User talk:Angelo De La Paz/Archive 2

Removal of Interview Questions on Miss Universe 2008 page

I feel that the interview questions that I originally contributed constitutes fair use. They are for educational purposes to record what kind of questions a judge may ask on the Ms. Universe. I would like to know why you removed them.

• Email. --channico (talk) 02:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, saw the revision before removal. It seems that it was the blog that copied the information from Wikipedia not the other way around. No copyright violation occurred. Have reverted the questions back.

• Email. --channico (talk) Nico (talk) 18:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

About your recent reverts at Overseas Chinese

Your recent reverts at Overseas Chinese inadvertently reverted legitimate changes that addressed concerns described in the talk page. It is always a good idea to read the talk page carefully before declaring any edit vandalism. Thank you. 122.109.98.81 (talk) 10:31, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• Email. --Esimal (talk) 16:30, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• • It seems this is a bad habit of yours, Angelo. About the edits I made to the Overseas Chinese article constituting 'vandalism.'

Vandals RARELY give justification for their edits. Please dont revert legitimate edits and call them 'vandalism,' and post warnings on my talk, thats just plain rude. I clearly gave a thoughtful, and logical explanation of exactly why I wanted that sentence omitted. If you have any qualms with the edit, discuss it in the Talk page as Esimal said...I made a section in case you have any problems with the edit and want justify your position-use it. Please dont just call edits you dont like 'vandalism' so you can delete it without explanation.

If your trying to get a barnstar for reverting vandalism, PLEASE stick to sure things such as page blanking, etc. You seem to have a hard time figuring out what constitutes vandalism.

134.121.247.116 (talk) 07:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Matilda Mecini. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Toddst1 (talk) 08:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

FYI, I've left a message on Toddst1's talk page to clarify this, as I belive Angelo's edits fall under the BLP exception in the 3RR policy. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 08:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I do make mistakes. Sorry about that.Toddst1 (talk) 08:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

User warnings

Done. :) I think they may be sockpuppets judging by the editing patterns and the similar usernames. If the first one breaks his warning, either let me know or report at WP:AIV. If the second one breaks his warning, leave a final warning, and then AIV. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

I've granted you rollback as well, simply because you'd put it to good use reverting vandalism on the high-risk articless you edit. Plus if you're thinking of getting huggle, you need rollback to use it. Remember not to use it in edit wars, or to revert any good faith edits. They can put new users off the project (we were all new once :)). Best of luck, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Please participate

Hi Angelo! There is a heavy discussion right now, in this article, Miss Pakistan World here and it was nominated for deletion here; your opinion will be highly appreciated, especially your vote. Your participation in this matter is noteworthy, in view of the fact that you are a member of the Wiki Project Beauty Pageants. It doesn’t matter if your vote is favorable or not, but what matters most is your involvement since it seems to me that some commenter are against pageantry. Personally, I think that the article should be kept but should be freed from tremendous advertisement lines.--Richie Campbell (talk) 00:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Miss World 2006

Your recent use off rollback on this article is a breach of the conditions in which you can use it. It is for vandalism only and not content disputes. If you would even read the article on the Ulster Banner you will see that it IS NOT the flag of Northern Ireland and it should not be used to represent it. BigDunc^Talk 08:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Flags

Since you do not understand that Northern Ireland has no flag and persist in using an unofficial and sectarian flag in articles to fill the void left in your pretty little displays, I have removed all the flags that were being used solely for decorative purposes which is a violation of WP:FLAG. Happy editing! BigDunc^Talk 11:17, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Firewell, my friend

I'll no longer contribute to Wikipedia. A clique of Christian hypocrites is trying to destroy me; I'm too disappointed with Wikipedia system. Administrators don't act against these fraudulent hypocrites who make false claims against NPOV users and impose false informations into the articles. Adios! --Esimal (talk) 18:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

And administrators like Angelo here who think their word is law. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.236.213 (talk) 00:55, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Firewell, my friend

I'll no longer contribute to Wikipedia. A clique of Christian hypocrites is trying to destroy me; I'm too disappointed with Wikipedia system. Administrators don't act against these fraudulent hypocrites who make false claims against NPOV users and impose false informations into the articles. Adios! --Esimal (talk) 18:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

New problems

Hi there! After a short-time absence, now youare come back with more problems. I am not appreciate your new map (Image:World religions.png) because its source wasn't good and it's come from a BLOG? Which violated Wikipedia's policies. Angelo De La Paz (talk) 12:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

-Just updated the source, clearly shows distribution well reflected on both maps. Moshin (talk) 12:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC) -> http://www.britannica.com/eb/art/print?id=68151&articleTypeId=0

- OK go ahead. I'll fix the others later. Thanks. Moshin (talk) 12:40, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Dont follow me

Please dont follow me on to articles and make changes just to try and bait me I have reverted your childish action. But if you must follow at least join the talk page discussion thanks. BigDunc^Talk 15:53, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Miss Earth TOC conflict

Hi Angelo! I brought back the article to its original state here before the “edit disagreement” pertaining to the Table Of Contents (TOC) of Miss Earth article, please use the discussion section of the article to convey your ideas so we can come up with a common decision to resolute the matter. Your active participation is needed to resolve the conflict. --Richie Campbell (talk) 13:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Soviet Union Muslim Population 1979.jpg

How about this map, it shows the population of Muslims in Kazakhstan, Christian or non-religious population seems to be at the north of Kazakhstan.

