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Hello. Since you seem to be familliar with this topic more than any other random moderator I will ask you for some advice. The user Jokestress has taken to writing disparaging remarks on my user talk page. In particular she seems to imply that my interest in the article we have been trying to collaborate on is due to being sexually attracted to the subject.
I know this process has been frustrating for you, but on these kinds of articles, this has to be done. They tend to be worked on by people who have an erotic fixation on the article's subject, which makes it difficult for them to be objective about content. They become more like fan pages than encyclopedia articles. As I said, if you want to set up an offsite worship page about her, like the old miriamssecret.com fan page, you can add anything you want there. I appreciate your questioning every change I made, since that process always leads to carefully sourced Wikipedia articles. Jokestress 17:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
This is too much. Is there anything you can think of that I should do to remedy this matter. This is not the first time she has behaved like this with those who disagree.-- Hfarmer 21:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Since you've already voted on the talk page of the category before I posted the move request in the appropriate place I'm letting you know that there is a discussion currently going on here. You may want to participate there as well. -- Kimon talk 12:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi I created an article about a lake in Greece called Lake Stymphalus. Would you mind looking at it and cleaning it or editing it? Here's the link to the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Stymphalus. Thanks! Neptunekh 18:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey Yannismarou, my apologies for not writing you in so long or responding to your post on my page until now. indeed i am still around but i just never sign into my account, i read wikipedia daily though (:. i really just had the alcibiades article in my mind when i created the account, as i hardly feel qualified to write on any other subjects and do not have a through understanding of how to navigate and use wikipedia. Speaking of the alcibiades article, my hats off to you, and we both know i can no longer take any real credit for the work as you have done a spectacular job and no small task either to get the article to FA status. just re-doing my citations alone must have taken a lot of work. Clearly the article is as close to finished as a wiki article can be and although my tardiness has prevented me from providing any assistance, i wanted to extend an offer to edit/proofread any future english works of yours, if you are still interested, although i must say that your english is really superb and i'm not sure how useful i can be in such a capacity. take care and keep writing, so I can learn more about ancient history! Dmcheatw 02:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I will ask you not to revert the deletion of kurdish genocide claims from this article. My justification is that this issue has nothing to do with the article itself. You are welcome, of course, to make a new article called "Kurdish Genocide Claims" and see how fast it will stay up until its speedy deleted :p. Korrybean 19:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the vote of support on the RfA. It doesn't look like it's going to pass now but I appreciate the vote of confidence and the kind words. Cla68 20:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice. Hopefully, I will find some motivation to go back to that article at some point. J Milburn 11:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Kimon talk 13:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Yanni for your welcome. I see that you have an impressive record of edits, and well deserved awards. I' ve been wiki-contributing for a couple of years occasionally. Perhaps you'd like to check some of my edits like in Tenea or Scheria and comment. If any specific help is needed in WikiProject Greece, just call me.-- Odysses (☜) 14:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have recently reworked the article on Australian singer and actress Dannii Minogue. I would like to renominate it for FA status in the future and was wondering if you could take the time to copy edit the article for me. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Underneath-it-All 15:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and καλή ανάσταση... About the maps, I'll have a look, I'm not sure I have a program to import PNGs and edit them. Poems? Currently scarce; life is prosaic. Another thing, we were discussing over at Wikipedia talk:Greek Wikipedians' notice board has been rather inactive, maybe we should merge it into the Wikiproject? Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:42, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello I hope we can get this to Good article status the Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. Graeco 01:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of WPGreece | |
An award for maintaining the project congrats. Graeco 02:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC) |
I'll be glad to help (you have a good memory :)) I'll try to get them done by Monday/Tuesday. Raymond Palmer 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Image:Battle of Greece - 9 April 1941.png
Map No 2. Please check.
Image:Battle of Greece - 15 April 1941.png
It's quite easy to do if you have some basic software. I've been using Jasc: Paint Shop Pro and Windows Paint. How to do it. Select the backround colour to the word that needs translating. eg: if the background to the word is red, select red. Use that colour with a brush to paint over the 'foreign' word or image. Then simply add the new text. The third map will take a little longer because the background to the words is more complicated ie: the background to a single word can be several colours. Not sure if I've explained it well, but you get the idea I hope :). One to go.
