User talk:Romanm
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Hi there. I noticed that you put a link in Republic of Macedonia to sl:Makedonija which currently has no text. Interwiki links should only be put in to existing articles because otherwise it confuses users. You could put the link and comment it out if you think that's where the article will eventually be. Dori | Talk 21:18, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Hello, Dori! I edited two pages at the same time, but commited the English version first. Now it should be OK, sorry for the confusion. --Romanm 21:31, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Can you add the romanization of the Chinese titles in the list of Harry Potter book titles in Translation? It should be Chinese (traditional): Romanization (Chinese, "literal meaning"). Thanks Exploding Boy 14:14, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)
Ex-Yugoslavia
Thanks for helping out with disambiguating links to Yugoslavias. I've done two sweeps so far but it only made a small dent on the total link count.
Having said that, are you sure that linking Former Yugoslavia to just one of them is the proper way? I'd rather if we changed links that link to there to be precise... --Shallot 22:53, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I agree with you. I think that an average English speaking person by Former Yugoslavia really means Former SFRY. But I agree that the links should be corrected to be precise. --Romanm 23:04, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Coat of Arms and other images
Hi Roman,
I see you're having a hard time to educate Avala on copyright issues. So do I. I went through all his image uploads and posted quite a lot of them on Copyright problems. (At least I think I got them all.) I did not post any Coat of Arms there, and, for the time being, I also refrained from posting images that were not clearly copyrighted. I think, these will have to be posted some day, too, but for now I just don't feel like doing this: it might put the user off completely because then I needed to post virtually all his uploads there.
Apparently, Avala has a "copy and see if I get away with it" attitude regarding images. He doesn't understand that no copyright notice doesn't mean "public domain", and he's very negligient in looking for copyright statements in the first place.
As to the Coat of Arms: I do not know what Serbian law says on that issue. It may be that Avala is even right, and CoAs cannot be protected in Serbia... The question remains, of course, whether a drawing of a CoA is original art and as such copyrightable.
Lupo 15:26, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Location maps
Thanks for your comment on my maps. I had originally made some maps for the three countries you mentioned, but I didn't upload them at the time. I've just done that now - here, here, and here. I hope those are adequate - I can see a number of ways to improve them, but if you think that these are okay, I'll leave them for now. -- Vardion 06:56, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Hi - I somehow forgot all about Montserrat, sorry. I've uploaded it now: Image:LocationMontserrat.png. I hope that's satisfactory - the island's a bit small, so it's hard to show on a map without making the scale to small. -- Vardion 05:24, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I didn't have any maps for Ĺland or Guam, but it was easy enough to make some with what I already had. They're uploaded at Image:LocationAland.png and Image:LocationGuam.png. -- Vardion 14:41, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Maps for Svalbard, the Caymans, and the two Virgin Islands groups are now available: image:LocationSvalbard.png, image:LocationCaymanIslands.png, image:LocationUSVirginIslands.png, and image:LocationBritishVirginIslands.png. I hope they're satisfactory. As for Armenia, I don't really remember much about what I thought when creating it. I'm somewhat unclear about the political situation with some of those enclaves. Does this new version, image:LocationArmenia.png look closer to what's at Geography of Armenia? -- Vardion 05:41, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Maps for the five places you requested are now done: Image:LocationGibraltar.png, Image:LocationFaroeIslands.png, Image:LocationNetherlandsAntilles.png, Image:LocationTokelau.png, and Image:LocationAnguilla.png. I also fixed the Azerbaijan map as you suggested. Sorry it took so long to do these - for a while, I didn't have access to the particular files I needed. I hope these are satisfactory. -- Vardion 06:51, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Adminship?
You have done a lot of great work to Wikipedia recently. I would like to nominate you for adminship. Do you accept the nomination? --Lst27 23:37, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Austria-Hungary blank map
I'm glad you liked my map. I've made a blank version and it's here. --Kpalion 00:22, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Vandalism?
Hi, are you aware of Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Romanm. I'm not involved in those articles so I don't know if the complaints against you are substantiated, but I think you should at least respond to them there. Thanks. Angela. 15:57, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
HURRY UP
Check out this Slovenian websites news that you missed! Hurry up because it is in cache.
[[1] (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:nAMrRdYY6u0J:tux.kabi.si/si21/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DXML-news%26file%3Dindex%26cat%3D2%26ShowArchive%3D2+koalicija+zelenih&hl=en)] [[2] (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:2dwnhSJ_BksJ:pinkponk.com/02_detail.asp%3FID%3D4753790%26category%3DSLOVENIJA+koalicija+zelenih&hl=en)]
Why did you oppose yourself?
You voted on the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship page to oppose yourself. Did you think about it before doing it?