Oh I see you have made the changes, Thanks a lot. Moshin (talk) 15:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

About the article "East Asia"

I turned it into a netrual one. I hope you will be satisfied with it. Don't use the term "vandalism" to frighten people. If an edit war happens, why do you say that I am guilty, not you? We'd better respect each other, although we have different political ideas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netking cn (talk • contribs) 10:25, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• The first version of this topic [1], sent by Netking cn.

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 10:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

More about the article "East Asia"

Thank you for your wise solution on the article "East Asia". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netking China (talk • contribs) 02:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

More: The No.3 of "Notes and references" in "East Asia" is wrong. Does Taiwan belong to Central or North Asia? I haven't corrected it yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netking China (talk • contribs) 02:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Please see my reply.Opticals (talk) 22:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC) Please see my reply.Opticals (talk) 02:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Islam in Korea

Hi, I seeing a your message.

I think that Islam is not faster and popular religion in South Korea. almost of muslim in korea is believed just the foreign worker in South Korea. --Historiographer (talk) 05:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Natalie Glebova

Hi Angelo,

I have noticed that you removed an update for Endorsements on Natalie Glebova page as of July 3 2008, per WP:EL and WP:SPAM.

Although your action towards external links and references violations may be valid, but the information posted was in fact real and eligible. The source could be found on Natalie Glebova official web page http://www.glebovainternational.com/charitywork.html as well as on original source http://www.scadbangkok.org/

By the way, there is another piece of new information, as of June 12, 2008 posted on http://www.thelotusflowerfoundation.org/ and referenced on http://www.glebovainternational.com/charitywork.htm which would be nice to display on Wikipedia.

Since I am not very well positioned with Wikipedia rules regarding posting and specifically referencing external links, could you or someone else post these two pieces of information under Endorsements or Biography (if appropriate) on Natalie Glebova page?

Thank you,

Fan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.119.78 (talk) 23:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Tambayan

Hi you can pass by and help. Wikipedia: Tambayan Philippines --Exec8 (talk) 05:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008

Thank you for making a report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, it appears that the editor you reported may not have engaged in vandalism, or the user was not sufficiently or appropriately warned. Please note there is a difference between vandalism and unhelpful or misguided edits made in good faith. If they continue to vandalise after a recent final warning, please re-report it. Thank you! PeterSymonds (talk) 09:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Please take greater care when warning and reporting vandalism to WP:AIV. Your report of User:124.82.100.11 today was rejected because you appear to have cluttered the user's talk page with only warnings and final warnings, all given hours after the user's previous edit. The user has not edited for more than 10 hours, and there was no obvious vandalism in his most recent edits. Please review WP:UWT and be more careful next time. Okiefromokla ^questions? 02:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Reminder re Tibetan people

Angelo de la Paz, you have now reverted three times (not on a single day, I will note) my edits regarding the position of the CTA on the question of sovereignty for Tibet in Tibetan people. The latest revert is this one.

I note that, while you have been doing these reverts, your only posting on the talk page is this: "As far as I know you (PalaceGuard008) before, you are totally pro-China and a Han Chinese nationalist. But please remember NPOV because you mustn't biased any side here"

I appreciate that English is not your first language (according to your user page), but that message was very rude and I am quite offended by it.

I feel I must remind you of several things:

• One, there is a factual error in the version which you repeatedly revert to. This I have addressed on the talk page. It is not a matter of politics, it is a question of facts. Please read the article which I pointed you towards before making further edits.
• Two, Wikipedia works by consensus and discourages blind reversions, which is what you are currently engaging in. I encourage you to stop reverting, read my post, including the article I pointed you towards, and discuss this civilly on the talk page if you still dispute my edit.
• Three, Wikipedia encourages discussions based on facts and content, not personal prejudice. I don't really care what you think of me as a person, but please remain civil. Wikipedia:Assume good faith may be an important matter to keep in mind in your future editing. Your post on the talk page directed at me is what we call an ad hominim attack: an attack on the person, rather than the content. This is not something fit for an article talk page.

Please consider this a friendly reminder, because I feel that you are not an unreasonable editor, though you may be too quick to judge other editors on this article. If you unfortunately prove my opinion wrong, then the current matter will need dispute resolution assistance.

