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You had some serious problems with template loops on User:Ian Spackman/NowrapList/doc which you wrote. I solved them. I hope this is what you had in mind. Please let me know. Debresser ( talk) 20:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
You have another template loop on User:Ian Spackman/sand2. I don't know enough about programming - or your intentions with this template, to help out.
You're a hero. Now there's three template loops left on Wikipedia. Debresser ( talk)
ah man. i had wanted you to sit in on the discussion on the bolzano talk page. i think it is interesting, even though noclador is losing his top. it is the true sadness of this World, how people want to be in small boxes compartments and not open their eyes to how much richer things are than they wish for.. anyway, see when you get back. i'm still hoping to take an extended break too. Icsunonove ( talk) 20:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian,
Could you take a look at the question I posted on the page above and see if you could give me a pointer? Thanks a million. Francesco
Campelli (
talk) 19:49, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Francesco. I really don’t know, I’m afraid. But
user:Woodstone’s suggestion seemed a good one to me. Cheers,
Ian Spackman (
talk) 09:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Ian, I know pretty well, that Merano has a almost equal German/Italian ratio (with a slight German majority). I deleted Maia Alta because:
Then I put Ponte Romano into brackets because i can't find anywhere Bolzano or Bozen, Merano or Meran, Tramin or Termeno, Kaltern or Caldaro and so on... Regards -- Mai-Sachme ( talk) 21:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
I couldn't help but see my name come up as the version you reverted to. While I often use that "let's cut the crap" method myself, looking at your overall reversion looks to have reinstated some pretty dubious stuff. And reading the context, how does Milan come to be a Celtic name anyway? Weren't they over slaying the Picts at the time?
Anyway, perhaps you could apply your writerly skills to fix up that small bit of messiness? I'll have to give it a shot at some point I suppose, but it would be nice to see someone reliable working on it instead of the succession of IP editors. Regards! Franamax ( talk) 20:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 19:29, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 20:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi IS, late reply to your response above. I'll try to ignore your outrageous dextrocentricity on the topic of which arm the "violin" should be held in. :) And I actually thought that Cleo was of Greek origin, the dynasties got a little muddled at the end there as I recall. Fortunately I watch the Stargate television series, which offers a much more rational explanation for the origin of the pharoahs. ;) (Although they still haven't explained why their feet always point forwards)
To the matter at hand, rather than continually revert the revolving IP-with-a- agenda at Milan#Demography, I now feel motivated to clean up that section and remove any doubt. To that end, I've initiated a discussion at Talk:Milan/Archive 1#Demography_section_-_National_and_ethnic_groups and also left a note at WP:ITALY. Your input would be appreciated. I quail at the thought that I would be the only one to wield the scalpel, but I do think it's time. Regards! Franamax ( talk) 21:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, over at Carabinieri a POV warrior keeps inserting a factually wrong, biased and original research based sentence [1] - after his first edit [2] I rewrote the entire paragraph [3]; but well obviously he is stubborn (and I suspect a return of another horrible POV warrior [4] [5] [6]). Could you please keep an eye on the article too? thanks, -- noclador ( talk) 17:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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Ciao Ian! How are you? I'd ask you to help, if you can, with copyediting my English for my new long article, Duchy of Alvito! Ciao and thanks for help! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 12:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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Sorry to have missed you from the original nomination list. If you disagree with the proposed articles, please feel free to put forward amendments. Peter Damian ( talk) 14:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks, that helps. Will Beback talk 08:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, Yes, I did see the site - as you say, it's a good resource. I'm aware that Casale Monferrato diocese has 20 parishes in Asti Province. I'm also aware that it has 79 parishes in Alessandria province, with a much smaller number in Turin province: therefore, it logically belongs on the Province of Alessandria page. Do you have any objection to my moving it to that page? Piedmont ( talk) 11:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, you see it as a slanderous and disgraceful behaviour?? ok, I will put forth how I came to have some suspicions (and if you agree, would like to do it here, to not have this spill into the discussion about the naming convention); but if you should insist; I am also ready to copy this post to over there:
you (and Icsunonove) came first to my attention at the article
Steinerner Steg, when you suddenly did an edit
[7], which for itself was totally fine.
As Icsunonove was clearly damaging the project and massively biased and as Supparluca showed the same behavior, I began to prepare a checkuser request to prove that Icsunonove, Supparluca and I suspected also Piccolo Modificatore Laborioso were one and the same person. While doing that I went through all of Ics edits and in the end the entire case with suspicious users, IPs, plus diffs and diffs, that show a modus of insulting editors with his IPs and then asking them to be civil as Ics, became a 11 page word document.
Near the end I found the first (and per checkuser proved and blocked) sock circus of Ics and to my surprise I found that you by coincidence had registered in very close proximity to the sock circus:
Now I looked at your edits too and found that there is no connection between you and Icsunonove, but one instant when you suddenly entered a Incident report between Rarelibra and Ics
[8]. Therefore I decided to add you to the ceckuser request to have proof that you are not related to Ics and his sock-mob. But then Ics, SupparLuca and Co. all disappeared. Therefore I shelved the report, as a checkuser can only be done if the associated vandalism is ongoing (but still keep the file in case the problem resurfaces).
