Archived talk: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14 15. 16. Current talk: User_talk:Morwen
Heads up. I *am* going to undo a very _minor_ part of your work, which is very much appreciated.
I note with admiration that you have taken it upon yourself to sort out some of the chaff on the List of political parties article. But even though the task is definitely admirable, I give fair warning that of the half dozen parties you excised from under the Finnish subheading, two were not minor, and I will thusly restore them, soon after your labours come to a cessation.
Finland is a true multiparty system, and therefore the assumption, that there can only be three major parties and all others are minor, is false. In the Finnish system there are no major parties, merely 4-6 medium size ones. Currently there are 5 of those.
Both of the following two (which you excised along with the genuinely small ones) range around both sides of 10% popular support (and this means they are not minor parties, when of the larger three almost never two combined have a simple majority):
So I am giving you fair warning, that I will be reinstating those two parties under the Finnish entry. I hope that this explanation will avert a useless revert war, and if you have counterarguments to my views, understand that I will wait for such comments for a reasonable time before enacting the reinstatement of those two (decidedly non-minor) parties. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 13:59, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the articles on Albanian political parties. By the way, there is a page called List of Albania-related articles that I use to keep track of articles on Albania. I would be great if you could link any additions there (or just leave me a note and I'll do it). Dori | Talk 18:49, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
I've made some changes to the rugby article do you approve G-Man 19:31, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi, I see that it is necessary to fix the Green Entries on the List of political parties. But in my view, Green Party would be the only sane thing to do. What I tried to do with the article is to make it a description of what green parties (all over the world) actually are. It includes a differentiation between Green Parties and green parties, but that's not the important party. Green parties are as unique as social democratic or communist parties, Green in the name or not. So I'm not sure I get what you think is the right thing to do. -- till we *) 23:39, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the accent at Music of Serbia and Montenegro. May I suggest adding something to Wikipedia:Special characters about the codes for characters not yet included there? I'd like to be able to write about music from eastern european countries (which seem to have lots of characters I don't know how to type) without ignoring or messing up accents or attempting to find an example to copy-and-paste at the main page to the Latvian Wikipedia, which seems to have most of them. Anyway, thanks! Tuf-Kat 08:17, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
Re: Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire My other half is a travel agent, and I turned round to him and said, "where is Gibraltar, is it north or south of the Strait of Gibraltar?" And he said "south". So that's what I wrote on the article.
After you edited it and pointed out my error, I tuirned to him and said "you told me wrong, it's north of the strait, not south", and he said "I never told you that, I said it was north all along..."
Men!
-- Francs2000 18:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Are you sure Somerset (rump) is a good title for an article? I'm sure no-one has ever used that term before. Somerset (administrative) would be better, but why can't we keep one article which can discuss both the traditional and administrative area? Warofdreams 21:35, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I'd love to do all the numbers. But I think I'll just work on the first 114. -- Anonymous User
As you should be observing, this user is causing a persistent problem in pages related to Indian Independence. I listed him on the vandals list, and he was blocked for a few days (3 to be precise), and now I find he is back. He lost no time, and engaged in his usual antics again. I can't believe somebody actually WAITED to be unblocked to start his tricks. I am not sure I am totally aware of the IP Blocking policy in wikipedia as my age here is just over a month, but I noticed that you are a sys-op, and you must be watching the page.
Since the user uses the network of ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, Canada, I guess this IP should be his proxy web address and hence cannot be blocked permanently. But, observing that ALL edits from this IP address over the past one month is from this user (with a negligible margin of doubt), dont you think this ban should last for some more time ? Can you suggest/act on some way to get this user off our necks for a minimum of two weeks? I would really like to throw out people with a totally negative attitude to a co-operative effort (permanently, if need be). Waiting to hear from you. chance 05:16, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
Re Aash Al Maleek - is it possible what was there before was the lyrics? We could incorporate that if so. - Hephaestos 16:01, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, seem as we appear to have won the argument over counties, I was wondering if the Warwickshire article could be unprotected 'cause I would like to re-integrate it. G-Man 15:37, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I see you've just been over at Monterrey, Mexico. Do you think you could use your sysop superpowers and do the necessary to move that page over to Monterrey: that one is currently a disambig page, but it's disambigging things that aren't ambiguous. Take a look at Talk:Monterrey, Mexico for further rationale. I'd be very grateful if you've got a moment for this. – Hjr 17:00, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
It's not pov. It's a quotation. :-) Evercat 20:34, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello. Is Political History of Canada meant to be still protected? The log shows that you unprotected Politics of Canada twice, so I'm wondering if one of those was actually meant to be an unprotection of Political History of Canada. Angela . 00:55, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for your help re 195.92.168.17x :) Dysprosia 15:15, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for turning Trym to Thrym. AlainV, on the freshly snowed in afternoon of Sunday December 21 2003
I have edited the Holocaust article several time because Holocaust Deniers think Treblinka was not only an extermination camp, but was a center for processing captured Soviet ammunition. We must not allow ourselves to be fooled by Holocaust Deniers like Raul Hilberg, Deborah Lipstadt and others. There is a vast conspiricy afloat, and I stand as a bulwork against the tide of evil, with Knowledge in my right hand and Truth in my left. Cromwell
morwen, i am aware that the wikipedia would not be much use if every word was linked, and i did not link every word, if you bothered to read it you would see, the links are actually quite sparse, i feel you are both overreacting. Steeev 01:21, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Morwen, thank you for your comment on my? IP address page. If this is the wrong place to ask you to read my comment, please forgive me. I will plead ignorance and newness. (Where and how should I contact you?) Please read that page and comment on my ideas there. Thank you. talk:69.138.236.221
LOOK - YOU KEEP ERASING MY STIFF WITH NO EXPLANATION , YOU GONNA GET SOME AGRO STUFF WITH ME. I'VE BEEN HERE 15 MINUTES AND DEADHEADS ARE CRAPPING AROUND WITH ME. SHEESH, WHERE IS YOUR XMAS SPIRIT? I'M VANDALISING THINGS - HUH!
