User talk:PZFUN
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Contents Constituencies of Namibia
Hi there, PZFUN! I've been following you around adding stub messages to your Constituencies of Namibia articles. You've added quite a bit -- and I've stubbified most of them -- and I was hoping that you'd start adding the stub notices yourself. Just add {{stub}} to the bottom of the page (but before the category link). Thanks, and happy editing! --Diberri | Talk 00:04, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
- I'd be more than happy to answer your questions about Wikipedia. I don't have an instant messenger, but you can feel free to post questions on my talk page, or even go to the Wikipedia:Help Desk, where other Wikipedians can help answer your questions. (By the way, I'm not particularly interested in Namibia, though I don't find it particularly uninteresting either :-) I had just noticed your additions because I regularly scour the list of new pages.) Best, Diberri | Talk 00:15, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
- Here's one way you get get that columned-page feel:
=== Caprivi === [[Image:Namibia Regions Caprivi 250px.png|left|Map of Namibia with the region highlighted]] * [[Kongola]] * [[Linyanti]] * [[Sibinda]] * [[Katima Mulilo Urban]] * [[Katima Mulilo Rural]] * [[Kabbe]] <br clear=all> === Erongo === [[Image:Namibia Regions Erongo 250px.png|left|Map of Namibia with the region highlighted]] * [[Omaruru]] * [[Karibib]] * [[Brandberg]] * [[Arandis]] * [[Swakopmund]] * [[Walvis Bay]] <br clear=all>
Copyvios
- I refer you to my comments in Talk:Monk (Montreal Metro), and will also mention I had to delete the Montreal metro map you uploaded as being in the "public domain" when in fact it had a big copyright sticker on the bottom. An existing map, explicitly released under GFDL was available -- it had even been voted onto Featured Images -- so I'm rather at a loss as to why you thought this was a good idea. Things are not in the public domain just because they are on the Internet. - Montréalais 04:46, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I have responded to you on my talk page. - Montréalais
Images
I am interested in using Image:Johannesburg skyline lg.jpg and Image:Pic-sandton.jpg in another article. Are they GFDL? - SimonP 17:12, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
- I'm looking for photos to illustrate the economy of Africa article that show the varying levels of economic well being on the continent. - SimonP 17:53, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
City Hall (New York Subway)
If someone asked me if it would be possible to write an interesting article about a subway station, I would have laughed. I just read City Hall (New York Subway). You proved me wrong. Nice writing! Joyous 22:37, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
Railway station article deleted
Hello PZFUN,
As an author of articles on subway and railway stations, you might be interested to know that an article on a railway station, Route 128 Station, was recently deleted from Wikipedia by a vote of 4 to 2 (I voted against deletion, as did the author). The reasons the voters gave for deletion were
- It's an advertisement for a railway station. (Huh?)
- It's non-notable. (That's not in the policy as a reason for deletion.)
- Wikipedia is not a travel guide. (Right, but what does that have to do with the station?)
The article was well organized and written. It covered a station on a line connecting Washington, New York and Boston.
I've put a lot of work into articles on Tokyo subways, and would not want to start a project on stations given that they might be deleted at any time. I'm surprised by the decision and wonder what fate awaits other articles on railway and subway stations.
Old article is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fg2/Old)
Fg2 04:37, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
NYC meetup
Planned for the weekend of Nov 13: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. I hope you can make it :) +sj+ 21:48, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Cheung
No he has not stopped :-( He uploaded two copyrighted images a couple of days ago (which I deleted straight away), and today he put dubious copyright notices on another one [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Image:Twins.bmp&action=history) . I am hoping that immediate deletion and reverting may get the message through.Theresa Knott (Tart, knees hot) 16:44, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Redirect you created at "33rd Street (New York Subway)"
User:Jnc/MvRedirMissingTarget Noel (talk) 12:28, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Adminship
I have nominated you at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship and truly believe you deserve the honor.
Yikes. While I know my nomination wasn't the most clear or clever thing I've ever written, I didn't expect my lack of a good name to influence your nomination. Sorry about that. London 18:18, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Danish wikipedians' notice board
You have shown an interest in Denmark or Danish related topics in the past, so I invite you to have a look at Wikipedia:Danish wikipedians' notice board. It is a tool to help people interested in Denmark post articles they'd like to see, and to keep track of the existent coverage of Denmark. It can also serve as a place to address concerns regarding any aspect of Danish coverage on the english wikipedia. Hope you find it useful! In any case, could you please look at it and fill in any articles you know of that are not covered by the list? Thanks,
Peregrine981 04:21, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)| talk)
Congratulations, PZFUN!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 07:01, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry for the oppose vote, I meant to change it into at least neutral, however I've been incredibly busy for the last few days. GeneralPatton 23:39, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
COTW
Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.
