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Thank you very much for reviewing the article and for your kind words. It was a nice surprise to read that particular note on my talk page. I responded a bit more fully at the bottom of the GA review, but I wanted to post a note here too. Finetooth (talk) 22:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:
Hi, my name is EsperimentoPierrot. I'm here to ask you why you decided that people like Emilio Ambrosini or Niccolò Fiorentino have to be considered croat people.
I don't want an edit war and I have very little interest in editing more times those articles, so I'm writing to you just to know your reasons.
If you like to answer you can find my page in the italian wikipedia
Hoping to read you soon
--EsperimentoPierrot (talk) 11:03, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations, Admiral. I knew you could do it. Remember your criticism from your RFA, learn from your mistakes, and ignore the rules when you have to. Cheers, bibliomaniac1518:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I think that I've made some of the necessary changes to that article. Drop by the GA review and let me know if I've missed anything (or perhaps created new problems!). Congratulations on your RfA, by the way. Protonk (talk) 02:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Recognised geographical locations are considered notable; villages, hamlets et all. Me declaring my room to be the Nation of Smelly Students does not qualify it for a Wikipedia article. Ironholds (talk) 20:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Stalin's War, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
No evidence of notability - as the AFD'd Band's article says it was limited release from 'a small local label'
All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
Hi,
You left some comments on the Operation Deny Flight FAC last week, and I notice you've made several edits to the article as well. The FAC seems to have stagnated since then, and I was wondering if you have any other issues that you think need to be resolved with the article or if you're ready to support it now. Thanks. Cool3 (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! I hope I've now dealt with the issues you brought up, and thanks again for your help on the article. Cool3 (talk) 02:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:
Any work to do on Zagreb article, I need to see it evolve into a featured article and there is much vandals here; anything to improve or to add on Zagreb article ? NIR-Warrior (talk) 22:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I fixed broken links, corrected grammar even if there is not such of wrong spelling as I saw.
Is adding new sections will help the article to evolve into a featured one ? What exactly we need to add to the article to see it evolve soon ?NIR-Warrior (talk) 23:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Subtropical cyclone article
There are portions of the world (Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Mexico) which use km/h units, so I'm not going to remove them from the article. All the other suggestions you made during the GA review have been made. Thegreatdr (talk) 23:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Done
No more of needed citations, I've provided all the citations in the article, corrected all grammar errors and wrong sentences, fixed links and organized all the aricle with a new design and a great look; I do not know what we need again ?, how can I request to move the article into a featured one ? NIR-Warrior (talk) 07:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
While I don't disagree with your merge result, the uesr was obviously attempting for people to supply him with an answer to his homework, which is against homework. I'm going to give him a warning, ok? Thanks. Cheers, Imperat§ r(Talk)16:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, the template is only for the Help desk and the reference desks, but the policy is a general Wikipedia consensus. However, I do agree wit your redirect decision. :) Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk)21:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
As a side not, your RfA was successful- might want to replace the notice on your userpage with {{Template:Administrator}} :) Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk)21:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
This is the English Wikipedia not the Icelanding Wikipedia. The article should use characters common to English and alternate spellings may be displayed. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
The issue was decided when the page using Icelandic character was made a forwarding page to the one with the Western characters. Feel free to argue with the admins not me. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:32, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Once again you're arguing with me. Who cares what the FA does, they're not Wikipedia. Take your issue up with Wikipedisa's admins and not me. Thanks for your understanding. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if you would possibly translate the article on Marko Vego and the related info from Humačka ploča in the Bosnian wikipedia? I was thinking about translating them into Finnish and Swedish from the English articles, but the first one doesn't have an article at all and the second one is rather skimpy on detail. Thanks if you'll help! -Yupik (talk) 16:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Eh, you're much faster than I am :D The Croatian wiki also seems to have a substantial amount of info on the tablet. Not sure though how much of it is actually useful. Again, thanks (and no hurries)! :) -Yupik (talk) 16:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
I was reverting unsourced POV changes (and since I was already there, adding some more data) in Croatia article. So you need check the article again. Sorry again. --Kebeta (talk) 19:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't have the time to do a full-scale review. In addition, I only review at FAC for technical stuff like Dabs, dead links, and ref formatting.--Best, ₮RUCӨ01:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
NATO
Because of my poor english administrator Future Perfect is demanding that I ask somebody to look my edits. users Kubura and DIREKTOR are out of picture, this is not controversial edit, you are translator from Croatian on English and so ....
