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On Shinasha, you wrote "all the region to the North of the Blue Nile was once inhabited by a white or yellow race and that the blacks, who have penetrated it, did so at the time they were gleeing their country form the Galla invasions?". Is this a typo? Particularly the words "gleeing" and "form" and the question mark at the end. — Soap — 18:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, as I mentioned in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people#Debate, whoever told you flagged revisions is forgotten about has no idea what they're talking about considering this is currently one of the WMF's most important projects and has been discussed in the media and other places like wikimania. Also whoever told you flagged revisions was some wonder pill for any and all BLP problems clearly had no idea what they're talking about. I suggest you ignore such people and perhaps even take it up with them for spreading misinformation. Definitely it would help un a number of ways, but it's not a wonder solution, and the vast majority of people concerned about BLPs I've dealt with know that and have made it clear from the get go. Nil Einne ( talk) 14:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
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I have spelled out exactly what happened. Shoemaker's Holiday talk 20:53, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. I noticed your interest in all things Ethiopian, and particularly your note at Mirab Shewa Zone about the splitting of the page. I've added further details to the Talk page as I cannot access the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia's website to confirm the details for the original source. Incidentally, it appears that Adama is a Special Zone, separate from Mirab Shewa, presumably because it was, for a short time, the capital of the Oromiya region. Skinsmoke ( talk) 14:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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One wonders what one has to have done to be spammed 100kb of deletion warnings like this. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:01, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
A present for you. Template:Location map Ethiopia relief. See Abul Kasim (mountain). Can you copy the infobox and map and update the 26 other mountain articles? Dr. Blofeld White cat 23:41, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
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Me and Supreme Deliciousness believe that some editor are not edit article in good faith and purposely create disrupt to article and many other. It hard negotiate with editor who not interest in improve article but only want make bias to own opinion. This disruptive editing by select few editor edit put halt to move forward with this article and with RfC name change at Mount Yosifon. Be there some where on Wikipedia where other Admin can review contribution of disruptive editor to see if they agree with this concern? It very hard to bring truth to article when other editor to article not agree work with information present. Sorry for bad english. Ani medjool ( talk) 20:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
FYI and FWIW, I've opened a discussion at WP:CNOTICE#Somali clan listings. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
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Your comment here hardly deserves further attention, except insofar as it reveals your own ignorance. To learn something of the character V, I suggest that you take the time to read Ellen Crowell's paper published in the winter 2008/2009 issue of Neo-Victorian studies. It's available as a pdf to download if you have the wit to find it, or the honesty to look for it. Malleus Fatuorum 13:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Why don’t we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He’d look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he’s deserved all these years. We shouldn’t burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament!
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I've created maps for Tigray and Afar, see Mek'ele and Semera. This is the best I can manage. I'll do maps for all of the other regions if you want them. Its up to you if you want to keep both or remove the Ethiopia map, after all the regional maps have locators in the corner so people know where in Ethiopia it is. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Don't overwhelm me with your enthusiasm... Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:15, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
[1]. Three 'p's in 'apppointed'? Not like you at all! Philip Trueman ( talk) 16:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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Just ran across this. I'm travelling, no time to work on it, but it has questions in it, the use of 'we', OR, etc. So if you ever have time.... Dougweller ( talk) 04:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
TFOWR idle vapourings 10:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
If you want to add your co-nom, by all means go ahead. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. In this comment: User talk:B9 hummingbird hovering#Final warning, you advised the editor to use {{ unblock reviewed}}. I think {{ unblock}} would be more logical since that is how a blocked user nomally makes a request. EdJohnston ( talk) 18:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Elections in Ethiopia. Gyrofrog (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}}) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
FWIW, 'twas a whole drawer full: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CUDz/Archive#01 June 2010. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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Levine is considered an expert in the field. Saying that his "His research method is not indicated" is not a sufficient reason -- discuss this on the talk page)
Fine. I feel sorry for the people who will be mislead by an outright lie. I was born and raised in Debre Birhan and I know for sure what he said was absolutely false. But he is an expert. What do I know about my own town?
And thanks also for co-nominating me - I appreciate the trust you've placed in me. I promise to do my best to live up to the trust you've placed in me. TFOWR 20:35, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Please see my talk page its last section, where B9 hummingbird hover... left me a message whom you blocked indefinetly on 2 June. Although I did not understand him , so I thought to enquire here ????????? What's the matter ???????????? -- Extra 999 ( Contact me + contribs) 10:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hmm he sent me a day before you blocked him (sent me on 1 and was blocked on 2) and it appears in his contribs. -- Extra 999 ( Contact me + contribs) 10:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Checked out your userpage (looking for a new layout for mine) and seen about your daughter. Hope she gets better quickly. Being sick sucks and I wish her the best and will say a prayer for her. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 05:41, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
You had previously participated in an Admin recall petition for Herostratus, at the user's talk page. This process has now started. It is ongoing as an RFA page, for admin recall, at: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Herostratus 2. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 20:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Oh good, someone else thought of this! When the AfD closes and the dust settles, would you be interested in working on such an article? I've pasted in some sources into the AfD. Fences& Windows 18:15, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Don't we already have this as Administrators? Dougweller ( talk) 07:59, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Per you comment here [3], thought you might also like to see this where a bit of the community has weighed in on the matter. He iro 05:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Ebionites#Misrepresentation of Tabor and offer your opinions on the matter, and of course feel free to consult the book itself. I would also like to perhaps communicate to you more directly regarding your input in a matter which might be worth discussing regarding that article. Please leave me a message or send me an email if you would be interested in receiving such a message. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 19:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello there:
Another user and I have been working extensively on the Rosetta Stone article. It has undergone extensive revisions in the past month and I am looking for potential reviewers who can ensure that it will be able to pass Feature Article review. Since you have been active in the past on articles having to do with Ancient Egypt, I thought I should call on you to give it a once over.