Finally, I encourage you again to discuss the matter on the talk page. I have pointed you towards an article which I think you can benefit from reading. If you have any views after reading that, please discuss on the takl page. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 07:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Project talk page tagging for WP:VIET

Blnguyen had requested me for the service of TinucherianBot to tag articles in the categories in Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam/Categories for the WikiProject Vietnam. I request the members to kindly have a look , carefully verify ALL the categories and remove all the possibly wrong categories. Please Dont misunderstand by being cautious here , as we have faced many issues with such huge scale bot tagging earlier. Once I get the final go ahead, I will start the bot with the final list. Thank you for choosing TinucherianBot for the project,. It is a pleasure working for this project...I have also left a note at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vietnam#Project_talk_page_tagging and request your comments there. You are receiving this message as you are a member of the project. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 06:39, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Religion in China

Please stop edit warring. It is disruptive. Please use the talk page and discuss disputed changes. Continued disruption could result in page protection or blocking of your account. - Rjd0060 (talk) 04:19, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hi I've noticed that Editingman has been editing the Religion in China article, well a Request for comment might be necessary if differences are not resolved, Wikipedia:Requests for comment. As for sources, links must be verifible, Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources, if unverfible links are inserted they should not be used. I apologize for the late response, I've been busy lately and have not had time to log on to wikipedia anyway I hope that helps. Abstrakt (talk) 23:27, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

• • As per Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional_claims_require_exceptional_sources

"

See also: Wikipedia:Fringe theories

Certain red flags should prompt editors to examine the sources for a given claim:

• surprising or apparently important claims not covered by mainstream sources;
• reports of a statement by someone that seems out of character, embarrassing, controversial, or against an interest they had previously defended;
• claims that are contradicted by the prevailing view within the relevant community, or which would significantly alter mainstream assumptions, especially in science, medicine, history, politics, and biographies of living persons. This is especially true when proponents consider that there is a conspiracy to silence them.

Exceptional claims in Wikipedia require high-quality reliable sources; if such sources are not available, the material should not be included. Also be sure to adhere to other policies, such as the policy for biographies of living persons and the undue weight provision of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view."

I do believe this claim of over 100 million Muslims in China falls under an exceptional claim, and although the claim comes from a webpage by BBC, there are no sources backing this claim, meaning the webpage makes no attempt to back its numbers of "100 million", so yes are you are correct in your case against Editingman. Abstrakt (talk) 23:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Mormonism and Christianity

Why did you change my revision to Religion in the United States? I said that Mormonism is technically not a denomination of Christianity. You see, Mormons believe that the Bible is the word of God, but they also believe that the Book of Mormon is a section of the cannon. Christianity does not believe this to be the case, as Christians don't believe the Book of Mormon was inspired by God. To say Mormonism is Christianity is like saying that Christianity is Judaism, as both religions believe the old Testament is inspired, but Judaism teaches that the New Testamant is not the word of God. Have you ever wondered why Mormon Temples never display a Cross, the symbol for Christianity, or represent them self with a fish, another Christian symbol? I would appreciate it if you would reinstate my revisions. Thanks Me.gusta.destrozar 17:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Suspected hoax article

Hi. I was just wondering whether you could check out Lý Long Tường and see for yourself whether the article as it stands is a hoax. Although the historical figure described probably exists, I have strong reasons (mostly geographic) to believe that a large proportion of the article is simply blatant pseudo-history. I noticed that most, if not all, of the sources are from communist regimes or their agencies.

You might also want to check out Vietnamese people in Korea. The first section of this article also seems to be gibberish; fortunately, the rest seems plausible. David873 (talk) 13:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Vietnamese people

I removed that tidbit because it's been unreferenced for over a year. I thought it'd be okay to remove it, but I guess not. I doubt you can find any sources for that... Lady Galaxy 23:27, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Miss Venezuela winners in the Grand Slam pageants

Hello, Susana Duijm is how she is recognized. Nobody knows her first name like you wanna put. Please dont change again. --Anothercountry (talk) 13:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: August 2008

1. Cite your source when making the edit in question. (It's not in the article) 2. If you want to use their personal connection then write in the article they are room-mates for a year, instead at the bottom of the page. ("Miss Venezuela winners in the Grand Slam pageants" is more appropriate because she was in the Miss Venezuela pageant) Above all, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA are not Miss Venezuela, or in this case Miss Universe either. If you want to draw the parallel you are perfectly right to do so on the Miss Universe Organization page.

Also why the 3rr? there are only 2. And at any rate, considering we are the stage we began before this 24-hour period and only the two of us have edited since my original revert, doesn't that mean we are BOTH on a 2rr??

Anyhoo, want to move this to the discussion page? Lihaas (talk) 19:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Buddhism in Central Asia

Hello. Could you please ad the link into the article, that states that Buddhism never developed a missionary movement, as that is a very strong opening statement, and one that should require verifiability. Thanks in advance. Scythian77 (talk) 16:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for adding the source link. I appreciate it! Scythian77 (talk) 04:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

"AKA Sythian1"

Oh, and I noticed that you seemed to suggest that I am another user with multiple handles, namely a "Sythian1". Unless you have proof of this, please refrain from such childish attacks. It wastes everyone's time. Thank you. Scythian77 (talk) 05:20, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

About vandalism

Hi Angelo, It wasn't my intention. I am just making corrections when there are mistakes or wrong information. Is there any problem with the manner I proceed? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moroccansahraoui (talk • contribs) 14:08, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting. indeed please both discuss the matter at Talk:List of flags by country. -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for alerting me to an edit (vandalism) that my friend made to a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.158.238.88 (talk) 05:31, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Ne Win - Hakka

Hi, I see that you have re-inserted Ne Win as Hakka in Hakka page. I am of the opinion that he should not be considered as a Hakka. What are your comments, Angelo? Thanks!

