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I am not "TitanTG" and believe I am the innocent victim of a mistake.
This is pretty baffling because when I look at the contributions list of "TitanTG" there don't seem to be any contributions whatsoever!
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(I've tried switching on and off my router several times now - which should change my IP address - but this has not restored my ability to contribute!) BushelCandle ( talk) 22:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, just wanted to ask whether you mailed the Irish times regarding the passport card? I think it's highly important for the Irish authorities to understand that this pre-determined validity of only in the EU/EFTA doesn't help, but makes other countries reject it, which we have now seen in the US, Serbia, Hong Kong and now, most recently, Canada and Australia (I finally managed to contact these two and they said they won't accept the passport card)
All of these base their answer only on the artificial restriction stated on the web André Devecserii ( talk) 10:54, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
You changed the formatting from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy. If you are going to do this you must do it consistently throughout the article as per WP:CONSISTENCY. If you do not, I will, and I won't keep starting from scratch. Quis separabit? 04:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
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I'm sure you realise as well as I do why editing other people's remarks on a talk page is essentially VERY naughty and something we never do. NOT "offensive", or "inappropriate" perhaps, so much as fundamentally dishonest - with the best will in the world you are (potentially at least) making another person say something they didn't say. Talk page comments are really best made separately rather than in-line - and over your own signature. What someone else has said on a talk page is what they have said (for good or ill) and is not liable to be "corrected" by others (in contradistinction to the text of an article - which is nobody's property, and often needs editing). I was strongly tempted to revert your "corrections" to others' remarks (including mine) on the above page but have left them for the moment as your intent was so obviously good that it seemed churlish to meddle, but please, for all our sakes, don't start to make a habit of this sort of thing... -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 00:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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At WP:ANI, I reported a matter you have been involved in: See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Request for full protection of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images page. Permalink is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 21:24, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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User:EEng#Museum_of_Computer_Porn E Eng 04:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Why have you undone my alteration to the article? It was all in good faith. -- Whatshouldichoose ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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You consistently undo my positive changes. Whatshouldichoose ( talk) 21:40, 24 January 2016 (UTC) |
Illegitimi non carborundum. E Eng 03:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
So please stop reverting before you get in trouble with The Enforcers. More when I've looked into it. E Eng 01:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Before we get too far into detailed improvement of the presentations of image syntax , I think we should consider first how to reduce the redundancy and overlap between all the various places that talk about it, since otherwise we'll be perfecting many separate things which ultimately should be combined. I know of at least...
E Eng 03:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Also, there's someone I know who I suspect you will like. FourViolas, say hi, will you? E Eng 03:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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1) The use of the reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall maintain, and not detract from, the dignity, integrity and image of the currency note or coin; and
ii) shall not have any risk of confusion with genuine currency note or coin.
2) The reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall not distort images of the President or any national symbol;
ii) shall not show the currency note or coin in a manner that is offensive or against public interest; and
iii) shall be on a material which can unambiguously and easily be distinguished from coins, paper notes or polymer notes.
3) The reproduction of any currency note:
i) shall, unless the reproduction is in an electronic form, be at least 150% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is enlarged or be not more than 60% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is reduced in size;
ii) shall, when the reproduction is enlarged, reduced in size or to be viewed at an angle, be depicted proportionally;
iii) may be depicted at various angles, except that, where the whole currency note is depicted flat to camera, the reproduction shall contain the word "SPECIMEN" in black and bold lettering diagonally across the reproduction and which shall not cover any part of the portrait; and
iv) shall not be by way of duplex printing (that is, nothing shall appear on the reverse of the reproduction that may give the impression that it is a genuine currency note.
For the sake of completeness, I've reposted the results of your referral to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents below, Stefan. It was an educational experience...
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1) The use of the reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall maintain, and not detract from, the dignity, integrity and image of the currency note or coin; and
ii) shall not have any risk of confusion with genuine currency note or coin.
2) The reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall not distort images of the President or any national symbol;
ii) shall not show the currency note or coin in a manner that is offensive or against public interest; and
iii) shall be on a material which can unambiguously and easily be distinguished from coins, paper notes or polymer notes.
3) The reproduction of any currency note:
i) shall, unless the reproduction is in an electronic form, be at least 150% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is enlarged or be not more than 60% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is reduced in size;
ii) shall, when the reproduction is enlarged, reduced in size or to be viewed at an angle, be depicted proportionally;
iii) may be depicted at various angles, except that, where the whole currency note is depicted flat to camera, the reproduction shall contain the word "SPECIMEN" in black and bold lettering diagonally across the reproduction and which shall not cover any part of the portrait; and
iv) shall not be by way of duplex printing (that is, nothing shall appear on the reverse of the reproduction that may give the impression that it is a genuine currency note.
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for the vast majority of our readers) or by temporarily making them links as Baseball Bugs proposed are both good solutions. Sorry again for the trouble I've caused!
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I haven't been on Wikipedia because I've been busy with things. Anyway, I'm starting to feel like my efforts are pointless since, fundamentally, the structure of these articles is totally inadequate. We have Passports of the European Union, National identity cards in the European Economic Area, and dare i inform you... Passports of the European Economic Area (I notice you have not yet edited that article (': ). It is clear we want to take these articles in different directions, and it's ridiculous that we are having to have the same discussions across two (maybe now three?) articles because of the amount of overlap. Keeping the three articles presenting consistent information was a challenge previously, now with so many disputes it is impossible. So I believe merges and splits are needed. There seems to be enough information to create an article on Travel documentation in the European Economic Area. We could also consider a article named something like Identity cards in Europe, discussing the use of ID cards for the purpose of identification (therefore including the Icelandic ID card and others, but excluding the Irish passport card which is not designed for that purpose), including the degree to which national identity cards of different countries are actually used for identification (eg the lack of in Finland and Sweden). Then finally two remaining articles: Passports of the European Union and National identity cards of the European Union. These could primarily discuss the common design (specified in Resolution Document 41981X0919 of Official Journal C 241, for passports, and Resolution No. 15356/06, for national identity cards) of the documents which are outlined in Directive 2004/38/EC (which includes the Irish passport card when it is referring to "national identity cards", as evident by permitted use as travel documentation within the EEA). They could also briefly describe use within the EEA, with a "Main article: Travel documentation in the European Economic Area" at the top of the section. This is just my initial thoughts, and of course any change will likely require a lot of discussion. But first I really just wanted to ask if you are open to the idea of restructuring at all? Regards, Rob984 ( talk) 12:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Your analysis is correct, Rob984.
Normally I would favour merging the less inclusive article into the one with broader scope. However, in this case, I can not see any common features whatever (other than those dictated by the physical laws of the universe and international bodies like ICAO) between the passports of the EEA once you have subtracted the EU passports to leave those of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Consequently this article should be deleted.
