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Unfortunately not - it's a crap system by whoever designed it. However, the way I have found to resolve it - if you put one in and it comes out as the redlink with the horrible coding around it, click on the red link, and then just edit that page to be the short name of the party - it will then make the link work properly. This is one I did recently to make a Romanian template work. Number 5 7 12:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Lihaas. Thanks for the nice note on my talk page. I always try to help the more obscure and lacking parts in Wikipedia, but I got more interest in the Azawad subject after I read up on it to make the map you requested. I see you added a follow-up to your Map Workshop request, but I didn't really understand it. Can you be more specific as to what map you want to modify and what exactly to do with it? You can reply here or on the Map Workshop page. Cheers! -- Orionist ★ talk 04:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lihaas, quick question about Football Manager 2012. It looks like you put a copyright notice up on the page some days ago. There's nothing on the talk page or on the notification page for potential violations about why. Could you shed some light? The article looks like it contains some of the release info from the developer but that can be found on any website where games are reviewed, discussed or sold and should be fair use. Wally ( talk) 19:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
l♥ve your new userpage-- Shirt58 ( talk) 09:06, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Done. Best wishes. -- Meno25 ( talk) 06:02, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
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I took this to NPOVN a couple of days ago, but the IP most active (now at 6RR) just discussed COI issues he sees with Zionist sources & editors. Note this [http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t870653/] discussion at Stormfront. Dougweller ( talk) 10:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Lihaas,
basically I am sympathetic to your idea, but I am afraid that the prose is a bit slim. Yesterday I failed to find more material covering reactions to or analysis of the election. Only election result tables don't make a GA yet. But if we do more research and tap some new sources, I am up for it. -- RJFF ( talk) 10:22, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
This discussion is closed, as ALT5 is promoted. So I don't think subsequent edits should be made. Any problems, do not use that template. Instead, let's use the Talk:A Young Man's World. As for the infobox, I did what you asked, I summarized what is already cited in the article, and should there be citations in the infobox? By the way, from Wikipedia:DYK#Images: "Pictures and videos accompanying the DYK hook". There have been no videos or pictures accompanying the hook. Non-free images may still be allowed, as long as they are not used for the main page. -- George Ho ( talk) 19:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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agreed. ref added. aliases moved to main name field. mukerjee ( talk) 12:10, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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The gambling initiative was unopposed and there was practically no campaign - so it was rather a surprise that as many as 44% turned out. -- RJFF ( talk) 07:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Democratic Change's logo is yellow. And I'd rather use orange for GANA as it is their main campaign colour. -- RJFF ( talk) 08:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Yep, sure. In the respective articles National Coalition and Party of Hope (El Salvador). -- RJFF ( talk) 08:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Also, please be aware that the preferred plural of referendum is referendums (see the intro to Referendum). Number 5 7 11:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
It means that only 691 of 708 polling stations ("JRE"s) have reported. Seams the Salvadorans are a bit slow at counting. Don't know when (if?) they will publish the complete results. -- RJFF ( talk) 15:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry but unfortunately I have no idea. I would advise you to go to the Wikipedia:Help desk. -- RJFF ( talk) 15:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, you added a globalize tag to Anti-Pakistan sentiment, this article had some sections about Bangladesh, Israel, Hong Kong etc... Please check out the archive and help put them back (though they may need verifications so that they are not removed again). Thanks. -- lTopGunl ( talk) 15:51, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
The link was a bit burried in the table, I added a sentence above the table with the proper reference. I plan on adding additional references for the various party nominations over the coming days. sephia karta | dimmi 10:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I reverted your move. The title was discussed on the talk page, as it was originally the title you moved to, but a consensus was reached to change it. If you disagree, contribute your opinion there. Equazcion (talk) 12:14, 14 Mar 2012 (UTC)
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Hello,
Since you were involved in the past in editing the article, I though you might be interested in a this discussion. Mohamed CJ (talk) 16:29, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I rewroded your lock request saying " Wikipedia is repeatedly allowing the publication of insults and falsehood in this article - semi protection will prevent such repeated violations" not good to accuse WP to get support. If wrong then revert ;)Btw- you may also want a reason( Lihaas ( talk) 15:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)).