Dear Yannismarou, I saw your Speedy keep decision for Darıca. Please also take a look here; Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kalecik, nominated by same user. Regards. Must. T C 11:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Archive_6, thanks for your support in my successful
RfA. As the picture shows, the goddesses have already bestowed my new weapons, |
Wow, you are just like an automatic featured article machine! The tips you gave on your user page really worked well, i think... Thanks anyway :) -- Ozculer 18:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Αληθος Ανέστη! -- Pastordavid 18:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Χρόνια Πολλά Γιάννη μου! Αληθώς ο Κύριος! Niko Silver 11:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Regarding the article about Eugenio Espejo, I have followed your advice and made several changes. Check them out when you can, and don't forget to tell me if it still has mistakes. I am also going to request a Biography WikiProject assessment. Thank you for your help, and I hope you have a nice Easter vacation! Dalobuca 20:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Yanni. Καλό Πάσχα. Με συγχωρείς για την ενόχληση. Αλλά έχω ένα απρόσμενο πρόβλημα. Υστερα από όλον αυτό τον κόπο δεν θέλω να ξαναενοχλήσω τον Πρόεδρο για περαιτέρω διευκρινήσεις. Γι' αυτό όποτε μπορέσεις,
Can you please provide a translation (and your opinion) of the following two phrases, indicating that I asked for a free license and the President agreed?
Εάν δύνασθε παρακαλώ όπως διαθέσετε τυχόν φωτογραφία υπό ελεύθερη άδεια χρήσεως. Θα γίνει προσήκουσα αναφορά στον δωρητή στο website του άρθρου. > > Ευχαριστώ
and the reply:
σας γνωρίζομεν, ότι ο Πρόεδρος δεν έχει αντίρρησιν και δίδει την άδειαν διά την χρήσιν της ήδη εμφανιζομένης εις τό περί αυτόν δημοσίευμα της Wikipedia φωτογραφίας του.
Ευχαριστώ. Τάσος ( Dr.K. 01:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC))
Yannis, please be careful about headdiving into debates like here. You don't know the story.. A user who was involved there had AfDed two towns (you had closed them), made point edits by removing WPTR templates in the talk pages, and literally pestering fact tags over many articles right before. What do you mean by "what I do to other articles"? I have never AfDed articles about Greek or Armenian articles out of spite. I am sorry but had an editor placed two fact tags like you had done, that would have been ok, but why the snipe? I actively tried to calm down the talk page for that article - had you taken a look there btw? Btw, I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed at how you tried to discredit me and Kazakhpol in your post to Steel359. It is bad karma to try to circumvent the normal wikiprocess like that: you know that it is a legitimate content dispute. Anyways.. Baristarim 08:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Canildo said "A license template for images that would be permitted under Chinese fair-use law but not US fair-use law. Unfortunately, since Wikipedia is based in the US, we need to follow US law".
I disagree with him on this point. Fair Use in this case, is a common treatment in both systems. Is Wikipedia based on US and English only? How about Canada and Great Britain and other English speaking nations? They all have different law systems. How about other language version of Wikipedia?
Please explain in pratical, how an image created in China which qualifies fair use of Chinese fair-use law would violate US copyright law here, thanks.
Lupo said “The U.S. does not apply Chinese law, and China doesn't apply U.S. law. Thus, "Chinese fair use" is irrelevant for us; we cannot rely on it. "Fair use" at the English Wikipedia is always and exclusively U.S. fair use.... This template should be deleted. Lupo 06:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)”
I also disagree with his point. The law of China and US are not totally irrelevant. The purpose of both laws are both for justice, fair, protection of the public and punishment the breachers.
I agree there are lots of discrenpencies between two laws. But they not always on the opposite. For example, stealing and rubery are illigal in both systems, and the right for girls to go to school are guarantted in both. Should we say that the illegality of stealing and rubbery are exclusively US illegality, and right of girls go to the school is exclusively US right???? Dongwenliang 02:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not a classicist in fact, but a philosopher — but I'll take a look. -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 16:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Fixed for both dab and cat classes.
