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Infoboxes

Unfortunately not - it's a crap system by whoever designed it. However, the way I have found to resolve it - if you put one in and it comes out as the redlink with the horrible coding around it, click on the red link, and then just edit that page to be the short name of the party - it will then make the link work properly. This is one I did recently to make a Romanian template work. Number 57 12:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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Azawad map

Hello Lihaas. Thanks for the nice note on my talk page. I always try to help the more obscure and lacking parts in Wikipedia, but I got more interest in the Azawad subject after I read up on it to make the map you requested. I see you added a follow-up to your Map Workshop request, but I didn't really understand it. Can you be more specific as to what map you want to modify and what exactly to do with it? You can reply here or on the Map Workshop page. Cheers! -- Orionisttalk 04:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Football Manager 2012

Hi Lihaas, quick question about Football Manager 2012. It looks like you put a copyright notice up on the page some days ago. There's nothing on the talk page or on the notification page for potential violations about why. Could you shed some light? The article looks like it contains some of the release info from the developer but that can be found on any website where games are reviewed, discussed or sold and should be fair use. Wally (talk) 19:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

In solidarity

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In off-wiki forums, I have been accused of being a broad-minded person that can understand and see the merits of other people's positions while not accepting them, and proposing that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is actually universal in its scope. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some invertebrate zoology articles to work on. Yours in solidarity. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:29, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

ITN Credit

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Arabic translation

Done. Best wishes. --Meno25 (talk) 06:02, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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American Third Position Party

I took this to NPOVN a couple of days ago, but the IP most active (now at 6RR) just discussed COI issues he sees with Zionist sources & editors. Note this [http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t870653/] discussion at Stormfront. Dougweller (talk) 10:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, replied to you on my talk page but forgot I'd given you the url. This is not a dispute that can be settled through discussion with A3P members who are going to insist that there is no way the article can say white supremacist. Maybe NPOVN can help, but there won't be a consensus they agree to. Dougweller (talk) 11:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Belize GA

Hello Lihaas,

basically I am sympathetic to your idea, but I am afraid that the prose is a bit slim. Yesterday I failed to find more material covering reactions to or analysis of the election. Only election result tables don't make a GA yet. But if we do more research and tap some new sources, I am up for it. --RJFF (talk) 10:22, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/A Young Man's World

This discussion is closed, as ALT5 is promoted. So I don't think subsequent edits should be made. Any problems, do not use that template. Instead, let's use the Talk:A Young Man's World. As for the infobox, I did what you asked, I summarized what is already cited in the article, and should there be citations in the infobox? By the way, from Wikipedia:DYK#Images: "Pictures and videos accompanying the DYK hook". There have been no videos or pictures accompanying the hook. Non-free images may still be allowed, as long as they are not used for the main page. --George Ho (talk) 19:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

ITN (Belize)

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up elections

agreed. ref added. aliases moved to main name field. mukerjee (talk) 12:10, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Uttar Pradesh 2012 MLAs

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DYK for Truth and Justice (Afghanistan)

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Re:Swiss

The gambling initiative was unopposed and there was practically no campaign - so it was rather a surprise that as many as 44% turned out. --RJFF (talk) 07:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I have never before promoted a GA. Somehow, I have the impression that usually GAs are longer than these. Do you think they are long enough? --RJFF (talk) 07:44, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Democratic Change's logo is yellow. And I'd rather use orange for GANA as it is their main campaign colour. --RJFF (talk) 08:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Yep, sure. In the respective articles National Coalition and Party of Hope (El Salvador). --RJFF (talk) 08:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

You do it. I gotta sleep now ;) --RJFF (talk) 08:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Also, please be aware that the preferred plural of referendum is referendums (see the intro to Referendum). Number 57 11:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

It means that only 691 of 708 polling stations ("JRE"s) have reported. Seams the Salvadorans are a bit slow at counting. Don't know when (if?) they will publish the complete results. --RJFF (talk) 15:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry but unfortunately I have no idea. I would advise you to go to the Wikipedia:Help desk. --RJFF (talk) 15:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Anti-Pakistan sentiment

Hi, you added a globalize tag to Anti-Pakistan sentiment, this article had some sections about Bangladesh, Israel, Hong Kong etc... Please check out the archive and help put them back (though they may need verifications so that they are not removed again). Thanks. --lTopGunl (talk) 15:51, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: 2012 Abkhazia election table

