Hi. Please don't do that to templates. It places not just the template at the top of its own category, but also any articles with the template. I have sorted this out with the noinclude trick. Morwen - Talk 17:27, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at Holocaust mythology and tell me if you agree on a speedy delete, I thought so at first, but after reading it some more, its seems much more like Alleged causes of Hurricane Katrina. (Please reply on my talk page)
Prodego talk 19:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Edits below by Prodego. - Banyan Tree 19:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
this happened today, i have an article up and running at East African earthquake, 2005. Considering renaming to Lake Tanganyika earthquake, or Great Lakes region earthquake, or some such title. Any advice and help would be appreciated. also, are you actually in the area at present? Thanks. -- Gozar 18:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, BanyanTree. Thank you for your kind words. I've seen you around Talk:Main Page, too. I was just following your lead there. So, you deserve more WikiThanks ! :-) Cheers ! -- PFHLai 03:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I came across your comments in User talk:Mark Dingemanse/Roylee, and I completely agree, in fact I pasted them into a page on wikicruft which I'm putting together for my own reference as I try to organize my thoughts on this. I also have come across articles which "generalists" would be unlikely to instantly recognize as fallacious or highly misleading. Sounds like you would agree with me and with Larry Sanger that expert knowledge is sadly undervalued in the WP, to its detriment.
Incidentally, have you come across this book?
If not, you'd probably get a chuckle out of it. Ironically, as an undergrad I was slightly acquainted with the author, the son of J. D. Bernal and a grandson of the noted Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner.--- CH 02:58, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
ok
If you want to discuss this with post it in the discussion. I mean the links are all broken or don't support the claims of whoever wrote it so you can't assume I'm wrong. Unsigned edit by User:TheOipian
Hi BanyanTree - I've left a note at Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board#Proliferation of stub templates which will answer your question (and added all the remaining stub types to the project page!). Grutness... wha? 06:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I've reverted your edit, on the basis that while their graphs may not cross now, they did at press time. I have a sneaking suspicion that their data may be slightly variable, because when I wrote it, Wikipedia was clearly 27th in daily rank, while CNN was 28th. It'd be nice if Alexa kept their data straight :) Ral315 (talk) 15:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just have one question. How on earth do ufind out so quickly when someone has typed in nonsense i suppose you use some type of program but do you actually read everything? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.193.107.80 ( talk • contribs)
Africa Award from Wizzy moved to User:BanyanTree/Contribs.
Thanks a lot for taking care of this so quickly. Also, the early article in the Australian press about the Nature article was a great catch of yours. I saw it on the Village Pump. Cheers! AxelBoldt 22:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you edited Yasmin here: [1] and alphabized the entries. According to disambig - Order of entries, we order entries according to revelance, not alpabet. Is it ok for you if I change the order back? Cheers! Peter S. 11:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Last May, when I working via an numbered account, you left a message there. I mean to get back to you, but I'm very bad about these things. Please accept my apologies for listing all work as minor, I did not realize I was making difficulties for the others. I just didn't think that my work was very substantial, so I listed them as minor. Thanks for the material listed below. Thank you very much for calling my work useful. It is nice to be appreciated. A.S. Brown 07:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC) This contribution has been moved from the top of the page to be chronological.