Re: AIV

Hi, I have declined to block 59.92.136.219 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) for the following reasons: Stale report. Blocks are preventative, not intended to be used as punishment.. The warnings were also issued in cascade well after the vandalism stopped.

If you have further questions, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. -- lucasbfr ^talk 17:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

De nada y gracias

You're welcome, but I ought to be thanking you for reverting most of the edits by that anonymous editor. That same editor has done that before; I have dial up, and I wasn't looking forward to having to check all the edits, revert them if necessary, and put the warnings on his page. I always try and make sure the statistics are correct and sourced on those pages because many times people either just make up numbers or use exaggerated numbers from unreliable sources. Thanks again. Kman543210 (talk) 15:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

temp blocked ajja...

but only for 3 hours (minor cluebatting), since some of his contribs don't appear to be vandalism. Relist at AIV if he continued to be a problem, or come directly to me. Xavexgoem (talk) 11:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Please join us!

Hello. I'm quite well, thank you. How about you? Thanks for the invitation. Would you mind telling me how I join Wikipedia:WikiProject Beauty Pageants? I have been writing some articles on Miss Universe Pageant in Spanish Wikipedia, as well, along with a Mexican mate. I have tried to complete the information here, that's all. Thanks for your message. Bye!--Alpinu (talk) 03:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Good evening, please you can translate in Vietnamese the articles Martin Weinek and Kaspar Capparoni? I thank you in Advance!

Good evening to you and Regards from Campora San Giovanni. I write you regarding the translation of these two characters of a note television series: Inspector Rex, what time thanks to Rai International it will be transmitted in multilingual in 150 countries, among which Vietnam. Martin Weinek is the veteran of the Austrian series, now in the international cast. Capparoni is the new entry, but he works and he has already worked in international productions and with important directors, I quote Dario Argento. Naturally if you will help me, then I will reciprocate the favor translating in Italian and Sicilian: a biography or a geographical article to your liking. In how much on the aforesaid editions they are biographer and geographer. In attends him of one certain answer of yours, I thank you in advance and I greet you from Campora San Giovanni, my village of origin. I hold to specify that also not being gay, I am an activist of the Italian left, I fight for the LGBT's rigths and for the discrimination of the extreme right both local how national, even if they are of Catholic tradition. Thanks still for the understanding and the patience that you have with me.--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 13:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar I award this Barnstar for your great effort in reverting vandalism from the Lebanon article.

Tourism

Hi there. I noticed you included some very nice pictures in the Tourism article. However, this page has had a problem with excess of pictures, taking more space than the text and creating huge blank spaces in the layout. Today I did a clean up, and this is to inform you I deleted some of the pics you inserted, there are too many from the US or some others are not mentioned at all in the article, and some of the captions were clear violation of WP:OR rules, lacking a WP:RS. Since you seem to be interested in pictures would you please go to the this section of the Talk page and contribute with you ideas in how to define of a selection criteria for pics to be included in the article. Thanks.--Mariordo (talk) 05:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

References for Chinese Singaporeans?

Hi;

Would you mind adding some references to the sections you have edited on Chinese Singaporeans? the article as a whole has hardly any citations at all 121.79.19.4 (talk) 00:17, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:NPA... A friendly warning

Please do not call other users "Anti-chinese culture" as you do at WP:RFPP. Doing so is making a negative comment about another user, and it would be best for the project if you did not make such comments about other users. Thank you. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Religion in China,

Hi Angelo I've posted my opinion why the template is not necessary to that article in the discussion section. Honestly good luck with Editingman, I have no idea why that guy is so obsessed with Chinese Islam, out of curiosity I've asked him several times what is his background with Chinese Islam (ie. Are you of Chinese Muslim background? Are you of Chinese background? Are you fluent in Mandarin? etc...), only to be ignored. From what I've gathered, I can only assumed the guy has little to no background in the Chinese language (I've made corrections to his pinyin in his articles in the past), from his most recent article Yeheidie'erding which I might add was created out of copying and pasting information that I posted in the past (in fact the title is a pinyin correction I made on his behalf), I can only assume he's just some nutty guy in need of a hobby. Abstrakt (talk)

Just because I make edits with an IP does not make me a vandal

Magog is considered the father of the Irish race (you can probably find an online copy of Auraicept na n-Éces translated into english) . He is also believed to be the father of the mongol race ([2]).--75.164.127.55 (talk) 21:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Miss Universe Tally

I want to know why is it the Miss Universe tally that listed Colombia, Israel, and England in the top 10 VANDALISM? If you check the count of Olympic medals, they do not care who have the most gold medals, it is who has the most medals won. The text itself said the countries with the most top 5 placements, thus irregardless of how many a country has won. Thus you are posting erroneous information...which can be easily pointed out because everybody knows Colombia had made it in the top 5 more than Canada, even though it has one winner. If you are placing your own standards on what should be listed rather than the plain facts, then the tally section is regarded as ORIGINAL RESEARCH, and thus should be eliminated altogether. Otherwise, CHANGE the text on the requirements of how this list is compiled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.236.213 (talk) 22:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Why Is the Tally Vandalism? You still have not answer the question.