When doing my request to change the naming convention I made an clear error by choosing you as an example to show Ics modus operandi and I hereby fully retract it and excuse myself for it. --
noclador (
talk) 11:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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congratulations Ian! you uncovered an error in one of the books you listed :-)
in fact Gertrude of Merania has absolutely nothing to do with Meran - that is a common error; actually she was a duchess of Merania and a member of a Bavarian noble house, who had gained the newly created Dukedom of Merania in Istria and Dalmatia as compensation for the loss of their former possessions Ostarrîchi (Austria) and Northern Tyrol. Gertrude was born in Andechs (Bavaria) and the closest she and her family came where some possessions around Brixen and castle Ambras near Innsbruck (which was founded by in Berthold III. Cound of Andechs in 1187). So Avner Falk has made a quite common error on mixing up the city, which was never connected with a noble title until 1845, when emperor Ferdinand I of Austria gave the title Count of Meran to the morganatic son of Archduke John of Austria, with the old Merania :-) -- noclador ( talk) 16:31, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
As far as I know Young Italy is still active, especially through its think tank, the Fondazione Craxi ( [9]). I agree anyway with your idea of having Young Italy not more as a redirect but as the page for the Mazzinian movement, but I wouldn't move Young Italy (current) to Young Italy (2004), in line with similar cases with Italian parties and factions. -- Checco ( talk) 16:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Having looked into your list of sources and having searched for sources myself, I have changed my previous support of Meran and now support your proposal to move the article to Merano. It is a big embarassment for me that I did not check the sources you provided with enough rigour from the start and I can only apologise for the extra time and effort it may have caused you. I would want to congratulate you on remaining factual and polite throughout a discussion that far too often were neither of those things. Cheers JdeJ ( talk) 20:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
+Merano OR +Meran Italy OR Tyrol
and found that the evidence for current English usage was clearer than I had expected. One key thing, of course, was to check the dates when the books were actually written—google doesn’t always tell you that, or even include the relevant page; another was to watch out for translations from German or Italian, because the original usage would tend to be caried over. (There are numerous hits for books published by Touring Club Italiano, for instance. Their Italian language guide books are usually very authoritative, but the translations are often a bit slapdash and clearly not done by mother tongue English speakers.)Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 02:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you!-- F.giusto ( talk) 20:33, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Whoops - just realized that you were probably just concurrently editing the Ne (GE) article, not reverting my minor changes. Plz pardon my grumpy revert. Cheers, -- Wormcast ( talk) 12:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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Ciao Ian! Sure, there is no problem... I was replying you when I had to get out suddenly. Did you see also my last, Loggia degli Osii in Milan? Good work! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 21:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian - great job with the article - congrats! Ma...sei italiano? -- Itemirus Talk Page 07:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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BorgQueen ( talk) 18:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian
You removed an external link that I had inserted for Barcis and Dolomites pages, the reasons that you provided to me are valid to a certain extent but you also did not consider the wealth of information that is provided on the website about these local areas. If you implement the rules you defined to me then all external links on both these pages should be removed.
Thanks
HJOR Hjor ( talk) 19:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
My mistake, things like that are picked up quite often but I usually catch them. Missed that one completely though. — Xezbeth ( talk) 14:54, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for correcting the spelling. I've checked the 2003 Rossetti catalogue and you are right. Do you have evidence that the phrase is a 'proverb' predating Boccaccio, rather than a quotation that has since become proverbial? The catalogue simply states that it comes from the end of the tale. Paul B ( talk) 11:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks.-- Grahame ( talk) 11:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't there a consensus a while back against the creation of frazione stubs like this with only 65 people? The thing is the main comune article is a stub, we should really be focusing on expanding the comune articles... Himalayan 21:01, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Ian,
I apologize if the english translation of the italian original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratelli_Fabbri_Editori," does not meet with your specific criteria. This may be due to the fact that I am not the author of the original, simply the translator as well as a Fabbri family member. I appreciate any further assistance working with this page. However I would caution, that altering the text signficantly would not represent a translation but a rewrite and I am not sure that this would be ethical. ( Gibi789 21:14, 9 September 2009 (UTC))
I noticed that you reverted a number of my edits of Latin river name redirects. What I was doing was adding the "Rivers of Italy" category to all the modern Italian river articles the redirects point to and deleting the redundant "Rivers of Italy" category from the redirects since they are no longer needed. It doesn't make sense to me to use this category for the same river twice (once for the modern river article and once for the Latin river name redirect). Because of this, I think you (or myself if you prefer) should revert the reverts. If you disagree, let's discuss it further here.- Schnurrbart ( talk) 20:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! I saw you did the translation for the Giovanni Arpino page... now, this is just a shot in the dark, but I'm trying to find more information on the man and it's surprisingly difficult to do, especially since I can't read Italian. I was wondering if you had any sort of knowledge about the author? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JMoMo ( talk • contribs) 08:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you my friend, you truly are a gentleman! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.149.223.133 ( talk) 00:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
You might be interested in commenting here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Hallo Ian I would like to know why did you remove the link to my free travel guide to Spoleto in Umbria.Our Umbria travel guide is free of ads, Umbria region is paying us give this guide to the internet community for free.