Hope you can help. Cheers! Captmondo ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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For what it might be worth, you might be interested in the section containing material from encyclopedic sources at User talk:John Carter/Ebionites#Encyclopediac sources. I will state up front that material which is effectively duplicated in several encyclopediac sources is probably omitted from the later sources which I found which say that, for space reasons. However, I think that pretty much everything said in them not covered by others is included in the appropriate section, so it would possibly be a useful starting point to determine the various aspects of the existing academic opinion on the subject. Given our lack of space requirements, I personally think that most every topic included in an encyclopedia article should probably be referenced in our own, allowing for changes in scientific credit the idea might receive, other changes, etc. Of course, you are free to check any other such sources, and possibly add them, particularly if you have access to other dictionaries/encyclopediae which discuss the topic. Also, you had earlier talked about good, better, and best sources. I personally think that the best sources are probably those used by other reference works, and that is why I created the section User talk:John Carter/Ebionites#Sources, specifically listing those listed in the bibliographies of encyclopediac content. If you have ready access to any of those items which I haven't already gotten ahold of, and if you actually want to spend that much time on this subject, I would be very happy if you were to do so. Thank you for taking an interest in the topic in any event. John Carter ( talk) 20:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
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You have one. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 07:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you good at editing templates? I want to add a functionality to "Template:National Public Radio", I want to add a functionality to add a year when there are more than one so that {{National Public Radio|219932|2006}} so it will display "Conan O'Brien on National Public Radio in 2006". -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 02:47, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I raise my Pepsi to you for your reference of the Dead Parrot sketch. It, indeed, was pining for the fjords. :) Well done, Sir. Well done. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Concerning this, do you have an idea of the name you want the template to be located at, and is there any parameters you wish besides what was noted?— Dæ dαlus Contribs 06:21, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Your edit summary here borders on a personal attack. Consider this a warning. N419 BH 20:01, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you interested in writing an article on this topic [4]? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gavin.collins ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 27 July 2010 -- Gavin Collins ( talk| contribs) 21:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
You were involved with this editor last year [5]. I don't know if you ever saw this: [6]. In any case, he's back with a new account (I think he lost his password, this isn't socking) and created an article about himself, Zoltan A. Simon, quickly deleted. I've twice removed material from Assyrian eclipse which is his own personal research. I'm telling you this because you were involved with him in the past and I thought you might be interested, and because there may, but hopefully won't, be problems with him. Dougweller ( talk) 09:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch, you don't happen to have a source for this edit do you? I'm glad to see an earlier event added, but I'm trying to make sure every bit of that timeline is sourced in order to hopefully get it to WP:FL at some point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Belovedfreak ( talk • contribs) 17:00, 4 August 2010
I would like your help. User:Dpmuk is in no single article or article group specific page talking about my page moves. But only after 19 min that someone posts at Wikipedia_talk:Requested_moves#Need_a_move_review_of_User:Schwyz, he jumps in suggesting WP:RFC/U [7]. Some minutes later, without doing any other editing he goes to another users talk page and tries to get him on board for RFC/U. Four days ago he suggested WP:SPI [8]. Luckily he does not come to my talk page for what I perceive as Wikipedia:Harassment after I told him to only come for article specific reasons. I am discussing any problems that users have with specific page moves, I am always open to debate. I don't know why Dpmuk is attacking me all the time, without actually being interested in the moves itself. Schwyz ( talk) 11:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I put it at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Dpmuk_-_Harassment. Maybe ANI is not the best place, but I don't know what to do else. This user does not seem to want to solve content issues, but to command other users so as they behave as he wishes. Schwyz ( talk) 12:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I am considering filing an RfC on the above article this weekend. I had earlier mentioned the possibility on the article's talk page, and although neither Michael nor Ovadyah have commented on that, they have commented subsequently on other matters, which might indicate that they are undecided on how to respond to the idea. However, I do have a few questions regarding how to file and set up an RfC which deals with multiple related topics. The questions I would like the RfC to address are
I realize that this is a complex matter. However, I personally think that my removing any material source to Tabor and Eisenman would create problems, and thus think that having the matters decided by RfC would be more effective. Certainly, leaving messages on the talk pages of the relevant Dead Sea Scrolls articles, the Judaism project, the Christianity project, and the Alternative Views project would be more likely to get informed, neutral input. Thank you in advance for any response. I as an individual, unfortunately, think filing an RfC as complicated as this is probably beyond my own personal experience. John Carter ( talk) 19:47, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. In case you don't get back to the blisteringly long thread, I just wanted to point towards my reply to you at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Suggestion (call it point 2.1): Moving purely navigational lists out of article space. That's all. Feel free to reply wherever (here, there, my talk, the User:Quiddity/Navigational pages RfC's talk, or somewhere random!) :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 23:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you consider adding the following statement to your essay on what is not OR? "Accurate paraphrasing of reliable sources is not considered original research." Precis ( talk) 21:24, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Llywrch, I moved this template to new name exactly because not all monarchs or Emperors of Ethiopia were part of the Solomonic dynasty. So, template should have a different name then "Template:SolomonicDynasty". Am I right? -- Sundostund ( talk) 20:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Thought you might be interested in a current ANI thread in which Ovadyah says that he never said "I hate you" on any page. Much to my surprise, I find that the edit comment with which he restored it has apparently been purged from his history. There is evidence that he had, up to now anyway, acknowledged it, so I have no idea what happened. I was wondering whether you, who were involved in the matter, can remember them. John Carter ( talk) 22:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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So far as I can tell, there are alternate spellings, eg [ [9]], but they aren't in the article (ran into this as an IP is busy messing up related articles). Do you know anything about this? Dougweller ( talk) 21:08, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments, and even more for your advice. It is a fact of WP life that the more you do the more controversy you will get involved in - even if you are doing fairly uncontroversial things - a basic "noise level" - and it is also true that I got busy a couple of weeks ago - made a few errors in handling things, and hence the "blow up". Nonetheless we will, in time, resolve all the issues (except possibly one or two editors who seem to hold grudges) and the robots will be able to continue to build the encyclopedia, unmolested... Thanks again.
