Following up your comment from the Main Page talk page: "nobody can claim copyright over reproductions of two-dimensional images unless they claim that they are creating an entirely new work of art" - I know from personal experience that there are some plausible exceptions to this rule. One is where people take old books and scan the photographs. The photographs and books themselves are public domain, but they are very poor quality and the pages may have started to turn brown and degrade. What often happens is that the scanner retouches the scan and (to the best of their ability) repairs and restores the picture to its original condition. This does take time and effort, and, unlike in Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., the resulting image can be significantly different to the current degraded condition of the object being "copied". This is more restoration than copying. This might sometimes justify a copyright tag.
The other thing is simple courtesy. In most cases, simply crediting the institution (museum or historical picture library) from where the picture was sourced, would help. Often they are just trying to prevent commercial reuse. Having the credit line with the image (rather than a click away - if that) would probably help. Carcharoth 15:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, BanyanTree, how are you? I was just curious why you rolled back a support from User:A ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. I realize that all this user is doing is supporting RfAs, but every registered user is allowed to have their voice heard on RfAs. Just like users who oppose every single candidate, burecrats can easily ignore users who support every single candidate just as easily. However, I didn't want to revert your edit without talking to you first. Let me know what you think. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 16:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thanks Kukini! I had to chuckle at receiving the barnstar named after RickK as one of my first experiences after being admined was RickK storming onto this page to ream me out for what he felt was an out-of-process undeletion. (I still disagree by the way.) Hopefully, he would approve. I very much appreciate the thought. Happy editing, Banyan Tree 15:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree, I became aware of the potential issue at Lima, Ohio over IRC today and appreciate your notice on the article's talk page very much. IMO, from what I've seen in my (albeit short) time so far on Wikipedia, it certainly has the potential to become pretty bad come when that "new and improved (possibly replaced)" version is posted; I'm wondering, however, if a talk page note will be noticed that much. Do you think it would be appropriate to be responding to the news article by writing to the Lima News itself? (They have a letters-to-the-editor email address.) TheProject 02:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Banyan Tree and associates. Thanks for your guidance as we (there are 12 of us) posted several new sections in the "Lima, Ohio" article. Please direct us to appropriate Wikipedia guidelines and keep us from embarrassing ourselves. We wish to be well behaved Wikipedia contributors. Thanks. -- David S. Adams 00:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree - I made a move last week of the article Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom to Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg as I considered the former title to be ambiguous, and hence not suitable for being a primary topic page. However, it seems the move has been met with general disapprobation so please could you move it back, i.e. Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg -> Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (assuming someone has not already done so by the time you read this). Cheers — SteveRwanda 13:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I liked your "ooohh.... must... be ... civil" edit summary. I actually wrote something uncivilish in reply, but caught myself before I hit the "Save" button :) -- Ezeu 19:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Please explain? Dweller 20:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I've noticed you remove an anon' inclusion of Chernobyl displaced persons to the Internally displaced person article. This move of yours highlight the problem of the definition of IDP and refugees. If Chernobyl's refugees do not qualify as IDP, they surely do qualify as refugees! So their case should be listed somewhere... You can't just remove it, you should move it somewhere else. If it's not IDP, then it's either displaced persons or refugee. Again, the problem of the "displaced persons" article is that it is both a fork, a stub, a technical term, and may even be seen as a weasel word (or, if you prefer, one more bureaucratic euphemism). Thus, this Chernobyl example should probably be included in the "refugee" article, which doesn't seems to have real reason for taking the "international juridical" definition as basis of it (Wikipedia is a general public encyclopedia, not a judicial treaty for lawyers). Lapaz 15:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I confirm the request to be de-sysoped that I made on Meta. Thanks, BanyanTree 22:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to all of you. I've been thinking about it for several months as my real life has left me less and less time. I had gotten into circular thinking where I had to stay an admin to defend my watchlist and needed to watch those pages because it seems