As for your other questions... I started with the articles
Constantine Andreou &
Demetrios Farmakopoulos, but a couple of months ago I started getting more involved with Wikipedia: wikifying articles, chiming in at
WP:AFD and
WP:RM, creating and fixing template, and dealing with vandalism. I don't have any immediate goals to pursue adminship and honestly, I don't know if I'd have the time to do so (though I do find myself spending a considerable amount of time on the site). How about you? --
Kimon
talk
16:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Ok - I figured out what was wrong and it's now fixed. In the process, I noticed that there were problems with GA and FA. That's also fixed now. There's just a minor issue that's more annoying than anything else. --
Kimon
talk
12:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Fixed the redirect issue. {{ WPHOG}} redirected to {{ WPGreece}} which in turn redirected to {{ WPGR}}. That was the problem. It looks like templates can only be redirected once. -- Kimon talk 17:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Αληθώς ανέστη! I'm not much of a religious person, actually, but I always enjoy celebrating Easter with my Greek friends, because they make lots of wonderful food. Thanks for the congratulations. I don't have much time this week but I'll take a quick look at Demosthenes. --Akhilleus ( talk) 02:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to say that I saw this ... oups! soory! I meant this ... No! Wrong again! I mean this (yea, finally correct), and I chose not to respond. Cheers!-- Yannismarou 16:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello ... I placed prods on pages for books by this NN author (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Alcorn (author), which you closed as Delete) but the author removed them after making trivial edits and no comments on the talk pages ... they all lack WP:A to assert WP:BK ... would you be willing list these as a multiple item AfD?
I would use the following as the reasons:
Article about a book by a NN author (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Alcorn (author)) that lacks Wikipedia:Attribution and fails Wikipedia:Notability (books) ... also a WP:COI problem since it was created by the author, Backpack45scb.
If you would rather not get involved, please let me know and I'll try to find someone else. — 68.239.79.97 ( talk · contribs) 03:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Yannismarou, I hope you had a great Easter holiday. Can you please have a quick look at the this peer review, I have tried to address most of your points, the lead section needs better conclusion but I am struggling on how to construct it in good English. Also, is it ok to use his own website so much as reference? Thank you so much, -- Rayis 11:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Yannismarou
I would like to know your opinion. Our current project in MilHist publications is the Punic Wars. Not easy, because Punic and military is a controversial issue in literature, but I like the task. My idea is to start another wikireader project on Athens, to be more precise about Athens from the Ionian Revolt until Alexander reestablishes the Macedonian reign over Greece. I suggest is to name it along the lines of "Athens, history of a great power". There are quite a lot of FAs which do reasonably cover important topics and I consider the teams who created Alcibiades and Pericles among our most capable editors. The problem is whether or not these excellent editors (including you) are interested and naturally it would be up to you what exactly the scope of the reader is.
Greetings Wandalstouring 16:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
We are working on our first publication in the form of a podcast(less work than a wikireader). The editor concerned with the task would like to have some more information on the Persian preparations( here) and I thought you are among our best editors for this small task(I know your time constraints, but there is no need to hurry). And here is our podcaster: ShakespeareFan00 (please answer on his talk page). Thanks a lot and don't worry if you can't help, I also asked oldwindybear. Wandalstouring 08:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed today that you have created an archiving page for AfD discussions related to Greece at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Greece/2007. Could you please tell me what the purpose of the archive is? It is the only one of its kind (see [1]) and I don't see why old AfD discussions should be archived. I was preparing to nominate it for deletion at WP:MFD, but thought it better to ask you about it first. I'd appreciate your clarification. Thanks, Black Falcon 15:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Yannismarou, can you please check Turkish_language#Language_reform_and_Modern_Turkish and leave your comments at my talk page? I made some changes, feel free to improve them. Thanks a lot. deniz T C 02:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems User:Michkalas has stumbled on my testpages for the A-class review department, and has submitted Leonard Orban for review. I'd appreciate your opinion (support or oppose) and reasons on Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Leonard Orban. Thanks! Er rab ee 15:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I can see your point about guerillas. They have "some form" of advantage. I mean, they can rock the boat of a state but turning them over is altogether another thing. They would need to take office, and they would be useless if they couldn't do this from somewhere public, somewhere from where the majority know they are being controlled! They would then require their "freedom fighters" to defend the state, and assume professional roles in a national army, and what does this leave? A politically suppressed majority, left without the right to choose a political leader but all "roughly speaking" of