Wikipedia talk:WikiProject East Timor

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[edit] Assessment

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

[edit] Article banners

Currently articles involved with East Timor are tagged with the {{WikiProject Melanesia}} talk-page banner, with a line about an East Timor work group. Should we create a banner of our own, to use instead? (I'll be happy to make such a banner.) – Scartol • Tok 16:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

There would be the problem of banner proliferation if that were to be done. I can and will adjust the banner in such a way that it looks like the Africa banner at User talk:John Carter/Sandbox12. The fact that much of this country's history also deals with other nations might lead to the presence of too many banners. John Carter (talk) 16:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Understood. Cheers for that. – Scartol • Tok 16:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name change?

There is discussion at Talk:Military of East Timor to change the name from Military of East Timor to Timor Leste Defence Force. Please contribute on the talk page. For me, the issue is the use of the word Timor Leste - it's the requested official name, not the most known English name as required by WP:NAME. --Merbabu (talk) 10:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this here: I was unaware of this Wikiproject. I am suggesting the move of this article as neither 'Military of East Timor' or 'East Timor Defence Force' are what the force is commonly known. It is normally called 'F-FDTL' in English-language publications (as demonstrated by the references in the article), which is the abbreviation for Falintil-Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste, which best translates as 'Timor Leste Defence Force'. As such, 'Timor Leste Defence Force' is both the most common English-language name and the official name, so I think that this is in line with WP:NAME. I do not think that this move should have implications for the name of the article on the country, as this is a seperate issue. --Nick Dowling (talk) 10:38, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] German Wikipedia

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

[edit] East Timor (infoboxes at the bottom of the country article)

I created 4 infoboxes for the main article:

I hope that somebody would bother to add cities to the cioty template as its not complete yet; also villages and hamlets of East Timor should be created to complete local geography sector.

Nice work. Thanks. (although there are lots of red links to fill in!!). Cheers --Merbabu (talk) 07:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help with East Timor cities/towns/villages and their disambiguation.

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