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Dear Lihaas, just to keep a right view on this:
At all, there is no reason for you to be as rude. Don't forget, we are all working for the same project and the "Expand German"-sign is an advice for you to find further informations. It is not affront for English authors. Please keep this in mind. Greetings from Germany, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 20:39, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
-- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 08:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Oh, Forum Haksesuk is not a "Forum" in general meaning. It is a NGO in East Timor. But no problem: STAE published the official order of the candidates at the ballot paper. All candidates are listed there: [5] You see, there is everything at the German article. ;-) -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 11:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC) P.S.: BTW: All candidates can be seen at the ballot paper, published at de-Wikipedia, too. ;-)
It is there for a long time: [38] Tribunal de Recurso: Liste der Kandidaten in der Reihenfolge, die sie auf dem Stimmzettel haben werden (portugiesisch). ;-) -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 14:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lahaas! Timr to complete the English article again! Sources in English language to be found again at de-Wikipedia. Greetings, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 21:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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why did you remove the flag i added next to the name of ancar dine: , here ,you said its pov. but reliable sources such as AFP have said the group is an Islamist organisation with links to alqaeda-- Misconceptions2 ( talk) 16:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I thought I’d write to you here, instead of the talk page, since you seem to be the person who is keeping us up to date in this conflict.
I meant that the sentence “The United States Air Force air-dropped supplies via a C-130 in support of the besieged Malian soldiers.” appears without any prior introduction on why the US is involved.
I think what would be nice is if you could write a separate section on the involvement (the US) or non-involvement (France?) of foreign powers, how does the US justify (or explain) their support to the former (?) president, what it is that they hope to achieve (restoring the previous balance of power, for example), or any such things that will help us understand what the foreign powers are doing and why they are doing it. Also it would be interesting to know the base from which the US is operating, since even though C-130 Hercules has a rather long operating range, it is still difficult to try guess where their base is.
Keep up the good work. Apanuggpak ( talk) 10:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Lihaas,
I spotted your name in the list of editors willing to do copy-editing. Can you help at Bloody Thursday (2011) article? It's a GAC and if improved enough, it could be a FAC. Mohamed CJ (talk) 09:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Trade unions in southern Europe are generally referred to by their acronyms in English media. The problem is that many versions become quite odd in English translations ('Sindicato' has a slightly different meaning, 'sindical' is difficult to translate properly). In northern Europe the main TU centres have now adopted official English versions of their names (such as Landsorganisationen, literally just 'the National Organization' is now referred to as the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, even though the terms 'Sweden', 'Trade Union' and 'Confederation' are absent from the Swedish original name). In southern Europe this is still not the case. -- Soman ( talk) 10:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
In this edit
[6], you wholly unnecessarily accuse an editor of bad faith. If you'll take a closer look here, it's clear that he was correcting the grammar of those two lines in the infobox; the reversion of the rest was an accident through edit conflict (and a minor accident at that). Why not be more civil with your fellow editors? Kindness makes the encyclopedia run much smoother; harshness only makes enemies. Thanks for your contributions, and keep up the good work,
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Sorry, no source. I just counted the winners according to User:Sephia karta's result added with this edit yesterday. I thought he/she had provided a source (obviously I assumed good faith...) but this seems not to be the case. We have to ask him/her where this information comes from. -- RJFF ( talk) 17:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have replied. I suggest you archive your talk page, it is much too long and takes time to load. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Man.. I can't see that documentary without crying.. it's so moving for me. Which means I didn't get captures from it. If you can tell me specific minutes/second I'll get them. Mohamed CJ (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
how is that a vandalism? does report on traffic on such pages look good? thousands of events happen everyday that disrupt traffics.I just sometime like an article concerning INDIA without controversies. thats it...........yours truly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 ( talk) 13:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