one mind - the intention to bring back the old regime before restoring a limited democracy - so there is only one thing left for them to do - to make their presence known! And if a majority can be turned over by a minority guerilla group, think how quick it will take for a MAJORITY guerilla group to obliterate a minority-rule government. If Guerilla-War is a game for two, then two can play it! If it is only possible for one party at the time, then it is better to surrender sharpish, and then take back control using the same methods. See my point Yannismarou?! President Tito nothing. Without a significant amount of enthusiasm from a relatively high number of Greek individuals, not only would this group lack the sponsorship and support, but there would be nothing to fight for in the first place! If every cleric representing every school of political though around the world was able to drum up revolution using the "few" who believe in him, there would no stability anywhere, ther world would be a jungle. The likes of external support from governments allied to the movement can only support the cause, they cannot act as its pivot (unless they plan to annex the region and forbid political rights of the opponents)! Well I know from my father at the time that Yugoslavia stuck its nose in - hoping to take Northern Greece and join it to SFR Macedonia in the interests of those who you call Slavo-Macedonians to serve their interests as a federal unit, but it never came to our attention that we wanted to take Athens and the islands, become a new Slavic-Greek Communist federation. Not that I would have personally minded that. Balkantropolis 10:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
On the occasion of the promotion of the article "Leonard Orban" to A-Class, I would like to thank you again for your constructive review and your vote and, of course, for your help all along the writing of this article. In all these processes of review and correction I have definitely learn a lot more about contributing to Wikipedia. Because you have read and reviewed the article recently and you are quite active in reviewing FAC, I would like to ask you which are the problems this article should have to cope with to go for FAC. That is I am asking you for an informal review, as requests for the more official peer reviews are generally neglected and take a lot of time with very few responses (rarely more than one and I know the one will probably be you :)). On the other hand, going for FAC without being as ready as possible is just time consuming for the reviewers there. I understand, of course, that now the criteria are even more strict. Many thanks in advance, -- Michkalas 14:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Yannismarou, I would be happy to help out, but it may be a day or two before I get a proper look. By coincidence, I had intended to ping and ask your advice about Three Studies. I hope to take it to FAC in a week or two, but am unsure about the structure, and whether or not some of the content is a little off topic. I've greatly admired you work, in particular on El Greco, and would appreciate your openion. Thanks. Ceoil 19:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
This was pretty uncalled for, don't you think? As you may have noticed, I did point out that the citation needs strengthening, just not to the pedantic level proposed by Angr.
Peter Isotalo 11:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Salut, c'est Aeleftherios de la Wikipedia française. Dans le cadre du wikiconcours 2007 , une équipe « Grèce » a été créée. Si tu veux participer, l'adhésion c'est là, équipe n°10. Tu m'y rejoindras, ainsi que Cédric. J'ai pensé à toi car tes contributions en anglais sont très bonnes et que tu sembles bien maitriser le français également. J'espère donc que tu acceptera de venir nous aider à écrire des articles de qualité concernant la Grèce. A bientôt -- 86.216.65.237 16:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your very kind and flattering words here [2]. I don't own the page but I really am through with FAs and would really prefer it if you did not to nominate it. I have written quite a few FAs and the novelty has truly worn off and now I prefer just to write what I consider half decent pages to my own standards that don't have to be constantly defended and made to conform to someone else's standards. Anyway, past experience tells me she has too many red links in the lead, and there really should be a section on her philantropy, which would make the page far too long, though I may one day write it, and the political section is very long and would be declared boring at FAC, but it is all important stuff and puts her real personality in context, so I would not want to remove any of it just to please a knitpicker. I do beleive she is better off as she is and anyone wanting to research her will come away knowing almosy all that is available. I have a couple of other "non-FAs" lurking about the site and they are all better (in my opinion) for their lowly status. Thanks though for your words though - praise is always welcome! Giano 18:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the newsletter and especially for your vote of confidence. Enjoy your break and I'll do my best. -- Kimon talk 19:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you use a bot, or you deliver them manually? -- Mardavich 06:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
"Suffering from solitude is also an "objection" - I suffered only from the "crowds""
I think that's great. - Christopher 16:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hello. Since you seem to be familliar with this topic more than any other random moderator I will ask you for some advice. The user Jokestress has taken to writing disparaging remarks on my user talk page. In particular she seems to imply that my interest in the article we have been trying to collaborate on is due to being sexually attracted to the subject.