Yonge-University-Spadina Line
I noticed your 'parcelization' of the line article into a series of smaller ones. Honestly, I don't think this is the way to go.
Each individual article you're making seems too small to be of note. I'll grant you that, in some transit systems, this may be worth it; for the TTC, I don't think so.
As well, I'm not very impressed that the main article text was replaced wholesale with a table before the individual articles were finished. The content of the unfinished articles is not currently available anywhere; I and many others have put a lot of work into that content, and we'd like to see it remain in some form until the work is done.
Is there any way we can do some discussion on this before it goes further? I'd suggest Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board to make sure the discussion gets noticed.
Please let me know what you think. Radagast 01:20, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
- I have to agree. Perhaps for a system such as Montreal's, where each station is different architecturally, this would be appropriate. However, for a system such as Toronto's, this will just result in a bunch of one-sentence stubs for most of these stations. The article was hardly unwieldy; it was fine as it was.
- Large-scale changes like this should at least be discussed in Talk first. Please be respectful of other peoples' work before you start making changes that have not been agreed upon through consensus. Darkcore 02:16, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- It is done, for the whole system, and I do not want to put down the work; that's a lot of effort, all in a short period. That said, I still don't know if this is the best approach for this system; I suppose time will tell. I do hope you keep in mind for future such work that A) consultations could be made on talk pages, etc to see if this is the best approach; and B) finish replacement articles before removing the original text. All content should remain available at all times, even if it's being duplicated. Radagast 12:59, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
'Refurbishment' of the MTR Article
I've noticed you have a keen interest in the MTR. However, when I looked at the article history I can see the article currently is in a big mess - incomplete sections, deleted information and confusion between the MTR system itself and the MTR Corp.
The article by itself currently has sections deleted, which I plan to have most of them restored from history, do some rewrite, editing, copyediting and separating all the information into three mai8n articles :
- MTR (as a metro system by itself)
- Rolling stock of the MTR
- MTR Corporations Ltd
I have tons of photos, and I believe this article can be made into a featured one with some good effort. I hope you can help me as much as possible,.and hoping to hear from you soon. :)
Mailer Diablo 11:43, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
RFA thanks
Salve, PZFUN!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:47, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)TTC Station articles
Why are you using yellow for your wikilinks in the TTC station articles? They're hard to read and really should be standard blue, unless you can point me to something in WP:MOS. JYolkowski 03:04, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Min Nan
Hi PZFUN,
I've reversed your move from Min Nan to Min Nan language. Sorry about that... but so far people have been trying to avoid using the labels "language" or "dialect" in naming articles related to subdivisions of Chinese language(s). (We've had discussions too, at Talk:Chinese language and Talk:Cantonese (linguistics), you can take a look at those.) I can't say that the current solution is the best, and of course everyone's always open to suggestions from everyone else. So come discuss if you like. ;)
-- [[User:Ran|ran (talk)]] 16:03, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
Johannesburg revert
Hey, I just noticed you reverted the anon at the Johannesburg article. His additions looked ok to me, so I'm curious why you reverted him? I don't have too much knowlegde about the city, so I can't say if his additions were ok or just nonsense, I'm just curious. :-) --Conti|✉ 21:45, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
Copyvios & Untagged Images for MTR-Related Articles
Loads of work to make MTR a feature article! First thing is to clean out and ressolve the copyvio and untagged image problems.
I'm refurbishing the article right now, I've seen that the article has been listed as a candidate for feature article but is facing opposition due to untagged images. Those untagged ones have to be gotten rid of and replaced, if I have suitable ones hopefully.
There are a number of good photos that could be used, but had to be sadly discarded due to the fact they aren't tagged.
Also, I saw you did actually uploaded a number of photos of Gakei.com - did you have gotten permission from the photographer? The message @ the website doesn't seem like a generous and friendly webmaster to me :
IMPORTANT: ALL photo images were taken by GAKEI, who retains the copyright privilege over them. You are NOT welcome to show any of them to the public in any form or by any means without his permission IN ADVANCE.
If you do, please tag them if they have permission, otherwise you'll have to ask the webmaster or I afriad they have to be discarded. (*sigh*, they're indeed good shots)
- Mailer Diablo 22:29, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- LOL, systematic bias I think! I've personally taken too much photos on the platform itself and failing to take anything outside the station, and now I've returned from Hong Kong... =P
Just help me with peer review and editing then. I've finished writing. Now it's time to refine it to feature status. - Mailer Diablo 23:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Okay, I've started on MTR Corporation Limited only as a substub. Just too tired after spending hours on the MTR article. I think it's nothing much more than extracting from the page history of MTR. Would be good if you can continue on it. :) - Mailer Diablo 00:05, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Collaboration of the Week
League of Nations is the new Collaboration of the Week. Please join in helping make it a feature article.