The link was a bit burried in the table, I added a sentence above the table with the proper reference. I plan on adding additional references for the various party nominations over the coming days. sephia karta | dimmi 10:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Stratfor email leak move

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Bahraini uprising

Hello,

Since you were involved in the past in editing the article, I though you might be interested in a this discussion. Mohamed CJ (talk) 16:29, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

RPP

I rewroded your lock request saying " Wikipedia is repeatedly allowing the publication of insults and falsehood in this article - semi protection will prevent such repeated violations" not good to accuse WP to get support. If wrong then revert ;)Btw- you may also want a reason(Lihaas (talk) 15:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)).

Hi, I reverted your alteration of my request. Please don't alter my posts like that without discussing with me first - I meant to accuse wikipedia and I meant to say exactly what I said. - If a user rejects the request that is his responsibility. Thanks - Youreallycan 15:52, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
No worries at all, thanks - WP:Pending changes would have stopped it being published but it was rejected. - Youreallycan 16:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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"rubbish german wiki (they use outr well slourced edits and sourfe standard to claim ive had edit there)"

Dear Lihaas, just to keep a right view on this:

  1. Your only edit in the German article was introducing a typo.
  2. Until yesterday, there were even most of the candidates missing in the English article.
  3. Most sources in German article are directly from Timorese media, others are international medias and those have been mostly first in German article.
  4. The English article is still incomplete. No informations about most of the candidates, nothing about the arson at CNE and STAE and nothing about the changing of the election law, just before the death of candidate Amaral, the first president of Timor-Leste.
  5. Names are written incorrect, links to existing English articles are missing.

At all, there is no reason for you to be as rude. Don't forget, we are all working for the same project and the "Expand German"-sign is an advice for you to find further informations. It is not affront for English authors. Please keep this in mind. Greetings from Germany, --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 20:39, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

I saw my contribs there, there is stuff i never added and it was recently done. Agreed it has a better listing of canddiates its where i took the list from) but the list is apparently wrong as there are only 12 candidates now, that has 13 even after the death. Im not being ude...but anyway dint read about this "arson at CNE and STAE and nothing about the changing of the election law, just before the death of candidate" will replace the tag Ive added some stuff, the law stuff is not verifiable on german wiki (as are many links there) and links to a weblog on google search so ive not added that.(Lihaas (talk) 06:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)).
Very easy to find informations about the arson. Just google arson, Timor, election and you will find for example this. It is as easy to find further references about the change of article 26. If you don't like the German references, you can use the informations for searching better references. Anyhow, most sources are press articles, the links mosty international media. I don't know, which one you believe as Google-Blog. Anyhow, several Timorese institutions are using blogs as homepages, even parties like FRETILIN.
The list is correct. There had been 14 persons, who wanted to become president. 13 were accepted by STAE and CNE, one of them died. --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 07:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Okey thanks will ook at the law change...also which candidate was rejected by CNE?(Lihaas (talk) 07:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)).
Cant find stuff on article 26...can you provide a link or add the content to the page?(Lihaas (talk) 08:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)).
  • Angela Freitas of PT was rejected, because not all of her supporter signatures were accepted. [1], [2]. She is now supporting FRETILIN [3].
  • Changing of Law: [4], The law before changing

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Thanks, article seems to be up to scratch with your help. Just need a source for Araujo, JL Guterres and Tillman. the german source is to a forum which is not RS here)...and the CNE website is awful at updating.(Lihaas (talk) 09:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)).

Oh, Forum Haksesuk is not a "Forum" in general meaning. It is a NGO in East Timor. But no problem: STAE published the official order of the candidates at the ballot paper. All candidates are listed there: [5] You see, there is everything at the German article. ;-) --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 11:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC) P.S.: BTW: All candidates can be seen at the ballot paper, published at de-Wikipedia, too. ;-)

Cool go ahead and tag the article with the soutce...ypou need credit too(Lihaas (talk) 14:09, 19 March 2012 (UTC)).