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In answer to your comment at ANI. Possibly I've oversold the use of WP:RESTRICT. It is really just an index to where decisions have been taken by agreement. (For example in that ANI thread). No objection if you believe this step is unnecessary. You can always cite WP:IAR if the problem recurs, but WP:RESTRICT requires breaking less china. Since Radiojon is steadfastly ignoring all feedback, I feel that it's only a matter of time before he returns to the behavior that people were concerned about. EdJohnston ( talk) 20:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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We all get a little overwrought at times and make bad faith statements we had rather not.
In this comment [10] you describe the removal of a FA tag from an article as "disruptive", fair enough if you think that kind of thing is disruptive in some way, but it's odd. What you said next seems even more odd:
That seems uncalled for. Many editors contract their usernames in their signatures: Nuclear Warfare on the same thread uses "NW", Shell Kinney the arbitrator is "Shell", and many other prominent editors use contractions. I do edit in my real name, which I think makes me much more open than many other Wikipedians. For information about Tasty monster, see the collapsed notice at the top of User talk:Tony Sidaway. It's no secret, it's just a telephone I use when I'm out and about.
In short, your comment as quoted above is misleading and uncalled for.
So please, please, less of this nastiness. It really isn't a good thing to do. -- TS 03:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch,
Thanks for the feedback. I am going through a period at the moment of just updating Roman and Byzantine articles with sources and citations - many are in sore need of such work. Unfortunately, my access to secondary sources is somewhat limited (hence my reliance on Gibbon and Bury), so I tend to also cite from primary sources to try to bolster the range of sources used throughout the articles. That being said, the general narrative of Constantine's career is what it is, so using an old source to verify the information presented in the article is better than having no source at all. It is more of an issue about updating the core facts with new details that have been uncovered in the years since. If you have any suggestions for more recent secondary online sources that I can access easily, I would be most appreciative. Regards :) Oatley2112 ( talk) 22:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the link fix. It's been up there a while, I guess the fact it wasn't noticed before means it doesn't get much traffic! Dick G ( talk) 12:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
FYI: Interesting (ongoing) AfD debate about the article " Archimedes, Inc." (article’s lead supporter was permanently blocked mid-debate with charges of paid editing.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LucyLB ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
It wouldn't be the first time, there is a substantial amount of evidence that User:Danieldis47 and Use:Etalssrs were associates (although not necessarily the same user), having edited the same group of articles, with the same promotional tone (see the related AfDs Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insurance Licensing Services of America, Inc. and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arleen Taveras). Having participated in the dispute, I don't think he wasn't blocked purely for advertising (although that did play a big part), but also for disruptive canvassing for !votes by notifying everyone in the page history, even if their edit was as small as correcting a typo in a COI or cleanup template, failing to respond to a COI concern and cooperate despite large amounts of off-wiki evidence of a clear COI, along with the aforementioned earlier evidence of meatpuppetry. I have no idea why the user contacted you specifically, but an associate of the user seems to be canvassing again.-- res Laozi speak 23:12, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing this out - I should have checked the link myself, but since I copied it from the paper itself, I trusted it. I have now corrected the link. Best regards, Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:32, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm in a disagreement on the Asmara article, so a neutral outside opinion would help in a resolution. More info on my and Judygreenberg's talk pages. Mesfin ( talk) 12:07, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
"only surviving member of its branch". Huh? I think the approximately 40,000 native speakers of Scottish Gaelic might object to that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comhreir ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch, I noticed that you try to make some sense out of administrative divisions in Gambela region. I was struggling with the same stuff when I was trying to reconcile the information I found in the new census information with what is already there in Wikipedia. But probably the new census is the best source we can go by right now, as it is from the government, and maybe the Wikipedia information needs to have a complete overhaul in this respect. I won't have the time to do it - are you at it anyway ? If so, then I won't meddle with instances where I have a vested interest, like Majang language, where your current edit left behind a dead link. Another thing: I also noticed you demoting the importance tag of languages from top to high in the languages project box. I commented on that here, which you may not have noticed if you don't watch the page. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 06:38, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
The quite dead link right now is Mezhenger Zone - which previously I identified with Godere special woreda, but maybe mistakenly. If you intend to create an article for Mezhenger Zone, then no harm is done - the link will become blue then. About the Languages project: This project looks at countless articles, not just languages themselves - anything to do with linguistics, language attitude, etc. The project decided that any article dealing with a real language is of top importance for that project, as this addresses the core of the project. There are many other articles with minor importance ranking in that project. So, just the fact that Shabo language is a language with an own ISO 639-3 code makes it top, according to the criteria of the project, regardless of all other criteria. This is probably not very well explained in the project scale, but this is in effect what it says. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 11:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! I need little help in fight against vandalism on articles about Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture and history in general. Several well known users obviously intentionally break rules of Wikipedia. They are most active on the talk page - Talk:Ukrainians. These users often delete sources and then set their own inaccurate interpretation with no sources. The same users often delete every trace of Ukrainian impact in Russian history and culture on other articles. This is a very serious issue because same users do not allow me and some other users to work on the same issues objectively for a long time. Closely following their activities, it can be said that this is pure anti-ukrainian sentiment which borders with fascism. There is a small informational war against the Ukrainians, their culture and selfidentification! These are powerful words but they have their background. You can check itself and the work of these contributors. Please do something, or forward this appeal to the responsible administrators. Thanks a lot!