Why is the tally at Miss Universe considered "Vandalism". Facts are facts. You cannot arbitrarily decided which edits are vandalism without a good reason. The current tally corrected reflected what is stated in the text: the countries that placed the most in the top 5 in the pageant's history. Until you can justified why Canada who have only 4 placement in the top 5 and not Colombia or Israel, should be in the top 10, you should not judge my edits vandalism. Otherwise, change the text to explain the qualifications for a country to be in the top 10 (such as more than one first placement in the pageant). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.236.213 (talk) 00:02, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

The Source for Miss Universe Tally

I saw the sourcve of the Miss Universe tally. It tells which countries had the most titles, that fact is already listed in the article, so the tally itself is redundant and not representative of which it claimed: the countries with the most top 5 placements. In an Olympic medal tally, they would differentiate if the chart listed the countries with the most overall medal count, or countried with the most gold medals, followed by silver, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.236.213 (talk) 00:19, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

No More Disputes...NOT!

The Miss Universe tally said: "Top ranking". That plainly means the top 3 or top 5. SInce you seem to have your own interpretation of what this line means and I do not see why your interpretation is more legitimate than mine, so it is my advice that this text has to be re-written so there can be only ONE interpretation: THE FACTS. Only THEN, will there be no disputes. It seem the fact that you have the right to revert "vandalism" have cause you to have a power trip which makes your opinion counts more than other people. I thus seriously challenge your qualifications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.236.213 (talk) 00:27, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

AIV repports

Please don't report users with whom you are in dispute to AVI if they are not vandalizing. This would be gaming the system to gain advantage in a content dispute. You have already been warned about that. The same applies for page protection. The IP above hasn't engaged in vandalism and you are no more exempt from 3RR than other users and IPs. Thanks, Cenarium ^Talk 01:09, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Religion in China (Islam)

Angelo, I have posted a response to the talk page of this article, after looking over some of his edits, it seems he is desperately attempting to push his own POV, that being the 100 million figure of Chinese Muslims, as in this instance [3] on the People's Republic of China where he deleted a source that you provided, in all honesty I find this behavior very unacceptable. Abstrakt (talk) 04:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Natalie Glebova

Dear Angelo, You are not a personal biographer of Natalie Glebova, neither you are a historian or owner of Wikipedia. Please do not edit Wikipedia without providing a valid source (Google is not a source it is a reference). Thank you for understanding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.119.78 (talk) 03:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Natalie Glebova

Please be advised that you have violated the three-revert rule on the article in question. I reverted the article to its state before the edit war started, which imho is accurate considering it is common practice to refer to a person's country of birth regardless of whether that country is in existence today. However, I do not really mind either way personally. I left a note on the other user's talk page about the matter and advised him to take it to the talk page if he still wants to make the change. so you may want to keep an eye on it. If he edits again, please do not revert the edit. Just let myself or another admin know about it. Thanks. Thingg^⊕⊗ 03:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

ya user templates contradict each other

just wondering if you knew that the republic of china claims soveirgnty over tibet?

162.84.131.101 (talk) 20:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

What is "ROC" ? Is it a city or island? Or just a rock in the sea ? Gantuya eng (talk) 15:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Christianity in China

Hello, Angelo De La Paz,

You might be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Christianity in China work group. Just a friendly invite so that more folks could get involved. Thanks.Brian0324 (talk) 13:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

¡Gracias!

Gracias for el Barnstar. Te lo agradezco mucho.

Edits to Beijing

You moved several images in the Beijing article. Could you explain why? You didn't leave an edit summary so I'm mystified, particularly since the images previously related to particular periods in history. Matt's talk 10:11, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

not vandalism

If you even bothered to look at the edits you would realise they are not vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.121.202.1 (talk) 09:26, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008

Thank you for making a report on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, it appears that the editor you reported may not have engaged in vandalism, or the user was not sufficiently or appropriately warned. Please note there is a difference between vandalism and unhelpful or misguided edits made in good faith. If they continue to vandalise after a recent final warning, please re-report it. Thank you! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 20:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Note that User:Christopher_higham had already been templated twice for each of his bad edits to Barack Obama. Please check to make sure the user is not already templated before re-templating for the same edits. It clutters their page and may result in reports made too early to AIV, which will be rejected, when the next vandal fighter comes by and sees all of the undeserved additional warnings. --guyzero | talk 20:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, made a mistake. Wrong user.

Kalmyk

Dear Angelo De La Paz,

Thank you for your notification but let me explain as follows:

What I added on Kalmyk language, Kalmyk people and Kalmykia are their respective representation in Kalmyk language, and what I modified Kalmyk is change it as a disambiguation page. If necessary, I will revert them to older versions. Many apologies.

Sincerely, 219.84.125.224, 22:21 30 Oct 2008 (UTC)

Apology again because I made an edit conflict when submitting my user)talk page.