It is there for a long time: [38] Tribunal de Recurso: Liste der Kandidaten in der Reihenfolge, die sie auf dem Stimmzettel haben werden (portugiesisch). ;-) --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 14:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Lahaas! Timr to complete the English article again! Sources in English language to be found again at de-Wikipedia. Greetings, --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 21:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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Ancar dine

why did you remove the flag i added next to the name of ancar dine:  , here ,you said its pov. but reliable sources such as AFP have said the group is an Islamist organisation with links to alqaeda--Misconceptions2 (talk) 16:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Mali insurgency, the United States and France

Hi,

I thought I’d write to you here, instead of the talk page, since you seem to be the person who is keeping us up to date in this conflict.

I meant that the sentence “The United States Air Force air-dropped supplies via a C-130 in support of the besieged Malian soldiers.” appears without any prior introduction on why the US is involved.

I think what would be nice is if you could write a separate section on the involvement (the US) or non-involvement (France?) of foreign powers, how does the US justify (or explain) their support to the former (?) president, what it is that they hope to achieve (restoring the previous balance of power, for example), or any such things that will help us understand what the foreign powers are doing and why they are doing it. Also it would be interesting to know the base from which the US is operating, since even though C-130 Hercules has a rather long operating range, it is still difficult to try guess where their base is.

Keep up the good work.Apanuggpak (talk) 10:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Copy-editing

Hey Lihaas,

I spotted your name in the list of editors willing to do copy-editing. Can you help at Bloody Thursday (2011) article? It's a GAC and if improved enough, it could be a FAC. Mohamed CJ (talk) 09:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

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AGF

In this edit [6], you wholly unnecessarily accuse an editor of bad faith. If you'll take a closer look here, it's clear that he was correcting the grammar of those two lines in the infobox; the reversion of the rest was an accident through edit conflict (and a minor accident at that). Why not be more civil with your fellow editors? Kindness makes the encyclopedia run much smoother; harshness only makes enemies. Thanks for your contributions, and keep up the good work, Khazar2 (talk) 14:50, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

ARGH. I completely misread what you wrote. Clearly I need to take a break. Accept my apologies for being a fool. Khazar2 (talk) 14:53, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:Abkhazia

Sorry, no source. I just counted the winners according to User:Sephia karta's result added with this edit yesterday. I thought he/she had provided a source (obviously I assumed good faith...) but this seems not to be the case. We have to ask him/her where this information comes from. --RJFF (talk) 17:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for World Bank presidential election, 2012

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2012 BRICS summit

I have replied. I suggest you archive your talk page, it is much too long and takes time to load. ~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 09:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry? I don't get you. ~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 09:34, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark

Man.. I can't see that documentary without crying.. it's so moving for me. Which means I didn't get captures from it. If you can tell me specific minutes/second I'll get them. Mohamed CJ (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

2012 brics meet

how is that a vandalism? does report on traffic on such pages look good? thousands of events happen everyday that disrupt traffics.I just sometime like an article concerning INDIA without controversies. thats it...........yours truly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 (talk) 13:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

well i didnt remove(censor) tibetan protests paragraph.i live in delhi, and traffic gets disrupted everyday for one reason or another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.48.36 (talk) 13:38, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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2012 insurgency in northern Mali

Discuss what? The only issue at the moment is the renaming to Tuareg rebellion (2012), which all editors agree should be done, except you. And I have been involved in that discussion. As far as all the other issues you have or don't have I don't have a problem with them. If you are referring to my edits in the last 10 minutes I don't see what's so problematic about them that they need to be discussed. I can guess what you are having a problem with. Number 1: the coup mention being in the results section instead of the casualties section (it's a political/military consequence and a result of the conflict and it's place is thus in the results not the casualties section). Number 2: the number of government soldiers involved in the conflict (at the moment the conflict is spread throughout the country, with half the military involved in the fighting with the Tuaregs in the north, and half involved in the coup in the south, thus they are all involved). Number 3: my removal of the retreat to Algeria (the source doesn't mention the retreat to Algeria because the source only covers the story on the attempted relief of the town, a whole week before the retreat; the retreat is talked about in the next paragraph). Number 4: the removal of the word killed in the government section on casualties (source clearly states 1,000 killed, captured or deserted, don't know what else to say beside that). That's it. And I didn't attack you at any point. I just call it as I see it. And you reverting every possible edit I make to the article without even discussing it with me is really a definition of an edit war without concencuss Lihaas, which I still don't understand. I tried to talk to you a few times but you weren't responding. If you have some problems with my edits talk to me before reverting. Thank you! EkoGraf (talk) 09:49, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I will respond on the talk page as you requested. EkoGraf (talk) 10:03, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Responded, hope it clears it all up now. Cheers! :) EkoGraf (talk) 10:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Rebel-held towns in Mali

Hi Lihaas,

I replied to your most recent comments on my usertalk page. You can go there to see it. But I wanted to let you know right away that I found a source for the rebels retaking Aguehok on January 24 [7]. Maybe you could add it, since I don't know the syntax for citation footnotes off the top of my head.