well i didnt remove(censor) tibetan protests paragraph.i live in delhi, and traffic gets disrupted everyday for one reason or another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 ( talk) 13:38, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Discuss what? The only issue at the moment is the renaming to Tuareg rebellion (2012), which all editors agree should be done, except you. And I have been involved in that discussion. As far as all the other issues you have or don't have I don't have a problem with them. If you are referring to my edits in the last 10 minutes I don't see what's so problematic about them that they need to be discussed. I can guess what you are having a problem with. Number 1: the coup mention being in the results section instead of the casualties section (it's a political/military consequence and a result of the conflict and it's place is thus in the results not the casualties section). Number 2: the number of government soldiers involved in the conflict (at the moment the conflict is spread throughout the country, with half the military involved in the fighting with the Tuaregs in the north, and half involved in the coup in the south, thus they are all involved). Number 3: my removal of the retreat to Algeria (the source doesn't mention the retreat to Algeria because the source only covers the story on the attempted relief of the town, a whole week before the retreat; the retreat is talked about in the next paragraph). Number 4: the removal of the word killed in the government section on casualties (source clearly states 1,000 killed, captured or deserted, don't know what else to say beside that). That's it. And I didn't attack you at any point. I just call it as I see it. And you reverting every possible edit I make to the article without even discussing it with me is really a definition of an edit war without concencuss Lihaas, which I still don't understand. I tried to talk to you a few times but you weren't responding. If you have some problems with my edits talk to me before reverting. Thank you! EkoGraf ( talk) 09:49, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I will respond on the talk page as you requested. EkoGraf ( talk) 10:03, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Responded, hope it clears it all up now. Cheers! :) EkoGraf ( talk) 10:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lihaas,
I replied to your most recent comments on my usertalk page. You can go there to see it. But I wanted to let you know right away that I found a source for the rebels retaking Aguehok on January 24 [7]. Maybe you could add it, since I don't know the syntax for citation footnotes off the top of my head.
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I'm a little wary of the word accused in "is accused of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups", as it implies the POV that AQIM links are bad. How about "alleged to have links"? I think I've changed that wording several times today, so I want to make sure I don't break 3RR. Khazar2 ( talk) 08:43, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
On a different subject (hence the outdent), Melissa Fleming is not the UNCHR chief's spokeswoman; she's the "UNHCR's chief spokesperson", per Al Jazeera. In other words, we can just call her the spokesperson, or chief spokesperson, but not the chief's spokesperson. =) Again I don't want to revert you to avoid edit warring--are you willing to double-check that in the source and change it? Khazar2 ( talk) 08:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Sure, but I forgot to put it on the article. But it's already there, I really forgot to put the source. Thanks for the advice! Tokiohotelover ( talk) 11:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Read article talk page and read Wikipedia guidelines on infoboxes here Template:Infobox military conflict. Hope it clears it all up. EkoGraf ( talk) 20:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Yes, I know. I've already seen a picture of the flag here. It has a sword below the writing. We don't have a file of this flag on WikiCommons. If you want to use it, you'll have to draw it. We can't just choose one that is somehow similar to the one they actually use. That would be like - "We don't have a flag of China, let's use the one of the Soviet Union. It's similar. They're both red and have a golden star in the upper left corner." -- RJFF ( talk) 10:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Lihaas. Could you tell me why you reverted my edit? Also, if you don't agree with part of my edits, don't revert everything at once. As it is, you removed some templates to properly render text. It would be more considerate of you if you took the time to only revert what you disagree with as it can be pretty annoying. Just a heads up for next time. Thanks. ABJIKLAM I T I C 20:05, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
To say the least, I'm a tad peeved at the moment. GoodDay ( talk) 07:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Mew, deleted 4th from that article again, against consensus. Also, he deleted 1st, 2nd & 3rd from the infoboxes of Banda's predecessors. I've restored all four numberings, however I'm tired of playing his game. It's become apparent to me (Banda birthyear, another example), that changes to those articles won't get accepted without Mew's stamp of approval. GoodDay ( talk) 23:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lihaas, would you mind explaining on the article talk page why this is not the 'proper name'? Mikenorton ( talk) 11:49, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
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Morning Lihaas. Please do not edit war to keep comments on other people's talk pages if they have removed them, as you did here. Per WP:TPO, editors are permitted to remove comments from their own talk pages. Edit warring to keep them in place is only likely to inflame any disagreement. If an editor removes a comment from their own talk page, they accept that they have read it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 11:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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I do not like your threat of starting an editwar. Please commit to a useful discussion to solve the problems. I have no problem reporting you and getting you banned if you really start an editwar. And the same applies to Mukerjee. Night of the Big Wind talk 20:47, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent contributions! 67.80.64.128 ( talk) 23:11, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I just thought I would let you know that when you moved the table of winning candidates from Uttar Pradesh legislative election, 2012 to my sandbox [8], I felt very depressed. This was a table that we had agreed on (that the title should be "List of Winning candidates) etc. I had worked very hard on this 412 row table, wikifying things, fixing links, inserting 2007 data, removing bad links etc. You had in fact created a template with this very text.