-- SeikoEn ( talk) 17:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help on my edits. Sometimes I wax too eloquently and "stuff". ;-) Have a great New Year~ Namaste... DocOfSoc ( talk) 03:55, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Llywrch. I was recently reviewing pages that were indefinitely fully edit protected and I came across Ethiopia – People's Republic of China relations which you fully protected a month ago to stop move vandalism by one user. I was wondering if perhaps full move protection might be appropriate, or possibly just a block of the one user who tried to move? Just wanted to make sure other contributors can edit the page (although I personally have no current edits to make). I'm not an admin, so if you could do the unprotect if you think that's appropriate, I'd appreciate it. Hope you're having a great day!-- Gnowor T C 23:03, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:COIN#Ebionites regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ovadyah ( talk) 21:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
As someone who participated in discussions on the Ebionites article talk page and two incident reports on AN/I involving this content dispute, I thought you might want to know about this. Ovadyah ( talk) 21:29, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. One User:Danlaycock has just reported [13] me on the 3RR noticeboard for what he claims is "revert-warring". The situation is highly disingenuous since I actually only ever reverted twice (as did he, ironically enough), and so did another involved editor (whom he tellingly did not report). I've attempted to set the record straight, but I'm not certain if I'll get a fair shake. I would therefore definitely appreciate it if you were to keep an eye on the post just to make sure nothing fishy happens. Best regards, Middayexpress ( talk) 05:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. I need your advice on something. There is an account that's been following me around from page to page, making nonsense edits in a quite obvious attempt to get me to revert them so that he/she might then report me for "edit warring" and thus get me blocked and/or banned. The latest edit involves a personal bio where the account unjustifiably removed the sourced names of the mother and father of the person in question, rather absurdly claiming that they are "not relevant" to the person's bio. I would like your opinion on how best to handle the situation. Best regards, Middayexpress ( talk) 20:50, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
nice work Decora ( talk) 14:54, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:ANI#User:Menilek's credentials and behavior. Gyrofrog (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}}) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been going through lists of female rulers. Many of them may lack a Wikipedia article. But information about them exists on articles about their dynasty, state or the figurehead they were using. Tagging said article seems better than starting creating redirects or stubs already. Dimadick ( talk) 09:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
No problem, and you're right, it is hard to find info - I've had to get the book I'm using out from the British Library... Unfortunately it only covers up to 1999, so I'm afraid I don't have any info for the referendum. Number 5 7 09:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Why did you say I should have cited the works of E. A. Wallis Budge, when I actually DID? In fact, his translation of the Kebra Negast was one of my 2 major sources. Also, C.F. Rey's book publishes in the Appendix, the complete list of monarchs to rule over the land, showing names, years, length of reign, etc going back WELL over 6000 years to Aram, grandson of Adam and Eve, the first monarch to rule the Horn. It shows ALL of the dynasties and all of the monarchs in each of them and was supplied by Emperor Haile Selassie I himself to Sir Rey for the purpose of inclusion in Rey's book, so that you and the entire world could see what the royal record says about how far back the monarchy goes, no doubt anticipating that some johnny-come-lately would try to say that our empire does not go back so far as it does,(I think some article you endorse on here has said that it goes back no further than the 12th century, which is utter nonsense). The royal record I am citing shows what I said to NOT be merely my "own fringe point of view" as you so libelously charged me, before knowing all the facts. I have documented my points made, so if you are still skeptical you are faced with two choices here: Accuse Emperor Haile Selassie of lying to Sir Rey or accuse Sir Rey, a knighted British Noble, of lying to his readers. But you can not truthfully say that I cited irrelevant sources or that I am without sources. Rey is seen as not just an adventurer, as you claim, but as a historian, as an ambassador, a diplomat and as an expert in his field of study. You say he was just an explorer. What do you think he was exploring there? Amharic crossword puzzles? I think it is shameful, your thinly veiled attempt to belittle such great noblemen's service to the crown of Britain.
You also jump to conclusions that I am giving my own POV when in fact I am representing the history and faith of my people. You speak as if I were the outsider and you were not, (regarding my people and our history), when the reverse is actually the case,(IE: you are the outsider, looking in). Tell me, please, why should I not see that as blatant arrogance when ill-informed outsiders try to tell a people that you know our history better than our own people, much less more than our own specialists? You speak as if we're a people who have nobody who is more knowledgeable of our own history than you foreigners do as if we are all just a bunch of ignorant dirt farmers totally devoid of education. Perhaps you might also prefer that we refer to you as "Great Bwana", no? After all, by the way you speak of me, you are implying that we are inferior to outsiders in our capacity to accurately convey facts about intelligent subject matter such as our own history. How would it be unreasonable if I were to view that as blatantly arrogant? That is a valid question.
Furthermore, as for what you considered a mistake of syntax in the way I discuss one of my non-favorite Emperors, you forgot the fact that you have no clue where I grew up or even what may be my first language. Maybe you never heard of a little thing called the DIASPORA. But go ahead and assume some more. Just remember what English teachers often say occurs when one assumes. But even so, you are wrong. When speaking to foreigners it is not unheard of for Emperors names to be abbreviated when they consist of more than one word. My namesake is such an example. Nobody in speaking puts the II there. They expect you to know from the context if one is speaking of Menilek I or II. Even the wiki articles in question give examples of this being done, such as in the case of Ras Alula, for example. I know when someone is just looking for an excuse to join a dogpile. Your use of pejoratives toward me (such as "kook") gives your unprofessional biased attitude away. Why else would you resort to name-calling, which itself is a violation of the rules, as I have read.