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2012 insurgency in northern Mali

Presentation. Other conflict infoboxes are formatted with the {{flag|COUNTRY}} template for combatants and with the {{flagicon|COUNTRY}} template next to commanders because it looks better and that's what said templates are for. -Kudzu1 (talk) 15:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Uh, no? AFRICOM is simply the name of the U.S. military command structure for the African continent, the same way CENTCOM is for the Middle East. We don't list CENTCOM as the U.S.-flagged combatant on Iraq War. It's not a case of WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS, it's MOS:CONSISTENCY. -Kudzu1 (talk) 16:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
What other links? The one to "government of Mali"? As I said, {{flag|COUNTRY}} is the preferred template for conflict infoboxes. I'm also not finding a lot of support for the notion the U.S. should be in the infobox as well; it has anti-terror troops based in Timbuktu (no sign they've intervened), and it airdropped some food at an airport controlled by the Mali government, but I'm not sure that qualifies it as a combatant any more than Australia or Russia were combatants in Libya. -Kudzu1 (talk) 18:03, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
On the second edit, I just made them smaller. -Kudzu1 (talk) 18:10, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

"accused"

I'm a little wary of the word accused in "is accused of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups", as it implies the POV that AQIM links are bad. How about "alleged to have links"? I think I've changed that wording several times today, so I want to make sure I don't break 3RR. Khazar2 (talk) 08:43, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

...and good call on the context for Keenan. Khazar2 (talk) 08:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

On a different subject (hence the outdent), Melissa Fleming is not the UNCHR chief's spokeswoman; she's the "UNHCR's chief spokesperson", per Al Jazeera. In other words, we can just call her the spokesperson, or chief spokesperson, but not the chief's spokesperson. =) Again I don't want to revert you to avoid edit warring--are you willing to double-check that in the source and change it? Khazar2 (talk) 08:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

RE: Abdoul Mbaye

Sure, but I forgot to put it on the article. But it's already there, I really forgot to put the source. Thanks for the advice! Tokiohotelover (talk) 11:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK review

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Status/casualties

Read article talk page and read Wikipedia guidelines on infoboxes here Template:Infobox military conflict. Hope it clears it all up. EkoGraf (talk) 20:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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Yes, I know. I've already seen a picture of the flag here. It has a sword below the writing. We don't have a file of this flag on WikiCommons. If you want to use it, you'll have to draw it. We can't just choose one that is somehow similar to the one they actually use. That would be like - "We don't have a flag of China, let's use the one of the Soviet Union. It's similar. They're both red and have a golden star in the upper left corner." --RJFF (talk) 10:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad

Hi Lihaas. Could you tell me why you reverted my edit? Also, if you don't agree with part of my edits, don't revert everything at once. As it is, you removed some templates to properly render text. It would be more considerate of you if you took the time to only revert what you disagree with as it can be pretty annoying. Just a heads up for next time. Thanks. ABJIKLAM I T I C 20:05, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Joyce Banda

To say the least, I'm a tad peeved at the moment. GoodDay (talk) 07:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Mew, deleted 4th from that article again, against consensus. Also, he deleted 1st, 2nd & 3rd from the infoboxes of Banda's predecessors. I've restored all four numberings, however I'm tired of playing his game. It's become apparent to me (Banda birthyear, another example), that changes to those articles won't get accepted without Mew's stamp of approval. GoodDay (talk) 23:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Change of name for the 1819 Rann of Kachchh earthquake

Hi Lihaas, would you mind explaining on the article talk page why this is not the 'proper name'? Mikenorton (talk) 11:49, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Bingu wa Mutharika

{{3RR|Bingu wa Mutharika}} - Youreallycan 11:39, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