I know this process has been frustrating for you, but on these kinds of articles, this has to be done. They tend to be worked on by people who have an erotic fixation on the article's subject, which makes it difficult for them to be objective about content. They become more like fan pages than encyclopedia articles. As I said, if you want to set up an offsite worship page about her, like the old miriamssecret.com fan page, you can add anything you want there. I appreciate your questioning every change I made, since that process always leads to carefully sourced Wikipedia articles. Jokestress 17:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
This is too much. Is there anything you can think of that I should do to remedy this matter. This is not the first time she has behaved like this with those who disagree.-- Hfarmer 21:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Since you've already voted on the talk page of the category before I posted the move request in the appropriate place I'm letting you know that there is a discussion currently going on here. You may want to participate there as well. -- Kimon talk 12:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi I created an article about a lake in Greece called Lake Stymphalus. Would you mind looking at it and cleaning it or editing it? Here's the link to the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Stymphalus. Thanks! Neptunekh 18:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey Yannismarou, my apologies for not writing you in so long or responding to your post on my page until now. indeed i am still around but i just never sign into my account, i read wikipedia daily though (:. i really just had the alcibiades article in my mind when i created the account, as i hardly feel qualified to write on any other subjects and do not have a through understanding of how to navigate and use wikipedia. Speaking of the alcibiades article, my hats off to you, and we both know i can no longer take any real credit for the work as you have done a spectacular job and no small task either to get the article to FA status. just re-doing my citations alone must have taken a lot of work. Clearly the article is as close to finished as a wiki article can be and although my tardiness has prevented me from providing any assistance, i wanted to extend an offer to edit/proofread any future english works of yours, if you are still interested, although i must say that your english is really superb and i'm not sure how useful i can be in such a capacity. take care and keep writing, so I can learn more about ancient history! Dmcheatw 02:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I will ask you not to revert the deletion of kurdish genocide claims from this article. My justification is that this issue has nothing to do with the article itself. You are welcome, of course, to make a new article called "Kurdish Genocide Claims" and see how fast it will stay up until its speedy deleted :p. Korrybean 19:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the vote of support on the RfA. It doesn't look like it's going to pass now but I appreciate the vote of confidence and the kind words. Cla68 20:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice. Hopefully, I will find some motivation to go back to that article at some point. J Milburn 11:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Kimon talk 13:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Yanni for your welcome. I see that you have an impressive record of edits, and well deserved awards. I' ve been wiki-contributing for a couple of years occasionally. Perhaps you'd like to check some of my edits like in Tenea or Scheria and comment. If any specific help is needed in WikiProject Greece, just call me.-- Odysses (☜) 14:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have recently reworked the article on Australian singer and actress Dannii Minogue. I would like to renominate it for FA status in the future and was wondering if you could take the time to copy edit the article for me. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Underneath-it-All 15:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and καλή ανάσταση... About the maps, I'll have a look, I'm not sure I have a program to import PNGs and edit them. Poems? Currently scarce; life is prosaic. Another thing, we were discussing over at Wikipedia talk:Greek Wikipedians' notice board has been rather inactive, maybe we should merge it into the Wikiproject? Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:42, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello I hope we can get this to Good article status the Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. Graeco 01:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of WPGreece | |
An award for maintaining the project congrats. Graeco 02:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC) |
I'll be glad to help (you have a good memory :)) I'll try to get them done by Monday/Tuesday. Raymond Palmer 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Image:Battle of Greece - 9 April 1941.png
Map No 2. Please check.
Image:Battle of Greece - 15 April 1941.png
It's quite easy to do if you have some basic software. I've been using Jasc: Paint Shop Pro and Windows Paint. How to do it. Select the backround colour to the word that needs translating. eg: if the background to the word is red, select red. Use that colour with a brush to paint over the 'foreign' word or image. Then simply add the new text. The third map will take a little longer because the background to the words is more complicated ie: the background to a single word can be several colours. Not sure if I've explained it well, but you get the idea I hope :). One to go.