Africa-related regional notice-board
Hi PZFUN,
I came across your Johannesburg regions and also noticed your work on Namibia. (BTW, the infobox on the Namibian cities looks superb and greatly enhances the content.) Did you know of Wikipedia:Africa-related_regional_notice_board? It is still in its infancy, but you might consider subscribing as a participant. You certainly qualify as a Wikipedian actively working on Africa-related topics. Season's greetings and kind regards, — mark ✎ 10:06, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
WikiProject New York City
Hello, I've started WikiProject New York City, and from your edits it seems you might be interested. See its talk page for the beginning of a discussion on the standardization of neighborhood names, and bringing New York City up to featured status.--Pharos 13:42, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Infobox war??
Hey just curious, whats up with this infobox "war" that seems to be going on?--Boothy443 03:21, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Thats just dumb, the pages look a lot cleaner with the infobox, plus easier to edit, maybe the should be set smiliar to the US state box template.--Boothy443 03:28, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- oh no, dont get me wrong i like the template way. --Boothy443 03:36, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You may want to take a look at the enforcement section of the arbitration decision (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gzornenplatz%2C_Kevin_Baas%2C_Shorne%2C_VeryVerily/Proposed_decision#Enforcement) of which Gzornenplatz is part of. It says "2) If Gzornenplatz, Shorne, or VeryVerily should revert a page without discussing it on the relevant talk page, an administrator may ban him for up to 24 hours." It is allowable to apply these successively, once day for each violation - each time where Gz has reverted by removing the country infobox template and replaced it with the table without discussing it on the talk page of each article. -- Netoholic @ 04:16, 2005 Jan 10 (UTC)
- I'd say you have enough grounds now. Just leave a message on his talk page indicating what edits/pages the block is for. -- Netoholic @ 04:26, 2005 Jan 10 (UTC)
- Hey PZ if you need any help on the infbox stuff let me know, will give me something esle to do. --Boothy443 09:09, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Record
Use as you wish. These will show edits where Gz reverted the country infobox, without discussing it on the associated talk page. Edits marked "freebie" represent the first time he's remove the template, the numbered ones show each successive revert.
- Belarus - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belarus&diff=9172272&oldid=9166267) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belarus&diff=9194423&oldid=9193824) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belarus&diff=9219145&oldid=9219115) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belarus&diff=9247591&oldid=9247544) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Belarus&action=history)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&diff=9172377&oldid=9165921) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&diff=9194417&oldid=9193470) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&diff=9218811&oldid=9218750) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&diff=9247135&oldid=9246977) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&action=history)
- Croatia - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Croatia&diff=9197416&oldid=9193973) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Croatia&diff=9219297&oldid=9219249) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Croatia&diff=9248027&oldid=9247776) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Croatia&action=history)
- Denmark - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denmark&diff=9195434&oldid=9193998) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denmark&diff=9219330&oldid=9219304) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denmark&diff=9247882&oldid=9247771) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Denmark&action=history)
- Estonia - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estonia&diff=9172359&oldid=9165812) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estonia&diff=9194453&oldid=9193324) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estonia&diff=9218797&oldid=9218594) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estonia&diff=9247010&oldid=9246632) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Estonia&action=history)
- Iceland - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iceland&diff=9195381&oldid=9193951) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iceland&diff=9219278&oldid=9219246) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iceland&diff=9247156&oldid=9247124) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Iceland&action=history)
- Lithuania - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithuania&diff=9172375&oldid=9166023) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithuania&diff=9194447&oldid=9193619) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithuania&diff=9219081&oldid=9218902) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithuania&diff=9247376&oldid=9247202) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Lithuania&action=history)
- Mexico - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexico&diff=9199461&oldid=9198404) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexico&diff=9235452&oldid=9224161) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mexico&action=history)
- Poland - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&diff=9172369&oldid=9165956) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&diff=9194401&oldid=9193606) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&diff=9219045&oldid=9218886) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poland&diff=9247379&oldid=9247216) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Poland&action=history)
- Portugal - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portugal&diff=9166100&oldid=9165763) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portugal&diff=9194455&oldid=9193236) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portugal&diff=9218778&oldid=9218590) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portugal&diff=9245773&oldid=9245702) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Portugal&action=history)
- Slovenia - freebie (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slovenia&diff=9046176&oldid=9022311) - 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slovenia&diff=9195457&oldid=9194040) 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slovenia&diff=9219349&oldid=9219324) 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slovenia&diff=9248013&oldid=9247973) - Talk page history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Slovenia&action=history)
I unblocked Gz. He has stated his reasoning behind reverting Cantus' country info boxes due to design flaws many times. (Thus, there was no reversion without discussion in violation of the terms of the Arbcom ruling.) You are free to reject his reasoning in one way or another. But blocking him because he was not repeating the same arguments on 200 different country talk pages is an unreasonable technicality. 172 06:29, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
PZFUN,
While Gzornenplatz has been repeatedly removing the country infobox template link, and over 24 hour increments (so as not to break that Arbitration ruling), he has discussed these edits on multiple relavant pages (just not pasting the same message on every country talk page). Furthermore, it goes against established protocol to block a user with whom you are in a conflict. Please unblock Gz. If you don't respond to my posting, I'll have no choice but to unblock him again myself.