Later, when that template was deleted since it was single-use, and you were unhappy, I suggested that it still isn't stable, it was full of disamb links. You facetiously called it sandbox material and unilaterally removed it to my sandbox. I was very hurt and was seriously thinking of withdrawing from wikipedia forever.
I just thoought I would mention that this action of yours, was a violation of my space. It also implied that I was an amateur who didn't know what belonged to a sandbox and what belongs to a wikipedia page. This for a detailed results section that you too felt belonged on the page. I felt very hurt.
This is why I don't get into edit wars or anything else. In any event, do try to come to a consensus at least on the four points, and let's proceed.
Also, I am really not upset now. In my eight years on wikipedia, i have learned to avoid edit wars for exactly this sort of reason.
I daresay I have no enemies on wikipedia, and would like to see you as a friend rather than an enemy.
Thanks! mukerjee ( talk) 06:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your questions about my close of the AfD. The consensus was that nothing in the article should be merged as it stood but that the topic could reasonably receive coverage in the appropriate place. I can move the content to a user suppage (i.e. User:Lihaas/Our memory and its capacity or something similar) if you like, but it would need to be extensively rewritten to be used in any article. Eluchil404 ( talk) 04:18, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Lihaas. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kyrgistan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this doesn't meet any speedy criterion, and the redirect is used ~15 times a day. See here. There are only two speedy reasons for redirects, WP:CSD#R2 and WP:CSD#R3 (which is only for recently created ones), anything else should go to WP:RFD; but generally, redirects that are used should be kept - see WP:R#DELETE. JohnCD ( talk) 10:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
I re-read the source saw it there, I apologize for my mistake. Distributor108 ( talk) 01:35, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,
Since you don't appear to be a native speaker of English, I wanted to let you know that the sentence
is in fact perfectly grammatical, and stylistically accurate. You are quite right that "you cant have "its" withut saying what that means"; however, the sentence does specify what "its" means. This is a very common syntactical structure, and I'm not aware of the existence even of any dubious prescriptivist rules against it. It does not comprise an unacceptable example of deixis. Since your replacement was less accurate I have reverted the change, but I wanted to let you know since it appears to be a more fundamental misunderstanding of grammar.
This structure is known as cataphora. Many thanks, -- Tyrannus Mundi ( talk) 16:36, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Lihaas, I want to point out one minor detail regarding the podcaster/politician Kim Yong-min. It is true that he gained his fame through his most famous podcast "Naneun Ggomsuda"( Korean: 나는 꼼수다),but he said the problematic sexist slur eight years ago in a radio show, "Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18"( Korean: 김구라/하니의 플러스 18). Notice that the number 18 is age 18, so "Plus 18" means people over 18 years old. Kim was free to make a such disgusting comments because "Plus 18"'s main audience were adults. Here is my source. ‘Bad-boy’ hopeful refuses to bow out. It is a Korea times news, and I quoted part of the article here.
