Istanbuljohnm

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		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your valuable contributions, knowledge, and excellent work on İstanbul-related articles, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Tebrikler! —Khoikhoi 03:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mersin

I have re-written some sections, but some statements need to be verified. I do not understand why "we need" that forum thread there. They are not considered as "sources" (let alone reliable ones). This aside, from a very brief inspection, it looks like a nationalist board (e.g. use of wolves and other politically charged avatars) but I can not tell for sure, since I do not speak Turkish. I am not implying anything about you, your political ideas and/or character but, if I were you, I would stay away from those places. Kind regards --Zippocar 10:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Cebeci Asri cemetery

hello, I know it is not in Istanbul, but I saw your work on Cankaya article, so, please, can you create(or do you know someone who can create) article about Cebeci Asri cemetery? i am not familiar with turkish wikipedians, and you were the first i met in my search. thanks. Elsanaturk 23:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks.Elsanaturk 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar time

		Mecidi Order
		I, Makalp award you the Mecidi Order for your efforts to improve Turkey related articles --Must.T C 15:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear Istanbuljohnm, congrats for your positive contributions/developments in Turkey related articles. let me state my 2cents; please use [[:]] for potentially new articles instead of italik marks. Kolay gelsin.Must.^{T C} 15:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

koordinatlar

kordinat bilgilerini bu linkten bulabilirsin.Must.^{T C} 21:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Merhaba from Bosnia

Merhaba Istanbuljohnm. I saw your user page, your interests and decided to introduce myself. I come from Bosnia and I would like to write articles about military past of the Balkans, war crimes commited there etc, because I realized that current articles about the subject are not even 1% of the whole perspective. And there are so many edit wars between Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians and other people from the Balkans which destroyed the point of encyclopedia. Many of them are just here because of their nationalistic sentiment. There are not many Bosnian useres here who surrvived the genocide in 1995, so I will try to fill that gap writing relaible articles well sourced and documented, but unfortunately English is not my mother tongue. I saw you speak English fluently. And I have to admit that I am afraid to make mistakes when I write (alhough I perfectly understand English, I learned it at school). So I came here to ask for help. When I finish some of those articles, could you read some of them to correct grammar mistakes? If you have time of course for that. Feel free to correct me, anytime not just in the articles, but here in talk pages. Best regards. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, thank you very much. I will try to provide all sources in English (ICTY judgements about crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes against Bosniaks that are not presented here - there are hundreds of massacres confirmed by International Courte, which means they are not propaganda, so I will try to write something). The Dragon of Bosnia 16:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Ordu - name

you say they got the name from Kotyora..here it says it's from the word "Ordu" meaning army.

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/kotyora.html (from a greek book, i'd imagine greeks would take credit for the name it was from a greek word)

why did you think it's from "kotyora"? --152.216.7.5 13:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. the town was called Kotyora, before it was called Ordu, and Ordu sounds like a simplified pronunciation and spelling of the earlier word. Of course it could be that there was an Ottoman army camp here too giving additional relevance to the new variation also. Istanbuljohnm 00:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Grammar check

Hi Istanbuljohnm. I wrote an article: Foča massacres, so if you have some time, just take a look there, to check if there are some grammar mistakes. Merhaba. The Dragon of Bosnia 23:46, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Re:

I have a right he is a banned user. --Vonones 15:13, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Banned users are not aloud to edit anywhere on wikipedia even if it is your talkpage. --Vonones 15:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Sax

Hi, I just saw your edits at Pharoah Sanders and saw that you're from Turkey; I wonder if you happen to know Robert Reigle? He's a jazz tenor sax player and has been living and teaching in Turkey (maybe Ankara?) for the past few years. Badagnani 13:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please read WP:VANDAL. Reverting an article back to the version that was passed on Wikipedia:Featured Article Candidates, as I did with Cameroon, is hardly vandalism. As for your proposed changes, I would be happy to discuss them at Talk:Cameroon. But please don't go about throwing accusations of vandalism willy-nilly. That's a serious charge, and one I am in no way guilty of. Thanks, — Amcaja (talk) 01:46, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Unecyclopedic wording