I m sure we are not breaking any Wikipedia Rule. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bydivino ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Spackman, first of all thanks for your reply, I have read
WP:EL but I' m still thinking that I do not breake any roule when I link from wikipedia
http://www.umbria-by-divino.com,
Please consider that this guide is free travel guide, with good content and it does not breake any copyrigth. The travel guide does not have any link to hotels or anything comercial, it is just good information for travelers about monuments what to see and what to visit.
A part from that you keep in the page of Spoleto links that are comercial or not working such as http://spoletoonline.com/, http://www.umbriatravel.com/spoleto.asp, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Spoleto/Spoleto/home.html. I think my site is much better and if it breake any rule, for sure it breake less roules that the ones you keeps.
Please consider again that http://www.umbria-by-divino.com is something financed by the Umbria Region to help travelers to know best this part of Italy, free content for everybody like wikipedia.
Best Regards
G 07:42, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bydivino ( talk • contribs) 07:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
~~~~
.Hi Spackman
thanks for your reply again please let me ask you a last question, if you do not accept our sites why do you accept
http://spoletoonline.com/, http://www.umbriatravel.com/spoleto.asp, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Spoleto/Spoleto/home.html http://www.umbriaonline.com/english/spoleto.phtml
or for exemple in the page of Furore this link http://www.borghitalia.it/index_en.php
These webs are using wikipedia to sell and you acept them.
Our free travel guides do not sell anything are only useful for travelers and public financed and you not accept them. I belive you 're doing an injustice.
Thanks again for your time and patience
Best regards
ByD
I am still wainting your reply
best regards
You might be interested in commenting here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
HI, I've just expanded Acerno. Howver, Iam not fluent in Italian, could you proof read it and check it with this and add any missing info/correct it. Shouldn't take you 5 mins, I have nominated it for a DYK BTW. Himalayan 19:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have asked Attilios too. Thanks for your corrections, I knew there was something not quite right, it mostly seems OK though but some things don't translate too well.. Himalayan 08:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for editing article about Sassuolo.
I` m gathering information to create page with name Ceramic District of Sassuolo ( something like this) in Italian it would be (Comprensorio Ceramico di Sassuolo) could I have your opinion about this, please, probably I will need help and supervising of somebody with more experience than mine.
What can you say about my corrections to oher pages Fiorano Modenese and Serramazzoni - am I in a right way ?
Thanks
-- Italiamoderna ( talk) 13:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for moving the page; good call. I'm actually in the process of trying to create biographical articles for each Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1855 to 1875 (for some reason the only group consistently without articles). You seem to have a knack for Italian:English translation - please feel free to correct any obvious mistakes I make. Thanks for your help; much appreciated. Stalwart111 ( talk) 22:20, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
As of this moment the 8100 articles transcluding {{ Infobox Italian comune}} exactly matches List of Italian communes (2009). It took a few months, but my first two passes are now complete. I wrote a PerlWikipedia script to translate infoboxes from the Italian wikipedia and paste them into the articles missing infoboxes, so the process was relatively painless (just a bit slow to complete). Let me know if I missed something (not that I am particularly looking for new tasks after this one). My to do list is still full. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:20, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
The problem you commented on in this article has I hope been sorted out. I believe this agrees with the fr:wikipedia article which though shorter than the English includes extra information.-- Felix Folio Secundus ( talk) 10:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian Spackman. I noticed that you know a few of my [date] in italy pages. I am starting them since Italy suprising doesn't have these pages, unlike most other nations, such as France or the UK. Since there are so many from the 1300s to 2009 (of course, you can't do every year), I would appreciate if you could help me do some dates in the 1400s, 1500s or whatever, according to your knowledge. Please reply and if you do help me, thank you-- Theologiae ( talk) 19:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion neither personal POV nor negligible ideas were expressed. Why did you revert the article?
You reverted fairly neutral issues and even correction of mistakes without discussing them.
The previous version was even wrong or incomplete.
For example Romagna is an European Region not just because its meaning matches at the same time a territory belonging to different European states, but also because shares European mainstream as a whole.
Romagna is not a part of Italy as a state. San Marino has got the remaining part!!! We can discuss about Italian culture and language. Romagna has a more homogeneous background than Italy because of its peculiar history (that is an opinion) (the period of "stanstill" 1512-1860 accounts 350 years of administrative stability - that is a fact). No war means that people are more linked to the territory and have common cultural background. Of course things have been changing in the last century. Do you share my POVs?