Sincerely,

219.84.125.224, 22:35 30 Oct 2008 (UTC)

Warnings to 209.34.116.167

Thank you for helping defend Wikipedia against vandalism. However leaving ten warnings [4] for 209.34.116.167 (talk · contribs · block log) is more than a little excessive. Next time just save yourself the time, energy, and trouble by instead reporting vandals to WP:AIV if they continue to vandalize after receiving one recent level four "final warning." Thanks again for your help in keeping Wikipedia clear of vandals! --Kralizec! (talk) 23:39, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

El Sombrero Award

		El Sombrero Barnstar Award
		You deserve this award for contributing to content of interest to the Latinos WikiProject. Outstanding contributions are generally about articles pertaining to Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. LatinoMuslim 02:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Koreans in Bolivia

Hi, You removed my edit and unfortunately I didn't know how to cite. Here is the website—if you could put it back up after checking it out that would be great. http://www.okf.or.kr/data/status_SA.jsp Thanks! Wingedbeaver (talk) 02:45, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

RE:IP

Hi! Thanks for reporting to AIV! Just a small note; IP addresses cannot be vandalism-only, as they are almost always guaranteed to change users very often. If you have any questions or need anything, please feel free to ask! :) Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 04:43, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

zana krasniqi

I don't want to revert again, but i went to the referenced site [5] and couldn't find the citation quoted that mentions he found her. In fact, all I can see is the main page with the advert photos and an editorial link. (and editorial #5 is pretty scary too ;)) could you point out the info that is supposed to be referenced? Lihaas (talk) 13:19, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Dude, your source doesn't mention how he recruited zana. Lihaas (talk) 08:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Good job

Hello, Angelo De La Paz. Nice to meet you. You were very good at catching 61.209.163.243 (talk · contribs), IP sock's disruptions quickly. Per his ODN ISP, and same interests, the user seems like to be highly likely indef.blocked Azukimonaka (talk · contribs), who is willing to do anything for deleting mentions about Korea or inserted erroneous edits as always.

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Azukimonaka would be a good resource to "understand his world" if you catch him "later" (oh yeah, he has been evading his block endlessly) If you see that the same IP (although he sometimes other ISP as well like OCN, home.ad.jp, and so-net) with the same MO on any of the related articles "manga", anime, manwha, Japanese and Korean cuisine, Japanese clans, and royalties, traditional culture, ancient history, late 19th century, 20th century of Japan and Korea, and rankings and economics of Korea, etc. I appreciate your vandal-fighting. Keep up the good job!--Caspian blue 03:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Warning levels

Hey there, I saw your warnings at User talk:202.168.245.10. You should really use different levels of warnings and never give out a new level 4 warning to an IP that may be dynamic and as such the old warnings may have been to another person. If the vandalism is severe, you should use 4im warnings instead. In case you can be sure the warnings were to the same user, i.e. if it's a static IP, then one level 4 warning is enough before reporting to WP:AIV. Regards SoWhy 14:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

On warnings

You gave me a level 4 warning on this edit. In that edit I removed a few largely irrelevant sentences which also appear to be original research. I explained my intentions and my rationale clearly in the edit summary, so I am completely dumbfounded by your revert and warning. In any case, a level 4 warning is completely unnecessary, particularly since this is an IP address shared by hundreds of users. I noticed you have received a fair deal of advice about giving out warnings and urge you to listen to them. I have undone your edit and if you insist, we can discuss on the talk page. Thanks. 143.89.188.6 (talk) 16:40, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit: Ah, I remember you. You're the one who, a year ago, spammed 12 different users to ask them to resolve a "dispute" between us, which was caused by a single revert I made on your edit. In that case, I will not attempt to reason with you. Good luck. 143.89.188.6 (talk) 16:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Good catch...

...thanks! _Gb^T/c 12:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Cuisine of Cambodia

Hey Angelo,
Just to let you know, I just reverted your edits - sorry! Two edits early an editor removed all the Khmer script from the article - your edits conflicted with reverting the vandalism. So, to save the Khmer script, I had to revert your legitimate image move - feel free to put it back. Cheers, --Paxse (talk) 18:46, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Miss Earth 2008

Hi Angelo. I made several edits in the Miss Earth 2008 article. I have deleted some unreferenced and insignificant information. I have also added some information with valid references. I have not been active with Wikiepedia editing lately due to my hectic schedule. I'm from the east coast and I believe you're from the west. I'm just making a courtesy message since it seems to me you're one of the guardians of the article. Thank you also for the info you have shared to me when I was starting with Wikipedia. Let me know of your feedback. Thanks!--Richie Campbell (talk) 23:45, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Asian American language list

Hey, I left the article for a while, and all of a sudden the language list removed all South Asian languages and most Southeast Asian languages. It was reduced to that bigoted definition that focuses on Asians with epicanthic folds. I am going to revert the language list to how it was once before, will you second my edits if they are questioned? Thegreyanomaly (talk) 05:05, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I mean to put it to : "predominantly American English; indigenous Asian languages" without arbitrarily selecting languages. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 05:09, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Filipino- based

• I have traced the history section of Miss Earth and I found that you were the one who added the info "Filipino-based" in the article. The term "Filipino- based" in this statement: "Miss Earth is an annual Filipino-based international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness." was incorrectly used. It should have been grammatically correct to use Philippine- based, however, it will be a duplication of information as it already detailed under the pageant "History" section of the article: "Since it began the pageant has been held in October or November, in Manila, Philippines." As you can see the statement has clearly implied that the pageant has begun or created in the Philippines and it has been Philippine-based, since the pageant has never left the Philippines.