(brought from Youreallycan's talkpage) - your user tlak page you left afor me is completely illegible, i have no idea wha you are trying to sayLihaas (talk) 11:35, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Its a 3RR warning WP:EDITWARRING template. - I nowiki'd it out of politeness as you are a regular.Youreallycan 11:39, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
In tht case dont template the regulars wit silly loppholes. Nor was thre 3rr...did you see former IPs more thn 3rr?Lihaas (talk) 11:50, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I didn't see the IP no, if I had I would have warned him as well - I was too busy wondering about the ridiculous content you were attempting to war into the article - diff - Youreallycan 11:58, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
ridiculous? try discussing FIRST? since there are RS sources better than you warring over it. On what was based on the SOLE premise of your opinion...and this ain t the first time either sicne your last incarnation did so on th e pak politician who was assaissinated without idiscussionLihaas (talk) 18:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
What are you on about, whatever - calm down stop being so confrontational and stay of my talkpage until you do - Youreallycan 18:24, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Edit warring over others' talk pages

Morning Lihaas. Please do not edit war to keep comments on other people's talk pages if they have removed them, as you did here. Per WP:TPO, editors are permitted to remove comments from their own talk pages. Edit warring to keep them in place is only likely to inflame any disagreement. If an editor removes a comment from their own talk page, they accept that they have read it. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Justice and Development Party (Libya)

The DYK project (nominate) 17:17, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2012

I do not like your threat of starting an editwar. Please commit to a useful discussion to solve the problems. I have no problem reporting you and getting you banned if you really start an editwar. And the same applies to Mukerjee. Night of the Big Wind talk 20:47, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

That is not a very constructive way of starting a dialogue. Please re-phrase it. Thank you. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:37, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiThanks

 
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Thanks for your recent contributions! 67.80.64.128 (talk) 23:11, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Let's shake hands and move ahead

I just thought I would let you know that when you moved the table of winning candidates from Uttar Pradesh legislative election, 2012 to my sandbox [8], I felt very depressed. This was a table that we had agreed on (that the title should be "List of Winning candidates) etc. I had worked very hard on this 412 row table, wikifying things, fixing links, inserting 2007 data, removing bad links etc. You had in fact created a template with this very text.

Later, when that template was deleted since it was single-use, and you were unhappy, I suggested that it still isn't stable, it was full of disamb links. You facetiously called it sandbox material and unilaterally removed it to my sandbox. I was very hurt and was seriously thinking of withdrawing from wikipedia forever.

I just thoought I would mention that this action of yours, was a violation of my space. It also implied that I was an amateur who didn't know what belonged to a sandbox and what belongs to a wikipedia page. This for a detailed results section that you too felt belonged on the page. I felt very hurt.

This is why I don't get into edit wars or anything else. In any event, do try to come to a consensus at least on the four points, and let's proceed.

Also, I am really not upset now. In my eight years on wikipedia, i have learned to avoid edit wars for exactly this sort of reason.

I daresay I have no enemies on wikipedia, and would like to see you as a friend rather than an enemy.

Thanks! mukerjee (talk) 06:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Our memory and its capacity

I am sorry for the delay in replying to your questions about my close of the AfD. The consensus was that nothing in the article should be merged as it stood but that the topic could reasonably receive coverage in the appropriate place. I can move the content to a user suppage (i.e. User:Lihaas/Our memory and its capacity or something similar) if you like, but it would need to be extensively rewritten to be used in any article. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:18, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and userfyied the page for you so you have the content handy. The consensus in the AfD was that nothing should be moved over wholesale but that some things on the topic might we acceptable. You might want to post suggestions on the article talk pages before making large additions. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and good luck in your future endeavors. Eluchil404 (talk) 07:38, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I am not really familiar with our articles in this area and so don't know for sure where it might best fit. Short-term memory has some discussion of this topic. Eluchil404 (talk) 13:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Kyrgistan

Hello Lihaas. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kyrgistan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this doesn't meet any speedy criterion, and the redirect is used ~15 times a day. See here. There are only two speedy reasons for redirects, WP:CSD#R2 and WP:CSD#R3 (which is only for recently created ones), anything else should go to WP:RFD; but generally, redirects that are used should be kept - see WP:R#DELETE. JohnCD (talk) 10:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry

I re-read the source saw it there, I apologize for my mistake. Distributor108 (talk) 01:35, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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Since you don't appear to be a native speaker of English, I wanted to let you know that the sentence

In its newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean Workers' Party called on the electorate to vote out the incumbent government.

is in fact perfectly grammatical, and stylistically accurate. You are quite right that "you cant have "its" withut saying what that means"; however, the sentence does specify what "its" means. This is a very common syntactical structure, and I'm not aware of the existence even of any dubious prescriptivist rules against it. It does not comprise an unacceptable example of deixis. Since your replacement was less accurate I have reverted the change, but I wanted to let you know since it appears to be a more fundamental misunderstanding of grammar.