Dear Yannismarou, I saw your Speedy keep decision for Darıca. Please also take a look here; Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kalecik, nominated by same user. Regards. Must. T C 11:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Archive_6, thanks for your support in my successful
RfA. As the picture shows, the goddesses have already bestowed my new weapons, |
Wow, you are just like an automatic featured article machine! The tips you gave on your user page really worked well, i think... Thanks anyway :) -- Ozculer 18:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Αληθος Ανέστη! -- Pastordavid 18:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Χρόνια Πολλά Γιάννη μου! Αληθώς ο Κύριος! Niko Silver 11:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Regarding the article about Eugenio Espejo, I have followed your advice and made several changes. Check them out when you can, and don't forget to tell me if it still has mistakes. I am also going to request a Biography WikiProject assessment. Thank you for your help, and I hope you have a nice Easter vacation! Dalobuca 20:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Yanni. Καλό Πάσχα. Με συγχωρείς για την ενόχληση. Αλλά έχω ένα απρόσμενο πρόβλημα. Υστερα από όλον αυτό τον κόπο δεν θέλω να ξαναενοχλήσω τον Πρόεδρο για περαιτέρω διευκρινήσεις. Γι' αυτό όποτε μπορέσεις,
Can you please provide a translation (and your opinion) of the following two phrases, indicating that I asked for a free license and the President agreed?
Εάν δύνασθε παρακαλώ όπως διαθέσετε τυχόν φωτογραφία υπό ελεύθερη άδεια χρήσεως. Θα γίνει προσήκουσα αναφορά στον δωρητή στο website του άρθρου. > > Ευχαριστώ
and the reply:
σας γνωρίζομεν, ότι ο Πρόεδρος δεν έχει αντίρρησιν και δίδει την άδειαν διά την χρήσιν της ήδη εμφανιζομένης εις τό περί αυτόν δημοσίευμα της Wikipedia φωτογραφίας του.
Ευχαριστώ. Τάσος ( Dr.K. 01:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC))
Yannis, please be careful about headdiving into debates like here. You don't know the story.. A user who was involved there had AfDed two towns (you had closed them), made point edits by removing WPTR templates in the talk pages, and literally pestering fact tags over many articles right before. What do you mean by "what I do to other articles"? I have never AfDed articles about Greek or Armenian articles out of spite. I am sorry but had an editor placed two fact tags like you had done, that would have been ok, but why the snipe? I actively tried to calm down the talk page for that article - had you taken a look there btw? Btw, I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed at how you tried to discredit me and Kazakhpol in your post to Steel359. It is bad karma to try to circumvent the normal wikiprocess like that: you know that it is a legitimate content dispute. Anyways.. Baristarim 08:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Canildo said "A license template for images that would be permitted under Chinese fair-use law but not US fair-use law. Unfortunately, since Wikipedia is based in the US, we need to follow US law".
I disagree with him on this point. Fair Use in this case, is a common treatment in both systems. Is Wikipedia based on US and English only? How about Canada and Great Britain and other English speaking nations? They all have different law systems. How about other language version of Wikipedia?
Please explain in pratical, how an image created in China which qualifies fair use of Chinese fair-use law would violate US copyright law here, thanks.
Lupo said “The U.S. does not apply Chinese law, and China doesn't apply U.S. law. Thus, "Chinese fair use" is irrelevant for us; we cannot rely on it. "Fair use" at the English Wikipedia is always and exclusively U.S. fair use.... This template should be deleted. Lupo 06:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)”
I also disagree with his point. The law of China and US are not totally irrelevant. The purpose of both laws are both for justice, fair, protection of the public and punishment the breachers.
I agree there are lots of discrenpencies between two laws. But they not always on the opposite. For example, stealing and rubery are illigal in both systems, and the right for girls to go to school are guarantted in both. Should we say that the illegality of stealing and rubbery are exclusively US illegality, and right of girls go to the school is exclusively US right???? Dongwenliang 02:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not a classicist in fact, but a philosopher — but I'll take a look. -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 16:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Fixed for both dab and cat classes.