Could you detail your objection? Otherwise,there is no reason for your behaviour.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Thanks User:Alberto bazzi 11:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian! I just noticed that you deleted my Italian design paragraph on the Italy page. As a matter of fact, I was rushing when I added it, so I had little time to re-read it and etc. I know you say it sounds promotional, but Luigi Caccia's quote is true (it's not a made up quote) and I gave a ref for it. I will try to re-write the design section now, okay... reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 10:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I freely admit to being clueless in Italian so all I have had to go on in making this page comply with disambiguation guidelines is the leads of the articles. Your help in getting the phrasing correct has been great.
-- MegaSloth ( talk) 20:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Why you removed your own comments at the Raphael discussion page?
It's a pessimism/optimism thing: I've taught middle school, high school, and university, and spent from kindergarten to M.A. 20 straight years in American schools. I know all about the deficiencies of the American system. But rather than look at it that way, I would rather look at it as "at least something introduces children to the great Italian artists, is it so awful that it's the Ninja Turtles?" Really is a mutant ninja turtle so different than Big Bird or some other puppet used to educate children? Besides, the ninja turtles were good guys, always being nice to women and trying to save the world, or at least the sewer.
You know I don't really care if the turtles are mentioned in the Raphael page and I don't much care one way or the other about Raphael, I'd take Bernini over him any day. I only came to that page because I think that the Latin epitaph written by Petrus Bembus is one of the most gorgeous elegiacs ever written and I was copy-pasting to la:Epitaphium. But I figured I'd write you a note when I saw your comments and then your own retraction.
Cheers,
-- Ioscius (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Ian, I noticed you changed some pictures in the Milan, and that's fine, but some of them were also there for scenographic effects. I.e. the picture of the cenacolo is art, but is such an important Milanese landmark that should go in main sights (but I see you renamed it to Architecture). Anyway, cheers and reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 15:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I know that the UNESCO website is copyright, but I was quoting it, so according to wikipedia, you can quote any website, public domain or not, just in condition that you say it's a quote, you give attribution and you make sure it is evident. So, technically, I didn't do anything wrong. Reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 14:14, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Attilio, My watchlist keeps showing you removing these lists from articles: e.g. here. Personally I find them useful. What is your reasoning? Cheers, Ian Spackman ( talk) 15:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Ian. I'm just here to say that today (April 17th), I will retire as a wikipedia editor. It has been a great experience, yet it is time for me to move on. Thank you for having been so helpful with editing.
Goodbye, and good luck!-- Theologiae ( talk) 13:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Ian. You should Google search Marubbi: although he was born in Italy, he is considered an Albanian photographer. Stupidus Maximus ( talk) 20:17, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I posted some interesting pics, on Commons. Among them, a beggar, and a black boy wearing the Fustanella. Maybe you can 'watch' me. I don't know if they show. Stupidus Maximus ( talk) 20:21, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm having trouble understanding why your addition of a listing (no links, either to Wikipedia or to external sites) of the 1104 parishes of the Archdiocese of Milan is not a violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Please explain when you get the chance. Thanks! 69.143.216.119 ( talk) 16:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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...and then I saw you'd expressed a view about the deletion of Amanda Knox! I made the mistake of getting interested in the Murder of Meredith Kercher article and have wasted a huge amount of time trying to improve it. A separate Amanda Knox article is hardly going to help! Perhaps its time to get back to Davy Graham, Pentangle and all my guitar heroes. Cheers! Bluewave ( talk) 11:06, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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I immensely respect you and your deep knowledge of politics, but you must have missed something. AN was not a right-wing populist party at all. It was a moderate national-conservative party with liberal and Christian-democratic wings instead. Its precursor, the MSI, was a post-fascist national-conservative party, but here again not a right-wing populist party. Fini is definitely a populist (you should have listened to his Mirabello speech on September 5!) and at some extent an economic populist in the American sense, but neither he nor his former party was right-wing populist. -- Checco ( talk) 13:38, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Good to have some fresh experienced eyes there. Hope you stay longer. Best, TMCk ( talk) 14:17, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Un grande saluto da Milano —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.166.182.166 ( talk) 16:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC) Da Milano? Ciao Steve, ciao Adrianna, ciao various others!.A presto, Ian Spackman ( talk) 14:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, the fact that Montferrat is mentioned in those articles by the guardian, bbc, etc etc is self-explanatory, thus it is known widely, so what's the point with barolo and so on? I think any case that this source could be just fine to show the importance of Montferrat in the world. Let me know what you think about it. For that about "asti capitale", I agree, it isn't the capital of montferrat, although it is a relevant centre along with casale and acqui terme, also because it is the geographic core of the (geographic) subregion. -- Frukko ( talk) 12:55, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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You had some serious problems with template loops on User:Ian Spackman/NowrapList/doc which you wrote. I solved them. I hope this is what you had in mind. Please let me know. Debresser ( talk) 20:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
You have another template loop on User:Ian Spackman/sand2. I don't know enough about programming - or your intentions with this template, to help out.