Hi! :-) Since we have a common interest for African history, I thought that maybe you wouldn't mind if I asked you some advice. Looking at History of Uganda and the History of Uganda Series, built almost completely with the public domain A Country Study: Uganda, I thought that the same project could be actuated for the other African country that are covered by the Country Studies, so to expand radically and modify History of Mauritius, History of Chad, History of Comoros, ecc. Every country should have, like Uganda, a template "History of xxx Series", so to not expand too much the main history article (as with History of Uganda, the chapters would be only relatively brief summaries, while seperate articles would treat in detail the various periods). A problem is that many of these studies were writteneJust to see how it comes, I've started to work the project on History of Chad, for now putting the country study stuff only before 1900. What do you think of the idea, in general? And regarding History of Chad, do you think I'm proceeding OK or is it better to leave the whole story and revert my edits on Chad? I'm sorry to disturb you, but I thought you could've been interested. Aldux 18:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You asked for at least a stub on Political lesbianism; I wrote one. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:50, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you all know: I told the author of the NYTimes article about the footnote, and he was pretty impressed :-) Good work BanyanTree! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Siddiqui, Why are you changing Islamism to Islam in a large number of articles? The Justice and Equality Movement, which is close to Hassan al-Turabi, is certainly Islamist in that it believes that Islam is a political goal. I see the word usage similarly proper in other articles that you are changing. - Banyan Tree 23:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Project Alaska! While our member-base is small, we are growing. As a heads-up, one thing we do ask is any Alaska-related pages/images/lists/categories you contribute to, please make sure to add our {{Project Alaska}} template to the Talk page (no subst please), and most importantly, add the item & it's Talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes so we can track any future updates. Thanks a lot and again, welcome! — akghetto talk 22:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I decided using my real name on wikipedia wasn't a good idea... meta says any admin can delete a user page, so please can I ask your assistance in deleting a certain page since it's just an old sandbox I have no use for now? If you could do me that favour I can put this account to rest. I don't see how it could violate any policy or upset anyone. thanks. -- luckhurs- t 01:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
In my opinion a month long block seems to be a little harsh. The user seems to have some good contribs mixed in with some vandalism/bad faith edits. His user page is discouraging, but all in all I don't think you are being "too harsh" though I would reduce the block significantly, but that is at your discretion. There are, just from scanning his talk page at least 7 warnings for vandalism, in my opinion those should not be deleted at all. That's the only reason I reverted and suggested that he archive his talk page. Thanks for the message and happy editing. KnowledgeOf Self | talk 19:48, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Why don't you do it? Skull 'n' Femurs 02:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
you blocked User:198.234.191.189 last month, and now (s)he's at it again. Could you block him/her again. Thanks. The bellman 14:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree. Sorry for taking some time to reply to your message from the 9th. My understanding is that the terms "Rwandese Patriotic Front" and "Rwandan Patriotic Army" were synonyms prior to 1994, if the latter term was used at all. They were an armed rebel group, so their political and military functions were more or less indistinguishable.
After the reconquest of Rwanda, however, it is my understanding that the RPF decided to split its political and military functions (at least on paper). I have better source for this, but right now, quoting The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (p. 246), about the Kibeho incident:
I imagine this sort of split is common for successful rebel movements, at least those that care to give the impression they're not military states.
It's possible that the term "Rwandan Patriotic Army" was used to describe the army of the RPF before reconquest. However, since it was more or less all one organization, I'm inclined to think that for clarity we should just refer to everything pre-conquest as the RPF, and reserve the term "Rwandan Patriotic Army" for the nominally separate post-conquest military entity.