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(and to prove not all MOS discussions are full of overserious ignorami): Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers/Archive_149#The_dairy_of_Anne_Frank, and read on to the next section too. E Eng 04:17, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, finally got an e-mail from the Irish authorities, who stated there is no intention whatsoever to make the passport card valid outside the EU/EFTA. And as I've observed, unlike in the case of Swedish ID cards, other countries (except Turkey and Georgia, judging by your own reports) go by this restriction, so the chance of others (besides the Faroes+Greenland+microstates+possibly overseas French departments) accepting it are very slim.
If your friend's passport card isn't accepted once he lands in Australia, we can safely say this document is doomed to be even "weaker" than EEA ID cards
I'm going to try messaging Bosnia and Georgia about the acceptance, this time calling it an ID card, because we now know that calling it not an ID card will in fact increase the risk of rejection and not acceptance in those countries that accept EU ID cards - this happened with Serbia! André Devecserii ( talk) 06:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
So they finally added the Irish passport card to PRADO... (maybe you're already aware)
Welp. I retract everything. Although personally, I think it is bullshit.
I still think it should be included on the article because of its identical usage, but I accept entirely it is not an "National Identity Card".
Regards,
Rob984 ( talk) 02:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have been trying to avoid these articles for awhile, but the lead paragraph is a mess. The translations aren't a common design feature if only a small minority of states feature them. "Passport", "European Union" and the name of the state are all occasionlly translated into English (see Bulgaria), and some even into French (see Poland). So the paragraph desperately needs to be reconstructed anyway, but really they should be removed. Please look into it. Regards, Rob984 ( talk) 11:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
It is nice to have the Lieutenant Governor in the information box, but can we avoid the word government appearing at the same time ? I don't know how to do it. Ânes-pur-sàng - À la perchoine 09:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
How can you think it is ok to start moving pages and changing the scope of articles without consulting anyone? Rob984 ( talk) 21:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
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If you make a wholesale edit to an article, it will probably get reverted. Simply because if there is one thing I disagree with, one thing that needs discussing, I will revert the whole revision. Why? Because I can. And if you edit war you are solely in breach of WP:EDITWAR because you are solely trying to add material without consensus. After you revert three times I will go straight to WP:ANI/3RR. I told you already that making wholesale edits is a pain in the ass. And no, I wont read you draft. I am not the only editor who needs to agree you know? See WP:CAUTIOUS. You know, if you piss other editors off, you are simply making things more difficult for yourself. That's how Wikipedia works. Rob984 ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
For the sake of completeness, I've reposted the results of your referral to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents below, Rob. It was another educational experience...
Mess at Guernsey with one editor unilaterally moving, creating, and mass-editing articles
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I think the article ( Guernsey) needs to be rolled back to revision 699771192 (10:50, 14 January 2016) (before any reorganising began), and any new articles deleted, and then discussion needs to be had to determine how the article should be split/reorganised. But someone needs to enforce this. Rob984 ( talk) 21:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
User:Rob984 writes above "it was agreed to split the article into two" but provides no diff of where this mythical agreement was reached (unless the agreement was with himself). In fact a knowledgeable local editor developed our Bailiwick of Guernsey from the re-direct it had been for several years and then, to his great anguish, User:Rob984 unilaterally reverted all his hard work. I do agree that all this moving and re-naming and reverting needs to stop and a plan for article development relating to Guernsey be agreed. If both User:Rob984 and myself agree to abstain from that discussion, I should imagine that agreement can be agreed within a matter of hours and days. BushelCandle ( talk) 22:13, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
I will just remove your comments if the discussion has nothing to do with you. Its annoying. It also may be a breach of policy. See WP:WIKIHOUNDING. Rob984 ( talk) 12:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Obviously I do object to you removing my words that were addressed not only to you before they may have been read and ask you courteously: please revert yourself. (As for you trying falsely characterise or label my behaviour yet again, it's certainly not my intention to traipse around after you repairing your damage. You may not realise the number of people who have thanked me for various edits after you have crossed swords with them. You're now getting to the stage where trying to politely answer your various points is seriously affecting my mainspace editing time.)Cautiously editing or removing another editor's comments is sometimes allowed, but normally you should stop if there is any objection.
You may not realise the number of people who have thanked me for various edits after you have crossed swords with them.
You're now getting to the stage where trying to politely answer your various points is seriously affecting my mainspace editing time.
Hello, BushelCandle. I usually replace the NFC file with a dummy rather than prefix it to convert it into a link. I do this in order to keep the layout of the page unchanged. In this case, it's a table, so preserving layout is all the more important - or at least I assumed so. – Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 14:51, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for sending me all those thank-you's :D Are you from Singapore? Tiger7253 ( talk) 23:09, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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Per WP:BRD, when your Bold edit has been Reverted, please Discuss, rather than just edit war your preferred version back in, as you did here. FWIW, the lead and IB both summarise those points for which Sellers is best known, not the minor chaff too. - SchroCat ( talk) 07:31, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Bongbong Marcos is NOT a graduate at Wharton. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alvindy ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
{{
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boxesHi BushelCandle, As much as I agree they should be removed some editors seem to think they're useful so you need to get consensus before removing, I myself have removed a few only to be taken to the swamp for it so it's probably best you get consensus first, Thanks and Happy editing :), – Davey2010 Talk 00:28, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
{{
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box is the Bold new addition: this may be useful for locating American prairie hamlets that are aligned to a north-south, east-west grid but is generally not at all useful in other parts of the world. I then reverted the bold edit. Your next move should have been to explain why you support the addition of the {{
Geographic Location}}
box - not reverting my reversion of the bold edit.
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00:40, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
(moved from User talk:Davey2010) Anti-vandalism tools, such as Twinkle, Huggle, and rollback, should not be used to undo good-faith changes unless an appropriate edit summary is used.
You've already said on my talk page that you don't agree with adding geo location diagrams so why are you abusing this tool to mass revert my reversions of their bold addition without resorting to the relevant discussion pages, please?
Consensus is a normal and usually implicit and invisible process across Wikipedia. Any edit that is not disputed or reverted by another editor can be assumed to have consensus. Should that edit later be revised by another editor without dispute, it can be assumed that a new consensus has been reached. In this way, the encyclopedia is gradually added to and improved over time. An edit which is not clearly an improvement may often be improved by rewording. My edit summary when I reverted the (mass) new additions of these confusing graphics was quite plain and explanatory wasn't it?
Substantive, informative edit summaries indicate what issues need to be addressed in subsequent efforts to reach consensus. Repeated reversions are contrary to Wikipedia policy under Edit warring, except for specific policy-based material (such as WP:BLP exceptions) and for reversions of vandalism. Frequently a minor change in wording can end arguments but that hardly is the case here.
Your mass abuse Twinkle to revert a reversion when you patently don't support the novel addition of {{
Geographic location}}
diagrams in country articles is really problematic and you should cease this.
Even its authors have written This template provides for a convenient compass-based navigational aid for articles about communities. It allows you to display the communities surrounding the subject of your article.