I have been writing about prime minister moment of truth ?!
Hi, I was out of town for a while, so I wasn't able to respond you. There is no mistake in article about Juraj I Šubić, maybe its just lousy written. What I meant was that Pavao I Šubić Bribirski appointed his brothers as commissars of Dalmatian cities. He (Pavao I) gave Split to his brother Mladen I, and Šibenik, Nin, Trogir and Omiš to his brother Juraj I Šubić. BTW, Pavao was the most powerful Croatian noble.....not Juraj I. I don't know is that what you wanted to know? Regards. --Kebeta (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I know that Several people have been abusing their tools to ban me even from writing on my own talk page. My discussion comments on the Obama page are deleted speedily and I know that they are trying to get me to reinstate them so that they can ban me again. The most notable is a person named Tarc. Can you please take a look at what happened to me (especially the last block that stopped me from writing on my own talk page) and advise me on what to do next. I understand you may disagree with me but I think what is happening to me is abuse and I hope that is stopped and the responsible parties held to some accountability and monitoring as i doubt I am the only one. I will try to be extra careful in the future but despite my not being the most potentially sympathetic character (to those on the Left) I don't think that is any excuse for the afore mentioned abuse of power. Thank you. JohnHistory (talk) 20:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)JohnHistory
P.S. I couldn't even contest my block because Tarc blocked me from writing on my own page for writing on my own page. That has to be abuse, right? JohnHistory (talk) 21:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)JohnHistory
The filter was still broken, evaluating new_HTML for a very long page caused a long wait on the edit, and during high load times, or for non-autoconfirmed users (who have lots of other filters run on them that autoconfirmed users don't) this would cause the edit to time out. Please do not reenable broken filters if you don't change anything. That is why I disabled it in the first place. Prodegotalk16:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
However many many other filters do, so the load for a non-autoconfirmed user is much higher, in total, than someone logged in. Prodegotalk18:30, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
The best way to test the filters as a whole, is to log out, and then try to subst a large page in to the article space. This is pretty much the worse case, every parameter being checked is very large (with the exception of old_wikitext, if you want to go worst case, replace an already substed large article by substing a new article). Also, mind the time of day. Right now the server load is moderate, when you (and then me later) tested, the server load was nearing its daily low. In a few hours it will be at max. Prodegotalk18:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Poland-Uruguay relations
Yes, it's a really shame about the FAC. Someone else has been working on copyediting the article, though, and it's currently going through a MILHIST A-Class Review (here if you'd like to participate), so I foresee it's return to FAC in perhaps a month or two. Thanks for the offer of userification on the Poland-Uruguay article, but I don't really think I could do much with the article. I tried my best to find the sources for it, but the consensus does seem to demonstrate that more was needed, and I don't think there's much more out there. Cool3 (talk) 20:26, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
There's no way consensus was still delete after Cool3 unearthed sources - although it was "no consensus" given the handful of accounts hellbent on the deletion of all bilateral relation articles regardless of content. Please reconsider the close, or let me know that you won't so I can open a DRV. Cheers, WilyD19:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I'd be fine with that. Sorry if I came off as rude, but the whole atmosphere around these articles is just so charged these days, merely being ignored would probably be the nicest treatment I've received in days. ;) WilyD13:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I think you'd have been fine to close the DRV yourself, since I agreed and no one else had commented, but I've gone ahead and done it. And yes, I would guess every last bilateral relations article, from Micronesia-San Marino up to United Kingdom - United States is going to see an AFD sometime soon. It'd be nice to have time to improve them, as most are just stubs, but with being rapidfired across AFD, and using disruptive tactics link mass bundlings that make discussions impossible, I simply don't have the time right now.