It wouldn't surprise me to hear they had been renamed to Rwandan Defence Forces or some such thing; after all, the names are pretty similar, so if the Rwandan government is striving to convey the message that the party and army are separate, a very distinct name for the army would seem to be in order. I'll leave it as "Rwandan Patriotic Army" for now, and see if I can find a reference to the new name. Regards, -- Saforrest 17:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on my talk page. I suspected it had something to do with admin features. Good to know that he's not just a really really really fast typist. Deadsalmon 19:15, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice on my page. I was wondering if it is actually possible to find an image that I can put on my page within my lifetime searching on Google. do you have any tips on what to put n the search bar for that type of image you were telling me about?-- Calvinsupergenius 19:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
where are the commons?-- Calvinsupergenius 15:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
oh, wait never mind, that was just the file of the day I was looking at. Sorry.-- Calvinsupergenius 16:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, BanyanTree. I am humbled to receive such an honor and thank you profusely. Hope I didn't cause you too much frustration. :) Take care, Sango 123 (talk) 21:33, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree. I was thinking of renaming Baguirmi Empire and Ouaddai Empire respectively Baguirmi Kingdom and Ouaddai Kingdom, but I first I wanted to hear your opinion, since you started Ouaddai Empire and ampliated Baguirmi Empire. As for the reasons, I have a feeling that "empire" is a bit excessive for kingdoms that never controlled more than a part of central Chad. Bye :-) Aldux 14:27, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! I'm glad you found it useful. :-)
Quartier
Latin1968
00:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the missing archive notice. - Triona 16:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I also saw that you have that little box that says your page is a use page not an encyclopidia insert. How do I get that?-- Calvinsupergenius 19:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Please block 24.60.107.154 he keeps on vandalizing Damadola airstrike. Fortunately another anonymous user keeps reverting his edits. KI 22:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC) The message above was blanked by 24.60.107.154 ( talk · contribs) and I have rollbacked. - Banyan Tree 23:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering, but what is 3RR and all that other stuff? -- Calvinsupergenius 20:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a feeling that User:JohN and User:KJVTRUTH may be sockpuppets of User:Lightbringer, and I'mm thinking that User:Baphin may be a sock or meat puppet of one of the above. It is rare for people to join and then immediately start making repeated personal attacks or clearly try to obfuscate edits and page histories if they have no agenda, which I believe these users do, especially with regards to the Freemasonry articles, as they seem to have gone right after them. Could these users be looked into to confirm or deny sock or meat status? MSJapan 17:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Just curious, if you do go to University, where did/do you go? For some reason I'm curious if it involved UD. gren グレン ? 05:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Zeq 20:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
greetings BanyanTree, i was curious as to whether you (and others from the wikipedia africa community) would be interested in helping to barnraise Petroleum in Nigeria, an article i started at the beginning of '06. I'm pretty much planning on camping out at the campus library all weekend working on it, and there is also a significant amount of information available online. that said i will be doing most of the work, but any help would be appreciated. this is a good place to start browsing info online (excuse me if im being presumptuous). thanks! -- Gozar 18:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with you on your opinion of the status quo for, particularly with regard to the ACOTW, which didnt seem to do much of anything. That said, help would be fantastic, because my strong suit in this matter is probably environmental/poverty stuff. anything way you could incorporate the 9 (it's something like 9) regime changes would be awesome. so far a broad overview i have of a section titled something along the lines of "history and politics till the 1990s", would include 1. discovery,2.a sub-section on Biafra which leads to--> 3. nationalization of the industry, 4. a sub-section on OPEC and the relationship with it.
some unifying concepts for the section ive written are "government control has evolved since the 1960s, with the gov. control increasing from no control in the 60s, to have a large stake at present" (i want to include charts of this growth, also historical production for the country). and, "smooth sailing in terms of productivity between Biafra and basically the early 1990s when the Ogoni became a "threat". this was despite numerous regime changes". all the events involving ogoni land would come under a "human rights section" of sorts. --
Gozar
19:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mel. It's been a while since we crossed paths. I thought I'd drop you a line about Talk:Aetherometry. Helicoid came up in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/William M. Connolley 2 a bit in reference to the aetherometry battle. ( Hilarious result.) Considering that there a few AN/I posts, etc pointing at those talk pages, I'm a little curious about why he's in such a hurry to delete them. Anyway, I hope you are doing well and having a good new year. Cheers, Banyan Tree 00:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Above discussion copied from User talk:Mel Etitis. Forcing yourself into a conversation, making that conversation between you and the visiting user, and then demanding that it continue on the third person's talk page is quite rude. I am continuing this here.