Regards,
172 07:01, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Look, I have every right to lift the block right now just given the fact that you were blocking a user with whom you were involved in a conflict. Please check his user history; I recall discussions of the country infobox template, with which I also have reservations... And if you want to discuss this matter with Gz, this will only be possible if the block is lifted. 172 07:15, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Well, this just isn't true. 172, I brought this up to PZFUN. He didn't even know about the ArbCom ruling. He is not involved to any such degree. You are far more involved, as you have a friendly relationship with Gz. Do not unblock him again. Take this discussion to Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Admin enforcement requested. -- Netoholic @ 07:20, 2005 Jan 10 (UTC)
I am not "neutral" in the sense that I dislike the country infobox templates. However, according to protocol I am not an involved admin, not having participated in any rounds of reversions on the country pages… Please take this discussion to the administrators' noticeboard, where this dispute over the interpretation of the rulings can be aired. Otherwise, I will still consider unblocking him. 172 07:25, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Don't tell me that I have no right to intervene here. I am not the one currently engaged in a revert war with either of the parties; you are. I have just as much right to intervene here as you do, if not more, given established protocol. (BTW, I was an administrator before you'd even started contributing to Wikipedia-- not that that counts for anything in and of itself.) Even worse, Netoholic's extension of the block to 56 days reeks of vigilantism. I will definitely make sure that that is whittled down. 172 07:41, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Johannesburg as a featured article
Hi, yes I did have a great 3 weeks off, how was your break? I think it is about time we have something positive about South Africa as a featured article! I would help any where I can. Where is the discussion taking place?--Jcw69 13:38, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Infobox War, Solution D)
Hi, I added another option to the vote: use a country-specific template to off-load the code from the main country page, and invoke a common template w/params from there. I hope editing a vote isn't a no no... — Davenbelle 09:38, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
a true combination solution
Hi, there's a new Solution E that's been proposed for the country infoboxes; I've changed my vote from the Solution D that I proposed, earlier. The new option, proposed by User:Zocky, transcludes a subpage instead of using the template mechanism for this.
See: Nepal's infobox is implemented at Nepal/infobox using Template:Infobox_Country; Tuvalu's is implemented at Tuvalu/infobox as a wiki table.
Discussion is at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countries
Thanks. — Davenbelle 01:45, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
Cape Colony FA
I'd recommend the article for Fa, but there is one more problem. Currently, we only take single articles, not series - and while subarticles are good, I am not sure recommending four of them - or a single one - is worth it. I recommmend moving History_of_Cape_Colony to History_of_Cape_Colony (from 1652 to 1806), changing the text in box as well and summarizing the history on 2-3 pages in the History of Cape Colony article. Adding pics and all references, with links to main subarticles, it can be a FA then. As you are familiar with the subject, I think it would take you about half an hour or less :) Btw, you are not on IRC :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:59, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
MTR
Hey, I read MTR yesterday, the latest Juntung version, you're lucky I didn't vote right away! What a mess. I wrote a long screed about paragraph structure, prose, length, TOC, you name it, and went to post it on FAC. But something made me refresh the article, and I realized I'd better hang fire. This morning it's been all fixed up nice by you and Bantman, I see--all my objections taken care of, it's like you guys read my mind! --Bishonen | Talk 06:56, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
genocide pages
Hi PZFUN, Thanks for all your (translation?) work on the Rwandan genocide pages. The article was definitely skimpy before. I hope you don't mind that I moved the box to the main page. I was wondering if you were planning to start an Analysis of the causes of the Rwandan Genocide page, which is currently red-linked in the navigation box. Thanks again and happy editing, BanyanTree 00:21, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
=D
I'm glad to see someone actually appreciate my Userpage design to the extend of actually adopting it for his own userpage! Perhaps that the spirit of Wikipedia, that is having one's contribution made freely to others and to be improved on. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 15:45, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Copenhagen
Thanks for initiating the cleanup of copenhagen. –Ćvar Arnfjörđ Bjarmason (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php?title=User_talk:%C6var_Arnfj%F6r%F0_Bjarmason&action=edit§ion=new) 21:56, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
South Africa
Hi, good to have you checking all the towns that I've been adding. I will look at the South Africa page soon.--Jcw69 08:09, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Oesterreichische Nationalbank needs to stay there, because this is and has always been its official name -- not with Ö, but Oe. Please see www.oenb.at. Martg76 23:08, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
NYC subway copyvios?
