User talk:Bazonka/Archive 1

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Herefordshire, etc

I have replied to your comment regarding the statuses of Herefordshire et al. David (talk) 23:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Third Opinion

Hi, I am just notifying you that I added my opinion here per the request on WP:3O. Lazulilasher (talk) 19:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

BARNSTAR!

		The Original Barnstar
		I'm giving you this barnstar cuz I feel like it. Connorflanagan (talk) 11:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Kosovo / sports federations

Hi Bugbear, Could you please take a look at the International Sports Federations bit in the Reaction to Kosovo's Declaration of Independence article. I proposed a change a while ago - people have mostly agreed, but not all. I'm not sure whether the disagreements would rule out an editprotect request or not. Your sage advice required! Many thanks, Bazonka (talk) 19:14, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Y Done, since the objections didn't seem to be directly to your proposal. If there are direct objections, this decision may have to be revisited.

Cheers - Revolving Bugbear 19:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 1st parallel south

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I didn't propose the article, but I did second the proposal. —Latischolar^talk_{contributions} 21:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

English Wikipaedia Campaign

Now then mate, would you like to join a "English English" Wiki split campaign? I've been on WP for years, and tried in vain years ago to do it. I've since observed a lot of Brits share the antipathy towards Americanese on WP. What I noted was that other languages, like Norwegian (Nynorsk & Bokmal) have two WPs; as do others (Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans...) so there is plenty of precedent. How would you feel about forming a "user group" to actively campaign for the split? The main focus to begin with would be to spread the word and recruit as many people as possible: a few hundred users should have some weight. What do you think?

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Cuba and St. Kitts MFA evidence

Bazonka, in the interest of promoting consensus, I struck this evidence from Cuba's write-up, although, as I noted below your vote, I find it highly unlikely that St. Kitts and Nevis did not mean by their "Caribbean states" reference states in a geographical sense (and thus, their island neighbor Cuba). AFAIK neither Mexico nor Mesoamerica are ever spoken of as Carribean#Definition nations. Be that as it may, pls. adjust your vote. Thanks for working cohesively on finally getting this bloody article up to Wikipedia NPOV standards, --Mareklug ^talk 09:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Bangor?

Dan you legend! So you will be in Bangor on Friday 10th? Im up for a pint, im up for several haha. Out of interest how old are you? Im 18 by the way. Cos it would be kind of complicated if your a lot older than me. But im up for pint. Ijanderson (talk) 17:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

You up for a pint then, because I know some good pubs. Some of the pubs in Bongor are a bit dodgey, because the locals are not to keen with the English and a lot of them are out on a Friday night, but I know which pubs are friendly if your still up for pint mate? Ijanderson (talk) 11:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Ive replied via Email. Reagrds Ijanderson (talk) 12:22, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Its been very nice meeting you today, interesting conversation. Hope you got home well. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 18:04, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

So thats the poem, cool. Whenever your in Bangor next, let me know as its going to be my home town for the next three years. Cheers Dan, Regards Ijanderson (talk) 12:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Nobel for Ahtisaari and the UDI international reaction article

Thanks for lending a hand and making the information more explicit. As to your doubts as to its relevance, surely it is significant international reaction. It has been commented that way in Serbia (Kostunica, others), Kosovo (Thaci, press), and notable politicians the world over, yes, in the context of Kosovo independence. And the secretary of hte committee went out of his way to endorse Kosovo independence as having no alternatives. These are all highly signifiant reactions. Furhtermore, I suggest we adopt a weight and see attitutde, and see what happens on the recognition front in the wake of this award. My guess is that countries such as Indonesia will use it to justify recognition. Best wishes, --Mareklug ^talk 19:47, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

demented :)

I meant to use this: démenti: http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=d%C3%A9menti&search=search --Mareklug ^talk 21:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

horse

And I always write that he compared me to a horse, and called me a kangaroo, said I was obtuse, dubbed other users' edits as bullshit etc. I am pretty specific and admins supported my warnings to him for such language. Is it OK in your culture to call someone obtuse or call his contribution bullshit as well?--Avala (talk) 13:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

St Lucia

You must have been dreaming mate. St Lucia has really strong relations with Serbia, not to mention all the ethnic Serbs living in St Lucia. St Lucia has vowed never to recognise Kosovo lol Ijanderson (talk) 13:53, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I was joking lol. They will probs recognise at some point, the US will till them to recognise and they will do as they are told. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 15:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

A little bird told me that several Caribbean nations have promised that they will recognise Kosovo Ijanderson (talk) 14:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Greek statements

First of all there is no need to keep the "quotes" because they are obviously misquotes. Second of all, Greek ambassador made a statement not a sentence. There is also no need to run anything through Google Translate when we have a source in English. Some media that translate news to English picked up the most important bits of the statement and published it. For an example Press talks in Serbian about ambassador saying how Karamanlis and Papoulias reiterated the position during the meeting with Cvetkovic in Athens but B92 didn't put that in their English report which clearly shows he made a longer statement than one sentence. And finally "Balkan Insight reporting on Albanian media" is much less precise than saying which media exactly and those are Vizion+ and Koha Ditore. Thank you.--Avala (talk) 21:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Irish Ambassador

The NewKosovaReport article clearly says that the Irish ambassador to Kosovo is based in Budapest, not Belgrade. Not sure why you think that's false information. --alchaemia (talk) 23:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Canada-geo-stubs

Hi Bazonka - good to see a bunch of new geo-stubs on places in northern Canada! if you make any more, could I ask you to add either {{Nunavut-geo-stub}} or {{NorthwestTerritories-geo-stub}}, rather than the plain ({{Canada-geo-stub}}, please... it saves a bit of work later on (may also be worth adding either Category:Geography of Nunavut or Category:Geography of the Northwest Territories, too). Thanks, and keep up the good work! Grutness...wha? 23:01, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 104th meridian east

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AfD nomination of 104th meridian east

I have nominated 104th meridian east, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/104th meridian east. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. —Largo Plazo (talk) 05:45, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

An Invite to join Arctic WikiProject

Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Arctic WikiProject! The Arctic WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Arctic.

As you have shown an interest in Diana Island we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.

We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 01:47, 23 December 2008 (UTC)