I'm glad to help. Thanks. :) -- MK [ 06:08, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to ask you if you could move Front de Libération Nationale du Tchad to FROLINAT. It was originally at Frolinat, and moved by User:KI, with whom I've started a Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad (anbody interested? just asking...). But now KI fully agrees to move it to FROLINAT (see my talk), so if you can, please move it. Ciao :-) Aldux 22:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Please don't do that to templates. It places not just the template at the top of its own category, but also any articles with the template. I have sorted this out with the noinclude trick. Morwen - Talk 17:27, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at Holocaust mythology and tell me if you agree on a speedy delete, I thought so at first, but after reading it some more, its seems much more like Alleged causes of Hurricane Katrina. (Please reply on my talk page)
Prodego talk 19:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Edits below by Prodego. - Banyan Tree 19:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
this happened today, i have an article up and running at East African earthquake, 2005. Considering renaming to Lake Tanganyika earthquake, or Great Lakes region earthquake, or some such title. Any advice and help would be appreciated. also, are you actually in the area at present? Thanks. -- Gozar 18:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, BanyanTree. Thank you for your kind words. I've seen you around Talk:Main Page, too. I was just following your lead there. So, you deserve more WikiThanks ! :-) Cheers ! -- PFHLai 03:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I came across your comments in User talk:Mark Dingemanse/Roylee, and I completely agree, in fact I pasted them into a page on wikicruft which I'm putting together for my own reference as I try to organize my thoughts on this. I also have come across articles which "generalists" would be unlikely to instantly recognize as fallacious or highly misleading. Sounds like you would agree with me and with Larry Sanger that expert knowledge is sadly undervalued in the WP, to its detriment.
Incidentally, have you come across this book?
If not, you'd probably get a chuckle out of it. Ironically, as an undergrad I was slightly acquainted with the author, the son of J. D. Bernal and a grandson of the noted Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner.--- CH 02:58, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
ok
If you want to discuss this with post it in the discussion. I mean the links are all broken or don't support the claims of whoever wrote it so you can't assume I'm wrong. Unsigned edit by User:TheOipian
Hi BanyanTree - I've left a note at Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board#Proliferation of stub templates which will answer your question (and added all the remaining stub types to the project page!). Grutness... wha? 06:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I've reverted your edit, on the basis that while their graphs may not cross now, they did at press time. I have a sneaking suspicion that their data may be slightly variable, because when I wrote it, Wikipedia was clearly 27th in daily rank, while CNN was 28th. It'd be nice if Alexa kept their data straight :) Ral315 (talk) 15:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just have one question. How on earth do ufind out so quickly when someone has typed in nonsense i suppose you use some type of program but do you actually read everything? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.193.107.80 ( talk • contribs)
Africa Award from Wizzy moved to User:BanyanTree/Contribs.
Thanks a lot for taking care of this so quickly. Also, the early article in the Australian press about the Nature article was a great catch of yours. I saw it on the Village Pump. Cheers! AxelBoldt 22:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you edited Yasmin here: [1] and alphabized the entries. According to disambig - Order of entries, we order entries according to revelance, not alpabet. Is it ok for you if I change the order back? Cheers! Peter S. 11:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Last May, when I working via an numbered account, you left a message there. I mean to get back to you, but I'm very bad about these things. Please accept my apologies for listing all work as minor, I did not realize I was making difficulties for the others. I just didn't think that my work was very substantial, so I listed them as minor. Thanks for the material listed below. Thank you very much for calling my work useful. It is nice to be appreciated. A.S. Brown 07:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC) This contribution has been moved from the top of the page to be chronological.