like I'm one of the few admins interested. I finally reached the point yesterday of hitting the clear watchlist link and requesting to be desysoped. So yeah, part burnout, but I hope there was enough thought put into it that I won't go crawling back to RFA in three months (not that I think I could get through it these days given the number of sarcastic and ill-thought out edits in my history). My edit rate will certainly drop since I won't be doing all that rollback and warning but, hopefully, you'll see me pop up making quality contributions rather than the schlock knob-twiddling I've been doing for months. Best, BanyanTree 15:22, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, BanyanTree. Burnout ? Well, take it easy, my friend. I have similar feelings re: my watchlist. Just wanna remind you that you shouldn't feel obligated to perform janitorial duties when you are busy contributing, and that the "power to delete" may be useful when you are seriously contributing (e.g. when it comes to moving pages.) It's up to you, but I suggest that you reconsider desysopping yourself. I'm taking June off (so hard to stay away, though....). See you around when I get back. Take care. -- PFHLai 22:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Banyan. I've never been in this condition, so maybe this question may appear a bit weird to you, but since its importance, I felt I had at least to try. One of our best Africa-related editors, User:KI, has got for violation of civility his first block, of 24h, made by User:Kelly Martin. Now I understand this; KI has a fiery temper and when treated rudely may react accordingly. What I find utterly unjustifiable is that User:Sasquatch a few minutes later decided it was too little and lengthened his punishment to three months; what seems to me a clear overkill for the first offence, and an abuse of admin. powers. Consider also please that we're speaking of an editor whose dedication to wikipedia is fantastic; he's the original creator of Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad, and the main authour of the fantastic article Chadian-Sudanese conflict, which has obtained "good article" status. Please give a look at KI's [ log] and consider if it is possible to return to User:Kelly Martin's originary judgement, or simply a judgement that while harsher than Kelly's is at least reasonable, and won't lose wikipedia one of its best editors. If you don't what to treat the thing yourself, as you feel you have little knowledge of block proceedings, please bring it to the attention to an admin who is active in this field; simply as a way to be certain that user Sasquatch has not abused of his powers, or simply given, as I believe, a block far too harsh. Excuse me for making such a request, but I felt the question was too important for me to remain silent. Obviously, if you prefer not to remain involved in anyway in such a problematic situation, I while obviously undrstand. Ciao-- Aldux 23:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Although it's regrettable that you've decided to no longer be an admin, I'm relieved to see that you've chosen to remain with the project, making edits. Because you are a damn good editor. DS 01:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
you reverted my removal. that "removal" was me removing something i typed by mistake. you shouldn't have reverted anything in the first place since i have removed the mistake i typed. 194.46.251.136 12:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the DYK nomination, BT. I would have added it myself eventually, but it's always nice to get it done by someone else! What do you think of the article? I've done my best to provide references for everything this time, hopefully from reasonably authoratative sources. — SteveRwanda 09:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello BT, you may be interested in the CfD regarding Category:Cities in Uganda and Category:Towns in Uganda that I have suggested. See here. I reckon Category:Cities and towns in Uganda is fine. I did not dare to unilaterally delete them, so I took it to CfD just in case there are objections. -- Ezeu 17:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Banyan Tree,
You wrote to me when I first joined Wikipedia in Dec. 2005, and I am just now (June 2006) getting around to thinking about the article for my chosen subject matter, a rare disease called biliary atresia.
I've posed a bunch of questions on the talk page of the article, and would much rather spend my clearly limited time thinking about article content than Wikipedia policies and style - could you point me to perhaps a team of rare disease article mentors? Ones who are preferably quite familiar with Wikipedia protocol etc. And nice?!
Clearly I can't remember Wikipedia editing syntax/protocol/etc. from one instance to another (for example, I don't remember how to link to my user name, sorry) but have a lot of knowledge in my subject area to contribute. I just need a little editing help...
Many thanks :)
- Aunt Amanda—Preceding unsigned comment added by Aunt Amanda ( talk • contribs)
BT, per your request, I have added a section on Billy Bowlegs' service in the Union army during the American Civil War. Hopefully this fulfills your request. If I can be of further service, please let me know! Scott Mingus 23:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I accept your offer, and I'm really grateful for your gentleness and consideration in proposing me. As for the fact you've voluntarily desysopped, I don't see any problem, especially since your value as an editor is well known (really!