You're a hero. Now there's three template loops left on Wikipedia. Debresser ( talk)
ah man. i had wanted you to sit in on the discussion on the bolzano talk page. i think it is interesting, even though noclador is losing his top. it is the true sadness of this World, how people want to be in small boxes compartments and not open their eyes to how much richer things are than they wish for.. anyway, see when you get back. i'm still hoping to take an extended break too. Icsunonove ( talk) 20:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian,
Could you take a look at the question I posted on the page above and see if you could give me a pointer? Thanks a million. Francesco
Campelli (
talk) 19:49, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Francesco. I really don’t know, I’m afraid. But
user:Woodstone’s suggestion seemed a good one to me. Cheers,
Ian Spackman (
talk) 09:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Ian, I know pretty well, that Merano has a almost equal German/Italian ratio (with a slight German majority). I deleted Maia Alta because:
Then I put Ponte Romano into brackets because i can't find anywhere Bolzano or Bozen, Merano or Meran, Tramin or Termeno, Kaltern or Caldaro and so on... Regards -- Mai-Sachme ( talk) 21:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
I couldn't help but see my name come up as the version you reverted to. While I often use that "let's cut the crap" method myself, looking at your overall reversion looks to have reinstated some pretty dubious stuff. And reading the context, how does Milan come to be a Celtic name anyway? Weren't they over slaying the Picts at the time?
Anyway, perhaps you could apply your writerly skills to fix up that small bit of messiness? I'll have to give it a shot at some point I suppose, but it would be nice to see someone reliable working on it instead of the succession of IP editors. Regards! Franamax ( talk) 20:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit. Leszek Jańczuk ( talk) 19:29, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi IS, late reply to your response above. I'll try to ignore your outrageous dextrocentricity on the topic of which arm the "violin" should be held in. :) And I actually thought that Cleo was of Greek origin, the dynasties got a little muddled at the end there as I recall. Fortunately I watch the Stargate television series, which offers a much more rational explanation for the origin of the pharoahs. ;) (Although they still haven't explained why their feet always point forwards)
To the matter at hand, rather than continually revert the revolving IP-with-a- agenda at Milan#Demography, I now feel motivated to clean up that section and remove any doubt. To that end, I've initiated a discussion at Talk:Milan/Archive 1#Demography_section_-_National_and_ethnic_groups and also left a note at WP:ITALY. Your input would be appreciated. I quail at the thought that I would be the only one to wield the scalpel, but I do think it's time. Regards! Franamax ( talk) 21:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, over at Carabinieri a POV warrior keeps inserting a factually wrong, biased and original research based sentence [1] - after his first edit [2] I rewrote the entire paragraph [3]; but well obviously he is stubborn (and I suspect a return of another horrible POV warrior [4] [5] [6]). Could you please keep an eye on the article too? thanks, -- noclador ( talk) 17:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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Ciao Ian! How are you? I'd ask you to help, if you can, with copyediting my English for my new long article, Duchy of Alvito! Ciao and thanks for help! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 12:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks, that helps. Will Beback talk 08:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, Yes, I did see the site - as you say, it's a good resource. I'm aware that Casale Monferrato diocese has 20 parishes in Asti Province. I'm also aware that it has 79 parishes in Alessandria province, with a much smaller number in Turin province: therefore, it logically belongs on the Province of Alessandria page. Do you have any objection to my moving it to that page? Piedmont ( talk) 11:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ian, you see it as a slanderous and disgraceful behaviour?? ok, I will put forth how I came to have some suspicions (and if you agree, would like to do it here, to not have this spill into the discussion about the naming convention); but if you should insist; I am also ready to copy this post to over there:
you (and Icsunonove) came first to my attention at the article
Steinerner Steg, when you suddenly did an edit
[7], which for itself was totally fine.
As Icsunonove was clearly damaging the project and massively biased and as Supparluca showed the same behavior, I began to prepare a checkuser request to prove that Icsunonove, Supparluca and I suspected also Piccolo Modificatore Laborioso were one and the same person. While doing that I went through all of Ics edits and in the end the entire case with suspicious users, IPs, plus diffs and diffs, that show a modus of insulting editors with his IPs and then asking them to be civil as Ics, became a 11 page word document.
Near the end I found the first (and per checkuser proved and blocked) sock circus of Ics and to my surprise I found that you by coincidence had registered in very close proximity to the sock circus:
Now I looked at your edits too and found that there is no connection between you and Icsunonove, but one instant when you suddenly entered a Incident report between Rarelibra and Ics
[8]. Therefore I decided to add you to the ceckuser request to have proof that you are not related to Ics and his sock-mob. But then Ics, SupparLuca and Co. all disappeared. Therefore I shelved the report, as a checkuser can only be done if the associated vandalism is ongoing (but still keep the file in case the problem resurfaces).