Romanm, I got your message. I understand how you feel, and I think I can nominate you again sometime in June. --Lst27 21:17, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
Avala
I've just made a RfC page about User:Avala. Since you've been involved in trying to smooth out these disputes with Avala, you might want to go certify it. Snowspinner 19:08, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
RfA
I've recently been nominated for administrator status over at RfA. Since you're more familiar than most users with my work on Wikipedia, particularly through the conflict with Avala (Which seems particularly relevent to any admin nomination), I thought you might want to offer an opinion on the matter. I'd appreciate any vote you can offer, either for or against the nomination. Thanks very much. Snowspinner 14:19, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)
More Location maps
My apologies about the huge delay in responding - I completely forgot about your message. I'm very sorry about that. I've uploaded Image:LocationAmericanSamoa.png, Image:LocationJersey.png, Image:LocationHongKong.png, Image:LocationMacau.png, Image:LocationSaintHelena.png, and Image:LocationFalklandIslands.png - I hope they're satisfactory. Since you asked for one of Jersey, I also made one for Guernsey at the same time (Image:LocationGuernsey.png) - I don't know whether this is useful or not, but I thought I might as well make it anyway. -- Vardion 09:32, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Reason for amending the Irish flag
I'm curious as to why you amended the Irish flag image. The flag is Green, White and Orange, the CIA factbook version you put up is incorrect, being the misconception of Green, White and Gold. This is a myth of confused people not understanding the symbolism of the Irish flag. It makes no sense for example for a Republican to object to Orange on the flag, as the whole reason for including Orange was to have a flag for a united Ireland. Zoney 23:45, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
coat of arms
I saw that your friend contributed with adding communist emblems of former Yugoslavia. Because Serbia is still using old coat of arms it would be nice to upolad that coat of arms too.
[[User:Avala|Avala|★]] 16:52, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
did he draw it yet? --[[User:Avala|Avala|★]] 10:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
reverting
Please don`t revert images of COAs because colours were wrong in some of them. I changed. You seem to revert every edit of mine whether it is good or not.
[[User:Avala|Avala|★]] 12:57, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I changed colours according to encyclopedia.--[[User:Avala|Avala|★]] 12:58, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Borza lesa
We have a Borza lesa page on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English which, we suspect, may be in Slovenian. Could you have a look at it (whether it is Slovenian and, if so, whether it is worth translating)? Andris 16:08, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
Avala's case at the Arbcom
Could you visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Avala/Evidence#Snowspinner.27s and tell what is the correct translation of several terms directed at Avala? Nikola 19:49, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thank you :) Nikola 22:09, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Georgia maps
Nice maps - well done! -- ChrisO 23:34, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I did not make the Georgia district maps myself, I found them on the Estonian Wikipedia where they were uploaded by Urmas. I did, however, realize that they are valuable and include them in articles here, so thanks for the praise anyway.
--romanm (talk) 23:41, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
balkan bacchanalia :)
There's now a meta:South Slavic NPOV page. I know you edited various pages about Yugoslavia so you may be interested in this. --Joy [shallot] 12:41, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Small images
At Image:Belgium_flag_large.png, an image I recently cleaned up, you somehow reduced the previous version to a startlingly small 500 bytes. No combination of tools I could muster could reproduce this. Can I ask how you achieved such a tiny size? Derrick Coetzee 01:50, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Arbitration matter of Avala is closed
1) The above findings of fact show that Avala has often worked against consensus and majority opinion. We therefore rule that Avala must follow the majority opinion of the users involved concerning any controversial edits that Avala makes. One specific consequence is that violations of the three revert rule are not permitted. This probation period will last for one month.
2) For a period of 3 months, should a serious dispute arise between Avala and other users with respect to editing of an article Avala is required to cite substantial authority supporting the position he is taking and either enter the dispute resolution process regarding the matter or drop the matter. A serious dispute is defined as one in which any party to the dispute has reverted the other 3 times or more. After Avala makes his third revert he shall cease editing the article with respect to the disputed matter until completion of the dispute resolution process. Resolution of the dispute in his favor shall require verification that the authority cited adequately supports the information he advocates including in the article. With respect to matters of taste such as size of templates he is required to defer to majority opinion.
3) Given the fact that Avala is now editing at a low rate, we reserve the right to revisit the conduct issue of this user once/if Avala starts to edit at an increased rate again and other users complain about Avala's conduct. This probation would last one year.
For principles, findings of fact, and enforcement see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Avala#Final decision. --mav 21:48, 17 Nov 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) 19:33, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Image:Ptuj-grb.png
Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Ptuj-grb.png. I noticed it didn't have an image copyright tag. I added {{unknown}} for now. Could you add the correct tag to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much, Dbenbenn 00:12, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Geo-stubs
Hi Romanm! Good to see you've been adding a few more regional geo-stubs. I've gone through and put some more places into those categories from the general Category:Geography stubs. I noticed one geo-stub that should have a BiH-geo-stub label, but I daren't edit it myself. I know from complaints I've had from croatian and Icelandic Wikipedians that my browser can't handle diacritical marks properly, and the article Orahov Do has several of them. Can you change it to a BiH-geo-stub, please? Thanks :) Grutness|hello? Missing image
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23:38, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- ...and Czechia this time! Which means a couple more I can't add in - Dowry town (which should have both Czechia-geo-stub and geo-term-stub) and [[Vysoké M<breve>to]] (hm. Can't even type that properly here! - you can get to it from [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Geography_stubs&from=V) though). Thanks again! Romania probably needs a category now... Grutness|hello? Missing image
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00:07, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC) PS - I hope you're remembering to add the new categories to the list at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs/By_region!