Surely the clear implication is that they are for municipalities and not for countries, continents or other geographical features that do not lend themselves easily to being located on an orthogonal grid?
BushelCandle (
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01:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Bushel, thanks for fixing the typo, I corrected that same error two or three times now as with all of this back and forth reverting it keeps getting dragged back up! Cheers. trackratte ( talk) 02:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
This, it turns out, does not actually work. The pinging code is super-mega-particular. In order for failed ping to be fixed, the entire comment block has to be removed, the page save, then a new one made with a fixed ping and a new sig. (Because of the last fact, no one can fix anyone else's ping, though one could add a ping to the conversation to draw the intended editor in). Not needed in that case anyway, since my post had already been responded to. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 21:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
PS: I don't mind my noisy editnotice being borrowed, but please rewrite it in your own words. Mine is an idiosyncratic message describing my personal approach to things. People might even think we're WP:Sockpuppets of the same person, and neither of us need that kind of WP:DRAMA. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 21:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Can I have some clarifications as to why you keep reverting the pictures in the Philippines page??? It ends up being messy and all over the place. Sorry if I made a mistake posting a message here. It's my first time. Kindly provide your reasons. Nonoyborbun ( talk) 20:05, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I realise that this is probably a one way conversation with somebody that is unlikely to ever bother replying (judging by the edit history of this page) and that I am, therefore, wasting my time, but let it not be said that I did not try:
I have tried to reduce extreme WP:SANDWICHING by diminishing left-right staggering and moving images to more closely align with apposite paragraphs but you seem intent on negating all my work.
Why?
Assuming you are too lazy to read the advice at MOS:IMG in its entirety, here are some selected highlights:
Horizontal placement
- In most cases, images should be right justified on pages, which is the default placement.
- Multiple images in the same article can be staggered right-and-left. However, avoid sandwiching text between two images that face each other, or between an image and infobox, navigation template, or similar.
- In a few web browsers, bulleted lists overlap with left-aligned images. It may be preferable to avoid placing a left-aligned image near lists.
- It is often preferable to place images of people so that they "look" toward the text. (Do not achieve this by reversing the image, which creates a false presentation e.g. by reversing the location of scars or other features.)
Vertical placement
An image should generally be placed in the most relevant article section; if this is not possible, try not to place an image "too early" i.e. far ahead of the point in the text discussing what the image illustrates, if this will puzzle the reader. Avoid referring to images as being to the left/right, or above/below, because image placement varies with platform, and is meaningless to people using screen readers; instead, use captions to identify images.
It is not possible to place a
thumb
image within a paragraph, as the occurrence of such an image causes a paragraph break; i.e. the current paragraph ends and and a new one is begun. BushelCandle ( talk) 01:39, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm sure you realise as well as I do why editing other people's remarks on a talk page is essentially VERY naughty and something we never do. NOT "offensive", or "inappropriate" perhaps, so much as fundamentally dishonest - with the best will in the world you are (potentially at least) making another person say something they didn't say. Talk page comments are really best made separately rather than in-line - and over your own signature. What someone else has said on a talk page is what they have said (for good or ill) and is not liable to be "corrected" by others (in contradistinction to the text of an article - which is nobody's property, and often needs editing). I was strongly tempted to revert your "corrections" to others' remarks (including mine) on the above page but have left them for the moment as your intent was so obviously good that it seemed churlish to meddle, but please, for all our sakes, don't start to make a habit of this sort of thing... -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 00:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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Bernardino is a name of Italian, Hispanic, or Portuguese origin, which can be a given name or a surname.is entirely appropriate... BushelCandle ( talk) 08:16, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, I meant to move that possessive, not remove it. Derp. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 07:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [5]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [6]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Hi there, I noticed that you reverted my edits to a bunch of European identity card pages for various reasons (usually saying they obscured meaning or made something less clear). I was hoping you could explain the reasons behind these reverts in more detail as I found the edit summaries a bit confusing.
I personally felt that making the infobox more concise (especially removing where the infobox showed an EU flag while calling it "Europe" then listing all the non-EU/EEA countries in Europe like Ukraine and Belarus) makes it more clear where the cards are valid and the wikilinks for EU and EEA are sufficient for readers who are unfamiliar with the acronyms... and that by going back to the previous revisions by undoing these changes is making things less clear and more long-winded when it doesn't need to be. I was also interested that in your edit summary here you said it was "less accurate and unsourced". I am more than happy to add a source from the EU's "Your Europe" page indicating that either a national identity card or passport is a valid travel document for EU/EEA nationals within the EU if you feel it is necessary, but again I feel it is more accurate to state that identity cards of EU/EEA member states are recognized by the EU and EEA (and Switzerland) then to state the vague notion of being recognized in Europe generally.
Please let me know your thoughts. Cheers, RA0808 talk contribs 17:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to National identity cards in the European Economic Area. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Rob984 ( talk) 09:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time. The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on October 31, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:38, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Good day to you.
It came to me that my edit in the Ferdinand Marcos article - the first paragraph, to be precise - was reverted, and I believe I can explain myself here for my revision, as the comment box in the edits can only permit me 140 (or 160, I don't remember) characters.
The reason that was put forward in the reversion was that my edit "weakened the lead paragraph". That is indeed my motive in giving my edit, because the first sentence immediately containing the world "kleptocrat" can put people off in reading the article, and while I do personally agree on this label on the person discussed, I nevertheless believe that introducing any person - a dictator, no less - in this way will do injustice to everyone. This is why I "weakened my lead paragraph" to the Marcos article to avoid this problem. However, this is my secondary reason.
My primary reason for "weakening the lead paragraph" is that as it stands now, the paragraph is not only too strong, its language is loaded. Literally introducing Marcos as a "kleptocrat" in the first sentence must be absolutely avoided, as are other contentious labels that might be applicable, however accurate it may be or how many citations support it. If anything, it may be moved elsewhere in the introduction, but ideally not in the beginning sentence. This extends to the fact that the neutrality of the introduction might have been violated in the standing language, and could incite rounds of counter-edits by other users, registered or otherwise, in whatever political orientation. The purpose of my edit is to make the introductory paragraph more opinion-neutral, keeping in line with Wikipedia's Core Content Policy of content neutrality.
After my points, however, I will not undo your reversion yet, as I will leave this to your judgment and our agreement over how we will deal with this. We can continue here in the talk page to continue our discussion in our own time, and I await your response.
Thank you for bringing this up.