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South Korean legislative election, 2012 and Kim Yong-min

Hello Lihaas, I want to point out one minor detail regarding the podcaster/politician Kim Yong-min. It is true that he gained his fame through his most famous podcast "Naneun Ggomsuda"(Korean: 나는 꼼수다),but he said the problematic sexist slur eight years ago in a radio show, "Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18"(Korean: 김구라/하니의 플러스 18). Notice that the number 18 is age 18, so "Plus 18" means people over 18 years old. Kim was free to make a such disgusting comments because "Plus 18"'s main audience were adults. Here is my source. ‘Bad-boy’ hopeful refuses to bow out. It is a Korea times news, and I quoted part of the article here.

"He has been under fire after an audio clip revealed that he made overly abusive and vulgar jokes, vile sexual remarks and derogatory comments to senior citizens while appearing on an internet radio program, “Kim Gura/Hani’s Plus 18” in 2004 and 2005."

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DYK for Abdoul Mbaye

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You labeled this article as original research but did not give any indication what you think is wrong. Can you elaborate? Rmhermen (talk) 04:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps the {{unsourced}} tag would have been a better fit for your concerns. Rmhermen (talk) 13:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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User talk:Ankitbhatt

Lihaas, I'd appreciate if you could tell me what Ankitbhatt did that warranted this message. He is under civility mentorship and I need to know the circumstances. Thanks, —Strange Passerby (talkcont) 11:51, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I too would like to know. Could you provide diffs and explain which part of it met WP:NPA? Thanks. Secret of success 14:28, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Seems like Strange Passerby dealth with it.Lihaas (talk) 19:20, 20 April 2012 (UTC).

Re:Template:Did_you_know_nominations/The_One_Where_Rachel_Smokes

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2012 Armenian parliamentary election

Could you please stop messing up with the article?? --Yerevanci (talk) 22:37, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, they got reelected because of all the electoral fraud. I mean, it's a very long story, but yes, in general they paid thousands of people in change for a vote. Also, they use this technique called "carousel".
I deleted the slogans, because I thought that it was unnecessary and it would've make it really long. --Yerevanci (talk) 22:38, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Swiss referendums, 2012

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Your userpage

I just stumbled upon your userpage and saw the userboxes. I'm speechless! :) --SupernovaExplosion Talk 06:57, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Your userboxes say you are libertarian and anarcho-capitalist on one hand, but nationalist and supporter of anti-globalization movement on the other. You are from both India and Pakistan. You support US Libertarian Party on one hand, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia on other. You are classical liberal on one hand, anarcho-primitivist on other. And you also identity as fascist. WHICH ONE IS CORRECT? --SupernovaExplosion Talk 11:06, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm at work by train this week, and a colleague of mine helpfully provides me with transportation from work to the hotel and back. He's from India, but he very specifically commented this morning that (in his opinion) India and Pakistan/Bangladesh are basically the same. They are all basically the same people, even if separated by religion (somewhat). Significantly, from his point of view, they all dance to the same tune. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:39, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed your edit on the heading that I agree with, the matter is however in discussion on the talk page Talk:UEFA Euro 2012‎, under Concerns and controversies or Ukrainian Concerns and controversies section 2, would be good to hear your views. Re the second part of your edit:

Ukraine also rejected the Russian offer. Meanwhile the heads of state of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia reportedly turned down an invitation to attend a summit of central and eastern leaders that Ukraine was due to hold.

This is well sourced and I have already noticed it, but I think it should not be included as it is, strictly speaking, not relevant to Euro 2012, I have however already put a similar post at Yulia Tymoshenko under hunger strike where I think it is more relevant. Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 15:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for 6th Summit of the Americas

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