Slovenian/Slovene
Hi, Roman. With regards to the Slovenian/Slovene issue, please refer to this discussion. To be brief, Nohat, a Wikipedia arbitrator had this to say before he cleaned up much of the big mess user XJam helped cause:
The reality is that "Slovenian" is is preferred in all English-speaking countries other than Britain. Including Ireland.
I haven't seen any examples yet of Slovenian organizations using "Slovene", and if there are, how many of them are not somehow British and how many of them are referring in particular to the language? Certainly "The Fran Ramovš Institute Of Slovenian Language", publishers of Slovenian dictionaries and grammars, use "Slovenian" in reference to the language. Second, the argument that it is scarcely relevant that the official website of SAZU calls itself "Slovenian" is ridiculous. It's the official web site, and it's in English! And it says "Slovenian"! Just because it's contrary to your preferred usage doesn't make it irrelevant.
The primary goal of Wikipedia is to provide as much information to as many people as possible, and insisting on using a rare regionalism over an internationally-accepted form is contrary to that goal. If you ask any reasonable Wikipedian, you will find that they will all agree that if the goal of providing accessible information conflicts with the supposed "goal" of keeping spelling diverse, then we should err on the side of accessibility rather than diverse spelling.
And finally, regardless of who originally wrote the article, you are the only one who is insisting on calling it "Slovene", contrary to the vast majority of international English usage.
Slovene is a completely unnatural and awkward sounding term for a country that ends in -ia. In addition, Roman, virtually no native-English speaking Slovenian uses the term Slovene! Even in the England, Slovene is becoming archaic. The Euroleague, UEFA, and the Olympics all use Slovenian exclusively. And many English newspapers (and even Eurosport, surely you've noticed this) use Slovenian more often than not.
This is a unique period where we (Slovenians) have an opportunity to solidify the already dominant and preferred term as the 'one' others will refer to us as forevermore. I would like to add that it is a real shame a few users, like XJam, are so narrowminded and audacious that they think what *they* know what sounds better in a foreign language than native speakers. There is a 'reason' the vast majority of native-English speaking Slovenians use strictly Slovenian. And there is reason the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and most international Slovenian companies use strictly Slovenian, as well. -BT
Dragan Kojadinovic
Thanks for the information (I'd guessed that it was Belgrade, but I didn't want to add that until I was sure). About my second question: do you know if he campaigned to be elected mayor of Belgrade, or for someone else, or what? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Canada Map
Thanks for the comment regarding the map. It looks pretty complete to me. You said it looks like it's been cut in half...what part looks cut off to you? --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 00:23, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Diacritics
As you know, 'š' and 's' are completely different letters in Slovenian. For this reason, the diacritic warning on Janez Janša's page is not correct and should be removed. -BT
- I agree. Is there any other foreign characters warning we could use? --romanm (talk) 18:51, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
None of which I'm aware of. Are you sure we need one? To me, the warning at the top is an eyesore. I don't think such a warning needs to be one first things a visitor sees. At any rate, here is Janša's French page: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a. The only immediate problem I see is that if someone types into the search engine "Janez Jansa" nothing turns up. To fix this (on the French wiki), when I have time, I will create a "Janez Jansa" link that forwards to the "Janez_Jan%C5%A1a" page. -BT
Morphogenesis - Alan Turing
I noticed your removal of the link to Alan Turing on Morphogenesis. I do believe Alan Turing had a role in the ideas behind Morphogenesis. It might be a good idea to discuss this with the original contributor and amplify the contributions rather than to remove it.
Shyamal 05:42, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- True, my mistake. I thought that this sentence from Alan Turing does not say much about Morphogenesis beside Turings interests in it:
- Turing worked from 1952 until his death in 1954 on mathematical biology, specifically morphogenesis. He published one paper on the subject called "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in 1952. His central interest in the field was understanding Fibonacci phyllotaxis, the existence of Fibonacci numbers in plant structures. He used reaction-diffusion equations which are now central to the field of pattern formation. Later papers went unpublished until 1992 when Collected Works of A.M. Turing was published.
- IMHO, if Turing's work is indeed important in that field, this should be described in the Morphogenesis article - listing Turing in the "see also" section is not enough. I did leave a note to the original contributor on his talk page, though. --romanm (talk) 11:30, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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I removed the GFDL logo. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Acela Express 04:46, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
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