).--
Aldux 14:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
i'm going to attempt to remove the original research image posted by the suspected sock puppet on this page. mark originally picked up the gauntlet on this one but he has gone on wikibreak; he initially elected to merely put up the "uncited source tag", but it seems like a fairly safe bet that a legitimate source is not forthcoming. please advise (i apologize for the bother, i know few admins to which i can defer such a situation). -- gozar 22:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
For the detailed review of Maraba Coffee. I'll try and address all the points you raised in the next few days ( 2006 FIFA World Cup permitting!) — SteveRwanda 15:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Just trying to get things better organized around there. Toward that end, I've created a task list template for the project. If all the members of the project placed it on their user page, we could all keep in touch more easily (with announcements, alerts, etc.). It, and the latest announcements can be found at:
-- Go for it! 17:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
sorry I am a member of the comuity of Sant'egidio, so if you think to write what what you like please delete the sant'egidio voice otherwise keep the page like I did (my last time) giorgio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giorgioparlante ( talk • contribs)
The article Gnaa, Nigeria has just entered its 3rd AfD. There's been considerable debate in the past as to:
I understand you have edited Africa articles extensively -- if you get the chance, can you maybe take a look and render an opinion pro or con? Thanks, -- A. B. 00:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your hard work on this article. Hypnosadist 15:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the SDC page. It was my first. Bpreilly
Thanks for following this up with Wallie. You beat me to it! Nunquam Dormio 18:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT, I was asking myself, souldn't we rename Baggara Shuwa Arabs? It some times that I have doubts on the name, as at least in work on Chad, journals and books included, the Arabic-speaking nomads are simply called Arabs. But since you've become are Darfur expert ;-), I wanted to hear your opinion. Ciao,-- Aldux 19:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Ciao,--
Aldux 22:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
yes i am sure it's on the way to FA status like the LRA article, and hopefully the good article nom will be confirmed. im actually fairly uninformed on the entire conflict but i have a decent overview. what books would you particularly recommend on the topic? (i noted you claimed to have read books on Darfur at some point, though i cant recall where) also i'm at the smashbuckling adventure that is Wikimania 2006 (typing this from some Harvard free-use computer, no less). I've encountered a guru from the Swahili Wikipedia who certainly appears to be one of those spearheading that version's progress; give me some thoughtful questions I can ask him! (he spent most of his life in Tanzania and is a Chaga-speaker to give you context)-- gozar 20:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I finished reading Prunier's book last night, very well-done. I am now filled with shame over my previous ignorance in regards to the topic, my perceptions were fairly incoherent. Not surprisingly Prunier is cited quite extensively in the Darfur conflict article. The reaction to the potential UN deployment has been pretty gruesome by the GoS but not really surprising; what do you suppose the motivation is here: positioning the army to fight a possible UN force seems unlikely (i would imagine the GoS wants to avoid direct engagement with the UN); the more frightening alternative I've considered is that the GoS is expanding its attacks on the civilians (on the pre-text of punishing for/enforcing non-signers of the peace agreement) in order to ensure their complete fracturing and incoherence in national politics (which has been the policy to since the beginning, but clearly expansion is occuring). Obviously the UN would attempt to re-habilitate and empower the victims when/if an intervention occurs, such a policy would make those efforts more difficult. what are your thoughts on the likelihood of direct intervention actually occuring and, whether or not it would be a positive or a negative at the current juncture?-- gozar 18:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
unless something drastically changes in regards to media coverage, you are likely correct, since there's really no novel initiative/pressure on the majoring governing institutions involved to take action against Khartoum. More than likely you're correct and the continuum of cynical obfuscating by all parties will proceed.
I would guess that short of a major amplication of coverage by the "global" (American) media. Couldn't the problem be solved by simply marching a number of American citizens into Darfur illegally, possibly resulting in their imprisonment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gozar ( talk • contribs)
Well. I think the following "Breaking News" items could trigger American media interest:
Khartoum sends Michael Jackson to Islamic judiciary amid charges of homosexuality by Hasan Al-Turabi
Sudanese Muslims riot after President's remarks
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NSR is a style guide, not a justification for stripping out references to Wikipedia from the outside world. You're not only fighting the masses, you're on the wrong side of the issue. Cheers. -- The Cunctator 05:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
hi BanyanTree ... you make this revert, but this article says he dies on 30 july 2005, not on 1 august - Sven-steffen arndt 15:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT,
I seem to have lost the momentum with this in the last couple of months, having been busy with other things and waiting ages for a reference promised to me by the people at PEARL, but I think most of the points you raised at peer review have now been dealt with, so maybe it's time to nominate it for F.A. If you have a spare moment, please could you check if there are any obvious failings remaining before I do so?