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Unfortunately not - it's a crap system by whoever designed it. However, the way I have found to resolve it - if you put one in and it comes out as the redlink with the horrible coding around it, click on the red link, and then just edit that page to be the short name of the party - it will then make the link work properly. This is one I did recently to make a Romanian template work. Number 5 7 12:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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I took this to NPOVN a couple of days ago, but the IP most active (now at 6RR) just discussed COI issues he sees with Zionist sources & editors. Note this [http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t870653/] discussion at Stormfront. Dougweller ( talk) 10:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Lihaas,
basically I am sympathetic to your idea, but I am afraid that the prose is a bit slim. Yesterday I failed to find more material covering reactions to or analysis of the election. Only election result tables don't make a GA yet. But if we do more research and tap some new sources, I am up for it. -- RJFF ( talk) 10:22, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
This discussion is closed, as ALT5 is promoted. So I don't think subsequent edits should be made. Any problems, do not use that template. Instead, let's use the Talk:A Young Man's World. As for the infobox, I did what you asked, I summarized what is already cited in the article, and should there be citations in the infobox? By the way, from Wikipedia:DYK#Images: "Pictures and videos accompanying the DYK hook". There have been no videos or pictures accompanying the hook. Non-free images may still be allowed, as long as they are not used for the main page. -- George Ho ( talk) 19:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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The gambling initiative was unopposed and there was practically no campaign - so it was rather a surprise that as many as 44% turned out. -- RJFF ( talk) 07:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Democratic Change's logo is yellow. And I'd rather use orange for GANA as it is their main campaign colour. -- RJFF ( talk) 08:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Yep, sure. In the respective articles National Coalition and Party of Hope (El Salvador). -- RJFF ( talk) 08:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Also, please be aware that the preferred plural of referendum is referendums (see the intro to Referendum). Number 5 7 11:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
It means that only 691 of 708 polling stations ("JRE"s) have reported. Seams the Salvadorans are a bit slow at counting. Don't know when (if?) they will publish the complete results. -- RJFF ( talk) 15:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry but unfortunately I have no idea. I would advise you to go to the Wikipedia:Help desk. -- RJFF ( talk) 15:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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The link was a bit burried in the table, I added a sentence above the table with the proper reference. I plan on adding additional references for the various party nominations over the coming days. sephia karta | dimmi 10:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello,
Since you were involved in the past in editing the article, I though you might be interested in a this discussion. Mohamed CJ (talk) 16:29, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I rewroded your lock request saying " Wikipedia is repeatedly allowing the publication of insults and falsehood in this article - semi protection will prevent such repeated violations" not good to accuse WP to get support. If wrong then revert ;)Btw- you may also want a reason( Lihaas ( talk) 15:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)).
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At all, there is no reason for you to be as rude. Don't forget, we are all working for the same project and the "Expand German"-sign is an advice for you to find further informations. It is not affront for English authors. Please keep this in mind. Greetings from Germany, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 20:39, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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Oh, Forum Haksesuk is not a "Forum" in general meaning. It is a NGO in East Timor. But no problem: STAE published the official order of the candidates at the ballot paper. All candidates are listed there: [5] You see, there is everything at the German article. ;-) -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 11:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC) P.S.: BTW: All candidates can be seen at the ballot paper, published at de-Wikipedia, too. ;-)
It is there for a long time: [38] Tribunal de Recurso: Liste der Kandidaten in der Reihenfolge, die sie auf dem Stimmzettel haben werden (portugiesisch). ;-) -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 14:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lahaas! Timr to complete the English article again! Sources in English language to be found again at de-Wikipedia. Greetings, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 21:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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why did you remove the flag i added next to the name of ancar dine: , here ,you said its pov. but reliable sources such as AFP have said the group is an Islamist organisation with links to alqaeda-- Misconceptions2 ( talk) 16:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I thought I’d write to you here, instead of the talk page, since you seem to be the person who is keeping us up to date in this conflict.
I meant that the sentence “The United States Air Force air-dropped supplies via a C-130 in support of the besieged Malian soldiers.” appears without any prior introduction on why the US is involved.