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A request for arbitration on the Ebionites article has recently been filed. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Ebionites_2 Please feel free to add any comments you believe appropriate. Ovadyah ( talk) 18:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a lot of support for your participation in formal mediation on the Ebionites article. Would you be willing to endure some self-inflicted pain to resolve this content dispute? Let Jayjg know if you decide you are interested. Thanks. Ovadyah ( talk) 02:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Llywrch, I applied an expert tag to the Ebionites article as the last thing I did when I left the article for good (or so I thought) back in October 2007. expert tag added There it stayed until Sept. 2010 when Ret. Prof removed it. expert tag removed You might reasonably ask, how many experts stopped by during those three years to comment on or otherwise improve the article? The answer would be zero. It was not for lack of trying. When Loremaster and I were preparing the article for FAC in early 2007, I sent emails to Bart Ehrman, E.P. Sanders, Mark Goodacre, and James Tabor, asking them if they would be willing to provide us with direction for further improvements to the article. Mark G. and James Tabor graciously responded. They both politely told me thanks, but no thanks. There were not willing to spend their valuable time on Wikipedia. Therein lies the rub as they say - the people that know don't care, and the people that care don't know. Ovadyah ( talk) 00:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
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On Shinasha, you wrote "all the region to the North of the Blue Nile was once inhabited by a white or yellow race and that the blacks, who have penetrated it, did so at the time they were gleeing their country form the Galla invasions?". Is this a typo? Particularly the words "gleeing" and "form" and the question mark at the end. — Soap — 18:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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One wonders what one has to have done to be spammed 100kb of deletion warnings like this. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:01, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
A present for you. Template:Location map Ethiopia relief. See Abul Kasim (mountain). Can you copy the infobox and map and update the 26 other mountain articles? Dr. Blofeld White cat 23:41, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Admin Llywrch,
Me and Supreme Deliciousness believe that some editor are not edit article in good faith and purposely create disrupt to article and many other. It hard negotiate with editor who not interest in improve article but only want make bias to own opinion. This disruptive editing by select few editor edit put halt to move forward with this article and with RfC name change at Mount Yosifon. Be there some where on Wikipedia where other Admin can review contribution of disruptive editor to see if they agree with this concern? It very hard to bring truth to article when other editor to article not agree work with information present. Sorry for bad english. Ani medjool ( talk) 20:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
FYI and FWIW, I've opened a discussion at WP:CNOTICE#Somali clan listings. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
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Your comment here hardly deserves further attention, except insofar as it reveals your own ignorance. To learn something of the character V, I suggest that you take the time to read Ellen Crowell's paper published in the winter 2008/2009 issue of Neo-Victorian studies. It's available as a pdf to download if you have the wit to find it, or the honesty to look for it. Malleus Fatuorum 13:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Why don’t we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He’d look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he’s deserved all these years. We shouldn’t burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament!
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I've created maps for Tigray and Afar, see Mek'ele and Semera. This is the best I can manage. I'll do maps for all of the other regions if you want them. Its up to you if you want to keep both or remove the Ethiopia map, after all the regional maps have locators in the corner so people know where in Ethiopia it is. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Don't overwhelm me with your enthusiasm... Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:15, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
[1]. Three 'p's in 'apppointed'? Not like you at all! Philip Trueman ( talk) 16:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
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Just ran across this. I'm travelling, no time to work on it, but it has questions in it, the use of 'we', OR, etc. So if you ever have time.... Dougweller ( talk) 04:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
TFOWR idle vapourings 10:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
If you want to add your co-nom, by all means go ahead. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. In this comment: User talk:B9 hummingbird hovering#Final warning, you advised the editor to use {{ unblock reviewed}}. I think {{ unblock}} would be more logical since that is how a blocked user nomally makes a request. EdJohnston ( talk) 18:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Elections in Ethiopia. Gyrofrog (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC) (Using {{ Please see}}) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
FWIW, 'twas a whole drawer full: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CUDz/Archive#01 June 2010. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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Levine is considered an expert in the field. Saying that his "His research method is not indicated" is not a sufficient reason -- discuss this on the talk page)
Fine. I feel sorry for the people who will be mislead by an outright lie. I was born and raised in Debre Birhan and I know for sure what he said was absolutely false. But he is an expert. What do I know about my own town?
And thanks also for co-nominating me - I appreciate the trust you've placed in me. I promise to do my best to live up to the trust you've placed in me. TFOWR 20:35, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Please see my talk page its last section, where B9 hummingbird hover... left me a message whom you blocked indefinetly on 2 June. Although I did not understand him , so I thought to enquire here ????????? What's the matter ???????????? -- Extra 999 ( Contact me + contribs) 10:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hmm he sent me a day before you blocked him (sent me on 1 and was blocked on 2) and it appears in his contribs. -- Extra 999 ( Contact me + contribs) 10:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Checked out your userpage (looking for a new layout for mine) and seen about your daughter. Hope she gets better quickly. Being sick sucks and I wish her the best and will say a prayer for her. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 05:41, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
You had previously participated in an Admin recall petition for Herostratus, at the user's talk page. This process has now started. It is ongoing as an RFA page, for admin recall, at: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Herostratus 2. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 20:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Oh good, someone else thought of this! When the AfD closes and the dust settles, would you be interested in working on such an article? I've pasted in some sources into the AfD. Fences& Windows 18:15, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Don't we already have this as Administrators? Dougweller ( talk) 07:59, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Per you comment here [3], thought you might also like to see this where a bit of the community has weighed in on the matter. He iro 05:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Ebionites#Misrepresentation of Tabor and offer your opinions on the matter, and of course feel free to consult the book itself. I would also like to perhaps communicate to you more directly regarding your input in a matter which might be worth discussing regarding that article. Please leave me a message or send me an email if you would be interested in receiving such a message. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 19:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello there:
Another user and I have been working extensively on the Rosetta Stone article. It has undergone extensive revisions in the past month and I am looking for potential reviewers who can ensure that it will be able to pass Feature Article review. Since you have been active in the past on articles having to do with Ancient Egypt, I thought I should call on you to give it a once over.