A lot of the very early articles you contributed are copied almost directly from nycsubway.org. Did you have permission to copy them, or were you not aware of the way Wikipedia works at the time? See Wikipedia:Copyright problems#January 26. --SPUI 09:53, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Current events
Hi hello, would you be interested to contribute to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao? best, — Instantnood 11:37, Jan 27 2005 (UTC)
Template:New York City Subway Routes
First, I apologize for listing the articles as copyvios (I suggest you put something on your user page, or in the talk page of each, to prevent others from thinking they are).
Why did you create Template:New York City Subway Routes? This table is only used in one article, and I can't see it being used in any other. It seems easier to simply put the table in the main article, making it easier to edit. --SPUI 23:37, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
This is the contributor for the heng fa chuen page
Hello - My name is Peter - I have lived in Heng Fa Chuen for a very long time - I have lived to see it grow and prosper, and see it gradually mature into a beautiful little town.
I was wondering why you deleted my editorials on the page? Is there something wrong with it?
Subway template
PZFUN, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to alter this template so the borough names are still small, but the line names are full size. Please have some mercy on us Oldipedians who have difficulty deciphering the smaller type. Cheers, Cecropia | explains it all ® 00:44, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
NYC Subway Table
Hi, Pali, I copied your post to me to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City Subway with my response there so we could get some more diverse input. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 22:58, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Good going on the table revision. You compacted it, I can still read it (with my glasses) and there's even more information than before. :) -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 08:24, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Collaboration of the week
Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article
MTR and KCRC stations templates
OK, no more "Lines" at the end of the MTR lines links on the MTRStations template. But I was just wondering whether we should remove "Rail" at the end of the similar links on the KCRCStations template??? I had added it to those links prior to adding to the MTR ones. secfan 10:41, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
Well, the point you made about "taking the Tung Chung": if you just refer to the Tung Chung, it is quite ambiguous even for English speakers, unless they've lived in HK or they're used to how the MTR system works, there is still a quite a large degree of ambiguity there. And looking at a lot of other metro articles, they all refer to lines or rails or something secfan 15:24, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
And also, on the MTR itself, they use the "lines" at the end, except on the Airport Express, so that's a point to consider about. Maybe we could reformat the template or something? secfan 15:05, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
Gangtok
I've made lots of changes to the bottom portion of the text and I hope it is now sanitised. Please let me know your opinion on the Gangtok page now. Nichalp 18:55, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
Politics Templates
I see we have a discussion on the content of the templates I created on Politics in specific countries. Please stop removing links to individual elections in this kind of templates. As you can see the purpose is to create links to political pages on the specific country. I do not see any disadvantage of listing these elections. You stated that This template is for over-arching themes in the politics of a country, and the invidiual years are not over-arching themes. I do not see why this statement is true, especially since I was the one who started this template. Improvements are welcome, but do not delete this kind of links. Gangulf 12:38, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hong Kong Collaboration of the Week - Culture of Hong Kong
Congratulations! Culture of Hong Kong has been chosen Hong Kong Collaboration of the Week. Please help improve it to featured article standard. — Instantnood 21:22, Feb 13 2005 (UTC)
Re : MTR Expansion plans
Hi Páll,
I'm doing fine, thanks for your concern. :) I've created a separate article (with a link from MTR) and moved the whole section to it, and created a summarized section for that section. Hopefully it should look fine now. Let me know if you have any futher questions. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 12:08, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I guess the person's just a clueless newcomer who is trying to get the hang of things (he did say in my talkpage he needs to polish up). Looks like a promising contributor in future to come. - Mailer Diablo 15:18, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for stopping by and saying Hej
I enjoyed receiving your friendly hello on my talk page yesterday. I was unfortunately busy putting out Wiki-fires at the time so I couldn't return a reply any sooner. Heldigvis er ildene blevet mindre voldsomme nu! Funny how our paths cross in that strange way between Chicago and Denmark. But you still have me beat when it comes to how many continents you have lived on! Med venlig hilsen! Sfdan 17:29, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Politics of Denmark
I see you've reverted the change...
The 2 former houses of parliment in Denmark was equal in power, which the article about 'Folketinget' also says, as such it would be wrong to call them upper or lower.