I think what would be nice is if you could write a separate section on the involvement (the US) or non-involvement (France?) of foreign powers, how does the US justify (or explain) their support to the former (?) president, what it is that they hope to achieve (restoring the previous balance of power, for example), or any such things that will help us understand what the foreign powers are doing and why they are doing it. Also it would be interesting to know the base from which the US is operating, since even though C-130 Hercules has a rather long operating range, it is still difficult to try guess where their base is.
Keep up the good work. Apanuggpak ( talk) 10:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Lihaas,
I spotted your name in the list of editors willing to do copy-editing. Can you help at Bloody Thursday (2011) article? It's a GAC and if improved enough, it could be a FAC. Mohamed CJ (talk) 09:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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Trade unions in southern Europe are generally referred to by their acronyms in English media. The problem is that many versions become quite odd in English translations ('Sindicato' has a slightly different meaning, 'sindical' is difficult to translate properly). In northern Europe the main TU centres have now adopted official English versions of their names (such as Landsorganisationen, literally just 'the National Organization' is now referred to as the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, even though the terms 'Sweden', 'Trade Union' and 'Confederation' are absent from the Swedish original name). In southern Europe this is still not the case. -- Soman ( talk) 10:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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[6], you wholly unnecessarily accuse an editor of bad faith. If you'll take a closer look here, it's clear that he was correcting the grammar of those two lines in the infobox; the reversion of the rest was an accident through edit conflict (and a minor accident at that). Why not be more civil with your fellow editors? Kindness makes the encyclopedia run much smoother; harshness only makes enemies. Thanks for your contributions, and keep up the good work,
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Sorry, no source. I just counted the winners according to User:Sephia karta's result added with this edit yesterday. I thought he/she had provided a source (obviously I assumed good faith...) but this seems not to be the case. We have to ask him/her where this information comes from. -- RJFF ( talk) 17:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have replied. I suggest you archive your talk page, it is much too long and takes time to load. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Man.. I can't see that documentary without crying.. it's so moving for me. Which means I didn't get captures from it. If you can tell me specific minutes/second I'll get them. Mohamed CJ (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
how is that a vandalism? does report on traffic on such pages look good? thousands of events happen everyday that disrupt traffics.I just sometime like an article concerning INDIA without controversies. thats it...........yours truly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 ( talk) 13:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
well i didnt remove(censor) tibetan protests paragraph.i live in delhi, and traffic gets disrupted everyday for one reason or another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 ( talk) 13:38, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Discuss what? The only issue at the moment is the renaming to Tuareg rebellion (2012), which all editors agree should be done, except you. And I have been involved in that discussion. As far as all the other issues you have or don't have I don't have a problem with them. If you are referring to my edits in the last 10 minutes I don't see what's so problematic about them that they need to be discussed. I can guess what you are having a problem with. Number 1: the coup mention being in the results section instead of the casualties section (it's a political/military consequence and a result of the conflict and it's place is thus in the results not the casualties section). Number 2: the number of government soldiers involved in the conflict (at the moment the conflict is spread throughout the country, with half the military involved in the fighting with the Tuaregs in the north, and half involved in the coup in the south, thus they are all involved). Number 3: my removal of the retreat to Algeria (the source doesn't mention the retreat to Algeria because the source only covers the story on the attempted relief of the town, a whole week before the retreat; the retreat is talked about in the next paragraph). Number 4: the removal of the word killed in the government section on casualties (source clearly states 1,000 killed, captured or deserted, don't know what else to say beside that). That's it. And I didn't attack you at any point. I just call it as I see it. And you reverting every possible edit I make to the article without even discussing it with me is really a definition of an edit war without concencuss Lihaas, which I still don't understand. I tried to talk to you a few times but you weren't responding. If you have some problems with my edits talk to me before reverting. Thank you! EkoGraf ( talk) 09:49, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I will respond on the talk page as you requested. EkoGraf ( talk) 10:03, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Responded, hope it clears it all up now. Cheers! :) EkoGraf ( talk) 10:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lihaas,
I replied to your most recent comments on my usertalk page. You can go there to see it. But I wanted to let you know right away that I found a source for the rebels retaking Aguehok on January 24 [7]. Maybe you could add it, since I don't know the syntax for citation footnotes off the top of my head.