Hope you can help. Cheers! Captmondo ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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For what it might be worth, you might be interested in the section containing material from encyclopedic sources at User talk:John Carter/Ebionites#Encyclopediac sources. I will state up front that material which is effectively duplicated in several encyclopediac sources is probably omitted from the later sources which I found which say that, for space reasons. However, I think that pretty much everything said in them not covered by others is included in the appropriate section, so it would possibly be a useful starting point to determine the various aspects of the existing academic opinion on the subject. Given our lack of space requirements, I personally think that most every topic included in an encyclopedia article should probably be referenced in our own, allowing for changes in scientific credit the idea might receive, other changes, etc. Of course, you are free to check any other such sources, and possibly add them, particularly if you have access to other dictionaries/encyclopediae which discuss the topic. Also, you had earlier talked about good, better, and best sources. I personally think that the best sources are probably those used by other reference works, and that is why I created the section User talk:John Carter/Ebionites#Sources, specifically listing those listed in the bibliographies of encyclopediac content. If you have ready access to any of those items which I haven't already gotten ahold of, and if you actually want to spend that much time on this subject, I would be very happy if you were to do so. Thank you for taking an interest in the topic in any event. John Carter ( talk) 20:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
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You have one. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 07:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you good at editing templates? I want to add a functionality to "Template:National Public Radio", I want to add a functionality to add a year when there are more than one so that {{National Public Radio|219932|2006}} so it will display "Conan O'Brien on National Public Radio in 2006". -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 02:47, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I raise my Pepsi to you for your reference of the Dead Parrot sketch. It, indeed, was pining for the fjords. :) Well done, Sir. Well done. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Concerning this, do you have an idea of the name you want the template to be located at, and is there any parameters you wish besides what was noted?— Dæ dαlus Contribs 06:21, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Your edit summary here borders on a personal attack. Consider this a warning. N419 BH 20:01, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you interested in writing an article on this topic [4]? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gavin.collins ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 27 July 2010 -- Gavin Collins ( talk| contribs) 21:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
You were involved with this editor last year [5]. I don't know if you ever saw this: [6]. In any case, he's back with a new account (I think he lost his password, this isn't socking) and created an article about himself, Zoltan A. Simon, quickly deleted. I've twice removed material from Assyrian eclipse which is his own personal research. I'm telling you this because you were involved with him in the past and I thought you might be interested, and because there may, but hopefully won't, be problems with him. Dougweller ( talk) 09:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch, you don't happen to have a source for this edit do you? I'm glad to see an earlier event added, but I'm trying to make sure every bit of that timeline is sourced in order to hopefully get it to WP:FL at some point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Belovedfreak ( talk • contribs) 17:00, 4 August 2010
I would like your help. User:Dpmuk is in no single article or article group specific page talking about my page moves. But only after 19 min that someone posts at Wikipedia_talk:Requested_moves#Need_a_move_review_of_User:Schwyz, he jumps in suggesting WP:RFC/U [7]. Some minutes later, without doing any other editing he goes to another users talk page and tries to get him on board for RFC/U. Four days ago he suggested WP:SPI [8]. Luckily he does not come to my talk page for what I perceive as Wikipedia:Harassment after I told him to only come for article specific reasons. I am discussing any problems that users have with specific page moves, I am always open to debate. I don't know why Dpmuk is attacking me all the time, without actually being interested in the moves itself. Schwyz ( talk) 11:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I put it at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Dpmuk_-_Harassment. Maybe ANI is not the best place, but I don't know what to do else. This user does not seem to want to solve content issues, but to command other users so as they behave as he wishes. Schwyz ( talk) 12:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I am considering filing an RfC on the above article this weekend. I had earlier mentioned the possibility on the article's talk page, and although neither Michael nor Ovadyah have commented on that, they have commented subsequently on other matters, which might indicate that they are undecided on how to respond to the idea. However, I do have a few questions regarding how to file and set up an RfC which deals with multiple related topics. The questions I would like the RfC to address are
I realize that this is a complex matter. However, I personally think that my removing any material source to Tabor and Eisenman would create problems, and thus think that having the matters decided by RfC would be more effective. Certainly, leaving messages on the talk pages of the relevant Dead Sea Scrolls articles, the Judaism project, the Christianity project, and the Alternative Views project would be more likely to get informed, neutral input. Thank you in advance for any response. I as an individual, unfortunately, think filing an RfC as complicated as this is probably beyond my own personal experience. John Carter ( talk) 19:47, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. In case you don't get back to the blisteringly long thread, I just wanted to point towards my reply to you at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Suggestion (call it point 2.1): Moving purely navigational lists out of article space. That's all. Feel free to reply wherever (here, there, my talk, the User:Quiddity/Navigational pages RfC's talk, or somewhere random!) :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 23:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you consider adding the following statement to your essay on what is not OR? "Accurate paraphrasing of reliable sources is not considered original research." Precis ( talk) 21:24, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Llywrch, I moved this template to new name exactly because not all monarchs or Emperors of Ethiopia were part of the Solomonic dynasty. So, template should have a different name then "Template:SolomonicDynasty". Am I right? -- Sundostund ( talk) 20:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Thought you might be interested in a current ANI thread in which Ovadyah says that he never said "I hate you" on any page. Much to my surprise, I find that the edit comment with which he restored it has apparently been purged from his history. There is evidence that he had, up to now anyway, acknowledged it, so I have no idea what happened. I was wondering whether you, who were involved in the matter, can remember them. John Carter ( talk) 22:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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If you have concerns over my editing, such as "I can't help but suspect that you are simply eager to prove your knowledge of policy to one & all by this crusade upon an otherwise unremarkable assertion" please address them to me on my talk page, rather than on an article talk page, where WP:TPG#YES reminds us to "Comment on content, not on the contributor". Kenilworth Terrace ( talk) 19:12, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
So far as I can tell, there are alternate spellings, eg [ [9]], but they aren't in the article (ran into this as an IP is busy messing up related articles). Do you know anything about this? Dougweller ( talk) 21:08, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments, and even more for your advice. It is a fact of WP life that the more you do the more controversy you will get involved in - even if you are doing fairly uncontroversial things - a basic "noise level" - and it is also true that I got busy a couple of weeks ago - made a few errors in handling things, and hence the "blow up". Nonetheless we will, in time, resolve all the issues (except possibly one or two editors who seem to hold grudges) and the robots will be able to continue to build the encyclopedia, unmolested... Thanks again.
Rich
Farmbrough, 20:06, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
In answer to your comment at ANI. Possibly I've oversold the use of WP:RESTRICT. It is really just an index to where decisions have been taken by agreement. (For example in that ANI thread). No objection if you believe this step is unnecessary. You can always cite WP:IAR if the problem recurs, but WP:RESTRICT requires breaking less china. Since Radiojon is steadfastly ignoring all feedback, I feel that it's only a matter of time before he returns to the behavior that people were concerned about. EdJohnston ( talk) 20:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
We all get a little overwrought at times and make bad faith statements we had rather not.
