User talk:Andrew Yong
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ndewo! This is the greetings of the Ibos of Nigeria, we are having an explosion of internet activities in nigeria and I believe that the wiki project will be good in nigeria, how can i contribute or have a site that is fully on information on nigeria. olunkwaik@yahoo.com
Greetings!
I was hoping I might be able to recruit you to the Malay wikipedia. Judging from your contributions, you seem to know a bit about Malaysia and (here's hoping) the Malay language. It sure would be nice if ms:Pengguna:Yosri wasn't the only Malayophone around :-)
Cheers, -- Kowey 15:54, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Well... too bad about the lack of Malay, but thanks for your response and feel free to spread the word if you know any Malay readers. Best. -- Kowey 13:03, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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Counties
After both sides put their case forward, the policy at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) met to general approval (dissent only coming from partisans of the other side). Please respect this. Morwen 20:07, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. My apologies for being hasty. I saw the change you made to Peterborough (putting the traditional county first), and saw red. I hope you can understand my relation in context, where I have spent several weeks trying to clean up all traces of things like 'Brixton is a place in Surrey, England within the former metropolitan "county" of Greater London and in the London Borough of Lambeth. '. This person even moved the article about Herefordshire to English unitary district of county of Herefordshire! Morwen 14:33, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)
Christ Church
You might be an insider, but the following extract is from the college's site:
- Christ Church, known as ‘The House’, was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey as Cardinal College, with funds from the suppression of the Priory of St. Frideswide. [1] (http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/prosp/history.html)
Best regards, and thanks for your additions, BTW. Kokiri 00:15, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for your (extensive) clarifications on my talk page. Seems the university got it wrong then... --Kokiri 09:31, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Administrators
S4 of the Constitution does not use the word Administator, let alone give the full title. The GG's website says: "The Constitution (Section 4) and the Letters Patent (relating to the Office of the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia) provide for The Queen to appoint an Administrator of the Commonwealth. By convention, the longest serving State Governor is appointed as Administrator when the Governor-General is out of the country, ill or when the position of Governor-General is vacant." The link to the Letters Patent (http://www.gg.gov.au/html/letters.html), however, shows that the full title is not used there either.
"administrator of the commonwealth" gets 355 Google hits, while "administrator of the government of the commonwealth" gets 111. Among these there are examples of the "formal" use of both variants.
For example: "I, GUY STEPHEN MONTAGUE GREEN, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the A New Tax System (Commonwealth-State Financial Arrangements) Act 1999."
And: "(f) any evidence received by, and any matters submitted to, the Honourable James Henry Muirhead under the Commission of inquiry issued to him on 16 October 1987 by Our Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Letters Patent (as subsequently varied)"
It therefore seems that the title does not have formal status in either variant. Given this, I would suggest that the shorter version be used, while noting that the longer one is used, sometimes, in official documents. Neither the GG nor the Administrator "administer the government," the PM does that, and it seems unlikely that such a misleading title would have been deliberately chosen.
Adam 01:44, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I have tried to resolve this issue by creating a new article. Administrator (Australia) which explains the use of both variants of the title. Adam 05:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Andrew Following your edit we now have these two paras
- Most of the British Governors-General were peers: of the two who were not, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson was a knight and Field Marshal Sir William Slim, was both a knight and a serving Field-Marshal. Of the Australian Governors-General, Casey was a peer and all the others were knights until the appointment of Hayden in 1988. All Governors-General down to Stephen were members of the British Privy Council and thus had the additional title "Right Honourable." Australian appointments to the Privy ceased in 1983.
- Hayden is thus the only Governor-General to have had no title at all. A strong feeling persists that the Governor-General ought to have a title of some sort. However, when Bishop Hollingworth (as he was then known) obtained a Lambeth doctorate (by which he was subsequently known) from the Archbishop of Canterbury shortly before assuming office, there was some discussion in the press about whether the doctorate was a substantive degree or merely honorary, and whether the reason for its granting was to downplay Hollingworth's continuing episcopal status.
The problem is that the text as you have written it is a non sequitur. The section is supposed to be about the evolution of GGs' titles, from aristocratic titles to plain Bill Hayden. The section you have added does not develop this point but veers off to discuss the nature and purpose of the Lambeth degree, which ought to be discussed at the Hollingworth article. I am going to restore some of the original wording to re-establish the continuity of the paragraph. Adam 00:56, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
British Empire
Thanks for retaining the photo. I think your caption is well done: explicit is often better.
I have enjoyed looking at some of the topics to which you have contributed.
Best wishes,
--Wighson 05:30, 2004 Apr 5 (UTC)
Penang Hokkien
Fabulous work at Penang Hokkien. I will nominate you to be an administrator. Are you an Oxonian? (I am one of the founders of Holopedia (http://www.holopedia.net/).) -- Kaihsu 20:47, 2004 May 8 (UTC)
Please could you respond at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to say whether or not you accept the nomincation for adminship. Thanks. Angela. 03:35, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
adminship
A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle 23:01, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
Queen of Australia
You say: "when the Queen visits the United States she sometimes does so as Queen of Canada." I have never heard of this, and it strikes me as unlikely. Can you cite some evidence? Adam 09:39, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Umm, do you have a really, really good reason for moving Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis? In particular, can you show me something to suggest that there is a body called the Police of the Metropolis in the UNited Kingdom? If not, can you move it back, please? Penfold 09:44, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Listings of Historical Privy Counsellors
Moved to Wikipedia:Request_for_immediate_removal_of_copyright_violation
Need support on an undelete. Talk:Nazism/Seperate-National Socialism I would like your support to undelete this and restore as a proper standing article. Some content was moved to the Nazism article and has been made a redirect. The Nazi article is too long. *National Socialism* was not created by either Mussolini nor Hitler and the history of its development needs to have a seperate article upon it. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion.WHEELER 18:32, 24 Jun 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)
RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:16, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Unverified image
Thanks for uploading the image
I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Kbh3rd&action=edit) where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 07:17, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Yongle Encyclopedia
Hi, You mentioned in this edit that the Encyclopedia was destroyed "in a fire started by imperial Chinese forces attacking the neighbouring British legation" and was subsequently "rescued" by Western forces. I'd like to check your sources for this as backup? Thanks. Mandel 23:29, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
ALSO:
Request page protection for article
Would you page protect the pages below please as Violetriga's unilateral reverting of my adding a balanced view is against policy. It is not allowed to revert such an edit, rather adding the balanced opposing view to an article is good policy. Also Violetriga has abused the 3 revert rule here and also broken the policy of starting an edit war rather than discussion.Kreen