Furthermore, the term "Filipino" cannot be compared at all times to the term "American" because the latter has an additional meaning. The word "Filipino" relates only to people, language, culture, and cuisine; while American can mean the same (people, language, culture, and cuisine) with the addition of attribution to the United States of America or lands and regions of the Western Hemisphere, while if you would refer to the land in the Philippines (or compare to American-based), you would have to use "Philippine" as a qualifier or adjective in the sentence above. Nevertheless, the info does not need to be repeated because it is already implied that it's Philippine based in the history section.--Angel Clinton (talk) 01:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

• The term "has been” implies past and current or meaning to say "all", so I have deleted the word “all” in one of the entries in Miss Earth. Miss Earth wasn’t only held in Metro Manila. I checked the geography and Pampanga (where it was held this year) is not located in Metro Manila, so it’s appropriate to just use “Philippines”. But you’re right it was a delayed international telecast and your statement about “Metro Manila” should have been correct if not had been held in Pampanga this year. But even if it was held in Pampanga, the fact remains that the pageant was still annually held in the Philippines. --Angel Clinton (talk) 03:01, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Problems with european american article.

You said: Catalan is nearly all in Spain, very small parts in France and Italy but how about Basque, it was not .But both speak their own languages, Spanish is only 2nd language.

Firstly, we are not talking about languajes, and that is false. I'm Basque and I can say that Spanish is the 1st languaje not second, Basque is the second languaje. Please, stop talking about things you don't know.

You said: Marked Basque, Catalan and Scot-Irish b/c they are not independent countries. That's crazy to say that Tibetan A. is Chinese A. or Montenegrin A. is Serbian A.

what the heck are you talking about? The tibet situatuion is not comparable with Spain in anyway. I'm Basque( regionally) in the some way that a valencian is a valencian( regionally) but we are SPANISH. A American of basque descendant is not a Basque American, is a SPANISH American. The basque is in Spain, not in France, in France there are Basque speaking, but they are not Basques. Probably the basque american article was created by a basque nationalist.

I can tell you have no clue about the situation in Spain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.58.205.99 (talk) 22:12, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Thank you for making a report about 80.58.205.54 (talk · contribs · block log) at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn against, and report vandalism. Your report was not a case of obvious vandalism, and as a result, the user has not been blocked and the request may have been removed from the page. Next time please use Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents for reporting a complex abuse or refer to Wikipedia:Resolving disputes if you have a dispute with the user. Thank you. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 20:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Rporting edit warring. Or avoiding it

Please report edit warring and 3rr violations at WP:AN3 but consider also to dispute resolution yourself. Or just show the other fellow the way to the article's talk page if they write comments inside the article instead of calling it vandalism.[6] That can even save the trip to the notice board.--Tikiwont (talk) 16:06, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Angelo De La Paz' Unsubstantiated Claims of Vandalism on Miss Universe Tally

1. I recently wrote on your talk page, and you deleted my comments. I stated that you were rude in your comments to me, AND you must show substantiation for your claims of vandalism.

If you read the Vandalism site for Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism, there is nothing that states what I did to change Miss Universe from "Number of Wins" to "Number of Wins in Alphabetical Order" is vandalism. This is not BIAS, nor is this POLARIZING. It has no obscure FACTS.

2. I've reported you to Wikipedia, and the below comment was unnecessary.

  Angelo De La Paz:  "Undid revision 255230590 by Andrew Savini That's you again. Stop it, Puerto Ricans."

These comments constitute bad faith and vandalism. Furthermore, no substantiation that I am Puerto Rican. In my previous talk-post, which you deleted and did not respond to, I mentioned that I am in fact NOT from Puerto Rico.

3. This is a TALK page. Plese respond to people if they have quandaries/criticisms. If you don't, I will also report you in bad faith, due to the fact that you like to call people vandals BUT are hesitant to discuss why.

4. Finally, I'd like to link you to the NPOV page portion titled "Balancing Validity" and "Avoiding Constant Disputes", that clearly states:

The best way to avoid warfare over bias is to remember that most of us are reasonably intelligent, articulate people here, or we wouldn't be working on this and caring so much about it. We have to make it our goal to understand each others' perspectives and to work hard to make sure that those other perspectives are fairly represented.

When any dispute arises as to what the article should say, or what is true, we must not adopt an adversarial stance; we must do our best to step back and ask ourselves, "How can this dispute be fairly characterized?" This has to be asked repeatedly as each new controversial point is stated. It is not our job to edit Wikipedia so that it reflects our own idiosyncratic views and then defend those edits against all-comers; it is our job to work together, mainly adding or improving content, but also, when necessary, coming to a compromise about how a controversy should be described, so that it is fair to all sides. Consensus is not always possible, but it should be your goal.

