic, Image:Old montreal.jpg? Thanks
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[edit] Venue suggestion needed for a meet-up in Yuen Long
Dear: PZFUN ：
In the past meet-ups, we always had our meeting in the centre of Kowloon, either Kowloon Tong or Mong Kok. However, apart from these places, I am sure that alternative venues in other region would be suitable.
This is the time for your suggestion! According to some discussion on Chinese Wikipedia, from August of 2007, the Hong Kong Wikimedians’ meet-up would be held in all districts of Hong Kong in a circulation basis.
Here is the tentative information of the first meet-up：
- Date：11, August, 2007 (Saturday)
- Time：After 5:00pm
- Proposed region：Yuen Long
The community would request for ideas of where we should hold the meet-up , in order to have a better decision. If you have any good ideas, don’t hesitate to give your opinions, million thanks!
[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Architects_of_apartheid.jpg
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[edit] Can you change your signature please
Hello can you change your signature please. Currently it is [[User:PZFUN|'''<font color="000000">Páll</font>''']]</font> <sup><font color="ff66cc">[[User talk:PZFUN|('''Die pienk olifant''')]]</font></sup>. I would like it if you could change it because it contains incorrect syntax and in some cases can cause the whole page underneath it to be coloured a different colour than the normal black colour. If you can change it to [[User:PZFUN|'''<font color="000000">Páll</font>''']] <sup><font color="ff66cc">[[User talk:PZFUN|('''Die pienk olifant''')]]</font></sup>, that would correct the error while still maintaining an identical signature, thanks. Jackaranga 14:37, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Featured article review of Schabir Shaik trial
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[edit] South Africa
The South Africa article received heavy editing today by unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 01:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New York City Meetup
New York City Meetup
Next: Saturday November 3rd, Brooklyn Museum area
Last: 8/12/2007
The agenda for the next meetup includes the formation of a Wikimedia New York City local chapter. Hope to see you there! --Pharos 20:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Change in regions in Johannesburg
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Please note that the johannesburg regions have been amalgamated and "re-lettered" See this webpage for the new regions
http://www.joburg.org.za/unicity/index_regions.stm
This means a whole lot of articles need to be changed ____________________________________________________________________________ —Preceding unsigned comment added by SACitizen (talk • contribs) 00:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] South Africa at FAR
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[edit] FAR
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[edit] You're invited!
...to the next New York City Meetup!
New York City Meetup
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Last: 11/3/2007
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[edit] History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 FAR
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[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Free State infobox
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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:History of Cape Town
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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Venezuela presidential election, 1998
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[edit] New mailing list
There has been a mailing list created for Wikipedians in the New York metropolitan area (list: Wikimedia NYC). Please consider joining it! Cbrown1023 talk 21:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] You are invited!
New York City Meetup
Next: Sunday March 16th, Columbia University area
Last: 1/13/2008
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).
Well also make preparations for our exciting Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
You're also invited to subscribe to the public Wikimedia New York City mailing list, which is a great way to receive timely updates.
This has been an automated delivery because you were on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 03:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[edit] WP:AUK
This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us. Taifarious1 04:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tagalog Wikipedia
Tagalog Wikipedia Campaign March 2008!Tagalog Wikipedia is campaigning for your participation in writing, editing, assessing and translating articles!
The purpose of this campaign is to expand and improve articles at Tagalog Wikipedia. Your participation will be highly appreciated by the community.There are over 16,000 articles to view, read, review, edit, and expand, so please visit the Wikipedia Café and the WikiProject Philippines at Tagalog Wikipedia to help out!
The campaign includes seeking your assistance in:
- Providing requested pages
- Providing requested articles
- Providing articles required for all language Wikipedias
- Starting or improving pages that need translation
Or just anything you can do to help us just like what you are doing there at the English Wikipedia.
Thank you in advance and regards, Tagalog Wikipedia Community
Finally, Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the Philippines. Then why is it that the Tagalog Wikipedia, the Wikipedia in your own language remains unknown to most of the Filipinos? The mission of this campaign is to change that. Will you join us?
[edit] Hong Kong FAR
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[edit] NYC Meetup: June 1, 2008
New York City Meetup
Next: Sunday June 1st, Columbia University area
Last: 3/16/2008
In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, elect a board of directors, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).
We'll also review our recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wiki Week bonanza, being planned with Columbia University students for September or October.
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
Also, check out our regional US Wikimedia chapters blog Wiki Northeast (and we're open to guest posts).
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 00:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[edit] Commons images on the main page
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[edit] You're welcome
Hello :)
Yes, I am danish, so thank you for the grammar-correction..
And good work as well on the bombing article —Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrokleSasser (talk • contribs) 08:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] ITN image
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[edit] ITN contributions without prior discussion
I am assured that a request has been posted on the edit box for ITN to the effect of
- Admins: if you are taking the initiative to post an item that has not been discussed at WP:ITN/Candidates, please add it there and explain why you believe that it meets the criteria.
It is disappointing therefore, and appears disrespectful to the regular contributors at ITN/C, that you seem to ignore this request. Kevin McE (talk) 21:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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