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I'm a little wary of the word accused in "is accused of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups", as it implies the POV that AQIM links are bad. How about "alleged to have links"? I think I've changed that wording several times today, so I want to make sure I don't break 3RR. Khazar2 ( talk) 08:43, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
On a different subject (hence the outdent), Melissa Fleming is not the UNCHR chief's spokeswoman; she's the "UNHCR's chief spokesperson", per Al Jazeera. In other words, we can just call her the spokesperson, or chief spokesperson, but not the chief's spokesperson. =) Again I don't want to revert you to avoid edit warring--are you willing to double-check that in the source and change it? Khazar2 ( talk) 08:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Sure, but I forgot to put it on the article. But it's already there, I really forgot to put the source. Thanks for the advice! Tokiohotelover ( talk) 11:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Lihaas, thanks for your review - much appreciated. I have responded to your queries. You don't need to notify me, as I have watchlisted the nom template. Schwede 66 19:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Read article talk page and read Wikipedia guidelines on infoboxes here Template:Infobox military conflict. Hope it clears it all up. EkoGraf ( talk) 20:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Yes, I know. I've already seen a picture of the flag here. It has a sword below the writing. We don't have a file of this flag on WikiCommons. If you want to use it, you'll have to draw it. We can't just choose one that is somehow similar to the one they actually use. That would be like - "We don't have a flag of China, let's use the one of the Soviet Union. It's similar. They're both red and have a golden star in the upper left corner." -- RJFF ( talk) 10:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Lihaas. Could you tell me why you reverted my edit? Also, if you don't agree with part of my edits, don't revert everything at once. As it is, you removed some templates to properly render text. It would be more considerate of you if you took the time to only revert what you disagree with as it can be pretty annoying. Just a heads up for next time. Thanks. ABJIKLAM I T I C 20:05, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
To say the least, I'm a tad peeved at the moment. GoodDay ( talk) 07:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Mew, deleted 4th from that article again, against consensus. Also, he deleted 1st, 2nd & 3rd from the infoboxes of Banda's predecessors. I've restored all four numberings, however I'm tired of playing his game. It's become apparent to me (Banda birthyear, another example), that changes to those articles won't get accepted without Mew's stamp of approval. GoodDay ( talk) 23:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lihaas, would you mind explaining on the article talk page why this is not the 'proper name'? Mikenorton ( talk) 11:49, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
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Morning Lihaas. Please do not edit war to keep comments on other people's talk pages if they have removed them, as you did here. Per WP:TPO, editors are permitted to remove comments from their own talk pages. Edit warring to keep them in place is only likely to inflame any disagreement. If an editor removes a comment from their own talk page, they accept that they have read it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 11:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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I do not like your threat of starting an editwar. Please commit to a useful discussion to solve the problems. I have no problem reporting you and getting you banned if you really start an editwar. And the same applies to Mukerjee. Night of the Big Wind talk 20:47, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent contributions! 67.80.64.128 ( talk) 23:11, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I just thought I would let you know that when you moved the table of winning candidates from Uttar Pradesh legislative election, 2012 to my sandbox [8], I felt very depressed. This was a table that we had agreed on (that the title should be "List of Winning candidates) etc. I had worked very hard on this 412 row table, wikifying things, fixing links, inserting 2007 data, removing bad links etc. You had in fact created a template with this very text.
Later, when that template was deleted since it was single-use, and you were unhappy, I suggested that it still isn't stable, it was full of disamb links. You facetiously called it sandbox material and unilaterally removed it to my sandbox. I was very hurt and was seriously thinking of withdrawing from wikipedia forever.