When doing my request to change the naming convention I made an clear error by choosing you as an example to show Ics modus operandi and I hereby fully retract it and excuse myself for it. --
noclador (
talk) 11:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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congratulations Ian! you uncovered an error in one of the books you listed :-)
in fact Gertrude of Merania has absolutely nothing to do with Meran - that is a common error; actually she was a duchess of Merania and a member of a Bavarian noble house, who had gained the newly created Dukedom of Merania in Istria and Dalmatia as compensation for the loss of their former possessions Ostarrîchi (Austria) and Northern Tyrol. Gertrude was born in Andechs (Bavaria) and the closest she and her family came where some possessions around Brixen and castle Ambras near Innsbruck (which was founded by in Berthold III. Cound of Andechs in 1187). So Avner Falk has made a quite common error on mixing up the city, which was never connected with a noble title until 1845, when emperor Ferdinand I of Austria gave the title Count of Meran to the morganatic son of Archduke John of Austria, with the old Merania :-) -- noclador ( talk) 16:31, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
As far as I know Young Italy is still active, especially through its think tank, the Fondazione Craxi ( [9]). I agree anyway with your idea of having Young Italy not more as a redirect but as the page for the Mazzinian movement, but I wouldn't move Young Italy (current) to Young Italy (2004), in line with similar cases with Italian parties and factions. -- Checco ( talk) 16:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Having looked into your list of sources and having searched for sources myself, I have changed my previous support of Meran and now support your proposal to move the article to Merano. It is a big embarassment for me that I did not check the sources you provided with enough rigour from the start and I can only apologise for the extra time and effort it may have caused you. I would want to congratulate you on remaining factual and polite throughout a discussion that far too often were neither of those things. Cheers JdeJ ( talk) 20:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
+Merano OR +Meran Italy OR Tyrol
and found that the evidence for current English usage was clearer than I had expected. One key thing, of course, was to check the dates when the books were actually written—google doesn’t always tell you that, or even include the relevant page; another was to watch out for translations from German or Italian, because the original usage would tend to be caried over. (There are numerous hits for books published by Touring Club Italiano, for instance. Their Italian language guide books are usually very authoritative, but the translations are often a bit slapdash and clearly not done by mother tongue English speakers.)Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 02:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you!-- F.giusto ( talk) 20:33, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Whoops - just realized that you were probably just concurrently editing the Ne (GE) article, not reverting my minor changes. Plz pardon my grumpy revert. Cheers, -- Wormcast ( talk) 12:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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Ciao Ian! Sure, there is no problem... I was replying you when I had to get out suddenly. Did you see also my last, Loggia degli Osii in Milan? Good work! -- '''Attilios''' ( talk) 21:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian - great job with the article - congrats! Ma...sei italiano? -- Itemirus Talk Page 07:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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BorgQueen ( talk) 18:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian
You removed an external link that I had inserted for Barcis and Dolomites pages, the reasons that you provided to me are valid to a certain extent but you also did not consider the wealth of information that is provided on the website about these local areas. If you implement the rules you defined to me then all external links on both these pages should be removed.
Thanks
HJOR Hjor ( talk) 19:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
My mistake, things like that are picked up quite often but I usually catch them. Missed that one completely though. — Xezbeth ( talk) 14:54, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for correcting the spelling. I've checked the 2003 Rossetti catalogue and you are right. Do you have evidence that the phrase is a 'proverb' predating Boccaccio, rather than a quotation that has since become proverbial? The catalogue simply states that it comes from the end of the tale. Paul B ( talk) 11:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks.-- Grahame ( talk) 11:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't there a consensus a while back against the creation of frazione stubs like this with only 65 people? The thing is the main comune article is a stub, we should really be focusing on expanding the comune articles... Himalayan 21:01, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Ian,
I apologize if the english translation of the italian original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratelli_Fabbri_Editori," does not meet with your specific criteria. This may be due to the fact that I am not the author of the original, simply the translator as well as a Fabbri family member. I appreciate any further assistance working with this page. However I would caution, that altering the text signficantly would not represent a translation but a rewrite and I am not sure that this would be ethical. ( Gibi789 21:14, 9 September 2009 (UTC))
I noticed that you reverted a number of my edits of Latin river name redirects. What I was doing was adding the "Rivers of Italy" category to all the modern Italian river articles the redirects point to and deleting the redundant "Rivers of Italy" category from the redirects since they are no longer needed. It doesn't make sense to me to use this category for the same river twice (once for the modern river article and once for the Latin river name redirect). Because of this, I think you (or myself if you prefer) should revert the reverts. If you disagree, let's discuss it further here.- Schnurrbart ( talk) 20:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! I saw you did the translation for the Giovanni Arpino page... now, this is just a shot in the dark, but I'm trying to find more information on the man and it's surprisingly difficult to do, especially since I can't read Italian. I was wondering if you had any sort of knowledge about the author? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JMoMo ( talk • contribs) 08:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you my friend, you truly are a gentleman! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.149.223.133 ( talk) 00:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
You might be interested in commenting here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Hallo Ian I would like to know why did you remove the link to my free travel guide to Spoleto in Umbria.Our Umbria travel guide is free of ads, Umbria region is paying us give this guide to the internet community for free.
I m sure we are not breaking any Wikipedia Rule. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bydivino ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Spackman, first of all thanks for your reply, I have read
WP:EL but I' m still thinking that I do not breake any roule when I link from wikipedia
http://www.umbria-by-divino.com,
Please consider that this guide is free travel guide, with good content and it does not breake any copyrigth. The travel guide does not have any link to hotels or anything comercial, it is just good information for travelers about monuments what to see and what to visit.