Ferrand L ( talk) 23:41, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time. The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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2016 GA Cup - Round 3
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday saw the end of Round 2. Shearonink took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 499. In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an astounding 236 points, and in third place, Cartoon network freak received 136 points. Originally, we had plans for one wild card for 9th place, however it appears that both Chris troutman and J Milburn were tied for 9th place. Therefore, we have decided to have both advance to Round 3. In Round 2, 91 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased to a little over 6 months. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep decreasing the backlog. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 has already started and will end on February 26 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Also, we'd like to announce the departure of judge Zwerg Nase. We thank him for all his hardwork and hope to see him back in the future. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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2016 GA Cup - Wrap Up
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Saturday, April 1 concluded the 2016-2017 GA Cup. 64 reviews were completed by our finalists. Although the backlog increased by 42 over the reviewing period instead of declining, the increase suggests that the contest is encouraging editors to nominate articles for review. Congratulations to Shearonink, who is the winner of the Cup, finishing with 672 points! Once again, just as in last round, this is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! It was a close race for second place between Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, who achieved 164 points, and Sturmvogel_66, who earned 150. Though Sturmvogel_66 reviewed one more article than Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga managed to earn 14 points more due to reviewing older articles. Our two wildcard competitors, Kees08 and Chris troutman, came in fourth and fifth, respectively. There were some bumps in the competition this time: The sign-up deadline and the first round were both extended due to fewer competitors signing up then was planned for. And there were delays in tallying points and getting out the newsletter. The judges apologize for this latter difficulty. Lastly, mid-way through the competition we bid farewell to Zwerg Nase, who stepped down from their position as judge due to other commitments. Information about the Final can be found here. Thank you to all of our competitors, and congrats to our winners! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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Hi, saw you undid my edit regarding passport stamps for holders of Schengen residence permits.
The fact is, according to the document referred to, only Schengen residents having a family member who's an EU citizen and travelling with them will not be stamped.
"The Commission recalls that third-country nationals, family members of Union citizens, are exempt from stamping on entry and exit when travelling with a residence card issued by Member States under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC, accompanying Union citizens who exercise the right of free movement or residence. On the contrary, a third-country national, family member of a Union citizen, is not dispensed from stamping when travelling alone or when the person, accompanying a Union citizen, does not present the aforementioned residence card (e.g. the person lives with an EU citizen outside the EU and does not hold the residence card)."
In addition, my friend is a Philippine national with a permanent residence permit. She always gets stamped in/out of Schengen, without exception. I even asked the border guards at Arlanda airport whether she would have to obtain a new passport for her visit to the Philippines, as her passport was full. They said she would André Devecserii ( talk) 16:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Family members holding a residence card issued under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC who are accompanying or joining EU, EEA and Swiss citizens exercising the right of freedom of movementdoesn't it? BushelCandle ( talk) 20:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, saw you undid my edit regarding passport stamps for holders of Schengen residence permits.
The fact is, according to the document referred to, only Schengen residents having a family member who's an EU citizen and travelling with them will not be stamped.
"The Commission recalls that third-country nationals, family members of Union citizens, are exempt from stamping on entry and exit when travelling with a residence card issued by Member States under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC, accompanying Union citizens who exercise the right of free movement or residence. On the contrary, a third-country national, family member of a Union citizen, is not dispensed from stamping when travelling alone or when the person, accompanying a Union citizen, does not present the aforementioned residence card (e.g. the person lives with an EU citizen outside the EU and does not hold the residence card)."
In addition, my friend is a Philippine national with a permanent residence permit. She always gets stamped in/out of Schengen, without exception. I even asked the border guards at Arlanda airport whether she would have to obtain a new passport for her visit to the Philippines, as her passport was full. They said she would André Devecserii ( talk) 16:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Family members holding a residence card issued under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC who are accompanying or joining EU, EEA and Swiss citizens exercising the right of freedom of movementdoesn't it? BushelCandle ( talk) 20:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi. I see you created a template for visa restrictions. Considering this template would be used on all visa requirements articles, would it not be better to make sure that the information there only applies to that nationality? I'm on Visa requirements for Irish citizens and there is information about a ban on Armenian citizens visiting Azerbaijan. This should be removed from the overall template and should be included on the Armenian citizens article. The information relating to Nagorno-Karabakh should be left as is. st 170 e 20:32, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
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Please do not remove information on the dates of introduction of visa-free arrangements for the Macau passports holders. First of all it is not found in edit history and second of all even if it was that is not the way to read articles anyway. If you wish you can suggest the removal of this information from the article on the article talk page but please arm yourself with better arguments than the information is "silly". Thanks.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 15:29, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
You removed information about the Philippines. This is a mistake. I try to explain why.
Change a name of a country, change of political system, change of jurisdiction cannot be considered automatic cancellation of the legal relationship.
example. The USSR and Vietnam had a visa-free agreement. After the collapse, the agreement continued to operate for Russia (untill 1994) and Kyrgyzstan (still in force). These are the facts. Next statements are true. 1. Russian citizens can visit Vietnam without a visa from 1982 to 1994 (as citizens of the USSR from 1982 to 1991) and from January 2009. 2. Kyrgyz citizens can visit Vietnam without a visa from 1982 (as citizens of the USSR from 1982 to 1991).
exemple. French citizens can visit New Zealand without a visa since 1947. All? No. Residents of the Metropolitan France from 1947. Residents of New Caledonia and Haiti from 1987. Residents of all other Overseas territories from 1995. If New Caledonia will be an independent state, visa history with NZ begins not with Independence Day, from 1995.
Philippines canceled visas for residents of Macau from 1994. This is a fact. The fact that Portuguese Macau became Macau, China is irrelevant in this matter. We cannot ignore this fact. If Macau will change the jurisdiction, will become an independent, the visa issue will not happen changes. I assume that not only the Philippines has lifted visa requirements for residents of Macau until 1999. Try to find information about it. It is hard and time consuming. And in most cases fails.
You as a reader may not agree with these statements. Choose the view that suits you.
You as the editor should present all possible information.
The information about the Philippines should be in the article.
Happy editing. -- Norvikk ( talk) 17:31, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Relative size 3.4 is smaller than what was decided as an optimal size years ago for maps showing small island states. I noticed you reverted the 3.7 size without discussing. Would you be interested in discussing this proposed change without first editing the articles? Thanks.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:24, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Please do not revert Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens to that version because this is how it looks like - http://i.imgur.com/xOfO36x.png -- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:22, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you undid my edit in this article and thus reverted back to the version vandalized by an IP user who inserted false information that are not supported by the source - [7]. I presume this was a mistake so I reinstated the original version. In case I am wrong I am willing to discuss this.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:33, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Your edits are destructive. You added an irrelevant reference to China, which states France as the nationality and Iraq as the destination. I removed it as there is already a relevant Timatic source added earlier. You removed vaccination infos, validity tables, and rejection scenarios. Which is odd. Why remove them? I don't get it. They're key sections in many other wiki-pages of the same sort. Plus, stop removing thee and . Don't engage in an edit-war, this is a punishable act on Wikipedia.