Cheers, — SteveRwanda 09:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT,
Just writing to ask your opinion on the recent restructuring of the Maraba article by User:PFHLai. Is it better in its current form, or the original one? I don't really know myself. This FAC is getting quite hectic with people popping up and editing bits here and there, to however they think it should be... it's quite hard to keep up! Cheers — SteveRwanda 15:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm flattered you'd think of nominating me. I remember welcoming you and your Uganda-insurgency kick. I have always kinda wanted to be an admin, but the tools are mostly used for housecleaning whereas I spend most of my time in articles writing text(kinda why my edits are not as numerous as they could be - for every hour of editing there is at least two hours of research). Also the fact that as a field biologist I am potentially away for month on end sans internet I very much doubt I'd make the grade. But thanks so much for thinking of it! Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for catching the blanking that I missed on Rosa Parks. -- Allen 19:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Morning (or afternoon) BT,
It seems like one or two people are still objecting to the length of the lead. I personally think it's adequate enough now, and there's no real advantage to removing the sentences on hand picking. I often think people have the wrong idea about lead sections as so many articles here lack adequate ones. It seems others are satisfied or neutral now too. What do you reckon? And what are the prospects now of this thing going through? Amcaja said he may do some more copy editing tomorrow, so hopefully the prose objections will eventually be raised... Cheers — SteveRwanda 14:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
You're right! (that was my first upload ...) -- Esculapio 14:26, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused as to what the final configuration should be there; what exactly do we want merged into what?
(This aside from the point that neither of the pages you linked seems to have any particularly meaningful history anyways. It may be easier to just sort out the redirects and leave the single-item histories where they are; I very much doubt anyone will have a use for them.) Kirill Lokshin 15:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Following up your comment from the Main Page talk page: "nobody can claim copyright over reproductions of two-dimensional images unless they claim that they are creating an entirely new work of art" - I know from personal experience that there are some plausible exceptions to this rule. One is where people take old books and scan the photographs. The photographs and books themselves are public domain, but they are very poor quality and the pages may have started to turn brown and degrade. What often happens is that the scanner retouches the scan and (to the best of their ability) repairs and restores the picture to its original condition. This does take time and effort, and, unlike in Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., the resulting image can be significantly different to the current degraded condition of the object being "copied". This is more restoration than copying. This might sometimes justify a copyright tag.
The other thing is simple courtesy. In most cases, simply crediting the institution (museum or historical picture library) from where the picture was sourced, would help. Often they are just trying to prevent commercial reuse. Having the credit line with the image (rather than a click away - if that) would probably help. Carcharoth 15:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, BanyanTree, how are you? I was just curious why you rolled back a support from User:A ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. I realize that all this user is doing is supporting RfAs, but every registered user is allowed to have their voice heard on RfAs. Just like users who oppose every single candidate, burecrats can easily ignore users who support every single candidate just as easily. However, I didn't want to revert your edit without talking to you first. Let me know what you think. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 16:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thanks Kukini! I had to chuckle at receiving the barnstar named after RickK as one of my first experiences after being admined was RickK storming onto this page to ream me out for what he felt was an out-of-process undeletion. (I still disagree by the way.) Hopefully, he would approve. I very much appreciate the thought. Happy editing, Banyan Tree 15:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree, I became aware of the potential issue at Lima, Ohio over IRC today and appreciate your notice on the article's talk page very much. IMO, from what I've seen in my (albeit short) time so far on Wikipedia, it certainly has the potential to become pretty bad come when that "new and improved (possibly replaced)" version is posted; I'm wondering, however, if a talk page note will be noticed that much. Do you think it would be appropriate to be responding to the news article by writing to the Lima News itself? (They have a letters-to-the-editor email address.) TheProject 02:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Banyan Tree and associates. Thanks for your guidance as we (there are 12 of us) posted several new sections in the "Lima, Ohio" article. Please direct us to appropriate Wikipedia guidelines and keep us from embarrassing ourselves. We wish to be well behaved Wikipedia contributors. Thanks. -- David S. Adams 00:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BanyanTree - I made a move last week of the article Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom to Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg as I considered the former title to be ambiguous, and hence not suitable for being a primary topic page. However, it seems the move has been met with general disapprobation so please could you move it back, i.e. Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg -> Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (assuming someone has not already done so by the time you read this). Cheers — SteveRwanda 13:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I liked your "ooohh.... must... be ... civil" edit summary. I actually wrote something uncivilish in reply, but caught myself before I hit the "Save" button :) -- Ezeu 19:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Please explain? Dweller 20:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I've noticed you remove an anon' inclusion of Chernobyl displaced persons to the Internally displaced person article. This move of yours highlight the problem of the definition of IDP and refugees. If Chernobyl's refugees do not qualify as IDP, they surely do qualify as refugees! So their case should be listed somewhere... You can't just remove it, you should move it somewhere else. If it's not IDP, then it's either displaced persons or refugee. Again, the problem of the "displaced persons" article is that it is both a fork, a stub, a technical term, and may even be seen as a weasel word (or, if you prefer, one more bureaucratic euphemism). Thus, this Chernobyl example should probably be included in the "refugee" article, which doesn't seems to have real reason for taking the "international juridical" definition as basis of it (Wikipedia is a general public encyclopedia, not a judicial treaty for lawyers). Lapaz 15:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I confirm the request to be de-sysoped that I made on Meta. Thanks, BanyanTree 22:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to all of you. I've been thinking about it for several months as my real life has left me less and less time. I had gotten into circular thinking where I had to stay an admin to defend my watchlist and needed to watch those pages because it seems like I'm one of the few admins interested. I finally reached the point yesterday of hitting the clear watchlist link and requesting to be desysoped. So yeah, part burnout, but I hope there was enough thought put into it that I won't go crawling back to RFA in three months (not that I think I could get through it these days given the number of sarcastic and ill-thought out edits in my history). My edit rate will certainly drop since I won't be doing all that rollback and warning but, hopefully, you'll see me pop up making quality contributions rather than the schlock knob-twiddling I've been doing for months. Best, BanyanTree 15:22, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, BanyanTree. Burnout ? Well, take it easy, my friend. I have similar feelings re: my watchlist. Just wanna remind you that you shouldn't feel obligated to perform janitorial duties when you are busy contributing, and that the "power to delete" may be useful when you are seriously contributing (e.g. when it comes to moving pages.) It's up to you, but I suggest that you reconsider desysopping yourself. I'm taking June off (so hard to stay away, though....). See you around when I get back. Take care. -- PFHLai 22:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Banyan. I've never been in this condition, so maybe this question may appear a bit weird to you, but since its importance, I felt I had at least to try. One of our best Africa-related editors, User:KI, has got for violation of civility his first block, of 24h, made by User:Kelly Martin. Now I understand this; KI has a fiery temper and when treated rudely may react accordingly. What I find utterly unjustifiable is that User:Sasquatch a few minutes later decided it was too little and lengthened his punishment to three months; what seems to me a clear overkill for the first offence, and an abuse of admin. powers. Consider also please that we're speaking of an editor whose dedication to wikipedia is fantastic; he's the original creator of Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad, and the main authour of the fantastic article Chadian-Sudanese conflict, which has obtained "good article" status. Please give a look at KI's [ log] and consider if it is possible to return to User:Kelly Martin's originary judgement, or simply a judgement that while harsher than Kelly's is at least reasonable, and won't lose wikipedia one of its best editors. If you don't what to treat the thing yourself, as you feel you have little knowledge of block proceedings, please bring it to the attention to an admin who is active in this field; simply as a way to be certain that user Sasquatch has not abused of his powers, or simply given, as I believe, a block far too harsh. Excuse me for making such a request, but I felt the question was too important for me to remain silent. Obviously, if you prefer not to remain involved in anyway in such a problematic situation, I while obviously undrstand. Ciao-- Aldux 23:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Although it's regrettable that you've decided to no longer be an admin, I'm relieved to see that you've chosen to remain with the project, making edits. Because you are a damn good editor. DS 01:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
you reverted my removal. that "removal" was me removing something i typed by mistake. you shouldn't have reverted anything in the first place since i have removed the mistake i typed. 194.46.251.136 12:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the DYK nomination, BT. I would have added it myself eventually, but it's always nice to get it done by someone else! What do you think of the article? I've done my best to provide references for everything this time, hopefully from reasonably authoratative sources. — SteveRwanda 09:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello BT, you may be interested in the CfD regarding Category:Cities in Uganda and Category:Towns in Uganda that I have suggested. See here. I reckon Category:Cities and towns in Uganda is fine. I did not dare to unilaterally delete them, so I took it to CfD just in case there are objections. -- Ezeu 17:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you please replace instances of [[Image:Ireland flag large.png]] with [[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg]] on your fourth archive? My bot was not capable of doing it, since your archive is protected from editing. Thank you! —
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Hi Banyan Tree,
You wrote to me when I first joined Wikipedia in Dec. 2005, and I am just now (June 2006) getting around to thinking about the article for my chosen subject matter, a rare disease called biliary atresia.