YOU MUST SUBSTANTIATE THAT ALPHABETIZING THE TALLY IS, IN FACT, BIAS! IF YOU CAN'T, THEN WHY HAVE YOU REPORTED ME FOR VANDALISM. I am clearly livid... I expect a discussion on this, and not another vandalism flag, or I will call Wikipedia, I'm that serious.

I expect that you do not delete this posting on your talk. I will add it again, and if you do not retort, I will let Wikipedia know that Angelo De La Paz is a user who calls other users vandals without discussing WHY... Which, in many ways, goes against the spirit of Wikipedia.

Template:European Americans

If you insist to add Bulgaria and Romania to Eastern Europe, than you shouldn't miss to add here Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Hungary too, because those two countries are considered to be Eastern Eropean only in the same context the other countries too. --Olahus (talk) 16:27, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Islam by country

Thankyou for all your contributions to the article. I see its quite a work there you did. You reverted my recent edit stating that the whole Islam should not be compared with a single sect of Christianity, in this case Catholicism. But as per the references mentioned (The Sun, National Geographic, and Times), it is clearly stated that Islam surpasses catholicism as world's largest religion. Now that I have thought about it, I do believe you are right but Wikipedia is not a place to present personnel views rather we have to mention facts from reliable sources (no matter how incorrect/flawed they are). So I'll revert your edit. Cheers. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 16:53, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Kindly choose your wordings correctly. The facts given in the article are sourced. You recently edited that Islam is in some parts of Africa. As per this site, 59% of Africans are Muslims, i.e more than half, making it the largest religion there (other 41% comprises Christians and smaller tribal religions). So I'll revert that edit too. Cheers. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 18:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Muslim Albanians

Hello dear Angelo....I know Kosova is a secular state.But Kosovan Albanians are Muslim.You must know that.1,800,000 Kosovar Alb. Muslim + 2,200,000 Albania Alb. Muslim + 1,300,000 Turkey Albanian Muslim + 509,083 Maceodnian Albanians are Muslim + 80,000 Serbia/Montenegro Alb. muslim = Predominantly.Dont ever forget only 1 000 000 Greek and Italian Albanians are Christian.You must read that population.Secularism isn't ateism.And Albania is a poli-religious a country %65 Muslim % 30 Christian and others Ethnologue_Philologue ^ileti —Preceding undated comment was added at 10:55, 12 December 2008 (UTC).

AIV report

(in case you don't see my response on the page) Edits are not vandalism. Please ensure recent edits constitute vandalism before re-reporting.. This appears to be a content dispute. Try discussing this with the user. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Source

Well give me a source that Kosovo is an independent country... Your edits are unsourced and funny (10.7 million Serbs??? come on) I will post sources and remove your POV on Kosovo, it cannot be described as an independent country!

And please don't talk about NPOV, because you don't respect NPOV at all saying Kosovo is a country, and putting it's flag, separating Serbian population in Serbia and in southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia is pure POV... Stop doing it! --Forsena (talk) 23:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Wrong Source

• There is a mistake in this part in this page Islam by country. Can you show me 12% percentage müslim in India. Where is your source in this information

• South Asia India 1,129,866,154 12%[119] - 13.4%[120][121] 135,583,938 - 151,402,065

• Look at referance 119 If you read this referance you can see true. İt is not 12% muslim in India. İt is 13.4% muslim in India. You are faulty in this sucject. Please you correction this mistake. --Tarih (talk) 13:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

ip number vandalism

that guy 24. something, keeps inflating and reducing numbers evrywhere een http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Church here. please ban him, or protet pages —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.222.26.160 (talk) 04:09, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Pakistani Canadian

The Pakistani Canadian population is NOT 80,000 . It is 124,730. I corrected this error and your talking about how you will ban my IP from editing. Dumb move to do since I am the only credible person on this website full of lies

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GID=837928&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=92333&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&SUB=0&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&Temporal=2006&Theme=80&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

THERE IS UR PROOOOF! IT IS THE CANADIAN CENSUS! CANT GET ANY MORE CORRECT THEN THE CENSUS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.75.103 (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Mexican American

Angelo, thank you for welcoming me to Wiki, although looking at your contributions, I have been on Wiki far longer than you have. In any event, please refrain from removing sourced material from the Mexican-American article as I have placed several citations. It goes without saying that no census of Mexican American Muslims has taken place, but there are a handful of converts as evinced from the articles. Finally, you insist on leaving the information concerning purported Jewish Mexican Americans but remove information indicating that are at least some Mexican American Muslims. Therefore, the onus is on you to provide sources for Jewish Mexican Americans, if you cannot, then it must be removed it as well. Scythian1 (talk) 04:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Latino groups' articles

Thank you as well for your help. I've been meaning to add all of them to my watchlist as part of a remaking of the latter.

¡Que tengas un feliz 2009, Angelo! SamEV (talk) 23:29, 30 December 2008 (UTC)