since ur a native speaker of english, i'll keep this short. i already left a notice to user 88.241.242.61 about his/her use of the word "you". both of u used that word (and its other forms) in the "Didim" article. ur grammer/style is okay, but if u'r familiar with encylopedias, u should know that they're not written in the second person. they're third-person and objective. i made appropriate changes to that article. i just wanted to make sure u dont use "you" in further articles, as is indicated in wiki's "Manual of Style". (i recognize the pseudo-irony of me repeating "u" in this comment). Ivansevil (talk) 00:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

without checking I guess it must nearly a year ago that I wrote the Didim article so you certainly take your time in editing!!! but then if you're analysing every pronoun it's perhaps not surprising. Bravo for your diligence. Keep up the good work Istanbuljohnm (talk) 18:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

List of people accused by Mohammed Fayed of being involved in the death of Princess Diana

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Turkish Armed Forces

Dear Istanbuljohnm, I'm a member of WP:MILHIST trying to do some research on the structure of the Turkish Armed Forces. I've looked through the English webpages but I know the Turkish webpages have much more information available. Would you be able to translate each of the headings on the page http://www.tsk.mil.tr/ so I know where to look further? Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 02:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Keletigui Et Ses Tambourinis

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Citation in Denizli

Hi Istanbuljohnm, in Denizli you wrote a citation from the Seyahatname of Evliya Celebi. Could you tell me the source where it comes from? Someone translated it to German, but I think translation from Turkish to English to German is a bit problematical. Maybe you have got a link for me. Please answer at de:Benutzer Diskussion:Kpisimon Greetings from german WP and thanks --Kpisimon (talk) 13:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

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Ecozone categories

I would recommend you stop adding Australasia categories to Indonesia articles until there is an agreement on suitability. Adding it to many articles won’t actually help your case. --Merbabu (talk) 04:21, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi - to be honest I wasn't targetting Indonesia in any specific way, and I'm certainly mot making any kind of political point, which I'm guessing is your objection to the categorisation. I'm just adding information about flora and fauna to a number of articles about places in the WWF Australasia ecozone [[1]]. Many of these are in Indonesia, but I'll use the Australasia (ecozone) category to group them. Hope you are OK with this Istanbuljohnm (talk) 04:28, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

It’s not about politics – and as for your incorrect guess on categorisation, I’ve made my objection plainly obvious – Buru and other islands in the area are not in Australasia. You yourself have acknowledged this. As for Category:Australasia (ecozone) and the article of the same name, there is no verification of this or referencing. Thus, my objection is on incorrect categorisation and no referencing. The solution for both should be removal. --Merbabu (talk) 04:32, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Apologies

Sometimes some terms in both category and mainspace wikipedia are really problematic - a good example is an editor who might put asia for philipino volcanoes - it is a misuse of categories - as philipino or southeast asia categories are in fact the appropriate usage - and the problem is you are focusing on buru - better in the end to leave the categories alone and find the WP:RS (and if it is easy to do - find more than one as a back up as well)- which really in the end are the far more important item for any additional material - when you step into 'over-arching' larger categories for smaller locations - you are asking or trouble - unless you come across a good WP:RS that verifies and confirms the usage. Please feel free to ask for further confimation of this issue - it may seem at times a perplexing placee - it is (wikipedia that is) SatuSuro 00:44, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

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"Sledgehammer" plot

Dear Istanbuljohnm,

Since you are a Turkish speaker could you please add the interwiki of the article "Sledgehammer" plot which I have created to the respective Turkish Wikipedia article which I am sure alredy exists? I cannot do it since I do not know Turkish. Maybe you would also add some information to this article. Olegwiki (talk) 07:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Riverina

In regard to your edit on the Riverina article, do you have a cite for the WWF's classification for the region? Bidgee (talk) 08:39, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Swan coastal plain

Protected areas of the plain include John Forrest, Gooseberry Hill, Greenmount, Kalamuda and Lesmurdie Falls National Parks all of which are closely bunched together about 22km east of Perth. - plain? - they are all on the Darling Scarp and cannot be considered to be the same as the sand flat (as I call it) - on the plain - they are reserves on the granite and laterite - what you might be considering if you are concerned to show examples of sand plain reserves are:

• Kings Park
• Beeliar wetlands
• Star Swamp
• Hepburn Heights bushland
• Canning_River_Regional_Park
• Bold_Park_(Western_Australia)
• Whiteman Park
• Thomsons_Lake_Nature_Reserve

The articles like the reserves are a very motley crew - but they are on the sand flat - please do not re-insert scarp arts onto the sandplain article!!! Actually the recent lake articles by User:Maias (found in the Swan Coastal Plain category) are by far the best articles yet on the subject to date...

also a closer look at Category:Swan_Coastal_Plain and Protected areas of Western Australia there are probably some reserves I havent mentioned - cheers SatuSuro 14:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Well - they really are weird and wonderful bunch - and the Perth parks category is one thing, and the recent maias created lakes are another, but a more thorough understanding of the coastal plain residual vegetation reserves is another again and no one has tackled that yet - also if a close inspection of DEC site is made one can find http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/view/5317/1556/ and http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/view/5753/1755/ and probably the most pertinent is http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/category/45/879/1629/ - as most of the remnant bushland sites are not necessarily full blown parks :( SatuSuro 14:39, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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Tirari-Sturt stony desert

Hi Istanbuljohnm, the article looks good but two of the three references are dead links. Could you please have a look and repair this? Thanks, Pgallert (talk) 16:40, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Award

Aak! I awarded you a barnstar for your excellent work on ecoregion articles, but, like an idiot, I placed it on your user page instead of this talk page. Sorry for the mess up! So here it is, on your talk page:

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		I, 1brettsnyder, award you the Geography Barnstar for creating and improving many articles regarding our beautiful planet's many ecoregions.1brettsnyder (talk) 22:49, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Ecoregion infoboxes

Hi Istanbuljohnm. Nice infobox on the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands page. I left a note about it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecoregions#Infobox. Let us know what you think. Miguel.v (talk) 21:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Ecology of the Rocky Mountains

I reverted your edit: before your edit, the lede of the article was a summary of the entire article. After, the lede was dramatically shortened and did not cover the article contents. WP:LEAD guides us to the former, not the latter. I'm happy to collaborate with you to improve the lede, but I would like follow to the guidelines. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 00:42, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Much better, thanks! —hike395 (talk) 03:25, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Ecoregion map

Hi, I'm working on northern ecoregions and made a number of maps that you will find on this page: Commons:Category:Maps of WWF ecoregions. --Cephas (talk) 23:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Mississippi Lowland Forests

Hey, I wanted to discuss a couple minor issues on Mississippi lowland forests. The term woodland often carries its own more technical meaning than how it is used in the article. Additionally, I am a little uncomfortable with the terms unspoilt to describe places like Mingo National Wildlife Refuge which has canals running through it. The remaining forested areas are referred to as the "swampiest." Is there an more precise way we could describe this? I appreciate your contributions and look forward to hearing from you. Skinnedmink (talk) 05:31, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. I was wondering if you'd be interested in setting up Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Turkey), based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). Now it's not a contest in itself, it's designed to motivate people to inspire others to improve content and build something which demonstrates the hard work going into the country which is visible. The focus is more on quality improvements but new articles are welcome too. Eventually a Turkish National Contest could be created to fuel it, like Wikipedia:Awaken the Dragon, in which contestants can choose to keep the Amazon vouchers themselves to buy their own books for more articles or put them into book fund to help editors further improve Turkish-related topics by giving them the books they want. It will begin though as purely an improvement drive. If interested, or you think anybody else might be interested, alert them and sign up on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey talk page at the bottom. Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:53, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Neighbourhoods of Güzelyurt

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Nomination of Altınyunus for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Faruk Çelik

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Speedy deletion nomination of Adese

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Carolina Shout moved to draftspace

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Aksaray towns and villages

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Ağaçören towns and villages

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Eskil towns and villages

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Ortaköy (Aksaray) towns and villages

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Sarıyahşi towns and villages

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