@ BushelCandle + Twofortnights, the problem with the Israeli stamps us that them seem to target specific type of countries: East Asian/West Pacific [China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (South), Philippines, San Marino, and Thailand], major historically-Catholic countries [Andorra, Brazil, France, Hungary, Mexico, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, and Spain], and some random set of countries [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Norway, and Serbia]. It explicitly excludes most Anglophone countries except Australia and New Zealand, African countries, Carribean countries, and certain large countries such as India, Italy, and Russia. There seem to be an intrinsic reason why the editor is intent on forewarning people from these countries. That and the statement reamins unsourced which may equate to vandalism. Shhhhwwww!! ( talk) 20:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi BushelCandle. There's probably a really obvious explanation that I'm missing, but I was wondering why you archived sections of someone else's talk page. Rivertorch FIRE WATER 01:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. You added ‘Non-visa travel restrictions’ for visa articles. You did not do all the visa articles? Why? Why are you not finished?-- Norvikk ( talk) 07:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I haven't read it yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phamat123 ( talk • contribs) 13:23, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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It is a county. The sources are wrong and Northern Island is a county in it's own right. There is also masses of prove on wiki that the UK is made up of 4 county's which are England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island. I find this very insulting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slindsell15 ( talk • contribs) 23:42, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
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I am not "TitanTG" and believe I am the innocent victim of a mistake.
This is pretty baffling because when I look at the contributions list of "TitanTG" there don't seem to be any contributions whatsoever!
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(I've tried switching on and off my router several times now - which should change my IP address - but this has not restored my ability to contribute!) BushelCandle ( talk) 22:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, just wanted to ask whether you mailed the Irish times regarding the passport card? I think it's highly important for the Irish authorities to understand that this pre-determined validity of only in the EU/EFTA doesn't help, but makes other countries reject it, which we have now seen in the US, Serbia, Hong Kong and now, most recently, Canada and Australia (I finally managed to contact these two and they said they won't accept the passport card)
All of these base their answer only on the artificial restriction stated on the web André Devecserii ( talk) 10:54, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
You changed the formatting from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy. If you are going to do this you must do it consistently throughout the article as per WP:CONSISTENCY. If you do not, I will, and I won't keep starting from scratch. Quis separabit? 04:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
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I'm sure you realise as well as I do why editing other people's remarks on a talk page is essentially VERY naughty and something we never do. NOT "offensive", or "inappropriate" perhaps, so much as fundamentally dishonest - with the best will in the world you are (potentially at least) making another person say something they didn't say. Talk page comments are really best made separately rather than in-line - and over your own signature. What someone else has said on a talk page is what they have said (for good or ill) and is not liable to be "corrected" by others (in contradistinction to the text of an article - which is nobody's property, and often needs editing). I was strongly tempted to revert your "corrections" to others' remarks (including mine) on the above page but have left them for the moment as your intent was so obviously good that it seemed churlish to meddle, but please, for all our sakes, don't start to make a habit of this sort of thing... -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 00:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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User:EEng#Museum_of_Computer_Porn E Eng 04:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Why have you undone my alteration to the article? It was all in good faith. -- Whatshouldichoose ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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You consistently undo my positive changes. Whatshouldichoose ( talk) 21:40, 24 January 2016 (UTC) |
Illegitimi non carborundum. E Eng 03:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
So please stop reverting before you get in trouble with The Enforcers. More when I've looked into it. E Eng 01:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Before we get too far into detailed improvement of the presentations of image syntax , I think we should consider first how to reduce the redundancy and overlap between all the various places that talk about it, since otherwise we'll be perfecting many separate things which ultimately should be combined. I know of at least...
E Eng 03:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Also, there's someone I know who I suspect you will like. FourViolas, say hi, will you? E Eng 03:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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1) The use of the reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall maintain, and not detract from, the dignity, integrity and image of the currency note or coin; and
ii) shall not have any risk of confusion with genuine currency note or coin.
2) The reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall not distort images of the President or any national symbol;
ii) shall not show the currency note or coin in a manner that is offensive or against public interest; and
iii) shall be on a material which can unambiguously and easily be distinguished from coins, paper notes or polymer notes.
3) The reproduction of any currency note:
i) shall, unless the reproduction is in an electronic form, be at least 150% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is enlarged or be not more than 60% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is reduced in size;
ii) shall, when the reproduction is enlarged, reduced in size or to be viewed at an angle, be depicted proportionally;
iii) may be depicted at various angles, except that, where the whole currency note is depicted flat to camera, the reproduction shall contain the word "SPECIMEN" in black and bold lettering diagonally across the reproduction and which shall not cover any part of the portrait; and
iv) shall not be by way of duplex printing (that is, nothing shall appear on the reverse of the reproduction that may give the impression that it is a genuine currency note.
For the sake of completeness, I've reposted the results of your referral to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents below, Stefan. It was an educational experience...
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1) The use of the reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall maintain, and not detract from, the dignity, integrity and image of the currency note or coin; and
ii) shall not have any risk of confusion with genuine currency note or coin.
2) The reproduction of any currency note or coin:
i) shall not distort images of the President or any national symbol;
ii) shall not show the currency note or coin in a manner that is offensive or against public interest; and
iii) shall be on a material which can unambiguously and easily be distinguished from coins, paper notes or polymer notes.
3) The reproduction of any currency note:
i) shall, unless the reproduction is in an electronic form, be at least 150% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is enlarged or be not more than 60% of both the length and width of the genuine currency note when the reproduction is reduced in size;
ii) shall, when the reproduction is enlarged, reduced in size or to be viewed at an angle, be depicted proportionally;
iii) may be depicted at various angles, except that, where the whole currency note is depicted flat to camera, the reproduction shall contain the word "SPECIMEN" in black and bold lettering diagonally across the reproduction and which shall not cover any part of the portrait; and
iv) shall not be by way of duplex printing (that is, nothing shall appear on the reverse of the reproduction that may give the impression that it is a genuine currency note.
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for the vast majority of our readers) or by temporarily making them links as Baseball Bugs proposed are both good solutions. Sorry again for the trouble I've caused!
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I haven't been on Wikipedia because I've been busy with things. Anyway, I'm starting to feel like my efforts are pointless since, fundamentally, the structure of these articles is totally inadequate. We have Passports of the European Union, National identity cards in the European Economic Area, and dare i inform you... Passports of the European Economic Area (I notice you have not yet edited that article (': ). It is clear we want to take these articles in different directions, and it's ridiculous that we are having to have the same discussions across two (maybe now three?) articles because of the amount of overlap. Keeping the three articles presenting consistent information was a challenge previously, now with so many disputes it is impossible. So I believe merges and splits are needed. There seems to be enough information to create an article on Travel documentation in the European Economic Area. We could also consider a article named something like Identity cards in Europe, discussing the use of ID cards for the purpose of identification (therefore including the Icelandic ID card and others, but excluding the Irish passport card which is not designed for that purpose), including the degree to which national identity cards of different countries are actually used for identification (eg the lack of in Finland and Sweden). Then finally two remaining articles: Passports of the European Union and National identity cards of the European Union. These could primarily discuss the common design (specified in Resolution Document 41981X0919 of Official Journal C 241, for passports, and Resolution No. 15356/06, for national identity cards) of the documents which are outlined in Directive 2004/38/EC (which includes the Irish passport card when it is referring to "national identity cards", as evident by permitted use as travel documentation within the EEA). They could also briefly describe use within the EEA, with a "Main article: Travel documentation in the European Economic Area" at the top of the section. This is just my initial thoughts, and of course any change will likely require a lot of discussion. But first I really just wanted to ask if you are open to the idea of restructuring at all? Regards, Rob984 ( talk) 12:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Your analysis is correct, Rob984.