Timeline
Nee Páll ek is engels. Anyway sorry that South Africa did not make it with all your hard work, I will go back and vote. As for the the Timeline I was going to go back and search for the wiki links. I just wanted something there in the meantime. --Jcw69 13:38, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Spioenkop / Spion Kop
You cannot cut and paste a move from Battle of Spion Kop to Battle of Spioenkop; you break the page history. Read Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page. --Audiovideo 21:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Excuse me, but I know how to move a page. The page that I moved to already existed and had its OWN history, which I did not want to delete. Thank you. Páll 08:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Apparently you did not read the page on how to move pages which says clearly that your cut and paste amounts to historical revisionism. You could have made a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves or have an administrator delete the history [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Spioenkop&action=history) which at the time you did your cut and paste only amounted to a redirect and the same redirect with the case changed - you wanted to keep that at the price of breaking the history of the article itself[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Spion_Kop&action=history)? But instead you broke with policy and made no attempt to change the large number of double redirects you created. On top of that, User:Wikiwizzy tells me you did all this without consensus on the move. Apparently you are an administrator and could have deleted the minor history yourself - I cannot imagine how you got that status if you do not read simple instructions on how Wikipedia works. --Audiovideo 02:12, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
South Africa
I'm glad it passed! I was hoping removing 8K was the trimming it needed. -- Dbroadwell 07:45, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It ws just a matter of making sure it only outlined and stayed on facts that directly related to the country and not so much to subtopics there of, like about the Boer War, and the outcome, but not alot of the details of how it happened. I'm ~still~ not comfortable having removed that the lower classes are sufering more from the epdemic of AIDS/HIV, but I wasn't sure if that was Culture or Politics, or both. Fell free to call on my again when stuck at an impasse. -- Dbroadwell 14:43, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Please only use the 'admin rollback' facility for obvious vandalism or edits with no obvious merit.
- The South African Military was able to succesfully develop and test nuclear weapons in the Apartheid years deserves a better reason for reversion, and
- The capital of South Africa [Pretoria] has been renamed 'Tshwane' in order to remove links with it's colonial past. The name came from an African chief who ruled the area before the arrival of the europeans. ditto. Wizzy…☎ 12:01, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
South African coup
Why did you revert my change? Paul Beardsell 02:44, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. I am not sure I agree and neither, it seems, does the subsequent editor of the article. State, government and country are being confused. A country can experience a coup d'etat which overthrows the current government. But it is not correct to say, as the article did, that "the government" has not experienced a coup over a period where several different governments have been in power. But that isn't the point: I would have found it useful for you to have said why you reverted when you reverted. I had to ask WHY? You should have said. Paul Beardsell 08:24, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899
You put in a lot of work there. Nice job! Wizzy…☎ 17:29, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
MTR Map changes
The reason I've changed the map size is because in gecko, at 1024*768, it screws up the adjacent text.
Original in IE (http://img170.exs.cx/img170/6746/mapie3jg.png) My revision in IE (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/4188/maprevie5zw.png) Original with Gecko (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/787/mapgecko3fk.png) My revision with Gecko (http://img30.exs.cx/img30/2487/maprevgecko5va.png) You'll notice that the latter displays consistantly in both browsers, while the former only seems correct in Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox etc) when at larger resolutions than 1024. Would you accept my revision, but with 600 width? --BesigedB (talk) 21:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
YNP FAC
Please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yosemite National Park. --mav 17:56, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Statue of Liberty
Why are you removing the Statue of Liberty from the New York City article? It was placed there as part of an earlier comprimise - The Statue of Liberty is there because it is a symbol of New York City. WhisperToMe 03:42, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
NYC Changes
--Before you embark on what you call a "major clean-up, and reorganization" of the New York City article, why don't you spend some time participating in the article's discussion page first? Many of the changes you made have already been discussed at length, especially the issue of the Statue of Liberty. Also, I'm not sure what web browser you're using, but 300 pixels should only be used for the absolute most important pictures of an article. This is the first time I'v even seen you on the NYC edits anyway, so please have more caution in the future before you undo countless hours of other people's work. --Jleon 05:55, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
-- The organization of the article is not "awful," what was awful was seeing dozens of oversized pictures and overly-simplified sections on a very complex city. If you really felt so strongly then why not pay any attention to the history of the article, or at the very least, the history of the discussion?--Jleon 06:21, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
--You're telling ME that such major changes need to be discussed first?! What happened to being "bold"? Your're the one that made such sweeping changes with complete disregard for discussion in the first place. I'v delt with unreasonable people before on wiki, but never to this extent.--Jleon 06:30, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
---Also, why are you telling me I need to discuss my changes? My name is ALL OVER the NYC discussion page, while your's is nowhere to be found!