Thanks for redirecting the Moon Goddess link. I didn't realize that there was already a lunar deity article. -- Lowellian 20:06, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)
For a moment there I thought I was going crazy - acting before I was thinking instead of the other way around. Well anyway, thanks for helping out. Cheers, Jia ng
thanx for the help. appreciate it. i am kinda new here so didnt know what to do. will be mroe careful in the future. StupiDeity
thanx again :) StupiDeity 21:41, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I noticed you editted both of these - now I've looked around a bit more I have a question. Should these have been stub articles? I do intend to update once I know my other details are correct, I don't want to post misleading entries. Scaree 17:16, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, I've been away for a while so I just thought I'd say hi and happy new year etc. Looks like 80.255 is back again at Warwickshire (yawn) and is obviously determined to ignore the majority verdict and go ahead with his/her counties rampage regardless of what anyone else thinks. This situation clearly cannot go on forever, the Warwickshire article cannot remain permanently protected. G-Man 23:13, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Yes, I dont know why 80.255 has decided to pick out Warwickshire for special treatment, when there are numerous other counties where the historic and administrative counties diverge geographically. I have a feeling that 80.255 has some sort of vendetta against me because I've clashed with him/her on numerous occasions in the past, and I have written most of the Warwickshire article.
Personally I think if this malarkey goes on for much longer we will have to conclude that 80.255 has no intention of working co-operatively on a community project, and will have to look at blocking his/her IP adress. Drastic I know, but if being reasonable doesn't work, I dont see any other solution G-Man 23:33, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Quite, although 80.255 does seem to be in a minority of two. BTW: check you're email G-Man 00:25, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Good grief, how did you find those PRO papers so quickly! Very interesting... Arwel 00:19, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Isn't the spelling "dietitian"? Anyway, I think "nutritionist" would probably be better. RickK 21:12, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I shall be going through your "interpretation" of the 'Naming conventions' policy with a fine tooth comb over the next day or so, and I will ensure that it represents exactly what was stated in the motion that was carried and nothing more, so please do not get the impression that your manifold "elbaborations" and additions are now "official policy" - they are not. Kind regards, 80.255 23:01, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Oh yes - and have a happy new year. 80.255
Just one thing I've noticed, all of the page history for the Gloucestershire article is at Gloucestershire (rump), you should paste all the current article there and move it back to Gloucestershire to avoid loosing the article history G-Man 14:11, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OK I've done it G-Man 14:42, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've done some work on the county article perhaps you should check it. G-Man 15:52, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
You should take a look at Buckinghamshire I'm not sure it conforms to policy. I am getting very bored with this counties stuff, hopefully We'll get it sorted soon and we can do something else useful. G-Man 21:43, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
BTW have you checked you're Email G-Man 21:48, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Strange I dont seem to have recieved it, perhaps Its been intercepted by secret government agents or something. Perhaps you should try sending it again G-Man 21:55, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
It still hasn't arrived I'm not sure why. Try copying it and sending it to me via the wikipedia Email G-Man 22:04, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)~
Yep got it this time and replied, not sure what was wrong G-Man 22:17, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I found another reference to the mayor for greater manchester idea here although it is only a draft and I'm not sure how relevant it is http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/jt199899/jtselect/jtlocgov/102/102ap76.htm G-Man 23:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for the delayed response, but I have seen the pages on the Earl of Stockton and the Baron Inglewood. I added a little information to the former page, and might do so to the latter one after a while. -- Lord Emsworth 00:25, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
Archived talk: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14 15. 16. Current talk: User_talk:Morwen
Heads up. I *am* going to undo a very _minor_ part of your work, which is very much appreciated.