Hi! :-) Since we have a common interest for African history, I thought that maybe you wouldn't mind if I asked you some advice. Looking at History of Uganda and the History of Uganda Series, built almost completely with the public domain A Country Study: Uganda, I thought that the same project could be actuated for the other African country that are covered by the Country Studies, so to expand radically and modify History of Mauritius, History of Chad, History of Comoros, ecc. Every country should have, like Uganda, a template "History of xxx Series", so to not expand too much the main history article (as with History of Uganda, the chapters would be only relatively brief summaries, while seperate articles would treat in detail the various periods). A problem is that many of these studies were writteneJust to see how it comes, I've started to work the project on History of Chad, for now putting the country study stuff only before 1900. What do you think of the idea, in general? And regarding History of Chad, do you think I'm proceeding OK or is it better to leave the whole story and revert my edits on Chad? I'm sorry to disturb you, but I thought you could've been interested. Aldux 18:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You asked for at least a stub on Political lesbianism; I wrote one. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:50, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you all know: I told the author of the NYTimes article about the footnote, and he was pretty impressed :-) Good work BanyanTree! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Siddiqui, Why are you changing Islamism to Islam in a large number of articles? The Justice and Equality Movement, which is close to Hassan al-Turabi, is certainly Islamist in that it believes that Islam is a political goal. I see the word usage similarly proper in other articles that you are changing. - Banyan Tree 23:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Project Alaska! While our member-base is small, we are growing. As a heads-up, one thing we do ask is any Alaska-related pages/images/lists/categories you contribute to, please make sure to add our {{Project Alaska}} template to the Talk page (no subst please), and most importantly, add the item & it's Talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes so we can track any future updates. Thanks a lot and again, welcome! — akghetto talk 22:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I decided using my real name on wikipedia wasn't a good idea... meta says any admin can delete a user page, so please can I ask your assistance in deleting a certain page since it's just an old sandbox I have no use for now? If you could do me that favour I can put this account to rest. I don't see how it could violate any policy or upset anyone. thanks. -- luckhurs- t 01:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
In my opinion a month long block seems to be a little harsh. The user seems to have some good contribs mixed in with some vandalism/bad faith edits. His user page is discouraging, but all in all I don't think you are being "too harsh" though I would reduce the block significantly, but that is at your discretion. There are, just from scanning his talk page at least 7 warnings for vandalism, in my opinion those should not be deleted at all. That's the only reason I reverted and suggested that he archive his talk page. Thanks for the message and happy editing. KnowledgeOf Self | talk 19:48, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Why don't you do it? Skull 'n' Femurs 02:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
you blocked User:198.234.191.189 last month, and now (s)he's at it again. Could you block him/her again. Thanks. The bellman 14:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree. Sorry for taking some time to reply to your message from the 9th. My understanding is that the terms "Rwandese Patriotic Front" and "Rwandan Patriotic Army" were synonyms prior to 1994, if the latter term was used at all. They were an armed rebel group, so their political and military functions were more or less indistinguishable.
After the reconquest of Rwanda, however, it is my understanding that the RPF decided to split its political and military functions (at least on paper). I have better source for this, but right now, quoting The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (p. 246), about the Kibeho incident:
I imagine this sort of split is common for successful rebel movements, at least those that care to give the impression they're not military states.
It's possible that the term "Rwandan Patriotic Army" was used to describe the army of the RPF before reconquest. However, since it was more or less all one organization, I'm inclined to think that for clarity we should just refer to everything pre-conquest as the RPF, and reserve the term "Rwandan Patriotic Army" for the nominally separate post-conquest military entity.