I've posed a bunch of questions on the talk page of the article, and would much rather spend my clearly limited time thinking about article content than Wikipedia policies and style - could you point me to perhaps a team of rare disease article mentors? Ones who are preferably quite familiar with Wikipedia protocol etc. And nice?!
Clearly I can't remember Wikipedia editing syntax/protocol/etc. from one instance to another (for example, I don't remember how to link to my user name, sorry) but have a lot of knowledge in my subject area to contribute. I just need a little editing help...
Many thanks :)
- Aunt Amanda—Preceding unsigned comment added by Aunt Amanda ( talk • contribs)
BT, per your request, I have added a section on Billy Bowlegs' service in the Union army during the American Civil War. Hopefully this fulfills your request. If I can be of further service, please let me know! Scott Mingus 23:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I accept your offer, and I'm really grateful for your gentleness and consideration in proposing me. As for the fact you've voluntarily desysopped, I don't see any problem, especially since your value as an editor is well known (really!
).--
Aldux 14:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
i'm going to attempt to remove the original research image posted by the suspected sock puppet on this page. mark originally picked up the gauntlet on this one but he has gone on wikibreak; he initially elected to merely put up the "uncited source tag", but it seems like a fairly safe bet that a legitimate source is not forthcoming. please advise (i apologize for the bother, i know few admins to which i can defer such a situation). -- gozar 22:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
For the detailed review of Maraba Coffee. I'll try and address all the points you raised in the next few days ( 2006 FIFA World Cup permitting!) — SteveRwanda 15:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Just trying to get things better organized around there. Toward that end, I've created a task list template for the project. If all the members of the project placed it on their user page, we could all keep in touch more easily (with announcements, alerts, etc.). It, and the latest announcements can be found at:
-- Go for it! 17:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
sorry I am a member of the comuity of Sant'egidio, so if you think to write what what you like please delete the sant'egidio voice otherwise keep the page like I did (my last time) giorgio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giorgioparlante ( talk • contribs)
The article Gnaa, Nigeria has just entered its 3rd AfD. There's been considerable debate in the past as to:
I understand you have edited Africa articles extensively -- if you get the chance, can you maybe take a look and render an opinion pro or con? Thanks, -- A. B. 00:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your hard work on this article. Hypnosadist 15:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the SDC page. It was my first. Bpreilly
Thanks for following this up with Wallie. You beat me to it! Nunquam Dormio 18:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT, I was asking myself, souldn't we rename Baggara Shuwa Arabs? It some times that I have doubts on the name, as at least in work on Chad, journals and books included, the Arabic-speaking nomads are simply called Arabs. But since you've become are Darfur expert ;-), I wanted to hear your opinion. Ciao,-- Aldux 19:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Ciao,--
Aldux 22:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
yes i am sure it's on the way to FA status like the LRA article, and hopefully the good article nom will be confirmed. im actually fairly uninformed on the entire conflict but i have a decent overview. what books would you particularly recommend on the topic? (i noted you claimed to have read books on Darfur at some point, though i cant recall where) also i'm at the smashbuckling adventure that is Wikimania 2006 (typing this from some Harvard free-use computer, no less). I've encountered a guru from the Swahili Wikipedia who certainly appears to be one of those spearheading that version's progress; give me some thoughtful questions I can ask him! (he spent most of his life in Tanzania and is a Chaga-speaker to give you context)-- gozar 20:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I finished reading Prunier's book last night, very well-done. I am now filled with shame over my previous ignorance in regards to the topic, my perceptions were fairly incoherent. Not surprisingly Prunier is cited quite extensively in the Darfur conflict article. The reaction to the potential UN deployment has been pretty gruesome by the GoS but not really surprising; what do you suppose the motivation is here: positioning the army to fight a possible UN force seems unlikely (i would imagine the GoS wants to avoid direct engagement with the UN); the more frightening alternative I've considered is that the GoS is expanding its attacks on the civilians (on the pre-text of punishing for/enforcing non-signers of the peace agreement) in order to ensure their complete fracturing and incoherence in national politics (which has been the policy to since the beginning, but clearly expansion is occuring). Obviously the UN would attempt to re-habilitate and empower the victims when/if an intervention occurs, such a policy would make those efforts more difficult. what are your thoughts on the likelihood of direct intervention actually occuring and, whether or not it would be a positive or a negative at the current juncture?