In this comment [10] you describe the removal of a FA tag from an article as "disruptive", fair enough if you think that kind of thing is disruptive in some way, but it's odd. What you said next seems even more odd:
That seems uncalled for. Many editors contract their usernames in their signatures: Nuclear Warfare on the same thread uses "NW", Shell Kinney the arbitrator is "Shell", and many other prominent editors use contractions. I do edit in my real name, which I think makes me much more open than many other Wikipedians. For information about Tasty monster, see the collapsed notice at the top of User talk:Tony Sidaway. It's no secret, it's just a telephone I use when I'm out and about.
In short, your comment as quoted above is misleading and uncalled for.
So please, please, less of this nastiness. It really isn't a good thing to do. -- TS 03:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch,
Thanks for the feedback. I am going through a period at the moment of just updating Roman and Byzantine articles with sources and citations - many are in sore need of such work. Unfortunately, my access to secondary sources is somewhat limited (hence my reliance on Gibbon and Bury), so I tend to also cite from primary sources to try to bolster the range of sources used throughout the articles. That being said, the general narrative of Constantine's career is what it is, so using an old source to verify the information presented in the article is better than having no source at all. It is more of an issue about updating the core facts with new details that have been uncovered in the years since. If you have any suggestions for more recent secondary online sources that I can access easily, I would be most appreciative. Regards :) Oatley2112 ( talk) 22:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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I came here independently to thank you for doing a difficult task with skill and neutrality. Tony (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the link fix. It's been up there a while, I guess the fact it wasn't noticed before means it doesn't get much traffic! Dick G ( talk) 12:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
FYI: Interesting (ongoing) AfD debate about the article " Archimedes, Inc." (article’s lead supporter was permanently blocked mid-debate with charges of paid editing.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LucyLB ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
It wouldn't be the first time, there is a substantial amount of evidence that User:Danieldis47 and Use:Etalssrs were associates (although not necessarily the same user), having edited the same group of articles, with the same promotional tone (see the related AfDs Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insurance Licensing Services of America, Inc. and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arleen Taveras). Having participated in the dispute, I don't think he wasn't blocked purely for advertising (although that did play a big part), but also for disruptive canvassing for !votes by notifying everyone in the page history, even if their edit was as small as correcting a typo in a COI or cleanup template, failing to respond to a COI concern and cooperate despite large amounts of off-wiki evidence of a clear COI, along with the aforementioned earlier evidence of meatpuppetry. I have no idea why the user contacted you specifically, but an associate of the user seems to be canvassing again.-- res Laozi speak 23:12, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing this out - I should have checked the link myself, but since I copied it from the paper itself, I trusted it. I have now corrected the link. Best regards, Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:32, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm in a disagreement on the Asmara article, so a neutral outside opinion would help in a resolution. More info on my and Judygreenberg's talk pages. Mesfin ( talk) 12:07, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
"only surviving member of its branch". Huh? I think the approximately 40,000 native speakers of Scottish Gaelic might object to that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comhreir ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch, I noticed that you try to make some sense out of administrative divisions in Gambela region. I was struggling with the same stuff when I was trying to reconcile the information I found in the new census information with what is already there in Wikipedia. But probably the new census is the best source we can go by right now, as it is from the government, and maybe the Wikipedia information needs to have a complete overhaul in this respect. I won't have the time to do it - are you at it anyway ? If so, then I won't meddle with instances where I have a vested interest, like Majang language, where your current edit left behind a dead link. Another thing: I also noticed you demoting the importance tag of languages from top to high in the languages project box. I commented on that here, which you may not have noticed if you don't watch the page. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 06:38, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
The quite dead link right now is Mezhenger Zone - which previously I identified with Godere special woreda, but maybe mistakenly. If you intend to create an article for Mezhenger Zone, then no harm is done - the link will become blue then. About the Languages project: This project looks at countless articles, not just languages themselves - anything to do with linguistics, language attitude, etc. The project decided that any article dealing with a real language is of top importance for that project, as this addresses the core of the project. There are many other articles with minor importance ranking in that project. So, just the fact that Shabo language is a language with an own ISO 639-3 code makes it top, according to the criteria of the project, regardless of all other criteria. This is probably not very well explained in the project scale, but this is in effect what it says. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 11:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! I need little help in fight against vandalism on articles about Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture and history in general. Several well known users obviously intentionally break rules of Wikipedia. They are most active on the talk page - Talk:Ukrainians. These users often delete sources and then set their own inaccurate interpretation with no sources. The same users often delete every trace of Ukrainian impact in Russian history and culture on other articles. This is a very serious issue because same users do not allow me and some other users to work on the same issues objectively for a long time. Closely following their activities, it can be said that this is pure anti-ukrainian sentiment which borders with fascism. There is a small informational war against the Ukrainians, their culture and selfidentification! These are powerful words but they have their background. You can check itself and the work of these contributors. Please do something, or forward this appeal to the responsible administrators. Thanks a lot!-- SeikoEn ( talk) 17:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help on my edits. Sometimes I wax too eloquently and "stuff". ;-) Have a great New Year~ Namaste... DocOfSoc ( talk) 03:55, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Re [11] see [] [12]. Beat you by 3 minutes. Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 01:04, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Llywrch. I was recently reviewing pages that were indefinitely fully edit protected and I came across Ethiopia – People's Republic of China relations which you fully protected a month ago to stop move vandalism by one user. I was wondering if perhaps full move protection might be appropriate, or possibly just a block of the one user who tried to move? Just wanted to make sure other contributors can edit the page (although I personally have no current edits to make). I'm not an admin, so if you could do the unprotect if you think that's appropriate, I'd appreciate it. Hope you're having a great day!-- Gnowor T C 23:03, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:COIN#Ebionites regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ovadyah ( talk) 21:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