Normally I would favour merging the less inclusive article into the one with broader scope. However, in this case, I can not see any common features whatever (other than those dictated by the physical laws of the universe and international bodies like ICAO) between the passports of the EEA once you have subtracted the EU passports to leave those of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Consequently this article should be deleted.
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(and to prove not all MOS discussions are full of overserious ignorami): Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers/Archive_149#The_dairy_of_Anne_Frank, and read on to the next section too. E Eng 04:17, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, finally got an e-mail from the Irish authorities, who stated there is no intention whatsoever to make the passport card valid outside the EU/EFTA. And as I've observed, unlike in the case of Swedish ID cards, other countries (except Turkey and Georgia, judging by your own reports) go by this restriction, so the chance of others (besides the Faroes+Greenland+microstates+possibly overseas French departments) accepting it are very slim.
If your friend's passport card isn't accepted once he lands in Australia, we can safely say this document is doomed to be even "weaker" than EEA ID cards
I'm going to try messaging Bosnia and Georgia about the acceptance, this time calling it an ID card, because we now know that calling it not an ID card will in fact increase the risk of rejection and not acceptance in those countries that accept EU ID cards - this happened with Serbia! André Devecserii ( talk) 06:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
So they finally added the Irish passport card to PRADO... (maybe you're already aware)
Welp. I retract everything. Although personally, I think it is bullshit.
I still think it should be included on the article because of its identical usage, but I accept entirely it is not an "National Identity Card".
Regards,
Rob984 ( talk) 02:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have been trying to avoid these articles for awhile, but the lead paragraph is a mess. The translations aren't a common design feature if only a small minority of states feature them. "Passport", "European Union" and the name of the state are all occasionlly translated into English (see Bulgaria), and some even into French (see Poland). So the paragraph desperately needs to be reconstructed anyway, but really they should be removed. Please look into it. Regards, Rob984 ( talk) 11:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
It is nice to have the Lieutenant Governor in the information box, but can we avoid the word government appearing at the same time ? I don't know how to do it. Ânes-pur-sàng - À la perchoine 09:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
How can you think it is ok to start moving pages and changing the scope of articles without consulting anyone? Rob984 ( talk) 21:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Rob984 ( talk) 21:12, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
If you make a wholesale edit to an article, it will probably get reverted. Simply because if there is one thing I disagree with, one thing that needs discussing, I will revert the whole revision. Why? Because I can. And if you edit war you are solely in breach of WP:EDITWAR because you are solely trying to add material without consensus. After you revert three times I will go straight to WP:ANI/3RR. I told you already that making wholesale edits is a pain in the ass. And no, I wont read you draft. I am not the only editor who needs to agree you know? See WP:CAUTIOUS. You know, if you piss other editors off, you are simply making things more difficult for yourself. That's how Wikipedia works. Rob984 ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
For the sake of completeness, I've reposted the results of your referral to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents below, Rob. It was another educational experience...
Mess at Guernsey with one editor unilaterally moving, creating, and mass-editing articles
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I think the article ( Guernsey) needs to be rolled back to revision 699771192 (10:50, 14 January 2016) (before any reorganising began), and any new articles deleted, and then discussion needs to be had to determine how the article should be split/reorganised. But someone needs to enforce this. Rob984 ( talk) 21:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
User:Rob984 writes above "it was agreed to split the article into two" but provides no diff of where this mythical agreement was reached (unless the agreement was with himself). In fact a knowledgeable local editor developed our Bailiwick of Guernsey from the re-direct it had been for several years and then, to his great anguish, User:Rob984 unilaterally reverted all his hard work. I do agree that all this moving and re-naming and reverting needs to stop and a plan for article development relating to Guernsey be agreed. If both User:Rob984 and myself agree to abstain from that discussion, I should imagine that agreement can be agreed within a matter of hours and days. BushelCandle ( talk) 22:13, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
I will just remove your comments if the discussion has nothing to do with you. Its annoying. It also may be a breach of policy. See WP:WIKIHOUNDING. Rob984 ( talk) 12:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Obviously I do object to you removing my words that were addressed not only to you before they may have been read and ask you courteously: please revert yourself. (As for you trying falsely characterise or label my behaviour yet again, it's certainly not my intention to traipse around after you repairing your damage. You may not realise the number of people who have thanked me for various edits after you have crossed swords with them. You're now getting to the stage where trying to politely answer your various points is seriously affecting my mainspace editing time.)Cautiously editing or removing another editor's comments is sometimes allowed, but normally you should stop if there is any objection.
You may not realise the number of people who have thanked me for various edits after you have crossed swords with them.
You're now getting to the stage where trying to politely answer your various points is seriously affecting my mainspace editing time.
Hello, BushelCandle. I usually replace the NFC file with a dummy rather than prefix it to convert it into a link. I do this in order to keep the layout of the page unchanged. In this case, it's a table, so preserving layout is all the more important - or at least I assumed so. – Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 14:51, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for sending me all those thank-you's :D Are you from Singapore? Tiger7253 ( talk) 23:09, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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Per WP:BRD, when your Bold edit has been Reverted, please Discuss, rather than just edit war your preferred version back in, as you did here. FWIW, the lead and IB both summarise those points for which Sellers is best known, not the minor chaff too. - SchroCat ( talk) 07:31, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Bongbong Marcos is NOT a graduate at Wharton. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alvindy ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
{{
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boxesHi BushelCandle, As much as I agree they should be removed some editors seem to think they're useful so you need to get consensus before removing, I myself have removed a few only to be taken to the swamp for it so it's probably best you get consensus first, Thanks and Happy editing :), – Davey2010 Talk 00:28, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
{{
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box is the Bold new addition: this may be useful for locating American prairie hamlets that are aligned to a north-south, east-west grid but is generally not at all useful in other parts of the world. I then reverted the bold edit. Your next move should have been to explain why you support the addition of the {{
Geographic Location}}
box - not reverting my reversion of the bold edit.
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(moved from User talk:Davey2010) Anti-vandalism tools, such as Twinkle, Huggle, and rollback, should not be used to undo good-faith changes unless an appropriate edit summary is used.
You've already said on my talk page that you don't agree with adding geo location diagrams so why are you abusing this tool to mass revert my reversions of their bold addition without resorting to the relevant discussion pages, please?