- Do not protect a page on which you are revert warring. It is against policy, as I'm sure you well know. ugen64 06:57, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Mediator barnstar
Courtesy of JRM: Image:Dagham-Barnstar.png. Bishonen | Talk 20:27, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The barnstar
Thanks alot for the award :> I really apprechiated it. I moved it to my user page, hope you dont mind. Inter\Echo 00:20, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
About changing the topic "Safety on the MTR"
Hello, I have edited the Topic "Safety on the MTR" 10 mins before because I have created a new page for Platform Screen Doors with much more Informations.Hoped you can forgive this, thank you! mmlcs36 06:35, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
South African Municipal Structures
Im busy trying to draw up a section on South African Municipalities (its not currently linked to anything and is very much in draft form) could you please give feedback and contribute thanks.
Press Corps?
Hi PZFUN,
One of these days we *will* manage to meet up in New York. I notice you don't go anywhere without your camera; please consider adding yourself to the list of photogs at m:Press Corps, and adding events (games, festivals, rallies?) you're thinking about attending to the list of events there. Lang.uidly (http://languid.cantbedone.org/), +sj + 12:38, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
FA candidate
Hi. Can you, please, look at this article again? Was it improved (some more complicated info on international tension, on her death, etc. added)? I said more on its lead section on that article's FA candidate page. BTW your questions also were dealt with. Cmapm 09:02, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The butterfly effect
A butterfly flitting in china can cause the hurricane that strikes San Francisco.
A complaint to a waitress can provide clues to solving the riddle of how to create a Simplified Ruleset. See if you can spot your contribution(s) :-)
Hmm, though mind you, come to think of it, its really subtle now. I could still do that a lot better.
Let me ponder on this.
Kim Bruning 11:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Canal images
I moved the image of the canal crossings to make room for the pre-canal painting, which fits more topically in the 'history' section. Actually, I think the intro could probably be expanded somewhat, which would deal with all the format issues.--Pharos 18:18, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for you message. I'll be more careful :)
I agree that there should be spaces between pinyin syllables. However, according to 'Basic rules for Hanyu pinyin Orthography' (Chinese national standard no. GB/T 16159-1996), pinyin syllables of geographical names, biographical names and er-ized words should be written connected.
-Ysw1987 13:22, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Commons
Hi, I have left a message on your WikiCommons talk page. Your contributions there needs to be overlooked. Thuresson 21:40, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ngong Ping cable car
The Ngong Ping cable car will actually be operated by the MTR. It is being constructed by the MTRCL. — Instantnood 02:38, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
Hey
Hi Paul interesting stuff.....but i want more pictures of you. Eric from Perth
Wikimedia Commons
Hello. Thanks a lot for the pictures of MTR stations. You can, alternatively, upload the pictures at Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload), so that other language versions of Wikipedia can also use it. There's actually a gallery for MTR-related images. — Instantnood 11:55, May 11, 2005 (UTC)Image source
Thank you for uploading Image:Swakopmund.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --BCKILLa 15:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
africa/ mediation cabal
Hello, haven't heard from you recently and wondering if you're still ok in deep dark south africa? :-)
In other news, I still needed to point you to Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal. :-)
Kim Bruning 00:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Johannesburg
The Johannesburg has several pictures uploaded by you with no source or license information. I'd like to feature this article on the main page - could you please add this information before that? →Raul654 21:16, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
France coat of arms
Hi PZFUN. Could you provide more information about Commons:Image:France coa.png? Specifically, did you make it, or did you download it from somewhere? Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 19:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Singapore
Hi Páll,
I did some touchup on the Singapore article, and would like to invite to you review it before I send it for FAC again. Please do let me know how is it, and if any further improvement is needed. Looking forward to hearing from you. :)
- Best regards, Mailer Diablo 11:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Disambig
PZFUN - your edit of the disambig template looks good, except there is a spelling error ("Ddisambiguation"). Please fix, but thanks for making it look nicer and have a little more info.Josquin 01:44, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Your revert
Hi Páll. It is part of the names of the stations as at the entrances/exits. Adding the word station also helps differentiating station and line articles which share the same name. Thanks. — Instantnood 08:03, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Page moves
Hello again. I understand you created most of the articles, but as I know the way of presentation has never been agreed upon. Some new articles on new lines or stations are created with another format. I agree we have to reach a consensus and standardised all the articles. Let's keep all articles as they are at the time being until a consensus is reached. There was actually already a discussion at the talk page of WP:HKWNB. — Instantnood 08:09, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- If I have not misunderstood you have agreed not to make further edit or change the titles during the discussion. Please keep the articles as they are, and please don't move [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disneyland_Resort_Station%2C_MTR&action=history) or revert them [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Causeway_Bay_%28MTR%29&action=history) [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chai_Wan_%28MTR%29&action=history) [7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kowloon_Tong_%28MTR%29&action=history). Many thanks. — Instantnood 08:40, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think the page moves and changes to the format of the bolded title in articles have anything to do with the previous ArbCom case that I was involved. And FYI, the case was closed without any decision or action taken. — Instantnood 10:22, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Notes