I just thoought I would mention that this action of yours, was a violation of my space. It also implied that I was an amateur who didn't know what belonged to a sandbox and what belongs to a wikipedia page. This for a detailed results section that you too felt belonged on the page. I felt very hurt.
This is why I don't get into edit wars or anything else. In any event, do try to come to a consensus at least on the four points, and let's proceed.
Also, I am really not upset now. In my eight years on wikipedia, i have learned to avoid edit wars for exactly this sort of reason.
I daresay I have no enemies on wikipedia, and would like to see you as a friend rather than an enemy.
Thanks! mukerjee ( talk) 06:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your questions about my close of the AfD. The consensus was that nothing in the article should be merged as it stood but that the topic could reasonably receive coverage in the appropriate place. I can move the content to a user suppage (i.e. User:Lihaas/Our memory and its capacity or something similar) if you like, but it would need to be extensively rewritten to be used in any article. Eluchil404 ( talk) 04:18, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Lihaas. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kyrgistan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this doesn't meet any speedy criterion, and the redirect is used ~15 times a day. See here. There are only two speedy reasons for redirects, WP:CSD#R2 and WP:CSD#R3 (which is only for recently created ones), anything else should go to WP:RFD; but generally, redirects that are used should be kept - see WP:R#DELETE. JohnCD ( talk) 10:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
I re-read the source saw it there, I apologize for my mistake. Distributor108 ( talk) 01:35, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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Since you don't appear to be a native speaker of English, I wanted to let you know that the sentence
is in fact perfectly grammatical, and stylistically accurate. You are quite right that "you cant have "its" withut saying what that means"; however, the sentence does specify what "its" means. This is a very common syntactical structure, and I'm not aware of the existence even of any dubious prescriptivist rules against it. It does not comprise an unacceptable example of deixis. Since your replacement was less accurate I have reverted the change, but I wanted to let you know since it appears to be a more fundamental misunderstanding of grammar.
This structure is known as cataphora. Many thanks, -- Tyrannus Mundi ( talk) 16:36, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Lihaas, I want to point out one minor detail regarding the podcaster/politician Kim Yong-min. It is true that he gained his fame through his most famous podcast "Naneun Ggomsuda"( Korean: 나는 꼼수다),but he said the problematic sexist slur eight years ago in a radio show, "Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18"( Korean: 김구라/하니의 플러스 18). Notice that the number 18 is age 18, so "Plus 18" means people over 18 years old. Kim was free to make a such disgusting comments because "Plus 18"'s main audience were adults. Here is my source. ‘Bad-boy’ hopeful refuses to bow out. It is a Korea times news, and I quoted part of the article here.
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I am posting here to ask for editors to look at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Recurring_items and to comment at the talk page to discuss/vote on an amendment to the ITN/R list. I am posting this message on a number of editor's talk pages to encourage debate.
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You labeled this article as original research but did not give any indication what you think is wrong. Can you elaborate? Rmhermen ( talk) 04:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Lihaas, I'd appreciate if you could tell me what Ankitbhatt did that warranted this message. He is under civility mentorship and I need to know the circumstances. Thanks, — Strange Passerby ( talk • cont) 11:51, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The nomination doesn't need a QPQ review anyway as the nominator is different to the creator/expander. Miyagawa (talk) 12:19, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Could you please stop messing up with the article?? -- Yerevanci ( talk) 22:37, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I'd like to direct your attention to this. Best, Beyond My Ken ( talk) 01:28, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I just stumbled upon your userpage and saw the userboxes. I'm speechless! :) -- SupernovaExplosion Talk 06:57, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, I noticed your edit on the heading that I agree with, the matter is however in discussion on the talk page Talk:UEFA Euro 2012, under Concerns and controversies or Ukrainian Concerns and controversies section 2, would be good to hear your views. Re the second part of your edit:
This is well sourced and I have already noticed it, but I think it should not be included as it is, strictly speaking, not relevant to Euro 2012, I have however already put a similar post at Yulia Tymoshenko under hunger strike where I think it is more relevant. Yours ever, Czar Brodie ( talk) 15:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
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