Consensus is a normal and usually implicit and invisible process across Wikipedia. Any edit that is not disputed or reverted by another editor can be assumed to have consensus. Should that edit later be revised by another editor without dispute, it can be assumed that a new consensus has been reached. In this way, the encyclopedia is gradually added to and improved over time. An edit which is not clearly an improvement may often be improved by rewording. My edit summary when I reverted the (mass) new additions of these confusing graphics was quite plain and explanatory wasn't it?
Substantive, informative edit summaries indicate what issues need to be addressed in subsequent efforts to reach consensus. Repeated reversions are contrary to Wikipedia policy under Edit warring, except for specific policy-based material (such as WP:BLP exceptions) and for reversions of vandalism. Frequently a minor change in wording can end arguments but that hardly is the case here.
Your mass abuse Twinkle to revert a reversion when you patently don't support the novel addition of {{
Geographic location}}
diagrams in country articles is really problematic and you should cease this.
Even its authors have written This template provides for a convenient compass-based navigational aid for articles about communities. It allows you to display the communities surrounding the subject of your article.
Surely the clear implication is that they are for municipalities and not for countries, continents or other geographical features that do not lend themselves easily to being located on an orthogonal grid?
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01:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Bushel, thanks for fixing the typo, I corrected that same error two or three times now as with all of this back and forth reverting it keeps getting dragged back up! Cheers. trackratte ( talk) 02:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
This, it turns out, does not actually work. The pinging code is super-mega-particular. In order for failed ping to be fixed, the entire comment block has to be removed, the page save, then a new one made with a fixed ping and a new sig. (Because of the last fact, no one can fix anyone else's ping, though one could add a ping to the conversation to draw the intended editor in). Not needed in that case anyway, since my post had already been responded to. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 21:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
PS: I don't mind my noisy editnotice being borrowed, but please rewrite it in your own words. Mine is an idiosyncratic message describing my personal approach to things. People might even think we're WP:Sockpuppets of the same person, and neither of us need that kind of WP:DRAMA. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 21:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Can I have some clarifications as to why you keep reverting the pictures in the Philippines page??? It ends up being messy and all over the place. Sorry if I made a mistake posting a message here. It's my first time. Kindly provide your reasons. Nonoyborbun ( talk) 20:05, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
I realise that this is probably a one way conversation with somebody that is unlikely to ever bother replying (judging by the edit history of this page) and that I am, therefore, wasting my time, but let it not be said that I did not try:
I have tried to reduce extreme WP:SANDWICHING by diminishing left-right staggering and moving images to more closely align with apposite paragraphs but you seem intent on negating all my work.
Why?
Assuming you are too lazy to read the advice at MOS:IMG in its entirety, here are some selected highlights:
Horizontal placement
- In most cases, images should be right justified on pages, which is the default placement.
- Multiple images in the same article can be staggered right-and-left. However, avoid sandwiching text between two images that face each other, or between an image and infobox, navigation template, or similar.
- In a few web browsers, bulleted lists overlap with left-aligned images. It may be preferable to avoid placing a left-aligned image near lists.
- It is often preferable to place images of people so that they "look" toward the text. (Do not achieve this by reversing the image, which creates a false presentation e.g. by reversing the location of scars or other features.)
Vertical placement
An image should generally be placed in the most relevant article section; if this is not possible, try not to place an image "too early" i.e. far ahead of the point in the text discussing what the image illustrates, if this will puzzle the reader. Avoid referring to images as being to the left/right, or above/below, because image placement varies with platform, and is meaningless to people using screen readers; instead, use captions to identify images.
It is not possible to place a
thumb
image within a paragraph, as the occurrence of such an image causes a paragraph break; i.e. the current paragraph ends and and a new one is begun. BushelCandle ( talk) 01:39, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm sure you realise as well as I do why editing other people's remarks on a talk page is essentially VERY naughty and something we never do. NOT "offensive", or "inappropriate" perhaps, so much as fundamentally dishonest - with the best will in the world you are (potentially at least) making another person say something they didn't say. Talk page comments are really best made separately rather than in-line - and over your own signature. What someone else has said on a talk page is what they have said (for good or ill) and is not liable to be "corrected" by others (in contradistinction to the text of an article - which is nobody's property, and often needs editing). I was strongly tempted to revert your "corrections" to others' remarks (including mine) on the above page but have left them for the moment as your intent was so obviously good that it seemed churlish to meddle, but please, for all our sakes, don't start to make a habit of this sort of thing... -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 00:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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Bernardino is a name of Italian, Hispanic, or Portuguese origin, which can be a given name or a surname.is entirely appropriate... BushelCandle ( talk) 08:16, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, I meant to move that possessive, not remove it. Derp. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 07:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there, I noticed that you reverted my edits to a bunch of European identity card pages for various reasons (usually saying they obscured meaning or made something less clear). I was hoping you could explain the reasons behind these reverts in more detail as I found the edit summaries a bit confusing.
I personally felt that making the infobox more concise (especially removing where the infobox showed an EU flag while calling it "Europe" then listing all the non-EU/EEA countries in Europe like Ukraine and Belarus) makes it more clear where the cards are valid and the wikilinks for EU and EEA are sufficient for readers who are unfamiliar with the acronyms... and that by going back to the previous revisions by undoing these changes is making things less clear and more long-winded when it doesn't need to be. I was also interested that in your edit summary here you said it was "less accurate and unsourced". I am more than happy to add a source from the EU's "Your Europe" page indicating that either a national identity card or passport is a valid travel document for EU/EEA nationals within the EU if you feel it is necessary, but again I feel it is more accurate to state that identity cards of EU/EEA member states are recognized by the EU and EEA (and Switzerland) then to state the vague notion of being recognized in Europe generally.
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It came to me that my edit in the Ferdinand Marcos article - the first paragraph, to be precise - was reverted, and I believe I can explain myself here for my revision, as the comment box in the edits can only permit me 140 (or 160, I don't remember) characters.
The reason that was put forward in the reversion was that my edit "weakened the lead paragraph". That is indeed my motive in giving my edit, because the first sentence immediately containing the world "kleptocrat" can put people off in reading the article, and while I do personally agree on this label on the person discussed, I nevertheless believe that introducing any person - a dictator, no less - in this way will do injustice to everyone. This is why I "weakened my lead paragraph" to the Marcos article to avoid this problem. However, this is my secondary reason.
My primary reason for "weakening the lead paragraph" is that as it stands now, the paragraph is not only too strong, its language is loaded. Literally introducing Marcos as a "kleptocrat" in the first sentence must be absolutely avoided, as are other contentious labels that might be applicable, however accurate it may be or how many citations support it. If anything, it may be moved elsewhere in the introduction, but ideally not in the beginning sentence. This extends to the fact that the neutrality of the introduction might have been violated in the standing language, and could incite rounds of counter-edits by other users, registered or otherwise, in whatever political orientation. The purpose of my edit is to make the introductory paragraph more opinion-neutral, keeping in line with Wikipedia's Core Content Policy of content neutrality.