As for your other questions... I started with the articles
Constantine Andreou &
Demetrios Farmakopoulos, but a couple of months ago I started getting more involved with Wikipedia: wikifying articles, chiming in at
WP:AFD and
WP:RM, creating and fixing template, and dealing with vandalism. I don't have any immediate goals to pursue adminship and honestly, I don't know if I'd have the time to do so (though I do find myself spending a considerable amount of time on the site). How about you? --
Kimon
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16:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Ok - I figured out what was wrong and it's now fixed. In the process, I noticed that there were problems with GA and FA. That's also fixed now. There's just a minor issue that's more annoying than anything else. --
Kimon
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12:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Fixed the redirect issue. {{ WPHOG}} redirected to {{ WPGreece}} which in turn redirected to {{ WPGR}}. That was the problem. It looks like templates can only be redirected once. -- Kimon talk 17:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Αληθώς ανέστη! I'm not much of a religious person, actually, but I always enjoy celebrating Easter with my Greek friends, because they make lots of wonderful food. Thanks for the congratulations. I don't have much time this week but I'll take a quick look at Demosthenes. --Akhilleus ( talk) 02:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to say that I saw this ... oups! soory! I meant this ... No! Wrong again! I mean this (yea, finally correct), and I chose not to respond. Cheers!-- Yannismarou 16:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello ... I placed prods on pages for books by this NN author (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Alcorn (author), which you closed as Delete) but the author removed them after making trivial edits and no comments on the talk pages ... they all lack WP:A to assert WP:BK ... would you be willing list these as a multiple item AfD?
I would use the following as the reasons:
Article about a book by a NN author (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Alcorn (author)) that lacks Wikipedia:Attribution and fails Wikipedia:Notability (books) ... also a WP:COI problem since it was created by the author, Backpack45scb.
If you would rather not get involved, please let me know and I'll try to find someone else. — 68.239.79.97 ( talk · contribs) 03:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Yannismarou, I hope you had a great Easter holiday. Can you please have a quick look at the this peer review, I have tried to address most of your points, the lead section needs better conclusion but I am struggling on how to construct it in good English. Also, is it ok to use his own website so much as reference? Thank you so much, -- Rayis 11:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Yannismarou
I would like to know your opinion. Our current project in MilHist publications is the Punic Wars. Not easy, because Punic and military is a controversial issue in literature, but I like the task. My idea is to start another wikireader project on Athens, to be more precise about Athens from the Ionian Revolt until Alexander reestablishes the Macedonian reign over Greece. I suggest is to name it along the lines of "Athens, history of a great power". There are quite a lot of FAs which do reasonably cover important topics and I consider the teams who created Alcibiades and Pericles among our most capable editors. The problem is whether or not these excellent editors (including you) are interested and naturally it would be up to you what exactly the scope of the reader is.
Greetings Wandalstouring 16:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
We are working on our first publication in the form of a podcast(less work than a wikireader). The editor concerned with the task would like to have some more information on the Persian preparations( here) and I thought you are among our best editors for this small task(I know your time constraints, but there is no need to hurry). And here is our podcaster: ShakespeareFan00 (please answer on his talk page). Thanks a lot and don't worry if you can't help, I also asked oldwindybear. Wandalstouring 08:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed today that you have created an archiving page for AfD discussions related to Greece at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Greece/2007. Could you please tell me what the purpose of the archive is? It is the only one of its kind (see [1]) and I don't see why old AfD discussions should be archived. I was preparing to nominate it for deletion at WP:MFD, but thought it better to ask you about it first. I'd appreciate your clarification. Thanks, Black Falcon 15:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Yannismarou, can you please check Turkish_language#Language_reform_and_Modern_Turkish and leave your comments at my talk page? I made some changes, feel free to improve them. Thanks a lot. deniz T C 02:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems User:Michkalas has stumbled on my testpages for the A-class review department, and has submitted Leonard Orban for review. I'd appreciate your opinion (support or oppose) and reasons on Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review/Leonard Orban. Thanks! Er rab ee 15:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I can see your point about guerillas. They have "some form" of advantage. I mean, they can rock the boat of a state but turning them over is altogether another thing. They would need to take office, and they would be useless if they couldn't do this from somewhere public, somewhere from where the majority know they are being controlled! They would then require their "freedom fighters" to defend the state, and assume professional roles in a national army, and what does this leave? A politically suppressed majority, left without the right to choose a political leader but all "roughly speaking" of one mind - the intention to bring back the old regime before restoring a limited democracy - so there is only one thing left for them to do - to make their presence known! And if a majority can be turned over by a minority guerilla group, think how quick it will take for a MAJORITY guerilla group to obliterate a minority-rule government. If Guerilla-War is a game for two, then two can play it! If it is only possible for one party at the time, then it is better to surrender sharpish, and then take back control using the same methods. See my point Yannismarou?! President Tito nothing. Without a significant amount of enthusiasm from a relatively high number of Greek individuals, not only would this group lack the sponsorship and support, but there would be nothing to fight for in the first place! If every cleric representing every school of political though around the world was able to drum up revolution using the "few" who believe in him, there would no stability anywhere, ther world would be a jungle. The likes of external support from governments allied to the movement can only support the cause, they cannot act as its pivot (unless they plan to annex the region and forbid political rights of the opponents)! Well I know from my father at the time that Yugoslavia stuck its nose in - hoping to take Northern Greece and join it to SFR Macedonia in the interests of those who you call Slavo-Macedonians to serve their interests as a federal unit, but it never came to our attention that we wanted to take Athens and the islands, become a new Slavic-Greek Communist federation. Not that I would have personally minded that. Balkantropolis 10:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
On the occasion of the promotion of the article "Leonard Orban" to A-Class, I would like to thank you again for your constructive review and your vote and, of course, for your help all along the writing of this article. In all these processes of review and correction I have definitely learn a lot more about contributing to Wikipedia. Because you have read and reviewed the article recently and you are quite active in reviewing FAC, I would like to ask you which are the problems this article should have to cope with to go for FAC. That is I am asking you for an informal review, as requests for the more official peer reviews are generally neglected and take a lot of time with very few responses (rarely more than one and I know the one will probably be you :)). On the other hand, going for FAC without being as ready as possible is just time consuming for the reviewers there. I understand, of course, that now the criteria are even more strict. Many thanks in advance, -- Michkalas 14:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Yannismarou, I would be happy to help out, but it may be a day or two before I get a proper look. By coincidence, I had intended to ping and ask your advice about Three Studies. I hope to take it to FAC in a week or two, but am unsure about the structure, and whether or not some of the content is a little off topic. I've greatly admired you work, in particular on El Greco, and would appreciate your openion. Thanks. Ceoil 19:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
This was pretty uncalled for, don't you think? As you may have noticed, I did point out that the citation needs strengthening, just not to the pedantic level proposed by Angr.
Peter Isotalo 11:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Salut, c'est Aeleftherios de la Wikipedia française. Dans le cadre du wikiconcours 2007 , une équipe « Grèce » a été créée. Si tu veux participer, l'adhésion c'est là, équipe n°10. Tu m'y rejoindras, ainsi que Cédric. J'ai pensé à toi car tes contributions en anglais sont très bonnes et que tu sembles bien maitriser le français également. J'espère donc que tu acceptera de venir nous aider à écrire des articles de qualité concernant la Grèce. A bientôt -- 86.216.65.237 16:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your very kind and flattering words here [2]. I don't own the page but I really am through with FAs and would really prefer it if you did not to nominate it. I have written quite a few FAs and the novelty has truly worn off and now I prefer just to write what I consider half decent pages to my own standards that don't have to be constantly defended and made to conform to someone else's standards. Anyway, past experience tells me she has too many red links in the lead, and there really should be a section on her philantropy, which would make the page far too long, though I may one day write it, and the political section is very long and would be declared boring at FAC, but it is all important stuff and puts her real personality in context, so I would not want to remove any of it just to please a knitpicker. I do beleive she is better off as she is and anyone wanting to research her will come away knowing almosy all that is available. I have a couple of other "non-FAs" lurking about the site and they are all better (in my opinion) for their lowly status. Thanks though for your words though - praise is always welcome! Giano 18:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the newsletter and especially for your vote of confidence. Enjoy your break and I'll do my best. -- Kimon talk 19:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you use a bot, or you deliver them manually? -- Mardavich 06:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
"Suffering from solitude is also an "objection" - I suffered only from the "crowds""
I think that's great. - Christopher 16:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)