I note with admiration that you have taken it upon yourself to sort out some of the chaff on the List of political parties article. But even though the task is definitely admirable, I give fair warning that of the half dozen parties you excised from under the Finnish subheading, two were not minor, and I will thusly restore them, soon after your labours come to a cessation.
Finland is a true multiparty system, and therefore the assumption, that there can only be three major parties and all others are minor, is false. In the Finnish system there are no major parties, merely 4-6 medium size ones. Currently there are 5 of those.
Both of the following two (which you excised along with the genuinely small ones) range around both sides of 10% popular support (and this means they are not minor parties, when of the larger three almost never two combined have a simple majority):
So I am giving you fair warning, that I will be reinstating those two parties under the Finnish entry. I hope that this explanation will avert a useless revert war, and if you have counterarguments to my views, understand that I will wait for such comments for a reasonable time before enacting the reinstatement of those two (decidedly non-minor) parties. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 13:59, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the articles on Albanian political parties. By the way, there is a page called List of Albania-related articles that I use to keep track of articles on Albania. I would be great if you could link any additions there (or just leave me a note and I'll do it). Dori | Talk 18:49, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
I've made some changes to the rugby article do you approve G-Man 19:31, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi, I see that it is necessary to fix the Green Entries on the List of political parties. But in my view, Green Party would be the only sane thing to do. What I tried to do with the article is to make it a description of what green parties (all over the world) actually are. It includes a differentiation between Green Parties and green parties, but that's not the important party. Green parties are as unique as social democratic or communist parties, Green in the name or not. So I'm not sure I get what you think is the right thing to do. -- till we *) 23:39, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the accent at Music of Serbia and Montenegro. May I suggest adding something to Wikipedia:Special characters about the codes for characters not yet included there? I'd like to be able to write about music from eastern european countries (which seem to have lots of characters I don't know how to type) without ignoring or messing up accents or attempting to find an example to copy-and-paste at the main page to the Latvian Wikipedia, which seems to have most of them. Anyway, thanks! Tuf-Kat 08:17, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
Re: Gibraltar, Buckinghamshire My other half is a travel agent, and I turned round to him and said, "where is Gibraltar, is it north or south of the Strait of Gibraltar?" And he said "south". So that's what I wrote on the article.
After you edited it and pointed out my error, I tuirned to him and said "you told me wrong, it's north of the strait, not south", and he said "I never told you that, I said it was north all along..."
Men!
-- Francs2000 18:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Are you sure Somerset (rump) is a good title for an article? I'm sure no-one has ever used that term before. Somerset (administrative) would be better, but why can't we keep one article which can discuss both the traditional and administrative area? Warofdreams 21:35, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I'd love to do all the numbers. But I think I'll just work on the first 114. -- Anonymous User
As you should be observing, this user is causing a persistent problem in pages related to Indian Independence. I listed him on the vandals list, and he was blocked for a few days (3 to be precise), and now I find he is back. He lost no time, and engaged in his usual antics again. I can't believe somebody actually WAITED to be unblocked to start his tricks. I am not sure I am totally aware of the IP Blocking policy in wikipedia as my age here is just over a month, but I noticed that you are a sys-op, and you must be watching the page.
Since the user uses the network of ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, Canada, I guess this IP should be his proxy web address and hence cannot be blocked permanently. But, observing that ALL edits from this IP address over the past one month is from this user (with a negligible margin of doubt), dont you think this ban should last for some more time ? Can you suggest/act on some way to get this user off our necks for a minimum of two weeks? I would really like to throw out people with a totally negative attitude to a co-operative effort (permanently, if need be). Waiting to hear from you. chance 05:16, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
Re Aash Al Maleek - is it possible what was there before was the lyrics? We could incorporate that if so. - Hephaestos 16:01, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, seem as we appear to have won the argument over counties, I was wondering if the Warwickshire article could be unprotected 'cause I would like to re-integrate it. G-Man 15:37, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I see you've just been over at Monterrey, Mexico. Do you think you could use your sysop superpowers and do the necessary to move that page over to Monterrey: that one is currently a disambig page, but it's disambigging things that aren't ambiguous. Take a look at Talk:Monterrey, Mexico for further rationale. I'd be very grateful if you've got a moment for this. – Hjr 17:00, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
It's not pov. It's a quotation. :-) Evercat 20:34, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello. Is Political History of Canada meant to be still protected? The log shows that you unprotected Politics of Canada twice, so I'm wondering if one of those was actually meant to be an unprotection of Political History of Canada. Angela . 00:55, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for your help re 195.92.168.17x :) Dysprosia 15:15, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for turning Trym to Thrym. AlainV, on the freshly snowed in afternoon of Sunday December 21 2003
I have edited the Holocaust article several time because Holocaust Deniers think Treblinka was not only an extermination camp, but was a center for processing captured Soviet ammunition. We must not allow ourselves to be fooled by Holocaust Deniers like Raul Hilberg, Deborah Lipstadt and others. There is a vast conspiricy afloat, and I stand as a bulwork against the tide of evil, with Knowledge in my right hand and Truth in my left. Cromwell
morwen, i am aware that the wikipedia would not be much use if every word was linked, and i did not link every word, if you bothered to read it you would see, the links are actually quite sparse, i feel you are both overreacting. Steeev 01:21, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Morwen, thank you for your comment on my? IP address page. If this is the wrong place to ask you to read my comment, please forgive me. I will plead ignorance and newness. (Where and how should I contact you?) Please read that page and comment on my ideas there. Thank you. talk:69.138.236.221
LOOK - YOU KEEP ERASING MY STIFF WITH NO EXPLANATION , YOU GONNA GET SOME AGRO STUFF WITH ME. I'VE BEEN HERE 15 MINUTES AND DEADHEADS ARE CRAPPING AROUND WITH ME. SHEESH, WHERE IS YOUR XMAS SPIRIT? I'M VANDALISING THINGS - HUH!