-- gozar 18:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
unless something drastically changes in regards to media coverage, you are likely correct, since there's really no novel initiative/pressure on the majoring governing institutions involved to take action against Khartoum. More than likely you're correct and the continuum of cynical obfuscating by all parties will proceed.
I would guess that short of a major amplication of coverage by the "global" (American) media. Couldn't the problem be solved by simply marching a number of American citizens into Darfur illegally, possibly resulting in their imprisonment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gozar ( talk • contribs)
Well. I think the following "Breaking News" items could trigger American media interest:
Khartoum sends Michael Jackson to Islamic judiciary amid charges of homosexuality by Hasan Al-Turabi
Sudanese Muslims riot after President's remarks
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NSR is a style guide, not a justification for stripping out references to Wikipedia from the outside world. You're not only fighting the masses, you're on the wrong side of the issue. Cheers. -- The Cunctator 05:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
hi BanyanTree ... you make this revert, but this article says he dies on 30 july 2005, not on 1 august - Sven-steffen arndt 15:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT,
I seem to have lost the momentum with this in the last couple of months, having been busy with other things and waiting ages for a reference promised to me by the people at PEARL, but I think most of the points you raised at peer review have now been dealt with, so maybe it's time to nominate it for F.A. If you have a spare moment, please could you check if there are any obvious failings remaining before I do so?
Cheers, — SteveRwanda 09:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi BT,
Just writing to ask your opinion on the recent restructuring of the Maraba article by User:PFHLai. Is it better in its current form, or the original one? I don't really know myself. This FAC is getting quite hectic with people popping up and editing bits here and there, to however they think it should be... it's quite hard to keep up! Cheers — SteveRwanda 15:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm flattered you'd think of nominating me. I remember welcoming you and your Uganda-insurgency kick. I have always kinda wanted to be an admin, but the tools are mostly used for housecleaning whereas I spend most of my time in articles writing text(kinda why my edits are not as numerous as they could be - for every hour of editing there is at least two hours of research). Also the fact that as a field biologist I am potentially away for month on end sans internet I very much doubt I'd make the grade. But thanks so much for thinking of it! Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for catching the blanking that I missed on Rosa Parks. -- Allen 19:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Morning (or afternoon) BT,
It seems like one or two people are still objecting to the length of the lead. I personally think it's adequate enough now, and there's no real advantage to removing the sentences on hand picking. I often think people have the wrong idea about lead sections as so many articles here lack adequate ones. It seems others are satisfied or neutral now too. What do you reckon? And what are the prospects now of this thing going through? Amcaja said he may do some more copy editing tomorrow, so hopefully the prose objections will eventually be raised... Cheers — SteveRwanda 14:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
You're right! (that was my first upload ...) -- Esculapio 14:26, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused as to what the final configuration should be there; what exactly do we want merged into what?
(This aside from the point that neither of the pages you linked seems to have any particularly meaningful history anyways. It may be easier to just sort out the redirects and leave the single-item histories where they are; I very much doubt anyone will have a use for them.) Kirill Lokshin 15:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)