The notes have been on the pages for a really long time, and I'm just trying to keep them as they were while moving the lists to templates. I hope they did not scare you. :-D — Instantnood 23:28, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- The notes were not added by me, but I spent loads of efforts to keep them as they were while creating the templates. Would you mind discuss it before trashing them? Many thanks. — Instantnood 23:32, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
- IMHO they provide useful and essential information that is not presented in the lists. Yes I made them more accurate and easier to read, and I helped rephrasing the notes, but I was not the one who started creating them. It'd better to discuss it at a common place with more people to participate, rather than a personal conversation between you and I. :-) — Instantnood 23:44, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
main page snapshot
mtr (http://bruning.xs4all.nl/~kim/mtr.jpg)
Kim Bruning 20:41, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
SA-geo-stub
Hi - I'm sorry about this, but I've just reverted the change you made to SA-geo-stub. Stub templates are meant to be as unobtrusive as possible, which is why none of them (not even Template:Tl) have boxes around them. The less space they take up, the better everyone seems to like it (there are frequent discussions about the general look of stub templates at Template talk:Stub and at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting). Grutness...wha? 11:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Apartheid image
Hello, you uploaded an image of an apartheid-era sign, and I was wondering what the source of this image was as none is listed. The imagecan be found here Image:Aprt-YStar.JPG. Thanks! Páll 23:40, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, all I could find was: this and this, which once again proves that I suck at the internet. Missing image
Meh.gif
Image:Meh.gif
El_C 00:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)ZA Wikiportal
Beautiful job on the South African Wikiportal! [[User:Bastique|Template:Unicodeastique]]Template:Unicodetalk 00:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
History of South Africa and Apartheid articles
Hi -- Your work on the History of South Africa article is very impressive! I did a little work on the images -- hope it was helpful. In the FA discussion, User:Maveric149 has volunteered to move some of the apartheid material out of the history article and into the Apartheid article. I think that's the right thing to do. It will probably improve the apartheid article immeasurably, and maybe get it out of the revert-war rut that's apparently been taking up all the energy that could have gone into improving the article. Do you agree with this whole course of action? I've left a message on Maveric149's talk page offering to help. If you'd like to make this a group effort, maybe you could post there too.--Bcrowell 23:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- "Hey there, thanks for getting back to me. Of course, moving some content off the HSA article and into the apartheid one is fine! Looking forward to seeing the results." (from Pall, quoted from my own talk page)
- Hi Pall -- I'd like to talk more about what we want to happen, before going ahead and doing a lot of extensive edits that might not have a consensus behind them. I'm posting on the HSA article's talk page to try to get a discussion going, and I'll also put a heads-up on the apartheid article's talk page.--Bcrowell 21:33, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Collaboration of the week
I'm dropping you a note to let you know that The Seventies, which you voted on, became a Collaboration of the Week! You are highly encouraged to contribute whatever you can to the topic! Mike H 01:27, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
Concerning the "bloody image" in the article "Hong Kong"
I don't know what the article looks like on your computer screen, but on my screen (resolution: 800×600 or 1024×768), I see a huge empty space under the heading "History", which is why I moved the so-called "bloody image". Did my edit really make the history section turn into a column two words wide on your computer and looks horrible? Riddle | Talk 09:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This is what the article looks like on my computer after your edit at 0940 : Image: Screenshot of the article 'Hong Kong' (0940, 21 Jun 2005; 1024 by 768).png (1024×768). Do you think that the empty space under the heading "History" is not a problem?
This is what it looks like after my edit at 0742: Image:Screenshot of the article 'Hong Kong' (0742, 21 Jun 2005; 1024 by 768).png
By the way, what is your screen resolution? Riddle | Talk 10:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I see you have added more images to the article. If this is an attempt to solve the viewing problem, I can tell you it does not work. The article looks almost the same as before, with two more images below the "Old Hong Kong" image. If you insist that those images should be aligned to the right, maybe you can try moving them downward (on my computer, this solves the dead space problem). Riddle | Talk 01:50, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
South Africa flags
Hi Pall, These images of yours Image:SouthAfricaFlagTwoNations.jpg, Image:SouthAfricaFlagNonNational.jpg and Image:SouthAfricaFlagIndoors.jpg; did you make them or obtain them from somewhere? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:25, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
- You're quite an artist! Could you email me the source files if you have them? I'd like to try and do the same for the India flag. nichalp AT gmail . Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:18, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
You didn't sign your vote
here: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BrandonYusufToropov NoSeptember 00:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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