A part from that you keep in the page of Spoleto links that are comercial or not working such as http://spoletoonline.com/, http://www.umbriatravel.com/spoleto.asp, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Spoleto/Spoleto/home.html. I think my site is much better and if it breake any rule, for sure it breake less roules that the ones you keeps.
Please consider again that http://www.umbria-by-divino.com is something financed by the Umbria Region to help travelers to know best this part of Italy, free content for everybody like wikipedia.
Best Regards
G 07:42, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bydivino ( talk • contribs) 07:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
~~~~
.Hi Spackman
thanks for your reply again please let me ask you a last question, if you do not accept our sites why do you accept
http://spoletoonline.com/, http://www.umbriatravel.com/spoleto.asp, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Spoleto/Spoleto/home.html http://www.umbriaonline.com/english/spoleto.phtml
or for exemple in the page of Furore this link http://www.borghitalia.it/index_en.php
These webs are using wikipedia to sell and you acept them.
Our free travel guides do not sell anything are only useful for travelers and public financed and you not accept them. I belive you 're doing an injustice.
Thanks again for your time and patience
Best regards
ByD
I am still wainting your reply
best regards
You might be interested in commenting here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
HI, I've just expanded Acerno. Howver, Iam not fluent in Italian, could you proof read it and check it with this and add any missing info/correct it. Shouldn't take you 5 mins, I have nominated it for a DYK BTW. Himalayan 19:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have asked Attilios too. Thanks for your corrections, I knew there was something not quite right, it mostly seems OK though but some things don't translate too well.. Himalayan 08:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for editing article about Sassuolo.
I` m gathering information to create page with name Ceramic District of Sassuolo ( something like this) in Italian it would be (Comprensorio Ceramico di Sassuolo) could I have your opinion about this, please, probably I will need help and supervising of somebody with more experience than mine.
What can you say about my corrections to oher pages Fiorano Modenese and Serramazzoni - am I in a right way ?
Thanks
-- Italiamoderna ( talk) 13:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for moving the page; good call. I'm actually in the process of trying to create biographical articles for each Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1855 to 1875 (for some reason the only group consistently without articles). You seem to have a knack for Italian:English translation - please feel free to correct any obvious mistakes I make. Thanks for your help; much appreciated. Stalwart111 ( talk) 22:20, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
As of this moment the 8100 articles transcluding {{ Infobox Italian comune}} exactly matches List of Italian communes (2009). It took a few months, but my first two passes are now complete. I wrote a PerlWikipedia script to translate infoboxes from the Italian wikipedia and paste them into the articles missing infoboxes, so the process was relatively painless (just a bit slow to complete). Let me know if I missed something (not that I am particularly looking for new tasks after this one). My to do list is still full. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:20, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
The problem you commented on in this article has I hope been sorted out. I believe this agrees with the fr:wikipedia article which though shorter than the English includes extra information.-- Felix Folio Secundus ( talk) 10:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian Spackman. I noticed that you know a few of my [date] in italy pages. I am starting them since Italy suprising doesn't have these pages, unlike most other nations, such as France or the UK. Since there are so many from the 1300s to 2009 (of course, you can't do every year), I would appreciate if you could help me do some dates in the 1400s, 1500s or whatever, according to your knowledge. Please reply and if you do help me, thank you-- Theologiae ( talk) 19:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion neither personal POV nor negligible ideas were expressed. Why did you revert the article?
You reverted fairly neutral issues and even correction of mistakes without discussing them.
The previous version was even wrong or incomplete.
For example Romagna is an European Region not just because its meaning matches at the same time a territory belonging to different European states, but also because shares European mainstream as a whole.
Romagna is not a part of Italy as a state. San Marino has got the remaining part!!! We can discuss about Italian culture and language. Romagna has a more homogeneous background than Italy because of its peculiar history (that is an opinion) (the period of "stanstill" 1512-1860 accounts 350 years of administrative stability - that is a fact). No war means that people are more linked to the territory and have common cultural background. Of course things have been changing in the last century. Do you share my POVs?
Could you detail your objection? Otherwise,there is no reason for your behaviour.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Thanks User:Alberto bazzi 11:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian! I just noticed that you deleted my Italian design paragraph on the Italy page. As a matter of fact, I was rushing when I added it, so I had little time to re-read it and etc. I know you say it sounds promotional, but Luigi Caccia's quote is true (it's not a made up quote) and I gave a ref for it. I will try to re-write the design section now, okay... reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 10:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I freely admit to being clueless in Italian so all I have had to go on in making this page comply with disambiguation guidelines is the leads of the articles. Your help in getting the phrasing correct has been great.
-- MegaSloth ( talk) 20:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Why you removed your own comments at the Raphael discussion page?