As someone who participated in discussions on the Ebionites article talk page and two incident reports on AN/I involving this content dispute, I thought you might want to know about this. Ovadyah ( talk) 21:29, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. One User:Danlaycock has just reported [13] me on the 3RR noticeboard for what he claims is "revert-warring". The situation is highly disingenuous since I actually only ever reverted twice (as did he, ironically enough), and so did another involved editor (whom he tellingly did not report). I've attempted to set the record straight, but I'm not certain if I'll get a fair shake. I would therefore definitely appreciate it if you were to keep an eye on the post just to make sure nothing fishy happens. Best regards, Middayexpress ( talk) 05:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch. I need your advice on something. There is an account that's been following me around from page to page, making nonsense edits in a quite obvious attempt to get me to revert them so that he/she might then report me for "edit warring" and thus get me blocked and/or banned. The latest edit involves a personal bio where the account unjustifiably removed the sourced names of the mother and father of the person in question, rather absurdly claiming that they are "not relevant" to the person's bio. I would like your opinion on how best to handle the situation. Best regards, Middayexpress ( talk) 20:50, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
nice work Decora ( talk) 14:54, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:ANI#User:Menilek's credentials and behavior. Gyrofrog (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}}) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been going through lists of female rulers. Many of them may lack a Wikipedia article. But information about them exists on articles about their dynasty, state or the figurehead they were using. Tagging said article seems better than starting creating redirects or stubs already. Dimadick ( talk) 09:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
No problem, and you're right, it is hard to find info - I've had to get the book I'm using out from the British Library... Unfortunately it only covers up to 1999, so I'm afraid I don't have any info for the referendum. Number 5 7 09:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Why did you say I should have cited the works of E. A. Wallis Budge, when I actually DID? In fact, his translation of the Kebra Negast was one of my 2 major sources. Also, C.F. Rey's book publishes in the Appendix, the complete list of monarchs to rule over the land, showing names, years, length of reign, etc going back WELL over 6000 years to Aram, grandson of Adam and Eve, the first monarch to rule the Horn. It shows ALL of the dynasties and all of the monarchs in each of them and was supplied by Emperor Haile Selassie I himself to Sir Rey for the purpose of inclusion in Rey's book, so that you and the entire world could see what the royal record says about how far back the monarchy goes, no doubt anticipating that some johnny-come-lately would try to say that our empire does not go back so far as it does,(I think some article you endorse on here has said that it goes back no further than the 12th century, which is utter nonsense). The royal record I am citing shows what I said to NOT be merely my "own fringe point of view" as you so libelously charged me, before knowing all the facts. I have documented my points made, so if you are still skeptical you are faced with two choices here: Accuse Emperor Haile Selassie of lying to Sir Rey or accuse Sir Rey, a knighted British Noble, of lying to his readers. But you can not truthfully say that I cited irrelevant sources or that I am without sources. Rey is seen as not just an adventurer, as you claim, but as a historian, as an ambassador, a diplomat and as an expert in his field of study. You say he was just an explorer. What do you think he was exploring there? Amharic crossword puzzles? I think it is shameful, your thinly veiled attempt to belittle such great noblemen's service to the crown of Britain.
You also jump to conclusions that I am giving my own POV when in fact I am representing the history and faith of my people. You speak as if I were the outsider and you were not, (regarding my people and our history), when the reverse is actually the case,(IE: you are the outsider, looking in). Tell me, please, why should I not see that as blatant arrogance when ill-informed outsiders try to tell a people that you know our history better than our own people, much less more than our own specialists? You speak as if we're a people who have nobody who is more knowledgeable of our own history than you foreigners do as if we are all just a bunch of ignorant dirt farmers totally devoid of education. Perhaps you might also prefer that we refer to you as "Great Bwana", no? After all, by the way you speak of me, you are implying that we are inferior to outsiders in our capacity to accurately convey facts about intelligent subject matter such as our own history. How would it be unreasonable if I were to view that as blatantly arrogant? That is a valid question.
Furthermore, as for what you considered a mistake of syntax in the way I discuss one of my non-favorite Emperors, you forgot the fact that you have no clue where I grew up or even what may be my first language. Maybe you never heard of a little thing called the DIASPORA. But go ahead and assume some more. Just remember what English teachers often say occurs when one assumes. But even so, you are wrong. When speaking to foreigners it is not unheard of for Emperors names to be abbreviated when they consist of more than one word. My namesake is such an example. Nobody in speaking puts the II there. They expect you to know from the context if one is speaking of Menilek I or II. Even the wiki articles in question give examples of this being done, such as in the case of Ras Alula, for example. I know when someone is just looking for an excuse to join a dogpile. Your use of pejoratives toward me (such as "kook") gives your unprofessional biased attitude away. Why else would you resort to name-calling, which itself is a violation of the rules, as I have read.
[Menilek] ጥሩ ምኒልክ (ራስነቢይ የ ቤት ዪሥራእል / አበምኔት ቢሥርዓት ናዝረታዊ) 11:55, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
A request for arbitration on the Ebionites article has recently been filed. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Ebionites_2 Please feel free to add any comments you believe appropriate. Ovadyah ( talk) 18:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a lot of support for your participation in formal mediation on the Ebionites article. Would you be willing to endure some self-inflicted pain to resolve this content dispute? Let Jayjg know if you decide you are interested. Thanks. Ovadyah ( talk) 02:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Llywrch, I applied an expert tag to the Ebionites article as the last thing I did when I left the article for good (or so I thought) back in October 2007. expert tag added There it stayed until Sept. 2010 when Ret. Prof removed it. expert tag removed You might reasonably ask, how many experts stopped by during those three years to comment on or otherwise improve the article? The answer would be zero. It was not for lack of trying. When Loremaster and I were preparing the article for FAC in early 2007, I sent emails to Bart Ehrman, E.P. Sanders, Mark Goodacre, and James Tabor, asking them if they would be willing to provide us with direction for further improvements to the article. Mark G. and James Tabor graciously responded. They both politely told me thanks, but no thanks. There were not willing to spend their valuable time on Wikipedia. Therein lies the rub as they say - the people that know don't care, and the people that care don't know. Ovadyah ( talk) 00:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)