It wouldn't surprise me to hear they had been renamed to Rwandan Defence Forces or some such thing; after all, the names are pretty similar, so if the Rwandan government is striving to convey the message that the party and army are separate, a very distinct name for the army would seem to be in order. I'll leave it as "Rwandan Patriotic Army" for now, and see if I can find a reference to the new name. Regards, -- Saforrest 17:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on my talk page. I suspected it had something to do with admin features. Good to know that he's not just a really really really fast typist. Deadsalmon 19:15, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice on my page. I was wondering if it is actually possible to find an image that I can put on my page within my lifetime searching on Google. do you have any tips on what to put n the search bar for that type of image you were telling me about?-- Calvinsupergenius 19:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
where are the commons?-- Calvinsupergenius 15:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
oh, wait never mind, that was just the file of the day I was looking at. Sorry.-- Calvinsupergenius 16:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, BanyanTree. I am humbled to receive such an honor and thank you profusely. Hope I didn't cause you too much frustration. :) Take care, Sango 123 (talk) 21:33, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree. I was thinking of renaming Baguirmi Empire and Ouaddai Empire respectively Baguirmi Kingdom and Ouaddai Kingdom, but I first I wanted to hear your opinion, since you started Ouaddai Empire and ampliated Baguirmi Empire. As for the reasons, I have a feeling that "empire" is a bit excessive for kingdoms that never controlled more than a part of central Chad. Bye :-) Aldux 14:27, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! I'm glad you found it useful. :-)
Quartier
Latin1968
00:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the missing archive notice. - Triona 16:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I also saw that you have that little box that says your page is a use page not an encyclopidia insert. How do I get that?-- Calvinsupergenius 19:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Please block 24.60.107.154 he keeps on vandalizing Damadola airstrike. Fortunately another anonymous user keeps reverting his edits. KI 22:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC) The message above was blanked by 24.60.107.154 ( talk · contribs) and I have rollbacked. - Banyan Tree 23:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering, but what is 3RR and all that other stuff? -- Calvinsupergenius 20:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a feeling that User:JohN and User:KJVTRUTH may be sockpuppets of User:Lightbringer, and I'mm thinking that User:Baphin may be a sock or meat puppet of one of the above. It is rare for people to join and then immediately start making repeated personal attacks or clearly try to obfuscate edits and page histories if they have no agenda, which I believe these users do, especially with regards to the Freemasonry articles, as they seem to have gone right after them. Could these users be looked into to confirm or deny sock or meat status? MSJapan 17:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Just curious, if you do go to University, where did/do you go? For some reason I'm curious if it involved UD. gren グレン ? 05:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Zeq 20:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
greetings BanyanTree, i was curious as to whether you (and others from the wikipedia africa community) would be interested in helping to barnraise Petroleum in Nigeria, an article i started at the beginning of '06. I'm pretty much planning on camping out at the campus library all weekend working on it, and there is also a significant amount of information available online. that said i will be doing most of the work, but any help would be appreciated. this is a good place to start browsing info online (excuse me if im being presumptuous). thanks! -- Gozar 18:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with you on your opinion of the status quo for, particularly with regard to the ACOTW, which didnt seem to do much of anything. That said, help would be fantastic, because my strong suit in this matter is probably environmental/poverty stuff. anything way you could incorporate the 9 (it's something like 9) regime changes would be awesome. so far a broad overview i have of a section titled something along the lines of "history and politics till the 1990s", would include 1. discovery,2.a sub-section on Biafra which leads to--> 3. nationalization of the industry, 4. a sub-section on OPEC and the relationship with it.
some unifying concepts for the section ive written are "government control has evolved since the 1960s, with the gov. control increasing from no control in the 60s, to have a large stake at present" (i want to include charts of this growth, also historical production for the country). and, "smooth sailing in terms of productivity between Biafra and basically the early 1990s when the Ogoni became a "threat". this was despite numerous regime changes". all the events involving ogoni land would come under a "human rights section" of sorts. --
Gozar
19:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mel. It's been a while since we crossed paths. I thought I'd drop you a line about Talk:Aetherometry. Helicoid came up in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/William M. Connolley 2 a bit in reference to the aetherometry battle. ( Hilarious result.) Considering that there a few AN/I posts, etc pointing at those talk pages, I'm a little curious about why he's in such a hurry to delete them. Anyway, I hope you are doing well and having a good new year. Cheers, Banyan Tree 00:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Above discussion copied from User talk:Mel Etitis. Forcing yourself into a conversation, making that conversation between you and the visiting user, and then demanding that it continue on the third person's talk page is quite rude. I am continuing this here.
I'm glad to help. Thanks. :) -- MK [ 06:08, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to ask you if you could move Front de Libération Nationale du Tchad to FROLINAT. It was originally at Frolinat, and moved by User:KI, with whom I've started a Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad (anbody interested? just asking...). But now KI fully agrees to move it to FROLINAT (see my talk), so if you can, please move it. Ciao :-) Aldux 22:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)