It's a pessimism/optimism thing: I've taught middle school, high school, and university, and spent from kindergarten to M.A. 20 straight years in American schools. I know all about the deficiencies of the American system. But rather than look at it that way, I would rather look at it as "at least something introduces children to the great Italian artists, is it so awful that it's the Ninja Turtles?" Really is a mutant ninja turtle so different than Big Bird or some other puppet used to educate children? Besides, the ninja turtles were good guys, always being nice to women and trying to save the world, or at least the sewer.
You know I don't really care if the turtles are mentioned in the Raphael page and I don't much care one way or the other about Raphael, I'd take Bernini over him any day. I only came to that page because I think that the Latin epitaph written by Petrus Bembus is one of the most gorgeous elegiacs ever written and I was copy-pasting to la:Epitaphium. But I figured I'd write you a note when I saw your comments and then your own retraction.
Cheers,
-- Ioscius (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Ian, I noticed you changed some pictures in the Milan, and that's fine, but some of them were also there for scenographic effects. I.e. the picture of the cenacolo is art, but is such an important Milanese landmark that should go in main sights (but I see you renamed it to Architecture). Anyway, cheers and reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 15:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I know that the UNESCO website is copyright, but I was quoting it, so according to wikipedia, you can quote any website, public domain or not, just in condition that you say it's a quote, you give attribution and you make sure it is evident. So, technically, I didn't do anything wrong. Reply-- Theologiae ( talk) 14:14, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Attilio, My watchlist keeps showing you removing these lists from articles: e.g. here. Personally I find them useful. What is your reasoning? Cheers, Ian Spackman ( talk) 15:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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I see that although User:Ian Spackman/Fiume was deleted at your request, its talk page was not.
Before I do so, could you just confirm that you wish it to be deleted? (Just reply here, this page is on my watchlist!)
Regards, -- PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 17:58, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Ian. I'm just here to say that today (April 17th), I will retire as a wikipedia editor. It has been a great experience, yet it is time for me to move on. Thank you for having been so helpful with editing.
Goodbye, and good luck!-- Theologiae ( talk) 13:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Ian. You should Google search Marubbi: although he was born in Italy, he is considered an Albanian photographer. Stupidus Maximus ( talk) 20:17, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I posted some interesting pics, on Commons. Among them, a beggar, and a black boy wearing the Fustanella. Maybe you can 'watch' me. I don't know if they show. Stupidus Maximus ( talk) 20:21, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm having trouble understanding why your addition of a listing (no links, either to Wikipedia or to external sites) of the 1104 parishes of the Archdiocese of Milan is not a violation of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Please explain when you get the chance. Thanks! 69.143.216.119 ( talk) 16:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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...and then I saw you'd expressed a view about the deletion of Amanda Knox! I made the mistake of getting interested in the Murder of Meredith Kercher article and have wasted a huge amount of time trying to improve it. A separate Amanda Knox article is hardly going to help! Perhaps its time to get back to Davy Graham, Pentangle and all my guitar heroes. Cheers! Bluewave ( talk) 11:06, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I have made a start at reactivating WikiProject Buckinghamshire after a short break. I am in the process of working on the front page at User:Roleplayer/Sandbox to make it more attractive and easier to navigate. My aim is to make the project a reference point for editors creating or working on Buckinghamshire-related articles.
A couple of days ago I moved anyone who hadn't edited the project in a while from the current members list to an inactive members list, and this includes you. If you are still interested in the project, or are still regularly updating Buckinghamshire articles then please move your name back to the current list (remembering to keep entries in alphabetic order). If you are no longer interested in this project, then you needn't do anything further.
Cheers!
-- role player 14:31, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
There is a discussion on whether articles on the rioni of the City of Rome should follow the naming convention for Italy, or should be treated differently. I have notified you as you were previously involved in the discussion on a Naming convention for Italian cities. Please feel free to add your comments at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2010/July#Italy: rioni of Rome. Skinsmoke ( talk) 09:57, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I immensely respect you and your deep knowledge of politics, but you must have missed something. AN was not a right-wing populist party at all. It was a moderate national-conservative party with liberal and Christian-democratic wings instead. Its precursor, the MSI, was a post-fascist national-conservative party, but here again not a right-wing populist party. Fini is definitely a populist (you should have listened to his Mirabello speech on September 5!) and at some extent an economic populist in the American sense, but neither he nor his former party was right-wing populist. -- Checco ( talk) 13:38, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Good to have some fresh experienced eyes there. Hope you stay longer. Best, TMCk ( talk) 14:17, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Un grande saluto da Milano —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.166.182.166 ( talk) 16:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC) Da Milano? Ciao Steve, ciao Adrianna, ciao various others!.A presto, Ian Spackman ( talk) 14:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, the fact that Montferrat is mentioned in those articles by the guardian, bbc, etc etc is self-explanatory, thus it is known widely, so what's the point with barolo and so on? I think any case that this source could be just fine to show the importance of Montferrat in the world. Let me know what you think about it. For that about "asti capitale", I agree, it isn't the capital of montferrat, although it is a relevant centre along with casale and acqui terme, also because it is the geographic core of the (geographic) subregion. -- Frukko ( talk) 12:55, 7 December 2010 (UTC)