Thanks for redirecting the Moon Goddess link. I didn't realize that there was already a lunar deity article. -- Lowellian 20:06, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)
For a moment there I thought I was going crazy - acting before I was thinking instead of the other way around. Well anyway, thanks for helping out. Cheers, Jia ng
thanx for the help. appreciate it. i am kinda new here so didnt know what to do. will be mroe careful in the future. StupiDeity
thanx again :) StupiDeity 21:41, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I noticed you editted both of these - now I've looked around a bit more I have a question. Should these have been stub articles? I do intend to update once I know my other details are correct, I don't want to post misleading entries. Scaree 17:16, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, I've been away for a while so I just thought I'd say hi and happy new year etc. Looks like 80.255 is back again at Warwickshire (yawn) and is obviously determined to ignore the majority verdict and go ahead with his/her counties rampage regardless of what anyone else thinks. This situation clearly cannot go on forever, the Warwickshire article cannot remain permanently protected. G-Man 23:13, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Yes, I dont know why 80.255 has decided to pick out Warwickshire for special treatment, when there are numerous other counties where the historic and administrative counties diverge geographically. I have a feeling that 80.255 has some sort of vendetta against me because I've clashed with him/her on numerous occasions in the past, and I have written most of the Warwickshire article.
Personally I think if this malarkey goes on for much longer we will have to conclude that 80.255 has no intention of working co-operatively on a community project, and will have to look at blocking his/her IP adress. Drastic I know, but if being reasonable doesn't work, I dont see any other solution G-Man 23:33, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Quite, although 80.255 does seem to be in a minority of two. BTW: check you're email G-Man 00:25, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Good grief, how did you find those PRO papers so quickly! Very interesting... Arwel 00:19, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Isn't the spelling "dietitian"? Anyway, I think "nutritionist" would probably be better. RickK 21:12, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I shall be going through your "interpretation" of the 'Naming conventions' policy with a fine tooth comb over the next day or so, and I will ensure that it represents exactly what was stated in the motion that was carried and nothing more, so please do not get the impression that your manifold "elbaborations" and additions are now "official policy" - they are not. Kind regards, 80.255 23:01, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Oh yes - and have a happy new year. 80.255
Just one thing I've noticed, all of the page history for the Gloucestershire article is at Gloucestershire (rump), you should paste all the current article there and move it back to Gloucestershire to avoid loosing the article history G-Man 14:11, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OK I've done it G-Man 14:42, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've done some work on the county article perhaps you should check it. G-Man 15:52, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
You should take a look at Buckinghamshire I'm not sure it conforms to policy. I am getting very bored with this counties stuff, hopefully We'll get it sorted soon and we can do something else useful. G-Man 21:43, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
BTW have you checked you're Email G-Man 21:48, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Strange I dont seem to have recieved it, perhaps Its been intercepted by secret government agents or something. Perhaps you should try sending it again G-Man 21:55, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
It still hasn't arrived I'm not sure why. Try copying it and sending it to me via the wikipedia Email G-Man 22:04, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)~
Yep got it this time and replied, not sure what was wrong G-Man 22:17, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I found another reference to the mayor for greater manchester idea here although it is only a draft and I'm not sure how relevant it is http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/jt199899/jtselect/jtlocgov/102/102ap76.htm G-Man 23:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for the delayed response, but I have seen the pages on the Earl of Stockton and the Baron Inglewood. I added a little information to the former page, and might do so to the latter one after a while. -- Lord Emsworth 00:25, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)