After my points, however, I will not undo your reversion yet, as I will leave this to your judgment and our agreement over how we will deal with this. We can continue here in the talk page to continue our discussion in our own time, and I await your response.
Thank you for bringing this up.
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Hi, saw you undid my edit regarding passport stamps for holders of Schengen residence permits.
The fact is, according to the document referred to, only Schengen residents having a family member who's an EU citizen and travelling with them will not be stamped.
"The Commission recalls that third-country nationals, family members of Union citizens, are exempt from stamping on entry and exit when travelling with a residence card issued by Member States under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC, accompanying Union citizens who exercise the right of free movement or residence. On the contrary, a third-country national, family member of a Union citizen, is not dispensed from stamping when travelling alone or when the person, accompanying a Union citizen, does not present the aforementioned residence card (e.g. the person lives with an EU citizen outside the EU and does not hold the residence card)."
In addition, my friend is a Philippine national with a permanent residence permit. She always gets stamped in/out of Schengen, without exception. I even asked the border guards at Arlanda airport whether she would have to obtain a new passport for her visit to the Philippines, as her passport was full. They said she would André Devecserii ( talk) 16:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Family members holding a residence card issued under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC who are accompanying or joining EU, EEA and Swiss citizens exercising the right of freedom of movementdoesn't it? BushelCandle ( talk) 20:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, saw you undid my edit regarding passport stamps for holders of Schengen residence permits.
The fact is, according to the document referred to, only Schengen residents having a family member who's an EU citizen and travelling with them will not be stamped.
"The Commission recalls that third-country nationals, family members of Union citizens, are exempt from stamping on entry and exit when travelling with a residence card issued by Member States under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC, accompanying Union citizens who exercise the right of free movement or residence. On the contrary, a third-country national, family member of a Union citizen, is not dispensed from stamping when travelling alone or when the person, accompanying a Union citizen, does not present the aforementioned residence card (e.g. the person lives with an EU citizen outside the EU and does not hold the residence card)."
In addition, my friend is a Philippine national with a permanent residence permit. She always gets stamped in/out of Schengen, without exception. I even asked the border guards at Arlanda airport whether she would have to obtain a new passport for her visit to the Philippines, as her passport was full. They said she would André Devecserii ( talk) 16:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Family members holding a residence card issued under Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC who are accompanying or joining EU, EEA and Swiss citizens exercising the right of freedom of movementdoesn't it? BushelCandle ( talk) 20:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi. I see you created a template for visa restrictions. Considering this template would be used on all visa requirements articles, would it not be better to make sure that the information there only applies to that nationality? I'm on Visa requirements for Irish citizens and there is information about a ban on Armenian citizens visiting Azerbaijan. This should be removed from the overall template and should be included on the Armenian citizens article. The information relating to Nagorno-Karabakh should be left as is. st 170 e 20:32, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
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Please do not remove information on the dates of introduction of visa-free arrangements for the Macau passports holders. First of all it is not found in edit history and second of all even if it was that is not the way to read articles anyway. If you wish you can suggest the removal of this information from the article on the article talk page but please arm yourself with better arguments than the information is "silly". Thanks.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 15:29, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
You removed information about the Philippines. This is a mistake. I try to explain why.
Change a name of a country, change of political system, change of jurisdiction cannot be considered automatic cancellation of the legal relationship.
example. The USSR and Vietnam had a visa-free agreement. After the collapse, the agreement continued to operate for Russia (untill 1994) and Kyrgyzstan (still in force). These are the facts. Next statements are true. 1. Russian citizens can visit Vietnam without a visa from 1982 to 1994 (as citizens of the USSR from 1982 to 1991) and from January 2009. 2. Kyrgyz citizens can visit Vietnam without a visa from 1982 (as citizens of the USSR from 1982 to 1991).
exemple. French citizens can visit New Zealand without a visa since 1947. All? No. Residents of the Metropolitan France from 1947. Residents of New Caledonia and Haiti from 1987. Residents of all other Overseas territories from 1995. If New Caledonia will be an independent state, visa history with NZ begins not with Independence Day, from 1995.
Philippines canceled visas for residents of Macau from 1994. This is a fact. The fact that Portuguese Macau became Macau, China is irrelevant in this matter. We cannot ignore this fact. If Macau will change the jurisdiction, will become an independent, the visa issue will not happen changes. I assume that not only the Philippines has lifted visa requirements for residents of Macau until 1999. Try to find information about it. It is hard and time consuming. And in most cases fails.
You as a reader may not agree with these statements. Choose the view that suits you.
You as the editor should present all possible information.
The information about the Philippines should be in the article.
Happy editing. -- Norvikk ( talk) 17:31, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Relative size 3.4 is smaller than what was decided as an optimal size years ago for maps showing small island states. I noticed you reverted the 3.7 size without discussing. Would you be interested in discussing this proposed change without first editing the articles? Thanks.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:24, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Please do not revert Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens to that version because this is how it looks like - http://i.imgur.com/xOfO36x.png -- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:22, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you undid my edit in this article and thus reverted back to the version vandalized by an IP user who inserted false information that are not supported by the source - [7]. I presume this was a mistake so I reinstated the original version. In case I am wrong I am willing to discuss this.-- Twofortnights ( talk) 23:33, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Your edits are destructive. You added an irrelevant reference to China, which states France as the nationality and Iraq as the destination. I removed it as there is already a relevant Timatic source added earlier. You removed vaccination infos, validity tables, and rejection scenarios. Which is odd. Why remove them? I don't get it. They're key sections in many other wiki-pages of the same sort. Plus, stop removing thee and . Don't engage in an edit-war, this is a punishable act on Wikipedia.
@ BushelCandle + Twofortnights, the problem with the Israeli stamps us that them seem to target specific type of countries: East Asian/West Pacific [China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (South), Philippines, San Marino, and Thailand], major historically-Catholic countries [Andorra, Brazil, France, Hungary, Mexico, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, and Spain], and some random set of countries [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Norway, and Serbia]. It explicitly excludes most Anglophone countries except Australia and New Zealand, African countries, Carribean countries, and certain large countries such as India, Italy, and Russia. There seem to be an intrinsic reason why the editor is intent on forewarning people from these countries. That and the statement reamins unsourced which may equate to vandalism. Shhhhwwww!! ( talk) 20:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi BushelCandle. There's probably a really obvious explanation that I'm missing, but I was wondering why you archived sections of someone else's talk page. Rivertorch FIRE WATER 01:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. You added ‘Non-visa travel restrictions’ for visa articles. You did not do all the visa articles? Why? Why are you not finished?-- Norvikk ( talk) 07:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I haven't read it yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phamat123 ( talk • contribs) 13:23, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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It is a county. The sources are wrong and Northern Island is a county in it's own right. There is also masses of prove on wiki that the UK is made up of 4 county's which are England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island. I find this very insulting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slindsell15 ( talk • contribs) 23:42, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
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