No worries about the delay, I really didn't think much of it. I'm just going by the letter of the book since I know at least two of the accounts pushing for deletion have been looking to get me blocked/banned, and I'd rather not make a misstep they can pounce on. WilyD13:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
A page you created, Svilaj, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, organisation, or web content, but does not indicate why its subject is important or significant.
I see that you recently redirected a variety of categories relating to counties in Croatia, such as Category:Dubrovnik-Neretva County. You should note that just redirecting a category does not change the category links on articles that belong to that category, so you've actually made it more difficult for readers to find these articles. If you want to rename a category, you should list it at WP:Categories for discussion. These particular renamings look like they should satisfy the "speedy renaming" criteria. Following this process will trigger a bot to change all the category links on the pages that belong to the renamed categories. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I received your message informing me that some of the pictures I uploaded are going to be deleted. The message you sent me is pasted below.
The reason I put the copyright tag that I did was because of the following reasons;
(The quotes are all from Wikipedia text)
"The public domain is generally defined (e.g. by the U.S. Copyright Office) as the sum of works that are not copyrighted, i.e.
·that were not eligible for copyright in the first place, or
·whose copyright has expired."
I think HTV television screenshots were never eligible for copyright since I was told that there are no clear intellectual ownership rights laws in Croatia.
"Whether or not something is copyright-free in some country depends on the laws of individual countries."
Seeing as Croatia is not part of the EU yet, what laws apply?
If I am wrong, would you please advise me what copyright tag to place these pictures under so they are not deleted? The television show in question is no longer even in existence, and these photos add to the person's notability.
Should it be under a Non-free fair use tag? If so, which one and then how do I insert the rationale?
I have listed a number of files you uploaded as possibly unfree at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 April 11#File:ZP show intro.jpg, because they use the
This work is not an object of copyright by the Agreement on succession issues; Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, being in sovereign equality the five successor States to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, have agreed in Vienna on 29 June 2001 as follows:
Agreement on succession issues
Annex F
Article 1
All rights and interests which belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and which are not otherwise covered by this Agreement (including, but not limited to, patents, trade marks, copyrights, royalties, and claims of and debts due to the SFRY) shall be shared among the successor States, taking into account the proportion for division of SFRY financial assets in Annex C of this Agreement. The division of such rights and interests shall proceed under the direction of the Standing Joint Committee established under Article 4 of this Agreement.
38.00% - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now: Montenegro, Serbia)
Annex D
Article 1
(a) For the purposes of this Annex, »SFRY State archives« means all documents, of whatever date or kind and wherever located, which were produced or received by the SFRY (or by any previous constitutional structure of the Yugoslav State since 1 December 1918) in the exercise of its functions and which, on 30 June 1991, belonged to the SFRY in accordance with its internal law and were, pursuant to the federal law on the regulation of federal archives, preserved by it directly or under its control as archives for whatever purpose.
Note:
This concerns checking the copyright status in particular countries. Mainly official images are without copyright but some other media also belongs to this group. Particularities of laws that are same in each and every country may be connected with this copyright tag.
This template must not be used on its own. To establish PD status it must be used only with an appropriate license template such as {{PD-SerbiaGov}}. You must make sure the file content has been declared as public domain by the laws of the relevant successor state.
tag but obviously aren't in public domain. This tag is meant for use in files that have been released in public domain by SFR Yugoslavia; it does not imply that every publicly available multimedia material is inherently in public domain and for use in Wikipedia. —Admiral Norton (talk) 22:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject NATO
As you may have noticed, the proposal for WikiProject NATO has now attracted 4 participants. That's one short of the suggested 5, but it's close enough, right? In any case, I have now established the most rudimentary of wikiproject pages, Wikipedia:WikiProject NATO, and I'd like to invite you to come and officially join as well as helping to get the project rolling. At a bare minimum, we're going to need to design a template and start tagging some articles. I look forward to seeing you around the project! Cool3 (talk) 20:22, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
